Thrillers

Taken director circling Prone Gunman for Silver Pictures

HeatVision reports that French action director Pierre Morel is in talks to direct Sean Penn in the action thriller Prone Gunman for Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver and Andrew Rona. Prone Gunman is based on a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel and a script by Peter Travis, and centers on an international operative named Martin Terrier (Sean Penn) ….

Win a Blu-ray copy of the Stephen Dorff thriller Officer Down

Today, Anchor Bay Entertainment released the new Stephen Dorff thriller Officer Down. Directed by Brian A. Miller and written by John Chase, Officer Down boasts a stellar cast including Stephen Dorff, Academy-Award nominee James Woods, Stephen Lang, Dominic Purcell, Anna Lynne McCord, Walton Goggins, David Boreanaz and rap superstar Soulja Boy in his feature film ….

Day After Tomorrow and 2012 creators to destroy earth again with secret project + 2 Independence Day sequels

Deadline reports that David Ellison’s Skydance Productions has nabbed the rights to an untitled global disaster film spec script written by Dean Devlin and Paul Guyot, which Devlin will make his feature directing debut. Skydance’s Ellison and Dana Goldberg will produce the sure-to-be-big-budget-tentpole, with Devlin and his Electric Entertainment. The new project marks a return ….

Bruce Willis action sequel A Good Day to Die Hard coming to IMAX

Representatives from IMAX today announced that A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth installment in Twentieth Century Fox’s enduring action-thriller series starring Bruce Willis, will be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX format. The film will be released in IMAX theatres internationally beginning February 7th and domestically on February 14th. This marks the first ….