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Collider is offering a first-class experience by hosting an early screening of Fight or Flightin New York City, as part of an exciting event that will include an exclusive cast Q&a with stars Josh Hartnett, Katee Sackhoff, and director James Madigan. The action-thriller landed a sky-high Rotten Tomatoes score from its first reviews and currently boasts an 86% approval rating, with critics drawing comparisons between Fight or Flight and the likes of John Wick and Bullet Train — so fans of pictures that pack a punch will need to keep reading to find out how to secure tickets to this special event and be among the first to see the film.

Fight or Flight follows an exiled American agent by the name of Lucas Reyes (Josh Hartnett), who is recruited for a job that lands him aboard a flight from Bangkok to San Francisco, where, instead of sitting back and enjoying the in-flight entertainment,...

For more than a decade, Josh Hartnett has kept the digital world at arm’s length, preferring not to put his face on social media like many of his peers. However, his latest movie, Fight or Flight, has delivered such incredible reviews that it has been enough to coax him into the modern world of TikTok dances, cat pictures, online trolls…yeah, maybe there is a reason that this could be a very limited appearance for the actor.

Fight or Flight is a new action movie that sees Hartnett playing an ex-secret service agent on a plane from Bangkok to San Francisco that just happens to be full of assassins all out to kill the same person he has been tasked with tracking. While the premise sounds like plenty of other similar movies, Fight or Flight has landed an unexpected 100% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer score. Certainly by no coincidence, Hartnett...

In the late 2010s, if you needed a leading man for a brains-off action/adventure movie, you called one person: Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's agent. For a solid 5 years, The Rock was a fixture of movies that, at one time, would have been the perfect "sick on a Saturday" TNT rock block of entertainment. One of these popcorn flicks is 2018's Skyscraper, which is currently climbing the streaming charts. Skyscraper finds Johnson starring as Will Sawyer, a former FBI agent and amputee who, after injuries sustained while on a hostage rescue mission, becomes a security consultant for high-rise buildings. After terrorists capture the tallest building in the world in Hong Kong and try and extort its developer, Sawyer must rescue his family, who are trapped inside the burning structure.

Written, co-produced, and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber, who reunited with The Rock on the huge Netflix action hit Red Notice...

Stars: Daisy Ridley, Matthew Tuck, Clive Owen, Lee Boardman, Rufus Jones, Taz Skylar, Ruth Gemmell | Written by Matthew Orton, Simon Uttley, Paul Andrew Williams | Directed by Martin Campbell

Since the original Die Hard took the world by storm in 1988, it has inspired countless sequels and knock-offs. Often built around the same basic premise, these films have become a sub-genre in their own right. From Die Hard 2: Die Harder set in an airport, to Under Siege on a naval vessel, Passenger 57 on a plane, and even Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down in the White House, the formula has been repeated in various locations, with a lone hero taking on the bad guys and saving the hostages.

Now, Cleaner, directed by Martin Campbell and written by Matthew Orton, Simon Uttley (James Hyde – The Very Thought of You), and Paul Andrew Williams, brings the formula back to where it all started,...

When Bruce Willis became a television star 40 years ago via the hit ABC comedy "Moonlighting," no one in the entertainment industry thought he was primed to become the next great action movie hero. As wisecracking private detective David Addison, he seemed poised to be a romantic comedy lead in the old-fashioned vein of Cary Grant or, at the very least, a rakish successor to Paul Newman. He did not, however, give off the gun-toting beefcake vibes of guys like Sylvester Stallone or Arnold Schwarzenegger. So when he snared a then-unthinkable $5 million payday to star in "Die Hard" after just about every star in Hollywood passed on the role of John McClane, a folly appeared to be in the offing.

All Willis did with "Die Hard" is completely readjust the industry's expectations for action films. Instead of a musclebound killing machine, he was an everyman cop who uses his wits as...

Following the release of the Christmas classic Die Hard in 1988, Hollywood scrambled to find the next great action movie with a hero fighting villains in closed spaces. While many failed to recapture the magic of the Bruce Willis-led masterpiece, others, such as Steven Seagal’s Under Siege and Wesley Snipes’ Passenger 57, elevated their stars to result in the best movies of their respective filmographies. Similarly, martial arts icon Jean-Claude Van Damme balanced vulnerability and kick-ass action in 1995’s Sudden Death.

You have three seconds to name Wesley Snipes’ best ‘90s action movie: Go! As the numbers tally, only six options remain: New Jack City, Passenger 57, Boiling Point, Rising Sun, Demolition Man, and Blade. If we’re talking crime-action, New Jack City reigns supreme. Horror-Action? Blade all damn day. Sci-Fi Action? Demolition Man is too silly to miss. But if we’re simply counting hyper-violent, hard-boiled action fare – it’s hard to elevate above Passenger 57 – a lean, mean, bullet-laced blitzkrieg of thrilling throwback action made in the wake of Die Hard. In the film, Snipes portrays John Cutter, a badass airport security expert who finds himself in a hijacked airliner overrun by Charles “The Rane of Terror” Rane and his undercover henchmen.

Despite overtly adopting the Die Hard formula of isolating a grumpy, charismatic hero in a single location and pitting them against a troupe of gun-toting terrorists, Passenger 57...

Despite being an independent, low-budget film, New Jack City quickly became a hit with viewers and critics when it released in 1991. The late 1980s and 1990s saw a boom of movies exploring the ravages of the crack cocaine epidemic and the war on drugs, and New Jack City remains one of the best. It received praise for its writing, directing, performance, and stylized portrayal of a serious problem in the United States. Perhaps its most enduring legacy, however, is the role it played in launching the career of actor Wesley Snipes.

Throughout the '90s, Wesley Snipes enjoyed a status as one of the major action-film stars of the time. Appearing in hits like Demolition Man, Passenger 57, and U.S. Marshals, Snipes made a name for himself with his tough demeanor and martial arts skills. These qualities led to him being cast as the lead in Blade, one of the first hit Marvel movies.

What would you ask the British star of film and TV and patron saint of safety pins?

Elizabeth Hurley has spent the past three decades tirelessly making British culture a little bit more glamorous. She rose to fame in the early 1990s, having made her feature debut in 1988’s Rowing with the Wind, a windswept Mary Shelley biopic with Hugh Grant as Lord Byron.

Hurley’s breakthrough came in the Wesley Snipes plane thriller Passenger 57 (1992), as a henchwoman disguised as a flight attendant, before taking the lead in 1995’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen, about an upper-class heroin addict who begins an affair with her motorbiking drugs courier.

Wesley Snipes, the actor perhaps most widely known for starring as vampire hunter Blade, is ready to unsheath a new chapter in his Hollywood career, signing with Independent Artist Group for representation.

The actor and martial artist, who reprised his Blade role to the delight of fans in this summer’s $1.3 billion-grossing Deadpool & Wolverine, has an acting career that spans over three decades and reaches across genres. The actor gained notices for his 1990s work in dramas such as Jungle Fever, his influential crime movie New Jack City, comedic fare such as To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar, and action flicks Demolition Man and Passenger 57.

Blade seemed like an innocuous action thriller when it was released in 1998 but the movie, exuding tough attitude and replete with one-liners, launched a trilogy that has gained in stature and influence since the final installment came out in 2004. When Snipes...

Every single movie in the beloved Die Hard franchise has found a new streaming home on Hulu. First released in 1988, Die Hard is one of the most influential action movies of the 80s (and one of the best Christmas movies of all-time - discuss!). Starring Bruce Willis as Officer John McClane, Die Hard sees Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) and his crew raid the Nagasaki Tower, taking everyone, except a sneaky McClane, hostage. When the police cannot enter the building under threat of losing hostages, McClane is forced to single-handedly take them out, all while trying to revive his dead relationship with his ex-wife Holly Gennero (Bonnie Bedelia).

Die Hard helped to cement Bruce Willis as a bona-fide action star, leading him to major roles in Pulp Fiction, The Fifth Element, Twelve Monkeys, and, most importantly, the rest of the Die Hard series. Despite some duds, Die Hard is among the greatest action franchises of all-time.

Kim Kahana, the stunt performer, teacher, coordinator and war hero who played Chongo on the kids show Danger Island and doubled for Charles Bronson in several action films, has died. He was 94.

Kahana died Monday of natural causes at his home in Groveland, Florida, his wife, Sandy Kahana, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Kahana, 5-foot-7 and 150 pounds, taught stunts to many thousands of students since the mid-1970s in six-week courses that took place in Chatsworth, California, and Central Florida. Many went on to have thriving careers in show business.

He also had six different black belt degrees — he taught martial arts, too — and worked as a professional bodyguard protecting Hollywood types.

A native of Hawaii, Kahana appeared in his first film as a biker in the Marlon Brando-starring The Wild One (1953) and was an extra in other movies before he realized that stunt performers got paid more than he did.

David Loughery, the screenwriter whose credits included the action pictures Dreamscape, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and the Wesley Snipes-starring Money Train and Passenger 57, has died. He was 71.

Loughery died Tuesday of skin cancer in St. Petersburg, Florida, his friend Fred Rappaport told The Hollywood Reporter.

Loughery collaborated with director Joseph Ruben on Dreamscape (1984), starring Dennis Quaid; The Good Son (1993), starring Macauley Culkin; Money Train (1995), with Woody Harrelson alongside Snipes in their follow-up to White Men Can’t Jump; and Blindsided (2013), starring Michelle Monaghan and Michael Keaton.

Born on March 3, 1953, in Oak Park, Illinois, Loughery graduated from Ball State University, then received his master’s degree from the University of Iowa. In 1981, he shared a story credit on an episode of ABC’s Hart to Hart.

After his film debut on Dreamscape, he had the sole screenplay credit and shared a story credit on Star Trek V: The Final Frontier...

Many action stars tried their hand at a Die Hard copycat. Sylvester Stallone had Die Hard-on-a-mountain with his action movie Cliffhanger. Wesley Snipes had Die Hard-on-a-plane with the movie Passenger 57. Steven Seagal had both Die Hard-on-a-boat with Under Siege and Die Hard-on-a-train with Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. Martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme would get his own copycat film in the form of Die Hard-at-a-hockey-game with the 1995 film Sudden Death. You can now take the violent hockey action home with an all-new 4K transfer with the ultra HD Blu-ray from Kino, according to the announcement on Blu-ray.com.

Van Damme’s fare with this sports-themed film has its share of fans but is more notoriously known for the amusingly wild sequences that utilize its hockey setting, which include Van Damme fighting a terrorist who is disguised as a mascot for the Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as...

Ricochet is a dark thriller connected to Die Hard via the character of Gail Wallens (Mary Ellen Trainor). Denzel Washington's character faces torment and mental anguish, creating a bleak and harrowing journey. Originally conceived as a Dirty Harry sequel, Ricochet's script was rejected by Clint Eastwood as "too grim".

Arguably Denzel Washington's most shocking thriller is also a stealth Die Hard spinoff. Producer Joel Silver had a run of megahits from the 1980s onwards, having produced Commando, Predator, The Matrix and many more. Silver also produced the first two Die Hard movies, which had a sizable impact on action cinema. While action movies during the 1980s were dominated by indestructible, muscle-bound heroes played by Schwarzenegger and Stallone, Die Hard was fronted by an all-too human everyman. Bruce Willis' McClane bled, struggled and even cried, bringing a human element to the genre.

Even now, Die Hard is considered one...

Mark Wahlberg promised that he gets to show a very different side of himself in “Flight Risk,” a new thriller from Mel Gibson. And based on the trailer that Lionsgate shared at CinemaCon on Thursday, that’s no exaggeration. Wahlberg, who specializes in square-jawed heroes, is balding and psychotic, playing a mob hit man who tricks a federal agent into allowing him to pilot a plane carrying an informant out of a remote area.

Scenery is chewed as Wahlberg sports a faux Southern accent and flashes a sociopathic glint in his eye. Gibson, no stranger to controversies over the years, is presented in the trailer as the Oscar-winning director of “Braveheart” and “Apocalypto.” Gibson also earned an Oscar nomination for “Hacksaw Ridge.” He and Wahlberg have worked together in the past on “Father Stu” and “Daddy’s Home 2.” “Flight Risk” is different from those films (think aviation thrillers like “Executive Decision...

Everything about the first trailer for the reboot of The Crow looks familiar. Sure, some of that is to be expected, as the 2024 movie retells the story from the 1994 cut classic. And yes, The Crow 2024 does make some obvious choices, casting Bill Skarsgård as a weird tall skinny guy and Danny Huston as a bad guy.

But besides the paint-by-numbers approach that director Rupert Sanders seems to be taking with the property, the really familiar part is The Crow‘s approach to comic book adaptations. Those young enough to have listened to the soundtrack to The Crow back in the ’90s will remember that the current pop culture landscape seemed impossible 30 years ago. Only the most recognizable superheroes got translated to live-action, and even then received a radical make-over, sanding down all of the colorful comic book aspects and stuck into a standard action flick.

In the pages of the...

Wesley Snipes, known for his action roles, is returning to comedy in Back on the Strip after successful comedic turns earlier in his career. Snipes' previous comedic roles include Major League, White Men Can't Jump, and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. Back on the Strip continues Snipes' recent trend of revisiting the comedy genre, following his acclaimed performances in Dolemite is My Name and Coming 2 America.

Wesley Snipes is returning to the world of comedy with Back on the Strip. The movie centers on a young magician who heads to Las Vegas in the hopes of making it as a professional performer, only to instead be drawn into the world of male stripping with veteran Luther, better known as Mr. Big, and helps to reunite his old group of dancers, The Chips. Alongside Snipes, who also co-produced the movie, the ensemble Back on the Strip cast includes Spence Moore II,...

Elevation Pictures to distribute in Canada.

Quiver and WestEnd have announced international deals on the upcoming TIFF world premiere and Second World War true story Irena’s Vow starring Sophie Nélisse and Dougray Scott.

Deals have closed with Dea Planeta for Spain, Outsider for Portugal, United King for Israel, and Cinesky for airlines. Quiver will distribute in the US.

Irena’s Vow will premiere in Toronto on September 10 at 3.15pm Et at TIFF Bell Lightbox, with a second public screening on September 11 at 3.35pm Et at Scotiabank Theatre.

Louise Archambault (TIFF 2019 entry And The Birds Rained Down) directed the feature from Dan Gordon...

Flying on an airplane has to rank right up there with the least enjoyable experiences we face these days — so imagine my surprise when spending a few hours on a plane with Apple TV+’s Hijack actually turned out to be downright pleasurable. The new hostage drama starring Idris Elba (premiering Wednesday, June 28; I’ve seen three of the seven episodes) is a good old-fashioned pulse-pounder that takes full advantage of its claustrophobic setting with perfectly calibrated tension and high-intensity action scenes.

Elba plays Sam Nelson, a passenger on a flight from Dubai to London that’s set to take about seven hours,...

There’s this theory out there that annoys most Trekkies, being that, of the films, only the even-numbered entries are good. This stems mainly from the fact that everyone remembers Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as being the worst movie of the series and ignores that Star Trek: The Motion Picture – while divisive – was a hit, and so was The Search for Spock. However, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier is indeed a bad Star Trek movie, and in this episode of Revisited, we’re going to look at exactly what went wrong with something that was clearly a passion project for its star and director, William Shatner.

Jump back to 1986, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home was a significant hit. It was the highest-grossing movie in the franchise and earned critical raves. People that didn’t even like Star Trek were down with this earth-bound adventure of the crew of the U.

It would be easy to dismiss Cliffhanger as little more than a fun riff on the Die Hard formula, with the action switching from the heights of Nakatomi Plaza to the Colorado Rockies. After all, the film largely pits Sylvester Stallone’s Gabe Walker—often wearing little more than a t-shirt on the mountain in place of John McClane’s vest—against a crack team of international terrorists led by John Lithgow, who is in deliciously deranged form as a psychotic military intelligence expert turned thief.

The comparisons are not helped by the fact that Cliffhanger arrived at a time when the Die Hard formula was being milked for all its worth. In the 12 months prior to its release, moviegoers had been served up the likes of Passenger 57 (Die Hard on a plane) and Under Siege (Die Hard on a boat), with Speed (Die Hard on a bus) hot...

It’s Passenger 57 meets 24. Or perhaps just 24. Idris Elba stars in a new series from AppleTV+ called Hijack. The title pretty much cues you in on the concept. A group of terrorists takes over a seven-hour flight. What they want is not yet revealed, but they have allies on the ground that are helping to make their demands. However, something they didn’t count on is an experienced business negotiator already on the flight. This negotiator, portrayed by Elba, is preparing to deal with them…in more ways than one. The show takes during the events surrounding the seven-hour international flight and will be told in real-time.

The Hollywood Reporter has unveiled details about the new Apple original. “The action takes place in real-time, over the course of the seven-hour flight from Dubai to London. The clock starts ticking as Sam (played by Idris Elba) tries first to negotiate...

In 2021, Wesley Snipes used an Esquire "What I've Learned" column to make a fascinating confession: "I've got to learn how to be a movie star."

Snipes was 58 at the time of the article's publication, and enjoying a career renaissance due to his portrayal of actor-director D'Urville Martin in Craig Brewster's uproarious "Dolemite Is My Name." Though he'd officially made his comeback as an aging gang leader in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq" four years prior, Martin was the perfect vehicle through which Snipes could examine the frustration of an ambitious artist shunted from A-list roles to low-aiming exploitation flicks.

Snipes' Martin is a bitter, alcoholic filmmaker trying, and failing miserably, to make nightclub comic Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy) look like a Blaxploitation action star on par with Richard Roundtree. Martin is a defeated man, and it's hard not to sense Snipes reckoning with the sun setting on his own action-hero stardom.

Tom Sizemore, who died Friday at age 61, had hundreds of film and TV credits in a three-decade-plus career, famously in Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and many others.

A Detroit native, Sizemore on the big screen worked with the likes of Steven Spielberg, Michael Mann, Arthur Penn and multiple times with Martin Scorsese, Oliver Stone, Kathryn Bigelow, Tony Scott and Lawrence Kasdan. Those credits included Heat, Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor, Wyatt Earp, Passenger 57, Bringing Out the Dead, The Relic, Strange Days, Red Planet, Dreamcatcher, Flight of the Intruder, Guilty by Suspicion, Bad Love and many more.

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On the small screen, he toplined the short-lived 2002 CBS cop drama Robbery Homicide Division and also recurred on such series as Law & Order: Svu, China Beach, Shooter, The Red Road, Crash, Dr. Vegas, the Hawaii Five-o revival and 2017’s Twin Peaks.

Tom Sizemore, who starred in Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down and in hundreds of other film and TV roles over three-plus decades, died Friday at a hospital in Burbank. He was 61 and had been in a coma since suffering a stroke February 18 that resulted in brain aneurysm.

His manager Charles Lago confirmed the news this evening, saying Sizemore passed away peacefully in his sleep at St Joseph’s Hospital, with his brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger at his side.

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“The Sizemore family has been comforted by the hundreds of messages of support and love shown to their son, brother and father,...

Tom Sizemore, the veteran character actor known for nervy and visceral tough-guy roles in films like “Heat” and Steven Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan,” died Friday, his manager confirmed. He was 61.

Sizemore’s family was advised this week to make a decision regarding “end of life matters” after he suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18.

“It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore aged 61 passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” his manager, Charles Lago, said in a statement. “His Brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were at his side.”

Sizemore was found unconscious in his home around 2 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, Lago told TheWrap earlier this week. He was hospitalized and immediately admitted into the intensive care unit.

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Tom Sizemore has died after being taken off life support, his manager Charles Lago confirmed to Variety on Friday. The 61-year-old actor suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18.

“It is with great sadness and sorrow I have to announce that actor Thomas Edward Sizemore (‘Tom Sizemore’) aged 61 passed away peacefully in his sleep today at St Joseph’s Hospital Burbank,” Lago said in a statement. “His brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger (17) were at his side.”

Lago had previously said on Feb. 27 that “doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end of life decision.”

On Feb. 18, Sizemore collapsed in his Los Angeles home and was transported to the hospital by paramedics. There, doctors determined that he had suffered a brain aneurysm as the result of a stroke. Sizemore had remained in critical condition since then and had been in a coma under intensive care.

Actor Tom Sizemore is likely in the final days of his life, as doctors have told his family that there is “no further hope” in his recovery.

Tom Sizemore’s manager made the following statement on Monday: “Today, doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end of life decision…The family is now deciding end of life matters and a further statement will be issued on Wednesday.”

Tom Sizemore was listed in critical condition after collapsing following a medical emergency. According to his manager, over the past weekend, “Sizemore collapsed at his Los Angeles home and was transported to a hospital by Paramedics. He was found to be suffering from a brain aneurism that occurred as a result of a stroke. Since that day, Tom has remained in critical condition, in a coma and in intensive care.”

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Tom Sizemore’s family is “deciding end of life matters” after the actor suffered a brain aneurysm from a stroke on Feb. 18, his rep confirmed to Variety.

The Saving Private Ryan actor has been in a coma under intensive care at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank since his collapse in his Los Angeles home. However, his rep Charles Lago said that doctors stated that there is no chance for his recovery.

According to the statement sent to the outlet on Monday, “doctors informed his family that there is...

Tom Sizemore’s family is “deciding end of life matters” for the 61-year-old actor after he suffered a brain aneurysm on Feb. 18, Sizemore’s manager Charles Lago confirmed to Variety.

According to a statement from Lago, on Monday “doctors informed his family that there is no further hope and have recommended end of life decision. The family is now deciding end of life matters and a further statement will be issued on Wednesday.”

The statement continues, “We are asking for privacy for his family during this difficult time and they wish to thank everyone for the hundreds of messages of support, and prayers that have been received. This has been a difficult time for them.”

On Feb. 18, Sizemore collapsed in his Los Angeles home and was transported to the hospital by paramedics. There, doctors determined that he had suffered a brain aneurysm as the result of a stroke. Sizemore has remained in critical condition since,...

Tom Sizemore, an actor known for roles in action films like Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, is in critical condition after suffering a brain aneurysm, according to his spokesperson. Charles Lago, Sizemore’s rep, told CNN on Sunday, February 19, that Sizemore’s case is “wait and see situation” “His family is aware and waiting for updates.” Lago added. “There is no further update at this time.” The 61-year-old — whose TV credits include arcs on Twin Peaks and Shooter in 2017 — got his start in Hollywood in the late 1980s, appearing in a small part in the 1989 war biopic Born on the Fourth of July, for example. He also recurred on the TV series China Beach around the same time, with his Sergeant Vinnie Ventresca romancing Dana Delany’s Army nurse Colleen McMurphy on the ABC show. In the 1990s, Sizemore took roles in the films Point Break, Passenger 57,...

A troubled Hollywood legend, Tom Sizemore, is in critical condition following a brain aneurysm. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor was found collapsed in his L.A. home at 2 am following a medical emergency. He’s now under observation at an L.A. hospital, with his spokesperson Charles Lago telling THR, “he is currently in critical condition, and it’s a wait-and-see situation,” Lago said, adding, “there are no future updates at this time.”

A veteran character actor, Sizemore’s credits include his prominent roles in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers, Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down and many others. More recently, Sizemore had a role in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return. He’s also appeared in movies like Passenger 57, Strange Days, The Relic, Heat and many more. While enjoying a long career on both the big screen and small screen,...

A standard direct flight from Incheon International Airport in South Korea to Honolulu clocks in at a little over 10 hours, and a lot can happen in the duration of that dawn-to-near-dusk journey. You could start and finish a medium-sized book or work your way through a season of a premium-cable prestige drama. Maybe you’d answer a lot of emails (depending on the Wi-Fi situation, which we’re told can be unreliable), get wildly drunk, or catch up on your sleep. Or, should you be a psychopath who works for...

Exclusive: Andrew Dice Clay (Pam & Tommy) and Jordan Johnson-Hinds (The Endgame) will star in the Quiver-acquired basketball drama Warrior Strong from director Shane Belcourt (Red Rover), which has entered production in Northern Ontario, Canada.

The film written by Dan Gordon (Wyatt Earp) centers on basketball protege and egocentric Bilal Irving (Johnson-Hinds), who is asked to be the assistant coach of his former high school team, the Dumont Warriors, alongside Coach Avery Schmidt (Clay). Bilal subsequently learns that true coaching involves far more than simply teaching the game. The question is, will this rag-tag team of misfits have what it takes to put aside their differences and become Warrior Strong?

Nicholas Tabarrok and Leah Jaunzems are producing for Darius Films, with Quiver’s Berry Meyerowitz, Jeff Sackman and Larry Greenberg serving as exec producers. Quiver holds worldwide rights to the film and will be introducing it for sale at this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

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Thirteen years after his last screenplay credit, writer David Loughery, who wrote blockbuster 90s action films like Passenger 57 and The Three Musketeers, returned to movies with Lakeview Terrace in 2008, and since then he seems to have specialised in films that feature characters with ulterior motives, who aren’t who they think you are; and with Obsessed he almost single-handedly looked to revive the low-budget thriller genre that was so prevalent during the era he last penned scripts for Hollywood. That determination continued with his scripts for films like Penthouse North and The Intruder; in 2020 he spiced things ups throwing in some eroticism with the script for Fatale and now comes Shattered, which takes the genre to its Basic Instinct-style roots. Though to be...

The cast of John Wick: Chapter 4 is quickly taking shape, with several new names recently announced for the cast. Another big name that could soon be added to the movie is Blade star Wesley Snipes, as The Illuminerdi reports that the actor is currently in negotiations with Lionsgate for a supporting role. Neither Lionsgate nor Snipes have yet commented on the rumor, but per the report, Snipes is "being circled for a role in which he will play a swordsman alongside Keanu Reeves' John Wick."

This follows a recent report that Donnie Yen (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) has been cast to play an old friend of Wick's who "shares his same history and many of the same enemies." Other newcomers to the franchise reportedly cast in John Wick 4 include Bill Skarsgård (It), Shamier Anderson (Stowaway), and Japanese-British singer Rina Sawayama. Of course, we know Reeves will be...

Ernie Lively, the actor who appeared in beloved movies “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” and “Turner & Hooch,” has died. He was 74.

A representative for Lively confirmed his death to Variety.

In the two “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” movies, which came out in 2005 and 2008, Lively portrayed the father of Bridget, played by his real-life daughter, Blake Lively. The “Gossip Girl” star wasn’t the only one to be inspired by her father’s career. His other children — Jason, Eric, Robyn and Lori — built careers in film in television as well. Mentorship was a big part of Lively’s life. From the late ’80s through most of the ’90s, he coached Hollywood’s young working actors, such as Brittany Murphy, Casper Van Dien and Jason Priestley.

The Maryland native was born in Baltimore in January 1947 and earned his first acting credit at age 28 with an appearance on “The Waltons.

Longtime character actor Ernie Lively, whose acting career spanned five decades and included roles in such films as “Turner & Hooch,” “Passenger 57” and the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” films, in which he played the father of his daughter Blake Lively’s character, has died, according to a representative for Lively. He was 74.

Lively died of cardiac complications in Los Angeles last Thursday. He was surrounded by his wife and all of his children.

Lively was also a successful pitchman as he starred alongside Phil McHale as part of the duo Runner & Ernie in the popular Hardee’s commercials that ran in the late 1970s and early ’80s.

Lively was born Ernest Brown Jr. in Baltimore on Jan. 29, 1947. Lively was an English professor who served in the Marines during the Vietnam War and turned to acting. On top of acting, Lively was an acting coach and mentor who guided...

Ernie Lively, a character actor who amassed more than 100 credits during a 45-year film and TV career and was Blake Lively’s father, has died. He was 74. The actor’s rep confirmed to Deadline that he died June 2 in Los Angeles of cardiac complications.

He played the father of Blake Lively’s character in 2005’s The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and its 2008 sequel.

Ernie Lively began his screen career with guest roles on such popular series as The Waltons, Fantasy Island and a recurring role on The Dukes of Hazzard. He focused mainly on TV series and telefilms during the 1970s and ’80s, appearing in multiple episodes of Hill Street Blues, Falcon Crest, Newhart and later Murder, She Wrote and The West Wing. He also guested on such hit shows as Seinfeld, Fame, Scarecrow & Mrs. King, Remington Steele and thirtysomething.

He began to land small roles in films by the late ’80s,...

Ernie Lively, whose 50-year acting career included turns in Passenger 57, The Dukes of Hazzard, Turner & Hooch and as the father of his daughter Blake Lively’s character in the two Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films, has died. He was 74.

Lively died Thursday of cardiac complications in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was surrounded by his wife and all of his children.

Lively’s credits also included other notable films like Shocker (1989), Air America (1990), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), The Man in the Moon (1991), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and Mulholland Falls (1996) and guest appearances on TV shows including The X-Files, Seinfeld, Murder, She Wrote and The ...

Ernie Lively, whose 50-year acting career included turns in Passenger 57, The Dukes of Hazzard, Turner & Hooch and as the father of his daughter Blake Lively’s character in the two Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants films, has died. He was 74.

Lively died Thursday of cardiac complications in Los Angeles, his family announced. He was surrounded by his wife and all of his children.

Lively’s credits also included other notable films like Shocker (1989), Air America (1990), Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991), The Man in the Moon (1991), The Beverly Hillbillies (1993) and Mulholland Falls (1996) and guest appearances on TV shows including The X-Files, Seinfeld, Murder, She Wrote and The ...

Buckle up, because it's rampant speculation time. Following the recent release of several projects on the agenda of the California Film Commission, one title in particular instantly stood out to action movie fans and could suggest that we are getting a sequel to the 1992 Wesley Snipes thriller, Passenger 57. Listed as Passenger 58, it's well worth noting that no one official has said anything to suggest that a sequel is in the works, but really, what else could it be? Well, anything, but don't ruin the fun.

Adding weight to the idea is the fact that Warner Specialty Productions Inc. is listed as the company name for the mysterious Passenger 58, and it was Warner Bros. who distributed Passenger 57 back in the 1990s. Directed by Kevin Hooks, 1992's Passenger 57 stars Wesley Snipes and Bruce Payne, with Snipes portraying John Cutter, a former cop turned airline security expert who is haunted...

Die Hard isn’t just lauded as perhaps the single greatest action movie ever made, as John McTiernan’s classic is also one of the most influential. John McClane’s misadventures in the Nakatomi Plaza have served as the inspiration for countless similar titles over the last 30 years, many of which are terrible, but others rank as some of the finest actioners of the modern era in their own right.

Under Siege, Passenger 57, Executive Decision, Air Force One, Con Air, Cliffhanger, Speed, Sudden Death, White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen have all taken the basic high concept formula established in Die Hard and transplanted it to battleships, planes, mountains, buses, stadiums and the White House respectively to wildly mixed results. Homaging the Bruce Willis classic is never going to go out of fashion, though, which is why Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Skyscraper looked like such a slam dunk on paper.

The '90s and 2000s saw an explosion of black actors in television and Hollywood, the likes of which had never been seen before in American screen history. A distinct genre on its own, black romantic comedies became the flavor of the millennium. In the early 1990s, movies like Malcolm X, Passenger 57, and Blade shot black actors into fame. On television, Martin, In Living Color and Living Single enraptured audiences to the screen.

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moreover, black culture was going through a renaissance, propelled by the blaxploitation films of the 1970s and the emergence of rap as a cultural force in the 1980s and 1990s. Originally, black political revolt during the 1960s and 1970s took to the streets, and found its representation in media at the same time, with films such as Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.  By the 1990s and 2000s, the black cultural revolution...

Airline pilots have a code to report hijackings, but there is no codified response to what might happen on board. The first 7500 trailer shows terrorists can be unpredictable and deadly, regardless of their weapons. Written and directed by Patrick Vollrath, the film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a co-pilot who has to take the wheel after an unexpected burst of turbulence strikes the cabin.

“It looks like a routine day at work for Tobias, a soft-spoken young American co-pilot on a flight from Berlin to Paris as he runs through the preflight checklist with Michael, the pilot, and chats with Gökce, his flight-attendant girlfriend,” reads the official synopsis. “But shortly after takeoff, terrorists armed with makeshift knives suddenly storm the cockpit, seriously wounding Michael and slashing Tobias’ arm. Temporarily managing to fend off the attackers, a terrified Tobias contacts ground control to plan an emergency landing. But when the hijackers kill...

A review of this week’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine, “Ransom,” coming up just as soon as I show the right level of excitement for a yellow-crested warbler…

There is only one thing to complain about with “Ransom,” the funniest episode of Season Seven, and one of the funniest Nine-Nine installments in years, so let’s get it out of the way quickly: Because this one immediately follows “Valloweaster,” it means Cheddar the Dog gets a triumphant slo-mo introduction two weeks in a row. Like Amy’s pregnancy news, that one moment...

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Marvel's Runaways conjures the devilish Elizabeth Hurley to play sorceress Morgan le Fey.

Elizabeth Hurley, who Bedazzled us as the devil in the 2000 faustian comedy, will next play one of literature's greatest sorceresses. Marvel's Runaways Season 3 has cast Hurley as Morgan le Fay, according to Variety.

“Elizabeth Hurley is joining the Marvel Universe and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have her portraying one of the most enchanting Marvel characters," Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel Television and executive producer of Runaways, said in a statement.

Morgan le Fay is best known as the less-than-stellar student of the great Wizard Merlin. She first appeared in Sir Thomas Malory's 1485 page-turner Le Morte d'Arthur, as King Arthur's half sister and mother to one of his children. She is the lady who threw the sword Excalibur in the lake.

Morgan gets her roots from Welsh mythology and...

July 15 marks the 30th anniversary of a truly great modern action pic, Die Hard. Unlike even some more recent action classics, Die Hard can comfortably be considered one of the most influential films of the genre. How many other movies in the last three decades have we seen that are basically Die Hard in a different location? Instead of one man trapped in a building with bad guys, we’ve gotten movies with self-contained action on a bus (Speed), on the president’s airplane (Air Force One), on a regular airplane (Passenger 57), on a submarine (Under Siege) and more. This weekend ...

July 15 marks the 30th anniversary of a truly great modern action pic, Die Hard. Unlike even some more recent action classics, Die Hard can comfortably be considered one of the most influential films of the genre. How many other movies in the last three decades have we seen that are basically Die Hard in a different location? Instead of one man trapped in a building with bad guys, we’ve gotten movies with self-contained action on a bus (Speed), on the president’s airplane (Air Force One), on a regular airplane (Passenger 57), on a submarine (Under Siege) and more. This weekend ...