Julius Avery

Interviews

Interviews: Pilou Asbaek and Sylvester Stallone discuss their superhero movie Samaritan

Posted 4 years ago

Sylvester Stallone has not ventured into the superhero genre very much. Sure, he has appeared in comic book adaptations like Judge Dredd and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but Stallone has yet to please an actual superhero. You may...

Movie Trailers

Samaritan clip shows Sylvester Stallone wiping out criminals on the streets of Granite City

Posted 4 years ago

Prime Video unleashed a new Samaritan clip on Monday showing Sylvester Stallone‘s Joe cleaning up the streets of Granite City. Stallone is no stranger to action films with heart and feels at home in a city plagued by criminals, low lives, and...

Horror Movie News

The Pope’s Exorcist: Franco Nero to play the Pope in Russell Crowe supernatural thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Here’s some cool casting news: Deadline reports that Franco Nero, star of the original Django back in 1966, has signed on to join the cast of The Pope’s Exorcist, a supernatural thriller starring Russell Crowe – and Nero will be...

Horror Movie News

The Pope’s Exorcist first look image shows Russell Crowe as Father Amorth

Posted 4 years ago

A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about Father Gabriele Amorth (and you can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at THIS LINK), a real-life exorcist who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. Now Russell...

Horror Movie News

The Pope’s Exorcist: Alex Essoe, Daniel Zovatto join Russell Crowe in supernatural thriller

Posted 4 years ago

Last month, it was announced that Russell Crowe had signed on to star in a supernatural thriller called The Pope’s Exorcist, which will be directed by Overlord‘s Julius Avery. Now Deadline reports that Crowe is being joined in the cast by Alex Essoe...

Horror Movie News

The Pope’s Exorcist: Russell Crowe to play real-life priest in supernatural thriller

Posted 4 years ago

A few years ago, The Exorcist director William Friedkin made a documentary about real-life exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, who passed away in 2016 at the age of 91. (You can read our review of The Devil and Father Amorth at...

Horror Movie News

Gantz: Julius Avery to direct manga adaptation for Sony Pictures

Posted 5 years ago

Last year, Sony Pictures hired Marc Guggenheim to write the screenplay for an adaptation of the popular Japanese manga series Gantz, and now the project has taken another step forward, as Julius Avery has been hired to take the helm....

Movie News

Sylvester Stallone’s Samaritan: first look footage steals show at CinemaCon

Posted 5 years ago

It turned out to be very appropriate that the CinemaCon presentation for MGM/United Artists Releasing (UAR) started with the Rocky theme, as the Italian Stallion himself, Sylvester Stallone, absolutely stole the presentation with first-look footage from his superhero film Samaritan....

Samaritan: Sylvester Stallone superhero pic sets August 2022 date

Posted 5 years ago

It looks like we’ll all have to wait a little longer to finally see Sylvester Stallone’s live-action superhero flick, Samaritan, with Box Office Mojo reporting that the film will now open on August 26th, 2022. The film had initially been...

Samaritan: First look at Sylvester Stallone’s gritty superhero film emerges

Posted 6 years ago

A new image for Sylvestor Stallone's Samaritan has superhero-landed online. In the photo, we find Stallone sporting an army green coat while pressing his hand up against a nearby van. As two pedestrians look on in astonishment at Stallone's character,...