The Best Movies You've Never Seen About Bounty Hunters
Here are some of the best movies about bounty hunters you haven't seen, just in case The Mandalorian has you feeling adventurous.
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South By Southwest 2012 Lineup Features World Premiere Of '21 Jump Street,' 'God Bless America,' 'The Raid' And Much More
Attendees of South by Southwest 2012 are in for a treat. 130 feature films will screen at the Austin, Texas festival taking place March 9-17. Among them are 65 World Premieres, 17 North American Premieres and 10 U.S. Premieres. The organization already announced Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon's The Cabin in the Woods would open…
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This Week In Trailers: Four, The Hunter, Eames: The Architect And The Painter, Roadie, Abschiede
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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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'The Hunter' Trailer: Willem Dafoe Pursues The Last Tasmanian Tiger
Our first word on The Hunter came late last year when we learned that Daniel Nettheim would direct Sam Neill, Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor and more in an adaptation of Julia Leigh's novel of the same name. Willem Dafoe plays a character who claims to be on the hunt for one thing, but is in…
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First Toronto Festival Announcements Include New Work From George Clooney, David Cronenberg And Francis Ford Coppola
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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Casting Bits: John Malkovich In 'Siberian Education;' Clifton Collins Jr. And Wendell Pierce In 'Parker;' Daniel Auteuil In 'The Lookout'
After the long Fourth of July weekend we don't have a lot of news on the casting front, but there are a few good stories to share, and they're all in a similar vein. Today, the theme is crime pictures. After the break you'll find info on the following: John Malkovich is taking the lead…
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Jason Statham In Talks For Taylor Hackford's 'Parker'
What does Jason Statham have in common with Lee Marvin, Chow Yun Fat and Mel Gibson? Soon he could be the fourth actor to play a screen version of Parker, the principled thief created by Donald Westlake (under the alias Richard Stark) in a series of pulp novels. The previous three films (Point Blank, Full…
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This Week In Trailers: New Kids Turbo, Clown, Into Eternity, The Hunter
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: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m…
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Willem Dafoe And Sam Neill Starring In Australian Thriller 'The Hunter'
As I understand it, Julia Leigh's novel The Hunter is doing quite well in Australia. Ostensibly about a search for the last Tasmanian tiger, the thriller has a bit more going on than that. A film has gone into production this week under the direction of Daniel Nettheim, and it has a great cast, including…
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Dare Comics' The Hunter Being Adapted To Film
Another day, another comic book adaptation. This time we've learned that Scarlet Fire Entertainment is developing an adaptation of the Adam Hamdy's Dare Comic property, The Hunter. The series concerns an FBI agent who discovers that he has extraordinary powers. Hamdy is set to produce the adaptation, and will also be writing an entirely new…
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