“Ghostbusters” actor Nate Corddry and “Trophy Wife” creator Emily Halpern are among the directors who will participate in the latest iteration of Haven Entertainment and Firefly Theater & Films’s popular “Unscreened” series, TheWrap has learned. The “Unscreened Summer Series” will feature staged readings of new plays from writers Matt McKenna (“American Dad!”), Raamla Mohamed (“Scandal,” “Grey’s Anatomy”), Jonathon Roessler (“Cupid”) and Amanda Walsh (“Lost Girl”). The directors include Greg Marcks and Roessler, in addition to “Unscreened” alums Corddry and Halpern. In alphabetical order, this year’s cast includes Robert Baker, Adam Bartley, D’Arcy Carden, Kimberly Condict, Beth Dover,...
- 9/17/2015
- by Jeff Sneider
- The Wrap
Echelon Conspiracy
Stars: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman, Sergey Gubanov | Written by Michael Nitsberg, Kevin Elders | Directed by Greg Marcks
Max Peterson (West) is an It security consultant who travels the world installing security systems for companies who need their secrets secret and their information secure. However on his latest job he receives an anonymous gift – a top of the range mobile phone. But this is no oridinary phone, Max soon starts receiving text messages that enable him to win a fortune in the casinos of Prague. However his good fortune soon has him under the watchful eye of casino security, the FBI and a group of mysterious hit men. Realising that everything may not be as it seems, Max must figure out who is sending him the mysterious messages. What he doesn’t realise is that he is part of a huge...
Stars: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman, Sergey Gubanov | Written by Michael Nitsberg, Kevin Elders | Directed by Greg Marcks
Max Peterson (West) is an It security consultant who travels the world installing security systems for companies who need their secrets secret and their information secure. However on his latest job he receives an anonymous gift – a top of the range mobile phone. But this is no oridinary phone, Max soon starts receiving text messages that enable him to win a fortune in the casinos of Prague. However his good fortune soon has him under the watchful eye of casino security, the FBI and a group of mysterious hit men. Realising that everything may not be as it seems, Max must figure out who is sending him the mysterious messages. What he doesn’t realise is that he is part of a huge...
- 10/3/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
With its thunder somewhat stolen by Steven Spielberg and Co’s similarly plotted, infinitely superior techie romp Eagle Eye, this poor budget, poorly imagined cousin found its wide release slashed to a handful of theaters on its way to what is sure to be a long and productive shelf life as a staple of the Wal*Mart $5 bin. Billed as a “tech-charged conspiracy thriller” Echelon Conspiracy skirts dangerously close to violating the Trades Descriptions Act, as the closest this colossal borefest will take you to the edge of your seat is if you happen to slide off it having nodded off.
Echelon Conspiracy finds It security consultant Max Peterson (Shane West of ER fame) inexplicably embroiled in a global conspiracy via a series of mysterious and prophetic text messages from an anonymous sender. From Bangkok, to Prague to Washington D.C Peterson becomes a pawn of Martin Sheen’s shady...
Echelon Conspiracy finds It security consultant Max Peterson (Shane West of ER fame) inexplicably embroiled in a global conspiracy via a series of mysterious and prophetic text messages from an anonymous sender. From Bangkok, to Prague to Washington D.C Peterson becomes a pawn of Martin Sheen’s shady...
- 7/25/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
See clips from the Paramount Home Entertainment-distributed "Echelon Conspiracy," starring Starring Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman and Martin Sheen. Greg Marcks helms from the writing by Kevin Elders and Michael Nitsberg. The film was produced by Alexander Leyviman, Steve Richards and Roee Sharon. When Max Peterson (Shane West) receives a series of mysterious cell phone messages that promise him untold wealth, he soon finds himself the victim of a deadly international plot. Chased by a lethal team of government operatives...
- 7/14/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It's time for another entry to our growing catalog of One-Page Screenplays, which we eventually plan on collating into a single, handy volume and distributing to sample-needy executives too A.D.D. time-pressed to read full-length scripts. (A nominal PayPal fee of $49.95 is all that's needed to reserve your copy -- order today!)
Past One-Page Screenplay contributors have included industry vets, but today, we're featuring an up-and-comer. Writer/director Greg Marcks (11:14, Echelon Conspiracy) has already attracted top-name talents like Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Edward Burns, and Martin Sheen to his projects. Next up, he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's L.A.-set indie rocker novel You Don't Love Me Yet for the big screen. For us, however, he offers nothing less than a story of life and death with a side of fries.
Past One-Page Screenplay contributors have included industry vets, but today, we're featuring an up-and-comer. Writer/director Greg Marcks (11:14, Echelon Conspiracy) has already attracted top-name talents like Hilary Swank, Ben Foster, Edward Burns, and Martin Sheen to his projects. Next up, he's adapting Jonathan Lethem's L.A.-set indie rocker novel You Don't Love Me Yet for the big screen. For us, however, he offers nothing less than a story of life and death with a side of fries.
- 7/6/2009
- Movieline
This week's offerings include an art film about the biblical, a documentary exploring the philosophical, a thriller espousing the dangers of the technological and a film about a badass dude with claws that kills people. We know which one we're going to see.
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"An American Affair"
We're a country enamored with the marvels of our great democracy while also continuing a nasty habit of cultivating political dynasties, the thrall of which we continue to find irresistible, and there is no finer example of that than the Kennedy family. Put out by tiny indie distributor Screen Media Films, this feature from director William Olsson charts the coming of age of a young boy named Adam (Cameron Bright) who watches and wonders about John F. Kennedy's affair with a woman (Gretchen Mol) living across the street in 1963.
Opens in limited release.
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"An American Affair"
We're a country enamored with the marvels of our great democracy while also continuing a nasty habit of cultivating political dynasties, the thrall of which we continue to find irresistible, and there is no finer example of that than the Kennedy family. Put out by tiny indie distributor Screen Media Films, this feature from director William Olsson charts the coming of age of a young boy named Adam (Cameron Bright) who watches and wonders about John F. Kennedy's affair with a woman (Gretchen Mol) living across the street in 1963.
Opens in limited release.
- 2/24/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
Spring is a season of renewal, particularly in the movie business, where the completion of the awards derby allows Amy Adams to segue from playing a solemn nun in "Doubt" to a klutzy crime scene cleaner in "Sunshine Cleaning." Along with "Sunshine," there are plenty of festival favorites about to get their day in the sun, whether that's in theaters, on DVD or on demand online or on TV. This preview recognizes the many ways to get your indie film fix, as well as the special events you might want to head out to if you live in New York or Los Angeles, including "The Brothers Bloom" director Rian Johnson's week-long con man movie "Festival of Fakery" at L.A.'s famed New Beverly Cinema, about which we recently spoke to the director. But regardless of whether we're watching films from the past or present, we're looking forward to the next couple months.
- 2/18/2009
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Greg Marcks' action thriller "Echelon Conspiracy" has just got itself a full-length trailer. Teasing more of the film's plot as well as the actions than the previously released teaser, the trailer opens with surveillance footage of a woman standing in a subway platform. The footage then moves on suggesting that the woman is about to get hit by a fast moving train.
Following an explanation that every phone call, text message and even e-mail is being monitored, recorded and analyzed, the trailer continues to show that young engineer named Max Peterson received a state of the art cellular phone which can't be tracked down. Unaware that the phone is used for dangerous purposes, he follows the instruction sent to the phone via text message and soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", "Echelon Conspiracy" was formerly titled "The Gift...
Following an explanation that every phone call, text message and even e-mail is being monitored, recorded and analyzed, the trailer continues to show that young engineer named Max Peterson received a state of the art cellular phone which can't be tracked down. Unaware that the phone is used for dangerous purposes, he follows the instruction sent to the phone via text message and soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", "Echelon Conspiracy" was formerly titled "The Gift...
- 1/30/2009
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
When every phone call, text message and even e-mail is being monitored, recorded and analyzed, there is one device which could escape all of that and Max Peterson gets his hands on it, allowing him to get what ever he wants. But, there is a catch, everyone wants it. Being guided by the device, he now has to fight to keep it from others.
Nearly half a minute long, the newly released teaser trailer of "Echelon Conspiracy" displays what the device is capable to do. It also shows how Peterson played by "A Walk to Remember" actor Shane West gets entangled on the conspiracy drama upon receiving a package wherein lies the sophisticated device.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", this action thriller stars Shane West alongside Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen and others. After Dark Entertainment and Dark Castle Films have set the movie...
Nearly half a minute long, the newly released teaser trailer of "Echelon Conspiracy" displays what the device is capable to do. It also shows how Peterson played by "A Walk to Remember" actor Shane West gets entangled on the conspiracy drama upon receiving a package wherein lies the sophisticated device.
Coming from Greg Marcks, the director of 2003 indie film "11:14", this action thriller stars Shane West alongside Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Martin Sheen and others. After Dark Entertainment and Dark Castle Films have set the movie...
- 12/18/2008
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Cannes film review, Market screening
Mr. Peterson's got a better cell phone than you. His cool gizmo tells him winning slot machines, leads him to babes, alerts him to hot stocks. That's the too-good-to-be-true premise of this taut sci-fi/horror thriller, which cagily meshes new technology with proven genres.
The Gift is a male-fantasy story trip that blasts through international hot spots, techno-charged with quick cuts, sound salvos and testosterone-fueled action. It may score solid numbers overseas with the teenage action crowd, but in the U.S. it seems best fit for an outlet such as cable channel Spike TV, whose viewers will be pleased with its cut-to-the-chase, cut-the-chit-chat storytelling.
That old horror storyline staple -- that man's hubris leads him to scientific creations that will turn on him -- is "The Gift's" solid story infrastructure. In this case, the U.S. National Security folk have created a veritable monster through cyberspace -- Big Brother will be everywhere, unless our hero and a cadre of F.B.I. specialists can thwart the system.
Greg Marcks' apt fast-forward direction is invigorated by the sharp technical team's aesthetic expertise and the crisp lead performances of Shane West, Edward Burns and Ving Rhames. The Gift blazes over plot holes and holds aloft its cyber mumbo-jumbo narrative. As the National Security chief, Martin Sheen's sonorous barking lends credibility to the film's urgent premise.
Cast: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, Steven Elder. Director: Greg Marcks. Screenwriters: Kevin Elders, Michael Nitsberg. Producers: Alexander Leyvinan, Steve Richards, Roee Sharon. Director of photography: Lorenzo Senatore . Production designer: Antonello Rubino. Costume designer: Alison Freer, Maria Mladenoza. Editor:Joseph Gutowski .
Dark Castle Presents a Mobicom Entertainment Production
Sales: Hyde Park International.
No MPAA rating, 119 minutes.
Mr. Peterson's got a better cell phone than you. His cool gizmo tells him winning slot machines, leads him to babes, alerts him to hot stocks. That's the too-good-to-be-true premise of this taut sci-fi/horror thriller, which cagily meshes new technology with proven genres.
The Gift is a male-fantasy story trip that blasts through international hot spots, techno-charged with quick cuts, sound salvos and testosterone-fueled action. It may score solid numbers overseas with the teenage action crowd, but in the U.S. it seems best fit for an outlet such as cable channel Spike TV, whose viewers will be pleased with its cut-to-the-chase, cut-the-chit-chat storytelling.
That old horror storyline staple -- that man's hubris leads him to scientific creations that will turn on him -- is "The Gift's" solid story infrastructure. In this case, the U.S. National Security folk have created a veritable monster through cyberspace -- Big Brother will be everywhere, unless our hero and a cadre of F.B.I. specialists can thwart the system.
Greg Marcks' apt fast-forward direction is invigorated by the sharp technical team's aesthetic expertise and the crisp lead performances of Shane West, Edward Burns and Ving Rhames. The Gift blazes over plot holes and holds aloft its cyber mumbo-jumbo narrative. As the National Security chief, Martin Sheen's sonorous barking lends credibility to the film's urgent premise.
Cast: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Yuri Kutsenko, Sergey Gubanov, Martin Sheen, Steven Elder. Director: Greg Marcks. Screenwriters: Kevin Elders, Michael Nitsberg. Producers: Alexander Leyvinan, Steve Richards, Roee Sharon. Director of photography: Lorenzo Senatore . Production designer: Antonello Rubino. Costume designer: Alison Freer, Maria Mladenoza. Editor:Joseph Gutowski .
Dark Castle Presents a Mobicom Entertainment Production
Sales: Hyde Park International.
No MPAA rating, 119 minutes.
- 5/16/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Screened
Hollywood International Film Festival
While an ungodly number of filmmakers have wasted far too much celluloid imitating Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs", Greg Marcks, a 26-year-old writer-director making his feature debut with "11:14", is the first to gain a foothold in territory that is Tarantino-esque with an original and boisterous work that stands on its own.
"11:14" has a demented sense of humor, and the cleverness of its taut narrative structure and misanthropic characterizations constantly surprises a viewer. The movie does what you wish more first-time features would do: tell a story economically with first-rate actors and no hint of self-consciousness.
"11:14" makes a perfect midnight movie and a great rental item as you constantly want to talk back to the screen to make rude comments on the sick, terminally stupid characters, none of whom is capable of carrying out the treachery that is in his or her heart.
The film is a study in compressed time. All the action takes place in about a half-hour one night with two terrifying accidents occurring simultaneously at 11:14 p.m. in the small town of Middleton, "the happiest place to live," according to a sign on the outskirts. Within this time frame, two people experience terrible deaths, a man is violently separated from his penis, a woman gets shot, three people are arrested by one very busy cop, and the only completely innocent figure is a large dog.
Marcks' strategy is to tell the story in pieces, recounting the night's events from various points of view, adding layers and characters to the intrigue until the final shot, where everything is finally made clear. There is certainly no one to warm up to, but all are strangely compelling.
Henry Thomas gets things started as an inebriated driver whose car may or may not have hit a pedestrian. Shawn Hatosy is strangely beguiling as an oaf looking for money for an emergency abortion. Hilary Swank (one of the exec producers), her teeth wrapped in braces, is a perplexed convenience-store clerk. Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey are the bewildered parents of Rachael Leigh Cook, the town sex kitten.
The film is shot mostly in available light and sometimes has garish colors that befit the story. Marcks' tone is one of bemused detachment as he observes frantic characters making really bad decisions under pressure. Certainly, everyone pays the price for his own stupidity. Even the music cues are playful as the score subtly plays up the increasingly bizarre behavior.
11:14
MDP Worldwide presents
a Firm Films production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Greg Marcks
Producers: Beau Flynn, John Morissey
Executive producers: Hilary Swank, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee, Stewart Hall, Tripp Vinson, David Scott Rubin, Jeff Kwatinetz, Raju Patel
Director of photography: Shane Hurlbut
Production designer: Davorah Herbert
Music: Clint Mansell
Costume designer: Christopher Lawrence
Editors: Dan Lebental, Richard Nord
Cast:
Buzzy: Hilary Swank
Cherie: Rachael Leigh Cook
Jack: Henry Thomas
Frank: Patrick Swayze
Mark: Colin Hanks
Eddie: Ben Foster
Duffy: Shawn Hatosy
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
Hollywood International Film Festival
While an ungodly number of filmmakers have wasted far too much celluloid imitating Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs", Greg Marcks, a 26-year-old writer-director making his feature debut with "11:14", is the first to gain a foothold in territory that is Tarantino-esque with an original and boisterous work that stands on its own.
"11:14" has a demented sense of humor, and the cleverness of its taut narrative structure and misanthropic characterizations constantly surprises a viewer. The movie does what you wish more first-time features would do: tell a story economically with first-rate actors and no hint of self-consciousness.
"11:14" makes a perfect midnight movie and a great rental item as you constantly want to talk back to the screen to make rude comments on the sick, terminally stupid characters, none of whom is capable of carrying out the treachery that is in his or her heart.
The film is a study in compressed time. All the action takes place in about a half-hour one night with two terrifying accidents occurring simultaneously at 11:14 p.m. in the small town of Middleton, "the happiest place to live," according to a sign on the outskirts. Within this time frame, two people experience terrible deaths, a man is violently separated from his penis, a woman gets shot, three people are arrested by one very busy cop, and the only completely innocent figure is a large dog.
Marcks' strategy is to tell the story in pieces, recounting the night's events from various points of view, adding layers and characters to the intrigue until the final shot, where everything is finally made clear. There is certainly no one to warm up to, but all are strangely compelling.
Henry Thomas gets things started as an inebriated driver whose car may or may not have hit a pedestrian. Shawn Hatosy is strangely beguiling as an oaf looking for money for an emergency abortion. Hilary Swank (one of the exec producers), her teeth wrapped in braces, is a perplexed convenience-store clerk. Patrick Swayze and Barbara Hershey are the bewildered parents of Rachael Leigh Cook, the town sex kitten.
The film is shot mostly in available light and sometimes has garish colors that befit the story. Marcks' tone is one of bemused detachment as he observes frantic characters making really bad decisions under pressure. Certainly, everyone pays the price for his own stupidity. Even the music cues are playful as the score subtly plays up the increasingly bizarre behavior.
11:14
MDP Worldwide presents
a Firm Films production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Greg Marcks
Producers: Beau Flynn, John Morissey
Executive producers: Hilary Swank, Mark Damon, Sammy Lee, Stewart Hall, Tripp Vinson, David Scott Rubin, Jeff Kwatinetz, Raju Patel
Director of photography: Shane Hurlbut
Production designer: Davorah Herbert
Music: Clint Mansell
Costume designer: Christopher Lawrence
Editors: Dan Lebental, Richard Nord
Cast:
Buzzy: Hilary Swank
Cherie: Rachael Leigh Cook
Jack: Henry Thomas
Frank: Patrick Swayze
Mark: Colin Hanks
Eddie: Ben Foster
Duffy: Shawn Hatosy
Running time -- 85 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The U.S. premiere of 11:14, a closing-night premiere of Shattered Glass and a special event screening of The Human Stain are among the highlights of this year's Hollywood Film Festival lineup. The seventh annual edition of the fest, which begins Oct. 15, will feature 10 world premieres and 28 U.S. premieres. Director Greg Marcks' drama 11:14 will open the festival, while Billy Ray's Shattered Glass will hold down the closing-night slot. The festival's centerpiece gala premieres include Keith Gordon's The Singing Detective, Peter Rosen's Khachaturian and Peter Webber's Girl With a Pearl Earring. A special screening of The Human Stain honoring Anthony Hopkins will be held Oct. 21. "Since the Hollywood Film Festival's inception, we have tried to have a mixture of films that are from Hollywood as well as from around the world, and that is reflected in our lineup," said Carlos de Abreu, the festival's founder and executive director. "Our mandate is to bridge the gap between established Hollywood and independent and emerging filmmakers." Details: www.hollywoodfilmfestival.com.
- 10/8/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
PARIS -- The 29th Deauville Festival of American Cinema on Wednesday unveiled its selection of independent U.S. movies in competition, plus a diverse lineup of premieres, tributes and, for the first time, a section dedicated to documentary films. Deauville favorites the Polish brothers are back in competition with Paramount Classics' Northfork, directed by Michael Polish and starring brother Mark Polish, James Woods and Nick Nolte in the story of a small town about to be inundated by the construction of a dam. Also in competition is director Greg Marcks' 11:14, the festival's only world premiere. The story of apparently unconnected incidents that converge one evening stars Hilary Swank, Rachael Leigh Cook and Barbara Hershey and comes from MDP Worldwide.
- 8/21/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Variety reports that Hilary Swank, Colin Hanks, and Rachael Leigh Cook will star in 11:14, the story of a car accident told in reverse chronology. Writer-director Greg Marcks will make his feature film debut for MDP Worldwide, after winning the bronze medal at the 2001 Student Academy Awards for his short film Lector. Marcks' script recounts a set of seemingly unrelated incidents in reverse chronology, all converging in an auto accident that occurs one night at 11:14. Henry Thomas and Clark Gregg are also slated to star, with Patrick Swayze, Shawn Hatosy and Barbara Hershey in final negotiations. Oscar-winner Swank, who was originally approached to play a different part in the film, will also executive produce the film.
- 8/16/2002
- IMDbPro News
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