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When I saw on Deadline that filming has wrapped on an action thriller called Turbulence, my first thought was, “Is it a remake?” This despite the fact that there have been multiple films with the title Turbulence over the years. I thought it might have something to do with the 1997 film with the title, which starred Lauren Holly as a flight attendant stuck on a plane with a serial killer played by Ray Liotta. As it turns out, the new Turbulence doesn’t have anything to do with that franchise… but it is a hot air balloon thriller that stars Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier), so it might make for an interesting viewing experience.

Coming our way from the team behind the recent action film No Way Up, including director Claudio Faeh (Northmen: A Viking Saga) and writer Andy Mayson, who is also producing the film,...

Exclusive: Filming has wrapped in the UK on under-the-radar action-thriller Turbulence, starring Olga Kurylenko (Oblivion), Jeremy Irvine (Treadstone), Hera Hilmar (See) and Kelsey Grammer (Frasier).

The film reunites the team behind 2024 action film No Way Up, including director Claudio Faeh (Northmen: A Viking Saga) and writer Andy Mayson, who also produces.

The synopsis reads: “Young married couple Zach and Emmy decide to take a hot air balloon trip across the Italian Dolomites to rekindle their relationship. When they and pilot Harry are joined by a third passenger, Julia, events unfold in ways they could never imagine five thousand meters in the air.”

The film was shot on location in the Dolomites and London, with studio shooting at Twickenham studios. It is now in post-production.

Will Clarke and Andy Mayson (Altitude) produce alongside and Molly Conners and Amanda Bowers (Phiphen). Altitude is handling international sales.

Executive producers are Altitude, Phiphen (Richard J. Berthy and Jane Sinisi), Head Gear and Metrol Technology (Phil Hunt and Compton Ross), Green & Blue (Frank Kaminski and Philip Nauck), M2 Media Post (Michael Bassick and Michael Laundon), Twickenham Studios, Leeshon Alexander, Peter Iliff, Rick Dugdale, Claudio Faeh and Jeremy Irvine.

Olga Kurylenko is represented by Independent Talent Group and Agence Adequat, Irvine by Independent Talent Group, UTA and Schreck Rose, and Hilmar by 42, Rogue Management and CAA. Grammer is represented by UTA and Vault Entertainment.

Jeremy Bobb, Xander Berkeley Paul Raci join cast.

Altitude Film Sales has released a first-look image of Butcher’s Crossing starring Nicolas Cage, which has wrapped principal photography in Montana.

Cage stars in the western alongside Fred Hechinger and newly announced cast Jeremy Bobb, Xander Berkeley and Paul Raci, who earned an Oscar supporting actor Oscar nod earlier this year for Sound Of Metal.

Gabe Polsky wrote and directs the frontier adventure about a Harvard drop-out that heads out Wet in search of his destiny and joins a

team of buffalo hunters led by Miller (Cage). Together they embark on a...

Jeremy Bobb, Xander Berkeley, Rachel Keller and Oscar nominee Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) will join Nicolas Cage and Fred Hechinger in Butcher’s Crossing, the Western directed by Gabe Polsky, which has just wrapped production.

The film scripted by Polsky and Liam Satre-Meloy adapts John Williams’ 1960 novel of the same name. It centers on Will Andrews (Hechingeer), a naive Harvard student who heads west in 1874 to fulfill his dream of seeing the country and living off the land. Will agrees to fund a dangerous but potentially lucrative expedition to Colorado, led by Miller (Cage), an experienced hunter obsessed with a near-mythological buffalo herd he once glimpsed in the Rockies. But as the weeks and then months pass, Miller’s single-minded resolve to slaughter every buffalo in the enormous herd puts Will and the rest of the hunting...