Millennium Films Movie Updates

Rob Cohen has come aboard to direct Crash Bandits, an action-adventure movie being made by Nu Image/Millennium.

Millennium Films is moving ahead with Texas Chainsaw 4, with production to begin later this year in Louisiana.

Millennium Films has set Legally Blonde scribes Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith to write ExpendaBelles, the title of the spinoff action film that will show the feminine side of the mercenary business.

Actress in negotiations to join Jason Statham, James Franco in action movie written by Sylvester Stallone.

Millennium Films is looking for love, snapping up romantic comedy Match from scribes Ben Shiffrin and Dan Antoniazzi and setting up the project with Scott Sanders Prods.

Millennium Films and Dobré Films are teaming up for P.O.V. (Point of Violence).

Neil Marshall, the noted horror filmmaker behind The Descent, is attached to direct the long-gestating Demeter, which is being set up at Millennium Films.

Millennium Films has acquired My Owner’s Wedding, a Robert Cary and Jonathan Tolins script, and the producer-distributor is in early talks with Jessica Biel to play one of the leads.

Millennium has just closed a deal to acquire Olympus Has Fallen, a Creighton Rothenberger & Katrin Benedikt spec script for a big action movie that’s set in the White House.

Millennium Films is in negotiations to acquire Tony Giglio's new spec script The Follower, which Katherine Heigl is in talks to topline and produce through her Abishag banner.

Millennium Films has acquired Chris Baldi's comedy screenplay Guys Night. The company plans to start filming in the spring.

Millenium Films has acquired the rights to The Bricklayer, the best-selling novel by former FBI agent Noah Boyd, and attached Gerard Butler to star as a rogue former agent who’s called in to help battle a criminal group that is demanding an escalating series of multi-million dollar ransom payments.

Robert De Niro, Diane Kea­ton, Katherine Heigl and Amanda Seyfried are set to star in the indie comedy "Gently Down the Stream." Justin Zackham ("The Bucket List") will write and direct the pic, a co-production between the filmmaker's Two Ton Films banner and Millennium Films.

Matthew McConaughey, Tobey Maguire, Sofia Vergara and Zac Efron star, and Oscar-nominated director Lee Daniels directed and executive produced with Hilary Shor (Children Of Men). Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, Danny Dimbort and Cassian Elwes produced.

The follow-up movie is a priority at producer Millennium Films, where it's being developed by Stallone, the creative force behind the original. But Stallone, who both starred in and directed the 2010 summer hit, isn't, at the moment, planning on helming the new movie. Instead, he's been meeting with directors to tackle the sequ ...

Assassin pic The Iceman has marked a trio of thesps: Michael Shannon, Benicio Del Toro and James Franco will star in the true story of mob killer Richard Kuklinski.

Nicolas Cage will star in Medallion, an action thriller directed by Simon West. Millennium Films has come aboard the project as financier and is already out to buyers with the package.