Crime

Italian Job director Gray takes over Citizen film directing duties

The Italian Job director F. Gary Gray is replacing Frank Darabont on the legal thriller Law-Abiding Citizen, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Darabont, who co-wrote the script, recently left the film over creative differences with producers. John Singleton showed interest in the project, but Gray has contracted for the job. Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler ….

Warner Bros. nabs rights to 1990’s serial killer story

Warner Brothers has acquired the film rights to John Leake’s non-fiction book Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer, according to Screenhead. The book told the story of Austrian Jack Unterweger, a journalist who led a double life strangling prostitutes in Vienna and Los Angeles. He used to act on and then cover ….

The Godfather: The Coppola Restoration Blu-ray review

Paramount Pictures recently released a meticulous restoration of director Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning classic films The Godfather Parts I through III, which was overseen by Coppola himself. The first two films have been fully restored, along with a newly remastered version of The Godfather Part III. All three films are currently available individually or in a five-DVD collection, as ….

Stephen Chow directing and playing Kato in Green Hornet update

Variety reports that Stephen Chow, who directed and starred in Kung Fu Hustle, is going to helm and co-star in the upcoming The Green Hornet movie for Columbia Pictures. He’ll be joining Seth Rogen, who’s already on board the long-in-development project, as the title character. Chow, whose work also includes the sci-fi fantasy Cheung Gong ….

Botched film trailer

Botched follows Ritchie Donovan (Stephen Dorff), a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross, locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. ….

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 ….

The X-Files: I Want To Believe Blu-ray to have web enhanced features

The truth is finally out there on DVD and Blu-ray! Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment presents The X-Files: I Want To Believe, a gripping feature film based on the global phenomenon that descends onto DVD and Blu-ray Disc (BD) on December 2nd. Marking the Studio’s first foray into BD-Live, The X-Files: I Want To Believe ….

The Crash TV series widget

The Crash TV series premieres exclusively on Starz, on Friday, October 17, 2008 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Starring an ensemble cast led by film icon Dennis Hopper, the series looks at the way different lives intersect and collide in the melting pot of LA, and will be quite different from the movie portrayal. From the ….

Bone thriller adds a cop and a thief to cast

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paul Walker (The Fast and the Furious) and Hayden Christensen (Star Wars sequels) have joined the cast of the Screen Gems crime thriller Bone Deep, which is being helmed by John Luessenhop. This will be Luessenhop’s sophomore effort after directing Lockdown in 2000. Bone Deep was co-written by Luessenhop, Gabriel ….