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During Paul Walkers brief absence from Fast & Furious, he starred in Into the Blue and it couldve been the actors replacement action-adventure franchise. After playing Brian OConner in The Fast and the Furious and its first sequel, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Walker was missing from the threequel, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. He only returned to the role of Brian in 2009s soft reboot, simply titled Fast & Furious, which moved away from the series focus on street racing and turned it into a more straightforward action movie franchise.

While Brian is undoubtedly Walkers most iconic character, he had a very respectable career outside the Fast & Furious franchise, too. He played a notorious bank robber in the heist movie Takers, he played a parole breaker in the car chase movie Vehicle 19, and he played a low-level mafioso in the neo-noir thriller Running Scared. One of Walkers starring vehicles,...

It’s been a long day without you, my friend.

When Paul Walker passed away in 2013 due to a car accident, there was an outpouring of grief from fans of some of his most successful films (including entries in the popular Fast & Furious franchise) and those who simply lamented the passing of a young and talented actor in his prime.

Paul Walker, a remarkable talent in the entertainment industry, left an enduring legacy despite the tragic car accident that claimed his life in 2013 (Credit: Jean Catuffe / INFGoff)

Born in Glendale, California, Paul Walker was raised in a Mormon household and began his acting career at a young age, starring in commercials as a child during the mid-1980s.

Following his work on television commercials, Walker began to feature in small roles on television shows such as Highway to Heaven (1984 to 1986) before securing his first starring role in 1987 in the sitcom Throb as Jeremy,...

Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Mena Suvari, Emile Hirsch, Dylan Flashner, Tristan Thompson, Michaela Sasner, Jeremy Tardy | Written and Directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil

Prey! is not to be confused with the Predator film of the same name, Dick Maas’s lion loose in Amsterdam thriller, the 2007 film about a family of tourists stalked by lions or any of the seemingly endless list of action films and slashers bearing that title. This Prey! is about a pair of American missionaries Andrew and Sue living in a village somewhere in Africa.

Andrew is already having a bad day. He’s a doctor and had a young boy die on the operating table because the medical supplies they were expecting hadn’t arrived on time. It gets worse when he’s told he and Sue need to make a fast exit, Boko Haram soldiers are heading towards the village.

Elsewhere, Grun is about to fly Tyler,...

Paul Walker enjoyed a lengthy career in Hollywood that carried him through various roles in several unique movies before his unfortunate death in 2013 at just 40 years old. Fans likely remember him best as Brian O'Conner in the "Fast and Furious" franchise, but the talented and handsome actor also appeared in critical hits such as "Pleasantville," "Joy Ride," and Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," and served as executive producer on the films "Vehicle 19," "Hours," and "Pawn Shop Chronicles." He even enjoyed a guest spot on National Geographic's "Expedition Great White" in 2009.

In his youth, Walker popped up in a variety of high-profile TV shows, among them "Highway to Heaven," "Charles in Charge," "Who's the Boss," and "Touched by an Angel," before making the leap to schlocky B-movie horror films such as "Tammy and the Rex," opposite Denise Richards, in which his character's brain somehow lands inside a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Daniel Baur’s K5 Film and K5 International are re-teaming with writer/director Mukunda Michael Dewil for the time-loop thriller “Open House.” The script was written and developed by Jon Davis and Sergio Pinheiro.

Dewil and Baur, who will produce the movie, already worked together on the action thriller “Vehicle 19,” starring the late Paul Walker, and the psychological thriller “The Immaculate Room,” starring Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth and Ashley Greene Khoury, which won best picture and best male actor at the Mammoth Film Festival recently.

Dewil’s most recent movie project is thriller “Collide,” starring Ryan Phillippe, Kat Graham and Jim Gaffigan, which recently wrapped production. Baur is an exec producer on the movie.

“Open House” centers on a couple out house hunting, who get stuck inside a show house with a strange realtor.

The production is in the process of casting, and is looking to announce the cast within the coming weeks.

An edge-of-the-seat, noir thriller can only be a welcome addition to the list of upcoming films this year. According to a report by Deadline, actors Ryan Phillippe, Kat Graham, and Jim Gaffigan are set to star in Mukunda Michael Dewil's thriller movie "Collide." While details of the plot are scant, "Collide" is expected to follow three interlocking stories that intermingle in the end.

Mukunda, who also wrote and directed "Retribution" and "Vehicle 19," is behind the camera for "Collide," in which the three narratives unfold inside an L.A. restaurant over the course of a single evening. The film will feature a large ensemble cast,...

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Exclusive: Ryan Phillippe, Kat Graham and Jim Gaffigan will topline Collide, a thriller from Vertical Entertainment, Tpc and Robert Ogden Barnum, which recently wrapped production.

The film written and directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil is billed as is an edge-of-your-seat, noirish thriller where three interlocking stories hurl towards an explosive end. It follows an ensemble of characters whose paths intersect over the course of a single evening inside an L.A. restaurant.

David Cade (Lansky), Dylan Flashner (The Card Counter), Drea de Matteo (The Sopranos), Aisha Dee (The Bold Type), David James Elliot (Heart of Champions), and Paul Ben-Victor (Daredevil) round out Collide‘s cast. Barnum and Lucas Jarach produced the film, with Daniel Baur, Luke Daniels, David Gendron, Russell Geyser, Rich Goldberg, Peter Jarowey, Ali Jazayeri, Joel Michaely, Rick Sasner, Greg Thompson...

Psychological thriller to be directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil.

Emile Hirsch, Kate Bosworth, Ashley Greene and M. Emmet Walsh have joined the cast of Mukunda Michael Dewil’s psychological thriller The Immaculate Room.

Filming is underway on the feature, which is produced by Canada-based Productivity Media, Germany’s K5 Film and US outfit Balcony 9 Productions. K5 International is handling worldwide rights.

The story, written by Dewil, centres on a seemingly perfect couple who take part in a psychological experiment that will reward them $5m if they can stay in a perfectly white room for 50 days. But the room is much more than it seems.

Exclusive: Umedia boards rights to action-drama set to shoot in South Africa.

The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom actress Naomie Harris are to star in action-drama Clearance, from producers Ryan Haidarian (Vehicle 19), Andrew D Corkin (We Are What We Are), Jesse Fryckman (Sauna), and David Murdoch (1 Star).

The English-language debut of Finnish director Aku Louhimies (Frozen Land), which is being sold in Cannes by Umedia International, tells the story of a hardened mine clearance expert (Armitage) and his pregnant partner (Harris) who are kidnapped in South Sudan and must navigate a vast minefield during their escape.

The script comes from Richard Campling and Svet Rouskov (The Colony), with shoot scheduled for South Africa in November 2015.

Umedia has world rights excluding South Africa and Scandinavia. Forefront Media, Uncorked Productions, Solar Films, and Sinner Films produce.

Armitage is currently filming on the third series of Bryan Fuller’s NBC TV series Hannibal while...

Exclusive: Umedia boards rights to action-drama set to shoot in South Africa.

The Hobbit star Richard Armitage and Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom actress Naomi Harris are to star in action-drama Clearance, from producers Ryan Haidarian (Vehicle 19), Andrew D Corkin (We Are What We Are), Jesse Fryckman (Sauna), and David Murdoch (1 Star).

The English-language debut of Finnish director Aku Louhimies (Frozen Land), which is being sold in Cannes by Umedia International, tells the story of a hardened mine clearance expert (Armitage) and his pregnant partner (Harris) who are kidnapped in South Sudan and must navigate a vast minefield during their escape.

The script comes from Richard Campling and Svet Rouskov (The Colony), with shoot scheduled for South Africa in November 2015.

Umedia has world rights excluding South Africa and Scandinavia. Forefront Media, Uncorked Productions, Solar Films, and Sinner Films produce.

Armitage is currently filming on the third series of Bryan Fuller’s NBC TV series Hannibal while...

Too long, too convoluted, too sentimental, and too ridiculous. Some will say those are its good points. Will they embrace the homoeroticism too? I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): mostly not a fan of the series

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

We are through the looking glass here, people. We have reached peak Hollywood. There is nothing negative anyone can say about Furious 7 (aka Fast & Furious 7) that cannot be taken as a positive. There is the “review-proof movie” that will gather a massive audience no matter what we egghead critics think of it, and then there’s the movie that is actually hardened against reviews like it’s coated in Teflon: scoffing just slides right off it.

I could say that this is the kind of movie in which, when someone says to a child who has just tossed a toy,...

New production shingle Remark Films has come aboard as co-financer on the Keanu Reeves thriller Daughter of God, which Fortitude Int’l, CAA and Cassian Elwes are selling at Afm. Remark is backed by Daniel Grodnik’s Mass Hysteria Entertainment Company, Inc. and Wall Streeters Seth and Curt Kramer, and is aiming to develop and co-finance two to five features per year at budgets up to $10 million. Daughter of God is written and directed by Gee Malik Linton and marks Remark’s first project. Reeves, currently in theaters in the hitman actioner John Wick, stars as a police detective who investigates the truth behind his partner’s death while a young Latina woman (Ana de Armas) experiences strange happenings. Reeves, Linton, and Robin Gurland are producing while Elwes, the Kramer brothers, and Grodnik are executive producers. Filming is underway in New York.

Ketchup Entertainment has pacted with Altitude Film Entertainment...

Altitude to distribute Ketchup titles across UK home ent, pay TV and free TV windows.

Ketchup Entertainment has formed a distribution partnership with UK sales and distribution outfit Altitude Film Entertainment, which will see the latter distribute Ketchup titles across home ent, pay TV and free TV in the UK.

The deal was negotiated by Gareth West and Stephen Stanley, head of acquisitions, on behalf of Ketchup and by Will Clarke and Andy Mayson on behalf of Altitude Film Entertainment.

The first two releases under the new deal includes David Hayter’s Wolves, starring Lucas Till and Jason Momoa and the comedy spoof Superfast from directors Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg.

Ketchup Entertainment CEO Gareth West stated: “Extending our distribution to the UK marketplace is an exciting next step for Ketchup, and we feel that the experience and expertise that the Altitude team offers puts in a great positions us well to extend our Us success in the...

British horror thriller [pictured] sells to the UK, Scandinavia and Greece.

French genre specialist Wtf has secured a slew of sales on British horror thriller Xmoor about two American students who go panther tracking in a remote corner of Britain.

The picture, written and directed by Luke Hyams, has sold to the UK (Signature Pictures), Scandinavia (Njuta Films), Greece (Odeon) and is in negotiation for the Us.

The film follows two American students, played by Melia Kreiling and Nick Blood, who travel to Britain’s remote Exmoor National Park in search of it legendary panthers.

Animal tracker Fox joins them in their quest. Along the way, the trio stumbles across a series of dead bodies. It slowly dawns on them that are no longer the hunters but the hunted.

The picture is produced by Robert Jones, Wayne Marc Godfrey and David Gilbery whose other credits include Dead Snow 2 and Vehicle 19.

Other titles...

This absurd and pointlessly convoluted remake of a decade-old French action flick feels dated and out of step in more ways than one. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing

I’m “biast” (con): nothing

I have seen the source material (and I am indifferent about it)

(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)

It’s been years since I saw the 2004 French film, Banlieue 13 — aka District 13 and District B-13 — and I confess that I do not remember being overly impressed by it… but I think would have remembered if it felt quite so absurd and pointlessly convoluted as this lifeless remake.

Written and produced by Luc Besson (Taken 2, Colombiana; he served in the same capacities on the original), and directed by Besson protégé Camille Delamarre (that’s a dude Camille, by the way), this gives us a Detroit of the year 2018 in which crime...

Man is there a lot of new content on streaming services this week. There are literally hundreds of new titles available for your viewing pleasure, I couldn’t possibly have written about all of it because I would be writing into next week! Just know that there is something there for everyone whether your bag is comedy, drama, action or horror.

Most impressively this week, Netflix have stepped up to the plate and unleashed a full load of good stuff. They have also announced that they are going to add an audio commentary to their original show House of Cards, which can only be good news for those holding on to their physical media love and may mean that this most valuable of DVD extras is not going away but will instead be reborn in a different guise.

This week’s new titles are as follows:

Star Trek Into Darkness...

Hours

Written and directed by Eric Heisserer

USA, 2013

One of the most impressive things about the career of the late Paul Walker is that once the Fast and Furious money started arriving in earnest after the fourth entry in that series, he was a strong supporter of independent film. In 2013, Walker executive-produced two films so small in scale that they would qualify as impossible to get made without him on board. The first, Vehicle 19, is an innovative little action picture that is well deserving of an iTines rental. The other, Walker’s final completed film Hours, works better as a character study than as a thriller, but deserves commendation for its ambition.

Hours opens with its worst scene, as Nolan Hayes (Walker) learns that his wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) died while giving birth prematurely to their daughter during Hurricane Katrina. Walker’s “I’m in denial!” acting is terrible,...

Paul Walker movies: Few worthwhile efforts away from the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise (photo: Paul Walker in ‘Hours’) (See previous post: “Paul Walker Dead: Fast and Furious Actor Killed in Fiery Car Crash.”) Aside from the Fast and Furious franchise, Paul Walker was featured in about 15 movies since the turn of the century; most of those were little-seen releases that did nothing to expand his following beyond fans of slick, high-speed shenanigans, e.g., John Glenn’s thriller and straight-to-dvd release The Lazarus Project (2008), co-starring Piper Perabo; Wayne Kramer’s box office bomb Running Scared, with Vera Farmiga; John Stockwell’s mix of deep-sea adventure and crime thriller Into the Blue, with Jessica Alba and Josh Brolin; and another straight-to-dvd effort, Mukunda Michael Dewil’s poorly received thriller Vehicle 19 (2013). Paul Walker’s handful of more prestigious and/or successful films were Clint Eastwood’s World War II drama Flags of Our Fathers...

Actor Paul Walker was killed this afternoon in a car accident in Santa Clarita, California. He was the passenger in a friend’s Porsche, which hit a light post and tree and then burst into flames, according to the L.A. County Police Department via the Associated Press/Los Angeles Times. Both victims were attending a charity event. Walker, who began in Hollywood at age 2 and just recently had turned 40, is best known for the recurring role of Brian O’Conner in the Fast and Furious movies, having appeared in all except the third movie, Tokyo Drift. The seventh movie is currently in post-production and set for release next summer, though it’s unknown if he might have been needed for additional work or reshoots. Another film, Hours, which debuted at the SXSW Film Festival this year, opens posthumously on December 13th. His other movies include Joy Ride, Varsity Blues, Running Scared...

Fast and Furious star Paul Walker died in a car accident on Saturday afternoon at the age of 40. Walker's official Facebook page confirmed the news this evening.

TMZ reports that the actor was riding in a Porsche Gt in Santa Clarita, California when the driver lost control of the vehicle and slammed into a tree. The car burst into flames and both driver and passenger were killed in the single-car accident. Walker had been in Santa Clarita for a car show to support relief efforts for victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.

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Besides bringing a great selection of films to Afm including Supremacy, The Last 5 Years, Rob the Mob, Ron Howard's Made in America, and Swelter, The Exchange will also debut sales for their film Accident, an interesting 3D film and Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story.

Accident

Directed by Dan Tondowski, Accident is a 3D thrill ride based on a true story and it includes incredible new SFX effects by Simon Hansen who previously worked on Chronicle, and will be produced by  Ryan Haidarian (Vehicle 19) and Guillaume Benski (2009 Cannes Director's Fortnight's Navidad). Thomas Mann (Project X) and Ashley Hinshaw (Chronicle) will star in Accident. The other leads of the film will be announced shortly

The film follows four teenagers who "borrow" a car for one night of fun and thrills. But what starts as a wild joy ride turns into a nightmare. After a violent crash, they discover that being stuck at the bottom of a ravine in an overturned car is the least of their problems. The psychotic owner of the car that they stole has them in his cross-hairs and he will stop at nothing to get back the car and its valuable contents. 

 "We are extremely excited to be involved with Accident and this very talented team. The demand for high concept, 3D action thrillers that are unique and marketable is very high. We feel that this film could be a real breakout success for our buyers and we are excited to bring it to market," said O'Shea.

Midnight Rider: The Gregg Allman Story

Based on the New York Times bestselling autobiography of the iconic blues singer, the screenplay was written by Unclaimed Freight Production's Randall Miller and Jody Savin, and will be directed by Miller himself.

The film focuses on Allman's early struggles through the formation of The Allman Brothers Band and the group's ultimate explosion on the music scene. On the heels of successful music biopics such as Ray and Walk the Line comes Gregg Allman's Midnight Rider, a searing and revealing look inside the man who was at the forefront of Rock 'n' Roll and the lead singer of one of the biggest American bands of all time. The film captures two of the most defining chapters of Gregg's life, when The Allman Brothers Band was just getting under way and the earlier years when Gregg, after years of drugs and alcohol abuse, cleans himself up.  Chronicling his life on the road and the pitfalls of super stardom, Midnight Rider ultimately creates an uplifting tale of a rock icon as he finds his way through the darkness into the light .

In order to infuse the film with authenticity, both Savin and Miller are working closely with Allman and his manager, Michael Lehman, both of whom will serve as executive producers. The film will include original Allman Brothers tracks as well as performances by the actor/musicians. Open Road will theatrically release the film in the Us.

"This powerful story of one man's journey through his brilliant and tumultuous rock 'n' roll career is extremely compelling and will be of keen interest to our international buyers," said O'Shea

 About The Exchange:

Collaborative and transparent, The Exchange is a leading international sales and finance company committed to creating strong relationships between filmmakers, film financiers and distributors through the exchange of product, information and commerce. Created by veteran sales executive Brian O'Shea, the company specializes in high quality, commercial films that appeal to North American audiences and the ever-evolving global film market. For more information, please visit: Here...

First announced in the fall of 2011, the Paul Walker-starring thriller, “Hours,” is finally seeing a release this winter. Set in New Orleans directly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the film’s first official trailer has arrived online. Helmed by “Final Destination 5” screenwriter Eric Heisserer in his directorial debut, the film focuses on Walker as a father fighting to keep his newborn daughter alive in a New Orleans hospital following the Katrina tragedy. The film seems to be set primarily in the hospital with some flashbacks to happier times in Walker’s life with his wife, played by Genesis Rodriguez. While we would have assumed a Walker-starring Katrina film would have been a strictly VOD affair, the film will actually see a wide theatrical release courtesy of Lionsgate. Walker’s success rate with outings away from the “The Fast and the Furious” franchise have been spotty at best...

Eric Heisserer’s “Hours”, starring Paul Walker and Genesis Rodriguez, previously played at the South By Southwest festival. It’s currently being scheduled to open theatrically in December, though how big that release will be is the real question. Hopefully it’ll be bigger than Walker’s last movie, “Vehicle 19″. Yeah, you didn’t see that movie either, huh? Well, it was mostly a VOD/DVD title, so don’t blame yourself if you didn’t know it existed. Here’s a new trailer for “Hours”. It’s similar to the SXSW one, with some new footage. Paul Walker is still battling Hurricane Katrina and looters. Before sunrise on August 29, 2005 Nolan (Paul Walker) arrives at a New Orleans hospital with his pregnant wife Abigail (Genesis Rodriguez) who has gone into early labor. What should be one of the happiest days of Nolan’s life quickly spirals out of control...

In another universe where other car-bound movies didn’t exist, Getaway might have possessed some novelty value. (“It’s Ethan Hawke driving a car for an hour and a half!”) But in our universe — the one where the guy-in-a-car action genre has already given us both masterpieces like Duel and The Driver and disposable knockoffs like Vehicle 19 — Getaway’s only claim to fame is that it may be the dumbest movie released this summer.A gearhead movie that is certain to offend most gearheads, Getaway doesn’t waste any time getting started, kicking off with former race-car driver Brent Magna (Hawke) being informed by a mysterious voice that his wife has been kidnapped and that he must perform a series of extra-legal tasks over the course of the night if he ever wants to see her alive again. Most of these tasks involve causing havoc on the streets and sidewalks of Sofia,...

Getaway sounds an awful lot like Vehicle 19. A protagonist gets into a vehicle and is forced, by an unseen antagonist, to drive through hoops as he races to prevent the death of a loved one. Only no one saw Vehicle 19, despite the promise of Fast & Furious star Paul Walker making grimacing faces behind the wheel of a car. Maybe audiences will prefer Ethan Hawke in a similarly sticky situation? The second Getaway trailer, posted to our YouTube page, finally focuses on the character of Hawke.s wife . the abduction victim who largely went unseen in the earlier video tease: But at least we got a lot of great Hawke reaction shots. They are worth their weight in gold. As the new trailer plays out, we learn that Hawke is ordered by the menacing voice on the other end of a cell phone to drive a unique automobile through...

Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week

"Ginger & Rosa"

What's It About? Sally Potter's ("Orlando") film follows two inseparable teenage girls, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) during the onset of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1960s London. While Ginger's interests lie in protests and poetry, Rosa's are different, including Ginger's father (Alessandro Nivola).

Why We're In: While Fanning steals the film with a strong and powerful performance, "Ginger & Rosa" also has a largely talented cast including Annette Bening, Oliver Platt, Christina Hendricks, and Timothy Spall. Potter's film is both a moving, coming-of-age story as well as a detailed look at the politics and tension of the era.

Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week

"Pieta"

What's It About? From South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-duk, ("Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring"), "Pieta" is both a brutal and heartfelt story of an isolated, merciless loan shark who violently threatens his borrowers for payback money.

This week: Director Danny Boyle crafts a stylish modern-day film noir with a bizarre love triangle in "Trance," starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel.

Also new this week is the British crime drama "Welcome to the Punch," which also stars McAvoy as well as Mark Strong, and the Blu-ray debuts of "The 300 Spartans" (1962) and Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm" (1997).

'Trance'

Box Office: $2.3 million

Rotten Tomatoes: 68% Fresh

Storyline: Director Danny Boyle's British psychological thriller stars James McAvoy as Simon Newton, a fine art auctioneer mixed up with a gang led by Franck (Vincent Cassel) When a heist goes wrong and a revered painting goes missing, hypnotist Elizabeth Lamb (Rosario Dawson) is hired to help Simon remember where the painting is. The stakes get higher when the boundaries between reality and hypnotic suggestion begin to blur.

Extras!: Both the DVD and Blu-ray contain deleted scenes,...

This summer has already seen Paul Walker re-team with Vin Diesel and take on a world of bad guys in the super-sized, smash hit "Fast & Furious 6." But if you're feeling the need for a bit more gasoline-fueled action, perhaps this smaller-scaled thriller will sate your appetite with the added bonus that you can watch it all in the comfort of your own home. "Vehicle 19" is coming to home video and in advance of its release, we've got an exclusive clip from the film. Featuring a script from Mukunda Michael Dewil that landed on the Black List in 2010 (he also directs), the story follows recently paroled man, who finds the entire police force after him when his seemingly innocent rental car has a female “passenger” tied up and stashed in the trunk. She's a key witness in a corruption trial, and he has to put the pedal to the...

A recently paroled man unwittingly picks up the wrong rental vehicle after a long flight. He soon realizes that he is the target of an entire police force that will use any means necessary to stop him and the tied-up female "passenger" he discovers in the trunk from getting to the courthouse to testify against their city's top-to-bottom corruption. If you loved Paul Walker in Fast & Furious 6, you won't want to miss this edge-of-your-seat thriller! Available on Blu-ray and DVD July 23, we have an exclusive featurette from Vehicle 19 that takes us behind-the-scenes with Paul Walker for an in-depth look at all the action and excitement.

Vehicle 19 was released June 14th, 2013 and stars Paul Walker, Naima McLean, Gys De Villiers, Leyla Haidarian, Tshepo Maseko, Andrian Mazive, Welile Nzuza, Mangaliso Ngema. The film is directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil.

On the heels of Paul Walker's success in the Fast And The Furious 6, the actor is feeling the need for speed once more with Vehicle 19. One month after hitting theaters, Vehicle 19 arrives on

Blu-Ray/DVD Combo Pack and DVD on Tuesday, July 23, 2013.  Take a look at the trailer which has Walker driving on the wrong side of the car and road.

For Vehicle 19, Paul Walker finds himself in a foreign land being chased by the city's police force in a mini-van?  Not exactly a fast and furious car, but the action in the trailer looks quite intense with more car crashes and chases than all the Fast & Furious movies combined.  The action seems to take place entirely in the car.  Hey, no pit stops?

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Beth McCarthy-Miller ("Tammy," "Mail Order Groom") has come onboard to helm the comedy "Mean Moms" at New Line Cinema. The film is based on an advice book by Rosalind Wiseman, the same author behind the advice book that inspired Tina Fey's "Mean Girls".

The story follows a happily married mother of two who moves from small town America to the high-class suburbs and is faced with confronting the cutthroat world of competitive parenting.

Meanwhile, Mukunda Michael Dewill ("Vehicle 19") has come onboard to direct the thriller "Wet House" for Zero Gravity. Jack Reher penned the script.

The story follows a psychologist who becomes entangled with an apparent psychic living in a wet house (a place where alcoholics can drink themselves to death). Said patient proves an aid in solving a string of grizzly massacres.

Source: Deadline...

Exclusive: Fresh off the release of his Paul Walker thriller Vehicle 19, South African writer-director Mukunda Michael Dewil has signed on to helm Wet House for Zero Gravity Entertainment. The elevated psychological thriller from scribe Jack Reher revolves around a psychologist who becomes entangled with the mysterious resident of a wet house, whose apparent psychic abilities help her aid the police in solving a string of grizzly, bath salt-fueled massacres. “I like the idea that everything is layered with this atmosphere of unnamed trepidation — nothing can be trusted at face value and that kind of foreboding really gives me a lot to work with when creating the world of this story,” Dewil said. Mark Holder and Christine Holder are producing and financing for Zero Gravity. The film will shoot this fall in South Africa as the first of three features Zero Gravity plans to shoot there.

Michael Woods (Paul Walker) has arrived in South Africa with something to prove. He’s just recently been released from prison back in the U.S., and even though it constituted breaking his parole he chose to cross the ocean to try and patch things up with his girlfriend. She works at the embassy in Johannesburg, so after landing at the airport he rents a car only to discover the rental agency has screwed up and given him a minivan instead of the model he requested. Short on time he decides to just roll with it so as not to be late for his mea culpa. Rushing through traffic, sometimes on the wrong side of the road, Woods discovers a few things in the car that just don’t seem right. There’s a cell phone in the glove compartment. There’s a gun beneath the seat. And there’s a woman, bound...

Michael Woods (Paul Walker) is eager to reconnect with his ex-wife. So eager in fact that he travels to South Africa where she works at the Us embassy. As soon as he arrives he hires a car, is given the wrong one but wasting no time to meet with her he hastily accepts it. Over the course of a day Michael becomes embroiled in a crime ring, and kidnapping and murder all because of this seemingly mundane choice of wrong car, wrong time. His decisions lead to serious consequences and he must clear his name and right his wrongs before it is too late.Walker is the only actor on-screen for the most part and this gives Vehicle 19's story a personal slant. Within the crime narrative...

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Vehicle 19 is best when it's silent. Mukunda Michael Dewil's film has the makings of a taut little thriller, but the writer-director has the twin disadvantages of needing to include dialogue and to rely on the services of Paul Walker to embody his protagonist. The film follows American Michael Woods (Walker) as he arrives in Johannesburg, South Africa, to reunite with his ex-wife after being released from prison and jumping parole. But when he's accidentally given the keys to the wrong rental car, he finds himself amid a scandal which involves a sex-trafficking ring and implicates the chief of police, who suddenly wants him dead. As Michael drives through the urban streets, dodging police vehicles, the film largely confines its setting to his car, allowing the sinister world out...

All it takes is picking up the wrong rental car, and an ex-con's life is turned upside down in five clips from Vehicle 19. Paul Walker stars as Michael Woods, a foreigner who realizes there is a tied-up woman in the trunk of his car. Michael must evade a horde of corrupt cops, who are hell-bent on preventing this woman from testifying against them. Watch the latest scenes from director Mukunda Michael Dewil's action-thriller, debuting in limited theaters on June 14.

Vehicle 19 - Bridge Heli Crash

Vehicle 19 - Gagged Woman

Vehicle 19 - Embassy Gunfire

Vehicle 19 - Gunfire at Car

Vehicle 19 - Walker Opening

A recently paroled man unwittingly picks up the wrong rental vehicle after a long flight. He soon realizes that he is the target of an entire police force that will use any means necessary to stop him and the tied-up female "passenger...

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If the box office numbers for the release of Fast & Furious 6 prove anything, it’s that the only thing more fun than driving fast is watching other people drive fast – all of the thrill with none of the speeding tickets. Like any movie franchise that’s still successful by its sixth installment, the Fast & Furious series has inspired quite a few other films within the genre, including forthcoming Paul Walker movie, Vehicle 19.

The summer has only just begun, however, and Vehicle 19 isn’t the only street-racing movie approaching release. After Dark Films is offering up kidnapping action thriller Getaway, and a new trailer and poster for the film have just been released.

The trailer gives a rough outline of the basic plot, which seems to be a mix of elements from Taken and Drive. Ethan Hawke plays a former race ...

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★★☆☆☆ American actor Paul Walker has carved out a career that largely consists of driving cars and being both fast and furious. Playing firmly within type, Walker returns to screens this week in Mukunda Michael Dewil's Vehicle 19 (2013). Alongside an international cast including Naima McLean and Gys De Villiers, Walker plays Michael Woods, a reckless ex-con determined to change his life for the better in an attempt to save his relationship with an estranged girlfriend. Unfortunately, a mix-up at a Johannesburg car rental company leaves Michael stuck with the wrong car and distressed hostage Rachel (McLean) in the boot.

Michael quickly becomes embroiled in a hot pursuit when he is chased across Johannesburg by a dangerous, corrupt and powerful Detective Smith (De Villers). Unable to go to the police and having already broken parole, Michael not only has the hostage's life to save, but he must also save his own...

Django Unchained; Trouble With the Curve; Vehicle 19; A Dark Truth

Quentin Tarantino is a lot of things, but concise isn't one of them. Buried inside the sprawling 165 minutes of Django Unchained (2012, Sony, 18), there's a very decent two-hour retro-ploitation romp struggling to escape the indulgence of Hollywood's most under-edited auteur. On the plus side, we have knife-sharp central performances from Jamie Foxx and Christoph Waltz as (respectively) the recently freed titular slave and sharpshooting "dentist" Dr King Schultz, on a mission to rescue Django's wife from the slimy clutches of Leonardo DiCaprio's Calvin Candie.

The real jaw-dropper, however, is a brilliantly counterintuitive turn from Samuel L Jackson as Candie's insanely loyal house-servant, Stephen, a terrifying portrait of head-turned devotion that offers the film's most potentially radical element. It's here that whatever rude "politics" this possesses (including the usual fetishisation of the "N word") has gnarly bite. Elsewhere, it's more fan-boyish fare,...

It looks like Frank Miller's comic book Hard Boiled is finally going to make its way to the big screen! Way back in 2001, David Fincher was attached to direct an adaptation of comic with Nicolas Cage in the lead role, but it never happened. It sure would have been interesting to see Fincher's take on it. The last thing we heard about the project was that Miller was going to direct it himself after he was finished with Sin City 2, but it looks like that isn't happening either.

During a recent interview with Bleeding Cool, South African director Mukunda Michael Dewil revealed that he's going to adapt it. You might not be familiar with Dewil yet, but he directed the film Vehicle 19, which is the other car movie that Paul Walker stars in. It has yet to be released. Anyway, here's what the director had to say:...

Updated: Producer Stephen L'Heureux from Solipist films has contacted several sites to inform them that at this time no one is currently attached to Hard Boiled. It might have been a case of miscommunication or Dewill talking big but regardless of the reason the fact is Dewill is not working on an adaptation. Sorry for the confusion guys! Original: There are actually two films out this year with actor Paul Walker behind the wheel of a car: Fast And Furious 6 and Vehicle 19, a film...

Fans who were eagerly awaiting 300: Rise of an Empire, the follow-up to Zack Snyder's original adaptation of Frank Miller's graphic novel 300, were dealt some bad news as the film (which takes place before, during and after the events of 300) was pushed back to a March 2014 release. But maybe news of another project bringing Miller's work to the big screen will help lessen the blow. Bleeding Cool recently sat down with Mukunda Michael Dewil, the director of Paul Walker's thriller Vehicle 19, and he revealed that he's currently working on an adaptation of Miller's 23-year-old comic miniseries Hard Boiled. More below! For those who aren't familiar with Hard Boiled, here's a brief synopsis: Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse. Unit Four is the...

A smooth landing for the Star Trek sequel plus ongoing love for Iron Man 3 means cinematic coffers should live long and prosper

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When the Next Generation cycle of Star Trek movies sputtered to an end in 2003, Nemesis closed out its run with a mediocre £4.8m in the UK, down from previous episode Insurrection's £7.7m. Paramount and Jj Abrams craftily reinvented the brand with the 2009 reboot, debuting with a tasty £5.95m (including £872,000 in previews), on its way to a total of £21.4m. Now comes the sequel, Into Darkness. Given the expanded fanbase established by the 2009 film, and the addition of Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch as the Star Fleet's formidable new foe, it's no big surprise to see numbers rise. Even so, Paramount will be more than happy with the achieved result: £8.43m including previews of £1.57m. That's a 42% rise on the debut last time around. Sequels do usually...

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Newly released American convict Michael Woods (Paul Walker) breaks parole, flees to Johannesburg to make things up with his girlfriend, is given the key to the wrong car at the airport, discovers a gun under his seat and a kidnapped girl trussed in the boot, and finds himself caught up in a political conspiracy involving top South African lawmen and driving for his life. We've had thrillers in which the protagonist is confined to a lifeboat, a coffin, a metal cube and a phone box. The clever gimmick determinedly pursued in Vehicle 19 is that the camera never leaves the car, though Woods does so briefly. At first it's intriguing, then annoying, and finally it gives us the urge to get out and walk.

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Star Trek Into Darkness (12A)

(Jj Abrams, 2013, Us) Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Benedict Cumberbatch, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg. 132 mins

Those cinemagoers won over by Abrams's first Star Trek movie (even if they can barely remember it now) won't be disappointed with this finely tuned follow-up, which deftly balances action crises, sci-fi repartee and the ongoing Kirk/Spock bromance, but adds enough surprises to keep things interesting, largely by way of Cumberbatch's shifty supervillain.

Mud (12A)

(Jeff Nichols, 2012, Us) Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Reese Witherspoon. 130 mins

Another distinctive, beguiling southern parable from Nichols, this time tracking the friendship between two boys and the mysterious fugitive they find down by the river. It's like a mix of Stand By Me, Night Of The Hunter and Terrence Malick.

And here I was all ready to praise poor cute dumb-as-a-post Paul Walker for at least trying, bless his little heart. Vehicle 19 is, like, foreign and everything... though there’s no subtitles, so it’s not scary foreign -- calm down. Still: it’s practically arthouse as these things go. And he’s not just the star but an executive producer, so you know he cares, even. Why wouldn’t he? This is important and all. Something something something sex trafficking; something something something chief of police. Probably everyone involved thinks this is a powerful and insightful story about corruption in South Africa ’n’ shit. Like meaningful and stuff. Ain’t gonna play Sun City, y’all. Peace out. Which is why I’m ROTFLing, I guess. Omg, is this supposed to be this funny? The list of Stupid Movie Shit Only Characters In Stupid Movies Do is a...

Today's bulletin is a little lackluster considering it consists of two G ratings for Pixar's Monsters University and its accompanying short film The Blue Umbrella as well as a PG-13 rating for the Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson comedy The Internship and an R rating for the Weinstein Co's Populaire. I've included the complete ratings update below. Argo: Extended Cut Rated R For language and some violent images. Note: Edited Version. Content Is Different From "R" Rated Version, Bulletin No. 2220 (4/25/12) The Blue Umbrella Rated G Release Date: June 21, 2013 (Accompanying Monsters University) Iceberg Slim: Portrait Of A Pimp Rated R For sexual content, some violent images and language. The Internship Rated PG-13 For sexuality, some crude humor, partying and language. Release Date: June 7, 2013 Jug Face Rated R For bloody violence, language and brief sexuality. Just Like A Woman Rated R For language and a scene of sexuality. Lone Survivor Rated R...

Stars: Paul Walker, Naima McLean, Gys de Villiers, Leyla Haidarian, Tshepo Maseko, Andrian Mazive, Welile Nzuza, Mangaliso Ngema | Written and Directed by Mukunda Michael Dewil

I know what you’re thinking: “Oh great, another movie in which Paul Walker drives fast in a car!” But wait, whilst Vehicle 19 does see everyone’s second-favourite Fast & Furious franchise star get behind the wheel of a car, this film is a whole different kettle of fish for Mr. Walker… Yet another in the line of “one man, one location” movies that have followed the successful release of Buried, the film takes it’s tale on to the roads of Johannesburg as Walker finds himself in the middle of mystery, knowing exactly as much as the audience does – that he’s definitely in the wrong rental car!

Written and directed by South African filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil (Retribution), Vehicle 19 sees Walker star as Michael Woods,...

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I'm So Excited (15)

(Pedro Almodóvar, 2012, Spa) Javier Cámara, Raúl Arévalo, Carlos Areces. 90 mins

Almodóvar responds to his country's economic woes with camp hysteria and Carry On humour. In many ways this airborne disaster farce – anarchic, absurdist, garishly stylish and gleefully debauched – is a return to the Spanish auteur's subversive roots. But there's a serious subtext to the silliness, and the metaphors are brought back down to earth for a satisfying landing.

The Eye Of The Storm (15)

(Fred Schepisi, 2011, Aus) Charlotte Rampling, Geoffrey Rush, Judy Davis. 119 mins

The imminent death of Rampling's matriarch throws an aristocratic family's dysfunction into relief in this Aussie drama, whose overstuffed story is redeemed by three watchable leads.

Gimme The Loot (15)

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Check out 18 new photos from the upcoming action thriller Vehicle 19 starring Paul Walker. The film follows an ex-con (Walker) who travels abroad to start a new life. When he picks up the wrong rental car, he finds a tied-up woman inside, who has information that implicates a number of dirty cops. The film is directed by South African filmmaker Mukunda Michael Dewil. Along with Walker the film also stars Naima McLean, Gys de Villiers, Leyla Haidarian, and Tshepo Maseko. Vehicle 19 will be released on May 16th on premium VOD, June 14thm 2013 theatrical, and on July 23rd VOD/DVD/Digital. Here’s the official synpopsis for...

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