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«But there is a strong roster of books that are likely to catch fire in 2018, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton penning a White House thriller with bestselling author James Patterson, a haunting debut from a senior publishing executive, and one of the most - watched novelists in America, Meg Wolitzer of The Interestings, with a timely story about womanhood, power, and ambition.»

Think of it as a science - fiction slasher flick or a deep - space old - dark - house thriller with a crew of likeably blue - collar mopes facing off against a shape - changing menace that's part axe murderer, part wild grizzly, and part serial rapist.

Not exact matches

It could be a House of Cards political thriller: A high - ranking elected official and his family are wined and dined by a rich and powerful foreign agent who does business with the government.

The «Russia House» with Michelle Pfeiffer, Russian Bond girl Olga Kurylenko in «Quantum of Solace», a great spy thriller «Salt» with Angelina Jolie and «Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy» with Svetlana Khodchenkova as a Soviet Spy add to this notorious image.

Corbijn isn't making a stereotypical Hollywood thriller, with the stakes spelled out in neon and the loud fight scenes spaced every few minutes, but he doesn't seem to realize there is such a thing as being too vague, and in his efforts to make some kind of art - house / thriller hybrid, he goes too far the other direction and creates a nicely rendered film with no emotional hook.

Cutting his losses at home (where ethnic actors like Al Pacino and, interestingly enough, Robert DeNiro were getting the plum roles), Dullea returned to Canada for a number of interesting but distinctly B - grade films (Welcome to Blood City with a pre-comeback Jack Palance) and the continent for guest starring roles in poorly - received art house productions (Pope Joan with Liv Ullmann) and the occasional thriller (as Mia Farrow's disbelieving stuffed shirt of a husband in The Haunting of Julia).

Two years later, he could be seen in another high - profile, politically tinged thriller, this time opposite Denzel Washington in director Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate.In 2005 he made his directorial and screenwriting debut with Everything Is Illuminated, and appeared in the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe - winning HBO movie Lackawanna Blues, a life - affirming film about a selfless black woman (played by S. Epatha Merkerson) in 1950s segregated New York who provides a home and a guiding hand to the youths who come to live at her boarding house.

After a detour with the divisive pulp thriller The Paperboy, director Daniels is back on awards - friendly terrain with this drama based on the story of real - life White House butler Eugene Allen, who served under eight different presidents.

If the opening intertitle didn't reveal the fact that The House of the Devil was going to be dealing with the occult / Satanism the film could just as well stand on its own as a psychological thriller about a girl working herself up into a paranoid frenzy over creaks on the floorboards.

Moreover, in what's arguably a more brazen case of cinematic larceny, director Daniel Espinosa, best - known for the 2012 thriller Safe House, swipes his anti-gravity stylistics from Alfonso Cuarón, opening the film with a single, very long, VFX - heavy take that sends the camera around in gentle swoops from character to floating character as the space station itself tumbles slowly around its axis.

[Watch the trailer for true story - inspired The Disappointments Room right HERE] Disturbia director D.J. Caruso returns to the horror genre with a haunted house film that was inspired by true events in The Disappointments Room, a psychological thriller that they are saying is in the same vein as The Shining.

BRUSSELS - Friday April 1 - Belgian production company Potemkino joined forces with the House of Netherhorror (Netherlands) to coproduce the English language supernatural thriller AMSTERDAM GOTHIC, which was presented at this week's Frontières International Co-Production Market in Brussels.

Soon enough, the pieces do fall together: the dead man is Shaun's dad, and now she's tasked with liquidating his many things, including the massive house that she grew up in, a huge spread located far enough away from civilization to scare anyone who has ever seen a domestic thriller like «Breaking In.»

Like a late - 1970s haunted house thriller, this film subdues its scares, filling the screen with red herrings and off - handed comedy while building a creepy atmosphere.

Safe House (R for profanity and graphic violence) International action thriller, set in Capetown, South Africa, about an inexperienced CIA Agent (Ryan Reynolds) who ends up on the run with the veteran spy - gone - rogue (Denzel Washington) he's supposed to bring to justice.

Channing Tatum is a wannabe Secret Service agent tasked with saving Commander - in - Chief Jamie Foxx after a paramilitary takeover of the White House in this presidential action thriller from Roland Emmerich (Independence Day)....

His hulking, tattooed frame dominating nearly every scene, the Belgian - born, Hollywood - friendly actor makes a welcome return to the taciturn tough - guy register he established in the European art - house thrillers «Bullhead» and «Rust and Bone,» seething and sulking with a ferocity that rewards the viewer's close attention.

Very much a slow - burner rather than action thriller, the film commences with a young girl walking home after spending the night at her Aunt's house.

This is the «Die Hard in the White House» thriller that stars Gerard Butler as a secret service agent who, with McDermott's...

Campbell can be seen as a series regular on Netflix's House of Cards and will soon be seen with Dwayne Johnson in Legendary's 3D action thriller Skyscraper for director Rawson Marshall Thurber.

99 Homes: This gripping thriller involves a down - on - his - luck Florida man who makes a Faustian deal with a ruthless real estate broker to save his home during the housing crisis.

Two years on, Ed Whitmore's ready - mix thriller Safe House returns with Stephen Moyer in Merseyside.

This 1947 thriller stars Edward G. Robinson («Double Indemnity») as a farmer with a wooden leg trying to keep his family from uncovering a mysterious red house.

Jacob Aaron Estes, the helmer behind the taut little thriller «Mean Creek» and the Tobey Maguire and Elizabeth Banks starring dark comedy «The Details» (more on that in a second), is prepping his next effort «IOU» which has Fincher lending his producing powers, with Media Rights Capital financing (they are also behind Fincher's «House Of Cards «-RRB-.

3:15 pm — TCM — The Spiral Staircase A classic example of the «old dark house» atmospheric thriller, with Dorothy Maguire as a mute domestic servant whose life is endangered when a serial killer seems to be targeting people with disabilities like her.

Relying on the spook house horrors that made William Friedkin's The Exorcist a household name in terror and the stylistic nuances of such recent thrillers as Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield, Daniel Stamm's dramatic plunge into the world of demons is sure to send you back to class with sweaty armpits.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Sony has debuted a wicked new red band trailer for Fede Alvarez's Don't Breathe, the horror thriller about a blind man who seeks revenge on a group of teens who break into his house and try to mess with him.

Uncork'd Entertainment has released a trailer, poster and batch of images for director Chris Le's sci - fi action thriller Cartel 2045 which sees Danny Trejo (Machete) with Alexander P. Heartman (Power Rangers Samurai), Brad Schmidt (House of Lies), and Blake Webb (Colony); check them out here... One last mission.

EXCLUSIVE: Archstone Distribution has picked up the worldwide distribution rights to Beach House, with plans to release the thriller in theaters June 22.

According to Variety, there has been a shuffling of the pack over on Hulu's upcoming TV adaptation of Joseph Heller's Catch - 22, with Friday Night Lights and Bloodline's Kyle Chandler replacing George Clooney as Colonel Cathcart, and joining Hugh Laurie (House) and Christopher Abbott (The Sinner) in the spy thriller.

Action - thriller «Baby Driver» revs its engine with a midweek debut on June 28th, while minion - heady three - quel «Despicable Me 3» and the Amy Poehler / Will Ferrell comedy «The House» both hit theaters on Friday, June 30th.

He was involved in a couple of psychological thrillers like The Watcher and The Gift, as well as more romantic fare like Sweet November and The Lake House, but still had some sci - fi chops with A Scanner Darkly, Constantine, and The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Finally, as Roland Emmerich's Presidential siege thriller «White House Down» grows more outlandishly wacky with every new plot detail, it's obvious he'll need a strong cast to carry the special - effects - laden narrative to success.

«It's gargantuan seven storied structure with no apparent rhyme or reason...» CBS Films has debuted the second official trailer for the horror thriller film titled Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, now titled simply just Winchester (because who wants to remember that very long title, I guess?).

With a first trailer set to arrive tomorrow, CBS Films has unveiled a teaser poster for Winchester: The House That Ghosts Built, the upcoming supernatural thriller from The Spierig Brothers (Jigsaw, Predestinaition), which stars Helen Mirren and Jason Clarke.

The White House assassination tale «The Sentinel,» a 20th Century Fox thriller starring Michael Douglas, Kiefer Sutherland and Eva Longoria, opened in third place with $ 14.65 million.

Aronofsky lets chaos reign inside his House, with a powerful stage flow that doesn't stop showing madness - and so it works fine as a surrealist thriller.

Clichés in «Safe House»: skilled C.I.A. agent gone rogue, naïve rookie agent with superb talents, bureaucratic director, gruff and mysterious senior officer, unnecessary blonde girlfriend, shaky camera, fight sequences with quick cuts, an obligatory car chase, poor character development, a double cross, a triple cross, an action - thriller without thrills, boredom.

Tyger Williams» screenplay is strictly formulaic, with only the occasional bizarre moment — such as when Carter, after having broken into Leah's house, uses her toothbrush in fetish - like fashion — hinting at the stylishly baroque thriller the film might have been.

Saddled with a spare narrative and a woefully underdeveloped protagonist, Miss Bala, for the most part, comes off as an audacious yet hopelessly uninvolving art - house thriller that peters out significantly in the buildup to its anticlimactic finale.

From an opening sequence in a haunted house with an intricately constructed soundtrack to a high - tension, cat - and - mouse game on a trip from Paris to London and back set entirely to text messaging, Personal Shopper brings the psychological and supernatural thriller into the digital age.

When a sheriff's deputy (Carla Gugino) visits the house, «I Melt With You» turns into a ludicrous, cheap horror thriller that sheds any claims to integrity.

After last year's failed attempt at reviving the «Saw» franchise, Australian filmmakers Peter and Michael Spierig have changed gears slightly with this supernatural thriller about the Winchester Mystery House, often considered one of the most haunted places in the world.

THE GLASS HOUSE (Grade: C +): Leelee Sobieski stars in this thriller about a 16 - year - old Valley Girl orphan with the guardians from hell.

If I'm a betting man I'm thinking John Le Carré novels play out extremely well for the big screen (last two items were The Constant Gardener, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) and that former video helmer Anton Corbijn has transitioned so well into feature film with the two films in his fiche: unconventional biopic Control (2007) and a Euro art - house thriller that we don't get to see enough of with, The American (2010).

Director Daniel Espinosa has been hit - or - miss as a filmmaker — he directed the Reynolds - fronted 2012 thriller Safe House as well as 2015's star - studded dud Child 44 — but with Life, it's possible he's embracing the horror genre full - throttle.

Ryan Gosling was good as the new blade runner and I would like to see him made another movie with the delightful Ana de Armas The director seemed to think he was making an art house picture not a sci - fi thriller.

These sequences are straight out of any rote thriller, but they're meant to be profound — critical of the conventions of the genre — because Paul (Arno Frisch) breaks the fourth wall a number of times; this is Scream for art - house aficionados, with Haneke at one point curbing the audience's euphoria by rewinding the film immediately after Anna shoots Peter in the chest.

After establishing himself as one of America's best playwrights with «American Buffalo» and «Glengarry Glen Ross,» and writing the screenplays for «The Verdict» and «The Untouchables,» David Mamet made his film directing debut with the carefully constructed crime thriller «House of Games.»