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Screenwriter Matthew Wilder, whose recent feature film Dog Eat Dog premiered at this year's Cannes and Toronto Film Festivals, has signed with APA. The film stars Nicolas Cage, William Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook, and is based on the 1995 novel by ex-criminal Edward Bunker. Directed by writer/director Paul…

Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival will be the opening-night film at the genre centric Fantastic Fest in Austin, the festival said today in unveiling its second wave of programming. The sci-fi pic, which stars Amy Adams, will premiere at the Venice Film Festival then head to Toronto. Also on Fantastic Fest’s slate is the…

RLJ Entertainment has acquired all North American rights to Paul Schrader-helmed Dog Eat Dog, starring Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook. The company plans to release the pic theatrically and on VOD in November. Based on the novel by Edward Bunker and written by Matthew Wilder, Dog Eat Dog tells…

Paul Schrader returned to the Croisette this year with his pulp crime pic Dog Eat Dog which made its premiere during the closing of Directors’ Fortnight. In the movie, Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe play ex-cons who are attempting to make the ultimate score on what could be their last job until everything goes wrong…

EXCLUSIVE: In Paul Schrader’s cinematic universe, Willem Dafoe has played a morally conflicted drug dealer, a senator with a cheating wife, a concentration camp commandant, the brother to Nick Nolte’s crazed News Hampshire denizen in Affliction, Bob Crane’s sex crazed flunky, and even Jesus in the Schrader-scripted The…

EXCLUSIVE: Closing the Directors’ Fortnight here at the Cannes Film Festival is Paul Schrader’s crime noir Dog Eat Dog starring Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe as ex-cons who involve themselves in a kidnapping job that goes south. It’s based on Edward Bunker’s novel, and the pic marks the third collaboration between…

The Directors' Fortnight section of the Cannes Film Festival is a rich and interesting mix this year replete with a handful of previous Oscar winners and nominees — and some films that might have been expected to run in Official Selection. This isn't a new phenomenon as titles regularly find themselves jockeyed for…

It’s AFM time in Hollywood and in recent years that has meant high commerce for forgettable Nicolas Cage screen vehicles; it has been a long time and a lot of bad choices since his Oscar-winning turn in Leaving Las Vegas and blockbusters Con Air and The Rock. Is it possible any of this has to do with his directors and…

UPDATE, 6 AM Saturday: Schrader, ever the provocateur, had this to say on Facebook: EXCLUSIVE: Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine are teaming director Paul Schrader with Nicolas Cage for Dog Eat Dog, a gritty crime thriller based on the celebrated book by Eddie Bunker. The film, just acquired by Arclight, will be…