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Hargitay & Meloni End Contract Disputes

30 June 2009 9:11 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Law & Order: SVU co-stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have finally ended their months-long contract dispute with TV bosses, after signing two-year deals to remain on the show.

The pair reportedly jeopardised their return to the hit series by demanding more money from network bosses.

Hargitay and Meloni allegedly asked for a share of the programme's profits from the NBC network, in addition to the $350,000 (£233,335) they earned per episode - a rare deal similar to ones TV bosses cut with Law & Order: Criminal Intent stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Chris Noth.

Reports last April suggested executives had threatened to dump the pair when their contracts expire in May if an agreement could not be reached - but they have now agreed a new two-year deal.

Law & Order: SVU marks its eleventh year on air in September.

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The Narrows

18 June 2009 9:51 PM, PDT | From NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news

Ayoung photography student tries to es cape his mobbed-up Bay Ridge surroundings in the sub-Scorsese melodrama "The Narrows." Kevin Zegers plays the shutterbug who, to pay for his classes, gets caught up in a scheme delivering mysterious packages for a local gang.

Another student (Sophia Bush, who always seems to be dressed to attend a wedding, even in class) becomes his girlfriend because she likes tough guys, but with his long bangs and soft features, Zegers looks more "Gossip Girl" than "Goodfellas." Vincent D'Onofrio, as his brusque father, lurches around

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Coroner’s Report: The Cell 2 on Blu-ray

18 June 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | From FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news

You probably remember The Cell as that movie that had Jennifer Lopez before she became annoying and Vincent D'Onofrio being slightly creepier than normal.  The Cell 2 wants you to remember this movie, so they show a short little introduction that features J. Lo but then quickly moves away from anything really resembling the first movie. In The Cell 2 Tessie Santiago stars as Maya, a psychic investigator who left the FBI after she blames herself for a woman that died at the hands of The Cusp, a new serial killer.  The Cusp has the cool and interesting methodology of killing his victims, then resuscitating them, only to repeat the process until they eventually die.  The Cusp goes underground for a year but comes out of semi-retirement to lure Maya back into the fold by kidnapping the niece of a local Sheriff.  Maya must explore the memories of the killer in a race to find him in

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Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Is All Talk—and That's Ok

11 June 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Review in a Hurry: Anyone expecting a typical big-budget Tony Scott action movie should be forewarned—about 80 percent of this subway heist flick consists of close-ups on John Travolta and Denzel Washington talking over an intercom. Fortunately, it's every bit as compelling as if they were shooting guns the whole time. Plus, the other 20 percent? Car crashes. The Bigger Picture: The third adaptation of John Godey's 1973 novel—Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw costarred in a 1974 movie, while a 1998 TV version pitted Edward James Olmos against Vincent D'Onofrio—gives the material a modern twist. No longer just a mercenary, the subway hijacker known only as "Ryder" (Travolta) is now an evil Wall...

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Movie Patrons To Interact With Stars

2 June 2009 2:37 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news

A company that is distributing movies and live events to digitally equipped theaters via satellite announced Monday that it is setting up a question-and-answer session between the cast of a new movie and the audience watching it. Cinedigm Digital Cinema Corp said the Q&A will take place on June 19 in conjunction with the 17-city opening of The Narrows, which stars Vincent D'Onofrio of Law and Order:Criminal Intent. "We are upgrading a passive viewing experience to be more dynamic, immersive and even interactive, and the possibility for continued innovation is endless," commented Bud Mayo, CEO of Cinedigm, in a statement. "We are truly excited to be able to present an event like this for the first time ever." In an interview with Reuters, D'Onofrio remarked, "Anything to get small films out there in a lot of cinemas [is great], because before this, it was art houses."

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Kathryn Bigelow In-Person Tribute at American Cinematheque

20 May 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | From Pretty/Scary | See recent pretty-scary news

Action/Horror director Kathryn Bigelow is being given an entire weekend devoted to her films at The Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, California by the American Cinematheque June 5, 6, and 7 2009. Bigelow directed the vampire movie Near Dark and action flicks Point Break and K-19: The Widowmaker, and the sci-fi movie Strange Days. Her new action war film The Hurt Locker is premiering in Los Angeles on June 5th and she'll be in person, all weekend, for screenings of all her recent films.

Bigelow is one of the only women to ever direct big budget action movies in Hollywood and to be seen as a peer by her male counterparts like James Cameron, Michael Bay, and Ridley Scott...

Native Californian director Kathryn Bigelow began her artistic endeavors at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Whitney Museum Independent Study program, She later transferred into graduate work in filmmaking at Columbia University's School of the Arts.

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Casting bites: Colin Firth, Kevin Spacey

19 May 2009 11:38 PM, PDT | From screeninglog.com | See recent screeninglog news

Here's your dose of casting updates for May 20, 2009:

• Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey are in talks to star in Hugh Hudson's big-screen adaptation of "Catalonia" by George Orwell. The story follows Orwell's journey to Barcelona, where he joined the Anarchist brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Bob Ellis wrote the script. (Variety)

• Camilla Belle ("Push") and Tom Wilkinson have joined the English remake of Susanne Bier's "Efter brylluppet" (After the Wedding). Michael Caton-Jones ("Shooting Dogs") will direct the flick, which centers on a social worker who works in a Mumbai orphanage and receives a mysterious but huge donation from a businessman. (Variety)

• Chris Pontius, whose credits include "Wildboyz" and "Jackass," is set to star in Sofia Coppola's upcoming "Somewhere," about an actor who lives an extravagant lifestyle at the Chateau Marmont until he gets an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter. Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning co-star.

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George Clooney Is a Gentleman

19 May 2009 7:19 AM, PDT | From E! Online | See recent E! Online news

Any excuse to get George Clooney in a suit… The old-school movie star has signed on to act his dapper best in A Very Private Gentleman, a big-screen adaptation of the Martin Booth best-seller. According to Variety, Clooney will play the titular assassin who protects his cover by hiding out in an Italian town as he prepares for his final assignment. Try as he may to keep himself to himself, romantic entanglements ensue. The film shoots in Italy this fall. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg has a dream, Carmen Electra has an exhibitionist streak, Colin Firth and Kevin Spacey have a military bromance, Kenneth Branagh has his comic-book baddie and Vincent D'Onofrio has, well, a slew of new...

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The Irishman Cast Gets Rounded Out

18 May 2009 7:38 AM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

A slew of actors have just joined director Jonathan Hensleigh's new film. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones, Paul Sorvino, Fionnula Flanagan, Laura Ramsey, Steve Schirripa, Linda Cardellini and Bob Gunton have all joined the cast of Hensleigh's The Irishman.

They join the already-announced cast of Ray Stevenson, Christopher Walken and Val Kilmer. Hensleigh will direct from a script he co-wrote with Jeremy Walters, an adaptation of "To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia" by Rick Porrello, which tells the tale of real-life gangster Danny Greene.

Shooting is scheduled to start next week in Detroit.

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D'Onofrio, Sorvino and Jones Join 'The Irishman'

17 May 2009 11:48 PM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

It appears I was most likely wrong in thinking Lightening Entertainment's The Irishman would be a direct-to-dvd title as the production house is out pre-selling the film at the Cannes Film Festival and Screen Daily has additional names to add to the cast. Already cast in the film, which will be directed by Jonathan Hensleigh from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jeremy Walters, are Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer and Ray Stevenson and Screen Daily announces Vincent D'Onofrio, Paul Sorvino and Vinnie Jones have also joined the cast. The film was inspired by Rick Porrello's "To Kill The Irishman: The War That Crippled The Mafia" and tells the story based on the life of mobster Danny Greene (Stevenson), who lorded over Cleveland's criminal underworld during the late 1970s. Walken is onboard to play infamous loan-sharking nightclub owner Shondor Birns, and Kilmer will portray a Cleveland cop who befriends Greene. Steve Schirripa,

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Exclusive Video: New Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Faithfully Clip

11 May 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | From MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news

We have a brand new exclusive clip from the upcoming Law & Order: Criminal Intent epsiode, entitled Faithfully, which will air on Sunday, May 17 at 9 Pm Et only on the USA Network. Click below for our exclusive clip, which features Vincent D'Onofrio getting to the bottom of a domestic attack.

Link Itembed Itrate It+ LISTExclusive: Describe Him When a devout, celebrity doctor is murdered, Goren and Eames enter the unexpectedly steamy world behind the pulpit.

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Hip Ostrich Honors Police Procedural With His Presence

27 April 2009 1:21 PM, PDT | From Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news

Last night Jeff Goldblum loped his way into his series debut as the latest misfit mystique-trailing genius detective on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA). If this were the Sixties or Seventies, his Zen cool detective would be a sleepy-eyed hepcat who lives in a beach bungalow and has Miles Davis going through his head between crime solving, but this isn't the Sixties or Seventies and without an Establishment to pretend to rebel against, Goldblum's Zach Nichols simply floats in on his own cloud, wirelessly wired to the whole universe and breaking into a Cheshire cat smile after each gnomic pronouncement. I enjoy Goldblum's feathery, self-infatuated put-on--it's a light lift in contrast to Vincent D'Onofrio's lumpen, ashen angst--but last night's script didn't have enough grit or texture to offset the twee. It's hard to care about a loftful of mumblecore musician wannabees and their YouTube dreams of glory, and the

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The Biggest Linker

23 April 2009 1:21 PM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

MTV Movies Will Cronenberg ever return to horror?

Guardian Michelle Pfeiffer talks about her career, her lack of a game plan and Chéri

Movie Marketing on the different challenges for Wolverine and Star Trek as they gear up to open

[title] of show has a helpful eligibility chart for the TONYs. If your awards addiction extends to the stage, you'll love studying this. [thx]

The Big Picture on why there's no iTunes for movies. Hollywood needs to figure this out pronto methinks. At one of the panels I attended at NaFF they were really concerned about piracy and pointed to the decline of the recording industry. Didn't the recording industry decline precisely because they waited so long to catch up with demand and refused to supply (online that is)?

Nyt did you read this piece last weekend on the expanding waistlines of male stars? They got dinged for it in several places

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Five: Rutger Hauer Films Where He Is Not An Android

12 April 2009 5:36 PM, PDT | From Latemag.com/film | See recent LateFilmFull news

Sin City and Batman Begins in 2005 saw the mighty Rutger Hauer return to roles in high profile genre films. He has been working solidly of course, but these day's one might forget just what a genre film powerhouse the Dutchman was, during a period spanning about 15 years, from the early 80's to the mid nineties. Of course Hauer’s quintessential role is that of Roy Batty, the replicant on the run who races against time to find his creator. While avoiding the Blade Runner Rick Deckard played by Harrison Ford. Probably his second most recognizable role is the powerhouse performance as the uber menacing Hitch Hiker John Ryder in the 1986 movie The Hitcher. "John Ryder" as played by Hauer is probably my favorite on screen psycho, as Hauer relies almost entirely on performance to menace both the viewer and his onscreen victim Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell) in a movie

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The Cell 2 Goes Direct to DVD This June

10 April 2009 9:26 AM, PDT | From FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news

Direct-to-dvd sequels... we all love to hate em. In this day and age, the concept of a movie going direct-to-dvd is no longer always a terrible thing, however, when it's an unwarranted sequel without the director or any original cast members, it's still a very bad sign. In the case of The Cell 2, Warner Brothers is truly producing a continuation that no one asked for. Don't get me wrong, I did like The Cell to an extent. There were some mind-blowing visuals in the film, but director Tarsem is not involved in the sequel which pretty much eliminates the only interesting thing the original had going for it. The Cell came out back in 2000 and I think it has mostly been forgotten at this point. Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn and Vincent D'Onofrio are not returning for obvious reasons, and so instead they've recruited a bunch of TV actors to take over.

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Want to see Vincent D'Onofrio as a mafia don? It's Little New York (Staten Island)

9 April 2009 12:52 PM, PDT | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

This is one we've been eagerly awaiting and now we've got the first trailer for you! The film by James DeMonaco is now called Staten Island but you might know it as Little New York. It stars and awesome cast with Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio as a mafia don, and Seymour Cassel. The list goes on and on.

Sully, a father and discharger of septic tanks is ready to do anything to ensure the future of his son. Jasper, small grocer, has an important quality in the eyes of the mafia for whom he has worked: he is deaf and dumb. Among Tarzo, head of the local mafia, he would eliminate all competition. All three live in Staten Island, under the overwhelming shadow of Manhattan. Their paths will cross as they struggle to get ahead.

Enjoy the first trailer after the break!

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Hargitay & Meloni In Contract Dispute With Law & Order Bosses

9 April 2009 9:15 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Law & Order: Svu stars Mariska Hargitay and Chris Meloni have reportedly jeopardised their roles in the hit TV show by demanding more money from network bosses.

The actors are reportedly demanding a share of the programme's profits from the NBC network, in addition to the $350,000 (£238,095) they earn per episode - a rare deal similar to ones TV bosses cut with Law & Order: Criminal Intent stars Vincent D'Onofrio and Chris Noth.

And according to Entertainment Weekly, NBC bosses are threatening to dump the pair when their contracts expire in May if an agreement is not reached in time.

Series creator Dick Wolf tells the New York Post, "It is my fondest hope that both Chris and Mariska will be back next season."

NBC did not return requests for comment as WENN went to press.

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'Men in Black 3' Confirmed to Be in Development

1 April 2009 8:43 PM, PDT | From Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news

Another sequel to 1997 hit alien movie "Men in Black" is in the pipeline. Collider reported that the Sony Worldwide Distribution president Rory Bruer announced the studio are moving forward with "Men in Black 3" during Sony Pictures' presentation at 2009 ShoWest convention in Las Vegas on Wednesday, April 1.

While the studio's topper did mention the year 2011 in regards to the film, he didn't exactly reveal when the studio are targeting to release this third installment of the comedy sci-fi movie. As for whether Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones will return to reprise their roles, Bruer also remained mum.

The original "Men in Black" is a 1997 sci-fi comedy directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent D'Onofrio. Based on the "Men in Black" comic book series by Lowell Cunningham, the movie went on to gross $589.4 million worldwide and spawned a sequel, "Men in Black II", in 2002.

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Matt Damon: Bourne Ultimatummy?!?

20 January 2009 7:32 AM, PST | From Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news

Everyone's talking about New Moon star Taylor Lautner's impressive weight gain in anticipation of the heavy lifting he'll have to do in the soon-to-start-shooting Twilight sequel New Moon. But we still think the most remarkable transformation we've seen in a long while is the one Matt Damon pulled off for The Informant, which is due out later this year. Reportedly, Vincent D'Onofrio holds the all-time record for gaining weight for a movie role, packing on 70 lbs. for his part in Full Metal Jacket.

Contemplating the full blubber jacket Damon put on for The Informant in this Us Magazine spread on shape-shifting thespians, we can't help but think of him as the new champ, regardless of actual numbers. Even his hair looks significantly chubbier than it usually does, a feat not even D'Onofrio could pull off. (He opted for the skinhead look instead.)

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19 articles from 2009

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