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Vigilante Entertainment Preps for Black Summer

2 November 2009 5:52 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

There’s a new comic book-to-film production house working on bringing some lesser known properties to the screen: Vigilante Entertainment, headed up by Hicham Benkirane, formerly in charge of the brilliantly titled Les Humanoides Associes.

While Vigilante has rights to many Les Humanoides Associes properties such as Miss: Better Living Through Crime, The Book of Jack and Fragile (a zombie love story), the first project they’re setting their sights on is an adaptation of Warren Ellis’ Black Summer. Ellis was also responsible for Red, which is going into production over at Summit Films with Bruce Willis and Morgan Freeman. According to Variety, the plot of Summer is pretty sweet:

“[Black Summer centers on] superhero team the Seven Guns, a group of scientist-adventurers who modified their own bodies for street-fighting in order to take back their West Coast city from a corrupt police force, criminal local government and rapacious private security forces.”

What’s less sweet? »

- John Cooper

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Knowing (Film Review)

20 March 2009 7:10 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Not since The Butterfly Effect has a movie punched across such a goofy storyline with such wholehearted conviction as Knowing. The fact that the film has you holding your breath as often as it inspires you to roll your eyes is a credit to director Alex Proyas.

Proyas has proven, with The Crow and Dark City, that he can spin spellbinding cinema when provided with strong material, and here demonstrates his ability to command some measure of attention working with a script that seriously needs its head examined. It opens in 1959, when a class full of elementary-school kids is asked to draw their visions of what life will be like 50 years hence, to be put into a time capsule which will be unearthed after that time has gone by. Instead of a rocketship or a robot, little Lucinda (Lara Robinson) covers her paper with a series of apparently random numerals; after the capsule interment ceremony, »

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Slideshow: 22-Image Gallery From ‘Knowing’ With Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne

9 March 2009 9:52 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – This 22-image slideshow contains the available press images for Summit Entertainment’s “Knowing,” starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, and Lara Robinson. The film, written by Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine (“Riverworld”), Ryne Douglas Pearson (Mercury Rising), Juliet Snowden & Stiles White (The Need, Boogeyman) and Richard Kelly (Southland Tales, Donnie Darko), and directed by Proyas, opens on Friday, March 20th, 2009.

Synopsis: “Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.

Rose Byrne (Troy, “Damages”), Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Repossession Mambo) and Lara Robinson (“Saved”) also star in director Alex Proyas’ (I, Robot) riveting feature about a father’s desperate battle to save his child—and the world.

In 1958, as part of the »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson to star in "Rape: A Love Story"

2 March 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson have all jouned "Rape: A Love Story," an independent drama helmed by Harold Becker ("Mercury Rising," "Malice")  Patriot Pictures' Michael Mendelsohn is producing and financing and lensing is rumored to start in June this year. The screenplay will be adapted by TV veteran John Mankiewicz ("House") based on the Joyce Carol Oates 2003 novella which tells of a mother (Maria Bello) who is on a painful recovery process after being brutally gang-raped. She is protected by a cop (Samuel L. Jackson) from the stalking perpetrators. Breslin is in as the twelve-year-old daughter who witnessed the atack on.   Bello was last seen in Universal's fun-filled "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor."  She's completed the Rebecca Miller helmed and written "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee" where she was cast with Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves, Julianne Moore, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci. »

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Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson to star in "Rape: A Love Story"

1 March 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson have all jouned "Rape: A Love Story," an independent drama helmed by Harold Becker ("Mercury Rising," "Malice") Patriot Pictures' Michael Mendelsohn is producing and financing and lensing is rumored to start in June this year. The screenplay will be adapted by TV veteran John Mankiewicz ("House") based on the Joyce Carol Oates 2003 novella which tells of a mother (Maria Bello) who is on a painful recovery process after being brutally gang-raped. She is protected by a cop (Samuel L. Jackson) from the stalking perpetrators. Breslin is in as the twelve-year-old daughter who witnessed the atack on... »

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Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson to star in "Rape: A Love Story"

1 March 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »

Maria Bello, Abigail Breslin and Samuel L. Jackson have all jouned "Rape: A Love Story," an independent drama helmed by Harold Becker ("Mercury Rising," "Malice") Patriot Pictures' Michael Mendelsohn is producing and financing and lensing is rumored to start in June this year. The screenplay will be adapted by TV veteran John Mankiewicz ("House") based on the Joyce Carol Oates 2003 novella which tells of a mother (Maria Bello) who is on a painful recovery process after being brutally gang-raped. She is protected by a cop (Samuel L. Jackson) from the stalking perpetrators. Breslin is in as the twelve-year-old daughter who witnessed the atack on... »

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Bello, Jackson and Breslin Set for Rape

1 March 2009 9:22 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »

Maria Bello, Samuel L. Jackson and Abigail Breslin have signed on to star in the indie drama Rape: A Love Story that Harold Becker is directing, say the trades. Becker’s last film was the 2001 John Travolta crime-thriller Domestic Disturbance, his other credits include Malice, City Hall and Mercury Rising. Based on the Joyce Carol Oates novella published in 2003, the story centers on a mother (Bello) recovering from a brutal gang rape who is stalked by the perpetrators but is protected by a sympathetic cop (Jackson). Breslin will play the woman’s12-year-old daughter, who witnesses the attack. John Mankiewicz, a Veteran TV scribe whose credits include Hill Street Blues, Miami Vice, Tales from the Crypt and House, adapted the screenplay. Michael Mendelsohn (Material Girls, Lord of War) is producing and financing through his Patriot Pictures banner Production is slated to begin in June. »

- James Cook

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