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Auto of the week: R142A New York City subway car from The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
28 July 2009 3:35 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
The New York subway system has long provided an underground playground for Hollywood and we’re back there again this week in new Tony Scott thriller, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 in which armed men, led by John Travolta’s Ryder hijack a New York subway train, taking the passengers hostage with train dispatcher Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) acting as desperate negotiator. Following in the footsteps of the 1974 version starring Walter Matthau, it’s the second adaptation of the Morton Freedgood novel (writing under the pen name John Godey) and is updated for today’s audiences featuring contemporary technology, a post 9/11 social climate and interestingly, more modern subway cars. Yes, even the trains are different…
Many subway films recreate the locations on studio soundstages (check out our rundown of the top NYC subway movie moments here), but Tony Scott and his crew were truly authentic for this subterranean saga actually shooting on active tracks. »
The Taking of Pelham 123 Review
19 June 2009 1:38 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Anyone wondering why Sony Pictures chose to remake 1974’s The Taking of Pelham One Two Three will still be asking themselves the same question after sitting through the 2009 version. Tony Scott’s Pelham 1 2 3 is almost a carbon copy of the original, only with minor changes for the worse. The revamped adaptation of John Godey’s novel is a familiar ride that often substitutes style for substance.
Scott’s kinetic camera captures all the intensity of a rail control center as Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) directs subway traffic under New York City. Colored blips of rail cars traversing the sub-city landscape are about as exciting as watching a slowly moving Lite-Brite. This riveting action is spliced with high-energy cuts of an organized team positioning themselves on the subway platform. You’ll know it’s them because they’re the only ones sinister enough to wear sunglasses underground.
The armed men hijack »
- Jeff Leins
"The Taking Of Pelham" Fails To Take Box Office Top Spot From "The Hangover"
14 June 2009 11:34 PM, PDT | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The killer "Hangover" remains unbeatable at the box office. The John Travolta-Denzel Washington power cast "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" couldn't overcome the comedy film and the Disney/Pixar offering "Up."
"Pelham," a remake of the 1974 thriller and based on Morton Freedgood's 1973 novel, already covered one-fourth of its reputed 0 million budget in its first weekend. Not bad for Travolta and Washington, whose films did not often steer into the top of the charts.
"Up" was down 30.9 percent from last week but still has enough balloons to float on second place with an additional .5 million, while "The Hangover" manages to cling onto the top spot with another .4 million, bringing its total gross to 5.4 million.
Eddie Murphy's comedy fantasy film "Imagine That" fails to capture the audience's imagination with a paltry .7 million, while Will Ferrell's "Land of the Lost" was down 51.4 percent with .6 million.
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Trainiac!
12 June 2009 8:35 AM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
There are two conditions for getting maximum enjoyment out of Tony Scott's "re-imagining" of "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" starring Denzel Washington as a dispatcher negotiating with subway hijacker John Travolta.
First, try to put aside memories of the original 1974 movie -- "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" with Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw in approximately the Washington and Travolta roles.
Scott's film wisely goes out of its way to »
- By LOU LUMENICK
Comparing The Takings of Pelham 123
12 June 2009 6:27 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
Today, Tony Scott's rendition of The Taking of Pelham 123 hits theaters. Lovers of Pelham subway-related film will know that the movie is based on a novel by Morton Freedgod (psuedonym: John Godey), in which four armed men hijack a New York City subway train and hold its hostages for ransom. It's been made into a film twice before: Once in Joseph Sargent's 1974 film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three starring Walter Matthau, and again as a 1998 TV movie starring Edward James Olmos. As a fan of Joseph Sargent's original film, I thought it might be interesting to compare his version with Scott's new version, as I think some of the choices Scott made are pretty fascinating. If you haven't seen the original, I'd suggest you watch before you read this, as I think it's a great film that still holds up today. For obvious reasons, this »
- David Chen
'Taking of Pelham 1 2 3' Cheat Sheet: Everything You Need To Know
12 June 2009 3:51 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
We fill you in on the hijacked-train story's long history.
By Eric Ditzian
Denzel Washington in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3"
Photo: Sony Pictures
So far this summer movie season, we've had comic book heroes, futuristic space adventurers and wickedly hungover partygoers. What we haven't yet seen in the warm months of 2009 is a straight-up, high-intensity thriller.
All that will change Friday (June 12) when "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" speeds into theaters. It will be 90 minutes of Denzel Washington vs. John Travolta, overseen by veteran thrill-master Tony Scott ("Man on Fire," "Enemy of the State"). Denzel plays a flabby subway dispatcher who gets pulled into an incident of domestic terrorism when Travolta's Fu Manchu'd villain hijacks a New York subway car and threatens to start killing passengers.
The big-screen skirmish between two Hollywood heavyweights might have you gripping your chair with clammy palms, but there's no reason to sweat before you head into the theater. »
The Taking of Pelham 123 (review)
11 June 2009 8:33 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Forget about the 1974 movie of the same name. I’m not putting it down: I’m saying, Whether you’ve seen it or not, whether you like it or not, doesn’t matter. This nominal remake (same title, same premise, mega-updated for 21st-century NYC and 21st-century movies)? It’s good. Damn good. Like this good: I’ve been waiting for a Die Hard movie to actually come close to approximating the spectacular cinematic experience that Die Hard was more than 20 years back, and the 2009 Taking of Pelham 123 is the first movie to get real close to that. It’s always a question when it comes to remakes: Why remake this particular movie, and why remake it now? And director Tony Scott (Deja Vu, Domino) and screenwriter Brian Helgeland (Man on Fire , The Order) -- working from the same novel by John Godey [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] that was the basis for the first film »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Review: The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Is All Talk—and That's Ok
11 June 2009 8:12 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Review in a Hurry: Anyone expecting a typical big-budget Tony Scott action movie should be forewarned—about 80 percent of this subway heist flick consists of close-ups on John Travolta and Denzel Washington talking over an intercom. Fortunately, it's every bit as compelling as if they were shooting guns the whole time. Plus, the other 20 percent? Car crashes. The Bigger Picture: The third adaptation of John Godey's 1973 novel—Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw costarred in a 1974 movie, while a 1998 TV version pitted Edward James Olmos against Vincent D'Onofrio—gives the material a modern twist. No longer just a mercenary, the subway hijacker known only as "Ryder" (Travolta) is now an evil Wall »
The Timing of "Pelham 1 2 3"
10 June 2009 7:23 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
I first saw Joseph Sargent's original "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" at Film Forum less than a month before September 11th. The theater's later revival of the classic 1974 heist movie unspooled two weeks after the blackout of 2003. The coincidental timing of both engagements reinforced what makes Sargent's film (with a script by Peter Stone, based on John Godey's 1973 novel) one of the best movies about New York City: a group of disparate Gotham cranks, weirdoes and hotheads come together in the face of disaster. The original "Pelham" may have been made during the era when President Ford told the city, reeling from crime and near-bankruptcy, to "drop dead," but the passengers aboard that hijacked subway car and the team of negotiators led by Walter Matthau's grumpy Transit Authority cop proved they weren't going down without a few up-yours to the quartet of hoods who messed with them. »
- Melissa Anderson
Exclusive Video: Denzel Washington Conducts The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
9 June 2009 5:26 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, a New York City subway dispatcher draws on his extensive knowledge of the subway system in order to outsmart a dangerous criminal mastermind who's hijacked a subway train in this remake of the 1974 thriller inspired by John Godey's best-selling book. Walter Garber (Denzel Washington) was drifting through his daily routine when he received word that a heavily armed gang of four had hijacked a subway train and were now holding all of the passengers hostage. Led by the cunning master thief Ryder (John Travolta), the gunmen will begin executing everyone aboard should the authorities fail in delivering a sizable ransom in the space of just one hour. With the tension in the tunnels rising, Walter races to save the hostages before the shootings start. But through it all, there's one part of Ryder's plan that Walter can't quite comprehend: Even if the thieves do succeed in getting their money, »
Denzel Washington Attends 'The Taking of Pelham 123' L.A. Premiere
5 June 2009 1:36 AM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
The Los Angeles premiere of action-thriller movie "The Taking of Pelham 123" on Thursday, June 4 was a star-studded event with its leading actor Denzel Washington in attendance. The Walter Garber depicter was seen smiling to the cameras as he hit the red carpet of the event in white shirt, gray coat and matching pants. He finished off his look with a pair of white sneakers.
Obviously absent from the movie premiere held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood, CA was Denzel's co-star John Travolta. "I spoke to him three weeks ago," said Denzel of John, who is still in mourning following the death of his young son Jett Travolta early this year.
Also seen attending the affair were the likes of Bai Ling, AnnaLynne McCord, Taraji P. Henson, and Clifton Collins Jr. Reality TV star and socialite Kim Kardashian, actresses Aisha Tyler, Maggie Q, Melinda Clarke, and Cloris Leachman were also »
- AceShowbiz.com
"The Taking of Pelham 123" - New film and interview clips!
3 June 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Movie Jungle has new interview and film clips in from "The Taking of Pelham 123," starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. The remake of the 1974 film is helmed by Tony Scott. Brian Helgeland adapts the screenplay from the novel by John Godey. Catch this on June 12th. In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs »
"The Taking of Pelham 123" - New film and interview clips!
3 June 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Movie Jungle has new interview and film clips in from "The Taking of Pelham 123," starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. The remake of the 1974 film is helmed by Tony Scott. Brian Helgeland adapts the screenplay from the novel by John Godey. Catch this on June 12th. In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, Garber employs »
Michael Rispoli joins "Rum Diary"
2 April 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
Michael Rispoli of "The Sopranos" will join the cast of "Rum Diary" alongside Johnny Depp, Aaron Eckhart, Richard Jenkins, Amber Heard and Giovanni Ribisi. Rispoli will play Bob Salas in the film. Filming is currently taking place in Puerto Rico. Based on the book by Hunter S. Thompson, this film stars Johnny Depp as a hard-drinking Paul Kemp, a journalist working for a newspaper in 1950s Puerto Rico. Amber Heard will play Chenault, the girlfriend of another journalist who cheats on him with Kemp and tries to get him to run away with her. Rispoli will next be seen in "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" directed by Tony Scott and written by Brian Helgeland form the novel by John Godey. He's also in "Kick-Ass" with Nicolas Cage, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Mark Strong and Aaron Johnson. Matthew Vaughn directs that comedy actioner. »
New The Taking of Pelham 123 Trailer
31 March 2009 10:34 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
MySpace has debuted the second trailer for Tony Scott’s upcoming action-thriller The Taking of Pelham 123. The June 12 release stars Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. A remake of the 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, which was based on the novel by John Godey, 123 centers on a group of armed men who hijack a New York subway train in demand of a hefty ransom. As the authorities try to negotiate with the hostage takers they wonder how the hijackers plan to get away. »
- James Cook
New 'The Taking of Pelham 123' Trailer Arrives
31 March 2009 8:04 PM, PDT | Aceshowbiz | See recent Aceshowbiz news »
What starts off as an ordinary day to New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber quickly turns into nightmare when he learns that a subway train is being hijacked. Through a brand new trailer of "The Taking of Pelham 123" which debuted via MySpace, it can be seen that Garber played by Denzel Washington is sucked into the bloody game set by criminal mastermind Ryder.
Opened with clips showing a busy day in New York City, the trailer displays a sea of people crowding the street and doing their errands. Then comes John Travolta's Ryder. Making his way to a subway station, he quickly boards a train and hijacks it. The footage moves to Garber in the subway's headquarter.
Establishing contact with Pelham 123, he soon learns that it has been hijacked by a highly-armed gang, who threatens to execute passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. Despite »
- AceShowbiz.com
The Taking of Pelham 123 trailer is live! Starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
13 February 2009 | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"The Taking of Pelham 123" trailer live! Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. Tony Scott directs the remake of the 1974 film now adapted by Brian Helgeland ("Man on Fire," "Cirque du Freak," "Nottingham")
The original film was directed by Joseph Sargent, adapted by Peter Stone and based on the novel by John Godey. It starred Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick and Dick O'Neill. In The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Denzel Washington stars as New York City subway dispatcher Walter Garber, whose ordinary day is thrown into chaos by an audacious crime: the hijacking of a subway train. John Travolta stars as Ryder, the criminal mastermind who, as leader of a highly-armed gang of four, threatens to execute the train’s passengers unless a large ransom is paid within one hour. As the tension mounts beneath his feet, »
The Taking of Pelham 123 trailer is live! Starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
12 February 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"The Taking of Pelham 123" trailer live! Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. Tony Scott directs the remake of the 1974 film now adapted by Brian Helgeland ("Man on Fire," "Cirque du Freak," "Nottingham") The original film was directed by Joseph Sargent, adapted by John Godey and based on the novel by Peter Stone. It starred Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick and Dick O'Neill. »
The Taking of Pelham 123 trailer is live! Starring Denzel Washington and John Travolta.
12 February 2009 11:32 PM, PST | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
"The Taking of Pelham 123" trailer live! Starring Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. Tony Scott directs the remake of the 1974 film now adapted by Brian Helgeland ("Man on Fire," "Cirque du Freak," "Nottingham") The original film was directed by Joseph Sargent, adapted by John Godey and based on the novel by Peter Stone. It starred Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo, Earl Hindman, James Broderick and Dick O'Neill. »
The Taking of Pelham 123 Trailer
12 February 2009 10:17 PM, PST | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
Here’s the first trailer for Tony Scott’s The Taking of Pelham 123, which stars Denzel Washington, John Travolta, John Turturro, Luis Guzman, Michael Rispoli and James Gandolfini. It arrives in theaters June 12, 2009. A remake of the 1974 film starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, which was based on the novel by John Godey, 123 centers on a group of armed men who hijack a New York subway train in demand of a hefty ransom. As the authorities try to negotiate with the hostage takers they wonder how the hijackers plan to get away. »
- James Cook
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