CLEANER Review: Martin Campbell’s High-Stakes Hostage Action Thriller Misses A Spot
Cleaner stars Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar and Clive Owen, and opens in U.S. theaters on February 21 from Quiver Distribution.
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CLEANER: Daisy Ridley Has Her Work Cut Out For Her In The Official Trailer [UPDATED]
12:05 EST: Updated with official poster art Earlier: Martin Campbell is back in the headlines these days with the director touting his newest action thriller, Cleaner. The film stars none other than Daisy Ridley, chucking one-liners at Clive Owen in Die Hard fashion, as seen in the official first trailer which launched on Thursday also featuring actor and martial artist Taz Skylar in a co-antagonistic role. Cleaner is set in present-day London. A group of radical activists, led by Clive Owen, take over an energy company’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to send his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, played by Daisy Ridley, suspended 50 storeys up on the outside of the building, […]
CLEANER: Quiver Acquires Daisy Ridley Action Thriller For North America In Q1 2025
Quiver Distribution announced today that it has acquired North American rights to the Anton and Qwerty Films production Cleaner, directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale, GoldenEye) and set in, around and on the side of one of the UK’s tallest buildings. Quiver will release the film in theaters on February 21, 2025. The film stars Daisy Ridley (the Star Wars franchise) who recently completed Magpie, based on a story she developed, with acclaimed roles in Young Woman and The Sea and Sometimes I Think About Dying, and Clive Owen (Children of Men, Closer), who recently starred in the FX mini-series A Murder at the End of the World. Cleaner is set in present-day London. A group of radical activists, led by Clive Owen, take over an energy company’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages in order to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their just cause is hijacked by an extremist within their ranks, who is ready to murder everyone in the building to […]
GEMINI MAN Adds Mary Elizabeth Winstead; Adds ‘John Wick 2’ Stunt Coordinator
Universal Big things are finally impending after more than two decades for Paramount and Skydance’s long-awaited production of fantasy action thriller, Gemini Man. Will Smith, cast early on as the lead will be joined by actor Clive Owen and actress Mary Elizabeth Winstead as trade news sources THR and Variety have noted in recent memory for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon helmer Ang Lee to direct. The project was originally set up at Disney from a pitch by Darren Lemke in 1997 but remained on the backburner due to the lack of technology for the same actor to produce dual performances on screen. Nowadays with such tech on hand, the Bright star will lead the film as an over-the-hill assassin who becomes the prime target of a cloning program that assigns his killer, a rendition of himself 25 years younger, to take him out. Owen will star as the head of […]
Netflix Scores Sci-Fi Crime Thriller, ANON
Gattica helmer Andrew Niccol’s new sci-fi crime thriller, Anon, reportedly landed a Netflix deal last week to the sum of $4 million dollars following screenings in Toronto. Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried, Colm Feore and Sonya Walger lead the cast with a script by Niccol who produces with K5 Films’ Oliver Simon and Daniel Baur. ANON is set in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity. Our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, SAL FRIELAND (Owen) stumbles onto a young woman (Seyfried) who appears to have subverted the system and disappeared. She has no identity, no history and no record. Sal realizes it may not be the end of crime but the beginning. Known only as THE GIRL, Sal must find her before he becomes the next victim. Anon is one of several pre-fest […]
Crime Novel Adaptation, THREE SECONDS, Lands At Aviron Pictures
Following the May launch of Aviron Pictures at Cannes with last month’s release, Kidnap, the company has since added forthcoming action thriller, Three Seconds to its acquisitions ahead of this week’s kickoff at TIFF. Andrea DiStefano (Escobar: Paradise Lost) helms from a script adapted from the best-selling 2015 Swedish novel by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström and stars Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad, RoboCop, The Killing), Academy Award nominee Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl, Jack Reacher), Academy Award winner Common (Selma, John Wick: Chapter 2), Golden Globe winner Clive Owen (Closer, Children of Men) and Ana de Armas (Blade Runner 2049). Three Seconds follows reformed criminal and former special ops soldier Pete Hoffman (Kinnaman) who, in order to free himself from jail and return to his wife (de Armas) and daughter, has been working undercover for crooked FBI handlers (Pike, Common and Owen) to infiltrate the Polish mob’s drug trade in New York. In a final step towards freedom, Hoffman must return to the one […]
THREE SECONDS Novel Adaptation Starts The Clock At Cannes With Cast Reveal
With sales kicking off at Cannes on Wednesday, Bloom has unveiled as part of its slate, Escobar: Paradise Lost helmer Andrea Di Stefano’s Three Seconds. The new action thriller, inspired by the 2015 novel from Swedish award-winning author duo Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström, is currently in pre-production and has actress Rosamund Pike (The World’s End) and actors Joel Kinnaman (Suicide Squad), Common (John Wick: Chapter Two) and Clive Owen (Shoot ‘Em Up) starring. The film, written by Matt Cook with suceeding revisions by Rowan Joffé and Alex Garland, and then DiStefano sees ex-con and former spec-ops soldier Pete Hoffman who, in the last-inning struggle to free himself from the grip of crooked FBI handlers trying to infiltrate the Polish mob drug trade in New York City, finds him undercover, back behind bars, and in an explosive race against time before his identity is exposed. Thunder Road’s Basil Iwanyk and Erica […]
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS Lands With A New Poster!
Readying for its next phase of publicity to set thing in motion is director Luc Busson’s Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Folks attending New York Comic Con will be able to get a glimpse at numerous stills and props and other items, as well as the chance to meet Besson and award-winning illustrator and co-creator of the classic French graphic novel, Jean-Claude Mézières. As for all else, the film is slated for release on July 21, 2017 and the latest official poster has arrived in time for comic con. Check it out below and set the date for next summer for the film which also casts actress and singer Rihanna along with Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Herbie Hancock and Kris Wu. SYNOPSIS: Rooted in the classic graphic novel series, “Valerian and Laureline,” visionary writer/director Luc Besson advances this iconic source material into a contemporary, unique and epic […]
Clive Owen Will Return To Make BMWs Look Good In The New Shortfilm, THE ESCAPE
It was back in college that I became keen on what BMWFilms was achieving with its spate of shortfilms at the time in 2002. There were eight films dubbed The Hire, and with my most favorite being John Woo’s “Hostage” as much as I am a fan of The Woo. The series itself essentially led me to my appreciation for actor Clive Owen, star of the fantastic 2007 action hit, Shoot ‘Em Up, about a mysterious carrot-eating marksman who finds himself at the beckoncall of a hooker and her baby when they become the target of a seedy squad of mercenaries working for corrupt politicians and the gun manufacturers funding them. (Yes, I called it a hit even though the film flopped, but I’ll be damned if it’s not a hit because it deserves to be addressed as so, sorely missed sequel opportunities notwithstanding). At any rate, you can certainly […]
Clive Owen Revenge Epic, LAST KNIGHTS Gets A New Poster!
Following last month’s trailer unveiling of Casshern helmer, director Kaz I Kiriya‘s newest period action foray, Last Knights, ComingSoon.net provided the official poster art which you can now view just beneath. The film has seen quite a journey as its taken a few years to see through, but you can mark April 3, 2015 as the official date of the film’s theatrical and video-on-demand release, with the promise of what looks to be an entertaining sword-swinging thriller of epic proportions. SYNOPSIS: Academy Award® Nominee Clive Owen (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Closer, 2004) delivers an electrifying performance as a fallen warrior who rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master, Academy Award® Winner Morgan Freeman (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, Million Dollar Baby, 2004) in this epic, sword-clashing adventure of loyalty, honor, and vengeance. Grindstone Entertainment Group presents […]
A Life Of Crime Draws The Line Between Brothers In The New Trailer For BLOOD TIES
We have a new trailer for a film that plays in a similar field of crime dramas like that of James Grey’s 2007 thriller, We Own The Night. For this though, we now have Grey’s latest co-writing contribution to that of French writer and director Guillaume Canet‘s 1970’s-set English language filmmaking debut, Blood Ties. The film is based on a 2008 feature from director Jacques Maillot titled Les liens du sang (a.k.a. Rivals) in which Canet also starred at the time, and has since picked up by Lionsgate for North American distribution following its Cannes premiere last year. Clive Owen and Billy Crudup lead the way with Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Zoe Saldana, Matthias Schoenaerts and James Caan rounding out the cast for the film’s limited theatrical and VoD release on March 21, 2014. SYNOPSIS: New York, 1974. Fifty-year-old Chris (Clive Owen) has just been released on good behavior after […]