Lionsgate bought Rodrigo Cortes' indie thriller Buried this afternoon, amongst several bids for the film which features Ryan Reynolds as a American truck driver buried alive in an Iraqi desert. These reports come after a palpable amount of midnight screening buzz praising Reynolds' performance and Cortes' direction....
Late Friday night Fox won out in the studio bidding war for Robert Rodriguez's independently-produced Machete, the extension of his faux-trailer that sat in...
It is a small wonder Hollywood's never been able to fully tackle the Christian mythos. Sure, there are countless renderings of the Jesus Christ and Moses stories, but other than that? Not much credible product to speak of (The Prophecy's not that credible), despite an abundance of source material....
A little while back, it was reported that Warner Bros had optioned the children's book The Invention of Hugo Cabret for screenwriter John Logan (The Aviator...
It's sometimes easy to forget the value of a good performance. And one would wager that this is the sole reason to pay good money to see CBS Films' Extraordinary Measures, a practice in viewership patience so great it defies the most lackluster of expectations. Harrison Ford's turn as the visionary Dr. Robert Stonehill is the single saving grace of the film....
Only two weeks after it was announced that both writer/director Levine and hot-to-trot actress Anna Kendrick had joined Mandate's untilted "Cancer" project, it appears the young filmmaker is still filling his plate. This time with a project "in a tone like 'Twilight'-meets-'Shaun of the Dead'"...
Gerard Butler's collaborating with director Marc Forster to "tell the story of Sam Childers, a former drug-dealing biker tough guy who found God and became a crusader for hundreds of Sudanese children who've been kidnapped and pressed into duty as soldiers"...
Here's the thing about Reeves - he takes risks. He's an actor who's reach sometimes exceeds his grasp, which is to say he pushes himself. Where the [..]...
Dan Mecca is the co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a producer and filmmaker living in Pittsburgh. He watches a lot of movies and tracks them on Letterboxd.
