Bill Mechanic abruptly resigned Thursday as chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, sending shock waves through the studio and Hollywood at large. Studio chief since December 1996, he had ...

Five years ago, in “The Mechanic,” Bishop trained a new protégé (played by Ben Foster), but the movie, loosely based on a 1972 Charles Bronson film, was ludicrous — a series of overwrought ...

In an exclusive interview with MovieWeb, Simon West reveals he's sure he'll work with Statham again. Could they finally make ...

The Mechanic film review and trailer CHARLES Bronson hit man thriller, The Mechanic, made in 1972, gets a serviceable, violent makeover with Jason Statham, elevated by a decent supporting cast ...

"The Mechanic" is a remake of Charles Bronson's 1972 hitman drama. In addition to Statham, it stars Donald Sutherland and Ben Foster. It started its nine-week New Orleans shoot in mid-October.

Arthur Bishop (Statham) is a ­“mechanic”– a skilled assassin who is the best. He agrees to train Steve (Foster), the son of his murdered ­mentor (Sutherland), as they face a team of ...

Mechanic's tepid $11.4 million haul ranked it third at the box office that weekend, behind two other forgotten movies, the romantic comedy No Strings Attached and horror film The Rite (the champ ...

Exec trivia: Mechanic taught film history at USC Film School in 1977-78. The basics: Started at Disney in 1984 in the home-video unit when the Eisner regime began.

‘Mechanic: Resurrection’: Film Review. Jason Statham reprises his role as an assassin extraordinaire in this sequel to the remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film, also starring Jessica Alba.

When producer and former studio executive Bill Mechanic resigned last week from the motion picture academy’s board of governors, issuing a scorched-earth laundry list of gripes about its ...

Lewis John Carlino received a writing credit on Mechanic: Resurrection for his work on the first Mechanic film, with Philip Shelby and Thomas Mosher working together to write the script and Dennis ...

The first Mechanic film, from Expendables 2 director Simon West, co-starred Ben Foster. It is unclear if Foster or any of the original Mechanic cast will be in the sequel.