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Profile Review

PLOT: Trying to uncover how ISIS recruiters are able to lure young Westerners over to their cause, a journalist poses as a Muslim convert and tries getting close with a recruiter, making him believe she aims to travel to Syria...

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Profile: Timur Bekmambetov’s terrorist love story trailer debuts

Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Ben-Hur) and Focus Features have debuted an intense trailer for the Russian filmmaker's next thriller titled Profile. Using the Screenlife format popularized by films like Searching and Unfriended, Bekmambetov shot Profile back in 2018. The trailer, set to Phoebe...

Don’t Peek: horror short to be turned into feature by Timur Bekmambetov

So this is interesting! Deadline reports that the popular SXSW Animal Crossing-based horror film Don't Peek – which we actually reported on last year – will be getting the feature film treatment from genre filmmaker Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter)!  Meanwhile,...

Wanted director proposes unique idea to shoot Wanted 2

2008's WANTED is one of those films that entertains exactly as it needs to in the moment while allowing you to check your brain at the door and get caught up in its action, visuals, and kinetic energy. A sequel...

Searching (Fantasia 2018 Review)

PLOT: A desperate father (John Cho) tries to solve the mystery of his daughter’s disappearance by exploring her digital footprint. REVIEW: SEARCHING played the Fantasia Film Festival as part of an intriguing sidebar they’ve featured this year highlighting producer Timur...

John Cho found footage thriller Searching locates new poster & trailer

This August, Sony Pictures will release producer Timur Bekmambetov's (WANTED) new laptop POV horror-thriller SEARCHING starring John Cho (FOX's THE EXORCIST) and co-written and directed by Aneesh Chaganty into theaters nationwide. We've already shared a trailer and poster for the...

John Cho goes Searching in new trailer & poster

Looks like Timur Bekmambetov (WANTED) just can't get himself enough of horror-thrillers that all take place from the POV of a laptop and/or PC. After all, the man produced the recent teen horror flick UNFRIENDED (and its upcoming sequel) and...

Review: Ben-Hur

PLOT: Judah Ben-Hur (Jack Huston), a Jewish prince, is betrayed by his adopted Roman brother, Messala (Toby Kebbell), who accuses him of treason against Rome. Sent to the galleys as a slave, after a dramatic escape he hatches a plan...
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