15 years after starting his debut novel, filmmaker Scott Frank finally finished his Los Angeles-set crime story and we sat down to talk to him about it.
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David and Devindra discuss the merits of Gotham, assess Netflix's efforts to take over the spoiler conversation, and reflect on the next season of True Detective. Also, David talks with Alison Willmore from Buzzfeed about the trouble with treating female characters like meat. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Also, like us…
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It seems like a film adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones has been in the offing for a very long time. We've seen Block's Matt Scudder character on film before, played by Jeff Bridges in Eight Million Ways to Die. But now Liam Neeson takes on the character for an adaptation…
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Universal Pictures just dated seven major upcoming releases including three in 2015. The biggest titles are Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak, which will hit regular and IMAX theaters October 16, 2015 and Pitch Perfect 2, which'll be out May 15, 2015. There's also Baltasar Kormákur's star-studded Everest on February 27, 2015 and the Platinum Dunes film…
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Once upon a time it looked like Harrison Ford might play Matt Scudder in an adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones. Scripted by Scott Frank (Minority Report, Out of Sight) the film has been in development for quite a while. This week it got some new juice, however, with financing from…
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An adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones is something that has been knocking around Hollywood for more than a decade. There was a point when Danny DeVito was producing and Harrison Ford almost starred as alcoholic ex-cop Matthew Scudder, a sort of problem fixer who explores the underside of New York…
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