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BONEYARD Trailer Sees Mel Gibson Unearthing A Killer Plot This July
Lionsgate has unveiled the official trailer for new crime thriller, Boneyard. Asif Akbar (MR-9: Do Or Die) directs from a script he wrote with Vincent E. Mcdaniel, Hank Byrd, and Koji Steven Sakai. When the skeletal remains of eleven women and girls are discovered in the New Mexico desert, an extensive investigation is launched. Inspired by true crime stories, this chilling crime-thriller follows Police Chief Carter (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson), Detective Ortega (Brian Van Holt), and Agent Petrovick (Mel Gibson) in a multi-agency effort to identify and apprehend the killer. As each of their agendas and methods clash, a tangled web of intrigue casts suspicion in all directions Boneyard also stars Nora Zehetner, and Michael Sirow. Lionsgate will release the film on VOD July 2, followed by theatrical on July 5
CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For The New Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson!
Actors Mel Gibson, Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl and Kate Bosworth are front and center for Confidential Informant, a new crime thriller from director by Michael Oblowitz (This World, Then the Fireworks, The Traveler). The official trailer is now online at the bottom of the page from Lionsgate. Confidential Informant tells the tale of two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer during a crack epidemic. Hoping for leads, Moran (Purcell) and Thorton (Stahl) pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife (Bosworth) and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to come under the scrutiny of a suspicious internal affairs agent, leading to an explosive finale… Oblowitz directs from a script co-written with Michael Kaycheck, and Brooke Nasser. Confidential Informant arrives On Demand and Digital on June 27, and in theaters on June 30.
ON THE LINE Review: Mel Gibson’s Latest Dials In A Pure Thriller That Doesn’t Leave You On Hold
With much recent film buzz dedicated to Chad Staheski’s long-anticipated JOHN WICK 4 (2023) among other blockbusters being released, it is somewhat sad to see that Mel Gibson’s recent film ‘ON THE LINE’ (2023) overshadowed by other offerings – when in all honesty, Gibson’s work should never be ignored. Regardless of his exploits beyond the silver screen, the man is quite simply one of the greatest gifts to modern cinema; a talented actor, director, and icon that should command more respect than be recognised for courting controversy. (And yes, as this movie critic is Australian there is a clear bias but one that is justified and vindication especially if one refers to his large catalog of films). Upon viewing the trailer, ON THE LINE does prima facie, share some similar DNA with a little-known TV series from the 80s named ‘MIDNIGHT CALLER’ that seems to have all been forgotten despite […]
Josh Duhamel Is A BANDIT On The Run In The Official Trailer
The official trailer is now out for Bandit, Allan Ungar’s ripped-from-the-headlines crime drama starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert, Nestor Carbonell and Mel Gibson. Quiver Distribution is releasing the film in theaters and on-Demand from September 23. In 1985, Gilbert Galvan Jr (Josh Duhamel), a charming career criminal, escapes from a US prison in Michigan and crosses the border into Canada where he assumes the identity Robert Whiteman. After falling in love with Andrea (Elisha Cuthbert), a caring social worker he can’t provide for, he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he’s exceptionally good at it. Under the guise of a security analyst, Robert begins flying around the country robbing multiple cities in a day, eventually catching the attention of national news outlets that dub him The Flying Bandit. Addicted to the rush and money that provides his double life, Robert eventually turns to loanshark and reputed gangster Tommy Kay […]
HOT SEAT Review: Bressack’s New Thriller Pulsates Enough But Cools Off Too Soon
An I.T. worker pressed for time between his job and spending time for his family finds himself trapped by a domestic terrorist with a vendetta. As the local police and bomb squad are running out of time before they can solve the mystery of who’s finger is at the trigger, he must find a way to work through his cyber captor’s demands or risk losing more than just his life. Such is the wind-up-and-the-pitch in a script storied and written by Leon Langford and Collin Watts for James Cullen Bressack’s cyberthriller, Hot Seat, following projects like Beyond The Law with Steven Seagal, and Bruce Willis starrers Survive The Game and Fortress to name a few. This time Bressack gets to add stars like Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson to his roster, for a lean, contained hostage thriller that has its strengths in most of its performances, and mechanical flaws in […]
HOT SEAT Teaser Sits You In A Race Against Time With Mel Gibson And Kevin Dillon
Lionsgate’s newest thriller from director James Cullen Bressack now arrives in the form of Hot Seat. The contained crime thriller stars Kevin Dillon, and Mel Gibson, actress Shannen Doherty, and actor Sam Asghari from a script by Leon Langford and Collin Watts. Oscar-winner Mel Gibson brings this explosive cyber-thriller to life. The action begins as IT expert Friar (Kevin Dillon, Poseidon) finds a hair-trigger bomb strapped to his desk chair. An unseen hacker orders him to steal digital funds online—or have his daughter abducted. As a fearless bomb expert (Gibson) arrives on the scene, the hacker frames Friar as the bomber. The tension mounts as Friar races to clear his name and expose the real terrorist—without getting himself blown to smithereens. Hot Seat will release in select theaters, On Digital and On Demand on July 1.
BANDIT: Crime Thriller Starring Josh Duhamel Sells Multiple Territories Out Of Cannes
Gridlocked helmer Allan Ungar’s newest crime thriller, Bandit, has locked multiple distribution deals out of Cannes. Highland Film Group is repping international sales for the film which stars Josh Duhamel, Mel Gibson, Elisha Cuthbert and Nestor Carbonell, and is in post-production. Inspired by the true story of ‘The Flying Bandit’ who successfully got away with 59 bank and jewelry heists, career criminal Robert Whiteman (Duhamel) escapes from a US prison and crosses the border into Canada where he assumes a new identity. After falling in love with Andrea (Cuthbert), he turns to robbing banks and discovers that he’s exceptionally good at it, flipping through different disguises at every heist across the country. Robert is addicted to the rush and money that fuels his double life, but turns to lifetime gangster Tommy (Gibson) for a bigger investment. Tommy convinces Robert there is more money in jewelry heists and drags him into […]
HOT SEAT Heats Up In First Look From Mel Gibson Action Thriller
Highland Film Group is now offering a first look at James Cullen Bressack’s new action thriller, Hot Seat which you can view above. Mel Gibson, Kevin Dillon, Shannen Doherty and Sam Asghari star in the pic from a script by Leon Langford and Collin Watts, which has since completed production. Hot Seat centers on an ex-hacker who is forced to break into high-level banking institutions by an anonymous caller who planted a bomb under his chair at his office. Gibson plays the man who must try to penetrate the booby-trapped building to get the man off the hot seat. Randall Emmett, George Furla, Ceasar Richbow, Shaun Sanghani and Chad A. Verdi are producers. Highland is repping world sales on the pic with Lionsgate handling North American distribution through their Grindstone Entertainment label.
LAST LOOKS: Gibson And Hunnam Lead Comedic Whodunit Shenanigans In The Official Trailer
Director Tim Kirkby’s latest crime comedy, Last Looks, comes out swinging this week with an official trailer now running online. Kirkby directs from a script by Howard Michael Gould for a cast led by Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson, Morena Baccarin and Lucy Fry. Charlie Waldo (Charlie Hunnam) is an ex-LAPD superstar who left the force and now lives a life of simplicity and solitude deep in the woods. Alistair Pinch (Mel Gibson) is an eccentric actor who spends his days drunk on the set of his TV show. When Pinch’s wife is found dead, he is the prime suspect and Waldo is convinced to come out of retirement to investigate what happened. The case finds Waldo contending with gangsters, Hollywood executives and pre-school teachers, all in pursuit of clearing Pinch’s name … or confirming his guilt. Also starring are Dominic Monaghan, Cliff “Method Man” Smith, Clancy Brown and Rupert Friend […]
LETHAL WEAPON 5 Is Back On The Table With Mel Gibson Up To Star And Direct
A fifth chapter of the Lethal Weapon franchise has been in the works for years, with iterations that even once included Chris Hemsworth as a potential prospect for such a film then working-titled “Lionhunters”. The Tracking Board broke that news in 2014 and obviously there’s been no movement, which is clearly not too heavy a burden for the Aussie actor and Marvel franchise mainstay, though it helps that the trades eventually broke news further down in 2017 with original staples Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and filmmaker Richard Donner behind the wheel. Fast forward four years later and while the franchise has sadly lost its biggest and highly celebrated director as of July this year, the word now is that Gibson is in talks to take the helm, in addition to star. The update, according to the trades, comes following an interview in London in which Gibson, who starred alongside Glover […]
THE CONTINENTAL Adds Mel Gibson To The Three-Part Event Series John Wick Spin-Off
Making a rare pivot to television, actor Mel Gibson is joining the John Wick cineverse a la The Continental, Starz’s three-part TV spin-off of the Keanu Reeves-led film franchise from Lionsgate. Deadline‘s Mike Fleming Jr. reports: The Continental will explore the origin behind the hotel-for-assassins, which increasingly has become the centerpiece of the John Wick universe. This will be accomplished through the eyes and actions of a young Winston Scott, who is dragged into the Hell-scape of a 1975 New York City to face a past he thought he’d left behind. Winston charts a deadly course through the New York’s mysterious underworld in a harrowing attempt to seize the iconic hotel, which serves as the meeting point for the world’s most dangerous criminals. No word yet on who’ll play Winston Scott (the hotel owner is played in the films by Ian McShane). Gibson will play a character named Cormac. There’s no […]
PANAMA: Take Aim At Mel Gibson In A First Look At The New Action Thriller Selling At EFM
Hitting the virtual sales floor for Highland Film Group at EFM is Panama, from director Mark Neveldine (Crank, Gamer). The first official photo is out which you can above, featuring two-time Academy Award Winner Mel Gibson (Boss Level), who stars alongside Cole Hauser (Paramount’s Yellowstone) Inspired by true events from 1989 Panama, James Becker (Hauser), a rugged, decorated ex-marine, is sent undercover by his former commander Stark (Gibson) to execute a high-value deal with untrustworthy adversaries. While navigating through the chaos of the local civil war, Becker must fight assassins, court femmes fatales and negotiate with the enemy in order to complete his mission. With Stark always by his side, Becker perseveres against all odds in hopes of making it home alive. Daniel Adams (Roadside Attractions’ The Golden Boys) and William R. Barber wrote the script. Panama is Yale Productions film produced by Jordan Beckerman, Jordan Yale Levine, Michelle Chydzik […]
BOSS LEVEL Review: An Upbeat, Fresh And Fun Take On Familiar Sci-Fi Tropes With Suitably Violent Results
Director Joe Carnahan has been one of the most fascinating filmmakers I’ve followed in the last two decades, having seen all of his movies sans his 1998 directing debut, Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane. Carnahan definitely gets right down to the grit and gumption of his stories. They’re not all masterpieces, but they kick ass at levels that are wholly worth the attention of his viewing audience. Often times though, that fact gets drowned out by a lot of bullshit, whether it’s Carnahan’s past Twitter fracas or the sheepish excuses of overweening film festival programmers who think a superhero movie about a latino crimefighter doesn’t come up to scratch (as documented in since deleted Tweets), or the blowback he gets for expressing views that reflect on matters of politics or just basic human decency, barring labels. Funny thing about politics though: More often than not, it is inherently inescapable in […]
FATMAN Review: Mel Gibson Serves The Fans With A Badass Santa With Neo-Western Thrills And Notable Satire
Imagining Santa Claus as anything more than a lighthearted, kid-friendly figurative Christmas fixture in movies goes quite the route from the latest work of directors Ian and Eshom Nelms. For this, it’s not every season that a film like Fatman comes around what with all the potboiler Holiday movies and the occassional reminder of Tim Allen in a fatsuit for that one film franchise that’s probably airing on some channel on TV or something or another. Alas, it’s 2020 and in the post-Deadpool era, while Fatman doesn’t go the full monty with its action and violence, it certainly spills enough of it to balance out the reverence in its message and overall fun throughout its execution. It’s a film that takes the Cris Cringle you and your parents know (depending on how old you are, of course) and refurbishes him as a hefty, salt and pepper-bearded, steely-eyed version of Santa […]
FATMAN: Mel Gibson’s Santa Has A Not-So-Special Present For His Enemies In The Official Trailer
Santa Claus has had it with everyone’s shit this year, and he’s letting off some steam in Fatman, the new action comedy from Small Town Crime duo Ian and Eshom Nelms. To save his declining business, Chris Cringle (Mel Gibson), also known as Santa Claus, is forced into a partnership with the U.S. military. Making matters worse, Chris gets locked into a deadly battle of wits against a highly skilled assassin (Walton Goggins), hired by a precocious 12-year-old after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. ‘Tis the season for Fatman to get even, in the action-comedy that keeps on giving. Saban Films is out and about with the official trailer making reindeer tracks with its YouTube views as we speak as the film heads to a select theatrical release on November 13 before hitting digital on November 17. Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Chance Hurstfield also star.
Dark Comedy FATMAN Shoots Next Year Starring Mel Gibson
If you’ve been keeping score with all things Cannes, you’ve likely come across news about Mel Gibson’s new dark action comedy, Fatman, which shoots early next year following the release of his next thriller, Boss Level, featuring Frank Grillo. Gibson is attached to play a rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus fighting his business decline, now targeted by a 12 year-old seeking retribution after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking. Small Town Crime helmers Ian and Eshom Nels will direct from their own script. Brandon James of Rough House, Nadine de Barros (JT Leroy) of Fortitude and Lisa Wolofsky (White Crow) of Skywolf are producing with James’ Rough House Partners, David Gordon Green, Danny McBride and Jody Hill exec producing. Casting is still underway by Chelsea Bloch, C.S.A. (A Dog’s Way Home, The Mummy) and Marisol Roncali, C.S.A. (Deadpool 2, After) of Atomic Honey. “I am Excited to be working […]
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE: Mel Gibson Intends To Collect In The Official Trailer!
Director S. Craig Zahler is exactly the kind of director you’re looking for if you want a film that leaves a lasting impact. Last year’s head-stomping hit with Brawl In Cell Block 99 proved to be an entertainingly violent allegory on redemption from the Bone Tomahawk director and apart from any of the reviews stemming from its screening last year at Venice, his newest entry, Dragged Across Concrete, seemingly teases something that could almost be just as brutal and chilling, and just as soulful by way of its soundtrack. DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE follows two police detectives who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics is leaked to the media. With little money and no options, the embittered policemen descend into the criminal underworld and find more than they wanted waiting in the shadows. Summit Entertainment presents, a Unified Pictures production, a Cinestate production, in association with Look […]
Mad River Lines Up BLACK FLIES For EFM With Mel Gibson And Tye Sheridan
A Prayer Before Dawn helmer Jean-Stephane Sauvaire is setting up Black Flies for Mad River Pictures ahead of EFM next week where IMR International will be to rep global sales rights; CAA and WME are handling U.S. rights. Starring Mel Gibson and Tye Sheridan, the film sees the latter in the role of Ollie Criss, a young paramedic whose perspective on life and death is drawn toward a ghastly shift as he and long-time paramedic, Rutkovsky, thrust themselves into the harsh realities of New York’s inner-city streets – high crime rates, homelessness, and widespread drug use, etc. The film is based on Shannon Burke’s 2008 novel from which Ryan King is adapting the screenplay. Mad River Pictures is financing the pic and is producing with Christopher Kopp, Two & Two Pictures’ Lucan Toh and Babak Anvari, and Anthony Katagas, as well as Sheridan who next appears in X-Men: Dark Phoenix […]
AFM 2018: Action Thriller WALDO Casts Charlie Hunnam, Mel Gibson And Eiza Gonzalez
Upcoming Jungleland star Charlie Hunnam is set to join the set of Waldo early next year when cameras roll. Tim Kirkby (Fleabag, Veep) is directing the film based on Howard Gould’s 1982 novel with a story that centers on a disgraced ex-LA detective who re-emerges from his mininalist lifestyle in the woods as a private investigator to look into the death of an eccentric TV star’s wife. Alex Ritman at The Hollywood Reporter also confirmed that upcoming Dragged Across Concrete and Boss Level actor Mel Gibson and upcoming Alita: Battle Angel and Kung Fury 2 actress Eiza Gonzalez will headline the cast for the action-packed thriller. IMR International is handling world sales rights at AFM with CAA Media Financing taking domestic.
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