Filed under: Other Reality Shows , Sports , TV on the Bigscreen , Reality-Free If you are counting the seconds until the new big screen remake of American Gladiators hits a theater near you, please seek immediate medical attention or the nearest clergyman for guidance. Screenwriter Peter Iliff has developed a script for the project. The TV tough guys and gals will be turned into "superheroes"...
Jeff Wells at Hollywood Elsewhere directs us to the following two minute clip from The Hurt Locker with commentary from director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal. The Hurt Locker hits DVD and Blu-ray on January 12, click here for more on each release.
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Our hip Madam Speaker was spotted on First Avenue this week, enjoying herself at corner coffee shop Tarallucci e Vino, while Senator Schumer stocked up on groceries at the Brooklyn Costco. Meanwhile, Luke Wilson took a date to Nello, and Da Silvano’s heated sidewalk seating drew the week’s biggest bold-faced crowd: A-Rod, Sean Lennon, and Wolfgang Puck. Elsewhere, Ramona Singer cried over...
You don’t need to witness battles on the screen to understand the horrors and complexities of war, as evidenced by screenwriter Oren Moverman’s incredible directorial debut, “The Messenger.” Will Montgomery (Ben Foster) has returned from the war in Iraq a decorated hero, but, with multiple injuries, he must serve out the final three months of his tour stateside. Relegated to...
Baby did a bad, bad thing: Lieutenant McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) during a reflective moment in the midst of his usual drinking, leching, and lying. It's difficult to enter into Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans expecting a comedy. That's despite a title more ridiculous and unwieldy than even a CSI spin-off would accept, and a trailer that features star Nicolas Cage waxing rhapsodic on his lucky...
One of the things about language that fascinates me most is that so much of translation is really just a science of digesting a saying comfortably into another tongue. For instance, the phrase me gusta – delineating one liking a person, place, or thing and often translated to mean I like –actually translates literally to mean gives me pleasure . So when I falter on my attempts at vegetarianism...
I love every film by director Werner Herzog I've seen, starting with 1982's Fitzcarraldo and culminating most recently in his wonderful if sad Grizzly Man . I like Nicolas Cage a lot, especially when the actor is at his most histrionic in such offbeat movies as Peggy Sue Got Married , Raising Arizona and Face/Off . I do not like the new Herzog-Cage collaboration, Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans...
After the American Gladiators made a huge television comeback on NBC with all new events and red, white and blue clad, muscle-bulging athletes, the next logical step was to somehow adapt it into a feature length motion picture as we reported earlier this year. Now it looks like the project is making some headway as Variety reports screenwriter Peter Iliff, (Point Break, Patriot Games) will write the...
I was at Games Day back in September when they were handing out these innocuous postcards.. I grabbed one in passing and stuffed it into my bag without paying much attention to it. About an hour later, while sitting having my 8th cup of coffee for the morning, I fished it out and looked at what it said- Ultramarines - A Warhammer 40,000 Movie. I decorated the table with cheap coffee when it registered....
Ethan Hawke reteams with his ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 screenwriter James DeMonaco for the latter's directing debut with this independent drama focusing on three New Yorkers (Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Seymour Cassel) whose lives intersect in the shadow of the Big Apple.
Plot Summary movie "2012" Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. "2012" is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors. 2012 Movie Detail Studio : Columbia Pictures (Sony) MPAA Rating : Not Available Starring : John...
Screenwriter Peter Iliff ( Patriot Games , Varsity Blues ) will pen the live-action big screen version of American Gladiators , reports Variety . The story, which will feature the Herculean characters as superheroes, will be based on the TV show that first aired in 1988 and has been broadcast in more than 90 countries, with the format adapted for the local market in 14 of them. Scott Mednick (upcoming...
The Twilight Saga New Moon (also known as Twilight 2) is an American Romantic fantasy film of 2009. It is based on novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer and is the thriller to 2008 Twilight that based on Meyer’s past novel. Summit Entertainment made the thriller in November 2009, following the early success of Twilight. It is directed by Chris Weitz and starring by Kristen Stewart as Bella...
Paramount Pictures has hired School of Rock screenwriter Mike White to script Santa Wars, a comedy based on the true story which appeared on This American Life in December 2008. The story, written by Joshuah Bearman, told of two rival factions that developed within a union of professional Santa Clauses, which resulted in a "Santa Claus civil war." White is best when put in the dark comedy...
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