Gritty crime thriller Elite Squad: The Enemy Within coming to U.S. plus preview images

New Video’s Flatiron Film Company and Variance Films recently announced that they’ve partnered for the theatrical release of José Padilha’s record-breaking Brazilian crime thriller, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa De Elite 2). The film will open in New York City on November 11th, 2011 at the AMC Empire 25 in Times Square, and at ….

Yet another Robert Ludlum spy thriller to get film treatment

Universal is eyeing the Robert Ludlum Cold War novel The Parsifal Mosaic as its next development project, with Imagine Entertainment (Angels and Demons) potentially producing, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The 1982 book focuses on a struggle between U.S. and Soviet intelligence agents, with American spies Michael Havelock and Jenna Karas, who are partners as ….

Iron Man scribes and indie thriller Elite Squad director team for Ludlum adaptation Sigma Protocol

Elite Squad was a tension-filled, gritty drama that I watched a screening of some time ago (Read my review RIGHT HERE). I am pleasantly surprised that Universal has taken notice of Berlin Fest Golden Bear prize winner Jose Padilha, and are negotiating with him to helm the international thriller The Sigma Protocol, which is based ….

Elite Squad (Tropa De Elite) film review

Elite Squad is director José Padilha’s follow-up to his widely acclaimed documentary Bus 174. The story follows Captain Nascimento (realistically played by Wagner Moura), a veteran member of BOPE, Brazil’s equivalent to S.W.A.T., only with tactics that include government-condoned violence and mayhem-creation. BOPE is a meticulously trained and widely feared super-elite Rio police squad engaged ….