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Amazon Prime Video released another streaming success with director Carles Torrens' Spanish zombie film, Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End. Based on a novel by Manel Loureiro, this action-packed horror movie follows a reclusive young man trying to reunite with his family when a widespread virus turns people into violent zombies.

Led by actor Francisco Ortiz, the cast of Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End features many international acting stars, including Narcos: Mexico's Jose Mara Yazpik. Not every actor in this cast is a household name, but that didn't stop this thrilling new zombie film from becoming the no. 1 film on Amazon Prime Video since its premiere on October 31, 2024. With each of their characters, each actor in Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End helped introduce a rich, new world overrun with zombies, making it one of the best movies now on Amazon Prime Video.

Apocalypse Z:...

Exclusive: ITN Distribution has picked up the holiday rom-com Christmas Overtime starring Meghan Carrasquillo, Adam Brudnicki, and Jadon Cal for North America.

The deal was hashed out here in Cannes. Premiere Entertainment CEO Elias Axume negotiated on behalf of the production with Stuart Alson of ITN.

The film follows an unemployed actress (Carrasquillo), who is offered a commercial by a lonely advertising executive (Brudnicki) on the condition that she convinces his staff to work on Christmas Eve to meet an important deadline.

Ann Deborah Fishman directed the film and co-wrote the screenplay with Simon K. Parker. Fishman produced the film for Night Dove Pictures. Also starring are Chris Moss, Christine Allocca, Laura Ault, and Osmara Rojas. Producers are Fishman and Sommer. Premiere is selling the remaining international territories at the Cannes Market, which ends today.

LA-based Premiere is a production, financing, and sales company. Premiere most recently acquired the family...

Stars: Russell Crowe, Kelly Greyson, Pacharo Mzembe, Marton Csokas, Tommy Flanagan, Karen Gillan | Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage | Directed by Adam Cooper

Based on E.O. Chirovici’s novel The Book of Mirrors, Sleeping Dogs opens with a look at Roy Freeman and his apartment. It’s an apartment with notes taped everywhere, even on the TV Dinner he’s about to cook. They’re reminders, meant to help him cope with his Alzheimer’s while an experimental treatment he opted for starts to work. Neither the operation nor the notes prevented him from microwaving the TV remote, however.

He’s contacted by Emily Dietz from Project Clean Hands, a group devoted to freeing the wrongly convicted. They’re interested in the case of Isaac Samuel a death row inmate Freeman arrested and helped convict for the brutal murder of college professor Joseph Wieder.

I think they missed a great...

Stars: Randy Couture, Oleg Prudius, Natalie Eva Marie, Neal McDonough, Rashad Evans, Frank Mir, Chuck Zito, Jonathan Camp, Bai Ling | Written and Directed by Daniel Zirilli

Everett Grant has beef with Russian mobster Maxim Vasiliiv played by Oleg Prudius or if you’re a pro wrestling fan, Vladimir Kozlov. It seems Everett’s security company has been cutting into the Russian mob’s profits and they’re not happy about that. Since Phoenix is an action film, they decide to settle it with a fight to the death. That would be Everett’s death via a bullet to the head made to look like suicide.

WWE wrestler Natalie Eva Marie plays Everett’s daughter Fiona, Phoenix to her friends. She’s told of his death by General Shackleton. She knows he would never have killed himself and decides to put her hand-to-hand combat trainer’s skills to work finding answers.

Warning: Spoilers for Kaleidoscope Season 1.Currently available to watch on Netflix, Kaleidoscope differentiates itself from its streaming predecessors by taking a non-linear approach to storytelling. While Leo Pap and his crew plan out their heist step by step, the show is designed in a way that allows audiences to shuffle the order of the episodes and still achieve a complete viewing experience. The limited series has been at the top of Netflix's charts, and even Stephen King took to Twitter to praise its high entertainment value.

Peter Mark Kendall plays the role of Stan Loomis, "the smuggler," while Paz Vega plays Ava Mercer, "the weapons specialist." Kendall is known for projects such as The Americans, Strange Angel, and Chicago Med. Vega has starred in several films and series, but There Are No Saints and 13 Minutes are two of her most recent works. Kaleidoscope also stars Giancarlo Esposito, Niousha Noor,...

There Are No Saints, aka The Jesuit, is yet another “not for me” sort of film. How come? After all, it is revenge fare. We open as bad boy, Neto Niente (José María Yazpik), is released from prison when it turns out he was fitted up for the crime he’s been inside for.

He emerges to a less than enthusiastic response from his estranged wife, Nadia (Paz Vega), and a hero’s welcome from teenage son, Julio (Keidrich Sellati). Also, to an ambush and police brutality from the local cops, who, in the great tradition of US film police everywhere, reckon he can’t possibly be innocent. Therefore, the sensible thing to do is follow him around and hassle him at every turn, on the basis that sooner or later he will revert to type and they can bang him up again.

Unfortunately for Neto – and Nadia – the latter has fallen foul.

Within the burgeoning action sub-genre of fathers scorching earth to save their child, one will not find a film meaner than There Are No Saints. Written by Paul Schrader and directed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, this nasty thriller concerns Neto (Jose Maria Yazpi), a former hitman fresh out of prison and determined to get on the straight-and-narrow. Unfortunately, his former cartel employers don’t love the idea. Neither do the corrupt law enforcers they have on payroll. This discontentment extends to his ex-flame Nadia (Paz Vega) and estranged son Julio (Keidrich Sellati). Everyone’s in danger. Turns out Nadia’s new boyfriend (Neal McDonough) is affiliated with the cartel, and kidnaps Julio once the heat is on.

Yazpi is a brooding sort, to be sure, though he lacks bravado for the lead role. In fairness, this film asks him to play a multitude of emotions without the scenes to support the complexity.

Alexander Nevsky stars in the action western.

Premiere Entertainment Group (Peg) has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with worldwide rights to Joe Cornet’s action western Gunfight At Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky.

Craig Hamann has written the screenplay in which Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town.

Cornet, Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, and Anna Oris round out the key cast. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm. Eta Films...

Joe Cornet directed from Craig Hamann screenplay.

Premiere Entertainment Group has bulked up its Cannes sales slate with worldwide rights to action western Gunfight At Rio Bravo starring Alexander Nevsky

Joe Cornet directed the film from Craig Hamann’s screenplay in which Nevsky plays a mysterious Russian gunslinger who aids a marshal and a sheriff as they stand up to a bloodthirsty outlaw gang known as The Hellhounds who have invaded their small East Texas town.

Cornet, Matthias Hues, Olivier Gruner, and Anna Oris round out the key cast. The film was produced by Nevsky for Hollywood Storm. Eta Films...

One can guess, fairly or not, why there’s some huge gap between a film’s production and its release, but in the case of There Are No Saints—which assembled its creative team, let’s see, nine-and-a-half years ago and finished shooting in May 2013—we can extend one shred of doubt vis-a-vis the screenwriting credit tagged to Paul Schrader. Many years ago he’d written it as The Jesuit with intent to direct, of all people, Oscar Isaac, but financial difficulties held the project and directorial duties were eventually taken up by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, with José María Yazpik (Narcos) slotted to star. Per IMDb Pro, production began in late 2012. Then?

It’s hard to ascertain what held Saints so catastrophically long. If nothing else Schrader saw a rough cut early into Obama’s second term and spoke well of it, saying “I Loved It! It’s better than...

Alfonso Pineda Ulloa directs a thriller script form Paul Schrader with There are No Saints.

There Are No Saints in select US theaters + on VOD starting May 27th, 2022 this summer season.

Synopsis:

A man nicknamed "the Jesuit," is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate and dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder.

Ron Perlman co-stars with Jose Maria Yazpik, Neal McDonough, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan, Paz Vega, and Karla Souza.

Watch the trailer below:...

"For all the things I've done, for all the things I'm about to do... may God have mercy on my soul." Saban Films has revealed an official trailer for an action crime thriller titled There Are No Saints, which is an especially generic title for a film that looks entirely derivative. Aside from Ron Perlman (who always kick ass) in the cast, the other exciting detail about this is that the screenplay is written by fellow filmmaker Paul Schrader. A man nicknamed "the Jesuit," is imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. When his wife is murdered and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises an elaborate & dangerous plan to rescue his son and avenge the murder. Perlman co-stars with Jose Maria Yazpik, Neal McDonough, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan, Paz Vega, and Karla Souza. This looks like yet another ...

Exclusive: Emmy and Golden Globe winner Brian Cox (Succession) has been tapped as the narrator for Sacrilege: The Unholy Radicalization of Europe, a documentary from director Barry Avrich (Oscar Peterson: Black + White) and his Melbar Entertainment Group that recently wrapped production.

Avrich’s latest explores how Europe became a global centre of extremism, offering illuminating perspectives and personal stories of how radical Islam, political errors, and the failure of immigration and integration government policies changed the course of the continent forever. The film was shot on location in Vienna, Paris, Copenhagen, Nice, and Malmo, and features unprecedented access to former Isis radicals, as well as victims of terrorism, radicalization experts, journalists and clerics such as the Chief Rabbi of Denmark and Nice’s top Imam.

Avrich produced Sacrilege alongside Melissa Coghlan and Mark Selby, also serving as the film’s executive producer. Melbar is looking to release the feature in late fall,...

Sales slate includes There Are No Saints, East Of The Mountains, This Game’s Called Murder.

Premiere Entertainment Group has acquired international rights to Tribeca 2021 drama No Future starring Catherine Keener and Screen Star of Tomorrow 2015 Charlie Heaton and will commence talks with EFM buyers this week.

The film centres on a recovering addict – Heaton, who starred in The New Mutants – who returns to his hometown where he begins a troubled affair with his deceased friend’s grieving mother, played by Keener, who earned Oscar nominations for Capote and Being John Malkovich.

The cast includes Rosa Salazar (Alita: Battle Angel), Jefferson White...

Oscar Isaac excels at addressing life after “Star Wars.” Last year, when asked if he would return to play intergalactic pilot Poe Dameron if given the opportunity, he said he’d consider it “if I need another house.” At the Venice Film Festival in September, when pressed to explain why he signed up to play the guilt-stricken, gambling veteran at the center of Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter,” he called it a chance to escape “green screen alien space land.”

These cheeky replies almost certainly contain a kernel of truth, but in the case of “The Card Counter,” they only tell a fraction of a story that predates “Star Wars” by decades. The movie, which finds Isaac delivering a sullen, introverted performance as former Abu Ghraib soldier William Tell, feels like a natural extension of the self-defeatist pariahs he’s played in everything from the bashful musician of “Inside Llewyn Davis...

Sitting in the sun in the garden of a Venice Palazzo, Tim Roth looks far too relaxed for an actor who never seems to stop working.

He’s here to talk about Michel Franco’s Sundown. The film, Roth’s second collaboration with the Mexican auteur following 2015’s Chronic, follows Roth’s turn in Renny Harlin’s down-and-dirty actioner The Misfits, which released online in June, and Bergman Island, the Mia Hansen-Love-directed drama that premiered in Cannes in July, and which stars Roth and Vicky Krieps (The Phantom Thread).

Next up for Roth is The Jesuit, a drama from Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, based on a ...

Sitting in the sun in the garden of a Venice Palazzo, Tim Roth looks far too relaxed for an actor who never seems to stop working.

He’s here to talk about Michel Franco’s Sundown. The film, Roth’s second collaboration with the Mexican auteur following 2015’s Chronic, follows Roth’s turn in Renny Harlin’s down-and-dirty actioner The Misfits, which released online in June, and Bergman Island, the Mia Hansen-Love-directed drama that premiered in Cannes in July, and which stars Roth and Vicky Krieps (The Phantom Thread).

Next up for Roth is The Jesuit, a drama from Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, based on a ...

Exclusive: Lucas Akoskin’s new venture lines up story of Hasidic musician superstar.

Santa Monica-based Aliwen Entertainment has signed Holy Rollers director Kevin Asch to King Without A Crown, based on the story of the Jewish American reggae singer, rapper and beatbox performer Matisyahu.

Aliwen Entertainment founder Lukas Akoskin is producing with Bonnie Timmerman and Jonathan Gray. The project is a collaboration between Aliwen, Bonnie Timmerman Productions and Big Jack Productions.

Tommy Swerdlow, whose screenplay credits include Cool Runnings, wrote the script that recounts key episodes in the life of Matisyahu from the ages of 17 to 27.

The film will chronicle Matisyahu’s remarkable transformation from his secular origins as Matthew Miller to becoming a rabbi and Hasidic Jewish rock star. Matisyahu himself is creatively and musically involved in the project.

The producers anticipate an autumn start in New York and Israel and are out to casting for a star capable of portraying a “spiritually transformative one-of-a-kind...

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How does a composer create musical voices for a population of yellow creatures who speak their own language? If you’re Grammy Award-winning musician/composer/songwriter Heitor Pereira, it’s one groovy journey.

Playing in theaters now, Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters—from T. rex to Napoleon—the Minions find themselves without someone to serve and fall into a deep depression.

But one Minion named Kevin has a plan, and he – alongside teenage rebel Stuart and lovable little Bob – ventures out into the world to find a new evil boss for his brethren to follow.

The trio embarks upon a thrilling journey that ultimately leads them to their next potential master, Scarlet Overkill (Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock), the world’s first-ever female super-villain.

Having weathered the wintry climes of Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight set, Tim Roth has turned his attention to his next job. He’s joined the cast of Life At These Speeds, adapted from Marc Novak’s novel.Life, which also stars Melanie Lynsky, Graham Rodgers, Billy Crudup, Liana Liberato, Peter Coyote, Stephanie Scott, Yul Vazquez, Elizabeth Canavan and Tom Cocquerel, follows what happens when a teenager loses his best friends in an accident. He starts running, and discovers that the exercise allows him to remember them perfectly, all while bringing him notoriety. And he realises he has a choice to make – does he keep his past memories alive, or start making new ones in the present?Roth is set to play Coach Jarhead in the film, which Leif Tilden is directing. In addition to The Hateful Eight (which has yet to set a UK release date), the actor...

Topher Grace’s backstage musical comedy One Shot is getting a Broadway vet in Taye Diggs. The singer-actor has joined the cast of the indie film, about a failed star turned stage manager (Grace) who must wrangle the eccentric cast and crew of a new production to save the show’s opening night. Isaac Rentz is directing from a script by Gerry De Leon and Greg Lisi; Grace, who’s currently in theaters in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, is also producing.

Diggs will play Malcolm, a flamboyant member of the production. Diggs of course got his start originating the character of Benny in 1996′s Tony-winning Rent, a role he reprised in 2005 when the musical was adapted into a film by Sony and Chris Columbus. By then he was well into a film and TV career with How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Wood, The Best Man, and a run...

• Catherine Zeta-Jones will star in the true story crime biopic The Godmother about Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco. Norwegian filmmaker Eva Sørhaug (90 Minutes) is directing the Oscar winner as one of the most fearsome figures in the Miami drug wars of the '70s and '80s who was killed in a motorcycle drive-by assassination in 2012 after serving 18 years in prison. Filming will begin early next year with a script by Frank Baldwin. [Deadline] • Erica Bana has joined the ensemble of Disney's The Finest Hours directed by Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm). Bana will play Daniel Cluff, the deeply respected Coast...

Ron Perlman has signed on for The Jesuit.

The Sons of Anarchy actor has been cast as a villain in the Mexican action film.

Produced by Alex Garcia, the film follows a man nicknamed 'The Jesuit' who finds himself imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit.

After the murder of his wife and the kidnapping of his son, 'The Jesuit' travels to Mexico to exact revenge on those that are responsible.

"As is most always the case, I was impressed by the writing and the people involved in the process," Perlman said.

The screenplay was written by Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver).

The Hellboy star is also attached to star in the 2015 films Sara's Cell and Skin Trade.

Perlman's Hand of God series has also been picked up by Amazon.

Even though principal photography has long since wrapped, and the movie is deep in post, one new addition to the cast of The Jesuit has just been announced. The news comes from Variety, who have learned that Sons Of Anarchy’s Ron Perlman was a late addition to the shoot.

The film is based on a script by Taxi Driver‘s Paul Schrader, who revealed his first impression of the finished product as “a badass exploitation film with a black soul and shoot-from-the-hip style.” Directed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, the movie centres around a wrongly incarcerated man whose ex-wife is murdered by her ex-boyfriend. That’s not the worst part: his son is also kidnapped. Busting out of the pen, The Jesuit embarks on a mission to find his son and take down the man who killed his ex.

Perlman is onboard playing the movie’s villainous gangbanger – who sounds...

Exclusive: Alex Garcia is in Cannes shopping rights to the revenge saga.

Prolific Mexican producer and financier Alex Garcia is shopping rights in Cannes to revenge saga The Jesuit, based on a screenplay by Paul Schrader.

Paz Vega, Jose Maria Yaspik, Shannyn Sossamann and Tim Roth star in the film, which wrapped a 14-week shoot in Mexico and California.

Alfonso Pineda Ulloa directs the story of a newly released mobster known as The Jesuit who goes on a vengeful rampage when his ex-wife’s current husband murders her and kidnaps The Jesuit’s son.

Jay Cohen of The Gersh Agency represents Us rights and depending on the deal, Garcia’s LatAm Pictures might hold on to select Latin American rights to the Itaca Films, Bn Films and Ag Studios production.

Santiago Garcia Galvan and Jose Martinez Jr join Garcia as producers.

Rounding out the key cast are Neal McDonough, Tommy Flanagan, Karla Souza and [link...

Five years ago I wrote an original script titled "The Jesuit" which I was set to direct starring Oscar Isaac when the financing entity, Maya, collapsed. It was meant to be a return to my action exploitation roots, i.e., "Rolling Thunder." I also wanted to make a Latin film.  After a second film fell through, a Bret Easton Ellis original titled "Bait," Bret and I embarked on a fascinating Diy adventure which resulted in "The Canyons." While doing this I learned that the "Jesuit" producer Santiago Garcia Galvan had regained the script rights and wanted to go forward immediately.  I told Santiago that I didn't think I could abandon "Canyons." I said that since I meant "The Jesuit" to be a Latin film, and I was the only Anglo involved, he should get a Mexican director. Santiago replied that he'd already given the script to Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, who wanted to do it.

Shannyn Sossamon (Mistresses) is set to co-star opposite Matt Dillon in the Fox event series Wayward Pines, from M. Night Shyamalan. Based on a best-selling novel, Wayward Pines is an intense, mind-bending thriller about Secret Service agent Ethan Burke (Dillon), who arrives in the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, on a mission to find two missing federal agents. But instead of answers, Ethan’s investigation only turns up more questions as he faces the terrifying reality that he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive. Sossamon, repped by Apa and Oren Segal, will play Theresa Burke, Ethan’s wife. Theresa, who met Ethan when she was a trainee in the Secret Service, left the Service to raise their son Ben. Sossamon joins Carla Gugino, Terrence Howard, Toby Jones and Melissa Leo in the cast. She recently wrapped The Jesuit. Ashraf Barhom has been cast in the high-profile FX drama pilot Tyrant,...

Last weekend’s celebration of all things cultural in Mexico was a big success (2014 has now been announced) and the film programming presented a number of diverse and interesting offerings from the country.

The following are a handful of the screenings which we were lucky to be invited to.

Opening night film – The Girl

Debuting at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Us filmmaker David Riker’s look at the hazardous world of immigration proved to be a strong choice to open with. In the film, Abbie Cornish (convincingly) plays a white-trash single mother called Ashley. She lives an aimless life close to the Mexican border in San Antonio and is battling to regain custody of her young son after a DUI charge. Discovering her estranged father (Will Patton – grizzled as hell) is using his haulage wagon for other money-making purposes, she foolishly arranges for a group of Mexicans to be smuggled across the border.

Three Days To Kill

Amber Heard has closed a deal to star in McG's action thriller "Three Days to Kill" at EuropaCorp and Relativity Media. Kevin Costner plays a dying Secret Service agent who decides to retire in order to reconnect with his estranged family.

Heard plays a woman who offers him access to an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, which Costner must complete while coping with the drug's hallucinatory side effects. [Source: Variety]

The Jesuit

Tim Roth, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan and Neal McDonough have joined the cast of Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's English-language revenge thriller "The Jesuit". The Paul Schrader-penned project is currently shooting in Mexico.

Jose Maria Yazpik plays an ex-convict forced to take matters into his own hands after his wife is killed and his son is kidnapped. Shannyn Sossamon and Paz Vega also star. [Source: THR]

Vendetta

Danny Dyer,...

Three Days To Kill

Amber Heard has closed a deal to star in McG's action thriller "Three Days to Kill" at EuropaCorp and Relativity Media. Kevin Costner plays a dying Secret Service agent who decides to retire in order to reconnect with his estranged family.

Heard plays a woman who offers him access to an experimental drug that could save his life in exchange for one last assignment, which Costner must complete while coping with the drug's hallucinatory side effects. [Source: Variety]

The Jesuit

Tim Roth, Brian Cox, Tommy Flanagan and Neal McDonough have joined the cast of Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's English-language revenge thriller "The Jesuit". The Paul Schrader-penned project is currently shooting in Mexico.

Jose Maria Yazpik plays an ex-convict forced to take matters into his own hands after his wife is killed and his son is kidnapped. Shannyn Sossamon and Paz Vega also star. [Source: THR]

Vendetta

Danny Dyer,...

Paz Vega has joined the cast of Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's "The Jesuit" says Variety.

Jose Maria Yazpik plays a man who has been falsely imprisoned. When his wife is killed and son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises a dangerous plan to rescue the boy and avenge her death.

Vega will play the key role of his ex-wife. Shannyn Sossamon is also onboard the woman he hires to masquerade as his wife during his quest for revenge.

Paul Schrader penned the script and shooting kicks off this month in Mexico. Alex Garcia, Santiago Garcia Galvan and Jose Martinez Jr. are producing.

Another indie project is coming and this time it’s some kind of an action thriller titled The Jesuit. As you already see from our title, Paz Vega is set to star next to the previously announced Jose Maria Yazpik who will play the lead. If you ask me, the most interesting thing about this film is that Alfonso Pineda Ulloa will drect it from the script written by Paul Schrader! And we all know who Schrader is, right?

Well, if Taxi Driver, Raging Bull or American Gigolo mean nothing to you… But, back to The Jesuit! The movie will center on a man who has been imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit.

When his wife is killed and his son kidnapped and taken to Mexico, he devises a dangerous plan to rescue the boy and avenge her death.

Jose Maria Yazpik is on board to star as that guy,...

Originally slated to shoot in March 2011, with a promising cast including Paz Vega, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Schrader's long brewing "The Jesuit" never got off the ground. Instead, he moved to the micro-indie world and shot "The Canyons" with porn star James Deen and Lindsay Lohan, which is currently in post, and while we had hoped he might get back to "The Jesuit," it looks like he has passed the job on to someone else. Deadline reports that the project will now be helmed by Alfonso Pineda Ulloa, the filmmaker who is probably best known at this point for writing and being attached to direct "Black Angels Has My Wings," which has Eljiah Wood, Tom Hiddelston and Anna Paquin linked to star. 'Wings' was supposed to start lensing last month, but that didn't happen. So instead, Ulloa will roll on with this, rounding up Jose Maria Yazpik ("Abel,...

Legendary screenwriter/director Paul Schrader is set to direct a script by Bret Easton Ellis called ‘Bait’. The story centres on a young man itching to take revenge against the wealthy, who takes control of a yacht at the posh beach club where he works and sails the obnoxious elite into waters filled with the man-eating sharks.

While the concept sounds a little like ‘Piranha 3D’, or some such nonsense, with Schrader and Ellis involved it is a much more interesting prospect.

Ellis is considered by some as one of America’s greatest living writers- and also one of its most controversial. His most famous work is the satirical novel ‘American Psycho’, which was adapted for the screen and starred Christian Bale as the psychopathic/psychotic protagonist Patrick Bateman.

Schrader is best known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese- he wrote the scripts of some of the director’s best works,...

Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader is planning to adapt Bret Easton Ellis's script Bait. The film centres on a waiter working at an elite resort who finds himself being bullied by the young rich college students staying there, Variety reports. Deciding to take revenge, he takes to a dangerous shark-ridden part of the beach before killing them one by one. Caprica director Jonas Pate was originally signed to direct the film, Collider claims. Schrader's most recent project is The Jesuit, which sees a framed man escape prison to exact revenge on those who have attacked his family. The screenwriter and director is best known for his work with The Departed director Martin (more)...

Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader is planning to adapt Bret Easton Ellis's script Bait. The film centres on a waiter working at an elite resort who finds himself being bullied by the young rich college students staying there, Variety reports. Deciding to take revenge, he takes to a dangerous shark-ridden part of the beach before killing them one by one. Caprica director Jonas Pate was originally signed to direct the film, Collider claims. Schrader's most recent project is The Jesuit, which sees a framed man escape prison to exact revenge on those who have attacked his family. The screenwriter and director is best known for his work with The Departed director Martin (more)...

Last we heard, Paul Schrader ought to have been in post-production on The Jesuit right about now. The action thriller seems to have stalled, however, so Schrader has secured himself a new gig directing Brett Easton Ellis' Bait. He's replacing the previously-announced Jonas Pate (Caprica) behind the camera.This one is not to be confused with Bait 3D which Russell "Highlander" Mulcahy wrote and is currently finishing up in Australia. It's going to be hard not to mix them up though, given that they both involve sharks, joining an already crowded school that also includes imminent releases for Shark Night and Dark Tide.You might wonder why long-time Scorsese collaborator Schrader, most recently behind The Walker and Adam Resurrected, would be interested in Bait at all, but we're guessing Ellis is the reason. The American Psycho writer's original script seems to hit on his usual preoccupations, involving a sociopathic waiter...

Taxi Driver‘s screenwriter Paul Schrader is back with a gritty new film called The Jesuit, starring Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez. Maya Entertainment has dropped the plot line and a new one-sheet for the film.

“Steal a man’s child, incur a man’s wrath. “The Jesuit” is this man’s story. When Neto, a former mob enforcer, fresh from a stint in prison, returns to his family, he is devastated to learn that his wife Nadia has moved on. Vowing to turn a new leaf, Neto works diligently to rebuild a relationship with his son Julio. But when Neto receives a late night call from Julio, Neto discovers that his wife has been murdered and his beloved son kidnapped. Worse yet, Neto learns that Nadia’s boyfriend is in fact a dangerous landowner who gave Julio away to a mercenary group in exchange for clearing a large debt.

Burning Palms is directed by Christopher B. Landon and stars Zoe Saldana (Colombiana, Avatar 3, Untitled Star Trek Sequel), Jamie Chung (Sucker Punch, The Hangover Part II, Premium Rush), Rosamund Pike (Barney’s Version), Lake Bell (The League, How to Make It in America), Nick Stahl (388 Arletta Avenue, The Speed of Thought), Paz Vega (Tango Dancer, The Jesuit), Dylan McDermott (Dark Blue) and Shannen Doherty (Mari-Kari, Suite 7).

Burning Palms is a subversive tale that interlaces five stories where no taboo is left unexplored. Framed as a graphic novel come to life, the film unfolds in five popular neighborhoods of Los Angeles as each character careens toward a dark and often comic fate.

Paul Schrader has been involved as screenwriter and director in some very interesting projects over the years. Having written Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, City Hall, Affliction and Bringing Out The Dead, he received acclaim for his work as director on Affliction and (a little more recently) Auto Focus.

Any new project of his should therefore be something to at least be interested in and hopefully in due course even get excited about. That new project seems to be “The Jesuit”, which Schrader has already scripted and is now set to direct as well for Maya Entertainment and Open Window Films.

ComingSoon have the synopsis as follows:-

In ‘The Jesuit’, a man comes out of prison in south Texas: ‘Neto’ wants only a new life, far removed from his violent past. Just when it seems he might regain his wife and ten-year old son, she is...

Paul Schrader ("Affliction," "American Gigolo") has penned the script and is attached to direct the thriller "The Jesuit" for Maya Entertainment and Open Window Films.

The story follows a reformed South Texan prisoner with a violent past trying to reunite with his wife and young son. When she is brutally killed and the boy kidnapped, he abandons his dreams of happiness and returns to what he knows best - violence that made him the most feared man in the state.

Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Paz Vega and Manolo Cardona are set to star in the film which begins shooting in March.

Veteran filmmaker Paul Schrader signed on Willem Dafoe to play the lead in his new revenge thriller “The Jesuit.” According to “Empire,” the thriller would mark the seventh time Schrader and Dafoe have worked together on a film (counting “The last Temptation of Christ,” which Schrader co-wrote). Past collaborations included “Light Sleeper” and “Affliction.” Schrader's last film was "The Walker" starring Woody Harrelson and Lauren Bacall.

A press release from Maya Entertainment has revealed that writer/director Paul Schrader's The Jesuit is finally underway. The thriller will mark the sixth time Willem Dafoe has worked with Schrader (seventh if you count The Last Temptation of Christ, which Schrader wrote but Martin Scorsese directed), and will co-star Michelle Rodriguez, Paz Vega (Sex and Lucia, The Spirit) and Manolo Cardona (Undertow).The official synopsis describes a revenge thriller about a man with a violent past, released from prison in southern Texas to find that his wife has been murdered and his son kidnapped. Our hero "must abandon his dream of happiness in an explosive return to methods that made him the most feared man in Texas, and earned him the nickname... The Jesuit." So far, so Steven Seagal, but we might have thought that from an early synopsis of David Cronenberg's A History of Violence, and look what happened there.

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HollywoodNews.com: Maya Entertainment and Open Window Films have just announced that they have acquired “The Jesuit,” an action-packed drama written and scheduled to be directed by Golden Globe nominee Paul Schrader (Director of “American Gigolo, Afliction”; writer of “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull”).

Production is set to begin in early March 2011. Michelle Rodriguez, Willem Dafoe, Paz Vega and Manolo Cardona are slated to star. Elias Axume represents the film for foreign pre-sales at the upcoming American Film Market on behalf of Maya Entertainment.

In “The Jesuit,” a man comes out of prison in south Texas: “Neto” wants only a new life, far removed from his violent past. Just when it seems he might regain his wife and ten-year old son, she is brutally murdered and the boy kidnapped. Neto must abandon his dream of happiness in an explosive return to methods that made him the most feared man in Texas,...

This one has been brewing for a while, and was even packaged and looking for buyers at Cannes, but it took another round at Afm for buyers to come onboard, and now Paul Schrader's next film "The Jesuit" is on the way. Set to star Paz Vega, Willem Dafoe and Michelle Rodriguez, who were attached earlier this year (though no word of Oscar Isaac also linked at the time), the intriguing sounding flick centers on a wrongly imprisoned man who seeks vengeance when he learns his wife's been murdered and his son's been kidnapped. Given the title, there is undoubtedly…...

Maya Entertainment and Open Window Films have made plans, through the American Film Market, to develop The Jesuit from a script by Paul Schrader with Schrader also attached to direct. The cast is already slated to include Willem Dafoe, Michelle Rodriguez, Paz Vega and Manolo Cardona. The official press release describes the film as follows: In The Jesuit', a man comes out of prison in south Texas: 'Neto' wants only a new life, far removed from his violent past. Just when it seems he might regain his wife and ten-year old son, she is brutally murdered and the boy kidnapped. Neto must abandon his dream of happiness in an explosive return to methods that made him the most feared man in Texas, and earned him the nickname.the Jesuit." Production is slated to begin in...