Avi Lerner Movie Updates

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

Nu Image/Millennium Films is plotting a reboot of the classic 1980s action franchise.

Millennium Films has acquired the time-travel thriller Victim 321 that will be directed by Diego Velasco.

Millennium Films has set Mark Tonderai to direct a modern-day retelling of the George Romero-directed cult zombie film Day Of The Dead.

Millennium Films has acquired The Strategist, a thriller script by Inon Shampanier that he will direct.

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.

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

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.

Just days after Millennium Films acquired the spec Olympus Has Fallen from first-time scribes Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, 300 star Gerard Butler has signed on to topline the action pic.

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

Luke Wilson is set to join the cast of Nu Image/Millennium Films dramedy Straight A's.

Lionsgate has completed casting of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D with Leatherface portrayed by newbie thesp Dan Yeager.

Nu Image/Millennium Films has come on board to finance an adaptation of Philip Roth's The Humbling and is planning a fall start with Al Pacino starring and Barry Levinson directing.

U.S. producer Avi Lerner is teaming with Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore on Leningrad, an English-language epic about the 900-day Nazi attack on the Russian city during WWII.

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.

Blackfilm.com has learned that Dennis Quaid has been added to the cast of the romantic comedy ‘Playing the Field,’ joining Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman and newcomer Noah Lomax.

Which brings us to today, and Avi Lerner's confirmation that Sonja is still very much a going concern. "We didn't want to start it until we'd finished Conan," he tells us, but with confidence in Marcus Nispel's revivified warrior growing, and a sequel already in development, Lerner reveals that "We will definitely ...

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.