An audience watching American Assassin at Cinemark Theatre in the Woodlands, Tex. was shaken up after they thought they heard gunshots outside while the movie was playing. Fortunately, it was a false alarm as the gunshots were from the film itself.
The Michael Cuesta-directed action-thriller starring Michael Keaton…
6TH UPDATE, Monday final: Stephen King’s It slashed the competition to bring in another $60 million in its sophomore weekend to become the biggest September release in domestic box office history. The two-week total for the New Line/Warner Bros horror film now stands at $218.8M.
The three-day gross of Darren Aronofsky…
American Assassin doesn’t rewrite the book as far as action thrillers go, but in this first of a hoped-for many installments it meets the test of what audiences expect from this genre — and does it with dynamite edge-of-your-seat style excitement and a very game cast.
The first screen adaptation of one of the late…
When Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan came out of the fall film festival circuit seven years ago, the pic was promptly teed up for Oscar season with many bewitched by Natalie Portman’s graceful turn as a tormented ballerina who notches the lead in Swan Lake.Â
Fox Searchlight ensured that the movie was protected…
CBS and Lionsgate are sure starting to look like they’ve got the ingredients to launch an action hero franchise. American Assassin, built on a deep well of bestselling novels by the late Vince Flynn, has an appealing young protagonist in Dylan O’Brien, a strong veteran actor in Michael Keaton, and all the inherent…
“What is it you think we do here?” the jaded Cold War vet asks the angry recruit. “Kill people who deserve to be killed.” Yeah, pretty much.
Here is the first trailer forAmerican Assassin, starring Dylan O’Brien as Mitch Rapp, a burgeoning CIA “ghost” whose parents died when he was 14Â and whose new fiancee is wiped…
Last year at CinemaCon, Lionsgate showed exhibitors a sneak peek of La La Land. This year, after a short presentation by president of domestic distribution David Spitz, the distributor showed all of the Ryan Reynolds-starrer The Hitman's Bodyguard.
But before they did, Spitz showed off a series of clips. First on the…
Lionsgate/CBS Films’ American Assassin will open in theaters September 15. The film, directed by Michael Cuesta, is based on the bestselling Vince Flynn novel series, with Dylan O’Brien starring as title character Mitch Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit who carries out covert counter-terrorist operations. Michael Keaton…
Train your sights on this — the first photo of The Maze Runner star Dylan O’Brien in character for American Assassin, which is based on the 15-book series about counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp.
O’Brien stars as Rapp, a CIA black ops recruit under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton)…
Shiva Negar is set to play a key role in American Assassin, the Michael Cuesta-directed adaptation of the bestselling Vince Flynn thriller novel series for CBS Films and Lionsgate. She joins Dylan O'Brien, who plays CIA black ops agent Mitch Rapp, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch and Sanaa Lathan.
Negar, who stars in the…
EXCLUSIVE: CBS Films and Lionsgate have set Sanaa Lathan to play the role of CIA Deputy director Irene Kennedy in American Assassin, the Michael Cuesta-directed adaptation of the bestselling Vince Flynn thriller novel series. She joins Dylan O'Brien, who plays CIA black ops agent Mitch Rapp, Michael Keaton and Taylor…
Taylor Kitsch is set to join Dylan O'Brien and Michael Keaton in CBS Films and Lionsgate’s American Assassin, the movie adaptation of Vince Flynn's bestseller. Michael Cuesta is directing the thriller from a screenplay by Stephen Schiff.
The pic follows the rise of Mitch Rapp (O'Brien) a CIA black ops recruit under…
