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John Wayne Rides Again…in a Direct-to-dvd Sci-Fi Western
11 July 2009 7:16 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
Few actors in Hollywood history have achieved as mythic a status in our collective conscience as John Wayne. Remembered as the paragon of rugged American masculinity, Wayne traded blows with everyone from old west outlaws to Nazis. Of course, for all of his many legendary roles, John Wayne never crossed into the world of science-fiction. Now, however, thirty years after his death, it appears we will finally get to see the Duke in a sci-fi role.
According to a story on The Houston Chronicle website, John Wayne’s final unreleased performance will be seen in an upcoming DVD entitled, Thunder Riders of the Golden West. The film, which was independently produced by Dave Burleson (Wayne’s stunt double and longtime friend), focuses on “cowboy truckers who hit the trail in search of $3 million worth of gold in the middle of an atomic bomb test.”
While I’m all for seeing
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Rob Frappier
Win The Towering Inferno on Blu-ray
7 July 2009 9:18 AM, PDT | From TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news
Before Die Hard or Roland Emmerich there was The Towering Inferno, one of the original large scale disaster epics coming to Blu-ray Disc in high definition for the first time on July 14. Five copies of The Towering Inferno with Steve McQueen and Paul Newman are up for grabs in this daily entry contest. Send in the completed entry form below for a chance at winning one. Then, if you choose, return any or every day to enter again and increase the odds of winning with each additional entry. One tiny spark becomes a night of blazing suspense in director Irwin Allen's (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) three-time Oscar winning masterpiece of suspense, The Towering Inferno, debuting July 14 on Bd from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. There's no way out and no way down for Steve McQueen (The Magnificent Seven), Paul Newman (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
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Michael Jackson's Final Rehearsals To Become A Movie?
6 July 2009 8:10 AM, PDT | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
Fred Astaire memorably danced with a vacuum from the grave, and Elvis's shaking hips can still be seen pretty much anywhere. But are we really ready to see footage of Michael Jackson dancing just days before his death? In a particularly creepy THR story, concert promoter Aeg Live gushes about the 100 hours of footage they have from Jackson's concert rehearsals at the Staples Center, just two days before he died. They could release it as a live album! As a pay-per-view special! Even a theatrical movie! Can't you just hear the cash rolling in? In order to not sound like a complete skeeze, Aeg CEO Randy Phillips says they'll raise all this money for the sake of Jackson estate, which is an estimated $400 million in debt. "If we all do our jobs right, we could probably raise hundreds of millions of dollars just on the stuff we have worldwide and
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A Musical 4th
2 July 2009 10:10 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news
What could Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers possibly have in common with Prince and his former protégé Apollonia? They're both on the bill for a holiday-weekend near-marathon of musicals spanning six decades.
Astaire and Rogers turn up in the series opening today at Lincoln Center's Walter Reade Theater in the best of their 10 musicals.
Fred is an unemployed dancer and Ginger a dancing teacher in George Stevens' art deco masterpiece "Swing Time" (1936), which won a Best Original Song
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By LOU LUMENICK
Michael Jackson: Life Tribute (1958-2009)
25 June 2009 11:13 PM, PDT | From PopStar | See recent PopStar news
No matter what your thoughts about Michael Jackson are, no one can deny that the man was a legend in his own right. Dubbed the King of Pop, the iconic Michael Jackson has been entertaining the world since the 1960s. He was a director, a composer, a musician, a singer, a dancer, an actor, a producer, and most importantly, the inspiration to countless millions. The word "triple threat" does not even begin to describe the often misunderstood superstar. On August 29 of this year, Michael would have been celebrating his 51st birthday. Sadly, Michael Jackson passed away today at the age of 50, but he leaves us with a half-century of genuine compassion and good deeds that have helped to shape the world we now live in. The Life of Michael Jackson Michael Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana (an industrialized suburb of Chicago) in 1958. He inherited his musical gene from his father,
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rsw@corp.popstar.com (Robert Samuel White)
Spielberg: 'Jackson was incomparable'
25 June 2009 7:13 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Steven Spielberg has paid his condolences to Michael Jackson's family following the news that the singer has died. The 'Thriller' star passed away at the UCLA Medical Centre last night from a suspected cardiac arrest. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, the director said: "Just as there will never be another Fred Astaire or Chuck Berry (more)
By Lara Martin
Michael Jackson Honored By Justin Timberlake, Will.I.Am, Diddy
25 June 2009 7:46 AM, PDT | From MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news
Martin Scorsese, Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, Russell Simmons, Wyclef Jean and others also pay tribute.
By Jocelyn Vena
Justin Timberlake and Michael Jackson in 2001
Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage
In the wake of Michael Jackson's death Thursday (June 25), musicians, actors and celebrities — including some of Jackson's closest friends like Quincy Jones and colleagues like Justin Timberlake and Martin Scorsese — are remembering Jackson as their friend and mentor.
"I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news," Jones said. "For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don't have the words. Divinity brought our souls together on 'The Wiz' and allowed us to do what we were able to throughout the '80s. To this day, the music we created together on Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad is played in every corner of the world, and the reason
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'Whatever Works': Grumposaurus Rex, By Kurt Loder
19 June 2009 4:50 AM, PDT | From MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news
Larry David, at great length.
Evan Rachel Wood and Larry David in "Whatever Works"
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics
"Whatever Works" isn't a good Woody Allen movie, even by latter-day standards. It is, however, a surprisingly offensive Woody Allen movie, inviting us, as it does, to sneer at benighted Southerners, idiot Christians, stupid kids and their hard-rock music — anything, in short, that wouldn't pass muster among the preening Big Apple sophisticates of whom the director is a longtime laureate.
Allen wrote the script more than 30 years ago, when he was making such incomparable films as "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan." Back then, his nebbish hostility had the fresh zing of underdog humor. Now he's wealthy and celebrated and 73 years old, and that youthful comic stance, transported into the present, just seems crabby and sour. And while casting Larry David as the film's lead character might sound like a masterstroke, it turns out to be an insurmountable problem.
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Knowing It All
17 June 2009 7:22 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
Woody Allen has returned to New York, but does New York want him back? For the excruciating "Whatever Works," his first Gotham-set movie since 2004's "Melinda and Melinda," Allen dusted off a script written around the time of "Annie Hall," intended as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, who died a few months after that film was released in 1977. The replacement mouthpiece for Allen's borscht-y misanthropy is Larry David, who, playing Boris Yellnikoff, frequently breaks the fourth wall, to hector, lecture and obsess. "This is not a feel-good movie," Boris, addressing the camera, pontificates at the outset. Rather, it is a numbing movie, filled with creaky, wheezy shtick about sex, politics, religion and the city that even the Catskill comics in "Broadway Danny Rose" would have a hard time cracking a smile at.
Boris, who once tried to kill himself during an argument with his psychotherapist wife by throwing himself out of their Beekman Place apartment,
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Melissa Anderson
Sony Releases 6-dvd Jack Lemmon Collection
11 June 2009 10:02 AM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
Sony has released a six-dvd boxed set tribute to Jack Lemmon, marking the first-time release of these films in the DVD format. Here is the official press release. Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 In a career that spanned half a century, Jack Lemmon was truly America’s Everyman. Although he worked in every genre from musical to western, he truly excelled at comedy, turning in a series of nuanced performances that garnered worldwide acclaim. On June 9, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Sphe) honors one of the most versatile and accomplished actors in Hollywood history with The Jack Lemmon Film Collection, in partnership with Chris Lemmon, Jack’s son and biographer. This must-have six-disc boxed set features five classic performances from the gifted two-time Academy Award® winner for Save the Tiger (1973) and Mister Roberts (1955). The set includes Phffft! featuring Kim Novak, Operation Mad Ball, featuring the film debut of Ernie Kovacs,
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Broadway Musicals Of 1970 With Errico, Coulter & More Held 6/15 In NYC
1 June 2009 2:15 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
Broadway Musicals of 1970 will be presented by The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street) on Monday, June 15th at 8Pm. Concluding its ninth season with this concert, the critically acclaimed Broadway By The Year® series is known for great singing and spectacular Broadway dancing. The series is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall. The show is directed and choreographed by Fred Astaire Award nominee Jeffry Denman, who also performs in the show.
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Which Starlet Will Get ‘Footloose’ With Chace Crawford?
20 May 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | From MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news
With Zac Efron gone and Chace Crawford confirmed to fill Kevin Bacon’s dancing shoes in the coming remake of “Footloose,” there have been several rumors about which young Hollywood starlet might play Ariel Moore, the part originally played by Lori Singer in 1984.
It seems like every young woman in Hollywood has had her name tossed in the “Footloose” ring, and who could blame them for wanting to star alongside Chace in the Kenny Ortega-directed flick?
Over the last few weeks, “Heroes” star Hayden Panettiere has been rumored to play the part, as has Amanda Bynes, who has some musical movie experience thanks to “Hairspray.” Dance pro and “Dancing with the Stars” star Julianne Hough also reportedly auditioned for the role.
The latest name to have her name attached to the project is none other than Miley Cyrus. E! News reports that although she hasn’t yet auditioned for the role,
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Jocelyn Vena
Babes in Armor: Ten of our favorite action and fantasy movie heroines
20 May 2009 8:55 AM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
*Note: This post originally ran on May 22nd, 2008
We love our fantasy/sci-fi women ... ladies who can wield a sword or rocket launcher as well as any man, but do it so much more stylishly and, in some cases, in much less clothing! Here are ten women we definitely want on our side in the heat of battle.
Jane Fonda as "Barbarella"
in Barbarella
"Queen of the Galaxy" is a tough moniker to live up to, but if anyone can do it, Barbarella can. She has to deal with murderous children and their killer dolls, horny aliens, a blind (albeit hot) angel, and Anita Pallenberg as an eyepatch wearing assassin who Really wants to get to know her. Best of all, she shows us the proper way to strip in zero gravity, and you can see it Here, in one of the greatest (and mildly Nsfw) openings in film history.
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Baldwin, Derosa, Lewis Join Cast Of Broadway Musicals Of 1944 At Town Hall 5/11
8 May 2009 1:51 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
Broadway Musicals of 1944, will be presented by The Town Hall (Executive and Artistic Director Lawrence Zucker), on Monday, May 11Th at 8pm. Now in its ninth season, the critically acclaimed Broadway By The Year® series is known for great signing and spectacular Broadway dancing. The series is created, written and hosted by Scott Siegel for The Town Hall. The evening is directed and choreographed by Jeffry Denman, who will also be performing. Mr. Denman has just been nominated for a Fred Astaire Award.
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2009 Tribeca Film Festival Focus - "Whatever Works" - New images added.
27 April 2009 | From Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news
See new images from Sony Pictures Classics' "Whatever Works," starring Ed Begley Jr, Patricia Clarkson, Larry David, Conleth Hill, Michael McKean, Evan Rachel Wood, Henry Cavill and Kristen Johnston. Woody Allen directs and writes the film produced by Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum. The comedy is an official selection at this year's Tribeca Film Festival and will see limited venues on June 19th. See all the images in the gallery. What's it about? Woody Allen returns to New York with an offbeat comedy about a crotchety misanthrope (Larry David) and a naïve, impressionable young runaway from the south (Evan Rachel Wood). When her uptight parents, (Patricia Clarkson and Ed Begley, Jr.) arrive to rescue her, they are quickly drawn into wildly unexpected romantic entanglements. Everyone discovers that finding love is just a combination of lucky chance and appreciating the value of Whatever Works. After the failure of his career, his marriage,
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Jon Voight's Long-Lost Hal Ashby Comedy
10 April 2009 1:07 PM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news
While journalist Nick Dawson was researching his new biography, "Hal Ashby: Life of a Hollywood Rebel," his interviews with Jon Voight (who won an Oscar for Ashby's "Coming Home") revealed that a director's cut of a long-lost Ashby/Voight collaboration still existed under everybody's noses. 1982's "Lookin' to Get Out," which had its world premiere last week at the Sarasota Film Festival as part of an Ashby retrospective tied to Dawson's book, will finally be available to audiences when it hits DVD on June 30th. Voight and Burt Young co-star as Alex and Jerry, a couple of small-time New York gamblers -- lovable losers, both -- who escape to Vegas when their debts come knocking at their door. Pretending to be a casino owner's close friends while he's out of town, the two foolishly exploit their free comps to try to win back their losses, much to the chagrin of the returning tycoon,
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Aaron Hillis
Joe Dante's Trailers From Hell Pays Tribute To 'The Hospital"
8 April 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
We got an E mail today from director Joe Dante and it inspired us to remind our new readers of Joe's fantastic web site, Trailers from Hell. The unique aspect of the site is that Dante and other prominent writers and filmmakers run vintage trailers from classic and cult movies with the commentator giving an overview of the film and interesting background facts. Consider it as a capsule special edition DVD. We should warn you, however, that there is no such thing as a brief visit to Trailers from Hell. You'll almost certainly be tempted to spend quite some time searching through and playing trailers and listening to the amusing and informative commentaries. Like Cinema Retro, the films that are covered are wildly eclectic. If you thought Retro was far out for including tributes to Don Knotts and Sam Peckinpah in the same issue, consider that on Trailers from Hell,
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nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Playing it Straight
7 April 2009 6:31 PM, PDT | From AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news
While Sean Penn’s recent Best Actor Oscar win for Milk helped bring Harvey Milk’s message to a wide audience — both from the increased visibility of the film and from Penn’s moving acceptance speech — the occasion marked another instance of a Hollywood tradition: a gay character played by a heterosexual actor.
Penn, like Tom Hanks (Philadelphia [1993]) and William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman [1985]) before him, was praised for his “bravery” for taking on the role and even — eek! — kissing another man.
Gay actors, on the other hand, get no such credit for playing gay roles; let’s not forget the year that Rupert Everett’s hilarious supporting turn in My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) was ignored by the Academy, with the implication that queer thespians need merely show up to play queer characters, with no actual acting involved. (To add insult to injury, that same year saw
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Murray compares 'Dancing' to bull riding
25 March 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Rodeo star Ty Murray has said that performing on Dancing With The Stars is like bull riding. Murray was praised by the judges for his foxtrot on this week's show, with Bruno Tonioli describing him as a "mini Fred Astaire". Speaking on MySpace about his rivals on the show, he said: "I look at [the competition] just like I did my bull riding career. I don't have any control over the other competitors. "I just got to keep control of myself and make sure that I'm able to hopefully focus in and not get the jitters (more)
By Alex Fletcher
The Residents of The Last House On The Left
13 March 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news
One is already at a disadvantage when tackling a remake of a movie which has gained classic status. To touch it means accusations of sacrilege from those who remember it for the impact it had on their lives, in whatever way. A great advantage when attempting such a daunting task, however, is having the creators involved.
In the case of Rogue Pictures’ new version of The Last House On The Left, these include original producers Sean S. Cunningham and Wes Craven (plus the latter’s longtime production partner Marianne Maddalena)—horror heavyweights to say the least. The filmmakers were adamant not to make this a cheap, flashy chiller, but were firmly focused on conveying a similar sense of terrifying realism to that which gave the original its impact.
In this Last House, the villainous Krug and his “family,” who make life a living hell for the Collingwood clan, don’t
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