San Francisco Giants manager Gabe Kapler felt “like a coward” for not taking a knee as Metallica performed the national anthem at Oracle Park Wednesday, mere minutes after a gunman killed 19 children and two adults in Uvalde, Texas.
“Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self-congratulatory glorification of the Only country where these mass shootings take place,” he wrote in a blog post on Friday, as he announced that he won’t take the field for the national anthem...
“Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I’m participating in a self-congratulatory glorification of the Only country where these mass shootings take place,” he wrote in a blog post on Friday, as he announced that he won’t take the field for the national anthem...
- 5/27/2022
- by Tomás Mier
- Rollingstone.com
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate U.S. musician, performance artist and filmmaker Laurie Anderson with its lifetime achievement award dedicated to creative pioneers.
The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Anderson with its Vision Award Ticinomoda, and screening her two feature-length films, “Heart of a Dog” (2015) which is dedicated to Lou Reed, and the restored 4K version of “Home of the Brave” (1986).
Anderson will be given the award on Aug. 10 during a ceremony on Locarno’s Piazza Grande that will be followed by an onstage conversation on Aug. 11.
Locarno in a statement praised Anderson as “an artist who has made inventiveness and experimentation the hallmarks of her career,” underlining that she’s been a leading figure in the U.S. avant-garde since the 1970s.
“Anderson has spent five decades exploring the potential of multimedia and innovative technology in the arts, through collaborations with William S. Burroughs,...
The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Anderson with its Vision Award Ticinomoda, and screening her two feature-length films, “Heart of a Dog” (2015) which is dedicated to Lou Reed, and the restored 4K version of “Home of the Brave” (1986).
Anderson will be given the award on Aug. 10 during a ceremony on Locarno’s Piazza Grande that will be followed by an onstage conversation on Aug. 11.
Locarno in a statement praised Anderson as “an artist who has made inventiveness and experimentation the hallmarks of her career,” underlining that she’s been a leading figure in the U.S. avant-garde since the 1970s.
“Anderson has spent five decades exploring the potential of multimedia and innovative technology in the arts, through collaborations with William S. Burroughs,...
- 4/26/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
As in the dystopian fictional world of The Handmaid’s Tale, in real life, one of the biggest obstacles of the upcoming fourth season of the Hulu drama was getting into Canada.
Though for the Elisabeth Moss starring series that barricade of sorts was more about the coronavirus pandemic than escaping a totalitarian theocracy.
“Honestly the biggest change is it was difficult to get our cast into Canada to shot,” Handmaid’s showrunner Bruce Miller admitted during today’s virtual TCA panel for the show.
The series based on Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed 1985 novel has filmed in and around Toronto since its first season.
Compelled to shutter like almost every other production around the globe due to then rising Covid-19 crisis last year, when the Handmaid’s Tale ramped up last fall the fact that it was filming north of the border became a deal breaker in some respects.
Trying to contain the pandemic,...
Though for the Elisabeth Moss starring series that barricade of sorts was more about the coronavirus pandemic than escaping a totalitarian theocracy.
“Honestly the biggest change is it was difficult to get our cast into Canada to shot,” Handmaid’s showrunner Bruce Miller admitted during today’s virtual TCA panel for the show.
The series based on Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed 1985 novel has filmed in and around Toronto since its first season.
Compelled to shutter like almost every other production around the globe due to then rising Covid-19 crisis last year, when the Handmaid’s Tale ramped up last fall the fact that it was filming north of the border became a deal breaker in some respects.
Trying to contain the pandemic,...
- 2/26/2021
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Trailblazing director Betty Thomas will receive the DGA’s prestigious Robert B. Aldrich Award for her “extraordinary service to the guild and its members” at the 73rd Annual DGA Awards.
Veteran Upm Brian E. Frankish and longtime CBS operations’ associate director Joyce Thomas will receive special awards for their service to the guild and the industry. The awards show will be held on April 10, but the DGA isn’t saying yet whether it will be virtual or not.
All three recipients have long histories of service to the guild. Betty Thomas serves as the DGA’s secretary-treasurer – the guild’s second-highest elected officer.
“Betty means so much to our guild,” said DGA president Thomas Schlamme. “No matter how busy she’s been throughout her remarkable, ceiling-shattering directing career, she’s always placed service to her fellow members among her highest priorities, fighting for their creative and economic rights. And from the very beginning,...
Veteran Upm Brian E. Frankish and longtime CBS operations’ associate director Joyce Thomas will receive special awards for their service to the guild and the industry. The awards show will be held on April 10, but the DGA isn’t saying yet whether it will be virtual or not.
All three recipients have long histories of service to the guild. Betty Thomas serves as the DGA’s secretary-treasurer – the guild’s second-highest elected officer.
“Betty means so much to our guild,” said DGA president Thomas Schlamme. “No matter how busy she’s been throughout her remarkable, ceiling-shattering directing career, she’s always placed service to her fellow members among her highest priorities, fighting for their creative and economic rights. And from the very beginning,...
- 2/25/2021
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Toto guitarist Steve Lukather has released a new song, “Run to Me,” with Ringo Starr on drums. It also features Toto’s David Paich and Joseph Williams along with Huey Lewis and the News bassist John Pierce. “Run to Me” will appear on Lukather’s upcoming solo album, due at some point in 2021.
“I wanted to release this now because it fits the moment — a time where we all need a happy song for an unhappy time,” Lukather said in a press release. “When I got together with Joseph Williams...
“I wanted to release this now because it fits the moment — a time where we all need a happy song for an unhappy time,” Lukather said in a press release. “When I got together with Joseph Williams...
- 8/20/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?”, can be found at the end of this post.)
The lineup for Cannes 2017 has finally been announced, and it’s a doozy. From the inevitable return of Michael Haneke to the shocking inclusion of television (albeit television from celebrated Cannes alumni David Lynch and Jane Campion), the 70th edition of the world’s most prestigious film festival promises to have something for everyone.
We asked our panel of critics to name the Cannes premiere they’re most excited to see, and their answers were unsurprisingly all over the map.
April Wolfe (@awolfeful), La Weekly
Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here.”
My stomach knots are finally unraveling knowing that Ramsay’s about to unleash another...
The lineup for Cannes 2017 has finally been announced, and it’s a doozy. From the inevitable return of Michael Haneke to the shocking inclusion of television (albeit television from celebrated Cannes alumni David Lynch and Jane Campion), the 70th edition of the world’s most prestigious film festival promises to have something for everyone.
We asked our panel of critics to name the Cannes premiere they’re most excited to see, and their answers were unsurprisingly all over the map.
April Wolfe (@awolfeful), La Weekly
Lynne Ramsay’s “You Were Never Really Here.”
My stomach knots are finally unraveling knowing that Ramsay’s about to unleash another...
- 4/17/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The 2017 Cannes official selection is a mix of brainy competition auteurs, red-carpet star power, and the rarest breed — a handful of players who could return to North America as Oscar contenders.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” How the three films play in Cannes will determine if the Oscar perennial returns for another go-round.
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.” How the three films play in Cannes will determine if the Oscar perennial returns for another go-round.
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.
- 4/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
The 2017 Cannes official selection is a mix of brainy competition auteurs, red-carpet star power, and the rarest breed — a handful of players who could return to North America as Oscar contenders.
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.” She’s back in two movies, “Happy End” (Sony Pictures Classics) by Michael Haneke, rejoining “Amour” co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant,...
Nicole Kidman will be stuffing her trunks with evening gowns, as she will need to walk the Palais steps at least four times: twice with Colin Farrell, for Cannes favorite Sofia Coppola‘s Civil War potboiler “The Beguiled” (Focus Features) and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” (A24), both in Competition, and again for John Cameron Mitchell‘s midnighter “How to Talk with Girls at Parties” (A24) and a preview of Jane Campion‘s returning Sundance Channel series, “Top of the Lake: China Girl.”
Isabelle Huppert won the Cesar and was close — we think — to winning the Oscar for “Elle.” She’s back in two movies, “Happy End” (Sony Pictures Classics) by Michael Haneke, rejoining “Amour” co-star Jean-Louis Trintignant,...
- 4/13/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Legendary jazz and R&B singer Al Jarreau has died, Ebony.com reports. He was 76.
The seven-time Grammy winner is perhaps best known to TV audiences for writing the lyrics and performing the theme to Moonlighting. He was hospitalized for exhaustion just days ago, but passed away on Sunday morning. A cause of death has not been reported.
Jarreau’s most notable hits included “Mornin’,” “After All,” “Roof Garden” and “We’re In This Love Together.”
In addition to his singing career, Jarreau dabbled in acting, appearing as Rev. Gentry Hall in two episodes of Touched by an Angel, as...
The seven-time Grammy winner is perhaps best known to TV audiences for writing the lyrics and performing the theme to Moonlighting. He was hospitalized for exhaustion just days ago, but passed away on Sunday morning. A cause of death has not been reported.
Jarreau’s most notable hits included “Mornin’,” “After All,” “Roof Garden” and “We’re In This Love Together.”
In addition to his singing career, Jarreau dabbled in acting, appearing as Rev. Gentry Hall in two episodes of Touched by an Angel, as...
- 2/12/2017
- TVLine.com
Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback, which she announced will be returning for a third season.
John Singleton is poised to be the next filmmaker to make the leap to television, as FX has picked up the pilot for Snowfall, a show co-created by Singleton. The press release had this summary of the series.
Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.
Singleton will also direct the pilot.
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The partnership between Fox and...
John Singleton is poised to be the next filmmaker to make the leap to television, as FX has picked up the pilot for Snowfall, a show co-created by Singleton. The press release had this summary of the series.
Los Angeles 1981. A storm is coming and its name is cocaine. Snowfall is a one-hour drama set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it. The story follows three characters on a violent collision course: Franklin Saint, young street entrepreneur on a quest for power; Gustavo Zapata, a Mexican wrestler turned gangster in search of his American dream; and Logan Miller, a prominent family’s “black sheep” desperate to escape his father’s shadow.
Singleton will also direct the pilot.
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The partnership between Fox and...
- 5/2/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Remember New Coke? If you do, the ’80s called and they want their jokes back. But as a reminder, in April of 1985, just over 30 years ago this week, Coca-Cola, one of the longest surviving American companies who had successfully dominated the market with a time-tested product, had decided that to stave off the rise of Pepsi in the Cola wars, they would rebrand their classic fizzy drink to New Coke. New Coke hit the shelves April 23, and though the sweeter flavor won out in blind taste tests, human psychology practically dictates that it’s not the product that’s inside the can but the label that’s outside the can that most determines a person’s liking. The product rollout was a huge blunder, and Coca-Cola eventually reverted to Coke Classic.
If you thought that sounds like it could make a fascinating documentary, or perhaps an interesting comedy, then you’re in luck.
If you thought that sounds like it could make a fascinating documentary, or perhaps an interesting comedy, then you’re in luck.
- 4/30/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
Faith Hill, last seen on the big screen in 2004's remake of Stepford Wives, is starring in Dixieland, described by Deadline.com as an indie crime drama.
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Hill will star as the mother of a young man, played by Chris Zylka (The Leftovers), who is newly released from prison and falls for the troubled girl next door, played by Riley Keough, whose previous films include Magic Mike and Runaways. Keough is the daughter of singer Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis Presley.
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Hill will star as the mother of a young man, played by Chris Zylka (The Leftovers), who is newly released from prison and falls for the troubled girl next door, played by Riley Keough, whose previous films include Magic Mike and Runaways. Keough is the daughter of singer Lisa Marie Presley and granddaughter of Elvis Presley.
- 11/7/2014
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Ahead of her stop at the 48th Annual Country Music Awards tonight in Nashville, country music superstar Faith Hill has completed filming on indie crime drama Dixieland. This marks the “Breathe” singer’s second film after 2004’s Stepford Wives, in which she made her big screen debut opposite Nicole Kidman.
The Leftovers‘ Chris Zylka stars in the Mississippi-set Dixieland as a young man, newly released from prison, who falls for the troubled girl next door and takes a big risk to give them a shot at a better life. Hill plays the mother he moves back home with, starring alongside Riley Keough, the Magic Mike and Runaways actress whose grandfather was the legendary Elvis Presley. Breaking Bad‘s Rj Mitte, Spencer Lofranco (Jamesy Boy), Brad Carter (True Detective), Steve Earle (Treme), and WWE wrestling icon Mick Foley round out the cast.
Hollywood’s been trying to turn the multi-Grammy...
The Leftovers‘ Chris Zylka stars in the Mississippi-set Dixieland as a young man, newly released from prison, who falls for the troubled girl next door and takes a big risk to give them a shot at a better life. Hill plays the mother he moves back home with, starring alongside Riley Keough, the Magic Mike and Runaways actress whose grandfather was the legendary Elvis Presley. Breaking Bad‘s Rj Mitte, Spencer Lofranco (Jamesy Boy), Brad Carter (True Detective), Steve Earle (Treme), and WWE wrestling icon Mick Foley round out the cast.
Hollywood’s been trying to turn the multi-Grammy...
- 11/5/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
Derek Jarman is remembered as an innovative film-maker and artist but his stage work is key to his career – even his own residence was a performance
Derek Jarman wandered into theatre, as he did into much of his creative life. The stage design department at the Slade School of Art in 1963 was casually structured, and, for the era, an uncloseted zone of gaiety. He'd previously slapped a distemper brush on scenes for Lorca's Blood Wedding and other plays put on by fellow students at King's College, London. He had not seen much theatre, as movies – even concerts – came cheaper; the first production that really excited him was Peter Brook's short and gory staging of Antonin Artaud's Spurt of Blood in the RSC's 1964 Theatre of Cruelty season.
Jarman put a lot of effort into his design course, outlining a surreal play, The Billboard Promised Land (a mashup of The Wizard of Oz...
Derek Jarman wandered into theatre, as he did into much of his creative life. The stage design department at the Slade School of Art in 1963 was casually structured, and, for the era, an uncloseted zone of gaiety. He'd previously slapped a distemper brush on scenes for Lorca's Blood Wedding and other plays put on by fellow students at King's College, London. He had not seen much theatre, as movies – even concerts – came cheaper; the first production that really excited him was Peter Brook's short and gory staging of Antonin Artaud's Spurt of Blood in the RSC's 1964 Theatre of Cruelty season.
Jarman put a lot of effort into his design course, outlining a surreal play, The Billboard Promised Land (a mashup of The Wizard of Oz...
- 3/9/2014
- by Veronica Horwell
- The Guardian - Film News
Kerry Washington (Django Unchained), Kristen Stewart (On the Road), Lorraine Toussaint (Middle of Nowhere) and Rosemary DeWitt (Promised Land) discuss their various works. Of these, I’ve only seen Stewart...
- 12/5/2012
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
We recently shared the highlights of the Hollywood Reporter's Oscar Roundtables actors installment, featuring Argo's Alan Arkin, Django Unchained's Jamie Foxx, Arbitrage's Richard Gere, Flight's Denzel Washington, The Sessions' John Hawkes, and Promised Land‘s Matt Damon. The website recently shared its writers installment, and we've got the hour-long chat with Judd Apatow (This Is 40), Mark Boal (Zero Dark Thirty), David Magee (Life of Pi), Chris Terrio (Argo), Michael Haneke (Amour) and John Krasinski (Promised Land) for your viewing pleasure, below. "I assume probably I was having my own midlife… questioning, let's call it," Apatow admitted about his upcoming comedy, starring Paul Rudd and Leslie...
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- 11/15/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
I finally got around to watching The Hollywood Reporter's Actor Roundtable this morning, an annual gathering of top names in the awards race and always a solid, informative, open chat. Participating this year was Alan Arkin ("Argo"), Matt Damon ("Promised Land"), Jamie Foxx ("Django Unchained"), Richard Gere ("Arbitrage"), John Hawkes ("The Sessions") and Denzel Washington ("Flight"). Much of the discussion revolved around what fame and the business has meant on a deeper level for the actors, their socio-political invigoration as a result of being public figures and how fear still feeds them even in times of success. And for Damon, who...
- 11/13/2012
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
If you have an hour to spare, we highly recommend checking out The Actors installment in The Hollywood Reporter's Oscar Roundtables series. The video brings together Argo's Alan Arkin, Django Unchained's Jamie Foxx, Arbitrage's Richard Gere, Flight's Denzel Washington, The Sessions' John Hawkes, and Promised Land‘s Matt Damon. Sadly, Joaquin Phoenix is absent, but don't let the lack of Young Pheezy dissuade you from watching since there are plenty of fascinating bits in the clip. The talk kicks off with, "What's the most shocking thing that's happened to you in Hollywood?' Arkin chimes in with "Gentle, loving kindness." Gere and Damon step in to admit that they've been really lucky to work...
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- 11/9/2012
- by Alison Nastasi
- Movies.com
It's that time of year again for The Hollywood Reporter's roundtable discussions, with the actors installment debuting November 8. The six leading and supporting men featured are Matt Damon (who stars in the upcoming "Promised Land"), Jamie Foxx ("Django Unchained"), Denzel Washington ("Flight"), Richard Gere ("Arbitrage"), Alan Arkin ("Argo") and John Hawkes ("The Sessions"). Full video roundtable plus quote highlights below. Alan Arkin on the most shocking thing that's happened to him in Hollywood: "Gentle, loving kindness." The reason Matt Damon didn't do a new Bourne movie: "Because they didn't have a script! I was always open to doing it with Paul Greengrass, the director, but they didn't have the script. A lot of times what happens in these big-budget movies is they'll get a release date, and they'll book everybody's time, and they'll just...
- 11/9/2012
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
This story first appeared in the Nov. 16 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Matt Damon revealed why he doesn't want his daughters to become actresses. Jamie Foxx told a great story about accosting Denzel Washington outside a nightclub in his pre-fame days. And Richard Gere promised to hook Alan Arkin up with a visit to the Dalai Lama. Those were just a few of the surprising interactions at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Actor Roundtable. Damon, 42 (Promised Land), Foxx, 44 (Django Unchained), Washington, 57 (Flight), Gere, 63 (Arbitrage), and Arkin, 78 (Argo), joined John Hawkes, 53 (The Sessions),
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- 11/7/2012
- by Matthew Belloni , Stephen Galloway
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It had been a while since I last offered a full-fledged Oscar prediction update and in the time between I have seen Flight, Wreck-It Ralph, Lincoln and Hitchcock. So yesterday I went through the current standings and the only topline category I didn't change was Best Supporting Actress where the race is really going to come down to what kind of performance Anne Hathaway gives in Les Miserables. There is a chance Samantha Barks or even Amanda Seyfried may be able to make a case coming out of Les Mis and I'm not going to count Kerry Washington (Django Unchained) out entirely or Frances McDormand (Promised Land), though those all seem like longshots compared to what I've seen so far and the reactions to those performances. That said, what I've put together below is a list of the standings as I see them right now with a few comments where I felt necessary.
- 11/6/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Yesterday we kicked things off with a look at Best Director and today we move into the first two of the four acting categories with a look at Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Like Best Director, and all the categories at this point for that matter, we're doing a lot of speculation as several titles have not yet been seen with Lincoln, Les Miserables, Flight, Hitchcock, Django Unchained and Promised Land being six I'm particularly keeping an eye on when it comes to these two categories. Let's take a look... Best Actor At this moment I have a hard time placing anyone over Joaquin Phoenix for his performance in The Master. I know most will go straight for Daniel Day-Lewis and his portrayal of Abraham Lincoln sight unseen and I can't blame them. It's a performance of a historical figure from a talented actor and the Academy eats those up.
- 9/25/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Even though the quote is from 2011, GQ found it worth revisiting what Javier Bardem said when Spain achieved marriage equality. "In a deeply Catholic country, he's an atheist. ('I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.') When gay marriage was legalized in Spain in 2005, he was quoted as saying that if he was gay, 'I would get married tomorrow, just to f*ck with the Church.'"
I'm not normally one for reboots, but I think I could really enjoy a Mr. Ed movie, except for the fact that when you're named Ed to start with, you get a lot of horse jokes.
In case you were concerned, any ban on public nudity in San Francisco would exempt fairs and parades, like Pride and Folsom Street, which is happening now in the city by the bay.
Matthew Broderick is headed to Modern Family, where...
I'm not normally one for reboots, but I think I could really enjoy a Mr. Ed movie, except for the fact that when you're named Ed to start with, you get a lot of horse jokes.
In case you were concerned, any ban on public nudity in San Francisco would exempt fairs and parades, like Pride and Folsom Street, which is happening now in the city by the bay.
Matthew Broderick is headed to Modern Family, where...
- 9/23/2012
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
The Master for best picture? Jennifer Lawrence for best actress? In the wake of the Venice and Toronto film festivals, here are our contenders for next year's Academy awards
So the dust has settled and the red carpets have been stashed in the garage. Venice and Toronto are over for another year. Which means Oscar is coming a-knocking. The fallout from those festivals, plus last-minute release-date re-jigging, affords a clearer-eyed take on what's likely to bring home the bacon in the new year.
Key conclusions
Its rapturous reception at both festivals has cemented The Master in pole position. A best picture nomination is a lock-in, likewise director, original screenplay, score and cinematography. The unknown is how the Weinsteins choose to maximise their acting award potential. Positioning Joaquin Phoenix as lead and Philip Seymour Hoffman as support looks likely, unless they feel a main category smackdown is irresistible. As with There Will Be Blood...
So the dust has settled and the red carpets have been stashed in the garage. Venice and Toronto are over for another year. Which means Oscar is coming a-knocking. The fallout from those festivals, plus last-minute release-date re-jigging, affords a clearer-eyed take on what's likely to bring home the bacon in the new year.
Key conclusions
Its rapturous reception at both festivals has cemented The Master in pole position. A best picture nomination is a lock-in, likewise director, original screenplay, score and cinematography. The unknown is how the Weinsteins choose to maximise their acting award potential. Positioning Joaquin Phoenix as lead and Philip Seymour Hoffman as support looks likely, unless they feel a main category smackdown is irresistible. As with There Will Be Blood...
- 9/21/2012
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
Sophisticated and witty actor who triumphed on Broadway and won an Oscar
Celeste Holm, who has died aged 95, was the original Ado Annie in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! which opened on Broadway in 1943. In I Cain't Say No, she sang: "I cain't be prissy and quaint / I ain't the type that can faint." Annie was a none-too-bright farm girl, but Holm was a smart, witty and sophisticated actor, whom everybody seemed to like. Many years later, during the interval of a Broadway show, she came out on stage and made a plea for her mental-health charity. It was done with such sincerity and passion that the audience could not fail to pay up.
On screen, Holm was the first woman to sing the Cole Porter song Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, sharing the delightful duet with Frank Sinatra in High Society (1956). Holm and Sinatra...
Celeste Holm, who has died aged 95, was the original Ado Annie in Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein's groundbreaking musical Oklahoma! which opened on Broadway in 1943. In I Cain't Say No, she sang: "I cain't be prissy and quaint / I ain't the type that can faint." Annie was a none-too-bright farm girl, but Holm was a smart, witty and sophisticated actor, whom everybody seemed to like. Many years later, during the interval of a Broadway show, she came out on stage and made a plea for her mental-health charity. It was done with such sincerity and passion that the audience could not fail to pay up.
On screen, Holm was the first woman to sing the Cole Porter song Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, sharing the delightful duet with Frank Sinatra in High Society (1956). Holm and Sinatra...
- 7/16/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
New York — Celeste Holm, a versatile, bright-eyed blonde who soared to Broadway fame in "Oklahoma!" and won an Oscar in "Gentleman's Agreement" but whose last years were filled with financial difficulty and estrangement from her sons, died Sunday, a relative said. She was 95.
Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration. She asked her husband on Friday to bring her home and spent her final days with her husband, Frank Basile, and other relatives and close friends by her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Holm's.
Holm died around 3:30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, located in the same building where Robert De Niro lives and where a fire broke out last month, Phillips said.
"I think she wanted to be here, in her home, among her things, with people who loved her," she said.
In a career that spanned more than half a century,...
Holm had been hospitalized about two weeks ago with dehydration. She asked her husband on Friday to bring her home and spent her final days with her husband, Frank Basile, and other relatives and close friends by her side, said Amy Phillips, a great-niece of Holm's.
Holm died around 3:30 a.m. at her longtime apartment on Central Park West, located in the same building where Robert De Niro lives and where a fire broke out last month, Phillips said.
"I think she wanted to be here, in her home, among her things, with people who loved her," she said.
In a career that spanned more than half a century,...
- 7/16/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Celeste Holm, who won the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award in 1947 for "Gentleman's Agreement," died early Sunday (July 15) in her New York City apartment at the age of 95, her great-niece Amy Phillips tells the AP.
Holm started on Broadway, earning critical acclaim for playing Ado Annie in the original Broadway cast of "Oklahoma!". She also starred on Broadway in "The King and I" and "Mame." When she moved to film, "Gentleman's Agreement" was just her third film role. She went on to star in "Come to the Stable" and "All About Eve," for which she received two more Oscar nominations.
In more recent years, Holm appeared in "Three Men and a Baby" as Ted Danson's mother and on TV in "Touched by an Angel" and "Promised Land."
Holm was married five times, most recently to Frank Basile, who was her current husband. She is survived by Basile and two sons,...
Holm started on Broadway, earning critical acclaim for playing Ado Annie in the original Broadway cast of "Oklahoma!". She also starred on Broadway in "The King and I" and "Mame." When she moved to film, "Gentleman's Agreement" was just her third film role. She went on to star in "Come to the Stable" and "All About Eve," for which she received two more Oscar nominations.
In more recent years, Holm appeared in "Three Men and a Baby" as Ted Danson's mother and on TV in "Touched by an Angel" and "Promised Land."
Holm was married five times, most recently to Frank Basile, who was her current husband. She is survived by Basile and two sons,...
- 7/15/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Why Watch? While calmly paced, every moment in Rommel Eclarinal‘s short film about a Chinese woman and Mexican man trying to get across the Us border is engaging. Like Sin Nombre, North of Ojinaga quietly explores the intensity and anguish that crossing the desert into the Promised Land brings for illegal immigrants. Beautifully shot with only the piano’s whisper of a score, it’s a contemplative but difficult journey to go on. What will it cost? Only 23 minutes. Skip Work. You’ve Got Time For More Short Films...
- 6/28/2012
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Bar Refaeli is hot - really hot! The supermodel (and Leonardo DiCaprio's ex-girlfriend) tops Maxim's Hot 100 list this year - and it's not hard to see why. Refaeli tells the magazine in its issue, on stands May 29, that she was "shocked that among all these beautiful ladies, I'm number one." Meanwhile, Maxim's editors say the Israeli beauty "puts the 'promise' in the Promised Land." Capping off the top 10, which was voted on by readers for the first time ever: Olivia Munn; Mila Kunis; Katy Perry; Olivia Wilde; Jennifer Lawrence; Emma Stone; Megan Fox; Malin Akerman; and Adrianna Palicki.Refaeli...
- 5/21/2012
- PEOPLE.com
Mitt Romney is touring the South this week in anticipation of Tuesday's primaries in Alabama and Mississippi. He has described it as something of an "away game," and an interview on the nationally syndicated Rick and Bubba Show this week proved why: in discussing his policy stances, the hosts changed the subject to ask Romney about his Mormon faith, and to answer whether he thought America was the Promised Land, and not Israel.
- 3/10/2012
- by Frances Martel
- Mediaite - TV
• Tom Hardy will put on his leathers to produce and star in an untitled biker movie for Warner Bros. Based on producer John Linson’s story about a wounded Vietnam vet who falls in with violent motorheads as a reaction to San Francisco’s 1960s Flower Power movement. [THR]
• Just a day after Jake Gyllenhaal seemed set to visit Motor City, talks have fallen through due to scheduling. Gary Oldman and Amber Heard are still on board. [Deadline]
• Viola Davis turns back the clock again for a Barbara Jordan biopic. Looking to produce the pic with husband Julius Tennon, Davis hopes to play the pioneering politico,...
• Just a day after Jake Gyllenhaal seemed set to visit Motor City, talks have fallen through due to scheduling. Gary Oldman and Amber Heard are still on board. [Deadline]
• Viola Davis turns back the clock again for a Barbara Jordan biopic. Looking to produce the pic with husband Julius Tennon, Davis hopes to play the pioneering politico,...
- 3/9/2012
- by Lanford Beard
- EW - Inside Movies
Somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Bob Wills lies the Promised Land inhabited by Lyle Lovett, who balances elegantly broken romanticism with loose-jointed swing that shuffles and jumps like exalted Texas Playboys. Lanky with high rise hair, Lovett has been an anomaly of the singer/songwriter ilk since appearing with a chock-a-block debut album - and Release Me, his final album of an almost 30 year career for Curb, finds him resolutely steadfast in his excellence and eclecticism.
- 2/29/2012
- Pastemagazine.com
Bruce Springsteen is to have an exhibit dedicated to his career open later this week. The 'Born in the USA' singer will be honoured with the display at The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Friday, February 17. It will be titled From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen and will contain a large collection of memorabilia including clothing and handwritten setlists. "No other artist is as steeped in Americana or has better told the story of the American dream than Bruce Springsteen," the Center's David Eisner told The Wall (more)...
- 2/16/2012
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Philadelphia — It's like the promised land for Bruce Springsteen fans at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
The Boss' guitars, handwritten lyrics, personal scrapbooks and 1960 Corvette are among 150 items in the exhibit "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen."
It opens Friday and runs through Sept. 3. The Philadelphia showing is the only scheduled stop.
The show was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland since April 2009 but the National Constitution Center exhibit has new items and a deeper historical focus.
Constitution Center president and chief executive officer David Eisner said the exhibit provides perspectives on freedom of speech, the meaning of the American dream and the role of artists in politics and protest.
The Boss' guitars, handwritten lyrics, personal scrapbooks and 1960 Corvette are among 150 items in the exhibit "From Asbury Park to the Promised Land: The Life and Music of Bruce Springsteen."
It opens Friday and runs through Sept. 3. The Philadelphia showing is the only scheduled stop.
The show was at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland since April 2009 but the National Constitution Center exhibit has new items and a deeper historical focus.
Constitution Center president and chief executive officer David Eisner said the exhibit provides perspectives on freedom of speech, the meaning of the American dream and the role of artists in politics and protest.
- 2/15/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Dawn Fallik Lyrics from “Glory Days” on display at the Bruce Springsteen exhibit “From Asbury Park to the Promised Land” at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
At the new Bruce Springsteen exhibit in Philadelphia, most fans will want to stop by the room of guitars, lingering at the instrument that was pictured on his “Born to Run” album cover with its 1952 Fender Esquire neck and 1954 Fender Telecaster body.
Others will stop at the motorcycle jacket, tattered and road-weary and oddly...
At the new Bruce Springsteen exhibit in Philadelphia, most fans will want to stop by the room of guitars, lingering at the instrument that was pictured on his “Born to Run” album cover with its 1952 Fender Esquire neck and 1954 Fender Telecaster body.
Others will stop at the motorcycle jacket, tattered and road-weary and oddly...
- 2/15/2012
- by Dawn Fallik
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
In a turn of events that mirrors Damon's first Oscar win Good Will Hunting, Focus Features and Participant Media have bought the screenplay from the actors (who will also star in the film) turned writing team. Promised Land will take a cue from Frank Capra, the current economic climate, and the populist attitude toward corporate greed. The plot revolves around an executive (played by Matt Damon) who begins to question himself after arriving in a small town. Krasinski is set to co-star as a business rival. The two actors came together during the filming of The Adjustment Bureau, in which Damon starred alongside Krasinski's wife Emily Blunt. A first draft was commissioned by Dave Eggers (Where the Wild Things Are), which was subsequently fined tuned by the newly founded team after the...
- 2/2/2012
- by Eric Whitman
- The Daily BLAM!
New photos from Snow White and the Huntsman, Savages, Prometheus, Dredd, Argo, and The Hunger Games.
Set photos from Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained will look mighty familiar to "Deadwood" fans. There's also concept art for John Carter and cartoon promo art for The Expendables 2.
New posters from Resident Evil: Retribution, Bel Ami, The Island President, Friends with Kids, Hysteria, 21 Jump Street, Bullhead.
"Focus Features and Participant Media are in negotiations to acquire Gus Van Sant's $15 million "Promised Land" project written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Damon and Krasinski plan to star in the story of a salesman whose life is changed after he enters a small town…" (full details)
"New Blu-ray release dates have been announced - "The Adventures of Tintin" on March 13th, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" on April 3rd, "The Darkest Hour" on April 10th, "Young Adult" and "The Innkeepers" on April 24th…...
Set photos from Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained will look mighty familiar to "Deadwood" fans. There's also concept art for John Carter and cartoon promo art for The Expendables 2.
New posters from Resident Evil: Retribution, Bel Ami, The Island President, Friends with Kids, Hysteria, 21 Jump Street, Bullhead.
"Focus Features and Participant Media are in negotiations to acquire Gus Van Sant's $15 million "Promised Land" project written by Matt Damon and John Krasinski. Damon and Krasinski plan to star in the story of a salesman whose life is changed after he enters a small town…" (full details)
"New Blu-ray release dates have been announced - "The Adventures of Tintin" on March 13th, "In the Land of Blood and Honey" on April 3rd, "The Darkest Hour" on April 10th, "Young Adult" and "The Innkeepers" on April 24th…...
- 2/2/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Earlier this week I posted my interview with John Krasinski and Drew Barrymore for Big Miracle, which is due out this Friday. Within that interview, Krasinski was asked to talk about the untitled project that he wrote and that Matt Damon was attached to direct before scheduling problems got in the way. Now, however, Gus Van Sant is on board and now the movie may have locked up distribution and financing. Deadline reports that Focus Features and Participant Media have won a bidding war for the project, which is now titled Promised Land. Originally titled Gold Mist, the movie is described as a "Capraesque tale" in which Damon and Krasinski play rival corporate executives. When Damon's character moves to a small town, however, his entire perspective on life is completely changed. When Damon was attached to direct the movie was set up at Warner Bros. within the production company that...
- 2/2/2012
- cinemablend.com
We’ve have some exciting news on three arthouse projects tonight. First up is an acquisition update for Rust & Bone, Jacques Audiard’s follow-up to the excellent A Prophet and a film high up on our most-anticipated of the year list. Starring Marion Cotillard, the film telling a series of short stories, has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics. Written by Audiard and Thomas Bidegain from the Craig Davidson‘s stories, I’d expect a Cannes premiere for this one. [THR]
As expected, Deadline reports that Focus Features and Participant Media will team on Gus Van Sant’s next drama, a film that was supposed to be Matt Damon‘s directorial debut. With the actor too busy, he will star in the drama with John Krasinski, and we have the title: Promised Land. Inspired by the work of Frank Capra, the film centers on two corporate executives competing with one...
As expected, Deadline reports that Focus Features and Participant Media will team on Gus Van Sant’s next drama, a film that was supposed to be Matt Damon‘s directorial debut. With the actor too busy, he will star in the drama with John Krasinski, and we have the title: Promised Land. Inspired by the work of Frank Capra, the film centers on two corporate executives competing with one...
- 2/2/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Focus Features is in final negotiations with Gus Van Sant, Matt Damon and John Krasinski to make "Promised Land," TheWrap has confirmed. If the deal goes through, Focus and Participant Media will produce the movie, which Van Sant will direct and Damon and Krasinski rewrote from Dave Eggers' first draft. Also read: Matt Damon Teaming With John Krasinski for Directorial Debut Krasinski came up with the idea for the movie, which is about a salesman whose life changes after he arrives in a small town. Damon and Krasinski also will star in the film. The movie...
- 2/2/2012
- by Joshua L. Weinstein
- The Wrap
Sundance may be over and the European Film Market may just be a short way off, but that doesn't mean the dealmaking takes a break. Two very high profile films have landed new homes this afternoon. First up, the newly titled "Promised Land," co-written by and starring Matt Damon and John Krasinski, and directed by Gus Van Sant has now landed at Focus Features and Participant Media, who will pair up on the production according to Deadline. Originally set to be the directorial debut for Damon when the project was at Warner Bros, he had to step down due to a packed calendar of commitments that kept him from focusing on the project in the way he would've liked as a helmer. So what did he do? He rounded up his old pal Gus Van Sant ("Good Will Hunting," "Gerry") to take over and the rest, as they say, is history.
- 2/2/2012
- The Playlist
Update: I’m told the film has a new title: Promised Land. Exclusive: I’m told that Focus Features and Participant Media won a bidding battle for the untitled film that Gus Van Sant will direct with Matt Damon and John Krasinski starring, from the script those actors co-wrote. Focus and Participant are tying down the details. You’ll recall that Damon planned to make his directing debut on the film, but when his schedule made that impossible, he and producer Chris Moore brought it to their Good Will Hunting director Van Sant, who signed on. The film, which got a first draft from Dave Eggers when its title was Gold Mist, is a Capraesque tale in which Damon and Krasinski play rival corporate executives. Damon plays a sales executive who arrives in a small town only to have his whole life called into question. Moore, Damon and Krasinski will...
- 2/1/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
You just know that the second they hear that Steven Spielberg has so much as looked at their script, all the studio executives involved in a project find their hearts beating faster and their wallets getting itchy. But he's always so busy and has the absolute power to choose whatever he works on. So you can imagine the scene at Warner Bros. now as the studio creeps closer to locking the director in to make Gods And Kings, a new take on the story of Moses.
Aside from that slightly popular book starting with the letter B, many people know Moses' story from Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments, which saw Charlton Heston as the main man. Sent off as baby in a basket down the Nile, adopted, leads the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, forms an army, receives the Ten Commandments and parts the Red...
Aside from that slightly popular book starting with the letter B, many people know Moses' story from Cecil B. DeMille's epic The Ten Commandments, which saw Charlton Heston as the main man. Sent off as baby in a basket down the Nile, adopted, leads the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, forms an army, receives the Ten Commandments and parts the Red...
- 1/27/2012
- icelebz.com
Steven Spielberg is reportedly very close to signing on to direct a biopic of the biblical hero Moses, and that makes this Good Jewish Girl very happy. Of course Mr. Spielberg, Vij (Very Important Jew), can be trusted to tell the story of Moses with his usual brilliance.
But who will be the lucky fella to portray the man who shepherded his people to freedom? Below, some casting suggestions!
1. Liam Neeson: He defied the Nazis in “Schindler’s List,” bravely battled the seriously scary Darth Maul in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” and stared down flesh-hungry wolves in “The Grey.” Who better to challenge the evil Pharaoh than Neeson?
2. Tom Hanks: Moses was the quintessential Everyman, frequently doubting his own ability to lead a nation to the Promised Land. Hanks is Hollywood’s Everyman, so he’d be a natural choice to play the guy who...
But who will be the lucky fella to portray the man who shepherded his people to freedom? Below, some casting suggestions!
1. Liam Neeson: He defied the Nazis in “Schindler’s List,” bravely battled the seriously scary Darth Maul in “Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace” and stared down flesh-hungry wolves in “The Grey.” Who better to challenge the evil Pharaoh than Neeson?
2. Tom Hanks: Moses was the quintessential Everyman, frequently doubting his own ability to lead a nation to the Promised Land. Hanks is Hollywood’s Everyman, so he’d be a natural choice to play the guy who...
- 1/26/2012
- by Tami Katzoff
- MTV Movies Blog
You just know that the second they hear that Steven Spielberg has so much as looked at their script, all the studio executives involved in a project find their hearts beating faster and their wallets getting itchy. But he’s always so busy and has the absolute power to choose whatever he works on. So you can imagine the scene at Warner Bros. now as the studio creeps closer to locking the director in to make Gods And Kings, a new take on the story of Moses.Aside from that slightly popular book starting with the letter B, many people know Moses’ story from Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments, which saw Charlton Heston as the main man. Sent off as baby in a basket down the Nile, adopted, leads the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, forms an army, receives the Ten Commandments and parts the Red...
- 1/26/2012
- EmpireOnline
Steven Spielberg has never been shy about expressing the passion he has for his heritage. Both Schindler's List and Munich show the pride and pain of the Jewish experience without ever being preachy or forward. That said, one would have to be curious to find out what he would do with the story of the Torah's greatest hero. Deadline reports that Warner Bros. is now attempting to get Spielberg interested in directing Gods and Kings, an epic about the life of Moses written by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine. This, of course, would include the story of Moses freeing the Jewish people from tyranny in Egypt and leading a 40-year pilgrimage to the Promised Land. Other well known moments from the life of Moses include his conversation with the Burning Bush (aka God), the ten plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, and the reception of the Ten Commandments on...
- 9/29/2011
- cinemablend.com
Warner Bros. is planning an epic adaptation of the life of Moses, Deadline reports. What's more, the site claims that Steven Spielberg is being courted to become the project's director. An important figure in a number of faiths, Moses is considered in religious texts to be a prophet and a spiritual leader. He is credited with writing the Torah and The Book of Exodus details Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt by parting the Red Sea. After their journey begins, Moses receives the Ten Commandments and delivers them to his people, spending the next four decades wandering the desert in search of the Promised Land. Though Moses' tale has been adapted for the screen before (most famously in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille epic, The Ten Commandments ), Gods and Kings is said to be a...
- 9/28/2011
- Comingsoon.net
Tea Party favorite Michele Bachmann, who’s riding a wave of publicity after winning last weekend’s Ames Straw Poll in Iowa, has the unfortunate — for a politician, anyway — gift of gaffe. In June, while visiting Waterloo, Ia., she mistakenly claimed it was the birthplace of American icon John Wayne — when, in fact, it was actually the hometown of serial killer John Wayne Gacy.
Yesterday, she put her shoe in her mouth again — though this time, it may have been a blue suede shoe. “Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today,” Bachmann told a crowd in Spartanburg,...
Yesterday, she put her shoe in her mouth again — though this time, it may have been a blue suede shoe. “Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today,” Bachmann told a crowd in Spartanburg,...
- 8/17/2011
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW.com - PopWatch
A vampire epidemic has swept across America and seemingly the rest of the world. What is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities are traversed by Mister (Nick Damici), a vampire hunter, and his protégé and companion Martin (Connor Paolo) a boy he saved. They both work their way up north to the Promised Land in Canada, otherwise known as New Eden. Stake Land is a post-apocalyptic survival horror film that tells a thoroughly entertaining tale in a wholly convincing setting. It contains a plethora of interesting elements that detail this world such as shanty towns with makeshift laws, regulations and economies. It also contains dangerous crazy fundamental Christians that seek to redeem non-believers, factions with their own agendas and of course vampires. Martin...
- 6/14/2011
- Screen Anarchy
He's talented, charismatic and good-looking – so why isn't Eric Bana the biggest star on the planet? Joe Queenan thinks he knows what's eating him
Do you ever wonder why movies stars sometimes vanish from the screen for years at a stretch? Not the way Mel Gibson did (no films between 2004 and 2010, largely because personal issues induced him to keep a low profile), but the way major stars will retreat from the limelight for awhile. Hey, what ever happened to Jon Voight? Gosh, what's Neve Campbell been doing the last few years? Wait a sec, is Jean-Claude Van Damme still alive?
The following, then, may be of interest to you. In 2009's rollicking blockbuster Star Trek, the Romulan commander of the aerodynamically implausible, hydra-like spaceship that is threatening to destroy Earth with the deadly weapons mounted in its weird tentacles somehow manages to muff the assignment. Even though his ship is...
Do you ever wonder why movies stars sometimes vanish from the screen for years at a stretch? Not the way Mel Gibson did (no films between 2004 and 2010, largely because personal issues induced him to keep a low profile), but the way major stars will retreat from the limelight for awhile. Hey, what ever happened to Jon Voight? Gosh, what's Neve Campbell been doing the last few years? Wait a sec, is Jean-Claude Van Damme still alive?
The following, then, may be of interest to you. In 2009's rollicking blockbuster Star Trek, the Romulan commander of the aerodynamically implausible, hydra-like spaceship that is threatening to destroy Earth with the deadly weapons mounted in its weird tentacles somehow manages to muff the assignment. Even though his ship is...
- 4/21/2011
- by Joe Queenan
- The Guardian - Film News
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