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Mel Gibson and Sean Penn are The Professor and the Madman on new poster

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A new poster has arrived online for the biographical drama The Professor and the Madman featuring Mel Gibson as Professor James Murray and Sean Penn as Dr. W. C. Minor, two key figures in the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. SEE ALSO: Watch the trailer for The Professor and the Madman here Although the […]

UPDATE: Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn star in trailer for Dragged Across Concrete

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UPDATE: We’ve been informed that the video was in fact a non-approved sizzle reel, rather than an official trailer, and so we’ve taken it down. The good news however is that the official trailer is coming next week! Original story follows… The first trailer has debuted for the upcoming crime thriller Dragged Across Concrete which […]

Mel Gibson and Tye Sheridan to star in thriller Black Flies

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A Prayer Before Dawn director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire has enlisted Mel Gibson (Blood Father) and Tye Sheridan (Ready Player One) to star in his next project Black Flies, a thriller set up at Mad River Pictures. According to Variety, Black Flies follows “a young paramedic, Ollie Cross (Sheridan), navigating his first year on the job. He’s […]

Mel Gibson and Sean Penn star in trailer for The Professor and the Madman

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The first trailer has been released for director Farhad Safinia’s biographical drama The Professor and the Madman. Based on Simon Winchester’s book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, the film stars Mel Gibson as Lexicographer Professor James Murray who in 1857 began to compile the Oxford English dictionary with the help of asylum inmate William Minor, played […]

Mel Gibson’s The Professor and the Madman gets an international poster, U.S. release confirmed after legal dispute

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After a legal dispute between star Mel Gibson’s Icon Productions and production company Voltage, Deadline is reporting that the period drama The Professor and the Madman will receive a theatrical release in the U.S. later this year courtesy of Voltage Pictures. An international poster for the film, which details the origins of the Oxford International […]

Mel Gibson, Charlie Hunnam and Eiza Gonzalez to star in action thriller Waldo

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According to THR, British filmmaker Tim Kirkby (Veep, Fleabag) has enlisted Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy), Mel Gibson (Dragged Across Concrete) and Eiza Gonzalez (Baby Driver) for his action thriller Waldo. Based on Howard Gould’s novel Last Looks, Waldo will see Hunnam taking on the role of former LAPD detective Charlie Waldo, who is living […]

Mel Gibson says his Wild Bunch remake “was a bad idea at first”

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While some might say it still is, Mel Gibson has revealed during an interview with Deadline that he thought his recently-announced remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch was ” bad idea at first”, before he found his own take on the classic 1969 western. “I thought it was a bad idea at first,” said Gibson, […]

Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson in first image from S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete

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Thanks to effects artist Tate Steinsiek, we’ve got a first look at Vince Vaughn and Mel Gibson in Dragged Across Concrete, the new movie from Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 director S. Craig Zahler, which Steinsiek describes as “by FAR the most violent film I’ve ever done”. Check it out here… https://www.instagram.com/p/BmUBpxcgZmr/?taken-by=tatesteinsiek […]

Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell to star in Dead Snow director’s War Pigs

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Dead Snow and Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters helmer Tommy Wirkola has tapped Mel Gibson and Colin Farrell to star in his new film War Pigs, an action thriller set up at Millennium Films. Based on a script by Nick Ball and John Niven which was previously titled The Takedown, the film will follow a […]