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Crime / Movies

Focus Features’ Thriller ‘Kill the Messenger’ Opens in Theaters Wide Oct. 17 & 24

KilltheMessenger(PCM) Can you keep a national secret? That’s the question Focus Features’ is asking on the poster for the biographical drama/thriller Kill the Messenger, starring Jeremy Renner and opening in theaters nationwide October 17 and 24.

Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (The Bourne Legacy) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb.

Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua.

Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications.

His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the … Read more

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Crime / Movies

“Good People” Opens in Theaters Sept. 26

GoodPeople(PCM) Millennium Entertainment’s crime/drama starring James Franco, Kate Hudson, Omar Sy, and Tom Wilkinson, Good People, opens in theaters on a limited run starting September 26, 2014.

Young American couple Tom and Anna Reed (James Franco and Kate Hudson) fall into severe debt while renovating Anna’s family home in London.

As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them has been murdered and he left behind a stash of cash-$400,000 worth.

Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what’s necessary to get them out of debt.

But when they start spending the money and can’t seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary-the thief who stole it-and that’s when … Read more

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Crime / Movies / Mystery

“A Walk Among the Tombstones” Opens in Theaters September 19

AWalkAmongtheTombstones(PCM) Universal Pictures’ A Walk Among the Tombstones, starring Liam Neeson, opens in theaters nationwide starting September 19, 2014!

Based on Lawrence Block’s bestselling series of mystery novels, A Walk Among the Tombstones stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law.

When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker (Dan Stevens) hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime…nor will it be the last.

Blurring the lines between right and wrong, Scudder races to track the deviants through the backstreets of New York City before they kill again. 

Written and directed by Scott Fran, A Walk among the Tombstones is produced by Jersey Films’ Danny DeVito, Double Feature Films’ Michael Shamberg … Read more

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Crime / Movies

Check Out This New Clip of “The Equalizer”

TheEqualizer(PCM) Columbia Pictures has released a new clip from the Antoine Fuqua directed The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington and opening in 2D and IMAX theaters nationwide September 26, 2014.

In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life.

But when McCall meets Teri (Chloë Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her.

Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened.

If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.

Directed by Antoine Fuqua … Read more

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Check Out the New Trailer for “Nightcrawler” Starring Jake Gyllenhaal

Nightcrawler(PCM) Jake Gyllenhaal gets tangeld up in the underground world of freelance crime journalism in the new trailer for Open Roads Films’ Nightcrawler, opening in theaters nationwide October 31, 2014, check it out below courtesy of Yahoo! Movies.

Nightcrawler is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism.

Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents.

Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own … Read more

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Crime / Movies

“The November Man” Opens in Theaters August 27th

(PCM) Relativity Media’s crime/thriller The November Man, starring Pierce Brosnan, opens in theaters nationwide August 27th!

Code named ‘The November Man’, Peter Devereaux (Pierce Brosnan) is a lethal and highly trained ex-CIA agent, who has been enjoying a quiet life in Switzerland.

When Devereaux is lured out of retirement for one last mission, he must protect valuable witness, Alice Fournier, (Olga Kurylenko). He soon uncovers this assignment marks him a target of his former friend and CIA protégé David Mason (Luke Bracey).

With growing suspicions of a mole in the agency, there is no one Devereaux can trust, no rules and no holds barred.

With a screenplay by Michael Finch & Karl Gajdusek based on Bill Granger’s novel There are No Spies from the bestselling November Man book series, The November Man is the ultimate cat and mouse game set in the world of international espionage.

Directed by Roger … Read more

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Check Out the New Trailer for David Fincher’s “Gone Girl”

Gone_Girl_2(PCM) Gone Girl – directed by David Fincher and based upon the global bestseller by Gillian Flynn – unearths the secrets at the heart of a modern marriage.

On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) reports that his beautiful wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), has gone missing.

Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick’s portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?

Starring alongside Ben Affleck (Argo) and Rosamund Pike (Pride & Prejudice) are Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother), Tyler Perry (Star Trek), Kim Dickens (The Blind Side), Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous), Carrie Coon (One in a Million), and David Clennon (The Thing).… Read more

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International Trailer Released for “A Most Wanted Man” Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman

A_MOSTWANTEDMAN(PCM) The international trailer for director Anton Corbijn’s international thriller A Most Wanted Man was released yesterday for your viewing pleasure ahead of the film’s domestic July 25th release in select cities.

When a half-Chechen, half-Russian, brutally tortured immigrant turns up in Hamburg’s Islamic community, laying claim to his father’s ill-gotten fortune, both German and US security agencies take a close interest: as the clock ticks down and the stakes rise, the race is on to establish this most wanted man’s true identity – oppressed victim or destruction-bent extremist?

Based on John le Carré’s novel, A Most Wanted Man is a contemporary, cerebral tale of intrigue, love, rivalry, and politics that prickles with tension right through to its last heart-stopping scene.

A Most Wanted Man stars the late Academy Award winning Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote, Doubt), Rachel McAdams (Mean Girls, Midnight in Paris), Robin Wright (… Read more

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Watch the Red Band Trailer for “Filth,” in Theaters 5/30

(PCM) The official Red Band trailer for Filth, in theaters on a limited run starting May 30, is filled with drugs, sex, violence, drugs, and more sex. Scheming Bruce Robertson, a bigoted and corrupt policeman, is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. … Continue reading →

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Dom Hemingway in Theaters April 2

(PCM) After spending over a decade in jail, a notorious safe cracker takes to the streets of London looking to collect on monies owed to him for keeping his mouth shut in Dom Hemingway, opening in U.S. theaters on a limited run starting April 2. With 12 years in jail … Continue reading →

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