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Underworld star Kate Beckinsale and Mortal Kombat’sLewis Tan will join forces for a new “under-the-radar" action thriller from director James Nunn, the filmmaker behind the Scott Adkins action outings One Shot and One More Shot. Yes, it is pretty much everything you could hope for as an action movie fan. You're welcome. Titled Lioness, production is now underway in the United Kingdom, and the first details have now been revealed.

According to a report by Deadline, Capstone will finance the action movie, which will follow “an ex-black ops team who reunite to pull off a desperate heist to save the life of their leader’s (Beckinsale) eight-year-old daughter.” Which, frankly, sounds like the kind of pitch perfect, no-nonsense plot that action dreams are often made of.

Alongside Kate Beckinsale and Lewis Tan, the rest of the cast includes Rasmus Hardiker, Alice Krige, Bailey Patrick, Tom Bennett, Matt Willis, and Roxy Striar.

Exclusive: Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) and Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat) are underway in the UK on under-the-radar action-thriller Lioness.

Capstone is financing the film about an ex-black ops team who reunite to pull off a desperate heist to save the life of their leader’s (Beckinsale) eight-year-old daughter. Also starring are Rasmus Hardiker, Alice Krige, Bailey Patrick, Tom Bennett, Matt Willis and Roxy Striar.

James Nunn (One Shot) directs from Dominic Burns’ (Madness In The Method) script. Producing are Fall and 47 Meters Down duo James Harris and Mark Lane, Dominic Burns, and Crawford Anderson Dillon. Christian Mercuri is executive producer. Capstone handles world sales.

Underworld and Love And Friendship star Beckinsale is coming off features Canary Black and Stolen Girl. Tan is coming off Cobra Kai and has Mortal Kombat 2 and Copperhead upcoming.

Beckinsale is repped by Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo, Gersh, and Untitled. Tan is repped at Gersh,...

Exclusive: L.A. standup and influencer Noel Leon and actor, producer and writer Mickey Gooch Jr. have tapped a raft of comedy veterans for their directorial feature debut A Comedy of Errors.

Billed as a true-life addiction tale, Leon wrote the screenplay and also stars and co-directs with Gooch.

She is joined on screen by Siobhan Hogan Fallon, Brian O’Halloran, Luke Null (Saturday Night Live), Judy Gold, Andy Dick, and Or Mashiah (Wild ‘N Out).

Leon, a regular performer on the L.A. and New York comedy club scene, stars as queer female standup comic Noel, who relapses into addiction after getting dumped and evicted two days before Christmas.

She goes on the bender of all benders across NYC with her stoner best friend (Or). In her descent towards rock bottom,...

Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes are on the road once again. The two best friends have worked in movies and television shows for decades. Smith and Mewes, better known as their fictional stoner selves, Jay and Silent Bob, are the total opposite in real life.

For one thing, writer/director Kevin Smith, who portrays Silent Bob, is silent. When Smith is not behind the camera, he usually hosts one of his many podcasts or hits the road, telling stories and giving inspirational talks on filmmaking and following your dreams.

Jason Mewes, who has portrayed Jay the loudmouth Jay, is an accomplished actor, director, and father. His directorial debut movie Madness in the Method was good. I’m looking forward to seeing him behind the camera the next time. And if he ever needs any advice, he can ask one of his best friends.

Kevin Smith has always been an inspirational person to me.

Exclusive: Gina Carano has signed with Straightwire Entertainment Group for management.

Carano began her career as a mixed martial artist who made her feature film debut in Steven Soderbergh’s action film Haywire in 2011. She co-starred alongside Antonio Banderas, Micheal Douglas, Michael Fassbender and Channing Tatum in the role of Mallory Kane, a black ops agent who is betrayed by her employers and targeted for assassination in a conspiracy. Her performance earned her a Critics Choice Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama.

She followed that up with Fast & Furious 6 directed by Justin Lin, where she portrayed Dss agent Riley Hicks and Deadpool alongside Ryan Reynolds in 2016.

On the TV side, Carano starred in the Lucasfilm Star Wars spinoff TV series The Mandalorian where she played bounty hunter Cara Dune for two seasons.

In early 2021, Lucasfilm said there were no plans for Carano to...

Exclusive: Homeland and Death of Stalin actor Rupert Friend is set to star alongside Harry Potter star Evanna Lynch in James and Lucia, a biopic of celebrated author James Joyce which will focus on the Irish writer’s relationship with his daughter.

Written and to be directed by Robert Mullan (Mad to be Normal), Motus Studios is presenting the movie to buyers this week at the EFM in Berlin.

Based on the the final decade of Joyce’s life, firstly in Paris then in Zurich, the film highlights his struggles with his fading eyesight and, centrally, his attempts to protect his beloved daughter Lucia. Once treated by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, Joyce was diagnosed as schizophrenic in the mid-1930s and institutionalized in Switzerland and in the UK.

Joyce, a towering figure in 20th Century literature, is known for works including Ulysses, A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man,...

It has recently been announced that the Halloween-themed horror anthology movie Bad Candy will be arriving at select theaters on September 10. Shortly after, it will be available On Demand from September 14 and then on Blu-ray from September 28. Bad Candy was written and directed by Scott B. Hansen and Desiree Connell. It stars cult favourites Zach Galligan of Gremlins fame and Corey Taylor from the masked heavy metal band Slipknot.

As an anthology based film, the movie will tell a number of separate spooky stories based on a Halloween theme in the vain of 2007's holiday favorite Trick 'r Treat directed by Michael Dougherty. Bad Candy follows local Halloween stories based on both myths and lessons learned in the community of New Salem. With its annual Psychotronic FM Halloween show, re-enactment radio DJs Chilly Billy (Taylor) and Paul (Galligan) weave the tales of the supernatural of years gone by, and if...

Dean Cain has come under fire on Twitter following recent comments he made about the "wokeness" of Captain America in an interview earlier this week. The actor, whose recent credits include titles like Madness in the Method, Break Every Chain, and Obamagate: The Movie, is best known for his role as Clark Kent on the TV series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He may have experience in playing a superhero, but he's not too thrilled with some of the comic book industry's latest stories.

On Fox and Friends this week, Dean Cain was asked about Marvel's comic book series The United States of Captain America. Specifically, a line in the first issue mentions that the American dream for some "isn't real" and just didn't sit very well with the Superman actor, who feels that anti-patriotism has become the new trend in the nation. Per THR, here's what...

Stars: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Mickey Gooch Jr., Stan Lee, Brian O’Halloran, Esther Anderson, Blake Harrison, Matt Willis | Written by Dominic Burns, Chris Anastasi | Directed by Jason Mewes

[Note: With the film hitting digital outlets next week, here’s a reposting of our review on Madness in the Methos, from the films UK debut at Frightfest last year]

Playing an alternative version of his persona, and tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, Mewes embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor. Upon advice from his best friend Kevin Smith, he tracks down a secret book outlining all the mysteries of the Method Acting process with disastrous consequences.

Whilst Madness in the Method may feature Jason Mewes playing an alternate version of his own persona, it doesn’t stop Mewes’ film from being something of a retrospective on his real-life career And life; perfectly blending truth and fiction, life and movie, in a way that makes this film akin to the likes of JFK, American Animals and...

Exclusive: Mvd Entertainment Group has picked up the North American distribution rights to Max Reload and the Nether Blasters, a gaming action-adventure film written and directed by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp. Jay and Silent Bob and Comic Book Men’s Kevin Smith stars alongside Tom Plumley (Upright Citizen’s Brigade alum), Hassie Harrison (Tacoma Fd), Joey Morgan (Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse), Lukas Gage (Euphoria), Joseph D. Reitman (Money Monster), Charlie Talbert (The Big Short), and Greg Grunberg (Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker). Mvd will release the pic in theaters and on multiple VOD platforms this summer.

The plot follows a small town video game store clerk who must go from zero to hero after accidentally unleashing the forces of evil from a cursed Colecovision game… Max Jenkins’ gaming fantasies collide with reality when a legendary “lost” installment of the Nether Game series appears on...

Jay and Silent Bob are back on the big screen together after a decade and some change away. The iconic duo, played by filmmaker Kevin Smith and his trusty "hetero life mate" Jason Mewes, were last seen leading their own flick in 2001's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. Now, Smith is returning to his ViewAskewniverse with Jay and Silent Bob Reboot, a star-studded sequel that will bring back a ton of fan favorites, while introducing quite a few new faces to the universe.

This is the first time Kevin Smith has visited his own cinematic universe since Clerks II in 2006, and his first movie since suffering his near-fatal heart attack last year. Jason Mewes is once again carrying this movie on his shoulders as Jay, just as he did in its 2001 predecessor. Not only that, but the two will be heading out on a tour starting later this month...

Stars: Jason Mewes, Kevin Smith, Teri Hatcher, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Mickey Gooch Jr., Stan Lee, Brian O’Halloran, Esther Anderson, Blake Harrison, Matt Willis | Written by Dominic Burns, Chris Anastasi | Directed by Jason Mewes

Playing an alternative version of his persona, and tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, Mewes embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor. Upon advice from his best friend Kevin Smith, he tracks down a secret book outlining all the mysteries of the Method Acting process with disastrous consequences.

Whilst Madness in the Method may feature Jason Mewes playing an alternate version of his own persona, it doesn’t stop Mewes’ film from being something of a retrospective on his real-life career And life; perfectly blending truth and fiction, life and movie, in a way that makes this film akin to the likes of JFK, American Animals...

Jason Mewes’ Directorial Debut Madness In The Method In Theaters and On Demand Beginning August 2, 2019 Cinedigm has announced it will release Jason Mewes’ meta comedy Madness In The Method in select theaters and on demand beginning August 2, 2019, with a DVD and Blu-ray™ release planned for fall. Fans attending San Diego Comic …

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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week, […]

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Los Angeles and New York // July 12, 2019 – Cinedigm has announced it will release Jason Mewes’ meta comedy Madness In The Method in select theaters and on demand beginning August 2, 2019, with a DVD and Blu-ray release planned for fall. Fans attending San Diego Comic Con can get a sneak peek at the film on July 18 at the Tcl Chinese Theatre at Theatre Box, with Jason Mewes in attendance for a Q&a.

Produced by Autumnwood Media and written by Chris Anastasi and Dominic Burns, the film stars Mewes (Mallrats), Vinnie Jones (Snatch), Gina Carano (Haywire), Jaime Camil (Jane the Virgin), Kevin Smith (Clerks), Danny Trejo (Machete), Stan Lee (in his last onscreen role), Teri Hatcher (Tomorrow Never Dies), Brian O’Halloran (Mallrats), and Dean Cain (God’s Not Dead).

In the film, Mewes, tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor. Upon...

"Once you read the book, you can't unread it!" Cinedigm has unveiled the first official trailer for the film Madness in the Method, an autobiographical feature film starring and directed by Jason Mewes (aka Jay Mewes) - the actor best known as "Jay" from Kevin Smith's filmography. This stars Jason as himself, Jay, and is about his attempt at trying method acting in order to gain more respect for himself in Hollywood outside of his "Jay" role he's most known for. He discovers a secret method acting book, but slowly descends into madness. Kevin Smith also co-stars, and the full cast includes Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, Mickey Gooch Jr., Brian O'Halloran, Teri Hatcher, as well as a brief cameo by Stan Lee (his very last!). The looks kooky and potentially fun, an amusing mockery of that Hollywood life. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for...

After watching his good pal Kevin Smith turn a $20,000 black and white indie film into a 25-year Hollywood career, you had to imagine that sooner or later actor Jason Mewes would try his hand at directing. And now, with the upcoming film “Madness in the Method,” he does just that.

And despite the film’s fairly serious meta-narrative, following Jason Mewes as he attempts to shed his stoner buddy persona for a more serious acting career, the new trailer for “Madness in the Method” clearly shows that the filmmaker is ultimately interested in having a good time.

Continue reading ‘Madness In The Method’ Trailer: Danny Trejo, Vinnie Jones & Stan Lee Appear In Jason Mewes’ Meta Directorial Debut at The Playlist.

Following the passing of legendary comic book creator Stan Lee, his run of cameo appearances in various movies is also coming to an end. However, he will be giving us one final live-action cameo in a posthumous performance in the upcoming crime-comedy movie Madness in the Method. After the lack of a Lee cameo in Spider-Man: Far From Home, it's nice to know there's still one more portrayal from the legend on the way, even if seeing it is a bit bittersweet.

Madness in the Method is the directorial debut for Jason Mewes, better known as Jay from the Jay and Silent Bob movies. Mewes also stars in the movie along with Kevin Smith, with both playing fictionalized versions of themselves. After Smith tells Mewes that the only way to survive Hollywood is to toughen up, Mewes takes the message a little too closely to heart. Determined to escape from under Smith's shadow,...

Joseph Baxter Jul 12, 2019

Jason Mewes stars as himself in feature directorial debut Madness in the Method, depicting his struggle to be taken seriously in Hollywood.

Madness in the Method brandishes a title that, in reversing a famous idiom, reveals the 180 turn of its star and director, Jason Mewes, who’s using the film as a statement to prove to audiences that he’s more than just a snoochie-boochie-smoking loiterer of convenience stores and malls.

Indeed, the film shows Mewes expanding his (perceived as limited) performance boundaries by – ironically enough – playing, well, himself in the meta-minded character study, putting aside his oft-fielded character in Kevin Smith’s View Askewverse as Jay. However, that’s not to say that he’ll be without his repertory onscreen companion, since Smith will very much be a part of the film, joined by an intriguing array of supporting cast members, most notably the immortal Stan Lee...

Film set for international premiere at UK festival FrightFest.

Madness In The Method, the Us comedy marking the directing debut of actor Jason Mewes (Clerks), has been boarded for international sales by London-based Moviehouse Entertainment.

The film stars Mewes as a fictionalised version of himself. Tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, he embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor, tracking down a highly secretive method-acting book. Also in the cast is Kevin Smith, who wrote and directed 1994 cult comedy Clerks and starred with Mewes as the duo Jay and Silent Bob.

Also starring in Madness In The Method...

There’s one person who has been in more Marvel Cinematic Universe movies than anyone else — late Stan Lee, the comic book legend who co-created Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk. For decades he’s bee a staple in Marvel movies, making cameo appearances in just about all of them, both inside the McU and outside it.

Lee hasn’t popped up in every single Marvel movie — he skipped, for example, both “Punisher” movies and “Elektra,” to name a couple — but for the most part you could expect to see him when you head to the theater to check out the newest Marvel flick. He was such a staple of these things that pretty much everyone recognized him when he came on screen.

But Lee died late last year, meaning his run of cameos would eventually have to come to an end. Then he appeared in both...

Arrow Video FrightFest’s “Twenty Bloody Years” August bank holiday celebration kicks off with the Elijah Wood starrer Come To Daddy, Alexandre Aja’s crocodile-thriller Crawl and Andre Øvredal and Guillermo del Toro’s freaky-faced team-up Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, before rounding out with Abner Pastoll’s highly-anticipated A Good Woman Is Hard To Find.

Returning to the heady heights of Leicester Square’s huge Cineworld and darling indie, the Prince Charles Cinema, Alan Jones, Paul McEvoy, Greg Day and Ian Rattray have delivered another fierce line-up for a very special year for the fest. Having taken their first bow as London’s go-to genre film festival way back in 2000 in the very same square, Team FrightFest are promising big things for their 20th anniversary.

And not just with their always killer selection of movies either. Sure we’re looking forward to The Soska Sisters’ Rabid re-jig,...

This year marks the festival’s 20th anniversary.

This year’s FrightFest, the annual UK genre festival, has unveiled a line-up that features 20 world premieres including films from the Soska Sisters (American Mary) and Tom Paton (Black Site).

The Soska Sisters, Jen and Sylvia, are screening their second feature Rabid, their re-imagining of David Cronenberg’s 1977 film. Paton’s Stairs is a sci-fi horror about a special ops squad that find themselves trapped on a never-ending stairwell.

Also screening are Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by André Øvredal’s, and Crawl,...

This year’s Arrow Video FrightFest lineup in London will include Guillermo del Toro-produced Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and Sam Raimi-produced Crawl.

The 20th edition of the genre event will unspool at the Cineworld Leicester Square and The Prince Charles Cinema from Aug 22 – Aug 26. There will be 20 world premieres, 20 international premieres and 28 UK premieres.

Attendees are set to include Dario Argento, who will present a special screening of his giallo pic Tenebrae, and The Soska Sisters with their world premiere Rabid, a reimagining of the cult Cronenberg pic of the same name.

The event will kick off with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson’s Come To Daddy, starring Elijah Wood, and will close with the world premiere of Abner Pastoll’s crime story A Good Woman Is Hard To Find. Among other movies to screen will be Radio Silence’s thriller Ready Or Not...

Exclusive: Cinedigm has acquired North American rights to Madness in the Method, the feature directing debut of Jason Mewes, who teams to star with his Jay and Silent Bob buddy Kevin Smith in the meta comedy. The distributor now plans an August 2 day-and-date platform release in theaters and digital.

In the film, Mewes plays a version of himself. Tired of Hollywood’s perception of him, he embarks on a quest to reinvent himself as a serious actor. Upon advice from best friend Kevin Smith, he tracks down a secretive method-acting book — with disastrous consequences. Gina Carano, Jaime Camil, Vinnie Jones, Danny Trejo, the late Stan Lee, Teri Hatcher, Brian O’Halloran and Dean Cain co-star along with Blake Harrison, Casper Van Dien, Judd Nelson and David Dastmalchian.

The pic marks the first major on-screen team-up for Mewes and Smith since 2006’s Clerks 2. In January, Saban Films picked up North American...

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back star Jason Mewes has read Kevin Smith's script for Jay and Silent Bob Reboot and says that it's "amazing." According to Smith, the new movie is expected to begin filming this fall and is expected to contain many cameos from Smith's past body of work including Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy. Jay and Silent Bob haven't been seen on the big screen together since 2006's Clerks II and fans have been asking about their return ever since, but the timing was never right.

In 2001's standalone Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the titular characters learned that Hollywood was planning to make a big budget motion picture about their comic book alter egos, Bluntman and Chronic. The movie revolves around them taking an epic road trip to prevent the movie from happening with a whole bunch of crazy cameos from Will Ferrell, Carrie Fisher,...

Mma champion-turned-actress Gina Carano is wrapping up shooting Madness in the Method, the directorial debut of Jay and Silent Bob actor Jason Mewes.

Described as a “meta movie,” the story is a dark comedy that tells of an actor named Jason Mewes attempting to reinvent himself in Hollywood.

Mewes is starring as himself and co-wrote the script with Christ Anastasi and Dominic Burns. Mewes is also producing with Burns and Rob Weston.

Carano is playing Mewes’ wife in a role that should showcase another side to the actress, who established herself as an action star with movies such as Haywire,...

Rob Leane Feb 13, 2017

Superman Lives, The Green Hornet and sadly now Clerks III: here’s a rundown of the Kevin Smith films we’ll probably never see...

Kevin Smith has always had to fight to get his films off the ground: he started his filmmaking career by maxing out multiple credit cards to self-finance Clerks, and more recently, legend has it, it was only Johnny Depp’s decision to come on board as a wacky supporting character that allowed Smith to secure financing for his walrus-centric horror flick Tusk.

Smith has, across his career, been offered several barmy jobs (he rejected a chance to pen Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian back in the 90s) and he’s also signed up for a lot of projects that never got past the script phase.

The latter camp of could’ve-beens is what we’re talking about today, following that news that Clerks III...

Rob Leane Feb 14, 2017

Kevin Smith tells us how he wound up making Yoga Hosers, a movie about miniature Nazis made of sausage...

Among geeky film fans, Kevin Smith needs no introduction. He’s brought us such treats as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy and Dogma, and recently he’s had a massive resurgence as a giant in the nerdy podcast world.

So far, two movies have come out of Smith’s podcasting: first was Tusk, branching out from a SModcast episode about a Gumtree advert seeking someone willing to dress up as a walrus in exchange for lodgings. Justin Long starred in that one, with Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith featuring in the supporting cast alongside her best friend Lily Rose Depp and her famous father Johnny Depp.

And now we have Yoga Hosers, a spinoff from Tusk in which Smith Jnr and Depp Jnr’s Canadian convenience store clerks...

The living dead are looking to party beyond the grave at a summer camp in the official trailer for Rave in the Redwoods, the new zombies mode that will be included on the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Dlc pack Sabotage, coming out on January 31st with filmmaker Kevin Smith as a playable character.

Press Release: January 24, 2017 – Activision and Infinity Ward today debuted the gameplay trailer for ‘Rave in the Redwoods,’ the undead survival co-op mode featured in the upcoming first Dlc Map Pack for Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare, Sabotage. Rave in the Redwoods continues the macabre narrative of the Infinite Warfare zombies experience, taking fans through a new storyline where they’ll fight as one of four classic ‘90s characters and battle new varieties of the living dead in an abandoned lakeside summer camp full of twists and turns.

Additionally, ‘90s icon Kevin Smith, filmmaker, actor and podcaster extraordinaire (Mallrats,...

Jason Mewes occupies a unique place in the pantheon of American independent cinema. As Jay, the gabby stoner half of Jay and Silent Bob, Mewes is part of one of the most enduring twosomes in film.

Kevin Smith plucked Mewes from a job as a roofer in New Jersey to play Jay for his 1994 debut Clerks, with Smith playing the silent straight man, and Jay's dialogue inspired by Mewes' real-life antics. In half-a-dozen films, as well as the short-lived Clerks animated series, Mewes' Jay, with his black-knit cap, long blond hair and stream-of-consciousness profanity, has become a slacker icon.

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Well this is something - an indie film about making an indie film. Shooting Clerks is a fictional feature biopic made by Christopher Downie retelling the story of Kevin Smith making his breakout debut film Clerks in 1994. The film stars Mark Frost as Kevin Smith, Chris Bain as Jason Mewes (who has appeared in other films made by Downie about Mewes), Kit Alexander as Brian O'Halloran, and Tom Sullivan as Jeff Anderson. The cast list also includes a cameo by the real Kevin Smith as Larkin Eve. As expected, this is super low budget and almost like a fan-made retelling of the original story, but it also has enough support to get a release. They'll be showing the film on a small screening tour including a showing in NYC, heading to a few other places like Orlando and New Jersey. Give this a look below if you're curious how it turned out.