Cage Joins Convict Thriller ‘Dog Eat Dog’

What is Nicolas Cage up to these days?  Making more B-movies obviously.  Or at least movies stuck in limbo between VOD and theatrical, as in not quite the status Cage once commanded but not quite as low as Steven Seagal’s efforts.  Paul Schrader is directing a new movie, with Cage set to appear.  Dog Eat Dog will be a feature about a trio of convicts, described as a gritty contemporary thriller.

Here’s the official Cannes release.

CANNES (May 16, 2015) — Arclight Films and Pure Dopamine are pleased to announce the Cannes world market premiere of new gritty crime-thriller, DOG EAT DOG, based on the award-winning book of the same name by celebrated author Eddie Bunker. The film, just acquired by Arclight Films, will be directed by two-time Golden Globe and Palme d’Or nominee and WGA Laurel Award-winner Paul Schrader (RAGING BULL, TAXI DRIVER, AFFLICTED) and will star Academy and Golden Globe Award-winner Nicolas Cage who continuously delivers box office hits around the globe with worldwide aggregate box office earnings near the $5 Billion mark.

Writers are Matt Wilder and Paul Schrader.

“We’re absolutely thrilled to be working industry legends like Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage as well as accomplished producers Mark Earl Burman and David Hilary of Pure Dopamine,” said Gary Hamilton, Managing Director of Arclight Films. “DOG EAT DOG has all the elements of a global commercial hit and the team to make it happen. We’re excited to introduce the film to buyers for the first time in Cannes.”

DOG EAT DOG is a gritty contemporary crime thriller about a trio of ex-cons, deep in the underbelly of Los Angeles, who are hired for a kidnapping. When the botched abduction goes awry and gets completely out of control, the cons find themselves on the run, vowing to stay out of prison at all costs.

“Ed Bunker is the crime writer’s crime writer. He’s in the pantheon and one of the main people who define modern crime writing,” said Schrader. “He lived the life and lived to tell the story. DOG EAT DOG is Bunker at his best.”
Producers are Mark Earl Burman and David Hillary of Pure Dopamine. Executive Producers are Gary Hamilton, Don Rivers, Tim Peternel, Shaun Redick and Ray Mansfield.

“Putting together the winning combination that is the writing of Eddie Bunker, the direction of Paul Schrader and the acting of Nicolas Cage has all the makings of a seminal crime-thriller.” Said Burman.

DOG EAT DOG will move into production in October of this year.

Arclight Films is handling international sales and introducing DOG EAT DOG to buyers for the first time in Cannes.
Movie Packaging Co is handling additional sales.Cage is repped by CAA and at Link Entertainment. Schrader is repped by Parseghian Planco, and Jeff Berg at Resolution.Edward Bunker and his Estate are represented by Jeanne Field at Windfall Management.