Action movie favorites Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo are set to star in Joe Carnahan's new action thriller Copshop, it was announced Tuesday by Open Road Films and STXinternational. The action unfolds inside a small-town police station that becomes the unlikely battleground between a professional hitman (Butler), a smart rookie cop, and a double-crossing con man (Grillo) who seeks refuge behind bars with no place left to run. The film's female lead -- the cop -- has not been cast yet, but it sounds like a fun role for a rising young actress looking to get her hands …
Capone, from director Josh Trank and star Tom Hardy, is a strange film. It follows the last moments in the life of famed gangster Al Capone (Hardy) as his body and brain are ravaged by the debilitating effects of syphilis and dementia. It's aggressively grim, borderline experimental, and features several scenes of Hardy pooping the hell out of himself. And per an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Trank was encouraged to fly his freak flag by some of your favorite filmmakers. Filmmakers showing each other cuts of their films in progress is not a new trend (anyone else remember …
The planned remake of the popular action movie has apparently gone through some serious changes.
The first reactions to Joe Carnahan's Boss Level have arrived following a special screening of the action pic at Arclight Cinemas in Los Angeles on Tuesday night. The Collider screening was a big event, with fans and critics alike gathering in the L.A. theater to see what the director behind Smokin' Aces and The Grey had cooked up for them. Among the folks sharing their first reactions to Boss Level was The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, who wrote the movie was "totally great" before remarking, "Nothing like seeing an insanely awesome movie completely cold." Meanwhile, Gizmodo/io9 …
As a longtime fan of Joe Carnahan, I’m very happy to be able to share the World Premiere of the first images from his upcoming sci-fi action thriller Boss Level. The film stars Frank Grillo as a retired special forces soldier that gets stuck in a time loop on the day of his death. As he keeps repeating the day, he’s forced to battle various assassins while also trying to figure out what’s going on. The film also stars Mel Gibson, Naomi Watts, Michelle Yeoh, Annabelle Wallis, Ken Jeong and former New England Patriots tight end …
While Paramount Pictures is due to release the action-thriller Gemini Man in theaters this weekend, some may or may not know that this is a project that’s been in development in Hollywood for decades, and our look at an alternate version of the movie has surfaced online. The concept for Gemini Man—an aging government assassin is hunted by a younger clone of himself—originated with Darren Lemke in 1997 and was sold to Walt Disney Pictures. The first director attached was Tony Scott, and while actors like Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, and Brad Pitt circled the film, …
While Paramount Pictures is due to release the action-thriller Gemini Man in theaters this weekend, some may or may not know that this is a project that’s been in development in Hollywood for decades, and our look at an alternate version of the movie has surfaced online. The concept for Gemini Man—an aging government assassin is hunted by a younger clone of himself—originated with Darren Lemke in 1997 and was sold to Walt Disney Pictures. The first director attached was Tony Scott, and while actors like Harrison Ford, Tom Cruise, and Brad Pitt circled the film, …
From director Ben Hernandez Bray and producer Joe Carnahan (who developed the script together), the indie drama El Chicano is a very different kind of superhero story about a masked street legend who fights the evil that lives in the East Los neighborhood that’s stuck in a turf battle. When LAPD Detective Diego Hernandez (Raúl Castillo) is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel and learns that his brother’s supposed suicide might have actually been a murder, he becomes torn over the best way to seek justice. At the film’s Los Angeles press day, …
Joe Carnahan departed the threequel back in 2017.
Briarcliff has released the poster for the upcoming thriller El Chicano. Directed by Ben Hernandez Bray from a script he co-wrote with Joe Carnahan (The Grey), the film focuses on twin brothers Diego and Pedro who go their separate ways as adults with Diego becoming a cop and Pedro becoming a criminal. However, when clues connected to Pedro’s death connect to a case of Diego’s, a mysterious vigilante figure of their youth, “El Chicano”, resurfaces. Here’s what Carnahan had to say about why he decided to co-write the film and why he has so much …
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