Thanks to Vic for the heads up. Lucas Black and Cary Elwes are set to star opposite Sam Shepard in Epix's first pilot, "Tough Trade." Meanwhile, Garrett Dillahunt has landed a co-starring role on Greg Garcia's comedy pilot for Fox, "Keep Hope Alive." "Trade," from Lionsgate TV, exec producer/showrunner Jenji Kohan and co-exec producer/creator Chris Offutt, is a contemporary...
Fun With Ethnic Stereotypes : Fox has teamed up with Matthew McConaughey to develop an animated comedy about his brother's life. Rooster Tales will focus on a good ol' boy sheriff who marries a much younger woman from Mexico and doesn't know that with his wife comes her 114 member family. Variety doesn't say, but it sounds like Carlos Mencia might be one of the writers. [ Variety ] The O.C. with Iranians...
Please take a moment to look at this synopsis for a movie called "Brothers," with Natalie Portman, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Tobey Maguire: When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that will shake the foundation of the entire family. BROTHERS tells the powerful story of two siblings, thirtysomething...
Natalie Portman visiting David Letterman Nov 25 2009. "Portman is the eye in the hurricane of Brothers, a love-triangle family drama set against - and ignited by - the war in Afghanistan. Director Jim Sheridan's recasting of the 2004 Danish film Brodre for a U.S. context, it bristles with American trauma. Anger and guilt sizzle in every direction - brother-brother, soldier-soldier, father-son...
Former LIBERTINES star CARL BARAT is set to make his London stage debut - opposite JUDE LAW's ex-wife SADIE FROST.He will star in Sam Shepard's play Fool For Love at the...
Sam Shepard's three-act, three-hour "A Lie of the Mind" restlessly roams the human condition, mapping out ways in which people function in families, in romantic relationships and in the world. It's an enormously difficult play, all the more so because...
Walerian Borowczyk's Behind Convent Walls [ Interno di un convento ], often regarded as the quintessential nunsploitation film, will finally make its way to the US via Cult Epics on 30 March. Cult Epics will also release it in a set entitled The Nunsploitation Convent Collection with Norifumi Suzuki's School of the Holy Beast and a bonus disc tracking the illustrious history of the nunsploitation sub-genre....
Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal and Natalie Portman– you couldn’t ask for a better cast of actors with Sam Shepard and Mare Winningham in supporting roles. I hear the little girl, Bailee Madison, who plays the daughter is extraordinary too. The film opens December 4, 2099 and be ready for some intense emotion. You’ll see Tobey Maguire play an unlikely [...]
"Producers Sigurjon Sighvatsson and Michael De Luca both saw a movie that would work in America, with a war still raging in Afghanistan. They thought the central brother drama would travel. But take a carefully wrought naturalistic drama shot with hand-held digital cameras and add an American writer, Irish director and Hollywood movie stars to the equation, and a delicately calibrated souffle...
Natalie Portman gorgeous in blue at New York screening of "Brothers". This film has a major cast, including Tobey Maguire, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan and Natalie Portman, to name a few. Here's the official synopsis of "Brothers" When a decorated Marine goes missing overseas, his black-sheep younger brother cares for his wife and children at home—with consequences that...
Continuing my series of posts assessing the best films of the decade, today I spotlight my favorite films of 2001. Some reminders: I cannot judge movies I haven't seen, so if you feel a film you like was unjustly left out, it might be that I haven't seen it; also, if I already wrote a review for it, I'll simply link back to the review. Since I was late with this one, I'll be posting these once a week...
Acclaimed actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard is set to star in Lionsgate's "Tough Trade," the first original series pilot for EPIX, the new multi-platform entertainment service from Viacom Inc., its Paramount Pictures unit, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM) and Lionsgate which launched October 30, 2009. With a creative team led by executive producer and showrunner...
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