Straight to the point, Nimrod Antal's Armored is exactly what you'd expect from its trailer and synopsis: a heist movie about a group of armored truck drivers who rob their own armored truck, until things go array. Unfortunately, no viewer will care enough about any one of the characters in this small-minded waste of time to be effected by any of the wrong turns said characters (and filmmakers) take throughout....
Big name, studio-pushed family dramas without a "holiday" selling point (a la The Family Stone or Everybody's Fine) are hard to come by these days. So are successful war films. Jim Sheridan's Brothers is both of these things, and has fought a long, hard war of its own to open in theaters....
You read right. The plan is apparently for two more season's of the hit HBO show and then a film to cap it all off. All of this from the mouth of the show's creator and producer, Marky Mark Wahlberg, at The Lovely Bones premiere this week....
Comcast unveiled the details of its takeover of NBC Universal earlier this morning. The cable company will hold 51% of NBC U to GE's %49. Jeff Zucker, the current president of NBC U, will become CEO of the new Comcast-owned company....
Very exciting news indeed. Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Night, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood) has announced his next project: a film entitled Master, in which a man creates his own religion...
Writer/director Rebecca Miller (daughter of legendary playwright Arthur Miller) makes interesting movies, imperfect and rough and beautiful. The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, her newest film, fits right in, telling the story of the mysteriously enchanting Pippa Lee (Robin Wright Penn), from young to middle-aged....
After weeks of prolonged negotiations, it seems that GE and Vivendi have finally come to terms on the liquid worth of Vivendi's 20 percent stake in NBC Universal: approximately $5.8 billion. ...
And now, the news you've all been waiting for. Or not. Either way, this The Karate Kid remake, starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan, does look slightly more promising than the early news led to believe....
Based on a promo poster on display in the American Film Market, declaring that Nick Cave was writing, John Hillcoat was directing, and Shia LaBeouf, Ryan Gosling and Amy Adams are starring in a film adaptation of the Matt Bondurant novel The Wettest County in the World, entitled The Promised Land....
After an ultimately unsuccessful franchise reboot in 2006, it appears that Warner Bros. is planning to let the superhero and his legacy gestate for some time, not rushing out to make any version of a Superman movie for at least a few years...
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.
