In our Renny Harlin interview, the filmmaker behind his fair share of '90s classics shares the story of how he became a director, and his biggest regrets.
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Here's the wild true story behind the making of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4, as recounted by director Renny Harlin decades later.
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The Cliffhanger director heads to his native Finland to shoot a movie this month, with safety measures in place. Read about the new Renny Harlin movie here.
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In 2009, a Deep Blue Sea sequel was scheduled to go straight-to-DVD. The project's writer and director, Jack Perez, explains why the sequel was cancelled.
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Renny Harlin and his production company's next Chinese production is based on a popular video game. Check out the first Legend of the Ancient Sword photo.
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Read our Renny Harlin interview. The Skiptrace director talks Jackie Chan, Chinese vs. American filmmaking, his old movie Cutthroat Island, and more.
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Watch the first Skiptrace trailer to get a glimpse at a movie with Jackie Chan and Johnny Knoxville in the kind of action comedy that isn't made anymore.
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In this week's edition of How Did This Get Made, Blake Harris sits down with filmmaker Renny Harlin to talk about his film The Covenant and more.
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Jackie Chan isn't yet ready to become Expendable, because he's busy making his own big action films. One project he's been developing is called Skiptrace, and features Jackie and Seann William Scott in a globe-trotting action buddy comedy. Now Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight) will direct the film, with a shoot planned for…
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It remains to be seen which of the two Hercules movies due out next year will emerge victorious from the blood-stained arena that is the global box office. But in the race to put out a whole bunch of trailers, The Legend of Hercules is beating Brett Ratner and Dwayne Johnson's Hercules by a very comfortable…
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What was once Hercules: The Legend Begins is now The Legend of Hercules. The film directed by Renny Harlin and starring Kellan Lutz hasn't changed otherwise, but below we've got a new trailer and poster to reflect the name change. The Legend of Hercules opens on January 10, 2014. In the epic origin story THE…
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Here's a new tease for the Great Hercules Smackdown of 2014. Two films featuring the mythological character will hit theaters next year, and the first will be Hercules: The Legend Begins, from Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger) and starring Kellan Lutz (Twilight) in the lead role. This isn't the story of arrogant Hercules having…
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While Brett Ratner's Hercules for MGM/Paramount has been busy nailing down supporting actors over the past couple of months, Millennium's competing Hercules 3D is just getting started on casting. And first up is the legendary warrior himself. Twilight actor Kellan Lutz has just signed on to take the lead in the film, which is being…
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Weeks after MGM and Paramount announced a summer 2014 release for their Hercules project with director Brett Ratner and star Dwayne Johnson, Millennium has set a spring 2014 date for its own take on the hero. This one comes from Die Hard 2 helmer Renny Harlin and will be in 3D, as evidenced by its title…
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Hollywood loves stories of failure almost more than it loves success. The tales of flops such as Heaven's Gate, Ishtar and The Bonfire of the Vanities have spawned endless conversations, magazine articles and no few books. But the story of a flop is often distilled down into over-simplified factoids and circumstances. In the broad public…
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"The first casualty of war is innocence. Oops, the truth. I meant the first casualty of war is always the truth." Here's the first trailer for Renny Harlin's 5 Days of War, which covers people trying to cover the war that broke out between Russia and Georgia in 2008. Serious topics aren't exactly in the…
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We wrote a couple months ago about Renny Harlin's upcoming film about the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia. Now, as then, I'm interested in the film to see if Harlin can take what made a few of his films really entertaining (I'm thinking of Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea and The Long Kiss Goodnight) and…
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Renny Harlin had been hoping to get back to 'real' movies with Mannerheim, about Finnish politician Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, but financing for that project fell apart at the last minute. So Variety reports that he's now set to direct a film based on the five-day conflict between Russia and Georgia, which took place on…
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I'm not a pro wrestling bash-er. I use to be a fan back in that big boom. I actually believe there is untapped talent in the organization, and am shocked that World Wrestling Entertainment has been unable to produce one single watchable movie. That said, I think Vince McMahon should give up on his movie…
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