The clock runs out this Friday once Saban Films releases the tension-fueled action thriller Final Score in theaters and on VOD and various digital platforms. Directed by Scott Mann, Dave Bautista stars as a Us veteran named Mike Knox, who takes his niece to a football match in the UK, and ends up stumbling upon a terrorist scenario that involves taking all 35,000 fans inside the stadium hostage. Mike takes it upon himself to thwart this potentially catastrophic event, but with the clock winding down, he faces insurmountable odds as he tries to pull off the impossible.
Daily Dead recently chatted with Mann about Final Score, and he talked about his involvement with the project, how he managed to pull off shooting his wildly entertaining actioner inside a real football stadium, collaborating with his cast, and why Bautista was the perfect anchor for Final Score.
Great to speak with you, Scott.
Daily Dead recently chatted with Mann about Final Score, and he talked about his involvement with the project, how he managed to pull off shooting his wildly entertaining actioner inside a real football stadium, collaborating with his cast, and why Bautista was the perfect anchor for Final Score.
Great to speak with you, Scott.
- 9/13/2018
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
As we seem to be in the middle of a disaster-movie revival (the Rock alone has topped neuvo variations on “Earthquake” and “The Towering Inferno”), it seems sensible enough that someone should blow the dust off 1977’s lesser-remembered 1976 “Two-Minute Warning,” in which a sniper terrorized an American football stadium. (The “disaster” part was really the panicked crowd stampede at the end.) Though actually what “Final Score” is most like, as the press materials duly note, is “‘Die Hard’ in a football stadium.”
If you think that sounds fun, you’d be right: Park your brain cells in the lobby, and this U.K. production about a terrorist attack on a London soccer stadium — with Dave Bautista as Bruce Willis plus 100 or so extra pounds of muscle — is an entertainingly over-the-top ride that doesn’t even try to be “credible.” It’s not quite daft or otherwise distinctive enough to be memorable.
If you think that sounds fun, you’d be right: Park your brain cells in the lobby, and this U.K. production about a terrorist attack on a London soccer stadium — with Dave Bautista as Bruce Willis plus 100 or so extra pounds of muscle — is an entertainingly over-the-top ride that doesn’t even try to be “credible.” It’s not quite daft or otherwise distinctive enough to be memorable.
- 9/10/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
WWE.com
2005 was a great year for WWE, with the company creating a bunch of new stars and really delivering consistently when it came to PPV. 2006 was very different from 2005. Fewer stars were made, although the ones that did break through (such as Edge) managed to cement themselves at the top of the card.
The two major storylines from 2006 were Dx’s long dispute with the McMahons and their associates and the return of Ecw as a fully-fledged brand. Speaking of returns, the ultra popular Jeff Hardy came home to WWE after two years in Tna. Ostensibly over his drug issues, Jeff was given a big push on Raw.
While there were returns, there were also departures. Trish Stratus and Lita, two of the most influential female performers of all-time, left the company within two months of each other. The way they were written out of the storylines was markedly different,...
2005 was a great year for WWE, with the company creating a bunch of new stars and really delivering consistently when it came to PPV. 2006 was very different from 2005. Fewer stars were made, although the ones that did break through (such as Edge) managed to cement themselves at the top of the card.
The two major storylines from 2006 were Dx’s long dispute with the McMahons and their associates and the return of Ecw as a fully-fledged brand. Speaking of returns, the ultra popular Jeff Hardy came home to WWE after two years in Tna. Ostensibly over his drug issues, Jeff was given a big push on Raw.
While there were returns, there were also departures. Trish Stratus and Lita, two of the most influential female performers of all-time, left the company within two months of each other. The way they were written out of the storylines was markedly different,...
- 10/15/2015
- by Lewis Howse
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
Few could have ever imagined on June 27th, 2011 when Cm Punk grabbed hold of a microphone, made his way up the ramp and took a seat on the Monday Night Raw stage that what he was about to do would forever alter the way fans saw and referred to shoot promos.
From the moment he verbally railed against the promotion, Vince McMahon and “his idiot daughter and doofus son-in-law,” any attempt to shoot live on air by a Superstar, Diva or on-air personality would forever be recognized as a pipebomb, a label Punk himself put on the buzz-worthy promo.
From that night on, everyone who ever was allowed the opportunity to speak their mind on WWE programming was greeted with Tweets praising them for the “pipebomb” they dropped on that night’s show. In fact, the term itself became overused, the product of meta fans who thought everything...
Few could have ever imagined on June 27th, 2011 when Cm Punk grabbed hold of a microphone, made his way up the ramp and took a seat on the Monday Night Raw stage that what he was about to do would forever alter the way fans saw and referred to shoot promos.
From the moment he verbally railed against the promotion, Vince McMahon and “his idiot daughter and doofus son-in-law,” any attempt to shoot live on air by a Superstar, Diva or on-air personality would forever be recognized as a pipebomb, a label Punk himself put on the buzz-worthy promo.
From that night on, everyone who ever was allowed the opportunity to speak their mind on WWE programming was greeted with Tweets praising them for the “pipebomb” they dropped on that night’s show. In fact, the term itself became overused, the product of meta fans who thought everything...
- 9/26/2015
- by Erik Beaston
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
There are times when World Wrestling Entertainment will introduce a character that is ultimately amazing because of the wrestler’s ability in portraying the character to captivate the audience into caring about their every move. Of course, given that psychology 101 says that it’s easier to be hated than to be loved, the idea that heel characters have a far better chance of engendering derision than fan favorites have in gaining cheers makes sense. However, what happens when a character that seems to be meant to create hatred instead incites nothing more than polite jeers, or worse – complete boredom.
There are more than twelve times that WWE has introduced “bad guy” characters that fans could honestly at the end of the day care less about than WWE ideally would like fans to care about them. However, for a plethora of different reasons, these are 12 of the best examples...
There are times when World Wrestling Entertainment will introduce a character that is ultimately amazing because of the wrestler’s ability in portraying the character to captivate the audience into caring about their every move. Of course, given that psychology 101 says that it’s easier to be hated than to be loved, the idea that heel characters have a far better chance of engendering derision than fan favorites have in gaining cheers makes sense. However, what happens when a character that seems to be meant to create hatred instead incites nothing more than polite jeers, or worse – complete boredom.
There are more than twelve times that WWE has introduced “bad guy” characters that fans could honestly at the end of the day care less about than WWE ideally would like fans to care about them. However, for a plethora of different reasons, these are 12 of the best examples...
- 6/24/2014
- by Marcus K. Dowling
- Obsessed with Film
It all used to be so simple. What worked for the territories would work for the WWF: crown your biggest draw the champ and feed him a succession of supporting players from further down the card. Don’t worry if the challenger isn’t particularly over; the rub from the champ will make him look like a star for the couple of months he spends above his regular place further down the card. It’s a model that made Hulk Hogan the biggest thing the sport had ever seen. But that was back in the day of television squash matches and only a handful of Pay-Per-Views a year.
Come the turn of the millennium, an increased production schedule necessitated the building of an extension on the VIP lounge, and it became standard practice to maintain a top-tier line-up of multiple workers, all potential custodians of the big gold belt. The Rock,...
Come the turn of the millennium, an increased production schedule necessitated the building of an extension on the VIP lounge, and it became standard practice to maintain a top-tier line-up of multiple workers, all potential custodians of the big gold belt. The Rock,...
- 9/3/2013
- by Neil Huitson
- Obsessed with Film
Another Thursday, another episode of Impact Wrestling passes us by, and tonight had all the makings of an excellent outing for the second largest wrestling organisation. Both the X-Division Championship and the World Tag Team Championships would be defended, there would be a tag team tables match featuring Bully Ray and Sting against members of Aces & Eights, and hopefully we will be treated to some explanations as to why Garrett Bischoff and Wes Brisco turned on their mentor Kurt Angle to join the nefarious biker gang.
Once again, the Impact Zone was emanating from Manchester in the United Kingdom, so expect some raucous crowd interaction and a great deal of low-key racism from the heel superstars tonight. The UK love it when either Tna or WWE come to their neck of the woods, and they will certainly try and make the most of the extended stay of the Impact wrestlers on their shores.
Once again, the Impact Zone was emanating from Manchester in the United Kingdom, so expect some raucous crowd interaction and a great deal of low-key racism from the heel superstars tonight. The UK love it when either Tna or WWE come to their neck of the woods, and they will certainly try and make the most of the extended stay of the Impact wrestlers on their shores.
- 2/8/2013
- by Callum Wiggins
- Obsessed with Film
With this year’s SummerSlam just days away I thought it’d be a fun idea to count down what I feel are the ten most impressive bouts from the event’s illustrious history. As the PPV which cemented the star power of Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, Rock, Triple H and Brock Lesnar among many others, WWE’s second biggest night of the year after Wrestlemania, SummerSlam has had its fair share of classic moments and matches which meant that I was truly spoilt for choice when having to decide on ten key clashes which I think show the event in the best light.
So what better way to hype yourself up for this weekend than reminding yourself of some of these epic encounters and becoming caught up in the best of what the WWE’s mega-show has had to offer since its inception in 1988. Featuring gravity defying bumps, hardcore violence,...
So what better way to hype yourself up for this weekend than reminding yourself of some of these epic encounters and becoming caught up in the best of what the WWE’s mega-show has had to offer since its inception in 1988. Featuring gravity defying bumps, hardcore violence,...
- 8/12/2011
- by Laurent Kelly
- Obsessed with Film
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