Month: March 2006

Inside Man Preview

Four people dressed in painters’ outfits march into the busy lobby of Manhattan Trust and place the bank under a surgically planned siege. The 50 patrons and staff become unwitting pawns in an airtight heist. NYPD hostage negotiators Detectives Keith Frazier (Denzel Washington) and Bill Mitchell (Chiwetel Ejiofor) are dispatched to the scene with orders to establish contact with ….

Wichita Thriller Coming From Dimension

Dimension Films has purchased the script Wichita from first-time writer Scott Milam for Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II and upcoming Saw III) to direct under his two-picture deal with Dimension Films and Twisted Pictures. Mark Burg and Oren Koules are set to produce the thriller through Twisted Pictures, the genre production arm of Evolution Entertainment. Twisted Pictures produced thrillers Saw, Saw II, Saw III and the upcoming Universal release ….

Exclusives From Inside Man, Take the Lead and More

Moviefone has some exclusive video content for the Inside Man, ATL and Take the Lead, which includes exclusive clips and other content from the films. There’s been some heavy guessing going on all around the net, about what the twist is in Inside Man. You won’t have to wait long to find out the truth, because Inside Man hits theaters tomorrow! For now, ….

M:I 3 Stunts Without Stuntmen

The plotline for M:I 3 is wrapped up super-tight, but below we have a link to a featurette on the stunts of the film. Who knows… You might be able to figure out some things from those scenes. Either way, the movie looks coool as hell. Mission Impossible 3 hits theaters on May 5, 2006. Get a sneak peek ….

Flight 93 Trailer

Flight 93 is a real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11, that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers rallied to foil the terrorist plot. Paul Greengrass (The Theory of Flight, The Bourne Supremacy) directed the film, which is due in theaters on April 28, 2006 and ….

Spacey and Luketic Go to Vegas

The Book Standard reports that the planned adaptation of Ben Mezrich’s bestselling nonfiction book Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, a.k.a 21, is moving forward once again in development. Director Robert Luketic (Monster-in-Law, Legally Blonde) is in negotiations to steer the Columbia film. 21 revolves around a group of young men who become experts ….

The Brick Trailer

Brick revolves around a teenage loner dives into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend. The cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Meagan Good, Lukas Haas, Lost’s Emilie de Ravin (recently seen in The Hills Have Eyes remake), Nora Zehetner, Noah Segan and Noah Fleiss. Focus Features is releasing Brick on March 31, 2006 in New York and Los Angeles, ….

Jackman Takes a Drive

Universal Pictures has optioned the book Drive by James Sallis for Hugh Jackman to star in. The story is set in the seamy underside of Southern California and Arizona, centers on a stuntman who moonlights as a wheelman during robberies and discovers that a contract has been put on him. Next up for Jackman is X Men 3, which hits theaters this summer, ….

Indie Pic Duel Gets Cast

Indie writer and director, Antonio Z. Barajas, has tapped actors Steven Man and Alexandra Townsend to star in his paranormal thriller, The Duel,which has already gotten a North American theatrical distribution duel. Quite a feat for an indie film. The Duel is the story of Blake Lance (played by Man) and the journey he undertakes when he is unexpectedly face with the mightiest ….