Retribution is a thriller drama film directed by Nimród Antal from a screenplay by Chris Salmanpour. Based on a Spanish film named El desconocido (also known as Retribution) by Alberto Marini, the film follows the story of Matt Turner, a financier, who is suddenly threatened by a mysterious bomber while driving his kids to school. Retribution stars Liam Neeson in the lead role with Noma Dumezweni, Lilly Aspell, Jack Champion, and Matthew Modine. So, if you loved Retribution here are some similar movies you could watch next.
Retribution (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros. Spain
Synopsis: A bank executive receives an anonymous phone call informing him he has just a few hours to obtain a large amount of money or a bomb under his seat will explode.
Phone Booth (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: Stuart Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a somewhat sleazy publicist who...
Retribution (Rent on Prime Video) Credit – Warner Bros. Spain
Synopsis: A bank executive receives an anonymous phone call informing him he has just a few hours to obtain a large amount of money or a bomb under his seat will explode.
Phone Booth (Hulu & Rent on Prime Video) Credit – 20th Century Fox
Synopsis: Stuart Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a somewhat sleazy publicist who...
- 8/25/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Liam Neeson in RetributionImage: Lionsgate
For audiences who like seeing 71-year-old Liam Neeson do action stuff but find it just a touch unconvincing when he punches out bad guys twice his size and half his age, Retribution may be just the ticket. Sticking him behind the wheel of a car...
For audiences who like seeing 71-year-old Liam Neeson do action stuff but find it just a touch unconvincing when he punches out bad guys twice his size and half his age, Retribution may be just the ticket. Sticking him behind the wheel of a car...
- 8/24/2023
- by Luke Y. Thompson
- avclub.com
No wonder the writers are on strike.
Being forced to try to bring freshness to the same tired ideas over and over to get some studio work must be frustrating. I would be picketing Lionsgate (which is behind this movie) just because it’s really not easy making this kind of thing original. The latest ripoff — and it literally is because it comes from the 2015 Spanish film El Desconocido, which itself has been remade more than once in the past few years — is the Liam Neeson-starring Retribution. A better title might be Generic Neeson #9. I even looked up the title on IMDb just to make sure this was a new Neeson movie.
This is not to say that Regurgitation, er, I mean Retribution isn’t effectively made. Its director, the talented Nimród Antal (Control), does what he can to make Christopher Salmanpour’s (basically a TV procedural writer) by-the-numbers...
Being forced to try to bring freshness to the same tired ideas over and over to get some studio work must be frustrating. I would be picketing Lionsgate (which is behind this movie) just because it’s really not easy making this kind of thing original. The latest ripoff — and it literally is because it comes from the 2015 Spanish film El Desconocido, which itself has been remade more than once in the past few years — is the Liam Neeson-starring Retribution. A better title might be Generic Neeson #9. I even looked up the title on IMDb just to make sure this was a new Neeson movie.
This is not to say that Regurgitation, er, I mean Retribution isn’t effectively made. Its director, the talented Nimród Antal (Control), does what he can to make Christopher Salmanpour’s (basically a TV procedural writer) by-the-numbers...
- 8/24/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Pop quiz, hot shot! There's a bomb in Liam Neeson's car! What do you do?!
What if someone remade "Speed" and removed all the stuff that made that movie so exciting? The result might be "Retribution," Nimród Antal's monotonous thriller that finds Liam Neeson doing his usual Liam Neeson thing yet again. Neeson, who went from professorial roles to an unlikely action star, can play this sort of part in his sleep at this point, and he certainly seems sleepy here, growling unconvincing dialogue as he speeds around in a car wired to explode. Yes, just like "Speed," a mad bomber has planted a device in a vehicle, and if a certain set of rules aren't followed, that bomb will explode.
Neeson is Matt Turner, a financier living in Germany with his frustrated wife (Embeth Davidtz), his angry teen son (Jack Champion), and his loud daughter (Lilly Aspell). We...
What if someone remade "Speed" and removed all the stuff that made that movie so exciting? The result might be "Retribution," Nimród Antal's monotonous thriller that finds Liam Neeson doing his usual Liam Neeson thing yet again. Neeson, who went from professorial roles to an unlikely action star, can play this sort of part in his sleep at this point, and he certainly seems sleepy here, growling unconvincing dialogue as he speeds around in a car wired to explode. Yes, just like "Speed," a mad bomber has planted a device in a vehicle, and if a certain set of rules aren't followed, that bomb will explode.
Neeson is Matt Turner, a financier living in Germany with his frustrated wife (Embeth Davidtz), his angry teen son (Jack Champion), and his loud daughter (Lilly Aspell). We...
- 8/23/2023
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Nimród Antal’s Retribution revolves around a hard-nosed financier, Matt Turner (Liam Neeson), for whom phone calls translate into money. In the rare moments where he isn’t trying to talk a client into a juicy new investment, he’ll half-participate in a conversation with his wife, Heather (Embeth Davidtz), or bark orders at his children, Zack (Jack Champion) and Emily (Lilly Aspell). Given how recklessly we see Matt handling other people’s money and emotions, it’s no surprise when someone eventually comes around looking for payback.
And given that this is a Liam Neeson movie in the year 2023 with a title like Retribution, it’s no surprise that they do so by holding him hostage with the threat of explosion. The film opens with Matt begrudgingly agreeing to take the kiddos to school. During the drive, he receives a call and a mysterious voice informs him that there...
And given that this is a Liam Neeson movie in the year 2023 with a title like Retribution, it’s no surprise that they do so by holding him hostage with the threat of explosion. The film opens with Matt begrudgingly agreeing to take the kiddos to school. During the drive, he receives a call and a mysterious voice informs him that there...
- 8/23/2023
- by Ross McIndoe
- Slant Magazine
There should be an official subgenre of action films devoted to Liam Neeson saving his family. There are certainly enough movies with Neeson’s character demonstrating a particular set of skills to keep his kids alive to warrant its own category. The latest, Retribution, just unveiled an official trailer that finds Neeson as a dad forced to keep driving…or else, kaboom!
Joining Neeson in the action thriller are Matthew Modine, Noma Dumezweni, Jack Champion, Lilly Aspell, and Embeth Davidtz. Nimród Antal (2010’s Predator) directs from a screenplay by Christopher Salmanpour (FBI: Most Wanted), with Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman, Jaume Collet-Serra, and Juan Sola producing.
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will unleash Retribution in theaters on August 25, 2023.
The Plot: Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, an immersive ticking-clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge. When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat,...
Joining Neeson in the action thriller are Matthew Modine, Noma Dumezweni, Jack Champion, Lilly Aspell, and Embeth Davidtz. Nimród Antal (2010’s Predator) directs from a screenplay by Christopher Salmanpour (FBI: Most Wanted), with Andrew Rona, Alex Heineman, Jaume Collet-Serra, and Juan Sola producing.
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will unleash Retribution in theaters on August 25, 2023.
The Plot: Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, an immersive ticking-clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge. When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Pop quiz, hot shot: Liam Neeson has to figure out what to do when he discovers a bomb in his vehicle in the first full trailer for the film Retribution.
Director Nimród Antal’s Lionsgate release hits theaters Aug. 25 and is a remake of the 2015 Spanish-language thriller of the same name. The new version centers on Matt Turner (Neeson), who is driving with his kids when he learns from a mysterious caller that the car contains a bomb that will detonate if anyone exits the vehicle, leading to a high-speed chase throughout the city.
“Honey, something’s happened,” Neeson calmly relays in the trailer. “There’s a man who has put a bomb in the car. Under our seats, there are pressure triggers. We can’t get out. The car will explode.”
Later, the star loses his cool when the caller claims to be in control: “No, you’re not!
Director Nimród Antal’s Lionsgate release hits theaters Aug. 25 and is a remake of the 2015 Spanish-language thriller of the same name. The new version centers on Matt Turner (Neeson), who is driving with his kids when he learns from a mysterious caller that the car contains a bomb that will detonate if anyone exits the vehicle, leading to a high-speed chase throughout the city.
“Honey, something’s happened,” Neeson calmly relays in the trailer. “There’s a man who has put a bomb in the car. Under our seats, there are pressure triggers. We can’t get out. The car will explode.”
Later, the star loses his cool when the caller claims to be in control: “No, you’re not!
- 6/28/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All roads lead to the truth in Lionsgate’s new Liam Neeson movie Retribution, and the official trailer this week promises a thrilling blend of action movie Speed and horror movie Saw.
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will release Retribution in theaters on August 25, 2023. The film is directed by Nimrod Antal, the director of 2010’s Predators.
Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, said to be an immersive ticking clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge.
When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks.
With his kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in...
Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions will release Retribution in theaters on August 25, 2023. The film is directed by Nimrod Antal, the director of 2010’s Predators.
Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, said to be an immersive ticking clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge.
When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the city to complete a specific series of tasks.
With his kids trapped in the back seat and a bomb that will explode if they get out of the car, a normal commute becomes a twisted game of life or death as Matt follows the stranger’s increasingly dangerous instructions in...
- 6/28/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
It’s been 15 years since Liam Neeson revitalized his career with the surprise hit Taken. And ever since, Neeson has been taking advantage of his new gruff action persona, lending his acting gravitas to action movies where he would dabble in gunplay and occasional fisticuffs. That’s not to say the Irish actor has been slumming entirely. The Academy Award-nominated actor has still been able to fit in films like Martin Scorsese’s Silence and Steve McQueen’s Widows to keep scratching his thespian itch. Now, Neeson is back in the driver’s seat in the trailer for his new action thriller, Retribution.
The official synopsis from Lionsgate reads,
Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, an immersive ticking-clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge. When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the...
The official synopsis from Lionsgate reads,
Liam Neeson stars in Retribution, an immersive ticking-clock thriller that straps audiences in for a high-octane ride of redemption and revenge. When a mysterious caller puts a bomb under his car seat, Matt Turner (Neeson) begins a high-speed chase across the...
- 6/28/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
The task force investigates the murder of a reporter on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 19. Directed by Ludovic Littee from a script by Spindrift Beck and Chris Salmanpour, episode 19 – “Bad Seed” – will air on Tuesday, April 25, 2023 at 10pm Et/Pt.
Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.
“Bad Seed” Plot: When a news anchor is shot dead in the station’s parking lot, the Fugitive Task Force must dive into a story she was working on in order to track down her killer. Also, Remy debates revisiting the case around his brother’s murder.
Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott in ‘FBI: Most Wanted...
Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.
“Bad Seed” Plot: When a news anchor is shot dead in the station’s parking lot, the Fugitive Task Force must dive into a story she was working on in order to track down her killer. Also, Remy debates revisiting the case around his brother’s murder.
Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott in ‘FBI: Most Wanted...
- 4/19/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Exclusive: LA and London-based management and production company 42 (The Silent Twins) is bolstering its U.S. footprint of managers and producers with the appointment of Peter Dealbert as a manager.
Dealbert will be based in 42’s LA office and will continue to specialize in literary talent representation and producing across film and TV.
Dealbert founded literary management and production company Pacific View in 2015 and he represents creators across film and TV as both a literary manager and producer.
Pacific View’s roster of clients, which includes Andrew Sodroski, Juliet-Lashinsky Revene, Ben Raab and Deric Hughes, Emily Brochin, Chris Salmanpour and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, will now be represented by Dealbert at 42.
Under the 42 banner, Dealbert will continue producing Amazon Studios’ upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan, with Nicole Kidman set to star and produce through her production company Blossom Films.
Prior to founding Pacific View, Dealbert was a manager at Principato-Young Entertainment. He...
Dealbert will be based in 42’s LA office and will continue to specialize in literary talent representation and producing across film and TV.
Dealbert founded literary management and production company Pacific View in 2015 and he represents creators across film and TV as both a literary manager and producer.
Pacific View’s roster of clients, which includes Andrew Sodroski, Juliet-Lashinsky Revene, Ben Raab and Deric Hughes, Emily Brochin, Chris Salmanpour and Matthew-Lee Erlbach, will now be represented by Dealbert at 42.
Under the 42 banner, Dealbert will continue producing Amazon Studios’ upcoming thriller Holland, Michigan, with Nicole Kidman set to star and produce through her production company Blossom Films.
Prior to founding Pacific View, Dealbert was a manager at Principato-Young Entertainment. He...
- 2/9/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson and Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott in ‘FBI: Most Wanted’ season 4 episode 11
FBI‘s Alana De La Garza puts in a guest-starring appearance on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 11. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Christopher Salmanpour, episode 11 – “Crypto Wars” – will air on Tuesday, January 24, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.
Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.
Rebecca Brooksher recurs as Claire Scott.
“Crypto Wars” Plot: As the team chases after the suspects behind an explosion at an Ohio energy plant, they are led toward a major crypto company with enemies looking to take it down. Also, Remy and his sister close a chapter in their lives.
FBI‘s Alana De La Garza puts in a guest-starring appearance on CBS’s FBI: Most Wanted season four episode 11. Directed by Milena Govich from a script by Christopher Salmanpour, episode 11 – “Crypto Wars” – will air on Tuesday, January 24, 2024 at 10pm Et/Pt.
Season four stars Dylan McDermott as Supervisory Special Agent Remy Scott, Alexa Davalos as Special Agent Kristin Gaines, Roxy Sternberg as Special Agent Sheryll Barnes, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Special Agent Hana Gibson, and Edwin Hodge as Special Agent Ray Cannon.
Rebecca Brooksher recurs as Claire Scott.
“Crypto Wars” Plot: As the team chases after the suspects behind an explosion at an Ohio energy plant, they are led toward a major crypto company with enemies looking to take it down. Also, Remy and his sister close a chapter in their lives.
- 1/11/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Exclusive: Lionsgate just landed a solid thriller for its slate. In competition with other distributors, the company has acquired U.S., Canada and India distribution rights to Retribution, an action thriller from Studiocanal and The Picture Company that stars Liam Neeson. The Nimród Antal-directed film is a remake of the Spanish movie El Desconocido, which received eight Goya Award noms when it was released in Spain in 2015.
The remake also stars Noma Dumezweni, Matthew Modine, Lily Aspell, Jack Champion (a star of the upcoming Avatar sequels), Embeth Davidtz and Arian Moayed. The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman produced the film along with Jaume Collet-Sera and Juan Sola.
Retribution has a Speed vibe to it. Neeson plays an American businessman living in Berlin who discovers through a car phone call on his way to work that a bomb has been planted in his car by an unknown assailant.
The remake also stars Noma Dumezweni, Matthew Modine, Lily Aspell, Jack Champion (a star of the upcoming Avatar sequels), Embeth Davidtz and Arian Moayed. The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman produced the film along with Jaume Collet-Sera and Juan Sola.
Retribution has a Speed vibe to it. Neeson plays an American businessman living in Berlin who discovers through a car phone call on his way to work that a bomb has been planted in his car by an unknown assailant.
- 11/4/2022
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Studiocanal, The Picture Company and Jaume Collet-Serra’s Ombra Productions have set Nimród Antal to direct Liam Neeson in Retribution, a thriller that puts a businessman in a Speed-like dilemma when he discovers that a bomb has been planted in the car he’s driving by an unknown assailant, who tells the driver to execute a series of commands throughout the day or the bomb will be detonated. Making things worse, the businessman is accompanied in the car by his family.
Studiocanal is fully financing and will sell worldwide territories at the American Film Market and release in its own territories in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
Pic is a remake of the acclaimed Spanish film El Desconocido, with a script by Chris Salmanpour and Andrew Baldwin. The original got eight Goya Award nominations when released in Spain in 2015.
The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman,...
Studiocanal is fully financing and will sell worldwide territories at the American Film Market and release in its own territories in the UK, France, Germany, Australia and New Zealand.
Pic is a remake of the acclaimed Spanish film El Desconocido, with a script by Chris Salmanpour and Andrew Baldwin. The original got eight Goya Award nominations when released in Spain in 2015.
The Picture Company partners Andrew Rona & Alex Heineman,...
- 11/9/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS Television Studios, Rideback and Thinking Hat are reteaming on a second year of the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writers room, which in its inaugural year developed and sold two projects to CBS. The program, designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast TV development for the first time, has set Jeff Buhler (Pet Sematary), Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire) and writer Katrina O’Gilvie (Swagger) for this year’s roster.
The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.
The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.
The trio work with showrunner/executive producers Anna Fricke (Walker), Rina Mimoun (Under the Bridge) and Corinne Brinkerhoff (American Gothic), who all have overall deals at CBS TV Studios. They will provide support from development through series.
The program, run by Thinking Hat founder and writer-producer Craig Turk, sold two projects to CBS Television Network in its first year in 2019-2020: Drift from Chris Salmanpour and The Eshmun Protocol from Jason Keller.
- 8/27/2020
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
CBS Television Studios and production companies Rideback and Thinking Hat are again partnering on the Rideback/Thinking Hat Campfire writer’s room.
Three new creators have been selected for the second year of the room. They are writer Jeff Buhler, multi-hyphenate Gbenga Akinnagbe, and writer Katrina O’Gilvie. Working alongside them will be three experienced showrunner/executive producers: Anna Fricke, Rina Mimoun, and Corinne Brinkerhoff. Fricke, Mimoun and Brinkerhoff are under overall deals at the Studio.
“Our vision for Campfire is to support exciting creative voices using the power of collaboration, in particular by introducing the writers room dynamic from day one,” said Rideback CEO Dan Lin. “We’re excited to have Jeff, Gbenga and Katrina as our creators this year and support their remarkable new ideas.”
The program is designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast television development for the first time. In its inaugural 2019-2020 year,...
Three new creators have been selected for the second year of the room. They are writer Jeff Buhler, multi-hyphenate Gbenga Akinnagbe, and writer Katrina O’Gilvie. Working alongside them will be three experienced showrunner/executive producers: Anna Fricke, Rina Mimoun, and Corinne Brinkerhoff. Fricke, Mimoun and Brinkerhoff are under overall deals at the Studio.
“Our vision for Campfire is to support exciting creative voices using the power of collaboration, in particular by introducing the writers room dynamic from day one,” said Rideback CEO Dan Lin. “We’re excited to have Jeff, Gbenga and Katrina as our creators this year and support their remarkable new ideas.”
The program is designed to attract experienced feature film writers and other creative voices to broadcast television development for the first time. In its inaugural 2019-2020 year,...
- 8/27/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: CBS is developing The Eshmun Protocol, a conspiracy thriller drama from Ford v. Ferrari co-writer Jason Keller, Rina Mimoun (Mistresses), Craig Turk (FBI), Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS TV Studios where Rideback has a first-look deal.
Written by Keller, The Eshmun Protocol centers on a combat engineer who returns home to San Francisco for the funeral of his estranged father and begins to unravel the mystery of his father’s death and the dark secrets of the bio-tech company he inherits.
Keller executive produces alongside Mimoun, Turk via his Thinking Hat banner and Lin and Lindsey Liberatore via Rideback.
This is the second broadcast sale this season that’s a collaboration between Rideback and Thinking Hat, joining drama Drift, from writer Chris Salmanpour, also at CBS.
Keller co-wrote with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth the upcoming Fox feature Ford V. Ferrari, directed by James Mangold and starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
Written by Keller, The Eshmun Protocol centers on a combat engineer who returns home to San Francisco for the funeral of his estranged father and begins to unravel the mystery of his father’s death and the dark secrets of the bio-tech company he inherits.
Keller executive produces alongside Mimoun, Turk via his Thinking Hat banner and Lin and Lindsey Liberatore via Rideback.
This is the second broadcast sale this season that’s a collaboration between Rideback and Thinking Hat, joining drama Drift, from writer Chris Salmanpour, also at CBS.
Keller co-wrote with Jez and John-Henry Butterworth the upcoming Fox feature Ford V. Ferrari, directed by James Mangold and starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale.
- 11/12/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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