ITV Studios America and One-Two Punch Productions have optioned Alan Glynn's upcoming novel Paradime to adapt into a scripted television series with Medium creator Glenn Gordon Caron attached to write and direct. Caron also will executive produce with One-Two Punch’s Deborah Spera and Maria Grasso. The psychological thriller will be published by Picador on August 2. The story follows Danny Lynch, a man who has just returned to New York City after a stint in Afghanistan…...
- 5/12/2016
- Deadline TV
ITV Studios America and One-Two Punch Productions have optioned Alan Glynn's upcoming psychological thriller novel "Paradime" with plans to adapt it into a scripted TV series.
The story follows Danny Lynch, a man who has returned to New York City after a stint in Afghanistan. Trying to make ends meet, he gets a job as a line cook in a high end restaurant.
From his prep station he views the privileged clientele including a billionaire tech mogul who couldn't be more different to him except for one thing: in appearance, they are identical.
The closer Danny looks at Trager's life, the more fixated he becomes. His reality blurred, Danny starts making decisions that will irrevocably change his life.
"Medium" creator Glenn Gordon Caron is attached to write and direct. Caron, Deborah Spera and Maria Grasso will executive produce. Glynn's novel "The Dark Fields" served as the source material for...
The story follows Danny Lynch, a man who has returned to New York City after a stint in Afghanistan. Trying to make ends meet, he gets a job as a line cook in a high end restaurant.
From his prep station he views the privileged clientele including a billionaire tech mogul who couldn't be more different to him except for one thing: in appearance, they are identical.
The closer Danny looks at Trager's life, the more fixated he becomes. His reality blurred, Danny starts making decisions that will irrevocably change his life.
"Medium" creator Glenn Gordon Caron is attached to write and direct. Caron, Deborah Spera and Maria Grasso will executive produce. Glynn's novel "The Dark Fields" served as the source material for...
- 5/12/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The latest movie-turned-tv-show is CBS’ Limitless, which wraps slick visuals around a generic, empty centre…
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Pilot
The thematic centre of Neil Burger’s 2011 feature Limitless, based on Alan Glynn’s novel The Dark Fields, was what we’d all be willing to sacrifice for knowledge and power. If you were offered a psychotropic devil’s bargain that would make you an uber-capable genius at the cost of your safety, would you take it?
The CBS spin-off show poses no such question. Not in the pilot at least. It doesn’t use its neural-enhancement-drug premise to probe the ethics of an issue that’s recurred in myth for centuries, from Prometheus to the Garden of Eden to Doctor Faustus to a shelf of comic books a mile long. Instead, it uses it to populate network TV with yet another super-powered crime-solver.
Because by the end of the Limitless pilot,...
This review contains spoilers.
1.1 Pilot
The thematic centre of Neil Burger’s 2011 feature Limitless, based on Alan Glynn’s novel The Dark Fields, was what we’d all be willing to sacrifice for knowledge and power. If you were offered a psychotropic devil’s bargain that would make you an uber-capable genius at the cost of your safety, would you take it?
The CBS spin-off show poses no such question. Not in the pilot at least. It doesn’t use its neural-enhancement-drug premise to probe the ethics of an issue that’s recurred in myth for centuries, from Prometheus to the Garden of Eden to Doctor Faustus to a shelf of comic books a mile long. Instead, it uses it to populate network TV with yet another super-powered crime-solver.
Because by the end of the Limitless pilot,...
- 9/22/2015
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Hill Harper has booked a co-starring role opposite Jake McDorman and Jennifer Carpenter in CBS’ drama pilot, "Limitless," which is based on the 2011 feature that starred Bradley Cooper, itself based on the novel, "The Dark Fields," by Alan Glynn. The film told the story of a struggling writer who becomes a financial wizard, with the help of a mysterious pill that enables the user to access 100 percent of their brain abilities; but it also thrusts him into a dangerous new world. The TV pilot adaptation, which will be executive produced by Bradley Cooper, follows a similar narrative, except the lead character will use his newfound drug-enhanced abilities to...
- 3/19/2015
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
Demonologist
Jonathan Herman has been hired to pen an adaptation of Andrew Pyper's psychological thriller novel "Demonologists" at Universal Pictures and ImageMovers.
The story centers on a professor and scholar of Paradise Lost who accepts a free trip to Italy, where a demonic spirit appears to kill his daughter, and he must go on a dark journey of discovery in hopes of getting her back. [Source: THR]
Graveland
New Regency has acquired Alan Glynn's thriller novel "Graveland" with Brian Koppelman and David Levien attached to adapt the script and direct. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing.
The murder mystery begins with the discovery of a Wall Street investment banker shot dead while jogging. Later that day, a top hedge-fund manager is gunned down. A female investigative journalist tries to figure out who is behind the killings. [Source: Deadline]
Extinction
Good Universe has pre-emptively picked up Spenser Cohen's contained room...
Jonathan Herman has been hired to pen an adaptation of Andrew Pyper's psychological thriller novel "Demonologists" at Universal Pictures and ImageMovers.
The story centers on a professor and scholar of Paradise Lost who accepts a free trip to Italy, where a demonic spirit appears to kill his daughter, and he must go on a dark journey of discovery in hopes of getting her back. [Source: THR]
Graveland
New Regency has acquired Alan Glynn's thriller novel "Graveland" with Brian Koppelman and David Levien attached to adapt the script and direct. Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing.
The murder mystery begins with the discovery of a Wall Street investment banker shot dead while jogging. Later that day, a top hedge-fund manager is gunned down. A female investigative journalist tries to figure out who is behind the killings. [Source: Deadline]
Extinction
Good Universe has pre-emptively picked up Spenser Cohen's contained room...
- 9/19/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Exclusive: New Regency has acquired the Alan Glynn thriller novel Graveland and set Brian Koppelman and David Levien to adapt it and direct. Appian Way partners Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Davisson Killoran are producing. The novel is a murder mystery that begins with the discovery of a dead Wall Street investment banker, who was shot while jogging in Central Park. Later that day, a top hedge-fund managers is gunned down outside a restaurant. A female investigative journalist is on the trail as bodies pile up and she tries to figure out if terrorists are killing the financial industry’s best and brightest, or if someone is holding accountable those who engaged in Wall Street corruption. The novel was published by Picador in May, and Michael Hampton brought the project into Appian. New Regency, Appian Way and the scribes just teamed on a different kind of corruption thriller, Runner, Runner, which...
- 9/18/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
It’s blockbuster movies that have dominated the box office in 2011. But there’s been room for some sleeper hits, too. Such as this little lot…
Over the past four months, three of the ten biggest films of all time at the box office have been released. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have each grossed over $1bn across the planet. It’s a staggering number, with Potter leading the pack, sitting behind Avatar and Titanic as the third biggest film of all time.
But the success of these movies was arguably preordained. Each had a massive production budget, a marketing spend to make small countries wince, and opening weekends bought for them that would spring them off to a very fast box office start.
What 2011 has also proven, though, is that there’s still room for a good,...
Over the past four months, three of the ten biggest films of all time at the box office have been released. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon and Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides have each grossed over $1bn across the planet. It’s a staggering number, with Potter leading the pack, sitting behind Avatar and Titanic as the third biggest film of all time.
But the success of these movies was arguably preordained. Each had a massive production budget, a marketing spend to make small countries wince, and opening weekends bought for them that would spring them off to a very fast box office start.
What 2011 has also proven, though, is that there’s still room for a good,...
- 8/17/2011
- Den of Geek
(For this week's featured article, I'd like to try something Twitch hasn't done in a while: I'm going to be talking about a novel that's (relatively) recently been adapted into a film. How did it turn out on screen? Did it do the source material justice? What worked, and what didn't? And most importantly, which one comes out on top?It should go without saying what follows contains major spoilers for both the book and the film in question.This time it's Limitless (2011), directed by Neil Burger and written by Leslie Dixon, adapted from the novel The Dark Fields (2001) by Alan Glynn.)If Neil Burger's Limitless gets one thing right above all else, it's a fantastic example of how boilerplate Hollywood filmmaking can latch onto a...
- 8/12/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Limitless
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Johnny Whitworth | Written by Leslie Dixon | Directed by Neil Burger
It’s taken me a lot longer to write this review than expected, after all Limitless hit DVD and Blu-ray last week, so my review should have been posted then right? Right. Only after seeing the film for a second time, the first was in cinemas, I seem to have developed a huge ambivalence to the flick… On first viewing the film came across as an exciting, slick moral-bending thriller, however popping the disc in this time I suddenly found myself watching a morally ambiguous, two dimensional overly glossy, by-the-numbers Hollywood thriller that sacrifices character for flashing visuals.
For those not familiar with the film, Limitless stars man-of-the-moment Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a failed freelance writer come novelist who spends most of his days procrastinating in front of the...
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Robert DeNiro, Anna Friel, Abbie Cornish, Johnny Whitworth | Written by Leslie Dixon | Directed by Neil Burger
It’s taken me a lot longer to write this review than expected, after all Limitless hit DVD and Blu-ray last week, so my review should have been posted then right? Right. Only after seeing the film for a second time, the first was in cinemas, I seem to have developed a huge ambivalence to the flick… On first viewing the film came across as an exciting, slick moral-bending thriller, however popping the disc in this time I suddenly found myself watching a morally ambiguous, two dimensional overly glossy, by-the-numbers Hollywood thriller that sacrifices character for flashing visuals.
For those not familiar with the film, Limitless stars man-of-the-moment Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a failed freelance writer come novelist who spends most of his days procrastinating in front of the...
- 8/9/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Based on Alan Glynn’s techno-thriller novel The Dark Fields, Limitless (2011) offers up an exciting and intriguing concept, but not one that is wholly original and without blemish. Whilst the film begins with all of the right intentions and with the prospect of an intriguing idea, its climax and post-climactic phases undo the impressive job done by its central narrative.
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- 8/1/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Based on Alan Glynn’s 2001 novel The Dark Fields, Limitless is a thriller with a science fiction edge that sees a down and out writer unlock the maximum potential of his brain using an experimental new drug called Nzt. Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a scruffy loser living in a squalid New York apartment, dumped by his long-term girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) and struggling to start a novel. But after being given the mysterious clear pill by an old acquaintance, Eddie finds that not only can he quickly finish his book, but that everything is now different. On the drug the world looks better, Eddie dresses better, he learns new skills faster and his new-found confidence and wit ensure he is a hit with the ladies – and with big business.
Within days Eddie is a phenomenon on Wall Street, using his time on the drug to get rich with a view to some bigger,...
Within days Eddie is a phenomenon on Wall Street, using his time on the drug to get rich with a view to some bigger,...
- 8/1/2011
- by Robert Beames
- Obsessed with Film
Submarine; Limitless; Super; Hobo with a Shotgun; The Silent House
Having achieved cult status via such TV shows as Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, writer/director Richard Ayoade scores a deadpan hit with his feature debut, Submarine (2010, Optimum, 15), an awkward black comedy about the traumas of coming of age that feels like Gregory's Girl's twisted sister.
Craig Roberts stars as Oliver Tate, the nasally narrating self-absorbed teenager who imagines his life as a movie packed with tracking zooms, helicopter shots and elaborately choreographed slo-mo, but also featuring the kind of "transcendent moments" that warrant the use of critical phrases such as "a monumental achievement" – apparently.
Having met his match in Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), whose dark countenance is offset by the red coat she wears like the diminutive murderer of Don't Look Now, Oliver embarks on a relationship based on existential nihilism and casual pyromania. Yet his...
Having achieved cult status via such TV shows as Garth Marenghi's Darkplace and The It Crowd, writer/director Richard Ayoade scores a deadpan hit with his feature debut, Submarine (2010, Optimum, 15), an awkward black comedy about the traumas of coming of age that feels like Gregory's Girl's twisted sister.
Craig Roberts stars as Oliver Tate, the nasally narrating self-absorbed teenager who imagines his life as a movie packed with tracking zooms, helicopter shots and elaborately choreographed slo-mo, but also featuring the kind of "transcendent moments" that warrant the use of critical phrases such as "a monumental achievement" – apparently.
Having met his match in Jordana Bevan (Yasmin Paige), whose dark countenance is offset by the red coat she wears like the diminutive murderer of Don't Look Now, Oliver embarks on a relationship based on existential nihilism and casual pyromania. Yet his...
- 7/30/2011
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Bradley Cooper "fought" for his role in Limitless after he was blown away by the "unbelievable" script.
The actor plays a man who can access 100 per cent of the brain's power in the action thriller, based on a book by author Alan Glynn.
Cooper loved the script as soon as he read it - and he did everything possible to ensure he landed the lead role.
He tells BBC Radio 1, "Instantly (I wanted the role) - I fought for it, I wanted to do it so badly. (Screenwriter) Leslie Dixon wrote an incredible script, an adaptation of a book called The Dark Fields by an Irish man named Alan Glynn. I loved it. The script just read like a house on fire, it was unbelievable.
"I thought, 'God, if anyone can ever capture that on film it'd be great'."...
The actor plays a man who can access 100 per cent of the brain's power in the action thriller, based on a book by author Alan Glynn.
Cooper loved the script as soon as he read it - and he did everything possible to ensure he landed the lead role.
He tells BBC Radio 1, "Instantly (I wanted the role) - I fought for it, I wanted to do it so badly. (Screenwriter) Leslie Dixon wrote an incredible script, an adaptation of a book called The Dark Fields by an Irish man named Alan Glynn. I loved it. The script just read like a house on fire, it was unbelievable.
"I thought, 'God, if anyone can ever capture that on film it'd be great'."...
- 7/28/2011
- WENN
While ComingSoon.net had a chance to talk to director Neil Burger back in March before his sci-fi thriller Limitless --you can watch that video interview here --when we learned he'd be in San Diego to promote the DVD and Blu-ray at a special "Limitless Café" that had been set-up across the street at the Film & Arts Center, we had to stop by to say "hey" and catch up on how things have been going since the movie became a surprise hit, as well as find out what to expect on the recently-released DVD. Based on the novel "The Dark Fields" by Alan Glynn, Limitless stars Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a New York writer who discovers a drug called Nzt that gives him unlimited potential to use his brain for all sorts of higher functions. Recently, it...
- 7/23/2011
- Comingsoon.net
What would you do if you could fully tap your brain’s capabilities? Every generation or so, the question is pondered, thanks to the latest breakthroughs or studies in neuroscience. It makes for an interesting discussion and sometimes, brilliant works such as Flowers for Algernon (the great book by Daniel Keyes, and Charly the movie with Cliff Robertson). The most recent addition to this sub-genre of fiction is The Dark Fields, a novel by Alan Glynn, which became the basis for the movie Limitless, which was released on DVD this week by Twentieth-Century Fox Home Entertainment.
If you were Eddie Morra, you apparently turn into something unlike yourself. We meet him teetering atop a high-rise as people bang on his security door to enter his apartment fortress. Flashing back, we learn what happened to turn a slacker into a genius. Leslie Dixon’s screenplay, which makes huge changes from the novel,...
If you were Eddie Morra, you apparently turn into something unlike yourself. We meet him teetering atop a high-rise as people bang on his security door to enter his apartment fortress. Flashing back, we learn what happened to turn a slacker into a genius. Leslie Dixon’s screenplay, which makes huge changes from the novel,...
- 7/20/2011
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Some say that we only use 20% of our brains at any given time. Imagine what you might be able to accomplish if there were a pill that made your brain file on all cylinders at once.
That is the intriguing premise of "Limitless," an intoxicating thriller based on Alan Glynn's book "The Dark Fields" that makes it more difficult than ever to "just say no" to drugs.
Bradley Cooper stars as Eddie Morra, a down-on-his-luck New York City writer who has missed the deadline on his new book and who recently got dumped by his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish). He bumps into his ex-wife's brother Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), and starts doing errands for him. Vernon gives Eddie a sample of the new smart drug Nzt-48, which helps him finish his book in no time.
Eddie starts falling down the rabbit hole when he comes back from an errand and finds Vernon dead.
That is the intriguing premise of "Limitless," an intoxicating thriller based on Alan Glynn's book "The Dark Fields" that makes it more difficult than ever to "just say no" to drugs.
Bradley Cooper stars as Eddie Morra, a down-on-his-luck New York City writer who has missed the deadline on his new book and who recently got dumped by his girlfriend, Lindy (Abbie Cornish). He bumps into his ex-wife's brother Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), and starts doing errands for him. Vernon gives Eddie a sample of the new smart drug Nzt-48, which helps him finish his book in no time.
Eddie starts falling down the rabbit hole when he comes back from an errand and finds Vernon dead.
- 7/19/2011
- by Robert DeSalvo
- NextMovie
The box office smash Limitless staring man of the moment Bradley Cooper will be available to take home on Blu-ray and DVD from August 1st, the perfect summer night in film! WhatCulture! have teamed up with Relativity Media to give away three copies of the exciting release to our loyal readers.
Bradley Cooper stars with Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel in this paranoia-fuelled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this suspenseful and provocative film.
Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to Nzt, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential.
Bradley Cooper stars with Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel in this paranoia-fuelled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this suspenseful and provocative film.
Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to Nzt, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential.
- 7/19/2011
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
Year: 2011
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon, Alan Glynn (Novel)
IMDb: link
Amazon: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
When the myth that we only use 20% of our brains started gaining widespread attention, there was much speculation as to what humanity would be capable of if we could somehow gain access to the other 80% of untapped brain power. Many a science fiction story has been shaped by the idea that we could be some sort of super being, physically superior human computers with the ability to process so much data that it would seem as though we can predict the future. If only. And yet, as unbelievable as it may be, this is the basis for Neil Burger's Limitless.
Adapted from Alan Glynn's "The Dark Fields," the film stars Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a writer with an advance who hasn't managed to write one word of his masterpiece.
Director: Neil Burger
Writers: Leslie Dixon, Alan Glynn (Novel)
IMDb: link
Amazon: link
Trailer: link
Review by: Marina Antunes
Rating: 8 out of 10
When the myth that we only use 20% of our brains started gaining widespread attention, there was much speculation as to what humanity would be capable of if we could somehow gain access to the other 80% of untapped brain power. Many a science fiction story has been shaped by the idea that we could be some sort of super being, physically superior human computers with the ability to process so much data that it would seem as though we can predict the future. If only. And yet, as unbelievable as it may be, this is the basis for Neil Burger's Limitless.
Adapted from Alan Glynn's "The Dark Fields," the film stars Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a writer with an advance who hasn't managed to write one word of his masterpiece.
- 7/18/2011
- QuietEarth.us
Bradley Cooper (The Hangover) gets to have it all in Limitless, coming to DVD and Blu-ray on July 19. The movie is the first Relativity Media film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment after the companies signed a multi-year deal in March.
Based on the novel by Alan Glynn, the thriller stars Cooper as Eddie Morra, a struggling writer whose life is turned around when he takes a top secret drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain. Suddenly, Morra rises to the top of the financial world, drawing the attention of business mogul Carl Von Loon (Robert De Niro, Meet the Parents). But the drug has side effects, to not mention a group of hit men trying to keep it secret.
Limitless also stars Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) and Anna Friel (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger).
The PG-13 movie was released in theaters to good reviews and grossed $77.6 million.
Based on the novel by Alan Glynn, the thriller stars Cooper as Eddie Morra, a struggling writer whose life is turned around when he takes a top secret drug that allows him to use 100% of his brain. Suddenly, Morra rises to the top of the financial world, drawing the attention of business mogul Carl Von Loon (Robert De Niro, Meet the Parents). But the drug has side effects, to not mention a group of hit men trying to keep it secret.
Limitless also stars Abbie Cornish (Sucker Punch) and Anna Friel (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger).
The PG-13 movie was released in theaters to good reviews and grossed $77.6 million.
- 5/23/2011
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel, hits Blu-ray and DVD on July 19th via 20th Century Fox. The film performed well at the box office, generating a solid $77.7 million domestically and over $63.8 million overseas, all from a modest $27 million budget. Neil Burger directs Limitless, from the writing by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Limitless is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
- 5/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel, hits Blu-ray and DVD on July 19th via 20th Century Fox. The film performed well at the box office, generating a solid $77.7 million domestically and over $63.8 million overseas, all from a modest $27 million budget. Neil Burger directs Limitless, from the writing by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Limitless is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
- 5/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel, hits Blu-ray and DVD on July 19th via 20th Century Fox. The film performed well at the box office, generating a solid $77.7 million domestically and over $63.8 million overseas, all from a modest $27 million budget. Neil Burger directs Limitless, from the writing by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Limitless is a paranoia-fueled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a top-secret “smart drug” that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film.
- 5/23/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
HollywoodNews.com: Our selected celebrity to be included in our “Hot Hollywood Celebrity Photo Gallery of the Day” is Bradley Cooper.
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Bradley Cooper Visits The Marilyn Denis Show in Toronto on May 11, 2011
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Bradley Cooper Visits The Marilyn Denis Show in Toronto on May 11, 2011
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles as Will Tippin in the TV series Alias, Phil Wenneck in the 2009 film The Hangover (and its sequels), and Templeton “Faceman” Peck in 2010 movie The A-Team.
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is Italian-American, and his father, Charles Cooper, was Irish-American and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. Cooper was raised Roman Catholic. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year,...
Bradley Cooper ◄ Back Next ►Picture 1 of 9
Bradley Cooper Visits The Marilyn Denis Show in Toronto on May 11, 2011
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Bradley Cooper Visits The Marilyn Denis Show in Toronto on May 11, 2011
Bradley Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American film, theater, and television actor. He is known for his roles as Will Tippin in the TV series Alias, Phil Wenneck in the 2009 film The Hangover (and its sequels), and Templeton “Faceman” Peck in 2010 movie The A-Team.
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and grew up in nearby Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. His mother, Gloria (née Campano), is Italian-American, and his father, Charles Cooper, was Irish-American and worked as a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch. Cooper was raised Roman Catholic. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1993, he attended Villanova University for his freshman year,...
- 5/12/2011
- by Josh Abraham
- Hollywoodnews.com
Another bumper edition- I hereby pledge never to write several 2000 word reviews a week while neglecting this beautiful little column- with three weeks worth of viewing listed below.
An added element to the Film Diary this time around is the sub-challenge A Disney A Day, instigated at the behest of my girlfriend, who discovered that between us we now own every Disney home release- except the somewhat controversial Song of the South (which, despite featuring one of Disney’s most released soundtrack songs, is yet to see a DVD release)- and has decided that it would be a missed opportunity not to watch all of them as quickly as possible. Seems my spirit may have rubbed off there a little…
The count so far: 101 Films
Anyway, into three figures now, and catching up to the 1 film a day rate (though that’s slow for me). Read on, lovely Diary...
An added element to the Film Diary this time around is the sub-challenge A Disney A Day, instigated at the behest of my girlfriend, who discovered that between us we now own every Disney home release- except the somewhat controversial Song of the South (which, despite featuring one of Disney’s most released soundtrack songs, is yet to see a DVD release)- and has decided that it would be a missed opportunity not to watch all of them as quickly as possible. Seems my spirit may have rubbed off there a little…
The count so far: 101 Films
Anyway, into three figures now, and catching up to the 1 film a day rate (though that’s slow for me). Read on, lovely Diary...
- 4/17/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Don't take drugs because they are bad. Unless you are the hero of Limitless, in which case, take large quantities of drugs and become incredibly successful in all areas of life...
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Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is easy to empathise with. He is an intelligent guy (like some of us) who is very far from reaching his potential (almost all of us.) He wants to write a book but he's creatively stunted. He tells his friends that he has a book contract and falls into pretentious jigsaw pieces when he's asked to explain what it's about.
He has a beautiful girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) but she breaks up with him because he's drifting into that ugly long-haired territory of loser. Eddie slumps into depression and meets an old buddy on the street. His buddy asks him to take a pill. You see according to buddy, we only use 10% (this isn't true...
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Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is easy to empathise with. He is an intelligent guy (like some of us) who is very far from reaching his potential (almost all of us.) He wants to write a book but he's creatively stunted. He tells his friends that he has a book contract and falls into pretentious jigsaw pieces when he's asked to explain what it's about.
He has a beautiful girlfriend Lindy (Abbie Cornish) but she breaks up with him because he's drifting into that ugly long-haired territory of loser. Eddie slumps into depression and meets an old buddy on the street. His buddy asks him to take a pill. You see according to buddy, we only use 10% (this isn't true...
- 3/24/2011
- by FanboyCrew
The box office has its limitations. Limitless premiered in the Number One spot at the box office this weekend with $19 Million. Rango was Second with $15.3 Million. Battle: Los Angeles was Third with $14.6 Million. The Lincoln Lawyer premiered in Fourth place with $13.4 Million. Paul premiered in Fifth Place with $13.1 Million. The Adjustment Bureau, Red Riding Hood, Mars Needs Moms, Beastly, and Hall Pass rounded out the top ten respectively.
Limitless is a 2011 American techno-thriller film directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Robert John Burke, Tomas Arana, T.V. Carpio, and Patricia Kalember. It is based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn with the screenplay by Leslie Dixon.
Source: Boxofficemojo...
Limitless is a 2011 American techno-thriller film directed by Neil Burger and starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Anna Friel, Johnny Whitworth, Robert John Burke, Tomas Arana, T.V. Carpio, and Patricia Kalember. It is based on the 2001 novel The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn with the screenplay by Leslie Dixon.
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- 3/21/2011
- by filmbook
- Film-Book
The notion that we're using only five percent to ten percent of our brains is a myth, though you're bound to believe this if you note the test scores of our schoolchildren in reading and math. We want to imagine this, perhaps, because we hope that in the near future Pfizer will come up with a pill that will liberate our brains, allowing us to use all of their potential. Then again, if everyone is as smart as you, how will you be able to outguess your fellow Americans on which companies are about to merge, sending their stocks ski-high and handing you a fortune just for being able to get the jump on your fellows? In adapting Alan Glynn's (now out of print) novel "The Dark Fields, Leslie Dixon feeds into this understandable fantasy that by swallowing a clear pill daily we could have beaten Bobby Fischer at chess,...
- 3/19/2011
- Arizona Reporter
Limitless
Directed by Neil Burger
Starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Johnny Whitworth, Robert De Niro
Release date: March 18, 2011
The unattainable, no matter what “it” is, always has the tendency to attract us. Shiny new things demand our attention, as well as power, authority, money, and freedom. All of this casts an unshakable spell on us as we fluently follow it while we strain to attain the unattainable. We are creatures of instinct built around our primitive behavior and desires, and it is only acceptable that we want more. But what may eclipse all of this is a horrible fierceness found in our hunger and urgency to attain a mark in history: to leave some evidence of our own existence in this world is what drives some men into mad oblivion. Our main character, we first see him standing on the balcony ledge of a New York City penthouse,...
Directed by Neil Burger
Starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Andrew Howard, Johnny Whitworth, Robert De Niro
Release date: March 18, 2011
The unattainable, no matter what “it” is, always has the tendency to attract us. Shiny new things demand our attention, as well as power, authority, money, and freedom. All of this casts an unshakable spell on us as we fluently follow it while we strain to attain the unattainable. We are creatures of instinct built around our primitive behavior and desires, and it is only acceptable that we want more. But what may eclipse all of this is a horrible fierceness found in our hunger and urgency to attain a mark in history: to leave some evidence of our own existence in this world is what drives some men into mad oblivion. Our main character, we first see him standing on the balcony ledge of a New York City penthouse,...
- 3/19/2011
- by Three-D
- Geeks of Doom
Title: Limitless Director: Neil Burger Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel) Stars: Bradley Cooper, Anna Friel and Abbie Cornish People have always wondered how their lives would change if there was a drug that could make them smarter. The moral question of whether or not people should take such a drug is presented in the new Relativity Media thriller ‘Limitless,’ starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Abbie Cornish. But audiences will unfortunately forget this question quickly, as the movie glorifies illegal drugs and the extravagant lifestyle people can obtain by taking them. ‘Limitless’ follows writer Eddie Morra (played by Cooper) as he is hit with a severe case of writer’s block. While he [...]...
- 3/19/2011
- by karen
- ShockYa
Chicago – If you’re not easily susceptible to vertigo and can survive the intro cut scene, “Limitless” proceeds to treat you to one part thrill ride and one part exercise in ridiculousness. While we often go to the movies to escape, “Limitless” manipulatively exploits our deepest and darkest desires for wealth, power and Google-like global conquests.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
The film’s frustrations start and end with its story, which was written for the screen by Leslie Dixon based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Dixon, who has come a long way from “Mrs. Doubtfire” with this immediate-gratification film that goes out one ear just as fast as it enters the other, bases her premise on an experimental, non-fda-approved drug with no street name.
Predictable with every try at a twist or turn, even if your brain got extracted from your head you’d still be able to channel from it the...
Rating: 2.0/5.0
The film’s frustrations start and end with its story, which was written for the screen by Leslie Dixon based on the novel by Alan Glynn. Dixon, who has come a long way from “Mrs. Doubtfire” with this immediate-gratification film that goes out one ear just as fast as it enters the other, bases her premise on an experimental, non-fda-approved drug with no street name.
Predictable with every try at a twist or turn, even if your brain got extracted from your head you’d still be able to channel from it the...
- 3/18/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The irony is not lost on me that Limitless is a movie about a pill that would allow a person to unlock the unused potential in their brain. They mystery drug Dzt, usually taken in the form of a clear pill gives the user the ability to recall all memory since birth and cuts down on the time it takes to process those memories. If it sounds more like science fiction than the previews have been making it out to be, I’m here to push you in the direction of checking out Limitless this weekend at your local multiplex. Here to help me is Bradley Cooper, who plays Eddie Morra – a down-on-his-luck writer whose girlfriend (played by Abbie Cornish) breaks up with him as his editor is threatening to cut off the flow of money from his book deal. Bradley Cooper on Eddie Morra: Um, well, I read the script,...
- 3/18/2011
- LRMonline.com
Neil Burger(The Illusionist, The Lucky Ones) brings Alan Glynn's ambitious novel, The Dark Fields, to the big screen as a starring vehicle for Bradley Cooper, who has thrived mostly on good lucks at this point. This will be the first and best chance to test his box office prowess, paired up opposite Robert De Niro and amazing Abbie Cornish. Cooper stars as an average guy who begins taking an...
- 3/18/2011
- by Travis Hopson
- Punch Drunk Critics
Reviewed by Rick Klaw
(March 2011)
Directed by: Neil Burger
Written by: Leslie Dixon
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro
Evoking the groundbreaking visuals of “Fight Club,” director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”), with the aid of Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro, delivers the dynamic superhero-without-capes thriller “Limitless.”
Despondent after his recent breakup with girlfriend Lindy (Cornish), unemployed writer Eddie Morra (Cooper) reconnects with his ex-brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth), who introduces him to the experimental drug Nzt. The drug enhances Eddie’s mental capacities, enabling him to recall everything read, heard or seen. Now highly focused and supremely confident, Eddie uses his new abilities and understanding to first complete his long overdue novel and then to become a highly successful stockbroker.
His achievements garner the attention of manipulative business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who attempts to wield Eddie as a moneymaking tool. Additionally, he attracts...
(March 2011)
Directed by: Neil Burger
Written by: Leslie Dixon
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro
Evoking the groundbreaking visuals of “Fight Club,” director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”), with the aid of Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro, delivers the dynamic superhero-without-capes thriller “Limitless.”
Despondent after his recent breakup with girlfriend Lindy (Cornish), unemployed writer Eddie Morra (Cooper) reconnects with his ex-brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth), who introduces him to the experimental drug Nzt. The drug enhances Eddie’s mental capacities, enabling him to recall everything read, heard or seen. Now highly focused and supremely confident, Eddie uses his new abilities and understanding to first complete his long overdue novel and then to become a highly successful stockbroker.
His achievements garner the attention of manipulative business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who attempts to wield Eddie as a moneymaking tool. Additionally, he attracts...
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
Reviewed by Rick Klaw
(March 2011)
Directed by: Neil Burger
Written by: Leslie Dixon
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro
Evoking the groundbreaking visuals of “Fight Club,” director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”), with the aid of Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro, delivers the dynamic superhero-without-capes thriller “Limitless.”
Despondent after his recent breakup with girlfriend Lindy (Cornish), unemployed writer Eddie Morra (Cooper) reconnects with his ex-brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth), who introduces him to the experimental drug Nzt. The drug enhances Eddie’s mental capacities, enabling him to recall everything read, heard or seen. Now highly focused and supremely confident, Eddie uses his new abilities and understanding to first complete his long overdue novel and then to become a highly successful stockbroker.
His achievements garner the attention of manipulative business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who attempts to wield Eddie as a moneymaking tool. Additionally, he attracts...
(March 2011)
Directed by: Neil Burger
Written by: Leslie Dixon
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro
Evoking the groundbreaking visuals of “Fight Club,” director Neil Burger (“The Illusionist”), with the aid of Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro, delivers the dynamic superhero-without-capes thriller “Limitless.”
Despondent after his recent breakup with girlfriend Lindy (Cornish), unemployed writer Eddie Morra (Cooper) reconnects with his ex-brother-in-law (Johnny Whitworth), who introduces him to the experimental drug Nzt. The drug enhances Eddie’s mental capacities, enabling him to recall everything read, heard or seen. Now highly focused and supremely confident, Eddie uses his new abilities and understanding to first complete his long overdue novel and then to become a highly successful stockbroker.
His achievements garner the attention of manipulative business mogul Carl Van Loon (De Niro), who attempts to wield Eddie as a moneymaking tool. Additionally, he attracts...
- 3/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Limitless Review
A fantastical thriller, Limitless makes you want to yell “I’ll have what he’s on!” In theatres everywhere March 18th, this sleek sci-fi starring Bradley Cooper plays like a morality tale on speed. Based on a novel by Alan Glynn, Limitless explores the normally untapped heights of human potential. The movie starts with main character Eddie Morra (Cooper) standing on a ledge. He’s about to jump, and to explain how he got to this point in his life he takes the audience back to the beginning of all his trouble.
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A fantastical thriller, Limitless makes you want to yell “I’ll have what he’s on!” In theatres everywhere March 18th, this sleek sci-fi starring Bradley Cooper plays like a morality tale on speed. Based on a novel by Alan Glynn, Limitless explores the normally untapped heights of human potential. The movie starts with main character Eddie Morra (Cooper) standing on a ledge. He’s about to jump, and to explain how he got to this point in his life he takes the audience back to the beginning of all his trouble.
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- 3/18/2011
- by Amy Curtis
- We Got This Covered
Review of Limitless - Moderately entertaining and a fascinating premise in Bradley Cooper starrer. (2-1/2 out of 5 stars) Between its generic title (I prefer The Dark Fields, from the novel by Alan Glynn it's based on), a less-than-engaging lead in Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro’s usual tough guy routine, I expected Limitless to be God-awful. Yet I left moderately entertained and even fascinated by the premise. The film is buoyed by a brash style and moments of levity, and Eddie Morra is a believable superhero for our modern miracle drug age. The scraggly, unshaven Eddie we first meet suffers from depression and low self-esteem, a writer unable to write. (Been there, done that. But Cooper as a writer? And how did Morra get a book contract?) Then he runs into his douche-y ex-brother-in-law Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), a former drug dealer now thriving as a consultant for a pharmaceutical company.
- 3/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Review of Limitless - Moderately entertaining and a fascinating premise in Bradley Cooper starrer. (2-1/2 out of 5 stars) Between its generic title (I prefer The Dark Fields, from the novel by Alan Glynn it's based on), a less-than-engaging lead in Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro’s usual tough guy routine, I expected Limitless to be God-awful. Yet I left moderately entertained and even fascinated by the premise. The film is buoyed by a brash style and moments of levity, and Eddie Morra is a believable superhero for our modern miracle drug age. The scraggly, unshaven Eddie we first meet suffers from depression and low self-esteem, a writer unable to write. (Been there, done that. But Cooper as a writer? And how did Morra get a book contract?) Then he runs into his douche-y ex-brother-in-law Vernon (Johnny Whitworth), a former drug dealer now thriving as a consultant for a pharmaceutical company.
- 3/18/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Director Neil Burger takes us behind the scenes of Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro's new thriller.
By Eric Ditzian
Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper in "Limitless"
Photo: Universal Pictures
There is a scene midway through "Limitless" in which Abbie Cornish's character is running through a park, attempting to escape a guy intent on gutting her like a fish. Unsure how to get away, she swallows a black-market drug called Nzt — a little pill allowing her to access 100 percent of her mind — and scans the park for possible weapons: a pair of gardening sheers or a baseball bat, perhaps?
Then she sees a little girl on ice skates off in the distance. Bingo! She races toward the rink as the evil dude gives chase, then picks up the girl and uses her ice skates to slice her enemy's face. It's a wackily kinetic scene in a thriller filled with such moments.
By Eric Ditzian
Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper in "Limitless"
Photo: Universal Pictures
There is a scene midway through "Limitless" in which Abbie Cornish's character is running through a park, attempting to escape a guy intent on gutting her like a fish. Unsure how to get away, she swallows a black-market drug called Nzt — a little pill allowing her to access 100 percent of her mind — and scans the park for possible weapons: a pair of gardening sheers or a baseball bat, perhaps?
Then she sees a little girl on ice skates off in the distance. Bingo! She races toward the rink as the evil dude gives chase, then picks up the girl and uses her ice skates to slice her enemy's face. It's a wackily kinetic scene in a thriller filled with such moments.
- 3/18/2011
- MTV Movie News
Director Neil Burger takes us behind the scenes of Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro's new thriller.
By Eric Ditzian
Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper in "Limitless"
Photo: Universal Pictures
There is a scene midway through "Limitless" in which Abbie Cornish's character is running through a park, attempting to escape a guy intent on gutting her like a fish. Unsure how to get away, she swallows a black-market drug called Nzt — a little pill allowing her to access 100 percent of her mind — and scans the park for possible weapons: a pair of gardening sheers or a baseball bat, perhaps?
Then she sees a little girl on ice skates off in the distance. Bingo! She races toward the rink as the evil dude gives chase, then picks up the girl and uses her ice skates to slice her enemy's face. It's a wackily kinetic scene in a thriller filled with such moments.
By Eric Ditzian
Robert DeNiro and Bradley Cooper in "Limitless"
Photo: Universal Pictures
There is a scene midway through "Limitless" in which Abbie Cornish's character is running through a park, attempting to escape a guy intent on gutting her like a fish. Unsure how to get away, she swallows a black-market drug called Nzt — a little pill allowing her to access 100 percent of her mind — and scans the park for possible weapons: a pair of gardening sheers or a baseball bat, perhaps?
Then she sees a little girl on ice skates off in the distance. Bingo! She races toward the rink as the evil dude gives chase, then picks up the girl and uses her ice skates to slice her enemy's face. It's a wackily kinetic scene in a thriller filled with such moments.
- 3/18/2011
- MTV Music News
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a sci-fi thriller that proves to be both exciting and unexpectedly original. Here’s our review...
If you could take a pill that immediately transformed you into a more intelligent, charismatic version of yourself, would you? That's the question posed by Neil Burger's Limitless, an economical, urgent adaptation of Alan Glynn's novel, The Dark Fields.
Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a dishevelled, down-on-his-luck author suffering from an incurable case of writer's block. He's trying to finish writing his ambitious science fiction novel, but his publisher's deadline is looming and he hasn't written a word. Running out of time, behind on his rent, and on the brink of losing his girlfriend, it's hardly surprising that he takes the mysterious clear pill offered to him by his shady brother-in-law, Vernon Gant (Johnny Whitworth).
An "Fda approved clever pill" that temporarily expands the capabilities of his mind,...
If you could take a pill that immediately transformed you into a more intelligent, charismatic version of yourself, would you? That's the question posed by Neil Burger's Limitless, an economical, urgent adaptation of Alan Glynn's novel, The Dark Fields.
Bradley Cooper plays Eddie Morra, a dishevelled, down-on-his-luck author suffering from an incurable case of writer's block. He's trying to finish writing his ambitious science fiction novel, but his publisher's deadline is looming and he hasn't written a word. Running out of time, behind on his rent, and on the brink of losing his girlfriend, it's hardly surprising that he takes the mysterious clear pill offered to him by his shady brother-in-law, Vernon Gant (Johnny Whitworth).
An "Fda approved clever pill" that temporarily expands the capabilities of his mind,...
- 3/18/2011
- Den of Geek
Rating: 3.5/5
Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel The Dark Fields)
Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish
Studio: Relativity Media
We as humans don’t utilize our full potential. This is a fact. After all, we do only use 10-20% of our brain power and science won’t be able to give us the capability to go beyond that (not in our lifetime, at least). Well, what if there was a magic pill that could unlock that potential? What if you were a disheveled writer who vaguely resembled Bradley Cooper, but when taking this pill you become the badass that is the Bradley Cooper that you’ve admired (yeah, even if you’re a straight dude) on screen. Limitless answers those questions, and the answers are full of pure adrenaline-pumping, synaptic brain-firing fun! From the director of The Lucky Ones and The Illusionist, Neil Burger...
Writers: Leslie Dixon (screenplay), Alan Glynn (novel The Dark Fields)
Director: Neil Burger
Cast: Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish
Studio: Relativity Media
We as humans don’t utilize our full potential. This is a fact. After all, we do only use 10-20% of our brain power and science won’t be able to give us the capability to go beyond that (not in our lifetime, at least). Well, what if there was a magic pill that could unlock that potential? What if you were a disheveled writer who vaguely resembled Bradley Cooper, but when taking this pill you become the badass that is the Bradley Cooper that you’ve admired (yeah, even if you’re a straight dude) on screen. Limitless answers those questions, and the answers are full of pure adrenaline-pumping, synaptic brain-firing fun! From the director of The Lucky Ones and The Illusionist, Neil Burger...
- 3/18/2011
- by J.C. De Leon
- GordonandtheWhale
Limitless is a story about smart people who make bad choices that turn them into even smarter people, who then make worse choices. It’s a light, well-made action-thriller about kickass unearned power and privilege, which brings the fun but never quite shows us the dark side that it keeps threatening to.
Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, A-Team) stars as Eddie Mara, a borderline-failed writer/ definitely-failed human being who has recently been dumped by his long-suffering girlfriend. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance introduces him to a black market pharmaceutical drug called Nzt that allows the user access to the full potential of his brain. Suddenly, Eddie is using his Beautiful Mind-like abilities to write novels, charm socialites, win back his girlfriend, and succeed in business without really trying. But everything comes with a price, and Eddie soon discovers the side effects of both his new drug and the rapid career ascent he has made.
Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, A-Team) stars as Eddie Mara, a borderline-failed writer/ definitely-failed human being who has recently been dumped by his long-suffering girlfriend. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance introduces him to a black market pharmaceutical drug called Nzt that allows the user access to the full potential of his brain. Suddenly, Eddie is using his Beautiful Mind-like abilities to write novels, charm socialites, win back his girlfriend, and succeed in business without really trying. But everything comes with a price, and Eddie soon discovers the side effects of both his new drug and the rapid career ascent he has made.
- 3/18/2011
- by Ian MacIntyre
- DorkShelf.com
Three pics contend for top spots at the box office this weekend. Relativity Media's Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel, opens into 2,756 theatres. Neil Burger directs the action thriller from the script by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Alan Glynn. In 2,707 theatres, Lionsgate's crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer, stars Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, John Leguizamo, Michael Peña, Margarita Levieva and Shea Whigham. Brad Furman directs the John Romano adaptation of the Michael Connelly book. Universal Pictures' Paul comedy starring popular comedic duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as well as Seth Rogen as the title character, unspools into 2,801 locations. Pic helmed by Greg Mottola from the writing by Pegg and Frost, also includes Kristen Wiig, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Blythe Danner, David Koechner, John Carroll Lynch and Jesse Plemons...
- 3/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Three pics contend for top spots at the box office this weekend. Relativity Media's Limitless starring Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Anna Friel, opens into 2,756 theatres. Neil Burger directs the action thriller from the script by Leslie Dixon, based on the novel by Alan Glynn. In 2,707 theatres, Lionsgate's crime drama The Lincoln Lawyer, stars Matthew McConaughey, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, John Leguizamo, Michael Peña, Margarita Levieva and Shea Whigham. Brad Furman directs the John Romano adaptation of the Michael Connelly book. Universal Pictures' Paul comedy starring popular comedic duo Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, as well as Seth Rogen as the title character, unspools into 2,801 locations. Pic helmed by Greg Mottola from the writing by Pegg and Frost, also includes Kristen Wiig, Sigourney Weaver, Bill Hader, Jason Bateman, Jeffrey Tambor, Blythe Danner, David Koechner, John Carroll Lynch and Jesse Plemons...
- 3/17/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
On Friday, Neil Burger's sci-fi thriller Limitless , based on the novel "The Dark Fields," will open nationwide, and a few weeks back, ComingSoon.net attended the New York press conferences with Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish and Robert De Niro to learn more about how the film came together. It all began with screenwriter Leslie Dixon who found Alan Glynn's novel in a second-hand bookshop and figured out a way to finagle the rights away from Harvey Weinstein, a feat in itself. Her and the producers brought Neil Burger on board, impressed by his 2006 film The Illusionist , which was also based on a novel. Shia Labeouf was originally attached to play the role of Eddie Morra, but he ended up doing something else which opened the door for Bradley Cooper, star of Todd...
- 3/17/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Director: Neil Burger.
Writers: Leslie Dixon and Alan Glynn.
If an acid trip to the Twilight Zone is in order, Limitless explores the boundaries of neither the real nor the imagined. It looks at the human potential of what one can be. Instead of designing a super soldier, science looks to awaken the subconscious when one is hopped up on a fictional drug, Nzt.
The message this film delivers about drug use borders on satire. If that is good, then the statement it makes about where humanity will go next is definitely the stuff of science fiction.
But this film is also a thriller. It explores Eddie Morra’s (Bradley Cooper) climb to fame. With the help of Nzt and some dirty mob money, he becomes a financial genius in the high stakes game of the New York Stock Exchange. When his millions draws the attention of corporate mogul, Carl...
Writers: Leslie Dixon and Alan Glynn.
If an acid trip to the Twilight Zone is in order, Limitless explores the boundaries of neither the real nor the imagined. It looks at the human potential of what one can be. Instead of designing a super soldier, science looks to awaken the subconscious when one is hopped up on a fictional drug, Nzt.
The message this film delivers about drug use borders on satire. If that is good, then the statement it makes about where humanity will go next is definitely the stuff of science fiction.
But this film is also a thriller. It explores Eddie Morra’s (Bradley Cooper) climb to fame. With the help of Nzt and some dirty mob money, he becomes a financial genius in the high stakes game of the New York Stock Exchange. When his millions draws the attention of corporate mogul, Carl...
- 3/17/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
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For those of you that want some Free Movie Swag, GeekTyrant is giving away (1) free Prize Pack that includes the following: limitless Movie Poster Copy of Limitless Book Stainless Steel Water Bottle To Enter the Contest Here's What You Need to Do! In the Rant Back section below tell us what you would do if you were the smartest person alive. We'll read through all of the comments and choose a winner. Make sure you are logged into Facebook or Twitter when you enter so that we can contact you if you win! We will ask for your name and mailing address so we can send the movie prize pack out to you. The contest is good for Us residents only.
For those of you that want some Free Movie Swag, GeekTyrant is giving away (1) free Prize Pack that includes the following: limitless Movie Poster Copy of Limitless Book Stainless Steel Water Bottle To Enter the Contest Here's What You Need to Do! In the Rant Back section below tell us what you would do if you were the smartest person alive. We'll read through all of the comments and choose a winner. Make sure you are logged into Facebook or Twitter when you enter so that we can contact you if you win! We will ask for your name and mailing address so we can send the movie prize pack out to you. The contest is good for Us residents only.
- 3/16/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Coming from Relativity Media and acclaimed director Neil Burger (The Illusionist), is Limitless, starring Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. On the Eve of the film’s release, Neil Burger chats with Killer Film about the book, the cast, and what took him three years to direct again.
Jon: I’ve been really curious about this film ever since those viral campaigns were released. Those were fun, can you explain them?
Neil Burger: Those were an idea that we had. How do you present the film in a new way, with the idea of what if a new pill could make you rich and powerful? Would you do it? We started playing with it, coming up with stuff, until Bradley (Cooper) came up with the “side effects” angle of the coma, suicidal tendencies, etc. It was like “oh my gosh, we should do that as a commercial!” So we did it,...
Jon: I’ve been really curious about this film ever since those viral campaigns were released. Those were fun, can you explain them?
Neil Burger: Those were an idea that we had. How do you present the film in a new way, with the idea of what if a new pill could make you rich and powerful? Would you do it? We started playing with it, coming up with stuff, until Bradley (Cooper) came up with the “side effects” angle of the coma, suicidal tendencies, etc. It was like “oh my gosh, we should do that as a commercial!” So we did it,...
- 3/16/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
To celebrate the March 23 theatrical release of Limitless HeyUGuys are giving away 5 copies of Alan Glynn’s novel that was adapted for the big screen. There is also the chance to see an exclusive clip and win an iPad on the film’s Facebook page.
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a paranoia-fuelled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a pill that allows him to use 100% of his mind and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film. Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to ‘Clear Pill’, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential.
Limitless is released in the UK on Wednesday, March 23.
Formally The Dark Fields,...
Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro star in Limitless, a paranoia-fuelled action thriller about an unsuccessful writer whose life is transformed by a pill that allows him to use 100% of his mind and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life in this darkly comic and provocative film. Aspiring author Eddie Morra (Cooper) is suffering from chronic writer’s block, but his life changes instantly when an old friend introduces him to ‘Clear Pill’, a revolutionary new pharmaceutical that allows him to tap his full potential.
Limitless is released in the UK on Wednesday, March 23.
Formally The Dark Fields,...
- 3/15/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Writer Leslie Dixon has had a hand in quite a few prominent films from Overboard to Look Who.s Talking Now to Freaky Friday. See a trend? The majority of Dixon.s work falls within the comedy genre. So what.s she doing penning a thriller? Limitless is actually the result of a spontaneous trip to the bookstore. Limitless is based on the book The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn. The film stars Bradley Cooper as Eddie Morra, a down and out writer who happens upon an illegal miracle drug called Nzt. He pops one pill and unlocks portions of his brain the average human.s incapable of accessing, giving him the ability to absorb information at an incredible rate and recall memories dating back to being in his mother.s womb. Like most drugs, Nzt has its risks; it.s highly addictive and should you stop taking it, you...
- 3/14/2011
- cinemablend.com
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