Showtime and Paramount Pictures Home Entertainment have acquired U.S. distribution rights to The Contractor, directed by Tarik Saleh (The Nile Hilton Incident) and written by J.P. Davis (The Neighbor). The film stars Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs, Kiefer Sutherland, Eddie Marsan, Fares Fares, Nina Hoss, and Amira Casar. The announcement was made by Kent Sevener, …
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If Hollywood be our guide, great natural disasters have no greater purpose than to focus a long-standing interpersonal conflict (usually a married couple) and give the participants one big chance to clear it up. Mother Nature isn’t just the personification of our system of physical laws making sure the world works the way it needs …
If it’s not broke, don’t fix it? Or alter it in any way? This is generally the studio approach to creative decision making, and from a purely commercial standpoint it makes sense. So much effort is spent finding something which works the first time, why take risks with reinvention? Sure it impacts longevity, but weighed …