Harvey Weinstein was already effectively serving a life sentence when he was flown to Los Angeles to face his second trial on rape and sexual assault charges.
That second conviction is now the only thing keeping him in prison, after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his original verdict in a 4-3 ruling on Thursday.
The court’s ruling could now be used to bolster the appeal in California, which, if successful, could set the former Hollywood producer free.
“At the time the jury was deciding the evidence in California, they were working under the assumption and the belief that he had properly been convicted in New York,” said Jennifer Bonjean, the attorney who is handling Weinstein’s California appeal. “Now we know that’s not true.”
The Los Angeles jury was informed of Weinstein’s earlier conviction during the trial, and it also came up during jury selection.
That second conviction is now the only thing keeping him in prison, after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his original verdict in a 4-3 ruling on Thursday.
The court’s ruling could now be used to bolster the appeal in California, which, if successful, could set the former Hollywood producer free.
“At the time the jury was deciding the evidence in California, they were working under the assumption and the belief that he had properly been convicted in New York,” said Jennifer Bonjean, the attorney who is handling Weinstein’s California appeal. “Now we know that’s not true.”
The Los Angeles jury was informed of Weinstein’s earlier conviction during the trial, and it also came up during jury selection.
- 4/25/2024
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
Uma Thurman reunited with her Pulp Fiction co-stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Harvey Keitel on Thursday to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival opening night.
Thurman joined the cast of the 1994 Quentin Tarantino independent crime film as Mia Wallace—the role that catapulted her to stardom.
30 years later, Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Mia Wallace remains iconic, a testament to a role that was highly contested but became hers, defining a generation at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival (Credit: Miramax Films)
During the casting process for Mia Wallace in “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino and Miramax considered numerous actresses, including Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Halle Berry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Holly Hunter, Alfre Woodard, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was Tarantino’s preferred choice and auditioned for the role.
In the end, Thurman won the part, earning her an...
Thurman joined the cast of the 1994 Quentin Tarantino independent crime film as Mia Wallace—the role that catapulted her to stardom.
30 years later, Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Mia Wallace remains iconic, a testament to a role that was highly contested but became hers, defining a generation at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival (Credit: Miramax Films)
During the casting process for Mia Wallace in “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino and Miramax considered numerous actresses, including Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Halle Berry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Holly Hunter, Alfre Woodard, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was Tarantino’s preferred choice and auditioned for the role.
In the end, Thurman won the part, earning her an...
- 4/22/2024
- by Anne De Guia
- Your Next Shoes
Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
Glenn Kendrick Ackermann will kick off worldwide sales in Cannes through his V International Media on the supernatural drama Can You Hear Me starring Peter Facinelli from The Twilight Saga.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
Charlotte Radford, who starred alongside Daryl Hannah in The American Connection, also stars and wrote the screenplay.
The cast includes James Cosmo from Game Of Thrones, John Standing from The Crown, Matt Barber of Downton Abbey, and Jane Thorne from Night Train To Lisbon.
Simon Hunter, who helmed Mutant Chronicles, directs the story about the whirlwind romance and marriage between Annabel and Samuel, an American soldier who is severely wounded in the first World War.
- 4/22/2024
- ScreenDaily
John Carpenter's 1992 film "Memoirs of an Invisible Man" was a departure for the director. Throughout the 1980s, Carpenter directed many notable genre films that affected a direct and guileless style that roped in many fans and critics. His 1980s "hot streak" included "Escape from New York," "The Thing," "Christine," "Starman," and "Big Trouble in Little China." Although his 1987 film "Prince of Darkness" was nonsensical, it has many defenders, and his 1988 film "They Live" is now considered a seminal anti-establishment punk-rock text of the Reagan era.
That streak seems to have ended with "Memoirs," however. Although the film is slick, entertaining, and boasts some excellent special effects, many Carpenter fans felt a little off-put by the director's attempts to helm a comedic Chevy Chase vehicle. In "Memoirs," Chase plays a stock market guy who is accidentally exposed to an invisibility experiment. The film follows his travails as he adjusts to his lack of opacity,...
That streak seems to have ended with "Memoirs," however. Although the film is slick, entertaining, and boasts some excellent special effects, many Carpenter fans felt a little off-put by the director's attempts to helm a comedic Chevy Chase vehicle. In "Memoirs," Chase plays a stock market guy who is accidentally exposed to an invisibility experiment. The film follows his travails as he adjusts to his lack of opacity,...
- 4/13/2024
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
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As studios and distributors chart a path for their wares that — at least for the foreseeable future — prioritizes streaming, collecting physical media continues to become an increasingly rarified hobby. Yet it still remains the best way to guarantee the availability of many titles, often in the best available presentation: a 4K disc on your bookshelf offers immediate, unimpeded (meaning no buffering and no service interruptions) viewing of a favorite film or TV series at high resolution. Additionally, the vast majority of titles also include bonus content — some legacy material and some newly-produced — to contextualize, explore and, yeah, sometimes explain where they came from.
Looking at releases from the end of February and March, there are several titles worth checking out — a couple of current titles arriving on disc after their theatrical runs,...
As studios and distributors chart a path for their wares that — at least for the foreseeable future — prioritizes streaming, collecting physical media continues to become an increasingly rarified hobby. Yet it still remains the best way to guarantee the availability of many titles, often in the best available presentation: a 4K disc on your bookshelf offers immediate, unimpeded (meaning no buffering and no service interruptions) viewing of a favorite film or TV series at high resolution. Additionally, the vast majority of titles also include bonus content — some legacy material and some newly-produced — to contextualize, explore and, yeah, sometimes explain where they came from.
Looking at releases from the end of February and March, there are several titles worth checking out — a couple of current titles arriving on disc after their theatrical runs,...
- 3/29/2024
- by Todd Gilchrist
- Variety Film + TV
Julia Roberts is one of the most popular and sought-after actresses in Hollywood, but her early start in acting was not glamorous at all. In fact, she was bullied in one of her first major projects by a director. Good thing, her co-stars were there to defend her.
The cast of Steel Magnolias (1989)
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 film starring Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah. Herbert Ross notably helmed the romance-comedy movie that earned multiple accolades.
Suggested“I’m not an actress… It’s your job to make me look like I’m acting”: Dolly Parton Savagely Shut Down a Director Wanting Her to Take Acting Lessons for $96M Julia Roberts Movie Sally Field Reveals Steel Magnolias Director Hated Julia Roberts
In an interview with Vulture, actress Sally Field recalled how director Herbert Ross gave Julia Roberts a hard time while filming Steel Magnolias. While...
The cast of Steel Magnolias (1989)
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 film starring Roberts, Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine, Dolly Parton, and Daryl Hannah. Herbert Ross notably helmed the romance-comedy movie that earned multiple accolades.
Suggested“I’m not an actress… It’s your job to make me look like I’m acting”: Dolly Parton Savagely Shut Down a Director Wanting Her to Take Acting Lessons for $96M Julia Roberts Movie Sally Field Reveals Steel Magnolias Director Hated Julia Roberts
In an interview with Vulture, actress Sally Field recalled how director Herbert Ross gave Julia Roberts a hard time while filming Steel Magnolias. While...
- 2/15/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
Exclusive: Prolific TV and film writer-creator Kevin Williamson has set up shop at Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Under an overall deal for Williamson and his production banner Outerbanks Entertainment, which was finalized in December, he already has four high-profile projects in development at the TV studio that run the gamut from thriller to murder mystery to a family crime drama.
They include Rear Window, a series reimagining of the Hitchcock classic, which has been set up at Peacock. The It Girl, based on Ruth Ware’s book, with Sarah L. Thompson co-writing alongside Williamson, and The Waterfront, based on an original concept, have been taken out to the marketplace, I hear. The fourth project, The Game, based on the David Fincher film with the movie’s original writers John Brancato & Michael Ferris executive producing, is in internal development.
“Kevin is a prolific and brilliant creator with...
They include Rear Window, a series reimagining of the Hitchcock classic, which has been set up at Peacock. The It Girl, based on Ruth Ware’s book, with Sarah L. Thompson co-writing alongside Williamson, and The Waterfront, based on an original concept, have been taken out to the marketplace, I hear. The fourth project, The Game, based on the David Fincher film with the movie’s original writers John Brancato & Michael Ferris executive producing, is in internal development.
“Kevin is a prolific and brilliant creator with...
- 2/8/2024
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Apparently today has been deemed Tim Burton News Day. Hot on the heels of the Beetlejuice sequel announcement comes word that the director is attached to remake 1958 cult classic Attack Of The 50Ft Woman. Gone Girl writer Gillian Flynn is on board to write the script.
Warner Bros. is backing the new movie, which will take on the sci-fi concept anew. The original, directed by Nathan Hertz and made for a reported $88K, starred Allison Hayes as an abused socialite who grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt. She goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
It certainly sounds like something Burton can have fun with, and Flynn is no stranger to stories of complicated male/female dynamics.
This isn't the first time the movie has been through the remake factory – it was turned into a 1993 comedy TV movie version,...
Warner Bros. is backing the new movie, which will take on the sci-fi concept anew. The original, directed by Nathan Hertz and made for a reported $88K, starred Allison Hayes as an abused socialite who grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt. She goes after her cheating husband with revenge on her mind.
It certainly sounds like something Burton can have fun with, and Flynn is no stranger to stories of complicated male/female dynamics.
This isn't the first time the movie has been through the remake factory – it was turned into a 1993 comedy TV movie version,...
- 2/1/2024
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman Remake Coming From Tim Burton And ... Gone Girl Author Gillian Flynn?
If you've been missing the acidic wit of "Gone Girl" and "Sharp Objects" author Gillian Flynn lately, don't worry: she's reportedly back in the screenwriting game, this time with a script that's set to become a Tim Burton movie, per Variety.
According to the outlet, Burton is set to direct a new version of "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" penned by Flynn, with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper producing and Kai Dolbashian on board as an EP. Mittman and Harper worked with Burton on Netflix's smash hit "Wednesday," and hopefully the unlikely director-screenwriter duo will bring new life to the story (which comes from the 1958 B-movie of the same name).
Apparently, it's unclear as of yet how much Burton and Flynn's "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" will follow its predecessor, but it's worth noting that the Nathan Hertz-directed original featured a literal 50-foot woman who was...
According to the outlet, Burton is set to direct a new version of "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" penned by Flynn, with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper producing and Kai Dolbashian on board as an EP. Mittman and Harper worked with Burton on Netflix's smash hit "Wednesday," and hopefully the unlikely director-screenwriter duo will bring new life to the story (which comes from the 1958 B-movie of the same name).
Apparently, it's unclear as of yet how much Burton and Flynn's "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" will follow its predecessor, but it's worth noting that the Nathan Hertz-directed original featured a literal 50-foot woman who was...
- 2/1/2024
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
Fresh off directing Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which is headed to theaters in September, Deadline reports that Tim Burton is attached to direct a new take on Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) will be writing the screenplay for the Warner Bros. project.
The original Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was directed by Nathan Hertz and released in 1958. The low-budget movie was remade by HBO in 1993, with Daryl Hannah in the title role.
Allison Hayes starred in the original as a socialite who grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt. She then goes after her cheating husband.
Deadline notes, “Burton has delivered reimagined ’50s sci-fi movies before for a mass audience, that being 1996’s Mars Attacks (which was based on the Topps trading cards).”
Tim Burton is producing Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman for Warner Bros. with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper.
Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl) will be writing the screenplay for the Warner Bros. project.
The original Attack of the 50 Foot Woman was directed by Nathan Hertz and released in 1958. The low-budget movie was remade by HBO in 1993, with Daryl Hannah in the title role.
Allison Hayes starred in the original as a socialite who grows to giant size because of an alien encounter and an aborted murder attempt. She then goes after her cheating husband.
Deadline notes, “Burton has delivered reimagined ’50s sci-fi movies before for a mass audience, that being 1996’s Mars Attacks (which was based on the Topps trading cards).”
Tim Burton is producing Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman for Warner Bros. with Andrew Mittman and Tommy Harper.
- 2/1/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Stan Rogow, the writer and Emmy-nominated producer who guided the Hilary Duff-starring Lizzie McGuire series and feature that spawned from the Disney Channel hit and partnered with John Sayles on several projects, has died. He was 75.
Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokesperson Scott Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter.
Early in his career, Rogow served as a producer on the pilot of the acclaimed NBC series Fame and shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series in 1982 with William Blinn and two others.
The Brooklyn native was also an exec producer on the 2004-06 Discovery Kids sitcom Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton, and he co-created another show for the network, the 2005-07 adventure series Flight 29 Down, featuring Corbin Bleu.
Rogow produced Sayles-written The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), starring Daryl Hannah, before they teamed to create the 1990 NBC drama Shannon’s Deal, starring...
Rogow died Thursday at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, family spokesperson Scott Fisher told The Hollywood Reporter.
Early in his career, Rogow served as a producer on the pilot of the acclaimed NBC series Fame and shared an Emmy nomination for outstanding drama series in 1982 with William Blinn and two others.
The Brooklyn native was also an exec producer on the 2004-06 Discovery Kids sitcom Darcy’s Wild Life, starring Sara Paxton, and he co-created another show for the network, the 2005-07 adventure series Flight 29 Down, featuring Corbin Bleu.
Rogow produced Sayles-written The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986), starring Daryl Hannah, before they teamed to create the 1990 NBC drama Shannon’s Deal, starring...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Well-known as an activist for many different causes, Hannah recently opened an online store selling only environmentally friendly goods.
Hannah is a board member of the Environmental Media Association, Action Sports Environment Coalition and ecoAmerica.
She co-founded Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance to promote sustainable biodiesel practices and facilitate communication for a sustainable energy future that benefits all sectors of society.
Charities & foundations supported
Daryl Hannah has supported the following charities:
Act GreenAmazon WatchAmerican Heart AssociationAmerican Stroke AssociationCan-Do.orgCentre For Environmental EducationClothes Off Our BackecoAmericaEd Asner Family CenterEnvironmental Media AssociationFarm SanctuaryGreen TreksReality CaresReef Check FoundationSea Shepherd Conservation SocietySolar Neighbors ProgramSomaly Mam FoundationSustainable Biodiesel AllianceThe Gorilla Organization Read more about Daryl Hannah's charity work and events. Related articles Richard Branson Attends Virgin Festival in BaltimoreCelebrities Play Bingo For CharityCelebrity Auction Roundup, September 2007Natural Heroes' Stories Told By Green StarsCelebrity Auctions For Christmas
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Hannah is a board member of the Environmental Media Association, Action Sports Environment Coalition and ecoAmerica.
She co-founded Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance to promote sustainable biodiesel practices and facilitate communication for a sustainable energy future that benefits all sectors of society.
Charities & foundations supported
Daryl Hannah has supported the following charities:
Act GreenAmazon WatchAmerican Heart AssociationAmerican Stroke AssociationCan-Do.orgCentre For Environmental EducationClothes Off Our BackecoAmericaEd Asner Family CenterEnvironmental Media AssociationFarm SanctuaryGreen TreksReality CaresReef Check FoundationSea Shepherd Conservation SocietySolar Neighbors ProgramSomaly Mam FoundationSustainable Biodiesel AllianceThe Gorilla Organization Read more about Daryl Hannah's charity work and events. Related articles Richard Branson Attends Virgin Festival in BaltimoreCelebrities Play Bingo For CharityCelebrity Auction Roundup, September 2007Natural Heroes' Stories Told By Green StarsCelebrity Auctions For Christmas
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- 12/7/2023
- Look to the Stars
Clockwise from top left: It Lives Inside (Neon), Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (Sony Pictures Releasing), The Matrix Resurrections (Warner Bros. Pictures)Image: The A.V. Club
For the holiday season, Hulu is adding some genre favorites and promising new movies to its library. The streaming platform in December welcomes...
For the holiday season, Hulu is adding some genre favorites and promising new movies to its library. The streaming platform in December welcomes...
- 11/30/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Neil Young has released a new video called “Stand for Peace,” featuring a performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” on electric guitar.
The video, which was directed by Young’s wife Daryl Hannah, features footage of Young performing next to an American flag and concludes with the written message “Be Brave” and “Stand For Peace.”
Earlier this week, Young announced his departure from Twitter. In an accompanying statement addressing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine, he wrote: “For our many Palestinian friends and our many Jewish friends, we do need to start over in the present and release our terrible connections to the past. As bad as they are, they need to be forgotten so we can be free to move on in life together, all humanity, focused on saving our planet for future generations of all people.”
Read Jonah Krueger’s essay on why Young’s “Ditch Trilogy” cemented his legacy.
The video, which was directed by Young’s wife Daryl Hannah, features footage of Young performing next to an American flag and concludes with the written message “Be Brave” and “Stand For Peace.”
Earlier this week, Young announced his departure from Twitter. In an accompanying statement addressing the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Palestine, he wrote: “For our many Palestinian friends and our many Jewish friends, we do need to start over in the present and release our terrible connections to the past. As bad as they are, they need to be forgotten so we can be free to move on in life together, all humanity, focused on saving our planet for future generations of all people.”
Read Jonah Krueger’s essay on why Young’s “Ditch Trilogy” cemented his legacy.
- 11/24/2023
- by Scoop Harrison
- Consequence - Music
According to multiple fan reports, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played their 1990 LP Ragged Glory straight through at a private birthday party for Canada Goose CEO Dani Reiss. The show took place November 4 at The Rivoli in Toronto, which seats a mere 200 people.
(We reached out to representatives for Young and Canada Goose, a winter clothing company, to confirm the reports, but have yet to hear back from either of them. Reiss turned 50 on November 7.)
The news broke on the Neil Young fan site Thrasher’s Wheat via a correspondent...
(We reached out to representatives for Young and Canada Goose, a winter clothing company, to confirm the reports, but have yet to hear back from either of them. Reiss turned 50 on November 7.)
The news broke on the Neil Young fan site Thrasher’s Wheat via a correspondent...
- 11/10/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Nothing gold can stay, and to make room for everything new at Hulu in November, we have to say goodbye to dozens of the series and movies on the platform. The streamer will make room for its upcoming Christmas library by losing some of its horror-themed titles throughout the month, including “Stephen King's It,” most of its “Saw” franchise, and “Shaun Of The Dead.” Other major titles leaving the platform include Emma Stone’s breakthrough comedy “Easy A,” the Nora Ephron classic “Sleeping in Seattle,” and more.
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what to catch this month on Hulu before they’re gone!
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Before “The Notebook,” “A Walk to Remember” was the go-to Nicholas Sparks coming-of-age schmaltz. Mandy Moore makes her film starring debut...
Check out The Streamable’s top picks for what to catch this month on Hulu before they’re gone!
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Before “The Notebook,” “A Walk to Remember” was the go-to Nicholas Sparks coming-of-age schmaltz. Mandy Moore makes her film starring debut...
- 10/31/2023
- by Ashley Steves
- The Streamable
Last week, we ran a special Wtf episode about the 1979 Disney movie, The Black Hole, an uncommonly adult film for the family-friendly studio. It kicked off an experiment for the studio to move into adult fare, eventually spawning no less than three subsidiaries that produced some of the most influential movies of the 80s, 90s and 2000s. These off-shoots paved the way for Disney’s place as the most powerful motion picture studio in the world, with them owning Lucasfilm, Pixar and the MCU. With the studio celebrating its 100th anniversary, we figured now would be an opportune time to look back at the studio Disney launched to distribute their more grown-up fare, the now shuttered Touchstone Pictures.
Jump back to 1983, when Disney put out a now obscure comedy called Trenchcoat, starring Airplane’s Robert Hayes and Superman’s Margot Kidder. A comic mystery, it was produced by Walt Disney Productions...
Jump back to 1983, when Disney put out a now obscure comedy called Trenchcoat, starring Airplane’s Robert Hayes and Superman’s Margot Kidder. A comic mystery, it was produced by Walt Disney Productions...
- 10/16/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
Quentin Tarantino had a single epic film in mind when he set out to create what became Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and its follow-up.
The lead character of the Bride originated in conversations between Tarantino and star Uma Thurman during their first collaboration in 1993. “I came up with the idea of doing Kill Bill on the set of Pulp Fiction with Uma,” Tarantino told The Hollywood Reporter in 2003. “‘Bang Bang’ set to Uma for the opening credits was in my mind [back then],” the director said of using Cher’s song “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” to open the film, although he later opted for the Nancy Sinatra cover.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 centers on Thurman’s erstwhile assassin seeking revenge against her former team and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they tried to kill her and her unborn child on her wedding day. Tarantino envisioned Warren Beatty for...
The lead character of the Bride originated in conversations between Tarantino and star Uma Thurman during their first collaboration in 1993. “I came up with the idea of doing Kill Bill on the set of Pulp Fiction with Uma,” Tarantino told The Hollywood Reporter in 2003. “‘Bang Bang’ set to Uma for the opening credits was in my mind [back then],” the director said of using Cher’s song “Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)” to open the film, although he later opted for the Nancy Sinatra cover.
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 centers on Thurman’s erstwhile assassin seeking revenge against her former team and their leader, Bill (David Carradine), after they tried to kill her and her unborn child on her wedding day. Tarantino envisioned Warren Beatty for...
- 10/10/2023
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lisbeth Salander, the eponymous "Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," is not like any role Rooney Mara has played before or since — particularly when it comes to costuming. Lisbeth has facial piercings, disheveled black hair (it changes from a mohawk to a side cut over the movie), shaved eyebrows, and is always dressed in some shade of black. This goth punk fashion sense contrasts with her lithe frame, but she still looks like someone you don't want to mess with. It helps that her face is girlish but not quite innocent — those big eyes and sharp nose meld into a piercing glare that pushes you to look away.
Director David Fincher recruited Mara from her scene-stealing appearance in his last film, "The Social Network." Interviewed for a retrospective on his most famous films in the November 2023 issue of Empire magazine, Fincher called Mara's face "an exquisite thing" and recalled how he...
Director David Fincher recruited Mara from her scene-stealing appearance in his last film, "The Social Network." Interviewed for a retrospective on his most famous films in the November 2023 issue of Empire magazine, Fincher called Mara's face "an exquisite thing" and recalled how he...
- 10/9/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
The film world is waiting with bated breath to hear details about Quentin Tarantino’s tenth and final film, The Movie Critic. It was reported earlier that just prior to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, Tarantino had offered the lead role to Paul Walter Hauser from such films as Richard Jewell and I, Tonya. It was also recently said that the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood director had secured a generous tax credit from the state of California with $20 million for his swan song.
Total Film is now reporting that Tarantino, who is keen on working with his past actors, will be reuniting with his Pulp Fiction star, John Travolta, on The Movie Critic. The Ankler’s Jeff Sneider broke the story on social media with a tweet that reads, “I hear Tarantino is saving a role in his final film The Movie Critic for two of his former leading men.
Total Film is now reporting that Tarantino, who is keen on working with his past actors, will be reuniting with his Pulp Fiction star, John Travolta, on The Movie Critic. The Ankler’s Jeff Sneider broke the story on social media with a tweet that reads, “I hear Tarantino is saving a role in his final film The Movie Critic for two of his former leading men.
- 9/19/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
A faux campaign led by environmental activists tricked some media outlets into reporting that Mattel would be launching a line of environmentally friendly Barbies and would be going entirely plastic-free by 2030.
The elaborate campaign claimed that Mattel would be soon launching a line of “EcoWarrior” Barbie dolls made from decomposable materials including mushrooms, algae, and clay.
The activist group who conducted the campaign, the Barbie Liberation Organization, included fake press releases and advertisements claiming to be from Mattel. The activist organization used the opportunity of the blockbuster “Barbie” film to call attention to plastic use within the toy industry.
In a clip that served as a fake commercial, environmental activist Daryl Hannah discusses detrimental plastic usage while picking a Barbie up from her stroll on the beach.
“Barbie and I are about the same age, except she will never die,” said Hannah referencing the barnacle-encrusted doll in her hand. The...
The elaborate campaign claimed that Mattel would be soon launching a line of “EcoWarrior” Barbie dolls made from decomposable materials including mushrooms, algae, and clay.
The activist group who conducted the campaign, the Barbie Liberation Organization, included fake press releases and advertisements claiming to be from Mattel. The activist organization used the opportunity of the blockbuster “Barbie” film to call attention to plastic use within the toy industry.
In a clip that served as a fake commercial, environmental activist Daryl Hannah discusses detrimental plastic usage while picking a Barbie up from her stroll on the beach.
“Barbie and I are about the same age, except she will never die,” said Hannah referencing the barnacle-encrusted doll in her hand. The...
- 8/2/2023
- by Natalie Korach
- The Wrap
Actress and activist Daryl Hannah is featured in a new hoax ad claiming that Mattel is creating a line of Barbies called MyCelia EcoWarrior Barbies, which are supposedly plastic-free.
Hannah is the face of this fake endorsement in a video released by her where she asserts that “by 2030 all Mattel toys will be plastic-free starting with the iconic Barbie doll.” She continued to claim that “Mattel will support a federal ban on all plastics in kid’s toys and on single-use plastics.”
The “limited edition EcoWarrior Barbies” would have featured “the real world heroes of the environmental struggle,” including Phoebe Plummer, Julia Butterfly Hill, Greta Thunberg, Nemonte Nenquimo and one even named after Hannah.
The dedication to this fake campaign is remarkable, as spoofed press releases from Mattel, fake phone numbers, and a false website were all created.
It is believed that Hannah collaborated with two of The Yes Men,...
Hannah is the face of this fake endorsement in a video released by her where she asserts that “by 2030 all Mattel toys will be plastic-free starting with the iconic Barbie doll.” She continued to claim that “Mattel will support a federal ban on all plastics in kid’s toys and on single-use plastics.”
The “limited edition EcoWarrior Barbies” would have featured “the real world heroes of the environmental struggle,” including Phoebe Plummer, Julia Butterfly Hill, Greta Thunberg, Nemonte Nenquimo and one even named after Hannah.
The dedication to this fake campaign is remarkable, as spoofed press releases from Mattel, fake phone numbers, and a false website were all created.
It is believed that Hannah collaborated with two of The Yes Men,...
- 8/1/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Twenty-four years after the tragic death of John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette, the fascination with the enigmatic couple continues. What is it about the son of the late American President John F. Kennedy and his wife that continues to spark public interest in the celebrity couple over two decades after their deaths?
John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in 1999 | Tyler Mallory/Liaison John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy died in a plane crash in 1999
Carolyn Bessette, 33, and her sister Lauren Bessette, 34, were passengers in a plane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, on July 16, 1999. The trio headed toward Martha’s Vineyard for the wedding of John’s cousin Rory Kennedy when his Piper Saratoga single-engine plane plunged into the Atlantic.
Pilot error caused their deaths. John was not qualified to fly with instruments...
John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in 1999 | Tyler Mallory/Liaison John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy died in a plane crash in 1999
Carolyn Bessette, 33, and her sister Lauren Bessette, 34, were passengers in a plane flown by John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, on July 16, 1999. The trio headed toward Martha’s Vineyard for the wedding of John’s cousin Rory Kennedy when his Piper Saratoga single-engine plane plunged into the Atlantic.
Pilot error caused their deaths. John was not qualified to fly with instruments...
- 7/17/2023
- by Lucille Barilla
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
There are few modern filmmakers with a voice as distinctive as Quentin Tarantino’s, a former video-store clerk who transformed his movie love into blockbuster, arthouse, genre-redefining masterpieces that kept grindhouse cinema alive while pushing nostalgia in bold directions.
With a career spanning 27 years and ten feature films (depending on how you count), Tarantino has made an indelible mark on cinema. And his hard-hitting, playful directorial style has, in all that time, made good films great, great films classics, and the faults in bad films sometimes harder to recognize.
Here, then, are Quentin Tarantino’s films from “Reservoir Dogs” to “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood,” ranked from the very worst to the very, very best:
10. “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” (2019)
Sharon Tate is a meaningless footnote in her own life story in Quentin Tarantino’s baffling and insulting ode to 1960s Hollywood. Tate is played by Margot Robbie,...
With a career spanning 27 years and ten feature films (depending on how you count), Tarantino has made an indelible mark on cinema. And his hard-hitting, playful directorial style has, in all that time, made good films great, great films classics, and the faults in bad films sometimes harder to recognize.
Here, then, are Quentin Tarantino’s films from “Reservoir Dogs” to “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood,” ranked from the very worst to the very, very best:
10. “Once Upon a Time in … Hollywood” (2019)
Sharon Tate is a meaningless footnote in her own life story in Quentin Tarantino’s baffling and insulting ode to 1960s Hollywood. Tate is played by Margot Robbie,...
- 6/23/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- The Wrap
Take a gander at the last 40 years of cinema, and you’ll find at least one universal truth: The people love Tom Hanks.
The 66-year-old actor is known around Hollywood and the world as an affable everyman, with as much capacity for heady drama as he has a knack for quippy comedy. Hanks’ most famous roles range from the light and whimsical to the darkly complex. He’s also responsible for delivering lines in some of cinema’s most quotable movies, including “A League of Their Own” (“There’s no crying in baseball!”) and “Apollo 13”.
Hanks cut his teeth as a stage actor, performing Shakespeare and other plays in his hometown of Lakewood, California for much of the late ’70s. At 24-years-old, Hanks made his first movie appearance as a flirty jogger in the slasher “He Knows You’re Alone” before starring opposite Daryl Hannah in Ron Howard’s romantic...
The 66-year-old actor is known around Hollywood and the world as an affable everyman, with as much capacity for heady drama as he has a knack for quippy comedy. Hanks’ most famous roles range from the light and whimsical to the darkly complex. He’s also responsible for delivering lines in some of cinema’s most quotable movies, including “A League of Their Own” (“There’s no crying in baseball!”) and “Apollo 13”.
Hanks cut his teeth as a stage actor, performing Shakespeare and other plays in his hometown of Lakewood, California for much of the late ’70s. At 24-years-old, Hanks made his first movie appearance as a flirty jogger in the slasher “He Knows You’re Alone” before starring opposite Daryl Hannah in Ron Howard’s romantic...
- 6/21/2023
- by Alison Foreman and Wilson Chapman
- Indiewire
“I was at the premiere of The Little Mermaid a couple of weeks back,” says Kean Almryde, a marketing manager at Disney. “Scuttle, the bird in the cartoon version, was a seagull. In the new movie, it’s a northern gannet. I’m like, ‘What’s that about?’ So I did a little bit of research. I made a TikTok video explaining the decision behind changing Scuttle from a seagull to the northern gannet that ended up going viral! It has like 420,000 views.”
The reason for the change? Animators wanted more underwater scenes, and unlike the air-bound seagull, a northern gannet can dive around 70 feet underwater. This research dovetailed perfectly with Almryde’s passion for birding, which was sparked during the pandemic and he says provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of the city. “You’re forced to slow down,” he says. “You’re forced to listen, pay...
The reason for the change? Animators wanted more underwater scenes, and unlike the air-bound seagull, a northern gannet can dive around 70 feet underwater. This research dovetailed perfectly with Almryde’s passion for birding, which was sparked during the pandemic and he says provides a respite from the hustle and bustle of the city. “You’re forced to slow down,” he says. “You’re forced to listen, pay...
- 6/6/2023
- by Hadley Meares
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Lionsgate said today it’s partnered with Quentin Tarantino for distribution rights to three of the director’s iconic films – Kill Bill Volumes I & II and Jackie Brown.
Beginning with Reservoir Dogs, a Lionsgate library favorite for nearly 20 years, “we’ve grown what is now Hollywood’s largest portfolio of Tarantino films to include Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Death Proof in addition to the movies we just picked up,” said CEO Jon Feltheimer on the company’s post-earning conference call.
He said the studio and Tarantino team will celebration Kill Bill’s 20th anniversary later this year with a new, remastered 4K edition.
“It was a coup for us to get the three Quentin Tarantino movies,” said Jim Packer, head of worldwide television and digital, on the call. We have eight, which gives our library a unique situation in Hollywood, and we want to take advantage of that.
Beginning with Reservoir Dogs, a Lionsgate library favorite for nearly 20 years, “we’ve grown what is now Hollywood’s largest portfolio of Tarantino films to include Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight and Death Proof in addition to the movies we just picked up,” said CEO Jon Feltheimer on the company’s post-earning conference call.
He said the studio and Tarantino team will celebration Kill Bill’s 20th anniversary later this year with a new, remastered 4K edition.
“It was a coup for us to get the three Quentin Tarantino movies,” said Jim Packer, head of worldwide television and digital, on the call. We have eight, which gives our library a unique situation in Hollywood, and we want to take advantage of that.
- 5/25/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
(Clockwise from Top Left): Chicken Run (Dreamworks), Last Action Hero (Columbia Pictures), Starship Troopers (TriStar Pictures), Léon: The Professional (Buena Vista International)Graphic: AVClub
May is the start of the summer movie season which means Netflix—along with the other streamers—will have to up their game to...
May is the start of the summer movie season which means Netflix—along with the other streamers—will have to up their game to...
- 5/3/2023
- by Don Lewis
- avclub.com
Quentin Tarantino has said his next film will be his last. Concerned about diminishing his legacy, the popular director plans to go out with a bang. His final movie is said to be called “The Movie Critic.” If you’d like to look back at his rapid-fire dialogue, unexpected gore, and iconic characters, The Streamable is tracking where you can see all his films.
Tarantino’s filmography is notoriously difficult to stream because he rarely works for major studios. You’ll often see his movies bounce from platform to platform. Be sure to bookmark this page and we’ll update each film, no matter where it goes.
Reservoir Dogs September 2, 1992
Tarantino’s breakout directing debut features many of his calling cards audiences would come to love. A group of highly opinionated criminals, a heist gone wrong, a classic soundtrack, and unexpected bloodshed. The film was once ranked #97 in Empire Magazine...
Tarantino’s filmography is notoriously difficult to stream because he rarely works for major studios. You’ll often see his movies bounce from platform to platform. Be sure to bookmark this page and we’ll update each film, no matter where it goes.
Reservoir Dogs September 2, 1992
Tarantino’s breakout directing debut features many of his calling cards audiences would come to love. A group of highly opinionated criminals, a heist gone wrong, a classic soundtrack, and unexpected bloodshed. The film was once ranked #97 in Empire Magazine...
- 4/7/2023
- by Ben Bowman
- The Streamable
TV loves itself some mobsters. There’s no getting around it. From Tony Soprano to Nucky Thompson to Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano, we’re enchanted by the bad guys and what they bring to the table. Shows like “The Sopranos,” “Peaky Blinders” and “Boardwalk Empire” – as well as “The Untouchables” in the early 1960s – have captivated us and generated plenty of awards attention in the bargain.
And now here comes another show with malice in its heart, if a wink in its eye, looking to compete for some Emmy attention: “Tulsa King,” the Paramount+ series that launched its first season last November and is plotting to enter production on season two soon (likely early this summer). It’s a crime dramedy set in Tulsa, Oklahoma that stars Sylvester Stallone in his first scripted starring role on TV.
SEEWill Sylvester Stallone land an Emmy nomination for ‘Tulsa King’?
Stallone portrays New...
And now here comes another show with malice in its heart, if a wink in its eye, looking to compete for some Emmy attention: “Tulsa King,” the Paramount+ series that launched its first season last November and is plotting to enter production on season two soon (likely early this summer). It’s a crime dramedy set in Tulsa, Oklahoma that stars Sylvester Stallone in his first scripted starring role on TV.
SEEWill Sylvester Stallone land an Emmy nomination for ‘Tulsa King’?
Stallone portrays New...
- 3/27/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
Somewhere in between his Oscar-winning portrayal of a gay lawyer dying of AIDS in "Philadelphia" and his performance as the mild-mannered captain of an Army detachment ordered to rescue the sole surviving son of a family that lost three of their children to the Normandy Invasion in "Saving Private Ryan," Tom Hanks was declared the James Stewart of his generation. The evidence was compelling. As Forrest Gump, astronaut Jim Lovell, and Sheriff Woody, Hanks had come to exemplify all that is right and decent about America. We saw the best of ourselves in his characters, while, off-screen, he exuded good, clean charm whenever he turned up on a talk show or a red carpet. He seemed affable, erudite, and kind. But to call him the Baby Boomer James Stewart was to ignore Stewart's willingness to play hard against type.
It is 2023, and Hanks has just delivered his first truly...
It is 2023, and Hanks has just delivered his first truly...
- 3/17/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
François Truffaut is back with another Hitchcock-influenced adaptation of a Cornell Woolrich murder thriller, with stars Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo as lovers – criminals – fugitives, and partly filmed in a remote French island in the Indian Ocean. It’s a tale of a mail-order bride, larcenous deception, and irrational amor fou run amuck. The things we do for love sometimes obey no logic. Also starring Michel Bouquet.
Mississippi Mermaid
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 123 110 min. / La Sirène du Mississippi / Street Date February 14, 2023 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud.
Cinematography: Denys Clerval
Production Designer: Claude Pignot
Deneuve dresses: Yves Saint-Laurent
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Antoine Duhamel
Screenplay by François Truffaut based upon the novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)
Produced by Marcel Berbert
Directed by François Truffaut
François Truffaut was the least radical of the official New Wave directors.
Mississippi Mermaid
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 123 110 min. / La Sirène du Mississippi / Street Date February 14, 2023 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95
Starring: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Bouquet, Nelly Borgeaud.
Cinematography: Denys Clerval
Production Designer: Claude Pignot
Deneuve dresses: Yves Saint-Laurent
Film Editor: Agnès Guillemot
Original Music: Antoine Duhamel
Screenplay by François Truffaut based upon the novel Waltz into Darkness by William Irish (Cornell Woolrich)
Produced by Marcel Berbert
Directed by François Truffaut
François Truffaut was the least radical of the official New Wave directors.
- 3/11/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Although "Volume 2" is the gentler, more thoughtful installment of the "Kill Bill" saga, you wouldn't know that from the fight scene between Beatrix (Uma Thurman) and Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah). Although there is some begrudging respect between them, Beatrix and Elle hate each other more than perhaps any other two members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad, and that's reflected in their final showdown in Budd's cramped trailer. It's a vicious, bloody fight: Beatrix shoves Elle's head in a toilet at one point, throws a tobacco spit jar in her face, and then she yanks out Elle's one remaining eye.
It's a stark contrast from Beatrix's battle against O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) in the first volume. There, O-Ren trash-talks her a little in the beginning, but as their fight goes on it gets increasingly respectful. "For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize," O-Ren says near the end of the fight,...
It's a stark contrast from Beatrix's battle against O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) in the first volume. There, O-Ren trash-talks her a little in the beginning, but as their fight goes on it gets increasingly respectful. "For ridiculing you earlier, I apologize," O-Ren says near the end of the fight,...
- 2/20/2023
- by Michael Boyle
- Slash Film
Before his death in January, David Crosby made an attempt to heal his rift with longtime bandmate Graham Nash.
Speaking with AARP: The Magazine, Nash revealed that Crosby called him in order to “apologize” to Nash, after the two musicians had been publicly estranged for years.
“The fact is that we were getting a little closer at the end,” Nash said. “He had sent me a voicemail saying that he wanted to talk to apologize, and could we set up a time to talk. I emailed him back and said, ‘Ok, call me at 11 o’clock tomorrow your time, which is two o’clock on the East Coast.’ He never called, and then he was gone.”
Read More: David Crosby Tweeted About Heaven Just Before His Death — Read His Post
According to Nash, it wouldn’t be out of character for Crosby to have known his life was nearing its conclusion.
Speaking with AARP: The Magazine, Nash revealed that Crosby called him in order to “apologize” to Nash, after the two musicians had been publicly estranged for years.
“The fact is that we were getting a little closer at the end,” Nash said. “He had sent me a voicemail saying that he wanted to talk to apologize, and could we set up a time to talk. I emailed him back and said, ‘Ok, call me at 11 o’clock tomorrow your time, which is two o’clock on the East Coast.’ He never called, and then he was gone.”
Read More: David Crosby Tweeted About Heaven Just Before His Death — Read His Post
According to Nash, it wouldn’t be out of character for Crosby to have known his life was nearing its conclusion.
- 2/10/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
It was a mere – checks notes – six and a half years ago that we brought you news of a Splash remake in the works from Brian Grazer for some time, it looks like Splash really finally is getting its remake on.
According to Deadline, Sarah Rothschild, the writer of Netflix offering The Sleepover, is set to write the latest draft of the script for the mermaid romance, with Inherent Vice and Roar star Bell still set to star. There’s no word on whether Grazer is still attached to produce, or indeed whether Tatum is still on board to play the gender-switched version of Daryl Hannah’s fish lady from the original, but with a writer now attached, we’re optimistic that the project can stay afloat.
We have no further confirmation on plot details beyond what we initially learned back in 2016 – think The Shape Of Water with more funnies...
According to Deadline, Sarah Rothschild, the writer of Netflix offering The Sleepover, is set to write the latest draft of the script for the mermaid romance, with Inherent Vice and Roar star Bell still set to star. There’s no word on whether Grazer is still attached to produce, or indeed whether Tatum is still on board to play the gender-switched version of Daryl Hannah’s fish lady from the original, but with a writer now attached, we’re optimistic that the project can stay afloat.
We have no further confirmation on plot details beyond what we initially learned back in 2016 – think The Shape Of Water with more funnies...
- 2/9/2023
- by Jordan King
- Empire - Movies
It’s been more than six years since news first emerged of a potential remake of “Splash”, the beloved 1984 fantasy in which Tom Hanks starred as a guy who falls in love with a mermaid (Daryl Hannah).
In 2016, Deadline reported that the remake would switch things up by casting Jillian Bell in the Tom Hanks role, while Channing Tatum would play the sexy merman.
Read More: Channing Tatum To Play Daryl Hannah’s Iconic Mermaid Role In ‘Splash’ Remake
Now, Deadline is reporting that the project has being revived with the hiring of a new screenwriter, Sarah Rothschild (Netflix’s “Sleepover”), tapped to rewrite the script.
According to the report, Bell remains attached to the project; it’s unclear, however, whether the same applies to Tatum, or if another actor will be cast in the merman role.
Read More: Tom Hanks Has Some Ideas About Gender-Swapped ‘Splash’ Remake With Channing...
In 2016, Deadline reported that the remake would switch things up by casting Jillian Bell in the Tom Hanks role, while Channing Tatum would play the sexy merman.
Read More: Channing Tatum To Play Daryl Hannah’s Iconic Mermaid Role In ‘Splash’ Remake
Now, Deadline is reporting that the project has being revived with the hiring of a new screenwriter, Sarah Rothschild (Netflix’s “Sleepover”), tapped to rewrite the script.
According to the report, Bell remains attached to the project; it’s unclear, however, whether the same applies to Tatum, or if another actor will be cast in the merman role.
Read More: Tom Hanks Has Some Ideas About Gender-Swapped ‘Splash’ Remake With Channing...
- 2/9/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
Move over, Ariel, Hollywood’s original mermaid movie, is back to make waves again! According to Deadline, Sarah Rothchild is writing the latest draft of Disney/Imagine/Free Association’s Splash remake. The project is reimagining Ron Howard’s 1984 comedy starring Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah as unlikely lovers from land and sea. To mix things up, Jillian Bell stars in the Splash remake in the role played by Hanks, while Channing Tatum stars in the role portrayed by Hannah. You head me. Tatum is strapping his floaties on to play a merman!
The original Spalsh starred Hanks, Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dody Goodman, and Shecky Greene. The romantic comedy became a significant hit for Disney after swimming toward 70 million at the domestic box office. Splash was Howard’s first hit and helped put him on the map for decades. The plot for Spalsh revolves around a young man...
The original Spalsh starred Hanks, Hannah, Eugene Levy, John Candy, Dody Goodman, and Shecky Greene. The romantic comedy became a significant hit for Disney after swimming toward 70 million at the domestic box office. Splash was Howard’s first hit and helped put him on the map for decades. The plot for Spalsh revolves around a young man...
- 2/8/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
In the early 1980s, Sean Young was primed for stardom. She'd turned in two strikingly different supporting performances in Ivan Reitman's "Stripes" and Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner," and possessed an ineffable magnetism that drew you in. In "Stripes," she's Louise Cooper, a Fort Arnold MP who's down for a bit of mischief with Harold Ramis' incorrigible Russell Ziskey. It's a thinly written role, but Young's so darn cute and charming that you'd rather spend time with her than the two leads. As Rachael in "Blade Runner," she looks the glam part of a femme fatale, smashingly so, but as a replicant, we feel for her rather than fear her.
After getting lost in the clutter of David Lynch's "Dune" in 1984, she rebounded with a smoldering performance in Roger Donaldson's deliciously nasty B-thriller "No Way Out." Her limousine sex scene with Kevin Costner was so hot it...
After getting lost in the clutter of David Lynch's "Dune" in 1984, she rebounded with a smoldering performance in Roger Donaldson's deliciously nasty B-thriller "No Way Out." Her limousine sex scene with Kevin Costner was so hot it...
- 2/5/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Tom Hanks got his first big breakthrough on the big screen with Ron Howard’s mermaid-out-of-water comedy Splash. But it wasn’t his run on the sitcom Bosom Buddies that landed him a spot alongside Daryl Hannah. It was actually whooping Fonz’s butt!
In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show (per Entertainment Weekly), Tom Hanks reflected on his one-off appearance in the season 10 episode “A Little Case of Revenge”, which aired in November 1982. “I kicked Fonzie…I got dressed up in a judo karate outfit. And I think I’m legendarily the first guy to actually strike Fonzie. I kicked him through the stained glass window of Al’s Drive-in,” he said, referring to the popular hangout for the Happy Days gang.
And that, apparently, was enough to impress Ron Howard, who was set to direct Splash, based on what would become an Oscar-nominated screenplay.
In a recent interview on SiriusXM’s The Jess Cagle Show (per Entertainment Weekly), Tom Hanks reflected on his one-off appearance in the season 10 episode “A Little Case of Revenge”, which aired in November 1982. “I kicked Fonzie…I got dressed up in a judo karate outfit. And I think I’m legendarily the first guy to actually strike Fonzie. I kicked him through the stained glass window of Al’s Drive-in,” he said, referring to the popular hangout for the Happy Days gang.
And that, apparently, was enough to impress Ron Howard, who was set to direct Splash, based on what would become an Oscar-nominated screenplay.
- 1/21/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Neil Young, whose friendship with David Crosby was as turbulent as their harmonies were blissful, paid an emotional tribute to the late singer today, calling his former bandmate “a very supportive friend in my early life.”
On his Neil Young Archives website, beneath a large photograph of Crosby, Young wrote:
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David is gone, but his music lives on. The soul of Csny, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always fun and exciting when we got to play together.
On his Neil Young Archives website, beneath a large photograph of Crosby, Young wrote:
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David is gone, but his music lives on. The soul of Csny, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always fun and exciting when we got to play together.
- 1/20/2023
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every day of the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. The Free Movie of the Day we have for you today is the drama All the Good Ones Are Married, starring Daryl Hannah. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article
Based on a book by Marion Zola, All the Good Ones Are Married was directed by Terry Ingram from a screenplay by Maria Nation and Edithe Swensen. The film has the following synopsis: Ben Gold gets the break of his life as aspiring author, but must stay home with his kids, Luke and Madison, to make his 5 months deadline. His feminist wife, workaholic fashion executive Alex, selfishly decides to take in promising rebel designer Zoe Miller,...
Based on a book by Marion Zola, All the Good Ones Are Married was directed by Terry Ingram from a screenplay by Maria Nation and Edithe Swensen. The film has the following synopsis: Ben Gold gets the break of his life as aspiring author, but must stay home with his kids, Luke and Madison, to make his 5 months deadline. His feminist wife, workaholic fashion executive Alex, selfishly decides to take in promising rebel designer Zoe Miller,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
When The Byrds arrived in the UK for the first time in August 1965, they were hyped as the spearhead of an American Invasion. “The US Beatles!” headlines screamed as their lush cover of Bob Dylan’s “Mr Tambourine Man” topped the charts and their similarly titled debut album broke big on both sides of the pond.
Witnesses of their rammed half-hour show of multi-harmonied folk pop at London’s Flamingo Club were left unimpressed – “Flopsville!” declared Melody Maker – but in the end, the hype won out. Within two years The Byrds would stamp their mark on pop history, laying the foundations for folk rock with their renowned cover of Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and their third album Fifth Dimension’s psychedelic mainstay “Eight Miles High”. And they contained at least one future musical icon in their midst. The writer of the vulnerable yet cynical “Everybody’s Been Burned...
Witnesses of their rammed half-hour show of multi-harmonied folk pop at London’s Flamingo Club were left unimpressed – “Flopsville!” declared Melody Maker – but in the end, the hype won out. Within two years The Byrds would stamp their mark on pop history, laying the foundations for folk rock with their renowned cover of Pete Seeger’s “Turn! Turn! Turn!” and their third album Fifth Dimension’s psychedelic mainstay “Eight Miles High”. And they contained at least one future musical icon in their midst. The writer of the vulnerable yet cynical “Everybody’s Been Burned...
- 1/20/2023
- by Mark Beaumont
- The Independent - Music
Neil Young has posted a tribute to David Crosby on the Neil Young Archives. “David is gone,” Young wrote about his former Csny bandmate, “but his music lives on. The soul of Csny, David’s voice and energy were at the heart of our band. His great songs stood for what we believed in and it was always always fun and exciting when we got to play together.”
Young and Crosby met in early 1966 when Buffalo Springfield opened for the Byrds at club dates all across Los Angeles. Three years later,...
Young and Crosby met in early 1966 when Buffalo Springfield opened for the Byrds at club dates all across Los Angeles. Three years later,...
- 1/20/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
Most of the time, most people’s lives are pretty boring. Passing the day at the office, then coming home to do laundry and microwave dinner. Movies tend to cut these bits out, to focus on the escapist stuff, but every once in a while one comes along, searching for poetry in the mundane. From its confessional title, “Sometimes I Think About Dying” reveals that it will be about the interior life of a relatively private person, played by Daisy Ridley, who sits at her cubicle, imagining her body hanging from a nearby crane, or her corpse rotting on the forest floor.
Who’s to say what Ridley’s slump-shouldered, drably dressed character, Fran, is thinking about when her mind floats away? Director Rachel Lambert doesn’t elaborate on whatever emotion is stirring behind Fran’s eyes, though she does at times depict her daydreams, presenting them as images more than complete thoughts.
Who’s to say what Ridley’s slump-shouldered, drably dressed character, Fran, is thinking about when her mind floats away? Director Rachel Lambert doesn’t elaborate on whatever emotion is stirring behind Fran’s eyes, though she does at times depict her daydreams, presenting them as images more than complete thoughts.
- 1/20/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Disney might be an unstoppable media empire today, but back in the 1980s it still wasn't a major Hollywood player. Back then the studio was known primarily for its children's fare. Disney Studios had a well-earned reputation after more than four decades of popular animated movies beginning with 1937's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Fast-forward to the early 1980s when the film industry was booming thanks to VHS rentals and cable television. Disney Studios wanted in on the action but knew they would have a hard time breaking from the kids-only stigma. Their solution came in the form of Touchstone Films. Utilizing what is known as market segmentation, Disney launched a separate arm of the company, Touchstone Films (later renamed Touchstone Pictures), to produce more mature, live-action content. The first film produced under the Touchstone umbrella was "Splash" in 1984.
"Splash" is literally a fish-out-of-water romantic comedy. The movie stars...
Fast-forward to the early 1980s when the film industry was booming thanks to VHS rentals and cable television. Disney Studios wanted in on the action but knew they would have a hard time breaking from the kids-only stigma. Their solution came in the form of Touchstone Films. Utilizing what is known as market segmentation, Disney launched a separate arm of the company, Touchstone Films (later renamed Touchstone Pictures), to produce more mature, live-action content. The first film produced under the Touchstone umbrella was "Splash" in 1984.
"Splash" is literally a fish-out-of-water romantic comedy. The movie stars...
- 1/19/2023
- by Travis Yates
- Slash Film
Tom Hanks is making a splashy statement about Walt Disney Studios.
The Oscar winner revealed that “no one wanted to work for Disney” in the 1980s, and that’s how he was eventually cast in Ron Howard’s 1984 film “Splash” after guest starring on the TV series “Happy Days.”
“Ron Howard had already left the show, and he was directing, and they had written this movie called ‘Splash,'” Hanks said during SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” podcast. “And it was at Disney, and no one wanted to work for Disney, and no one would take the job. And eventually they said, ‘Hey, this guy who kicked Fonzie through a plate-glass window might be good.’ And so I ended up auditioning for that.”
Hanks continued, “I remember going over to the Disney studios and it had not been refurbished. They had built it in like 1958 and it hadn’t changed a bit.
The Oscar winner revealed that “no one wanted to work for Disney” in the 1980s, and that’s how he was eventually cast in Ron Howard’s 1984 film “Splash” after guest starring on the TV series “Happy Days.”
“Ron Howard had already left the show, and he was directing, and they had written this movie called ‘Splash,'” Hanks said during SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show” podcast. “And it was at Disney, and no one wanted to work for Disney, and no one would take the job. And eventually they said, ‘Hey, this guy who kicked Fonzie through a plate-glass window might be good.’ And so I ended up auditioning for that.”
Hanks continued, “I remember going over to the Disney studios and it had not been refurbished. They had built it in like 1958 and it hadn’t changed a bit.
- 1/19/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
John Carpenter prefers to experience horror onscreen, not on set.
The legendary director, while reflecting on his decades-spanning career, admitted that he nearly walked away from filmmaking after the experience of 1992’s “Memoirs of an Invisible Man.” Based on H. F. Saint’s 1987 science fiction novel, the film starred Chevy Chase as a businessman who becomes invisible after an experimental procedure. Frequent Carpenter collaborator Sam Neill plays a government operative who tries to capture Chase’s character. Daryl Hannah, Michael McKean, and Stephen Tobolowsky also star.
“Chevy Chase, Sam Neill — who I love and had a longtime friendship with — and Warner Bros., I worked for them, and it was pleasant,” Carpenter told Variety, before adding, “No, it wasn’t pleasant at all. I’m lying to you. It was a horror show. I really wanted to quit the business after that movie.”
Carpenter continued, “God, I don’t want to talk about why,...
The legendary director, while reflecting on his decades-spanning career, admitted that he nearly walked away from filmmaking after the experience of 1992’s “Memoirs of an Invisible Man.” Based on H. F. Saint’s 1987 science fiction novel, the film starred Chevy Chase as a businessman who becomes invisible after an experimental procedure. Frequent Carpenter collaborator Sam Neill plays a government operative who tries to capture Chase’s character. Daryl Hannah, Michael McKean, and Stephen Tobolowsky also star.
“Chevy Chase, Sam Neill — who I love and had a longtime friendship with — and Warner Bros., I worked for them, and it was pleasant,” Carpenter told Variety, before adding, “No, it wasn’t pleasant at all. I’m lying to you. It was a horror show. I really wanted to quit the business after that movie.”
Carpenter continued, “God, I don’t want to talk about why,...
- 1/11/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Sza released her new music video for “Kill Bill” from her long-awaited sophomore album Sos on Tuesday. The visual pulls from the Quentin Tarantino movies bearing the same name, and opens with a scene paying homage to Uma Thurman’s showdown with Elle Driver (Daryl Hannah) in Budd’s trailer.
The singer-songwriter gets double crossed by her lover in the video and engages in a series of katana-wielding scenes, an eerie motorcycle bike ride in leather, and a fatal finale that concludes with her ripping her ex’s heart out...
The singer-songwriter gets double crossed by her lover in the video and engages in a series of katana-wielding scenes, an eerie motorcycle bike ride in leather, and a fatal finale that concludes with her ripping her ex’s heart out...
- 1/11/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
At long last, “Wednesday,” which stars Jenna Ortega of “X” and “Scream” fame, is streaming on Netflix. Ortega takes over the role from iconic ’90s Wednesday Christina Ricci, who so memorably burned down a Thanksgiving play in “Addams Family Values.”
Ricci appears as a different character in the series from Tim Burton and “Smallville” co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, while Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman take over as Morticia and Gomez Addams.
Here’s where to rewatch the ’90s films that starred Anjelica Huston, Raúl Julia and Christopher Lloyd, and the two recent animated films. And, if you insist on seeking it out, the notorious direct-to-dvd “Addams Family Reunion,” starring Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah.
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Ricci appears as a different character in the series from Tim Burton and “Smallville” co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, while Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzman take over as Morticia and Gomez Addams.
Here’s where to rewatch the ’90s films that starred Anjelica Huston, Raúl Julia and Christopher Lloyd, and the two recent animated films. And, if you insist on seeking it out, the notorious direct-to-dvd “Addams Family Reunion,” starring Tim Curry and Daryl Hannah.
Also Read:
‘Wednesday’ Review: Jenna Ortega Delightfully Seethes in Netflix’s Moody YA Mystery The Addams Family (1991) Paramount Pictures
Cara mia! Barry Sonnenfeld’s delightful, droll take on the cartoon characters created by Chas Addams...
- 11/25/2022
- by Sharon Knolle
- The Wrap
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