Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

GOD IS A BULLET Review: A Ballistic Essay On Faith Underscores A Deadly Rescue Mission, And A Nightmaring Journey Of Redemption

7.5 min. read God Is A Bullet releases on Digital beginning July 11. “Boston Teran” isn’t a real name. I haven’t looked into this person’s life too much and I reckon there won’t be much to find past his Wikipedia page. The bio included in the press kit does offer some intriguing factoids about our pen-named author here though, citing him as Bronx-born and having come from an Italian family of “gamblers, con men, number runners, and thieves,” and a travel history and experience that has gradually fueled his writing. For this, it’s worth considering he’s had more than plenty reason to retain his anonymity, given the research he must have completed, looking into real-life events that supplemented his debut novel, “God Is A Bullet” back in 1999. To add, I can only wonder what the conversations must have been like between Teran, the parties involved, and filmmaker Nick Cassavetes, […]

GOD IS A BULLET: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Is A Marked Man On The Hunt In The Official Trailer

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IGN exclusively premiered the official trailer on Wednesday for God Is A Bullet, the new crime thriller from director Nick Cassavetes. XYZ Films, Patriot Pictures and Wayward Entertainment are partnering up for the film’s theatrical release on June 23! The film follows detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who finds his ex-wife murdered and his daughter kidnapped by an insidious cult. Bob takes matters into his own hands and infiltrates the secretive cult to try to save his daughter. With the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin (Maika Monroe), Bob and Case go down the rabbit hole with The Ferryman (Jamie Foxx) to save his daughter and find closure for Case from the cult – and its maniacal leader (Karl Glusman) – that took so much away from her.

GOD IS A BULLET Hails A June Arrival With The Official Poster

Lee B. Golden III

Patriot Pictures and XYZ Films have brought on Wayward Entertainment to release Nick Cassavetes’s newest thriller, God Is A Bullet. The trio have released a first look still which you can view in the lead just beneath, along with the official poster at the bottom of the page. Cassavetes wrote and directed the pic inspired by true events and based on the novel of the same name by Boston Teran. The film follows detective Bob Hightower (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), who finds his ex-wife murdered and his daughter kidnapped by an insidious cult. Bob takes matters into his own hands and infiltrates the secretive cult to try to save his daughter. With the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin (Maika Monroe), Bob and Case go down the rabbit hole with The Ferryman (Jamie Foxx) to save his daughter and find closure for Case from the cult – and […]

THE SILENCING: Saban Takes New Thriller Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

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Shot Caller star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will soon get his day in North America with Saban Films snagging Robin Pront’s latest, The Silencing. The actor is joined by Annabelle Wallis (The Mummy, Peaky Blinders) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (After, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), with Pront directing from a script by Micah Ranum. The Silencing follows a reformed hunter living in isolation on a wildlife sanctuary who becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local Sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago. The film would have had its Midnighters debut at SXSW were it not for the Covid-19 epidemic. Anova Pictures’ Cybill Lui Eppich (Pay the Ghost, After the Dark) is producing, with XYZ Films’ Aram Tertzakian and Maxime Cottray exec producing with Saban; Both firms partnered on the project during the scripting stage. […]

DOMINO: Don’t Miss The Official Trailer For Brian De Palma’s New Crime Thriller!

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Director Brian De Palma’s new crime thriller, Domino, is finally poised for a select theatrical and on-demand release on May 31. The crime drama, starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten and Guy Pearce from a script by Petter Skavlan, is now rolling out assets from Saban Films, including an official trailer. In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, Copenhagen police officer, Christian (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), seeks justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member named Imran. On the hunt for the killer, Christian and a fellow cop are unwittingly caught in a cat and mouse chase with a duplicitous CIA agent (Guy Pearce) who is using Imran as a pawn to trap other ISIS members. Soon Christian is racing against the clock – not only seeking revenge, but to save his own life.

DOMINO: ‘Game Of Thrones’ Actress Carice van Houten To Give Chase In De Palma’s Epic Cat-And-Mouse Crime Thriller

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Production is now underway for Brian De Palma’s new thriller, Domino, with locations in Belgium, Spain, Denmark and The Netherlands as per the story’s epic setting. Nicolaj Coster-Waldau and Christina Hendricks were officially cast in the film as of May but will now have Coster-Waldau’s fellow Game Of Thrones cohort, Carice van Houten starring in Hendricks’s place. Petter Skavlan (Kon-Tiki, Sophie’s World) wrote the concurrent script setting the film on course through a Europe shaken by terrorist attacks with Coster-Waldau and van Houten playing a pair of Copenhagen cops seeking vengeance for the murder of their fellow comrade. In lieu of their journey will be troubling revelations about the man they are chasing, and the CIA operative hunting down the ISIS cell behind the Europe attacks. “I am delighted to join the cast of Domino; it’s a privilege to be working with such an iconic director,” the Dutch-born van Houten said. “And who […]

Crime Pic, SHOT CALLER, Lands At Saban With Early Teaser Poster Art

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Bold Films just presented its latest teaser poster for the upcoming crime thriller, Shot Caller, for which we now have word of its new home this week at Saban Films according to Deadline. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch) from his own script, the film sees Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game Of Thrones) leading the tale of a prison gangster fresh out from behind bars only to be forced back into the underworld by his superiors in lieu of a a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California. Joining Coster-Waldau is actress Lake Bell and actor Jon Bernthal with Emory Cohen (Brooklyn), Omari Hardwick (Power), and Benjamin Bratt rounding out the cast. Waugh produced the film via his Cadre Filmworks banner next to Participant Media’s own Jonathan King, and Michel Litvak and Gary Michael Walters for Bold Films whose Jeffrey Stott and Lisa Zambri executive produced. […]