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  2. Hot Seat is a 2022 American action-thriller film directed and produced by James Cullen Bressack. It stars Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson.

  3. Hot Seat: Directed by James Cullen Bressack. With Mel Gibson, Shannen Doherty, Michael Welch, Kevin Dillon. An ex-hacker is forced to break into high-level banking institutions, another man must try to penetrate the booby trapped building to get the young man off the hot seat.

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    • Action, Thriller
    • James Cullen Bressack
    • 2022-07-07
    • James Cullen Bressack Turns to Action
    • The Challenge of Creating Suspense in Hot Seat
    • Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson Are in The Hot Seat
    • James Is Honoring His Father, Gordon Bressack

    Hot Seat is one of four recent action moviesBressack has released in just three years, after nearly a dozen horror films. The genre switch has seemed to invigorate the filmmaker. "I consciously made a decision back in 2017 or 2018 that I was done making horror movies," Bressack says. He continues: "From there, I did my first action movie, which was...

    Hot Seat presented its own unique adventure, a set of challenges particular to the logistics of the script. So much of Hot Seatfeatures Kevin Dillon sitting at a computer - his office chair is rigged with explosives and is pressure-sensitive, so a massive bomb will be detonated if he stands up. While seated, Dillon's character has to perform a vari...

    An obviously huge part of selling that tension, though, relies upon the performances in Hot Seat. "Kevin Dillon did an amazing job of making a very connectable character. I feel like the audiences will connect with him, and he's very natural and relatable," Bressack said. "I went to Kevin intentionally, and I was really excited to work with him. He...

    After directing many of his own horror scripts, Bressack transitioned into directing scripts from different writers which he enjoyed and found challenging. The reason for this is incredibly poignant. "It's a difficult thing, because I used to write all my own scripts, and then I started directing other people's scripts. Because the last script that...

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  4. May 18, 2022 · The first look of the action thriller from director James Cullen Bressack sees Gibson assessing the situation outside the office, where a bomb has been planted.

    • Mia Galuppo
  5. James Cullen Bressack, the director of "Hot Seat," talks with the Film Yap's Alec Toombs about what it was like to make the new psychological thriller starri...

  6. Jul 5, 2022 · ComingSoon spoke to James Cullen Bressack, the director of Lionsgate’s thriller Hot Seat, which came out on July 1 in select theaters, on digital, and on demand. The film stars Kevin...

  7. Here is my interview with James Cullen Bressack, the director behind the Kevin Dillon and Mel Gibson feature Hot Seat.Hot Seat hits Theaters, Digital, and On...