Not to sound like a stereotype, but I don't particularly get along with my mother-in-law. But the situation in the latest Netflix thriller, "Locked Up," is a great reminder that things could always be much, much worse. Despite little fanfare upon release and next to no promotion tied to it, "Locked In" has been consistently holding it down on the streamer's Top 10 list since it arrived on November 1. If you've not heard of the film, here's the official synopsis:
Katherine, a former Hollywood actor, wakes up in the hospital unable to move. She's been hit by a car and suffers from locked-in syndrome — her eyes are the only thing she's able to move. Through her nurse, Nicky, we find out what's led to Katherine's hospitalization. Katherine, communicating with her via letter board, blinks when Nicky reads the correct letter: She claims there's been a murder. Through flashbacks, we see snapshots...
Katherine, a former Hollywood actor, wakes up in the hospital unable to move. She's been hit by a car and suffers from locked-in syndrome — her eyes are the only thing she's able to move. Through her nurse, Nicky, we find out what's led to Katherine's hospitalization. Katherine, communicating with her via letter board, blinks when Nicky reads the correct letter: She claims there's been a murder. Through flashbacks, we see snapshots...
- 11/13/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Film Independent’s annual Board Member Matching Campaign has been extended to September 29! To raise support for the next 30 years of filmmaker support, all donations make before or on the 29th will be doubled—dollar-for-dollar up to $100,000. To celebrate the campaign, we’re re-posting a few of our most popular blogs.
For those of us who have been here for a decade or two, it’s remarkable to consider both how much and how little the city of Los Angeles has changed over the years. There are still plenty of the old landmarks—the Hollywood Sign, Pink’s Hot Dogs, that dude who rollerblades around is white robes and plays guitar on the Venice boardwalk—while other, seemingly indestructible, institutions have tragically bitten the dust.
So! With local issues perpetually at the forefront of our mind this week, here now are ten films that remind us of life in Los...
For those of us who have been here for a decade or two, it’s remarkable to consider both how much and how little the city of Los Angeles has changed over the years. There are still plenty of the old landmarks—the Hollywood Sign, Pink’s Hot Dogs, that dude who rollerblades around is white robes and plays guitar on the Venice boardwalk—while other, seemingly indestructible, institutions have tragically bitten the dust.
So! With local issues perpetually at the forefront of our mind this week, here now are ten films that remind us of life in Los...
- 9/20/2023
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent News & More
Exclusive: Dallas Buyers Club executive producer Tony Notargiacomo and Die Hard With A Vengeance executive producer Robert Lawrence have boarded the Canada-us project as producer and executive producer, respectively.
Carl Bessai (pictured), whose credits include Emile and Normal, will direct from a screenplay by Shannon Beaty.
Gearshift principals Borga Dorter and Jordan Barker will produce alongside Notargiacomo and Beaty.
All The Rage is based on Margaret Atwood’s critically acclaimed short story Hairball and follows a driven career woman in her 30s.
When she is lured from a cutting edge magazine in Berlin to a conservative, male-run publishing company in Toronto that stifles her ambitions, the woman plots revenge.
Production is earmarked for spring in Canada.
Carl Bessai (pictured), whose credits include Emile and Normal, will direct from a screenplay by Shannon Beaty.
Gearshift principals Borga Dorter and Jordan Barker will produce alongside Notargiacomo and Beaty.
All The Rage is based on Margaret Atwood’s critically acclaimed short story Hairball and follows a driven career woman in her 30s.
When she is lured from a cutting edge magazine in Berlin to a conservative, male-run publishing company in Toronto that stifles her ambitions, the woman plots revenge.
Production is earmarked for spring in Canada.
- 8/31/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Take heart fans of Patrick Rothfuss' amazing fantasy books, as Lionsgate has worked a deal with the author to develop movies, a television series, and even video games based on his popular Kingkiller Chronicles! Come inside to learn more.
I'm trying to keep the fanboy in me down as I report on this one...but it's tough. Patrick Rothfuss has created a ridiculously amazing fantasy world with The Kingkiller Chronicles (starting with The Name of the Wind, and it's sequel The Wise Man's Fear) and now Lionsgate has worked out a deal to help bring it to life in a variety of ways. We've heard rumblings of this in the past, and the author has met with several studios over the last couple years about the property, but Lionsgate has snagged the deal. THR got the scoop on the deal:
The deal sets up the simultaneous development of movies, television...
I'm trying to keep the fanboy in me down as I report on this one...but it's tough. Patrick Rothfuss has created a ridiculously amazing fantasy world with The Kingkiller Chronicles (starting with The Name of the Wind, and it's sequel The Wise Man's Fear) and now Lionsgate has worked out a deal to help bring it to life in a variety of ways. We've heard rumblings of this in the past, and the author has met with several studios over the last couple years about the property, but Lionsgate has snagged the deal. THR got the scoop on the deal:
The deal sets up the simultaneous development of movies, television...
- 10/1/2015
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Lionsgate is picking up the rights for Patrick Rothfuss’ best-selling fantasy book series “The Kingkiller Chronicle,” which the studio plans to develop into movies, a television series and video games simultaneously, TheWrap has learned. Rothfuss had met with other studios such as Warner Bros. and MGM at Comic-Con, prior to making the deal with Lionsgate. Robert Lawrence, known for producing “Clueless,” is set to produce. Also Read: Amber Heard, Theo James Movie 'London Fields' Sells to Lionsgate, Grindstone “The Kingkiller Chronicle” follows the life of Kvothe, a man gifted with magic who turns out to be the most notorious wizard in the world.
- 10/1/2015
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Lionsgate has closed a multi-platform rights deal to Patrick Rothfuss' best-selling epic fantasy book series "The Kingkiller Chronicle".
The deal allows for simultaneous development of movies, television series and video games with the goal to adapt the many of the stories across numerous mediums.
The books follow Kvothe, a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. Two novels and three novellas have been published over the past eight years and have sold over ten million copies.
Robert Lawrence ("Clueless," "The Last Castle") will produce the film. Rothfuss reportedly met with various studios this past Summer with Lionsgate ultimately proving the winner.
Source: Heat Vision...
The deal allows for simultaneous development of movies, television series and video games with the goal to adapt the many of the stories across numerous mediums.
The books follow Kvothe, a magically gifted young man who grows to be the most notorious wizard his world has ever seen. Two novels and three novellas have been published over the past eight years and have sold over ten million copies.
Robert Lawrence ("Clueless," "The Last Castle") will produce the film. Rothfuss reportedly met with various studios this past Summer with Lionsgate ultimately proving the winner.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 10/1/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Lionsgate has closed a complex multiplatform rights deal the pick up The Kingkiller Chronicle, the best-selling fantasy book series by Patrick Rothfuss. The deal sets up the simultaneous development of movies, television series and video games with the goal to adapt the many stories across the mediums at the same time. It also caps off interest and dealmaking that has gone on since mid-July, when Rothfuss met with studios such as Warner Bros., MGM and Lionsgate, among others, at Comic-Con. Robert Lawrence, whose credits include 1990s classic Clueless as well as the Mark Wahlberg vehicle Rock Star
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- 10/1/2015
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
I hate saying Dwayne Johnson. The Rock is a name that screams action hero and now that Dwayne is going back to what made him great maybe he'll throw The Rock nickname back into the posters. Then again, he probably won't.A press release came across the wire today about Dwayne's new action movie "Protection". Here's the details: Los Angeles, April 28, 2010 -- Dwayne Johnson has signed to star in the action thriller Protection, as announced by Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford today. Protection will be directed by Simon West (Con Air, Laura Croft: Tomb Raider, The Mechanic, Strangers) and is scheduled to lens inNew Mexico this fall. The screenplay was written by Brandon Noonan. Johnson will star as ‘Hombre’ in the $35 million budgeted, high-octane tale of a mercenary Mexico City security operative forced to smuggle the daughter of an under-threat, high ranking judge and the judge’s chief...
- 4/30/2010
- LRMonline.com
Dwayne Johnson has signed to star in the action thriller Protection, as announced by Im Global Founder and CEO Stuart Ford today. Protection will be directed by Simon West (Con Air, Laura Croft: Tomb Raider, The Mechanic, Strangers) and is scheduled to lens in New Mexico this fall. The screenplay was written by Brandon Noonan.
Johnson will star as ‘Hombre’ in the $35 million budgeted, high-octane tale of a mercenary Mexico City security operative forced to smuggle the daughter of an under-threat, high ranking judge and the judge’s chief legal counsel across the border while being pursued by corrupt cops, drug lords and white collar U.S. criminal forces. With Protection, Johnson continues the return to his action roots, having just completed filming CBS Films’ Faster, which is scheduled for release this November.
Protection will be produced by Ford and Robert Lawrence, along with Gordon Gray and Marc Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures.
Johnson will star as ‘Hombre’ in the $35 million budgeted, high-octane tale of a mercenary Mexico City security operative forced to smuggle the daughter of an under-threat, high ranking judge and the judge’s chief legal counsel across the border while being pursued by corrupt cops, drug lords and white collar U.S. criminal forces. With Protection, Johnson continues the return to his action roots, having just completed filming CBS Films’ Faster, which is scheduled for release this November.
Protection will be produced by Ford and Robert Lawrence, along with Gordon Gray and Marc Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures.
- 4/30/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
Dwayne Johnson will star in the independent action thriller "Protection."According to Variety, Simon West will direct from a script by Brandon Noonan, with shooting set to start this fall in New Mexico. Im Global's CEO Stuart Ford and Robert Lawrence will produce along with Gordon Gray and Mark Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures. Johnson will play a mercenary Mexico City security operative forced to smuggle the daughter of a threatened high-ranking judge and the judge's lawyer across the border while being chased by corrupt cops and drug lords. Johnson recently completed filming on CBS Films' "Faster." West's credits include "Con Air," "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," "The Mechanic" and "Strangers."...
- 4/29/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Dwayne Johnson will star in the action thriller "Protection," with Simon West directing.
The screenplay, written by Brandon Noonan, follows a Mexico City security operative who is forced to smuggle the daughter of a high-ranking judge across the border while being pursued by corrupt cops, drug lords and white collar U.S. criminal forces.
Im Global's Stuart Ford and Robert Lawrence will produce along with Gordon Gray and Marc Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures. Brian Kavanaugh Jones is an executive producer, and Jib Polhemus will be a co-producer.
The $35-million production is scheduled to start filming in New Mexico in the fall.
The CAA-repped Johnson most recently starred in "Tooth Fairy" and "Race to Witch Mountain." He will next appear in the Columbia comedy "The Other Guys" in August and the CBS Films actioner "Faster," set for release in November.
West, also repped by CAA, last directed "When a Stranger Calls.
The screenplay, written by Brandon Noonan, follows a Mexico City security operative who is forced to smuggle the daughter of a high-ranking judge across the border while being pursued by corrupt cops, drug lords and white collar U.S. criminal forces.
Im Global's Stuart Ford and Robert Lawrence will produce along with Gordon Gray and Marc Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures. Brian Kavanaugh Jones is an executive producer, and Jib Polhemus will be a co-producer.
The $35-million production is scheduled to start filming in New Mexico in the fall.
The CAA-repped Johnson most recently starred in "Tooth Fairy" and "Race to Witch Mountain." He will next appear in the Columbia comedy "The Other Guys" in August and the CBS Films actioner "Faster," set for release in November.
West, also repped by CAA, last directed "When a Stranger Calls.
- 4/29/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Simon West ("Con Air," "Tomb Raider") is officially set to direct the $35 million action thriller "Protection" for Robert Lawrence Productions and Im Global.
Set in Mexico City, Dwayne Johnson will play a disgraced former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard of a judge's 21-year-old daughter who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of a member of a powerful Mexican cartel.
The pair go on the run across both sides of the border with the cartel's enforcers, who want to kill the girl before she can testify, in close pursuit.
West had previously been attached but left the project a while back. Clive Owen and director Patrick Alessandrin came onboard but both recently left. News of Johnson's involvement broke last week.
Brandon Noonan penned the script. Johnson, Stuart Ford, Robert Lawrence, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray will produce. Filming kicks off this Fall in New Mexico.
Set in Mexico City, Dwayne Johnson will play a disgraced former Special Forces soldier turned bodyguard of a judge's 21-year-old daughter who witnesses her father's murder at the hands of a member of a powerful Mexican cartel.
The pair go on the run across both sides of the border with the cartel's enforcers, who want to kill the girl before she can testify, in close pursuit.
West had previously been attached but left the project a while back. Clive Owen and director Patrick Alessandrin came onboard but both recently left. News of Johnson's involvement broke last week.
Brandon Noonan penned the script. Johnson, Stuart Ford, Robert Lawrence, Mark Ciardi and Gordon Gray will produce. Filming kicks off this Fall in New Mexico.
- 4/29/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Simon West ( Con Air , Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ) has signed to direct the action thriller Protection , which will star Dwayne Johnson. Written by Brandon Noonan, the film is scheduled to start shooting in New Mexico this fall. Johnson will star as 'Hombre' in the $35 million budgeted, high-octane tale of a mercenary Mexico City security operative forced to smuggle the daughter of an under-threat, high ranking judge and the judge's chief legal counsel across the border while being pursued by corrupt cops, drug lords and white collar U.S. criminal forces. Protection will be produced by Ford and Robert Lawrence, along with Gordon Gray and Marc Ciardi of Mayhem Pictures. Brian Kavanaugh Jones will executive produce and Jib Polhemus will act as co-producer. Im Global Founder...
- 4/29/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Variety reports that Josh Hartnett has signed on to star in Mozart and the Whale, with Rachel Weisz currently negotiating for the female lead. Based on a 1995 LA Times article and scripted by Ron Bass, the love story will be directed by Elling's Petter Naess for Millennium Films. The central couple are two savants with Asperger's syndrome, a kind of autism, whose disabilites sabotage their budding relationship. Robert Lawrence, Frank DeMartini and James Acheson are set to produce; interestingly it's Hartnett who's been driving the project, which he'll do before moving on to Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia opposite Mark Wahlberg.
- 1/13/2004
- IMDbPro News
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