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- 10/18/2016
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
The first poster has arrived for the upcoming Good People which stars James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy and Tom Wilkinson. Henrik Ruben Genz directs the thriller from the Kelly Masterson script, which tells of a couple who find cash in their dead tenant's apartment and keep it for themselves. They end up becoming the target of the thief who stole it. Also on board the cast are Sam Spruell, Michael Jibson and Diarmaid Murtagh. Produces are Benhamin Forkner, Ed Cathell III, Avi Lerner, Tobey Maguire, Eric Kranzler and Thomas Gammeltoft.
- 9/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
When terrorists take down the White House (code name “Olympus”), a disgraced Secret Service agent attempts to rescue the president of the United States in Olympus Has Fallen, an electrifying and inspired action thriller from acclaimed director Antoine Fuqua (Training Day).
A small group of heavily armed, meticulously trained extremists launch a daring daylight ambush on the White House, overrunning the building and taking President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff hostage inside an impenetrable underground presidential bunker. As a pitched battle rages on the White House lawn, former presidential security officer Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) joins the fray, and finds his way into the besieged building to do the job he has trained for all his life: to protect the president – at all costs.
Banning uses his extensive training and detailed knowledge of the presidential residence to become the eyes and ears of Acting President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) and his key advisors.
A small group of heavily armed, meticulously trained extremists launch a daring daylight ambush on the White House, overrunning the building and taking President Benjamin Asher (Aaron Eckhart) and his staff hostage inside an impenetrable underground presidential bunker. As a pitched battle rages on the White House lawn, former presidential security officer Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) joins the fray, and finds his way into the besieged building to do the job he has trained for all his life: to protect the president – at all costs.
Banning uses his extensive training and detailed knowledge of the presidential residence to become the eyes and ears of Acting President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman) and his key advisors.
- 3/11/2013
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Gerard Butler is armed and ready in the second poster for Antoine Fuqua 's Olympus Has Fallen. The strong cast of the film sreenwritten by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt includes Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, Aaron Eckhart, Ashley Judd, Rick Yune, Cole Hauser, Melissa Leo, Angela Bassett, Han Soto and Robert Forster. In Olympus Has Fallen a former Secret Service agent works to prevent a terrorist attack on the White House. Gerard Butler, Ed Cathell III, Alan Siegel and Mark Gill produce with an April 5th, 2013 release date set via FilmDistrict.
- 1/31/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gerard Butler is armed and ready in the second poster for Antoine Fuqua 's Olympus Has Fallen. The strong cast of the film sreenwritten by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt includes Morgan Freeman, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, Aaron Eckhart, Ashley Judd, Rick Yune, Cole Hauser, Melissa Leo, Angela Bassett, Han Soto and Robert Forster. In Olympus Has Fallen a former Secret Service agent works to prevent a terrorist attack on the White House. Gerard Butler, Ed Cathell III, Alan Siegel and Mark Gill produce with an April 5th, 2013 release date set via FilmDistrict.
- 1/31/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The lovely Juilliard-trained actress, Jessica Chastain has been offered a lead role in the big-screen adaptation of Marcus Sakey’s novel ‘Good People’.
Chastain would star as Anna Reed opposite James Franco, who will star as her husband Tom in Henrik Genz’s feature adaptation of the best selling novel by Marcus Sakey.
Danish director Genz (The Killing TV series) will helm the film based on Kelly Masterson‘s script. Ben Forkner is producing along with Tobey Maguire, Eric Kanzler, Thomas Gammeltoft, Mark Gill and Ed Cathell.
The story follows a couple (Chastain and Franco) in their 30s in severe debt,
who finds the tenant in their downstairs apartment has died and left a stack of cash.’ The obligatory moral-crisis element to the plot synopsis reads as follows: ‘If they take the money, all of their problems will be solved. But that’s when bad things start happening to good people.
Chastain would star as Anna Reed opposite James Franco, who will star as her husband Tom in Henrik Genz’s feature adaptation of the best selling novel by Marcus Sakey.
Danish director Genz (The Killing TV series) will helm the film based on Kelly Masterson‘s script. Ben Forkner is producing along with Tobey Maguire, Eric Kanzler, Thomas Gammeltoft, Mark Gill and Ed Cathell.
The story follows a couple (Chastain and Franco) in their 30s in severe debt,
who finds the tenant in their downstairs apartment has died and left a stack of cash.’ The obligatory moral-crisis element to the plot synopsis reads as follows: ‘If they take the money, all of their problems will be solved. But that’s when bad things start happening to good people.
- 12/24/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Back in 2010, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev had reportedly signed on to direct Tobey Maguire in Good People, an adaptation of Marcus Sakey‘s thriller novel.
However, now comes word that Danish director Henrik Genz (Terribly Happy) will direct the film based on an adaptation of the book by Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) with James Franco as the front-runner to star.
The project was mistaken in an earlier report on Wednesday by The Wrap for an adaptation of the Broadway play ‘Good People’, by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Based on Marcus Sakey’s third book, this Good People follows a Chicago couple that comes across $400,000 and do whatever they can to try and keep it.
Tobey Maguire will serve as producer along with Ben Forkner, Matthew Plouffe, Thomas Gammeltoft, Mark Gill, and Ed Cathell. No word if Maguire’s set to co-star.
However, now comes word that Danish director Henrik Genz (Terribly Happy) will direct the film based on an adaptation of the book by Kelly Masterson (Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead) with James Franco as the front-runner to star.
The project was mistaken in an earlier report on Wednesday by The Wrap for an adaptation of the Broadway play ‘Good People’, by David Lindsay-Abaire.
Based on Marcus Sakey’s third book, this Good People follows a Chicago couple that comes across $400,000 and do whatever they can to try and keep it.
Tobey Maguire will serve as producer along with Ben Forkner, Matthew Plouffe, Thomas Gammeltoft, Mark Gill, and Ed Cathell. No word if Maguire’s set to co-star.
- 11/29/2012
- by Nick Martin
- Filmofilia
Next year, the White House will be taken over by terrorists in not one, but two action/thriller blockbusters. Led by Gerard Butler, Antoine Fuqua’s Olympus Has Fallen will be first out the gate, hitting Us cinemas in April. And following shortly after will be Roland Emmerich’s Channing Tatum-led White House Down (the first images from which we saw during the week).
With half a year left to go before Fuqua’s hits cinemas, a new poster with Butler front and centre has made its way online.
“Olympus Has Fallen is an action thriller starring Gerard Butler, a disgraced Secret Service agent who is called back to duty when the White House is taken over by terrorists. The movie also stars Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell and Rick Yune.”
Butler stars alongside an impressive cast, joined by Morgan Freeman,...
With half a year left to go before Fuqua’s hits cinemas, a new poster with Butler front and centre has made its way online.
“Olympus Has Fallen is an action thriller starring Gerard Butler, a disgraced Secret Service agent who is called back to duty when the White House is taken over by terrorists. The movie also stars Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell and Rick Yune.”
Butler stars alongside an impressive cast, joined by Morgan Freeman,...
- 11/13/2012
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
FilmDistrict has acquired U.S distribution rights to Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. The action film finds release on April 5th, 2013 and follows Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who's brought back after the White House is overrun by terrorists. Olympus Has Fallen has a very talent group on board, with other star names like Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell and Rick Yune (The Man with the Iron Fists) in the mix. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt script the film which is being by Alan Diegel, Ed Cathell III, Danny Lerner and Mark Gill, Fuqua and Butler.
- 10/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
FilmDistrict has acquired U.S distribution rights to Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen, starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart and Morgan Freeman. The action film finds release on April 5th, 2013 and follows Butler as a disgraced Secret Service agent who's brought back after the White House is overrun by terrorists. Olympus Has Fallen has a very talent group on board, with other star names like Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell and Rick Yune (The Man with the Iron Fists) in the mix. Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt script the film which is being by Alan Diegel, Ed Cathell III, Danny Lerner and Mark Gill, Fuqua and Butler.
- 10/27/2012
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, starring Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and Nicole Kidman Adapted by Pete Dexter, based on his novel of the same title, Lionsgate's Paperboy also includes Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo and Ned Bellamy. Paperboy follows an idealistic reporter who goes back to his hometown in Florida in order to investigate what could be an unlawful imprisonment of a death row inmate. Lee Daniels, Ed Cathell III, Hilary Shor and Cassian Elwes produced the drama while Michael Benaroya executive produced. Paperboy was shot in New Orleans, Louisana.
- 12/30/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, starring Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and Nicole Kidman Adapted by Pete Dexter, based on his novel of the same title, Lionsgate's Paperboy also includes Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo and Ned Bellamy. Paperboy follows an idealistic reporter who goes back to his hometown in Florida in order to investigate what could be an unlawful imprisonment of a death row inmate. Lee Daniels, Ed Cathell III, Hilary Shor and Cassian Elwes produced the drama while Michael Benaroya executive produced. Paperboy was shot in New Orleans, Louisana.
- 12/30/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Poster for Lee Daniels' The Paperboy, starring Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, John Cusack and Nicole Kidman Adapted by Pete Dexter, based on his novel of the same title, Lionsgate's Paperboy also includes Scott Glenn, David Oyelowo and Ned Bellamy. Paperboy follows an idealistic reporter who goes back to his hometown in Florida in order to investigate what could be an unlawful imprisonment of a death row inmate. Lee Daniels, Ed Cathell III, Hilary Shor and Cassian Elwes produced the drama while Michael Benaroya executive produced. Paperboy was shot in New Orleans, Louisana.
- 12/30/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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