'Sleepless Night' Remake Scores Jamie Foxx And Michelle Monaghan
The Sleepless Night remake is moving forward with Jamie Foxx and Michelle Monaghan attached to star. Baran bo Odar will direct.
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/Filmcast Ep. 183 - Sleepless Night (GUEST: Matt Singer From Criticwire)
This week, Dave, Devindra, and Adam delve into Frederic Jardin's bold new action film, Sleepless Night, which is available now on Video on Demand. Special guest Matt Singer joins us from Criticwire. You can always e-mail us at slashfilmcast(AT)gmail(DOT)com, or call and leave a voicemail at 781-583-1993. Download or Play Now in your Browser: [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/slashfilmcast/Slashfilmcastep183.mp3]…
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Watch 'Sleepless Night' For FREE On Thursday Night In Los Angeles
/Film will be co-presenting a free screening of Sleepless Night on Thursday, May 3rd at USC in Los Angeles with our friends at FirstShowing. We first saw this french action film at the Toronto International Film Festival and it blew me away. It's probably one of the best written contained action thrillers in years. As…
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'Sleepless Night' U.S. Trailer
Outside a select few titles, Hollywood really hasn't been doing too well releasing bad-ass, critically-acclaimed action films. For those, smart moviegoers are looking overseas to films like The Raid: Redemption and the film you're about to watch the trailer for, Sleepless Night. Directed by Frédéric Jardin, the festival favorite (read our reviews from Toronto and Fantastic…
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Fantastic Fest 2011 Recap: The Top Ten Films And Top Five Trends
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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'Sleepless Night' Trailer: Check Out The TIFF And Fantastic Fest Thriller Already Targeted For A Remake
The French thriller Sleepless Night, in which two police officers who moonlight stealing drugs have to deal with insanity on a night when they lose their merchandise, has been earning raves since it premiered as part of the Midnight Madness program at TIFF. Peter loved the film in Toronto, and Germain loved it at Fantastic…
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'Sleepless Night' And 'El Narco' Mini-Reviews [Fantastic Fest 2011]
In the movies, when good guys get mixed up in drugs, it's a recipe for disaster. And while that's the basic drive of both Sleepless Night and El Narco, one does it on a very small scale with big results and the other does it on a huge scale with lesser results. Sleepless Night, which…
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Warner Bros And Producer Roy Lee To Develop Remake Of TIFF Hit 'Sleepless Night'
I walked out of an early Toronto International Film Festival press screening 10 days ago ranting and raving about Frédéric Jardin's incredible French contained action thriller Sleepless Night. I posted an enthusiastic review on September 12th calling it "one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I've seen in the past few years" and…
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Fantastic Fest 2011 Preview: Our Most Anticipated Films, Films We're Curious About And An Early Best Of List
There's almost too much that's good about Fantastic Fest: experiencing the Alamo Drafthouse for a week straight; the small, friendly, film fan atmosphere; the parties. Oh yeah, then there's the insane films. Every year Fantastic Fest is filled with a ton of wild genre flicks that either you've never heard of yet or already have…
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Frédéric Jardin's 'Sleepless Night' Is One Of The Best Contained Action Thriller In Years [TIFF Review And Trailer]
Frédéric Jardin's french film Sleepless Night might be one of the best and tightest written action thrillers I've seen in the past few years. The film is kind of like Die Hard meets 24 by way of Taken, but never falling into many of the genre cliches set-up by those films. A drug heist goes…
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