"assassin and his sister Joan as his assistant, with Dan Aykroyd in a supporting role. Grosse Pointe Blank Grosse Pointe Blank is a 1997 American crime comedy film directed by George Armitage, and starring John Cusack, Minnie Driver, Alan Arkin and Dan Aykroyd. Cusack plays a hitman who returns to his hometown to attend a high school reunion. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $31,070,412. Hitman Martin Blank finds himself depressed and disillusioned with his work. Grocer, his chief rival, is attempting to incorporate the hitman business but Martin refuses to join, putting the two at odds."
"Point Blank (1967 film) Point Blank is a 1967 American neo-noir crime film directed by John Boorman, starring Lee Marvin, co-starring Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn and Carroll O'Connor, and adapted from the 1963 crime noir pulp novel ""The Hunter"" by Donald E. Westlake, writing as Richard Stark. Boorman directed the film at Marvin's request and Marvin played a central role in the film's development. The film was not a box-office success in 1967, but has since gone on to become a cult classic, eliciting praise from such critics as film historian David Thomson. In 2016, ""Point Blank"" was deemed ""culturally,"
"Point Blank (upcoming film) Point Blank is an upcoming action thriller directed by Joe Lynch based on a screenplay by Adam G. Simon. The film is a remake of the 2010 film of the same name. It stars Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Marcia Gay Harden, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, and Markice Moore. The project was announced in June 2018, with Joe Lynch directing and Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie set to star in the lead roles. In July 2018, Marcia Gay Harden, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, and Markice Moore joined the cast of the film. In August 2018, Christian Cooke"
"many awful moments as good ones—at least until the extremely unsatisfying and drawn-out conclusion, which blows things completely."" It currently holds a 41% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of ""C-"" on an A+ to F scale. The film debuted at #1 at the box office. It went on to gross $27 million domestically. The Big Hit The Big Hit is a 1998 American action comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Che-Kirk Wong, and stars Mark Wahlberg, China Chow, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Avery Brooks"
"joined the cast. Principal production began on August 6, 2018 in Cincinnati. Point Blank (upcoming film) Point Blank is an upcoming action thriller directed by Joe Lynch based on a screenplay by Adam G. Simon. The film is a remake of the 2010 film of the same name. It stars Frank Grillo, Anthony Mackie, Marcia Gay Harden, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, and Markice Moore. The project was announced in June 2018, with Joe Lynch directing and Frank Grillo and Anthony Mackie set to star in the lead roles. In July 2018, Marcia Gay Harden, Teyonah Parris, Boris McGiver, and Markice"
"Steve Pink Steve Pink (born February 3, 1966) is an American actor, director and writer. He is the director of the comedy films ""Accepted"" and ""Hot Tub Time Machine"", and the co-writer of the films ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" and ""High Fidelity"". He is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of John Cusack, Jeremy Piven, and D.V. DeVincentis. Together, Pink, Cusack and DeVincentis formed a production company, New Crime Productions, which produced both ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" and ""High Fidelity""."
"Adam G. Simon Adam Gregory Simon (born March 13, 1977) is an American actor and writer. He started his professional career as an actor in theatre with roles in the early 2000s and then made his television and film debut. Simon is the writer of ""Man Down"", a post-apocalyptic thriller directed by Dito Montiel which stars Shia LaBeouf, Kate Mara, Gary Oldman, Jai Courtney and Clifton Collins, Jr.. Adam is also the writer of Point Blank, an action thriller for Gaumont Films and Netflix, based on the Fred Cavaye French Film, A Bout Portant. In 2018 Adam partnered with filmmaker"
"The Big Hit The Big Hit is a 1998 American action comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Che-Kirk Wong, and stars Mark Wahlberg, China Chow, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christina Applegate, Bokeem Woodbine, Antonio Sabato, Jr., Avery Brooks and Elliott Gould. The film was shot in Hamilton and Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Melvin Smiley has good life thanks to his talents as a contract-killer, but has a very working class mentality going about his life, in combination with his constant struggles to maintain two romantic relationships. One with the demanding and demeaning Chantel, who does not accept his work, and another"
"Bernhardt is proficient in Karate and Taekwondo. Daniel Bernhardt Daniel Bernhardt (born 31 August 1965) is a Swiss actor, model, and martial artist. Bernhardt made his acting debut in the leading role in """" (1996). He also appeared in two of its sequels and starred in ""Future War"" (1997), ""True Vegeance"" (1997), ""Perfect Target"" (1997), ""G2 - Mortal Conquest"" (1999), ""Black Sea Raid"" (2000) and ""Global Effect"" (2002). In 1998-1999 he has also starred in TV-series """". In 2003, he appeared as Agent Johnson in ""The Matrix Reloaded"" (2003), and in 2005 he appeared with Chuck Norris in ""The Cutter""."
"Point Break Point Break is a 1991 American buddy cop action crime thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term ""point break,"" where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. Reeves stars as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who is investigating a string of bank robberies possibly being committed by surfers. Johnny goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community and develops a complex friendship with Bodhi (Swayze), the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers. The film"
"good."" Leonard Maltin gave the film three and a half stars: ""Taut thriller, ignored in 1967, but now regarded as a top film of the decade."" ""Slant"" reviewer Nick Schager notes in a 2003 review: ""What makes ""Point Blank"" so extraordinary, however, is not its departures from genre conventions, but Boorman's virtuoso use of such unconventional avant-garde stylistics to saturate the proceedings with a classical noir mood of existential torpor and romanticized fatalism."" The film has a 97% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Viewers and critics have often questioned whether or not the film is really a dream that Walker"
"Counting Rope"" with Joseph Ruben Silverbird. His major breakthrough was his role as Tito in the 1991 Joe Pesci film ""The Super"". For his performance as Tito, Blank was nominated for a Young Artist Award in 1992 in the Best Young Actor Co-starring in a Motion Picture category. In 1991, he starred as Linus Bragg in the movie ""Carolina Skeletons"" (or ""The End of Silence""), about an African-American boy in the mid-20th century South who was wrongfully executed at the age of 14. The movie was based on a novel, both of which were based on the true events regarding"
"corpse. Bullet (1996 film) Bullet is a 1996 American crime film directed by Julien Temple and starring Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, Donnie Wahlberg, Adrien Brody, Ted Levine, and John Enos III. The screenplay was written by Bruce Rubenstein and Rourke, under a pseudonym. The film was released a month after Shakur's murder. Mickey Rourke was also the music supervisor of the film. It had limited distribution in theaters in the United States. It was shot in New York City with a significant portion done in Brooklyn. Butch ""Bullet"" Stein (Mickey Rourke) is a 35-year-old Jewish ex-convict and junkie, who is"
"Mean Guns Mean Guns is a 1997 action film starring Ice-T, Christopher Lambert, Michael Halsey, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Kimberly Warren, and Hunter Doughty. It was directed by Albert Pyun. Vincent Moon (Ice-T) is the leader of a crime syndicate that has just built a new prison. The day before it is to open, he brings together 100 killers who have wronged the syndicate in various ways, provides them with weapons and ammunition, and gives them six hours to fight each other to the death. A $10 million cash prize is hidden in the prison, to be split by the last"
"of Ice T's character in the film. This movie is dedicated to the memory of Stephen J. Friedman, who pioneered the production of independent films in Hollywood. Mean Guns Mean Guns is a 1997 action film starring Ice-T, Christopher Lambert, Michael Halsey, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Kimberly Warren, and Hunter Doughty. It was directed by Albert Pyun. Vincent Moon (Ice-T) is the leader of a crime syndicate that has just built a new prison. The day before it is to open, he brings together 100 killers who have wronged the syndicate in various ways, provides them with weapons and ammunition, and"
"At Point Blank At Point Blank () is a 2003 Swedish action film. It stars Mikael Persbrandt, Stina Ekblad, Sofia Helin and Peter Franzén. The film involves a skillful team of professional thieves who hit several banks in Stockholm. The police investigation is led by 33-year-old chief inspector Klara (Sofia Helin) and Greger Krona (Stefan Sauk) who are led to the source, with a fatal exit. Klara, a chief inspector of the Stockholm robbery commission, is in love with Frank (Mikael Persbrandt), a surgeon for Doctors Without Borders. The story opens during a bank robbery unlike any in Swedish history,"
"in 1992. She died that same year of cancer. Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1939) is an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series """" (1993–99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction/horror film ""Alien"" (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film ""The Running Man"" (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller ""Midnight Run"" (1988) as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely. Kotto was born in"
"Bullet (1996 film) Bullet is a 1996 American crime film directed by Julien Temple and starring Mickey Rourke, Tupac Shakur, Donnie Wahlberg, Adrien Brody, Ted Levine, and John Enos III. The screenplay was written by Bruce Rubenstein and Rourke, under a pseudonym. The film was released a month after Shakur's murder. Mickey Rourke was also the music supervisor of the film. It had limited distribution in theaters in the United States. It was shot in New York City with a significant portion done in Brooklyn. Butch ""Bullet"" Stein (Mickey Rourke) is a 35-year-old Jewish ex-convict and junkie, who is released"
"Dylan Ramsey Dylan Ramsey is an American / Canadian actor and film producer, known for his portrayals of dark dramatic and comedically eccentric characters of diverse ethnicity. Recent major roles include the leading role of Ginger (a male cross-dressing prostitute) in HBO’s ""Donny & Ginger"", guest-starring as the ethereal suicide bomber Saaed Hotary on FX’s ""Nip/Tuck"" and the title role of Jack Belmont in ""Visual Purple"". He also starred in ""Air Crash Investigation's"" ""Killing Machine"" as ""Bobby ""The Killer"""", and ""Air Crash Investigation's"" ""Death of the President"" episode on the Polish Air Force Crash in 2014. Ramsey is currently writing"
"Keanu Reeves Keanu Charles Reeves ( ; born September 2, 1964) is a Canadian actor, director, producer, and musician. He gained fame for his starring role performances in several blockbuster films, including comedies from the ""Bill and Ted"" franchise (1989–1991); action thrillers ""Point Break"" (1991), ""Speed"" (1994), and the ""John Wick"" franchise; psychological thriller ""The Devil's Advocate"" (1997); supernatural thriller ""Constantine"" (2005); and science fiction/action series ""The Matrix"" (1999–2003). He has also appeared in dramatic films such as ""Dangerous Liaisons"" (1988), ""My Own Private Idaho"" (1991), and ""Little Buddha"" (1993), as well as the romantic horror ""Bram Stoker's Dracula"" (1992)."
"Brent Armitage Brent Armitage (born 1965; years old) is an American film actor, screenwriter, producer, and director who got his start as an actor. Armitage moved behind the camera on such projects as Swing Shift and Miami Blues. He then launched his writing career with his adaptation of the Gregory MacDonald novel Scutter. Armitage then adapted the Ranulph Fiennes novel The Feather Men. Other screenplay credits include In The Deep and Sideswipe. He is most well known as the producer of Grosse Pointe Blank and producer of The Big Bounce. Throughout his career Armitage has worked with some of the"
"Cardinale) shortly after the Mexican Revolution. He followed that film with the hugely successful World War II epic ""The Dirty Dozen"" (1967) in which top-billed Marvin again portrayed an intrepid commander of a colorful group (future stars John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas, Jim Brown, and Donald Sutherland) performing an almost impossible mission. In the wake of these two films and after having received an Oscar, Marvin was a huge star, given enormous control over his next film ""Point Blank"". In ""Point Blank"", an influential film for director John Boorman, he portrayed a hard-nosed criminal bent on revenge. Marvin, who"
"John de Lancie John de Lancie (born November 13, 1948) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, singer, musician, and voice artist, best known for his role as Q in """" (1987–94) and the voice of in """" (2010–present). He has been featured in several recurring roles on television series, including Frank Simmons in ""Stargate SG-1"" (1997–2007) and Donald Margolis in ""Breaking Bad"" (2008–13). De Lancie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 13, 1948, one of two siblings born to John Sherwood de Lancie (July 26, 1921 – May 17, 2002) -- who was principal oboist of the"
"Paul Freeman (actor) Paul Freeman (born 18 January 1943) is an English theatre and film actor. In the United Kingdom, he is best known for his role in the romance TV series ""Yesterday's Dreams"" (1987) as Martin Daniels. Internationally, he is known for playing the rival archaeologist René Belloq in ""Raiders of the Lost Ark"" (1981), evil wine baron Gustav Riebmann on season 4 of the soap opera ""Falcon Crest"" (1984–85), supervillain Ivan Ooze in """" (1995), and Reverend Shooter in ""Hot Fuzz"" (2007). Referring to Freeman's extensive theatre work, in 1995 the ""Los Angeles Times"" described him as ""one"
"Daniel Bernhardt Daniel Bernhardt (born 31 August 1965) is a Swiss actor, model, and martial artist. Bernhardt made his acting debut in the leading role in """" (1996). He also appeared in two of its sequels and starred in ""Future War"" (1997), ""True Vegeance"" (1997), ""Perfect Target"" (1997), ""G2 - Mortal Conquest"" (1999), ""Black Sea Raid"" (2000) and ""Global Effect"" (2002). In 1998-1999 he has also starred in TV-series """". In 2003, he appeared as Agent Johnson in ""The Matrix Reloaded"" (2003), and in 2005 he appeared with Chuck Norris in ""The Cutter"". In 2007 he appeared in ""Children of"
"Confused, Fleinhardt asks who said that, to which Granger replies: ""Bodhi...Patrick Swayze?...from ""Point Break...?"""" Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. released a remake of the film in 2015 entitled ""Point Break"", which received mostly negative reviews. Point Break Point Break is a 1991 American buddy cop action crime thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term ""point break,"" where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. Reeves stars as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who is investigating a"
"of evolution and secular education. De Lancie is an experienced sailor who spends a lot of his time on the Pacific Ocean, which ""sometimes involves very terrifying experiences."" John de Lancie John de Lancie (born November 13, 1948) is an American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer, singer, musician, and voice artist, best known for his role as Q in """" (1987–94) and the voice of in """" (2010–present). He has been featured in several recurring roles on television series, including Frank Simmons in ""Stargate SG-1"" (1997–2007) and Donald Margolis in ""Breaking Bad"" (2008–13). De Lancie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania"
"is a wistful dream and one of the great reflections on how movies are fantasies that we are reaching out for all the time—it's singin' in the rain again, the white lie that erases night."" Director Steven Soderbergh has said that he used stylistic touches from ""Point Blank"" many times in his filmmaking career. ""The Hunter"" was also the basis for Brian Helgeland's ""Payback"" (1999), starring Mel Gibson. Director Boorman has joked that ""Payback"" was so bad that Gibson must have taken the original script for ""Point Blank"" that Boorman and Marvin had thrown out. On March 29, 1968, ""Point"
"and producing two new media series. Ramsey was born in Prague, Czech Republic and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He currently lives in Los Angeles County, California. Dylan Ramsey Dylan Ramsey is an American / Canadian actor and film producer, known for his portrayals of dark dramatic and comedically eccentric characters of diverse ethnicity. Recent major roles include the leading role of Ginger (a male cross-dressing prostitute) in HBO’s ""Donny & Ginger"", guest-starring as the ethereal suicide bomber Saaed Hotary on FX’s ""Nip/Tuck"" and the title role of Jack Belmont in ""Visual Purple"". He also starred in ""Air Crash Investigation's"""
"Yaphet Kotto Yaphet Frederick Kotto (born November 15, 1939) is an American actor known for numerous film roles, as well as starring in the NBC television series """" (1993–99) as Lieutenant Al Giardello. His films include the science-fiction/horror film ""Alien"" (1979), and the Arnold Schwarzenegger science-fiction/action film ""The Running Man"" (1987). He portrayed the main villain Dr. Kananga/Mr. Big in the James Bond movie ""Live and Let Die"" (1973). He appeared opposite Robert De Niro in the comedy thriller ""Midnight Run"" (1988) as FBI agent Alonzo Mosely. Kotto was born in New York City. His mother was Gladys Marie, a"
"Martin Lawrence Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence (born April 16, 1965) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, talk show host, and writer. Lawrence came to fame during the 1990s, establishing a Hollywood career as a leading actor, most notably in the Fox television sitcom ""Martin"" and the films ""House Party"", ""Boomerang"", ""Bad Boys"", ""Wild Hogs"", ""Nothing to Lose"", ""Blue Streak"", ""Life"", ""Big Momma's House"", and ""A Thin Line Between Love & Hate"". The fourth of six children, Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence was born on April 16, 1965, in Frankfurt, West Germany, to African American parents who were serving in the U.S. military"
"In 2010, he directed ""Hot Tub Time Machine"". He was also a producer on the 20th Century Fox release ""Knight and Day"", starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Steve Pink Steve Pink (born February 3, 1966) is an American actor, director and writer. He is the director of the comedy films ""Accepted"" and ""Hot Tub Time Machine"", and the co-writer of the films ""Grosse Pointe Blank"" and ""High Fidelity"". He is an alumnus of Evanston Township High School, Columbia College Chicago, and University of California-Berkeley (graduating in 1989 with a degree in Peace and Conflict Studies), and a contemporary of"
"Michael Moriarty Michael Moriarty (born April 5, 1941) is an American-Canadian stage and screen actor and jazz musician. He received an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award for his first acting role on American television as a Nazi SS officer in the 1978 mini-series ""Holocaust"", and he played Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone for the first four seasons (1990–1994) on the television show ""Law & Order."" Moriarty is also known for his roles in films such as ""Bang the Drum Slowly"", ""Who'll Stop the Rain"", ""Q: The Winged Serpent"", ""The Stuff"", ""Pale Rider"", ""Troll"", ""Courage Under Fire"", and ""Shiloh""."