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Dreyfuss is a former mobster resorting to violence in a film whose delightful score can’t save it from being a hot mess

The best thing about this crime melodrama is the score, credited to composers Shane Endsley, Ben Wendel and Nate Wood (all part of a jazz group called Kneebody); it is a weird, lilting horn-led underlay to the action, full of keening melodies with an urban, smoky nightclub vibe. It’s a delight – but seems to have almost no relation to the action we see on screen. You might almost imagine that the group’s work just happened to be what was playing in the editing suite when the film was being cut together and a quick deal was done to add class to what is a deeply indifferent, muddled drama.

Written and directed, somewhat ineptly if we are being honest, by Adam Lipsius, The Last Job tells...

Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss is one man, all revenge in the newly released trailer for Paramount's upcoming thriller Crime Story. Much like Liam Neeson before him, Dreyfuss will prove to be an unexpected threat as he punches and shoots his way through the bad guys foolish enough to slither their way into his now-peaceful life.

The era of the aged action star continues in Crime Story, which is led by Jaws and The Goodbye Girl star Richard Dreyfuss as ex-mob boss and hitman Ben Myers, who is targeted in a home robbery. As you might expect this is a big mistake, and Myers decides to take his particular set of skills out of retirement, taking justice into his own hands and embarking on a deadly rampage of vengeance. But with his family caught in the crosshairs, Myers must finally face the consequences of his dark past in this...

Adam Lipsius to direct and produce.

Voltage Pictures is launching international sales at virtual TIFF on upcoming action thriller The Last Job starring Oscar winners Richard Dreyfuss and Mira Sorvino.

Adam Lipsius will direct from his screenplay and produces through his Uptown 6 production company alongside Kris Wynne.

Dreyfuss will play Ben Myers, an ailing former mobster who returns home one day to discover his life savings have been stolen.

Choosing not to seek help from his detective daughter, Myers tracks down the thieves in an increasingly brutal quest for answers that leads him to question how he has lived his life.

Exclusive: Cress Williams, who currently stars in the titular role on Black Lightning, has booked two film roles before heading back into production on Season 3 of the CW/DC Comics series.

Williams is set to co-star in The Violent Heart from writer-director Kerem Sanga with 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen, Ed McDonnell, Tobey Maguire’s Material Pictures, and 3311 producing. Williams joins Grace Van Patten and Jovan Adepo in the coming-of-age romance pic which is slated to shoot this month in Austin, Texas.

Set outside Ft. Hood, Texas, the plot centers on a college-bound senior on the cusp of graduation, and her budding relationship with a local mechanic named Daniel (Adepo), who himself dreams of becoming a Marine. As they fall for one another, the details surrounding Daniel’s tragic and violent past inevitably catch up with them. Williams will play Lee, a strong, jovial Marine and Daniel’s father.

Exclusive: Oscar winners Mira Sorvino and Richard Dreyfuss are set to star in Reckoning, the Dark Castle Entertainment crime thriller written and directed by Adam Lipsius. Lipsius is also producing the pic under his Uptown 6 production shingle along with Alex Mace.

The indie centers on Ben Myers (Dreyfuss), a temperamental, take-no-prisoners tough guy with a terrifying dark side who, despite suffering from leukemia while nursing his dementia-ridden wife, decides to seek revenge on the thieves who have destroyed his life. Sorvino will play Police Detective Nick Wallace, Ben’s somewhat estranged daughter who rebukes his attempts to buy her affections.

Sorvino’s upcoming projects include the Fox comedy Stuber, a recurring stint on Season 9 of ABC’s Modern Family, and season three of the Crackle series, StartUp. She’s repped by Apa and Management 360.

Dreyfuss, also repped by Apa, can currently be seen two Netflix films; The Last Laugh,...

Stars: Casper Van Dien, James Lew, Brit Laree, Mark Steven Grove, Sara N. Salazar, Sarah Sansoni, Adam Lipsius, Andy Hankins, Nico Feula, Tyler Weaver Jr., Kevin Sean Ryan, Cynthia Rothrock | Written and Directed by Mark Steven Grove

Mercenary Saber Raine (Casper Van Dien) is hired to guide three elite soldiers on a rescue mission to recover a prince and princess who have been abducted from their home world. The trail leads Saber and his allies to a planet deep within uncharted space that is inhabited by strange creatures, marauders, mercenaries and alien outcasts. The planet is run by Sinjin, a sinister overlord freed from a cryogenic chamber that was his prison for many centuries, who is now in league with the Quintari – a malevolent insectoid race known throughout the galaxy as the scourge. In possession of a powerful new energy source, Sinjin plots his revenge on the descendants of those...

Title: 16-Love Director: Adam Lipsius Starring: Lindsey Shaw, Chandler Massey, Susie Abromeit, Lindsey Black, Keith Coulouris, Alexandra Paul A paint-by-numbers, underdog-made-good, coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of junior circuit tennis, “16-Love” is a wholesome movie of modest ambitions, shaggy and sunny personality, and middling execution. For tweens looking for something to while away the time between “Twilight” flicks there may be some small measure of entertainment, but nothing else here particularly merits a glance for older audiences. The story centers on a 16-year-old tennis ace, Ally “Smash” Mash (Lindsey Shaw), who sprains her ankle and is forced to retire in a big match against Katina Upranova (Susie Abromeit), a snooty and heretofore...

Tapping into adolescent angst and exploring emerging sexual desires, there are vampires sparkling and smouldering on every screen these days, including Twilight at the cinema and True Blood and The Vampire Diaries on television.

Never has teenage love and longing had so many teeth.

But now a new breed of bloodsucker is entering the popular genre.

Bluewater Productions has announced that the film rights have been snapped up for its supernatural septuagenarians Nanny & Hank.

Uptown 6 Productions, whose first feature film 16-love is released in January, 2012, has purchased the rights to the publisher's darkly comedic graphic novel.

Nanny & Hank follows two grandparents who are ready to enjoy their golden years with travel and grandchildren when a horrible encounter with a disgruntled vampire changes their world forever.

Uptown 6's president Adam Lipsius said: "Nanny & Hank: Retirement is Hell is the funniest take on mortality and morality to ever splash the pages of a comic book.

Go to the movie theater today and you can see sparkly, lovelorn vampires, but, according to Bluewater Productions, their darkly comedic tale of septuagenarian bloodsuckers will soon be sharing space on the silver screen.

Uptown 6 Productions, whose first feature film 16-Love, hits theaters in January 2012, purchased the rights to Bluewater's successful graphic novel Nanny & Hank, a unique take on the vampire mythos. It follows two grandparents ready to enjoy their golden years with travel and grandchildren, and how a horrible encounter with a disgruntled vampire changes their world forever and ever.

"Nanny & Hank: Retirement is Hell is the 'funniest' take on mortality and morality to ever splash the pages of a comic book," said Uptown 6's president Adam Lipsius. "The protagonists' plight is rife with truth and humor. These heroes creep me out with how cool they are, and Uptown 6 is committed to bringing every giggle and shiver to the big screen.

The Adam Lipsius (Four Degrees) directed indie teen comedy 16-Love, starring Lindsey Shaw (the recently released The Howling: Reborn and Pretty Little Liars) and Emmy-nominated Chandler Massey (One Tree Hill and Days of Our Lives) will begin its U.S. Theatrical release on January 20th, 2012, premiering in San Diego, Denver, and Washington D.C. and canvassing more than ten markets its first week at Carmike Cinemas, Hollywood Theaters and more. E1 International & Canada are distributing the film internationally.

16-Love tells the story of 16-year old tennis Ace, Ally Mash (Shaw), who lives and breathes the game until a twisted ankle lands her with hot rookie, Farrell Gambles (Massey). She makes him a champion, and he shows her what true "Love" is.

"We love 16-Love, and can't wait to show it to movie audiences across the country," stated Lipsius.

16-Love, which was produced by Ilyssa Goodman (A Cinderella Story) and Denver-based production company,...