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Gerard Butler In Talks To Star In ‘Manhunt’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 17, 2012 @ 6:49pm PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Gerry Butler
Mike Fleming

Gerard Butler ManhuntEXCLUSIVE: Gerard Butler is in advanced negotiations to star in the action thriller Manhunt for Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher’s Double Feature Films. Breck Eisner is aboard to direct the film, which is set to begin production at year’s end. The plot involves a team of FBI agents sent to the North Carolina wilderness to chase the FBI’s most wanted man, domestic terrorist and survivalist James Tollan, who has eluded arrest with the support of the local population while attacking the federal government. They enroll the help of a reluctant bear hunter to capture the killer. But once the team enters the woods, the hunters become the hunted as Tollan will stop at nothing to survive and defend his territory. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby wrote the script. Shamberg and Sher are producing with Alexander Milchan’s EMJAG Films, Danny DeVito and Jersey Films and Scott Lambert of Management 360′s producing arm FILM 360. Alan Siegel, Alexandra Milchan and Scott Lambert will executive produce. IM Global is fully financing the film.

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Antoine Fuqua Offered ‘Olympus Has Fallen’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 3:57pm PDTTags: Antoine Fuqua, Avi Lerner, Big Deals Film, Gerry Butler, Olympus Has Fallen
Mike Fleming

BREAKING… Antoine Fuqua has been offered Olympus Has Fallen, the White House takeover script by Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt that Gerry Butler will star in for Avi Lerner’s Millennium. Fuqua is thinking it over, but he’s … Read More »

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