Casino Royale
Directed by John Huston, Val Guest and co.
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and co.
U.S.A., 1967
With the mad success of the James Bond films as produced by partners Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and (Canadian) Harry Saltzman, which had run from 1962’s Dr. No to 1965 Thunderball, it was only natural for the Hollywood system to create a great number of other spy genre pictures. After all, like it or not, copycats make for good business, oftentimes regardless of the quality of the films themselves. Without the shadow of a doubt, the most curious imitator of them all, one that has earned, for both right and wrong reasons, a cult status throughout the decades, was the brainchild of producer Charles K. Feldman. Determined to cash in on the 007 craze, Feldman did not just make a copycat of Bond, he tried to make a Bond film, albeit one...
Directed by John Huston, Val Guest and co.
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and co.
U.S.A., 1967
With the mad success of the James Bond films as produced by partners Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and (Canadian) Harry Saltzman, which had run from 1962’s Dr. No to 1965 Thunderball, it was only natural for the Hollywood system to create a great number of other spy genre pictures. After all, like it or not, copycats make for good business, oftentimes regardless of the quality of the films themselves. Without the shadow of a doubt, the most curious imitator of them all, one that has earned, for both right and wrong reasons, a cult status throughout the decades, was the brainchild of producer Charles K. Feldman. Determined to cash in on the 007 craze, Feldman did not just make a copycat of Bond, he tried to make a Bond film, albeit one...
- 11/5/2015
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
With the November midterm elections less than a month away, Barack Obama and Joe Biden are back in Los Angeles this week to raise more Hollywood cash amid concerns that the Democrats could lose their majority in the U.S. Senate. Biden will arrive this afternoon for an evening cocktail reception with Nancy Pelosi at the Brentwood mansion of Fox Filmed Entertainment chief Jim Gianopoulos. The event, called "When Women Succeed America Succeeds," is being co-hosted by Jeffrey Katzenberg, Peter Chernin, Barry Meyer, Hope Warschaw, John Law and James L. Brooks. (The event will include a special performance
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- 10/6/2014
- by Tina Daunt
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Published way back in 1831, Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been adapted countless times over the years and turned into a handful of feature films and stage plays. Now our old pal Quasimodo is headed for the small screen. Read on for details!
Variety reports that director Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, Captivity) has teamed up with FremantleMedia to develop a miniseries titled "Ugly," which is based on Hugo's iconic novel. It will be an eight-part adaptation set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
The miniseries will begin with the birth of a boy to an aristocratic family. The boy is deformed, and his family abandons him by the roadside in a basket, where he is discovered by a troupe of traveling actors. They name him "Ugly."
The story follows Ugly into adulthood, exploring the nature of beauty and ugliness, what it means to be human,...
Variety reports that director Roland Joffe (The Killing Fields, Captivity) has teamed up with FremantleMedia to develop a miniseries titled "Ugly," which is based on Hugo's iconic novel. It will be an eight-part adaptation set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
The miniseries will begin with the birth of a boy to an aristocratic family. The boy is deformed, and his family abandons him by the roadside in a basket, where he is discovered by a troupe of traveling actors. They name him "Ugly."
The story follows Ugly into adulthood, exploring the nature of beauty and ugliness, what it means to be human,...
- 3/17/2014
- by John Squires
- DreadCentral.com
Casino Royale
Directed by John Huston, Val Guest and co.
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and co.
U.S.A., 1967
With the mad success of the James Bond films as produced by partners Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and (Canadian) Harry Saltzman, which had run from 1962’s Dr. No to 1965 Thunderball, it was only natural for the Hollywood system to create a great number of other spy genre pictures. After all, like it or not, copycats make for good business, oftentimes regardless of the quality of the films themselves. Without the shadow of a doubt, the most curious imitator of them all, one that has earned, for both right and wrong reasons, a cult status throughout the decades, was the brainchild of producer Charles K. Feldman. Determined to cash in on the 007 craze, Feldman did not just make a copycat of Bond, he tried to make a Bond film, albeit one...
Directed by John Huston, Val Guest and co.
Written by Wolf Mankowitz, John Law and co.
U.S.A., 1967
With the mad success of the James Bond films as produced by partners Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli and (Canadian) Harry Saltzman, which had run from 1962’s Dr. No to 1965 Thunderball, it was only natural for the Hollywood system to create a great number of other spy genre pictures. After all, like it or not, copycats make for good business, oftentimes regardless of the quality of the films themselves. Without the shadow of a doubt, the most curious imitator of them all, one that has earned, for both right and wrong reasons, a cult status throughout the decades, was the brainchild of producer Charles K. Feldman. Determined to cash in on the 007 craze, Feldman did not just make a copycat of Bond, he tried to make a Bond film, albeit one...
- 11/10/2012
- by Edgar Chaput
- SoundOnSight
Drunk in The Falls! Click above to Listen Now! Law and Moreno head out on their great Canadian road trip and make a pit-stop in Niagara Falls to add big brother, John Law to the show for insight and poop stories. John Travolta goes on trial for Movie Jail, everybody waits impatiently for the halfway break of 'Breaking Bad', and John drops the truth about what happened the night Jim crapped his pants at a Cheech & Chong double feature. Stay classy, Niagara. We...
- 9/4/2012
- by Jim Law
- JoBlo.com
[1] You might already know that 2006's Casino Royale, starring Daniel Craig, was the second attempt to make a feature film out of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel -- the first being the widely panned 1966 spoof starring David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress. What you probably didn't know is that at one point during its development, the 1966 film was a serious treatment penned by "the Shakespeare of Hollywood," Ben Hecht. And by one account, Hecht's script could've been one of the best Bond movies ever made. Read more after the jump. A Casino Royale adaptation had been in the works as early as 1954, but it was in the early '60s that the project finally fell into Hecht's hands. Hecht was an acclaimed writer who'd worked (credited or uncredited) on movies like His Girl Friday, Gone with the Wind, the 1932 Scarface, and various Alfred Hitchcock...
- 3/10/2011
- by Angie Han
- Slash Film
Today when you visit Google's homepage the usual Google logo has been replaced with a Will Eisner-inspired doodle to celebrate his birthday. Click on the logo and you’ll find a treasure trove of information about the iconic comic book creator.
Eisner was born on March 6, 1917 and died back in 2005. He is perhaps best known for the character The Spirit, which did, for better or for worse, get the feature film treatment, but he also crafted such classic characters as John Law, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Black Hawk, Uncle Sam, and countless others.
Eisner is known as the father of the graphic novel and he was one of the founding creators of the actual comic book bringing the art form from Sunday newspapers into what we know as comic books today [...]...
Eisner was born on March 6, 1917 and died back in 2005. He is perhaps best known for the character The Spirit, which did, for better or for worse, get the feature film treatment, but he also crafted such classic characters as John Law, Sheena: Queen of the Jungle, Black Hawk, Uncle Sam, and countless others.
Eisner is known as the father of the graphic novel and he was one of the founding creators of the actual comic book bringing the art form from Sunday newspapers into what we know as comic books today [...]...
- 3/6/2011
- by Culturesmash
- Geeks of Doom
I spied a young cowboy, all wrapped in white linen
Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay.
Right around 1876, our man Seth Bullock settled in to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Seth was quick to put the lawman life behind him, keep things simple and let the public course guide itself. But an outlaw town, a settlement run by cutthroats and thieves, paid for by the sweat of the whores' cheap-bought love and a well-fixed game of dice is no place for a man with a conscience. Temptation might be an evil word in the good Lord's book, but it means the same to men that can't help but leap to the defense of the helpless. Seth Bullock might not have been the best man, but he was certainly the right man. And in a place like Deadwood, the right man lasts a good bit longer.
Wrapped up in white linen and cold as the clay.
Right around 1876, our man Seth Bullock settled in to the town of Deadwood, South Dakota. Seth was quick to put the lawman life behind him, keep things simple and let the public course guide itself. But an outlaw town, a settlement run by cutthroats and thieves, paid for by the sweat of the whores' cheap-bought love and a well-fixed game of dice is no place for a man with a conscience. Temptation might be an evil word in the good Lord's book, but it means the same to men that can't help but leap to the defense of the helpless. Seth Bullock might not have been the best man, but he was certainly the right man. And in a place like Deadwood, the right man lasts a good bit longer.
- 2/10/2011
- by Dustin Rowles
According to the National Board Of Economic Research, the current financial crisis can now be properly termed a recession. Still, it has nothing on the Great Scene Of Folly. Former speculator John Law decided to introduce bank notes to France in the 18th century by selling shares in the Mississippi Company, which issued notes guaranteed by the Crown, and promised a big payout after a Louisiana expedition. The upper classes rewarded Law's supposed foresight (and his 40 percent returns) by making him Controller General Of Finances, which allowed him to further tinker with the country's economy in order to protect his company. Yet in spite of furious speculation, his frantic issuing of new shares couldn't make up for the absence of true profit; Law was lucky to leave the country with his head intact, and the resulting fallout was a major contributor to the French Revolution. While it...
- 12/11/2008
- by Ellen Wernecke
- avclub.com
Jessica Simpson's attempts to perform country music have been heavily panned by a live music critic. John Law, who writes for the Niagara Falls Review, described Simpson's concert in Ontario, Canada as "bizarre". "It might be unfair calling Jessica Simpson's show at the Avalon Ballroom Wednesday a train wreck - at some point, a train knows where it's going," wrote the critic. Law continued: "[Simpson] is still living in a reality show, (more)...
- 8/29/2008
- by By Alex Fletcher
- Digital Spy
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