Crime

Crime thriller Wrong Turn At Tahoe coming to DVD

Tapestry Films has completed principal photography on the crime-drama Wrong Turn At Tahoe. Starring Academy Award winner Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire), Miguel Ferrer (CSI) and Academy Award nominee Harvey Keitel (Bugsy), the original feature film tells the story of Joshua (Gooding Jr.), a tough-as-nails collector for mob boss and mentor, Vincent (Ferrer), who one ….

Win one of two copies of No Country for Old Men: Collector’s Edition on DVD

Next Tuesday, April 7th, Miramax Films and Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release No Country for Old Men: Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray and DVD. The 2007 Oscar winner for Best Picture arrives with more than five hours of bonus features including extensive interviews with the filmmakers and an unauthorized trip backstage with star Josh ….

Paul W.S. Anderson producing crime thriller Outsourced

Paul W.S. Anderson is attached to produce the crime thriller Outsourced, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Outsourced is based on a forthcoming novel titled 28 Minutes, written by Dave Zeltserman (Small Crimes, Pariah, Fast Lane), about some software engineers that are hunted by Boston and Russian mobsters after planning a bank robbery. No word on ….

Star Trek director J.J. Abrams to tell story of world’s biggest diamond heist

Paramount recently nabbed film rights to a Wired Magazine article titled The Untold Story of the World’s Biggest Diamond Heist, written by Joshua Davis, and Star Trek director J.J. Abrams will take on the project as a producer and, possibly, as a director, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The as-yet-unpublished article, describes the true story ….

Oscar winners Sean Penn and Javier Bardem go after drug Cartel

Oscar winner Sean Penn is in negotiations to star in a drama for Universal Pictures and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment called Cartel, which Asger Leth (Ghosts of Cité Soleil) is attached to direct, according to Variety. Latino Review also reported last week that Oscar winner Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men) is also in ….

Fast and Furious car previews

Car enthusiast website Edmunds has posted some sweet previews of many of the vehicles from Vin Diesel’s upcoming Fast and Furious. Edmund’s interviewed the film’s picture car coordinator Dennis McCarthy, who also worked on Tokyo Drift, who told them that, while having 60,000 square feet of shop space to work in during production, he felt ….

Jim Jarmusch brings order to the crime thriller with The Limits of Control

Director Jim Jarmusch (Night on Earth, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Broken Flowers) returns to the screen with a dreamy-looking crime thriller called The Limits of Control. The Jarmusch vision brings an artistic and rich sensibility, even to the trailer for the movie. The Limits of Control tells the story of a mysterious ….

Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Channing Tatum and their Tommy Guns in the first Public Enemies trailer

In director Michael Mann’s upcoming Public Enemies, the FBI fight to take down the notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during the booming crime wave of the 1930s. The upcoming gangster epic features an all-star cast, including Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Giovanni Ribisi, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, ….

Watchmen soundtrack and original score released

Warner Sunset / Reprise Records released both the soundtrack and original score to the feature film Watchmen yesterday. The highly anticipated feature film hits theaters this Friday, March 6th. CLICK HERE to purchase the Watchmen Soundtrack and Original Score. Music From The Motion Picture Watchmen, the film’s official soundtrack, includes My Chemical Romance’s powerful reinterpretation ….

The French Connection II Blu-ray review

I don’t think a crime film will ever be released, that’s grittier and better-made than William Friedkin’s original The French Connection – even John Frankenheimer’s very worthy 1975 follow-up, French Connection II. The first film was based on actual people and events, however French Connection II was entirely fictitious, and didn’t bring back any of ….

Win one of two copies of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic To Catch a Thief on Centennial Collection DVD

On March 24, 2009, Paramount Home Entertainment will release another DVD from the Centennial Collection – Alfred Hitchcock’s classic cat and mouse thriller To Catch A Thief. The 2-disc sets include all-new bonus features and a beautifully designed eight page photo memorabilia booklet. Get ready for Oscar winners Grace Kelly and Cary Grant, in the ….

Never-before-seen montage clips from Watchmen to unspool starting this weekend on all of Universal’s stations

In the days leading up to the much-anticipated March 6th release of Watchmen, I found out that brand new clip montages from the film will air exclusively during the broadcast of six different shows across three NBC Universal networks. Each of the action-packed segments focuses on one of the film’s central figures—Rorschach, Dr. Manhattan, The ….