Daryl McCormack as Colman and Ruth Wilson as Lorna in ‘The Woman in the Wall’ (Photo Credit: Chris Barr / BBC / Showtime)
Paramount+’s January 2024 lineup includes the series premiere of Sexy Beast, a prequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning drama released in 2000 and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone. The streaming service’s also kicking off the new year with the debut of The Woman in the Wall, a six-episode series starring Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) and Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters).
June Carter Cash is the focus of June, a feature-length documentary directed by Emmy Award-winner Kristen Vaurio (Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief) arriving on January 16. January 2024 also sees the return of SkyMed, a medical drama set in the world of medics and pilots who fly air ambulances in Canada, for its second season.
Coming to Paramount+ on January 1
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Paramount+’s January 2024 lineup includes the series premiere of Sexy Beast, a prequel to the critically acclaimed, award-winning drama released in 2000 and starring Sir Ben Kingsley and Ray Winstone. The streaming service’s also kicking off the new year with the debut of The Woman in the Wall, a six-episode series starring Ruth Wilson (His Dark Materials) and Daryl McCormack (Bad Sisters).
June Carter Cash is the focus of June, a feature-length documentary directed by Emmy Award-winner Kristen Vaurio (Going Clear: Scientology & The Prison of Belief) arriving on January 16. January 2024 also sees the return of SkyMed, a medical drama set in the world of medics and pilots who fly air ambulances in Canada, for its second season.
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- 12/23/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
Writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer’s Pet Sematary prequel Pet Sematary: Bloodlines was made specifically for the Paramount+ streaming service, but now it has been announced that Paramount is going to be doing something I wish streaming services would do much more often: while continuing to stream the movie, they will also be giving it a digital, 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD release! The digital version will be available for rent or purchase as of December 5th, with the physical media release following on December 19th.
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to the town. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an...
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to the town. Banding together, Jud and his childhood friends must fight an...
- 11/7/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
One of Stephen King‘s famous tales of reanimation gone awry was reimagined in 2019 with Pet Sematary from Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer. John Lithgow would portray Jud Crandall in that adaptation. Now, behold the beginning of the story as Pet Sematary: Bloodlines shows fans how Jud first discovered the cursed graveyard. Paramount+ has just released the new trailer for the horror prequel. Those who wish to see it before its streaming premiere will be able to catch its debut at Fantastic Fest, which is set to be held at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas, from September 21st – 28th. The movie will then be available on Paramount+ on October 6.
This film is boasting that it is an untold chapter from Stephen King’s original beloved story. The synopsis for Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will involve “a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind...
This film is boasting that it is an untold chapter from Stephen King’s original beloved story. The synopsis for Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will involve “a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind...
- 9/12/2023
- by EJ Tangonan
- JoBlo.com
Writer/director Lindsey Anderson Beer’s Pet Sematary prequel Pet Sematary: Bloodlines will be having its world premiere at this year’s edition of Fantastic Fest, which is set to be held at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas from September 21st – 28th (badges are available now at FantasticFest.com), before it reaches the Paramount+ streaming service on October 6th. Before it makes its way out into the world, it needed to secure a rating – and now it has. The Motion Picture Association ratings board has confirmed that Pet Sematary: Bloodlines has been given an R rating for horror violence, gore and language.
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family...
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family...
- 9/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Almost two years have gone by since we’ve heard anything about writer/director Lindsey Beer’s Pet Sematary prequel, which was made specifically for the Paramount+ streaming service. Now, Deadline has finally shared an update about the project, and it’s a very positive one: the film has been given the title Pet Sematary: Bloodlines, and it’s been given a release date! It will start streaming on Paramount+ on October 6th… so a lot of horror fans are going to be watching this one as part of their Halloween season celebrations.
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to the town. Banding together,...
Said to be “based on an untold chapter penned by Stephen King“, Pet Sematary: Bloodlines centers on a young Jud Crandall in 1969, who has dreams of leaving his hometown behind but soon discovers sinister secrets buried within and is forced to confront a dark family history that will forever keep him connected to the town. Banding together,...
- 7/18/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Not many movie buffs have the chance to meet, let alone interview or become friendly with, their favorite moviemakers.
Peter Bogdanovich, who died January 6 at the age of 82, managed the trick many times over. First as a film scholar and magazine features writer, then as a filmmaker in his own right, Bogdanovich cozied up to the likes of directors like Ford, Hawks, and Welles, and actors like John Wayne, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, among countless others.
By some combination of luck and persistence, Bogdanovich saw to it that these men, whose movies he had seen, inhaled, and studied as a youth in New York, became his teachers, mentors, and friends.
He accomplished what had been the dream of every movie buff since before the movies talked: to get to know, in flesh and blood, those icons of the silver screen.
It was with that model in the back of...
Peter Bogdanovich, who died January 6 at the age of 82, managed the trick many times over. First as a film scholar and magazine features writer, then as a filmmaker in his own right, Bogdanovich cozied up to the likes of directors like Ford, Hawks, and Welles, and actors like John Wayne, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart, among countless others.
By some combination of luck and persistence, Bogdanovich saw to it that these men, whose movies he had seen, inhaled, and studied as a youth in New York, became his teachers, mentors, and friends.
He accomplished what had been the dream of every movie buff since before the movies talked: to get to know, in flesh and blood, those icons of the silver screen.
It was with that model in the back of...
- 1/8/2022
- by Peter Tonguette
- Indiewire
Peter Bogdanovich, the celebrated, Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind classics like The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, as well as a frequent actor, died Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 82. Bogdanovich’s daughter, Antonia Bogdanovich, confirmed his death, saying the director died of natural causes.
Bogdanovich began his career as a film critic and reporter before meeting producer Roger Corman, who’d been so impressed with some of his work that he enlisted him to help out on some of his films. Despite this ostensibly unconventional path into the film industry,...
Bogdanovich began his career as a film critic and reporter before meeting producer Roger Corman, who’d been so impressed with some of his work that he enlisted him to help out on some of his films. Despite this ostensibly unconventional path into the film industry,...
- 1/6/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Peter Bogdanovich, the actor, film historian and critic-turned-director of such classics as The Last Picture Show, Paper Moon, What’s Up, Doc? and Mask, died today of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles. He was 82. Family members, who were by his side, said paramedics were unable to revive him.
His daughter, writer-director Antonia Bogdanovich, said of her father: “He never stopped working, and film was his life and he loved his family. He taught me a lot.”
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
While he would be best known later for his deadpan turn as the shrink’s shrink in The Sopranos, Bogdanovich exploded onto the cinematic scene in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, a box office hit he wrote and directed that drew comparisons to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and earned the filmmaker his only two Oscar noms — for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. With a...
His daughter, writer-director Antonia Bogdanovich, said of her father: “He never stopped working, and film was his life and he loved his family. He taught me a lot.”
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
While he would be best known later for his deadpan turn as the shrink’s shrink in The Sopranos, Bogdanovich exploded onto the cinematic scene in 1971 with The Last Picture Show, a box office hit he wrote and directed that drew comparisons to Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane and earned the filmmaker his only two Oscar noms — for Best Director and Adapted Screenplay. With a...
- 1/6/2022
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
With a hypnotic gaze, a raspy voice and the capability to effortlessly inhabit the soul of a character, the late actor, musician and activist River Phoenix was a once-in-a-generation talent. Today, he would have turned 51 years old.
While his posthumous age can be an irrelevant number to warrant a retrospective of one of the finest ever to grace the movies — especially one year after many took the opportunity to celebrate him for his 50th birthday — any day can be an opportunity to reflect upon someone with only 14 film credits who made an undeniable impact on the cinematic art form.
A life cut far too short, Phoenix’s physical manifestation with us ended in the early hours of Halloween in 1993 outside the Los Angeles nightclub The Viper Room, then-owned by actor Johnny Depp. Present at the time was his girlfriend and “The Thing Called Love” co-star Samantha Mathis, his sister Rain...
While his posthumous age can be an irrelevant number to warrant a retrospective of one of the finest ever to grace the movies — especially one year after many took the opportunity to celebrate him for his 50th birthday — any day can be an opportunity to reflect upon someone with only 14 film credits who made an undeniable impact on the cinematic art form.
A life cut far too short, Phoenix’s physical manifestation with us ended in the early hours of Halloween in 1993 outside the Los Angeles nightclub The Viper Room, then-owned by actor Johnny Depp. Present at the time was his girlfriend and “The Thing Called Love” co-star Samantha Mathis, his sister Rain...
- 8/23/2021
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
As affectionate as a love letter but as substantial as an infomercial, Brian Loschiavo’s “Bluebird” may be of most interest to casual and/or newly converted country music fans who have occasionally wondered about the songwriters behind the songs. There’s a better than even-money chance that anyone who’s a loyal and longtime aficionado of the musical genre already has at least a nodding acquaintance with the history and significance of The Bluebird Café, the intimate Nashville venue often cited as a launching pad for both platinum-selling superstars and behind-the-scenes tunesmiths. On the other hand, even many of those individuals could be entertained by what amounts to a backstage tour.
Director-editor Loschiavo capably balances the household names and unsung heroes in the cavalcade of interviewees who, with degrees of enthusiasm ranging from nostalgic to reverential, tell the story of an improbable landmark in an unlikely setting.
Located in...
Director-editor Loschiavo capably balances the household names and unsung heroes in the cavalcade of interviewees who, with degrees of enthusiasm ranging from nostalgic to reverential, tell the story of an improbable landmark in an unlikely setting.
Located in...
- 3/20/2019
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
Next week is the 25th anniversary of actor River Phoenix’s untimely death. The “Stand By Me” star was just 23 when he died of a drug overdose after a night out at Hollywood’s Viper Room nightclub — owned then by fellow actor Johnny Depp.
His girlfriend at the time was actress Samantha Mathis, who was by Phoenix’s side that fateful night in late October 1993. She spoke about it with British paper The Guardian, which reported Thursday that it’s the first time she’s recounted the events that led to Phoenix’s passing to any media member in the past 25 years.
“I knew something was wrong that night, something I didn’t understand,” Mathis, who co-starred with Phoenix in 1993’s “The Thing Called Love,” said. “I didn’t see anyone doing drugs but he was high in a way that made me feel uncomfortable — I was in way over my head.
His girlfriend at the time was actress Samantha Mathis, who was by Phoenix’s side that fateful night in late October 1993. She spoke about it with British paper The Guardian, which reported Thursday that it’s the first time she’s recounted the events that led to Phoenix’s passing to any media member in the past 25 years.
“I knew something was wrong that night, something I didn’t understand,” Mathis, who co-starred with Phoenix in 1993’s “The Thing Called Love,” said. “I didn’t see anyone doing drugs but he was high in a way that made me feel uncomfortable — I was in way over my head.
- 10/26/2018
- by Meriah Doty
- The Wrap
Samantha Mathis is opening up about the tragic night her boyfriend, actor River Phoenix, died in 1993 on Halloween at the age of 23.
The American Psycho actress was with Phoenix and his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix when the Running on Empty actor died of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room in Los Angeles.
Mathis, 48, told The Guardian in a phone interview that she accompanied Phoenix to the Viper Room, a Los Angeles club then-owned by Johnny Depp.
The actress said she thought they were there to drop off his siblings “but when we arrived he said to me, ‘Oh,...
The American Psycho actress was with Phoenix and his younger brother Joaquin Phoenix when the Running on Empty actor died of a drug overdose outside of the Viper Room in Los Angeles.
Mathis, 48, told The Guardian in a phone interview that she accompanied Phoenix to the Viper Room, a Los Angeles club then-owned by Johnny Depp.
The actress said she thought they were there to drop off his siblings “but when we arrived he said to me, ‘Oh,...
- 10/25/2018
- by Alexia Fernandez
- PEOPLE.com
Hulu has confirmed that several of its original series will be debuting new episodes on the streaming service in July, including the first season of the highly anticipated Stephen King thriller “Castle Rock” as well as season 2 of the costume drama “Harlots” and season 4 of the comedy “Casual.”
And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 2 of “The Strain,” season 4 of “The Vikings” and season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the first five films in the “Star Trek” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Rosemary’s Baby.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in July
Available July 1: TV
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Complete Season 4 (Discovery)
Deadliest Catch: Complete Season 11 (Discovery)
Deadly Women: Complete Season 6 (ID)
Dual Survival: Complete Season 5 (Discovery)
Elementary: Complete Season...
And there will also be new to Hulu seasons of some of your favorites from other networks, including season 2 of “The Strain,” season 4 of “The Vikings” and season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Likewise, there will be plenty of movies making their first Hulu appearances including the first five films in the “Star Trek” franchise and the Oscar-winning “Rosemary’s Baby.”
See Netflix schedule: Here’s what is coming and leaving in July
Available July 1: TV
Alaska: The Last Frontier: Complete Season 4 (Discovery)
Deadliest Catch: Complete Season 11 (Discovery)
Deadly Women: Complete Season 6 (ID)
Dual Survival: Complete Season 5 (Discovery)
Elementary: Complete Season...
- 7/1/2018
- by Paul Sheehan
- Gold Derby
Tuesday marks the 24th anniversary of River Phoenix’s untimely death on Oct. 31, 1993.
The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012.
In Phoenix’s honor, we’re taking a look back at his quick rise to fame and the best work of the gone-but-never-forgotten star.
An Unusual Childhood
Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon. His family...
The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012.
In Phoenix’s honor, we’re taking a look back at his quick rise to fame and the best work of the gone-but-never-forgotten star.
An Unusual Childhood
Phoenix was born on August 23, 1970 in Madras, Oregon. His family...
- 10/31/2017
- by Caroline Redmond
- PEOPLE.com
3D space disaster movie relies on her personal qualities and acting chops that continue to produce hits from unlikely material
• Video: Gravity star Sandra Bullock: 'What we do, it's all sci-fi'
• Peter Bradshaw's five-star review for Gravity
Sandra Bullock may not have been the obvious first choice to play a scientist stuck in high-earth orbit in a 3D space thriller – especially not for producing studio Warner Bros, who had originally intended Gravity to be a vehicle for Angelina Jolie.
But there's no question now that she made the role her own. After a string of perky, cornbread roles over the past two decades, Bullock can also claim to have substantially reinvented herself with this grim-faced, physically demanding performance. Gravity's success – it will almost certainly overtake The Blind Side as her highest-grossing film in the not too distant future – caps a spectacular second coming for the actor, whose...
• Video: Gravity star Sandra Bullock: 'What we do, it's all sci-fi'
• Peter Bradshaw's five-star review for Gravity
Sandra Bullock may not have been the obvious first choice to play a scientist stuck in high-earth orbit in a 3D space thriller – especially not for producing studio Warner Bros, who had originally intended Gravity to be a vehicle for Angelina Jolie.
But there's no question now that she made the role her own. After a string of perky, cornbread roles over the past two decades, Bullock can also claim to have substantially reinvented herself with this grim-faced, physically demanding performance. Gravity's success – it will almost certainly overtake The Blind Side as her highest-grossing film in the not too distant future – caps a spectacular second coming for the actor, whose...
- 11/19/2013
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of River Phoenix's untimely death on Oct. 31, 1993. The actor was just 23 when he died outside the Viper Room in West Hollywood due to a drug overdose, but made his mark on the world after starring in beloved films Stand By Me (1986), Running on Empty (1988) and My Own Private Idaho (1991). His final film, Dark Blood, was completed in 2012. In Phoenix's honor, we're taking a look back at a few of our favorite clips of the gone-but-never-forgotten star. Watch the clips below and share your favorite memories in the comments below. Classic: Check out this Stand By Me tribute.
- 10/31/2013
- by Erin Clements
- PEOPLE.com
There's a moment of sharp emotional poignancy towards the end of Rob Reiner's beloved coming of age drama Stand by Me. After a summer he'll never forget Gordie (Wil Wheaton) waves goodbye to his friend Chris Chambers, and as the latter strides off, his image fades away from the screen.
It's a scene that cuts deep for anyone who's seen and loves Stand by Me; not only does it foreshadow Chris's untimely death, years later it all draws parallels between the character and the actor who so memorably brought him to life, River Phoenix.
It has been 20 years since Phoenix died tragically outside the Viper Room club in Los Angeles, but his filmography grows all-the-more impressive over time. Phoenix has a spectacular list of collaborations with directors, racking up films with the likes of Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Gus Van Sant, Sidney Lumet and Peter Weir in his all-too brief 23 years.
It's a scene that cuts deep for anyone who's seen and loves Stand by Me; not only does it foreshadow Chris's untimely death, years later it all draws parallels between the character and the actor who so memorably brought him to life, River Phoenix.
It has been 20 years since Phoenix died tragically outside the Viper Room club in Los Angeles, but his filmography grows all-the-more impressive over time. Phoenix has a spectacular list of collaborations with directors, racking up films with the likes of Joe Dante, Steven Spielberg, Peter Bogdanovich, Gus Van Sant, Sidney Lumet and Peter Weir in his all-too brief 23 years.
- 10/31/2013
- Digital Spy
Los Angeles, Aug 4: Oscar-winning actress Sandra Bullock feels that the Academy Awards do not show respect to comedy movies.
The 49-year-old has been part of some comedy-drama's like "Miss Congeniality", "28 Days", "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", "The Thing Called Love" and "Love Potion No.9".
She won an Oscar in 2010 for her role in "The Blind Side".
"There's no respect for comedies when it comes to the Oscars - absolutely none. But you don't do comedy for awards or credibility. You do it for the joy," dailystar.co.uk quoted Bullock as saying.
The actress was at the red carpet of her forthcoming.
The 49-year-old has been part of some comedy-drama's like "Miss Congeniality", "28 Days", "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", "The Thing Called Love" and "Love Potion No.9".
She won an Oscar in 2010 for her role in "The Blind Side".
"There's no respect for comedies when it comes to the Oscars - absolutely none. But you don't do comedy for awards or credibility. You do it for the joy," dailystar.co.uk quoted Bullock as saying.
The actress was at the red carpet of her forthcoming.
- 8/4/2013
- by Shiva Prakash
- RealBollywood.com
Hi everyone! Today I'm pretending to be a real journalist and sitting in on ABC's sessions at the Television Critics' Association press tour in Los Angeles. Here's what I saw and heard at this morning's Nashville panel.
Even the most casual film fans might find Nashville's storylines sliiiightly familiar: an older singer touring with a younger singer (Country Strong); a struggling singer-songwriter working the bar scene (The Thing Called Love); an array of artists and businesspeople navigating show business as dramatically as... More >>...
Even the most casual film fans might find Nashville's storylines sliiiightly familiar: an older singer touring with a younger singer (Country Strong); a struggling singer-songwriter working the bar scene (The Thing Called Love); an array of artists and businesspeople navigating show business as dramatically as... More >>...
- 7/27/2012
- by Price Peterson
- TV.com
Two Avengers will be making beautiful music together in a film that won’t see them in super hero tights. That’s right, one of this year’s most anticipated film is The Avengers, slated for a May 4th release. Scarlett Johansson wears form-fitting leather as that film’s Black Widow, a spy who keeps up with the likes of Iron Man and Captain America to help defend the world against bad guys. One of her co-stars is actor Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner, a.k.a. The Hulk. But the two will be teaming up on a more musical set as well. Their other film is called Can a Song Save Your Life?’
If you recall the 2006 Irish musical film, Once, and liked it as much as I did, this should come as interesting news. Once won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and introduced Glen Hansard to Markéta Irglová,...
If you recall the 2006 Irish musical film, Once, and liked it as much as I did, this should come as interesting news. Once won the Academy Award for Best Original Song and introduced Glen Hansard to Markéta Irglová,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Sasha Nova
- Boomtron
Here are 11 fun Super Bowl commercials to watch for those of you who didn't watch the big game yesterday or that you may have missed while watching it. These don't include any of the Super Bowl trailers or any of the previous commercials we've posted. Check them out and tell us what you think!
I'll start you off with one of my favorite commercials that wasn't a movie trailer. It's for Chevy Silverado - End of the World, which was directed by Noam Murro (Smart People, 300: Battle of Artemisia)
Murro also directed the following three ads as well:
Pepsi - King's Court
Chevy Sonic - Stunt Anthem
Kia - Dream Car
This is another one of my favorites. It's a Met Life commercial featuring some of our favorite classic cartoon characters.
Samsung - The Thing Called Love - directed by Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Marry,...
I'll start you off with one of my favorite commercials that wasn't a movie trailer. It's for Chevy Silverado - End of the World, which was directed by Noam Murro (Smart People, 300: Battle of Artemisia)
Murro also directed the following three ads as well:
Pepsi - King's Court
Chevy Sonic - Stunt Anthem
Kia - Dream Car
This is another one of my favorites. It's a Met Life commercial featuring some of our favorite classic cartoon characters.
Samsung - The Thing Called Love - directed by Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Marry,...
- 2/6/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
This Halloween it will have been 18-years since River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in front of The Viper Club. In the short amount of time that the actor had on this Earth he proved to be an extraordinary talent at such a young age. I still wonder where his career would have led him. The last movie anyone saw Phoenix in was The Thing Called Love. The film is by no means a cinematic masterpiece but it's one that I really enjoy. Now it looks like we will be seeing Phoenix on-screen again....
- 10/19/2011
- by Niki Stephens
- JoBlo.com
Update: Looks like Joaquin Phoenix and the rest of the Phoenix family want nothing to do with this so maybe it won't be happening after all. We're closing in on 20 years now since the death of River Phoenix, and although the young Hollywood star had only been acting in movies for less than a decade, it's easy to forget just how many titles he actually had under his belt. Some of the highlights include Stand By Me, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, My Own Private Idaho, and Running on Empty (for which he received his only Oscar nomination), but his final film was Peter Bogdanovich's Nashville-based comedy The Thing Called Love... until now, that is. At the time of his death, Phoenix had been working on another film called Dark Blood, an apocalyptic thriller about a hermit living in the desert on a nuclear testing site awaiting the end of the world.
- 10/19/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Get ready to experience something that hasn't occurred in 18 years: a new River Phoenix movie will soon be coming to a movie theater near you.
The former child star passed away in 1993 and left one unfinished movie behind. Phoenix had been shooting "Dark Blood," an apocalyptic drama set on a nuclear testing site, before his death, and Dutch director George Sluizer is ready to finally finish the film. In fact, Sluizer believes the final cut of the movie could be ready for release next year.
He explained to The Hollywood Reporter that he is going to use editing techniques like voice over to bridge the gap over the scenes Phoenix hasn't shot. The plan is to ask Phoenix's brother, Joaquin Phoenix, to do the voice work because "the voices of both brothers are very much alike."
Sluizer sat on the footage of "Dark Blood" over the 18 years since Phoenix's death...
The former child star passed away in 1993 and left one unfinished movie behind. Phoenix had been shooting "Dark Blood," an apocalyptic drama set on a nuclear testing site, before his death, and Dutch director George Sluizer is ready to finally finish the film. In fact, Sluizer believes the final cut of the movie could be ready for release next year.
He explained to The Hollywood Reporter that he is going to use editing techniques like voice over to bridge the gap over the scenes Phoenix hasn't shot. The plan is to ask Phoenix's brother, Joaquin Phoenix, to do the voice work because "the voices of both brothers are very much alike."
Sluizer sat on the footage of "Dark Blood" over the 18 years since Phoenix's death...
- 10/19/2011
- by Terri Schwartz
- ifc.com
Blogdanovich is the blog of director, producer, writer, actor, film critic, and author Peter Bogdanovich. He has directed over 25 feature films including international award winners The Last Picture Show, What’s Up, Doc?, Paper Moon, Daisy Miller, Saint Jack, Mask; cult favorites Targets, Texasville, Noises Off, They All Laughed, and A The Thing Called Love, among stars he’s introduced: Cybill Shepherd, Tatum O’Neal, Madeline Kahn, John Ritter, Sandra Bullock; has directed stars Audrey Hepburn, Barbra Streisand, Michael Caine, Cher; best-sellers Who the Devil Made It: Who the Hell's In It, The Killing of the Unicorn; standard texts John Ford, This is Orson Welles; and was a recurring guest-star on the popular HBO series The Sopranos.
- 6/1/2011
- Blogdanovich
Is the director's cut just one big self-indulgence, or the chance for an auteur to get his vision across to the public untrammelled by the money men?
First 18 minutes had to be cut for length. Then another eight minutes went at the insistence of the studio. Six months later, the director was allowed to reinstate a minute of original footage. That was followed, 19 years later, by another seven minutes, one minute of which was – on second thoughts – removed again a few years after that.
Since it premiered in 1971, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich's nostalgic masterpiece about lust and loss in smalltown Texas, has been through three official edits and several unofficial ones. Bogdanovich now says the version to be released on 15 April finally represents his perfect vision. Almost. "Well, it's as close as it's going to get."
It was in 1974 that the term "director's cut" began to acquire...
First 18 minutes had to be cut for length. Then another eight minutes went at the insistence of the studio. Six months later, the director was allowed to reinstate a minute of original footage. That was followed, 19 years later, by another seven minutes, one minute of which was – on second thoughts – removed again a few years after that.
Since it premiered in 1971, The Last Picture Show, Peter Bogdanovich's nostalgic masterpiece about lust and loss in smalltown Texas, has been through three official edits and several unofficial ones. Bogdanovich now says the version to be released on 15 April finally represents his perfect vision. Almost. "Well, it's as close as it's going to get."
It was in 1974 that the term "director's cut" began to acquire...
- 4/8/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Sandra Bullock is one of the world's most popular, most recognizable and longest-lasting movie stars. She arrived on July 26, 1964, as Sandra Annette Bullock, the daughter of opera singer Helga Meyer and voice coach and Pentagon contractor John Bullock. Though she was born in Arlington, Virginia, Bullock actually grew up in Nuremberg, Germany, where she first dipped her toes in the entertainment waters by studying vocal arts and ballet dancing, and appearing (briefly) in some of her mother's shows. She returned to the States in the mid-70's, attending high school and then going to college at East Carolina University in North Carolina, but she exited before graduation in order to chase her acting dream. It wasn't long before Bullock -- initially based in New York City -- started to find work. She landed a role in the back-door pilot Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman...
- 4/20/2010
- by ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)
- PopStar
It's been eons since we've gotten a Peter Bogdanovich tale. Aside from some TV work and his Tom Petty documentary in 2007, there hasn't been a big-screen feature since he dug into William Randolph Hearst's dirty laundry with The Cat's Meow in 2001. And before that, The Thing Called Love in 1993. No finishing Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind (he stated last month that he didn't think editing the film would ever be possible), and no code cracking. But finally, The Hollywood Reporter posts that he will write and direct an adaptation of Kurt Anderson's novel Turn of the Century.
If anything should reinvigorate the feature career of the man who helmed Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, and Mask, and bring in a new audience, this is it. The book is a modern social satire oft-compared to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Written in...
If anything should reinvigorate the feature career of the man who helmed Paper Moon, The Last Picture Show, and Mask, and bring in a new audience, this is it. The book is a modern social satire oft-compared to Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. Written in...
- 2/10/2010
- by Monika Bartyzel
- Cinematical
Film director Peter Bogdanovich has sensationally revealed that River Phoenix's drug habit was the talk of the set of Thing Called Love, The (1993), the late star's last film. Phoenix, 23, died of a massive drug overdose on Halloween 1993 outside the Viper Room, a club part-owned by Johnny Depp, on Hollywood Boulevard Bogdanovich who romanced tragic Playboy Playmate Dorothy Stratten says that Phoenix had boundless talent, but a propensity for delving into - and almost becoming - the characters he played. The director approached Phoenix during filming when talk of the actor's possible drug use began. Phoenix denied having a drug problem claiming that he "didn't even eat meat". Phoenix played a country singer trying to make it in Nashville in the 1993 film, which co-starred Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney and Sandra Bullock. Bogdanovich says, "The irony was that the more brilliantly convincing River was in playing a self-involved, arrogant, drug- savvy, talented singer-songwriter, the more people believed that was River."...
- 1/5/2001
- WENN
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