Stars: Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl, Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, John Cassini, Erik Valdez, Russell Richardson, Arielle Raycene | Written by Michael Kaycheck, Brooke Nasser | Directed by Michael Oblowitz
Confidential Informant opens with a voiceover telling us what wonderful people cops are, especially those with combat experience. Case in point Tom Moran and Mike Thorton. We get to see them raid a crack operation and then lie to their superior over little things like not having a search warrant. Wonderful people indeed.
While tossing a baseball around with his son Moran collapses in pain. His wife Anna tells him he needs to see a doctor. He’s seen a doctor, three of them in fact, and they all tell him he has stomach cancer and not too long to live. Coincidentally enough another cop, Frank, was talking at the bar about how much money the department pays out to your family if...
Confidential Informant opens with a voiceover telling us what wonderful people cops are, especially those with combat experience. Case in point Tom Moran and Mike Thorton. We get to see them raid a crack operation and then lie to their superior over little things like not having a search warrant. Wonderful people indeed.
While tossing a baseball around with his son Moran collapses in pain. His wife Anna tells him he needs to see a doctor. He’s seen a doctor, three of them in fact, and they all tell him he has stomach cancer and not too long to live. Coincidentally enough another cop, Frank, was talking at the bar about how much money the department pays out to your family if...
- 6/29/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Lionsgate debuted an explosive trailer for its new thriller Confidential Informant on Tuesday, bringing Mel Gibson, Dominic Purcell, and more to screens for a film about corruption, cover-ups, and the fallout from times at war. Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl (Let The Right One In), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), and Mel Gibson (Boss Level, Lethal Weapon) star in the Confidential Informant trailer, which explodes with deceit, plans going up in smoke, and the disenfranchised turning to a life of crime.
Confidential Informant finds Kevin Hickey (Mel Gibson) telling the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads, Moran (Dominic Purcell) and Thorton (Nick Stahl) pay off a junkie informant. Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme to provide for his wife (Kate Bosworth) and son. This arrangement causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent,...
Confidential Informant finds Kevin Hickey (Mel Gibson) telling the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads, Moran (Dominic Purcell) and Thorton (Nick Stahl) pay off a junkie informant. Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme to provide for his wife (Kate Bosworth) and son. This arrangement causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent,...
- 6/6/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Cast includes Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth.
Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has closed key territory sales on Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth, and Mel Gibson thriller Confidential Informant led by the UK, Germany, and Latin America.
The feature follows a terminally ill undercover narcotics officer who enlists the aid of his partner and their confidential informant to stage his death in the line of duty in order to get benefits for his struggling young family.
Spi acquired rights for UK, India, Israel and Portugal. In other deals Red Sea has licensed Latin America (California Filmes), Germany...
Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has closed key territory sales on Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth, and Mel Gibson thriller Confidential Informant led by the UK, Germany, and Latin America.
The feature follows a terminally ill undercover narcotics officer who enlists the aid of his partner and their confidential informant to stage his death in the line of duty in order to get benefits for his struggling young family.
Spi acquired rights for UK, India, Israel and Portugal. In other deals Red Sea has licensed Latin America (California Filmes), Germany...
- 5/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dominic Purcell (DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow), Nick Stahl (Let The Right One In), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), and Mel Gibson (Braveheart) are set to lead thriller Informant.
In the film, which is currently in production, a police detective dying of cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty so that his family will be taken care of with bureau benefits. His best friend and partner helps him cover it up.
Directed by Michael Oblowitz, and written by Michael Kaycheck, Oblowitz and Brooke Nasser, the film is produced by Daniel Cummings and Oblowitz, and executive-produced by Matthew Helderman, Tyler Gould and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital, who handled packaging and financing.
World sales are being handled by Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media’s Roman Kopelevich and Roman Viaris are also EP’s.
Purcell is best known for roles in Fox’s Prison Break,...
In the film, which is currently in production, a police detective dying of cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty so that his family will be taken care of with bureau benefits. His best friend and partner helps him cover it up.
Directed by Michael Oblowitz, and written by Michael Kaycheck, Oblowitz and Brooke Nasser, the film is produced by Daniel Cummings and Oblowitz, and executive-produced by Matthew Helderman, Tyler Gould and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital, who handled packaging and financing.
World sales are being handled by Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media’s Roman Kopelevich and Roman Viaris are also EP’s.
Purcell is best known for roles in Fox’s Prison Break,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
"Series 7" is "Gladiator" for the digital video generation. Designed to look like a reality television show called "The Contenders", in which real people stalk and kill one another in real locations, the film was in development long before "Survivor" hit the airwaves. Writer-director Daniel Minahan even has the Sundance Lab records to prove it. Yet how eerie for art to anticipate life -- or rather to anticipate populist programming at its lowest-common-denominator depths.
Coming on the heels of the Japanese film "Battle Royale", in which 52 ninth-grade students fight to the finish on a small jungle isle, and "15 Minutes" -- also opening today -- in which two maniacs videotape their murderous crime spree in hopes of making a fortune off their infamy, "Series 7" is on the money when it comes to the media zeitgeist. That doesn't make it any easier to stomach.
This is 88 minutes of morose, amoral people stalking and murdering one another, which doesn't sound like a date movie. It certainly isn't fine art either. More interesting in concept than execution, the movie will generate controversy and late-night debates -- but only among the handful who venture into specialty venues for the offbeat. "Series 7" looks like a cult home video favorite.
It perhaps is a compliment to say that Minahan accomplishes his goals all too well. A veteran of TV documentaries and tabloid newsmagazine shows, Minahan has created a video-shot movie that perfectly mimics the TV reality show look, complete with hooky music cues, ponderous voice-overs and teasers to keep viewers glued to their sets.
His cast is convincingly "real." The best-known is Dawn (Brooke Smith), and -- again it's a left-handed compliment -- she actually makes you root for her in her quest to survive as the best killing machine in the contest. Staged in and around Minahan's hometown of Danbury, Conn., "Series 7" goes full-bore in its ruthless satirization of television at its worst. It's "Jerry Springer" crossed with "Survivor" and "Big Brother", with a hint of "Rollerball".
As contestants stake out positions -- and segments explore their individual back stories -- the key satirical ingredients are the disconnection between what they're doing and their explanations of their actions in terms of motives and strategy. Their world is one of institutionalized murders, such as in the classic short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Lottery", but the participants discuss their approach to hits as a young person would his Little League game or SAT scores.
Dawn is the reigning champ. But she's now eight months pregnant and faced with a new battlefield: her hometown, where she encounters not only friends and relations but an ex-boyfriend (Glenn Fitzgerald) who, despite being a cancer victim, is a contestant.
Her main opponent turns out to be a Catholic nurse (Marylouise Burke), whom you might discount unless you remember Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Others include a young girl (Merritt Wever), whose family eggs her on; an unemployed married man (Michael Kaycheck), who desperately needs the money; and a crazy old trailer-park coot (Richard Venture), whose orneriness just might save his life.
As with "The Blair Witch Project", the behind-the-camera personnel take advantage of what are normally drawbacks: limited resources and a video camera. Here it all makes perfect sense as a sendup of reality television.
Music by Girls Against Boys gives "Series 7" an MTV feel. Malcolm Jamieson's editing keeps things moving at the right pace for a show designed for viewers with short attention spans. There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. "Series 7" is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
SERIES 7
USA Films
An October Films presentation of a Blow Up Pictures presentation of a Killer Films/Open City Films production
Producers: Jason Kloit, Joana Vicente, Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel
Screenwriter-director: Daniel Minahan
Executive producers: Charles J. Rusbasan, Judith Zarin, Michael Escott
Co-producers: Evan T. Cohen, Gretchen McGowan
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Gideon Ponte
Costume designer: Christine Beiselin
Editor: Malcolm Jamieson
Music: Girls Against Boys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dawn: Brooke Smith
Connie: Marylouise Burke
Jeff: Glenn Fitzgerald
Tony: Michael Kaycheck
Franklin: Richard Venture
Lindsay: Merritt Wever
Sheila: Donna Hanover
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Coming on the heels of the Japanese film "Battle Royale", in which 52 ninth-grade students fight to the finish on a small jungle isle, and "15 Minutes" -- also opening today -- in which two maniacs videotape their murderous crime spree in hopes of making a fortune off their infamy, "Series 7" is on the money when it comes to the media zeitgeist. That doesn't make it any easier to stomach.
This is 88 minutes of morose, amoral people stalking and murdering one another, which doesn't sound like a date movie. It certainly isn't fine art either. More interesting in concept than execution, the movie will generate controversy and late-night debates -- but only among the handful who venture into specialty venues for the offbeat. "Series 7" looks like a cult home video favorite.
It perhaps is a compliment to say that Minahan accomplishes his goals all too well. A veteran of TV documentaries and tabloid newsmagazine shows, Minahan has created a video-shot movie that perfectly mimics the TV reality show look, complete with hooky music cues, ponderous voice-overs and teasers to keep viewers glued to their sets.
His cast is convincingly "real." The best-known is Dawn (Brooke Smith), and -- again it's a left-handed compliment -- she actually makes you root for her in her quest to survive as the best killing machine in the contest. Staged in and around Minahan's hometown of Danbury, Conn., "Series 7" goes full-bore in its ruthless satirization of television at its worst. It's "Jerry Springer" crossed with "Survivor" and "Big Brother", with a hint of "Rollerball".
As contestants stake out positions -- and segments explore their individual back stories -- the key satirical ingredients are the disconnection between what they're doing and their explanations of their actions in terms of motives and strategy. Their world is one of institutionalized murders, such as in the classic short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Lottery", but the participants discuss their approach to hits as a young person would his Little League game or SAT scores.
Dawn is the reigning champ. But she's now eight months pregnant and faced with a new battlefield: her hometown, where she encounters not only friends and relations but an ex-boyfriend (Glenn Fitzgerald) who, despite being a cancer victim, is a contestant.
Her main opponent turns out to be a Catholic nurse (Marylouise Burke), whom you might discount unless you remember Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Others include a young girl (Merritt Wever), whose family eggs her on; an unemployed married man (Michael Kaycheck), who desperately needs the money; and a crazy old trailer-park coot (Richard Venture), whose orneriness just might save his life.
As with "The Blair Witch Project", the behind-the-camera personnel take advantage of what are normally drawbacks: limited resources and a video camera. Here it all makes perfect sense as a sendup of reality television.
Music by Girls Against Boys gives "Series 7" an MTV feel. Malcolm Jamieson's editing keeps things moving at the right pace for a show designed for viewers with short attention spans. There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. "Series 7" is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
SERIES 7
USA Films
An October Films presentation of a Blow Up Pictures presentation of a Killer Films/Open City Films production
Producers: Jason Kloit, Joana Vicente, Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel
Screenwriter-director: Daniel Minahan
Executive producers: Charles J. Rusbasan, Judith Zarin, Michael Escott
Co-producers: Evan T. Cohen, Gretchen McGowan
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Gideon Ponte
Costume designer: Christine Beiselin
Editor: Malcolm Jamieson
Music: Girls Against Boys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dawn: Brooke Smith
Connie: Marylouise Burke
Jeff: Glenn Fitzgerald
Tony: Michael Kaycheck
Franklin: Richard Venture
Lindsay: Merritt Wever
Sheila: Donna Hanover
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
"Series 7" is "Gladiator" for the digital video generation. Designed to look like a reality television show called "The Contenders", in which real people stalk and kill one another in real locations, the film was in development long before "Survivor" hit the airwaves. Writer-director Daniel Minahan even has the Sundance Lab records to prove it. Yet how eerie for art to anticipate life -- or rather to anticipate populist programming at its lowest-common-denominator depths.
Coming on the heels of the Japanese film "Battle Royale", in which 52 ninth-grade students fight to the finish on a small jungle isle, and "15 Minutes" -- also opening today -- in which two maniacs videotape their murderous crime spree in hopes of making a fortune off their infamy, "Series 7" is on the money when it comes to the media zeitgeist. That doesn't make it any easier to stomach.
This is 88 minutes of morose, amoral people stalking and murdering one another, which doesn't sound like a date movie. It certainly isn't fine art either. More interesting in concept than execution, the movie will generate controversy and late-night debates -- but only among the handful who venture into specialty venues for the offbeat. "Series 7" looks like a cult home video favorite.
It perhaps is a compliment to say that Minahan accomplishes his goals all too well. A veteran of TV documentaries and tabloid newsmagazine shows, Minahan has created a video-shot movie that perfectly mimics the TV reality show look, complete with hooky music cues, ponderous voice-overs and teasers to keep viewers glued to their sets.
His cast is convincingly "real." The best-known is Dawn (Brooke Smith), and -- again it's a left-handed compliment -- she actually makes you root for her in her quest to survive as the best killing machine in the contest. Staged in and around Minahan's hometown of Danbury, Conn., "Series 7" goes full-bore in its ruthless satirization of television at its worst. It's "Jerry Springer" crossed with "Survivor" and "Big Brother", with a hint of "Rollerball".
As contestants stake out positions -- and segments explore their individual back stories -- the key satirical ingredients are the disconnection between what they're doing and their explanations of their actions in terms of motives and strategy. Their world is one of institutionalized murders, such as in the classic short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Lottery", but the participants discuss their approach to hits as a young person would his Little League game or SAT scores.
Dawn is the reigning champ. But she's now eight months pregnant and faced with a new battlefield: her hometown, where she encounters not only friends and relations but an ex-boyfriend (Glenn Fitzgerald) who, despite being a cancer victim, is a contestant.
Her main opponent turns out to be a Catholic nurse (Marylouise Burke), whom you might discount unless you remember Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Others include a young girl (Merritt Wever), whose family eggs her on; an unemployed married man (Michael Kaycheck), who desperately needs the money; and a crazy old trailer-park coot (Richard Venture), whose orneriness just might save his life.
As with "The Blair Witch Project", the behind-the-camera personnel take advantage of what are normally drawbacks: limited resources and a video camera. Here it all makes perfect sense as a sendup of reality television.
Music by Girls Against Boys gives "Series 7" an MTV feel. Malcolm Jamieson's editing keeps things moving at the right pace for a show designed for viewers with short attention spans. There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. "Series 7" is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
SERIES 7
USA Films
An October Films presentation of a Blow Up Pictures presentation of a Killer Films/Open City Films production
Producers: Jason Kloit, Joana Vicente, Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel
Screenwriter-director: Daniel Minahan
Executive producers: Charles J. Rusbasan, Judith Zarin, Michael Escott
Co-producers: Evan T. Cohen, Gretchen McGowan
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Gideon Ponte
Costume designer: Christine Beiselin
Editor: Malcolm Jamieson
Music: Girls Against Boys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dawn: Brooke Smith
Connie: Marylouise Burke
Jeff: Glenn Fitzgerald
Tony: Michael Kaycheck
Franklin: Richard Venture
Lindsay: Merritt Wever
Sheila: Donna Hanover
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
Coming on the heels of the Japanese film "Battle Royale", in which 52 ninth-grade students fight to the finish on a small jungle isle, and "15 Minutes" -- also opening today -- in which two maniacs videotape their murderous crime spree in hopes of making a fortune off their infamy, "Series 7" is on the money when it comes to the media zeitgeist. That doesn't make it any easier to stomach.
This is 88 minutes of morose, amoral people stalking and murdering one another, which doesn't sound like a date movie. It certainly isn't fine art either. More interesting in concept than execution, the movie will generate controversy and late-night debates -- but only among the handful who venture into specialty venues for the offbeat. "Series 7" looks like a cult home video favorite.
It perhaps is a compliment to say that Minahan accomplishes his goals all too well. A veteran of TV documentaries and tabloid newsmagazine shows, Minahan has created a video-shot movie that perfectly mimics the TV reality show look, complete with hooky music cues, ponderous voice-overs and teasers to keep viewers glued to their sets.
His cast is convincingly "real." The best-known is Dawn (Brooke Smith), and -- again it's a left-handed compliment -- she actually makes you root for her in her quest to survive as the best killing machine in the contest. Staged in and around Minahan's hometown of Danbury, Conn., "Series 7" goes full-bore in its ruthless satirization of television at its worst. It's "Jerry Springer" crossed with "Survivor" and "Big Brother", with a hint of "Rollerball".
As contestants stake out positions -- and segments explore their individual back stories -- the key satirical ingredients are the disconnection between what they're doing and their explanations of their actions in terms of motives and strategy. Their world is one of institutionalized murders, such as in the classic short stories "The Most Dangerous Game" and "The Lottery", but the participants discuss their approach to hits as a young person would his Little League game or SAT scores.
Dawn is the reigning champ. But she's now eight months pregnant and faced with a new battlefield: her hometown, where she encounters not only friends and relations but an ex-boyfriend (Glenn Fitzgerald) who, despite being a cancer victim, is a contestant.
Her main opponent turns out to be a Catholic nurse (Marylouise Burke), whom you might discount unless you remember Nurse Ratched from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Others include a young girl (Merritt Wever), whose family eggs her on; an unemployed married man (Michael Kaycheck), who desperately needs the money; and a crazy old trailer-park coot (Richard Venture), whose orneriness just might save his life.
As with "The Blair Witch Project", the behind-the-camera personnel take advantage of what are normally drawbacks: limited resources and a video camera. Here it all makes perfect sense as a sendup of reality television.
Music by Girls Against Boys gives "Series 7" an MTV feel. Malcolm Jamieson's editing keeps things moving at the right pace for a show designed for viewers with short attention spans. There is sharp wit in the writing, and the direction is quite good. "Series 7" is undeniably effective, but that doesn't mean you feel good when it's over.
SERIES 7
USA Films
An October Films presentation of a Blow Up Pictures presentation of a Killer Films/Open City Films production
Producers: Jason Kloit, Joana Vicente, Christine Vachon, Katie Roumel
Screenwriter-director: Daniel Minahan
Executive producers: Charles J. Rusbasan, Judith Zarin, Michael Escott
Co-producers: Evan T. Cohen, Gretchen McGowan
Director of photography: Randy Drummond
Production designer: Gideon Ponte
Costume designer: Christine Beiselin
Editor: Malcolm Jamieson
Music: Girls Against Boys
Color/stereo
Cast:
Dawn: Brooke Smith
Connie: Marylouise Burke
Jeff: Glenn Fitzgerald
Tony: Michael Kaycheck
Franklin: Richard Venture
Lindsay: Merritt Wever
Sheila: Donna Hanover
Running time -- 88 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
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