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Paramount Australia’s Daniel Monaghan Jumps To Foxtel

Paramount Australia and New Zealand (Anz)’s Daniel Monaghan is exiting for a senior role at Dazn’s pay-tv giant Foxtel. Currently Senior Vice-President, Content & Programming at Paramount, he is taking on a post as Executive Director – Entertainment Content, working across Foxtel and streamer Binge, per an internal note from Hilary Perchard, CEO of Foxtel, Binge and sports streamer Kayo. He has been at Paramount-owned Network 10 for two decades, spearheading work on shows such as The Masked Singer, Australian Survivor, Hunted, Have You Been Paying Attention?, The Cheap Seats, MasterChef, Taskmaster and I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! and commissioning Fake, The Inspired Unemployed: Impractical Jokers and Last King of the Cross among others for Paramount+. At Foxtel, he will replace Wendy Moore, who announced back in June her exit to launch a new venture. The news comes...

Josh Duhamel is on the run in the first trailer for his new movieOff the Grid. The action thriller casts the Transformers star as a genius-level Rambo-style vigilante being chased by a black ops group.

The brand new footage teases the Duhamel's character Guy is a scientist working on a generator small enough to fit in the palm of a hand, when he discovers his employers are plotting to use the technology for nefarious purposes. Guy decides he has to run away with the tech in hopes of saving lives, but an old nemesis (Greg Kinnear) is soon on his trail.

Josh Duhamel is On the Run in New Trailer for Off the Grid

The official synopsis for Off the Grid reads: "After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him,...

Josh Duhamel is a man on a mission of mayhem in the thriller Off the Grid. Collider has an exclusive look at the first trailer for the film, which also stars Greg Kinnear and Peter Stormare. It will be released in select theaters, on demand, and digital on June 27.

In the trailer, Duhamel is Guy, a brilliant scientist working on a generator small enough to fit in the palm of his hand; an invention that could revolutionize life on Earth. His employers agreed, but in a different way; they wanted to make it into a weapon. Thus, Guy dropped off the face of the Earth and took his research with him. Now, after years of living off the grid in Europe, he's been discovered. His sinister ex-employers (Stormare and Kinnear) send hired killers to his new home to destroy everything he's built, but they don't realize Guy has both brains and brawn on his side.

To so many of us, Chris Hemsworth’s main mark on the entertainment industry is through action films. The beefy Australian will forever be synonymous with his role as Thor aka The God of Thunder in his own lineup of Marvel films as well as a handful of The Avengers flicks. He’s also busted skulls in the Extraction franchise and blasted away otherworldly threats in Men in Black: International, but there’s only been one time that the actor dipped into the world of horror. Back in 2011, Hemsworth joined forces with an ensemble cast that also included Kristen Connolly (House of Cards), Fran Kranz (Dollhouse), Anna Hutchison (Vengeance: A Love Story), Bradley Whitford (The West Wing), Jesse Williams (Grey’s Anatomy) and Richard Jenkins (Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story) for The Cabin in the Woods. Right now, audiences in for a laugh, jump scare, and a freaky creature feature can...

Nicolas Cage recalls the era of his career when he took on an abundance of acting jobs to pay off a $6 million debt, and not all the movies ended up being good. Widely known for his work in the National Treasure franchise and for older movies like Leaving Las Vegas, Face/Off, and The Rock, Cage has been a staple of the movie landscape for over three decades. While he's been in a number of critically acclaimed, classic movies, he's also been in a fair share of lesser-known, direct-to-dvd movies that have not fared as well critically or commercially.

In a recent interview on CBS' 60 Minutes (via IndieWire), Cage reflects on some of the movies he did during the 2010s, admitting that some of them were "crummy." While he may have taken many of the roles to help pay off a large debt after the real estate market crash, the...

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Writer-director Drew Goddard’s wicked and twisted horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods, arrives April 19 on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook® from Lionsgate.

Produced and written alongside Joss Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods features Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, two-time Oscar®-nominated actor Richard Jenkins and three-time Primetime Emmy® Award winner Bradley Whitford. The Cabin in the Woods will be available on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital SteelBook® for the suggested retail price of 27.99.

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A rambunctious group of five college friends steals away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a night of endless terror and bloodshed. Sound familiar? Just wait. As the teens begin to exhibit standard horror-movie behavior

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Writer-director Drew Goddard’s wicked and twisted horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods, arrives April 19 on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook from Lionsgate.

Writer-director Drew Goddard’s wicked and twisted horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods, arrives April 19 on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook® from Lionsgate.

Produced and written alongside Joss Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods features Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, two-time Oscar®-nominated actor Richard Jenkins and three-time Primetime Emmy® Award winner Bradley Whitford. The Cabin in the Woods will be available on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital SteelBook® for the suggested retail price of $27.99.

A rambunctious group of five college friends steals away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a night of endless terror and bloodshed.

Lionsgate has announced an April 19th release date for The Cabin in the Woods on 4K! A Best Buy exclusive, we have the official press release below, along with a look at the SteelBook artwork:

"Writer-director Drew Goddard’s wicked and twisted horror-thriller, The Cabin in the Woods, arrives April 19 on 4K Ultra HD™ + Blu-ray™ + Digital Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook® from Lionsgate.

Produced and written alongside Joss Whedon, The Cabin in the Woods features Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, two-time Oscar®-nominated actor Richard Jenkins and three-time Primetime Emmy® Award winner Bradley Whitford. The Cabin in the Woods will be available on 4K Ultra HD™ + Blu-ray™ + Digital SteelBook® for the suggested retail price of $27.99.

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A rambunctious group of five college friends steals away for a weekend of debauchery in an isolated country cabin, only to be attacked by horrific supernatural creatures in a...

The much-ridiculed yet much-loved actor is taking on the biggest role of his life in the first trailer for The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent – himself

This is a pivotal moment in Nicolas Cage’s career. Once a gold-plated blockbuster icon, he crashed to Earth many years ago in a flurry of financial mismanagement and poor career choices. You just have to look at his IMDb page for proof of the latter. Did you watch Inconceivable? Mom and Dad? Southern Fury? Vengeance: A Love Story? The Humanity Bureau? No, of course you didn’t, and they were only the movies he made in 2017.

Slowly but surely, though, Cage has been working his way back to us, either with fun little parts in big movies or acclaimed turns in smaller fare. The Cage comeback continues, with news that he has signed on to star as Dracula in Chris McKay’s Renfield,...

Exclusive: Current and former Mma stars Chael Sonnen, Cowboy Cerrone and Rampage Jackson are to star alongside Weston Cage in action-thriller Mojave Diamonds.

Written and directed by Asif Akbar (Commando), the film will follow an underground fighter and his two estranged brothers as they hit the road to rescue their kidnapped family from a high level crime syndicate after $50M of illegal diamonds gets stolen during a failed transport through the Mojave Desert.

Filming is due to begin next week in Las Vegas and the deserts of Southern Nevada. Al Bravo Films is producing with Premiere Entertainment Group handling world sales.

Akbar most recently wrote, directed and produced action movie Commando starring Michael Jai White, Mickey Rourke, Brandon Fehr, Jeff Fahey and Cerrone. Premiere also handled sales and Saban is due to release stateside in 2022.

Former Mma star and ESPN analyst Sonnen took part in the eighth season of The New Celebrity Apprentice...

You know, Nicolas Cage gets a lot of criticism for acting in straight-to-digital movies these days. But for every Vengeance: A Love Story or The Humanity Bureau, he sprinkles in little seen gems like Mandy and Color Out of Space as well as a memorable performance in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. He’s also set to play Joe Exotic, so at least he still tries to challenge himself. Bruce Willis, on the other hand, has officially thrown in the proverbial towel.

In the past nine years, he’s starred in 20 movies that have either had a limited theatrical release or skipped the cinema and went straight to your living room. Some of the names of these films include Precious Cargo, Marauders and Once Upon a Time in Venice. And before you think otherwise, that last one has absolutely zero connection to Quentin Tarantino.

Unless Wes Anderson calls or M. Night Shyamalan makes a surprise sequel,...

The long-time coming Zeroville has finally released a trailer. The James Franco (The Disaster Artist) directed film was originally picked up by Alchemy for distribution in 2014, but after the company went under, Zeroville's fate was left up in the air. Now, under the online-based myCinema, the comedy-drama is getting a theatrical release in September 2019.

Based on Steve Eirckson's novel by the same name, Zeroville follows Vikar (James Franco), a wide-eyed innocent in love with the movies. The film follows his trip to the heart of a transitioning Hollywood in 1969 where the studio system is in decay, and a new generation of brash filmmakers are on the rise.

Vikar is a na&#239ve newcomer with nothing but his 'outsider' past and a huge tattoo of Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor from his favorite film, 1951's A Place in the Sun tattoo on his shaved skull. He is driven by the "allure...

Quiver Distribution dropped the trailer for the Nicolas Cage-led thriller Running with the Devil today. The National Treasure actor stars alongside the Matrix's Laurence Fishburne in the drug trafficking flick where, "From the fields to the streets, everyone is running with the devil."

When a cocaine shipment is compromised, the drug cartel's CEO, known as The Boss (Crawl's Barry Pepper) orders his most trusted henchman, Cage's The Cook, to audit the company's supply chain. Or as Nicolas Cage says in the trailer, he has "administrative issues [he has] to attend to." Joining him on the dangerous journey is a master drug trafficker known as The Man (Academy Award Nominee Laurence Fishburne).

The drugs are making their "perilous trek across international borders past gangsters, refiners, and couriers," but they're also being tracked by Federal Agents under The Agent in Charge played by Leslie Bibb (Iron Man) who, the trailer tells us,...

Entertainment Studios Motion Pictures has released the first trailer, poster and photo for The Hurricane Heist (previously known as Category 5), which combines extreme weather with grand larceny. This story is set on the Gulf Coast of Alabama, at a U.S. Mint facility, where a crew of thieves find their plans to rob this facility upended by a storm that becomes much bigger than anticipated. This action-thriller could end up being one of the surprise hits at the box office this spring.

Under the threat of a hurricane, opportunistic criminals infiltrate a Us Mint facility to steal $600 million for the ultimate heist. When the hurricane blows up into a lethal Category 5 storm and their well-made plans go awry, they find themselves needing a vault code known only by one Treasury Agent (Maggie Grace), a need that turns murderous. But the Treasury agent has picked up an unlikely ally, a...

This is the first trailer released for a new haunted house horror thriller called Delirium. It doesn't look like a great horror movie, but it does look like it might be fun to watch. The story follows a group of teens who dare one of their friends to walk up to the porch of a legendary haunted house and he ends up disappearing. So his friends decide to go on in after him, and as you'll see, terror awaits them. 

What I like about this is that this is stuff my brothers, friends, and I would do all the time when we were growing up! It was always fun exploring abanded old building and houses that we thought were haunted! Here's the synopsis:

The Hell Gang, an exclusive group of friends, promise a schoolmate that he can join their gang if he can just make it to the porch of...

"I didn't have a good feeling about this..." Gravitas Ventures has debuted the first official trailer for a horror thriller titled Delirium, which first premiered last year but is just getting a release in early 2018. This is actually one of the first feature films made by former stuntman and second unit director Johnny Martin, who later went on to direct Vengeance: A Love Story with Nicolas Cage, and Hangman with Al Pacino, both also released this year (before this film). Delirium is about a group of teens who dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, but he never comes back. So they gear up and go in themselves to get him. Starring Mike C. Manning, Griffin Freeman, August Roads, Ryan Pinkston, Seth Austin, and Elena Sanchez. This looks like a very wild, testosterone-filled haunted house horror flick. Tread carefully. Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Johnny Martin's Delirium,...

We've seen Al Pacino do it all, from crime boss to decorated cop. In this new trailer for the crime thriller titled Hangman, we see Pacino hunting a serial killer. The movie was directed by Johnny Martin (Vengeance: A Love Story) and it has a very dark and sinister vibe. Pacino plays a homicide detective who teams up with a criminal profiler, played by Karl Urban, to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman. Here is the official synopsis:

Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) and his partner, criminal profiler Will Ruiney, (Karl Urban) are tasked to catch one of the city's notoriously vicious serial killers who is playing a twisted version of murder using the child's game - Hangman, while crime journalist Christi Davies (Brittany Snow) reports on the crime spree, shadowing the detectives. 

Hangman also stars Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi,...

"We're gunna find this guy." A trailer has arrived for a new crime thriller titled Hangman, which is about detectives hunting a serial killer, but apparently it even has some similarities to Paranormal Activity. Say what? From director Johnny Martin (of this year's Vengeance: A Love Story) the crime thriller stars Al Pacino as a homicide detective who teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game Hangman. Also starring Karl Urban, Brittany Snow, Sarah Shahi, and Joe Anderson. From the footage in this trailer, this seems closer to "Mindhunter" or "True Detective" or even The Snowman than most crime dramas, but maybe there's a big twist in it. Might be worth a look. Here's the first full-length trailer (+ poster) for Johnny Martin's Hangman, direct from YouTube: Decorated homicide detective Ray Archer (Al Pacino) and his partner, criminal profiler Will Ruiney,...

After just eight days in release, WB and New Line's It became the highest grossing September release of all-time, two days later it added another $40 million to that total for an impressive $60 million second weekend and nearly $220 million in just ten days. The horror film's performance vastly overshadowed the weekend's two new wide releases that saw Lionsgate and CBS Films's American Assassin deliver respectable results in second place while Paramount's release of Darren Aronofsky's mother! suffered greatly, finishing in third and receiving a disastrous "F" CinemaScore from opening day audiences. With an estimated $60 million this weekend, WB and New Line's It brought its domestic cume to $218.7 million after just ten days in release. As already mentioned, that makes it the largest September release ever, topping 1986's Crocodile Dundee ($174.8m). That number, of course, is not adjusted for inflation. Adjusted for inflation, however, It still finishes within the top...

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Cage on Cage is an unexpected work of art. n honor of Nicolas Cage’s new movie Vengeance: A Love Story (out this weekend), I present editor Adam Lucas’s glorious creation: Nicolas Cage performing John Cage’s 4’33”. Yes, it’s Nic Cage silent for four and a half minutes. What else can I say?

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Nicolas Cage stars in a new revenge thriller called Vengeance: A Love Story, which is based on 2003 novel Rape: A Love Story, by author Joyce Carol Oates. Today we get a look at the new trailer and poster for the film.

Here is the synopsis:

On the Fourth of July, single mother Teena is brutally assaulted by a local gang in front of her 12-year-old daughter Bethie. Even though Bethie is able to identify the attackers, the defense hires a local hot-shot defense attorney who manipulates the law to their advantage. When the criminals are set free, Gulf War veteran and detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage) is dismayed by the lack of justice and plots revenge against the men on Teena’s behalf.

This movie, in many ways, feels very similar to the Bruce Willis starring Death Wish. A man seeking justice on his own terms after the justice system fails him.

Did you see the trailer for Eli Roth and Bruce Willis’s remake of Death Wish and think to yourself, “Man, I really hope we get a second movie this year in which a woman being raped is the impetus for a guy taking justice into his own hands,” than boy, do I have some great news for you. Here’s the first trailer for […]

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Just when I think I'm done with Nicolas Cage and his direct-to-video looking projects, one comes along that looks like it might be ok. The latest: Vengeance: A Love Story.

Based on a novel by award winning author Joyce Carol Oates, Cage stars as a police officer and gulf war veteran who, when the law fails a single mother and her daughter, takes vengeance into his own hands.

I know, it sounds so totally generic and more than a little like Man on Fire, but Cage looks a little better than usual in this one plus there's the added bonus of Don Johnson.

Directed by stuntman-turned-director Johnny Martin, I'm hoping for some good action sequences but I'd settle for a solid thriller with a performance from Cage that isn't laughable. Anything more would be [Continued ...]...

"Leave us alone!" FilmRise has debuted an official trailer for a new action film titled Vengeance: A Love Story, adapted from the Joyce Carol Oates novel titled Rape: A Love Story. The story is about a local police officer who goes for vengeance when a local gang rapes a woman. The criminals find a way to walk away free thanks to a hot shot lawyer, and so the detective takes matters into his own hands. Nicolas Cage stars as John Dromoor, with a cast including Anna Hutchison, Talitha Bateman, Deborah Kara Unger, Don Johnson, Joshua Mikel, Rocco Nugent, Joe Ochterbeck, Carter Burch, and Charlene Tilton. This looks like a generic vengeance movie, especially with Nicolas Cage, but who knows. It's also interesting they removed the word "rape" from any description of this film, but it's definitely a major part of the plot. Here's the first trailer (+ new poster) for Johnny Martin...

Another random Nicolas Cage movie has arrived, though this time around it has some real literary flavor. “Vengeance: A Love Story” is based on the provocatively titled novel “Rape: A Love Story” by Joyce Carol Oates. But the cinematic translation winds up playing more or less like what you’d expect from latter day Cage.

Originally slated to direct, the actor passed the duties onto longtime second unit and stunt coordinator Johnny Martin for this story about a detective who takes matters into his own hands when the perpetrators of a vicious attack on a mother and her daughter are set free.

Continue reading ‘Vengeance: A Love Story’ Trailer: Nicolas Cage Wants Justice at The Playlist.

Movie distributor FilmRise has acquired the North American rights to the upcoming political thriller, ‘Vengeance: A Love Story,’ and plans to release the film in the fall of 2017. The drama stars Nicolas Cage as a detective who’s seeking vigilante justice for a single mother and her family, as well as Don Johnson as a […]

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FilmRise has acquired the Nicolas Cage-starring Vengeance: A Love Story, the political thriller from Patriot Pictures directed by first-time feature helmer Johnny Martin. A fall 2017 release is in the works for the pic, based on the 2003 novel Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. The screenplay was adapted by John Mankiewicz. The pic begins when single mother Teena (Anna Hutchison) is brutally assaulted while walking home late at night on the Fourth of July. There is…...

The stars of yesterday now are making three films a year you never knew existed until they show up on Netflix.^ Real Movie ^

In my prior life as a script reader, I certainly read a lot of bad scripts, but at times, an even more common occurrence was a script that seemed to do a great many things right, but somehow fell just short of being something you wanted to champion as a movie. As draining as the terrible scripts were, there’s something pure about clear-cut bad. It takes little effort to explain why they’re unfit.

The real challenges were the scripts that had kind of a decent premise, kind of an okay twist or two, and a lead character who wasn’t bad so much as he or she was just… there. The raw materials are there for what Could be a script. They just happen to be assembled in the least compelling way...

The films will skip cinemas and instead launch on digital platforms.

Paris-based Marco Polo Production has acquired Jason Flemyng’s vampire black comedy Eat Local for its 2017 slate of films aimed at French digital and broadcast distribution.

Other new acquisitions include Gerard Butler-starrer A Family Man (aka The Headhunter’s Calling); the upcoming biopic Speed Kills starring John Travolta as murdered speed-boat maverick Donald Aronow, and Tuscany-set gothic mystery Voice From The Stone [pictured], starring Emilia Clarke.

The company invests around $4m each year in the acquisitions of 15 to 20 mainly action films and genre pictures often with name cast attached.

Flemyng’s directorial debut, reuniting the actor with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels cast members Dexter Fletcher and Nick Moran and also starring Charlie Cox and Freema Agyeman, is sold by London-based sales outfit Gfm evolution.

“It’s a lot of fun, very English and the Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels connection is a good...

At this point, Nicolas Cage movies fall into a few basic categories. You’ve got your occasional big-budget projects (Type One), your quirky indie things (Type Two), and then you’ve got those movies where Cage stands on a soundstage somewhere in Eastern Europe and points guns at people (Type Three). Connoisseurs of the latter category are in luck today, with Deadline reporting that Cage has signed on for 211, a new, Bulgaria-shot bank heist movie from director York Alec Shackleton. Cage will play a cop trying to stop a bank robbery, presumably through a combination of fascinating acting choices, bizarre hair, and shouting.

The actor currently has a Cage-standard ton of movies in the works; his recent projects include The Humanity Bureau (Type Two), Vengeance: A Love Story (Type Three), and the upcoming “killer parents” thriller Mom And Dad (also Three, but probably with a greater than average amount ...

Nicolas Cage doesn’t hurt for work. The Academy Award-winner starred in five movies last year, whether you saw them or not (even as a Cage devotee, I only ended up seeing two), and the prolific actor already has a whopping six set to arrive later this year, including the already-released Arsenal from earlier this month. But the rage inside Cage doesn’t go down quietly. He figured out his next project, the bank heist drama 211, which starts filming in March in Bulgaria.

Written and directed by York Alex Shackleton, 211 follows a good cop (Cage) trying to dismantle a recent bank heist. Seems simple enough, right? 211, by the way, is police code for robbery in progress. It finds Cage on the other side of the law this time, as he recently found himself portraying a quirky bank robber in last year’s overlooked dark comedy The Trust, which was one...

In recent years, Al Pacino has branched out into a number of roles that could be best describe as….questionable. However, it seems as if he’s (hopefully) going back to something a little better quality wise for the upcoming film, “Hangman.” Variety is reporting that Pacino is set to star in the film as a decorated homicide detective investigating a series of murders.

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Directed by Johnny Martin, who just wrapped “Vengeance: A Love Story” starring Nicolas Cage and Don Johnson, “Hangman” tells the story of a detective, played by Pacino, who is joined by a criminal profiler as they track a serial killer that murders people in a version of the children’s game, Hangman.

Continue reading Al Pacino & Karl Urban Team Up To Find A Serial Killer In ‘Hangman’ at The Playlist.

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Last year we watched ten of the recent straight-to-dvd films of Mr Nicolas Cage. Since then, he's made six more...

This article has been updated to include six new films: Dog Eat Dog, The Trust, USS Indianapolis: Men Of Courage, Southern Fury, Army Of One and Vengeance: A Love Story.

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The first Nicolas Cage movie I saw wasn’t one of the cool ones. It wasn’t Wild At Heart, Raising Arizona or even Valley Girl. It was the Cher rom-com, Moonstruck.

My mum, having just gone through an acrimonious divorce, was trying to drum up the optimism to find love again, and apparently that involved watching a lot of rom-coms where an idealised – or at least intrinsically whimsical...

“Cabin in the Woods” star Anna Hutchison has landed the female lead opposite Nicolas Cage in the indie thriller “Vengeance: A Love Story,” TheWrap has learned. Johnny Martin is directing from a script by John Mankiewicz (“House of Cards”), who adapted Joyce Carol Oates‘ award-winning 2003 novel “Rape: A Love Story.” Cage was previously attached to direct, but a scheduling conflict forced the actor to hand the reins to Martin, according to insiders. Cage plays a detective who seeks vengeance against four men who assaulted a single mother in front of her own young daughter. Hutchison will play the woman in.

The 40th annual Atlanta Film Festival was a huge success, highlighting the best and the brightest of Atlanta’s thriving film scene in 10 days of creative conferences, film premieres, and fun. On April 6, actor Carrie Anne Hunt moderated “A Working Actor: What It Takes,” a panel for performers based in the Southeast. On hand were casting professionals Adam Hochfeld (Central Casting Atlanta), Cheryl Louden-Kubin (Atlanta Casting, LLC, “True Memoirs of an International Assassin”), Rhavynn Drummer (Tyler Perry Studios), and Jen Kelley (Big Picture Casting, “Vengeance: A Love Story” starring Nicolas Cage). Here are five points from the panel that all working actors should keep in mind. Make yourself stand out.Drummer said, “We have unique opportunities where locals have had heavy recurring roles or have become series regulars. But those actors were ready, having done so much work before then. It takes years of dedication and training and theater. Every...

Patriot Pictures is casting a female background extra for the upcoming feature film “Vengeance: A Love Story.” Helmed by Nicolas Cage, the plot follows a Gulf War veteran who sets out for revenge against the vicious attackers of a single mother. The paid project begins filming on April 5 in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, check out the full casting notice here, and be sure to scan the rest of our Atlanta audition listings!

Stolen. Rage. Trespass. It seems like Nicolas Cage can’t stay away from movies that involve kidnapping. If those three movies were “a phase” then we can consider it one that’s ongoing, as the Cagester has signed up to star in another kidnap thriller called Philly Fury.

Steven C. Miller (Marauders, Silent Night) directs from a script by Jason Mosberg. The story is described by Variety as “about a Philadelphia businessman whose deadbeat brother is kidnapped for a large ransom – leading everyone to believe that the brother is involved in the kidnapping. Cage’s character, who’s also a mobster, is forced to take action on his own.” It sounds like plenty of Cage’s previous roles, but I never tire from watching him bring on the Cage Rage, which he probably will in this.

Before he starts work on Philly Fury, Cage is stepping behind the camera to...

Nicolas Cage has signed on to direct and star in a new film called Vengeance: A Love Story. This wouldn’t be the first time that Cage has directed a movie. In 2002, he directed James Franco in a movie called Sonny.

The new film project is based on a novel written by Joyce Carol Oates called Rape: A Love Story. Cage will play Detective John Dromoor in the film, “who is asked to help a woman named Teena, who is gang-raped over the Fourth of July weekend. Teena's daughter, who witnessed the attack, asks the detective to help her when it seems that her mother's attackers may be getting away with it when the lawyers put the focus on Teena's credibility, based on her sobriety and sexual promiscuity.” Harold Becker was previously set to direct, but now Cage has taken over.

This sounds like it will be a pretty heavy movie.

Marking only his second foray behind the camera in a decade, Nicolas Cage is poised to assume directorial duties on indie love thriller Vengeance: A Love Story.

That’s according to Variety, revealing that Cage will replace Harold Becker in the director’s chair. Having only been attached to the project last month, it’s an early departure for Becker. Back then, Nicolas Cage was on board to star in the adaptation, though the A-lister is now primed to helm his first feature film since 2002’s widely derided Sonny.

John Mankiewicz (House, House of Cards) is lending his hand to adapt Joyce Carol Oates’s 2003 novel, which goes by the more startling title Rape: A Love Story, and will tell the tale of Teena Maguire, a 30-year-old single mother who was brutally gang raped and left for dead at the hands of deranged meth heads. Witnessed by her daughter, Bethie,...

Nicolas Cage hasn’t directed a feature film in almost 14 years. Cage’s directorial debut, Sonny, which stars James Franco and features a score from Clint Mansell (Moon), made slightly over $17,000 at the box office. It was a small film, so it wasn’t a disaster, but it wasn’t exactly a hit with audiences or critics. After spending a while away from the director’s […]

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Cult actor to take over directorial duties on Vengeance: A Love Story We love Nicolas Cage. No other performer has rode the Hollywood rails so operatically, with so many dramatic highs and lows and bizarre deviations and sidebars. And in the middle of all these wild, decades-spanning acting gigs and public antics, the…

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All right, yes, it’s been some time since a Nicolas Cage-starrer was worth giving one’s attention to, and the basic set-up for Trust isn’t all that different from those numerous films we’ve ignored in years past — yet the first preview and basic credentials suggest something a cut above. My basic interest might come down to the very odd lineup of stars: along with Cage, Elijah Wood, musician Sky Ferreira, and Jerry Lewis (!) are making turns herein. By the looks of it, the material won’t be a total waste of that considerable talent.

As directed by music-video-cum-feature-directors Alex and Ben Brewer and co-written by Adam Hirsch, the Vegas-set comedy concerns two loose-limbed cops who decide to rob a drug dealer’s cash-filled vault. It would seem things eventually go wrong, as should be expected, but trailer is mostly humor-oriented — and none too bad on that count,...

If you're tired of Nicolas Cage bringing his usual brand of crazy to characters in bad movies, then perhaps this will rekindle your interest in the fearless actor. Deadline reports that after pre-production negotiations fell through with director Harold Becker (Domestic Disturbance, Mercury Rising) on the upcoming Vengeance: A Love Story, the film's star, Nicolas Cage, will be... Read More...

After attaching himself to star in “Vengeance: A Love Story” back in February, Oscar-winning actor Nicolas Cage has signed on to direct the indie thriller, it was announced Tuesday by Michael Mendelsohn (“I Am Wrath”) of Patriot Pictures and Union Patriot Capital Management. John Mankiewicz (“House of Cards”) wrote the script, which is based on Joyce Carol Oates‘ award-winning 2003 novel “Rape: A Love Story.” The story follows a single mother who is raped by four meth addicts, left for dead, and nursed back to health by her own mother. When the perpetrators make bail and are released from prison, their.

Nicolas Cage will not only star in Vengeance: A Love Story, but he also has signed on to direct the film. Cage, who previously helmed the 2002 film Sonny starring James Franco, will star as Detective John Dromoor in the film, which is based on Joyce Carol Oates' novel Rape: A Love Story. The story centers on Cage's detective character who is asked to help a woman named Teena, who is gang-raped over the Fourth of July weekend. Teena's daughter, who witnessed the attack, asks the detective to help her when it seems that her mother's attackers may be getting away

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Fourteen years ago, Nicolas Cage made his directorial debut with "Sonny," a small-scale drama starring James Franco about a soldier who returns home from war and falls into prostitution. Reviews weren't kind, and the picture hardly did any business at the box office. But time heals all wounds, and Cage is getting back behind the camera. Read More: The Films Of Nicolas Cage: A Retrospective Cage will direct and star in an adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' "Rape: A Love Story." The movie, which will have the title changed to the slightly less provocative "Vengeance: A Love Story," has a script from John Mankiewicz ("House," "House of Cards"), with the story kicking off on the Fourth of July, when 12-year-old Bethie Maguire flags down Niagara Falls Police Detective John Dromoor (Nicolas Cage). Bethie’s mother, Teena, has been brutally raped by four meth heads, was left for dead,...

The Oscar-winning actor is attached to star in Vengeance: A Love Story and will direct the project.

Hannibal Classics serves as sales agent and Patriot Pictures CEO Michael Mendelsohn produces the story about a detective on the case of four meth addicts charged with the rape of a young woman.

Production is scheduled for April 4 in Atlanta, Georgia.

“I’m excited to work on Vengeance: A Love Story and bring Joyce Carol Oates’ bittersweet novel to the screen,” said Cage.

“Storytelling has always been my passion and I’m honoured to work with this talented team to tell a tale of the suffering too many women have endured.”

John Mankiewicz adapted the screenplay to Oates’ novel, Rape: A Love Story.

Harold Becker and Mike Nilon are executive producers alongside Hannibal’s Richard Rionda Del Castro

“I love working with Nicolas Cage. He is a scholar, gentleman, and a talented actor. Delighted to work...

Breaking: Harold Becker has left the director’s chair on the Nicolas Cage starring drama thriller Vengeance: A Love Story during pre-production. Cage — who has a long history with the producer/financier Michael Mendelsohn — has stepped in to helm the project which he had already signed on to star. A source with knowledge of the goings on said that there was a dispute over the budget which producers wanted to trim by $1M and a disagreement arose on whether it would affect…...

Following word last month that he would be starring, Nicolas Cage is now onboard to also direct the upcoming independent thriller "Vengeance: A Love Story" for Patriot Pictures.

Cage is directing from a John Mankiewicz screenplay, based on Joyce Carol Oates' 2003 novel "Rape: A Love Story." The action is set in the aftermath a gang rape with the victim, a single mother in her 30s, left for dead in a park boathouse.

The attack was witnessed by her daughter, whose credibility is attacked at the subsequent trial, leading to a Gulf War veteran turned policeman (Cage) becoming her unexpected champion.

Michael Mendelsohn will produce and filming begins in April in Atlanta.

Source: Variety...