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Rebel Ridge is a crime action thriller film written and directed by Jeremy Saulnier. The Netflix film is set in the town of Shelby Springs and it follows the story of Terry Richmond, a former marine as he comes to town to post bail for his cousin but when his savings are unlawfully taken by corrupt local police officers led by Chief Sandy Burnne, he decides to fight against the ones spreading corruption. Rebel Ridge stars Aaron Pierre in the lead role with Don Johnson, AnnaSophia Robb, David Denman, Steve Zissis, Dana Lee, and James Cromwell starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the brutal action, thrilling story, and compelling characters in Netflix’s Rebel Ridge here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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Wrath of Man is an action thriller drama film directed by Guy Ritchie from a screenplay co-written by Ritchie,...

The Instigators is a heist action comedy film directed by Doug Liman from a screenplay co-written by Chuck Maclean and Casey Affleck. The Apple TV+ film follows the story of a former marine and an ex-con as they team up for a heist. When their plan goes awry they have to run and they drag one of their therapist in the process. The Instigators stars Matt Damon and Casey Affleck in the lead roles with Hong Chau, Paul Walter Stuhlbarg, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina, Toby Jones, Jack Harlow, and Ron Perlman starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the action, comedic banter, and heist drama in The Instigators here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Logan Lucky is a heist comedy-drama film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Rebecca Blunt. The 2017 film follows the story of Jimmy Logan,...

There are many great action movies like Wrath of Man that capture its visceral thrills and theme of revenge. Wrath of Man stars Jason Statham as a grizzled stranger known as “H,” who takes a job as a security guard on a cash truck and starts expertly foiling armed robberies, seemingly with an ulterior motive. The movie reunited Statham with director Guy Ritchie, who gave him his first acting roles in Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. Wrath of Man is a lot grittier and more serious than Ritchie and Statham’s other collaborations.

Wrath of Man was warmly received by both critics and audiences, and there are plenty of similar movies out there. There are other great action films starring Statham as a hardcore hero, like Wild Card, and other great revenge thrillers, like Lady Vengeance. Along with gritty heist movies, there are also several films about...

Wrath of Man: a Jason Statham movie directed by Guy Ritchie. Check. A revenge thriller wearing the clothes of a heist thriller: a savory treat-within-a-treat, like a bacon-wrapped sausage. Check, check. The movie is more or less a remake of the 2004 French film Cash Truck (Le Convoyeur), and its cast is a dreamy assortment of dependably engaging character stalwarts (Eddie Marsan, Holt McCallany, Andy García, Jeffrey Donovan) with a few against-type additions (Josh Hartnett, Raúl Castillo, comedian Rob Delaney), a worthwhile Scott Eastwood — and, yeah, even a little Post Malone...

If audiences are expecting Wrath of Man, the fourth collaboration between director Guy Ritchie and star Jason Statham, to have the rollicking, quirky vibe of previous Ritchie/Statham action joints, they should temper expectations right now. While Statham has always been adept with a one-liner, and Ritchie is more than willing to provide him a memorable one, Wrath of Man doesn’t have room for quips and giggles; Statham’s tongue has been removed from his cheek and is seldom used.

This taut, suspenseful tale of vengeance is deathly serious and features one of the more stoic performances of Statham’s career. While the script certainly robs Statham of one of his trademark charms, his ability to be equal parts fun and fierce, that doesn’t mean Wrath of Man is a total drag; it’s a fairly traditional heist flick buoyed by unnerving intensity from Statham. If only Ritchie...

When H shows up for work in Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” no one at Fortico Security has much reason to suspect he might have any motive other than protecting the cash for the armored-truck outfit. The new guy — who looks an awful lot like the bald bloke from the “Crank” and “Transporter” movies — doesn’t waste words. His backstory checks out, as do his references. He’s a decent shot, but not so good that it would attract attention. Just another guard on an experienced team that recently lost two of its own in a bloody heist.

His first day on the job, however, some jokers try to rob H’s truck, and he can’t help showing them he means business. What could have been a $2.5 million robbery winds up with his co-workers safe, the money secure and half a dozen would-be crooks dead. Not just dead,...

With his new picture, Guy Ritchie continues down a familiar, albeit entertaining, road. Following a decade-plus of big budget tentpoles, the gangster genre auteur settled back into the pocket with last year’s The Gentlemen. Wrath of Man brings back yet another element from Ritchie’s early success: Jason Statham.

Reuniting after Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Revolver, Statham plays a man named “H.” He gets a job at a Los Angeles-based armored cash truck company, earning the trust of long-time employee Bullet (Holt McCallany) and the suspicious eye of Boy Sweat Dave (Josh Hartnett). The company is still recovering from a recent robbery gone way wrong. Two guards were killed, and one civilian. Early on we learn that that one civilian was H’s teenage son. Vengeance, as ever, ensues. Based on the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur with a screenplay credited to no less than five people,...

The action star’s latest collaboration with Guy Ritchie is violent fun with a slow-burn plot, but the movie has a woman problem

Whether you think Guy Ritchie is commenting upon overblown masculinity or merely indulging in it, his twist-laden crime sprees tend to be adrenaline-fueled fun, and in that regard, “Wrath of Man” is no exception. Ritchie’s reunion with leading man Jason Statham delivers the scheming, the shooting, and the swearing that the director’s fans have come to expect, by the bucketload.

But even at his most dude-fixated, Ritchie has always wisely included at least one sharp and savvy female character, the smartest cookie at the sausage fest. This time out, the women tend to be ornamental or victimized (or both), leaving one to wonder if the film wouldn’t have been better off as an unfiltered testosterone-fest if the filmmakers couldn’t manage to provide one interesting woman.

We’ll say this with cautious optimism: the summer movie season is…back? After the coronavirus pandemic upended the 2020 release calendar, pushing back some of the year’s most hyped films and inspiring new avenues of distribution for others, the summer of 2021 is shaping up as platform for blockbusters (from the latest “Fast and Furious” to the post-apocalyptic survival of the “A Quiet Place” installment all the way through a seventh “Conjuring” film) and rife with discoveries (including some festival hits that date all the way back to 2019).

Of course, the distribution landscape has changed radically over the past year, and not every anticipated summer movie will simply head to the multiplex. This season’s lineup includes a wide variety of viewing options that go beyond the brick and mortar theater. It’s a summer defined by options — not only in terms of what you see, but how you choose to see it.

"I need to know who is responsible for killing my son." MGM + UA have debuted a final official red band trailer for Wrath of Man, the new Guy Ritchie movie starring Jason Statham. Hitting theaters in a week to kick things off for the summer. This is actually a remake of a French action film titled Le Convoyeur (aka Cash Truck) from 2004 - we posted the first trailer a month ago. The plot follows Statham as H, a cold and mysterious character working security at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. In addition to Statham, the full cast includes Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Josh Hartnett, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso, Raúl Castillo, Post Malone, Chris Reilly, and Niamh Algar. This trailer reveals all more of the movie's plot - "H" goes in undercover to get revenge for his son's death.

Jason Statham stars as a rogue cash truck security guard in Wrath of Man, the latest action heist flick from director Guy Ritchie. The film opens in theaters on May 7th.

Based on the 2004 French thriller Le Convoyeur (Cash Truck), Wrath of Man follows Statham’s security guard character as he stamps out an attempted heist with his coworkers, only to surprise them all with his cold, precise marksmanship. (As seen in the trailer, Post Malone cameos as one of the would-be robbers who takes a direct headshot from Statham.

"If he's not a cop, what we is he?" MGM + UA have revealed the first official trailer for Wrath of Man, the new Guy Ritchie movie starring Jason Statham as a mysterious operative known as H. This is actually a remake of a French action film titled Le Convoyeur (aka Cash Truck) from 2004. The plot follows Statham as H, a cold and mysterious character working security at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. Something else is going on involving him, and they're trying to figure out what exactly, though it seems pretty clear that it's an inside job. In addition to Statham, the full cast includes Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Josh Hartnett, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso, Raúl Castillo, Post Malone, Chris Reilly, and Niamh Algar. Not so exciting - this looks like a mix of every other action movie with Jason Statham before this,...

Theaters are opening, vaccine distribution is pouring in, and distributors are starting to reshuffle and ready their release slates for 2021 — and that includes the glut of titles bottlenecked last year, and even earlier this year, by the pandemic. One such film is director Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” produced by MGM and Miramax, and releasing from United Artists on May 7. It’s the latest, and fourth, collaboration between the English filmmaker and action icon Jason Statham.

“Wrath of Man” is written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, and Marn Davies and is a reimagining of Nicolas Boukhrief’s 2004 French heist thriller “Le Convoyeur.” The new film follows a mysterious and wild-eyed cash truck security guard (Statham), known only as H, who surprises his co-workers during a heist in which he unexpectedly unleashes precision skills. The crew is left wondering who he is and where he came from. Soon, the marksman’s...

Exclusive: Niamh Algar (The Virtues), Mia Goth (Suspiria) Billy Howle (Outlaw King), Paapa Essiedu (Gangs Of London), Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz) and Aisling Bea (Living With Yourself) lead the impressive ensemble cast of crime-thriller Sweet Dreams, which is launching ahead of the Cannes virtual market.

The “Fargo in England” story, from writer-director Carl Tibbets (Black Mirror) and producer Matthew James Wilkinson (Yesterday) of Stigma Films, charts a series of unfortunate coincidences that bring the overreaching ambitions of a bunch of petty criminals to a nasty end. Algar will play the police chief trying to put an end to the destruction.

The team is aiming to shoot in Q4, 2020. Amp International is handling world sales.

Tibbetts is known for directing 2011 feature Retreat with Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell, and multiple episodes of hit TV dramas including Black Mirror, The Tunnel, Humans, Woman In White and BBC Studios-produced We Hunt Together,...

Raul Castillo has been added to Guy Ritchie's latest thriller, Cash Truck.

Castillo will be seen alongside longtime Ritchie collaborator Jason Statham, as well as Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett.

Based on the original 2004 French film Le Convoyeur, starring Jean Dujardin, the feature shifts between timelines and perspectives, centering on H (Statham), a cold and mysterious figure working at a cash truck company and responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

MGM is behind the movie, having picked up the rights for the project out of ...

Raul Castillo has been added to Guy Ritchie's latest thriller, Cash Truck.

Castillo will be seen alongside longtime Ritchie collaborator Jason Statham, as well as Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett.

Based on the original 2004 French film Le Convoyeur, starring Jean Dujardin, the feature shifts between timelines and perspectives, centering on H (Statham), a cold and mysterious figure working at a cash truck company and responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

MGM is behind the movie, having picked up the rights for the project out of ...

After making a billion-dollar success with Disney’s remake of “Aladdin,” Guy Ritchie is returning to his roots of British hooligans, snappy humor and lots of violence with a fresh new trailer for his new gritty crime-comedy “The Gentlemen.”

Read More: Guy Ritchie & Jason Statham Reteaming For New Thriller Based On French Film ‘Le Convoyeur’

Having released the first trailer earlier this fall, we now get a better look at Matthew McConaughey and Henry Golding’s characters in this crime-comedy about the exploits of an American expat in London who is running a successful wee-selling operation.

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Exclusive: The Virtues and Raised By Wolves’ Niamh Algar is boarding Miramax’s hot upcoming Guy Ritchie action thriller that stars Jason Statham. As Deadline previously revealed, the project, which re-teams Ritchie and Statham for the first time since Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Revolver, was acquired by MGM domestically and was one of the buzziest titles at the recent Afm.

Irish actress Algar’s credits include Shane Meadows’ The Virtues and Toronto premiere Calm With Horses. She also has a key role in the Ridley Scott-produced Raised By Wolves for HBO Max.

Details of Algar’s role in Ritchie’s film, which has previously been known as Cash Truck, but is formally untitled, are being kept under wraps.

The film was one of the hot properties at the Afm, and was acquired domestically by MGM to be distributed via joint venture UA Releasing. MGM also...

Exclusive: Miramax has concluded a raft of seven-figure deals on Guy Ritchie’s untitled Jason Statham action-thriller which was launched by the firm and CAA Media Finance at the American Film Market earlier this month.

Deals have now closed with Studiocanal for Germany and Australia/Nz, Metropolitan for France, Tripictures & DeAPlaneta for Spain, Leone for Italy and Volga for Russia/Cis.

Pacts have also been finalized with The Searchers for Benelux, Vertical for Eastern Europe, Eagle for the Middle East, Vvs for Canada, Klockworx for Japan, Joy n Cinema for Korea and MovieCloud for Taiwan.

The project, which re-teams Ritchie and Statham for the first time since Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch and Revolver almost 15 years ago, was one of the hot properties at the Afm. As we revealed, MGM acquired the film domestically and will distribute via MGM’s joint venture UA Releasing. MGM also acquired a handful of international markets.

In a major deal at the American Film Market, MGM has bought North American and select international territories to Jason Statham’s “Cash Truck” with Guy Ritchie directing.

The film, which is being produced through Miramax, will be released domestically through MGM’s joint venture UA Releasing. MGM has also bought distribution rights for Latin America, Scandinavia, Philippines and Hong Kong.

Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett will also star in the remake of the 2004 French thriller “Le Convoyeur.” Ritchie and Statham previously collaborated on two British actioners: 1998’s “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels” and 2000’s “Snatch.”

In “Cash Truck,” Statham will portray a cold and mysterious character who works for an armored truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. The original movie starred Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel.

Statham starred in last year’s actioner...

MGM has acquired the domestic distribution rights to “Cash Truck,” the latest film from director Guy Ritchie starring Jason Statham, an individual with knowledge of the deal told TheWrap.

“Cash Truck” is an action thriller produced by Miramax, and MGM’s UA Releasing will distribute the film domestically. MGM also acquired the rights to the film for Latin America, Scandinavia, Philippines and Hong Kong.

Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallanay, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett have also joined the cast of the film that’s meant to be a throwback to some of Ritchie’s early films that paired him with Statham, including “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.”

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“Cash Truck” will be a remake of the French 2004 movie “Le Convoyeur,” starring Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel. It’s a revenge-thriller that will follow Statham as “H,” a...

Exclusive: In what is likely to be one of the biggest deals at this year’s Afm, I hear that MGM has taken domestic and select international rights on Cash Truck, the Miramax action thriller from Guy Ritchie that will star Jason Statham.

The film will be released via MGM’s joint venture UA Releasing domestically. MGM has also acquired distribution rights for Latin America, Scandinavia, Philippines and Hong Kong.

Scott Eastwood, Holt McCallanay, Jeffrey Donovan, Laz Alonso and Josh Hartnett will also act in the pic, which is revenge story that shifts across timelines and between various character’s perspectives. At the center is H (Statham), a cold and mysterious character who works at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

Project sees Ritchie and Statham re-team for the first time since their seminal Brit gangster films Lock, Stock...

Exclusive: Pacific Rim: Uprising star Scott Eastwood is set to play opposite Jason Statham and Holt McCallanay in Cash Truck, the Miramax action thriller directed by Guy Ritchie.

It’s a revenge story that shifts across timelines and between various character’s perspectives. At the center is H (Statham), a cold and mysterious character who works at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

Eastwood recently wrapped filming Millennium Film’s The Outpost with Orlando Bloom. Other credits include Snowden, Suicide Squad, and The Fate of the Furious, which also starred Statham.

“I am excited to work with Guy Ritchie. I have been a fan of his since Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Guy’s films are iconic and I feel lucky to have the opportunity to learn from such a gifted filmmaker. I am also looking forward to...

Scott Eastwood has joined Jason Statham in Guy Ritchie's Cash Truck, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The armored truck heist movie from Miramax is an English-language remake of the 2004 French thriller Le Convoyeur, which featured Jean Dujardin (The Artist).

Eastwood, who starred in 2018's Pacific Rim: Uprising alongside John Boyega, will appear in Cash Truck opposite Statham, who plays a mysterious worker at a cash truck company that moves hundred of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

Miramax CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson will produce the film.

Ritchie, who made his feature helming debut with 1999's ...

Scott Eastwood has joined Jason Statham in Guy Ritchie's Cash Truck, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The armored truck heist movie from Miramax is an English-language remake of the 2004 French thriller Le Convoyeur, which featured Jean Dujardin (The Artist).

Eastwood, who starred in 2018's Pacific Rim: Uprising alongside John Boyega, will appear in Cash Truck opposite Statham, who plays a mysterious worker at a cash truck company that moves hundred of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week.

Miramax CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson will produce the film.

Ritchie, who made his feature helming debut with 1999's ...

Exclusive: Mindhunter star Holt McCallany has been cast as a lead opposite Jason Statham in Cash Truck. The revenge-based action thriller from Miramax reteams Statham and Guy Ritchie, who is writing and directing based on the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. It starts shooting next month in London before moving to Los Angeles.

Statham stars as H, a cold and mysterious character working at a cash-truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. Weaving through a carefully constructed narrative, the film shifts across timelines and among various characters’ perspectives.

McCallany will play Bullet, who leads the transportation team and brings aboard H, who might not be who he says he is.

As Deadline scooped earlier this month, Miramax recently acquired remake rights to the original French film from CanalPlus. Miramax CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson are producing.

McCallany plays Agent Bill Tench opposite...

Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham are getting the band back together. The duo, who worked together on Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, and Revolver, are set to reunite for a remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The original film followed a disturbed man who takes a job at an armored truck company and begins keeping […]

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Jason Statham will star in a U.S. remake of the French thriller “Le Convoyeur,” with Guy Ritchie directing for Miramax.

Ritchie and Statham previously collaborated on two British actioners: 2000’s “Snatch” and 1998’s “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” Miramax is set to produce and has purchased the remake rights of the original 2004 French film “Le Convoyeur” from StudioCanal.

Statham will portray a cold and mysterious character who works for an armored truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. The original movie, which was also known as “Cash Truck,” starred Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel.

“I’m looking forward to bringing this story to life and working with Jason while he still has the use of his knees,” Ritchie said.

Miramax CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson will produce. Ritchie and Miramax last teamed on the crime thriller “The Gentlemen,” starring Matthew McConaughey.

Jason Statham is reuniting with Guy Ritchie for the fourth time on an untitled action thriller that’s set up at Miramax, the studio announced on Monday. The duo worked previously together on the 1998 crime-thriller “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” “Snatch” in 2001 and 2005’s “Revolver.”

The film will be a remake of the French 2004 movie “Le Convoyeur,” starring Jean Dujardin and Albert Dupontel. Miramax has acquired the remake rights to the film from Studiocanal. Miramax’s CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson will produce.

The untitled film is a revenge-thriller that will follow “H,” a cold and mysterious man responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. The film also shifts across timelines and between various character’s perspectives.

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“I’m looking forward to...

Last week, we ran a report that said Guy Ritchie’s next film, after “The Gentlemen” arrives in early 2020, will see the filmmaker return, once again, to the crime thriller genre. And now, it appears that is indeed the plan, as Deadline is reporting that Ritchie’s next film, produced by Miramax, will see the director not only give audiences another crime film, but bring back one of his favorite collaborators from earlier in his career.

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Exclusive: Jason Statham, who broke out playing the fast-talking protagonists in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, is reuniting with the filmmaker again. The new as-yet-untitled project is a revenge-based action thriller from Miramax, which has acquired remake rights to the original 2004 French film Le Convoyeur from StudioCanal to make it happen.

The plot follows H, a cold and mysterious character working at a cash truck company responsible for moving hundreds of millions of dollars around Los Angeles each week. Weaving through a suspenseful and carefully constructed narrative, the film shifts across timelines and between various characters’ perspectives for a thrilling and mind-bending experience.

Miramax CEO Bill Block and Ivan Atkinson will produce.

Said Ritchie: “I’m looking forward to bringing this story to life and working with Jason while he still has the use of his knees.”

This will mark Ritchie’s latest pic...

Lionsgate has picked up the domestic rights to the Sandra Bullock-starring action thriller Vigilance.

The pic is inspired by the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur, and explores greed, revenge and the dark heart of human nature. Directed by Narcos director Josef Wladyka from a screenplay by Ethan Erwin, Albert Hughes and John Hodge, the film will be produced by Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver and executive produced by Hal Sadoff.

Lionsgate inked a first-look TV deal with Silver Pictures in 2015. Vigilance portrays Alex (Bullock), an American who has fallen on hard times, beginning a job at a London...

The festival was forced to react to anger over the inclusion of Netflix titles, then the Manchester terror attack.

Monday’s night’s devastating attack in Manchester cast a pall over the final throes of a sluggish Cannes market and a festival selection that has lacked exuberance heading into its final stretch.

Flags flew at half-mast on Tuesday and there was a minute’s silence out of respect to the victims of the atrocity.

Swift messages of condolences came from the festival and the local mayor while Pixar cancelled a Cars 3 media event.

Security was never far from the agenda in Cannes. Heavily armed police were a constant presence and Cannes’ heightened state of alert kicked into action on Saturday when an ultimately harmless suspect package resulted in an evacuation of the Debussy during a press screening of Michel Hazanavicius’ Redoubtable.

The sudden death, aged 57, of Busan deputy director Kim Ji-seok at the start of the...

According to Deadline, Sandra Bullock is set to star in Cash Truck, a new film “inspired by” the 2004 French movie Le Convoyeur—though, going by the plot descriptions, that might just be a fancy way of saying it’s a remake. Cash Truck is about an American woman named Alex (Bullock) who takes a job with an armored car company in London that was recently hit by a “deadly heist.” As she forms close relationships with the company’s “tight-knit crew,” Alex gradually reveals that she has some kind of scheme that involves “an explosive secret” from her past and her own “mysterious agenda.” From there, the story goes in “shocking, thrilling new directions,” which is always exciting.

Cash Truck will be directed by Narcos’ Josef Wladyka, from a screenplay by Ethan Erwin, Albert Hughes, and John Hodge.

A classically made two-hander that revisits the source material of another classic, Nicolas Boukhrief’s The Confession (La Confession) offers up a fresh take on the Beatrix Beck novel Leon Morin, Pretre, which was adapted by film noir master Jean-Pierre Melville in a 1961 version starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and the late Emmanuelle Riva. Not unlike Melville, Boukhrief is also known as a director of gritty urban thrillers (Cash Truck, Made in France), and here he shifts to a moody period drama about a priest and atheist butting heads, then coming together, toward the end of World War II.

Featuring impressive performances...

Believe it or not, before he swept the cinema world off its feet with his turn in "The Artist," Jean Dujardin made other movies, and he was perhaps best known as the lead in the spy spoof 'Oss 117' flicks. But it seems producer Joel Silver has been using that new all region DVD player he got on Black Friday, as he's set to remake "Le Convoyeur," a 2004 heist flick starring Dujardin. Let's face it, Dujardin's name has little to do with why this is being remade (though it probably helps put an extra shine to it). Hollywood wants stuff they can easily translate and looks like easy box office, and this trailer for "Le Convoyeur" reveals it's exactly that: an action thriller with a sympathetic lead that looks like something Mark Wahlberg would release in Febraury. Anyway, the story centers on a father whose son accidentally gets killed as...

Long before French star Jean Dujardin two-stepped into our hearts in the glorious silent romance The Artist, he was starring opposite Albert Dupontel in the French crime-thriller Le Convoyeur. The movie centers on a man whose life is forever changed when stray gunfire from an armored car robbery kills his young son. The company that owns these tank-like vehicles has had two similar thefts occur within the past year. So, believing these must be an inside job, this mourning father gets a job there in hopes of finding the careless crooks, and avenging his son's death. While the film drew praise in France, it had no impact in the U.S., but that's all about to change. THR reports Joel Silver's production company Silver Pictures has picked up the remake rights, and will make the movie.currently called Cash Truck.in conjunction with French production house/distributor Studio Canal,...

Though it might sounds like a blue collar sequel to the trivia show "Cash Cab," the film Cash Truck from producer Joel Silver (The Matrix, Lethal Weapon) is actually just a remake of the French heist thriller Le Convoyeur. Released in 2004, the film follows a father and son who end up driving behind an armored truck when it gets held up by masked gunmen. In the craziness of the job, the child ends up being killed, and the father decides to track down the thieves to deliver his own justice. But it's more than just killing them, as he suspects an inside job and begins working at the armored truck company just to find his son's killers. That last bit of information is what makes this a little bit better than any other revenge thriller, but it doesn't sound all that thrilling. Of course, we haven't seen the original film,...

Silver Pictures has picked up the remake rights to 2004 French heist film "Le Convoyeur" which will be retitled "Cash Truck". Studio Canal is fully financing the project's development.

The story follows a father driving behind an armored car when masked gunmen try hijacking the vehicle. Stray gunfire hits the father's car, killing his son in the passenger seat.

Seeking to avenge the death and suspecting an inside job, he takes job with the armored car company.

Andrew Kevin Walker and David Ayer penned previous drafts of the remake when it was setup at Paramount and Nu Image/Millennium. A new scribe will now be brought in.

Silver and StudioCanal previously teamed on the 2011 thriller "Unknown" and the currently shooting "Non-Stop," both of which star Liam Neeson.

Source: Heat Vision...

You might suspect, upon hearing that powerhouse producer Joel Silver is developing a film called Cash Truck, that someone is making a movie about his attempts to get Liam Neeson to perform some potentially life-threatening real stunt. But no – it’s simply a remake of French heist thriller Le Convoyeur (above).The plot of the 2004 original found a father out for a pleasant drive with his son. They’re unfortunate enough to be on the road behind an armoured car when masked gunmen attempt to hijack the dosh-laden vehicle.A stray spray of bullets hits the man’s car, killing his child. Wracked with guilt and burning with vengeance, he seeks to find those responsible. And, as he suspects that it was an inside job, he gets hired by the armoured car company so he can figure out who the culprits were.This isn’t a new project – Paramount and...

Silver Pictures continues rolling on its hot acquisitions streak, picking up the remake rights to the French heist film Le Convoyeur. Studio Canal is fully financing the development of the project, which is being retitled Cash Truck. The original 2004 film centered on a father driving behind an armored car when masked gunmen attempt to hijack the vehicle. Stray gunfire hits the father's car, killing the son he was traveling with. Seeking to avenge the death and suspecting an inside job, he takes job with the armored car company. Story: Silver Picks Up Action Spec From 'XXX' Writer The project

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