'Fractured' Review: Brad Anderson Checks Us Into Another Spooky Hospital [Fantastic Fest 2019]
Brad Anderson reminds us once again how much he hates hospitals with the twisty, predictable, but entertaining thriller Fractured.
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'Session 9' Director Brad Anderson Will Go 'In Search Of Captain Zero'
Brad Anderson will direct the surfing road trip movie In Search of Captain Zero, based on a true story.
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'Session 9' Director Brad Anderson Will Helm Survivalist Thriller 'Existence' From The Writer Of 'The Shallows'
Session 9 and The Machinist filmmaker Brad Anderson will direct Existence, a survival thriller based on a real-life shipwreck.
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'Beirut' Screenwriter Tony Gilroy Isn't Impressed By Good Lines [Interview]
The Academy Award-nominated writer and director behind Michael Clayton and Duplicity, Tony Gilroy, now has a 25-year-old script of his turned into a finished film with Beirut. In a wide-ranging interview, Gilroy recently told us about the film, writing great dialogue, why he doesn't write true-life stories, and more.
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'Beirut' Trailer: Jon Hamm Tries To Save A Life
The Beirut trailer brings together Jon Hamm and Rosamund Pike for a thriller from Session 9 director Brad Anderson. Dean Norris and Shea Whigham also star.
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Jon Hamm Plans A 'High Wire Act' To Follow 'Mad Men'
With the series finale of Mad Men under a couple weeks away, a Jon Hamm High Wire Act will bring the actor back to the big screen in an action thriller.
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'The Call' Trailer #2: From 'The Machinist' Director Brad Anderson
In most professions, a work-related blunder isn't, ultimately, that big a deal. Sure, we might annoy a client or piss off the boss (or get angry retorts in the /Film comments section...), but at the end of the day, everyone's still alive and well. That, however, is not the case for Halle Berry's character in…
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'The Call' Trailer: Halle Berry Tries To Rescue Abigail Breslin
A good chunk of Hollywood will spend the next several weeks praying to the Oscar gods, but as prestigious as the award is, it's important to remember that it's hardly a guarantee of smooth sailing. Halle Berry is living proof of that. Since picking up her statuette in 2002, she's starred in a few decent…
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Casting Bits: Abigail Breslin In 'The Hive', Adam Pally In 'A.C.O.D.', Marcia Gay Harden In 'Get A Job'
Brad Anderson's The Hive has cast its first non-Halle Berry role. Abigail Breslin has just signed on to the Rich D'Ovidio-scripted thriller, which will enter production in Los Angeles this summer. Berry plays a 911 call operator who comes face-to-face with her own worst fears as she tries to save a teenage girl (Breslin) from a…
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Casting Bits: Nathan Fillion In 'Percy Jackson', Halle Berry In 'The Hive' (Again), Mickey Rourke And Danny Trejo In 'Dead In Tombstone'
Geek favorite Nathan Fillion has signed on for Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, the Thor Freudenthal-directed sequel to Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief. As Greek god Hermes, father of antagonist Luke (Jake Abel), Fillion joins a strong supporting cast that includes Yvette Nicole Brown (Community), Missi Pyle (The Artist), and Mary…
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'The Machinist' Director Brad Anderson Taking Over 'The Hive' From Joel Schumacher
Joel Schumacher's career continues to stutter. His 2009 Blood Creek was dumped to dollar theaters and DVD; his film Twelve was called one of the worst in 2010 and barely saw release. His latest movie, Trespass, with Nicholas Cage and Nicole Kidman, hit a very few theaters and is already available to stream on Netflix.…
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VOTD: 'The Batman Complex'
Probably all of us have entertained fantasies at some point about becoming one of our favorite superheroes, whether as children playing with action figures or adults watching the latest comic book blockbuster. Generally, it's just harmless fun -- but take that drive to the extreme and things can get really weird, as seen in today's…
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Brad Anderson And Christian Bale Plan To Reunite For Adaptation Of J.G. Ballard's 'Concrete Island'
Brad Anderson's most recent film is Vanishing on 7th Street, but he's best known for two other films: the abandoned mental hospital ghost story Session 9, and The Machinist, in which Christian Bale wastes away into madness before our very eyes. (He also directed a couple episodes of The Wire and several of Fringe, among…
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Movie Trailer #2: 'Vanishing On 7th Street'
Director Brad Anderson is responsible for some of the best low budget thrillers of the past few years. Films like The Machinist and Session 9 have set a pretty high standard and now he's back with his most ambitious film to date. Vanishing on 7th Street played at the Toronto Film Festival this year and…
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Liev Schreiber And Samuel L. Jackson In Consideration For Brad Anderson's 'Jack'
Briefly: At the end of May it looked as if John Cusack would be playing the lead role in Jack under director Brad Anderson. At that point the film was set for a late summer shoot, but has been delayed. (We don't know whether that is due to financing, the director's festival and other responsibilities…
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Magnet Picks Up Distro Rights To 'Vanishing On 7th Street' And 'Black Death'
We've now got a very good idea what to expect out of Magnet's Six-Shooter Film Series come early 2011. (Assuming the company repeats the pattern established over the past two years.) Earlier this week the company, which is the genre arm of Magnolia, picked up The Troll Hunter, and now it has bought distribution rights…
Read MoreTIFF Reactions: Guy Moshe's Bunraku And Brad Anderson's Vanishing On 7th Street
I started out my 30-day film festival trip with some awesome movie selections -- Over the last week, I've screened some of the best movies of the year. Sooner or later I expected to come across some average to subpar films. It was bound to happen. That time is now. At film festivals, I try…
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Movie Trailer: Vanishing On 7th Street
Brad Anderson's new film Vanishing on 7th Street was just added to the Midnight Madness program at the Toronto International Film Festival, and now we've got a trailer for the horror / suspense film that stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton, John Leguizamo and Jacob Latimore. STYD has the trailer, and there are definitely elements of…
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Full Toronto Midnight Madness Lineup Announced; Hereafter, I'm Still Here And Many More Also Added
Last night we got a brief preview of some of the films that will appear in the always-entertaining Midnight Madness lineup at this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Now we've got the full nine, which in addition to the three announced last night (Super, Bunraku and The Butcher, The Chef and the Swordsman) include John…
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New Images And Video Interviews: Brad Anderson's 'Vanishing On 7th Street'
We've seen images from Brad Anderson's new film Vanishing on 7th Street, and knew that it stars Hayden Christensen, Thandie Newton and John Leguizamo. But we haven't known much about the film. Now there's a little set of behind the scenes interviews that give a few tiny details away, as well as a new poster…
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Casting Notes: Jason Sudeikis In Horrible Bosses; Cary Elwes In Ivan Reitman Comedy; John Cusack In Jack
Based on the cast alone, Horrible Bosses is starting to look like one of the more promising studio comedies on the horizon. The film about three friends who conspire to kill each others' bosses already has Charlie Day and Jason Bateman as two of the three friends, and Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell as two…
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Images From Brad Anderson's 'Vanishing On 7th Street'
Brad Anderson is a filmmaker I keep expecting to break out at any time. He's made some great smaller thrillers with cultish appeal (Session 9, The Machinist) and built a good parallel career directing episodes of well-loved television shows: The Shield, The Wire, Treme and Fringe. But he hasn't had the crossover movie yet. Now…
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Who Will Direct Paranormal Activity 2? Here Are Paramount's Picks
The quick-turnaround required to get another Paranormal Activity into cinemas this Halloween, and possibly kill the Saw franchise once and for all, will mean that Paramount will have to get production up and running very soon indeed. You probably recall that Saw almuni Kevin Greutert was given the helm before a little contractual black magic…
Read MoreMovie Playlist: Brad Anderson
Welcome to another edition of Movie Playlist, where we talk to the writers, directors, and stars about their favorite films. I've always found the celebrity playlists on iTunes to be interesting. Most everyone in the film business moved to Hollywood after discovering their love of films. And I've always love talking to people about their…
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