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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker 4K Uhd from Severin Films
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 28 via Severin Films. The 1981 psychosexual horror film has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative.
Also known as Night Warning, the film is directed by William Asher (Bewitched) and written by Steve Breimer, Alan Jay Glueckman, and Boon Collins. Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Bill Paxton, and Julia Duffy star.
Special features include: commentary by McNichol; commentary by Breimer and Glueckman; commentary by co-producer Eugene Mazzola; and interviews with McNichol, Tyrrell, Svenson, Breimer, actor Steven Eastin, makeup artist Allan A. Alpone, director of photography Robbie Greenberg, and editor Ted Nicolaou.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker 4K Uhd from Severin Films
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on May 28 via Severin Films. The 1981 psychosexual horror film has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative.
Also known as Night Warning, the film is directed by William Asher (Bewitched) and written by Steve Breimer, Alan Jay Glueckman, and Boon Collins. Jimmy McNichol, Susan Tyrrell, Bo Svenson, Bill Paxton, and Julia Duffy star.
Special features include: commentary by McNichol; commentary by Breimer and Glueckman; commentary by co-producer Eugene Mazzola; and interviews with McNichol, Tyrrell, Svenson, Breimer, actor Steven Eastin, makeup artist Allan A. Alpone, director of photography Robbie Greenberg, and editor Ted Nicolaou.
- 3/22/2024
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Richard Gere and Edward Norton headline the 1996 thriller Primal Fear, which is coming to 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray in the UK.
Cast your mind back to 1996, assuming you were alive at that time, and not a toddler. This was a time when movie studios – Paramount in particular – were seeking mid-budget thrillers, which had a habit of delivering a very pleasant profit.
In the case of 1996’s Primal Fear, headlined by Richard Gere, the film also unearthed a brand new talent. That’d be Edward Norton, in his first high profile Hollywood role. For taking on the support in what could have been a disposable potboiler, he ended up scoring his first Oscar nomination for the role, and deservedly so.
There’s a lot else to like in the film, too. Gregory Hoblit was directing a bunch of mid-priced films at the time, and we’ve chatted about them and his work,...
Cast your mind back to 1996, assuming you were alive at that time, and not a toddler. This was a time when movie studios – Paramount in particular – were seeking mid-budget thrillers, which had a habit of delivering a very pleasant profit.
In the case of 1996’s Primal Fear, headlined by Richard Gere, the film also unearthed a brand new talent. That’d be Edward Norton, in his first high profile Hollywood role. For taking on the support in what could have been a disposable potboiler, he ended up scoring his first Oscar nomination for the role, and deservedly so.
There’s a lot else to like in the film, too. Gregory Hoblit was directing a bunch of mid-priced films at the time, and we’ve chatted about them and his work,...
- 2/5/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
Looking at director Gregory Hoblit’s filmography, it’s hard to not notice this man has a type and it’s not just movies starting with the letter F. Hoblit worked in the bygone era of original dramatic thrillers with storylines that occasionally bumped elbows with the horror genre. None more so than his 1996 feature debut, Primal Fear.
The film followed seemingly conscience free hot shot defense lawyer with an axe to grind, Martin Vail (Richard Gere). Vail takes on the case of altar boy Aaron (Edward Norton), who’s caught damn near red handed having allegedly brutally murdered a Catholic archbishop. Vail takes on the case because he knows it will give him the attention he craves and thereby another middle finger to the establishment that he feels wronged him. In other words, he’s driven by more than is on the surface but less than a noble cause.
The film followed seemingly conscience free hot shot defense lawyer with an axe to grind, Martin Vail (Richard Gere). Vail takes on the case of altar boy Aaron (Edward Norton), who’s caught damn near red handed having allegedly brutally murdered a Catholic archbishop. Vail takes on the case because he knows it will give him the attention he craves and thereby another middle finger to the establishment that he feels wronged him. In other words, he’s driven by more than is on the surface but less than a noble cause.
- 1/26/2024
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
Andre Braugher died of lung cancer, his longtime publicist Jennifer Allen has shared, according to the New York Times. The two-time Emmy-winning actor of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Homicide: Life on the Street died on Monday this week at the age of 61.
Allen revealed that Braugher was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. When news of his death was shared, it was shared that he died following a brief illness.
In 2014, Braugher spoke with the New York Times Magazine, which reported that he had stopped smoking and drinking years prior.
Allen revealed that Braugher was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months ago. When news of his death was shared, it was shared that he died following a brief illness.
In 2014, Braugher spoke with the New York Times Magazine, which reported that he had stopped smoking and drinking years prior.
- 12/14/2023
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
Lovecraft may have argued that the strongest kind of fear is the fear of the unknown, but there’s no denying the intellectual thrills of unraveling a good old-fashioned mystery. After all, some answers can serve to make a story even scarier, and I have a personal soft spot for horror yarns about grizzled investigators attempting to piece together a morbid puzzle.
This is precisely why I’ve been a fan of the Saw franchise from the very beginning, with the detective angle behind all the blood and guts making this gruesome franchise stand out amongst other so-called “torture-porn” movies.
And with the long-anticipated Saw X on the horizon this week, we’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six of the best investigative horror films ahead of Jigsaw’s latest killing spree. After all, sometimes it’s fun to figure out exactly why our protagonists are going...
This is precisely why I’ve been a fan of the Saw franchise from the very beginning, with the detective angle behind all the blood and guts making this gruesome franchise stand out amongst other so-called “torture-porn” movies.
And with the long-anticipated Saw X on the horizon this week, we’ve decided to come up with a list recommending six of the best investigative horror films ahead of Jigsaw’s latest killing spree. After all, sometimes it’s fun to figure out exactly why our protagonists are going...
- 9/26/2023
- by Luiz H. C.
- bloody-disgusting.com
Everyone knows about the fabled and miraculous box office run of James Cameron’s “Titanic.” The film rode a wave of rave reviews, following months of bad press related to cost overruns, release date delays and behind-the-scenes melodrama, to a record-setting 600 million domestic and 1.8 billion worldwide total. Opening with just 28 million, it spent its first 15 weekends atop the domestic box office, still a record for consecutive Fri-Sun frames.
What of the films that perished in the first months of 1998? For three straight months, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s Oscar-winning romance/disaster feature sunk most of the competition. This was 1998, when big movies were not expected to open before the May-to-August summer movie season. The film that dethroned “Titanic,” an expensive, grimdark adaptation of “Lost in Space,” was itself a surprisingly “big” movie for its early April opening weekend.
That’s not to say the films were all bad, or...
What of the films that perished in the first months of 1998? For three straight months, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet’s Oscar-winning romance/disaster feature sunk most of the competition. This was 1998, when big movies were not expected to open before the May-to-August summer movie season. The film that dethroned “Titanic,” an expensive, grimdark adaptation of “Lost in Space,” was itself a surprisingly “big” movie for its early April opening weekend.
That’s not to say the films were all bad, or...
- 2/15/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
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Taurean Blacque, who portrayed the streetwise Det. Neal Washington on all seven seasons of the acclaimed NBC cop show Hill Street Blues, died Thursday in Atlanta following a brief illness, his family announced. He was 82.
From 1989-90, Blacque played Henry Marshall opposite Vivica A. Fox and others as an original castmember on the NBC daytime soap opera Generations, the first serial to include — from the start — a Black family as part of the main storyline. His character owned ice cream parlors in Chicago.
In 1982, Blacque received a supporting actor Emmy nomination for his work as the toothpick-dependent Washington on Hill Street but lost out to co-star Michael Conrad. Amazingly, the other three nominees — Charles Haid, Michael Warren and Bruce Weitz — also came from the 1981-87 series, created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll.
Bochco and producer-director Gregory Hoblit chose Blacque to say “Previously...
Taurean Blacque, who portrayed the streetwise Det. Neal Washington on all seven seasons of the acclaimed NBC cop show Hill Street Blues, died Thursday in Atlanta following a brief illness, his family announced. He was 82.
From 1989-90, Blacque played Henry Marshall opposite Vivica A. Fox and others as an original castmember on the NBC daytime soap opera Generations, the first serial to include — from the start — a Black family as part of the main storyline. His character owned ice cream parlors in Chicago.
In 1982, Blacque received a supporting actor Emmy nomination for his work as the toothpick-dependent Washington on Hill Street but lost out to co-star Michael Conrad. Amazingly, the other three nominees — Charles Haid, Michael Warren and Bruce Weitz — also came from the 1981-87 series, created by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll.
Bochco and producer-director Gregory Hoblit chose Blacque to say “Previously...
- 7/21/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gregory Hoblit's 1996 legal thriller "Primal Fear" starred Richard Gere as a hotshot defense attorney who takes high-profile cases just so he can get his clients off on technicalities. He eagerly takes a salacious case involving a mild-mannered young man named Aaron (Edward Norton), who has been arrested for the murder of a local archbishop. As Gere investigates details of the crime, he uncovers multiple sex crimes committed by the archbishop, as well as Aaron's mental illness; he suffers from dissociative identity disorder.
Although Norton had been working in theater for several years, "Primal Fear" was his first film role. Norton, wholly committed...
The post Why Edward Norton Compared His Primal Fear Audition to The Nirvana Demo Tapes appeared first on /Film.
Although Norton had been working in theater for several years, "Primal Fear" was his first film role. Norton, wholly committed...
The post Why Edward Norton Compared His Primal Fear Audition to The Nirvana Demo Tapes appeared first on /Film.
- 5/12/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Reservoir Docs has announced its new project, a feature-length documentary about Oscar-winning cinematographer Philippe Rousselot called “A Look Through His Lens.” The independent international sales company will finance and launch worldwide sales for the film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
“A Look Through His Lens” will cover Rousselot’s life, career and cinematography techniques, which he cultivated as a director of photography for both film and digital formats. Furthermore, it will dive into the impact of his contribution to the Cinema du Look movement and how his use of image and color captivated directors worldwide. In a statement, the filmmakers said their “goal is to create a narrative that is archival and educational in nature that can be accessed for generations to come.” It’s part of Reservoir Doc’s mission to specialize in documentaries about cinema and look at how cinema is a strong reflection of our society.
“A Look Through His Lens” will cover Rousselot’s life, career and cinematography techniques, which he cultivated as a director of photography for both film and digital formats. Furthermore, it will dive into the impact of his contribution to the Cinema du Look movement and how his use of image and color captivated directors worldwide. In a statement, the filmmakers said their “goal is to create a narrative that is archival and educational in nature that can be accessed for generations to come.” It’s part of Reservoir Doc’s mission to specialize in documentaries about cinema and look at how cinema is a strong reflection of our society.
- 6/23/2021
- by Haley Bosselman
- Variety Film + TV
‘Frozen II’ will look for a third session at number one.
Shia Labeouf’s autobiographical Honey Boy and Edward Norton’s directorial debut Motherless Brooklyn are among the titles opening in a quiet weekend at the UK box office, which should see Frozen II hold the number one spot for a third week running.
Released through Sony, Honey Boy is directed by Alma Har’el, from a screenplay by Labeouf based on his childhood and relationship with his father.
The film debuted at Sundance 2019, where it won the special jury prize in the Us Dramatic section, and followed that up with...
Shia Labeouf’s autobiographical Honey Boy and Edward Norton’s directorial debut Motherless Brooklyn are among the titles opening in a quiet weekend at the UK box office, which should see Frozen II hold the number one spot for a third week running.
Released through Sony, Honey Boy is directed by Alma Har’el, from a screenplay by Labeouf based on his childhood and relationship with his father.
The film debuted at Sundance 2019, where it won the special jury prize in the Us Dramatic section, and followed that up with...
- 12/6/2019
- by 1101321¦Ben Dalton¦26¦
- ScreenDaily
Kirsten Howard Jul 17, 2019
David Oyelowo is in a race against time in Don't Let Go, a new Blumhouse thriller.
Coming at you like a mix of Gregory Hoblit's Frequency and Tony Scott's Déjà Vu, with just a little bit of Blumhouse's signature urgency, Don't Let Go will be in cinemas everywhere next month to tempt you into the dark recesses of time-altering murder-mystery goodness.
When Detective Jack Radcliff's (David Oyelowo) family is murdered under mysterious circumstances, he sinks into an understandable depression. But then, he receives a strange phone call from his late niece (Storm Reid), which seems to be coming from a time before the murders took place. Jack faces a race against time itself to unravel the unsettling mystery and prevent a death that has already happened.
Both Oyelowo and Reid had roles in last year's A Wrinkle in Time but didn't share the screen together.
David Oyelowo is in a race against time in Don't Let Go, a new Blumhouse thriller.
Coming at you like a mix of Gregory Hoblit's Frequency and Tony Scott's Déjà Vu, with just a little bit of Blumhouse's signature urgency, Don't Let Go will be in cinemas everywhere next month to tempt you into the dark recesses of time-altering murder-mystery goodness.
When Detective Jack Radcliff's (David Oyelowo) family is murdered under mysterious circumstances, he sinks into an understandable depression. But then, he receives a strange phone call from his late niece (Storm Reid), which seems to be coming from a time before the murders took place. Jack faces a race against time itself to unravel the unsettling mystery and prevent a death that has already happened.
Both Oyelowo and Reid had roles in last year's A Wrinkle in Time but didn't share the screen together.
- 7/17/2019
- Den of Geek
Mark Harrison Oct 31, 2017
Want to enhance your horror movie? Make sure you sign up a cat...
This feature contains broad spoilers for several horror movies featuring cats, including Alien, Cat People, Drag Me To Hell, Fallen, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Pet Sematary and The Voices.
The relationship between humans and cats over time has given way to a number of cultural impressions and outright superstitions. Ancient Egyptians associated them with gods. In the Middle Ages, they were linked with witches and killed en masse, which probably hastened the spread of the Black Plague through the rodent population. And in the modern day, it's interchangeably lucky or not if a black cat crosses your path.
Like anything with such a wide array of symbolic links, movies have presented cats as characters in different ways over the years. It's their abiding association with the supernatural – whether as an omen...
Want to enhance your horror movie? Make sure you sign up a cat...
This feature contains broad spoilers for several horror movies featuring cats, including Alien, Cat People, Drag Me To Hell, Fallen, A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, Pet Sematary and The Voices.
The relationship between humans and cats over time has given way to a number of cultural impressions and outright superstitions. Ancient Egyptians associated them with gods. In the Middle Ages, they were linked with witches and killed en masse, which probably hastened the spread of the Black Plague through the rodent population. And in the modern day, it's interchangeably lucky or not if a black cat crosses your path.
Like anything with such a wide array of symbolic links, movies have presented cats as characters in different ways over the years. It's their abiding association with the supernatural – whether as an omen...
- 10/29/2017
- Den of Geek
Back in 2000, the Gregory Hoblit movie “Frequency” opened to strong box-office and generally upbeat reviews. Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel played father and son crossing time via ham radio to perform gymnastics of weather, time and space — and of course gain the joy of a moving emotional closure. The CW is performing its own time-travel experiment (one of several in a nostalgia-crowded season), using Hoblit’s thriller as the source of a flawed but watchable small-screen reimagining of the original film. “Frequency” the series revels in the fanciful liberties of leapfrogging time, just as the movie did. But the producers.
- 10/5/2016
- by Michael E. Ross
- The Wrap
Lawyers in motion pictures have been portrayed as one of two extremes, devils or angels, almost since celluloid was invented. The first film dealing specifically with a law firm and attorneys, 1933’s Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore, portrayed its J.D.s as upstanding citizens, as did the early Perry Mason films of the same period. This quickly changed, however, with many attorneys portrayed as being capable of the same brand of skullduggery as their shifty clients. With that in mind, we bring you a list of the good, the bad and the ugly of lawyers in movies. Enjoy, and please refrain from suing us if you feel otherwise...
1. Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Keanu Reeves plays Kevin Lomax, a hot-shot young Florida lawyer who is all about climbing the ladder. When he gets an offer he can’t refuse from a high-powered New York firm, led by the legendary John Milton...
1. Devil’s Advocate (1997)
Keanu Reeves plays Kevin Lomax, a hot-shot young Florida lawyer who is all about climbing the ladder. When he gets an offer he can’t refuse from a high-powered New York firm, led by the legendary John Milton...
- 5/6/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
By Alex Simon
Lawyers in motion pictures have been portrayed as one of two extremes, devils or angels, almost since celluloid was invented. The first film dealing specifically with a law firm and attorneys, 1933’s Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore, portrayed its J.D.s as upstanding citizens, as did the early Perry Mason films of the same period. This quickly changed, however, with many attorneys portrayed as being capable of the same brand of skullduggery as their shifty clients. With that in mind, we bring you a list of the good, the bad and the ugly of lawyers in movies.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch became the boilerplate for the Noble Movie Lawyer in this iconic, 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s award-winning novel. Atticus Finch, a small town attorney in the Depression-era South, must defend a black man (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a white woman,...
Lawyers in motion pictures have been portrayed as one of two extremes, devils or angels, almost since celluloid was invented. The first film dealing specifically with a law firm and attorneys, 1933’s Counsellor at Law, starring John Barrymore, portrayed its J.D.s as upstanding citizens, as did the early Perry Mason films of the same period. This quickly changed, however, with many attorneys portrayed as being capable of the same brand of skullduggery as their shifty clients. With that in mind, we bring you a list of the good, the bad and the ugly of lawyers in movies.
1. To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Gregory Peck’s Atticus Finch became the boilerplate for the Noble Movie Lawyer in this iconic, 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s award-winning novel. Atticus Finch, a small town attorney in the Depression-era South, must defend a black man (Brock Peters) falsely accused of raping a white woman,...
- 4/13/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
New Line Cinema’s 2000 time travel tearjerker, Frequency, is changing its wavelength. The movie will now be reborn on the small screen thanks to a deal from NBC, who will work in cahoots with Warner Bros. Television to issue forth a series of adventures for the father and son team.
The original feature, helmed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen) and scripted by Toby Emmerich, follows a NYPD police detective (Jim Caviezel) who learns he can communicate with his now-deceased dad thirty years in the past via an old ham radio. The pic made a sizeable wedge at the box office, taking in $68 million from its $30 million budget. While not penning the series, Emmerich will stick around as executive producer for this latest iteration. Taking up the quill for the show is Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver, whose involvement will serve as part of a long-standing deal he brokered with WB.
The original feature, helmed by Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear, Fallen) and scripted by Toby Emmerich, follows a NYPD police detective (Jim Caviezel) who learns he can communicate with his now-deceased dad thirty years in the past via an old ham radio. The pic made a sizeable wedge at the box office, taking in $68 million from its $30 million budget. While not penning the series, Emmerich will stick around as executive producer for this latest iteration. Taking up the quill for the show is Supernatural showrunner Jeremy Carver, whose involvement will serve as part of a long-standing deal he brokered with WB.
- 11/13/2014
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Hollywood — "Birdman" stars Michael Keaton and Edward Norton popped into the Egyptian Theatre Saturday morning for a conversation on acting in tandem with the on-going AFI Fest. It was an enlightening and at times heady discussion on the particulars of being an actor in show business and of course the unique opportunity of Alejandro González Iñárritu's latest film. Early talk circled around each actor's introduction to the business and the moment when it clicked. Keaton, the youngest of seven (though he says nine, as his mother miscarried twice), grew up outside of Pittsburgh and wasn't discouraged at all from being a dreamer. He made his way to Hollywood with maybe $300 in his pocket after doing the comedy circuit in New York, hitting venues like the Improv and Catch a Rising Star and, on the west coast, The Comedy Store and Second City workshops. "You parked cars and tried to figure it out,...
- 11/9/2014
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
Frequency director Gregory Hoblit has been tapped to direct thriller The Good Samaritan for Atmosphere Entertainment Mm, Voltage Pictures and Sentinel Pictures. The film, based on a script by Matthew Ian Cirulnick, centers on a couple, Gabriel and Diana Carver, who, hoping to mend their troubled marriage, embark on a dream cruise in remote parts of the globe. But when they pluck a floating man from the sea who was left for dead, their good deed is immediately punished. Mark Canton, Zev Foreman, Nicolas Chartier and Adam Brawer are producing, while David Hopwood will executive produce. Voltage is financing the thriller,
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- 11/2/2014
- by Rebecca Ford, Pamela McClintock
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Americans Season 2, Episode 11 “Stealth”
Written by Joshua Brand
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Airs Wednesdays at 10pm Et on FX
For all the fantastic work The Americans and its performers do with theme and character, The Americans most underrated asset is its ability to develop intricate, layered storytelling without completely losing its audience. It makes episodes like “Stealth” – which mostly exists in between the actions of the past and future – so much more rewarding to watch, an hour that rapidly begins pulling season-long story threads together in rapid fashion.
That act alone is impressive: The Americans has quietly weaved together an intricate series of events, narrative dominoes that continue to fall in perfect rhythm throughout the length of “Stealth”, opening and closing on two people “imprisoned” in their own home (Anton in Russia, Paige in the Jennings home). In between, “Stealth” smartly folds the season’s biggest narratives in on...
Written by Joshua Brand
Directed by Gregory Hoblit
Airs Wednesdays at 10pm Et on FX
For all the fantastic work The Americans and its performers do with theme and character, The Americans most underrated asset is its ability to develop intricate, layered storytelling without completely losing its audience. It makes episodes like “Stealth” – which mostly exists in between the actions of the past and future – so much more rewarding to watch, an hour that rapidly begins pulling season-long story threads together in rapid fashion.
That act alone is impressive: The Americans has quietly weaved together an intricate series of events, narrative dominoes that continue to fall in perfect rhythm throughout the length of “Stealth”, opening and closing on two people “imprisoned” in their own home (Anton in Russia, Paige in the Jennings home). In between, “Stealth” smartly folds the season’s biggest narratives in on...
- 5/9/2014
- by Randy Dankievitch
- SoundOnSight
A review of tonight's "The Americans" coming up just as soon as the FBI has its own comic books... Midway through "Stealth," Paige announces that she feels like a prisoner in her own house, and though there are only two characters in the episode who are being physically held someplace against their will — Anton as a kept man of the Kgb, Kate tied up in her apartment by Andrew Larrick — there are an awful lot of characters who are feeling like prisoners of circumstances, and/or like they're on the verge of winding up like Kate or Anton. Leaving aside Philip and Elizabeth's usual complicated feelings about their situation — which are, other than a lot of discussion about whether to let Paige go to church camp, mostly placed on hold this week to focus on the supporting cast and moving the plot along — there's an awful lot of physical and emotional confinement going on here.
- 5/8/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Villains have always been and will always be some of the most fascinating and memorable characters in the world of genre film. Here we will take a look at the greatest villains of cinema from the 1990’s.
The criteria for this article is the same as in my previous articles Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970’s and Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1980’s: the villains must be from live-action films-no animated features-and must pose some type of direct of indirect lethal threat. The villains can either be individuals or small groups that act as one unit.
The villains must be human or human in appearance. Also, individuals that are the central protagonists/antiheroes of their respective films were excluded.
Brad Dourif as The Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990): Veteran actor Dourif is intense and unforgettable as an executed murderer inhabiting someone else’s body in...
The criteria for this article is the same as in my previous articles Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970’s and Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1980’s: the villains must be from live-action films-no animated features-and must pose some type of direct of indirect lethal threat. The villains can either be individuals or small groups that act as one unit.
The villains must be human or human in appearance. Also, individuals that are the central protagonists/antiheroes of their respective films were excluded.
Brad Dourif as The Gemini Killer in The Exorcist III (William Peter Blatty, 1990): Veteran actor Dourif is intense and unforgettable as an executed murderer inhabiting someone else’s body in...
- 8/11/2013
- by Terek Puckett
- SoundOnSight
Eddie Michaels, a respected Hollywood publicist for more than two decades, died Thursday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles after a battle with brain cancer, his wife, Lorin, said. He was 49. Michaels most recently served as a top executive at Beck Media & Marketing, joining the firm in December when it acquired his corporate advisory and communications firm Insignia Public Relations. Michaels' extensive client list over the years included actors Anjelica Huston, Noah Wyle, Lou Diamond Phillips, Drew Barrymore, Jeremy Piven, Marg Helgenberger, Mary Steenburgen, Patrick Dempsey, Jason Biggs and Dougray Scott; directors Jonathan Mostow, Andy Tennant and Gregory Hoblit;
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- 8/9/2013
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
We’re all so used to seeing the good guy win at the end of films, but in reality, it just seems unrealistic, and so often, tacked on to satisfy more casual audiences who simply want pure, silly escapism. That’s why, then, these 10 endings have stuck in our minds, in which the bad guy defeats the hero at the end, with the viewer still feeling satisfied, arguably more so than had everything been neatly tied up.
It goes without saying, of course, that massive spoilers lie ahead…
10. Primal Fear
Edward Norton delivers a masterful, Oscar-nominated performance as Aaron Stampler, the seemingly shy and retiring altar boy who ends up being accused of murdering an archbishop. It’s Norton’s searing turn that keeps us on edge, preventing us from twigging the sublime twist ending to Gregory Hoblit’s cracking thriller, in which it turns out that, yes, Aaron was the bad guy all along.
It goes without saying, of course, that massive spoilers lie ahead…
10. Primal Fear
Edward Norton delivers a masterful, Oscar-nominated performance as Aaron Stampler, the seemingly shy and retiring altar boy who ends up being accused of murdering an archbishop. It’s Norton’s searing turn that keeps us on edge, preventing us from twigging the sublime twist ending to Gregory Hoblit’s cracking thriller, in which it turns out that, yes, Aaron was the bad guy all along.
- 10/29/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Exclusive: Veteran director Gregory Hoblit has signed with ICM Partners. Hoblit was the go-to director of Steven Bochco in the 1980s and 1990s. He helmed the pilots and multiple episodes of Bochco’s dramas La Law and NYPD Blue and comedies Hooperman and Cop Rock. He received Emmy nomination for his directing work on all four pilots, winning for La Law and Hooperman. (As a producer, Hoblit also shared in Hill Street Blues‘ four best drama Emmy awards.) On NYPD Blue, Hoblit, who was at Wme, pioneered the “loose camera” look that is used today. His feature credits include Hart’s War and Frequency.
- 10/8/2012
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
*full disclosure: a Blu-Ray screener of this film was provide by Warner Bros. Director: Gregory Hoblit. Writer: Nicholas Kazan. Cast: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, Embeth Davidtz, Gretta Milano, James Gandolfini, and Elias Koteas. Tagline: "Detective John Hobbes is searching for a criminal he's already met...already caught...and already killed." Fallen is a supernatural thriller that was originally released in 1998. In 1998, this film was released in theatres to large crowds. The cast including: Denzel Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland and Elias Koteas were likely the reason for such a great debut. Recently, this title has been released on Blu-Ray for the first time as of August 14th. This reviewer has seen this title a few times now. And, horror fans might remember a story of Detective Hobbes (Washington) fighting a demonic force. This force is formless and able to inhabit bodies at will. This demon, named Azazel, has to follow a.
- 8/17/2012
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Chicago – Warner Brothers likes to pull handfuls of titles out of their immensely deep catalog and they’ve come back with a unique, interesting wave of releases at low prices to spice up your Summer this year. The films have little in common (although several could be classified as sci-fi) and vary wildly in quality but all are likely to have a fan or two out there wondering why they haven’t been released on Blu-ray. Now they have.
Altered States
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
“Altered States”
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Director Ken Russell passed away last year leaving critics and movie lovers to continue to debate his unique style and best pictures. Personally, I’ve always been a fan of his 1980 adaptation of the legendary Paddy Chayefsky novel “Altered States,” featuring one of William Hurt’s most fearless and interesting performances. It’s both classic Russell in its unique style and a...
Altered States
Photo credit: Warner Bros.
“Altered States”
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Director Ken Russell passed away last year leaving critics and movie lovers to continue to debate his unique style and best pictures. Personally, I’ve always been a fan of his 1980 adaptation of the legendary Paddy Chayefsky novel “Altered States,” featuring one of William Hurt’s most fearless and interesting performances. It’s both classic Russell in its unique style and a...
- 7/11/2012
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Following in the dastardly footsteps of Alan Rickman, William Sadler, Jeremy Irons and Timothy Olyphant, Cole Hauser has just joined the cast of A Good Day To Die Hard, in a villainous capacity.Deadline reports that his character will be called Collins, although there are no other details so far. Collins Gruber? Unlikely, we're saying. And we should perhaps be cautious, since he's being described as a villain, and not explicitly the villain, so he may turn out to be a henchman yet. Sebastian Koch and Yuliya Snigir were also announced last month as antagonists. Who's working for whom?This will be the third time Hauser has worked with Bruce Willis, since he's also in Antoine Fuqua's Tears Of The Sun, and Gregory Hoblit's Hart's War. This time out, the pair are being directed by John Moore (Max Payne), and A Good Day To Die Hard involves John...
- 5/9/2012
- EmpireOnline
Veteran filmmaker John Badham is ready to get back on the feature saddle again. He’s in talks to take on In The Rough, written by Leslie Boehm (the man who’s given us Dante’s Peak, Daylight and The Darkest Hour). Rough is an action-adventure concerning a retired hunter, a female Red Cross employee and a CIA agent searching for priceless jewels in the Indian jungles. Adventure ensues [Moviehole].
Badham began his career in the early 70s directing television, both episodes and movies, until 1977, when he broke out as a film director with Saturday Night Fever. Since then he’s helmed a vast variety of entertainment, at least one of which you probably love. His films range from Short Circuit to WarGames to Stakeout to the Point Break-wannabee Drop Zone (which is a personal guilty pleasure).
In the mid-90s he gave us Nick of Time, a mildly interesting Johnny Depp...
Badham began his career in the early 70s directing television, both episodes and movies, until 1977, when he broke out as a film director with Saturday Night Fever. Since then he’s helmed a vast variety of entertainment, at least one of which you probably love. His films range from Short Circuit to WarGames to Stakeout to the Point Break-wannabee Drop Zone (which is a personal guilty pleasure).
In the mid-90s he gave us Nick of Time, a mildly interesting Johnny Depp...
- 2/24/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Steven Spielberg has Diane Keaton to thank for opening his eyes to the work of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. The director happened to see Keaton's TV movie "Wildflower" in 1991 and liked the photography so much, he hired Kaminski to shoot a TV movie for his company, Gregory Hoblit's "Class of '61." From there the two collaborated on 1993's "Schindler's List" and the rest was history. Kaminski has shot 11 of Spielberg's features since, working almost exclusively with the director. "War Horse" is the latest example of their combined visual eye, a sweeping epic with nods to classic cinema and a fierce...
- 12/15/2011
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
New to Netflix Streaming On Monday August 1st: The Dirty Dozen (Nr | 1967)
Flickchart Ranking: #392
Times Ranked: 20571
Win Percentage: 46%
How Many Top-20′s: 34 Users
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Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Charles Bronson • Jim Brown • John Cassavetes • Richard Jaeckel • Robert Ryan
Genres: Adventure • Ensemble Film • War • War Adventure
Studios/Franchises: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills
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Lethal Weapon (R | 1987)
Flickchart Ranking: #477
Times Ranked: 187567
Win Percentage: 46%
How Many Top-20′s: 756 Users
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Directed By: Richard Donner
Starring: Gary Busey • Mel Gibson • Danny Glover
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Police Detective Film • Odd Couple Film • Holiday Film
Studios/Franchises: Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2 is also available to stream.
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (PG | 1970)
Flickchart Ranking: #4976
Times Ranked: 1337
Win Percentage: 54%
How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users
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Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Robert Stephens • Colin Blakely • Tamara Toumanova • Christopher Lee • Geneviève Page
Genres: Detective Film • Mystery • Romance • Romantic Mystery
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Spaceballs (PG | 1987)
Flickchart Ranking: #493
Times Ranked: 233515
Win Percentage: 45%
How Many...
Flickchart Ranking: #392
Times Ranked: 20571
Win Percentage: 46%
How Many Top-20′s: 34 Users
________________________________________________
Directed By: Robert Aldrich
Starring: Charles Bronson • Jim Brown • John Cassavetes • Richard Jaeckel • Robert Ryan
Genres: Adventure • Ensemble Film • War • War Adventure
Studios/Franchises: AFI’s 100 Years…100 Thrills
• • • • • • • •
Lethal Weapon (R | 1987)
Flickchart Ranking: #477
Times Ranked: 187567
Win Percentage: 46%
How Many Top-20′s: 756 Users
________________________________________________
Directed By: Richard Donner
Starring: Gary Busey • Mel Gibson • Danny Glover
Genres: Action • Action Thriller • Police Detective Film • Odd Couple Film • Holiday Film
Studios/Franchises: Lethal Weapon
Lethal Weapon 2 is also available to stream.
• • • • • • • •
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (PG | 1970)
Flickchart Ranking: #4976
Times Ranked: 1337
Win Percentage: 54%
How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users
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Directed By: Billy Wilder
Starring: Robert Stephens • Colin Blakely • Tamara Toumanova • Christopher Lee • Geneviève Page
Genres: Detective Film • Mystery • Romance • Romantic Mystery
• • • • • • • •
Spaceballs (PG | 1987)
Flickchart Ranking: #493
Times Ranked: 233515
Win Percentage: 45%
How Many...
- 8/1/2011
- by Daniel Rohr
- Flickchart
Opening and closing with a whole lotta soul (literally), The Lincoln Lawyer fills the middle with something that feels oddly archaic: courtroom drama. It’s been a good while since we’ve been entertained by slick lawyers. Blame it on the recession and a general dislike for those in expensive suits, blame it on Hollywood’s (and the public’s) fascination with toys and superheroes above all else, blame it on whatever you’d like, it feels strange when the most recent courtroom drama that garnered satisfactory reviews is Gregory Hoblit’s just-okay Fracture. Sure, one can make the argument that The Social Network counts, but recall that the lawyers were not the stars of that one. Here they’re front and center.
Directed by Brad Furman and starring Matthew McConaughey in a role our good Creator bore him to play, The Lincoln Lawyer tells of Mickey Haller (McConaughey), a...
Directed by Brad Furman and starring Matthew McConaughey in a role our good Creator bore him to play, The Lincoln Lawyer tells of Mickey Haller (McConaughey), a...
- 3/16/2011
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Some 36 hours after he closed a deal to direct TNT's untitled Allan Loeb pilot, Gregory Hoblit has exited the cop drama starring Steven Weber and D.L Hughley over a clash with creator-executive producer Loeb. Emmy winner Hoblit, who has directed the pilots for such series as L.A. Law and NYPD Blue, made the deal without meeting Loeb. I hear he then sent notes to Loeb, some of them subjective but most pertained to time/budget cuts and ways to whip the script into shape with 3 weeks left until production start date. Loeb was reportedly "insulted" by the notes, which he described as hypercritical and arrogant, and gave producing studio Lionsgate TV an ultimatum that "it's either him or me". The studio asked Hoblit to apologize to Loeb. Hoblit, against the advice of agents and lawyer, called the studio and resigned, forfeiting the six-figure directing fee he would've kept had he opted to get fired.
- 11/15/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Former Dexter director-producer Michael Cuesta, who most recently helmed the pilot for CBS' cop family drama Blue Bloods, has signed on to direct Showtime's drama pilot Homeland, a psychological thriller from former 24 showrunner Howard Gordon based on an Israeli format. In other notable recent pilot director signings, former Six Feet Under director-executive producer Alan Poul has been tapped to direct and executive produce TNT's drama pilot Perception starring Eric McCormack as a brilliant neuroscientist helping the FBI, Gregory Hoblit (Untraceable) is set to direct another TNT pilot, the untitled Allan Loeb cop drama project starring Steven Weber and D.L Hughley, which is based on Marshall Karp's novel The Rabbit Factory. On the broadcast side, Danny Cannon has come on board to direct Fox's drama pilot Alcatraz. The gig marks Cannon's first collaboration with J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot, which is co-producing the pilot with Warner Bros. TV. Cannon,...
- 11/13/2010
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Untraceable director Gregory Hoblit just can’t stay away from crime, it would seem – at least on screen. According to The Wrap, he’s now attached to make heist drama Robbing The Grave. Karl Gajdusek and Predators co-writer Michael Finch have crafted the script, whose story is sadly locked in one of those Hollywood vaults where screenplay concepts are kept until big name actors get a glance at them. But it’s been described as Ocean’s Eleven meets One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, which you can translate however you wish.Oh, and there’s also the tagline: “Everyone’s going to die, but it’s how you get there that matters.” Yeah, cheers for that. Really clears a lot up about the plot. Sounds more like a chapter from a darker-than-usual self-help book, and doesn't give much away really.There’s no word on any casting or even studio involvement yet,...
- 11/9/2010
- EmpireOnline
Gregory Hoblit is attached to direct the heist drama "Robbing the Grave," the filmmaker's representation at Wme has confirmed to TheWrap. Karl Gajdusek and Michael Finch wrote the spec script, which It's On the Grid describes as a cross between "Ocean's 11" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The official logline is being kept under wraps, though according to Iotg, the film carries the tagline: "Everyone's going to die, but it's how you get there that matters." BenderSpink will produce the project, while is currently out to buyers. Hoblit is best known for...
- 11/9/2010
- The Wrap
Photos from Tamara Drewe, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Inception, Resident Evil: Afterlife, Predators, Iron Man 2, The Illusionist and Ryan Reynolds on the set of Green Lantern.
"Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Sundance feature "Howl" starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters and VOD on September 24th..." (full details)
"Hulu.com, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24th. The site will continue to provide for free the five most recent episodes of shows but those who want to see additional episodes would pay $9.95 a month to access a more comprehensive selection..." (full details)
"Asked about the apparent "Midnight Run" sequel, Robert De Niro days "Yes, we're gonna do, hopefully, a sequel. The script is pretty good. I don't think [Martin Brest] would...
"Oscilloscope Laboratories has acquired U.S. distribution rights to Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman's Sundance feature "Howl" starring James Franco as Allen Ginsberg. Oscilloscope will release the film in theaters and VOD on September 24th..." (full details)
"Hulu.com, the popular online site for watching television shows, plans to begin testing a subscription service as soon as May 24th. The site will continue to provide for free the five most recent episodes of shows but those who want to see additional episodes would pay $9.95 a month to access a more comprehensive selection..." (full details)
"Asked about the apparent "Midnight Run" sequel, Robert De Niro days "Yes, we're gonna do, hopefully, a sequel. The script is pretty good. I don't think [Martin Brest] would...
- 4/22/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
-- Zooey Deschanel is Ada Lovelace in "Enchantress of Numbers," a new biopic about the math genius directed by Bruce Beresford. Billy Crudup co-stars as her husband William King, while Toby Jones has been cast as mathematician and philosopher Charles Babbage. [Production Weekly]
-- "Lost" actor Daniel Dae Kim is keeping busy. He's already signed on for the "Hawaii Five-o" television remake and now he's slated to star in "Deathgames" as a Kendo master opposite the previously cast Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz. [Heat Vision]
-- "Asskicking western" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind when thinking of Bobcat Goldthwait, but the comedian and director is looking to develop just that with a brand new action/adventure story about "crooked cops, unavenged murders, injustice, discrimination and drag." [Slash Film]
-- Sony Pictures has dreamed up a way to tackle "I Dream of Jeannie" by hiring "The United States of Tara" scribe Sheila Callaghan to...
-- "Lost" actor Daniel Dae Kim is keeping busy. He's already signed on for the "Hawaii Five-o" television remake and now he's slated to star in "Deathgames" as a Kendo master opposite the previously cast Samuel L. Jackson and Kellan Lutz. [Heat Vision]
-- "Asskicking western" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind when thinking of Bobcat Goldthwait, but the comedian and director is looking to develop just that with a brand new action/adventure story about "crooked cops, unavenged murders, injustice, discrimination and drag." [Slash Film]
-- Sony Pictures has dreamed up a way to tackle "I Dream of Jeannie" by hiring "The United States of Tara" scribe Sheila Callaghan to...
- 4/21/2010
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
Hairspray's Brittany Snow has been tapped for the leading role in 96 Minutes. The independent drama follows two college girls held hostage by high-school-aged hijackers. I'm assuming the title refers to the amount of time the hijacking takes place, and not the time into the movie in which my bladder decides the extra-large Diet Coke from concessions was a bad idea. [Variety] David Beckham will join Barbara & Co., on The View this Wednesday to talk about being injured, hot topics, and...oh, who are we kidding? We don't care about the chit-chat -- we just want to look at him. [AP] Director...
- 4/21/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
Gregory Hoblit will direct and produce an untitled Castle Rock drama written by Frank Baldwin, says The Hollywood Reporter . In the film, an au pair, a reformed Harlem drug dealer, three Princeton graduates and a ruthless Chilean drug lord cross paths after a kilo of cocaine is stolen. Hoblit's credits include Fracture , Frequency , Primal Fear , Hart's War , Untraceable and Fallen .
- 4/21/2010
- Comingsoon.net
Gregory Hoblit is set to direct as well as produce an untitled Castle Rock drama. Frank Baldwin wrote the sccreenplay which follows an au pair, a reformed Harlem drug dealer and three graduates from Princeton who cross paths with a ruthless drug lord from Chile after a kg of cocaine is stolen. Hoblit also directed the potent "Frequency" as well as "Primal Fear," "Hart's War," "Untraceable" and Denzel Washington starrer "Fallen." TV-wise, his credits include "NYPD Blue" and "L.A. Law." Baldwin's "When Corruption Was King" screenplay is over at Temple Hill Entertainment. Other projects include adapting true-crime stories "The Art of Making Money" and "Tokyo Underworld" at Paramount.
- 4/21/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Gregory Hoblit will direct and produce an untitled Castle Rock drama written by Frank Baldwin.
Hoblit helmed Castle Rock's "Fracture," which New Line released in 2007. In the new project, an au pair, a reformed Harlem drug dealer, three Princeton graduates and a ruthless Chilean drug lord cross paths after a kilo of cocaine is stolen.
Castle Rock president Liz Glotzer is overseeing for the company.
Repped by Wme and Benderspink, Hoblit also directed the features "Frequency," "Primal Fear," "Hart's War," "Untraceable" and "Fallen" as well as episodes of "NYPD Blue" and "L.A. Law." He is developing the graphic novel "Pencilneck," written by Victor Carungi.
Repped by Wme and Leverage Management, Baldwin landed his script "When Corruption Was King" on last year's unofficial Black List of most-liked screenplays. That project is with Temple Hill Entertainment.
He also has adaptations of two true-crime stories, "The Art of Making Money" and "Tokyo Underworld,...
Hoblit helmed Castle Rock's "Fracture," which New Line released in 2007. In the new project, an au pair, a reformed Harlem drug dealer, three Princeton graduates and a ruthless Chilean drug lord cross paths after a kilo of cocaine is stolen.
Castle Rock president Liz Glotzer is overseeing for the company.
Repped by Wme and Benderspink, Hoblit also directed the features "Frequency," "Primal Fear," "Hart's War," "Untraceable" and "Fallen" as well as episodes of "NYPD Blue" and "L.A. Law." He is developing the graphic novel "Pencilneck," written by Victor Carungi.
Repped by Wme and Leverage Management, Baldwin landed his script "When Corruption Was King" on last year's unofficial Black List of most-liked screenplays. That project is with Temple Hill Entertainment.
He also has adaptations of two true-crime stories, "The Art of Making Money" and "Tokyo Underworld,...
- 4/20/2010
- by By Jay A. Fernandez
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Grisham was king of the novel-to-movie adaptation, a title stolen briefly from the hands of Stephen King, law dramas would hit theaters every year and would consistently entertain. As the Hollywood system is wont to do, the introduction of Grisham-films to the theatrical sphere spurred a mass exodus of other legal dramas from the page to the screen. But then there was a lull. It seemed for quite a while that stories about court cases were best shown on television – or maybe it was that audiences were inundated with Law & Order spin-offs to the point that no one wanted to pay to see them in theaters – who knows. The point is, when Fracture rolled around in 2007 it actually seemed fresh. Absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.
But the heart is fickle; or rather, the heart isn’t so easily fooled by the peak-a-boo antics of a film genre.
But the heart is fickle; or rather, the heart isn’t so easily fooled by the peak-a-boo antics of a film genre.
- 7/7/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
DVD Playhouse—March 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly,...
By
Allen Gardner
Let The Right One In (Magnolia) An awkward 12 year-old boy, ignored by his mother and the target of bullies, finds himself drawn to his new neighbor: a girl his own age who only appears at night, and seems herself to be as lonely an outcast as he. Haunting film from Sweden is best described as The 400 Blows meets Nosferatu, and contains some of the most haunting imagery of any film in recent memory. Truly a unique and memorable work. Bonuses: Deleted scenes; Featurette; Photo and poster gallery. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.
Paramount Centennial Collection Paramount offers two more classic titles, restored, remastered and loaded with extras. Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch A Thief stars Cary Grant as a retired jewel thief trying to enjoy his sunset years on the French Riviera with a minimum of drama, until he catches the eye of a high-maintenance heiress (Grace Kelly,...
- 3/11/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Back in the day before every award season became seemingly bogged down with somber, serious holocaust dramas and the Oscar-baiting music industry biopic, the quickest way to the top of the prestige ladder circa mid-nineties was via the courtroom drama. There was no surer way to garner critical acclaim and mass audience swooning than a fist pounding "objection" on a mahogany legal bench. As Nicholson famously espoused, we "can't handle the truth," but as an audience, before syndicated cable TV beat the concept to death, we were suckers for it. Enter: Primal Fear.
High-class Chicago attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) believes in the letter and the spirit of the law. It doesn't matter to him if his defendant is a mob racketeer suing the state on a trumped up police brutality beef, it's all about the principle (and 40% of any settlement, of course). A Catholic Archbishop is brutally hacked to death in his mansion,...
High-class Chicago attorney Martin Vail (Richard Gere) believes in the letter and the spirit of the law. It doesn't matter to him if his defendant is a mob racketeer suing the state on a trumped up police brutality beef, it's all about the principle (and 40% of any settlement, of course). A Catholic Archbishop is brutally hacked to death in his mansion,...
- 3/5/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- JustPressPlay.net
Primal Fear is one of those films I felt I was the only one that liked it. So, when a brand new special edition release comes out on DVD and Blu-ray simultaneously with all brand-new featurettes it caught me a bit off guard. I felt there was no way these featurettes were going to be of any real substance. I mean, this is a film from 1996 and I never hear anyone talk about it. Yet, this is a release you must pick up if you are one of those closet fans and especially if you have never seen it because this film blows the doors off. For those that don't know this was Ed Norton's first feature film and really served as a breakout role for Laura Linney who had been in a few films prior but Primal Fear ensured her status as a great actress. On top of those two,...
- 2/24/2009
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
The blog entry "In Search of Redemption" inspired an outpouring of reader comments remarkable not only for their number but for their intelligence and thought. It became obvious that many of us go to the movies seeking some sort of release or healing. Many of you mentioned titles that especially affected you; two of my most-admired films, "Hoop Dreams" and "Grave of the Fireflies," were frequently listed. You all had your reasons. Now Ali Arikan, a longtime contributor to this site, has written me about why he was so affected by a relatively unlikely title, "The Out-of-Towners." His reasons were personal; he can post them below if he chooses to. But in connection with his explanation, he quoted the first paragraph of one of my reviews.
It was for "Frequency" (2000), Gregory Hoblit's movie about a man who uses a freak of his dad's old ham radio to be able...
It was for "Frequency" (2000), Gregory Hoblit's movie about a man who uses a freak of his dad's old ham radio to be able...
- 7/3/2008
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the DVD release of Untraceable , which stars Diane Lane, and Colin Hanks. The Gregory Hoblit directed crime thriller will be available to own on May 13 and should retail at around $28.95. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. Extras will include a filmmaker commentary, and 4 behind the scenes featurettes. A Blu-ray release will also be available for $38.96. This will include the above, along with a picture-in-picture feature that includes storyboards, production pics, and behind the scenes footage.
- 3/14/2008
- bloody-disgusting.com
- 2006 was a relatively tame year when it came to sexy men in indie and foreign features. While some of the gentlemen below deserve Adonis honors (namely number's ten, two, and one), this year's most memorable men are not receiving praise for their abdominal muscles, but instead (gasp) for their talent? Hollywood seems to have the monopoly on the drool worthy D's - Depp, Damon, DiCaprio, but it's the mix of indie faces, some fresh, some familiar, that win our minds then our hearts. From drag queens to dictators, 2006 was full of characters and this list has them all, both on and off the screen. 10. George Clooney 2006: People Magazine voted him Sexiest Man Alive yet again and the A-list star shows no signs of stopping his actor/director/producer/bachelor ways. With Steven Soderbergh's, The Good German and the establishment of his new production company Smoke House, Clooney spent the year in uniform,
- 2/21/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
Colin Hanks, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross and Mary Beth Hurt will join Diane Lane in Lakeshore Entertainment's thriller Untraceable.
Penned by Allison Burnett (The Feast of Love) from an original screenplay by Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker, the film follows FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Lane) as she races against time to track down a ruthless online predator. Hanks will play Lane's FBI partner, while Cross takes on the role of the film's villain. Burke is the love interest of Lane's character, and Hurt plays the mother of Lane's character.
Gregory Hoblit, whose credits include Frequency and Fallen, will direct the film, which begins shooting next month in Portland, Ore.
Lakeshore chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg and president Gary Lucchesi are producing alongside Andy Cohen and Steven Pearl.
Screen Gems will release the film domestically.
Hanks, who starred in Orange County opposite Jack Black, also appeared in Peter Jackson's King Kong. He next will appear in the comedies Buck Howard and Homeland Security.
Burke is a recurring character on Fox's 24. His film credits include Without Limits and Ladder 49.
Penned by Allison Burnett (The Feast of Love) from an original screenplay by Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker, the film follows FBI agent Jennifer Marsh (Lane) as she races against time to track down a ruthless online predator. Hanks will play Lane's FBI partner, while Cross takes on the role of the film's villain. Burke is the love interest of Lane's character, and Hurt plays the mother of Lane's character.
Gregory Hoblit, whose credits include Frequency and Fallen, will direct the film, which begins shooting next month in Portland, Ore.
Lakeshore chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg and president Gary Lucchesi are producing alongside Andy Cohen and Steven Pearl.
Screen Gems will release the film domestically.
Hanks, who starred in Orange County opposite Jack Black, also appeared in Peter Jackson's King Kong. He next will appear in the comedies Buck Howard and Homeland Security.
Burke is a recurring character on Fox's 24. His film credits include Without Limits and Ladder 49.
- 1/31/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Diane Lane is set to star in Screen Gems and Lakeshore Entertainment's Untraceable with Gregory Hoblit attached to direct. Lakeshore plans to sell the film at next month's American Film Market. Untraceable, which centers on an FBI cyber cop (Lane) as she races to track down a ruthless online predator, will begin shooting in February. Lakeshore chairman and CEO Tom Rosenberg will produce along with Lakeshore president Gary Lucchesi. Andy Cohen and Steven Pearl also will produce. The final script was written by Allison Burnett (The Feast of Love) from an original screenplay by Robert Fyvolent and Mark R. Brinker. Lane, who received an Academy Award nomination for best actress for Unfaithful, stars in Focus Features' Hollywoodland.
- 10/17/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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