Thrillers

Steven Soderbergh’s thriller Contagion getting IMAX release

IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the global thriller Contagion, from Academy Award-winning director Steven Soderbergh, will be released to digital IMAX theatres worldwide day-and-date with the film’s traditional release on September 9, 2011. The film brings together a stellar ensemble cast, including Academy Award winner Marion Cotillard (La Vie en Rose, Inception); Academy ….

Lionsgate to release Joss Whedon’s horror film The Cabin in the Woods

Lionsgate has nabbed distribution rights to the horror film The Cabin in the Woods from MGM and has scheduled the film to be released on April 13, 2012. The Cabin in the Woods was co-written by Joss Whedon (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, FIREFLY, the upcoming Marvel film THE AVENGERS) and writer Drew Goddard (CLOVERFIELD, LOST, ….

Win one of two copies of the live-action Tekken film on Blu-ray

The live-action epic film Tekken is available today in a special Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Copy Combo as well as a DVD edition. To celebrate the release, Anchor Bay Films has provided FilmFetish with 2 copies of the Blu-ray combo release exclusively for readers to enjoy. In order to be entered into the random drawing for your free ….

Warner Bros. chooses directors for 300 sequel 300: Battle of Artemisia and live-action Akira films

Warner Bros. has tapped Noam Murro to direct its 300 spin-off, 300: Battle of Artemisia, which was formerly known as Xerses, according to THR. The Israeli director of the 2008 movie Smart People, was up for the project along with Jaum Collet-Serra, who directed the Liam Neeson thriller Unknown. But Collet-Serra isn’t quite out of ….

Cowboys & Aliens to be released in select IMAX theatres

IMAX, DreamWorks Pictures and Paramount Pictures International today announced an agreement to offer the sci-fi western thriller Cowboys & Aliens in select international digital IMAX theatres day-and-date with each territory’s release date, starting in August. The release marks the continuation of the relationship between IMAX, Paramount Pictures International and director Jon Favreau, whose most recent ….

A nude Paz De La Huerta introduces upcoming thriller Nurse 3D

Lionsgate and the filmmakers behind Nurse 3D have announced that Paz De La Huerta (Boardwalk Empire, Enter the Void) will star in the film as Abby Russell, a beautiful, dedicated nurse with a sinister side, and a secret life’s work in which she targets and punishes dishonest men. Today Lionsgate debuted gripping pre-production concept art ….

Win a trip to Superman Man of Steel film premiere

Warner Bros. Consumer Products (WBCP) announced today that, along with DC Entertainment, it has enlisted Sideshow Collectibles to create a signature line of premium statues, busts and other collectibles inspired by DC Comics’ stable of iconic super heroes and villains. This heroic alliance paves the way for Sideshow Collectibles to offer products featuring DC Comics’ ….

Edward Norton circling role as villain in next Jason Bourne spy film

Edward Norton is in talks to play the villain in Universal Picture’s The Bourne Legacy opposite Jeremy Renner, according to Variety. Michael Clayton and Duplicity director Tony Gilroy – who wrote scripts for the previous Jason Bourne adventures – is attached to direct Bourne Legacy from his own screenplay. Rachel Weisz is also attached to ….

First conceptual art and poster for Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter film released, shows futuristic Mars landscape

From Academy Award–winning filmmaker Andrew Stanton comes John Carter—a sweeping action-adventure set on the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars). John Carter is based on a classic novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose highly imaginative adventures served as inspiration for many filmmakers, both past and present. The film tells the story of war-weary, former military captain John Carter ….