When a popular book or property is announced for a movie, the first reaction of many fans is "They should make it a TV series instead." Television gives complex stories time to develop, where movies sometimes rush though popular stories to meet a specific run time. The novel to miniseries transition, without a movie adaptation,…
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Dave, Devindra, and Adam invite you to check out the under-appreciated Dredd, lament the lost career of Ed Wood, sing the praises of Shawn Ryan's Last Resort, and opine that Headhunters got the "foreign movie" pass. Tasha Robinson from AV Club joins us for this episode. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call…
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Jo Nesbø’s best-selling 2008 thriller Headhunters was turned into a film that did quite well at festivals last year. Well enough, in fact, that rights to remake the picture were quickly snapped up by Summit, leading to Mark Wahlberg voicing his desire to take the lead role. The film follows a successful corporate headhunter (Askel…
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Though last month's Contraband was Mark Wahlberg's first film to hit theaters since 2010's The Fighter, the star is now busier than ever. He's got Ted, from Seth McFarlane, due out this summer, plus Broken City, 2 Guns, and Pain and Gain all scheduled to land sometime next year. Now Wahlberg has yet another new project…
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Another amazing foreign property is about to get lost in translation. Summit Entertainment just bought the English language rights to the Norwegian best-selling novel Headhunters by Jo Nesbø, the same novel that's the basis for a 2011 Norwegian film which recently played Fantastic Fest to almost universal praise (you can read my review here). Headhunters…
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Another Fantastic Fest is in the books and the festival once again lived up to its name. For eight straight days I slept little, met friends, ate, drank and watched an inhuman amount of crazy genre movies. Now that it’s over, it’s time to not only rank the best films I saw at the festival,…
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Two guys who use their heads for very different things are the stars of Headhunters and Aardvark, another pair of films playing at Fantastic Fest 2011. Headhunters is about a job recruiter who also steals art on the side. He is forced to use all his wit and skill to compete against his latest mark,…
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If you're a fan of genre film, you've had September 22-29 circled on your calendar for months. That's when one of the most fun, depraved and intimate film festivals in the country once again invades Austin, Texas. It's called Fantastic Fest and it features a huge blend of action, horror and sci-fi movies that most…
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If you're more interested in the typical fall slate of festival entrees than summer's glut of tentpole action fare, this is a great week. The Toronto International Film Festival announced the first wave of films that will play the fest in September. This is a batch of about 50 titles, which makes up only a…
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