The Western is a film genre that has exerted an irresistible pull over the decades to filmmakers interested in action and adventure. But it’s also uniquely suited to deliver an elegy or a lament for days gone by, which is something Westerns have done indelibly from the final image of John Ford’s “The...
The last time most of us saw Tim Blake Nelson in the saddle, he was the warblin’ deadeye from the title of the Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” a jovial caricature of the philosophizing cowboy (and the filmmakers’ own reputation for cruelly funny storytelling). But also, because of the actor’s reliability, a figure that still...
"HanWay Films and Cinetic have boarded Berlin Film Festival entry Ted K for international and North American sales, respectively. The companies have also released a first look image. Writer-director Tony Stone’s true crime drama, starring Sharlto Copley (District 9) as the ‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski, will play in the Panorama section of this year’s largely...
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Blake Nelson has signed on to star in Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures’ action western Old Henry. The movie, which is written and directed by Potsy Ponciroli, follows a widowed farmer and his son who warily take in a mysterious, injured man with a satchel of cash. Shannon Houchins and Mike Hagerty are producing....
"EXCLUSIVE: Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures have entered a long-term, multifaceted production partnership for a slate of new Western films that includes the titles Old Henry, Hardin and 4 Dead in 5 Seconds.Under the partnership, Shout! Studios and Hideout Pictures will jointly develop, finance, and produce new feature-length movies for distribution. Hideout Pictures will leverage their extensive relationships with talent...
AXS TV has greenlit a new documentary series, “Music’s Greatest Mysteries,” which aims to shine a light on the unique and enigmatic stories that shaped the history of music. The series is in production and is slated to debut in the fourth quarter of this year. The logline: Spanning a wide variety of...
EXCLUSIVE: Hideout Pictures has acquired the rights to Kevin Steverson’s sci-fi book series Salvage Title. The first book centers around Harmon Tomeral, an orphan turned space academy pilot, who faces an uphill battle in regards to going to space. Harmon and his friend compete in a Top Fleet Marine competition whereby the winner gets 100,000 credits, which would...
EXCLUSIVE: Hideout Pictures has acquired rights to Kill Whitey Donovan, the upcoming comic book series produced and developed by the 12-Gauge Comics label and published by Dark Horse. Sigrid Gilmer (TNT’s Claws, Netflix’s Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events) has been attached to adapt the series into an action film. "Hideout, the financing, developing and producing arm of Nashville-based Average Joes...
Omar Epps and Kate Walsh star in John Suits' sci-fi thriller about astronauts trapped aboard a space station after a possible extinction-level event on Earth. "Outer-space thrillers have considerably upped the ante in recent years, thanks to the profusion of such exemplars of the genre as The Martian, Gravity, Interstellar and Ad Astra, among others. It therefore took no...
3022 Is Out Now In Theaters, On-Demand and Digitally Now Outer space thriller, 3022 is officially available On-Demand and everywhere digitally now. In the movie, Astronauts in deep space face an uncertain future after a catastrophic event on Earth leads to human extinction. Watch the trailer now below. Watch the full movie HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zF3VsTjoQS0 READ MORE ON...
