When Alan Robert Murray took on the job of Supervising Sound Editor for Sicario, it was with Bub Asman–Murray's working partner for some 40 years–and with a wealth of awards and noms between them. The duo won the Oscar last year for American Sniper, and in 2007 for Letters From Iwo Jima. Now Sicario's nom brings them…

Jake Gyllenhaal re-teams with his Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve in Enemy, a psychosexual thriller about a self-loathing university lecturer who spots his doppelganger, an actor, in a movie; he tracks down the man and the two engage in a spiraling struggle from which only one will survive. Gyllenhaal plays dual…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off helming the kidnap thriller Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve is circling Sicario, a Taylor Sheridan-scripted drama that is fast coming together with Black Label financing, and producing with Basil Iwanyk’s Thunder Road. Black Label is the finance/production company formed by Molly Smith, Trent Luckinbill…

With the Thanksgiving holiday upon us, it may also be time to reflect on what is easily one of the most<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-633817" title="contenders__131003211335" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt width="150" height="100" data-lazy-src="h…

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Hyperbole at film festivals is to be expected, BUT even with direct competition from Brad Pitt and the Coen brothers, the reaction to the first public screening Friday<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-575420" title="TellurideBadge1" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.t…

Also at the Telluride Film Festival picnic I ran into Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve and its producers, Alcon’s Andrew Kosove and Kira Davis. The trio were anxiously awaiting the festival’s reaction to their incredibly tense thriller. <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-575420" title="TellurideBadge1" src="h…

Award-winning filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies) directs a deep ensemble cast in Prisoners, about two families whose lives are upturned when their young daughters go missing together. Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, Terrence Howard, and Viola Davis play the distraught parents, with Jake Gyllenhaal as a cop trying to…

The story of Prisoners revolves around a small-town carpenter (Hugh Jackman) whose young daughter and her best friend are abducted. After the cops fail to find them, Jackman’s character takes the law into his own hands, but in the process runs up against a detective (Jake Gyllenhaal), a hot-shot cop with confidence to…

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