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20 May 2013 5:50 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
New York — Steven Soderbergh is working on a new currency.
In his Chelsea studio, among various film posters and piles of moviemaking mementos, he has a few paintings in progress, including a new, livelier, "more Hendrix" version of a U.S. dollar bill. It's only one of the many artistic endeavors he bounces between now that he's begun his long-predicted hiatus from filmmaking.
On Tuesday, he will bring his Liberace film, "Behind the Candelabra," to the Cannes Film Festival, where it will compete for the same Palme d'Or he won 24 years ago for his first film, "Sex, Lies and Videotape."
Soderbergh has said this – a $23 million HBO movie starring Michael Douglas as the flamboyant pianist and Matt Damon as his lover, Scott Thorson, airing Sunday in the U.S. – will be his last film, at least for now. The 50 year-old's career in film – 26 protean features including "Out of Sight," "Traffic »
- AP
14 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
The American Film Institute will confer honoraray doctorate of fine arts degrees upon Kathryn Bigelow and Anne V. Coates and a doctorate of communications on Jon Avnet.
Avnet will be recognized for his contributions to AFI while Bigelow and Coates are being heralded for their “contributions of distinction” to the art of the moving image.
The degrees will be presented during the AFI Conservatory’s commencement ceremony on June 12 at the El Capitan Theater.
Previous AFI honorary degrees have been given to Robert Altman, Maya Angelou, Mel Brooks, Clint Eastwood, Roger Ebert, James Earl Jones, Nora Ephron, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Kathleen Kennedy, John Lasseter, Spike Lee, David Lynch, Helen Mirren, Haskell Wexler and John Williams.
Avnet is an AFI alumnus and serves as vice chair of the board of trustees. His credits as a director, writer and producer include “Black Swan,” “Fried Green Tomatoes,” “Risky Business” and “The History Boys.”
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- Dave McNary
13 May 2013 10:27 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
For even those most accustomed to the frenzy of celebrity, the Cannes Film Festival can be a disorienting experience.
For 12 days every year, the French Rivera resort town turns into one giant seaside swirl of glamour, high art and backroom deal-making. Like some sun-drenched phantasm, all of cinema comes alive in Cannes: its serious ambitions, bottom-line commerce and crass spectacle.
"Every time I go to Cannes, it feels like I'm entering the helicopter scene in `La Dolce Vita,'" says Leonardo DiCaprio. "It's an insane experience. The entire town is turned into a red carpet. Every hotel is a premiere. But at the same time, it is the mecca for the world to celebrate filmmaking and bold filmmaking."
This year's Cannes, the 66th, kicks off Wednesday with Baz Luhrmann's "The Great Gatsby," a 3-D extravaganza starring DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan and Tobey Maguire. In many ways, the movie's lavish, star-powered decadence epitomizes Cannes. »
- AP
26 April 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
As marshal Raylan Givens - self-satisfied, unreliable, and cool in a cowboy hat - he's the undisputed star of Justified. So when will this show get the awards it deserves?
Timothy Olyphant has quite a pair of intimidating eyes on him. Even if the actor's name, or his 18-year body of work, doesn't ring an immediate bell, it's hard not to remember his gimlet-eyed glare. Sharp, penetrating and derisive, that stare is a ticking time-bomb, warning recipients they have mere moments to correct their behaviour before his thin string of patience snaps. Since 2010, Olyphant's unforgiving gaze has bored deep into the souls of the moonshiners, meth dealers and murderers who populate the dirt-poor coal-mining community of Harlan, east Kentucky, the setting of his hit drama series Justified. Marshal Raylan Givens is not Olyphant's first lawman: he was memorably furious as sheriff Seth Bullock in David Milch's prematurely truncated Deadwood. »
- Jonathan Bernstein
14 April 2013 3:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
I don’t know the last time I watched the MTV Movie Awards. I think Howard Stern was there promoting his never-made Fartman movie. No, that was the 1992 MTV Music Awards. What about when the kids from Rushmore reenacted scenes from Armageddon, Out of Sight and The Truman Show? Actually, I might have only seen the parodies and not the actual show. Whenever it was, it’s been a long time. Because what self-respecting film lover watches such self-important, self-promoting, ratings-grabbing b.s.? Wait, that doesn’t sound all that different than the Oscars, and we pay lots of attention to those. The only difference is that the MTV Movie Awards don’t have a history or consistency or the sort of class that we like to think the Academy Awards do. They’re an easy punching bag because they seem to pander by catering to more mainstream, high-grossing, youth-driven entertainment. Also »
- Christopher Campbell
9 April 2013 9:06 AM, PDT | AwardsDaily.com | See recent AwardsDaily news »
Steven Soderbergh’s filmography reads like a true cinematic almanac of the past 20 years. Landmark stuff such as “Traffic”, “Out Of Sight”, “Sex, Lies And Videotape”, “Ocean’s Eleven”, “The Limey »
- Jordan Ruimy
8 April 2013 6:08 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
“All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun.” Jean-Luc Godard - Just how did packing a gun and dishing out feminist tirades become marketable?
Reading academic books on the subject leaves more questions than answers. Dubbing the genre “Chick with a Gun” might seem condescending, except many of these films themselves have a lot of problematic politics contained within. Are we really supposed to cheer on these former housewives-turned-outlaws? Of course, the femme fatale has long been a staple of Hollywood. But there appears to a genuinely new breed roaming the countryside.
Just to cite some instances of a woman or women being awesomely violent includes
Blue Steel, Fargo, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Out of Sight, and The Silence of the Lambs. The foundational text, however, remains Thelma and Louise. Some complain a proper update of Thelma and Louise hasn’t been done or even attempted »
- Christian Jimenez
7 April 2013 7:51 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
"No one has ever been closer to me than this young man." Wow, this looks interesting. On Sunday night, HBO finally debuted the full-length trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra: The Secret Life Of Liberace, the biopic drama starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson. This comes on the heels of two other quick teaser trailers for the film, but bumps it up with more of the story and interactions, and characters like Dan Aykroyd, Rob Lowe and Debbie Reynolds. Even though this is an awkward story, this trailer is fantastic, and I honestly really want to see this movie. Here's the first full-length trailer for Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, straight from HBO: HBO Films presents Behind the Candelabra, starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon; executive produced by Jerry Weintraub; directed by Steven Soderbergh (Sex Lies and Videotape, »
- Alex Billington
1 April 2013 9:25 AM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
Before Elvis; before Elton John, Madonna, and Lady Gaga, there was Liberace. The one-and-only piano maestro! Yes, they actually made this film, and it won't be hitting theaters because HBO Films picked it up and will be airing the premiere on there later this year. The next feature from Steven Soderbergh is Behind The Candelabra: The Secret Life Of Liberace (everything is explained right in that title), starring Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as his lover Scott Thorson. HBO has unveiled two short teasers, the most recent of which (#2) actually contains some footage. It looks as glamorous as you'd expect. Here are the first two teasers for Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra, from HBO's YouTube: HBO Films presents Behind the Candelabra, starring Academy Award winners Michael Douglas and Matt Damon; executive produced by Jerry Weintraub; directed by Steven Soderbergh (Sex Lies and Videotape, Out of Sight, »
- Alex Billington
16 March 2013 12:30 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Cross Creek Pictures President Brian Oliver and Exclusive Media’s Co-Chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East announced today that principal photography has begun in New York on A Walk Among The Tombstones the new crime thriller starring Oscar® winner Liam Neeson (Schindler’S List, Taken). Joining the cast are Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey); Ruth Wilson (Anna Karenina); Boyd Holbrook (The Host, Milk); David Harbour (Snitch, End Of Watch); Mark Consuelos (American Horror Story); and recording artist / U.S. X Factor fan favourite, Astro.
Written and to be directed by Academy Award® nominated Scott Frank (Out Of Sight, The Lookout), the film is based on one of 17 Matt Scudder novels written by acclaimed crime novelist Lawrence Block. The Scudder series has been in print for over 40 years and translated into over 20 languages. The movie is being produced by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, with their company Double Feature Films, with Danny DeVito and his company, »
- Dan Bullock
13 March 2013 2:27 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
We've been waiting a while to see an adaptation of Lawrence Block.s A Walk Among The Tombstones. It was all the way back in summer in 2011 that the project started gearing up with I Am Number Four director D.J. Caruso attached to direct, but it has since hit a few pitfalls, including losing the director. Eventually Scott Frank, who made his directorial debut with The Lookout in 2007 and wrote films like Out of Sight and Get Shorty, became attached to helm and now the show is finally ready to go on the road. Cross Creek Pictures and Exclusive Media have announced that production on the adaptation has begun in New York with Liam Neeson playing former NYPD cop and recovering alcoholic Matt Scudder. Joining him in the cast are Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens, Anna Karenina's Ruth Wilson, The Host's Boyd Holbrook, End of Watch's David Horbour, »
13 March 2013 11:44 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
Cross Creek Pictures President Brian Oliver and Exclusive Media's Co-Chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East announced today that principal photography has begun in New York on A Walk Among the Tombstones the new crime thriller starring Oscar winner Liam Neeson (Schindler's List, Taken). Joining the cast are Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey); Ruth Wilson (Anna Karenina); Boyd Holbrook (The Host, Milk); David Harbour (Snitch, End of Watch); Mark Consuelos (American Horror Story); and recording artist / U.S. The X Factor (Season 1) fan favorite, Astro.
Written and to be directed by Academy Award nominated Scott Frank (Out of Sight, The Lookout), the film is based on one of 17 Matt Scudder novels written by acclaimed crime novelist Lawrence Block. The Scudder series has been in print for over 40 years and translated into over 20 languages. The movie is being produced by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, with their company Double Feature Films, with Danny DeVito and his company, »
- MovieWeb
13 March 2013 8:13 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Cross Creek Pictures has announced that production is underway on writer/director Scott Frank’s (The Lookout) crime thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones. Filming is taking place in New York on the pic, which stars Liam Neeson as an alcoholic ex-cop who investigates the kidnapping of a heroin drug lord’s wife, teaming up with a heroin trafficker and his brother to hunt down the men responsible for the crime. Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey) and Boyd Holbrook (Milk) star as the trafficker and his brother, respectively, and Ruth Wilson (Anna Karenina) is also onboard as Neeson’s former colleague. The film is based on one of a series of Matt Scudder crime novels by author Lawrence Block. David Harbour (End of Watch), Mark Consuelos (American Horror Story), and Astro (The X-Factor) round out the cast. Hit the jump to read the full press release, which includes the official synopsis. »
- Adam Chitwood
13 March 2013 | Comingsoon.net | See recent Comingsoon.net news »
Cross Creek Pictures President Brian Oliver and Exclusive Media's Co-Chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East announced today that principal photography has begun in New York on A Walk Among the Tombstones , the new crime thriller starring Oscar® winner Liam Neeson ( Schindler's List , Taken . Joining the cast are Dan Stevens ("Downton Abbey"), Ruth Wilson ( Anna Karenina ), Boyd Holbrook ( The Host , Milk ), David Harbour ( Snitch , End of Watch ), Mark Consuelos ("American Horror Story"), and recording artist / U.S. X Factor (season 1) fan favorite, Astro. Written and to be directed by Academy Award® nominated Scott Frank ( Out of Sight , The Lookout ), the film is based on one of 17 Matt Scudder novels written by acclaimed crime novelist Lawrence Block. The »
13 March 2013 5:17 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Cross Creek Pictures President Brian Oliver and Exclusive Media’s Co-Chairmen Nigel Sinclair and Guy East announced today that principal photography has begun in New York on A Walk Among The Tombstones the new crime thriller starring Oscar® winner Liam Neeson (Schindler’S List, Taken). Joining the cast are Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey); Ruth Wilson (Anna Karenina); Boyd Holbrook (The Host, Milk); David Harbour (Snitch, End Of Watch); Mark Consuelos (American Horror Story); and recording artist / U.S. X Factor (season 1) fan favorite, Astro.
Written and to be directed by Academy Award® nominated Scott Frank (Out Of Sight, The Lookout), the film is based on one of 17 Matt Scudder novels written by crime novelist Lawrence Block. The Scudder series has been in print for over 40 years and translated into over 20 languages. The movie is being produced by Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher, with their company Double Feature Films, with Danny DeVito and his company, »
- Michelle McCue
9 March 2013 4:08 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
This clever pharma-thriller would be a fitting sign-off for Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh, who celebrated his 50th birthday two months ago, recently announced his retirement from the cinema in order to devote himself to painting. One would be surprised if he actually stuck to this resolution, but if he does he'd be giving up one of the most extraordinary cinematic careers anyone has ever had, and leave behind a remarkable body of work that few American film-makers could match.
Since winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1989 with his first movie, the low-budget independent production sex, lies and videotape, he has directed a film virtually every year in a variety of genres and styles, as well as producing some of the most original and adventurous films to come out of Hollywood these past 25 years.
Soderbergh's pictures as director range from the openly commercial Ocean's Eleven to the experimental Schizopolis; from »
- Philip French
8 March 2013 3:30 AM, PST | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Another Jason Statham action film brings thrilling news for some who love seeing their gruff screen hero doing what he does best to bad guys, and groans of déjà vu from others, weary at yet more stylised action sequences, bad accents and corny one-liners that are the Statham trademark.
However, to dismiss Parker, the actor’s new film, in a hurry would be to miss out on some frankly mindless but competently made fun from renowned Ray director Taylor Hackford and Black Swan writer John J. McLaughlin. Not to mention, this film is based on the Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark) novel Flashfire taken from a successful series about a ruthless career criminal with principles called Parker, a character brought to screen by Mel Gibson in Payback (1999) and earlier by Lee Marvin in Point Blank (1967). Granted, Parker (2013) has some incredulous plot and subplot situations but is like a guilty Stratham pleasure, »
- Lisa Giles-Keddie
6 March 2013 5:37 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Director: Taylor Hackford; Screenwriter: John J McLaughlin; Starring: Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Clifton Collins Jr, Nick Nolte, Bobby Cannavale; Running time: 118 mins; Certificate: 15
Movie double-acts don't come much more mismatched than Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez in Parker, a bone-crunching action-thriller based on Donald E Westlake's (under the pen name Richard Stark) long-running pulp character. The film is meat and drink for Statham, who fits the role of a laconic career criminal like a glove, but his high profile co-star is all lost at sea amid the bullets and blood of Taylor Hackford's film.
Statham's eponymous protagonist strides into this story (based on Westlake's novel Flashfire) disguised as a priest at a county fair. He's part of a five-man heist team - alongside Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, Clifton Collins Jr and Michah Hauptman - who make away with substantial loot, but are plotting an even more ambitious robbery. »
4 March 2013 2:07 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review James Peaty 5 Mar 2013 - 06:07
An on-form Steven Soderbergh serves up a cracking medical thriller. Here's James' review of the tense Side Effects...
Not without its undoubted highs, it’s fair to say that Steven Soderbergh’s directorial career has been something of a mixed bag. Despite a blistering start, with his Palme d’Or winning debut, Sex, Lies And Videotape (1989) effectively serving as the blueprint for American independent film in the 1990s, the outspoken ‘auteur’ then spent most of that decade sliding further and further into obscurity with a series of flawed, frustrating and ultimately unsuccessful features.
Regaining his creative compass with 1998’s Elmore Leonard adaptation, Out Of Sight, the relative critical and commercial success of that picture – coupled with his potent creative relationship with star George Clooney – found the director propelled back into the limelight.
Capitalising on that success, between 1999 and 2002 the prolific Soderbergh produced a golden »
- ryanlambie
2 March 2013 5:30 AM, PST | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Pretty Little Liars reviewer Teresa Lopez thought the show went off the deep end this week in "Out of Sight, Out of Mind." Did you agree?
Join her and fellow staffers Christina Tran, Nick McHatton, Leigh Raines and Carissa Pavlica as they ponder the deficiencies of the Rosewood police department, Aria's foray into motherhood and whether or not the Liars' parents could ever be prepared to take on the A-team...
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Will Aria climb on board as a mother?
Teresa: I doubt it. She seems really uncomfortable with the level of responsibility involved, which makes sense because she's a teenager.
Christina: I don't think so, and who could blame her? At times, it almost felt like Ezra was babysitting both Malcolm and Aria.
Nick: I think she'll give it a try, but it's going to difficult. I mentioned in the "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" Round Table that »
- carissa@tvfanatic.com (Carissa Pavlica)
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