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Stunning ‘Stalingrad’ Trailer Blows Up Everything to Find Love in WWII
15 May 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Between August 1942 and February 1943, Nazi Germany battled with Soviet Russia for control of the city of Stalingrad. It was a staggeringly bloody turning point that saw the German 6th Army destroyed and the beginning of the end for Nazi power on the eastern front, and it cost the Soviets 1,150,000 soldiers and airmen with another 650,000 injured. This immense historical moment is the focus of Fedor Bondarchuk‘s Stalingrad which takes the Saving Private Ryan WWII gloss and lays it with intensity on top of a different part of the war. In fact, it even seeks to make the action more personal by making the focus of the story a young girl that several Soviet soldiers vow to keep safe while on the wrong side of enemy lines. The trailer looks impeccable with a ton of fighting and broad overhead shots where piles of rubble get turned into smaller piles of rubble. Not »
- Scott Beggs
Cannes festival chief talks sex and Spielberg
14 May 2013 1:33 PM, PDT | Cineplex | See recent Cineplex news »
It's the big Cannes question - what will catch Steven Spielberg's eye?
The king of Hollywood heads the jury that will decide who wins the Palme d'Or and other prizes at the French Riviera film fest, and artistic director Thierry Fremaux can't wait to find out what takes his fancy.
"We know (Spielberg) the director, but we don't know who he will be as a spectator," Fremaux said Tuesday.
"Take the two Japanese films" in competition. Will the director of Jaws, E.T. and Saving Private Ryan root for Takashi Miike's action-packed crime drama Shield of Straw or for Kore-Eda Hirokazu's intimate family story Like Father, Like Son. »
- Cineplex.com and contributors
2013 Produced By Conference: Nancy Daniels, Mark Gordon On Mentor List; Jon Favreau, Roberto Orci Among Speakers
14 May 2013 12:29 PM, PDT | Deadline TV | See recent Deadline TV news »
Los Angeles (May 14, 2013) – The Producers Guild of America (PGA) announced today the list of top industry producers and executives who will serve as mentors during the intimate Mentoring Roundtable meetings that will be held throughout the 5th annual Produced By Conference (Pbc), June 8-9, at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Confirmed mentors include: Victoria Alonso (Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: The Winter Solider, The Avengers) Executive Vice President of Visual Effects and Post Production, Marvel Studios Nancy Daniels, Executive Vice President, Production and Development, Discovery Channel; General Manager, Discovery Fit & Health Stephanie Drachkovitch (Married to the Army: Alaska, Split Ends, Family Court with Judge Penny) Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, 44 Blue Productions Tracey Edmonds (Jumping the Broom, Soul Food, Good Luck Chuck) CEO, Edmonds Entertainment, Our Stories Films, Alright TV Cassian Elwes (The Butler, Paper Boy, Margin Call) Head of Evolution Independent, Evolution Entertainment »
- THE DEADLINE TEAM
Steven Spielberg Heads Up Cannes Jury
14 May 2013 10:55 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Cannes, France — It's the big Cannes question – what will catch Steven Spielberg's eye?
The king of Hollywood heads the jury that will decide who wins the Palme d'Or and other prizes at the French Riviera film fest, and artistic director Thierry Fremaux can't wait to find out what takes his fancy.
"We know (Spielberg) the director, but we don't know who he will be as a spectator," Fremaux said Tuesday.
"Take the two Japanese films" in competition. Will the director of "Jaws," "E.T." and "Saving Private Ryan" root for Takashi Miike's action-packed crime drama "Shield of Straw" or for Kore-Eda Hirokazu's intimate family story "Like Father, Like Son."
"I still don't know what he will prefer: the action film, which is more similar to his own cinema, or the auteur film that is completely different," said Fremaux, who has overseen the festival since 2001.
Spielberg did drop a hint, »
- AP
Stalingrad Trailer Makes It Look Like Russia's Saving Private Ryan
13 May 2013 7:44 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Get ready for Mother Russia.s version of Saving Private Ryan! Ok, so there might be more to director Fedor Bondarchuk.s Stalingrad than that, but the first international trailer for the war-torn drama (posted above via YouTube) sure makes it look like a cross between Steven Spielberg.s Oscar winner and the equally gritty Enemy at the Gates. We have a band of brothers defending a distinct location against an enemy threat. We have snipers, an unnecessary romance, and cloudy historial accuracies. We have that washed out, grey cinematography that just screams .This was set during World War II!. Seriously, did the sun ever shine over Europe while the continent.s lands were being destroyed by ongoing battles? The film is attempting to tell a romantic story against the backdrop of a significant Russian battle. But from what we.re reading, it will be significant to Russian culture for »
Tom Hanks voted America's most trusted person
10 May 2013 4:28 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Actor adds new crown to long list of accolades as Sandra Bullock and Denzel Washington complete all-Hollywood top three
Tom Hanks is the most trusted person in the Us, according to a poll published by Reader's Digest. The Cast Away actor topped the 100-strong list ahead of fellow household names including Bill Gates (no 7), Jeopardy host Alex Trebek (no 8) and Michelle Obama (no 19).
The magazine said it conducted the poll of more than 1,000 Us citizens in conjunction with research firm the Wagner Group to "discover which individuals and the ideals they represent have earned our confidence".
As the personification of all-American values in a string of films ranging from Saving Private Ryan and Apollo 13 to Toy Story, Hanks' status is perhaps understandable. More oddly, however, Miss Congeniality actor Sandra Bullock took second place, while Denzel Washington, whose most recent role was an airline pilot with substance abuse issues in Flight, »
- Andrew Pulver
NBC Orders 3 Comedies and 2 Dramas for 2013-14 Season
9 May 2013 10:40 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
The series order flood has begun at NBC.
“About A Boy” will make its silver screen to small screen transition, with Jon Favreau at the helm. Single-cam laffer based on Nick Hornby’s novel and 2002 pic “About A Boy” stars Minnie Driver and David Walton. Jason Katims penned the pilot and is exec producing. Also getting the nod is the multi-cam laffer toplined by Sean Hayes, “Sean Saves the World” and comedy “The Family Guide,” from scribe D.J. Nash.
Pilot Scorecard: Track TV Orders in Real-Time (Click Here)
NBC is also investing in J.J. Abrams-produced pilot “Believe.” Warner Bros. TV series will center on a girl with emerging powers (Johnny Sequoyah) and a man sprung from prison to protect her (Jake McLaughlin).
Rand Ravich’s drama “Crisis” has also received a series order this morning. The D.C.-based thriller from 20th Century Fox TV centers on a »
- AJ Marechal
'Captain Phillips' trailer: Tom Hanks battles Somali pirates -- Video
8 May 2013 1:06 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Would it surprise you to learn that Tom Hanks hasn’t been nominated for an Oscar in more than a decade? I mention it only for two reasons. One, there was a historic stretch between Philadelphia and Cast Away where a Hanks Oscar nomination was simply taken for granted. Two, Captain Phillips, Hanks’ real-life tale about one man’s heroic actions after his giant cargo ship is hijacked by Somali pirates, feels like one of those classic, sure-thing Hanks movies. It seems to mix the best character traits of Cast Away’s Chuck Noland and Saving Private Ryan’s Captain Miller. »
- Jeff Labrecque
Steven Spielberg To Direct 'American Sniper' Starring Bradley Cooper
2 May 2013 12:27 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
While Bradley Cooper semi-rocked the movie world last night by dropping out of the flailing western "Jane Got A Gun" due to "scheduling issues," he is getting right back on the proverbial horse and is now scratching Steven Spielberg off his bucket list of directors to work with. That's right, Spielberg has signed up to direct "American Sniper," a project Cooper himself is producing, picking up the rights last year. Based on the autobiography of Navy Seal Chris Kyle, Jason Deal Hall ("Spread," "Paranoia") will adapt the book which tells the story of sniper who, in a ten year career, bagged the most kills in Army history, leading Iraqi insurgents to place a bounty on his head. But for all his success overseas, Kyle's work put a strain on his marriage and homelife. So back to "Saving Private Ryan"-esque territory for Spielberg? Sounds pretty damn good to us. This »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Win The Great Escape on Blu-ray
1 May 2013 12:56 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
MGM's World War II classic adventure The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, Charles Bronson, and James Coburn is speeding onto Blu-ray for the first time on May 7 in celebration of the film's 50th anniversary. Thanks to the fine folks at MGM Home Entertainment, we have two copies of The Great Escape on Blu-ray that will be awarded to a pair of lucky readers in this contest.
All you have to do for a chance to win The Great Escape on Blu-ray is fill out and submit the short entry form below. The odds of winning can be increased each day you stop back to enter again for as many days as the contest is open. You must be a resident of the U.S. or Canada to enter.
Based on a true story set in 1943, the Germans opened a maximum-security prison-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. »
Tom Sizemore's Battle With Drugs Detailed In New Memoir
29 April 2013 8:32 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
-- "By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There," (Atria Books), by Tom Sizemore, with Anna David
The cover photo of Tom Sizemore's autobiography, "By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There," is a perfect introduction for what's to come.
The 51-year-old actor stands looking up at the camera, instantly recognizable because of his work portraying tough-guy characters in such memorable 1990s films as "Saving Private Ryan," "Heat" and "Natural Born Killers."
His face, though, looks worn, and his eyes are those of a man who's been to hell and back.
And that's exactly what his book details – Sizemore's ascent to the height of cinema, working for the Steven Spielbergs and with the Robert De Niros of the world – and his drug-fueled descent that left him imprisoned and out of options.
"I was a guy who'd come from very little and risen to the top," writes Sizemore, »
- AP
DVD Review - White Tiger (2012)
29 April 2013 6:08 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
White Tiger (Russian: Belyy tigr), 2012.
Directed Karen Shakhnazarov.
Starring Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov and Aleksandr Vakhov.
Synopsis:
After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
From the looks of the DVD packaging and a brilliantly hammy dubbed trailer, I was ready to write off White Tiger as a straightforward ‘gritty’ WWII action film, broadly-written characters philosophising vaguely between pedestrian remakes of the battle scenes of Saving Private Ryan. And yet from only a few moments in my entire perception of the film changed, and I was compelled. Later on however, it became a harder film to like.
Following a battle on the Russian front, 1943, a tank crewman is found still inside his massacred vehicle, black with burns and blood. Still living (just), he is treated and makes a miraculous recovery but »
- Flickering Myth
John Woo’s WWII Flying Tigers To Be 2-Pt Feature And Six-Hr Television Miniseries
23 April 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Terence Chang, John Woo, Charlie Coker, Frank Botman, Han Sanping, Zhao Haicheng, Miao Xiaotian and Deng Meng (Director of contracts & cooperation China Film Co.)
Dutch-based strategic investment boutique Cyrte Investments and China Film Co., Ltd. are teaming with legendary action director John Woo (Face Off, Red Cliff, Mission Impossible II) on Flying Tigers, a feature film and six-hour television drama miniseries about a group of American pilots who volunteered to fight under the Chinese flag alongside their Chinese counterparts during WWII.
The project will be a two-part feature film released theatrically in greater China, and additionally crafted into a six-hour television drama miniseries for distribution in the rest of the world. The announcement was made today during the Beijing International Film Festival at a signing ceremony attended by Cyrte CEO Frank Botman, Cfg Chairman Han Sanping and John Woo.
The epic action drama tells the legendary story of the Flying Tigers, »
- Michelle McCue
Garth Brooks in 'Saving Private Ryan'? Lawsuit Alleges Singer Was Lined Up for a Role
22 April 2013 2:36 PM, PDT | Moviefone | See recent Moviefone news »
Country superstar Garth Brooks could have been a movie star, too, but a pesky tornado got in his way. At least, that's one theory in a series of allegations lobbed against the singer in a scathing lawsuit filed last week. Lisa Sanderson, who filed the complaint, was a producing partner at Brooks's Red Strokes Entertainment, whose goal was to develop film and TV projects for the singer. Sanderson claims she was promised 50 percent of producers' profits from those projects, but they never got off the ground, thanks to Brooks's inflated ego. Sanderson alleges that Brooks was poised to launch a lucrative film career, but sabotaged his and others' success at every turn. Her complaint states that Brooks is “a paranoid, angry, deceitful, and vindictive man who will turn against those closest to him on a dime.” According to the complaint, Brooks botched several opportunities to star in big-name Hollywood blockbusters, »
- Katie Roberts
Giovanni Ribisi joins Seth MacFarlane series 'Dads,' replacing Tommy Dewey
18 April 2013 8:33 PM, PDT | Zap2It - From Inside the Box | See recent Zap2It - From Inside the Box news »
Giovanni Ribisi has joined the cast of Seth MacFarlane's live action Fox comedy "Dads," replacing Tommy Dewey after one episode was shot.
In a sign of good faith, Fox ordered six episodes of "Dads" without filming a pilot first. The series was set to star Dewey (a recurring player on Fox's "The Mindy Project") and Seth Green as successful thirtysomethings suddenly forced to live with their nightmare dads (Peter Riegert and Martin Mull).
Word slipped out that reaction to the series' first taping was underwhelming and now Deadline reports that "tweaking" has ensued, including recasting Dewey with Ribisi. "Dads" had already replaced co-star Erin Pineda with Vanessa Lachey after its first table reading.
Ribisi hasn't had a series regular TV role since the short-lived early '90s comedy "Family Album," but he has a professional history with MacFarlane having done a guest voice on "Family Guy" and co-starred in both MacFarlane's blockbuster directorial debut, »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Musician Garth Brooks Turned Down Saving Private Ryan Because Tom Hanks Wasn't Big Enough Star
18 April 2013 6:02 PM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
At one point, country music star Garth Brooks was a huge deal. So huge, that director Jan de Bont wanted him to star in "Twister" and Steven Spielberg wanted him for "Saving Private Ryan." So why did Brooks turn down these amazing opportunities? According to a new lawsuit filed by Lisa Sanderson against her former partner Brooks, the musician lost out on money because he is a "paranoid, angry, deceitful, and vindictive man who will turn against those closest to him." Brooks had a film production company set up with Disney, but that didn't go anywhere. Then when Spielberg offered the musician the role of Private Jackson in "Saving Private Ryan," Brooks turned it down, stating that he wanted to play a "bad guy." Since there weren't many prominent "bad guy" roles, that opportunity fell apart. According to the lawsuit, another reason Brooks turned down "Saving Private Ryan" is "because »
In an Alternate World Garth Brooks Is the Star of 'Twister' and 'Saving Private Ryan'
18 April 2013 5:25 PM, PDT | Movies.com | See recent Movies.com news »
Did you know that country singer Garth Brooks has long had an interest in being a movie star and that in 1994 he started his own production company to launch his acting career? No, you probably didn't, because Brooks has never actually acted in a feature film. He did indeed start a company called Red Strokes, but a lawsuit from his production partner Lisa Sanderson is revealing that Brooks' ego cost him and the company every opportunity they had. And the opportunities in question are positively bizarre. According to the lawsuit (which you can read in full here), Sanderson introduced Brooks to Frank Darabont, who was doing a rewrite on Saving Private Ryan. Darabont agreed to write the role of a sniper for Brooks to play, but the country singer turned it down because it...
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- Peter Hall
Garth Brooks Almost Starred in 'Twister' and 'Saving Private Ryan'?!
18 April 2013 3:19 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
In films like Last Action Hero and Jurassic Park: The Lost World, we've been given alternate realities of movies including Sylvester Stallone in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and King Lear starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. But some of these faux realities may not be as ridiculous as initially thought. One such case is country musician Garth Brooks almost starring in Twister and Saving Private Ryan. Why are we just now hearing about this? Well, Lisa Sanderson, who’s worked with both Brooks and Merv Griffin, has filed a lawsuit against Brooks, saying that she lost out on money and opportunities because the famed singer is a “paranoid, angry, deceitful, and vindictive man who will turn against those closest to him on a dime.” Brooks' efforts stretch as far back as 1994 when he started his own production company called Red Strokes, and they initially had a development deal with Disney that never »
- Ethan Anderton
Lawsuit Claims Garth Brooks Turned Down Roles In 'Twister" & 'Saving Private Ryan' Because He Wasn't The Star
18 April 2013 1:35 PM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Garth Brooks has had an unbelievable career as a country singer, there’s no denying that. The man has sold more than 68 million albums in America and is up there with Elvis Presley and The Beatles among the best-selling artists in the United States of all time. Impressive. But unlike The Beatles and Elvis Presley, an acting career has always seemed to have eluded the man. Now in a lawsuit against Brooks filed by Lisa Sanderson, a former production partner, various claims have been levied against the country star that might make you see him in a different light. Sanderson claims that Garth Brooks had been offered multiple movie roles years ago, including “Twister” and “Saving Private Ryan.” The singer apparently refused a role in “Saving Private Ryan” because he did not want to share a spotlight with the likes of Matt Damon and Tom Hanks. Brooks also turned down »
- Ken Guidry
5 War Movies That Portray The Horrors Of War Better Than Saving Private Ryan
18 April 2013 7:18 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Saving Private Ryan was one of my favorite films when I was a younger. In my 8th or 9th grade probably I watched it for the first time and loved every bit of it. Even now, some 10 years later, after watching thousands of films, it remains a film I admire dearly; but now that my film tastes and philosophies have matured, I look at it with a different view and find a flaw (or maybe not a flaw, maybe it’s just a phenomenon that is distasteful for me and not really for many others).
Saving Private Ryan glorifies war.
Year after year, Hollywood war films have been glorifying war and have kept adding cheap sentiment into the genre and most of all, have left the viewers with a positive feel. When you think about it, it’s not just war films that does it, it’s ninety nine percent »
- The necromancer
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