The Hush-Hush News Report 2.09.10: Grading the Super Bowl Spots – 2010 Edition

Posted by Jeremy Thomas on 02.09.2010

This week we take our yearly look at the Super Bowl movie commercials and see what the studios had to offer us, from Robin Hood and Shutter Island to The Wolfman and The Last Airbender! Plus news on making Valentine's Day a franchise, casting for The Thing prequel, an Apes remake put down, new mini-reviews and the premiere of an exclusive clip from an upcoming DVD release!

Hey there movie fans! Welcome to another edition of the Hush-Hush News Report. I'm your host Jeremy Thomas as always, and while I know a lot of you are still reeling and recovering from Super Bowl celebration or consolation parties depending on who you wanted to win, the movie news doesn't stop for that! We've got a lot going on to discuss from casting rumors to reboot news and more…plus the exclusive premiere of a clip from Echo Beach Entertainment's Heist, set to premiere on DVD tomorrow! Check that out below…but first, let's get to the movie news, shall we?

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Cohen's Medieval Sent Back to Dark Ages



Latino Review has a scoop that "XXX" and "The Fast and the Furious" director Rob Cohen's upcoming project "Medieval" has shut down.

He describes the film itself as "kind of "300" but set back during the Crusades" and is lead by "basically six roles for great actors, no need for a star." The scooper tells the site that financier New Regency suddenly decided "they want a movie star in the movie, except the movie doesn't NEED a movie star and no movie star will do it".

That, combined with some internal studio politics, has led to a shut down despite pre-production and set construction already underway in Romania at an alleged cost of around $12 million.

It's not often that I'll take Rob Cohen's side on things, but if a studio wants a star and Cohen would rather cast someone who fits the role better than more power to him. At the same time, you have to believe that the movie probably doesn't have a lot of potential for quality if no movie star will do it. To be honest I can't say that I blame them; with a concept like that from a director with a record as spotty as Cohen, we can't be expecting a particularly enjoyable film. New Regency seems to be cutting their losses here and Cohen's going to have to go back to the well if he wants to get a movie going. After what he did to the Mummy franchise, I'm not exactly rooting for the guy.


Warner to Make Valentine's Day A Regular Holiday?



Last year New Line and Warner Bros. made a small fortune from "He's Just Not That Into You" so quickly greenlit the similar rom-com ensemble project "Valentine's Day". Now, Warner Bros. and the producers of the latter film plan to extend the formula into a franchise reports Deadline Hollywood.

"Army Wives" creator Katherine Fugate, who wrote the "Valentine's Day" script, has apparently been hired to write a follow-up called "New Year's Eve". The film will follow the same routine - an anthology piece set on a major holiday that follows numerous storylines and features a giant ensemble cast of big names working at discount rates.

The studio is apparently keen to get 'Day' director Garry Marshall to return along with some of the characters (and their respective actors) from that film to star in 'Eve' and maintain continuity.

Logically the franchise could extend for every conceivable holiday - they're quick and cheap to make, they're generally a very safe bet performance wise, and well-received characters can stick around for sequels while annoying ones (or difficult actors) are easily written out.

This is far from the first time a studio's given a film a sequel before the first one was released, especially in the last year. The Hangover had a sequel greenlit a couple weeks before its release, and against all possible logic Dragonball Evolution had a sequel approved in the works before it hit the states. This is perhaps an odd film to book a sequel for though, considering it seems to be an anthology of love series the way He's Just Not That Into You was. However, if they do decide to make it as a franchise following the same characters on different holidays I could see some fun in that--to a point. If they start making movies like Guy Fawkes Day (all due respect to our United Kingdom brethren) then I think they've gone a wee bit too far. If nothing else, this makes me rather hopeful for the prospects of this film. The Dragonball fiasco aside, studios don't often greenlight sequels this early unless they have a very strong opinion of the film--or at least its marketability. So while the movie still has potential to be terrible, this gives me more hope that it has potential to be an enjoyable romantic comedy.


Winstead and Edgerton Engage The Thing



Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Final Destination 3D," "Scott Pilgrim") and Joel Edgerton ("The Square," "Star Wars: Episode II") are tipped to be the lead stars of Universal's upcoming prequel/remake of "The Thing" reports Heat Vision.

The project marks the third adaptation of a 1938 short story. Howard Hawks directed the first version, 1951's "The Thing From Another World", but the most well-known is the John Carpenter-directed 1982 horror feature "The Thing" starring Kurt Russell.

This incarnation appears to essentially serve as a prequel of sorts to Carpenter's film. Winstead will play an American student working on her Ph.D. at a Norwegian research facility in Antarctica. The scientists onboard discover an alien ship frozen in the ice and unwittingly release a deadly shape-shifting organism that picks them off.

Edgerton plays a mercenary helicopter pilot whom the student enlists to help stop the creature from escaping to the outside world where it would multiply and destroy all life on Earth.

Ronald D. Moore and Eric Heisserer penned the script which Matthijs Van Heijningen is directing. Marc Abraham and Eric Newman are producing. Filming kicks off March 15th in Toronto.

Well, I'm a fan of Winstead from her work in Death Proof, Live Free or Die Hard and others, so that's a good sign; I don't know enough about Edgerton (who played young Owen in Episode II for those curious) to really speak on him. I still think this is a bad idea. Any Thing prequel is destined to fail because I don't believe they can strike that lightning twice in the same spot. For older fans of the original, a teen/twentysomething crowd of actors isn't going to appeal and I really think that this is going to lack the charm and creepy factor that Carpenter's film did. I could be very wrong, especially if Matthijs Van Heijningen proves to be a competent director, but he's only produced and acted to date and that rather fills me with worry.


Graff Loves To Play Ball With Damn Yankees



Todd Graff ("Bandslam," "Camp") has been selected to direct the film adaptation of 1955 stage musical "Damn Yankees" reports Deadline Hollywood.

The story is a Faustian tale of a baseball fan who makes a pact with the Devil to become a star player who helps his team win the World Series. Jake Gyllenhaal will play the fan while Jim Carrey is the Devil. Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel penned the script's first draft which Graff will re-write. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron ("Hairspray") will produce.

Damn Yankees is a fun little musical and made for an Oscar-nominated film in 1958 starring Robert Shafer and Ray Walston. It could be one of those films that could make for a solid remake, even if I'm saying that because I love musicals. With that being said, I can't say I'm a huge fan of the idea that the guy who made Bandslam is going to direct the remake. Making a movie with music in it is not the same thing as making a musical and I have a feeling that that New Line, the studio behind this, is going to find that out the hard way. On the plus side we have Jake Gyllenhaal and Jim Carrey, who I think will make for a great duo as Joe Boyd and Mr. Applegate. Carrey's star has fallen but he's still very marketable and Gyllenhaal has enough name value to attract people to this. I don't know if the potential good cancels out the bad here, but I'm at worst neutral on this idea and at most a little excited.


Beware the Ides of February



Kathryn Bigelow, Robert Rodriguez, and Tomas Alfredson have all apparently declined offers to direct Fox's "Caesar", their proposed upcoming reboot of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise reports Vulture.

The article indicates producer Peter Chernin has been having difficulty getting top-tier directors interested in the property. Yet with the studio intent on making the project, offers are still out.

The latest batch of candidates are somewhat less high-brow including Albert and Allen Hughes ("From Hell," "The Book of Eli"), Pierre Morel ("Taken, "From Paris with Love"), James McTeigue ("V for Vendetta," "Ninja Assassin"), Dennis Illiadis ("The Last House on the Left") and Scott Stewart ("Legion").

I'm honestly surprised that Fox thought a guy as busy as Rodriguez, a guy as talented as Alfredson (Let The Right One In) or a woman who is about to win the first female directing Oscar would lower themselves to rebooting a series that has already failed as a reboot thanks to Tim Burton. I also don't understand the point of rebooting this film. Any social commentary has been so deeply mined by other films that there isn't anywhere left to go in that direction, and that just leaves a hollow concept of apes living as evolved creatures that has become a self-parody in the number of times it's been referenced in pop culture. With that in mind there's no wonder that no one wants to take a stab at it. As for the new possible directors, I don't think it's fair to call them all "less high-brow." The Hughes are talented filmmakers, as are Morel and McTeigue. Illiadis is a relatively unknown property but did fine with Last House on the Left, but Stewart is admittedly in the low-brow category with his freshmen effort Legion. Whoever they pick, I doubt they'll be able to lift this project into something worthwhile.


Cohen To Curate the Museum of SuperNatural History



Etan Cohen has been hired by DreamWorks Studios to write the screenplay for a feature based on the Museum of SuperNatural History Web site. The studio recently picked up feature adaptation rights to the Musunahi brand.

Created and curated by Ernest Lupinacci, the blog-style site covers all things spooky, mythical and conspiracy-minded. A former creative director for Nike and ESPN, Lupinacci has said his creation is designed to "be to the paranormal world what National Geographic is to the real world."

Cohen's feature adaptation will follow the curator of a covert organization known as the Museum of SuperNatural History who must seek out and protect the world's best-kept secrets -- think Stonehenge, the Sphinx, scientific breakthroughs.

Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald, who are producing the upcoming DreamWorks comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," are producing and developing the project as part of their financing arrangement with Imagenation Abu Dhabi. Lupinacci is an executive producer.

Repped by CAA and Mosaic Media Group, Cohen has co-written the screenplays for "Idiocracy," "Tropic Thunder" and "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa." He also is working on the Universal project "Candy Land," the Sony sequel "Men in Black 3" and the New Line action-comedy "Project A," which is being developed by Ben Stiller's Red Hour Films. Cohen is attached to make his directing debut on Paramount comedy "Daddy's Home," starring Will Ferrell and Ed Helms.

This could actually be a fairly fun adventure comedy, somewhere along the lines of Night at the Museum meets National Treasure. Except potentially better. It's a pretty cool concept for a film and Cohen could make a very nice script out of this. He's been on a role as of late and has some big projects in development, and I have a lot of hope for this one. I'm surprised that I've never heard of the Musunahi before but it seems like a topic ripe for a film. As for Cohen's other films, I highly question the need for a third Men in Black and think a Candy Land movie is still a bad idea, but if nothing else they have the stories in good hands thus far.


Unnecessary Reboot News of the Week



New York Magazine's Vulture* is reporting that the 2005 20th Century Fox action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith that brought together Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (in many more ways than one) is being given the reboot treatment by Regency, one of the development arms of Fox, with Akiva Goldsman attached to produce.

The original movie showed what happened when a married couple, both working undercover without the other one's knowledge, end up on the opposite side of the world of espionage having been hired by competing agencies to kill the other. According to the story, the new movie would involve a pair of 20-something secret agents who are set up in a fake arranged marriage as covers after graduating the academy. Although it's thought that these would be different characters and not exactly a prequel to the earlier film, it would allow Fox to continue it as a franchise without paying the hefty sum Pitt and Jolie would want for a sequel. As mentioned in the article, this tactic is similar to the mindset that created the comedy prequel Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd a number of years back.

When anything—ANYTHING—is compared to Dumb and Dumberer, you know it's time to put a fork in it before it sees the light of day. Now, I enjoyed Mr. & Mrs. Smith more than your average movie viewer, but that was largely because of the chemistry between Pitt and Jolie. Take those two out of the equation and you have a weak concept given little life thanks to bad plot and overly silly characters. This was originally planned to be a television series with Doug Liman (who directed the Pitt/Jolie film) producing, so the one positive thing that can be said about this is that it will at least only be two hours so it would be shorter…at least, unless the network had cancelled it one episode in. I wouldn't have put it past them, frankly. A prequel film is an atrocious idea and anyone cast in the roles will be compared to Pitt and Jolie, fairly or not. Annul this one post-haste, Regency.

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From Guest#2957:
Hayek pic was yummy.

From Chungles:
And I'm sure there's some Freudian explanation for why I've been staring at that Salma Hayek picture for the past 10 minutes.

From jorge cantaloupe santiago jr:
The Salma Hayek pic is amazing. Post it in every column, no reason needed. Oh yeah, the column was good as well :)

From Steve Gustafson:
:Quietly slips in and yanks the link to the Hayek photo:

See you all Saturday with the 5 & 1, with my special guest...Salma Hayek!

You know, sometimes you get an excuse to post a picture like that, and damn if you shouldn't take it. It was a good day to look for news article pics.


From paco smith:
I guess The Razzie people never saw Van Wilder-Freshman Year. Probably to low profile for them to bother with but that movie was brutal. I lasted ten minutes with it.

Just one more thing, Land of the Lost wasn't that bad. I love Ferrell but I had no interest in watching it, it just seemed like it wouldn't work or be funny. I ended up watching it and it was ok. Much better than Blades of Glory.

From M:-X:
Land of the Lost was better than it had any right to be ("his brain is the size of an acorn!") I mean... the whole smart T-Rex thing made for some decent comedy

To each their own on Land of the Lost. I hated it because I think that Farrell's shtick was shoehorned into a plot that didn't need it just so it could be a Will Farrell comedy. The effects were barely tolerable and Farrell was far less so. But then I also admit that comedy is totally subjective, so to each their own. As for VaN Wilder, the Razzies avoid straight-to-video. Limited release films are fine--C Me Dance was nearly nominated for several "awards" this year--but they leave the direct to DVD stuff alone.


From The Great Capt. Smooth:
Good point about the amount of competition movie's have in today's climate. They also have the "backlash machine" to deal with. People who are either too cynical for their own good, or people who are just being fashionably cynical. A good point that's not said enough.

From Cyco:
And none of the Avatar record haters have talked about the scurge of *pauses for dramatic effect* piracy! Just like the music industry, Hollywood cries poor due to the apparent mass of money they lose to piracy. That should more than cover the 3D ticket effect!

Both good points that I was planning on including, but just didn't have the time. Backlash and piracy do make their marks to some degree, and also balance out the inflation argument.

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Hotel for Dogs: Harmless and inoffensive, DreamWorks' family comedy Hotel for Dogs benefits from a mostly-strong cast and enough sincere heart-warming sentiment to get past the relatively hokey concept. Emma Roberts and Jake T. Austin are fairly good as the brother and sister who use an abandoned hotel to set up a place for their dog to stay, which quickly becomes the hangout spot of choice for strays in the city. Director Thor Freudenthal plays it safe in his full-length feature directorial debut and doesn't take a lot of risks, but he's working with the support of a solid production team including cinematographer Michael Grady and production designer William Sandell. The crew makes for a film that is large on cute without going too saccharine. The whole affair is obvious where it is going and screenwriters Bob Schooley, Jeff Lowell and Mark McCorkle don't provide a whole lot of twists in adapting Lois Duncan's book so the whole thing may be a bit dull for adults. The acting is good though thanks to a better cast than the movie deserves, including Don Cheadle, Lisa Kudrow and Kevin Dillon. This is far from revolutionary and is an easily forgotten film, but is not a waste of time.

Rating: 6.0

Virtuosity: Virtuosity is an exercise in how not to make a science fiction film about virtual reality. Directed by Brett Leonard (the terrible Lawnmower Man and Highlander: The Source), the film fails to achieve much other than providing a launching pad for Russell Crowe's Hollywood career. Crowe is the best thing about the film as the villainous program SID 6.7, a training program compiled of the personalities of over 150 serial killers. Crowe has an animated joy to him and takes the character to the over the top quality he needs to be a brilliant, sociopathic computer program who's made the transition to our world. Denzel Washington is all right as jailed ex-cop Parker Barnes and he adds an air of gravity to the film, but the rest of the acting is bad or worse. Kelly Lynch is totally lost as criminal psychologist Madison Carter and William Forsythe is slumming it as Barnes's cop friend who helps him out. The script is a typical Hollywood sci-fi script of the era, dumbing down the concepts for its audience and losing all credibility in the process. There are some interesting ideas here and Washington and Crowe make good opponents, but the relatively low-rent special effects don't hold up well and while it is certainly more coherent than Lawnmower Man, that's very faint praise. As an early exercise in how to bring virtual reality-related stories to the big screen, Virtuosity is as silly as its name is.

Rating: 5.5

Outrage: Documentary maker Kirby Dick turns his probing eye on closeted United States politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in his latest film project, which takes aim at such noted politicians as Larry Craig, Charlie Crist, Jim McGreevey and Ed Koch. Dick's film is not as engrossing as his previous documentaries This Film Is Not Yet Rated or Twist of Faith but tries to make up for it by upping the controversy factor. Like in his previous works, Dick uses a lot of footage to make the case that these politicians are quietly gay yet vehemently support a discriminatory cause in order to further their political career; the problem is that many of the tales told are "he said, he said" situations and it is difficult to judge the veracity. Dick scores big with a couple cases, particularly Craig and his well-documented case; Charlie Crist's story ends with his ex-fiancee giving a juicy little statement that is used to make a near-knockout punch. Less effective are the cases against Koch and Fox news anchor Shepard Smith, which seem to be grasping a bit more at straws. Dick still makes a good point with his overall theme of how politicians will do a disservice to both themselves and their constituents for the sake of their career, a fact that is far more pervasive in a general sense than specifically toward gay rights. If all of his cases had been on more solid ground, he might have had a very compelling film here. Instead, it is simply interesting.

Rating: 7.0

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The Hush-Hush Editorial Section: Grading the Super Bowl Spots – 2010 Edition

So once again, the Super Bowl has come and gone. My roommate is a New Orleans Saints fan and so she, of course, is deliriously happy at the results. As for me…well, once again, it was a year I didn't have a lot to care about for it. My team is and always has been the Bengals and while the orange and black had a great year for them, it still didn't lead to the final showdown. So once again, the game was only of passing interest to me. I pay attention to the spectacle, the halftime show (The Who did pretty well) and of course the commercials. Just like every year we had a fair amount of great commercials and a lot of pretty lame ones. But once again, we have a fairly weak crop of Hollywood spots that took place on the most important commercial night of the year.

I mean, really? That's it? Now once again there have been a lot of big films that are coming out this year that didn't get Super Bowl spots. Iron Man 2 doesn't need a whole lot more awareness, The A-Team will be a hit regardless and Tron Legacy is too far away for a January commercial to really be effective for it. We didn't need to see spots for Toy Story 3 , Shrek Forever After or Eclipse for people to flock out and see them in droves. I must admit, I am surprised some potential blockbusters that could use awareness didn't get coverage such as Matt Damon's Green Zone, John Cusack's Hot Tub Time Machine, Zoe Saldana's The Losers, Knight and Day or Expendables. But instead, we got eight Super Bowl movie commercials; take a walk with me through them and I'll break them down for you.

The Price of Persia: The Sands of Time: This spot was decent enough in that it didn't give a lot away, and probably served to entice casual move-goers to check it out when it bows. However, the problem here is that they already have plenty of time to entice the casual movie goer with spots that don't really give anything special away. This was their opportunity to really blow people out of their seats and make them remember it amidst several other commercials, trailers and of course the excitement of the game. In that I think it failed, but it wasn't a truly terrible commercial. Fans are going to remember the effects and Jake Gyllenhaal, and I suppose that's all Disney wants us to remember.

Trailer Rating: 6.0

The Last Airbender Now this is a little more like it. Anyone who has been a viewer of M. Night Shyamalan's films has seen their optimism for the director wane over his last several projects, particularly Lady in the Water and The Happening. The initial teaser for The Last Airbender looked impressive enough but was clearly designed in such a way as to stoke interest instead of show off a solid story. This one gives away a touch of the story without getting too into it and features lots of shots of the young hero kicking ass amidst fantasy combat and lots of decent special effects. Audiences will remember this one for those reasons alone and when the movie starts ramping up marketing toward its bow in July, this will have left some good impressions for Paramount to build on.

Trailer Rating: 7.0

Robin Hood Up to this point, all we had seen of this reportedly-troubled production was a teaser that didn't give a lot of information. This was an excellently-constructed trailer that gives audiences an idea of where the film is going to go, and gets the Gladiator credibility and Oscar-winning pedigree of cast and crew out for people to marvel at. The spot conjures up impressions of the way off-the-mark King Arthur to some degree, but otherwise this was exactly what was needed in order to impress audiences and build hype for a film that could be a bust-out hit.

Trailer Rating: 8.0

Alice in Wonderland The theme of this trailer is "resting on its laurels." Almost every bit of footage seen in this has appeared in trailers already, just cut differently in order to fit down to a thirty second spot. That's never something that inspires confidence, because the immediate impression is that they're low on good moments for the movie and desperately want to hide that fact. Don't get me wrong, what they've shown looks very good, but I still think that line at the end about pig bellies and aching feet it stupid. This is a Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration and that alone will drive audiences to the theaters to see it, but I was looking for more and ended up somewhat disappointed.

Trailer Rating: 5.0

Shutter Island Speaking of resting on its laurels…the entire point of this trailer seemed to be trumpeting Martin Scorsese's past films as opposed to how good this one might be. The rest was a hodge-podge of what we've seen before, and I feel like Shutter Island's promotional campaign is starting to suffer from over-exposure due to the fact that Paramount desperately wants this to be a hit but had to push it back, so they just kept the promotional campaign going and going throughout the delays. We've seen the creepy woman shushing Leonardo DiCaprio so many times now that it's no longer a cool image; same with Elias Koteas's scarred face. The distinct lack of Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Mark Ruffalo and Emily Mortimer in the trailer is a good example of how hard it can be to compress a potentially-complex film into a thrity second spot, and while I'm still excited for the film this didn't do anything to build that excitement.

Trailer Rating: 4.0

The Wolfman This trailer was the very definition of "last ditch effort" considering that the movie comes out this weekend; as such it's so exposed that they only needed to show off some cool CGI and action shots. That's exactly what they did and I suppose in that they succeeded. For anyone who is a fan of the original story this probably didn't do anything for them—it certainly didn't do a lot for me. The clips made it look exciting and that's going to get a few more people to the theater, but I think this trailer spot could have been used by Universal for a less exposed film project. With The Wolfman it's either already done its job or it's too little, too late.

Trailer Rating: 4.5

The Back-Up Plan Does anyone have a clue what this movie is about? Something about having a baby, I suppose. This trailer was constructed to get laughs based off the horror mockery but I wasn't impressed at all. The cast looks terrible and the scene doesn't look even remotely funny. Jennifer Lopez is really looking desperate for a hit, and I really don't think she's getting it here especially if this is the best that they could come up with for the amount of money they ended up spending for this spot. But then who knows, The Ugly Truth was a hit…but even that looks like gold compared to this. Sorry, but I'm not buyin' it.

Trailer Rating: 2.0

The Crazies: This was short, sweet and to the point. They show us what's going to be coming by way of quick, creepy snips, and then say "It Will Start Here" with the guy walking out onto the field in the middle of the baseball game. I don't know if audiences will buy what Overture Films is selling here and the lack of star power is probably going to hurt things a bit, but for those who were looking for something scary to see coming out of Sunday night this was probably the one which made the best impression. It certainly wasn't the most effective way to get the story across, but it didn't exactly disappoint either.

Trailer Rating: 7.0

Brooklyn's Finest: This movie has been sitting on the sidelines for over a year, and only now are they starting to promote it. This is somewhat worrying considering it comes out on March 5th. However, the spot was well-constructed and features spots from the trailer that just recently hit online while still telling a very basic outline of what's going on. Highlighting the fundamental differences between the characters portrayed by Ethan Hawke, Don Cheadle and Richard Gere was a good choice, as well as making Hawke's seemingly dirty cop seem sympathetic by showing him with his children. The buzz on this has been all over the map considering the rumored edits to the film but I'm interested and this spot did a lot to help that out.

Trailer Rating: 7.5

So there you have it, folks. This year's Hush-Hush Golden Trailer award goes to Robin Hood, while the Leave It In the Can Dishonor goes to The Back-Up Plan. What did you guys think, and what were your picks for best and worst spot?

And before we depart, I have a very special Video of the Week! This week, we at Hush-Hush Headquarters are presenting an exclusive premiere of a clip from Heist, coming out on DVD tomorrow from Echo Bridge and EBS Home Entertainment. The film stars Christian Mendez, Rick Jordan and Erik David and is directed by Richard Cooper. The poster and synopsis of the film is as follows:



"Erik and David stare down the barrel of a gun, held by a Columbian drug kingpin named Luis. He's also their boss. When David is caught dealing on the side, the friends are given an ultimatum: pay their debt or be killed. With his life spiraling out of control, Erik must turn to his older brother, K, the leader of LA's most brutal gang of thieves.

His next big job—the heist of an armored truck—still months away, K chooses to move up the plans to save his kid brother. With the clock ticking, K is forced to push ahead with a crew of dangerous and unpredictable outlaws.

The heist goes remarkably, smoothly, but what started as a clean operation quickly start to unravel. As tempers boil over and the body count begins to rise, K must fight to protect Erik from the trigger-happy maniacs who will do anything for a buck. Will Erik survive long enough to pay off his debt and save his life? No one is safe, and only on this is certain…when the money's dirty, no one gets out clean."

Check out the clip below!



And that's all we have time for this week. Until next week this is Jeremy Thomas, off the record, on the QT…



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