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Promo – Timothy Olyphant's 'Justified'
16 December 2009 3:16 PM, PST
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In March 2010, FX will be premiering a new original series. Originally called Lawman, Timothy Olyphant's new series has been renamed Justified. Set in the Southern Us, it's an old-fashioned sort of cop show, with lots of dusty trails and cowboy hats. FX has released a synopsis and a two minute promo. And Olyphant is hot. This is a plus.
Olyphant stars in the lead role of U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up.
He is an anachronism – a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch. Dig under
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New trailer for The Crazies
14 December 2009 12:32 AM, PST
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The latest trailer for Romero remake The Crazies has hit the net.
Directed by Breck Eisner, the man behind Sahara, the film sees a sheriff having a very bad day as the inhabitants of his small, idyllic town start to go all kinds of mental.
Timothy Olyphant stars as the put-upon lawman.
So good in TV's Deadwood (where he also plays a small-town sheriff), Olyphant has never really broken out on the big screen, despite supporting roles in big hits like Scream 2 and Die Hard 4.
Hitman may have irrevocably ruined his chances for...
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'Crazies' Remake Gets a New Trailer
12 December 2009 9:20 PM, PST
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Courtesy of Overture Films, Yahoo Movies! has just released a new trailer for the upcoming horror film The Crazies, director Breck Eisner's remake of the 1973 George A. Romero flick. You can watch the trailer using the player below.
The story concerns the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply.
This remake feels very old school to us, invoking the sort of cerebral, atmospheric scare tactics that always work better than buckets of blood and sudden appearances by knife-wielding masked freaks. It's a better offering than the first trailer, which didn't really seem to give us much substantive sense of what was going to happen in the film. This trailer does a much better job of that.
Starring Timothy Olyphant (Hitman), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) and Danielle Panabaker (Friday the 13th
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New Trailer, George Romeros The Crazies Remake
12 December 2009 8:00 PM, PST
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Below we have a brand new trailer for The Crazies remake. I am not a fan of Timothy Olyphant as his acting in Hitman was the definition of bad and even his work in Live Free or Die Hard was quite shallow. That said he looks to be delivering in his role as a small town cop in The crazies. Checkout the new traielr below.
The story revolves around the inhabitants of a small Kansas town who are beset by death and insanity after a plane crash lets loose a secret biological weapon into the water supply. A release date has been set for September 25th.
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New ‘Crazies’ Trailer Ups The Creepy Factor
11 December 2009 6:48 PM, PST
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A couple of months ago, we brought you the first trailer for Breck Eisner directed remake of George Romero’s horror movie The Crazies. It was long on style and short on substance and the use of Gary Jules’ great song Mad World as a musical backdrop just didn’t really work. My guess is they choose it just based on the title and I seriously doubt the song will be on the soundtrack.
Now Eisner has released another trailer exclusively with Yahoo! Movies (you can head over there if you want to see the HD version).
The Crazies takes place in Ogden Marsh, Iowa. The type of small town where everyone knows their neighbors and they all show up to watch the high school baseball game. Everything is built off Main Street where (I’ll just bet you) there is only one stop light and it’s blinking yellow and red after midnight.
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Strap on your 3D glasses and watch the promo for Holodeck thriller Station 21
11 December 2009 10:56 AM, PST
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Back in June we reported on a new 3D holodeck thriller that was in development called Station 21. At the time we knew that French director, Olivier Parthonnaud, had already made a short sales promo for the project and that it was shown at Cannes. Well, here it is gang.
Showcasing the basic story of a rampaging hologram and technology run amok, the promo is decent, but also showcases the 3D effect Parthonnaud is aiming for. It's really the 3D that makes this special so hopefully some of you have red-cyan 3D glasses.
Synopsis:
Christmas, lunar Station 21: some scientists accidentally create twenty psycho-killer interactive holograms who take over the station. Some survivors fight back...
You can check out the sales promo after the break.
Just as an aside, the striking narration is done by actor Paul Bandey who has been in some genre stuff like Immortal (Ad Vitam) and Hitman
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Dougray Scott Finds The Veil Of Maya
9 December 2009 9:11 PM, PST
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Still trying to forget that he had a role in Hitman, Dougray Scott has signed on to star in Dana Lustig's indie romantic fantasy The Veil Of Maya.Alex Kustanovich and Vadim Moldovan wrote the script, which, according to Variety, is a "Kafkaesque story of a woman who travels back in time to undo a relationship in order to avoid its tragic finale." So, Back To The Future meets The Time Traveller's Wife? Or, er, something.Lustig will start cranking the cameras next month in London, so if locals see Scott wandering around looking like he's being stalked by a woman from the future, now you know why.
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IFC Takes French Zombie Film Horde
6 November 2009
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The Xavier Gens-produced The Horde has been acquired for U.S. distribution.
Announced at the American Film Market this week, Film Distribution sold the French film to IFC Films.
Directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Horde follows four corrupt cops who are out to avenge the death of one of their own. They corner a group of gangsters in a condemned building which winds up being invaded by hordes of bloodthirsty, cannibalistic creatures.
Watch a teaser trailer here .
Based on their track record, IFC will likely offer the film on VOD and/or give The Horde a limited theatrical run.
Gens directed Hitman and Frontiere(s) .
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Full Synopsis and Teaser Poster for Xavier Gens’ The Fallout
4 November 2009 9:43 AM, PST
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In a word, it’s gonna be intense. In even more words, it’s gonna be a hybrid of “Assault on Precinct 13″ and “Lord of the Flies”. Or at least that’s what the full synopsis for the movie is selling. Our main characters look to be Eva, a young woman, and her weakling of a boyfriend name Sam judging by the description below. Styd has your synopsis while Bloody-Disgusting scored the artwork from the movie, which is currently making the rounds to potential buyers at the American Film Market.
Director Xavier Gens follows his $92 Million grossing Hitman with The Fallout – a high concept thriller that opens with pandemonium and a chaotic sprint towards the basement of a New York apartment building, just moments before the city outside is decimated…
When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a
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Synopsis and Art: Xavier Gens' The Fallout
4 November 2009 12:18 AM, PST
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Director Xavier Gens, best known within the genre for Frontiere(s), is following up his harrowing little horror film (Hitman doesn't count) with a hearty slice of post-apocalyptic nuttiness, and we have some art and the plot crunch for you.
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Director Xavier Gens follows his $99 million grossing ‘Hitman’ with The Fallout - a high concept post-apocalyptic thriller that opens with pandemonium and a chaotic sprint towards the basement of a New York apartment building, just moments before the city outside is decimated…
When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their apartment building, a converted fallout shelter designed by their paranoid superintendent Mickey. With just three connecting rooms it’s barely big enough, but with stockpiles of food and water, the group are at least safe from the horrors outside, and they settle in and attempt to fathom the catastrophe that has
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- Uncle Creepy
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Full Plot Details, Art for Xavier Gens' The Fallout
3 November 2009
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Last week, Xavier Gens announced his next project would not be a sequel to Hitman , or Frontiere(s) , or even Vanikoro (a project he has been developing).
Instead, he's getting behind the camera for The Fallout , a post-apocalyptic thriller for ContentFilm International. That production outfit has revealed a full synopsis and sales art for the film, just in time for the American Film Market. Read on...
Director Xavier Gens follows his $92 Million grossing Hitman with The Fallout - a high concept thriller that opens with pandemonium and a chaotic sprint towards the basement of a New York apartment building, just moments before the city outside is decimated...
When a cataclysmic explosion devastates New York, eight strangers take refuge in the basement of their
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Xavier Gens Headed for The Fallout
27 October 2009 2:46 PM, PDT
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While it isn’t a surprise to hear how I feel about some of the issues that befell Xavier Gens’ first endeavor into American cinema (Hitman), I haven’t really spoken on the director himself. There was much potential in Hitman, and it certainly gave us a handful of inspired shots, but, as a whole, it didn’t even feel like a master editor could have saved the film from heading towards the trainwreck it eventually caused. Frontiere(S) was also a film with much potential that fell short. Though it didn’t fall off the cliff as hard as Hitman, the reasoning being the studio involved in the two projects, it still wasn’t a superb, horror film, and it was clearly at the bottom of the list of the wave of French horror films that hit our shores a year or two back.
So, needless to say, it
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Gens in the Fallout
27 October 2009 2:32 PM, PDT
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You won't be leaving the Vault and using V.A.T.S. to dispatch the irradiated menaces of the Capitol Wasteland with the guy who directed Hitman (starring the delectable Olga Kurlyenko, of course).
But French filmmaker Xavier Gens is making something called The Fallout, a post-apocalyptic action-horror flick described as "a thriller that combines elements of Assault On Precinct 13 with 'Lord of the Flies' in a story of survival."
Producer Ross Dinerstein says:
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Gens to Helm The Fallout
27 October 2009 11:47 AM, PDT
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The wonderfully sick mind behind Frontière(s), Xavier Gens, is set to return to the genre (sort of) for The Fallout, a post-apocalyptic thriller set in a futuristic New York City. Unlike his adaptation of the Eidos video game Hitman, this one isn’t an adaptation of the long-running RPG series of the same name.
Screen Daily reports that producer Ross Dinerstein stated, "Xavier’s vision for this film is extraordinary. He brings a visual edge to this fascinating exploration of the human condition."
The film is a mixture of Assault on Precinct 13 and Lord of the Flies. "With a collective of ‘End of the World’ movies hitting the theatres presently, this film will undoubtedly stand out like a ravenous Pit Bull in a school playground… brace yourselves cause this film has a serious bite to it!” said producer Darryn Welch.
Keep it here for more on The Fallout,
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Frontier(S) director tackles Fallout
27 October 2009 9:49 AM, PDT
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Screen Daily reports that Xavier Gens (pictured), the French director of the bloodfest Frontier(S) as well as the actioner Hitman, next takes the helm of Fallout. The project is described as “a thriller that combines elements of Assault On Precinct 13 with Lord Of The Flies in a story of survival.”
Scripted by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean, who are also serving as co-producers, Fallout is set in and around an apartment-building-turned-shelter in a postapocalyptic New York City, but will lens in Eastern Europe beginning next February. ContentFilm International has just picked up worldwide sales rights, and Ross Dinerstein, Darryn Welch and the Raw Feed DVD series’ Tony Krantz are producing. “Xavier’s vision for this film is extraordinary,” Dinerstein tells the trade. “He brings a visual edge to this fascinating exploration of the human condition.” Adds Welch, “With a collective of ‘end of the world’ movies hitting the theaters presently,
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'Frontier(s)' Director Prepares for 'The Fallout'
27 October 2009 9:31 AM, PDT
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The same year that Inside took me to horror heaven at the Toronto International Film Festival, Xavier Gens' Frontier(s) was also delivering infinite gory bliss. After getting behind the camera for Hitman and producing the lackluster (ok, abomination) The Horde, Gens is returning to the directors chair with The Fallout.
On the eve of the Afm, ContentFilm International has taken worldwide sales rights to action thriller The Fallout to be directed by Xavier Gens (Hitman). The film is due is due to start principal photography in Feb 2010 in Eastern Europe, reports Screen Daily.
The Fallout, set in a post-apocalyptic New York, is produced by Ross Dinerstein (The Killing Room, Powder Blue, Unknown), Darryn Welch (Goal! The Dream Begins,The Bang Bang Club, Stag Night), and Tony Krantz (24, Mulholland Drive) and was written by Karl Mueller and Eron Sheean who will also co produce.
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Xavier Gens Is Making Fallout, But Not The One You're Thinking Of
27 October 2009 8:38 AM, PDT
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There's been a rumor for ages now that a movie version of Fallout, the massively popular video game, would be getting made soon. Because, well, duh-- it's popular and a video game, so the movie can't be far behind. But even though Hitman director Xavier Gens has a new movie coming up called The Fallout, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the video game, Yeah, I see a name change coming.
Screen Daily reports that production will start in Eastern Europe next spring, where they will recreate a post-apocalyptic New Yorkand let a bunch of dudes run around shooting each other there. Producer Darryn Welch had some pretty big words to defend the film against anyone else who would dare make a post-apocalyptic movie (i.e., pretty much everyone these days). .With a collective of .End of the World. movies hitting the theatres presently, this film will
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Hitman's Xavier Gens Set to Direct Action Thriller 'The Fallout'
27 October 2009 6:04 AM, PDT
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After previously directing Hitman and at one point being rumored to direct the new Conan movie, it looks like French filmmaker Xavier Gens' next project will actually be The Fallout, set to start shooting in February, 2010 in Eastern Europe (via ScreenDaily). The film, being produced and sold by ContentFilm, is set in a post-apocalyptic New York. Story details haven't been officially revealed yet, but it's being called "a thriller that combines elements of Assault on Precinct 13 with Lord of the Flies in a story of survival." From the mind of the guy who brought us Frontier(s), this project sounds like it'll be something very unique.
"Xavier's vision for this film is extraordinary. He brings a visual edge to this fascinating exploration of the human condition." producer Ross Dinerstein said. "With a collective of 'End of the World' movies hitting the theatres presently, this film will undoubtedly stand
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Xavier Gens Set to Direct Fallout
27 October 2009 5:53 AM, PDT
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The director of a popular 2007 video game adaptation has found a new film to direct. According to Variety, Xavier Gens (Hitman) has come aboard to direct Fallout.
Little was said on the plot of the film, only that it was set in a New York City apartment building that was converted to a fallout shelter in this new post-apocalyptic world.
Production was said to begin this coming February in Eastern Europe.
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Hitman Director Xavier Gens to Direct The Fallout
27 October 2009 5:40 AM, PDT
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I'm always ready to see a post-apocalyptic action thriller, even when it turns out to be something like Babylon A.D. Call me an eternal optimist. Even the lousy films often have a kernel of a good idea in them. Now a new film called The Fallout, set in post-apocalyptic New York, will shoot early next year. But I'm already a bit detached from it after reading the directorial assignment. Helming will be Xavier Gens, the man behind Hitman and Frontier(s).
Put pretty simply, Gens has two strikes against him in my book. Hitman may have featured Olga Kurylenko's severe allergy to clothes and a heroically stoic good try from Timothy Olyphant, but it was truly a mess. (Granted, the post-production on Hitman was contentious, with reports of Gens being fired from the film.) And Frontier(s) recycled elements of other films in a way that left me bored.
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