{"id":118912,"date":"2025-11-06T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118912\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T16:46:09","slug":"hayley-atwell-joins-gerard-butler-in-action-thriller-empire-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/118912\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayley Atwell Joins Gerard Butler In Action-Thriller ‘Empire City’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Mission Impossible and Captain America star Hayley Atwell<\/a> is joining Gerard Butler<\/a> in hostage crisis action-thriller Empire City<\/a>, which is due to begin filming this month.<\/p>\n

\n\tMichael Matthews (Love & Monsters) is newly aboard to direct the pic scripted by Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler. We first told you about the movie last Cannes. The story has slightly tweaked since then. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn\u00a0Empire City, when a hostage crisis erupts inside New York\u2019s landmark Clybourn Building, firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD wife Dani (Atwell) must fight and navigate their way through the building to rescue the captives.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe project reunites Butler and his G-BASE partner Alan Siegel with fellow\u00a0Plane\u00a0producer Marc Butan from MadRiver Pictures. Paul Currie will also produce. Leonine Studios co-financed development, and Leonine\u2019s Quirin Berg and Alexander Janssen will executive-produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Veterans represent international and CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights. Sales will continue at next week\u2019s American Film Market.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is financed under MadRiver\u2019s multi-year equity financing and distribution deal with international distributors including DeAPlaneta (Spain), Eagle Pictures (Italy), IDC Distribution (Latin America), Leonine Studios (Germany and Austria), The Searchers (Benelux), Shochiku (Japan), SND (France) and Unicorn Media (Eastern Europe), who will each handle distribution in their respective territories. The pact\u2019s first film\u00a0Mutiny, starring Jason Statham, will be released by Lionsgate next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tButler recently starred in the Universal Pictures live-action adaptation of the animation franchise\u00a0How to Train Your Dragon, reprising his role of Hiccup\u2019s father Stoick. Butler is also coming off heist sequel\u00a0Den of Thieves 2: Pantera,\u00a0which opened to No. 1 at the domestic box office at the top of the year.<\/p>\n

\n\tAtwell recently starred opposite Tom Cruise in\u00a0Mission: Impossible 7\u00a0and\u00a08. She\u00a0is globally known for portraying Peggy Carter across the Marvel universe in such franchises as\u00a0Captain America,\u00a0Avengers,\u00a0Doctor Strange,\u00a0and\u00a0Ant-Man, as well as in her own TV series Marvel\u2019s\u00a0Agent Carter.<\/p>\n

\n\tMatthews directed the adventure film\u00a0Love & Monsters\u00a0for Paramount. He most recently directed the fantasy adventure series\u00a0Nautilus\u00a0for AMC+. <\/p>\n

\n\tButler is represented by CAA and Alan Siegel Entertainment; Atwell by CAA, Entertainment 360, and Hamilton Hodell; Matthews by CAA and Range; Tucker by Paradigm; Zahler by UTA and Range; Butan and MadRiver are represented by CAA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Mission Impossible and Captain America star Hayley Atwell is joining Gerard Butler in hostage crisis action-thriller Empire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[59741,76064,146,76065,76066,85,46],"class_list":["post-118912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afm","tag-empire-city","tag-entertainment","tag-gerard-butler","tag-hayley-atwell","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}