Crime

Taken 2 and Colombiana director Megaton taking on real-life Gotham crime unit

Deadline reports that director Olivier Megaton, who previously directed the Luc Besson-produced films Taken 2, Colombiana and Transporter 3, has been tapped by Emmett Furla Films to helm the action thriller Taking Gotham. The Thomas Kelly-written film is based on actual events and centers on a secret unit of the NYPD that was created in ….

New images and poster from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s action cinema return in The Last Stand

After leaving his LAPD narcotics post following a bungled operation that left him wracked with remorse and regret, Sheriff Ray Owens (Arnold Schwarzenegger) moved out of Los Angeles and settled into a life fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction. But that peaceful existence is shattered when Gabriel Cortez (Eduardo ….

Out of Time director Carl Franklin taking on City of Night

Meyers Media Group and McDonald Entertainment recently announced that they will co-finance the thriller City of Night. The film, to be directed by award-winner Carl Franklin (Out of Time, High Crimes), was written by David Chisholm (Kidnapped in Paradise, The Wizard) and will be produced by Brendan McDonald of McDonald Entertainment and Jesse B’Franklin, and ….