While we're still over a month away from what is perhaps the Super Bowl of geekdom, early info on what to expect from this year's San Diego Comic Con has started to leak out. First off, I've been receiving tons of emails over the past couple days as other websites...
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First Look:: Gerard Butler in Game (Blog)
Directed By Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, the two mad men behind Crank, the story takes place “in the not too distant future.” Kabel (Gerard Butler), a death row inmate, has unwittingly become a pop culture hero. Every week, millions worldwide tune in online to...
RCV racks up Cannes deals
[i]Host of market titles bought by Dutch distributor[/i] AMSTERDAM -- RCV Entertainment, part of the Canadian-based Entertainment One Group, has picked up some of the hot Cannes market titles. RCV will release the new Mel Gibson thriller "Edge of Darkness," as well as...
New pictures of a very skinny Catherine Zeta Jones
(What's this?)Catherine Zeta Bones, oops Jones, looks like a slip of the woman she used to be on the set of her latest movie Rebound in New York. The Welsh actress - and mother of two - needs an urgent delivery of cupcakes or maybe even pies. In those skinny jeans,...
CM Entertainment takes Darabont thriller and rom-com
South Korean buyer CM Entertainment has snapped up two films from LA-based production and sales company The Film Department - serial killer thriller Law Abiding Citizen and rom-com The Rebound. "A lot of buyers from our territory were interested. Thrillers are the...
It was stuck in THE MIST for Matt but you can finally find out what Frank Darabont is directing next! (Blog)
It was stuck in THE MIST for Matt but you can finally find out what Frank Darabont is directing next! This completely missed my radar last week and I’ve only found out about it now because of a brief blurb in an MTV article - of all places. The news broke last week...
Cannes Film Festival Update – Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen (Blog)
Ooooh so no updates today with the ‘usual’ stuff, so I thought I drop a quick note about the script I just got done reading (haven’t analyzed it yet) but it’s Gerard Butler’s (300, Phantom of the Opera) new picture Law Abiding Citizen by Kurt Wimmer. I gotta say, it...
Cannes Posters Part II: Butler’s ‘Law Abiding Citizen,’ (Blog)
In the initial batch of posters from Cannes, we gave you a first look at everything from Nic Cage’s “Bad Lieutenant” to Mariah Carey’s “Tennessee.” Now we’ve got the next round. Below, check out Frank Darabont and Gerard Butler’s “Law Abiding Citizen,” *** <img...
Entertainment One’s RCV bags hot titles for Benelux
Entertainment One, the fast growing Canadian media group, has announced recently bought Benelux distributor RCV Entertainment has closed distribution deals on some of the most anticipated projects on this years market. RCV's managing directors Jan A. Kouwenhoven and...
Darabont to direct $40m crime thriller for The Film Department
Frank Darabont will direct the thriller Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler for The Film Department, which is selling international rights here. Production is set to begin on August 18 in Detroit on the low-$40m range story of a criminal mastermind who controls...
FRANK DARABONT GOES BACK TO PRISON (Blog)
You can't keep Frank Darabont out of the joint. The director has just signed on to a new film, Law Abiding Citizen, and like The Green Mile and Shawshank Redemption, prison features heavily into the story. This time it's a criminal mastermind who is behind bars but...
Frank Darabont to Direct “Law Abiding Citizen (Blog)
Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile) will direct the thriller "Law Abiding Citizen" starring Gerard Butler for The Film Department, which is selling international rights here. Production is set to begin on August 18th in Detroit on the low $40 million...
Fresh contenders ready for Cannes
[i]New Line Intl.'s exit creates opportunity for indies[/i] As the international film community gets ready to head to the south of France next week, a seismic shift and a few other movements are realigning the balance of power among the major film sales companies. New...
Game (2009) (Blog)
From the minds of directors/writers Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (Crank) comes "Game" which sounds a lot like "Running Man". "Set in a future-world where humans can control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online gaming environments, a star player (Butler)...
300 (Blog)
The influence that green-screen visual techniques (or ‘chroma keying’, as the process is known) have had on modern film is not to be underestimated. The method known best for producing the animated weather map on the TV news has been called into action on all sorts of...
SAG, Film Dept. ink first deal
If there is an actors strike, at least one indie film company won't be affected. The Film Department said Wednesday that it has inked completion agreements with SAG for nine pictures that are gearing up for production in the spring and summer. The announcement comes...
SAG signs interim pact
[i]Guild aims to pact with indies[/i] After two days of contract negotiations with the majors, the Screen Actors Guild is looking to put some pressure on the studios by signing interim deals with indie feature producers that would allow actors to continue working on...
SAG Gets the Indie Spirit
Actors are used to working for scale on indies. Now they're just glad they'll be working. The Screen Actors Guild sealed an interim deal with independent film producers on Wednesday that ensures its members will be able to finish some upcoming features even if the...
Content’s the Thing at New NAB Theater
LAS VEGAS The annual NAB extravaganza in Las Vegas every April is mostly known for its focus on the technical side of the broadcasting business, but one forum that will debut at the 2008 NAB Show will serve to sharply underscore what makes all of that technical...
Interview with Aaron Yoo
[i Excerpt from article. Click link above for full story...[/i The film he just finished working on, Game, is a futuristic sci-fi thriller, where multi-player video games have been created to allow players to control actual humans. Alison Lohman, Aaron Yoo, and...
Indie working on knight moves
The Film Department, the indie production outfit run by Mark Gill and Neil Sacker, has won a bidding war for "Galahad," a revisionist King Arthur spec from newcomer Ryan Condal. Gill and the company's Robert Katz will produce with Energy Entertainment's Brooklyn...
An upstart startup shoots to deliver on early promise
Perhaps you've heard the story of startup cameramaker Red, which is aiming to shake up the world of cinematography in which high-end digital cameras offered by the likes of Panavision, Arri and Sony can list in the six figures. Red has broken the model with a $17,500...
The Film Department to unveil pic at Cannes
Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in an untitled romantic comedy for the Film Department, with Bart Freundlich directing from his own script. Shooting starts April 17 on the Process production. Tim Perell, Freundlich, Mark Gill and Robert Katz are producing; Neil Sacker...
DreamWorks’ ‘Dragon’ finds its voices
Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill and Christopher Mintz-Plasse have signed on to voice-star in "How to Train Your Dragon," the CGI fantasy feature from DreamWorks Animation. Based on Cressida Cowell's first novel in the children's book series,...
DreamWorks fires up ‘Dragon’ cast
[i Butler, Ferrera, Hill, Baruchel join animated pic[/i Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay Baruchel and Christopher Mintz-Plasse will voice "How to Train Your Dragon" for DreamWorks Animation. Peter Hastings will helm the feature toon, and Bonnie Arnold...