If you thought you saw Woody Harrelson whaling on a man with a night stick while walking on the street recently, you weren't hallucinating. The team behind Rampart, Oren Moverman's follow-up to The Messenger, has been papering several major cities with an image that is striking, figuratively and literally. It shows Los Angeles cop Dave Brown…
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Every year during awards season, The Hollywood Reporter somehow organizes the schedules of basically every single actor, actress, writer and director of the year's best films to sit down and discuss them. This, in itself, is pretty spectacular. What's even better is they release the videos of the full conversations so we can watch. For…
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From the moment I heard about Rampart the movie placed high on my 'must-see' list. The Messenger director Oren Moverman reunites with Woody Harrelson and Ben Foster to tell a story about the LAPD's disgraced Rampart division, with a script originally written by LA crime master James Ellroy. Ice Cube is a good cop and…
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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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In addition to offering up quite a few new images of Captain America, the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly has first looks at many other films. There's the first image from The Help, starring Viola Davis and Emma Stone in what is sure to be one of the prestige pictures of fall 2011. There are…
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Oren Moverman's Rampart is one of the films I'm most excited about that hasn't been shot yet. Why? Because Moverman wrote and directed a fantastic picture in The Messenger, and then you team him up with James Ellroy and Ellroy's long-standing interest in the Los Angeles Police Department. Mix in Moverman's leads from The Messenger,…
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I was thrilled a couple weeks ago to see that Oren Moverman will rewrite and direct Rampart, based on a story and script by James Ellroy. The film covers the scandal that engulfed the Rampart Division of the LAPD in the '90s and now, perhaps appropriately, Ice Cube is in the cast. The guy went…
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Oren Moverman's debut feature, The Messenger, was an excellent film. I've been eagerly awaiting final word on what his follow-ups might be. He's working on The Other Side of the Looking Glass now, for one. Today there's indication that, rather than making a Kurt Cobain biopic, he could make an LA cop drama called Rampart,…
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