'Tin Star' Trailer: Tim Roth And Christina Hendricks Star In The New Amazon Series
In a new Amazon show from Rowan Joffe (The American), Tim Roth plays a sheriff fighting in a small town overrun by crime. Watch the Tin Star trailer.
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'Before I Go To Sleep' Trailer: Nicole Kidman Has A Memory Problem
In the thriller Before I Go to Sleep, a conceit a bit like the one at the heart of Memento is in play. Specifically, Nicole Kidman plays a woman recovering from a severe trauma, who experiences total amnesia upon waking each morning. Anything she learns during the day goes away at night, including the identities of…
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This Week In Trailers: Before I Go To Sleep, Once Upon A Forest, The Tribe, Coherence, Level Five
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This…
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Casting Bits: Emile Hirsch Also Joins Oliver Stone's 'Savages;' Ralph Fiennes In Talks For 'Great Expectations'
Oliver Stone is quickly locking down the cast for Savages, the adaptation of Don Winslow's novel about two pot dealers (Aaron Johnson and Taylor Kitsch) whose mutual girlfriend (Blake Lively) is kidnapped by a drug cartel (Salma Hayek and Benicio del Toro) in an effort to coerce the guys into bowing to the cartel's will.…
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Rowan Joffe Adapting WWII Double-Agent Story 'Agent Zigzag' For Director Mike Newell
Rowan Joffe, screenwriter of the underrated The American and of 28 Weeks Later, is now working with director Mike Newell on an adaption of the WWII double-agent story Agent Zigzag, based on the book of the same name by Ben MacIntyre. The subject of the book and the film is Eddie Chapman, dashing and charming…
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Movie Trailer: 'Brighton Rock'
Optimum Releasing have released the movie trailer for 28 Weeks Later and The American screenwriter Rowan Joffe's directorial debut, an adaptation of Graham Greene‘s 1938 novel Brighton Rock. The book was first adapted to the screen in 1947 in a movie starring Richard Attenborough. This time around Joffe has updated the setting to the 1960's.…
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