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The long-running action war franchise Sniper has been around for over two decades. The first entry, 1993's Sniper, starred Tom Berenger as expert American gunner Thomas Beckett, alongside Billy Zane as Richard Miller.

Although the original film received poor reviews from critics and audiences, it was a commercial hit and kicked off a franchise of direct-to-video movies that currently includes 11 installments. The latest entry, Sniper: The Last Stand, was released on Jan. 21, 2025 and it didn't make a splash.However, following its recent release on Netflix, the action film debuted in ninth place on the platform's U.S. streaming charts, per Tudum.

Sniper: The Last Stand hit Netflix on May 6, a few months after the film's release on digital. The movie's success in its first week, between May 5 and May 11, proves there's still interest in the action franchise, although the movie didn't have a huge impact during its January release. Since...

Stars: Chad Michael Collins, Arnold Vosloo, Vusi Kunene, Ryan Robbins, Noxolo Dlamini, Scott George, Sharon Taylor, Sizo Mahlangu, Rob Van Vuuren | Written by Sean Wathen | Directed by Danishka Esterhazy

Sniper: The Last Stand is the eleventh film in a franchise that began back in 1993 with Sniper and continued on through films like Sniper: Rogue Mission and most recently Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team. After so many entries, many franchises are running out of steam and getting by on past glories, will this be any different?

The film opens with a ten-minute sequence where the members of Operation Phoenix track arms dealer Ryker Kovalov to his headquarters in the jungles of Costa Verde only for him to trigger his doomsday weapon.

The film then travels back to forty-eight hours earlier and Brandon Beckett’s arrival at a remote airstrip in Costa Verde, a trip that involved...

A while back, we shared a Best Movie You Never Saw video on the action thriller Sniper, which was given a theatrical release in 1993 and spawned a direct-to-video franchise that is continuing to this day. In fact, a trailer for the eleventh film in the franchise, Sniper: The Last Stand, has just arrived online and can be seen in the embed above. The film is set to receive a digital release on January 21st.

Tom Berenger took on the lead role of sniper Thomas Beckett in the original film, and came back for Sniper 2 (2002) and Sniper 3 (2004). As of 2011’s Sniper: Reloaded, Thomas’s son Brandon, played by Chad Michael Collins, became the lead character in the franchise, and his story has continued through Sniper: Legacy (2014), Sniper: Ghost Shooter (2016), Sniper: Ultimate Kill (2017), Sniper: Assassin’s End (2020), Sniper: Rogue Mission (2022), Sniper: G.R.I.T. – Global Response & Intelligence Team (2023), and now Sniper: The Last Stand.

Stars: Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Shane West, Julian Feder, Niki Kerro, Elena Juatco, Tahirah Sharif | Written by Emerson Moore, Sean Wathen, Joshua Dobkin | Directed by Emerson Moore

A group of strangers wake up somewhere with no idea of where they are, how they got there, or why they’re there. Sound familiar? That’s the starting point of Escape the Field, a new thriller from first-time feature director Emerson Moore and his co-writers Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin.

Sam wakes up, still in her scrubs, in a cornfield with a revolver and one bullet beside her. While she’s trying to figure out how she got there, or where “there” is, Tyler stumbles across her. They in turn run into other survivors, Ryan, Ethan, Rachel, and Denise. Eventually, they’re joined by Cameron.

It’s all very familiar territory, but Moore works it well. The cornfield is a wonderfully...

Escape the Field Trailer — Emerson Moore‘s Escape the Field (2022) movie trailer has been released by Lionsgate. The Escape the Field trailer stars Jordan Claire Robbins, Theo Rossi, Tahirah Sharif, Julian Feder, Elena Juatco, and Shane West. Crew Emerson Moore, Sean Wathen, and Joshua Dobkin wrote the screenplay for Escape the Field. Will Musser created [...]

Continue reading: Escape The Field (2022) Movie Trailer: Six Strangers awaken in a Remote & Endless Cornfield in Emerson Moore’s Horror Thriller...

Exclusive: Lionsgate has taken North American and UK rights to Emerson Moore’s feature film directorial debut Escape the Field.

The psychological thriller finds six strangers who suddenly awake in a remote, endless cornfield, stripped of their possessions and left with seemingly random items, ranging from an old revolver with a single bullet to an antique lantern. As klaxon sirens blare in the distance and traps appear at every turn, the group realizes they have been plunged into a cat-and-mouse game with an unseen evil, and survival depends upon solving a diabolical — and deadly — puzzle. The pic is scheduled for a multi-platform release this May.

Also written by Moore, Joshua Dobkin and Sean Wathen, the movie stars Shane West (Gotham), Theo Rossi (True Story), Jordan Claire Robbins (The Umbrella Academy), Tahira Sharif (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Julian Feder (The Doorman) and Elena Juatco (Jann).

Jason Moring and Michael Philip...

Tahirah Sharif and Julian Feder have joined the cast of the upcoming thriller “Escape the Field.”

The actors join previously announced stars Jordan Claire Robbins (Netflix’s “Umbrella Academy”), Shane West, Theo Rossi and Elena Juacto. The film is directed by Emerson Moore, who is billed as a co-writer alongside Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin.

According to a summary for the film, the thriller follows six strangers who “wake up disoriented and trapped in an endless cornfield only to discover that something mysterious is hunting them. Armed only with seemingly random items, ranging from a compass, to a canteen, to a revolver with a single bullet, they must work together to escape the field or die.”

Ddi CEO Jason Moring and Michael Philip are producing the film under their Cr8iv DNA banner, alongside Andrew Davies Gans’ Glanzrock Productions and Moore’s Anacapa Pictures. Ddi (Double Dutch International) is handling...

Fernando Barreda Luna, director of the 2010 film Atrocious, has announced a collaboration with writer Sean Wathen for his first English language horror flick, The Dragger.

Luna announced that Wathen will write the film and the ball is already rolling. "We are developing our next horror project called The Dragger," Luna said. "The film began pre-production in January. This will be my first English language film, and it's being produced by my wife, Jessica Villegas. For now all I can say is that we're shooting in the U.S. and that it will scare the hell out of you!"

You've gotta like the sound of that! Especially when it's coming from a guy who directed a film entitled Atrocious! Gotta figure he knows his horror! More info on this as it becomes available.

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Up and coming screenwriter Sean Wathen first made the trades a few years back...

Sean Wathen and Joshua Dobkin have sold their latest script Case 2317 to Lucky Day Studios. Described as Paranormal Activity meets Ghost Hunters , the story follows a team of paranormal investigators who enter the most haunted prison in the world, Eastern State Penitentiary. Obviously, something unusual goes down or there wouldn't be a need to tell the story; sadly, no more details where provided other than the story is told from multiple Pov cameras. Wathen and Dobkin previously sold The Field to Stone Village (the company behind Turistas ) in early 2009. Read more about that here . Case 2317 , which will hopefully be re-titled to avoid any connection to Case 39 or sounding like a Session 9 rip-off, is expected to begin shooting this summer.

While there's not many details, newcomers Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin have sold their thriller spec to Stone Village with Benderspink set to produce. Now the reason we're reporting on this is the fantastic sounding storyline:

A group of strangers who wake up in an endless field equipped with random items and they must find a way out.

It kind of reminds me of that prison scene in Thx-1138 of endless white and maybe a bit of Cube as well. That's all the info there is. via Styd.

The production company Stone Village Pictures, which was recently behind Love in the Time of Cholera and Turistas, has acquired a concept thriller called The Field, authored by TV support staff Josh Dobkin ("Scrubs") and Sean Wathen ("House"). The thriller is set in an endless field, where a group of strangers wake up with seemingly random items and must find a way out. Adding a taste of horror is the production company Benderspink (The Ring series, The Ruins), which will also executive produce. Not much else is known of the project at this time, nor is there insight into Dobkin and Wathen's foray into film. Those involved right now lead me to believe The Field has a B-class ceiling at best. And if I might speculate, the puzzle story may have a medical/hallucination angle to it. It's just a guess, but both scribes do work on hospital-centric shows --...

Stone Village has picked up spec thriller The Field , by new screenwriters Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin. The story is set in an endless field, where a group of strangers wake up with seemingly random items and must find a way out. Stone Village is producing and financing. Benderspink executive produces. Dobkin is the art department coordinator for ABC's "Scrubs," and Wathen is production secretary for Fox's "House."...

Talk about writing to fit a small budget; Variety reports that newbie scribes Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin just sold their first script to Stone Village. The film is called The Field and is set in an endless field where a group of strangers wake up with seemingly random items scattered about. They’re then tasked with finding a way out of the field.

Benderspink is executive producing the script with Stone Village producing and financing. Location’s going to be pretty easy; just find a big goddamn field and hope it doesn’t rain. Often.

Dobkin’s day job is art department coordinator for “Scrubs” while Wathen is production secretary for “House”, so the two are already fully ensconced in the ways of Hollywood. Now we just have to hope that the execution of their script is a bit more exciting than its outline!

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First-time writers Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin have sold production company Stone Village their script The Field, a high-concept Cube-like thriller.We say ‘Cube-like’, but in reality, we’re tempted to use the dread word ‘reimagining’, for the premise, in which a group of strangers wake up in a hellish prison and must work together to escape, sounds a hell of a lot like Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 cult classic. Except, where Cube took place in, well, a cube, The Field will take place in… oh, take a wild guess.Of course, the field in which the movie’s characters find themselves isn’t just any field. This is an apparently endless field from which there’s no escape – luckily, the group has been given a number of seemingly random objects which may, just may, aid their escape.So, it’s Cube meets Saw meets Paycheck (but not, as far as we can tell,...

Newcomers Sean Wathen and Josh Dobkin have sold their thriller spec entitled The Field to Stone Village. Benderspink will executive produce. The deal is so fresh there are few details to reveal other than the plot which concerns a group of strangers who wake up in an endless field. They're equipped with random items and must find a way out. Stone Village previously produced John Stockwell's Turistas .