Lionsgate is reportedly interested in setting up a new adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dead Zone with producer Roy Lee. Return of The Dead Zone Lionsgate already has previous with the book, having produced the USA television series adaptation starring Anthony Michael Hall in partnership with Paramount Television. Roy Lee is shopping the idea around, … Read more
Remakes of the Bret Easton Ellis story American Psycho and the Stephen King story The Dead Zone are both in the works A few years ago, we heard that Lionsgate was developing TV shows based on American Psycho and the Saw franchise. Obviously those projects didn’t go anywhere, as Saw has since been revived with … Read more
Though it’s been seven months, I remain haunted by “The Zone of Interest.” When I first watched writer-director Jonathan Glazer’s radical take on the Holocaust back in May, I couldn’t quite pinpoint what was so startling about it. There have been many films on this horrific chapter in history—from “Night and Fog” to “Schindler's List” … Read more
I had a lot of scenes they cut out of the movie. I really liked those scenes because there were a lot of emotion, and sometimes we saw the perpetrator. In one scene, I gave an order to kill someone, and I really, as an actor I’m sad that these scenes are cut out. But … Read more
One of the great joys of TIFF is being able to catch up with films that premiered at Cannes roughly four months earlier. It allows this staff to offer alternate takes on some of the biggest movies of the year, including the Palme d’Or-winning “Anatomy of a Fall.” We will hit some of the other … Read more
Grab your rocket launcher and your parkour shoes! We’re revisiting the late Ray Stevenson in the best Punisher movie, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE. Hearing about Ray Stevenson’s unfortunate passing made me want to revisit one of his best movies…. Punisher: War Zone (2008) Director: lexi alexanderstars: Ray Stevenson, Dominic West, Julie Benz IS THERE A PLOT? … Read more
Shocking news: Ray Stevenson, the commanding screen presence known for his roles on the TV series Rome and in multiple Marvel projects, has died. He was only 58 years old. Details of his death have not been made public yet; according to TheWrap, “while his passing has been confirmed by his publicists, the cause of … Read more
Chaz Ebert Chaz is the CEO of several Ebert enterprises, including the President of The Ebert Company Ltd, and of Ebert Digital LLC, Publisher of RogerEbert.com, President of Ebert Productions and Chairman of the Board of The Roger and Chaz Ebert Foundation, and Co- Founder and Producer of Ebertfest, the film festival now in its … Read more
Very freely working from Martin Amis’s 2014 novel of the same name, Glazer’s film takes a rigorously withholding and formalized approach to its narrative. “The Zone of Interest” unfolds in shots as austere and hermetic as anything in the films of Roy Andersson. Jews at the death camp are never seen, and while their attempted … Read more