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Sean Bean will headlining Jason Bourque’s political thriller, Drone.
It looks like Sean Bean has come back to life again.
The mighty Bean, who has a notorious history of his character being killed off in many of the TV series and films he has starred in, is being reanimated for the high-suspense thriller, Drone.
Written and directed by Jason Bourque (Black Fly) and co-written by Paul Birkett, Drone hovers over the double life of Neil (Bean), an elite private drone contractor. He flies top-secret missions by day and then returns to his unknowing family under the guise of an average suburbanite. He is able to keep his dual identities under wraps, until his life thrown into major peril after being exposed by a whistleblowing site.
Neil then finds himself stalked by a mysterious and relentless businessman (Patrick Sabongui) who believes the drone operator murdered his wife and child.
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Sean Bean will headlining Jason Bourque’s political thriller, Drone.
It looks like Sean Bean has come back to life again.
The mighty Bean, who has a notorious history of his character being killed off in many of the TV series and films he has starred in, is being reanimated for the high-suspense thriller, Drone.
Written and directed by Jason Bourque (Black Fly) and co-written by Paul Birkett, Drone hovers over the double life of Neil (Bean), an elite private drone contractor. He flies top-secret missions by day and then returns to his unknowing family under the guise of an average suburbanite. He is able to keep his dual identities under wraps, until his life thrown into major peril after being exposed by a whistleblowing site.
Neil then finds himself stalked by a mysterious and relentless businessman (Patrick Sabongui) who believes the drone operator murdered his wife and child.
- 5/16/2016
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way front-runner to snag film rights to Edward Snowden film.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is among the Us outfits battling it out for rights to a film about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency (Nsa) scandal.
Multiple sources have confirmed to ScreenDaily that Appian Way, which has a production deal with Warner Bros., is the front-runner in the race to secure rights. The production company was unavailable for comment.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Guardian’s expose story about the Nsa’s mass surveillance operation and who is now writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa, confirmed to Screen that “there have been negotiations” [with an unnamed company/companies] for rights but that a deal has yet to be concluded.
Greenwald recently struck a deal with publisher Metropolitan Books to write a book about Nsa surveillance, due for publication in March 2014. New York-based agency Writers House represents the screen rights.
Publisher...
Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is among the Us outfits battling it out for rights to a film about fugitive whistle-blower Edward Snowden and the National Security Agency (Nsa) scandal.
Multiple sources have confirmed to ScreenDaily that Appian Way, which has a production deal with Warner Bros., is the front-runner in the race to secure rights. The production company was unavailable for comment.
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Guardian’s expose story about the Nsa’s mass surveillance operation and who is now writing a book about Snowden and the Nsa, confirmed to Screen that “there have been negotiations” [with an unnamed company/companies] for rights but that a deal has yet to be concluded.
Greenwald recently struck a deal with publisher Metropolitan Books to write a book about Nsa surveillance, due for publication in March 2014. New York-based agency Writers House represents the screen rights.
Publisher...
- 9/25/2013
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
Based on "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex," the free to play shooter will be hitting PCs in the first half of next year.
It's not a bad time to be a "GiTS" fan: a new series of 50-minute features are hitting theaters in Japan (we're still waiting on word of a domestic release) and there's a new game on the way based on the paranoid cyber thriller. "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" will be based on the two seasons of the animated series and Oav spawned by the manga and feature film.
This would be the second Fps from Nexeon who typically publish social and online games behind "Shadow Company: The Mercenary War."
From the official announcement:
Nexon Co., Ltd. (3659:to) (“Nexon”), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the first PC online...
It's not a bad time to be a "GiTS" fan: a new series of 50-minute features are hitting theaters in Japan (we're still waiting on word of a domestic release) and there's a new game on the way based on the paranoid cyber thriller. "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" will be based on the two seasons of the animated series and Oav spawned by the manga and feature film.
This would be the second Fps from Nexeon who typically publish social and online games behind "Shadow Company: The Mercenary War."
From the official announcement:
Nexon Co., Ltd. (3659:to) (“Nexon”), a worldwide leader in free-to-play online games, today announced that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the first PC online...
- 2/14/2013
- by Charles Webb
- MTV Multiplayer
Among the titles listed, the eagerly-anticipated Half Life 3 makes an appearance near the bottom of the list. Fans have been waiting for the next instalment for around 5 years; whilst there have been various rumours and speculations over the years as to the release date, Valve have remained very secretive over the project and refused to give any information.
Valve have been busy lately, working on Counter Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA2, both of which are due out within the next few months. A massive update to Team Fortress 2 has also been announced, featuring “Horde Mode” - co-op play against AI-controlled robots. Recently an update for Left 4 Dead 2 was also released, featuring a brand new campaign and ports of the campaigns from the first game.
While we have been let down before for getting on the Half Life 3 hype train, with this document seemingly coming from the official Gamescom website,...
Valve have been busy lately, working on Counter Strike: Global Offensive and DOTA2, both of which are due out within the next few months. A massive update to Team Fortress 2 has also been announced, featuring “Horde Mode” - co-op play against AI-controlled robots. Recently an update for Left 4 Dead 2 was also released, featuring a brand new campaign and ports of the campaigns from the first game.
While we have been let down before for getting on the Half Life 3 hype train, with this document seemingly coming from the official Gamescom website,...
- 8/14/2012
- Shadowlocked
Now that Shane Black is locked into directing and co-writing the next installment of Iron Man, it looks to be an exciting time at the house of Marvel Studios. Recently, Black revealed what may be in store for fans with the latest sequel as well as surprising news about another Lethal Weapon sequel. Word of a fifth installment in the adventures of “too old for this sh*t” Lapd cops Riggs and Murtaugh spread a few years ago only to be quickly crushed by the news that star Mel Gibson wasn't interested. Now Black not only confirms that Gibson is in fact interested in reprising his role as Riggs again, but Warner Bros is excited by some of Black's ideas and wants the “Passion of the Christ” director back.“Right now at Marvel, we're tossing around two possible ideas for Iron Man 3. The first would be a direct tie...
- 4/1/2011
- LRMonline.com
Last week we had a trade news post about Blood Oath, a novel about a vampire working for the president, a novel that was optioned to be adapted into a movie before the book even arrived in book stores. Something funny happened though on the road to bitching. We took a look at the blog of the author (Christopher Farnsworth) and didn't find him as hateful as we gleefully expected. Then Mr. Farnsworth braved the comment thread himself.
So I did what any real journalist would do at eleven in the morning on a Thursday. I finished my whiskey, finished my other whiskey, and tried sending an email to the address attached to the comment. The short story made even shorter is that Mr. Farnsworth was kind enough to sit down for coffee with me and talk for a while about his novel.
And also? Transcribing a 45 minute conversation takes a fuck longer than 45 minutes.
So I did what any real journalist would do at eleven in the morning on a Thursday. I finished my whiskey, finished my other whiskey, and tried sending an email to the address attached to the comment. The short story made even shorter is that Mr. Farnsworth was kind enough to sit down for coffee with me and talk for a while about his novel.
And also? Transcribing a 45 minute conversation takes a fuck longer than 45 minutes.
- 5/25/2010
- by Steven Lloyd Wilson
AOL is set to launch a new Web site Thursday that will distribute documentaries.
Dubbed AOL True Stories, the site will offer titles before theatrical release and between the theatrical and DVD windows as part of a larger film catalog offering.
The site's films, which will be available to stream, download-to-own and buy as a DVD, will accompany community forums where viewers can share their perspectives through blogs, live chats, message boards and video posting. Additionally, filmmakers can maintain a blog to communicate with viewers and provide in-depth profiles of different aspects of their film.
"We're launching this site as part of an overall strategy to create and grow niche audiences online," said Jordan Kurzweil, vp development and production at AOL programming. "We're hoping to create great conversation online where people will debate about films."
Many of the site's docus are familiar titles from film festivals, including this year's Shadow Company, which provides a view inside the world of private security firms in Iraq, and the 1998 Oscar nominee Waco: Rules of Engagement.
The online destination will launch with 20 titles.
Dubbed AOL True Stories, the site will offer titles before theatrical release and between the theatrical and DVD windows as part of a larger film catalog offering.
The site's films, which will be available to stream, download-to-own and buy as a DVD, will accompany community forums where viewers can share their perspectives through blogs, live chats, message boards and video posting. Additionally, filmmakers can maintain a blog to communicate with viewers and provide in-depth profiles of different aspects of their film.
"We're launching this site as part of an overall strategy to create and grow niche audiences online," said Jordan Kurzweil, vp development and production at AOL programming. "We're hoping to create great conversation online where people will debate about films."
Many of the site's docus are familiar titles from film festivals, including this year's Shadow Company, which provides a view inside the world of private security firms in Iraq, and the 1998 Oscar nominee Waco: Rules of Engagement.
The online destination will launch with 20 titles.
- 12/7/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AUSTIN -- Readers seeing the words "Iraq", "military," and "private corporations" in the description of a new documentary may understandably expect a screed, or at least a film whose position on certain issues is loud and clear. They'd be surprised by Shadow Company, which is less interested in the rightness or wrongness of our current war than in the long history of one of the ways we're fighting it. Detailing the growth of the modern "private military company" (PMC), it is surprisingly even-handed, an approach that makes it satisfying for both hawks and doves. Reaching both audiences may take some doing on the publicity side, but the potential exists for solid boxoffice in comparison to other current-events docs.
That's not to say that the picture it paints is rosy. While depicting the use of PMCs as not inherently problematic, the doc outlines a number of flaws in the current system. Commentators describe 9/11 as the private-military equivalent of the Internet boom, fostering the birth of many new companies, some of which are far less competent (or less ethical) than others. The Iraq war is described as a "wild west" scenario, in which contracts for security operations are so plentiful, and assigned so freely, that companies can get them before they've figured out how to fulfill their requirements.
This overreliance on the private sector is shown as a natural result of trends in American government, which is now happy to farm out essential activities that the Army once did on its own. Going far beyond food prep and base construction, the role of private firms extends now even to some soldier training. Critics complain that many contracts are awarded without competitive bidding, costing taxpayers more than necessary and that the scarcity of rules for contractors leads inevitably to difficulty.
The latter issue can become dire with companies that, instead of playing a support role for the military, are actually at work in the field. Private armies are hired to protect "nouns" -- people, places, and property -- and they enjoy far more latitude in the Middle East than they do, say, on bodyguard assignments in Europe. The Coalition Provisional Authority has declared that Iraqi law does not apply to contractors, and of course they're not subject to the military code of conduct; according to interviewees here, no contractor has been prosecuted for a crime committed in Iraq.
If systemic issues (as described by traditional soldiers and those who study PMC activity) are grim, the film shows the other side by spending a good deal of time talking with actual contractors. The soldiers-for-hire interviewed here are on the whole intelligent men, thoughtful about their role and asserting (some more convincingly than others) that they operate under solid ethical guidelines. South African mercenary Cobus Claassens is particularly well-spoken, criticizing the behavior of some of his peers while describing ways in which a solid PMC can operate to everyone's benefit.
Filmmakers Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque round things out with a brief history of mercenaries, showing the surprisingly large role soldiers of fortune have played compared to "official" national armies while outlining the mid-'90s emergence of corporate-style military organizations. Throughout the film manages to educate without being dry and to illustrate controversies without prejudice. For a subject that plays such a large part in America's foreign policy and is so little understood, Shadow Company is an excellent and engaging primer.
SHADOW COMPANY
Purpose Films
Credits:
Directors: Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
Writers: Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
Producers: Nic Bicanic, Remy Kozak
Executive producer:
Director of photography: Jason Bourque, Jarred Land
Music: Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar
Editor: Les Lukacs
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 86 minutes...
That's not to say that the picture it paints is rosy. While depicting the use of PMCs as not inherently problematic, the doc outlines a number of flaws in the current system. Commentators describe 9/11 as the private-military equivalent of the Internet boom, fostering the birth of many new companies, some of which are far less competent (or less ethical) than others. The Iraq war is described as a "wild west" scenario, in which contracts for security operations are so plentiful, and assigned so freely, that companies can get them before they've figured out how to fulfill their requirements.
This overreliance on the private sector is shown as a natural result of trends in American government, which is now happy to farm out essential activities that the Army once did on its own. Going far beyond food prep and base construction, the role of private firms extends now even to some soldier training. Critics complain that many contracts are awarded without competitive bidding, costing taxpayers more than necessary and that the scarcity of rules for contractors leads inevitably to difficulty.
The latter issue can become dire with companies that, instead of playing a support role for the military, are actually at work in the field. Private armies are hired to protect "nouns" -- people, places, and property -- and they enjoy far more latitude in the Middle East than they do, say, on bodyguard assignments in Europe. The Coalition Provisional Authority has declared that Iraqi law does not apply to contractors, and of course they're not subject to the military code of conduct; according to interviewees here, no contractor has been prosecuted for a crime committed in Iraq.
If systemic issues (as described by traditional soldiers and those who study PMC activity) are grim, the film shows the other side by spending a good deal of time talking with actual contractors. The soldiers-for-hire interviewed here are on the whole intelligent men, thoughtful about their role and asserting (some more convincingly than others) that they operate under solid ethical guidelines. South African mercenary Cobus Claassens is particularly well-spoken, criticizing the behavior of some of his peers while describing ways in which a solid PMC can operate to everyone's benefit.
Filmmakers Nick Bicanic and Jason Bourque round things out with a brief history of mercenaries, showing the surprisingly large role soldiers of fortune have played compared to "official" national armies while outlining the mid-'90s emergence of corporate-style military organizations. Throughout the film manages to educate without being dry and to illustrate controversies without prejudice. For a subject that plays such a large part in America's foreign policy and is so little understood, Shadow Company is an excellent and engaging primer.
SHADOW COMPANY
Purpose Films
Credits:
Directors: Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
Writers: Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
Producers: Nic Bicanic, Remy Kozak
Executive producer:
Director of photography: Jason Bourque, Jarred Land
Music: Andrew Wanliss-Orlebar
Editor: Les Lukacs
No MPAA rating
Running time -- 86 minutes...
- 6/22/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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