Former Endgame Entertainment president Douglas Hansen will oversee Red Granite Pictures while it continues settlement talks with the U.S. government that would end a Malaysian embezzlement investigation.
In July 2016, federal authorities filed several civil forfeiture cases aimed at seizing more than $1 billion in assets tied to a fund called 1Malaysia Development Berdhard (1Mdb). The U.S. government alleged that money was diverted by high-level officials in Malaysia into shell companies and then into a variety of properties, including Beverly Hills and New York City real estate, as well as funding for Red Granite, run by CEO Riza...
In July 2016, federal authorities filed several civil forfeiture cases aimed at seizing more than $1 billion in assets tied to a fund called 1Malaysia Development Berdhard (1Mdb). The U.S. government alleged that money was diverted by high-level officials in Malaysia into shell companies and then into a variety of properties, including Beverly Hills and New York City real estate, as well as funding for Red Granite, run by CEO Riza...
- 7/12/2017
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
At last, an adventure movie that does without action-epic superhero Bs. It's simply You Are There with a dozen likeable, determined climbers coping with calamity in a place that, for all the help that can be sent, 'might as well be on the moon.' The excellent depth effects all but nail us to the screen. Everest Blu-ray + DVD Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 121 min. / Street Date January 19, 2016 / 49.98 Starring Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley, Jake Gyllenhaal, Robin Wright, Martin Henderson, John Hawkes, Naoko Mori, Michael Kelly, Emily Watson, Sam Worthington. Cinematography Salvatore Totino Film Editor Mick Audsley Original Music Dario Marianelli Written by William Nicholson, Simon Beaufroy Produced by Nicky Kentish Barnes, Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Baltasar Kormákur, Brian Oliver, Tyler Thompson. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I've heard no Oscar buzz surrounding Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, which makes sense. It isn't the kind of movie that courts awards,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
I've heard no Oscar buzz surrounding Baltasar Kormákur's Everest, which makes sense. It isn't the kind of movie that courts awards,...
- 1/12/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Emily Watson steals the show in this real-life story based on an expedition to climb Everest in 1996
Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls. Emily Watson is terrific as the base camp controller trying to manage the unfolding chaos, and it’s her scenes that pack the greatest punch, her face and voice a pitch-perfect portrayal of alarmed restraint. Powerful sound design effectively accentuates the sense of stormy isolation, giving the mountain the last word.
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Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls. Emily Watson is terrific as the base camp controller trying to manage the unfolding chaos, and it’s her scenes that pack the greatest punch, her face and voice a pitch-perfect portrayal of alarmed restraint. Powerful sound design effectively accentuates the sense of stormy isolation, giving the mountain the last word.
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- 9/20/2015
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Emily Watson steals the show in this real-life story based on an expedition to climb Everest in 1996
Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls.
Top-flight cinematography by Salvatore Totino, deftly edited by Mick Audsley, lends gravitas to Baltasar Kormákur’s tale of mountaintop disaster, based on real-life events from 1996. Jason Clarke is the leader of an “adventure consultants”’ climb beset by bad weather and overcrowding. The climbers are a mixed bag, ranging from Josh Brolin’s gruff Texan, Beck Weathers, to John Hawkes’s amiable but ailing postal worker, Doug Hansen, and Naoko Mori’s Yasuko Namba, a Japanese businesswoman dedicated to summiting the highest mountains of the seven continents.
For the most part, screenwriters William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy (the latter co-wrote the physical endurance tester 127 Hours) attempt to avoid the sentimental tropes of the disaster movie, although radio contact with distant partners leaves both Keira Knightley and Robin Wright simply waiting for tear-jerking phone calls.
- 9/20/2015
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
A starry cast lines up for this true story of survival on the world's tallest peak, but the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin and Keira Knightley only elevate the film just above the standard of a Lifetime movie.
Even the mountain itself is let down, never seeming as imposing as it should be (regardless of the IMAX 3D effect) largely because of a rather muddled depiction of events by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns).
Brolin is a grounding force and the solid centre around which a large ensemble cast gathers. It's a fine performance, trading on his characteristic stoicism but with a crucial note of vulnerability as one of the older members of a climbing group. He is wealthy Texan Beck Weathers who is determined to summit Everest in 1996. Jason Clarke is their Kiwi guide Rob Hall, who has a pregnant wife (Keira Knightley in a small but heartrending...
Even the mountain itself is let down, never seeming as imposing as it should be (regardless of the IMAX 3D effect) largely because of a rather muddled depiction of events by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns).
Brolin is a grounding force and the solid centre around which a large ensemble cast gathers. It's a fine performance, trading on his characteristic stoicism but with a crucial note of vulnerability as one of the older members of a climbing group. He is wealthy Texan Beck Weathers who is determined to summit Everest in 1996. Jason Clarke is their Kiwi guide Rob Hall, who has a pregnant wife (Keira Knightley in a small but heartrending...
- 9/18/2015
- Digital Spy
The true-life drama about a disastrous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996 delivers neither edge-of-your-seat thrills nor a compelling story
Related: Everest: how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips with the world's highest mountain
Here is a subdued true-life drama about a calamitous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996. It’s a film with loads of ice, snow, beards, mountains, beards and men shouting desperate instructions at each other through their snowy beards. The tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone, while the heroic guys battle the elements. Jake Gyllenhaal has a role that turns out to be bafflingly peripheral. The dramatic focus is split between around half a dozen characters, and it’s not clear who we should root for or why. Jason Clarke plays Rob Hall, one of the new breed of guides who have made climbing Everest a commercialised...
Related: Everest: how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips with the world's highest mountain
Here is a subdued true-life drama about a calamitous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996. It’s a film with loads of ice, snow, beards, mountains, beards and men shouting desperate instructions at each other through their snowy beards. The tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone, while the heroic guys battle the elements. Jake Gyllenhaal has a role that turns out to be bafflingly peripheral. The dramatic focus is split between around half a dozen characters, and it’s not clear who we should root for or why. Jason Clarke plays Rob Hall, one of the new breed of guides who have made climbing Everest a commercialised...
- 9/17/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
A spectacular, heart-stopping adventure that has you catching your breath and gasping in shock. See it in IMAX 3D for an enrapturing you-are-there feeling. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is the kind of movie movies were invented for: big, visceral, and intense, a heart-stopping adventure that has you catching your breath and gasping in shock as it takes you places most of us will never get to so as to engage in the sort of life-threatening thrills that, paradoxically, remind us that we are alive. That’s an argument that safety-minded homebodies like me scoff at when risk-takers make it, but Everest makes you understand it deep in your gut.
And this is true even though Everest is the story of what had been the deadliest climbing season on the mountain until the 2014 and 2015 avalanches.
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
This is the kind of movie movies were invented for: big, visceral, and intense, a heart-stopping adventure that has you catching your breath and gasping in shock as it takes you places most of us will never get to so as to engage in the sort of life-threatening thrills that, paradoxically, remind us that we are alive. That’s an argument that safety-minded homebodies like me scoff at when risk-takers make it, but Everest makes you understand it deep in your gut.
And this is true even though Everest is the story of what had been the deadliest climbing season on the mountain until the 2014 and 2015 avalanches.
- 9/14/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
The growing business opportunities afforded by China and the TV sector were among subjects discussed by Us finance heavyweights FilmNation and Endgame Entertainment during an industry panel at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff).
Sitting on the panel titled Understanding and Overcoming the Hurdles of Hollywood, were Milan Popelka, COO at sales and production outfit FilmNation Entertainment; Douglas E. Hansen, president of financier Endgame Entertainment Company and CEO of Endgame Releasing Company; and Us film director Andrew Renzi (Franny).
Kviff regular Popelka - who has been at sales giant FilmNation since its inception in 2008 - and finance veteran Hansen, both recognised that Hollywood is awash with funding opportunities today, but that industry face greater challenges when it comes to finding strong content.
“Everyone is so hungry for material right now in Hollywood,” said Popelka. “Money is a commodity, to an extent. When we put an interesting movie together, finding the money is not the problem; it’s the...
Sitting on the panel titled Understanding and Overcoming the Hurdles of Hollywood, were Milan Popelka, COO at sales and production outfit FilmNation Entertainment; Douglas E. Hansen, president of financier Endgame Entertainment Company and CEO of Endgame Releasing Company; and Us film director Andrew Renzi (Franny).
Kviff regular Popelka - who has been at sales giant FilmNation since its inception in 2008 - and finance veteran Hansen, both recognised that Hollywood is awash with funding opportunities today, but that industry face greater challenges when it comes to finding strong content.
“Everyone is so hungry for material right now in Hollywood,” said Popelka. “Money is a commodity, to an extent. When we put an interesting movie together, finding the money is not the problem; it’s the...
- 7/6/2015
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
A disaster movie played out at 35,000 feet, Everest is essentially a true-life Cliffhanger, less the criminal schemes and Craig Fairbrass shouting about soccer. The film’s first trailer lends a sense of nature’s awe to the derring-do of a small band trying to scale the Earth’s highest point. Then things go wrong. Very, very wrong...Far from keeping its powder dry, Universal’s first trailer plunges us straight into to the freezing chaos of a fateful summit climb. The story is loosely inspired by real events (the 1996 disaster recounted in Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air) and sees Jason Clarke leading a party of climbers up the Nepalese monolith as Kiwi mountaineer Rob Hall. Alongside him on the slopes are Josh Brolin as Doctor Beck Weathers, John Hawkes as Doug Hansen and Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, the leader of a separate expedition. Things are progressing nicely, with...
- 6/4/2015
- EmpireOnline
Exclusive: Cross Creek and Walden Media are backing the $65 million Working Title feature for Universal, which Baltasar Kormakur is directing. Everest stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer, Josh Brolin as Beck Weathers, Jason Clarke as Rob Hall, and John Hawkes as Doug Hansen. Shooting starts January 13 in the Dolomites in Italy and will continue in Nepal and Iceland. This is one of two studio-backed films titled Everest — the other being the Doug Liman-helmed pic for Sony. And on Monday, Fox landed a 10-part event series from Alcon Entertainment about a group of hikers trying to hike Mount Everest. Working Title’s feature, produced by the company’s partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, was weathering a storm just a few weeks ago, after Emmett/Furla Films had exited as co-financier and the producers were trying to secure new funding. The pic is based on the disastrous 1996 attempt to scale the world’s tallest mountain.
- 11/13/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Michael Barker, co-president and co-founder of Us distributor Sony Pictures Classics, will deliver this year’s keynote address at the Film London Production Finance Market (Pfm).
He will speak to the 200+ delegates and industry guests as the Pfm kicks off on Wednesday (Oct 16).
His speech will cover “producing and distributing independent feature films, particularly assessing the role of Sony Pictures Classics, its objectives, achievements and its critical role in ensuring independent features, including foreign language films, access the North American market.”
The Pfm runs Oct 16-17 in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
There will be 52 producers and 57 financiers participating in more than 800 meetings.
Barker will also speak on a financing panel alongside Doug Hansen of Endgame Entertainment and Ben Browning of Start Motion Pictures.
Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive of Film London and the British Film Commission said: “We are extremely honoured to welcome Michael as our keynote speaker. Admired throughout...
He will speak to the 200+ delegates and industry guests as the Pfm kicks off on Wednesday (Oct 16).
His speech will cover “producing and distributing independent feature films, particularly assessing the role of Sony Pictures Classics, its objectives, achievements and its critical role in ensuring independent features, including foreign language films, access the North American market.”
The Pfm runs Oct 16-17 in association with the BFI London Film Festival.
There will be 52 producers and 57 financiers participating in more than 800 meetings.
Barker will also speak on a financing panel alongside Doug Hansen of Endgame Entertainment and Ben Browning of Start Motion Pictures.
Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive of Film London and the British Film Commission said: “We are extremely honoured to welcome Michael as our keynote speaker. Admired throughout...
- 10/14/2013
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s newly renamed TWC-Dimension will partner with Endgame Entertainment on the adult comedy Murder Mystery.
Anne Fletcher will direct from a script by James Vanderbilt about a struggling married couple on a last-chance cruise who must race to identity a killer.
Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Vanderbilt, Endgame Entertainment founder James D Stern and Charlize Theron through her Denver and Delilah Productions.
Endgame’s Doug Hansen, Tower Hill’s William Shively and Denver and Delilah’s Beth Kono and A J Dix will serve as executive producers.
TWC-Dimension was renamed to reflect a venture that will allow the Weinstein brothers to collaborate on projects where they share a passion. Other titles under discussion will be unveiled in the coming months.
”Murder Mystery is a throwback to Agatha Christie novels with a comedic spin,” the brothers said. “We have been huge fans of Anne Fletcher for years and have wanted to work...
Anne Fletcher will direct from a script by James Vanderbilt about a struggling married couple on a last-chance cruise who must race to identity a killer.
Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Vanderbilt, Endgame Entertainment founder James D Stern and Charlize Theron through her Denver and Delilah Productions.
Endgame’s Doug Hansen, Tower Hill’s William Shively and Denver and Delilah’s Beth Kono and A J Dix will serve as executive producers.
TWC-Dimension was renamed to reflect a venture that will allow the Weinstein brothers to collaborate on projects where they share a passion. Other titles under discussion will be unveiled in the coming months.
”Murder Mystery is a throwback to Agatha Christie novels with a comedic spin,” the brothers said. “We have been huge fans of Anne Fletcher for years and have wanted to work...
- 9/24/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Bob and Harvey Weinstein’s newly renamed TWC-Dimension will partner with Endgame Entertainment on the adult comedy Murder Mystery.
Anne Fletcher will direct with a script by James Vanderbilt about a struggling married couple on a last-chance cruise who must race to identity a killer.
Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Vanderbilt, Endgame Entertainment founder James D Stern and Charlize Theron through her Denver and Delilah Productions.
Endgame’s Doug Hansen, Tower Hill’s William Shively and Denver and Delilah’s Beth Kono and A J Dix will serve as executive producers.
TWC-Dimension was renamed to reflect a venture that will allow the Weinstein brothers to collaborate on projects where they share a passion. Other titles under discussion will be unveiled in the coming months.
”Murder Mystery is a throwback to Agatha Christie novels with a comedic spin,” the brothers said. “We have been huge fans of Anne Fletcher for years and have wanted to work...
Anne Fletcher will direct with a script by James Vanderbilt about a struggling married couple on a last-chance cruise who must race to identity a killer.
Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson will produce with Vanderbilt, Endgame Entertainment founder James D Stern and Charlize Theron through her Denver and Delilah Productions.
Endgame’s Doug Hansen, Tower Hill’s William Shively and Denver and Delilah’s Beth Kono and A J Dix will serve as executive producers.
TWC-Dimension was renamed to reflect a venture that will allow the Weinstein brothers to collaborate on projects where they share a passion. Other titles under discussion will be unveiled in the coming months.
”Murder Mystery is a throwback to Agatha Christie novels with a comedic spin,” the brothers said. “We have been huge fans of Anne Fletcher for years and have wanted to work...
- 9/24/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Universal City, California – From Academy Award®-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Contagion) comes this suspenseful tale of intrigue starring Channing Tatum (Magic Mike, 21 Jump Street), Academy Award® nominees Rooney Mara (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network) and Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Anna Karenina), and Academy Award® winner Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Ocean’s Twelve).Side Effects will be available on Digital Download on May 7, 2013 as well as Blu-ray™ Combo Pack, DVD and On Demand on May 21, 2013 from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. After her husband (Tatum) is released from prison for insider trading, Emily (Mara) begins suffering from terrifying anxiety and turns to psychiatrist Dr. Banks (Law) for help. But when Banks prescribes an experimental drug for her, the side effects have chilling and deadly consequences. Full of unexpected twists, Side Effects is the sexy psychological thriller that critics are calling “wildly unpredictable!” (Marlow Stern,...
- 3/14/2013
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
The English thesp Christian Bale is in talks to climb Everest for Universal Pictures and Working Title. A mountain climbing disaster film that The Deep helmer Baltasar Kormakur will direct is based on the 1996 disastrous expedition that left eight climbers dead. Last year, busy Icelandic director Kormakur (Contraband, 2 Guns) described the then-unnamed lead who he was in talks with as ‘an actor who is known for… put(ting) himself through hell.’ Here’s what Kormakur also told Filmmaker about Everest: The next film I’m doing after this one is Everest, about the ’96 Rob Hall and Beck Weathers and Doug Hansen ascent — the biggest...
- 2/19/2013
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Side Effects, the provocative new thriller by director Steven Soderbergh, just hit theaters on Friday, and Wamg was at the film’s press conference. Actors Jude Law, Channing Tatum, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rooney Mara, and Vinessa Shaw, as well as director Steven Soderbergh, writer/producer Scott Z. Burns, producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, and Forensic Psychiatrist/Medical Technical Advisor on the film Dr. Sasha Bardey talked to a small room of press at the Four Seasons Los Angeles at Beverly Hills about their experiences with the film.
Check out the audio from the press conference here:
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
Cast: Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Contagion, upcoming The Last Voyage of Demeter), Rooney Mara...
Check out the audio from the press conference here:
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
Cast: Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes, Contagion, upcoming The Last Voyage of Demeter), Rooney Mara...
- 2/12/2013
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Open Road’s new film, Side Effects opens tomorrow and we’re celebrating Wamg style… by hosting a giveaway! Hooray!
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
The Contest:
We will be giving away a Side Effects poster signed by members of the cast, Dr. Sasha Bardey, Vinessa Shaw, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, and Rooney Mara.
Answer The Following Question: What is your favorite Steven Soderbergh film?
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be A Us Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To Us Addresses.
2. Send Your Full Name and Answer To: melissa@wearemoviegeeks.com.
Winners Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary. Prizes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Cast: Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes,...
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
The Contest:
We will be giving away a Side Effects poster signed by members of the cast, Dr. Sasha Bardey, Vinessa Shaw, Jude Law, Channing Tatum, and Rooney Mara.
Answer The Following Question: What is your favorite Steven Soderbergh film?
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be A Us Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To Us Addresses.
2. Send Your Full Name and Answer To: melissa@wearemoviegeeks.com.
Winners Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries. No Purchase Necessary. Prizes Will Not Be Substituted Or Exchanged.
Cast: Jude Law (Sherlock Holmes,...
- 2/8/2013
- by Melissa Howland
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Open Road Films has just released the 3rd trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s final theatrical film, Side Effects starring Rooney Mara, Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
Emily (Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara) and Martin Taylor (Channing Tatum) are a young, beautiful, wealthy couple living the good life, with a mansion, a sailboat and every luxury money can buy—until Martin is sent to prison for insider trading. For four years, Emily waits for him in a tiny apartment in upper Manhattan, but his release is just as devastating as his incarceration and Emily sinks into a deep depression.
After a failed suicide attempt, psychiatrist Jonathan Banks...
Side Effects is a provocative thriller about Emily and Martin (Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum), a successful New York couple whose world unravels when a new drug prescribed by Emily’s psychiatrist (Jude Law) – intended to treat anxiety – has unexpected side effects.
Emily (Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara) and Martin Taylor (Channing Tatum) are a young, beautiful, wealthy couple living the good life, with a mansion, a sailboat and every luxury money can buy—until Martin is sent to prison for insider trading. For four years, Emily waits for him in a tiny apartment in upper Manhattan, but his release is just as devastating as his incarceration and Emily sinks into a deep depression.
After a failed suicide attempt, psychiatrist Jonathan Banks...
- 1/31/2013
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
“Side Effects” will be in theaters February 8, 2013, so in order to hype audiences up for the impending release, the final poster for the film has been released by Open Road Films. The poster is made up of face shots, but the big red plus sign in the middle somehow gives the ominous (and medicinal) effect the psychological thriller of a film is aiming for. Check it out below the post. “Side Effects” is Steven Soderbergh’s final theatrical film. The film, written by Scott Z. Burns and produced by Burns as well as Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Gregory Jacobs along with executive producers James D. Stern and Douglas E. Hansen, [ Read More ]
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- 12/21/2012
- by monique
- ShockYa
Watch new clips from Rian Johnson's Looper sci-fi actioner starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt! Rian Johnson directs and scripts the eagerly-anticipated Sony release which also includes Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce. Executive produced by Douglas E. Hansen, Julie Goldstein, Peter Schlessel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dan Mintz In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
- 9/23/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Watch new clips from Rian Johnson's Looper sci-fi actioner starring Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Emily Blunt! Rian Johnson directs and scripts the eagerly-anticipated Sony release which also includes Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce. Executive produced by Douglas E. Hansen, Julie Goldstein, Peter Schlessel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Dan Mintz In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back Joe’s future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
- 9/23/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt sci-fi action starrer Looper from Sony has 2 new posters in the image gallery for the Rian Johnson film. Also in the cast are Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce while Douglas E. Hansen, Julie Goldstein, Peter Schlessel, Dan Mintz and Gordon-Levitt serve as executive producers. In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back...
- 9/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt sci-fi action starrer Looper from Sony has 2 new posters in the image gallery for the Rian Johnson film. Also in the cast are Paul Dano, Noah Segan, Piper Perabo, and Jeff Daniels. Ram Bergman and James D. Stern produce while Douglas E. Hansen, Julie Goldstein, Peter Schlessel, Dan Mintz and Gordon-Levitt serve as executive producers. In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a “looper” – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good… until the day the mob decides to “close the loop,” sending back...
- 9/19/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Tim Robbins is set to make a return to big screen directing with a feature adaptation of Arthur Phillips' short story "Wenceslas Square." The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the production will move forward under the title City of Lies . Published in 2003 in the anthology "Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier," Phillips' tale is set in Czechoslovakia at the end of the Cold War and involves a love story between two spies. It was featured in a 2007 episode of "This American Life," which you can listen to in its entirety by clicking here . Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely will provide the screenplay with James D. Stern, Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp producing and Douglas E. Hansen executive producing. Robbins previously directed the...
- 8/8/2012
- Comingsoon.net
HollywoodNews.com: The Toronto International Film Festival® opens September 6 with the world premiere Gala Presentation of Looper – filmmaker Rian Johnson’s time-bending and mind-bending action thriller. “Rian Johnson is a film auteur known for combining different genres to give his projects an original spin,” said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. “We’re thrilled to have Looper open the Festival.” “I saw Rian’s debut feature Brick at the Sundance festival and was impressed by his ability to engage both the mind and the heart,” said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival. “We were fortunate enough to premiere his follow-up film The Brothers Bloom. Now, with Looper, Rian has taken his filmmaking to a new level, and we can’t wait to present it to the Toronto audience in the most prestigious platform we can offer. This is a new kind of Opening Night: an exciting, thinking-person...
- 7/24/2012
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Toronto International Film Festival (@TIFF_NET) opens September 6 with the world premiere Gala Presentation of Looper - filmmaker Rian Johnson.s time-bending and mind-bending action thriller.
.Rian Johnson is a film auteur known for combining different genres to give his projects an original spin,. said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. .We.re thrilled to have Looper open the Festival..
.I saw Rian.s debut feature Brick at the Sundance festival and was impressed by his ability to engage both the mind and the heart,. said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival. .We were fortunate enough to premiere his follow-up film The Brothers Bloom. Now, with Looper, Rian has taken his filmmaking to a new level, and we can’t wait to present it to the Toronto audience in the most prestigious platform we can offer. This is a new kind of Opening Night: an exciting,...
.Rian Johnson is a film auteur known for combining different genres to give his projects an original spin,. said Piers Handling, Director and CEO of Tiff. .We.re thrilled to have Looper open the Festival..
.I saw Rian.s debut feature Brick at the Sundance festival and was impressed by his ability to engage both the mind and the heart,. said Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, Toronto International Film Festival. .We were fortunate enough to premiere his follow-up film The Brothers Bloom. Now, with Looper, Rian has taken his filmmaking to a new level, and we can’t wait to present it to the Toronto audience in the most prestigious platform we can offer. This is a new kind of Opening Night: an exciting,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Endgame Entertainment has come on board to finance Bitter Pill, the Steven Soderbergh psychological thriller formerly known as Side Effects. Rooney Mara, Jude Law, Channing Tatum and Catherine Zeta Jones are in various stages of negotiations to star in the movie, which only a few weeks ago was being financed by Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures. Endgame Entertainment is in discussions with 1984 Pictures to co-finance. Endgame’s James D. Stern and Douglas E. Hansen will join the project and serve as executive producers. Scott Z. Burns wrote
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- 1/31/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Emily Blunt has joined the cast of the time-travel thriller "Looper," opposite Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. According to Variety, Rian Johnson ("The Brothers Bloom," "Brick") is directing from his own script. Ram Bergman and Endgame Entertainment's James D. Stern and Doug Hansen are producing. Production begins in Louisiana in January.The film centers on a group of killers who send the bodies of their victims back in time. Blunt plays a single mother trying to protect her son.Blunt was last seen in "The Wolfman" and "Wild Target." She stars opposite Matt Damon in the upcoming "The Adjustment Bureau."...
- 10/4/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
A representative for Emily Blunt has confirmed to TheWrap that the actress will star alongside Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon Levitt in upcoming time-travel yarn Looper, after Blunt’s name was dropped in a Production Weekly tweet.
The film revolves around a group of killers who send their victim’s bodies back in time to cover up their crimes. In the film, the screenplay for which was described by director Rian Johnson as “really violent and dark”, Blunt’s single mother must protect her son after he is put in harm’s way.
Looper will be fully financed by Endgame Entertainment, with the studio’s James D. Stern and Doug Hansen producing alongside Brick’s Ram Bergman. Production on the project is expected to begin in Louisiana this coming January.
Blunt, who was last seen whimpering in Wolfman and as con-artist Rose in Jonathan Lynn’s Wild Target, will next...
The film revolves around a group of killers who send their victim’s bodies back in time to cover up their crimes. In the film, the screenplay for which was described by director Rian Johnson as “really violent and dark”, Blunt’s single mother must protect her son after he is put in harm’s way.
Looper will be fully financed by Endgame Entertainment, with the studio’s James D. Stern and Doug Hansen producing alongside Brick’s Ram Bergman. Production on the project is expected to begin in Louisiana this coming January.
Blunt, who was last seen whimpering in Wolfman and as con-artist Rose in Jonathan Lynn’s Wild Target, will next...
- 10/4/2010
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Danish filmmaker Ole Bornedal will direct the thriller 'Death of a Hostess'. We're rather fond of him around these parts having spoken fondly of his films like Deliver us From Evil and The Substitute.
Project was inspired by a Time magazine article by Evan Alan Wright and focuses on a young woman who enters the dangerous underbelly of Japanese nightclubs in order to find her missing sister.
Bornedal wrote and directed last year's Danish thriller "Deliver Us From Evil." He helmed the original "Nightwatch" in 1994 and the English language remake, starring Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.
James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment, Taka Ichise's Ozla Pictures and Aram Tertzakian's Xyz Films will produce the picuture. Endgame's Doug Hansen, Ozla's Erin Eggers, and Xyz's Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producing. Ozla's Ben Shiffrin will co-produce.
Project was inspired by a Time magazine article by Evan Alan Wright and focuses on a young woman who enters the dangerous underbelly of Japanese nightclubs in order to find her missing sister.
Bornedal wrote and directed last year's Danish thriller "Deliver Us From Evil." He helmed the original "Nightwatch" in 1994 and the English language remake, starring Nick Nolte, Ewan McGregor and Patricia Arquette.
James D. Stern's Endgame Entertainment, Taka Ichise's Ozla Pictures and Aram Tertzakian's Xyz Films will produce the picuture. Endgame's Doug Hansen, Ozla's Erin Eggers, and Xyz's Nate Bolotin and Nick Spicer are exec producing. Ozla's Ben Shiffrin will co-produce.
- 3/20/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Director Stephen Palgon's "Fantasyland" is the story of a season on baseball's lunatic fringe, a window on a world where marriages and jobs often run a distant second to fantasy baseball, and where competitors will make trades during childbirth, sex, and funerals. "Fantasyland" Director: Stephen Palgon Writer: Stephen Palgon Executive Producers: Jeanne Allgood, Doug Bernheim, Christopher C. Chen, Douglas Hansen, Jared P. Morell, McG, Stephen Palgon Producers: John Limotte, James D. ...
- 3/19/2010
- indieWIRE - People
Director Stephen Palgon's "Fantasyland" is the story of a season on baseball's lunatic fringe, a window on a world where marriages and jobs often run a distant second to fantasy baseball, and where competitors will make trades during childbirth, sex, and funerals. "Fantasyland" Director: Stephen Palgon Writer: Stephen Palgon Executive Producers: Jeanne Allgood, Doug Bernheim, Christopher C. Chen, Douglas Hansen, Jared P. Morell, McG, Stephen Palgon Producers: John Limotte, James D. ...
- 3/19/2010
- Indiewire
According to Variety, Phillip Noyce will direct spy thriller "Wenceslas Square" for "This American Life" producers Ira Glass and Alissa Shipp, and Endgame Entertainment's James D. Stern.
The film revolves around a young CIA agent and beautiful Czech spy in Prauge during the Cold War. Noyce describes the project as "a gripping story about two young spies intoxicated by the espionage game and their passion for each other."
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely -- who teamed on "Captain America" and co-wrote the first two "Chronicles of Narnia" films -- adapted "Wenceslas," based on the short story by Arthur Phillips. Endgame's Doug Hansen will exec produce.
No one has signed on to star and no release date has been set yet.
Source: Variety ...
The film revolves around a young CIA agent and beautiful Czech spy in Prauge during the Cold War. Noyce describes the project as "a gripping story about two young spies intoxicated by the espionage game and their passion for each other."
Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely -- who teamed on "Captain America" and co-wrote the first two "Chronicles of Narnia" films -- adapted "Wenceslas," based on the short story by Arthur Phillips. Endgame's Doug Hansen will exec produce.
No one has signed on to star and no release date has been set yet.
Source: Variety ...
- 3/12/2010
- by amcsts@gmail.com
- AMC - Script to Screen
New York -- Jessica Biel, Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas have sold their "Easy Virtue" to Sony Pictures Classics.
The specialty division picked up U.S., South African and Latin American rights to the comedy based on Noel Coward's play, which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in the 1920s, Stephan Elliott's adaptation folows a young woman (Biel) whose happiness with her new husband (Ben Barnes) is offset by the fierce disapproval of her new in-laws (Firth and Thomas).
Barnaby Thompson, Joe Abrams and James D. Stern produced the film. Spc recently picked up another Toronto premiere produced and directed by Stern, the "Chorus Line" docu "Every Little Step."
Ealing's Natalie Brenner and Thompson and Endgame's Douglas Hansen negotiated the deal with Spc.
Stuart Kemp in London and Steven Zeitchik in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
The specialty division picked up U.S., South African and Latin American rights to the comedy based on Noel Coward's play, which premiered last month at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Set in the 1920s, Stephan Elliott's adaptation folows a young woman (Biel) whose happiness with her new husband (Ben Barnes) is offset by the fierce disapproval of her new in-laws (Firth and Thomas).
Barnaby Thompson, Joe Abrams and James D. Stern produced the film. Spc recently picked up another Toronto premiere produced and directed by Stern, the "Chorus Line" docu "Every Little Step."
Ealing's Natalie Brenner and Thompson and Endgame's Douglas Hansen negotiated the deal with Spc.
Stuart Kemp in London and Steven Zeitchik in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
- 10/15/2008
- by By Gregg Goldstein
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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