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Hot Trailer: Jason Statham In ‘Hummingbird’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday March 22, 2013 @ 9:58pm PDTTags: Hummingbird, Jason Statham, Lionsgate, Steven Knight

Here’s a trailer from Yahoo UK for Hummingbird which Lionsgate is distributing in the U.S. and UK. Written and directed by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises), it features Jason Statham as a haunted former soldier who assumes the identity of an upper class Londoner. When his girlfriend is murdered, he’s forced to confront his past as he hunts down those responsible.

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Lionsgate Acquires Steven Knight-Directed ‘Hummingbird’ With Jason Statham

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 9, 2012 @ 7:48am PSTTags: Jason Statham, Lionsgate, Steven Knight
Mike Fleming

Lionsgate acquired U.S. and U.K. distribution rights to IM Global’s Hummingbird, the directorial debut of Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight. Jason Statham starts work Monday in the lead role. Paul Webster produces. Statham plays a former soldier haunted by a … Read More »

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AFM: IM Global Launches Jason Statham-Starrer ‘Hummingbird’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 2, 2011 @ 11:12am PDTTags: IM Global, Jason Statham, Paul Webster, Steven Knight, Stuart Ford
Mike Fleming

IM Global will fully fund Hummingbird, an action drama that will mark the directing debut of Eastern Promises scribe Steven Knight. Jason Statham will play a damaged ex-Special Forces soldier trapped in London’s criminal underworld, but he becomes an avenging … Read More »

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‘Eastern Promises’ Writer To Make Directing Debut

By TIM ADLER in London | Monday April 11, 2011 @ 9:32am PDTTags: 20th Century Fox, Liz Murdoch Shine, Movie Deals, Movies, New Regency, Paul Webster, Shine Pictures, Steven Knight

After scripting such films as David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises and Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things, Steven Knight is set to make his directorial debut on his script Hummingbird. The film is set at Shine Pictures, the movie arm of Liz … Read More »

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‘Unknown’ Director Jaume Collet-Serra Draws ‘Red Circle’ Remake

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday February 18, 2011 @ 7:44am PSTTags: Eric Fellner, Jaume Collet-Serra, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liam Neeson, Movie Deals, Movies, Oren Peli, Steven Knight, Tim Bevan, Unknown, Working Title Films
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: As his new film Unknown gets its international premiere in Berlin today and rolls out in U.S. theaters, director Jaume Collet-Serra is making a deal to direct Red Circle, the remake of the 1970 Jean-Pierre Melville-directed Le Cercle Rouge. … Read More »

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