Seoul — South Korean pop singer/actor Rain will star opposite Bruce Willis in Brian A. Miller's upcoming action thriller The Prince. The 31-year-old, whose real name is Jung Ji-hoon, joins cast members Jason Patric, John Cusack, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson and Jonathon Schaech, his local agency Cube DC said Tuesday. Production is slated to begin after Thanksgiving in Alabama. Randall Emmett, George Furla, Adam Goldwormm, Pak Ho-Sung, and Fred Song are producing the film. Korea-based Union Investment Partners is also producing and financing the project, which is budgeted in the $10 million range. Rain made his Hollywood
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- 11/26/2013
- by Lee Hyo-won
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Emmett/Furla/ Oasis Films has set Jason Patric, John Cusack, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Johnathon Schaech, Gia Mantegna and South Korean actor-singer Rain for The Prince, the Brian A. Miller-directed action thriller. Patric plays a retired Las Vegas mob enforcer who is forced to return to the city and face his former enemies when his teenage daughter goes missing. Bruce Willis was previously set to star in the film. He plays Omar, a man with a score to settle, who has waited years for Paul to return. Emmett/Furla/Oasis is producing and financing with South Korea-based Union Investment Partners. Kim Young-don, Choi Pyeung-ho, Barry Brooker, Stan Wertlieb, Jeff Rice and Brandon Grimes will executive produce alongside producers Randall Emmett, George Furla, Ho-Sung Pak, Fred Song, Adam Goldworm and co-producer Tim Sullivan. Shooting begins next week in Mobile, Ala, and Grindstone/Lionsgate Films will release domestically. Hannibal Pictures will handle international sales.
- 11/25/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
The cast for director Brian A. Miller's The Prince has been announced today with Deadline reporting that John Cusack, Curtis .50 Cent. Jackson, Gia Mantegna, Jason Patric, Johnathon Schaech and pop-star-turned-actor Rain are set to star opposite Bruce Willis in upcoming thriller. The film centers on a family man (Patric) whose secret past is that of a high-level Las Vegas mob enforcer. When his daughter goes missing, he's forced to return to Sin City to find her. Cusack will play the protagonist's best friend with Schaech playing a drug dealer who goes by the nickname "The Pharmacist." The previously-announced Willis is taking a rare turn as a villain named Omar. The Prince is set up at Emmett/Furla/Oasis with Union Investment Partners financing. Randall...
- 11/25/2013
- Comingsoon.net
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"Partly because of his devotion to a meticulous, artisanal approach to filmmaking, and partly because of the sheer secrecy in which his projects are enshrouded, a Malick film is more than an event — it has the religious quality of an ecstatic unveiling." That's Tim Robey in the Telegraph back in early April: "By Malick's standards, the period that has elapsed since his last film, 2005's underseen Pocahontas epic The New World, is little longer than the blink of an eye — his 20-year absence between Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998) is the stuff an entire legend is built on. Still, when you bear in mind that shooting for The Tree of Life began in early 2008, and the film was first tipped for release during in 2009, the delay has been torture enough."
The wait's over, Twitter's a-flutter with mixed instant takes and the first reviews are just coming in.
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- MUBI
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