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Oscar Isaac and Jason Clarke sign on to star in original script Mojave from Departed scribe William Monahan

Posted 14 years ago

It’s been six years since screenwriter William Monahan’s Oscar win for THE DEPARTED, and despite the consistent work he’s had in the interim Monahan is only just getting started. He adapted SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR. He wrote...

Two UK posters for Belgian thriller Bullhead offer praise

Posted 14 years ago

BULLHEAD, last year’s intense Belgian Oscar contender for Best Foreign Film, is a movie we’ve been championing in some form or fashion since this past February. In fact, in one of the two new UK awards season posters for the...

Peep the head-trip of a teaser for Shane Carruths Upstream Color

Posted 14 years ago

So, did you all see the frustratingly intriguing sci-fi minder PRIMER that came out in 2004? Well, the madman behind that sumbitch is back with his newest head-f*ck, UPSTREAM COLOR. Yeah, don’t know what the hell the title means either,...

True Grit’s Hailee Steinfeld joins Kevin Costner for action thriller Three Days to Kill

Posted 14 years ago

Hailee Steinfeld auditioned against a staggering total of 15,000 actresses to score her lead role in TRUE GRIT, and what the Coen Bros saw in her was self evident after just a few minutes on screen. She went toe to...

Trailer for Black Rock starring Kate Bosworth and Lake Bell tries to be a female Deliverance

Posted 14 years ago

So, here’s the trailer for BLACK ROCK, the new horror-thriller from actress/director Katie Aselton, starring Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, and Aselton as a group of childhood friends who decide to reconnect by taking a rickety boat to a tiny island...

The first international poster for Riddick showcases sand, muscles, and an alien world

Posted 14 years ago

While it’s more a reworked version of a still already released for the film than anything else, this poster is still plenty enough to sell anyone remotely in the know about the RIDDICK franchise that Richard B. Riddick is back,...

Is Argo scribe Chris Terrio set to team with George Clooney and Paul Greengrass for an NYC-based crime thriller?

Posted 14 years ago

ARGO is riding high right now on some solid, very well-deserved box office returns and a bevy of positive reviews, which makes this the perfect time for those involved to negotiate their next projects. And negotiate they are, with screenwriter...

William Monahan will write the remake of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance starring Charlize Theron

Posted 14 years ago

Charlize Theron‘s adaptation of Park Chan-wook‘s SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE now has a screenwriter. William Monahan will script the English language remake. Monahan is best known for writing THE DEPARTED and KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. IndieWire reports no start date for...

New clips and making-of featurette for Brad Pitt’s Killing Them Softly

Posted 14 years ago

KILLING THEM SOFTLY, the new crime pic from Brad Pitt, is headed to theaters this week and today we have two clips and a making-of featurette to warm you up. The clip is an exchange between Pitt and James Gandolfini,...

Review: Killing Them Softly

Posted 14 years ago

PLOT: Two lowlife hoods (Scoot McNairy & Ben Mendelsohn) are hired to knock off Markie Trattman’s (Ray Liotta) high-stakes underground casino. Having previously knocked off one of his own games and gotten a pass, Markie knows his days are numbered,...

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