Welcome to The B-Side, a new podcast from The Film Stage. Here we explore movies starring established stars that flopped at the box office, have been forgotten by time, or remain hidden gems. These aren’t the films that made them famous or kept them famous. These are the other ones.
This time around, we are mixing it up once more with another episode in our series called “Ode To The Almost Movie Star.” These are actors who don’t have B-Sides as much as they are B-Sides. This week we are talking Julia Stiles. From 10 Things I Hate About You to Jason Bourne, we explore the career of an actress who got the movie star shot at a very young age and found some quick success before it all went in another direction.
As she currently stars on the television show Riviera, join us in a dissection of what worked,...
This time around, we are mixing it up once more with another episode in our series called “Ode To The Almost Movie Star.” These are actors who don’t have B-Sides as much as they are B-Sides. This week we are talking Julia Stiles. From 10 Things I Hate About You to Jason Bourne, we explore the career of an actress who got the movie star shot at a very young age and found some quick success before it all went in another direction.
As she currently stars on the television show Riviera, join us in a dissection of what worked,...
- 3/6/2019
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
As a spare and sexy thriller, Michael Winterbottom’s “The Wedding Guest” is far too undercooked; there’s little flavor, and even less to chew on. As an audition for its star to be the next James Bond, however, this aimless Dev Patel vehicle is virtually perfect. Sure, there could stand to be a bit more shooting, but anyone with high cheekbones can look good holding a gun. Patel, who can play lost and worldly at the same time, brings a lot more to the table: Cold swagger. Taciturn mystery. A vulnerable side that he’s dying to show you. A scruffy beard that he wears like a disguise that’s designed to attract every kind of attention. If anything, Patel would have to soften up to play cinema’s most iconic spy.
Ten years after breaking through as a guileless teenager in “Slumdog Millionaire,” Patel is utterly convincing in...
Ten years after breaking through as a guileless teenager in “Slumdog Millionaire,” Patel is utterly convincing in...
- 2/27/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Universal Pictures has closed a deal for an untitled action thriller script by Chris Borrelli that Simon Crane is negotiating to direct. Plot specifics are under wraps.
Borrelli has seven spec sales and five produced movies under his belt, including exorcism horror film The Vatican Tapes, the Eliza Dushku-starrer Eloise and the upcoming 100 Bullets at New Line.
Crane has been second unit director on big films that include Rogue: A Star Wars Story, Jason Bourne and Maleficent. Chris Cowles is in negotiations to produce.
Borrelli is represented by Verve, Alldayeveryday and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; Crane is Wme, Media Talent Group and Lichter Grossman.
Borrelli has seven spec sales and five produced movies under his belt, including exorcism horror film The Vatican Tapes, the Eliza Dushku-starrer Eloise and the upcoming 100 Bullets at New Line.
Crane has been second unit director on big films that include Rogue: A Star Wars Story, Jason Bourne and Maleficent. Chris Cowles is in negotiations to produce.
Borrelli is represented by Verve, Alldayeveryday and McKuin Frankel Whitehead; Crane is Wme, Media Talent Group and Lichter Grossman.
- 2/22/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Orlando’s Terminator 2 3D attraction closed back in 2017 “to make way for an all-new live action experience based on a high-energy Universal franchise.” Rumors swirled for months that it might be replaced by a Jason Bourne stunt show, and now those rumors have a bit of new life thanks to Jim Hill, a […]
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- 2/15/2019
- by Ben Pearson
- Slash Film
Amazon has picked up a third season of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke made the announcement at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Wednesday.
Produced by Paramount Television, “Jack Ryan” was given a two-season order by Salke’s predecessor Roy Price in 2016. Season one premiered last year to primarily positive reviews — particularly for star John Krasinski, who plays the titular CIA operative.
“Compared with his rivals in the spy game, Ethan Hunt of ‘Mission: Impossible’ and Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan looks downright heroic in his ability to suit himself to a time in which automatic presumption that America is doing the right thing is on the decline,” critic Daniel D’Addario wrote in his review of season one’s first four episodes. He added, “Krasinski’s Ryan is fueled by data and by a willingness to listen, and he has goals in mind...
Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke made the announcement at the Television Critics Association winter press tour on Wednesday.
Produced by Paramount Television, “Jack Ryan” was given a two-season order by Salke’s predecessor Roy Price in 2016. Season one premiered last year to primarily positive reviews — particularly for star John Krasinski, who plays the titular CIA operative.
“Compared with his rivals in the spy game, Ethan Hunt of ‘Mission: Impossible’ and Jason Bourne, Jack Ryan looks downright heroic in his ability to suit himself to a time in which automatic presumption that America is doing the right thing is on the decline,” critic Daniel D’Addario wrote in his review of season one’s first four episodes. He added, “Krasinski’s Ryan is fueled by data and by a willingness to listen, and he has goals in mind...
- 2/13/2019
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Diane Kruger thought her flair for language would make her a natural fit for the lead role in Israeli helmer Yuval Adler’s spy thriller “The Operative,” which world-premiered out of competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Sunday.
“When I first read [the script], I thought immediately that this is a project that I really want to pursue,” Kruger said at a press conference alongside Adler and co-stars Martin Freeman and Cas Anvar. “The character kind of talked to me. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I could be a Mossad agent.’”
To put that theory to the test, the German actress underwent five days of training with the Israeli security force to prepare for her role as a woman recruited by the Mossad to work undercover in Iran.
But it wasn’t a high-stakes story of international intrigue that drew her to the character of Rachel, a woman seemingly at home everywhere and nowhere at once.
“When I first read [the script], I thought immediately that this is a project that I really want to pursue,” Kruger said at a press conference alongside Adler and co-stars Martin Freeman and Cas Anvar. “The character kind of talked to me. I was like, ‘Oh yeah, I could be a Mossad agent.’”
To put that theory to the test, the German actress underwent five days of training with the Israeli security force to prepare for her role as a woman recruited by the Mossad to work undercover in Iran.
But it wasn’t a high-stakes story of international intrigue that drew her to the character of Rachel, a woman seemingly at home everywhere and nowhere at once.
- 2/10/2019
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Albert Finney was not yet 50 when he earned his third Oscar nomination playing a volatile ball of ego and insecurity in Ronald Harwood’s brilliant backstage drama “The Dresser.” At one point, the character — a high-maintenance Shakespearean stage actor slowly collapsing in upon himself like some kind of dying sun — bellows, “I can’t do it anymore! I have nothing more to give!”
That was 35 years ago. His character Sir may have been primed to expire after more than 200 performances as King Lear In “The Dresser,” but Finney, who died Thursday, still had at least half of his career — and two more Oscar nominations — ahead of him: as the epically self-destructive drunk in John Huston’s “Under the Volcano,” and the surly boss-turned-champion in “Erin Brockovich.”
Younger audiences probably know the 82-year-old British actor best as the baritone-voiced mastermind behind the shadowy CIA operations in the first two Jason Bourne sequels,...
That was 35 years ago. His character Sir may have been primed to expire after more than 200 performances as King Lear In “The Dresser,” but Finney, who died Thursday, still had at least half of his career — and two more Oscar nominations — ahead of him: as the epically self-destructive drunk in John Huston’s “Under the Volcano,” and the surly boss-turned-champion in “Erin Brockovich.”
Younger audiences probably know the 82-year-old British actor best as the baritone-voiced mastermind behind the shadowy CIA operations in the first two Jason Bourne sequels,...
- 2/8/2019
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Matt Damon got dumped in Australia ... by the waves, not his gorgeous wife. Matt hit up Byron Bay for a little surfing session and he got off to a pretty rough start. You can see the action star show off some beginner moves -- falling over and over and over, and ... ya get the point. Jason Bourne's stunt double was not on the beach. Still, gotta give him credit for getting back up and giving it another go.
- 2/7/2019
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Tom Hanks and filmmaker Paul Greengrass are set to reunite on the adaptation of Paulette Jiles’ novel ‘News of the World’ at Fox 2000.
Greengrass is currently in negotiations to helm the film in which Hanks will star and produce alongside Gary Goetzman. Elizabeth Gabler and Nikki Ramey will oversee for Fox 2000. ‘Lion’ scribe, Luke Davies has penned the script.
The film is set in the aftermath of the Civil War and tells of a widowed news reader who travels from town to town in Texas announcing the news of the times. He is given a handsome sum to deliver a young orphan girl, whose parents were killed by a Native American tribe who then raised her as their own, to her family in San Antonio. The duo travels 400 miles through dangerous terrain, slowly developing a bond that will be tested when the man must give the girl up to relatives...
Greengrass is currently in negotiations to helm the film in which Hanks will star and produce alongside Gary Goetzman. Elizabeth Gabler and Nikki Ramey will oversee for Fox 2000. ‘Lion’ scribe, Luke Davies has penned the script.
The film is set in the aftermath of the Civil War and tells of a widowed news reader who travels from town to town in Texas announcing the news of the times. He is given a handsome sum to deliver a young orphan girl, whose parents were killed by a Native American tribe who then raised her as their own, to her family in San Antonio. The duo travels 400 miles through dangerous terrain, slowly developing a bond that will be tested when the man must give the girl up to relatives...
- 2/7/2019
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Paul Greengrass is in talks to reunite with Tom Hanks on the big-screen adaptation of “News Of The World.” The two previously teamed on “Captain Phillips,” a 2013 thriller that was a major box office success that also scored the pair some of the best reviews of their careers. A deal hasn’t closed yet, but negotiations are taking place.
“News Of the World” is a best-selling novel by Paulette Jiles that is set in the days following the Civil War. It charts the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an earlier precursor to today’s newscasters, and the 10-year-old girl he is tasked with bringing to her relatives. Kidd makes his living traveling from town to town, reading the latest newspaper to the largely illiterate locals. The girl spent her childhood living with the Kiowa Indian tribe after she was kidnapped and her family was murdered.
Hanks will play Kidd.
“News Of the World” is a best-selling novel by Paulette Jiles that is set in the days following the Civil War. It charts the unlikely friendship between Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an earlier precursor to today’s newscasters, and the 10-year-old girl he is tasked with bringing to her relatives. Kidd makes his living traveling from town to town, reading the latest newspaper to the largely illiterate locals. The girl spent her childhood living with the Kiowa Indian tribe after she was kidnapped and her family was murdered.
Hanks will play Kidd.
- 2/6/2019
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gregg Hurwitz, author of the best-selling Orphan X series, has inked what’s described as a “significant seven-figure deal” with publisher Minotaur Books for the next three volumes in the series. The next book in the series, Out of the Dark: The Return of Orphan X, hits shelves on Tuesday, Jan. 29.
The series kicked off in 2016 with Orphan X, followed by The Nowhere Man and Hellbent. The Orphan X series follows Evan Smoak, who, after being pulled from his home at the age of 12, is trained in the Orphan Program as a secret government assassin. After he escapes the program he creates a new life for himself, until he is forced to complete one last mission: saving the final Orphan, as the same shadowy government forces that ran the Orphan Program attempt to wipe out any shred of evidence that it ever existed.
The Orphan X series often draws...
The series kicked off in 2016 with Orphan X, followed by The Nowhere Man and Hellbent. The Orphan X series follows Evan Smoak, who, after being pulled from his home at the age of 12, is trained in the Orphan Program as a secret government assassin. After he escapes the program he creates a new life for himself, until he is forced to complete one last mission: saving the final Orphan, as the same shadowy government forces that ran the Orphan Program attempt to wipe out any shred of evidence that it ever existed.
The Orphan X series often draws...
- 1/25/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Vicky Jewson’s “Close” transparently aspires to be something of a female riff on Jason Bourne. However, shot in only 29 days — and with a fraction of the budget for an average Hollywood blockbuster — it feels more like a proof-of-concept for an idea that the film industry has already proven, and a dull reminder that studios need to invest more of their resources into it. Whatever inherent value there might be in gender-flipping such a generic template is mitigated by the movie’s reluctance to seize on the unique energy that its women bring to the table.
The film doesn’t have to justify casting a lead who isn’t named Chris or Matt, but Jewson and co-writer Rupert Whitaker (whose previous collaborations include 2014’s similarly violent “Born of War”) may have been too rushed to take advantage of it. If nothing else, this cut-rate thriller should be enough to silence...
The film doesn’t have to justify casting a lead who isn’t named Chris or Matt, but Jewson and co-writer Rupert Whitaker (whose previous collaborations include 2014’s similarly violent “Born of War”) may have been too rushed to take advantage of it. If nothing else, this cut-rate thriller should be enough to silence...
- 1/17/2019
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Paul Greengrass wrote and directed “22 July,” which explores the aftermath of a mass killing near Oslo in 2011. After steering three Jason Bourne movies that collectively earned $1.15 billion, he talks about why the 2011 tragedy — in which a far-right radical killed 77 people to protest multicultural thinking — was significant.
Some people are nervous about seeing the film due to the subject matter.
I understand that reaction and sympathize. It comes down to where we are in the world. Something is happening, and it’s scaring the bejesus out of me. You can see it in every single country. We are becoming unmoored. Do you know “The Second Coming,” the W.B. Yeats poem? “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” He wrote that 100 years ago. Don’t we all feel we are living in unprecedented times? Every generation thinks that.
People were similarly nervous about your 2006 “United 93.”
I don’t believe “United 93” was a nihilistic film.
Some people are nervous about seeing the film due to the subject matter.
I understand that reaction and sympathize. It comes down to where we are in the world. Something is happening, and it’s scaring the bejesus out of me. You can see it in every single country. We are becoming unmoored. Do you know “The Second Coming,” the W.B. Yeats poem? “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” He wrote that 100 years ago. Don’t we all feel we are living in unprecedented times? Every generation thinks that.
People were similarly nervous about your 2006 “United 93.”
I don’t believe “United 93” was a nihilistic film.
- 1/10/2019
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
According to USA Network, a full season of "Treadstone", focusing on the deep state, 'CIA black ops' organization from the "Jason Bourne" movies, will go straight to series, with production starting in 2019:
"...'Treadstone' will focus on the exploits of 'Operation Treadstone', the program responsible for turning 'Jason Bourne' into a bone-cracking super spy. The first season is reported to follow various other sleeper agents as they're awakened to resume their missions..."
Formed after the Viet Nam war, 'Treadstone' was a top-secret black ops program of the 'Central Intelligence Agency' (CIA), using a behavior-modification program to break down morality, while recruiting 'Us Service' members to turn them into superhuman assassins, in direct response to the 'Congressional Act' which banned the Us from partaking in extra-judicial killings.
'Jason Bourne' appeared in 3 novels by author Robert Ludlum, with a follow-up series,...
"...'Treadstone' will focus on the exploits of 'Operation Treadstone', the program responsible for turning 'Jason Bourne' into a bone-cracking super spy. The first season is reported to follow various other sleeper agents as they're awakened to resume their missions..."
Formed after the Viet Nam war, 'Treadstone' was a top-secret black ops program of the 'Central Intelligence Agency' (CIA), using a behavior-modification program to break down morality, while recruiting 'Us Service' members to turn them into superhuman assassins, in direct response to the 'Congressional Act' which banned the Us from partaking in extra-judicial killings.
'Jason Bourne' appeared in 3 novels by author Robert Ludlum, with a follow-up series,...
- 1/4/2019
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Interview Naveen talks to Tnm about his upcoming Telugu movie ‘Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya’, his viral comedy videos and his Bollywood debut with director Nitesh Tiwari.Tnm StaffNaveen Polishetty/FacebookNaveen Polishetty is the poster boy for every actor who has struggled his way from scratch up to the higher echelons of the entertainment industry. An engineering graduate and a native of Hyderabad, Naveen left his job to try his luck in films and after exactly 1,500 auditions, he has now grabbed the lead role in the upcoming Telugu flick Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya. But even before he caught the attention of Tollywood audiences, Naveen was famous as the ‘viral actor’ after his Honest Engineering video series from All India Bakchod (Aib) went super viral on all digital media platforms a little over a year ago. Having made a mark in the comedy scene up north, Naveen is now all set to...
- 12/27/2018
- by Priyankar
- The News Minute
This story about Paul Greengrass and “22 July” first appeared in the Actors/Directors/Screenwriters issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
Paul Greengrass remembers the moment when he knew he was going to make “22 July,” his gripping film about the right-wing terrorist attacks carried out on a Norwegian government center and an island summer camp in 2011. It came when he was reading the court testimony of Anders Behring Breivik, the white nationalist whose views led him to kill 77 people, most of them teenagers.
“He was talking about how the elites have betrayed us, democracy is a sham, we’re being forced to accept multiculturalism against our will, nationalism is being eroded, et cetera,” said the British director, whose previous films have included “Captain Phillips,” “United 93” and three Jason Bourne movies.
“When Breivik got up and articulated those views in 2011, they were considered in the far margins of political discourse. Today,...
Paul Greengrass remembers the moment when he knew he was going to make “22 July,” his gripping film about the right-wing terrorist attacks carried out on a Norwegian government center and an island summer camp in 2011. It came when he was reading the court testimony of Anders Behring Breivik, the white nationalist whose views led him to kill 77 people, most of them teenagers.
“He was talking about how the elites have betrayed us, democracy is a sham, we’re being forced to accept multiculturalism against our will, nationalism is being eroded, et cetera,” said the British director, whose previous films have included “Captain Phillips,” “United 93” and three Jason Bourne movies.
“When Breivik got up and articulated those views in 2011, they were considered in the far margins of political discourse. Today,...
- 12/14/2018
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are like brothers, so our eyebrows went north when we saw this pic of Matt hanging out with Ben's ex after a bad breakup. Matt broke bread with Lindsay Shookus Tuesday night for an 'SNL' bash at Lattanzi Restaurant in NYC. You're looking at the 2 of them leaving, and Matt seemed to divert more smoothly than Jason Bourne ever did on screen. By all accounts, Ben's drinking played a big role in the breakup.
- 12/12/2018
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
It feels as if Mark Wahlberg is casting about for a franchise to call his own. The actor, who recently bailed on the remake of The Six Million Dollar Man, may have found it in his fourth outing with director Peter Berg, Mile 22.
This action-adventure film, out now from Universal Home Entertainment, introduces us to CIA operative James Silva (Mark Wahlberg). He’s been tasked by Overwatch leader John Malkovich with bringing an asset, police officer Li Noor (Iko Uwais), to the secret Mile 22 facility so they can extract the life-threatening secrets he holds about the whereabouts of several radioactive cesium isotope dirty bombs. With that thin, familiar set-up, he’s off and running and we’re breathless trying to keep up.
We travel to interesting locales (Colombia filling in for Indonesia), have one set piece after another, watching Jason Bourne/Ethan Hunt/James Silva avoid being blown up,...
This action-adventure film, out now from Universal Home Entertainment, introduces us to CIA operative James Silva (Mark Wahlberg). He’s been tasked by Overwatch leader John Malkovich with bringing an asset, police officer Li Noor (Iko Uwais), to the secret Mile 22 facility so they can extract the life-threatening secrets he holds about the whereabouts of several radioactive cesium isotope dirty bombs. With that thin, familiar set-up, he’s off and running and we’re breathless trying to keep up.
We travel to interesting locales (Colombia filling in for Indonesia), have one set piece after another, watching Jason Bourne/Ethan Hunt/James Silva avoid being blown up,...
- 11/21/2018
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
We know The Good Place‘s perky virtual assistant Janet can do just about anything… but we have to admit, we were still surprised to see her kick the stuffing out of a dozen demons in this week’s epic bar fight.
“It’s such a funny bit: Not only is she the smartest being in the universe, she kicks ass,” D’Arcy Carden, who plays Janet on the NBC comedy, tells TVLine. “She’s Jason Bourne plus a machine robot.” Speaking of Mr. Bourne, Carden actually trained with veteran stunt coordinator Jeff Imada, who worked on the Bourne films,...
“It’s such a funny bit: Not only is she the smartest being in the universe, she kicks ass,” D’Arcy Carden, who plays Janet on the NBC comedy, tells TVLine. “She’s Jason Bourne plus a machine robot.” Speaking of Mr. Bourne, Carden actually trained with veteran stunt coordinator Jeff Imada, who worked on the Bourne films,...
- 11/18/2018
- TVLine.com
Stars: Claire Foy, Sylvia Hoeks, Lakeith Stanfield, Stephen Merchant, Cameron Britton, Vicky Krieps, Sverrir Gudnason, Volker Bruch, Mikael Persbrandt, Claes Bang, Andreja Pejic | Written by Jay Basu, Fede Alvarez, Steven Knight | Directed by Fede Alvarez
Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the fifth entry into the famed Stieg Larsson franchise and the second attempt at creating a “successful” American revitalised product after the somewhat lukewarm financial success of David Fincher’s Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara starring remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, released in 2011.
Craig, Fincher and Mara are gone and to replace them seven years after the fact is Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez at the helm and The Crown star Claire Foy taking the role of Lisbeth Salander. And while this sequel is a welcoming return to the big screen, with the relentless nihilism and candid horror on offer,...
Fede Alvarez’s The Girl in the Spider’s Web is the fifth entry into the famed Stieg Larsson franchise and the second attempt at creating a “successful” American revitalised product after the somewhat lukewarm financial success of David Fincher’s Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara starring remake of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, released in 2011.
Craig, Fincher and Mara are gone and to replace them seven years after the fact is Evil Dead and Don’t Breathe director Fede Alvarez at the helm and The Crown star Claire Foy taking the role of Lisbeth Salander. And while this sequel is a welcoming return to the big screen, with the relentless nihilism and candid horror on offer,...
- 11/9/2018
- by Jak-Luke Sharp
- Nerdly
Epix and Warner Bros. TV have found their Alfred Pennyworth. Jack Bannon has been cast in the title role of the upcoming Epix drama series Pennyworth, a Batman prequel from Gotham showrunner Bruno Heller, executive producer/director Danny Cannon and Warner Horizon Scripted TV.
The 10-episode Pennyworth will begin production October 22 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK, becoming the first series to film in the Warner Bros.-owned studio complex north of London which has housed production for such movies as WB’s Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Dark Knight, Inception and Wonder Woman as well as outside productions such as Jason Bourne, Kingsman, Paddington and the most recent Mission Impossible installments.
Based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), a former British Sas soldier in his 20’s, who forms a security company and...
The 10-episode Pennyworth will begin production October 22 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden in the UK, becoming the first series to film in the Warner Bros.-owned studio complex north of London which has housed production for such movies as WB’s Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts franchise, The Dark Knight, Inception and Wonder Woman as well as outside productions such as Jason Bourne, Kingsman, Paddington and the most recent Mission Impossible installments.
Based on DC characters created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger, Pennyworth follows Bruce Wayne’s legendary butler, Alfred Pennyworth (Bannon), a former British Sas soldier in his 20’s, who forms a security company and...
- 10/15/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
While most audience members know Paul Greengrass best as the director of the two best regarded Jason Bourne movies, that’s not where his true specialty resides. He’s far more at home crafting hard hitting docudramas. Bloody Sunday was his calling card film, while United 93 remains his finest hour. It’s in that vein that his latest work firmly sits. 22 July not only marks Greengrass’ return to this style of movie making, it also represents his first foray into putting something out on Netflix. A long and somber true story like this may not be your first assumption for a Netflix release, but the quality here should draw you in. If you don’t know what 22 July stands for, it represents the day that Norway suffered the worst terrorist attack in that country’s history. Taking place on July 22nd back in 2011, extreme right wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik...
- 10/12/2018
- by Joey Magidson
- Hollywoodnews.com
Hollywood loves making films about new technology – A couple of years after a tech innovation or trend first appears, the film industry jumps on the bandwagon and makes a slew of movies about it.
Although the science fiction genre explored futuristic technologies as far back as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), the use of real-life modern tech as a major theme in film really began in the 1960’s. James Bond’s pager in From Russia with Love (1963) is surely the first time a mobile communications device appeared on the silver screen. By the 1980’s, computers were the big tech theme. Films like War Games (1983), Electric Dreams (1984) and Weird Science (1985) promised a future where computers would help us create the perfect mate and then burn us to a crisp.
In the 90’s the fledging internet and its geeky sibling e-mail were major plot devices in several films, including The Net (1995) and You...
Although the science fiction genre explored futuristic technologies as far back as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), the use of real-life modern tech as a major theme in film really began in the 1960’s. James Bond’s pager in From Russia with Love (1963) is surely the first time a mobile communications device appeared on the silver screen. By the 1980’s, computers were the big tech theme. Films like War Games (1983), Electric Dreams (1984) and Weird Science (1985) promised a future where computers would help us create the perfect mate and then burn us to a crisp.
In the 90’s the fledging internet and its geeky sibling e-mail were major plot devices in several films, including The Net (1995) and You...
- 10/11/2018
- by James Smith
- Nerdly
22 July is the latest film from Netflix and is directed by Paul Greengrass. The film recounts the deadliest terror attack and mass shooting in Norway’s history. Its a brutal and honest story about how such a horrible event affected the lives of the victims, their families and the entire nation.
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- 10/10/2018
- by Kristian Odland
- GeekTyrant
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When an actor can't return for a sequel, sometimes the filmmakers get creative...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Sometimes, things don't go to plan. A movie has hit big, or a franchise is rumbling on, and you want one of the original stars back for the next in the series. The problem? You either knocked them off in the last film, or the actor concerned isn't available, or they just didn't want to return. That, or you didn't want them, but you're too polite to say.
The solution? The photo! Have characters looking mournfully at an image of said actor, just to remind you that they were once part of that particular parish, and so everyone else can acknowledge them, and then get on with it. At least, that's usually how it works.
Here are a few choice examples. As always, help yourself in the comments.
When an actor can't return for a sequel, sometimes the filmmakers get creative...
This article comes from Den of Geek UK.
Sometimes, things don't go to plan. A movie has hit big, or a franchise is rumbling on, and you want one of the original stars back for the next in the series. The problem? You either knocked them off in the last film, or the actor concerned isn't available, or they just didn't want to return. That, or you didn't want them, but you're too polite to say.
The solution? The photo! Have characters looking mournfully at an image of said actor, just to remind you that they were once part of that particular parish, and so everyone else can acknowledge them, and then get on with it. At least, that's usually how it works.
Here are a few choice examples. As always, help yourself in the comments.
- 10/10/2018
- Den of Geek
Having turned the Jason Bourne series into a billion-dollar franchise that’s now spinning-off into television, Academy Award-nominated director Paul Greengrass can pretty much make whatever he likes. He’ll get offered things like a James Cameron-produced sci-fi film (“Fantastic Voyage” which he turned down) and consider a serial killer procedural crime film (“Torso“; not happening any longer), but given the agitated state of the world, the filmmaker instead decided to make to “22 July,” a drama about the infamous 2011 domestic terrorist attack in Norway by a lone wolf gunman who shot up a summer camp full of kids in protest of elites, Islam and immigration.
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- 10/9/2018
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
Maniac delivers a climax that it doesn't earn. Still, "Utangatta" is an exciting and cathartic episode of television all the same.
This Maniac review contains spoilers.
Maniac Episode 9
The nice thing about a show like Maniac is that even if it loses the thread completely (and this show has), setting and circumstances change so frequently that that thread can always be picked up again.
The penultimate episode of Maniac, “Utangatta,” is all climax. Annie and Owen meet once again this time as an Icelandic deputy minister named Snorri and a femme fatale CIA assassin named nothing. Icelandic Owen and CIA Annie make their way out of the United Nations headquarters in a tracking shot gun fight that would make Rust Cohle blush (fitting given that Maniac director Cary Fukunaga first achieved his level of Peak TV fame of True Detective Season 1). It’s all pure action and even finds the...
This Maniac review contains spoilers.
Maniac Episode 9
The nice thing about a show like Maniac is that even if it loses the thread completely (and this show has), setting and circumstances change so frequently that that thread can always be picked up again.
The penultimate episode of Maniac, “Utangatta,” is all climax. Annie and Owen meet once again this time as an Icelandic deputy minister named Snorri and a femme fatale CIA assassin named nothing. Icelandic Owen and CIA Annie make their way out of the United Nations headquarters in a tracking shot gun fight that would make Rust Cohle blush (fitting given that Maniac director Cary Fukunaga first achieved his level of Peak TV fame of True Detective Season 1). It’s all pure action and even finds the...
- 9/27/2018
- Den of Geek
Santa Monica, CA – Two of today’s biggest female comedians join forces to thwart a high-stakes undercover operation when The Spy Who Dumped Me arrives on Digital October 16 and on 4K Ultra HD Combo Pack (plus Blu-ray and Digital), Blu-ray Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital), DVD, and On Demand October 30 from Lionsgate. Directed by Susanna Fogel, acclaimed creator of TV’s Chasing Life, and written by Fogel & David Iserson, The Spy Who Dumped Me is a hilarious, action-packed ride that also features the work of Gary Powell, the stunt coordinator behind Jason Bourne, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, and Mission: Impossible. Golden Globe® nominee Mila Kunis and Emmy® Award winner Kate McKinnon “show the boys a thing or two about pals-in-peril laughs and thrills” in this buddy spy comedy romp. Also starring in the film are Justin Theroux, Hasan Minhaj (The Daily Show), and Sam Heughan (Outlander...
- 9/12/2018
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
In a filmmaking career that spans nearly four decades, Joel and Ethan Coen have made films that defy genre classification but always maintain their distinctive humor and realist point of view. From cult comedies like “Raising Arizona” (1987) and “The Big Lebowski” (1998) to Oscar winners “Fargo” (1996) and “No Country for Old Men” (2007), the Coen brothers have become one of the defining voices of contemporary American cinema. In “The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together,” film critic Adam Nayman weaves biography, critical analysis, and interviews with Coen collaborators (including longtime cinematographer Roger Deakins) to present the definitive history of the Coen brothers oeuvre.
Published by Abrams Books in conjunction with the film magazine “Little White Lies,” “The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together” will be released on September 11, 2018. IndieWire has obtained an exclusive excerpt about the making of “Burn After Reading” (2008), as well as key art from the book.
Published by Abrams Books in conjunction with the film magazine “Little White Lies,” “The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together” will be released on September 11, 2018. IndieWire has obtained an exclusive excerpt about the making of “Burn After Reading” (2008), as well as key art from the book.
- 9/11/2018
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Drama and journalism meet in this brave and masterly film about the 2011 massacre of 77 people in Norway by a smirking, far-right extremist
‘Welcome,” reads the banner on the Norwegian island of Utøya, early in the new film directed and co-produced by Paul Greengrass. The kids are already arriving, a blur of happy faces, here for the Norwegian Labour party’s annual youth summer camp. Badly assembled tents and games of frisbee ensue. More than two hours later, the credits will roll. You may find you stay until they end, still needing a second or two to put yourself back together.
22 July is Greengrass’s account of the 2011 massacre on Utøya of 69 people, most of them teenagers, by the far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (who had already killed eight people earlier in the day with a car bomb in Oslo). The result is searing. In his last film, Jason Bourne, Greengrass...
‘Welcome,” reads the banner on the Norwegian island of Utøya, early in the new film directed and co-produced by Paul Greengrass. The kids are already arriving, a blur of happy faces, here for the Norwegian Labour party’s annual youth summer camp. Badly assembled tents and games of frisbee ensue. More than two hours later, the credits will roll. You may find you stay until they end, still needing a second or two to put yourself back together.
22 July is Greengrass’s account of the 2011 massacre on Utøya of 69 people, most of them teenagers, by the far-right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (who had already killed eight people earlier in the day with a car bomb in Oslo). The result is searing. In his last film, Jason Bourne, Greengrass...
- 9/5/2018
- by Danny Leigh
- The Guardian - Film News
After directing Tom Hanks in one of his best roles in 2013’s Captain Phillips and resurrecting Jason Bourne in 2016, Paul Greengrass is back this year with another stirring thriller in 22 July. Starring an all Norwegian cast and crew, the movie retells the jarring story of a terrorist attack in Oslo that left 77 dead, with the perpetrator attacking a camp for teens shortly after. The first trailer is here and you can watch it now and start to feel your palms sweat. The... Read More...
- 9/4/2018
- by Matt Rooney
- JoBlo.com
(Warning: This story contains spoilers from the first season of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan”)
Co-showrunners Graham Roland and Carlton Cuse wanted to bring something to “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” on Amazon that hasn’t been seen too often on screen: Three-dimensional portrayals of Middle Eastern characters.
“Any great villain is kind of the hero in his own mind, is complicated and layered,” Roland tells TheWrap of his series that premiered Friday night. “We definitely wanted to bring that to a Middle Eastern terrorist, which is something that we haven’t seen before on film.”
Roland served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2000 to 2006 and was deployed to Iraq for one tour. That experience had a hand in shaping how Roland and Cuse depicted the show’s Middle Eastern characters. Although the antagonist, Mousa bin Suleiman (played by Ali Suliman), is compared by John Krasinski’s Ryan to Osama bin Laden...
Co-showrunners Graham Roland and Carlton Cuse wanted to bring something to “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” on Amazon that hasn’t been seen too often on screen: Three-dimensional portrayals of Middle Eastern characters.
“Any great villain is kind of the hero in his own mind, is complicated and layered,” Roland tells TheWrap of his series that premiered Friday night. “We definitely wanted to bring that to a Middle Eastern terrorist, which is something that we haven’t seen before on film.”
Roland served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2000 to 2006 and was deployed to Iraq for one tour. That experience had a hand in shaping how Roland and Cuse depicted the show’s Middle Eastern characters. Although the antagonist, Mousa bin Suleiman (played by Ali Suliman), is compared by John Krasinski’s Ryan to Osama bin Laden...
- 9/2/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan” Season 1, including the ending. For a spoiler-free review, click here.]
So many stories in the Jack Ryan franchise hinge upon our eponymous hero stopping bombs from going off. “The Hunt for Red October” is basically about escorting a Soviet submarine safely back to America without anyone blowing it up. In “The Sum of All Fears,” the pivotal crisis is a bomb detonating at the Super Bowl. During the climax of “Shadow Recruit,” Chris Pine’s Jason Bourne-plated Jack Ryan finds a bomb, can’t defuse it, and drives it into the East River to prevent any casualties.
Amazon’s “Jack Ryan” TV series, which is inspired by Tom Clancy’s stories but written anew by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, starts off with an explosion and ends with one, too. The last one is a nice nod to the films and what’s helped...
So many stories in the Jack Ryan franchise hinge upon our eponymous hero stopping bombs from going off. “The Hunt for Red October” is basically about escorting a Soviet submarine safely back to America without anyone blowing it up. In “The Sum of All Fears,” the pivotal crisis is a bomb detonating at the Super Bowl. During the climax of “Shadow Recruit,” Chris Pine’s Jason Bourne-plated Jack Ryan finds a bomb, can’t defuse it, and drives it into the East River to prevent any casualties.
Amazon’s “Jack Ryan” TV series, which is inspired by Tom Clancy’s stories but written anew by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, starts off with an explosion and ends with one, too. The last one is a nice nod to the films and what’s helped...
- 8/31/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Never underestimate Dwight Schrute.
In honor of the premiere of John Krasinski’s new action series, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Funny or Die has made an epic mashup video that combines the Amazon adaptation with NBC’s “The Office” — which, as you know, starred Krasinski as the lovable Jim Halpert and Rainn Wilson as Dwight, his biggest frenemy at paper company Dunder Mifflin.
Dwight was a man who always tried to be recruited by the CIA and in the Funny or Die universe, Schrute is a legit terrorist who “Jim Ryan” now needs to protect his co-workers from.
Also Read: 'Jack Ryan' Showrunner on Why Tom Clancy Character Can't 'Be a Jason Bourne Antihero'
Things get way more intense in the office than they ever did on the sitcom — and yes, we’re counting the episode where Dwight pelted Jim with snowballs until Jim looked like he wanted to die.
In honor of the premiere of John Krasinski’s new action series, “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Funny or Die has made an epic mashup video that combines the Amazon adaptation with NBC’s “The Office” — which, as you know, starred Krasinski as the lovable Jim Halpert and Rainn Wilson as Dwight, his biggest frenemy at paper company Dunder Mifflin.
Dwight was a man who always tried to be recruited by the CIA and in the Funny or Die universe, Schrute is a legit terrorist who “Jim Ryan” now needs to protect his co-workers from.
Also Read: 'Jack Ryan' Showrunner on Why Tom Clancy Character Can't 'Be a Jason Bourne Antihero'
Things get way more intense in the office than they ever did on the sitcom — and yes, we’re counting the episode where Dwight pelted Jim with snowballs until Jim looked like he wanted to die.
- 8/31/2018
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
In a TV world full of antiheroes, Tom Clancy’s famous novel character, Jack Ryan, is a throwback to an era when protagonists didn’t spend so much time living in a morally grey area.
“I don’t think people would want to see him be a Jason Bourne antihero,” Carlton Cuse, co-showrunner of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” tells TheWrap, adding that there’s “an expectation” for what kind of character he can be. “That kind of re-imagining was just not on the table for us.”
On Friday, Amazon premieres the first season of its eight-episode drama based on the famed character from Clancy’s novels. The pseudo-adaptation will see John Krasinski step into the role that’s been inhabited previously in films by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. But unlike most of those films, which were straight adaptations of specific Clancy novels, Amazon’s...
“I don’t think people would want to see him be a Jason Bourne antihero,” Carlton Cuse, co-showrunner of “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” tells TheWrap, adding that there’s “an expectation” for what kind of character he can be. “That kind of re-imagining was just not on the table for us.”
On Friday, Amazon premieres the first season of its eight-episode drama based on the famed character from Clancy’s novels. The pseudo-adaptation will see John Krasinski step into the role that’s been inhabited previously in films by Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck and Chris Pine. But unlike most of those films, which were straight adaptations of specific Clancy novels, Amazon’s...
- 8/30/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
Though lists are bound to pop up ranking the five men who’ve played Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, there’s really no point in comparing them. Like the loyal CIA analyst-turned-field operative they played, each man was given an assignment coming in, and each assignment varied in accordance with the project. A pre-Batman Ben Affleck was tasked with making people forget about Harrison Ford’s every-dad spy by flashing back to Ryan’s early, awkward days in intelligence. Chris Pine was told to start from scratch with a blue-tinged vision of a Jason Bourne wannabe. Alec Baldwin got to set the standard, and he set it rather high.
Ok, fine: Best-to-worst is clearly Ford, Baldwin, Pine, Affleck, and then John Krasinski. But Krasinski is only at the bottom because his big-budget, small-screen blockbuster doesn’t let him off the leash often enough. Even in the 120-minute movies, Ford was...
Ok, fine: Best-to-worst is clearly Ford, Baldwin, Pine, Affleck, and then John Krasinski. But Krasinski is only at the bottom because his big-budget, small-screen blockbuster doesn’t let him off the leash often enough. Even in the 120-minute movies, Ford was...
- 8/21/2018
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
On the August 17, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by managing editor Jacob Hall, and writer Chris Evangelista to talk about the latest film and TV news, including an unmade Catwoman movie, a Jason Bourne tv series and are computer screen movies the future of cinema? And in The […]
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- 8/18/2018
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
These days the spy genre leans so hard into self-mockery that it’s difficult to distinguish straight spy thrillers from a genuine parody. At times though The Spy Who Dumped Me feels like it has the opposite problem. An out-and-out comedy about two American idiots who stumble into a Jason Bourne-esque thriller when it turns out that one of the girl’s ex-boyfriend was a CIA agent.
It’s the kind of premise that makes a solid spy comedy; in which average, bumbling non-spy Audrey, played by Mila Kunis, is thrown into a full-blown espionage thriller filled with high-intensity gunfights, car chases and hand-to-hand combat. All while joined by her equally hapless best-friend Morgan i.e. Kate McKinnon playing…basically Kate McKinnon. The only problem is that the film tries to sell the ‘spy’ aspect so hard that it occasionally forgets about the ‘comedy’ part. With the action being...
It’s the kind of premise that makes a solid spy comedy; in which average, bumbling non-spy Audrey, played by Mila Kunis, is thrown into a full-blown espionage thriller filled with high-intensity gunfights, car chases and hand-to-hand combat. All while joined by her equally hapless best-friend Morgan i.e. Kate McKinnon playing…basically Kate McKinnon. The only problem is that the film tries to sell the ‘spy’ aspect so hard that it occasionally forgets about the ‘comedy’ part. With the action being...
- 8/17/2018
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Are you a big fan of the Bourne Identity films? Variety reports USA Network has ordered a new TV show based on the movie franchise called Treadstone.
The action thriller "centers on the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, which was the program that created superspy Jason Bourne. The covert program uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins."
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The action thriller "centers on the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, which was the program that created superspy Jason Bourne. The covert program uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins."
Read More…...
- 8/17/2018
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Earlier this year it was reported that USA Network was developing a Jason Bourne spin-off series titled Treadstone, and it seems that development has gone very well indeed as the network has now ordered the drama straight to series. Treadstone will center around the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, the program which created Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) in the feature-film series.... Read More...
- 8/17/2018
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
According to USA Network, a full season of "Treadstone", focusing on the deep state, 'CIA black ops' organization from the "Jason Bourne" movies, will go straight to series, with production starting in 2019:
"...'Treadstone' will focus on the exploits of 'Operation Treadstone', the program responsible for turning 'Jason Bourne' into a bone-cracking super spy. The first season is reported to follow various other sleeper agents as they're awakened to resume their missions..."
Formed after the Viet Nam war, 'Treadstone' was a top-secret black ops program of the 'Central Intelligence Agency' (CIA), using a behavior-modification program to break down morality, while recruiting 'Us Service' members to turn them into superhuman assassins, in direct response to the 'Congressional Act' which banned the Us from partaking in extra-judicial killings.
'Jason Bourne' appeared in 3 novels by author Robert Ludlum, with a follow-up series,...
"...'Treadstone' will focus on the exploits of 'Operation Treadstone', the program responsible for turning 'Jason Bourne' into a bone-cracking super spy. The first season is reported to follow various other sleeper agents as they're awakened to resume their missions..."
Formed after the Viet Nam war, 'Treadstone' was a top-secret black ops program of the 'Central Intelligence Agency' (CIA), using a behavior-modification program to break down morality, while recruiting 'Us Service' members to turn them into superhuman assassins, in direct response to the 'Congressional Act' which banned the Us from partaking in extra-judicial killings.
'Jason Bourne' appeared in 3 novels by author Robert Ludlum, with a follow-up series,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Heroes creator Tim Kring to write and serve as Ep on the series; Ramin Bahrani to direct pilot.
NBC Universal-owned basic cable channel USA Network has given a straight-to-series order to Treadstone, a TV spin-off from Universal Pictures’ Jason Bourne feature franchise.
Tim Kring, creator of the Heroes sci-fi series, will write and executive produce the series for Universal Cable Productions, with Ramin Bahrani, writer-director of HBO’s recent Fahrenheit 451 adaptation, directing the pilot and serving as executive producer.
Production is due to begin next year, with the other executive producers being Justin Levy, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner for Captivate,...
NBC Universal-owned basic cable channel USA Network has given a straight-to-series order to Treadstone, a TV spin-off from Universal Pictures’ Jason Bourne feature franchise.
Tim Kring, creator of the Heroes sci-fi series, will write and executive produce the series for Universal Cable Productions, with Ramin Bahrani, writer-director of HBO’s recent Fahrenheit 451 adaptation, directing the pilot and serving as executive producer.
Production is due to begin next year, with the other executive producers being Justin Levy, Ben Smith and Jeffrey Weiner for Captivate,...
- 8/16/2018
- by John Hazelton
- ScreenDaily
USA Network has ordered the drama “Treadstone” straight to series, Variety has learned.
The series, which was originally ordered to pilot back in April, centers on the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, which was the program that created superspy Jason Bourne. The covert program uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. The first season follows sleeper agents across the globe as they’re mysteriously “awakened” to resume their deadly missions. The series will go into production in 2019.
“As the #1 cable entertainment network for the past 12 years, USA Network is delivering a dynamic lineup of big, bold programming – and what could be bigger and bolder than the Treadstone mythology?” said Chris McCumber, president of entertainment networks for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
“Treadstone” is produced by Universal Cable Productions. The series is written and executive produced by Tim Kring. Ramin Bahrani will direct the pilot and also serve as an executive producer.
The series, which was originally ordered to pilot back in April, centers on the fictional CIA black ops program Operation Treadstone, which was the program that created superspy Jason Bourne. The covert program uses behavior modification protocol to turn recruits into nearly superhuman assassins. The first season follows sleeper agents across the globe as they’re mysteriously “awakened” to resume their deadly missions. The series will go into production in 2019.
“As the #1 cable entertainment network for the past 12 years, USA Network is delivering a dynamic lineup of big, bold programming – and what could be bigger and bolder than the Treadstone mythology?” said Chris McCumber, president of entertainment networks for NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment.
“Treadstone” is produced by Universal Cable Productions. The series is written and executive produced by Tim Kring. Ramin Bahrani will direct the pilot and also serve as an executive producer.
- 8/16/2018
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
USA is moving ahead with its TV take on the popular Jason Bourne film franchise, giving a series order to Treadstone.
The project, an action thriller about a black ops CIA program, gets the nod for a full series before even producing a pilot, evidence of the network's clear excitement over bringing the franchise to TV.
With production set to begin in 2019, the first season will follow sleeper agents — none of them played by Matt Damon — across the globe as they're instructed to carry out deadly missions.
USA ordered a number of pilots earlier this ...
The project, an action thriller about a black ops CIA program, gets the nod for a full series before even producing a pilot, evidence of the network's clear excitement over bringing the franchise to TV.
With production set to begin in 2019, the first season will follow sleeper agents — none of them played by Matt Damon — across the globe as they're instructed to carry out deadly missions.
USA ordered a number of pilots earlier this ...
- 8/16/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
A new international thriller toplined by Colombian star Carolina Gaitan (“Celia”) opposite Chile’s Alfredo Castro (“From Afar”) is slated to shoot on location in New York, Malta and Slovakia in October.
Titled “Perfidious,” and with an estimated $13 million budget, the feature debut of Dominican Republic-born Ileana Vasquez boasts an international cast that includes American thesp of Cuban, Mexican and Spanish descent Omar Chagall (“Frida”), Greek “Bond” girl Tonia Sotiropoulou (“Skyfall”), Greek star Alexis Georgoulis, Spain’s Peter Vives (“Velvet”) and British Mma Champion Lee Shone. Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner”) is circling the project.
The English-language thriller turns on a U.S. Latina political writer whose wealthy Czech fiancé (Vives) is assassinated. In her efforts to investigate the truth behind her beau’s murder, she is caught up in a high-profile political scandal. Castro plays the concierge in her apartment building.
“She is somewhat a cross between Nancy Drew and Jason Bourne,...
Titled “Perfidious,” and with an estimated $13 million budget, the feature debut of Dominican Republic-born Ileana Vasquez boasts an international cast that includes American thesp of Cuban, Mexican and Spanish descent Omar Chagall (“Frida”), Greek “Bond” girl Tonia Sotiropoulou (“Skyfall”), Greek star Alexis Georgoulis, Spain’s Peter Vives (“Velvet”) and British Mma Champion Lee Shone. Dutch actor Rutger Hauer (“Blade Runner”) is circling the project.
The English-language thriller turns on a U.S. Latina political writer whose wealthy Czech fiancé (Vives) is assassinated. In her efforts to investigate the truth behind her beau’s murder, she is caught up in a high-profile political scandal. Castro plays the concierge in her apartment building.
“She is somewhat a cross between Nancy Drew and Jason Bourne,...
- 8/16/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Skybound Entertainment is officially launching GammaRay, a pop-culture video content brand targeted at highbrow fans of movies, TV, comics and games.
That’s according to David Alpert, one of Skybound’s partners along with Robert Kirkman and Jon Goldman, who is leading GammaRay as CEO. “It’s hard to find a place for intellectual discussion that’s not driven by lowest-common-denominator editorial,” Alpert said.
While it’s housed at Skybound, GammaRay is backed by three other investment partners: David Ellison’s Skydance Media, Allen DeBevoise’s Third Wave Ventures and C Ventures, a Vc firm co-founded by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng and veteran investor Clive Ng. Alpert declined to disclose how much funding GammaRay has raised.
The concept for GammaRay, which had been brewing at Skybound for some time, is to provide a fan-focused brand “from the perspective of celebrating how artists make things,” Alpert said. “It’s the discussion in...
That’s according to David Alpert, one of Skybound’s partners along with Robert Kirkman and Jon Goldman, who is leading GammaRay as CEO. “It’s hard to find a place for intellectual discussion that’s not driven by lowest-common-denominator editorial,” Alpert said.
While it’s housed at Skybound, GammaRay is backed by three other investment partners: David Ellison’s Skydance Media, Allen DeBevoise’s Third Wave Ventures and C Ventures, a Vc firm co-founded by entrepreneur Adrian Cheng and veteran investor Clive Ng. Alpert declined to disclose how much funding GammaRay has raised.
The concept for GammaRay, which had been brewing at Skybound for some time, is to provide a fan-focused brand “from the perspective of celebrating how artists make things,” Alpert said. “It’s the discussion in...
- 8/15/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
So Jason Bourne and Thor walk into a bar... It may sound like the set-up for a punch line, but really, it's just a standard vacation practice for Chris Hemsworth and Matt Damon, as the two actors have traveled the world together in recent years, often being spotted boarding boats, hitting the beach and inspiring travel Fomo in all of us. While their bromance, which includes annual family vacations, spending holidays together and surf sessions, may seem a unexpected, given that they've never really worked together, Hemsworth and Damon's friendship actually began quite some time ago, before the Aussie star, who turns 35 today, took on the role of the Norse god that would make him a...
- 8/11/2018
- E! Online
Never, ever underestimate Kate McKinnon. Flying on the fumes of her own damn-near-infallible notion of what’s funny, the Emmy winning SNL veteran is a joy to watch. Her new movie, The Spy Who Dumped Me, is not. Though McKinnon is one half of a saucy buddy act with costar Mila Kunis — with the Family Guy star playing it straight with no loss of appeal — the script that director Susanna Fogel (Life Partners) wrote with David Iserson basically leaves its two stars flailing. Melissa McCarthy fared much better with this...
- 7/30/2018
- by Peter Travers
- Rollingstone.com
Friday Am Update Of Thursday Exclusive: Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout had a great Thursday night earning $6M in Thursday night previews (we heard $5M+ last night) which is well ahead of the $4M Thursday night of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation three years ago.
Fallout has the best reviews of all the Mission: Impossible movies with 98% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. A score like that is just pure gold for any major studio when launching a four-quad event title. Fandango reported earlier this week that Fallout is Tom Cruise’s bestselling film in regards to advance tickets. It’s also outstripping all the Jason Bourne movies.
Rogue Nation continued on to post a $20.3M Friday, a Saturday of $19.65M and final weekend of $55.5M at 3,956 theaters, making it the second-best opening for the Mission: Impossible franchise. Fallout, playing at 4,350 venues tomorrow, is the last of summer’s blockbuster openings...
Fallout has the best reviews of all the Mission: Impossible movies with 98% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. A score like that is just pure gold for any major studio when launching a four-quad event title. Fandango reported earlier this week that Fallout is Tom Cruise’s bestselling film in regards to advance tickets. It’s also outstripping all the Jason Bourne movies.
Rogue Nation continued on to post a $20.3M Friday, a Saturday of $19.65M and final weekend of $55.5M at 3,956 theaters, making it the second-best opening for the Mission: Impossible franchise. Fallout, playing at 4,350 venues tomorrow, is the last of summer’s blockbuster openings...
- 7/27/2018
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Saturday Am Update: Mission: Impossible - Fallout brought in an estimated $23 million for Friday (including $6 million from Thursday night previews). This is $3 million an improvement on the opening day for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, which brought in $4 million from preview screenings and went on to open with $55.5 million. Fallout received an "A" CinemaScore from opening day audiences, the best CinemaScore grade in the franchise. Current expectation is for a three-day weekend in the range of $58-60 million. WB's Teen Titans Go! To the Movies brought in an estimated $4.25 million on Friday, including $1 million from Thursday night previews, and is currently looking at a weekend around $11-12 million. The film received a "B+" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. You can check out all of the Friday estimates right here and we'll be back tomorrow morning with a complete look at the weekend. Friday Am Update: Exploding out of the gates,...
- 7/26/2018
- by Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
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