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Samuel L. Jackson Recalls His Humble Beginnings
30 May 2012 3:47 PM, PDT | Fox All Access | See recent Fox All Access news »
For four decades, Samuel L. Jackson has been a working actor and today is considered one of the best actors working in film. Over his incredible career, Jackson has worked with some of the greatest directors the big screen has ever seen, including Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, and Quentin Tarantino.
Jackson has worked on classic films such as Goodfellas and Pulp Fiction, and got to live his boyhood dreams starring in action movies, including The Avengers, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, and Star Wars Episodes 1-3. Films that Jackson has made have grossed over $3 billion, making him one of the highest grossing actors in movie history.
Before reaching stardom, Jackson was a struggling actor going from acting job to acting job. We spoke to Jackson and asked him if he recalls his first acting job. (Click on the audio player to hear Samuel L. Jackson) Samuel k jackson
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- foxallaccess
Look Behind the Camera of a Two-Minute Steadicam Shot in 'Hugo'
30 May 2012 10:48 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Aside from P.T. Anderson, one of the filmmakers better known for some impressive, elaborate, single-take, tracking shot sequences is Martin Scorsese. The opening of GoodFellas is the most prominent one that comes to mind, but there's another fantastic piece of cinematography from the closing of Scorsese's Best Picture nominated film Hugo. A single, steadicam shot walks us through George Melies house during a celebration showing us all our main characters and wrapping up the story in a charming package. Now a new video let's us be a fly on the camera as it sweeps through the set for this perfectly choreographed scene. Here's this awesome behind-the-scenes video from Martin Scorsese's Hugo via The Playlist: It's great to see the inner-workings of the set with the crew moving quickly in and out of the room, moving entire walls, and extras quickly moving past the camera once they're off-screen. Plus, it »
- Ethan Anderton
Michelle Pfeiffer In Talks to Join Luc Besson’s ‘Malavita’
29 May 2012 7:00 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Few people seem to possess the same work ethic as Luc Besson. Over the past two years, the French filmmaker has scripted or co-written several action movies – From Paris with Love, Colombiana, Lockout, and this fall’s Taken 2 – while also finding time to direct two feature-length projects (Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds and The Lady).
The next item on Besson’s to-do list is Malavita, a movie he is slated to produce and direct from his own script – which is based on the novel “Badfellas” written by Tonino Benacquista. Coincidentally, the film will be headlined by a Goodfellas alum, in the form of two-time Oscar-winner Robert De Niro.
Benacquista’s book tells the tale of the Blake family, which is led by Fred, a former Mafia head who struck a deal with ...
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- Sandy Schaefer
Michelle Pfeiffer in Talks for Luc Besson Crime Thriller Malavita with Robert De Niro
29 May 2012 4:46 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
It looks like Michelle Pfeiffer (Scarface) might be joining Robert De Niro (Goodfellas) in returning to their mafia roots in Luc Besson's crime comedy, Malavita. Based on Tonino Benacquista's novel, "Badfellas", Malavita follows a mafia family who seeks witness protection in France. The problem is that they brought their criminal habits with them and start to deal with things in the old-fashioned way. De Niro is set to star as the head of the family, who was also head of the local crime family until he turned rat. Pfeiffer is in talks to star as his wife, who has a soft spot for using arson against those who cross her. Besson, who wrote the script and will also produce, is eyeing a production start this August. Hit the jump for more on Malavita. Variety reports that Pfeiffer is in talks to re-team with De Niro in Malavita. The »
- Dave Trumbore
Need A Good Laugh? Check Out The Sneak Peek Trailer For Syfy's 'Jersey Shore Shark Attack'
26 May 2012 12:44 PM, PDT | Horrorbid | See recent Horrorbid news »
Syfy will make Americans think twice about swimming in the ocean when it unleashes the Saturday Original Movie Jersey Shore Shark Attack, featuring an all-star cast led by Tony Sirico ("The Sopranos"), Paul Sorvino (Goodfellas), Jack Scalia ("Dallas"), Joey Fatone (N Sync), William Atherton (Die Hard) -- and Jersey Shore's Vinny Guadagnino. In the film "Sirico is Captain Sallie, the wise veteran of boardwalk life and lore. Scalia is Moretti,… »
A Sneak Peek of Syfy's Jersey Shore Shark Attack
25 May 2012 10:47 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
With the Memorial Day weekend approaching, we're sure lots of folks of thinking of one thing: the beach! So what better way to kick it off than by watching a sneak peek of Jersey Shore Shark Attack, which is premiering Saturday, June 9th, on Syfy?!?
If you happen to be from Jersey (or its surrounding areas), note that Syfy and The Paley Center for Media are presenting a world premiere screening of the eagerly anticipated Syfy Saturday Original Movie on Saturday, June 2nd, at 7:00 Pm at the Paley Center, 25 West 52nd Street in Manhattan. Producer Jeff Schenk and writers Richard Gnolfo and Michael Ciminera will be in attendance, along with snacks and a trivia contest!
From the Press Release:
Syfy will make Americans think twice about swimming in the ocean when it unleashes the Saturday Original Movie Jersey Shore Shark Attack, featuring an all-star cast led by Tony Sirico »
- The Woman In Black
Stallone 3-Disc DVD & Blu-Ray of ‘Cop Land’, ‘Lock Up’ & ‘Rambo: First Blood’ out in August!
24 May 2012 8:22 AM, PDT | Destroy the Brain | See recent Destroy the Brain news »
Three of Stallone’s best films are about to be into one explosive package on DVD & Blu-Ray! James Mangold’s under-appreciated Cop Land, John Flynn’s Lock Up and the classic Rambo: First Blood will be in a 3-Pack DVD and Blu-Ray set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment in August! Read below for all the fine details!
From the Press Release:
The world’s favorite action superstar, Academy Award® nominee Sylvester Stallone (Best Actor in a Leading Role, Rocky, 1976), is back with the Blu-ray Disc and DVD release of the Stallone 3-Film Collector’s Set from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Just in time for the theatrical release of his highly anticipated action film, The Expendables 2, this collection features three of Stallone’s most memorable hit films Cop Land, Rambo: First Blood and Lock Up, together for the first time. A must-have for Stallone fans of all generations, the collection »
- Andy Triefenbach
The River Murders – DVD Review
24 May 2012 8:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Jack Verdon (Ray Liotta) is a homicide detective in Washington, called to a murder scene that looks familiar. The victim is an old flame of his, murdered at a place where they had enjoyed a bit of loving many years back. This places him on the list of suspects, though he knows it is just a formality. However, more and more bodies start to turn up, all with the same grisly Mo, all with a sexual history with Jack and so the hunt is on for a serial killer who seems to know an impossible amount about Jack’s past.
*****
The River Murders boasts an intriguing premise and quasi-religious undertones, with the killer (whose identity but not his motives we discover relatively early on) quoting passages and characters from the Bible within the various notes he leaves for the police and FBI. This could draw comparisons with David Fincher’s Seven, »
- Dave Roper
Cannes Review: Andrew Dominik’s ‘Killing Them Softly’ Is An Artfully Crafted Take on the Gangster Genre
22 May 2012 5:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Andrew Dominik always had an ominous mountain to climb with his next feature, having polarized opinion with The Assassination Of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford, that most tonal and visually textured of revisionist Westerns, but with Killing Them Softly he has certainly at least avoided the black hole that tends to suck young talents perilously down into obscurity. He might not, however, have scored a huge commercial hit. Taking a leaf out of Jesse James‘s book, Killing Them Softly is effectively a post-gangster film, deconstructing the genre and smashing it against the oh-so-contemporary wall built by recessions and austerity measures. The label might still seem to read “gangster,” with the presence of wise guys and henchmen presiding over their own lawless patches of the murky underbelly of normal society, but gone is the aspirational elements of Goodfellas and Casino in favor of a tight-belted, thoroughly modern revision of the gangster ideal. For »
- Simon Gallagher
Cannes 2012: Killing Them Softly – review
22 May 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Andrew Dominik's immensely gripping and brutal world of recession-hit criminals, starring Brad Pitt, is smart and nasty, with a political dimension, too
The adverb is horribly inappropriate. Andrew Dominik's Killing Them Softly is a slick ensemble-nightmare of middle-management mobster brutality and incompetence in the tradition of Goodfellas and Casino, Pulp Fiction and TV's The Sopranos, with something of the opening voiceover monologue from the Coens' Blood Simple: the one about being on your own.
It is outstandingly watchable, superbly and casually pessimistic, a world of slot-mouthed professional and semi-professional criminals always complaining about cleaning up the mess made by other screwups. The movie delivers the classic mob "betrayal" trope: someone shoots someone else, at close range, suddenly and terrifyingly, having lulled his victim – and us – into a false sense of security with a long pointless conversation about what they were going to do later.
The movie is »
- Peter Bradshaw
Robert De Niro is Teaming up with Luc Besson for Malavita
22 May 2012 11:53 AM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
This isn’t a ‘goodfella,’ this is a ‘badfella’ – the project in question is an adaptation of the 1990 film Goodfellas based on spin-off novel called Badfellas. In addition, Luc Besson film based on a French novel by Tonino Benacquista has cast Robert De Niro who also starred in Martin Scorcese’s masterpiece. Let’s start at [...]
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- Nick Martin
Luc Besson Directing Robert De Niro In Gangster Thriller 'Malavita'
21 May 2012 6:20 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Man, Luc Besson really didn't take to retirement, did he? While his collaboration with Angelina Jolie seemingly never came to pass, Besson recently turned to a stack of scripts he's written in a co-financing partnership between Besson's EuroCorp and Relativity Pictures, getting support for two new Besson-ian efforts.
The first and most prominent, "Malavita," finds Robert De Niro starring as a former gangster now living in Normandy with his family under Witness Protection. Naturally, things don't go well, as the project is described as a gangster thriller. It's based on the book "Badfellas" from Tonino Benacquista, and various synopses describe the material as being light, and more in-tune with "The Sopranos." Though we hope the scene where the protagonist is invivted to host a library film screening of "Goodfellas" doesn't make the final cut. Because, c'mon. The film begins shooting August 14th.
The other script, which Besson has no intentions to direct as of yet, »
- Gabe Toro
Luc Besson to direct Robert DeNiro in gangster thriller Malavita
21 May 2012 3:58 AM, PDT | JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news »
Director Luc Besson (Leon, The Fifth Element) is getting back behind the camera again for Malavita, which is described as a "gangster thriller" that will star none other than Robert DeNiro as a retired American gangster living with his family under the witness protection program in Normandy. Based on the book Badfellas by Tonino Benacquista, it's an ironic twist for one of the main stars of Scorsese's Goodfellas. Here's the book synopsis: Under cover of »
- Paul Shirey
Girls on film: how Tim Burton finally got his vamp right
18 May 2012 2:02 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
You can't really be an auteur until you've got your type – and that's just as true for the women directors
Tim Burton's Dark Shadows may have received a kicking from critics, but one person has emerged from the dust-up unscathed: Eva Green, the French actress who plays the evil witch Angelique Bouchard. With her red-lacquered lips, her crazy-beautiful eyes and possessed-marionette limbs, Green's lolling vamp represents the perfection of a type Burton has long been trying to get right – from Michelle Pfeiffer's Catwoman in Batman Returns, to Lisa Marie Smith's bosomy Martian in Mars Attacks!, to Anne Hathaway's White Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
Critics may be tired of the rest of Burton's directorial signatures – the ornate production designs, the seventies kitsch, the collaboration with Johnny Depp – but he's finally perfected his vamps: peroxide-blonde, big-chested, cinch-waisted, eyes like Bambi's.
All film directors have their types. Everyone »
- Tom Shone
CBS upfronts: America's most successful network sticks to what it knows best
17 May 2012 9:09 AM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The grown-up network has plenty of solid bets in its lineup, but Elementary, CBS's modern-day Sherlock Holmes, is a gamble
CBS presented its new shows to advertisers and the media community in New York this week. Here's our guide to the potential hits and misses:
What CBS needs
CBS is America's most successful network and it didn't get that way by making swinging changes. Instead CBS is a network that knows what works – police procedurals and multi-camera comedies. It recognises that the bread-and butter-stuff allows it to occasionally take a chance on shows that don't fit the mould – The Good Wife is grown-up network television at its best. It also doesn't care about being mocked for being old – CBS might be the no 1 network for viewers over 50 but it's also the no 2 network (behind Fox) for viewers under 50.
While everyone else is rushing around panicking about the internet, fragmented viewing »
- Sarah Hughes
Trailer for Vegas TV Series, with Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis
17 May 2012 2:46 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
CBS has unveiled a preview for its upcoming "Vegas" TV series, which is a 1960's period piece about the early days of Las Vegas. It stars Dennis Quaid, Michael Chiklis, and Carrie-Anne Moss. Check it out below. Plot: The story focuses on Ralph Lamb (Quaid), a cowboy turned sheriff of Las Vegas, and Johnny Savino (Chiklis), a Chicago mob fixer. In a vast desert with unlimited opportunities, where no man is all good or all bad, Savino's entrepreneurial vision collides with the law-and-order mandate of the sheriff. "Vegas" is created by Oscar-nominated writer/director James Mangold (3:10 to Yuma, Walk the Line) and Oscar-nominated writer Nicholas Pileggi (Casino, Goodfellas). Mangold directed the pilot episode, which is set to premiere on the network later this fall. Video: »
Weigh in on Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis in CBS' 'Vegas' teaser
16 May 2012 4:27 PM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »
Dennis Quaid is a cowboy sheriff who fights crime by riding a horse through 1960s Las Vegas. Do you really need to know anything more about the new CBS drama "Vegas"? Personally, I'm already sold. But it doesn't hurt that Michael Chiklis (Vic Mackey forever!) is also on board as a "ruthless Chicago gangster," Carrie-Anne Moss has the plum role of an "ambitious assistant district attorney" and potential love interest for Quaid, and Jason O'Mara rebounds from "Terra Nova" as Quaid's brother and deputy. The series comes from "Goodfellas" and "Casino" writer Nicholas Pileggi and the pilot is directed by filmmaker »
- Geoff Berkshire
Watch Clips From Four of CBS’s New Shows
16 May 2012 3:22 PM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Fresh from the Upfronts! A Sherlock update, retro Vegas, bromances, and Jersey girls. Check 'em out below.Elementary Welcome back, Lucy Liu! She and Jonny Lee Miller star as Watson and Sherlock, respectively, in this updated version of Sherlock Holmes. Vegas Dennis Quaid stars as the real-life sixties sheriff Ralph Lamb in this drama from Goodfellas' Nicholas Pileggi. Michael Chiklis and Carrie-Anne Moss are also involved. Made in Jersey A broad from the Garden State is making it as a lawyer at a top New York firm. Partners Architects and best bros Charlie (David Krumholtz) and Louis (Michael Urie) face a potential rift when Charlie proposes to his girlfriend. Rom-com career hijinks and wackiness sure to ensue. »
- Jessica Grose
Breaking News: Syfy Announces Summer Schedule, Including Series Finale of Eureka
15 May 2012 12:30 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
The seemingly endless wait for the Syfy summer schedule is finally over! There is good news and bad, and one thing that is both good and bad. Let’s start with that: the Eureka Season Finale. We love Eureka, so every episode is good news; the fact that it’s a series finale, not so much. Mark your calendars – and have plenty of Kleenex in stock – for July 16 at 9/8c. Right after Comic-Con, which is early this year. We’ll see if that means a panel or not.
The good news: Warehouse 13 and Alphas return on July 23. The hmmm news is that Lost Girl will move to Fridays at 10 on July 20. Hey That’S Haven’S Spot. So Where The Heck Is Haven? Admittedly we had a head’s up that Haven would be pushed to fall when we learned that the DVDs for Season 2 weren’t being released until September but Argh. »
- Erin Willard
Scorsese Gearing Up To Produce Rolls Royce Drama
15 May 2012 10:48 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
From films like Goodfellas to Gangs of New York and Hugo, Martin Scorsese has shown passion for history and attraction to tales of stubborn men of great ability. And his latest announced project sounds like it will fall well within this wheelhouse. Variety reports Scorsese is joining forces with Lord Richard Attenborough.who memorably played the lovable old fool who brought dinosaurs to modern day in Jurassic Park.and Anthony Haas to produce Silver Ghost, a docudrama of sorts that will focus on the personal struggles and professional triumphs of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce, who founded the luxury car brand Rolls Royce. "When I read the story of Silver Ghost, I was mesmerized," Scorsese told the trade, "I immediately thought, 'This is a picture that has to be made.' And When I was asked to come aboard as a producer alongside Richard Attenborough and Anthony Haas, I didn't »
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