Ray Winstone and Ray Liotta join “13 Tzameti” Remake

Ray Winstone and Ray Liotta join Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Sam Riley and 50 Cent in “13,” an English-language remake of the 2005 French movie “13 Tzameti.”

Fred Ulysse in "13 Tzameti"

The original, “13 Tzameti,” won the 2006 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Gela Babluani won best director at the Venice Film Festival.

Sam Riley plays the title character, a young man who stumbles into an underground competition where the wealthy gamble on human beings in a Russian Roulette-like competition.

Ray Winstone will play a competitor who has been sprung from a mental institution to participate and Ray Liotta will play a cop on the trail of the illegal game.

Mickey Rourke, after successful Darren Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler,” will star in “13″ as a convict in a Mexican prison who is sold into the competition.

50 Cent will play an employee assigned to escort Rourke’s character to the bloody game. Jason Statham, plays man who bets on the competition and has a peculiar interest in one of the competitors.

Gela Babluani, who wrote and directed the original, wrote the script and will direct “13″ that begins production in New York on November 20, 2008.

Take a look at the original “13 Tzameti” trailer and read more about the movie here

“Battle in Seattle” New Trailer

Based on one of the most incendiary political uprisings in a generation, “Battle in Seattle” takes an in-depth look at the five days that rocked the world in 1999 as tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in protest of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

What began as a peaceful protest intended to stop the WTO talks quickly escalated into a full-scale riot and eventual State of Emergency that squared off peaceful and unarmed protestors against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.

Stuart Townsend’s “Battle in Seattle” domestic trailer has been unveiled. The film’s impressive cast is comprised of Woody Harrelson, Charlize Theron, Andre Benjamin, Michelle Rodriguez, Ray Liotta, Joshua Jackson and Channing Tatum.

“Battle in Seattle” will hit US theaters on September 2008.

Steve Buscemi and Ray Liotta join ‘Youth in Revolt’

Steve Buscemi and Ray Liotta have joined the cast of comedy ‘Youth in Revolt‘.

Jean Smart (24) and M. Emmet Walsh (Blade Runner) will also star in the Dimension Films production, based on the 1993 novel by C.D. Payne.

Michael Cera (Superbad, Juno) plays sex-obsessed teenager Nick Twisp, who meets his dream girl on a family holiday and ruins the trip in his determination to be with her.

Buscemi will take the role of his father.

Miguel Arteta will direct from a screenplay he wrote with Cera and Gustin Nash, reports Variety.

‘Bee Movie’ Review

Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick, Patrick Warburton, John Goodman, Chris Rock, Kathy Bates, Barry Levinson, Larry King, Ray Liotta, Oprah Winfrey…

There’s been a lot of buzz about Jerry Seinfeld’s new film over the past couple of years - being a CGI project, it’s taken that long to make it – and though the wait may have stung a few, the result definitely won’t.

By now, we’d all be aware that Jerry Seinfeld – whether it’s as a stand-up comedian or as the brainchild of one of TV land’s best sitcoms of all time – never enters anything half-prepped, and the work that he’s put into his first movie shows right up there on the screen – it’s a beautiful, dazzling family pic that doesn’t skip a beat. In short, this is no – excuse the pun – B-movie.

Written by and featuring Seinfeld as a very personable bee, ’Bee Movie’ is uncompromising fun and well-crafted filmmaking, and unlike a lot of the mediocre animated/family films in recent months it’s a satisfying experience for any age.

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