Compulsion has debuted a new trailer.
The film stars Heather Graham as food fanatic Amy, who uses cooking to get what she wants.
When she realises that her new neighbour (Carrie-Anne Moss) is the former child star her character idolised, she sets out to get her claws into the woman.
Floyd Byars directed the movie, which also stars Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna.
Graham was most recently seen in The Hangover Part 3. Moss will appear in the upcoming disaster movie Pompeii.
Compulsion will debut on iTunes and as a limited Us theatrical release on June 21.
Watch The Hangover Part 3 stars chat to DS below:...
The film stars Heather Graham as food fanatic Amy, who uses cooking to get what she wants.
When she realises that her new neighbour (Carrie-Anne Moss) is the former child star her character idolised, she sets out to get her claws into the woman.
Floyd Byars directed the movie, which also stars Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna.
Graham was most recently seen in The Hangover Part 3. Moss will appear in the upcoming disaster movie Pompeii.
Compulsion will debut on iTunes and as a limited Us theatrical release on June 21.
Watch The Hangover Part 3 stars chat to DS below:...
- 6/17/2013
- Digital Spy
Carrie Anne Moss somehow looks bored to death, well, bored and targeted for death would perhaps be a more fitting choice of words, in this first poster for Compulsion, featuring Heather Graham knife-ready. Egidio Coccimiglio (Imaginary Grace, The Big Picture Show) directs from the script by Floyd Byars, based on the film 301, 302 by Park Cheol-su. Also on board are Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna, and the film opens June 21st via Dimension Films. The story follows two women who are neighbors, and how their livest interest as each of their obsessions start to unravel.
- 6/15/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Some quick distribution news coming in ... Dimension Films has nabbed the North American rights to the next Korean remake to hit our shores, Compulsion. The thriller-tinged dark comedy is shooting now in Canada. Read on for more.
From the Press Release
Dimension Films announced today that they have acquired U.S. distribution rights to the psychological thriller Compulsion starring Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss. The film, now shooting in Ontario, Canada, also stars Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna and is being directed by Egidio Coccimiglio.
Compulsion is based on the South Korean film “301, 302″ and centers on two women occupying neighboring apartments, each grappling with obsessions that have begun to overtake their lives. Graham portrays Amy, a vivacious, calculating chef whose need to be desired is so far-reaching that she becomes a star in her own imaginary cooking show. Moss is Saffron, a reclusive but alluring ex-child star who is battling anorexia.
From the Press Release
Dimension Films announced today that they have acquired U.S. distribution rights to the psychological thriller Compulsion starring Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss. The film, now shooting in Ontario, Canada, also stars Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna and is being directed by Egidio Coccimiglio.
Compulsion is based on the South Korean film “301, 302″ and centers on two women occupying neighboring apartments, each grappling with obsessions that have begun to overtake their lives. Graham portrays Amy, a vivacious, calculating chef whose need to be desired is so far-reaching that she becomes a star in her own imaginary cooking show. Moss is Saffron, a reclusive but alluring ex-child star who is battling anorexia.
- 5/16/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Korean movies are getting a lot of play recently so it's no surprise that yet another remake is on its way of one of their most obscure tales. Read on for the full details of just what kind of lunacy two women in separate apartments can get themselves into!
According to Variety, Moonstone Entertainment has come on to handle foreign sales for Compulsion, a thriller-tinged dark comedy shooting in Canada. The film stars Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna. The film is being directed by Egidio Coccimiglio and shot by Vilmos Zsigmond.
Compulsion is based on the South Korean film 301 / 302 and centers of two women occupying neighboring apartments, each grappling with creeping obsessions that have begun to overtake their lives. Graham portrays a newly single chef who fantasizes about starring in her own Food Network show and employs her culinary prowess to entice and control those intimate with her.
According to Variety, Moonstone Entertainment has come on to handle foreign sales for Compulsion, a thriller-tinged dark comedy shooting in Canada. The film stars Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna. The film is being directed by Egidio Coccimiglio and shot by Vilmos Zsigmond.
Compulsion is based on the South Korean film 301 / 302 and centers of two women occupying neighboring apartments, each grappling with creeping obsessions that have begun to overtake their lives. Graham portrays a newly single chef who fantasizes about starring in her own Food Network show and employs her culinary prowess to entice and control those intimate with her.
- 5/12/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Sustaining a post-child-star career seems a difficult enough labyrinth to manage by itself, but combine that challenge with a bubbly, incessant neighbor intent on stardom, as a new film exploring the toll of celebrity aims to do, and you have a interesting dark vehicle for two talented actresses as a result.
Carrie-Anne Moss and Heather Graham have both signed on to star in “Compulsion,” a thriller written by Floyd Byars (“Masterminds”) that takes place largely within the confines of two adjacent apartments. In one, a former child star (Moss) sinks deeper and deeper into a nihilistic worldview, while in the other, an optimistic, amiable chef (Graham) with notions of landing her own cooking show resides, with little communication between the two women. That all changes, however, when the two polar opposites meet in a confrontation, and their fates become entwined down a dark and disturbing path that will challenge both their worldviews and lives.
Carrie-Anne Moss and Heather Graham have both signed on to star in “Compulsion,” a thriller written by Floyd Byars (“Masterminds”) that takes place largely within the confines of two adjacent apartments. In one, a former child star (Moss) sinks deeper and deeper into a nihilistic worldview, while in the other, an optimistic, amiable chef (Graham) with notions of landing her own cooking show resides, with little communication between the two women. That all changes, however, when the two polar opposites meet in a confrontation, and their fates become entwined down a dark and disturbing path that will challenge both their worldviews and lives.
- 4/26/2012
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
Though Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss occupy entirely different realms of typecasting expectations.with the former generally cast as ditzy bimbos and the latter often scoring dramatic roles of shrewder women.both hit their heyday in that heady time of the late '90s/early 2000s. While Graham was bouncing from Rollergirl in Boogie Nights to Felicity Shagwell in Austen Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Moss broke through at the incredibly cool Trinity in The Matrix, then drew notice as the manipulative femme fatale Natalie in Christopher Nolan's Memento. However, the unpredictable wave of fame has since ebbed for both, and now this odd couple has teamed up for Compulsion, a drama penned by Floyd Byars (Masterminds) and directed by Egidio Coccimiglio (Imaginary Grace). Graham and Moss play a pair of neighbors who live across the hall from each other, yet worlds apart. One is furious with the...
- 4/26/2012
- cinemablend.com
Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss are joining Egidio Coccimiglio's "Compulsion" reports Deadline.
The story follows two very different women who occupy adjacent apartments. Moss plays former child star who is contemptuous of herself and the world. Graham plays a newly separated chef who dreams of stardom.
Floyd Byars penned the script while Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna also star. Gary Howsam and Bill Marks will produce and filming is currently underway in Ontario, Canada.
The story follows two very different women who occupy adjacent apartments. Moss plays former child star who is contemptuous of herself and the world. Graham plays a newly separated chef who dreams of stardom.
Floyd Byars penned the script while Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna also star. Gary Howsam and Bill Marks will produce and filming is currently underway in Ontario, Canada.
- 4/26/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
I do, to varying degrees, like all the actors at the center of the next story, but doesn’t this sound like a casting report that would have hit us in 2000? As it goes, Deadline reports that Heather Graham and Carrie-Anne Moss will co-star with Joe Mantegna and Kevin Dillon in Compulsion, which Egidio Coccimiglio has started to direct. And he’s directing the film in Canada, no less.
Scripted by Floyd Byars, the drama follows a cynical, grown-up child star (Moss) who “fears nothing about death” and a chef (Graham), who “fears nothing in life” and is trying to get herself on the Food Network. Mantegna and Dillon‘s roles aren’t being disclosed right now — I’d guess the latter’s playing a love interest to one character, the former a father. (This is based on almost nothing, by the way.) It’s a nice little quartet of onscreen performers,...
Scripted by Floyd Byars, the drama follows a cynical, grown-up child star (Moss) who “fears nothing about death” and a chef (Graham), who “fears nothing in life” and is trying to get herself on the Food Network. Mantegna and Dillon‘s roles aren’t being disclosed right now — I’d guess the latter’s playing a love interest to one character, the former a father. (This is based on almost nothing, by the way.) It’s a nice little quartet of onscreen performers,...
- 4/25/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Heather Graham, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kevin Dillon and Joe Mantegna are starring in Compulsion, an indie film that is just getting underway in Canada. Egidio Coccimiglio is directing a script by Floyd Byars, and Gary Howsam and Bill Marks are producing. Moss plays an embittered former child star and Graham plays her neighbor, a chef who dreams of hosting a Food Channel show. They are both fearless, only the chef fears nothing in life while her neighbor fears nothing about death. Vilmos Zsigmond is the cinematographer, and Jeff Sackman’s Tajj Media is handling distribution.
- 4/25/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
Sound engineer-turned-filmmaker Egidio Coccimiglio began production in Ontario on his psychological drama Compulsion with Carrie-Anne Moss and Heather Graham joining the independent thriller. Floyd Byars wrote the suspense drama about a former child star named Saffron (Moss) trying to withdraw from life and battling her neighbor, a chef named Amy (Graham), who fantasizes about being famous and slowly loses touch with reality. Byars wrote episodes of CSI: NY and Hill Street Blues as well as the novel Love, Again. Coccimiglio, a graduate of Toronto’s Ryerson University, did sound work on the films I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and The Top of His Head before directing Compulsion.
- 4/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sound engineer-turned-filmmaker Egidio Coccimiglio began production in Ontario on his psychological drama Compulsion with Carrie-Anne Moss and Heather Graham joining the independent thriller. Floyd Byars wrote the suspense drama about a former child star named Saffron (Moss) trying to withdraw from life and battling her neighbor, a chef named Amy (Graham), who fantasizes about being famous and slowly loses touch with reality. Byars wrote episodes of CSI: NY and Hill Street Blues as well as the novel Love, Again. Coccimiglio, a graduate of Toronto’s Ryerson University, did sound work on the films I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing and The Top of His Head before directing Compulsion.
- 4/25/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Despite the title, "Masterminds" is neither a masterful nor clever teen-targeted action adventure about a 16-year-old cyberhacker (Vincent Kartheiser) who thwarts the elaborate plan of a vengeful security expert (Patrick Stewart) to hold a private school for ransom.
Ridiculously plotted and boasting across-the-board dumb dialogue, it's a safe bet this shot-in-Vancouver effort won't be adding to Sony's summer booty, although some back-to-schoolers may find cathartic pleasure in the destruction of an educational institution.
Kartheiser plays Ozzie Paxton, a smart-ass borderline juvenile delinquent who was probably "Home Alone"'s Kevin McCallister as a kid and will likely grow up to be "Die Hard"'s John McClane. Forced to drop off his pesky little stepsister (Katie Stuart) at posh Shady Glen School (where he was expelled for unacceptable behavior), Ozzie decides to hang around and see what pranks he can pull for old-times' sake.
Little does he realize that Ralph Bentley (Stewart), the British Secret Service-trained designer of the school's new ultrasophisticated security system, has been scheming to use the high-tech equipment to keep people in rather than others out. For reasons too complicated to get into here, Bentley holds the school's top trust-fund kiddies hostage in exchange for millions of dollars.
Of course, being the lone-wolf underachiever that he is, the smirking Ozzie finds redemption by putting his computer game strategies to effective work, outwitting Bentley at every opportunity.
Former art director-set decorator Roger Christian directs with a certain visual flair, although he has a definite weakness for shafts of light and cropped close-ups that are so extreme the actors' makeup just can't stand up to the scrutiny.
All the fancy footwork can't gloss over writer Floyd Byars' superficial script, which is replete with the kind of manufactured teenspeak that no self-respecting adolescent would ever be caught dead uttering.
Pro that he is, Stewart appears to be enjoying himself thoroughly playing another bad guy (see "Conspiracy Theory"). He miraculously manages to make the hackneyed dialogue his own.
Kartheiser is fine, if a tad too smug, as the film's young hero; while poor Brenda Fricker ("My Left Foot"), as the school's crusty principal, puts on a brave face as she's constantly being drenched, muddied and bloodied. It's no way to treat an Oscar winner.
MASTERMINDS
Sony Pictures Releasing
A Columbia Pictures presentation
A Pacific Motion Pictures production
A Byars/Dudelson production
A film by Roger Christian
Director Roger Christian
Screenwriter Floyd Byars
Story Floyd Byars & Alex Siskin & Chris Black
Producers Robert Dudelson and Floyd Byars
Executive producers Matthew O'Connor,
David Saunders
Director of photography Nic Morris
Production designer Douglas Higgins
Editor Robin Russell
Costume designers Monique Sanchez,
Derek J. Baskerville
Music Anthony Marinelli
Music supervisor Amanda Scheer-Demme
Casting Andrea Stone
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ralph Bentley Patrick Stewart
Ozzie Vincent Kartheiser
Principal Maloney Brenda Fricker
Miles Lawrence Brad Whitford
Jake Matt Craven
Helen Annabelle Gurwitch
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
Ridiculously plotted and boasting across-the-board dumb dialogue, it's a safe bet this shot-in-Vancouver effort won't be adding to Sony's summer booty, although some back-to-schoolers may find cathartic pleasure in the destruction of an educational institution.
Kartheiser plays Ozzie Paxton, a smart-ass borderline juvenile delinquent who was probably "Home Alone"'s Kevin McCallister as a kid and will likely grow up to be "Die Hard"'s John McClane. Forced to drop off his pesky little stepsister (Katie Stuart) at posh Shady Glen School (where he was expelled for unacceptable behavior), Ozzie decides to hang around and see what pranks he can pull for old-times' sake.
Little does he realize that Ralph Bentley (Stewart), the British Secret Service-trained designer of the school's new ultrasophisticated security system, has been scheming to use the high-tech equipment to keep people in rather than others out. For reasons too complicated to get into here, Bentley holds the school's top trust-fund kiddies hostage in exchange for millions of dollars.
Of course, being the lone-wolf underachiever that he is, the smirking Ozzie finds redemption by putting his computer game strategies to effective work, outwitting Bentley at every opportunity.
Former art director-set decorator Roger Christian directs with a certain visual flair, although he has a definite weakness for shafts of light and cropped close-ups that are so extreme the actors' makeup just can't stand up to the scrutiny.
All the fancy footwork can't gloss over writer Floyd Byars' superficial script, which is replete with the kind of manufactured teenspeak that no self-respecting adolescent would ever be caught dead uttering.
Pro that he is, Stewart appears to be enjoying himself thoroughly playing another bad guy (see "Conspiracy Theory"). He miraculously manages to make the hackneyed dialogue his own.
Kartheiser is fine, if a tad too smug, as the film's young hero; while poor Brenda Fricker ("My Left Foot"), as the school's crusty principal, puts on a brave face as she's constantly being drenched, muddied and bloodied. It's no way to treat an Oscar winner.
MASTERMINDS
Sony Pictures Releasing
A Columbia Pictures presentation
A Pacific Motion Pictures production
A Byars/Dudelson production
A film by Roger Christian
Director Roger Christian
Screenwriter Floyd Byars
Story Floyd Byars & Alex Siskin & Chris Black
Producers Robert Dudelson and Floyd Byars
Executive producers Matthew O'Connor,
David Saunders
Director of photography Nic Morris
Production designer Douglas Higgins
Editor Robin Russell
Costume designers Monique Sanchez,
Derek J. Baskerville
Music Anthony Marinelli
Music supervisor Amanda Scheer-Demme
Casting Andrea Stone
Color/stereo
Cast:
Ralph Bentley Patrick Stewart
Ozzie Vincent Kartheiser
Principal Maloney Brenda Fricker
Miles Lawrence Brad Whitford
Jake Matt Craven
Helen Annabelle Gurwitch
Running time -- 106 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 8/20/1997
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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