Breakthrough, Dutch Features Board Kristofferson Pic ‘Joe’s Mountain’ Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment has joined with Dutch Features Global Entertainment to co-executive produce Joe’s Mountain, starring Kris Kristofferson. Dutch Features will team with Breakthrough to secure European distribution partners for the film to be directed by Chuck Rose, who also wrote the script. The producers say they are in discussions to cast Helen Hunt opposite Kristofferson, who plays a former ladies man who becomes a local celebrity when his dreams of future events start coming true. His powers are put to the test when he meets a younger woman and her dying son and embarks on a road trip to find a mysterious lake that will change their lives. Production will take place in Canada. Henry Boger produces. A+E Networks Assumes Full Control of Aetn All Asia Networks A+E Networks has concluded a transaction with Astro Overseas Limited...
- 7/12/2013
- by NANCY TARTAGLIONE, International Editor
- Deadline TV
Kill Me Three Times
Simon Pegg has joined Kriv Stenders' thriller "Kill Me Three Times" for Hopscotch & eOne. Shooting begins mid-September in Western Australia.
The story is set in a sun-drenched Australian town where a young woman is the link between murder, blackmail and revenge. [Source: Screen Daily]
Joe's Mountain
Helen Hunt is in talks to join Chuck Rose's "Joe’s Mountain" for Breakthrough Entertainment. Henry Boger produces and shooting begins in Canada later this year.
The story follows a former ladies man (Kris Kristofferson) who goes on a road trip with a beautiful young woman and her dying son in search of a healing lake. [Source: Screen Daily]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Set photos have confirmed that Garry Shandling looks to be reprising his Senator Stern character from "Iron Man 2" in the upcoming "Captain America" sequel.
Shandling shot his scenes as part of the production's three day shoot in Washington D.
Simon Pegg has joined Kriv Stenders' thriller "Kill Me Three Times" for Hopscotch & eOne. Shooting begins mid-September in Western Australia.
The story is set in a sun-drenched Australian town where a young woman is the link between murder, blackmail and revenge. [Source: Screen Daily]
Joe's Mountain
Helen Hunt is in talks to join Chuck Rose's "Joe’s Mountain" for Breakthrough Entertainment. Henry Boger produces and shooting begins in Canada later this year.
The story follows a former ladies man (Kris Kristofferson) who goes on a road trip with a beautiful young woman and her dying son in search of a healing lake. [Source: Screen Daily]
Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Set photos have confirmed that Garry Shandling looks to be reprising his Senator Stern character from "Iron Man 2" in the upcoming "Captain America" sequel.
Shandling shot his scenes as part of the production's three day shoot in Washington D.
- 5/18/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Sam Trammell has boarded the cast of the independent crime thriller "Guns, Girls and Gambling." According to Variety, the cast includes Christian Slater, Dane Cook, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman, Megan Park, Helena Mattsson and Chris Kattan.Michael Winnick is directing from his own script with shooting underway in Utah. Henry Boger and Courtney Brin are producing with Farnaz Fahid and Bob Yari executive producing.The story finds Elvis impersonators, Indians, cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute all chasing after a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.Trammell is best known for his role as bartender Sam Merlotte in HBO's "True Blood." He recently completed filming on "The Details"...
- 7/14/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Megan Park has joined the cast of the independent action film "Guns, Girls and Gambling."According to The Hollywood Reporter, the cast includes Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Dane Cook.Michael Winnick is directing from his own script with shooting underway in Utah. Henry Boger and Courtney Brin are producing with Farnaz Fahid and Bob Yari executive producing. The story finds Elvis impersonators, Indians, cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute all chasing after a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.Park appears in ABC Family's "The Secret Life of the American Teenager." Her film credits include "Charlie Bartlett," "Kaw" and "Diary of the Dead."...
- 7/8/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Actress Megan Park is jumping into the strange world of gambling and crime as she lands a role in "Guns, Girls and Gambling". The upcoming production, written and directed by Michael Winnick, is gathering up quite the cast of actors. Those that are already attached to the independent crime thriller include Dane Cook, Christian Slater and Gary Oldman."Guns" centers on one night when an Indian artifact is stolen at a casino in the middle of a poker game which quickly leads to a chase to get the piece. From then on you're faced with a bunch of crazy characters that include an amazon-like blonde assassin, an Elvis impersonator, a corrupt sheriff and other out-of-place people of that nature. Yeah, this kind of sounds like some overly disproportional version of "Smokin Aces". Furthermore, I really dig that film, so yeah this one strangely interests me.Initial filming commences on "Guns...
- 7/7/2010
- LRMonline.com
They already describe this project as “stylized crime thriller” with great cast. Can we blame them? Check this out: Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Dane Cook have signed on to star in Michael Winnick’s upcoming project titled Guns, Girls and Gambling.
Ok, we do know that nobody actually expected to see Cook’s name on this list, but still, let’s give him a chance. At least he’s got himself some good company…
What we know about this movie is that “the story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.”
Slater will play “just an average guy who gets incredibly drunk and stumbles into an Elvis impersonator contest’, while Oldman will play the top Elvis contender.
Cook, on the other hand,...
Ok, we do know that nobody actually expected to see Cook’s name on this list, but still, let’s give him a chance. At least he’s got himself some good company…
What we know about this movie is that “the story throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.”
Slater will play “just an average guy who gets incredibly drunk and stumbles into an Elvis impersonator contest’, while Oldman will play the top Elvis contender.
Cook, on the other hand,...
- 6/21/2010
- by Fiona
- Filmofilia
Ah the story of my life, 'Guns, Girls and Gambling' well minus the gambling part, but anyway this is the new project that will star Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Dane Cook, Yes I said Dane Cook! This stylized crime/thriller is written and directed by Michael Winneck with Henry Boger producing the indie flick via his Freefall Films.
According to HeatVisionBlog Slater's character is a normal guy who in his drunken stupor joins an Elvis impersonation contest. Oldman plays the contest's mega-performer (I gotta see this) and Cook plays the sheriff. I like Dane Cook I don't care what y'all say and this role might just do him right!
Plot:
'G,G and G' throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.
According to HeatVisionBlog Slater's character is a normal guy who in his drunken stupor joins an Elvis impersonation contest. Oldman plays the contest's mega-performer (I gotta see this) and Cook plays the sheriff. I like Dane Cook I don't care what y'all say and this role might just do him right!
Plot:
'G,G and G' throws Elvis impersonators, Indians, modern cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.
- 6/17/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Christian Slater, Gary Oldman and Dane Cook have signed on to the independent thriller "Guns, Girls and Gambling." According to The Hollywood Reporter, Michael Winnick ("Shadow Puppets") is writing and directing.Henry Boger.s Freefall Films is producing and financing the film, which is set for a July 6 production start. The story tosses Elvis impersonators, Indians, cowboys, a 6-foot-tall blond assassin, a frat boy, a corrupt sheriff and a prostitute into a chase for a priceless American Indian artifact stolen during a poker game at an Indian casino.Slater recently starred in ABC.s "The Forgotten" and the Eric James-scripted "Lies and Illusions."Oldman is coming off his villainous role in "The Book of Eli" and will shoot "The Girl With the Red...
- 6/17/2010
- by Adnan Tezer
- Monsters and Critics
Screened at South by Southwest
AUSTIN -- Shouldn't an overwrought drama about the life-shattering effects of gambling addiction make some effort, before delivering its moral, to show why people gamble in the first place? Even back in the days when Hollywood demanded that vice must always end in tears, audiences usually had some vicarious fun before the other shoe dropped.
Not so in "Even Money", where the first scene offers an unconvincing Kim Basinger, mumbling anxiously to herself, pulling a slot machine's lever and despairing at the outcome. The film's main stab at capturing gambling's allure is a few candy-colored shots of casino action. Because many less glamorous scenes also are drenched in barely justified colored lights, one assumes that this is less a narrative device than a predilection of the cinematographer. With so little fun and such unconvincing pathos on hand, it's hard to imagine much boxoffice potential.
Like Basinger, most of the protagonists in this ensemble cast are up to their necks in something, but the script has little notion how to generate an appropriate level of drama. Forest Whitaker is in hock to his bookies so badly that he's willing to beg his beloved kid brother (a basketball star in the making) to shave points and throw games so he can win some dough back. Grant Sullivan plays one of the bookmakers in question, doing fine financially but about to lose his new girlfriend because, as bookies tend to do, he hurts people who owe him. Ray Liotta suffers indirectly, as his wife Basinger neglects him in favor of the slots.
Circling among these losers are outsiders: Kelsey Grammer, who wears a prosthetic chin the size of Nevada and has been told he's the lead gumshoe in a film noir, and Tim Roth, a gambling entrepreneur who may or may not be the elusive kingpin "Ivan". Roth chews the scenery, or rather nibbles it and licks his fingertips, in a Eurosleaze performance that is the film's most entertaining ingredient. Somewhere in there is Danny DeVito, a washed-up magician who does sleight-of-hand for tips from retirees and might just inspire Basinger to write the novel she's been pretending to work on for months.
With Dave Grusin's maple-syrup jazz chords doing their best to build tension, director Mark Rydell shows each protagonist trying to fix his or her predicament. We have a hard time identifying with their problems, as we weren't along for the fun part of the ride and it's clear from the start that their solutions will fail.
Overlong and overstuffed with cliches -- ever heard the one about the bookie who swills Pepto for his ulcer? -- the movie doesn't seem to realize how close it comes to comedy. First-time screenwriter Robert Tannen evidently has big ambitions here, hoping to wrap his Big Issue up in a "Crash"-style tapestry of interwoven plots. Suffice to say that "Crash" producer Bob Yari, whose logo also adorns "Even Money", won't be suing anybody for credit come Oscar time next year.
EVEN MONEY
Jumpshot Films
Bob Yari Prods./ApolloMedia/Three Wolves Production
Credits:
Director: Mark Rydell
Screenwriter: Robert Tannen
Producers: David S. Greathouse, Mark Rydell
Executive producers: Jorg Westerkamp, Bob Yari, Michael Zaltstein
Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Music: Dave Grusin
Co-producers: Henry Boger, Rita Branch, Betsy Danbury, Robert Katz, Johnny Sanchez, Roger Zamudio
Costumes: Wendy Chuck
Editor: Hughes Winborne
Cast:
Carol Carver: Kim Basinger
Walter: Danny DeVito
Detective Brunner: Kelsey Grammer
Godfrey Snow: Nick Cannon
Tom Carver: Ray Liotta
Clyde Snow: Forest Whitaker
Veronica: Carla Gugino
Murph: Grant Sullivan
Augie: Jay Mohr
Victor: Tim Roth.
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 116 minutes...
AUSTIN -- Shouldn't an overwrought drama about the life-shattering effects of gambling addiction make some effort, before delivering its moral, to show why people gamble in the first place? Even back in the days when Hollywood demanded that vice must always end in tears, audiences usually had some vicarious fun before the other shoe dropped.
Not so in "Even Money", where the first scene offers an unconvincing Kim Basinger, mumbling anxiously to herself, pulling a slot machine's lever and despairing at the outcome. The film's main stab at capturing gambling's allure is a few candy-colored shots of casino action. Because many less glamorous scenes also are drenched in barely justified colored lights, one assumes that this is less a narrative device than a predilection of the cinematographer. With so little fun and such unconvincing pathos on hand, it's hard to imagine much boxoffice potential.
Like Basinger, most of the protagonists in this ensemble cast are up to their necks in something, but the script has little notion how to generate an appropriate level of drama. Forest Whitaker is in hock to his bookies so badly that he's willing to beg his beloved kid brother (a basketball star in the making) to shave points and throw games so he can win some dough back. Grant Sullivan plays one of the bookmakers in question, doing fine financially but about to lose his new girlfriend because, as bookies tend to do, he hurts people who owe him. Ray Liotta suffers indirectly, as his wife Basinger neglects him in favor of the slots.
Circling among these losers are outsiders: Kelsey Grammer, who wears a prosthetic chin the size of Nevada and has been told he's the lead gumshoe in a film noir, and Tim Roth, a gambling entrepreneur who may or may not be the elusive kingpin "Ivan". Roth chews the scenery, or rather nibbles it and licks his fingertips, in a Eurosleaze performance that is the film's most entertaining ingredient. Somewhere in there is Danny DeVito, a washed-up magician who does sleight-of-hand for tips from retirees and might just inspire Basinger to write the novel she's been pretending to work on for months.
With Dave Grusin's maple-syrup jazz chords doing their best to build tension, director Mark Rydell shows each protagonist trying to fix his or her predicament. We have a hard time identifying with their problems, as we weren't along for the fun part of the ride and it's clear from the start that their solutions will fail.
Overlong and overstuffed with cliches -- ever heard the one about the bookie who swills Pepto for his ulcer? -- the movie doesn't seem to realize how close it comes to comedy. First-time screenwriter Robert Tannen evidently has big ambitions here, hoping to wrap his Big Issue up in a "Crash"-style tapestry of interwoven plots. Suffice to say that "Crash" producer Bob Yari, whose logo also adorns "Even Money", won't be suing anybody for credit come Oscar time next year.
EVEN MONEY
Jumpshot Films
Bob Yari Prods./ApolloMedia/Three Wolves Production
Credits:
Director: Mark Rydell
Screenwriter: Robert Tannen
Producers: David S. Greathouse, Mark Rydell
Executive producers: Jorg Westerkamp, Bob Yari, Michael Zaltstein
Director of photography: Robbie Greenberg
Production designer: Robert Pearson
Music: Dave Grusin
Co-producers: Henry Boger, Rita Branch, Betsy Danbury, Robert Katz, Johnny Sanchez, Roger Zamudio
Costumes: Wendy Chuck
Editor: Hughes Winborne
Cast:
Carol Carver: Kim Basinger
Walter: Danny DeVito
Detective Brunner: Kelsey Grammer
Godfrey Snow: Nick Cannon
Tom Carver: Ray Liotta
Clyde Snow: Forest Whitaker
Veronica: Carla Gugino
Murph: Grant Sullivan
Augie: Jay Mohr
Victor: Tim Roth.
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 116 minutes...
- 3/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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