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An intriguing creative duo are in line to collaborate on The Seven Five, a crime drama that could mark Ben Stiller’s return to film directing.

According to Jeff Sneider (via World Of Reel), Ben Stiller has signed up to helm The Seven Five, a crime drama that will be ‘set in the 1980s in New York City. The story’s about a corrupt police precinct and its ringleader, Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1987 with a handful of other dirty cops who stole money and drugs. He served 14 years in prison, and his arrest exposed widespread corruption within the NYPD.’

It sounds intriguing, right? Add to this the talents of The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White in the lead role and you could have something special. Allen White was exceptional in last year’s The Iron Claw and his work in TV’s The Bear is no less remarkable.

From the kitchen to corruption, The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White is now being eyed for The Seven Five, a movie based on the 2014 documentary of the same name to be directed by Ben Stiller.

While the role that White is apparently circling for The Seven Five has yet to be revealed, it was reported back in 2020 that the likes of Nicholas Hoult and Aaron Taylor-Johnson were linked to play Michael Dowd, who was considered the “ringleader” of a net of corruption that ran through the New York City police department in the 1980s. One could assume that neither of these casting decisions worked out or that White could be in talks for the role of Patrick Eugene McKenna, another key player in the NYPD.

Regardless of Jeremy Allen White’s role at this time, this isn’t the first attempt to get the documentary turned into a narrative. An...

Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller have been in each other’s orbit for three decades without working together in any sort of meaningful capacity, which seems strange given their very similar career paths. Stiller was hired as a writer and performer on Saturday Night Live in 1989 but left after just four episodes, a year before Sandler became a regular fixture on the show.

Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, both actors became two of the most popular and bankable comedy stars in Hollywood after headlining a succession of box office hits, but they only crossed paths when Stiller made an uncredited cameo in Happy Gilmore, and he reprised his brief role as Hal L. a quarter of a century later in the opening scene of Hubie Halloween, although they did play estranged half brothers in forgotten 2017 dramedy The Meyerowitz Stories.

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Ben Stiller is ready to take on some crooked cops with The Seven Five, a film based on the documentary of the same name. The doc, which is pretty damn great, tells the story of some very, very dirty NYPD cops who reigned in the 1980s. At one point, White Boy Rick director Yann Demange was going to direct […]

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To say that documentarian Tiller Russell has a knack for discovering unconventional characters is an understatement. From NYPD cops running a cocaine ring (2015’s The Seven Five), to a Russian mobster, a Cuban spy and a Miami playboy conspiring to sell a Soviet sub to the Cali cartel (2018’s Operation Odessa), the filmmaker has more than earned his gonzo doc bona fides. And the weird winning streak continues with the director’s four-part docuseries The Last Narc, premiering on Amazon Prime Video today. The story catalyzing Russell’s latest is one familiar to any viewer of the first season of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico — the 1985 kidnapping […]...

To say that documentarian Tiller Russell has a knack for discovering unconventional characters is an understatement. From NYPD cops running a cocaine ring (2015’s The Seven Five), to a Russian mobster, a Cuban spy and a Miami playboy conspiring to sell a Soviet sub to the Cali cartel (2018’s Operation Odessa), the filmmaker has more than earned his gonzo doc bona fides. And the weird winning streak continues with the director’s four-part docuseries The Last Narc, premiering on Amazon Prime Video today. The story catalyzing Russell’s latest is one familiar to any viewer of the first season of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico — the 1985 kidnapping […]...

Amazon Prime Video is gearing up to release the four-part docuseries “The Last Narc,” and the streaming service’s trailer promises new insights about the kidnapping and murder of DEA agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena.

Per Amazon, “The Last Narc” tells the story of a fallen hero, the men who killed him in 1985, and the one man who risked everything to find out what really happened and why. Highly decorated special agent Hector Berellez, who was assigned to lead the DEA’s investigation of Camarena’s murder, peels back the layers of myth and propaganda to reveal the bone-chilling truth about a conspiracy that stretches from the killing fields of Mexico to the halls of power in Washington, D.C.

Berellez’s powerful testimony appears alongside that of Camarena’s brave widow,...

The world of Mexican drug cartels continues to be an interesting gambit for entertainment. Netflix’s “Narcos: Mexico” series has garnered quite the following over its three seasons, in spite of controversy including their location manager being murdered back in 2017, and with “Narcos: Mexico” giving Diego Luna a chance to shine other streaming services are following suit.

Amazon Prime is taking a different route, looking at an element touched on during the first season of “Narcos: Mexico” and telling the true story. “The Last Narc” is a four-part docuseries examining in detail the 1985 kidnap and murder of DEA Agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena. Camarena was played by Michael Peña on “Narcos: Mexico.”

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From the Amazon synopsis: “The series tells the story of a fallen hero, the men who killed him,...

Jason Clarke and Nick Robinson will star in the crime drama “Silk Road,” directed and written by Tiller Russell.

Sierra/Affinity is launching international sales of the pic at the upcoming European Film Market at the Berlin Film Festival.

The movie, based on David Kushner’s 2014 Rolling Stone article “Dead End on Silk Road,” is about a criminal mastermind who unleashed the Dark Net and the “Jurassic Narc” bent on bringing down the young kingpin’s billion-dollar empire.

“Silk Road” is produced by Duncan Montgomery and Jack Selby via the High Frequency Entertainment banner, Alex Orlovsky and Elika Portnoy for Mutressa Movies, and David Hyman and Stephen Gans on behalf of Perfect Season Productions.

“Tiller Russell has an amazing voice as a documentary filmmaker and writer,” Orlovsky and Montgomery said. “Few understand the world of law enforcement and the modern criminal like him. Tiller will tell this story with the...

Berlin-bound sales title based on Rolling Stone article.

Jason Clarke will star opposite Love, Simon lead Nick Robinson in the true crime drama Silk Road, which Sierra/Affinity will launch at the Efm next week.

Tiller Russell directs from his adapted screenplay based on David Kushner’s Rolling Stone article ‘Dead End on Silk Road’ about Ross Ulbricht, the hacker and narcotics trafficker who used the nom de guerre Dread Pirate Roberts and ran a vast online black market.

Silk Road focuses on Ulbricht and the ’Jurassic Narc’ who resolved to bring down the young kingpin’s billion-dollar empire.

Duncan Montgomery...

Hollywood has courted British TV vet Yann Demange ever since his 2014 Northern Ireland war drama ”’71,” which broke out rising star Jack O’Connell at Berlin and went on to play some 33 festivals, including Telluride. Demange has that magic mix of skills that’s so hard to find: a good eye, a nose for authenticity, and the ability to shoot both sensitive dramatic scenes and visceral action. He can handle actors as well as helicopters and cars. He’s got the whole toolbox.

Jacques Audiard and Darren Aronofsky sent him fan mail. Hollywood executives were so hot on Demange that he wound up on the James Bond director shortlist after Danny Boyle bailed. But “Bond 25” went to the first-ever American director Cary Fukunaga instead. Not long before the James Bond team made their decision, Sony released Demange’s “White Boy Rick” to disappointing reviews and $21.7 million total at the box office.

Hollywood has courted British TV vet Yann Demange ever since his 2014 Northern Ireland war drama ”’71,” which broke out rising star Jack O’Connell at Berlin and went on to play some 33 festivals, including Telluride. Demange has that magic mix of skills that’s so hard to find: a good eye, a nose for authenticity, and the ability to shoot both sensitive dramatic scenes and visceral action. He can handle actors as well as helicopters and cars. He’s got the whole toolbox.

Jacques Audiard and Darren Aronofsky sent him fan mail. Hollywood executives were so hot on Demange that he wound up on the James Bond director shortlist after Danny Boyle bailed. But “Bond 25” went to the first-ever American director Cary Fukunaga instead. Not long before the James Bond team made their decision, Sony released Demange’s “White Boy Rick” to disappointing reviews and $21.7 million total at the box office.

It was a stranger than fiction bromance that brought together Russian gangster Ludwig “Tarzan” Fainberg, black market luxury car importer Juan Almeida, and international drug trafficker Nelson “Tony” Yester, and it’s our good fortune they each trust director Tiller Russell and his crew as much as they do. Under the watchful eye of an interagency task force (dubbed Operation Odessa, sharing the film’s title), these men teamed up when DEA feared the cartels and Russian mob would unite. The entertaining documentary recounts the balls it took for them to sell a Soviet submarine to Medelin cartel for $35 million.

Directed by Russell, his subjects are cut from the same cloth as those in his previous film The Seven Five, which told the story of some of the NYPD’s dirtiest cops. They are wheelers and dealers, and each made men: “Tarzan” is a small-time mobster from Brooklyn who used to start fires; Almeida,...

Mission: Impossible: The title for the next installment in the Mission: Impossible film series was announced via Tom Cruise's new Instagram account: Mission: Impossible - Fallout. According to a newly-released synopsis, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) reunites with his Imf team (Alec Baldwin, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames) and past allies (Rebecca Ferguson, Michelle Monaghan) in "a race against time after a mission gone wrong." The action thriller is set for theatrical release on July 27, 2018. [Instagram]   Get ready. #MissionImpossible A post shared by Tom Cruise (@tomcruise) on Jan 25, 2018 at 5:00am Pst   The Seven Five: Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya, above with Margot Robbie) will direct The Seven Five. It's based on the...

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Exclusive: Broadchurch actress stars in Dutch horror debut from Nick Jongerius.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).

From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.

Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.

Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).

Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...

Exclusive: Broadchurch actress stars in Dutch horror debut from Nick Jongerius.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has boarded sales rights to genre-horror The Windmill Massacre ahead of Berlin’s Efm (Feb 11-19).

From debut writer-director Nick Jongerius and producer Daniel Koefoed - both producers on genre-horror Frankenstein’s Army - The Windmill Massacre tells the gory tale of a devil-worshipping miller that, legend has it, ground the bones of locals instead of grain. Back from beyond the grave, the miller seeks vengeance on a group of unsuspecting tourists, who share a dark secret.

Filmed in Amsterdam, the English-language feature is in post-production and due for delivery this spring.

Broadchurch and Jupiter Ascending actress Charlotte Beaumont stars alongside Noah Taylor (Charlie And The Chocolate Factory) and Patrick Baladi (Rush).

Director Nick Jongerius said: “It has been a privilege to shoot an international horror as my feature debut, using the famous Dutch heritage and locations as the backdrop. I have always...

★★★☆☆ Tiller Russell's quick-fire, often jaw-dropping documentary Precinct Seven Five opens with a pledge. On 27th September 1993 Michael Dowd, once a New York City police officer in reputedly the most dangerous precinct in the country, vows to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in proceedings brought against him for a decade of theft, extortion and drug trafficking; a...

Find out what made our top 10 films of 2015 - and which films racked up the most mentions from Team Screen.Scroll down for Screen’s overall top 10

Screen’s esteemed critics have had their turn. Now, Screen staff, contributors and correspondents reveal their favourite films of 2015.

Matt Mueller (Editor)

Force Majeure (dir. Ruben Ostlund)Mad Max: Fury Road (dir. George Miller)The Look Of Silence (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)The Revenant (dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu)Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)Sunset Song (dir. Terence Davies)Tangerine (dir. Sean Baker)The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott)Anomalisa (dirs. Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman)Michael Rosser (Managing editor)

Son Of Saul (dir. Laszlo Nemes)Star Wars: The Force Awakens (dir. Jj Abrams)Ex Machina (dir. Alex Garland)Room (dir. Lenny Abrahamson)The Martian (dir. Ridley Scott)Inside Out (dirs. Pete Docter, Ronnie Del Carmen)Amy (dir. Asif Kapadia)45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh)Slow West (dir. John Maclean)[link=tt...

Dirty Cops. Drug Dealers. Corruption. Power. Money. The makings of the perfect thriller. I’d watch that movie. But, the movie in question is no big screen blockbuster. If you’re in the mood for a story about the dirtiest cop who ever lived, look no further than Precinct Seven Five – director Tiller Russell’s chronicle of

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Exclusive: UK sales outfit Kaleidoscope boards family animation.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) is to premiere family animation Top Cat Begins at the Afm.

The follow-up to Top Cat: The Movie, which took $4.5m at the UK box office, Top Cat Begins tells how the eponymous hero pulled together his famous band of Manhattan alley cats, first assembled by Us animation house Hanna-Barbera.

The Anima Estudios production is produced by Fernando de Fuentes and Jose C. Garcia de Letona (Top Cat: The Movie), written by James Krieg (Ben 10), Douglas Arndale (The Book Of Life) and Jorge Ramirez-Suarez, with voice talent including Jason Harris (Rio 2), Chris Edgerly (Happy Feet), Hope Levy (Penguins Of Madagascar) and David Hoffman (Bridesmaids).

Kfd is representing all rights, excluding Latin America and India.

Spencer Pollard, CEO, Kfd, commented: “We are very excited to be working with Anima Estudios, bringing this latest chapter of Top Cat to a worldwide audience. As a leading...

Exclusive: UK sales outfit Kaleidoscope boards family animation.

Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) is to premiere family animation Top Cat Begins at the Afm.

The follow-up to Top Cat: The Movie, which took $4.5m at the UK box office, Top Cat Begins tells how the eponymous hero pulled together his famous band of Manhattan alley cats, first assembled by Us animation house Hanna-Barbera.

The Anima Estudios production is produced by Fernando de Fuentes and Jose C. Garcia de Letona (Top Cat: The Movie), written by James Krieg (Ben 10), Douglas Arndale (The Book Of Life) and Jorge Ramirez-Suarez, with voice talent including Jason Harris (Rio 2), Chris Edgerly (Happy Feet), Hope Levy (Penguins Of Madagascar) and David Hoffman (Bridesmaids).

Kfd is representing all rights, excluding Latin America and India.

Spencer Pollard, CEO, Kfd, commented: “We are very excited to be working with Anima Estudios, bringing this latest chapter of Top Cat to a worldwide audience. As a leading...

Titles include Asif Kapadia’s Amy Winehouse documentary, Michael Moore’s Where To Invade Next and Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land.

Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janis: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.

Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.

A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.

The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on February 28 2016 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood .

The submitted features in alphabetical order are:

Above And Beyond

All Things Must Pass

Amy

The Armor Of Light

Ballet 422

Batkid Begins

Becoming Bulletproof

Being Evel

Beltracchi – The Art Of Forgery

Best Of Enemies

The Black Panthers: Vanguard Of The Revolution

Bolshoi Babylon

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Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janie: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on

Among those in consideration for the 88th Academy Awards are Cartel Land, He Named Me Malala, Amy, Janie: Little Girl Blue, Sherpa, Where To Invade Next, Winter On Fire, Wolfpack, Meet The Patels and A Sinner In Mecca.

Several of the submissions have not yet had their Los Angeles and New York qualifying releases.

A shortlist of 15 films will be announced in December.

The 88th Academy Awards nominations will be announced on January 14 2016 and the ceremony takes place on...

One hundred twenty-four features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 88th Academy Awards.

Last year’s winner was Citizenfour (Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky)

The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are:

“Above and Beyond”

“All Things Must Pass”

“Amy”

“The Armor of Light”

“Ballet 422”

“Batkid Begins”

“Becoming Bulletproof”

“Being Evel”

“Beltracchi – The Art of Forgery”

“Best of Enemies”

“The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution”

“Bolshoi Babylon”

“Brand: A Second Coming”

“A Brave Heart: The Lizzie Velasquez Story”

“Call Me Lucky”

“Cartel Land”

“Censored Voices”

“Champs”

“CodeGirl”

“Coming Home”

“Dark Horse”

“Deli Man”

“Dior and I”

“The Diplomat”

“(Dis)Honesty – The Truth about Lies”

“Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll”

“Dreamcatcher”

“dream/killer”

“Drunk, Stoned, Brilliant, Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon”

“Eating Happiness”

“Every Last Child”

“Evidence of Harm”

“Farewell to Hollywood...

Read More: Kaleidoscope Acquires NYC Dirty Cop Documentary 'The Seven Five'  Kaleidoscope has announced the acquisition of  worldwide rights to "Bobby," a documentary exploring the fascinating life of Bobby Moore, soccer legend and World Cup-winning captain. The documentary features exclusive interviews with fellow soccer greats like Pele, Paul Gascoigne, Sir Geoff Hurst and Russell Brand and follows Moore from his success on the field to his personal tragedies off of it. "Bobby" is directed by Ron Scalpello and produced by Matthew Lorenzo.  With the 50th anniversary of England's famous World Cup win approaching, Kaleidoscope is thrilled to announce its worldwide acquisition of the film (excluding the UK and Ireland). "We are proud to be involved with such a cinematic tribute to an iconic sporting hero," said Anthony Bruckner, director of sales at Kaleidoscope. "We are delighted to be introducing 'Bobby' to an international...

Read More: Watch: Trailer For Crooked Cop Documentary 'The Seven Five' Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (Kfd) has acquired worldwide sales for Tiller Russell's documentary, "The Seven Five." Described as the "cop version of 'Goodfellas,'" the film tells the story of Michael Dowd, widely considered to be one of New York City's dirtiest cops. According to the film's official synopsis, "Down led a one man rampage through the streets of East New York, robbing drug dealers, stealing drugs and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash in the late 80s and early 90s. His eventual arrest in 1992 led to the biggest corruption scandal in New York City History." "'The Seven Five' is one of the best documentaries of the year and is sure to be a big hit around the world," said Spencer Pollard, CEO of Kfd. "We are delighted to add the film to...

While America’s police flood the news with reports of questionable conduct, one would expect a documentary addressing their venality to be a dense, multi-layered work exposing flaws in the system. Yet while Director Tiller Russell’s Precinct Seven Five focuses on just one, albeit substantial, account of mass corruption within a single precinct, it remains a

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What does it take to direct Precinct Seven Five? Most of all, it takes the willingness to be a co-conspirator.

Someone asked my wife once what I did for a living – she said I was a gangster whisperer. They both laughed. Though the truth lies not far south. My subjects sell drugs. Me, I traffic in story.

Documentaries aren’t often thought to be a director’s medium. Particularly when they’re interview-driven films. But when a criminal unspools the secrets he’s hoarded all his life, what has happened off-screen is as important as what goes on in front of the camera.

Tiller Russell's fast-moving, invigorating documentary will make very gratifying viewing for fans of all those New York-set cop movies by Martin Scorsese and Sidney Lumet. If Precinct Seven Five is taken as the measure, such fictional representations of police corruption were, if anything understated. Real life was much, much worse. Theft, extortion and narcotics trafficking were second nature for the officers in Precinct Seven Five. With 3,500 murders a year, the city was, for a period in the Eighties, a virtual "war zone".

The film team review this week's big releases, which include a weirdly conventional performance from Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow's Trainwreck and Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach's superb Mistress America

Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wobble off the rails with Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow's femme-slob rom-com Trainwreck; have the run of New York with an also-ran in Noah Baumbach's comedy Mistress America; see the thin blue line blurred in cop corruption documentary Precinct Seven Five; and watch Guy Ritchie take The Man from Uncle for a spin and bring it back broken

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Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee join Xan Brooks for our weekly round-up of the big cinema releases. This week the team wobble off the rails with Amy Schumer in Judd Apatow’s femme-slob rom-com Trainwreck; have the run of New York with an also-ran in Noah Baumbach’s comedy Mistress America; see the thin blue line blurred in cop corruption documentary Precinct Seven Five; and watch Guy Ritchie take The Man from Uncle for a spin and bring it back broken

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In an excerpt from this week’s Guardian film show Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Benjamin Lee review Tiller Russell’s documentary about corruption in the New York City Police Department. The film follows Michael Dowd, an officer who operated a lucrative side business in running drugs and laundering money for the gangsters he was supposed to arrest. Precinct Seven Five is in UK cinemas from Friday 14 August

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★★☆☆☆ In Tiller Russell's Precinct Seven Five (2014) we see how a small precinct in East New York became its most corrupt, as the boys in blue came to be on the payroll of local drug gangs. Michael Dowd and his partner Kenny Eurell were at the heart of it, and both could fit straight into a Scorsese film; this is no accident, since it is exactly how they would like to be perceived. Mikey D is jovial, unrepentant; like Lance Armstrong, he is even proud of the scale of his downfall. In the 90s his drug habits and wild behaviour echoed Abel Ferrara's Bad Lieutenant (1992), but even when cocaine-addled and running lights around the ghetto in his red corvette he never feared being busted.

Welcome to the latest installment of Trailer Park, our (semi) regular look at the latest trailers to hit the interwebs. This weeks line-up features a bevy of the latest movie trailers including: Masterminds, Creed, London Has Fallen, The Transporter Refueled, Precinct Seven Five, Marshland, Goosebumps, the new Comic-Con trailer for The Man From Uncle, Trainwreck, Kung-Fu Panda 3, The Night Crew and the “final” trailer for Fantastic Four…

Masterminds

Masterminds tells the hilarious true story of David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) a half-brained driver at an armoured car company who is led astray by his flirtatious work crush Kelly (Kristen Wiig). Kelly and her buddy Steve (Owen Wilson) convince David to do an inside job, and to everyone’s surprise he manages to pull off one of the biggest bank heists in Us History! With Steve conspicuously flashing the cash and the FBI closing in on them the plan starts to go south,...

The tagline for Tiller Russell’s riveting new documentary, The Seven Five is “Meet the dirtiest cop in NYC history,” which I suspect does a profound disservice to a lot of other NYC policemen, past and present — although none of them are likely to write letters of complaint. Some cops (not the majority, who risk more every day than most of us will in a lifetime, but some) might watch this film with a peculiar mixture of shame and pride. Michael Dowd — who survived and thrived in the '80s in East New York, “the land of fuck” that “would scare Clint Eastwood” — had big balls and didn’t rat out fellow officers. He was dirty, but the 75th Precinct was, after all, a shithole. This was the height of the crack-cocaine epidemic, when so much money moved through a “ghetto” like East New York that cops would call it...

Tiller Russell's The Seven Five lets the most corrupt (convicted) NYC cop of the Eighties tell his own story. He relishes the chance. Here's Michael Dowd, of Brooklyn's 75th Precinct, describing early relations with his new partner, Kenneth Eurell: "We started to get a little bit of comfortability workin' together. He would take me to Joe's bodega for some fuckin' Heinekens." Dowd's better-than-a-screenwriter cop-talk powers this stellar crime flick, which shares a structure with Goodfellas and the like: the heady first scores, the hubristic highs, the coke-fueled betrayals, the humblings and inevitable wire-wearing. It's familiar and infuriating, but always enthralling, especially as it allows us to stare dead-on into the eyes of someone we see too rarely — a police...

Sony’s planned narrative adaptation of the 2014 documentary The Seven Five just took a big step closer to realisation, with the news that the studio is approaching screenwriter Scott Frank to undertake scripting duties. Frank is the scribe behind such titles as Malice, Get Shorty, Out Of Sight, Minority Report and The Wolverine, and his potential involvement brings huge momentum to the project.

The documentary The Seven Five had its premiere at Doc NYC last year, and Sony snapped up the rights to remake it soon after. It details the devastating police corruption case that shook the New York Police Department to its core in the early 1990s, when 75th precinct officer Michael Dowd was tried and convicted of a raft of terrible crimes. Dowd established a network of illegal activities, recruiting his fellow officers to extort money from drug dealers for protection, and also sell drugs of their own.

Sculptor

Sony Pictures has picked up the film rights to Scott McCloud's recently released graphic novel "The Sculptor," and have secured Scott Rudin and Josh Bratman as producers.

The story centers on an artist, destitute and living on the streets, who makes a deal with Death: the power to create with his hands. But after 200 days, his time on Earth is up. Art begins to flow from his hands, but complications ensue when he meets the girl of his dreams. [Source: Heat Vision]

Untitled Blumhouse Family Horror Tale

Harald Zwart ("The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," "The Karate Kid") has signed on to direct Blumhouse Productions' latest micro budgeted horror film, though this one is reportedly being geared toward families. The film presently does not have a title or synopsis available, though Robert Ben Garant ("Jessabelle") wrote the script and will produce alongside Jason Blum. [Source: THR]

Leftraro

"300" writer Michael B. Gordon has been...

Deadline is reporting that '71 director Yann Demange is in final negotiations with Sony Pictures to take the helm for The Seven Five the feature adaptation of 2014 documentary by the same name directed by Tiller Russell(The) documentary (was) about one of the most corrupt police forces in 1980s New York, The Seven Five focuses on Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1992 arrest for leading a ring of dirty cops for the best part of eight years between 1986-1992. Their crimes included theft, abuse and drug dealing. Dowd's case exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years.. I just want to take a moment to reflect on a bit from Todd's review of '71 when it screened at Tiff,Demange...

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Following last year's blistering Troubles drama '71, it looks as if Yann Demange has found his next project. He's in final negotiations with Sony to direct The Seven Five, the story of corrupt NYPD cop Michael Dowd. The title refers to New York's 75th Precinct, from where Officer Dowd ran a scam in the early '90s robbing drug dealers and selling their merchandise back onto the streets. The head of a gang of similarly compromised lawmen, he wasn't exactly subtle about his activities, driving to work in a red Corvette. He was eventually busted by his own partner and sentenced to 14 years in jail in 1992.Dowd was the subject of a documentary directed by Tiller Russell - also called The Seven Five - last year, in which he admits he saw himself as "a cop and a gangster". Sony picked up the remake rights, and the project that Demange...

The Seven Five

Sony Pictures has brought John Lesher and Megan Ellison on-board to produce the narrative feature adaptation of "The Seven Five," Tiller Russell's documentary about one of the most corrupt police forces in 1980s New York.

The story focuses on Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1992 arrest for leading a ring of dirty cops for eight years. Dowd’s case exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for fourteen years. [Source: Deadline]

Hacker Camp

Tripper Clancy has been hired by Hasbro to write "Hacker Camp," an action comedy which revolves around a group of nerds at a computer camp. The story is based on an idea by Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner.

Described as "School Of Rock" meets "WarGames," the story follows a tech camp counselor and his campers stumble upon a serious cyberterrorist threat, they soon become embroiled in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

Exclusive- Sony has brought John Lesher and Megan Ellison on-board to produce their feature adaptation of The Seven Five, the Tiller Russell-directed and Eli Holzman-produced documentary about one of the most corrupt police forces in 1980s New York. Deadline first broke the news in December that Sony had won a competitive auction for the doc rights, described as the cop version of Goodfellas.

The story focuses on Michael Dowd, who was arrested in 1992 arrest for leading a ring of dirty cops for the best part of eight years between 1986-1992. Their crimes included theft, abuse and drug dealing. Dowd’s case exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years. Holzman produced the docu with Stephen Lambert, and Aaron Saidman from All3Media America, along with Sheldon Yellen. ICM Partners repped the docu in the deal.

Eli Holzman will also produce the feature.

Lesher and Ellison,...

Sundance Selects has announced the acquisition of the U.S. rights to All3Media America's "The Seven Five," an NYPD crime drama directed by Tiller Russell. The documentary follows Michael Dowd, a police officer working in the 75 Precinct in East New York. Struggling with the hardships of his job and minimal compensation, Dowd began stealing money from drug dealers, over time roping his partner into a growing criminal ring leading to their arrest in 1992. Merging Dowd's testimony from the investigation, surveillance footage and interviews with some key players, "The Seven Five" tells a true and topical tale of corruption in the NYPD. "Tiller Russell has crafted a gripping and timely documentary, expertly recounting a tale about the abuse of power,” said Jonathan Sehring, President of Sundance Selects/IFC Films. No release information has yet been announced. Read More: Sundance Selects Acquires Screwball Murder Mystery 'Wild Canaries'...

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Sundance Selects has picked up North American rights to La-based All3Media America’s The Seven Five. Tiller Russell directed and Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman and Sheldon Yellen produced the documentary about corruption in the New York Police Department. ICM Partners represented...

After selling narrative remake rights to Sony, NYPD corruption documentary The Seven Five has sealed a distribution deal with Sundance Selects. Director Tiller Russell’s film chronicles the true crime story of Michael Dowd, a frustrated police officer who turned the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York City into a playground for dirty cops in the 1980s, and whose 1992 arrest exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD.

Deadline premiered the exclusive teaser for The Seven Five ahead of its November debut at Doc NYC (watch it again below), where Dowd was set to reunite with the ex-partner who testified against him. In December, Sony landed remake rights in a competitive auction for the story that plays like a cop version of Goodfellas.

Dowd and ring of crooked cops squeezed dealers for protection money and sold stolen cocaine out of his Long Island home base between 1986 and 1992, their flashy transgressions so...

Exclusive: Sony Pictures has gotten its computer systems back online, with emails and everything else up and running again. And the studio is putting the finishing touches on a splashy deal to creative a narrative feature out of The Seven Five, the Tiller Russell-directed and Eli Holzman produced documentary about one of the most corrupt police forces in 1980s New York. It’s the cop version of Goodfellas, an opportunity to tell the kind of stories that Sidney Lumet did so well about urban corruption. This was a competitive auction, and ICM Partners repped the docu in the deal.

The tale focuses on Michael Dowd, whose headline-grabbing 1992 arrest for leading a ring of criminalized cops exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years.

Dowd began squeezing dealers for cash while working out of the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York, eventually recruiting partner...

Exclusive: “I considered myself both a cop and a gangster.” New documentary The Seven Five chronicles the story of New York City police officer Michael Dowd, whose headline-grabbing 1992 arrest for leading a ring of criminalized cops exposed widespread corruption in the NYPD and sent him to prison for 14 years. Friday at Doc NYC, Dowd will appear at the film’s world premiere, where he’ll be reunited for the first time in decades with the former partner who exposed him.

Dowd began squeezing dealers for cash while working out of the 75th Precinct in crime-ridden East New York, eventually recruiting partner Kenny Eurell and others into an expanding ring of dirty cops active from 1986 through 1992. Their flashy transgressions were so flagrant that then-Mayor David Dinkins appointed the Mollen Commission to investigate, uncovering a history of “brutality, theft, abuse of authority and active police criminality” that had been willfully ignored by Internal Affairs.