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‘Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood’ Final Look
8 July 2009 10:30 AM, PDT | From MTV Multiplayer | See recent MTV Multiplayer news
If director Sam Raimi’s classic Western “The Quick & the Dead” can be said to have an analogue in the video game world, it is unquestionably Techland’s “Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood.” They both serve up cheeseball stories and feature colorfully one-dimensional characters. Game and film alike also offer a helluva fun ride, building a deeply entertaining experience around the established tropes of the Western genre.
“Bound in Blood” is all the more impressive for being a sequel that completely eclipses its predecessor. The original “Call of Juarez” had its high points, but any fun was marred by a slavish adherence to Techland’s shooter/platformer/stealth vision for the game. “Blood” abandons the latter two gameplay styles, focusing instead on tightening up the core experience of forging a trail across the Wild West with your guns blazing.
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In “Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood,
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Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films
6 July 2009 2:25 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Top Ten Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic Films It seems Hollywood's infatuation with the end of the world has found its place in 2009 with releases such as Knowing this past March and upcoming releases such as 9, The Road and 2012 later this year. I never saw The Horsemen, but I know it had an apocalyptic theme, and films such as Terminator Salvation and even Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen threaten the continued existence of the human race. So, with such a situation at hand what better time than now to take a look at what I believe to be the best apocalyptic films of all-time... or at the very least of those I have seen... We all have a morbid curiosity when it comes to the world's end. Will it go with a whimper or a bang? Will the apocalypse be man-made, ape-made, E.T.-made, nature-made, or God-made? Will I be holding Nicolas Cage
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David Frank
King, you're one of the best!
6 June 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | From blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news
I met John McHugh in the autumn of 1966, when I was a cub reporter on the Sun-Times and he was a rewrite man, two years my senior, on the Chicago Daily News. We are still best friends. He worked the overnight shift, and among his duties was taking calls from readers. After midnight, they wanted to settle bets. "And what do you say?" McHugh would ask. He would listen, and then reply, "You're 100% correct. Put the other guy on." Pause. "And what do you say?" Pause. "You're 100% correct." If he was asked for his name, he said, "John T. Greatest, spelled with three Ts."
One night in autumn 1969 we found ourselves in the Old Town Gate, three blocks from our customary posts at O'Rourke's Pub. "I had my first job in Chicago here," he reminisced. "I invented the Roquefort Burger. Somebody ordered a cheeseburger and I, being a dumb Mick,
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Roger Ebert
Jesus Christ & The Beatles Help Raise $500,000 At Waxworks Auction
8 May 2009 1:15 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Jesus Christ and his disciples, The Beatles and Michelle Pfeiffer have been sold off in a bizarre California waxworks auction.
Profiles In History bosses were asked to help Hollywood Wax Museum clear out old displays - by selling off eerie doubles to the highest bidder.
And the recession failed to stop fans from digging deep to acquire waxworks of their heroes and heroines - the auction brought in close to $500,000 (£333,300).
The Last Supper models fetched over $15,000 (£10 thousand) when they went under the hammer as one item at the big sale last week, while The Beatles were for sale at $12,980 (£8,650).
Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman from the Batman Returns film fetched $8,260 (£5,500) and Charlton Heston's Moses waxwork went under the hammer for just over $7,000 (£4,600).
Other sale highlights included the wax figures of the cast of M*A*S*H, W.C. Fields, Marilyn Monroe, Stevie Wonder, Sylvester Stallone as Rambo, Tom Cruise and two Titanic scenes featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet.
'Ben Hur' Is Back In The Chariot
6 May 2009 12:43 PM, PDT | From CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news
Canadian production company Muse Entertainment has announced the beginning of principal photography for a new television adapation of Ben Hur. The finished film will air as a miniseries with a cast that includes Joseph Morgan, Stephen Campbell, Ray Winstone, Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang in Smallville), Alex Kingston and Art Malik.
Muse is co-producing Ben Hur with companies from Spain, Morocco, Germany and the United States. Shooting is currently taking place in Morocco. Among the people named as producers is David Wyler, the son of William Wyler. The senior Wyler directed the 1959 film version of Ben Hur starring Charlton Heston. That film won 11 Academy Awards.
The press release from Muse announcing the start of filming is below.
Los Angeles, Barcelona, Berlin, Montreal: May 5, 2009 - The legendary story of Ben Hur began principal photography May 4, 2009 and is being produced for the first time for television. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace,
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'Ben-Hur' miniseries gets leading man
4 May 2009 8:06 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Joseph Morgan has reportedly been cast as the leading man in the forthcoming Ben-Hur miniseries. The Welsh actor will portray the role made famous by late actor Charlton Heston in the 1959 film, and will be joined in the four-hour remake by Emily VanCamp and Stephen Campbell Moore, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Morgan will play the rich youth looking for vengeance after being betrayed by his friend Messala (Moore), while VanCamp will star (more)
By Tim Parks
Hayworth's Dress And Heston's Apes Gear Set For Auction
11 April 2009 7:05 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Rita Hayworth's signature Gilda gown, Charlton Heston's Planet Of The Apes costume and Star Wars villain Darth Maul's lightsaber are among the highlights going under the hammer at an upcoming Hollywood memorabilia auction.
Despite the recession, bosses at auction house Profiles in History hope to land $30,000 to $50,000 (£20,690 to £34,480) for Hayworth's iconic 1940s movie dress and up to $60,000 (£41,380) for Darth Maul's weapon from Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace.
And the outfit Heston wore as Colonel George Taylor in Planet of the Apes is also expected to fetch $60,000 on the auction block at the end of the month.
The two-day sale features over 1,000 iconic pieces of Hollywood history, also including The Creature From The Black Lagoon's mask, Harrison Ford's blaster From Blade Runner, and items from the collection of revered sci-fi and horror pioneer Forrest J. Ackerman's estate.
Worldwide bidding begins at noon, local time, on 30 April.
The Bible: The Complete Word Of God (Abridged) Plays At Otc 5/15-6/7
3 April 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | From BroadwayWorld.com | See recent BroadwayWorld.com news
Referred to as an "irreverent roller coaster ride" by The Reduced Shakespeare Company, The Bible is a hilarious jaunt through the most well known biblical tales. Each member of the three-person cast dons many hats to bring to life the multitude of characters in this vibrant musical comedy. The Bible: The Complete Word of God (Abridged) is an energetic and hysterical compilation that asks the important theological questions: "Did Adam and Eve have navels? Did Moses really look like Charlton Heston? And why isn't the word "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds?"
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'Ben-Hur' miniseries in the works
31 March 2009 5:46 PM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Ben-Hur is currently in development as a miniseries, reports claim. ABC is planning to remake the classic film, which starred Charlton Heston, as an epic four-hour television movie, according to Variety. It is unknown if the new version will remain faithful to the original, but David Wyler, son of original director William Wyler, will serve as the producer on the small screen adaptation. “We’ve got a joke that this is the family business,” Wyler said. “In my mind, (more)
By Tim Parks
Bradford International Film Festival Diary Day 4: "Becket" And "Khartoum"
30 March 2009 1:21 PM, PDT | From Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news
Lee Pfeiffer reports on Cinema Retro's fourth and final day at the festival.
Although the film festival was to conclude the following day with widescreen showings of The Electric Horseman and Year of the Dragon, this would be the last day Dave Worrall and I could attend. As such, we had to devote a good deal of time to business meetings and schmoozing with friends and colleagues. However, in the morning we attended Cineramacana, a fun potpourri of weird short films, odd reels and (inexplicably) a trailer for Yentl which only serves to remind us that middle-aged Barbra Streisand posing as a teenage boy was the least convincing casting since Duke Wayne played Ghengis Khan in The Conqueror. Oy vey! Couldn't someone have stopped this ludicrous vanity piece from going into production? This segment of the festival also presented a lovely nature film sans narration that was produced on a budget of fifty pounds!
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ABC Revisiting Ben Hur
26 March 2009 9:54 PM, PDT | From TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news
ABC is bringing Ben Hur to the small screen. The network will air a new four hour mini-series based on Lew Wallace’s famous novel. Steve Shill, whose directed episodes of Rome, The Sopranos, Dexter and The Tudors, is on board to direct. Alan Sharp (Rob Roy, The Osterman Weekend) penned the screenplay. Hur centers on a Jewish prince who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend. He regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. It was previously adapted to the big screen by director William Wyler, a film that starred Charlton Heston and won 11 Oscars, including best picture. Wallace’s novel was published on November 12, 1880 and became the best-selling American novel until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The book was also the first work of fiction to be blessed by a Pope. William Wyler’s son, David Wyler, will executive produce the miniseries.
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James Cook
Cinematical Seven: Apocalyptic Science Fiction Films
19 March 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
Apocalypse you say? Then armageddon outta here. Whether it's war, pestilence or one of the other Four Horsemen, the end of civilization as we know it has been a recurring theme since the beginning of science fiction cinema. This Friday sees the release of Knowing, a film in which a looming global cataclysm plays a major role -- so let's take a look back at seven films with different versions of how it will all end.
I Am Legend (2007)
Let's start with one that's still fresh in everyone's mind. In this film based on the Richard Matheson novel, Will Smith plays Robert Neville who, at the start of the film anyway, appears to be the last man on Earth thanks to his immunity to the virus that has stricken everyone else. The majority of the population has died from the disease, while the remainder have been mutated into animalistic rage-driven creatures who fear the daylight.
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Matt Bradshaw
Links At Lunch - 03/11/09
11 March 2009 1:33 PM, PDT | From MovieBlog.Ugo.com | See recent Ugo MovieBlog news
Ahoy. Today we start a new daily (or close to it) feature. Years ago, lunch meant sitting with a group of friends and discussing the important events of the day. Now it means stuffing a sandwich in your face and trying not to get Utz Crab Chip crumbs in your keyboard. Don’t know where to surf while you eat? Here’s what I suggest. Indiewire announces the non-competing films at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The competing films are always boring PC crap from Iran, but the non-competing films actually include movies people actually want to see. This year’s list includes Stephen Soderbergh’s raincoat-friendly The Girlfriend Experience starring Sasha Grey, Black Dynamite, Moon, and films directed by Eric Bana (a documentary about cars) and a new one from dude who made L.I.E.. Perhaps you’ve heard buzz about Pdf files from George Lucas, Steven Spielberg
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Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 3
26 February 2009 2:51 AM, PST | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news
Disclaimer: This article may contain sarcasm; irony and “LOLs” proceed with caution.
The Final Chapter (read Part 2 here)! We have Howard the Duck, Freejack and Shyamalan flicks on the list; these are never good signs. Nonetheless we are bringing it all to you in full-color and in 3-D. (Ed. Note: Due to the economy, 3-D has been dropped and will be replaced by Smell-o-vision — check for your scratch and sniff cards in about 4-6 weeks.) Best Sound went to rage-zombie veterans Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, leaving Mark Weingarten who worked on Rejuvenatrix in the dust. The Sound Editing section contains one too many references to Ron Silver, and at least two references to a Roger Corman film.
The visual effects category pulled on our heartstrings this year due to the loss of Stan Winston, who was noted en memoriam along with other heroes, Vampira, Leonard Rosenman and Charles H. Schneer
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Heather Buckley
Kitt's Publicist Lashes Out Over Oscar Tribute
25 February 2009 8:11 AM, PST | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Late actress/singer Eartha Kitt's former publicist has lashed out at Oscar producers for omitting her from a segment paying tribute to stars who had passed away over the past year.
Kitt died on Christmas Day after losing her battle with colon cancer, aged 81.
Best-known for her role as Catwoman in the original 1960s Batman TV show, the Santa Baby singer also co-starred in movies with Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr. and Sidney Poitier.
And the Emmy winner's former publicist, Andrew Freedman, is outraged her glittering career was overlooked during Sunday's telecast.
He tells the New York Post, "The producers are either 12 or have been living under a rock for the past 60 years. It's clear that they thought that publicist Warren Cowan was more of a household name. Go figure."
The Academy Award's In Memoriam segment featured Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Sydney Pollack and dozens of stars who passed away in 2008.
'Slumdog Millionaire' is Top Dog at Oscars
22 February 2009 9:47 PM, PST | From TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news
The rags-to-riches Mumbai drama 'Slumdog Millionaire' took the top prize at the 81st annual Academy Awards, with Sean Penn and Kate Winslet earning the top acting awards during a creatively revamped show at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood Sunday night. Click Here for the complete list of winners! Beating out 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,' 'Frost/Nixon,' 'Milk' and 'The Reader' for Best Picture, 'Slumdog' was also awarded Best Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Original Song, Original Score, Sound Editing, Film Editing and Best Director. Upon receiving his Oscar, director Danny Boyle jumped up and down "in the spirit of Tigger" for his children, a promise he made to them years ago, and singled out the people of Mumbai, saying, "all of you who helped us make the film, and all of those who didn't, you dwarf this guy (Oscar)." Winning the top honor of the
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TheInsider
Live blogging the Oscars
22 February 2009 12:07 PM, PST | From Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news
Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting "refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre.
9:06 p.m. — As with all of the past seven Oscars held at the Kodak Theater, the Governors Ball takes place in the adjoining Grand Ballroom which is 25,090 square feet. The menu for the Governors Ball was created by Wolfgang Puck for the fifteenth consecutive year. He promises the return of old favorites like tuna tartare in sesame miso cones and Maine lobster as well as, of course, caviar. And pastry chef Sherry Yard will once more be creating her gold-dusted chocolate Oscars as consolation prizes for those who didn’t get one of the real ones. Music will be spun by Kcrw radio host Jason Bentley who will alternate with The Impulse
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tomoneil
Cinematical Seven: Blackface at the Oscars
21 February 2009 6:02 PM, PST | From Cinematical.com | See recent Cinematical news
There was a bit of a shocker included in the Oscar nominations this year -- Robert Downey Jr. receiving a nod for his part in Tropic Thunder. It's a double whammy -- one of those rare nominations in the comedy category (a farce no less!), and a role that's almost 100% blackface. Unsurprisingly, the role created unrest, as well as a lot of discussion revolving around Hollywood's treatment of race on and off the screen.
Like it or not, race jumping is pretty much intrinsically linked to Hollywood -- all the way back to the first silent films. Over the years, it's morphed from minstrels to mainstream icons, critical darlings, and races of all sorts. Katharine Hepburn went Chinese for Dragon Seed. Charlton Heston went a rather ridiculous brownface for Touch of Evil. These days, that's not quite so kosher, but instances do pop up, both on the big screen (keep
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Monika Bartyzel
Seven Scores: Michael J. Lewis - Upon This Rock
4 February 2009 8:31 AM, PST | From Daily Film Music Blog | See recent Daily Film Music Blog news
After the success of The Madwoman of Chaillot, Lewis found himself more film work thanks to the fact that the music he delivered for his first picture was quite good and it was featured very prominently. The next picture we're discussing is from the other end of the spectrum: Upon This Rock is so obscure that I haven't even seen it and I couldn't even find a relevant still or poster from the internet for it! Lewis got the job through his work for a 1970 adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar for which he composed the music. You might be surprised to learn that he got the job after Britain's eminent William Walton was fed up with film scoring after his experiences on Battle of Britain. For those of you who aren't familiar with the story, let us re-coup:
Sir William Walton was a truly great English, 20th century composer. He
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TCM: Private Screenings—Interview With Ernest Borgnine
26 January 2009 10:15 AM, PST | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
Along with discussing TCM’s upcoming “31 Days of Oscar” and reminiscing on Arlene Dahl, Robert Osborne and I talked about Ernest Borgnine, with whom he recently taped an interview for TCM’s “Private Screenings”, which will premiere on Monday, January 26, 2009, 5:00Pm (Pt), followed by a four-film tribute. Borgnine, a venerable 92-year-old, is the oldest living Academy Award®-winning actor, now that Charlton Heston has passed away. Osborne and I exchanged a few comments regarding this Hollywood legend and then a few hours later I was offered the chance to share a few minutes with Ernie as well.
* * * Robert Osborne: [Ernie] may be matched with Olivia DeHaviland because she’s 92 as well. Jennifer Jones, I believe, is a couple of years younger. I must say that—knowing both of them—Borgnine and Olivia, is that they are both examples of how great it can be to live that long if you have good genes.
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Michael Guillen
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