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‘The Killing’s’ Billy Campbell Replaces Jason Patric on ‘Copperhead’

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday June 5, 2012 @ 1:05pm PDTTags: Billy Campbell, Jason Patric, The Killing

UPDATE: Copperhead director Ron Maxwell took issue with some of the specifics of our story. He released the following statement from Canada on Wednesday: “It is truly regrettable when unnamed sources make spurious statements on subjects of which they know nothing. The assertion that Jason Patric was replaced on Copperhead because he would not take direction is completely false. Consummate professionals are replaced everyday, all the time, in all walks of life. It happens. Welcome to the real world. Jason is a total professional, a first rate actor and despite our creative differences, a friend.” Hold on, “creative differences?” Wasn’t that, specifics aside, what our story said?

PREVIOUS, Tuesday PM: Copperhead has a new lead actor. Billy Campbell will take over the lead in the Civil War-era feature after Jason Patric was let go this weekend. Copperhead was three weeks into shooting up in New Brunswick, Canada, when Patric was dismissed, Deadline has heard, for refusing to take instructions from director Ron Maxwell. Billy Campbell, who plays Darren Richmond on AMC’s The Killing, will now portray family head Amber Beech in the film, which is being produced by Swordspoint Productions. The feature is based on Harold Frederic’s 1883 novel about a family feud during the Civil War. Patric is repped by ICM. Campbell is repped by CAA and Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Entertainment.

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Toronto Fest Sets Canadian Premieres

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday August 9, 2011 @ 7:32am PDTTags: David Cronenberg, Jason Patric, Jay Baruchel, Jean-Marc Vallee, Liev Schreiber, Mary Harron, Michael Dowse, Rob Lowe, Seann William Scott, Toronto Film Festival
Mike Fleming

While most of the industry views the Toronto International Film Festival as a place to showcase films for acquisition or Oscar runs, festival organizers always stock the program with homegrown films. The festival just announced that part of the program, … Read More »

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Jason Patric Set To Star In FX’s ‘Powers’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday June 21, 2011 @ 6:45pm PDTTags: FX, Jason Patric, Powers, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

Jason Patric has been tapped as the male lead in the FX drama pilot Powers. Based on the graphic novel by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael … Read More »

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HBO Not Going Ahead With ‘Tilda’ Comedy

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday February 25, 2011 @ 6:10pm PSTTags: Bill Condon, Diane Keaton, Ellen Page, HBO Tilda, Jason Patric, Nikki Finke, Tilda, Tilda Pilot, TV, TV Pilots
Nellie Andreeva

HBO has passed on the comedy pilot Tilda, which starred Diane Keaton as a powerful and reclusive Hollywood blogger (not unlike Deadline’s Nikki Finke). The hot pilot had a great pedigree – co-written by Bill Condon and Cynthia Mort, directed … Read More »

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Three Join HBO’s ‘Tilda’ As Exec Producers

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday November 4, 2010 @ 4:00pm PDTTags: Alan Poul, Alexa Junge, Bill Condon, Cable TV, Diane Keaton, Ellen Page, HBO, Jason Patric, Tilda, Tilda Pilot, TV
Nellie Andreeva

HBO has yet to make a decision whether it will pick up comedy pilot Tilda to series but it has put in place a team in case it does. Six Feet Under alum Alan Poul has come on board … Read More »

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Kiefer Sutherland In Broadway Stage Turn

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday November 2, 2010 @ 6:15am PDTTags: Brian Cox, Broadway, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, Kiefer Sutherland, Movies, Theater
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: The Shubert Organization has announced cast on this. Joining Kiefer Sutherland and Brian Cox will be Jim Gaffigan (playing George Sikowski), Chris Noth (playing Phil Romano), and Jason Patric (playing Tom Daley). They haven’t yet set a theater.

EARLIER: Last time Kiefer Sutherland was hanging around New York, he was here saving the world as Jack Bauer in the final season of the Fox series 24. Sutherland is coming back to town, this time to star in a revival of the Jason Miller play That Championship Season. He’ll star alongside Brian Cox, with Gregory Mosher directing. Rehearsals start in January for a February 10, 2011 opening. The play is about four guys who come for a reunion with their high school hoops coach 20 years after they won the state championship. The players have all stayed in touch the coach (Cox) but never really achieved their career goals in life. The reunion might be their last, and secrets spill. Sutherland will play the role of James Daley, a local junior high school principal. The original play debuted in 1972 and won both the Tony Award and Pulitizer Prize the following year. Read More »

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