{"id":271447,"date":"2026-02-06T23:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271447\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T23:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T23:57:08","slug":"first-look-at-new-action-movie-empire-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/271447\/","title":{"rendered":"First Look At New Action Movie &#8216;Empire City&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s your first look at upcoming action-thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/empire-city\/\" id=\"auto-tag_empire-city\" data-tag=\"empire-city\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Empire City<\/a>, starring <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/gerard-butler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gerard-butler\" data-tag=\"gerard-butler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gerard Butler<\/a> and Hayley Atwell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tIn Empire City, when a hostage crisis erupts inside New York\u2019s landmark Clybourn Building, former Navy SEAL turned firefighter Rhett (Butler), his squad, and his NYPD wife Dani (Atwell) must fight and navigate their way through the building to rescue the captives. Omari Hardwick also stars as Hawkins, the film\u2019s villain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPic is directed by Michael Matthews. Screenplay comes from Brian Tucker and S. Craig Zahler. Producers are Marc Butan, Gerard Butler, Alan Siegel, and Paul Currie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe Veterans represents international sales and CAA Media Finance is handling domestic rights with sales continuing at next week\u2019s European Film Market in Berlin. Filming is ongoing in Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tPreviously announced supporting cast includes Mel Jarnson (Mortal Kombat), Tre Hale (Platonic), Michael Beach (Mayor of Kingstown), Dominic Bogart (American Primeval),\u00a0Stephen Murphy (The Odyssey), Jack DiFalco (Daredevil) and Kaiwi Lyman (Den Of Thieves).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Here\u2019s your first look at upcoming action-thriller Empire City, starring Gerard Butler and Hayley Atwell. In Empire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[150930,153545,156,39901,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-271447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-efm","9":"tag-empire-city","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gerard-butler","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}