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 ….