• 'Charlie Countryman' Red-Band Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Is Way Out Of His Element

    Charlie Countryman, starring Shia LaBeouf, has been somewhat divisive since it debuted at Sundance. Adherents (including our own Germain Lussier, quoted in the new trailer) like the film for its audacious, raw visuals and LaBeouf's all-in performance, while detractors say that the debut from commercials director Fredrik Bond is more music video than anything else.…

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  • Three Options Sit On 'Pirates Of The Caribbean 5' Director Short List

    With Johnny Depp's schedule quickly filling up and a Summer 2015 release date already locked in, Disney is feeling the pressure to hire a director for Pirates of the Caribbean 5. Rob Marshall, who directed the last film, was rumored to return but he's already working on Into The Woods. That leaves the door open…

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  • Disney Developing 'Hovercar 3D'

    Revisiting The Wachowski's Speed Racer on DVD, I have wondered if the movie was released a couple years later and filmed in 3D, if it would have been a hit. Well it looks like we might find out, and this time without the hokey characters. Walt Disney Pictures is developing Hovercar 3D, based on an online…

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  • Commercial Director Fredrik Bond To Direct Sci-Fi Film 'Year 12'

    His name is Bond, Fredrik Bond. And this wildly successful commercial director is now attached to direct Year 12, a sci-fi action film produced by Joe Roth, based on a spec-script by Edward Ricourt. The film is set 12 years after an alien invasion of Earth in which the human resistance recruits an underwater uranium…

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  • Stephen Susco To Write Hack/Slash

    The potential film version of the comic book Hack/Slash has been making news for over a year now. Two reasons. One, it's classic fanbait: hot girl plus skimpy clothes plus violence. And two, it was originally handed to screenwriter Justin Marks, the guy who became blog fodder for having a bunch of high-profile writing gigs…

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  • Fredrik Bond To Direct Hack/Slash

    Rogue Pictures has hired commercial and music video director Fredrik Bond to direct a big screen adaptation of Hack/Slash, the popular comic book created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli. The series follows a horror victim named Cassie Hack, who strikes back at the homicidal maniacs and serial killers, known as "slashers". Justin Marks( He-Man…

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  • Gore Verbinski To Produce, Fredrik Bond To Direct The Host Remake

    Universal Studios has signed a director to remake Bong Joon-ho's 2006 Korean monster film The Host. Commercial film director Fredrik Bond will helm the project, based on a script by Smart People scribe Mark Poirier, and Gore Verbinski will produce. Bond has directed a variety of commercials over the last few years (check them out…

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  • The Commercials Of Fredrik Bond

    Fredrik Bond is directing the American remake of The Host for Universal, but who is he? The Swedish commercial director began his career as a photographer, studying at NYU Film School. Bond got his break after directing a documentary about photographer David Sim's work for Levis. In 1999, he was one of 30 directors chosen…

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