Malone
Created by Mark Hosack

In Give 'em Hell, Malone, a 2009 action flick directed by Mark "Highlander" Hosack, Thomas "The Punisher" Jane stars as MALONE, a hard-ass private eye, who squares off with gangsters and assorted thugs to etrieve a briefcase.

The trailer looks pretty cheesy -- venetian blinds, a classic 1940ish-looking car (it's actually a 1952 Chop Top Buick Straight 8, primer black with red rims and white wall tires) and even a damn fedora or two. Yet it isn't a period piece. So go figure.

Then again, iit also looks like a lot of fun. It has a sort of Crime Story/Private Eye vibe, for any of you who remember those 80s NBC classics. We'll see...

Interestingly, Richard Rionda Del Castro is also producing The Big Bang, another currently-in-production (as of this writing) P.I. film.

UNDER OATH

• "Personally I dig the look of this world. It feels like something that'd hit in the '80s, a low-budget grit and blood flick that doesn't sacrifice production value. I love that every face you see in the movie is familiar, a cast filled with character actors."
  -- Ain't It Cool?

FILMS

• GIVE 'EM HELL, MALONE
  (2009, Hannibal Pictures/Continental Entertainment; in production)
  Release: 2010
  Written by Mark Hosack
  Directed by Russell Mulcahy
  Produced by Richard Rionda Del Castro, Richard Salvatore, Johnny Martin.
  Starring Thomas Jane as MALONE
  and Ving Rhames as Boulder
  Also starring Ving Rhames, Doug Hutchison, Leland Orser, Elsa Pataky, French Stewart, William Abadie, Eileen Ryan, Gregory Harrison, Chris Yen, David Andriol, Tom Olson.

Respectfully submitted by Kevin Burton Smith and film editor Chris Baldemor.