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Mixed martial arts franchise One Championship has come on board “The Beast in Me,” a sports action film starring Russell Crowe and Daniel MacPherson (“Land of Bad,” “Foundation”).

In the film, MacPherson plays an out-of-work former Mma fighter who suffers a personal tragedy involving his brother. With the help of a veteran trainer played by Crowe, he sets out to avenge his brother by coming out of retirement to compete in One Championship.

The film is produced by the U.S.-based Broken Open Pictures and is to be directed by Tyler Atkins (writer-director of “Ocean Boy”). International rights to the film are represented by the Los Angeles-based Solution Entertainment Group.

Production is set to begin later this year and extend into early 2025. Among the locations will be Bangkok, Thailand’s Impact Arena, where One’s Friday Fights live event on Jan. 24 will be the setting for a key scene.

Exclusive: Luke Hemsworth (Westworld) has joined the cast of the Prime Video sequel series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf in a recurring role. He joins the previously announced cast: Taylor Kitsch, Tom Hopper and Chris Pratt.

Hemsworth will portray Jules Landry, a self-obsessed CIA contractor who hides a dangerously volatile personality beneath his muscled veneer.

Co-created by The Terminal List author Jack Carr and Season 1 creator-showrunner David Digilio, the prequel, set five years before the mothership series, is an elevated espionage thriller that takes viewers on Ben Edwards’ journey from Navy Seal to CIA paramilitary operator, exploring the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it. The series focuses on enigmatic Special Operator Ben Edwards, portrayed by Kitsch.

In addition to starring in the series, Kitsch executive produces alongside Pratt through Indivisible Productions, Antoine Fuqua and Kat Samick, through Hill District Media, author Jack Carr, showrunner David Digilio,...

Gravitas Ventures has promoted Danielle Gasher to vice president, acquisitions and international sales, and Bill Guentzler to vice president, acquisitions.

Gasher will now head Gravitas’ new international sales efforts division that will launch at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, continuing to play an integral role as a part of the acquisitions team. Guentzler will take on the role of securing titles for the company’s slate of over 200 films a year. Together, Gravitas and Guentzler will identify films for the Gravitas Premiere label that launched “Mack & Rita,” starring Diane Keaton, in 2022.

Prior to their promotion, Gasher and Guentzler were both senior directors of acquisition for Gravitas Ventures where they worked on acquiring Gravitas titles including Alex Heller’s “The Year Between” with J. Smith-Cameron and Steve Buscemi, “All the World Is Sleeping” with “Scream VI’s” Melissa Barrera, “Ocean Boy” with Luke Hemsworth and the comedic drama “Gringa...

"Ocean Boy" is the new dramatic feature, directed by Tyler Atkins, set in 1980's Australia, starring Luke Hemsworth, Isabel Lucas, Leeanna Walsman, Rasmus King and Heather Mitchell, now playing in theaters:

"...teenage surfer 'Rockit' grapples to understand why his Mum's not coming home, and embarks on a holiday with his father 'Bosch', only to discover he's running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with 'Ash Ash', but it's the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns..."

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Ocean Boy (Bosch & Rockit) is a 2022 movie directed by Tyler Atkins starring Luke Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas. It will be released on February 3

As Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.

Release Date

February 3, 2023 (United States)

Cast

Luke Hemsworth / Bosch

Isabel Lucas / Deb

Leeanna Walsman / Elizabeth

Heather Mitchell / Wendy

Michael Sheasby

Martin Sacks

Savannah La Rain

Rasmus King

Pearl Spring Voss

Ryan Oliver Gelbart

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Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King aren’t to blame for the problems in this film, about a surfing drug dealer and his son who are forced to move after a bushfire

Having amassed bad debts and upset the wrong people, a protagonist with a habit of making poor decisions goes on the run and relocates to a small town, hoping to start afresh – until the past inevitably catches up. This evergreen story trajectory is once again rehashed, in Tyler Atkins’ cloying and sometimes flat-out cheesy film Bosch & Rockit. Opening with the words “inspired by true events”, Atkins goes on to demonstrate why these words tend to mean very little: a well-crafted, entirely fictitious feature can feel much more plausible than a goofily executed one – like Bosch & Rockit – claiming some connection to reality.

Early in the runtime the titular father (Bosch) and son (Rockit), played by Luke Hemsworth and Rasmus King,...

Supernatural love story “The In Between,” starring Joey King, will premiere on Paramount Plus on Feb. 11, the streaming service announced.

King plays a teenage girl who has lived in foster homes for much of her childhood, and encounters a romantic senior from a neighboring town (Kyle Allen). After he dies in a car accident, she begins to think he is contacting her from the afterworld. Kim Dickens, John Ortiz and Celeste O’Connor co-star. The film will be available on Netflix internationally. Watch the trailer below.

‘Betty White: A Celebration’ Marked Actor’s Final On-Camera Appearance

Betty White’s final on-camera appearance, recorded just ten days before her death, was at “Betty White: A Celebration.” White taped her appearance at the event put together by Fathom.

Due to public demand for “Betty White: A Celebration,” Fathom Events has expanded showings to over 1500 locations nationwide so that more people can participate in the one-day-only film.

Screenworks is the latest organisation to partner with Netflix to boost skills within the industry, announcing today it will provide free training for up-and-coming practitioners in northern Nsw.

Backed by a $500,000 investment from the streamer, and supported by the Nsw Government, the Regional Crew Development Program also incorporates placements and work experience on productions with the goal of creating new career pathways in the field.

Screenworks chief executive Ken Crouch told If the initiative had been in the works since the beginning of the year when Netflix was preparing to shoot God’s Favourite Idiot in the Northern Rivers.

“We were helping them to get as many locals as possible employed on that production at the time,” he said.

“A conversation about skill gaps came up and we talked about what we would really love to do to make an impact in regional Australia.”

The three key components of the...