The world of spy films is currently dominated by two franchises: James Bond and Mission: Impossible. Both are based on different mediums, but both have received multiple video game adaptations over the years. However, while the much more successful James Bond games have historically recreated the faces of the Bond actors with pixelated approximations, the Mission: Impossible games have never featured a recreation (or even an approximation) of Tom Cruise.
Actually, despite the fact that there are several games based on various Tom Cruise movies, the superstar actor has not only never appeared in a video game but has never had his likeness recreated in a video game. Why is that?
For additional context, the James Bond films have been running strong since 1962, and six (seven if you count David Niven) actors have starred as the titular character in major movies so far. While Sean Connery arguably remains film’s most iconic Bond actor,...
Actually, despite the fact that there are several games based on various Tom Cruise movies, the superstar actor has not only never appeared in a video game but has never had his likeness recreated in a video game. Why is that?
For additional context, the James Bond films have been running strong since 1962, and six (seven if you count David Niven) actors have starred as the titular character in major movies so far. While Sean Connery arguably remains film’s most iconic Bond actor,...
- 7/11/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
In between filming Seasons 5 and 6 of “Better Call Saul,” Rhea Seehorn had no way of knowing that she was prepping for not one, but two Emmy-nominated roles at the same time. That down time away from her work on the beloved AMC show gave her the chance to be part of the team behind “Cooper’s Bar,” a six-episode short-form show airing on AMC+ about a backyard hangout spot that becomes part of a studio development bidding war.
“We did all that work on hiatus, then continue to have a couple of Zoom meetings throughout Season 6 of ‘Saul’ so that the second I got back, we could do some physical production prep, and then go ahead and shoot it,” Seehorn said. “The majority of the people that are on ‘Cooper’s Bar’ are friends of mine, and we just wanted to do something together. So we had a blast.”
“Cooper’s Bar” is...
“We did all that work on hiatus, then continue to have a couple of Zoom meetings throughout Season 6 of ‘Saul’ so that the second I got back, we could do some physical production prep, and then go ahead and shoot it,” Seehorn said. “The majority of the people that are on ‘Cooper’s Bar’ are friends of mine, and we just wanted to do something together. So we had a blast.”
“Cooper’s Bar” is...
- 8/19/2022
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
AMC has set the premiere date for the sixth and final season of Emmy-nominated drama series Better Call Saul. The final chapter, from Sony Pictures Television, will premiere with two back-to-back-episodes starting at 9 p.m. Monday, April 18, on AMC and AMC+.
The 13-episode final season will roll out in two parts, with the first seven episodes launching April 18 and culminating with the series’ final six episodes starting July 11.
Three new original shortform series connected to the world of Better Call Saul also will debut this spring: the animated Slippin’ Jimmy; Cooper’s Bar, starring Saul’s Rhea Seehorn; and new episodes of the Emmy-winning Better Call Saul Employee Training Video series.
Better Call Saul’s final season concludes the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. From the cartel to the courthouse, from Albuquerque to Omaha, Season 6 tracks Jimmy and...
The 13-episode final season will roll out in two parts, with the first seven episodes launching April 18 and culminating with the series’ final six episodes starting July 11.
Three new original shortform series connected to the world of Better Call Saul also will debut this spring: the animated Slippin’ Jimmy; Cooper’s Bar, starring Saul’s Rhea Seehorn; and new episodes of the Emmy-winning Better Call Saul Employee Training Video series.
Better Call Saul’s final season concludes the complicated journey and transformation of its compromised hero, Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), into criminal lawyer Saul Goodman. From the cartel to the courthouse, from Albuquerque to Omaha, Season 6 tracks Jimmy and...
- 2/10/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
AMC has finally set the premiere for the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” — as well as the second half of the sixth and final season of “Better Call Saul” — after teasing fans mercilessly with the information earlier this week. As an added bonus, the cable channel also revealed first-look images from the sixth season (see above) and unveiled upcoming digital series set in the “Breaking Bad” prequel’s universe.
On Thursday, AMC announced that the seven-episode Part 1 of “Better Call Saul” Season 6 will premiere on April 18 at 9 p.m. Et. on AMC and AMC Plus. Back-to-back episodes will air that night. Once that first half of the final season has run its course, Part 2 won’t be too far behind, as the final six episodes of “Better Call Saul” will begin rolling out on July 11.
Led by Bob Odenkirk as the titular attorney, “Better Call Saul” was...
On Thursday, AMC announced that the seven-episode Part 1 of “Better Call Saul” Season 6 will premiere on April 18 at 9 p.m. Et. on AMC and AMC Plus. Back-to-back episodes will air that night. Once that first half of the final season has run its course, Part 2 won’t be too far behind, as the final six episodes of “Better Call Saul” will begin rolling out on July 11.
Led by Bob Odenkirk as the titular attorney, “Better Call Saul” was...
- 2/10/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
On “Better Call Saul,” Rhea Seehorn plays Kim Wexler, the character with perhaps the show’s highest moral compass. But on her latest series, “Cooper’s Bar,” Seehorn has gone in a completely different direction.
“I’m an absolute asshole in it; I am horrible, which is fun,” she says. Actually, the marketing deck for “Cooper’s Bar” goes even further than that, calling Seehorn’s character, TV executive Kris, the “biggest dick in Hollywood.”
“It’s incredibly different from Kim Wexler,” she says. “It’s definitely fun, when I’m am churning and wringing hands about Kim Wexler, to be working on these scripts for ‘Cooper’s Bar’ and thinking about Kris, somebody that steps over recliners and just screams and yells at people and has no tact whatsoever.”
“Cooper’s Bar” is an original short-form digital series produced for AMC that will be timed to run next spring...
“I’m an absolute asshole in it; I am horrible, which is fun,” she says. Actually, the marketing deck for “Cooper’s Bar” goes even further than that, calling Seehorn’s character, TV executive Kris, the “biggest dick in Hollywood.”
“It’s incredibly different from Kim Wexler,” she says. “It’s definitely fun, when I’m am churning and wringing hands about Kim Wexler, to be working on these scripts for ‘Cooper’s Bar’ and thinking about Kris, somebody that steps over recliners and just screams and yells at people and has no tact whatsoever.”
“Cooper’s Bar” is an original short-form digital series produced for AMC that will be timed to run next spring...
- 11/4/2021
- by Michael Schneider
- Variety Film + TV
Written and Directed by David Charbonier and Justin Powell Available Exclusively On Shudder On Thursday, July 29Th Produced by Rick Rosenthal, Jim Hart, Ryan Scaringe, John Hermann and Ryan Lewis Executive Produced by Bert Kern, Nick Morton and Howard Barish Co-Producers by Amy Lippens, CSA and Dennis Madlone Starring Lonnie Chavis, Ezra Dewey, Kristin Bauer …
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- 6/30/2021
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
The Dark Universe, Universal’s would-be monster movie franchise, may have only fallen apart a scant four years ago with 2017’s The Mummy, but the mindset behind its conception now feels like a notion from a completely different age. That logic, of course, implied that lucrative, Marvel Cinematic Universe-like film franchises could be conjured from just about any intellectual property. Interestingly, one of the writers involved, Eric Heisserer, believes the Dark Universe imploded behind the scenes well before it did at the box office.
Heisserer, who’s serving as showrunner for franchise-aspiring Netflix television adaptation Shadow and Bone, had just broken big with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival and horror film Lights Out when he was tapped to co-write (with Jon Spaihts) a Dark Universe reboot movie for vampire hunter Van Helsing, which Channing Tatum was expected to headline. The gig put him in a dream team writer...
Heisserer, who’s serving as showrunner for franchise-aspiring Netflix television adaptation Shadow and Bone, had just broken big with his Oscar-nominated screenplay for 2016 sci-fi drama Arrival and horror film Lights Out when he was tapped to co-write (with Jon Spaihts) a Dark Universe reboot movie for vampire hunter Van Helsing, which Channing Tatum was expected to headline. The gig put him in a dream team writer...
- 4/27/2021
- by Joseph Baxter
- Den of Geek
Shudder's latest acquisition is The Boy Behind the Door from co-writers and directors Justin Powell and David Charbonier:
"New York – April 22, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired the exclusive rights to The Boy Behind the Door for release in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, July 29. The first feature from co-writers and directors Justin Powell and David Charbonier, the suspense thriller tells a gripping, powerful tale of survival and friendship in the face of evil.
In The Boy Behind the Door, a night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and his best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey), when they are abducted on their way home from school. Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another stranger,...
"New York – April 22, 2021 – Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural, has acquired the exclusive rights to The Boy Behind the Door for release in North America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand on Thursday, July 29. The first feature from co-writers and directors Justin Powell and David Charbonier, the suspense thriller tells a gripping, powerful tale of survival and friendship in the face of evil.
In The Boy Behind the Door, a night of unimaginable terror awaits twelve-year-old Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and his best friend, Kevin (Ezra Dewey), when they are abducted on their way home from school. Managing to escape his confines, Bobby navigates the dark halls, praying his presence goes unnoticed as he avoids his captor at every turn. Even worse is the arrival of another stranger,...
- 4/22/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Over the last weekend, an eerie thing happened at the box office: Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse Productions’ The Invisible Man brought the Universal Monsters legacy back with a vengeance. Over-performing with a monstrous box office bow of $29 million in the U.S. alone, the horror reimagining of the H.G. Wells novel (and James Whale’s 1933 film) more than quadrupled its $7 million budget in only three days.
This is of course good news about a good horror movie, one of the best in a while with its panic attack-inducing allegory about a woman being gaslighted by an abusive ex. But it’s also rather miraculous news for the Universal Monsters label, which has by and large languished in the 21st century despite multiple attempts to resurrect it from the dead. Indeed, just three years after the Dark Universe was embarrassingly put out to pasture following The Mummy’s disastrous June 2017 debut,...
This is of course good news about a good horror movie, one of the best in a while with its panic attack-inducing allegory about a woman being gaslighted by an abusive ex. But it’s also rather miraculous news for the Universal Monsters label, which has by and large languished in the 21st century despite multiple attempts to resurrect it from the dead. Indeed, just three years after the Dark Universe was embarrassingly put out to pasture following The Mummy’s disastrous June 2017 debut,...
- 3/4/2020
- by Chris Longo
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Lonnie Chavis is set to star in suspense thriller The Boy Behind the Door, the first feature from writer-director duo of David Charbonier and Justin Powell.
It follows Bobby (Chavis), a young boy who is kidnapped alongside his best friend on their way to Little League practice. With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby must rescue his friend and find a way out before they become the latest victims in a collection of lost children.
Kristin Bauer van Staten (True Blood), Scott Michael Foster (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Micah Hauptman (Rust Creek) and newcomer Ezra Dewey co-star.
Producers are Rick Rosenthal of IWhitewater Films, Ryan Scaringe of Kinogo Pictures, Jim Hart, John Hermann and Ryan Lewis. Bert Kern, Nick Morton, and Howard Barish executive produce.
Chavis, who is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency and Randy James Management,...
It follows Bobby (Chavis), a young boy who is kidnapped alongside his best friend on their way to Little League practice. With no means of calling for help and miles of dark country in every direction, Bobby must rescue his friend and find a way out before they become the latest victims in a collection of lost children.
Kristin Bauer van Staten (True Blood), Scott Michael Foster (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Micah Hauptman (Rust Creek) and newcomer Ezra Dewey co-star.
Producers are Rick Rosenthal of IWhitewater Films, Ryan Scaringe of Kinogo Pictures, Jim Hart, John Hermann and Ryan Lewis. Bert Kern, Nick Morton, and Howard Barish executive produce.
Chavis, who is repped by Paradigm Talent Agency and Randy James Management,...
- 2/4/2020
- by Amanda N'Duka
- Deadline Film + TV
Matt Ratner’s feature directorial debut appeared at Tribeca.
Blue Fox Entertainment has added the Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz (Parks And Recreation) Tribeca Film Festival comedy Standing Up, Falling Down to its Cannes international sales slate.
Eloise Mumford, Grace Gummer, Nate Corddry and with Debra Monk also star in Matt Ratner’s feature directorial debut about a 34-year old aspiring comedian (Schwartz) who returns to his parents’ home and strikes up a mutually supportive friendship with an eccentric dermatologist (Crystal). Peter Hoare wrote the screenplay.
CAA handling Us rights on Standing Up, Falling Down, which marks the feature directorial...
Blue Fox Entertainment has added the Billy Crystal and Ben Schwartz (Parks And Recreation) Tribeca Film Festival comedy Standing Up, Falling Down to its Cannes international sales slate.
Eloise Mumford, Grace Gummer, Nate Corddry and with Debra Monk also star in Matt Ratner’s feature directorial debut about a 34-year old aspiring comedian (Schwartz) who returns to his parents’ home and strikes up a mutually supportive friendship with an eccentric dermatologist (Crystal). Peter Hoare wrote the screenplay.
CAA handling Us rights on Standing Up, Falling Down, which marks the feature directorial...
- 5/14/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
SeriesFest, the international television festival dedicated to showcasing the best and boldest emerging voices in television, revealed the winners of this year’s international pilot competition at a closing reception today in Denver. Chief among the winners was “Halfway There,” which took home the prize for best independent dramatic pilot a well as the audience award. Created by Nick Morton and Rick Roesnthal, “Halfway There” stars Matthew Lillard as a sober addict running a rehabilitation facility, and Blythe Danner as his alcoholic mother whom he is forced to treat.
“The quality of content selected for this year’s International Pilot Competition was simply unmatched. We are encouraged by the diverse perspectives represented, and in awe of each and every creator who took part in our festival,” said SeriesFest co-founders Randi Kleiner and Kaily Smith-Westbrook in a statement.
Many independent projects that debuted at SeriesFest have gone on to score production deals,...
“The quality of content selected for this year’s International Pilot Competition was simply unmatched. We are encouraged by the diverse perspectives represented, and in awe of each and every creator who took part in our festival,” said SeriesFest co-founders Randi Kleiner and Kaily Smith-Westbrook in a statement.
Many independent projects that debuted at SeriesFest have gone on to score production deals,...
- 6/27/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Steve James had a helluva 24 hours. On Monday morning, the director’s first-ever docuseries “America To Me” was picked up by Starz. That night, his series kicked off the first-ever Sundance Episodic screening, and the next morning — as the fourth and fifth episodes were about to commence in Park City — James received his first-ever Oscar nomination for “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail.”
“This has been a pretty good two days at the Sundance Film Festival,” James said, after being introduced and congratulated by Participant Media’s Diane Weyermann. James wiped his face as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, and then things got started.
After years of experimenting with TV screenings, Sundance unveiled its inaugural lineup of independent TV pilots, short-form series, and premieres on Tuesday. Programmed in groups with two-to-four series per screening, the Episodic Section ran in its entirety in two locations on Tuesday. Attendees could see...
“This has been a pretty good two days at the Sundance Film Festival,” James said, after being introduced and congratulated by Participant Media’s Diane Weyermann. James wiped his face as the crowd gave him a standing ovation, and then things got started.
After years of experimenting with TV screenings, Sundance unveiled its inaugural lineup of independent TV pilots, short-form series, and premieres on Tuesday. Programmed in groups with two-to-four series per screening, the Episodic Section ran in its entirety in two locations on Tuesday. Attendees could see...
- 1/24/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
At the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, TV is invading the schedule in a whole new way. The Park City film fest has previously dabbled in what’s possible on the small screen, but this year marks the launch of the Indie Episodics section — which will spotlight TV pilots that mostly lack mainstream distribution.
The selections include “America to Me,” a new docu-series by “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James; as well as “The Mortified Guide,” a screen adaptation of the popular stage show “Mortified,” spotlighting the most embarrassing true stories of adolescence. There’s also “This Close,” showcasing star/creators Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern (both of whom are deaf), and “Franchesca,” featuring digital star and “The Nightly Show” writer/contributor Franchesca Ramsey.
This marks a major change for Sundance, and a renewed commitment to independent television. While Sundance has featured TV programming since the premiere of “Top of the Lake” in...
The selections include “America to Me,” a new docu-series by “Hoop Dreams” director Steve James; as well as “The Mortified Guide,” a screen adaptation of the popular stage show “Mortified,” spotlighting the most embarrassing true stories of adolescence. There’s also “This Close,” showcasing star/creators Josh Feldman and Shoshannah Stern (both of whom are deaf), and “Franchesca,” featuring digital star and “The Nightly Show” writer/contributor Franchesca Ramsey.
This marks a major change for Sundance, and a renewed commitment to independent television. While Sundance has featured TV programming since the premiere of “Top of the Lake” in...
- 12/4/2017
- by Liz Shannon Miller
- Indiewire
David Castaneda is joining the Billy Crystal/Ben Schwartz comedy We are Unsatisfied.
The feature, from first-time director Matt Ratner, is about the unlikely friendship between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. (Schwartz), who is forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island, and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist (Crystal).
Castaneda will play Ruis, the friendly security guard/aspiring police officer boyfriend of Schwartz's onscreen sister.
Kevin Can Wait writer Peter Hoare wrote the feature that will be produced by Ratner, Chris Mangano and Rick Rosenthal. Matt Bronson, Matt Jacobs, Bert Kern, Alexander R. Madorsky and Nick Morton will executive produce.
The movie is set to go in...
The feature, from first-time director Matt Ratner, is about the unlikely friendship between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A. (Schwartz), who is forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island, and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist (Crystal).
Castaneda will play Ruis, the friendly security guard/aspiring police officer boyfriend of Schwartz's onscreen sister.
Kevin Can Wait writer Peter Hoare wrote the feature that will be produced by Ratner, Chris Mangano and Rick Rosenthal. Matt Bronson, Matt Jacobs, Bert Kern, Alexander R. Madorsky and Nick Morton will executive produce.
The movie is set to go in...
- 11/6/2017
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Reboots are generally either an exciting new spin on a well-established franchise or a deplorable rehashing of a renown universe, story and set of characters. The Mummy Blu-Ray Review Writer-director Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, a reboot of the 2000s trilogy, falls in the latter category. This version sees U.S. military Sergeant Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and his partner get […]
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- 10/14/2017
- by Pablo Mena
- Uinterview
When an ancient evil rises up to seek revenge on our world, relive the epic saga in The Mummy, unleashed onto Digital on August 22, 2017, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on September 12, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Packed with over an hour of special bonus content, experience never-before-scene footage and hidden secrets The Mummy has within with stars Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson.
Now you can own The Mummy on Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie about Mummys? (mine is Blood From The Mummy’S Tomb!). It’s so easy! Good Luck!
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be A Us Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To Us Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winners Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries.
Now you can own The Mummy on Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie about Mummys? (mine is Blood From The Mummy’S Tomb!). It’s so easy! Good Luck!
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be A Us Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To Us Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winners Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries.
- 9/13/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
When an ancient evil rises up to seek revenge on our world, relive the epic saga in The Mummy, unleashing onto Digital on August 22, 2017, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand on September 12, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Packed with over an hour of special bonus content, experience never-before-scene footage and hidden secrets The Mummy has within with stars Tom Cruise, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Russell Crowe, and Jake Johnson.
An ancient evil is unleashed after centuries of captivity and her lust for revenge threatens to destroy the world in The Mummy, a spectacular saga coming to Digital onAugust 22, 2017 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on September 12, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible franchise, Top Gun) battles the ultimate evil in a breathtaking version of the legendary and mystical monster that has captivated and terrified humankind for centuries. With more than...
An ancient evil is unleashed after centuries of captivity and her lust for revenge threatens to destroy the world in The Mummy, a spectacular saga coming to Digital onAugust 22, 2017 and 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, DVD and On Demand on September 12, 2017 from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Tom Cruise (Mission: Impossible franchise, Top Gun) battles the ultimate evil in a breathtaking version of the legendary and mystical monster that has captivated and terrified humankind for centuries. With more than...
- 7/12/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I’ll be the first to admit I was rather skeptical going into Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy, as the trailers seemed to be far more focused on the action instead of the horror to the story. But thankfully, my fears about the direction this new Mummy would take were quickly quelled about 25 minutes into the film, when I realized that this brand new Dark Universe that Universal is set to unleash was starting off on the right foot, because I was having a helluva fun time and was completely immersed in this world.
And while there was a lot of action to be found (I mean, it’s a Tom Cruise movie, and honestly, no one goes for the cinematic gusto quite the way he does), it’s apparent early on that Kurtzman wasn’t screwing around when it came to the horror aspects of The Mummy, making this...
And while there was a lot of action to be found (I mean, it’s a Tom Cruise movie, and honestly, no one goes for the cinematic gusto quite the way he does), it’s apparent early on that Kurtzman wasn’t screwing around when it came to the horror aspects of The Mummy, making this...
- 6/7/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Exclusive: Oscar winner Christine Lahti is joining James Brolin and Jason Ritter in The Steps, an indie drama from director-producer Andrew Currie (Fido). The pic follows down-on-his-luck Jeff (Ritter), who accepts his father’s invitation to spend the weekend at his lake house to meet his new wife (Lahti) and family. Robyn Harding scripted. Mary Waterhouse is also producing with Currie. Lahti recently shot indie Safelight with Juno Temple and Evan Peters and Mania Days with Katie Holmes. She recurs on Netflix’s Grace And Frankie opposite Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Cory Hardrict, Jesse Metcalfe, Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire), Zulay Henao (Fighting), Rob Riley, Jason Dohring, Mo McRae, Hill Harper (CSI NY), and Lala Anthony (Think Like A Man Too) have joined the cast of Destined for director Qasim “Q” Basir and producer Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films. Oliver (The Perfect Guy) is producing with Whitewater Films’ Rick Rosenthal...
Cory Hardrict, Jesse Metcalfe, Margot Bingham (Boardwalk Empire), Zulay Henao (Fighting), Rob Riley, Jason Dohring, Mo McRae, Hill Harper (CSI NY), and Lala Anthony (Think Like A Man Too) have joined the cast of Destined for director Qasim “Q” Basir and producer Tommy Oliver’s Confluential Films. Oliver (The Perfect Guy) is producing with Whitewater Films’ Rick Rosenthal...
- 11/15/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Principal photography has concluded on the comedic thriller that reimagines Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as grown men.
Kyle Gallner (pictured at left) and Adam Nee (pictured at right) star with Matthew Gray Gubler, Hannibal Buress, Melissa Benoist, Eric Christian, Daniel Edward Mora and Stephen Lang.
Brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee directed Band Of Robbers. Their previous film The Last Romantic premiered at SXSW and IFC distributed in the Us.
Rounding out the cast are Johnny Pemberton, Beth Grant, Lee Garlington, Maria Blasucci, Cooper Huckabee and Creed Bratton.
John Will produces for Torn Sky Entertainment with Rick Rosenthal for Whitewater Films alongside Matt Ratner and Arun Kumar.
Nick Morton, Bert Kern, Tims Johnson, John and Margo Miller, Matthew Gray Gubler and Noah Lang are the executive producers.
Kyle Gallner (pictured at left) and Adam Nee (pictured at right) star with Matthew Gray Gubler, Hannibal Buress, Melissa Benoist, Eric Christian, Daniel Edward Mora and Stephen Lang.
Brothers Adam Nee and Aaron Nee directed Band Of Robbers. Their previous film The Last Romantic premiered at SXSW and IFC distributed in the Us.
Rounding out the cast are Johnny Pemberton, Beth Grant, Lee Garlington, Maria Blasucci, Cooper Huckabee and Creed Bratton.
John Will produces for Torn Sky Entertainment with Rick Rosenthal for Whitewater Films alongside Matt Ratner and Arun Kumar.
Nick Morton, Bert Kern, Tims Johnson, John and Margo Miller, Matthew Gray Gubler and Noah Lang are the executive producers.
- 9/18/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international sales on the Whitewater Films duo Match and 7 Minutes.
Stephen Belber wrote and directed Match (pictured), which stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard.
Premiere will start sales in Toronto this week on the comedic drama about a Seattle couple who travel to New York to interview a reclusive ballet instructor in a situation that turns into something unexpected.
Producers are David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick Rosenthal, with David P Beitchman on board as executive producer alongside Adam Brawer, Lawrence M Kopelkin, Chris Mangano and Nick Morton.
ICM negotiated the deal for the filmmakers. Match premiered at Tribeca and IFC Films holds Us rights.
Jay Martin wrote and directed the crime thriller 7 Minutes starring Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Kris Kristofferson, Leven Rambin and Zane Holtz.
The story centres on three friends forced to commit to an ill-fated robbery. Jacob Aaron Estes, Jacob Mosler and Rosenthal produce and Nick Morton and Jim Hart...
Stephen Belber wrote and directed Match (pictured), which stars Patrick Stewart, Carla Gugino and Matthew Lillard.
Premiere will start sales in Toronto this week on the comedic drama about a Seattle couple who travel to New York to interview a reclusive ballet instructor in a situation that turns into something unexpected.
Producers are David Permut, Matt Ratner and Rick Rosenthal, with David P Beitchman on board as executive producer alongside Adam Brawer, Lawrence M Kopelkin, Chris Mangano and Nick Morton.
ICM negotiated the deal for the filmmakers. Match premiered at Tribeca and IFC Films holds Us rights.
Jay Martin wrote and directed the crime thriller 7 Minutes starring Luke Mitchell, Jason Ritter, Kris Kristofferson, Leven Rambin and Zane Holtz.
The story centres on three friends forced to commit to an ill-fated robbery. Jacob Aaron Estes, Jacob Mosler and Rosenthal produce and Nick Morton and Jim Hart...
- 9/2/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Summer shoot due for Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature.
Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie are set to star in writer-director Felix Thompson’s debut feature King Jack.
The Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature, due to shoot this summer, is produced by Buffalo Picture House, Whitewater Films and Stink Films.
King Jack tells the tale of a delinquent fifteen year old (Plummer) who is forced to look after his younger cousin one weekend while trying to tackle the local neighborhood bully.
Producers are Gabrielle Nadig, a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab fellow, and Lilting producer Dominic Buchanan,
Nadig previously worked for Killer Films before setting up New York-based Buffalo Picture House with Thompson.
Rick Rosenthal, Bert Kern and Nick Morton exec produce for Whitewater, and Daniel Bergmann and Martin Forbes exec for Stink. Corey Deckler coproduces.
Christian Madsen, Charlie Plummer, Danny Flaherty, Cory Nichols and Erin Davie are set to star in writer-director Felix Thompson’s debut feature King Jack.
The Sundance Creative Producing Labs feature, due to shoot this summer, is produced by Buffalo Picture House, Whitewater Films and Stink Films.
King Jack tells the tale of a delinquent fifteen year old (Plummer) who is forced to look after his younger cousin one weekend while trying to tackle the local neighborhood bully.
Producers are Gabrielle Nadig, a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab fellow, and Lilting producer Dominic Buchanan,
Nadig previously worked for Killer Films before setting up New York-based Buffalo Picture House with Thompson.
Rick Rosenthal, Bert Kern and Nick Morton exec produce for Whitewater, and Daniel Bergmann and Martin Forbes exec for Stink. Corey Deckler coproduces.
- 7/15/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures have announced that they have acquired the worldwide rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes the Night, and along with the announcement comes a very promising first trailer.
Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston look to be great in the joint leads, with Cranston taking much more of a central role than the more frequent supporting roles we’ve seen from him in recent years. And that can only be good news.
Cold Comes the Night tells the story of a struggling motel owner (Eve) who, along with her daughter (Parker), is taken hostage by a career criminal (Cranston) as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop (Marshall-Green). Everyone gets in over their heads, and a series of double-crosses leaves a string of dead bodies in this pulse-pounding story about desperation and survival.
Eve and Cranston star alongside Logan Marshall-Green and Ursula Parker.
Chun is making his sophomore feature,...
Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston look to be great in the joint leads, with Cranston taking much more of a central role than the more frequent supporting roles we’ve seen from him in recent years. And that can only be good news.
Cold Comes the Night tells the story of a struggling motel owner (Eve) who, along with her daughter (Parker), is taken hostage by a career criminal (Cranston) as he attempts to retrieve his cash package from a crooked cop (Marshall-Green). Everyone gets in over their heads, and a series of double-crosses leaves a string of dead bodies in this pulse-pounding story about desperation and survival.
Eve and Cranston star alongside Logan Marshall-Green and Ursula Parker.
Chun is making his sophomore feature,...
- 7/26/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has acquired all worldwide rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes The Night starring Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston and Logan Marshall-Green.
Chun co-wrote the screenplay with Osgood Perkins and Nick Simon about a motel owner and her daughter who are taken hostage by a career criminal.
Ursula Parker and Leo Fitzpatrick round out the key cast. Chun’s follow-up to Children Of Invention is in post and Spwa vp of production Lauren Craniotes oversees for the studio.
Mynette Louie of Syncopated Films and Trevor Sagan of Sasquatch Films produced and the financiers are Three Point Capital, Whitewater Films and Cherry Sky Films.
Scott Halle, Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton, Jacob Pechenik, and Ali Jazayeri served as executive producers.
UTA Independent Film Group and Andre Des Rochers of Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers represented the filmmakers in the deal with Spwa’s evp of business affairs Michael Helfand.
Chun co-wrote the screenplay with Osgood Perkins and Nick Simon about a motel owner and her daughter who are taken hostage by a career criminal.
Ursula Parker and Leo Fitzpatrick round out the key cast. Chun’s follow-up to Children Of Invention is in post and Spwa vp of production Lauren Craniotes oversees for the studio.
Mynette Louie of Syncopated Films and Trevor Sagan of Sasquatch Films produced and the financiers are Three Point Capital, Whitewater Films and Cherry Sky Films.
Scott Halle, Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton, Jacob Pechenik, and Ali Jazayeri served as executive producers.
UTA Independent Film Group and Andre Des Rochers of Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers represented the filmmakers in the deal with Spwa’s evp of business affairs Michael Helfand.
- 7/25/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions (Spwa) has acquired all worldwide rights to Tze Chun’s Cold Comes The Night starring Alice Eve, Bryan Cranston and Logan Marshall-Green.
Chun co-wrote the screenplay with Osgood Perkins and Nick Simon about a motel owner and her daughter who are taken hostage by a career criminal.
Ursula Parker and Leo Fitzpatrick round out the key cast. Chun’s follow-up to Children Of Invention is in post and Spwa vp of production Lauren Craniotes oversees for the studio.
Mynette Louie of Syncopated Films and Trevor Sagan of Sasquatch Films produced and the financiers are Three Point Capital, Whitewater Films and Cherry Sky Films.
Scott Halle, Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton, Jacob Pechenik, and Ali Jazayeri served as executive producers.
UTA Independent Film Group and Andre Des Rochers of Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers represented the filmmakers in the deal with Spwa’s evp of business affairs Michael Helfand.
Chun co-wrote the screenplay with Osgood Perkins and Nick Simon about a motel owner and her daughter who are taken hostage by a career criminal.
Ursula Parker and Leo Fitzpatrick round out the key cast. Chun’s follow-up to Children Of Invention is in post and Spwa vp of production Lauren Craniotes oversees for the studio.
Mynette Louie of Syncopated Films and Trevor Sagan of Sasquatch Films produced and the financiers are Three Point Capital, Whitewater Films and Cherry Sky Films.
Scott Halle, Rick Rosenthal, Nick Morton, Jacob Pechenik, and Ali Jazayeri served as executive producers.
UTA Independent Film Group and Andre Des Rochers of Gray Krauss Stratford Des Rochers represented the filmmakers in the deal with Spwa’s evp of business affairs Michael Helfand.
- 7/25/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Strand Releasing has acquired all Us rights to Marshall Lewy's "California Solo," which made its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. "California Solo" stars Robert Carlyle as a former Britpop rocker-turned-southern California farm worker who faces deportation after a DUI. The film was written and directed by Lewy and also stars Alexia Rasmussen, Kathleen Wilhoite, A Martinez, Michael Des Barres and Danny Masterson. Mynette Louie produced the film. "California Solo" is co-produced by Ross Girard, an in-house producer for Michel Gondry's Partizan, and is executive produced by Carlyle, Joan Huang of Cherry Sky Films, and Rick Rosenthal and Nick Morton of Whitewater Films. Jon Gerrans of Strand Releasing negotiated the deal with Ryan Kampe of Visit Films. Strand plans for a fall theatrical release. Lewy previously wrote and directed "Blue State" starring Anna Paquin. He's adapting...
- 3/28/2012
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
Billy Campbell, who plays Darren Richmond on AMC's "The Killing," is set to star in "Fat Kid Rules the World," actor Matthew Lillard's directorial debut. The movie is based on K.L. Going's young-adult novel about Troy, an overweight, suicidal teen (played by Jacob Wysocki in the movie). He is befriended by the cool but unreliable punk rocker Matt, played by Matt O'Leary ("Cinema Verite," "Brick"). Campbell plays Troy's father, who doesn't like Matt. Michael Galvin and Peter Speakman wrote the screenplay. Rick Rosenthal and Nick Morton of Whitewater Films are producing with Lillard,...
- 7/25/2011
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
NEW YORK -- Crime rates might be dropping nationwide, but you wouldn't know from the new wave of vigilante-themed films that has inexplicably begun. Beating the Jodie Foster starrer The Brave One by a couple of weeks, James Wan's Death Sentence demonstrates that first is not necessarily best.
This effort starring Kevin Bacon bears more than a slight connection to the landmark of the genre, 1974's Death Wish, starring Charles Bronson. It is based on novelist Brian Garfield's sequel to his original book, though any resemblance is tenuous at best.
Bacon plays Nick Hume, a family man with a loving wife (Kelly Preston) and two kids who, in the screenplay's obvious attempt at irony, works at an insurance company where he must constantly compute the odds for catastrophe. His own life comes crashing down late one night when, stopping at a gas station in an unsafe neighborhood, his eldest son (Stuart Lafferty) is brutally murdered by Joe Darley (Matt O'Leary), a young hoodlum undergoing a gang initiation.
Nick impulsively recants his witness testimony at a pretrial hearing, setting the stage for him to achieve vengeance on his own. He follows the culprit to a deserted location the next night and winds up stabbing him to death after an intense struggle. It doesn't take long before the gang's leader, Billy (Garrett Hedlund), who also happens to be Joe's brother, figures out who did it, leading to a series of ever-escalating violent confrontations between Nick and the gang members.
While it certainly was an exploitation picture, Death Wish was highly effective because it always stayed grounded in reality. Director Wan ("Saw") inevitably goes for a more heightened approach. The gang members look like something out of Mad Max; Nick almost is instantly transformed from a mild-mannered insurance executive to a rampaging action hero, ultimately resembling a cross between Rambo and Travis Bickle; and the highly stylized visuals are luridly gothic. The nearly constant violence, too, is of the highly graphic variety, with endless amounts of blood spurting, exploding body parts and severed limbs. What makes the proceedings even more ludicrous is the screenplay's half-hearted attempt to infuse depth into its depiction of Nick's transformation.
The one truly effective sequence is a thrilling foot chase in which Bacon is pursued by the gang through streets, alleyways, buildings and an open-air parking garage, a good part of which was filmed by Wan and his team of cameramen in a virtuosic single take.
Bacon goes through his frequently athletic paces with the requisite intensity; Hedlund makes a formidably scary villain, and John Goodman has a terrifically pungent cameo as a skuzzy gun dealer. Aisha Tyler plays a concerned police detective; judging by the plethora of beautiful young black detectives onscreen these days, our nation's police forces must have effective equal-hiring practices.
DEATH SENTENCE
20th Century Fox
A 20th Century Fox and Hyde Park Entertainment presentation
Ashok Amritraj/Baldwin Entertainment Group
Credits:
Director: James Wan: Screenwriter: Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Producers: Ashok Amritraj, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin
Executive producers
Andrew Sugerman, Nick Morton, Nick Hamson, Lars Sylvest
Director of photography
John R. Leonetti
Production designer: Julie Berghoff
Music: Charlie Clouser
Co-producer: Eric Mitchell
Costume designer: Kristin M. Burke
Editor: Michael N. Knue
Cast:
Nick Hume: Kevin Bacon
Billy Darley: Garrett Hedlund
Helen Hume: Kelly Preston
Detective Wallis: Aisha Tyler
Bones Darley: John Goodman
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
This effort starring Kevin Bacon bears more than a slight connection to the landmark of the genre, 1974's Death Wish, starring Charles Bronson. It is based on novelist Brian Garfield's sequel to his original book, though any resemblance is tenuous at best.
Bacon plays Nick Hume, a family man with a loving wife (Kelly Preston) and two kids who, in the screenplay's obvious attempt at irony, works at an insurance company where he must constantly compute the odds for catastrophe. His own life comes crashing down late one night when, stopping at a gas station in an unsafe neighborhood, his eldest son (Stuart Lafferty) is brutally murdered by Joe Darley (Matt O'Leary), a young hoodlum undergoing a gang initiation.
Nick impulsively recants his witness testimony at a pretrial hearing, setting the stage for him to achieve vengeance on his own. He follows the culprit to a deserted location the next night and winds up stabbing him to death after an intense struggle. It doesn't take long before the gang's leader, Billy (Garrett Hedlund), who also happens to be Joe's brother, figures out who did it, leading to a series of ever-escalating violent confrontations between Nick and the gang members.
While it certainly was an exploitation picture, Death Wish was highly effective because it always stayed grounded in reality. Director Wan ("Saw") inevitably goes for a more heightened approach. The gang members look like something out of Mad Max; Nick almost is instantly transformed from a mild-mannered insurance executive to a rampaging action hero, ultimately resembling a cross between Rambo and Travis Bickle; and the highly stylized visuals are luridly gothic. The nearly constant violence, too, is of the highly graphic variety, with endless amounts of blood spurting, exploding body parts and severed limbs. What makes the proceedings even more ludicrous is the screenplay's half-hearted attempt to infuse depth into its depiction of Nick's transformation.
The one truly effective sequence is a thrilling foot chase in which Bacon is pursued by the gang through streets, alleyways, buildings and an open-air parking garage, a good part of which was filmed by Wan and his team of cameramen in a virtuosic single take.
Bacon goes through his frequently athletic paces with the requisite intensity; Hedlund makes a formidably scary villain, and John Goodman has a terrifically pungent cameo as a skuzzy gun dealer. Aisha Tyler plays a concerned police detective; judging by the plethora of beautiful young black detectives onscreen these days, our nation's police forces must have effective equal-hiring practices.
DEATH SENTENCE
20th Century Fox
A 20th Century Fox and Hyde Park Entertainment presentation
Ashok Amritraj/Baldwin Entertainment Group
Credits:
Director: James Wan: Screenwriter: Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Producers: Ashok Amritraj, Howard Baldwin, Karen Baldwin
Executive producers
Andrew Sugerman, Nick Morton, Nick Hamson, Lars Sylvest
Director of photography
John R. Leonetti
Production designer: Julie Berghoff
Music: Charlie Clouser
Co-producer: Eric Mitchell
Costume designer: Kristin M. Burke
Editor: Michael N. Knue
Cast:
Nick Hume: Kevin Bacon
Billy Darley: Garrett Hedlund
Helen Hume: Kelly Preston
Detective Wallis: Aisha Tyler
Bones Darley: John Goodman
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 8/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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