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Jason Statham Teams With ‘Plane’ Director Jean-Francois Richet & MadRiver For Action-Thriller ‘Mutiny’, Lionsgate Pre-Buys North America Before Veterans Launches Hot Project At Cannes Market


Lionsgate has taken North American rights off the table on one of the bigger-budget new packages that'll be on sale next week.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the Cannes market, Lionsgate has taken North American rights off the table on one of the bigger-budget new packages that’ll be on sale next week: that’s action-thriller Mutiny, which will star action evergreen Jason Statham( Fast & Furious) and be directed by Jean-François Richet ( Plane). Lionsgate, which we understand stumped up eight figures for NA rights, says it has committed to a wide theatrical release on the project which is based on a script by Lindsay Michel and J.P. Davis ( Plane). In Mutiny, after his billionaire industrialist boss is murdered in front of him, Cole Reed is set up to take the fall for the crime— leaving him on the run as he works to uncover an international conspiracy.

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