Stars: Dominic Purcell, Nick Stahl, Mel Gibson, Kate Bosworth, John Cassini, Erik Valdez, Russell Richardson, Arielle Raycene | Written by Michael Kaycheck, Brooke Nasser | Directed by Michael Oblowitz
Confidential Informant opens with a voiceover telling us what wonderful people cops are, especially those with combat experience. Case in point Tom Moran and Mike Thorton. We get to see them raid a crack operation and then lie to their superior over little things like not having a search warrant. Wonderful people indeed.
While tossing a baseball around with his son Moran collapses in pain. His wife Anna tells him he needs to see a doctor. He’s seen a doctor, three of them in fact, and they all tell him he has stomach cancer and not too long to live. Coincidentally enough another cop, Frank, was talking at the bar about how much money the department pays out to your family if...
Confidential Informant opens with a voiceover telling us what wonderful people cops are, especially those with combat experience. Case in point Tom Moran and Mike Thorton. We get to see them raid a crack operation and then lie to their superior over little things like not having a search warrant. Wonderful people indeed.
While tossing a baseball around with his son Moran collapses in pain. His wife Anna tells him he needs to see a doctor. He’s seen a doctor, three of them in fact, and they all tell him he has stomach cancer and not too long to live. Coincidentally enough another cop, Frank, was talking at the bar about how much money the department pays out to your family if...
- 6/29/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Cast includes Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth.
Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has closed key territory sales on Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth, and Mel Gibson thriller Confidential Informant led by the UK, Germany, and Latin America.
The feature follows a terminally ill undercover narcotics officer who enlists the aid of his partner and their confidential informant to stage his death in the line of duty in order to get benefits for his struggling young family.
Spi acquired rights for UK, India, Israel and Portugal. In other deals Red Sea has licensed Latin America (California Filmes), Germany...
Roman Kopelevich’s Red Sea Media has closed key territory sales on Dominic Purcell Nick Stahl, Kate Bosworth, and Mel Gibson thriller Confidential Informant led by the UK, Germany, and Latin America.
The feature follows a terminally ill undercover narcotics officer who enlists the aid of his partner and their confidential informant to stage his death in the line of duty in order to get benefits for his struggling young family.
Spi acquired rights for UK, India, Israel and Portugal. In other deals Red Sea has licensed Latin America (California Filmes), Germany...
- 5/18/2023
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Dominic Purcell (DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow), Nick Stahl (Let The Right One In), Kate Bosworth (Superman Returns), and Mel Gibson (Braveheart) are set to lead thriller Informant.
In the film, which is currently in production, a police detective dying of cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty so that his family will be taken care of with bureau benefits. His best friend and partner helps him cover it up.
Directed by Michael Oblowitz, and written by Michael Kaycheck, Oblowitz and Brooke Nasser, the film is produced by Daniel Cummings and Oblowitz, and executive-produced by Matthew Helderman, Tyler Gould and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital, who handled packaging and financing.
World sales are being handled by Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media’s Roman Kopelevich and Roman Viaris are also EP’s.
Purcell is best known for roles in Fox’s Prison Break,...
In the film, which is currently in production, a police detective dying of cancer makes a deal with an informant to get killed in the line of duty so that his family will be taken care of with bureau benefits. His best friend and partner helps him cover it up.
Directed by Michael Oblowitz, and written by Michael Kaycheck, Oblowitz and Brooke Nasser, the film is produced by Daniel Cummings and Oblowitz, and executive-produced by Matthew Helderman, Tyler Gould and Luke Taylor of BondIt Media Capital, who handled packaging and financing.
World sales are being handled by Red Sea Media. Red Sea Media’s Roman Kopelevich and Roman Viaris are also EP’s.
Purcell is best known for roles in Fox’s Prison Break,...
- 7/28/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Michael Laughlin, a filmmaker and producer whose credits included the likes of 1971’s “Two-Lane Blacktop” and 1981’s “Strange Behavior,” died on Oct. 20 from complications related to Covid-19. He was 82 years old.
Laughlin’s death was confirmed to Variety by his friend Brooke Nasser. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, where had been living for many years.
Laughlin was born and raised in Illinois. He was recruited to play basketball at Stanford University and graduated from Principia College in 1960.
After moving to London, Laughlin began a career as a film producer, working on projects such as Bryan Forbes’ 1967 thriller “The Whispers” and the 1968 feature “Joanna,” director Michael Sarne’s precursor to “Myra Breckinridge.” He met and married French actress and ballerina Leslie Caron during his time abroad. The two separated in 1975.
During the 1970s, Laughlin helped bring eight independent features to fruition, including the Monte Hellman-directed cult classic “Two-Lane Blacktop.” Interviews...
Laughlin’s death was confirmed to Variety by his friend Brooke Nasser. He died in Honolulu, Hawaii, where had been living for many years.
Laughlin was born and raised in Illinois. He was recruited to play basketball at Stanford University and graduated from Principia College in 1960.
After moving to London, Laughlin began a career as a film producer, working on projects such as Bryan Forbes’ 1967 thriller “The Whispers” and the 1968 feature “Joanna,” director Michael Sarne’s precursor to “Myra Breckinridge.” He met and married French actress and ballerina Leslie Caron during his time abroad. The two separated in 1975.
During the 1970s, Laughlin helped bring eight independent features to fruition, including the Monte Hellman-directed cult classic “Two-Lane Blacktop.” Interviews...
- 10/31/2021
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Michael Laughlin, who produced the cult-classic road trip movie Two-Lane Blacktop and co-wrote the Warren Beatty film Town & Country, has died. He was 82.
Laughlin died Wednesday in Honolulu from complications related to Covid-19, his close friend Brooke Nasser told The Hollywood Reporter.
During the 1970s, Laughlin produced eight independent films, including 1971’s Blacktop, starring Laurie Bird, Warren Oates, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. The movie, which has a 93 percent “fresh” score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, was placed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 2012. Criterion also released an edition in 2007 ...
Laughlin died Wednesday in Honolulu from complications related to Covid-19, his close friend Brooke Nasser told The Hollywood Reporter.
During the 1970s, Laughlin produced eight independent films, including 1971’s Blacktop, starring Laurie Bird, Warren Oates, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. The movie, which has a 93 percent “fresh” score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, was placed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 2012. Criterion also released an edition in 2007 ...
- 10/31/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Michael Laughlin, who produced the cult-classic road trip movie Two-Lane Blacktop and co-wrote the Warren Beatty film Town & Country, has died. He was 82.
Laughlin died Wednesday in Honolulu from complications related to Covid-19, his close friend Brooke Nasser told The Hollywood Reporter.
During the 1970s, Laughlin produced eight independent films, including 1971’s Blacktop, starring Laurie Bird, Warren Oates, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. The movie, which has a 93 percent “fresh” score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, was placed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 2012. Criterion also released an edition in 2007 ...
Laughlin died Wednesday in Honolulu from complications related to Covid-19, his close friend Brooke Nasser told The Hollywood Reporter.
During the 1970s, Laughlin produced eight independent films, including 1971’s Blacktop, starring Laurie Bird, Warren Oates, James Taylor and Dennis Wilson. The movie, which has a 93 percent “fresh” score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes, was placed in the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress in 2012. Criterion also released an edition in 2007 ...
- 10/31/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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