Netflix has ordered a new heist drama titled Jigsaw with Giancarlo Espositio (The Mandalorian) set to lead the series from producer Ridley Scott. Jigsaw has been created by Eric Garcia, who will act as showrunner, basing the story loosely on an event in New York during Hurricane Sandy where billions of dollars went missing. Also […]
Second Opinion – Entebbe (2018)
Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Daniel Bruhl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Denis Menochet, Ben Schnetzer and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: Over 200 passengers on an Air France flight are held hostage over seven days in the summer of 1976. Nearly half of them are either Israeli or Jewish. The plane lands at Entebbe in Uganda, […]
Movie Review – Entebbe (2018)
Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Nonso Anozie, and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: In July 1976, two terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France passenger plane, forcing it to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Chronicling the […]
Movie Review – 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)
7 Days in Entebbe. 2018 Directed by José Padilha Starring Rosamond Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Lior Ashkenazi, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Denis Ménochet, Brontis Jodorowsky, Zina Zinchenko, Mark Ivanir, and Peter Sullivan Synopsis: Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and […]
First trailer for hijack thriller 7 Days in Entebbe starring Rosamund Pike and Daniel Bruhl
The first poster and trailer have arrived online for the upcoming thriller 7 Days in Entebbe (titled Entebbe in the UK). Directed by Jose Padilha (Elite Squad, Narcos), the films is based on the true events of the hijacking of a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris in 1976 and stars Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie […]
David Oyelowo and Russell Crowe join Arc of Justice
David Oyelowo and Russell Crowe are set to star in Arc of Justice, based on a famous civil rights case from the 1920s. Per Variety, Oyelowo has closed a deal to star in the film while Crowe is in talks and close to finalizing his deal. The film will be directed by Narcos‘ Jose Padilha for the Mark […]
Elite Squad director to helm Arc of Justice
Deadline is reporting that director Jose Padilha (Elite Squad, RoboCop, Narcos) has signed on to helm an adaptation of historian Kevin Boyle’s award-winning 2004 non-fiction book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age. Arc of Justice “tells the true story of a racial incident in 1925 Detroit […]
10 filmmakers who went from Indie Darling to Big Budget Blunder
In the wake of Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four, Matthew Lee looks at ten filmmakers who went from Indie Darling to Big Budget Blunder… Josh Trank’s debut, Chronicle, was a surprise hit of 2012. The film fused the found-footage genre with superhero tropes to create a coming-of-age story that was both fresh and exciting. Trank’s ability […]