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After more than a decade of inspiring feature films, documentaries, books and podcasts, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht will tell his story in an upcoming documentary he participated in from prison.

The project arrives as Ulbricht enjoys an improbable Hollywood ending. He was freed from federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, on Tuesday after receiving a pardon from President Donald Trump, a pledge Trump made in May at the Libertarian National Convention.

Ulbricht was sentenced to two life sentences, plus 40 years, after creating the illegal online drug market Silk Road, which was described as “the Amazon for Drugs.” According to the FBI, the site generated hundreds of millions in sales and made Ulbricht the subject of a dramatic manhunt, culminating in his arrest at a San Francisco library in 2013.

Despite the intense interest in his case, Ulbricht granted no interviews to the press following his 2015 conviction (he did send in a...

Paul Walter Hauser will be joining a shared universe that revolves around The Chosen, and he has good reason to defend his decision. The original show began in 2017 and tells the story of Jesus' life. Jonathan Roumie stars alongside Shahar Isaac, Elizabeth Tabish, Noah James, and more. The initial series quickly became a success and has seen four seasons so far. The Chosen season 5 is already on the way, but a recent announcement revealed that the show will be evolving into a Biblical shared universe akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Hauser is proud of his choice and took to Twitter to explain why. Responding to a Twitter user who complained about Hauser's decision, he elaborated that he is joining the show for several reasons. He enjoys The Chosen, appreciates the quality of the script, wants the financial security that the show can provide, and hopes to use the platform...

Lyn Ulbricht’s son, Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, currently sits behind bars waiting to learn his sentence for breaking multiple laws while running the online drug bazaar – and Lyn believes that the U.S. government broke the law in putting him there. Lyn and director Alex Winter, who produced a documentary about Ross, Deep Web, spoke to uInterview exclusively at SXSW in 2015.

Q: Lyn, how did you find out about your son’s involvement in with Silk Road?

A: We got a call from a Reuters reporter at our house. That’s how I found out. To tell you the truth, sometimes I still can’t believe it. I had mentioned this to Alex, in the movie, it’s kind of like when someone dies. It’s such a shock to have Ross in prison that sometimes I wake up in the morning, and then I remember. It’s such a shock.

Dr. Eugene Mallove believed that a new form of world-changing free energy — cold fusion — was just around the corner. Even when his work was pushed to the fringes, he dreamed of a brighter future. But before Dr. Mallove could usher in that future, he was found dead in the driveway of his childhood home. Everyone had their own ideas of who killed him, and investigators were looking in all the wrong places.

From Qcode and Faceplant, in association with No Smiling, Crime Waves: Cold Truth is a story about one man's quest to expose the truth, the lengths he would go to save the world, and how his dream caught up with him.

Hosted by award-winning journalist and author David Kushner, Cold Truth is an 8-part series and the first show to be released under the Crime Waves true crime anthology. It tells the true story of the life, violent death,...

Most people know that social media has become a cesspool of disinformation, a digital hydra that feeds off toxicity and conspiracy theories. But somehow YouTube, the second-most-popular site in the world, has avoided the scrutiny that’s come Twitter and Facebook’s way. “The YouTube Effect,” a new documentary from Alex Winter, could change that. It takes a tough look at the role that the Google-owned service played in everything from the Jan. 6 riot to the 2019 New Zealand mosque shooting by promoting election denialism and white supremacy.

“People don’t know that YouTube and Google are the biggest purveyors of disinformation,” Winter says. “One reason is people don’t understand what YouTube is. Is it just a place to watch cat videos, or is it something else? And the second reason you hear about it less is because Google is so deep-pocketed that it has some of the strongest...

While Joel and Ethan Coen worked on two more features together after Inside Llewyn Davis, many (such as Mia Hansen-Løve) thought the story of an artist trying to find his way after the loss of his partner portended the eventual parting of ways for the brothers. Following Hail, Caesar! and The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Joel Coen went solo directing The Tragedy of Macbeth while Ethan Coen helmed a Jerry Lee Lewis documentary and the forthcoming Drive-Away Dolls. Thankfully, it looks the brothers will now reunite for a new project.

As revealed in the current issue of Empire Magazine (via /Film), Ethan Coen said that he’s already working with Joel Coen on developing a new script. He also noted he very much hasn’t “gone solo” as his wife Tricia Cooke not only co-wrote the script for Drive-Away Dolls but also co-directed the film with him, though the Directors...

The YouTube Effect is a fascinating documentary that explores the origins of one of the world’s most influential websites before diving into the dangers lurking beneath its friendly interface. The documentary features interviews from users and creators alike; YouTube founder Steve Chen, platform star Andrew Padilla, former alt-right extremist Caleb Cain, and more sat down to discuss the benefits and dangers of the site. The film is both timeless and incredibly relevant, as it both establishes the unlikely rise of a global institution and questions its culpability in recent tragedies like the Christchurch shootings and January 6th, 2021.

The documentary was directed and produced by Alex Winter, an established filmmaker whose previous efforts include Showbiz Kids, Trump’s Lobby, and Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and the Silk Road. Despite primarily working behind the camera in recent years, Winter is immediately recognizable to many thanks to his performances...

Andrew Garfield and the Tick, Tick… Boom! cast helped to bring the beloved musical to life in a geature film with stunning results. The feature directorial debut of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tick. Tick… Boom! is the on-screen adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s semi-autobiographical musical of the same name. With a screenplay by Dear Evan Hansen writer Steven Levenson, Tick, Tick... Boom! follows Larson as he struggles with the internal turmoil of turning 30 and not achieving anything yet.

In 1990, Jonathan Larson originated the show off-off-Broadway, calling it Boho Days. Over the next three years, he performed the rock monologue, now called Tick, Tick… Boom! in different festivals, venues, and theater workshops. This caught the attention of producer Jeffrey Seller, leading him to become a fan of Larson’s Rent and bring the musical to Broadway. Following Larson’s death in 1996, Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn reshaped Tick, Tick… Boom! into a three-actor musical.

The official trailer for “Waco: American Apocalypse,” a new documentary series about one of the bloodiest shootouts in American history, was released by Netflix on Wednesday.

The three-part docuseries tells the story of David Koresh, a cult leader who took control of the Branch Davidians religious sect in the late ’80s, claiming to be its final prophet. Allegations about polygamy and child sexual abuse on Koresh’s part surfaced in the years that followed, prompting the federal government to raid Koresh’s Mount Carmel Center compound near Waco, Texas on February 28, 1993, in a bloody siege that lasted for 51 days. The standoff was breathlessly captured on live television and ended in the deaths of 86 people — 4 FBI agents and 82 members of the cult including Koresh — and the destruction of the compound in a fire.

Released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the siege, “American Apocalypse” is described by Netflix as “immersive” and featuring “cutting-edge visual technology.

Exclusive: Oscar nominated producer David Permut and Jamie Cohen of Australian-based Clockwork Films have acquired the narrative motion picture and television rights to award winning journalist and author David Kushner’s book, The Players Ball: A Genius, A Con Man, And The Internet’s Secret Rise.

The book tells the true story of the birth of the internet and two men’s ensuing battle over who controlled the rights to the multi-million dollar domain name: “sex.com.”

This epic, decade long war took them from the boardrooms of Silicon Valley to a gun fight on the bordellos of Mexico – and to the edges of their sanity. Along the way involving the likes of an eclectic cast of porn stars and programmers, billionaires and brainiacs, goons and gangsters.

In one corner is the hapless in-love, visionary tech entrepreneur Gary Kremen, who in 1994 used a 2,500 loan to create the first online dating service,...

Exclusive: Mo McRae (The Flight Attendant), Brian Geraghty (Gaslit), Chapel Oaks (The First Lady), Kenneth Miller (12 Strong) and Nicholas Logan (I Care a Lot) are the final additions to the cast of Ian and Eshom Nelms’ action-thriller Red Right Hand, which is in production in Kentucky. The actors join an ensemble that also includes Orlando Bloom, Andie MacDowell, Scott Haze and Garret Dillahunt, as previously announced.

Red Right Hand finds Cash (Bloom) trying to live an honest and quiet life with his widowed brother-in-law Finney (Haze) and niece, Savannah (Oaks), in the Appalachian hills of Odim County. When the sadistic Queenpin Big Cat (MacDowell), who runs the town, forces him back into her services to pay off Finney’s debts, Cash will use any means necessary—even killing—to protect his town and the only family he has left. As the journey gets harder, Cash is drawn into a...

“Tick, Tick … Boom!” star Alexandra Shipp has joined the live-action “Barbie” film from Oscar-nominated director Greta Gerwig, starring Margot Robbie as Barbie and Ryan Gosling as Ken.

Though plot details are being kept under wraps, the film is written by Gerwig and Noah Baumbach and based on the popular Mattel toy. Shipp’s role is currently unknown, along with other co-stars America Ferrera and Kate McKinnon, along with Simu Liu and Ariana Greenblatt. Warner Bros. will distribute the film.

Shipp has also been cast in a minor role in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’ “65,” which stars two-time Oscar nominee Adam Driver. The new sci-fi thriller tells the story of an astronaut who crashes on a mysterious planet, only to discover he’s not alone.

This past year, Shipp starred in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” the adaptation of the autobiographical Off-Broadway musical by the late Jonathan Larson.

Exclusive: Katie Aselton (The Morning Show) has signed on to star alongside Bill Burr, Bobby Cannavale and Bokeem Woodbine in the comedy Old Dads, which Burr wrote and is directing for Miramax and his company All Things Comedy.

The comedian’s feature directorial debut centers on a middle-aged father, Jack (Burr), and his two best friends (Cannavale and Woodbine), who after selling their company to a millennial, find themselves out of step and behind the times as they hilariously struggle to navigate a changing world of culture, career and fatherhood.

Aselton is playing Jack’s wife, Leah. Burr and Ben Tishler penned the script and are producing alongside Bill Block, Monica Levinson and Mike Bertolina, with production underway in Los Angeles.

Aselton is an actor and filmmaker perhaps best known for her starring role as Jenny on FX’s comedy The League. She...

Exclusive: Even with his highly-anticipated HBO series Winning Time set to bow on Sunday, Jason Clarke is already lining up his next major project as he is the latest top talent to join Christopher Nolan’s next film Oppenheimer. The A-list ensemble already includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek, Josh Hartnett, Kenneth Branagh and Cillian Murphy, who is set to star in the title role as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb. The film will bow on July 21, 2023, a slot typically saved for Nolan films in the past. It’s also roughly two weeks before the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Details behind who Clarke will be playing are unknown at this time.

Universal had no comment.

Universal will distribute Oppenheimer theatrically worldwide and release the film in North America.

Exclusive: Jimmi Simpson is set to star opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris in the drama series The Man Who Fell to Earth, which recently moved from CBS All Access/Paramount+ to Showtime.

Based on the Walter Tevis novel and the iconic 1976 film that starred David Bowie, The Man Who Fell to Earth will follow a new alien character (Ejiofor) who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future.

Simpson will play Spencer Clay, a CIA agent whose obsession with the alien’s true identity drives him to the edge of madness. Harris plays Justin Falls, a brilliant scientist and engineer.

Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet are writing and executive producing the series and will serve as showrunners along with executive producer John Hlavin. Kurtzman also will direct multiple episodes of the series. Sarah Timberman,...

Taking a fanboy stance on Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht doesn’t help Tiller Russell’s underpowered Silicon Valley crime drama

Here’s an unthrilling, bland drama about the rise and fall of Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind behind the illegal online drug emporium Silk Road (described by the FBI as “the Amazon of drug sites”). Between 2011 and 2013, PhD dropout Ulbricht made millions of dollars in commissions from users on the dark web anonymously buying and selling drugs. Then he got busted.

If you consider how gripping David Fincher made a bunch of geeks in hoodies talking about algorithms look in The Social Network, the Ulbricht story – involving an FBI manhunt and allegations of murder-for-hire – should be a doddle. But watching Silk Road is a bit like rolling a joint only to find the leafy green substance you’ve been sold is oregano. The highs just don’t come.

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Nick Robinson, the wholesome, all-American-seeming star of “Love, Simon” and “Jurassic World,” plays an unlikely drug trafficker in “Silk Road.”

The film tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht’s unlikely rise to fortune and infamy as the founder a dark web market. Dubbed the Silk Road, Ulbricht’s creation gave users the ability to buy everything from illegal narcotics to firearms and triggered an international manhunt that eventually led to his arrest and 2015 conviction. Robinson was drawn to playing Ulbricht because he wanted to explore how this libertarian true believer lost his moral compass. “Silk Road,” which is is directed by Tiller Russell and co-stars Jason Clarke, is currently available on-demand. Robinson spoke to Variety about how he prepared to play Robinson, what he thinks of his ideology, as well as what’s next for “Love, Victor,” the Hulu spinoff of “Love, Simon” that he guest starred on and produced.

Nick Robinson knew he wouldn’t have access to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, but he had the next best thing: his chat logs. Adapted from David Kushner’s Rolling Stone article, Dead End on Silk Road, Robinson stars as Ulbricht in Tiller Russell’s Silk Road, which chronicles the quick rise and fall of the twenty-something millennial and his black market version of eBay. With years’ worth of transcripts and journal entries at his disposal, Robinson was able to track Ulbricht’s innermost thoughts as he fell deeper and deeper into the illicit community he created.

“It was really interesting to go through because it almost ...

Nick Robinson knew he wouldn’t have access to Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, but he had the next best thing: his chat logs. Adapted from David Kushner’s Rolling Stone article, Dead End on Silk Road, Robinson stars as Ulbricht in Tiller Russell’s Silk Road, which chronicles the quick rise and fall of the twenty-something millennial and his black market version of eBay. With years’ worth of transcripts and journal entries at his disposal, Robinson was able to track Ulbricht’s innermost thoughts as he fell deeper and deeper into the illicit community he created.

“It was really interesting to go through because it almost ...

This week, it’s all about awards and animation. Wherever you look — VOD charts (“The Croods: A New Age”), Netflix (“Bigfoot Family”), theaters (“Tom & Jerry”), and HBO Max (“Tom & Jerry”), cartoons are king. This weekend, Disney ups the ante with “Raya and the Last Dragon” on Disney+ and in theaters. Meanwhile, “Minari” was strong in its Premium VOD debut and “I Care a Lot” is thriving at Netflix.

No need for industry status to get screeners: Nearly all contenders are available with either platform subscription or VOD rental. Hulu has “Nomadland” and “The United States vs. Billie Holiday,” Amazon Prime owns “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” Netflix is the home of “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and “The Life Ahead,” HBO Max has “Judas and the Black Messiah,” Disney+ has “Soul,” and as of March 2, “The Mauritanian” will be on PVOD March 2.

Showing success both on transactional and revenue charts,...

Two films dominated VOD rankings last week. “Monster Hunter,” Paul W.S. Anderson’s video-game adaptation with his muse and wife Milla Jovovich, debuted on Premium VOD and “Greenland” after breakout success as a PVOD exclusive (no theaters in the U.S.) over the last two months reduced its price to $5.99 and immediately rebounded to lead in some as well.

“Monster Hunter” spent nine weekends as a theatrical exclusive and grossed $13.4 million domestically, for about $25 million worldwide. The film took a hit when Chinese officials banned it for content offensive to local sensibilities. (It would have been Sony’s first post-covid release in China.) It leads FandangoNow’s chart (based on revenue earned) and spent five days as #1 on Apple TV. It’s now #2 at Apple TV and GooglePlay, which lists by rentals.

“Greenland” is now #1 at Apple TV and GooglePlay. Considering the word-of-mouth generated since its December 25 home-only release at...

As the weeks go by and the pandemic begins to lift at a very, very glacial pace we are hearing some more coins drop into the bank of the specialty box office space.

Edward Hall’s adaptation of Noel Coward’s play Blithe Spirit is one of a handful of films that made its way to theaters and digital this weekend. The IFC Films pic starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann and Judi Dench had a noteworthy opening in 239 theaters across the U.S., grossing an estimated $98,100. The film also managed to hit Apple Movies’ indie movie chart. It also broke the top five in the comedies section top 10 overall. Not too shabby.

“Counter-programming the comedic Blithe Spirit has clearly connected with audiences on all platforms this weekend,” said Arianna Bocco, President, IFC Films of the film’s opening. “We’re looking forward to an ethereal run.”

Lionsgate’s...

Photo: 'Silk Road'/Lionsgate Director Tiller Russell’s newest film ‘Silk Road’ is a dramatic feature inspired by a true story. Centered around Ross Ulbricht, played by Nick Robinson’), ‘Silk Road’ tells the story of the rise of a darknet website named after the trade routes that linked the East and the West. Opposite Robinson is the brilliant Jason Clarke, who plays a DEA Agent named Rick Bowden, the main antagonist. While Robinson made his film debut in 2013, Clarke is a veteran actor with over 70 acting credits to his name. Best known for his frequent antagonist roles, Clarke is a magnetic force anytime he graces the screen. His experience pairs well with the natural charisma of Robinson and together the two make the movie a very powerful experience. Related article: New Releases: Your Comprehensive Guide to Every New Movie Coming Out in February 2021 Related article: Spoiler Alert: ‘Love,...

Writer, director, and producer Tiller Russell has a thing for criminals. Over the year's he has produced and directed a variety of features, documentaries, and TV series about everything from inmates on a sports team to The Night Stalker.

Russell's latest film Silk Road is a hybrid; on the one hand a well-researched documentary about Ross Ulbricht, the founder, and creator of the infamous Silk Road, the first darknet marketplace that was a hub for selling illegal drugs. Not to mention that it made Ulbricht rich and on the other, a fictionalized police account of how he was taken down.

The majority of the movie's first half focuses on Ross (Nick Robinson) and the why and how he developed the site while the second half focuses on detective Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke), a trou...

Katie Aselton deserves to be in the sitcom hall of fame for her role as Jenny on FX's hit sitcom The League. She created a character like no other that will stand the test of time, and often outshined the rest of her cast, which included some of the greatest improv comedians of all time. Now, she turns a more serious note in the true life tale of Dread Pirate Roberts, playing wife to a DEA agent in director Tiller Russell's Silk Road. We recently caught up with Katie for a deep dive into the life of Ross Ulbricht, as well as a look at what else she currently has on her plate.

It's been a rough time for the entertainment industry as a whole, but Katie Aselton is navigating her way through the madness. She not only appears in Silk Road, but the acclaimed actress also shows...

The treasures of an extended Oscar season just keep on giving, as Venice Film Festival winner and award season favorite “Nomadland” finds its way to theaters — and Hulu subscribers. It’s a special film, about a woman (played by two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand) who pulls up stakes and travels the country by van, hitting theaters at a time when many people have been reexamining their own lives. So if there’s a safe way to see it, you’d be hard-pressed to find a better option out there.

The week’s a bit thinner on conventional crowd pleasers. Channeling “The Wolf of Wall Street”-style energy on an indie scale, both “Silk Road” and “Body Brokers” offer cutting-edge takes on 21st-century crimes: a black market for illegal drugs in the former and a scheme to profit on recovering addicts in the latter. Also in the Scorsese vein, the Montreal-made...

Plot: The true story of Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson), creator of “Silk Road”, an online platform that worked as a kind of eBay for drugs, and the DEA agent (Jason Clarke) on his tail. Review: Silk Road is an interesting true-life tale that, nonetheless, is never quite as compelling as it should be. One of the reasons might be that, as we live in an era of epic docu-series,…...

Silk Road tells the true story of Ross Ulbricht; the infamous dark web mastermind better known as his online moniker, "Dread Pirate Roberts". A brash egomaniac with an ultra-libertarian, anti-government philosophy, Ulbricht created the "Silk Road", an untraceable Amazon-esque marketplace for narcotics and illegal goods on the internet. The film charts his meteoric rise and fall, in tandem with the unhinged DEA agent who initially found him. Silk Road has a choppy, Wikipedia styled narrative that explores the radical extremes of both men. It could have used a more cinematic flow, but is certainly interesting to see.

We first meet Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) at a bar in San Francisco circa 2011. He rails to his best friend (Daniel David Stewart) against the government for restricting personal freedoms. His diatribe catches the attention of the fetching Julia (Alexandra Shipp). She's impressed by his brash demeanor and ideology. Ulbricht wants to change the world.

When a dramatic feature film gets made out of an investigative magazine article, there’s usually some conventional heroic hook to it. But not always. “Silk Road,” written and directed by Tiller Russell, is

During the two years of its existence, Silk Road was an underground Amazon or eBay of drugs — a platform where dealers and buyers could find each other, which meant that you could order a nicely priced, vacuum-sealed package of cannabis or Ecstasy or pharmaceutical-grade cocaine and have it delivered to your door through the U.S. Postal Service. The person who dreamed this all up, and ran the site under the cult-like pseudonym of the Dread Pirate Roberts, was Ross Ulbricht, a 26-year-old libertarian gadfly from Austin, Tex., who convinced himself that by creating an underground marketplace for illegal narcotics, he was striking a blow against the system.

Ulbricht was the subject of David Kushner’s...

A narration opens Tiller Russell’s Silk Road. A young man in a hoody, shades, and flip-flops walks San Francisco’s streets and discusses the barriers between the world as it is and the world that he wants. The world he wants is one of total autonomy and freedom from government control. “Every action we take outside government control strengthens the market and weakens the state,” he says. As a result, and as a way to “take back our liberty,” he creates Silk Road, a website where anyone can buy and sell anything anonymously. The film follows a naive, bright-eyed libertarian and the creation of the biggest online marketplace of illegal goods, the notorious criminal named Dread Pirate Roberts he becomes, and the subsequent investigation by law enforcement that follows. As David Kushner writes in the Rolling Stone article the film is based on, Silk Road “made Ross Ulbricht one...

Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) wanted to change the world. And he did. Whether you believe it was for the better (bringing the Dark Web and Tor into the mainstream via his anonymous marketplace Silk Road) or worse, the infrastructure he utilized coupled with the advantages afforded by Bitcoin ignited a firestorm of possibilities. Because at the center of it all was a desire to adhere to a Libertarian set of philosophies that shook the system and evaded the state. That the story has subsequently been reduced to “drugs-by-mail” is thus as much an in-road towards entertaining drama as a smokescreen away from governmental overreach.

It’s the latter that interested director Alex Winter enough to focus his documentary Deep Web on the whole issue rather than merely Ulbricht himself. The young man who went by “Dread Pirate Roberts” on his website was still a centerpiece being that he provided a...

New Indie

Michael Almereyda has tackled science (as a topic of either biopics or dramas) in a fascinating way in “Experimenter” and “Marjorie Prime,” and now he’s bringing that same energy to the inventor-biopic with “Tesla” (Shout Factory/IFC), a bold and audacious look at the life of Nikola Tesla. Ethan Hawke, in the title role, is evenly matched by Eve Hewson’s Anne Morgan, and they both nail Almereyda’s unique tone, which throws in anachronisms and green-screens to tell the story of someone who stretched the notions of what his peers imagined could be possible.

Also available: Madison Iseman plays a young girl with mental-health issues who can’t convince anyone she’s witnessed a crime in “Fear of Rain” (Lionsgate); 2012 indie “Watching TV with the Red Chinese” (Mvd Visual), co-starring Constance Wu and Gillian Jacobs, makes its U.S. DVD debut; Sienna Miller and Diego Luna...

The Courier

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as an ordinary British businessman – who has been recruited by Mi-6, the U.K.’s intelligence service, and a CIA operative. The goal? infiltrate the Soviet Union. The film is based on the true-life of Greville Wynne. He’s the farthest thing from a spy, but the mission is hinged upon Wynne’s ordinariness. (March 19th)

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Silk Road On Digital, On Demand & In Select Theaters: February 19, 2021 On Blu-ray And DVD: February 23, 2021 Starring Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Katie Aselton, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lexi Rabe, Will Ropp, with Paul Walter Hauser, and Alexandra Shipp Directed By Tiller Russell Screenplay By Tiller Russell …

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Silk Road Trailer — Tiller Russell‘s Silk Road (2021) movie trailer has been released by Lionsgate. The Silk Road trailer stars Nick Robinson, Jason Clarke, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Katie Aselton, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Paul Walter Hauser, Will Ropp, Mark Sivertsen, Beth Bailey, David DeLao, Lexi Rabe, and Katie Aselton. Crew Tiller Russell [...]

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UTA has signed true crime writer, director and producer Tiller Russell for representation.

Russell joins the Hollywood talent agency after his four-part documentary series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer bowed on Netflix and another doc series he directed, The Last Narc, about the infamous cartel murder of DEA agent ‘Kiki’ Camarena debuted on Amazon Prime.

In February, Tiller’s thriller film Silk Road will be released by Lionsgate. The feature is about an illegal Dark Net website and its 29-year-old kingpin creator and stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Paul Walker Hauser and Alexandra Shipp.

Russell is also adapting a narrative feature ...

UTA has signed true crime writer, director and producer Tiller Russell for representation.

Russell joins the Hollywood talent agency after his four-part documentary series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer bowed on Netflix and another doc series he directed, The Last Narc, about the infamous cartel murder of DEA agent ‘Kiki’ Camarena debuted on Amazon Prime.

In February, Tiller’s thriller film Silk Road will be released by Lionsgate. The feature is about an illegal Dark Net website and its 29-year-old kingpin creator and stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Paul Walker Hauser and Alexandra Shipp.

Russell is also adapting a narrative feature ...

'Silk Road' trailer has arrived and it looks promising.

Lionsgate has released the official trailer for the upcoming crime thriller film 'Silk Road' featuring Nick Robinson and Jason Clarke in the lead.

Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, the film is based on Rolling Stone's 2014 article titled 'Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross

Ulbricht’s Big Fall' written by David Kushner and follows the rise and fall of the titular infamous website “that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web,” reports geektyrant.

According to the publication, Robinson plays Ross Ulbricht, a young, idealistic, and driven to succeed person who is the founder of the Internet’s first unregulated marketplace: Silk Road, which eventually became a multi-million dollar pipeline for illegal drugs. Jason Clarke takes on the role of Rick Bowden, a disreputable and dangerously unpredictable DEA agent who goes undercover to...

Lionsgate Films UK has debuted the new trailer for spy thriller ‘The Courier’ featuring Benedict Cumberbatch.

A true-life spy thriller, the story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK’s MI6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Directed by Dominic Cooke, the film stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan and Jessie Buckley.

Also in trailers – Amazon for Drugs? Nick Robinson stars in new trailer lands for ‘Silk Road’

The film is set for a cinema release on March 19th.

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Up-and-coming actress Kathryn Newton has been everywhere this year. She co-led a Blumhouse horror movie, “Freaky,” with Vince Vaughn. It was announced that she was selected for a highly-coveted role in the upcoming “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” alongside Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly. Now, you can see her as the top-billed cast member in the upcoming Amazon rom-com “The Map of Tiny Perfect Things.”

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The movie is based on a short story of the same name by Lev Grossman, who also wrote the movie’s screenplay.

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The Internet is just like everything else, full of potential but easily corruptible in the right hands. For one creative mind, the pathways to both collided in an unforgettable venture. Now, the story of its creation and eventual downfall is chronicled in “Silk Road.” Anyone who might have overlooked the similarly named website’s presence would be excused for missing out; it was a marketplace filled with illegalities. In time this virtual hiding place would be on the radar of more than curious thrillseekers and worldly criminals.

Continue reading ‘Silk Road’ Trailer: Jason Clarke & Nick Robinson Star In True Story Of The Infamous Website at The Playlist.

Lionsgate Movies has debuted a new trailer for the based on a true story movie ‘Silk Road’ featuring Nick Robinson.

Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, this riveting crime thriller follows the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web. Young, idealistic, and driven to succeed, Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) creates the internet’s first unregulated marketplace: Silk Road. But when it becomes a multimillion-dollar pipeline for illicit drugs, Ross is set on a collision course with Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke), a disreputable and dangerously unpredictable DEA agent, who will use any means necessary to take him down.

Written and directed by Tiller Russell, the film stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Katie Aselton, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lexi Rabe, Will Ropp, with Paul Walter Hauser, and Alexandra Shipp.

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Inspired by larger-than-life actual events, this riveting crime thriller follows the rise and fall of Silk Road, the infamous darknet site that sent a seismic shock through the World Wide Web.

Young, idealistic, and driven to succeed, Ross Ulbricht (Nick Robinson) creates the internet’s first unregulated marketplace: Silk Road. But when it becomes a multimillion-dollar pipeline for illicit drugs, Ross is set on a collision course with Rick Bowden (Jason Clarke), a disreputable and dangerously unpredictable DEA agent, who will use any means necessary to take him down.

Watch the new trailer now.

Silk Road is written for the screen and directed by Tiller Russell and based on The Article “Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross

Ulbricht’s Big Fall” by David Kushner, published in Rolling Stone.

The film was scheduled to debut in 2020 at the Tribeca Film Festival but was later postponed due to...

"This guy's the first Millennial gangster." Lionsgate has unveiled an official trailer for a movie called Silk Road, telling the rise & fall story of the founder of the infamous darkweb drug website called "Silk Road". This hasn't premiered at any film festivals and is heading straight to VOD in February for any curious to watch. Philosophical 20-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells narcotics, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him in. Nick Robinson stars as Ross, who values freedom above all, and Jason Clarke co-stars as the DEA agent. It's a back-n-forth story about the two and how similar they are. Also starring Katie Aselton, Jimmi Simpson, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lexi Rabe, Will Ropp, with Paul Walter Hauser, and Alexandra Shipp. I really wish this looked better than it does; it's a cool story to tell, but this seems...

An ambitions entrepreneur pioneers an online marketplace for drugs in the new trailer for Silk Road, set to open in select theaters and hit on-demand services February 19th.

Silk Road tells the story of the alleged founder of the titular website, Ross Ulbricht, and is based on the 2014 Rolling Stone story, “Dead End on Silk Road: Internet Crime Kingpin Ross Ulbricht’s Big Fall.” The film stars Nick Robinson as Ulbricht, and follows him as he turns his ingenious — if not also incredibly illegal — idea into a multi-million dollar underground marketplace.

Exclusive: CAA has signed actress Alexandra Shipp.

Shipp recently wrapped filming Lin-Manuel Miranda and Netflix’s Tick, Tick… Boom!, she is the female lead opposite Andrew Garfield and Vanessa Hudgens, for Netflix. She is best known for her role as ‘Storm’ in Twentieth Century Fox’s X-Men franchise films Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, and her role in the critically acclaimed film Love, Simon from Greg Berlanti.

Shipp can currently be seen in Nancy Meyers’ Father Of The Bride Part 3 (Ish) on Netflix. She will next be seen in David Sandberg’s Kung Fury II opposite Michael Fassbender, and Lionsgate’s Silk Road with Jason Clarke and Nick Robinson.

Her other credits include Warner Bros’ Shaft, Jexi for CBS Films, and Netflix’s All The Bright Places, which premiered last year.

Shipp additionally played the title role in the Lifetime biopic Aaliyah: Princess Of R&b. In 2018, Shipp was named the...

Lionsgate has scooped up crime thriller Silk Road and plans to release it in February of 2021. Directed by Tiller Russell, the pic stars Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Katie Aselton, Lexi Rabe, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Daniel Stewart, and Paul Walter Hauser, and follows the creation of a dark web website that sells narcotics. It’s based […]

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Exclusive: Lionsgate has acquired the crime thriller Silk Road, starring Jason Clarke, Nick Robinson, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Katie Aselton, Lexi Rabe, Daniel Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson and Paul Walter Hauser. Tiller Russell wrote and directed the pic and the plan is for a domestic release in theaters, on digital and video on demand on February 19, 2021.

Following its theatrical, digital, and VOD debut, the film will be available to purchase on Blu-ray and DVD on February 23.

Based on larger-than-life true events, Silk Road focuses on the young, affluent and highly motivated entrepreneur Ross Ulbricht (Robinson), whose ambitious goal is to launch the Internet’s first completely anonymous and unregulated marketplace. With Ulbricht’s passion for the possibilities his invention offers the world, his site – the Silk Road – becomes the world’s fastest-growing drug market, catching the focus of disgraced DEA agent Rick Bowden (Clarke). A dinosaur with a habit for substance abuse and blowing cases,...

Exclusive: Nick Robinson is set as the male lead opposite Margaret Qualley in Maid, Netflix’s dramedy series from writer Molly Smith Metzler; John Wells Productions, Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television.

Written by Metzler, Maid is inspired by Stephanie Land’s bestselling memoir Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive. It revolves around Alex (Qualley), a single mother who turns to housekeeping to—barely—make ends meet. Told primarily through her point of view, Maid will be a beautiful, alive, gritty, and inspiring exploration of poverty in America.

The role reunites Robinson and Qualley who both starred in the Rashid Johnson-directed HBO film Native Son, which premiered last year at Sundance.

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Metzler executive produces and will serve as showrunner. Wells and Erin Jontow executive produce with John Wells Prods., along with Robbie, Tom Ackerley and Brett Hedblom via LuckyChap Entertainment,...

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