Thrillers

French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs (Max and the Junkmen) getting remake treatment

France’s StudioCanal and John Woo’s Lion Rock Productions are joining forces to push forward a remake of the 1970 French thriller Max et les Ferrailleurs, to be directed by Kim Jee-woon, whose film The Good the Bad the Weird just wrapped this year’s Cannes Film Fest. This is according to a story from Variety. Ferrailleurs ….

Gale Anne Hurd and Platinum Studios partner to bring Final Orbit to big screen

Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Motion Pictures, producer of Marvel Studios’ Summer release The Incredible Hulk, and Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls an international library of more than 5,600 comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media, today announced a deal to co-develop and produce a feature film ….

Image brings film Stuck to theaters through ThinkFilm

Image Entertainment, a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, announced today the theatrical release plans for Stuart Gordon’s “Stuck” starring Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea. The film opens May 30 in New York and Los Angeles, expanding to twenty of the top U.S. markets on June 6. Image ….

Real life Saw – The Colony depicts kidnap and Torture of U.S. Citizen in Chile

THE COLONY, an award-winning short film concerning the disappearance of Penn State professor Boris Weisfeiler in Chile, will make its Northern California debut at the Santa Cruz Film Festival on May 13th. But the filmmakers aren’t seeking awards – they hope the screening will prompt Governor Schwarzenegger to bring up the case when he meets ….

Big Screen Entertainment nabs rights to new Eric Roberts film

Big Screen Entertainment Group has acquired the international sales rights to the new Eric Roberts/Karen Black thriller, entitled “Contamination.” The film features acclaimed Russian filmmaker Rodion Nahapatov. In addition to starring, Nahapatov (called “the Russian George Clooney”) also wrote and directed the fast paced, contemporary medical thriller. Roberts co-stars in the upcoming Warner Bros. Batman ….

Image to distribute Academy Award winner Taxi to the Darkside

Image Entertainment, a leading independent licensee, producer and distributor of home entertainment programming in North America, announced today it will distribute the THINKFilm release Taxi to the Dark Side, which won an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary at the 80th annual Oscar telecast on February 24. Currently in theaters, the film is theatrically distributed ….

The Chicago 10 fight the power

Written and directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture), Chicago 10 presents contemporary history with a forced perspective, mixing bold and original animation with extraordinary archival footage that explores the build-up to and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy Trial. Set to the music of revolution, then and now, Chicago 10 is a ….

Awake film trailer and movie poster

Awake is a psychological thriller about a common occurrence called anesthetic awareness, a horrifying phenomenon wherein a patient’s (Hayden Christenson) failed anesthesia leaves him fully conscious but physically paralyzed during surgery. The patient’s charming new wife (Jessica Alba) is forced to struggle with her own demons as a terrifying drama unfolds around the couple. Awake ….

Trailer online for Guillermo del Toro produced The Orphanage

The Orphanage, presented by Oscar-Nominee Guillermo del Toro, centers on Laura (Belén Rueda from The Sea Inside), who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, she discovers that the new environment awakens her son’s imagination, but the ongoing fantasy ….

Transformers movie coming to IMAX in September 2007

IMAX Corporation, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures announced today that “TRANSFORMERS,” one of the highest grossing movies of the year, will be digitally re-mastered into IMAX’s immersive format and released to IMAX theatres on September 21. The Michael Bay-directed movie, which has already generated $310 million in gross box office receipts domestically since its premiere ….

The No. 1 Ladies’ detective Agency to shoot entirely in Botswana

The Weinstein Company with the support of the Republic of Botswana will begin production on July 9th in Botswana on The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, based on Alexander McCall Smith’s global best selling series of the same name. This marks the first time a major movie will be filmed in its entirety in Botswana ….

IMAX 3D version of Beowulf to be released simultaneously with film’s premiere

IMAX Corporation, Paramount Pictures, Shangri-La Entertainment and Warner Bros. Pictures today announced that Beowulf, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Robert Zemeckis, the filmmaker behind such box office successes as Forrest Gump, The Polar Express, the Back To The Future series and What Lies Beneath, will be released domestically in IMAX 3D simultaneously ….

Recon 2022 and Deaden to premiere at FanTasia Film Fest

Movie Seals Productions is proud to announce that their latest sci-fi / action film RECON 2022:The Mezzo Incident and their critically acclaimed vigilante film Deaden will have their North American Premieres at the FanTasia Film Festival in Montreal, Canada. From a screenplay written by Christian Viel, John Fallon and William Alexander, the action packed story ….

Tom Cruise, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep Lions for Lambs trailer

Directed by Academy Award winner Robert Redford, Lions for Lambs begins after two determined students at a West Coast University, Arian (Derek Luke) and Ernest (Michael Pena), follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley (Redford), and attempt to do something important with their lives. But when the two make the bold decision to ….