Renny Harlin

Wrestling star to lead Fiesta Bowl Parade

The Business Journal of Phoenix (Free subscription) | yesterday

World Wrestling Entertainment champion John Cena will serve as grand marshal for the 39th Annual Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl Parade.

Andy Garcia as Mikheil Saakashvili

World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009

Andy Garcia plays Saakashvili in Renny Harlin's Georgia Harlin's anti-war film about the 2008 war in the Caucasus began shooting in Georgia at the weekend Andy Garcia in the role of Mikheil Saakashvili in the presidential office in Tbilisi In the hot seat … Andy Garcia, in the role of...

Crank (2006)

Foolish Blatherings (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Does it look like I got cunt written on my head? Who do you think you are fucking with? – Chev Chelios The high intensity action movie Crank was never my kind of movie. I am the big action anti-hero movie kind of guy. Directors Neveldine/Taylor has a reputation of having a buffed anti-hero kicking ass and [...]

Kevin Carr’s Weekly Report Card for 11.13.09

Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

Kevin Carr heads out to the movies this week, making a stop in a fox hole with the Fantastic Mr. Fox, and then moving on to the end of the world.

Real life stories from the film front line

The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009

It is a slow Saturday afternoon in the Loews beachfront hotel in Santa Monica, California, midway through the American Film Market (AFM). These are tough times in the independent film world.

Solipsist acquires 'Full Moon Fever'

Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009

Solipsist Films acquires the rights to Joe Casey's graphic novel Full Moon Fever.

'Cliffhanger' Bound for Blu-ray

High-Def Digest: All Hig (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

Whatever you do, don't look down when this nineties thriller climbs onto the high-definition format in the new year. Sony is slating up the Sylvester Stallone thriller 'Cliffhanger' also starring John...

• 'Cliffhanger' Bound for Blu-ray - High-Def Digest: Blu-ray Disc News

Sony's New Hollywood Set Delayed; the original Scent of a Woman premieres on DVD; and more

Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009

While Sony's Rita Hayworth set got a new release date (23 February) for its delay, no date has been listed for the now-delayed New Hollywood box set , which most notably contains the US DVD premiere of Jack Nicholson's Drive, He Said . Sony's Film Noir Classics, Volume 1 released today, but it looks as though Volume 2 has also been postponed indefinitely. Hen's Tooth Video, however, announced the first...

Last Action Hero and Cliffhanger (US BD) in January

DVD Times (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Blu-Ray News: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of two catalogue titles on 12th January 2010. Priced at $24.95 SRP each is the Schwarzenegger action-comedy Last Action Hero and the Stallone action thriller Cliffhanger. ...

Georgia to bounce back with 25% rebate

Variety.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

International News: Country also boasts diverse landscape, culture -- Georgia is determined to bounce back after the shock of a short, but violent, war against Russia in August 2008.

Emmanuelle Chriqui: Georgia

Right Cinema (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009

Get the latest casting news on on Entourage’s Emmanuella Chriqui. Georgia is where she will appear next in the lead role opposite her co-star Val Kilmer. Actress Emmanuella Chriqui, who is known or her role as Sloan on Entourage, has signed on to star as a student caught up in the middle of a [...]

Harlin talks Georgia and cast

Filmstalker (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009

Georgia is the latest film from Renny Harlin, a film that sounds far from the usual titles associated with the man who brought us Die Hard 2, Cliffhanger, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Deep Blue Sea, and the other version of Exorcist: The Beginning, however he's lining up an interesting cast to a thriller set against the very real world of the Russian and Georgian conflict in 2008. The film will see Andy...

Are We Seeing The Rise Of Alzheimer's Horror? [Horror]

io9 (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

It's the ultimate terror: The number of people with Alzheimer's and other age-related dementia will double in the next 20 years . And we're starting to see more horrific tales about forgetting, or people losing their personalities. Welcome to Alzheimer's horror. As near as I can find out, there's only one horror movie that actually involves Alzheimer's directly: in Renny Harlin's Deep Blue Sea (1999)...

Renny Harlin Takes Val Kilmer and Emmanuelle Chriqui to Georgia

/Film (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

We wrote a couple months ago about Renny Harlin's upcoming film about the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia. Now, as then, I'm interested in the film to see if Harlin can take what made a few of his films really entertaining (I'm thinking of Cliffhanger, Deep Blue Sea and The Long Kiss Goodnight) and apply it to something that isn't so flashy. Can he come up with a film that's actually good?...

Chriqui and Kilmer Join War Film

Atomic Popcorn (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009

Here’s a recipe for … well, I’m not sure what dish this will make, but it’ll certainly be interesting: Emmanuelle Chriqui, a recurring actor on Entourage, and Val Kilmer (Tombstone) have joined forces with director Renny Harlin for the leading roles in Georgia, Harlin’s new war film. According to THR, the film centers around “an American [...]