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Magnet Releasing is ready to send Big Bad Wolves into North American theaters later this year. The genre portion of Magnolia Pictures picked up the Israeli thriller after its world premiere at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.   Written and directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, Big Bad Wolves stars Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, [...]

Filming will take place this fall on the horror thriller Dark Summer to be directed by Paul Solet (Grace). Mike Le wrote the script and Content Film will be handling international sales at Cannes.   Ross M. Dinerstein is producing with Content’s Jamie Carmichael executive producing.   “We are excited to be working with Paul [...]

Bestselling author John Grisham’s next book takes readers back to the world of Jake Brigance, first introduced to audiences in A Time To Kill. Grisham announced his new book, the legal thriller Sycamore Row, will be a sequel to A Time To Kill and will be available in stores on October 22, 2013.   The [...]

Zak Olkewicz’ horror thriller Ink and Bone has been picked up Dimension Films. Described as similar in tone to 1408, Ink and Bone was “preemptively purchased” by Dimension.   Commenting on the acquisition, Bob Weinstein said, “I immediately read and loved the concept of Zak’s script. It reminds me of Stephen King’s work and I [...]

Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion Here’s the plot of the new Halle Berry “thriller”, The Call: Some A-hole kidnaps Little Miss Sunshine and it’s up to Catwoman to leave her 911 cubicle and save her. Oh wait, that would have been an improvement on the actual plot: Some A-hole kidnaps a teenage girl (Abigail [...]

Stephen Moyer (True Blood‘s sexy vampire ‘Bill Compton’) and Radha Mitchell (Red Widow) star in the thriller Evidence which just got picked up for theatrical release by Image Entertainment. Olatunde Osunsanmi (The Fourth Kind) directed the film which was acquired by Image Entertainment at the 2013 SXSW festival.   The cast also includes Dale Dickey, [...]

Cheap Thrills just had its world premiere during the Midnight section at the 2013 South by Southwest Film Festival and Drafthouse Films announced it’s picked up the dark comedy thriller for US distribution. E.L. Katz directed the film which stars Pat Healy, David Koechner, Sara Paxton, and Ethan Embry, with Drafthouse planning a limited theatrical [...]

Reviewed by Ian Forbes, Sobering Conclusion Watching the trailer for Dead Man Down, it looks like your run-of-the-mill action film. One big name actor (Colin Farrell) trying to kill another big name actor (Terrence Howard) while some girl might get caught in the middle (Noomi Rapace). Ho hum. Been there, done that. However, there were [...]

Peter Facinelli, best known to millions of Twihards worldwide as Dr. Carlisle Cullen from The Twilight Saga, has just been added to the cast of Freezer. Facinelli will be co-starring with Dylan McDermott in the action-thriller set to shoot in Edmonton this month.   Mikael Salomon (Band of Brothers) directed from a script by Tom [...]

Director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Transsiberian) helms The Call starring Oscar winner Halle Berry (Monster’s Ball), and now there’s a trailer to check out for the suspense thriller. Arriving in theaters on March 15, 2013, the TriStar Pictures release also features Abigail Breslin, Morris Chestnut, Michael Eklund, and Michael Imperioli.   The Plot:   When [...]