2/08/2015

First Look at Miles Teller in 'Bleed for This', Noomi Rapace in 'Unlocked', and Thomas McCarthy's 'Spotlight'


So what happens when the Berlin Film Festival gets rolling? Deals start getting inked and first images of some major films start getting dropped, and here are just a few that I'm looking forward to later in 2015.

First up is a look at Miles Teller in the boxing biopic, Bleed for This, in which he plays popular middleweight Vinny Pazienza (now just Vinny Paz). Directed by Ben Younger, the film tells how the former champ fought back to return to the ring after a near-fatal car crash had doctors unsure he'd ever walk again, much less fight.

Warner Bros. has revealed the first image from Michael Apted's action flick, Unlocked, starring Noomi Rapace as a CIA interrogator who unwittingly provides information to terrorists and then must race against the clock to stop a biological warfare attack on London. Toni Collette, Michael Douglas, Orlando Bloom, and John Malkovich co-star.


And finally, here's a cast shot from Thomas McCarthy's Spotlight, a film which is bound to kick up some controversy. Starring Rachel McAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, John Slattery, and Brian d’Arcy James, it tells the true story "about the Boston Globe investigation into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church."