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13 items from 2012
Tom Cruise Attached to 'Magnificent Seven' Remake
22 May 2012 11:17 AM, PDT | Fandango | See recent Fandango news »
Chances are if you were born after the mid-'80s and you're not a film geek, you're probably not familiar with John Sturges' Western drama The Magnificent Seven. The 1960 film starred some of the biggest names of the day including Steven McQueen, Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, James Coburn and Eli Wallach. If you don't recognize any of those names, surely (hopefully) you recognize Elmer Bernstein's iconic score. The film itself is a remake of Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa's acclaimed The Seven Samurai, itself marked for a possible remake. Fast forward 50-plus years now and MGM has announced that Tom Cruise is attached to star in a remake of Sturges' film. Granted, this remake doesn't have a director or script, so it will be a while...
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Tom Cruise Gunning For "Magnificent Seven" Remake
22 May 2012 3:37 AM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Tom Cruise is planning to develop and star in a remake of the 1960 Western classic The Magnificent Seven. Information is sketchy because the project is only in the embryonic stages. There have been various attempts to remake the film in the past, but none have borne fruit. The original film was a surprise hit and was itself a remake of Kurosawa's classic Seven Samurai. Although the film is remembered as an all-star vehicle today, at the time only Yul Brynner and Eli Wallach were considered big names. The film helped promote the young up-and-comers in the cast to major stardom including Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Coburn and Robert Vaughn. Horst Bucholz became a star in Europe and the guy whose name nobody can remember, Brad Dexter, went on to become a successful movie producer. The film, directed by John Sturges, is also remembered for its classic theme song by Elmer Bernstein. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
Blood of the Vines: The Horse Soldiers
10 May 2012 9:48 AM, PDT | Trailers from Hell | See recent Trailers from Hell news »
Randy rides west.
Westerns – the Great American Movie Genre. Yes, the Italian cinema has its Spaghetti Western - Cameriere, more Sangiovese, please! But we’re talking real, honest-to-John-Wayne American westerns here. The kind with a big, wide-open-spaces theme by somebody like Elmer Bernstein, Alfred Newman, or Lerner and Loewe. Morricone magic is better served with the aforementioned grape of Chianti – and movies where the dubbed dialog doesn’t quite match up with the actors’ mouths.
The soundtrack of “The Horse Soldiers” rides in on the strains of “Dixie” and out to “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” You not only get a western, you get a Civil War movie, too. And John Wayne’s in both of them.
Heck, you even get John Ford directing at no extra charge, and a story that was ripped from the headlines of the Vicksburg Post, circa 1863. A western? In Mississippi? That’s right, pilgrim. »
- Danny
10 Of Saul Bass' Greatest Title Sequences
25 April 2012 9:22 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
The art of movie titles is becoming an increasingly lost one: aside from a few films (the Bond movies) and directors (Steven Spielberg, David Fincher and Jason Reitman always pay particular attention to their credit sequences), it feels like relatively little care is taken over such things, with many movies dumping them altogether. And it's hard not to put that down to the fact that we don't have guys like Saul Bass around anymore.
Bass was a graphic designer from the Bronx who went out West in the 1940s and started working on film ads. After being noticed by Otto Preminger, who would become his collaborator for the next twenty years starting with "Carmen Jones" in 1954, Bass went on to design some of cinema's most iconic title sequences and posters for world-class filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, often in an instantly recognizable style that remains influential »
- Oliver Lyttelton
The Academy To Celebrate 50th Anniversary Of To Kill A Mockingbird
2 April 2012 10:59 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will showcase a new digital restoration of “To Kill a Mockingbird” in celebration of the film.s 50th anniversary on Wednesday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. The evening will feature an introduction by talk show host Tavis Smiley and an onstage discussion with Oscar®-nominated actress Mary Badham. The digital restoration is courtesy of Universal Pictures, which is marking its centennial this year.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird” (1962) became as much of a classic as its source, and the defining film of Gregory Peck.s career. Produced by Alan J. Pakula and directed by Robert Mulligan, the film features Peck as a Depression-era lawyer struggling against a prejudiced system to exonerate an African-American man falsely accused of rape.
For his iconic portrayal of Atticus Finch, Peck »
- Michelle McCue
Xaque Gruber: Wendy & Lisa's Fine 'Touch'
23 March 2012 10:08 AM, PDT | Aol TV. | See recent Aol TV. news »
Whether you remember them as the women who played with Prince in The Revolution or as a pop duo or as the Emmy winning composers of Nurse Jackie, Heroes, Crossing Jordan, and now, the new Fox series, Touch, the innovative musical force that is Wendy & Lisa is a hard act to define, and certainly one of the best in the business when it comes to sheer musicianship and experimenting with the new.
Touch, starring Kiefer Sutherland, is the duo's third partnership with television showrunner, Tim Kring.
Coleman says, "Tim tells stories the way that I write music."
Touch Trailer:
Melvoin agrees:
Tim's mind and Lisa's mind are a perfect combination especially for this show. Just the way Lisa plays music in general, with a lot of polyrhythms, harmonic oddness, and different tempos all together, but no matter how crazy it can get, you never lose where home base is. The »
- Xaque Gruber
Ten Terrific War Movies You Probably Never Heard Of
27 February 2012 6:19 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
I’ve always been a war film buff, maybe because I grew up with them at a time when they were a regular part of the cinema landscape. That’s why I read, with particular interest, my Sound on Sight colleague Edgar Chaput’s recent pieces on The Flowers of War (“The Flowers of War Is an Uneven but Interesting Chinese Ww II Film” – posted 2/20/12) and The Front Line (The Front Line Rises to the Occasion to Overcome Its Familiarity” – 2/16/12) with such interest. An even more fun read was the back-and-forth between Edgar and Sos’s Michael Ryan over the latter (“The Sound on Sight Debate on Korea’s The Front Line” – 2/12/12), with Michael unimpressed because the movie had “…nothing new to add to the war genre,” and Edgar coming back with “…‘new’ is not always what a film must strive for. So long as it does well what it set out to do… »
- Bill Mesce
Oscar nominee Ludovic Bource inspired by past music masters for 'The Artist' score [Video]
17 February 2012 5:33 PM, PST | Gold Derby | See recent Gold Derby news »
When asked to score "The Artist" by director Michel Hazanavicius, Ludovic Bource went back to the masters of the earliest films. In a video interview with Gold Derby, he revealed, "I was inspired by Max Steiner, Eric Korngold, Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Bernard Hermann, and Elmer Bernstein to pay a tribute with my work." To compose the music for a black and white silent movie, he explained, "before this process of creation, I watched with Michel the classic American films like 'Sunrise.' The light is very magical. The supposition of images to other images and the tricks are just wonderful." The French composer first worked with Hazanavicius on his feature debut "Mes Amies" in 1999 and followed with "Oss 117 - Cairo, Nest of Spies" (2006) and "Oss 117 - Lost in Rio" (2009). He has also scored the documentary "Here to Stay" in 2010 and provided additional music to "The Dope" (2003) a »
James Pizzinato in Alcatraz tonight, new interview with Bear McCreary & some space porn
13 February 2012 3:14 PM, PST | CapricaTV | See recent CapricaTV news »
James Pizzinato plays the prisoner of the week in Alcatraz tonight, in episode 1x06, "Paxton Petty."
The episode airs at 9 pm Et on Fox. Here is the synopsis:
Madsen, Soto and Hauser (Sarah Jones, Jorge Garcia and Sam Neill) track a mad bomber (James Pizzinato) who is planting explosives throughout the city, targeting highly populated areas.
They're forced to apply methods from the past to their pursuit in the new episode "Paxton Petty." Robert Forster and Parminder Nagra also star.Previews posted below.
The Nervous Breakdown has a new interview with Bear McCreary. Here are a few snippets (more at the link):
From what or whom do you derive your greatest inspiration?
My inspiration comes from so many different sources that it’s impossible to say. Ideas can come from just talking to someone or flipping through the radio. Ideas are the sum of everything on your mind at any given time. »
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Blu-ray Review: 50th Anniversary Edition of Beloved ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’
13 February 2012 10:35 AM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Do kids still read Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” in school? Or do they just watch the movie now? When I was growing up it may have been the most canonical book of a growing child’s formative years. If I had to look back on the books that most influenced the way I look at fiction, it would certainly be on the list. And the timeless film would be right there with it, forever impacting the way I look at the art of movies.
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Universal is doing something incredible this year. They’re going back through their archives and releasing special editions of some of their most beloved films in a collection called “Universal 100th Anniversary Collector’s Series.” Future titles will include “Jaws,” “All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Parenthood,” and “E.T.- The Extra-Terrestrial.” among many others. It’s going to be »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
To Kill a Mockingbird
31 January 2012 4:17 PM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »
Few 20th century novels have been as warmly regarded as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Currently a perennial work taught in high schools around the nation, it was an acclaimed, award-winning work when released in 1961 as the southern author tried to recapture her childhood life in a small Southern town. I enjoyed the book as a student, then a parent, and now that I’m studying to become a teacher, recognize it as a great piece of literature and great teaching tool.
She wrote in 1964, “I would like to leave some record of the kind of life that existed in a very small world. I hope…to chronicle something that seems to be very quickly going down the drain. This is small-town middle-class southern life as opposed to Gothic, as opposed to Tobacco Road, as opposed to plantation life.”
It was a story of rights and responsibilities, tolerance, »
- Robert Greenberger
Exclusive: Cecilia Peck Talks To Kill a Mockingbird Blu-ray
31 January 2012 9:47 AM, PST | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Gregory Peck's daughter Cecilia Peck discusses her father's classic role as Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird
There are certain books that are essentially required reading for nearly every American high school student, no matter where they may hail from. One of those literary classics is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted into the classic film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, still one of the most beloved performances of all time. Universal Studios Home Entertainment is celebrating the 50th Anniversary of To Kill a Mockingbird with brand new Blu-ray and DVD editions arriving January 31. I had the privilege of speaking with Gregory Peck's daughter, Cecilia Peck, about this timeless classic which finally makes its debut on Blu-ray. Here's what she had to say below.
It's so great that this is getting a Blu-ray version. I don't think I've seen this since high school, »
- MovieWeb
Why Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear is among the finest thrillers of the 1990s
9 January 2012 3:28 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Boldly directed and featuring a great turn from Robert De Niro, Cape Fear is among Martin Scorsese’s best films, reckons Ryan. And here's why...
Following the critical acclaim earned by such wilfully individual movies as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese’s decision to direct a remake of an old 60s thriller was a surprising one. And yet, Scorsese’s foray into the mainstream proved to be a wise move, providing the director with yet more praise and a proper box-office hit.
In retrospect, it’s not difficult to see what Scorsese saw in the film’s apparently simple premise, adapted from John MacDonald’s 1957 novel, The Executioners. The 1962 Cape Fear, directed by J Lee Thompson and featuring the chiselled jaws of Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum in its lead roles, was a tale of good versus evil: maniac convict Max Cady (Mitchum) gets out of jail »
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