Mark Canton Movie Updates

illennium Media will finance and produce a new version of Red Sonja.

Emmett/Furla/Oasis Films CEOs and co-founders Randall Emmett and George Furla just greenlit the third film in the Escape Plan franchise.

After Dark Films and Chinese drama producer Shenghua Entertainment have established a five-year $50M co-financing pact that will fly under their new Cinelou Films DHJ banner.

300 producer Mark Canton has snagged movie and TV rights to the Christian Cantrellfs sci-fi thriller Kingmaker.

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

Mark Canton’s Atmosphere Entertainment has feature rights to Steve Klayman’s action-comedy script Caught In The Act.

Relativity Media has acquired Silver or Lead, a project from a British writer named Piers Ashworth about the hunt for Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Mandalay Pictures has tapped emerging scribe Nic Kelman to adapt Liquid Comics' graphic novel Ramayan 3392 AD.

The producers of the 300 spinoff known as Xerxes have retitled their film 300: Battle of Artemisia, and they have also narrowed their focus of potential directors to two: Noam Murro and Jaume Collet-Serra.

Dana Delany has joined the cast of indie crime drama feature "Freelancers" from Cheetah Vision and Emmett Furla Films opposite Robert DeNiro, Curtis "50 Cent" Jacskon and Beau Garrett.

Indie thriller Rites of Passage has signed Christian Slater, Stephen Dorff, Wes Bentley and Kate Maberly for the directorial debut of screenwriter Peter Iliff.

Mark Canton and Lucky VIII Films are going long with the football-themed supernatural thriller "Play Dead." Newly minted Lucky VIII has acquired Ryan Brown's debut novel and has tapped novelist-screenwriter Joe Schreiber to adapt for the bigscreen.

ust when you thought it was safe: Dimension Films is already nibbling at "Piranha 3D - The Sequel".