As recently as June, we posted that David Cronenberg was returning to direct Eastern Promises 2, starring Viggo Mortensen and possibly Vincent Cassel. Â While things looked to be moving ahead in a ...

Does Eastern Promises Really Need A Sequel? In the original film: "A Russian teenager living in London who dies during childbirth leaves clues to a midwife in her journal that could tie her child to a ...

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Eastern Promises is the follow-up to veteran Canadian director David Cronenberg’s A History Of Violence. Both are films working in and around the gangster movie genre, unusual for a director best ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. It appears that the Eastern Promises sequel ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A man meets his end, yammering, then not. A teenage mother dies in an ER delivery room. A child is born. Death and birth ignite the slow burn of David ...

The program allows works in progress or development to compete for awards with a total value of $118,000 across its programs to help with “bridging the gap" for talented filmmakers. By Georg Szalai ...

Viggo Mortensen bares himself before a panel of Russian crime bosses in 'Eastern Promises.' Much is being made of the intense four-minute bathhouse brawl in which Viggo Mortensen lets it all hang out ...

Every Friday, we’re recommending an older movie that’s available to stream or download and worth seeing again through the lens of our current moment. We’re calling the series “Revisiting Hours” — ...

David Cronenberg continues to eschew his tentacles, orifices and “new flesh” of yore with “Eastern Promises,” an intense crime thriller that keeps the director in the same gangsterish realm of his ...

I’ve said it before and hope to again: David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. From Videodrome (1983) through A History ...