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With Liam Neeson, Maggie Grace and Famke Janssen returning for 20th Century Fox and EuropaCorp’s action sequel “Taken 2,” director Olivier Megaton has decided to add a fresh face to the franchise, tapping “Brothers and Sisters” star Luke Grimes for a key role.First film found retired CIA agent Bryan Mills (Neeson) heading overseas to save his daughter (Grace) from a gang of ruthless European kidnappers. In the sequel, the tables are turned, as Mills and his ex-wife are held hostage by the father of a kidnapper Mills killed while rescuing his daughter.

Croatian thesp Rade Serbedzija is set to play the vengeful villain, while Grimes has closed a deal to play Grace’s love interest, who will likely have to help her rescue her parents from the baddie’s clutches.

“Taken” scribes Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen penned the sequel, which Besson will produce through his EuropaCorp banner. Original pic was a surprise hit, grossing $226 million worldwide. “Taken 2″ is skedded for release on Oct. 5.

While Grimes made his feature debut in Jonathan Levine’s 2006 slasher pic “All the Boys Love Mandy Lane,” he hasn’t let that film’s long-delayed release affect his career, as he recently wrapped the lead role alongside John Hawkes and Mary Steenburgen in FX drama pilot “Outlaw Country.” Thesp also starred alongside Ellen Barkin in Cam Archer’s Cannes entry “Shit Year.”

Grimes is repped by CAA and manager Darren Goldberg.

 

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The new DVD cover art has been added to the gallery together with some new promotional stills:

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Jake is a good kid –an impressionable high school freshman who daydreams about Kristin Sommers (17), the hottest girl in school.  When Jake’s great uncle suddenly commits suicide, Jake is left with his uncle’s beautiful house featuring a majestic garden.  Upon learning that Kristin is looking for an open house to throw a party, Jake offers up his uncle’s house. Kristen falls in love with the place, especially the garden, and suggests they play a game called “Garden of Eden…”   Jake happily agrees to play.

Question by question Jake and Kristin reveal themselves to one another divulging their secrets and their bodies.  The game continues for weeks unbeknownst to Russ, Kristin’s possessive boyfriend. But one day in a moment of weakness Jake and Kristin acquiesce to their true feelings for one another and “cross the line.” Realizing she has no true feelings for Russ, Kristin breaks up with him and asks Jake if they can meet at the house again, wanting to start over.  But this time Russ follows them home and witnesses their intimate game.  Seething with anger and jealousy, he confronts Jake and Kristin as the film builds towards its violent climax.

According to the same source “Garden of Eden” will have a Los Angeles premiere and DVDs and Blu-Ray disks will be sent to pledgers (of course I only found out about this after it closes) so hopefully one day it will also be available to purchase or download.

FX’s pilot Outlaw Country is undergoing a retooling. The original script, written by Josh Goldin and Rachel Abramowitz, has been given a rewrite by Goldin, Abramowitz and Outlaw Country’s executive producer/co-showrunner David Manson. There will be substantial reshoots, which will be directed by actor-helmer Adam Arkin. Arkin is stepping in for the original pilot’s director Michael Dinner, who would’ve done the reshoots had he not been busy with another FX pilot he is directing, Powers.There won’t be major recastings on the project, a crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of Southern organized crime and Nashville royalty that stars Luke Grimes, Haley Bennett, Mary Steenburgen and John Hawkes. I hear a couple of small new roles have been added and another small part, played in the original pilot by Lisa Blount, will be recast following the actress’ death.

Getting Outlaw Country off the ground has been a long and arduous process. FX greenlighted the project to pilot last April and filmed the pilot last fall. The network has showed faith in the drama — FX president John Landgraf recently listed Outlaw Country, along with Powers, as candidates for a series launch in the winter. Also proving FX’s commitment to the Nashville-set Outlaw Country is its major additional investment in the project in the form of a rewrite and extensive reshoots. In addition to getting paid for the new pilot, the cast also have had their options extended through December. FX has a history of tweaking its pilots, including reshooting substential parts of them, before ordering them to series. It happened with Sons of Anarchy, whose reshoots were done by Dinner, and, most recently, with Lights Out. Arkin, who has a role on hit Sons of Anarchy, has directed episodes of several FX series, including SOA, Justified and Terriers. Art Linson and John Linson executive produceOutlaw Country, which is produced by Fox TV Studios and FX Prods.

This is good news, if FX wasn’t interested in ordering “Outlaw Country” to series they wouldn’t spend all these money on reshooting the episode.

Doing a sex scene now with the talented Luke Grimes… Meeeooowww!
Jessica Lowndes (@realjlowndes) – 15 hours ago

Working on a short film called “Garden of Eden”… Filming some pretty intense scenes with @CallanMcAuliffe today!! (Love the aussie accent)
Jessica Lowndes (@realjlowndes) - 10 hours ago

Filming an awesome short film this week. Got very dirty with the beautiful @realjlowndes today. (dirty with dirt)
Callan McAuliffe (@CallanMcAuliffe) – 3 hours ago

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- Events > April 23, 2011 – Lucie Foundation Snapshop Fundraiser Exhibit (1)

Some additional photos of Luke at the “Hudson” launch event on March 17 have also been added.

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