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Russell Crowe, Liam Hemsworth, RZA, and Elsa Pataky play a dangerous game of survival in the new Poker Face trailer

Exclusive: See a new look at Russell Crowe in upcoming thriller Poker Face

Given the title of Poker Face, you might suspect that a new Russell Crowe film could be ripped from recent headlines and chronicle the shock kidnapping (and swift return) of Lady Gaga's prized pooches. Instead, it's planned as a twisty thriller with Gary Fleder in the director's chair. Stephen M. Coates wrote the script, which will see Crowe as Jake, a tech billionaire who summons his childhood friends to his sprawling Miami estate for what he claims is a high stakes poker game. But it's much more than that: given his mixed relationship with most of the players, the master strategist has pl...

Russell Crowe's New Movie Involves A Very, Very High Stakes Game Of Poker Crowe plays a tech billionaire who invites friends over for a game of poker, but it's a lot more than that. Gary Fleder is signed on to direct from a screenplay by Stephen M. Coates. In the movie, Jake brings together his childhood friends at his Miami mansion under the guise of a high stakes game of poker--but it's a lot more than that. "Those friends have a love hate relationship with the host, a master game-player/planner, and he has concocted an elaborate scheme designed to bring a certain justice to all of them,"...