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Jai Courtney Joins Summit Entertainment’s Sci-Fi Adventure ‘Divergent’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday March 14, 2013 @ 10:15am PDTTags: Divergent, Jai Courtney, Shailene Woodley, Summit Entertainment
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Jai Courtney, the former Spartacus star who played John McClane’s son in A Good Day To Die Hard, has joined Divergent, Summit Entertainment‘s film adaptation of the Veronica Roth bestseller. The film’s directed by Neil Burger, and Courtney joins Shailene Woodley, Zoe Kravitz, Ansel Elgort and Maggie Q. Evan Daugherty wrote the script and Red Wagon Entertainment’s Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing with Pouya Shahbazian. The futuristic adventure is set in a world where people are divided into factions based on personality. Woodley plays the young protagonist, who is classified a “divergent,” and told she will never fit into any specific group. She uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all “divergents,” and must find out why and and others like her are considered so dangerous. Summit has set a March 21, 2014 release. READ MORE »

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Hot Trailer: ‘A Good Day To Die Hard’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 3, 2013 @ 2:57pm PSTTags: 20th Century Fox, A Good Day To Die Hard, Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney

Bruce Willis hits Moscow for the fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise, this one starring Jai Courtney as John McClane’s son, who’s become a federal agent chasing Russian bad guys. There’s clearly still an appetite for American “cowboys”: Fox‘s previous pic, 2007′s Live Free Or Die … Read More »

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Jai Courtney Joins Joel Edgerton In Aussie Thriller ‘Felony’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday October 15, 2012 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Felony, Jai Courtney, Joel Edgerton

EXCLUSIVE: Jai Courtney has been cast opposite Joel Edgerton and Tom Wilkinson in Felony, which centers on a decorated cop (Edgerton) who runs a cyclist off the road after drinking with his buddies to celebrate a major gang bust. His … Read More »

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