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Arnold Schwarzenegger to play an angel in Black Sunday
31 December 2011 5:32 AM, PST | TotalFilm | See recent TotalFilm news »
Arnold Schwarzenegger is taking his movie comeback seriously. As well as The Expendables 2, Arnie is also filming Last Stand, and he's currently prepping a role in Black Sands (formerly announced as Black Sands). While the film had previously been described as a western of sorts, with comparisons to Man On Fire and High Plains Drifter mentioned, Arnie has thrown a curveball by telling website TheArnoldFans (via The Playlist) that he's playing an angel in the movie. "I'm a kind of angel," he said, adding, "I can not currently...
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- Matt Maytum
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Black Sands Becomes Black Sunday
29 December 2011 5:04 PM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
I’m sure you remember Black Sands described as a cross between Man On Fire and High Plains Drifter. If your answer is – yes I remember, that’s the movie where Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as the lead, then here’s a little update for you. The project will now have Black Sunday title. The rest remains pretty [...]
Continue reading Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Black Sands Becomes Black Sunday on FilmoFilia.
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- Fiona
My favourite film: Seven Samurai
14 December 2011 1:13 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Laurence Topham continues our writers' favourite film series with Kurosawa's epic about 16th-century Japanese swords-for-hire
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A group of samurai, along with a motley gang of armed villagers, await the arrival of 13 formidable bandits on horseback. With piercing rain beating down on them, Kambei, the leader of the samurai, solemnly says: "This is the final battle." With hellish cries, the mounted invaders charge through the black mud and into the village, where they are annihilated by a frenzy of makeshift spears and deadly arrows. Samurai swords cut into the horses, bodies drop into the mud – mud that lurched off the screen and into my socks.
Long before I was to experience the technical marvels of 3D, I was experiencing something much more cinematically powerful – the percussive power of Akira Kurosawa's editing. The subtitles didn't even register. »
- Laurence Topham
50 Reasons Why The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Might Just Be The Greatest Film of all Time
27 November 2011 5:36 PM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Following in the tradition of great What Culture arguments for films such as Jurassic Park, Star Wars and Jaws, it’s now time for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly to step forward and shoot all contenders down for the prestigious title of greatest film of all time. No other film is as iconic, as epic or as purely cinematic as Sergio Leone’s 1966 spaghetti western, which combines everything that’s remarkable about about the work of the late Italian director into one astonishing piece of filmmaking.
Here’s 50 reasons why The Good, the Bad and the Ugly might just be the greatest film of all time.
1. Clint Eastwood as Blondie (Aka: The Man With No Name/The Good)
Where better to start than Clint Eastwood’s effortlessly cool return as The Man With No Name, or as he is actually named here, Blondie. A man of few words, »
- Stephen Leigh
Cinema Standoff: John Wayne vs Clint Eastwood
23 November 2011 9:21 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Typecasting is a terrible fate to befall an actor. Many of them have suffered from it over the years, accepting role after role in similar films with similar plots and similar characters simply because they have no real alternative. However, in spite of the risks involved there are also those who subvert this association; those who have elevated themselves to near legendary status within their chosen genre. Their performances define it and are woven inextricably into its rich tapestry. Two such actors are pictured above and are the subject of this article – one, a silent and anonymous loner with no time for small talk and very direct methods of dealing with his adversaries, the other a straight talking, no – nonsense peacekeeper with a trademark southern drawl. Both are perhaps best known for their westerns, although they also directed, produced and starred in a variety of other films too including military epics and ‘unorthodox’ police procedurals. »
- Jame Simpson
Top Ten Tuesday: Our Man Clint!
8 November 2011 8:18 PM, PST | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
J. Edgar opens in theaters this Friday and it is the 33rd film directed by Clint Eastwood. Beginning with the thriller Play Misty For Me in 1971, Eastwood has directed westerns, action films, comedies, and dramas. From the very early days of his career, Eastwood had been frustrated by directors insisting that scenes be re-shot multiple times and perfected, and when he began as a director in 1971, he made a conscious attempt to avoid any aspects of directing he had been indifferent to as an actor. As a result, Eastwood is renowned for his efficient film directing and to reduce filming time and to keep budgets under control.
As seen through the eyes of Hoover himself, J. Edgar explores the personal and public life and relationships of a man who could distort the truth as easily as he upheld it during a life devoted to his own idea of justice, often »
- Movie Geeks
Arnie Signs For New Action Film “Black Sands”
3 November 2011 10:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Now that he is done being all Governor-y, Arnie is getting back into the swing of making action films quite nicely. As we’ve posted recently, he has been on set with The Expendables 2 and is also already shooting The Last Stand, which is being directed by Jee-Woon Kim.
Now we have news that Arnie has lined up another action flick for once The Last Stand is finished. Working from a script by Skip Woods (who wrote the screenplay for the recently green-lit Die Hard 5), Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy will direct the Austrian Oak in Black Sands, a film being pitched as High Plains Drifter meets Man on Fire. Frankly, if the finished product can come even vaguely close to the quality of either of those films, I will be a happy man indeed. Arnie will play a loner (no doubt armed to the teeth and with some »
- Dave Roper
Arnold Schwarzenegger To Star In Black Sands
31 October 2011 8:05 AM, PDT | LOVEFiLM | See recent LOVEFiLM news »
The former Governor has wasted no time uptil now getting back into his element by taking on Kim Ji-Woon‘s The Last Stand and Sylvester Stallone’s The Expendables 2.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is now slated to appear in his third post politics film, the action-drama Black Sands.
The film is reported to be similar in tone to Man On Fire and High Plains Drifter.
Deadline has revealed that the film’s story follows "a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest".
The project is to be directed by the stunt coordinator duo Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy who have just wrapped up their action adventure Act of Valor featuring active-duty Navy SEALs.
The script will be penned by Skip Woods, who wrote The A-Team, Hitman, Swordfish and most recently, the fifth instalment in the Die Hard franchise; A Good Day To Die Hard. »
- zayyaf.saleem@lovefilm.com (Zayyaf Saleem)
Schwarzenegger Heads To Black Sands
30 October 2011 5:01 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Everyone seems to be referring back to '70s Clint Eastwood westerns this morning: Wolverine director James Mangold is all about The Outlaw Josey Wales, and now Deadline report that Arnold Schwarzenegger's next project (following Kim Ji-woon's The Last Stand) will be Black Sands, a film along the lines of High Plains Drifter.What they actually say is that Black Sands will be tonally similar to Hpd and Man On Fire, so we're not actually looking at a film in which Arnold plays a ghostly avenger who persuades some townfolk to rename their homestead Hell, while searching for a precocious kidnapped girl.Rather, Black Sands is about "a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest." The current draft of the screenplay is by Skip Woods, who wrote The A-Team, Hitman, Swordfish and, most recently, A Good Day To Die Hard. »
Arnold Schwarzenegger Set to Star in ‘Black Sands’
28 October 2011 3:00 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
The two guys who directed the real Navy SEALs movie Act of Valor, Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy, have been validated by Relativity's decision to buy and release that picture. The duo will next get to make Black Sands, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. The movie sounds like a dark action thriller, and features a lone man (Schwarzenegger) facing down a weapons manufacturer and his private army. Deadline [1] breaks the news, and says the film's tone is like High Plains Drifter meets Man on Fire. High Plains Drifter, huh? You think Schwarzenegger will rape someone in this movie, like Eastwood's Stranger did in Drifter? I doubt it -- it probably isn't that dark. To expand just slightly on the basics listed above, the plot features "a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest." That sounds like an alternate version of half the big-name »
- Russ Fischer
Arnold Schwarzenegger to star in Action Film - Black Sands
28 October 2011 1:41 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
Arnold Schwarzenegger has thrown another film into the pipeline of movies he's lining up. He's set to star in a new action film called Black Sands, and it will be directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy who most recently directed the Navy Seal film Act of Valor.
The movie was written by Skip Woods (A Good Day To Die Hard), and Schwarzenegger will play a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest. The tone is Man On Fire meets High Plains Drifter.
Schwarzenegger is currently shooting the Kim Jee-woon directed The Last Stand for Linosgate, and recently finished filming The Expendables 2. He's also attached to the new Terminator film that is in development. I don't know about you, but I grew up watching Schwarzenegger's movies, and even though he's aged, I'm excited to see him back in action.
Source: Deadline (http://www. »
- Venkman
Arnold Schwarzenegger Set to Star in Actioner Black Sands
28 October 2011 12:42 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Arnold Schwarzenegger is back, ladies and gentlemen. After announcing a return to acting following his tenure as Governor of California, Schwarzenegger chose the action film The Last Stand as his comeback project. Soon thereafter, he agreed to reprise his role in The Expendables 2 with pals Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis, and now he’s chosen his follow-up project. Deadline reports that The Governator is set to star in the action pic Black Sands, which is said to be a cross between Man on Fire and High Plains Drifter. The stunt coordinator-turned-director duo of Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy are onboard to direct, with a script from Skip Woods (The A-Team). Schwarzenegger will play “a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest.” Coincidentally (or not, depending on how you look at it), Schwarzenegger also plays a loner taking on a bunch »
- Adam Chitwood
Arnold Set For Qed Action Film ‘Black Sands’
28 October 2011 12:10 PM, PDT | Deadline New York | See recent Deadline New York news »
Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to star in Black Sands, an action film that will be directed by Scott Waugh and Mike McCoy. Financed by Bill Block’s Qed, the film will begin production April 1, 2012. In the script that Skip Woods has rewritten, Schwarzenegger will play a loner who wages war against a ruthless weapons manufacturer and his private army in the Southwest. The tone is Man On Fire meets High Plains Drifter. Block will be selling worldwide territories starting today. Woods scripted A Good Day To Die Hard, which Fox is readying for production. Waugh and McCoy most recently directed Act Of Valor, an action adventure that features actual Navy SEALs. That film was acquired at an auction for distribution by Relativity Media, which paid a $13 million minimum guarantee and a $30 million P&A commitment, and scheduled the film for release on February 17, which is President’s Day Weekend. »
- MIKE FLEMING
IMDb's Col Needham Responds to Clooney's Top 100
19 October 2011 6:11 PM, PDT | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
George Clooney recently listed the 100 best movies from 1964-1976, his favorite period. IMDb founder Col Needham checked his IMDb vote history (up-to-date of course) and did his own advanced title search: I've seen a total of 764 movies from this range and included below are the 41 which I have rated 9/10 or 10/10 on IMDb; the list is in reverse chronological order but my 10/10s are: Jaws, Network, Once Upon a Time in the West, Taxi Driver, Carrie, The Godfather, High Plains Drifter, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner and From Noon Till Three, All the President's Men. »
Tura Satana in Astro Zombies at Super-8 Movie Madness
17 October 2011 7:28 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
I’ve been collecting the condensed Super-8 Sound editions of movies for about 15 years now and am always thrilled when some odd title pops up for sale that I had no idea was ever released in the format. The Beast Must Die, The Klansman, and To The Devil A Daughter are a few of the titles that never appeared in the Castle Films (or any other) catalog, but I’ve managed to unearth, released on some obscure film labels (often in Europe – Grizzly, Star Crash, Hard Times, and Mandigo are other oddball titles I’ve found dubbed into German). I host the monthly Super-8 Movie Madness show at The Way Out Club here in St. Louis the first Tuesday of every month where I show about 14 of these films from my vast collection. The hard-drinking crowd of movie buffs always appreciates films with the cheesiest aesthetics and there are few movies cheesier than Astro Zombies. »
- Tom Stockman
Quick Shooter: A Clint Eastwood Profile (Part 3)
11 October 2011 11:41 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the third of a five-part feature (read parts one and two)...
“You’ve got to keep stretching out and trying other stuff,” observed actor and director Clint Eastwood. “I could have chosen a lot of scripts that were different than Bronco Billy [1980], that were less of a challenge but it was worth trying.” The native of San Francisco, California explains, “It’s about the American Dream, and Billy’s dream that he fought so hard for. It’s all the context of this outdated Wild West show that has absolutely no chance of being a hit. But it’s sweet. It’s pure.” The subject matter resembles the work of two legendary Hollywood filmmakers. “My first thought was that Frank Capra [It’s a Wonderful Life] or Preston Sturges [Sullivan’s Travels] might have done it in their heyday. It has some values that were interesting to »
- flickeringmyth
Quick Shooter: A Clint Eastwood Profile (Part 2)
4 October 2011 11:41 PM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Trevor Hogg profiles the career of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood in the second of a five-part feature (read part one here)...
“After Hang ’em High [1968], I acted in several pictures without being actively involved in their production,” recalled California filmmaker Clint Eastwood. “Then I found myself making my directorial debut directing second unit on a picture of Don Siegel’s.” The action crime thriller introduced audience members to the actor’s signature role of no nonsense Police Inspector Harry Callahan. “Don had the flu and I replaced him for the sequence where Harry tries to convince the would-be-suicide not to jump into the void. That turned out Ok, because, for lack of space on the window ledge, the only place to perch me was on the crane. I shot this scene, then another one, and I began to think more seriously about directing.” The helmer of Dirty Harry (1971) had a »
- flickeringmyth
George Clooney's List of Top 100 Films from 1964 to 1976
26 September 2011 1:26 PM, PDT | GeekTyrant | See recent GeekTyrant news »
George Clooney has given a list of his Top 100 films from 1964 to 1976, which he feels was “the greatest era in filmmaking by far." It's hard to argue with that, many of my favorite movies come out of that era. In an interview with Parade Magazine the actor and movie geek explained his list saying...
There were great filmmakers—Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese—you go down the list of these insanely talented filmmakers all working at the top of their game and kind of competing with each other. Pakula, Sidney Lumet—I mean, you can just keep going down the list of these guys. And they were all doing really interesting films… That era [1964 to 1976] was a reflection of the antiwar movement, the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the sexual revolution, the drug counterculture. All those things were exploding at the same time. And »
- Venkman
Read George Clooney’s List of the Top 100 Films from 1964-1976
26 September 2011 12:30 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
[1] George Clooney may be among the most prominent of celebrities, a fabulously wealthy, incredibly successful man at the very top of the A-list. But it seems there's a side of him that isn't so very different from film geeks like us who watch his movies. (Yes, all of that was a long-winded way of saying "Clooney: He's just like us!") For a recent interview about his upcoming Ides of March, which Clooney directed, produced, and starred in, Clooney revealed his top 100 films from 1964 to 1976, which he believes to be "the greatest era in filmmaking by far." The list is definitely cinephile-friendly, if not especially surprising: it includes tons of major classics and a handful of somewhat lesser known gems, all across a very wide variety of genres. Read the top 100 after the jump. Clooney told Parade [2] magazine that of that 100, his top five favorites are All the President's Men, Network, »
- Angie Han
Cowboys & Aliens – Seen It Review
2 August 2011 8:25 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Cowboys & Aliens
Directed by: Jon Favreau
Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Paul Dano
Running Time: 1 hr 48 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: July 29, 2011
This is a “Seen It” review. You’ve seen it. I’ve seen it. That means all plot points and spoilers are fair game and will be discussed. The only reason to read this review is if you have already watched the film, or never plan on seeing it, but for some reason, you’d like to know what Tsr thought about it. We walk you through the key moments in the film, adding in our thoughts along the way. You’ve been warned.
Plot: A gunslinger named Jake (Craig) and a tyrant named Dolarhyde (Ford) have to settle their differences in Arizona, 1873, as aliens have come to town looking to destroy the place.
Movie: With a cold open, Jake wakes up and fights off three cowboys, »
- Nick Allen
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