By Matt Grobar November 19, 2019 With his second stop-motion feature, Missing Link, writer/director Chris Butler took on a story with colorful characters, massive environments and a variety of complex action sequences, striving to bring a live-action quality to an animated world, which would be put together through a painstaking physical process, one frame at a time. Centered …
By Tom Grater November 9, 2019 I hear that Jason Sudeikis and Evangeline Lilly have been cast in Till Death, the action thriller being helmed by Aharon Keshales, who co-directed 2013 breakout Israeli horror Big Bad Wolves. In the film, convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his …
By Jeff Sneider November 04, 2019 Back in April 2016, it was announced that Oscar winner Benicio del Toro would star in a film about the Cuban mafia titled The Corporation, based on the nonfiction book by T.J. English. Three years later, sources tell Collider that the project is moving forward, as Tyler Hisel has been hired to write the script …
By Matt Grobar November 2, 2019 After making ParaNorman—the “zombie movie for kids,” which served as his first feature—writer/director Chris Butler wanted to go in an entirely different direction, artistically. “The next thing I wanted to try was a big, bold, colorful adventure movie—stepping out of the shadows, if you like,” Butler said at The Contenders Los Angeles …