Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight Saga novels, and Meghan Hibbett's Fickle Fish Films have optioned Lois Duncan's 1974 book Down a Dark Hall. According to Variety, Meyer and Fickle Fish Films intend to adapt Duncan's supernatural suspense / crime novel into a film. Hotel for Dogs, Held for Ransom, and I Know What You Did Last Summer are all based on Duncan novels. In addition to having a hand in the Twilight movies, Meyer recently produced Jerusha Hess' romantic comedy Austenland, in which a woman (Keri Russell) obsessed with Pride and Prejudice travels to a Jane Austen theme park to find her perfect man. Meyer is also a credited producer in Bill Condon's The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 and Breaking Dawn Part 2, both starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Meyer's novel The Host is currently being made into a movie. Meyer is acting...
- 4/19/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
"Open the safe!" Here we go again, Nicolas Cage. Millennium Films has debuted the trailer via Yahoo for the home invasion thriller Trespass, starring Nicolas Cage and Nicole Kidman as a wealthy husband/wife whose home gets invaded. I'm not sure where this film came from, but its directed by Joel Schumacher, which is something I need to point out because, well, you know. The cast includes Cam Gigandet and Liana Liberato, but this doesn't look like much more than just another kinetic home invasion flick, big whoop. Plus the trailer gives away most of the story, but it's a Schumacher film, you weren't going to see it anyway. Watch the first official trailer for Joel Schumacher's Trespass, via Yahoo: You can also download the new Trespass trailer in High Defintion on Yahoo Held for ransom, a family's predicament grows more dire amidst the discovery of betrayal and deception.
- 8/18/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Mandate Pictures has hired Phil Claydon to direct an adaptation of Miserable Excuse For A Hero, Deadline reports. The script was written by D.V. De Vincentis and based on Bob Powers' comic novel You Are A Miserable Excuse For A Hero. The project is being produced by Mark Gordon and Jennifer Todd.
The book follows "a 30-year-old part-time actor/full-time waiter goes on a date with a girl he kind of likes. The next day, he's awakened by a phone call from kidnappers who tell him they have his girlfriend, and will kill her if he doesn't come up with $50,000 in ransom. Considering he barely knows the girl, he's conflicted."
Here is a description of the book from Amazon:
Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom?
In this book, You, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping.
The book follows "a 30-year-old part-time actor/full-time waiter goes on a date with a girl he kind of likes. The next day, he's awakened by a phone call from kidnappers who tell him they have his girlfriend, and will kill her if he doesn't come up with $50,000 in ransom. Considering he barely knows the girl, he's conflicted."
Here is a description of the book from Amazon:
Why Do All the Nice Girls End Up Getting Kidnapped and Held for Ransom?
In this book, You, the reader, are a thirtysomething part-time actor/full-time waiter suddenly caught up in a kidnapping.
- 6/29/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Vision Entertainment Group has partnered with Suzanne De Laurentiis Productions to produce a new mystery thriller titled the The Grief Tourist. A disturbed and troubled soul, Jim Tahana, retraces the footsteps of serial killers who fascinate him as his hobby. His dark obsession with past killers soon becomes his reality and leads viewers on a menacing and horrific journey inside his twisted mind.
Cast for the film include Michael Cudlitz (Southland, A River Runs Through It, Grosse Point Blank, Running Scared, The Negotiator) and Emmy Award Winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad).
Vision Entertainment Group founders and producers Zachery Bryan (Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Game of their Lives (opposite Gerard Butler), Held For Ransom (opposite Dennis Hopper)), and Adam Targum writing/producing credits include Fox’s “Standoff,” CBS’s “Eleventh Hour” and “CSI:ny” as well as the feature film, “The Good Student,” team up with Suzanne De Laurentiis “10th & Wolf,...
Cast for the film include Michael Cudlitz (Southland, A River Runs Through It, Grosse Point Blank, Running Scared, The Negotiator) and Emmy Award Winner Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad).
Vision Entertainment Group founders and producers Zachery Bryan (Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Game of their Lives (opposite Gerard Butler), Held For Ransom (opposite Dennis Hopper)), and Adam Targum writing/producing credits include Fox’s “Standoff,” CBS’s “Eleventh Hour” and “CSI:ny” as well as the feature film, “The Good Student,” team up with Suzanne De Laurentiis “10th & Wolf,...
- 8/30/2010
- by Allan Ford
- Filmofilia
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