News for
Adrian Lyne More at IMDbPro »

2009 | 2008 | 2002 | 2001 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997

15 articles from 2009

---

Exclusive Interview: Director Of Zombieland

30 September 2009 6:38 PM, PDT | ScreenStar | See recent ScreenStar news »

Ruben Fleischer never particularly cared for zombie films, and he's not much of a horror film aficionado, either. But when he signed on to make his feature directing debut with Zombieland, Fleischer -- who's graduating from commercials, music videos, and documentaries -- turned to a trio of hip flicks for inspiration: 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, and the Zack Snyder version of Dawn of the Dead. "I was definitely intent on making a modern zombie movie," Fleischer said during a recent exclusive telephone interview. "The big reference points, from a scary perspective, were 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead, and from a funny perspective, it was Shaun of the Dead. [28 Days Later director] Danny Boyle kind of reinvented [the zombie genre] with the fast-moving zombies and the more viral-based history of the disease, as opposed to being more supernatural. I think Zack Snyder made a really fun movie and visually [took a] step forward with Dawn of the Dead. »

- ianspelling@corp.popstar.com (Ian Spelling)

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Lists of Doom Xxv: Evil J of Otep

16 September 2009 12:28 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It's been only six months since we launched Lists Of Doom here at Fangoria Musick, and here we are with the 25th installment!

For the quarter-mark, we've got Jason McGuire, better known to metal fans as "Evil J", bassist/backing vocalist for one of my favorite bands, Otep. Currently touring in support of their recently-released album Smash The Control Machine, J took time out to share the details on his ten favorite fright films. J said it was hard to choose just ten, but we were able to get it narrowed down.

Here's Evil J's List Of Doom...

1. Creepshow (1982) Dir. George A. Romero

A childhood favorite. I've watched this movie every year on my birthday since I was 10.  It is the greatest collection of short horror stories ever.   It made me hate cockroaches and I never wanted to look under the stairs, but it is all good, because it’s Father’s Day, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

Permalink | Report a problem

---

'Lolita' Invades America: Wake-Up Video

18 August 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »

The idea that a novel could come out and be really, truly shocking and scandalous simply because of its content is a fairly remote notion circa 2009. There are certainly memoirs and Hollywood tell-alls that stir up a bit of controversy, but generally speaking the only fiction books that ever make any noise are the ones that cross over into the more general pop culture conversation (and also tend to be aimed at kids — your "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" books). But on August 18, 1958, Vladimir Nabokov's now-legendary novel "Lolita" was first published in America (having already been published in France and Russia three years prior). The book caused an incredible stir, and it's not shocking to see why: The book follows the thoughts of narrator Humbert Humbert, a professor from Paris who is obsessed with young women. He moves to a small American town and ends up seducing a 12-year-old girl »

- Kyle Anderson

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Top 7 Book to Film Adaptations

23 July 2009 3:08 PM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »

We start the Top 7. You finish the Top 10.

With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opening last week, I thought I’d take a look back at my favorite book to film adaptions. This means I had to have read the book and seen the film, so I can’t weigh in on The Thin Man, though it’s one of my favorite films. I also steered clear of The Prestige because though I’ve read and enjoyed both, they’re so dissimilar it doesn’t really feel like a true adaption. Sorry, no Harry Potter film has made the list. I haven’t felt that any of the films have lived up to the books, even the most recent. But with Julie and Julia and one of my favorite books, The Time Traveler’s Wife coming out next month maybe it will change in the future.

7. Battle Royale

Book by Koushun Takami, »

- Megan Lehar

Permalink | Report a problem

---

[DVD Review] Fatal Attraction

11 June 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Between this film and Basic Instinct, you’d be tempted to assume Michael Douglas was making his bread playing alternatively put-upon or predatory every-men involved in high-stakes lust games with gorgeous women. In the case of Fatal Attraction however, the woman in question is Glenn Close, who few people would expect when considering a bombastically unhinged romantic interest. Where Paul Verhoeven infused his work with cautionary sexual energy, here director Adrian Lyne deals with the ennui of an ordinary married life and the tense body-wrecking pull of an affair. Lyne’s work has always dealt with questions of the mind and the body (he made the steamy Nine 1/2 Weeks and the generally underrated Jacob’s Ladder before and after this film, respectively, following up with Indecent Proposal), and he approaches thriller elements from a subdued standpoint, leading up to a shocking climax on a scene-by-scene basis. Fatal Attraction is likely his most famous film, »

- Mark Zhuravsky

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Fatal Attraction Blu-ray Review

9 June 2009 2:46 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »

I was blissfully oblivious to the media sensation that Fatal Attraction sparked upon release in 1987. I did see the movie, on a date in fact, while in high school and enjoyed it for what it was worth but did not think much about it afterwards. Beyond that I have been marginally aware of its existence (it has become so culturally iconic, it would be hard not to be) and figured I must have caught it on cable or a rental. However after racking my brain, I realized that my recent viewing of Paramount's new Blu-ray release is the first time I have seen the thriller in 22 years. Of course this begs the question "how does it hold up?" I would say pretty well though I have some reservations. I am definitely better suited to appreciate the adult nature of the film. My recollections of Fatal Attraction were mostly vague impressions of sex scenes, »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

[DVD Review] Indecent Proposal

9 June 2009 9:57 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Much in the way that Basic Instinct the previous year had Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs and the whole world hitting the pause button to the exclusion of everything else in the movie, Indecent Proposal was a film that rode to success on a single, solitary aspect of itself – the premise. Indecent Proposal ran with the oh-so nineties idea of a down-on-their-luck couple, David and Diana (Woody Harrelson and Demi Moore), facing financial ruin only to be offered a lifeline by billionaire industrialist John Gage (Robert Redford). Gage offers to pay them $1 million for one night with her, thus putting the question to couples all over the world – what would you do? In a time before the internet and our tabloid culture had erased the word taboo from our vocabulary, this became dinner-party catnip for the sexually repressed masses.

While this simple tale of true love and sanitized prostitution marketed »

- Neil Pedley

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Dysfunctional Marriages Go Blu: 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Fatal Attraction'

9 June 2009 2:13 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Adrian Lyne is arguably the king of modern day dysfunctional marriage movies. Even though I haven't seen 9 1/2 Weeks or Lolita -- in which a man marries his landlady so he can take advantage of her daughter -- I know from Unfaithful, Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction he has the genre nailed. Of course Flashdance and Jacob's Ladder are a couple of sidesteps, but you can't expect a guy to always delve into the darkness of matrimony... but it sure seems like he tries. Paramount is releasing both Indecent Proposal and Fatal Attraction on Blu-ray on June 9 bringing two more of Lyne's notable features to high-definition following Fox's release of Unfaithful back in January. Neither of these two releases comes with any supplemental material you haven't seen before. Indecent Proposal coming with a lone commentary track by Lyne and Fatal Attraction includes all the features that were released on the 2007 Collector's »

- Brad Brevet

Permalink | Report a problem

---

DVD Playhouse--June 2009

3 June 2009 12:41 PM, PDT | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »

DVD Playhouse—June 2009

By

Allen Gardner

The International (Sony) An Interpol agent (Clive Owen) joins forces with a Manhattan D.A. (Naomi Watts) to bring down an arms dealing ring and a corrupt global banking cartel that’s funding them. Superlative thriller was oddly ignored by critics and audiences alike, but expertly blends intelligence (courtesy screenwriter Eric Warren Singer’s masterfully-crafted script) and full-throttle action (director Tom Tykwer stages one of the great film shoot-outs in New York’s iconic Guggenheim Museum), making this dynamite thriller reminiscent of the best work from masters such as John Frankenheimer and Robert Aldrich. Armin Mueller-Stahl is wonderful as a world-weary covert op. Bonuses: Extended scene; Featurettes; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 5.1 surround.

The Jack Lemmon Film Collection(Sony) Five films from the two-time Oscar winning actor, focusing on his early career: Phfft! is a zippy comedy from 1954, one of Lemmon’s earliest films, in which »

- The Hollywood Interview.com

Permalink | Report a problem

---

First Look Review: Tell Tale

4 May 2009 2:01 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »

No Fricking Kidding-- "Tell Tale" Tribeca Premiere Causes Audience Member To Have A Heart Attack! Holy Sh**!!!!!!! I just caught the premiere of the Tony and Ridley Scott produced Tell Tale at the Tribeca Film Fest and I’m still shaking. Both from the film--- and from what fucking happened during the screening. Holy shit, what a film. And I kid you not. It was so intense, about ten minutes from the end after one of the most traumatic sequences, some dude in the audience literally had a heart attack. For Real. The film was paused for half an hour while the paramedics came and attended to the poor guy, who was taken out a stretcher. After the film came back on for yet another shocking ten minutes, I asked around and it seems that the gentlemen in question will be okay. (Prayers And Blessings For A Full Recovery) I »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Kim Basinger's emotional Mickey Rourke reunion

18 April 2009 6:58 PM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Elizabeth McNeill's erotic novella "9 1/2 Weeks" was adapted for the screen by director Adrian Lyne and starred Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke, both actors in their physical prime. Mickey Rourke's character John pushes Kim Basinger's character Elizabeth to the breaking point with increasingly stressful sexual demands. Although Kim Basinger and Mickey Rourke both star in the film, "The Informers", it was an emotional red carpet reunion for them at last night.s premiere. Since they don.t share any screen time in their new movie, Rourke reveals to .Extra. that he .was very nervous coming here. I haven.t seen [Basinger] in 23 years.. The stars of 1986.s cult classic, Basinger and Rourke share a special bond and Basinger »

- April MacIntyre

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Jacob's Ladder Movie Review

5 March 2009 8:00 PM, PST | MoviesOnline.ca | See recent MoviesOnline news »

This is an oldie, and, seemingly a forgotten one, but an absolute goodie. I say forgotten because nobody seems to know what the hell I'm talking about when I bring up the film's title. Hell (no pun intended...well, maybe it was a bit) nobody even chimes in and says "You mean that biblical thing?" Nothing. So, I'm here to fill the gap. Released in 1990, Jacob's Ladder was directed by the same dude who did 9 1/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne) and starring a very young-looking Tim Robbins, amongst a number of other big actors including Liz Pena, Danny Aiello, Ving Rhames, George Costa... »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Close Was Pregnant When She Shot Violent Fatal Attraction Death

5 March 2009 2:00 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Glenn Close struggles to watch her character's violent death in 1987 movie Fatal Attraction - because she was pregnant when she shot the chilling scene.

Close was called back to the set six months after the film had wrapped, because director Adrian Lyne was unhappy with the ending - in which the actress' psychotic character committed suicide.

Instead she was called upon to fight with co-stars Anne Archer and Michael Douglas, before her character Alex Forrest was shot dead.

The simulated struggle was so violent, Close was knocked out when her head was accidentally smashed against a mirror.

She was horrified when she later discovered she was pregnant with her daughter Annie.

Close reveals, "I got concussion. I didn't know I was pregnant at the time. I found out later. It was Ok though." »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Unfaithful Blu-ray Review -- Infidelity and the Price of Pleasure

17 February 2009 | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »

Adrian Lyne is one of those directors best known for his soft core approach to many projects. Raised in the British commercial school, he emerged, like Ridley Scott, Hugh Hudson and Alan Parker as one of the proto-mtv voices that created a sub-genre unto itself. Lyne directed some huge hits, many of which were dismissed for their content, films like Flashdance, 9 ½ Weeks and Fatal Attraction. Some saw art in Jacob’s Ladder, but most saw Demi Moore rolling in a pile of money for Indecent Proposal. It’s hard to say if he matured, or that Lolita changed him. His 1997 film attempted to best Kubrick (arguably he didn’t), but he got something of the Nabakov book that didn’t interest Stanley’s vision. Lyne may be at his best when he has sympathy for those who may not deserve it, those with bad and forbidden longings in their heart. »

Permalink | Report a problem

---

Blu-Ray Round Up, Jan. 28, 2009: ‘Hulk Vs.,’ ‘Antwone Fisher,’ ‘Repo,’ ‘Stargate’

28 January 2009 12:32 PM, PST | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – We’re back with our recurring feature, the Blu-Ray Round Up, a collection of HD releases that might have slipped through the cracks but that could grab your attention. With dozens of catalog titles and straight-to-video releases hitting the next-gen format every week, it’s easy to miss a movie that you’d love to add to your collection. The Blu-Ray Round Up is here for you.

This edition of the Round-Up focuses its laser gaze on six titles from two companies, a series of four catalog releases from Twentieth Century Fox and a pair of new titles from Lionsgate. “Antwone Fisher,” “Drumline,” “Hulk Vs.,” “Repo!: The Genetic Opera,” “Stargate: The Ark of Truth,” and “Unfaithful” - an Oscar nominee, Denzel Washington, Bruce Banner, and Paris Hilton. Where else would you find a line-up like that?

“Stargate: The Ark of Truth” was released on January 13th, 2009.

“Antwone Fisher, »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

Permalink | Report a problem

---

2009 | 2008 | 2002 | 2001 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997

15 articles from 2009

---