Even though it needs a new title, the drama known as Triple Frontier finally gets underway next week at Netflix. Perhaps the most apt title would be The Movie That Refused to Die. Ben Affleck is back, heading the ensemble, along with Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund and Adria Arjona. The J.C…

EXCLUSIVE: The JC Chandor-directed thriller Triple Frontier has regained its footing at Netflix for a potential August production start. Mark Wahlberg is now in talks to replace Ben Affleck, who dropped out last week. The film will shoot in Hawaii and Colombia and will star Sons of Anarchy‘s Charlie Hunnam, Mudbound‘s…

Ben Affleck has decided to drop out of Triple Frontier, the JC Chandor-directed hot button thriller that is mobilizing at Netflix. Affleck is going to take some time to focus on his wellness and his family. The film will move forward without him; it is casting up quickly. Affleck is expected to be at San Diego…

Mahershala Ali is in negotiations to join the cast of Paramount Pictures’ Triple Frontier, the thriller which will be directed by JC Chandor from a script by Mark Boal. Ali is in two Best Picture nominees this year — Moonlight, where he is also nominated for Best Supporting Actor, and the box office hit Hidden Figures…

EXCLUSIVE: Conversations are ongoing with Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy for Paramount’s Triple Frontier, the Mark Boal-scripted thriller set in the notorious border zone between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil where the Iguazu and Parana rivers converge. This is the film that Katherine Bigelow once planned to direct…

EXCLUSIVE: I’m hearing that Margin Call and A Most Violent Year helmer JC Chandor is in early discussions to direct Triple Frontier, that hot-button drama for Paramount Pictures that grew quiet when Zero Dark Thirty helmer Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal stepped away to focus on the movie about Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S…

J.C. Chandor has signed on to produce with an eye to direct the film adaptation of Vicky Ward’s The Liar’s Ball for A24 (Ex Machina). The book was optioned with Chandler in mind to helm. Screenwriter Gideon Yago (The Newsroom) has just closed a deal to adapt and is researching and writing now. The story, written by…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATE, 12:13 PM : Multiple sources tell me Peter Berg will replace JC Chandor and reteam with his Lone Survivor star Mark Wahlberg on Deepwater Horizon. Berg has a strong relationship with writer Matthew Michael Carnahan in The Kingdom and of course with Wahlberg on the hit heroic tale Lone Survivor. PREVIOU…

In a variation on that old joke about going to a fight where a hockey game breaks out, go see JC Chandor's new movie A Most Violent Year and you will swear a 70s Sidney Lumet breaks out. That's a silly notion; this is the latest film by a rising director in Chandor, who debuted with Margin Call and followed by putting…

Pointing to a specific seat in the front orchestra section of the vast Dolby Theatre before Thursday’s AFI Fest opening-night world premiere of his new film A Most Violent Year, writer-director JC Chandor said “the last time I was in this room I was sitting right there and I lost to Woody Allen. Let’s hope it goes a…

Summit Entertainment has staked out a date for Deepwater Horizon, the true story account of the devastating 2010 BP oil spill that Mark Wahlberg is starring in and JC Chandor is directing. The film from Participant Media and Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s di Bonaventura Pictures will hit theaters in wide release on…

Robert Redford stars as a man trying to survive solo while adrift at sea in the sophomore feature from Margin Call helmer JC Chandor. After premiering to strong reviews out of Cannes, All Is Lost is conspicuously skipping September’s Toronto Film Festival and could make its North American debut at Telluride ahead of…