Thrillers

New trailer for Steve McQueen-directed Hunger

Steve McQueen directs Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Helena Bereen, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen and Lalor Roddy, in the U.K. drama Hunger. Hunger revolves around the last six weeks of the life of Irish Republican activist Bobby Sands, who held a prison hunger strike, in an ….

Leonardo DiCaprio to star in the sci-fi action thriller Inception

Leonardo DiCaprio is attached to star in Inception, the sci-fi thriller that Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan wrote and will direct as his next film, according to Variety. According to the report, Inception will shoot this year and is set to be released in the summer of 2010, with Nolan and Emma Thomas producing. The ….

Slumdog Millionaire coming to DVD and Blu-ray later this month

Slumdog Millionaire, this year’s critical darling about a young boy from the slums of Mumbai who discovers love and fortune, arrives on Blu-ray Disc With Digital Copy and DVD March 31, 2009, from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. Garnering top honors at the 2009 Academy Awards including Best Picture – Christian Colson, Best Director – ….

Pontypool gives a new spin to the zombie genre – along with a new trailer

Below is the trailer for Pontypool, a psychological thriller about a deadly virus that infects a small Ontario town, and a small radio station whose morning team starts taking reports of extreme, bloody incidents of violence related to the infections. Bruce McDonald (The Tracey Fragments) directs Pontypool, which stars Stephen McHattie, Lisa Houle and Georgina ….

Sean Penn in talks to star in Bourne Identity director’s next thriller

Bourne Identity director Doug Liman is officially attached to the thriller Fair Game, which chronicles the outing of former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, who will be portrayed by Naomi Watts, according to Variety. According to the report, Oscar-winning actor Sean Penn – who nabbed Best Actor honors last night at the Academy Awards, is ….

Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher look for Five Killers

Katherine Heigl is on board to star opposite Ashton Kutcher in the Lionsgate thriller Five Killers, according to Variety. Robert Luketic is attached to direct ‘Killers’, who recently worked with Heigl on the upcoming romantic comedy The Ugly Truth. The film revolves around a a woman who meets the man of her dreams while vacationing, ….

Mission Impossible writer goes on new mission – two write and direct two novel adaptations for Columbia Pictures

According to Empire Online, David Koepp – who wrote MIssion Impossible and Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull – is in talks with Columbia to direct two films for the studio. The first is titled Billionaire’s Vinegar, which is loosely based on a novel by Benjamin Wallace, called The Billionaire’s Vinegar: The ….

Downey, Witherspoon and Wanted director going back in time

Robert Downey Jr., Reese Witherspoon and Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov are currently in negotiations to topline (and helm) Warner Bros.’ sci-fi thriller The Days Before, according to an article on Dark Horizons. Chad St. John’s script follows a race of aliens who invade Earth by traveling backward through time and wiping out humanity one day ….