Paranoia, a thriller with a unique, all-star cast, has found an American distributor and a release date.  Relativity Media has acquired U.S. rights to the film based on the novel by Joseph Finder, and today the studio announced that Paranoia will hit theaters Stateside on September 27, 2013.

Liam Hemsworth, an Australian up-and-comer who last appeared as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games, leads the cast as a regular guy who finds himself blackmailed into a costly game of corporate and technological espionage with unimaginably high stakes.  Also starring in Paranoia are Academy Award nominees Gary Oldman and Harrison Ford, along with Lucas Till, who played Havoc in last summer's X-Men: First Class.

Some actors bring something special no matter the movie in which they're appearing, regardless of the size or nature of their role.  To say that Willem Dafoe is such an actor would be a dramatic understatement.  The Oscar-caliber actor has officially signed on to Relativity Media's Out of Furnace, an homage to gritty 1970s crime thrillers that follows a recently released convict as he sets out to avenge his brother.

Opening in theaters on April 27th is a new thriller from director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) called The Raven, which features John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank) as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe. The film is a fictionalized account of the last eight days of Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. In addition to Cusack the film also stars Alice Eve (ATM), Luke Evans (Immortals), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and M. Emmet Walsh (The Mighty Quinn). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with director James McTeigue to discuss The Raven. The accomplished director talked about his new movie, its fictional story, why John Cusack was the perfect actor to play Edgar Allan Poe, the film's amazing locations, tone, Alice Eve's secret, and what Poe himself would think of the film. 

Actor Luke Evans has recently gained attention worldwide for his work in a string of period films including Clash of the Titans, Robin Hood, The Three Musketeers and director Tarsem Singh’s Immortals. Not to mention that he will soon be seen playing Bard the Bowman in director Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. But first, Evans will be starring in another period movie entitled The Raven, which opens in theaters on April 27^th and features a fictional account of the final days of acclaimed author Edgar Allan Poe’s life.

In the film, Evans plays Detective Emmett Fields, a 19^th century Baltimore policeman who makes a shocking discovery: the crime he is investigating resembles a fictional murder described in detail as part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack). Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as inspiration for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. However, when it appears as if the murderer’s next victim is someone Poe cares about, the stakes become even higher and now the inventor of modern detective stories must call on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before its too late. The Raven was directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta), and in addition to Cusack and Evans, also stars Alice Eve (ATM), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), and Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides).

I recently had a chance to speak with actor Luke Evans about his work on The Raven, as well as the upcoming The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and The Hobbit: There and Back Again. Evans discussed his new film, the work of Edgar Allan Poe, his initial reaction to the script and its fictional story, what he learned from working with John Cusack, the film’s locations, his character, director James McTiegue’s vision for the project, shooting The Hobbit films, living in New Zealand, Peter Jackson’s infectious passion, and being a part of the incredible cinematic Lord of the Rings universe.

Opening in theaters on April 27th is a new thriller from director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) called The Raven, which features John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank) as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe. The film is a fictionalized account of the last eight days of Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. In addition to Cusack the film also stars Alice Eve (ATM), Luke Evans (Immortals), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and M. Emmet Walsh (The Mighty Quinn). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Alice Eve to discuss her work on The Raven. The actress talked about her new film, her prior knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe's work, the film's fictional story, being buried alive, working with John Cusack, and how the film's locations and costumes helped the actress create her character.

Opening in theaters on April 27th is a new thriller from director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) called The Raven, which features John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank) as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe. The film is a fictionalized account of the last eight days of Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. In addition to Cusack the film also stars Alice Eve (ATM), Luke Evans (Immortals), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and M. Emmet Walsh (The Mighty Quinn). 

IAR's Managing Editor Jami Philbrick recently had the pleasure of sitting down with John Cusack to discuss his work on The Raven. The actor talked about his new film, the responsibility he felt playing Poe, the movie's fictional narrative, and director James McTeigue's vision for the unique project.

Opening in theaters on April 27th is a new thriller from director James McTeigue (V for Vendetta) called The Raven, which features John Cusack (Grosse Point Blank) as literary legend Edgar Allan Poe. The film is a fictionalized account of the last eight days of Poe's life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in his stories. In addition to Cusack the film also stars Alice Eve (ATM), Luke Evans (Immortals), Brendan Gleeson (The Guard), Kevin McNally (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides) and M. Emmet Walsh (The Mighty Quinn). 

The Rogue Movie Network and IAR are proud to present this exclusive conversation with John Cusack and director James McTeigue about The Raven. Cusack and McTeigue discussed the new film, looking for original material, McTeigue's habit of making revenge movies, why Cusack was right for the role, Poe's literary influence, and the reasons why this fictional story lends more scope to the author's life than a proper biopic would. 

Relativity Media officially announced the truly impressive principal cast of the film currently titled Out of the Furnace, a dramatic and textured homage to the thrillers of the 1970s, following a newly freed ex-convict out to avenge his brother.  How impressive is the cast?  It's led by Oscar winner Christian Bale, along with Star Trek and Avatar star Zoe Saldana as the female lead.  They're joined by two Oscar nominees: Gone Baby Gone's Casey Affleck and legendary actor/playwright Sam Shepard.

This month's The Raven is no ordinary thriller.  The film stars John Cusack as inventor of the detective novel and American literary legend Edgar Allan Poe, with the author hunting down a vicious murderer whose crimes are patterned after Poe's prose and poetry. 

Such a uniquely fictionalized historical story deserves an appropriately singular behind-the-scenes video, and now it has one thanks to the one and only Olga Kay.

Going into last weekend, expectations for the adaptation of the first novel in Suzanne Collins' dystopian novel trilogy were huge, but The Hunger Games opened even huger than anyone anticipated, becoming the third-biggest domestic opening of all time.  In its second weekend, the film was facing competition from two new releases, the sequel Wrath of the the Titans and the family-friendly Snow White tale Mirror Mirror.  Though both of those films opened well, they were up against the indomitable The Hunger Games.