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Universal has just launched the new trailer to Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg’s action adventure 2 Guns. The film is a real action film with a heavy lean towards comedy, which is uncharacteristic of the two-time Academy Award winning Washington.
2 Guns follows two operatives from competing bureaus that are forced to go on the run together. But there is a big problem with there unique alliance; neither knows that the other is an undercover federal agent. | Full Story
With the Oscars wrapping up a few days ago, it’s hard not to reflect over the nominees, winners and how somethings didn’t seem to add up. Ben Affleck isn’t nominated for Best Director, but Argo wins Best Picture. I guess they loved everything about the film, just not necessarily the directing. Sounds crazy, right?
This year, the category of best actor caught my attention and sent an alarm through my film geek nervous system. | Full Story
The legendary Pittsburgh playwright August Wilson, may finally get his wish. Well, he past away back in 2005, so he’s not here to see it come into fruition, but his award-winning play Fences may finally be turned into a Hollywood film.
Fences is a 1983 play set in the 1950s, which explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. It focuses on Troy, a 53-year-old head of household who struggles with providing for his family and with his obsession with cheating death. | Full Story
Nicolas Winding Refn has emerged as an auteur of modern ultraviolence on the silver screen. Through his Pusher trilogy, Bronson, Valhalla Rising, and Drive, his made lovingly-rendered bodily harm into an art form. His newest film, a re-teaming with Drive star Ryan Gosling called Only God Forgives (which means the award for “most bone-chillingly awesome title for a movie in a while”) comes out next year, and now, he has his next project set. | Full Story
Flight have been generating some good buzz since it’s debut on November 2nd, but not everybody is pleased with the attention the film has gotten.
Budweiser and Stolichnaya are unhappy at the way their products are portrayed in Flight, claiming the movie links their beverage to alcoholism and drunk driving. Now the companies have some demands for the studio.
It has being reported that Bud and Stoli are asking Paramount to block out their logos in future releases of the film. | Full Story
Just as the largest hurricane on record wiped out the northeast, the expectation for big box office numbers were uncertain. However, after a slow start Wreck-It Ralph and Flight prevailed over the aftermath of Sandy.
Wreck-It Ralph easily claimed the number one spot this weekend with an estimated $49.1 million, making Wreck-It Ralph potentially Disney’s biggest hit without the help of Pixar. Wreck-It Ralph opened in 3,732 2D and 3D theaters making on average $13,000 per site. | Full Story
Last Sunday, Denzel Washington starred Flight premiered as the closing night film of the New York Film Festival. Subsequently, there has been Oscar talk of an anticipated battle between Washington and Daniel Day-Lewis, from the film Lincoln, which will open on November 9.
In the Robert Zemeckis directed Flight, Washington plays a commercial airline pilot with a drinking and substance abuse problem, which comes to light after he executes an emergency landing, rescues the passengers, and becomes a big hero. | Full Story
It’s been twelve years since Robert Zemeckis directed a movie not populated by soul-less animated mo-cap dolls, which is almost too outstanding to believe. But the beloved director returns to the land of the living on November 2nd with Flight. The movie stars Denzel Washington as an airplane pilot who pulls off a Captain Sully-esque feat in safely landing his catastrophically damaged plane. At first celebrated as a hero, things take a darker turn when an investigation turns up the fact that he had alcohol in his system during the flight. | Full Story
Safe House screen-writer David Guggenheim, has recently brokered a new deal with Universal Picture to pen the sequel to the hit 2012 film.
Safe House starred Oscar award-winning actor Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. The action thriller revolved around:
Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), an ex-CIA agent turned international criminal, who acquires a file from renegade MI6 agent Alec Wade (Liam Cunningham). Attacked by the mercenary Vargas (Fares Fares), he enters an American consulate and is moved to a CIA safe house in Cape Town, South Africa. | Full Story
The upcoming Robert Zemeckis mystery thriller, Flight, starring Denzel Washington is set to close out the 50th Edition of the New York Film Festival. The announcement may suggest that Paramount has high hopes the film will be a major Oscar contender come award season.
Last year,the New York Film Festival closed with Alexander Payne’s The Descendants, which later proved to be a big winner at this years Academy Awards. | Full Story
Movies have enriched Dan Schindel's life so much that he decided
the best way to give back was to become a critic. In addition to Who Got the
Role?, he writes for ScreenPicks, We Are Movie Geeks, Off to
See the Elephant, and several other sites. He spent a year watching and
reviewing a documentary every day for his blog, Days of Docs, so now he
knows everything.
The Hollywood Reporter
