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Since the Golden Age of Hollywood, fantasy has been a cornerstone of the film industry's success, from Greek mythology epics like Clash of the Titans to '80s cult classics like Labyrinth. Covering everything from wizards, knights, and dragons to ancient gods and superhero stories, the genre continues to prove itself one of the most diverse in the industry -- and studios continue to establish their new big thing.

Fantasy movies are typically the flagship blockbuster projects of major studios, with many of the industry's record-high budgets being spent on the genre. While iconic hits like The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter carried studios to billion-dollar box office draws, attempts by rival studios to emulate this success have often fallen short. From disastrous book adaptations to attempts at new shared universes, filmmakers usually miss the mark when giving a studio their next big hit.

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While its always great for audiences to show their support for the hard work the production crew and stars put into a movie, some post-credits scenes truly were not worth the wait. To make a feature film is a major endeavor, so its important to give the crew their due and stick around for the credits, but if the only reason a viewer was watching them was to see the final scene or catch a hidden Easter egg, plenty of films would leave them disappointed. As post-credits scenes have become more common in recent years, in some cases, they feel needlessly tacked on and without much depth or interest.

The best post-credits scenes offer something new and exciting for viewers to look forward to. This could be the introduction of a long-awaited character, a new plot point that lays the groundwork for a sequel, or even just one final gag...

Denzel Washington has had a career spanning over four decades that many actors could only dream of having. Known as one of the most versatile and energetic actors of his era, he can command the screen in a way very few can. Washington has many oscar worthy performances in his catalog. Though he is best known for his starring roles in bigger-budget films, Washington has had many films that defined his career and acting ability that have flown under the radar of some of his fans.

As one of the best actors of all time, Washington plays a key part in every film he appears in, from specialist dramas to high-octane thrillers. Roles like embodying an exasperated father in John Q or portraying a hostage negotiator in Inside Man may not get the critical acclaim of some of his other roles but are just as entertaining and essential as a step in his storied career.

Quick Links 2 Guns Features a Fantastic Dynamic Duo Wahlberg and Washington Are a Perfectly Dynamic Pair

Over 10 years ago, veteran actors Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg joined forces for a buddy-cop comedy of explosive proportions. Part action, part comedy, Washington and Wahlberg paired together in a money-heist action film that, despite its flaws, is wholly entertaining. With two dynamic lead stars, an unlikely partnership, and a premise that takes the best of Lethal Weapon and pairs it with the intimate espionage of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, 2 Guns is an entertaining romp.

2 Guns stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as a pair of criminals working together to rob a bank. Unknown to each other, both of the would-be criminals are undercover law enforcement working on separate operations to take down the leader of a drug cartel. Bobby (Washington) is a smooth-talking DEA agent who wants to convict the cartel leader for tax evasion.

Audiences know Pierce Brosnan mostly for playing James Bond in the 90s and early 2000s. He played the iconic character in four films namely GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. The actor has also made appearances in the Percy Jackson franchise and in the DC universe as Dr. Fate in Black Adam.

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In addition to being a big Hollywood star, Brosnan is also an avid collector of various personal accessories that matter a lot in his life. One of them is an expensive luxury watch that he bought back in the day. The actor reflected on how he ended up owning the watch and had to pay a big fortune that left his knees shaking.

Pierce Brosnan Was Concerned With How Much He Had Spent On His Luxury Watch

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Morena Baccarin stars in the action-thriller Fast Charlie alongside Pierce Brosnan, playing the ex-wife of a mobster caught in a deadly hunt for revenge. The film blends dark humor, fully-formed characters, and skillful action sequences to create an engrossing experience. Baccarin discusses her experience working with Brosnan and the challenges of crafting her unique character, as well as hints at her return in Deadpool 3 and negotiations for Greenland 2.

Morena Baccarin is a woman whose unfortunate past gets her wrapped up in a deadly journey in Fast Charlie. The Emmy nominee stars in the action-thriller as Marcie, the ex-wife of a low-level mobster trying to forge a new life for herself as a taxidermist. When the titular mob fixer takes a liking to her and finds himself caught in the hunt for revenge for the deaths of his crew, he enlists Marcie's help to take them down while also trying...

Director Phillip Noyce discusses what attracted him to Fast Charlie and how screenwriter Richard Wenk brought charm and humor to the story. Pierce Brosnan was Noyce's first choice for the role of Charlie due to his combination of icy coldness, gun skills, and comedic talent. Morena Baccarin joined the cast just before shooting began and formed a loving and trusting relationship with Brosnan, resulting in a magical on-screen performance.

Pierce Brosnan is a fixer out for revenge in Fast Charlie. Based on Victor Gischler's novel of the same name, the movie centers on the eponymous mob fixer and hitman whose easy life gets upended when a rival mob boss tries to make a play to take over power in their region, resulting in a quest to avenge the deaths of his friends.

Alongside Brosnan, the ensemble Fast Charlie cast includes Morena Baccarin, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Christopher Matthew Cook, Toby Huss,...

One sign of a terrific actor is that he can hold you even when he’s not doing anything. Pierce Brosnan is like that. I wouldn’t call him a minimalist, though he never wastes a word or a movement; he has the precision of an expensive watch. Yet as he’s gotten older, his inner quality of elegant puckish cutthroat gravitas has only grown stronger. You’re hooked by him when he’s not doing anything in part because he projects the unwavering confidence that you will be.

That makes him the ideal actor to play a seen-it-all hit man — who also happens to be a highly civilized gourmet cook — in Phillip Noyce’s “Fast Charlie,” a Deep South crime drama that may be the twelfth movie this year to center on a hit man. But the new hit-man movies, like David Fincher’s “The Killer” and Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,...

Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder recently explained why his upcoming sci-fi film is getting an alternative, R-rated cut on Netflix.

Speaking with Vanity Fair, Snyder confirmed that Rebel Moon will initially be released as a PG-13 film "that anyone can enjoy and watch." He followed that up by stating that a more explicit, harder-edged cut strictly for adults will become available to stream at a later date on Netflix. "I think for fans of mine and people who are ready to take a deeper, harder dive, that’ll be fun for them," he added. Rebel Moon receiving an R-rated cut was first teased back in March 2023 by Andy Koyama, a recording mixer on the fantasy adventure film.

Related: Netflix Tudum 2023 to Showcase Avatar, Wednesday, Witcher, Rebel Moon and More

Announced in 2021, Rebel Moon focuses on a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy threatened by the armies of...

Warning: Contains spoilers for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #101!If there is one thing people know about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, it's that they can fight. The question then becomes which member of the original team would come out on top, and in the latest issue from Boom! Studios, fans get their answer.

The Power Rangers are a collection of teens, typically from the city of Angel Grove, who are granted special powers by the bodiless alien Zordon to battle against the likes of Rita Repulsa and other enemies. The Teens with Attitude have saved the planet and their home from countless cosmic threats, and when one of the rangers moves on, Zordon appoints another teen to take their place. In the current run of Boom! Studios' Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the team consists of White Ranger Tommy Oliver; Green Ranger Matthew Cook; Red Ranger Rocky DeSantos; Black Ranger Adam Park...

Here’s the latest episode of the The Filmmakers Podcast, part of the ever-growing podcast roster here on Nerdly. If you haven’t heard the show yet, you can check out previous episodes on the official podcast site, whilst we’ll be featuring each and every new episode as it premieres.

For those unfamiliar with the series, The Filmmakers Podcast is a podcast about how to make films from micro budget indie films to bigger budget studio films and everything in-between. Our hosts Giles Alderson, Dan Richardson, Andrew Rodger and Cristian James talk how to get films made, how to actually make them and how to try not to f… it up in their very humble opinion. Guests will come on and chat about their film making experiences from directors, writers, producers, screenwriters, actors, cinematographers and distributors.

The Filmmaker’s Podcast #295: ‘Wolves of War’ Special – Part 2

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Exclusive: Martha Kelly (Euphoria) and Scarlet Envy (RuPaul’s Drag Race) will star alongside Natalie Palamides (Nate – a One Man Show), Bob Clendenin (Scrubs), and newcomer Eve Donnelly (Chad) in the short film Only Worn Once, which is heading into production this month.

The film from writer-directors Claire Downs and Brenden Gallagher centers on recent divorcée Darcy (Kelly)and her daughter (Palamides), who sell Darcy’s used wedding dress on the internet to an 18-year-old (Donnelly) getting married to a much older man. When Darcy’s ex, Don (Clendenin), discovers the sale, a fight ensues. Phil Rosenberg is producing.

Kelly is repped by UTA and Brillstein Entertainment Partners; Envy by King’s Queens Entertainment and My Best Judy; Palamides by ICM Partners and Archetype; Clendenin by Artists & Representatives and Insight; Donnelly by 3 Arts; Downs by Quattro Media; and Gallagher by Art/Work Entertainment.

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Exclusive: Andrew Chappelle (Blindspotting) and Devere Rogers (Honk for Jesus.

Stars: Alex Essoe, John Brotherton, Christopher Matthew Cook, Rex Linn, Anita Briem, Harvey B. Jackson, Gonzalo Menendez, Neil Sandilands | Written by Al Kaplan, Jon Kaplan, Jordan Rubin | Directed by Jordan Rubin

Right so we’ve got a serial killer into black magic. Child’s Play anyone? Then we’ve got director Jordan Rubin, the man behind horror spoof Zombeavers. And we have a drone. Yes, a drone. So what do we have in film though? Well, one of the funniest genre parodies to hit screens in years!

The Drone tells the story of serial killer The Violator who, just before the police break into his home to arrest him, invokes black magic and downloads his soul into the commercial drone he used to stalk victims. Finding the abandoned drone after moving into their new photographer Chris is more than happy to claim the smart technology as his own. His wife...

Exclusive: Jordan Rubin will ring in 2019 by returning to the big screen with The Drone, the follow-up to his 2014 cult horror comedy Zombeavers about a weekend lake-cabin outing fantastically undone by undead Castor canadensis. Deadline has the exclusive teaser trailer for The Drone to start your new year off right.

The new pic, which as you will have hoped is directly in Zombeaver‘s loopy flight path, revolves around a drone that has become sentient with the consciousness of a deranged serial killer. It then flies off to terrorize newlyweds Rachel (Alex Essoe) and Chris (John Brotherton), who must fight to stop the insidious device before it destroys them both. Anita Briem, Neil Sandilands, Rex Linn, Simon Rex, Sam Adegoke and Christopher Matthew Cook co-star.

Rubin returns to direct, and he reteamed with his Zombeavers co-scribes Al and Jon Kaplan on the script, which judging by the trailer features plenty of bikini and shower scenes,...

Bloom to kick off pre-sales on action-thriller in Cannes.

Bloom has launched talks with international buyers here on action-thriller Three Seconds with a reconfigured cast of Joel Kinnaman, Rosamund Pike, Common and Clive Owen.

Andrea Di Stefano directs the story based on the Swedish bestseller by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström.

Thunder Road Pictures’ Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee are producing alongside Wayne Marc Godfrey, Robert Jones, Mark Lane, James Harris and Ollie Madden of The Fyzz Facility, which is now financing the project and represents Us rights.

Thunder Road’s Jonathan Fuhrman and Magnolia Entertainment’s Shelley Browning serve as executive producers.

Matt Cook adapted the screenplay with revisions by Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland with current revisions by Distefano.

Three Seconds follows a reformed criminal and former special ops soldier who goes undercover for the FBI on a mission to bust a Polish drug gang.

Bloom’s Alex Walton said: “In Escobar: Paradise Lost, Andrea...

Ex-cons Troy (Nicolas Cage), Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the trio find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is literally a matter of life and death. You can see as much with Nic Cage outlining... Read More...

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Paul Schrader has made an iconic film career off of damaged, obsessive and often deranged men, from Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver” to Jake Lamotta in “Raging Bull,” Julian Kaye in “American Gigolo” and more, so it makes perfect sense he turned to Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe for his latest drama. Two actors fully capable of going to the dark side and coming out possessed with intensity, Cage and Dafoe bring an unpredictable manic energy to “Dog Eat Dog,” a wild crime thriller that is our VOD pick of the week.

Read More: ‘Dog Eat Dog’ Review: Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage Pioneer New Levels of Crazy in Paul Schrader’s Insane New Crime Drama

The movie follows three ex-cons (Cage, Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook) who are hired by an eccentric...

Australia’s premier genre festival – Monster Fest – has unveiled its final wave of films for the 2016 festival, which is set to take place November 24-27 at the Lido Cinemas in Melbourne.

The team of features programmers – which includes festival director Kier-La Janisse, Monster Pictures co-founder Neil Foley, Boston Underground Film Festival Director of Programming Nicole McControversy and writer/programmer/punk legend Chris D. – vetted over 600 features in selecting the 2016 Monster Fest lineup, which includes new crime films Dog Eat Dog and The Hollow Point from Paul Schrader and Gonzalo López-Gallego respectively, gory slasher throwback The Windmill Massacre (reviewed here), the hometown premiere of epic period western The Legend of Ben Hall with cast in person and acclaimed Tiff selections Prevenge and Interchange alongside Fantastic Fest faves such as the Aussie-made yuletide thriller Safe Neighbourhood and the devastating – and polarizing – Playground.

From the press release:

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Rlj Entertainment recently released Dog Eat Dog on VOD

The film stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Snowden), Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man, Justice League) and directed by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, American Gigolo). Legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader directs this “sordid and engaging crime drama” (The Hollywood Reporter) starring Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) and Academy Award® nominee Willem Dafoe (Platoon). Ex-cons Troy (Cage), Mad Dog (Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the trio find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is literally a matter of life and death. Dog Eat Dog tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they...

Willem Dafoe and Nicolas Cage star in Paul Schrader’s lively but amoral crime drama

On a first viewing, I found Paul Schrader’s latest trawl through America’s scuzzy underbelly to be bracingly unwholesome. Shot, alternately, in brooding black and white and a luridly oversaturated palette reminiscent of a rack of cheap synthetic lingerie, it had a disreputable swagger. A second viewing emphasises the film’s more unlikable qualities – the smirking nihilism; the grimly casual objectification of women and the flippant approach to violent death as a punchline.

The film opens with a prologue featuring Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe, all sinewy neediness). After wheedling his way into the home of his ex for one last night, he snaps and does something highly regrettable. The jaunty soundtrack is at odds with Mad Dog’s spree of violence, a trope that was already slightly suspect when Tarantino made it his own 15 years ago.

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Paul Schrader chats to us about Dog Eat Dog, working with Nicolas Cage, Richard Pryor, and Taxi Driver...

Paul Schrader’s place in film history is assured, just for the fact that he wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. But to only remember him for those two Martin Scorsese movies would be ignoring a nearly 30 year directing career.

From his brilliant 1978 debut movie Blue Collar - starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto as Detroit auto workers planning to rob a union boss - he has never shied away from controversy, both on screen and behind the scenes. All the way from Blue Collar, which had a notoriously racially-charged atmosphere on set, all the way through to 2013’s infamous Lindsay Lohan-starring The Canyons, the stories behind his movies have often been as interesting as the films themselves.

And despite turning 70 this year, he doesn’t...

Paul Schrader has the outsized personality of a cigar-chomping studio mogul, the soul of a cinephile, and the Diy filmmaking ethos of a millennial. His career stretches back decades, but he never stops living in the moment.

He wrote “Taxi Driver” 40 years ago, kickstarting a collaborating with Martin Scorsese that continued with “Raging Bull,” “The Last Temptation of Christ,” and “Bringing Out the Dead.” The former film critic also has forged his own path as a director, with seminal portraits of intense masculinity like “American Gigolo,” “Affliction” and the astonishing epic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters.” He’s never really slowed down.

His latest movie, “Dog Eat Dog,” might not look like the work of a veteran director. A wacky, discursive adaptation of Eddie Bunker’s 1995 novel (scripted by Matthew David Wilder), it takes the elements of a grimy heist movie and turns them inside out.

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It’s November – a time for Thanksgiving, feasts, and the presence of relatives. If you have some time off (or are trying to grab some much-needed alone time), here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)

Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!

Week of November 4 Wide

Trolls

Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn

Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel

Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...

Paul Schrader has made no secret of his frustrations about interference from the studios or moneymen that fund his films, going so far as to openly protest the release of 2014’s “The Dying of the Light” with a Facebook post in which he declared that the project “Was taken away from me, reedited, scored, and mixed without my input.” Of course, that was hardly Schrader’s first rodeo. A pugnacious poet-warrior whose screenwriting credits includes the likes of “Taxi Driver” and “The Last Temptation of Christ” (and whose occasionally transcendent directorial efforts make those movies look commercial by comparison), he’s never been a big fan of playing things safe. With the bawdy and intoxicatingly batshit “Dog Eat Dog,” Schrader is off the leash once and for all.

And, um, he doesn’t waste any time making that clear. “Dog Eat Dog,” which might be most coherently interpreted as a...

Supposedly, after Paul Schrader’s last film (the terrorism saga “Dying of the Light,” starring Nicolas Cage) was taken away from him and re-assembled, he was going to leave moviemaking behind for web series. But hey, cinema, it seems your dark overlord of mottled masculinity couldn’t quit you, and so we have the quasi-colorful, if mildly stale and ultimately inconsequential, crime saga “Dog Eat Dog.” The story’s veteran lowlifes — a trio of prison-hardened, homicidal thieves played by Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook — could readily be taken as stand-ins for Schrader himself as he, like they, tries to squeeze.

An exercise in gratuitousness that’s fitful by design, Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog avoids any relationship between character psychology and visual style; they jab against each other, angrily vying for attention, as a nihilistic commentary on crime movies and genre stories. Adapted from a novel by the colorful criminal-turned-writer Edward Bunker, it focuses on a trio of repeat offenders who toe the line separating self-awareness and self-delusion: the nominally put-together Troy (Nicolas Cage), the imposing Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook), and pitifully psychopathic Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe). Prison buddies with short tempers and no impulse control, they somehow pull off a stash house robbery in spite of their own incompetence, and are offered a job by a local drug lord to kidnap a baby for ransom—a scheme that falls apart rapidly and disastrously. The fact that Dog Eat Dog is set on the outskirts of Cleveland just adds...

Dog Eat Dog aims to be your next pulpy criminal obsession, but falls short upon feeling forced into underworld seediness. There’s inherent fun thanks to magnificent character actors like Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe, yet director Paul Schrader struggles to temper depravity with meaning. Audiences find themselves stuck in a cyclical circle of prisoner’s lament, where the worst of the worst happens just because. Look no farther than Schrader’s introduction – the double murder of a mother and her moody teen. Why? “Because That’S The Kind Of Movie This Is, Motherf(#Ker” is what Schrader’s tone conveys – sometimes for the best, but never without pause.

Nic Cage stars as Troy Cameron, a low-budget criminal who’s sick of tiny scores. After yet another good-enough win, he’s offered a $750K payday by Grecco The Greek (Paul Schrader). The job is simple – kidnap a baby until the father pays his debts,...

Edited by Hans-Åke Lilja, Shining in the Dark: Celebrating Twenty Years of Lilja's Library is exclusive to Cemetery Dance Publications and will feature a Stephen King story that hasn't been released since 1981. We also have updated release details for The Similars, the final wave of films announced at Monster Fest 2016, six photos / details for The Orphanage video game, and a new trailer for Gremlin.

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Hans-Ake Lilja, the founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand new anthology of horror stories to help celebrate twenty years of running the #1 Stephen King news website on the web!

This anthology includes both original stories like the brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) very rare reprints like "The Blue Air...

Paul Schrader’s latest directorial effort is a gritty, violent yet colourful, madcap crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook, as a cadre of ex-cons pulling occasional small-time heists for their boss, while attempting to stay one step ahead of the law and out of prison. I wouldn’t say that this was a good film by any means, though it’s definitely an entertaining one. There are so many flaws here, but as the whole thing barrels along one never really gets bored of watching what’s happening on screen.

Cage stars as Troy, the unofficial leader and brains of the outfit. Dafoe plays 'Mad Dog', a cocaine and crack addicted wastrel with an itchy trigger finger, and Cook plays Diesel, a no-nonsense heavy and tough guy. As we’ [Continued ...]...

Even though Halloween is over, that doesn’t mean the horror genre is slowing down for the month of November, as fans have a bunch of great movies hitting VOD to look forward to this month. Uncork’d is getting us into the holiday spirit early with their November 1st release of Krampus Unleashed, and the very same day, the slasher-inspired thriller Last Girl Standing makes its way to VOD platforms as well.

Don’t Breathe and Abbey Grace get their digital releases on November 8th, and the latest from The Strangers director Bryan Bertino, The Monster, arrives on VOD November 11th, along with Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog, featuring Nicolas Cage. November’s VOD releases conclude with the cable VOD release of The Similars on the 15th (a film I’ve been looking forward to) followed by an iTunes and Digital release on November 22nd, and M. Shawn Crahan...

In the Season 4 finale of “Episodes” — the last entry we’ll see until the final season hits in 2017 — Matt LeBlanc and his friend, Sean Lincoln, are sitting at a bar, mourning his upcoming gig as a game show host. Titled “The Box,” the new series asks seven contestants (or “idiots,” as LeBlanc calls them) to spend 17 weeks trapped inside a glass cube for the chance at fame and fortune. By remaining inside, they earn points that can be used to make their stay easier (i.e., a sandwich) or make their opponents’ lives harder (dumping a boatload of bugs into their cube).

“Dear God, why would someone do that?” Sean asks Matt.

“Money,” LeBlanc says. “To be on TV. I don’t know. It’s crazy.”

“Although…”

“What?”

“Well, you’re willing to be a game show host for money and to be on TV.”

“It’s a little bit different.

Screenwriter Matthew Wilder, whose recent feature film Dog Eat Dog premiered at this year's Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, has signed with Apa. The film stars Nicolas Cage, William Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook, and is based on the 1995 novel by ex-criminal Edward Bunker. Directed by writer/director Paul Schrader, the story centers on irredeemable ex-cons 'Troy' (Cage), 'Mad Dog' (Dafoe) and their heavy hitter 'Diesel' (Cook) who take on the terrible task of…...

This past Friday, at the Egyptian theatre in Los Angeles, Nicolas Cage and other actors from the latest Paul Schrader film “Dog Eat Dog” walked the red carpet to celebrate the world premiere. Those that joined Cage and Schrader on the red carpet were, Christopher Matthew Cook, Weston Cage, John Patrick Jordan, Magi Avilia, Tora Kim, and many others. We had the opportunity of getting to hear what the actors had to say about Schrader and the Dog Eat Dog film. Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader were previously working on the film Dying of the Light which didn’t end up turning out exactly how Schrader or Cage wanted it to. [ Read More ]

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Do you love Raising Arizona? Then you're going to love this! Nicolas Cage pays homage to the Coen Brothers classic in his latest movie Dog Eat Dog. Today, we have a first look at the movie. From Rlj Entertainment comes the hilarious and action-packed trailer along with the official poster.

Legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader directs this "sordid and engaging crime drama" (The Hollywood Reporter). Dog Eat Dog stars Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage. The pair previously worked together on the much maligned drama Dying of the Light back in 2014. Paul Schrader also wrote the screenplay for Nicolas Cage's acclaimed Emt drama Bringing Out the Dead, which was directed by Martin Scorsese.

Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe (Platoon) joins Nicolas Cage in Dog Eat Dog. The pair first worked together in David Lynch's cult hit Wild at Heart. Though the pair hasn't been seen on screen together since 1990, Nicolas Cage...

Plot: Three criminals (Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired to kidnap a gangster.s baby. Review: In his introduction to Dog Eat Dog, Tiff Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes admitted that it was not a natural pick for the programme. Coming from a respected veteran filmmaker like Paul Schrader, Dog Eat Dog, which earlier played Cannes, might seem like a more natural fit for one of... Read More...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader’s action thriller “Dog Eat Dog.” Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, the film was written by Matthew Wilder and stars Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The film first premiered at the 69th Cannes Film Festival and will have its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival in September.

The film “tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city’s most wanted fugitives. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, things get completely out of...

The North American rights to the Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe action thriller “Dog Eat Dog” have been acquired by Rlj Entertainment, the company announced Wednesday. Based on the novel by Edward Bunker, “Dog Eat Dog” was written by Matthew Wilder and was directed by Paul Schrader. Also starring Christopher Matthew Cook, the film first premiered at Cannes Film Festival and will make its North American premiere at the 2016 Toronto Film Festival next month. See Video: Nicolas Cage Caught Screaming at Vince Neil in Las Vegas The film tells the story of three ex-cons who mess up a kidnapping. They lose a big.

Rlj Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader-helmed Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The company plans to release the pic theatrically and on VOD in November. Based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by Matthew Wilder, Dog Eat Dog tells the story of three ex-cons who botch a kidnapping. They not only lose a rich payoff, but they get on the wrong side of the mob and become the city's most…...

Paul Schrader’s action thriller has found a home in the run-up to its North American premiere in Toronto next month.

Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook star in Dog Eat Dog, which is based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by screenwriter Matthew Wilder.

Dog Eat Dog premiered in Cannes and centres on a botched kidnapping in which three ex-cons get on the wrong side of the Mob. The first Toronto screening is September 8.

Rlj entertainment negotiated the deal with Adme and plans a theatrical and VOD release in November.

Mark Earl Burman, Gary Hamilton, Brian Beckmann and David Hillary produced and Jeremy Rosen, Jeff Caperton, Barney Burman, Ray Mansfield, Shaun Redick, Donald Rivers, Michael McClung and Tim Peternel served as executive producers.

Jeanne Fields acted as executor of the Edward Bunker estate.

Almost 30 years after initially skyrocketing to indie cred fame by breaking into the home of furniture magnate Nathan Arizona and making off with one of his newborn quintuplets in Joel and Ethan Coen’s Raising Arizona, Nicolas Cage is returning to the baby-snatching game. In Dog Eat Dog—Paul Schrader’s adaptation of Edward Bunker’s crime novel of the same name—plays an ex-convict whose life on the outside careens out of control after he and his partners, Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) botch a kidnapping assignment from a dangerous crime boss.

This marks the second time that Cage has teamed up with Schrader (Hardcore, American Gigolo) for a crime film. While 2014’s Dying Of The Light was decimated by critics, labeled as “a thriller without thrills” by The A.V. Club’s Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, the writer-actor team refuses to take full responsibility ...

"You have absolutely no idea how to control your emotions." The first trailer has debuted for the latest film from American filmmaker Paul Schrader, titled Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe. This first premiered in the Directors' Fortnight at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but didn't emerge with too much buzz and even worse, it still doesn't have Us distribution in place yet. Dog Eat Dog is about three criminals, fresh out of prison, planning one last score to wrap up their life of crime and get things back on track. "One more hit, one more jackpot, and they'll all be satisfied." Of course, it never turns out to be that easy. The cast includes Christopher Matthew Cook, Louisa Krause, Magi Avila, and Schrader himself as "Grecco The Greek". This trailer is crazy violent, and totally wild, but I'm not sure if that's good. Dive in. Here's...

Director Paul Schrader is reteaming once again with Nicolas Cage for Dog Eat Dog — this time throwing Willem Dafoe into the mix, playing a guy named “Mad Dog,” no less. In the film, the pair, along with Christopher Matthew Cook, have all been recently released from prison and must now try their best to adapt to a normal life, despite living in suburban homes, having a hate for the system, and being haunted by demons. The wrench in their plans for adaptation? Well, once a thief, always a thief. As the trio plan the perfect crime — one final job, one final take — things go awry. While the film is still looking for U.S. distribution, the first trailer has arrived today.

We said in our review from Cannes, “Taking the trashy gusto exhibited in The Canyons to whole new extremes, Schrader goes full exploitation for Dog Eat Dog’s first act.

Schrader and Dafoe – who plays psychotic criminal Mad Dog – discuss the director’s latest film, Dog Eat Dog, a bad-taste epic for the ‘post-rules generation’

Deep in the filth, squashed under the weight of the American dream, three men with crazy names (Troy, Mad Dog and Diesel) scrabble for space. Try as they might, the gangsters at the heart of Paul Schrader’s latest are damned. Down they go, still clinging to the hope of one last, redemptive job, digging on deep to the gates of hell.

Dog Eat Dog, which was let off the leash at last week’s Cannes film festival, is a hard-scrap story. Based on the book by former criminal, writer and actor Eddie Bunker (who played Reservoir Dogs’s Mr Blue), it’s set and shot among the strip malls and dive bars of post-crash Cleveland. Nicolas Cage stars as Troy, a once-wealthy heir whose fortunes have crumbled.

Paul Schrader might want to consider expanding his thematic scope a little. Decade after decade, film after film, regardless of whether he’s been writing scripts for others (Martin Scorsese, first and foremost), or sitting in the director’s chair himself, the erstwhile Calvinist has come back to the theme of redemption with obstinate persistence. His protagonists are almost always men, they’re almost always amoral sinners of some ilk or other, and they almost always yearn to break out of the wicked, vicious cycles on which their lives have been relentlessly spinning. Not an unfruitful theme by any means, considering it has given rise to many a masterpiece across the history of cinema – of all arts, really – but Dog Eat Dog suggests that, as far his own filmmaking is concerned, Schrader may have exhausted its potential.

Things actually look promising at first. Taking the trashy gusto exhibited in The Canyons to whole new extremes,...

Recently, CBS released the new, official synopsis/spoilers for their upcoming "Under The Dome" episode 7 of season 2. The episode is entitled, "Going Home," and it sounds like things will get quite intriguing as Dale Barbie discovers a new world while in the weird tunnels, and more. In the new, 7th episode press release: Barbie will discover a new world when he descends further into the mysterious tunnel. Press release number 2: When Barbie descends into the unknown abyss in the mysterious tunnel to look for Sam, he will discover a world that is familiar but filled with unanswered questions. Actor ,Brett Cullen, guest stars as Don Barbara who is Barbie's father. Guest stars will feature: Brett Cullen (Don Barbara), Christopher Matthew Cook (Rick), Fernando Martinez (Miguel) Brian Distance (Guard), Kendrick N. Cross (Orderly), Susan Williams (Receptionist), Eric Benson (Thug #2) and Nicholas M. Hayner (Thug #3). The episode was written by Peter Calloway...

Sneak Peek the late Paul Walker ("The Fast and the Furious") in writer/director Eric Heisserer's upcoming thriller "Hours", opening December 13, 2013:

"...in 2005, during the ravages of 'Hurricane Katrina', 'Nolan' (Walker) is the father of a newborn baby.

"But what should be one of the happiest days of Nolan's life quickly spirals out of control during the wake of a hurricane that floods the hospital and causes failures in the power supply.

"Nolan faces a life-or-death situation when no one returns to help and he struggles on his own to keep his infant daughter alive inside a 'Neonatal' incubator, as minute-by-minute passes, the ventilator runs out of power and the minutes become long hours..."

Cast also includes Génesis Rodríguez, Tj Hassan, Nick Gomez, Judd Lormand, Michelle Torres, Kerry Cahill, Yohance Myles,

Natalia Safran, Elton LeBlanc, Tony Bentley, Emily D. Haley, Christopher Matthew Cook, Cynthia LeBlanc and Lena Clark.

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Depending on who you talk to, the directing team of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer have either made some of the worst comedies of the past decade, or some of the best. You either love the spoof movies they put out on a yearly basis, or you hate them with every ounce of your soul. There is no in-between. And now, the duo have teamed up once again to take cheap shots at The Hunger Games franchise with The Starving Games, condensing all four books into one 80 minute movie. We have two trailers, a poster and a ton of new photos. But you don't need any of it. You already now whether or not you'll be seeing this when it hits Blu-ray and DVD November 14, from Ketchup Entertainment. Check out everything the studio has to offer, including the synopsis. It's all the laughs, half the calories.

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