NETFLIX ACQUIRES ‘SIERRA BURGESS IS A LOSER’ STARRING ‘STRANGER THINGS’ ACTRESS SHANNON PURSER
By Justin Kroll Netflix has acquired “Sierra Burgess Is A Loser,” a feature film from Black Label Media. Ian Samuels directed the pic with Lindsey Beer penning the script. The movie stars “Stranger Things” actress Shannon Purser, RJ Cyler, Kristine Froseth, Noah Centineo, Chrissy Metz, Alan Ruck, and Lea Thompson. The film is a modern... Read More
BENECIO DEL TORO RETURNS IN FIRST SICARIO 2: SOLDADO TRAILER
NICK ROMANO December 19, 2017 AT 09:00 AM EST Josh Brolin has called Sicario 2: Soldado, the sequel to 2015’s Sicario, a “more severe” and “much bigger” film than the first. Benicio Del Toro would just add that while Sicario was more of a “really hardcore straight line,” this one “is a little more complicated.”... Read More
WATCH THE EXCLUSIVE FIRST TRAILER FOR CHRIS HEMSWORTH’S ’12 STRONG’
By Bryan Alexander Even Chris Hemsworth, who makes a living as a cape-wearing, hammer-wielding demigod, concedes that the image of a modern military leader rolling into battle on horseback makes for a curious spectacle. “That absolutely got my attention, the visual uniqueness of this warfare,” says Hemsworth of the Afghanistan war drama 12 Strong (in... Read More
ONLY THE BRAVE: FILM REVIEW
9:00 AM PDT 10/11/2017 by Todd McCarthy THE BOTTOM LINE An engaging account of a tragic real-life story. Jeff Bridges, Josh Brolin, Jennifer Connelly, Taylor Kitsch and Miles Teller star in a drama about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, who battled against the Yarnell Hill fire in Arizona in 2013. The well-worn dramatic format of putting... Read More
J.D. SALINGER BIOPIC ‘REBEL IN THE RYE’ EFFECTIVELY EVOKES AUTHOR’S STRUGGLES
By Gary Goldstein The journey of J.D. Salinger from young wiseacre to world-celebrated author and notorious recluse is absorbingly traced in Danny Strong’s “Rebel in the Rye.” The movie opens in 1939, when budding scribe Jerome “Jerry” Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) takes an inspiring Columbia University writing class from Story magazine editor Whit Burnett (Kevin Spacey).... Read More
EXCLUSIVE ‘REBEL IN THE RYE’ TRAILER EXPOSES A FAMED WRITER’S SECRETS
Before he became famous around the world as the author of The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger was a young man in search of inspiration. As portrayed by Nicholas Hoult in Rebel in the Rye, he has no lack of confidence; he knows he wants to be a professional writer, but he doesn’t yet... Read More
ONLY THE BRAVE OFFICIAL TRAILER, STARRING MILES TELLER AND JOSH BROLIN
Here’s your first look at the movie inspired by GQ’s feature story on the Granite Mountain Hotshots and their battle against one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. GQ
‘Moonlight’ Star Trevante Rhodes to Join Chris Hemsworth in ‘Horse Soldiers’
The Black Label Media feature project is a true account of a U.S. cavalry charge that took place in Afghanistan against the Taliban being produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Films. Trevante Rhodes has found his first role since breaking out with his starring turn in indie sensation Moonlight. The actor is in negotiations to join Chris... Read More
Michael Pena joins Nicolai Fuglsig’s ‘Horse Soldiers’
12:35PM PDT 11/01/16 by Diana Lodderhose EXCLUSIVE: Michael Pena has joined Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon in the cast of Nicolai Fuglsig’s Horse Soldiers, the tense true story of a U.S. Special Forces team and their untested captain sent to a rugged region of Afghanistan in the weeks after 9/11. Lionsgate is expected to be... Read More
Catherine Keener Joins Benicio Del Toro & Josh Brolin In ‘Sicario’ Sequel ‘Soldado’
8:30AM PDT 10/27/16 by Mike Fleming Jr. DEADLINE EXCLUSIVE: Catherine Keener has joined the cast of Soldado, the Lionsgate- and Black Label Media-financed second installment of the drug war thriller that began with 2015’s Sicario. Gomorra helmer Stefano Sollima is directing the film, which was scripted by Sicario scribe Taylor Sheridan. The sequel focuses on... Read More