After appealing the original ruling, the Lockout Escape from New York lawsuit is over and Luc Besson must pay John Carpenter for ripping off his movie.
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This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam muse on the pleasures of space jail, ponder the virtues of a filmic canon, and explain why Total Recall represents everything that's wrong with cinema today. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from Criticwire and Filmspotting: SVU. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a…
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Lockout doesn't boast the most original premise in the world -- it's perfectly obvious why it's drawn comparisons to both Taken and Escape From New York -- but there's at least one good reason to keep an eye out for this film, and that's star Guy Pearce. The reliably compelling Aussie actor plays up his…
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The movie Lockout, in which Guy Pearce plays a Snake Plissken-like character charged with rescuing a bigwig's daughter (Maggie Grace) from a satellite prison, came almost out of nowhere last year. We knew the film was coming together, but then the first clips of footage suggested that it aspires to be more fun, cheeky and…
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2012 looks like it could be a year with a particularly strong crop of movies, and the b-picture isn't getting left out of the action. This week alone we've got The Grey and Man on a Ledge (with the former being a lot more satisfying than the latter) and there are more coming in later…
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Luc Besson produced his own remake of Escape From New York without even telling us! The film Lockout, (also Lock-Out, and now MS One: Maximum Security, at least in France) has been called 'Taken in space' because it is from Luc Besson's company and has Maggie Grace once again playing a daughter in peril. This…
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Luc Besson's EuropaCorp turns an eye to space for the film Lockout (or Lock-Out depending on where you live), in which Guy Pearce has to rescue Maggie Grace from a prison that has been taken over by the inmates. Yep, there's a reason this movie has been referred to as 'Taken in space' ever since…
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As we've said in several pieces in the past, Rian Johnson's third film Looper (which follows Brick and The Brothers Bloom) is one of our most anticipated pictures in the next year or so. FilmDistrict and Tri-Star are releasing the film, and we'd hoped to see it sometime early next year. Sadly, we're going to…
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Netflix is taking another small step towards replacing -- or at least competing directly with -- traditional pay cable services like HBO and Showtime. The company has signed a deal with new distributor FilmDistrict to stream movies in the post-DVD release window traditionally reserved for subscription cable channels. It's a deal similar to the one…
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Maggie Grace probably likes Luc Besson a lot -- he produced Taken, in which she played the kidnapped daughter of Liam Neeson. She's already attached to Taken 2 (which may or may not get made) and now she's set to co-star with Guy Pearce in the Besson-produced space thriller Lockout. Deadline has few details to…
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