Picture Tree Intl. has boarded international sales on "Last Call," a real-time hostage thriller from Tanweer Productions, inspired by true events, and set to launch to international buyers ahead of the European Film Market,

It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thriller that’s as deeply 1970s as it is contemporary. In February 1977 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — On a bitterly cold February morning in 1977, the City of Indianapolis was captivated by a real-life hostage situation as a businessman was taken through the streets with a wire tied around his neck attached to a sawed-off shotgun.