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“13 Tzameti,” 2006’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, is a clipped, tight and exciting piece of genre filmmaking. Gela Babluani‘s directorial debut concerns a layman who accepts a mysterious envelope meant for another man, only to learn that the payday promised therein forces him to participate in a Russian Roulette tournament. The film is stark, black and white, and French, a minor minimalist masterpiece that lingers in your head for days afterwards. If we told you Babluani remade his own film in color with American money and huge Hollywood stars, would you not believe that it was probably terrible? And would that pessimism be highlighted by the film’s over two year post-production period?
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Anchor Bay Entertainment is teaming up with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment to release the Gina Carano action movie In the Blood.
Anchor Bay picked up the North American rights to the thriller, planning a limited theatrical release in 2014 plus a Blu-ray/DVD/VOD release to be jointly distributed with Fox.
I hope she's taken acting lessons since her first movie because she really needed them.
Ouch aly...just ouch. She wasn't that bad. Then again, she didn't have all that many lines considering she was the lead.
She was bad even with the lines she had and the facial expressions and everything. She's a good fighter but she needed to learn how to act and express the character....sooooo bad
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The company acquires the rights before the action thriller is to premiere at SWSW.
The movie, which will screen as part of the festival’s Midnighter program, is described as being in the spirit of the 1980s canon and in the vein of A History of Violence but with the teens as the heroes, taking on four hitmen over $500,000 in stolen cash.
This is another one that is filled with drama, suspense, and you just don't know from one minute to the next what is happening. It looks interesting and depressing at the same time. I don't know that I would see this one but it's not completely out.
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The "Aliens" actor also co-wrote and stars in the thriller.
Anchor Bay has picked up the North American rights to The Victim, a suspense thriller starring Aliens and Terminator actor Michael Biehn. Biehn also wrote the script and made his directorial debut with this pic.
The story sees a woman’s life put in jeopardy when she witnesses a violent act by two deputies. When feeling her pursuers, she stumbles across a recluse (Biehn) living in the woods, upending his solitary life.
They say this is going to be like a grindhouse film and it reads like a typical one and the story is pretty basic but might be okay but I'll not be paying for it until it's out on dvd probably.
Let's hope 13 isn't an unlucky number for the movie at the box-office.
The picture along is really bad....it makes me not want to see it even more than all this bad talk about it. The combine that with the fact you have pretty big (and good selling) cast and distributors still didn't want to pick it up? Thats saying a LOT. These guys could be in a crummy action movie and still make millions, so what the hell did they do to this movie to make it suck?
There's a lot of foreign character players in this movie and the some of the faces are familiar but I don't really know any of them very well.