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Conspiracy thriller films have a way of sticking with our minds maybe it’s because they show that the authorities are hiding something and we know that actually might be true or maybe it’s just thrilling to uncover a large conspiracy even in a fictional world. We thought of compiling a list of the best and most thrilling conspiracy movies and we have only included the films that are entertaining and have a large conspiracy in their story. So, here are the 10 best conspiracy thriller movies you shouldn’t miss out on.

All the President’s Men (Rent on Prime Video)

All the President’s Men is a biographical political thriller film directed by Alan J. Pakula from a screenplay by William Goldman. Based on a 1974 non-fiction book of the same name by authors Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, the 1976 film is set during the 1972 elections and it follows the story...

In 1982, Jonathan Demme directed a lovely TV movie called “Who Am I This Time?” about a shy actor (Christopher Walken) who can only reveal himself on stage in a variety of disparate roles. It’s an emblematic title and idea for Demme himself, a director whose fascination for the viewer lies in the fact that he’s paradoxically both an auteur with a clear signature and a director who tried on different artistic personalities throughout his career. There’s the exploitation guerrilla of the early ’70s; the humanist drama specialist who made “Melvin and Howard,” “Philadelphia,” and “Rachel Getting Married”; the off-beat hipster comedian; the sensitive documentarian; the live performance specialist; and the steward of well resourced, star-driven literary adaptations and remakes that became Demme’s specialty after his blockbuster success with “The Silence of the Lambs” in 1991.

While the subject matter and scale may vary, the point of view...

It’s Cape Fear meets ‘The Burbs in director John Schlesinger’s Pacific Heights. Although you might be fooled by Hanz Zimmer’s score, which sounds a lot more like you’re watching Sexy Beetlejuice than a ’90s thriller. This is pure irony, of course, considering the film stars Beetlejuice himself, Michael Keaton, as a conman who is six feet from the edge and thinking maybe doing murder isn’t so far down.

For those of you arguing silently in your heads that Pacific Heights is not a horror movie, let me go ahead and agree with you. It’s a pure thriller. But imagine this for a moment; imagine somewhere out there is a fresh-off Batman Michael Keaton, sitting in a dark room twirling both a razor blade and a large cockroach through his fingers like some sort of emo fidget spinner, plotting you and your significant other’s demise.

The Brady organization against gun violence is calling on Hollywood writers, directors and producers to examine onscreen gun violence and depictions of gun safety, asking the creative community to sign a pledge that’s already garnered more than 200 signatures of such names as Judd Apatow, Shonda Rhimes, Damon Lindelof and Jimmy Kimmel and the writers of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The pledge, while noting that the “responsibility lies with lax gun laws supported by those politicians more afraid of losing power than saving lives,” acknowledges that “America’s storytellers” have the power to “effect change.”

“Cultural attitudes toward smoking, drunk driving, seatbelts and marriage equality have all evolved due in large part to movies’ and TV’s influence. It’s time to take on gun safety,” the Brady pledge states, and goes on to ask writers, directors and producers to, whenever possible, to:

Use creativity “to model responsible gun ownership and...

Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched the series finale of “Bosch”

“Bosch,” Amazon Prime Video’s longest-running series, has finally reached its conclusion— kind of. While one big seven-season-long chapter closes for the abrasive, steadfast and intensive titular Hollywood detective Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch, the disgruntled and now decamped Los Angeles Police Department veteran is headed down a new road. Luckily for fans of the show, this path, to be explored on Amazon IMDb TV’s untitled “Bosch” spinoff, might not diverge too far from what they’re familiar with.

“Bosch,”, starring Titus Welliver, is based on Michael Connelly’s novels featuring the detective; the final season drew on Connelly’s “The Concrete Blonde” and “The Burning Room,” with Harry Bosch and partner Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector) “pursuing two separate but perilous murder investigations that will take them to the highest levels of white-collar crime and...

Joseph Baxter Feb 14, 2020

Amazon’s beloved crime series, Bosch, is officially set for a seventh and final season.

Bosch Season 7 has been announced by Amazon with the confirmation of a finish line set for the Titus Welliver-starring modern noir detective show, which launched back in 2014 as one of Amazon’s very first original offerings.

The preemptive season renewal for Bosch, which is currently on deck for a Season 6 premiere sometime this year on Amazon Prime Video, is par for the course, most recently exemplified by the platform’s announced order for said sixth season way back in November 2018 – well ahead of the April 19, 2019 arrival of Season 5, the most recent frame available. Indeed, with no date to cite yet for Season 6, the show’s ultimate swan song in Bosch Season 7 is likely far off on the horizon.

The series is the creation of Eric Overmyer, who adapted the prolific Harry Bosch novel series of Michael Connelly,...

“Bosch” is coming to an end.

Amazon renewed the Titus Welliver-led series, based on the best-selling books by Michael Connelly, for a seventh and final season Thursday.

Season 6 is set to premiere later this year.

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Here is the description for Season 7:

“Drawing from the novels The Concrete Blonde and The Burning Room, the seventh and final season of ‘Bosch’ will have Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar (Jamie Hector) pursuing two separate but perilous murder investigations that will take them to the highest levels of white collar crime and the deadly depths of the street level drug trade.”

“I’m proud of what we have accomplished with ‘Bosch’ and look forward to completing the story in season 7. It’s bittersweet, but all good things come to an end and I am happy that...

Ahead of the series’ sixth season premiere later this year, Amazon Studios has announced that ‘Bosch’ will end with its seventh season on Amazon Prime Video.

The Amazon Original, starring Titus Welliver, is based on Michael Connelly’s novels featuring the titular detective; the final season will draw on Connelly’s “The Concrete Blonde” and “The Burning Room,” with Harry Bosch and Jerry Edgar “pursuing two separate but perilous murder investigations that will take them to the highest levels of white collar crime and the deadly depths of the street level drug trade.”

“I’m proud of what we have accomplished with ‘Bosch’ and look forward to completing the story in season 7,” said Connelly in a statement. “It’s bittersweet but all good things come to an end and I am happy that we will be able to go out the way we want to. This started seven years ago...

Bosch is getting an early renewal and an end date. Amazon has picked up a seventh and final season of its hit drama series starring Titus Welliver and based on Michael Connelly’s bestselling books. The renewal comes ahead of Bosch’s sixth-season premiere later in 2020 on Amazon Prime Video.

“I’m proud of what we have accomplished with Bosch and look forward to completing the story in Season 7. It’s bittersweet, but all good things come to an end, and I am happy that we will be able to go out the way we want to,” said Connelly.

“This started seven years ago with showrunner Eric Overmyer and me writing the pilot,” Connelly continued. “We plan to write the last episode together as well. We’ll leave behind the longest-running show so far on Amazon and it will be there to be discovered by new viewers for as long as people are streaming.

Abby Brammell has booked a recurring role on the upcoming sixth season of Amazon’s Bosch. Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving. Brammell will play Heather Strout, a tough, smart, blue-collar woman who may or may not be mixed up in some of her husband’s issues. Developed for television by The Wire alum and co-showrunner Eric Overmyer, Bosch is executive produced by Henrik Bastin (The 100 Code), Pieter Jan Brugge (Heat), Connelly, Elle Johnson (Finding Carter) John Mankiewicz (House of Cards), Daniel Pyne (Backstabbing For Beginners), Overmyer, Bo Stehmeier and James Baker. Welliver also serves as Producer. Brammell recently recurred on Fox’s 9-1-1 and recently guest-starred on S.W.A.T., Pearson and Unsolved.

Exclusive: Carter MacIntyre (Benched), Adam J. Harrington (Dirty John) and Terrence Terrell (Giants) are set for a recurring roles on the upcoming sixth season of Amazon’s Bosch.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

MacIntyre will play Clifford Maxwell,an FBI agent who is working on a case in Bosch’s district that involves the theft of a toxic chemical. Harrington will portray Jack Brenner, an FBI special agent in charge of the investigation into a murder on Bosch’s turf who hopes to cooperate with Bosch in an exchange for information. Terrell will play Marvel, a Jamaican gangster.

Developed for television by The Wire alum and co-showrunner Eric Overmyer, Bosch is executive produced by Henrik Bastin...

Exclusive: Better Call Saul alumna Julie Ann Emery is set for a recurring role on the upcoming sixth season of Amazon’s Bosch.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddickas Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

Emery will play Sylvia Reece, one of the FBI agents brought in to investigate a murder on Bosch’s turf.

Developed for television by The Wire alum and co-showrunner Eric Overmyer, Bosch is executive produced also by Connelly, the other co-showrunner Daniel Pyne, Fabrik Entertainment CEO Henrik Bastin, Henrik Pabst, President of Red Arrow Studios International, as well as Pieter Jan Brugge, John Mankiewicz, Jan David Frouman and Elle Johnson.

Emery is best known for her breakout role as Betsy Kettleman in AMC’s Breaking Bad prequel Better Call Saul.

“Bosch” is back and as addictive as ever, showing why it’s Amazon’s oldest continuing original drama despite a call for new blood. As the streaming service is working hard to freshen its programming with big tentpoles like “Jack Ryan” or the upcoming “Good Omens” and “Lord of the Rings,” it always returns to the reliable, meticulous charms of Det. Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch (Titus Welliver).

In its fifth season, “Bosch” once again proves how delving into the everyday drudgery of police work and unspooling cases in an unhurried, unglamorous way can be even more effective than the splashier storytelling on its network counterparts. The series jumps forward about a year after the shocking events of Season 4, when Bosch witnesses his ex-wife Eleanor’s (Sarah Clarke) murder in a drive-by shooting. Grief and anger are mostly in the rearview as Bosch and his undergrad daughter Maddie (Madison Lintz) are now...

Michael Connelly fans rejoice, "Bosch" is coming back!

With a fifth season currently in production and set to launch next year, Amazon today announced that the Titus Welliver-led series of Connelly’s beloved and hardboiled ex-LAPD detective will be back for a Season 6 too.

“I’m on the set where we are wrapping up the filming of season 5, and now this great news that we get to do it again with a sixth season,” said best selling author and producer Connelly from L.A. today of the streamer’s long running series’ extension. “Can’t wait!”

“Bosch is a customer and critical favorite and Amazon Prime members are fans of this long-running series that delivers strong storytelling, complex characters, and exceptional performances,” added Amazon Studios co-Head of Television, Albert Cheng, on Wednesday too of the Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company, produced one-hour drama. “We are happy...

“Bosch” has been renewed for a sixth season at Amazon ahead of the premiere of Season 5.

Season 5 of the cop drama is currently in production and will premiere in 2019. The series is based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels and is produced by Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company.

“’Bosch’ is a customer and critical favorite and Amazon Prime members are fans of this long-running series that delivers strong storytelling, complex characters, and exceptional performances,” said Albert Cheng, co-head of television for Amazon Studios. “We are happy to continue to work with Fabrik, Michael Connelly, and the rest of the team on this artful procedural drama.”

The one-hour series stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Detective Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch, and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

The series was developed for television by...

Amazon’s longest-running original series, “Bosch,” will keep running for a little bit longer, as the company has greenlit a sixth season.

The pickup comes ahead of the show’s fifth season, which is currently in production. The fifth season will drop on Amazon Prime Video sometime in 2019.

“‘Bosch’ is a customer and critical favorite and Amazon Prime members are fans of this long-running series that delivers strong storytelling, complex characters, and exceptional performances. We are happy to continue to work with Fabrik, Michael Connelly, and the rest of the team on this artful procedural drama,” said Albert Cheng, co-head of television for Amazon Studios.

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Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, the hour-long series stars Titus Welliver as Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz...

Amazon’s longest-running original will remain on the platform for the next few years as the streaming arm of the online retail behemoth has given an early six-season order for Bosch.

The hourlong drama, based on the popular books by Michael Connelly and starring Titus Welliver as the titular detective, is currently in production on its fifth season — one Amazon plans to launch in 2019.

Bosch is produced by Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company. The series was developed for television by Eric Overmyer and is co-showrun by Overmyer and Daniel Pyne.

“Bosch is a customer and critical favorite ...

Billy Lush (Kingdom) and Juliet Landau (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) are set for key recurring roles on the upcoming fifth season of Amazon’s Bosch.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

Lush will play Stones, a tough, cold-blooded criminal, heavily involved in the opioid trade. Landau will portray Rita Tedesco, a court reporter living with a secret.

Bosch is produced by Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company. The series was developed for television by Eric Overmyer and is executive produced by Daniel Pyne, Overmyer, Henrik Bastin, Pieter Jan Brugge, John Mankiewicz, Connelly, Henrik Pabst, Jan David Frouman and Elle Johnson. Welliver also serves as Producer.

NYPD Blue alumna Jacqueline Obradors is set for a key recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Amazon’s Bosch.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

Obradors will play the fast learning and good at hiding her nerves, Detective Christina Vega, who’s been brought up to work in homicide. She feels the promotion has been a long time coming and is determined to prove her worth as quickly as possible.

Bosch is produced by Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company. The series was developed for television by Eric Overmyer and is executive produced by Daniel Pyne, Overmyer, Henrik Bastin, Pieter Jan Brugge, John Mankiewicz, Connelly, Henrik Pabst, Jan David Frouman and Elle Johnson. Welliver also serves as Producer.

Obradors is known for her lead role as Detective Rita Ortiz in ABC crime drama series NYPD Blue. Other credits include major roles in Franklin and Bash, Lopez, Six Days and Seven Nights, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and A Man Apart. She’s repped by Luber Roklin Entertainment and Kmr & Associates.

Former Transporter star Chris Vance is set for a recurring role on the upcoming fifth season of Amazon’s drama series Bosch. Vance will play Dalton Walsh, the Big Boss of the opioid ring.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

Bosch is produced by Fabrik Entertainment, a Red Arrow Studios company. The series was developed for television by Eric Overmyer and is executive produced by Daniel Pyne, Overmyer, Henrik Bastin, Pieter Jan Brugge, John Mankiewicz, Connelly, Henrik Pabst, Jan David Frouman and Elle Johnson. Welliver also serves as Producer.

Vance is known for his lead role as Frank Martin in Transporter,based...

Ryan Hurst is joining the cast of Amazon drama series Bosch for the upcoming fifth season. Hurst will play Hector Bonner, a former client of attorney Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers), currently working as her investigator.

Based on Michael Connelly’s best-selling novels, Bosch stars Titus Welliver as homicide Detective Harry Bosch, Jamie Hector as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

The role reunites Hurst with Welliver, with whom he worked on Sons of Anarchy. Hurst is known for his role as Opie Winston on the AMC series. His additional television credits include Bates Motel, Outsiders, Medium, King & Maxwell, Wanted and Steven Spielberg’s Syfy miniseries Taken. His film credits include his breakout performance opposite Denzel Washington in Disney’s Remember the Titans, for which he also directed the film’s second unit footage.

Ryan Hurst is joining fellow “Sons of Anarchy” alum Titus Welliver for Season 5 of Amazon’s “Bosch,” it was announced Wednesday.

Hurst will play Hector Bonner, a former client of attorney Honey Chandler (Mimi Rogers), currently working as her investigator. “Bosch” is based off Michael Connelly’s novels that follow Lapd Detective Hieronymus “Harry” Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller.

The series, which is Amazon’s longest running original drama, stars Welliver as the titular detective along with Jamie Hector (“The Wire”) as Jerry Edgar, Amy Aquino (“Being Human”) as Lt. Grace Billets, Madison Lintz (“The Walking Dead”) as Maddie Bosch and Lance Reddick (“The Wire”) as Deputy Chief Irvin Irving.

“Bosch” is executive produced by Eric Overmyer, who developed the series for television, and Daniel Pyne, Henrik Bastin, Pieter Jan Brugge,...

Backstabbing For Beginners A24 & Directv Reviewed by: Harvey Karten Director: Per Fly Screenwriter: Per Fly, Daniel Pyne Cast: Theo James, Ben Kingsley, Jacqueline Bisset, Belçim Bilgin, Rossif Sutherland, Rachel Wilson Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 4/14/18 Opens: April 27, 2018 In 1958 Sherman Adams, President Eisenhower’s chief of staff, was forced to resign. He […]

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Joseph Baxter Feb 14, 2018

Bosch, the acclaimed Amazon crime series, has received a renewal for season 5, just as the release date for season 4 finally arrives...

Amazon has a feeling that it can’t let go... when it comes to the retro-noir contemporary crime procedural series, Bosch, which stars Titus Welliver as the titular troubled Lapd detective. That’s because the retail monolith’s streaming platform has renewed the series for season 5! Additionally, Amazon has provided the long-awaited announcement revealing the (unlucky) date on which season 4 premieres on Prime: Friday, April 13th.

The preemptively ordered Bosch season 5 will arrive as a partial restoration of the show’s status quo, since April’s season 4 will be the manifestation of a major sea change behind the scenes that saw showrunner/executive producer Eric Overmyer exit the series to migrate over to fellow Amazon peak TV offering The Man In The High Castle. However, Overmyer...

Joseph Baxter Mar 1, 2019

Bosch, the acclaimed Amazon crime series, received a renewal for Season 5 before Season 4 premiered.

Amazon has got a feeling that it can’t let go... when it comes to the retro-noir contemporary crime procedural series, Bosch, which stars Titus Welliver as the titular troubled Lapd detective. That’s because the retail monolith’s streaming platform renewed the series for Season 5 even before the 2018 debut of Season 4.

As if that wasn't enough, Amazon subsequently gave the show another early nod this past November, confirming that Bosch Season 6 is already a go.

However, we're going to maintain focus here on the fifth season of Bosch and everything we know so far!

Bosch Season 5 Trailer

The first trailer for Bosch Season 5 has arrived!

Video of Bosch Season 5 - Official Trailer | Prime Video

The official logline reads:

Fifteen months after bringing his mother’s killer to justice, Bosch finds himself seeking the truth on two fronts.

Exclusive: Ahead of Bosch‘s Season 4 premiere, which has been set for April 13, Amazon’s longest-running drama series has been renewed for a fifth season. Executive producer Eric Overmyer, who developed Bosch for television and served as showrunner for the first three seasons before leaving to become showrunner on another Amazon drama series, The Man In the High Castle, is returning. He will serve as co-showrunner alongside executive producer Daniel Pyne, who succeeded…...

A24 and DirecTV have scooped up distribution rights to Backstabbing for Beginners, starring Theo James and Ben Kingsley.

The political thriller, based on a true story, is an adaptation of the best-selling 2008 memoir by Michael Soussan about an idealistic young United Nations worker who gets embroiled in corruption, fraud and corporate malfeasance when he starts working on a covert mission in Iraq.

The film, now in postproduction, also stars Jacqueline Bisset. It was directed by Danish helmer Per Fly, with a script by Per Fly and Daniel Pyne.

Lars Knudsen, Daniel Bekerman, Malene Blenkov and Nikolaj Vibe Michelsen produced...

With Season 3 of Amazon’s “Bosch” around the corner, its newest trailer offers a glimpse into the accusations and mystery Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) will be dealing with. Not only within his work, but also as all eyes turn to him in the case of a man being thrown over a balcony, supposedly by a cop. In a series riddled with themes surrounding the dark underbelly of the Lapd, Bosch suddenly has to face them head on when even his own partner begins to distrust him.

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In this look at Season 3, Lieutenant Billets (Amy Aquino) warns him that “things have changed — it’s not the same department.” Bosch responds simply: “It’s the same world.” But in the aftermath of Bosch solving his mother’s murder, he’s faced with superiors who don’t trust him and plenty more trouble.

The must-see action during this year’s Super Bowl is taking place before the kickoff.

Bill O’Reilly will interview Peotus Donald Trump during Fox’s pregame show, airing Sunday, Feb. 5 at 4 pm Pt, our sister site Deadline reports.

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Additional segments from the sit-down — which will be pre-taped at the White House earlier that day — will air as part of the following night’s installment of Fox News’ The O’Reilly Factor. The entire Q&A will also be available online.

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Ok, try to stay with us here. Daniel Pyne (“Fracture,” “The Manchurian Candidate”) has taken over as “Bosch” showrunner, replacing Eric Overmyer in the role. As previously reported, Overmyer dropped the day-to-day duties on the Amazon original series to be the showrunner on another, “The Man in the High Castle.” There, he replaced Frank Spotnitz, who left the role mid-production on Season 2. Joining “Bosch” as an executive producer is John Mankiewicz (“House of Cards,” “House”), a regular collaborator of Pyne’s. Overmyer will remain an executive producer on “Bosch.” Got all that? Also Read: CES 2017: Streaming TV Enters the...

Daniel Pyne (Alcatraz), who had joined popular Amazon drama series Bosch as an executive producer for Season 3, has been named showrunner. He takes over day-to-day duties from Eric Overmyer who was recently appointed showrunner on another Amazon drama, The Man in the High Castle. Overmyer will remain executive producer on Bosch. Joining Pyne as an executive producer on Bosch is Pyne’s frequent collaborator John Mankiewicz (House of Cards). Bosch, currently in production…...

Exclusive: Copenhagen Film Fund backs Per Fly’s Backstabbing For Beginners.

The Copenhagen Film Fund is investing $440,000 (€400,000) in Per Fly’s English-language thriller about economic corruption, Backstabbing For Beginners.

Ben Kingsley and Theo James are confirmed to star in the story of a Dane caught in a power struggle with corrupt colleagues while working for the Un’s Oil For Food programme.

Fly co-wrote the screenplay with Daniel Pyne and Fly directs for Danish production companies Creative Alliances and Parts & Labor Dk. Producers are Malene Blenkov, Lars Knudsen, Nikolaj Vibe Michelsen and Jay van Hoy.

Thanks to the Fund’s investment, the film is set to shoot large sections in the Copenhagen area starting in April. The project has already started shooting in Morocco.

Backstabbing For Beginners has a total budget of $8.5m (€7.7m) with other financing coming from the Danish Film Institute and Nordic, Us and Canadian investors.

Copenhagen Film Fund, set up three...

"Divergent" hunk Theo James is in early talks to join Ben Kingsley in the political thriller "Backstabbing For Beginners" at Parts & Labor, Creative Alliance, and Scythia Films. James is taking over a role once earmarked for Josh Hutcherson, and filming is slated to begin shortly.

Per Fly ("Monica Z") helms and Daniel Pyne ("The Manchurian Candidate") pens this adaptation of Michael Soussan's memoir about a young idealist who lands his dream job as a program coordinator for the Un's Oil for Food program.

Thrown into an fraught post-war Iraq where others are circling the country's oil reserves like sharks, he seeks answers from his seasoned diplomat boss (Kingsley) and soon suspects a conspiracy at the highest level whilst at the same time falling in love with a Kurdish woman.

Source: Deadline...

Balancing decorated experience with a promising up-and-comer, production company Parts & Labor have formally announced that Sir Ben Kingsley and The Hunger Games’ Josh Hutcherson have signed on to topline Backstabbing for Beginners, which is to be directed by Danish filmmaker Per Fly Plejdrup.

Billed as a political thriller, the Canadian-Danish project will lift inspiration from Michael Soussan’s memoir, Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy, a timely and acclaimed dissection of political themes and the general global issues facing a post-Iraq United States. Assuming the role of Michael is Hutcherson, a wide-eyed idealist whose prayers are answered upon landing the job as program coordinator for the Un’s much-touted Oil for Food program.

But as Michael soon discovers, the tentacles of corruption permeate just about every facet of the Un’s strategy, and with power-mongering countries keeping close tabs on Iraq and its coveted oil reserves,...

Ben Kingsley and Josh Hutcherson will star in the political thriller for Parts & Labor, Creative Alliance and Scythia Films.

Fortitude International’s Nadine de Barros and her team will commence talks with buyers in Santa Monica next week and eOne has licensed Canadian rights.

Per Fly is set to start shooting the Danish-Canadian thriller in January from a screenplay he wrote with Daniel Pyne inspired by Michael Soussan’s memoir Backstabbing For Beginners: My Crash Course In International Diplomacy.

The story centres on an idealistic man who exposes a conspiracy while working for a Un oil for food programme in Iraq.

Lars Knudsen and Jay Van Hoy produce alongside Malene Blenkov and Nikolaj Vibe Michelsen and Daniel Bekerman.

Kingsley and Hutcherson serve as executive producers alongside Gregory Shockro of Houndstooth, Fortitude’s Rob Barnum, Poa Strömberg from Eyeworks, Jacob Jørgensen from Jj Fim, Lars Tregart and Jeff Kalligheri from Waterstone.

Patrick Ryborn from Eyeworks...

Oscar winner Ben Kingsley and Josh Hutcherson of “The Hunger Games” are set to star in the political thriller “Backstabbing for Beginners” for Parts & Labor, Creative Alliance and Scythia Films, it was announced Monday. Per Fly (“The Inheritance”) will direct from a script he co-wrote with Daniel Pyne (“The Manchurian Candidate”). Inspired by Michael Soussan’s critically acclaimed memoir, “Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy,” the film tells the story of Michael (Hutcherson), a young idealist who lands his dream job as a program coordinator for the U.N.’s Oil for Food program. He is thrown into an already fraught.

As the American Film Market approaches (it kicks off next month), a whole host of potential films will be jostling for attention and looking for buyers. It helps to have names attached and Backstabbing For Beginners has two: Josh Hutcherson and Ben Kingsley.Per Fly is directing the thriler, working from a script he wrote with Daniel Pyne. Backstabbing For Beginners casts Hutcherson as Michael, an idealistic young sort who scores a dream job working for the United Nations’ Oil for Food program and delves into the chaotic market of post-Iraq war crude. Discovering that there’s a conspiracy in the trading program that reaches the highest levels, he reaches out to his boss and mentor Pasha (Kingsley) for help, but learns that he might just have put them both at risk.Fly is aiming to start shooting the film in January and it’ll likely be out sometime in...

The Hard Way

Written by Daniel Pyne and Lem Dobbs

Directed by John Badham

USA, 1991

Thanks to the popularity of Lethan Weapon, the action comedy genre thrived in the 1980s and 1990s. The genre combines fast paced thrills and violence with witty one-liners and often ridiculous comedic scenarios. For some reason, the 80s were a veritable breeding ground for many of these types of films and the trend continued well into the 90s. For instance, 1991 saw the release of a movie that pretty much turned the genre on its head. That film is the buddy cop adventure The Hard Way and it is not only a smart action thrill ride with buckets of fresh humor but also a smart commentary on real life police work and method acting.

Directed by John Badham (WarGames, Saturday Night Fever, Short Circuit), The Hard Way pretty much has it all. It focuses on two...

Cannes winner Blue is the Warmest Colour also picked up a prize at the 41st Norwegian International Film Festival (Niff) awards.

Danish director Per Fly picked up the Nordic Film Prize at the Niff awards last night [Aug 20] for his biopic Monica Z (Waltz for Monica).

The story of legendary Swedish singer-actress Monica Zetterlund stars Edda Magnason in her first film role. Monica Z will be released in Norway on Sept 13.

Fly will next direct Backstabbing for Beginners, based on the true story of Un whistleblower Michael Soussan who called for an investigation of the Un’s dealings with Saddam Hussein. Fly is working on the screenplay with Us writer Daniel Pyne (The Sum of All Fears) and it marks the first project developed for the international market by Creative Alliance - a new company created earlier this year by six Nordic directors and Us outfit Parts & Labor.

Other winners included Abdellatif Kechiche’s Blue Is the Warmest Colour, which...

Exclusive: Conde Nast Entertainment Group, which launched under Dawn Ostroff to mine feature and TV properties from the archives of the publisher’s magazine stable, has unearthed two separate projects. Run by former Imagine and Fox Searchlight exec Jeremy Steckler, the feature division has set Fracture scribe Daniel Pyne to script The Camorra Never Sleeps, a drama about the notorious Naples-based criminal underworld that is based on the 2012 Vanity Fair article written by William Langewiesche. Conde Nast Entertainment Group has separately hired Reservation Road scribe John Burnham Schwartz to script a film based on The Horse Whisperer, a 2002 GQ article written by Robert Draper. The movie will certainly need a new title, but the article is based on the long-shot journey of Wesley Keith Ritchie, who went from a Kentucky prison inmate to being a horse rehabilitation specialist who found salvation through the broken down progeny of Triple Crown winner Affirmed.

Whether you measure your movies by box office, reviews, or popular appeal, Sony’s $125 million remake of the 1990 Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger interplanetary action fest Total Recall looks like a strike-out. The movie opened with a lethal softness; a $25.7 million first weekend meaning Recall won’t even come close to making back its budget during its domestic theatrical run. In fact, despite 22 years of ticket price increases, it’s doubtful the movie will even match the original’s $119.3 million haul.

And for those of you who think maybe the problem is Total Recall was outgunned opening while The Dark Knight Rises was still sucking up box office coin, entertain, at least for a moment if you will, the possibility the movie just plain sucks. According to Rotten Tomatoes’ canvas, almost 70% of reviewers – and over three-quarters of “top critics” – gave Total Recall a thumbs-down. Those who went to see the movie didn’t...

The Manchurian Candidate 2004: Denzel Washington The Manchurian Candidate (2004). Director: Jonathan Demme. Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz, Ted Levine, Vera Farmiga, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Simon McBurney. Screenplay: Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris; from George Axelrod’s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon’s 1959 novel. While keeping the framework of the 1962 original, Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate has revamped the plot so as to create parallels between what takes place on screen and current events. The results are mixed at best. In the new version, adapted by Daniel Pyne [...]...

The Manchurian Candidate: Denzel Washington The Manchurian Candidate (2004). Director: Jonathan Demme. Cast: Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber, Jon Voight, Jeffrey Wright, Kimberly Elise, Bruno Ganz, Ted Levine, Vera Farmiga, Miguel Ferrer, Dean Stockwell, Simon McBurney. Screenplay: Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris; from George Axelrod’s 1962 screenplay and Richard Condon’s 1959 novel. While keeping the framework of the 1962 original, Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s political thriller The Manchurian Candidate has revamped the plot so as to create parallels between what takes place on screen and current events. The results are mixed at best. In the new version, adapted by Daniel Pyne and [...]...

Alcatraz exec Daniel Pyne has admitted that the show's future is in doubt. The sci-fi drama's first season finale drew a series low of 4.74m viewers, which Pyne confessed may have damaged its chances of a second season. "I wish the numbers had been better," he told TV Guide. "I mean, they weren't terrible. But we keep just slipping a little bit, which I'm not wild about." Despite the ratings, Pyne insisted that he was happy with the two-part finale, comprised of episodes 'Garrett Stillman' and 'Tommy Madsen'. "I thought both episodes showed the breadth of the show and the potential for where it can go," he said. "It's kind of exploded now. It can go so many different directions and so many things can happen. It's very exciting." (more)...

[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from the season finale of Alcatraz. Read at your own risk.]

Alcatraz's two-hour season finale left viewers thunderstruck after fan-favorite heroine Rebecca (Sarah Jones) met her demise at the hands of her grandfather (David Hoflin). The powers that be behind the '63s' disappearance were also revealed to be the Warden (Jonny Coyne) and a mysterious unidentified man who, TVGuide.com has learned, is actually named Mr. K (Matt Craven).

Dissecting Alcatraz's Mysteries: Finale Edition -- Did our favorite character just die?!

On top of all that, it turns out there are two factions of '63s working together. Their motives? Still mostly unknown. So what happens if Fox doesn't renew the series and we don't get the answers to the new mysteries raised? We turned to executive producer Daniel Pyne to get the scoop:

How are you guys feeling about the chances of a second season?

Daniel Pyne: I...

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Tonight’s two-hour Season 1 finale of Alcatraz looked to answer many of the questions you had going in and give a satisfying ending no matter if it’s picked up for a second season or not. On hand at Wondercon to talk about the finale and what to expect should Alcatraz get the order from Fox for a second season were Executive Producers Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Pyne, Jack Bender, Co-creators / Showrunners Bryan Wynbrandt and Steven Lilien and cast members Sarah Jones (Detective Rebecca Madsen), Jorge Garcia (Doc), Jonny Coyne (Warden Edwin James), Parminder Nagra (Dr. Lucy Banerjee) and Robert Forster (Ray Archer).

What’s coming up in the finale?

Bryan Wynbrandt: Coming up are a lot of answers to a lot of the questions we set up in Season 1. We are obviously going to have Rebecca and Tommy Madsen come face to face, you’re going to get a...

Alcatraz, the cult favorite TV series from J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot about the disappearing inmates of the infamous San Francisco prison and the government agents tasked with tracking them down, wraps up its first season on March 26th. To help get you ready, I spoke with producers Daniel Pyne and Jennifer Johnson at last weekend's WonderCon 2012. After the jump, find out what they had to say about the show's season 1 finale. "We're gonna open the door," says producer Daniel Pyne of the season 1 finale of Alcatraz. "We're gonna meet Tommy Madsen [David Hoflin] – each one of our episodes has the name of one of the inmates who comes back -- thirteen is Tommy Madsen. It's called "Tommy...

An 'Explosive' highlight reel for the TV show Alcatraz has premiered at WonderCon 2012 - and you can watch it below.

The series follows the mysterious reappearance of over 300 inmates and 40 guards who went mising from the island prison in 1963 and returned without ageing and with no memory of the missing years.

The action-packed highlights video was screened at the Anaheim convention as part of a panel session featuring stars Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Jonny Coyne and Parminder Nagra.

They were joined by executive producers Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Pyne and Jack Bender and co-creators Bryan Wynbrandt and Steve Lilien in a Q&A session and signing that divulged ultimate insider information about the series.

Alcatraz airs Mondays at 8/7c on Fox, with the season finale coming up on March 26.

WonderCon also unveiled a video of Walter Bishop's classic moments in hit sci-fi show Fringe.

The video of the Fringe team's favourite Walterisms is embedded below.

WonderCon moved temporarily to Anaheim in 2012, while its usual home, the Moscone Center in San Francisco, is undergoing a remodel. It is part of the Comic-Con International organization, and although it’s a much smaller-scale event, happily for us they held some great TV panels on Day 3. First up was Alcatraz.

The panel was made up of actors Sarah Jones (Rebecca Madsen), Jorge Garcia (Diego “Doc” Soto), Jonny Coyne (Warden Edwin James), Parminder Nagra (Dr. Lucille Banerjee) and Robert Forster (Ray Archer, Rebecca’s great uncle), executive producers Jennifer Johnson and Daniel Pyne, and co-creators/co-executive producers Bryan Wynbrandt and Steven Lilien.

They started us off with a video montage that we happily share here. Much will look familiar, but the last few scenes are brand new, and will be considered a spoiler by some:

Click here to view the embedded video.

In fact, a lot of what they told us could be considered spoilers,...

Warner Bros. TV promoted Fox shows "Alcatraz" and "Fringe" at WonderCon in Anaheim, California on Sunday and has sent us two clips that debuted there. "Alcatraz" series stars Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia, Jonny Coyne and Parminder Nagra were joined by executive producers Jennifer Johnson, Daniel Pyne and Jack Bender and co-creators Bryan Wynbrandt and Steven Lilien in a classified Q&A panel and signing that divulged ultimate insider information about the series which airs Mondays at 8/7c. Check out the "Alcatraz 63s" highlight reel below:...