Anyway, posted below are the first official images from both “Traitor” and “Sleepwalking.”

“Traitor” is the new Jeffrey Nachmanoff movie that stars Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels and Neal McDonough. If the name Jeffrey Nachmanoff doesn’t sound familiar to you… he last wrote “The Day After Tomorrow” and he’s currently the writer listed for Jerry Bruckheimer’s “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time.”

While being the writer of “Day After Tomorrow” won’t get you any street cred, having Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in your movie will. Like most of you, I think both of them are amazing actors and I’d pretty much see anything they do. For more on the movie, the synopsis is below.

The other film I have some new images for is “Sleepwalking.” While the movie doesn’t get released until March 14^th, it’s premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, so reviews will be online in a few weeks. And just like “Traitor,” it has a solid cast with Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson and Dennis Hopper all being in it.

The film is directed by William Maher and it’s his first film. He’s previously done a lot of visual effects…but no movies. I’d imagine he’s nervous about how his first film will play at the festival. For more info on the movie…it’s below with the images.  

TRAITOR

Release: Fall 2008

Directed by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Screenplay by: Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Cast: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Neal McDonough

Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) star in Traitor, a taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counterespionage operations. Traitor is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff (screenwriter of The Day After Tomorrow).

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. The inter-agency task force looking into the case meets with Carter (Jeff Daniels), a veteran CIA contractor who seemingly has his own agenda and Max Archer (Neal McDonough), a fellow FBI agent. The task force links Horn to a prison break in Yemen, a bombing in Nice and a raid in London, but a tangle of contradictory evidence emerges, forcing Clayton to question whether his quarry is a disaffected former military operative—or something far more complicated.

Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.

SLEEPWALKING

Release: March 14, 2008

Directed by: William Maher

Screenplay by: Zac Stanford

Cast: Nick Stahl, AnnaSophia Robb, Charlize Theron, Deborra-Lee Furness, with Woody Harrelson and Dennis Hopper

Nick Stahl (Sin City, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), AnnaSophia Robb (Bridge to Terabithia, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Academy Award winner Charlize Theron (Monster, North Country) star in Sleepwalking, a moving drama about the deep familial bond that develops between a 30-year-old man and his young niece after the girl's mother suddenly leaves town. Directed by William Maher from a screenplay by Zac Stanford (The Chumscrubber), Sleepwalking also stars Academy Award nominees Dennis Hopper (Hoosiers, Blue Velvet) and Woody Harrelson (The People Vs. Larry Flynt, Natural Born Killers).

Forced out of her home after her boyfriend is arrested, Joleen Reedy (Charlize Theron) needs a place to stay with her 11-year-old daughter, Tara (AnnaSophia Robb). She turns for help to her younger brother, James (Nick Stahl)— a simple and overly trusting man who doesn’t hesitate to welcome them into his modest rental apartment. Almost as soon as she moves in, however, Joleen hits the road with another man. Utterly ill-equipped to be the sole guardian of an adolescent girl, James does his best to make his distraught niece happy. But before long, things spin out of control: he loses his road crew job and Tara is put into foster care.

Additionally, old wounds from his emotionally abusive and sometimes violent father (Dennis Hopper) begin to reopen as James is forced to re-examine his life. That’s when James makes a fateful decision that will bring his life full circle and force him to face his demons. He takes off with Tara and the pair assumes new identities as father and daughter. What starts out as a ploy to evade authorities takes on a deeper significance as James strives to become the dad Tara never had, and for the first time finds a true purpose in life.