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19 articles from 2009
Spike Lee's Upcoming Film Slate
30 November 2009 1:52 PM, PST | LatinoReview | See recent LatinoReview news »
Director Spike Lee recently talked to IGN about some of his rumored/announced upcoming projects. Here's the rundown from the man himself:Inside Man 2Spike Lee: Waiting on Universal Pictures. They have the script. They have the budget and we'll see if they wanna make it. Denzel's ready. Clive Owen's ready. I'm ready. Jodie's ready. Everyone's ready. It's like, "Coach, put us in!" Save Us, Joe Louis [biopic] Spike Lee: I've been unable to get the financing. What's really sad about that is that I had made a promise to the late great Budd Schulberg that we'd get it done and Budd passed recently. He was 95. Budd being, of course, the screenwriter of On the Waterfront and the novelist of What Makes Sammy Run. Great, great, great, great writer. James Brown biopic Spike Lee: Financing. I had the all-time biopic trilogy: Jackie Robinson, Joe Louis and James Brown. »
Ben Stiller Comes Clean About Sammy's Unfinished Business
1 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Ben Stiller has a few regrets. So does Jerry Stahl, the writer and ex-junkie Stiller portrayed in Permanent Midnight, and with whom Stiller attempted to adapt the late Budd Schulberg's seminal Hollywood novel What Makes Sammy Run? for the screen over a decade ago. Schulberg's death last month prompted the duo to sit down this week for a bittersweet, self-effacing mock interview with themselves -- a must-read rumination on failure, regrets and the town's enduring quantities of "unfinished business." »
Two Young (-ish, at the Time) Punks Attempt to Re-Write Schulberg
30 August 2009 7:48 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I guess you could say that our relationship with Budd Schulberg was typical Hollywood: we met him, we liked each other, and in the end, we kind of broke his heart. But that didn't mean we didn't stay friends. In Hollywood, nobody will hurt you like your friends. It's a given. Sometimes it's intentional, Sammy Glick-style, but it's worse when it isn't. Which doesn't make it any easier to write about. We both ended up loving Budd and, given the shot, like many others before us, we couldn't get the movie of his classic, What Makes Sammy Run?, made. Why us? Why did we think we could do what others had not done for 60 years? Why not us, we thought at the time. Of course, here we are 13 years later, and not quite »
- Ben Stiller and Jerry Stahl
Two Young (-ish, at the Time) Punks Attempt to Re-Write Schulberg
30 August 2009 7:21 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I guess you could say that our relationship with Budd Schulberg was typical Hollywood: we met him, we liked each other, and in the end, we kind of broke his heart. But that didn't mean we didn't stay friends. In Hollywood, nobody will hurt you like your friends. It's a given. Sometimes it's intentional, Sammy Glick-style, but it's worse when it isn't. Which doesn't make it any easier to write about. We both ended up loving Budd and, given the shot, like many others before us, we couldn't get the movie of his classic, What Makes Sammy Run?, made. Why us? Why did we think we could do what others had not done for 60 years? Why not us, we thought at the time. Of course, here we are 13 years later, and not quite »
- Ben Stiller
Screenwriter Budd Schulberg Dies
7 August 2009 8:33 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
The American novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg has died, aged 95. Schulberg is probably best known for his screenplay for the classic Marlon Brando film On the Waterfront.
Budd Schulberg was born Seymour Wilson Schulberg in New York City in 1914. His father was Benjamin P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures. Schulberg schooled at Deerfield Academy and Dartmouth College before he got a job writing scripts for Paramount. He worked on the screenplays for Little Orphan Annie (starring ) and Winter Carnival (featuring Ann Sheridan), which were released in 1938 and 1939, respectively.
In World War II Schulberg served in the the Office of Strategic Services. When the war was over he turned his hand to writing novels, including 'What Makes Sammy Run?' (1941) and 'The Harder They Fall' (1947). Not long after the war he also appeared before the House of Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating allegations of communist activity in Hollywood. »
On The Waterfront Writer Schulberg Dies At 95
6 August 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »
Budd Schulberg, who won a best-original-screenplay Oscar for On the Waterfront and penned the must-read-if-you're-in-the-movie-business novel What Makes Sammy Run, died Wednesday in New
York of natural causes at age 95. Only last week, he attended a staged reading of On the Waterfront in Hoboken, performed by a cast that included Vincent Pastore Jr., who played Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on The Sopranos and Jason Cerbone, who played Jackie Aprile Jr. on the HBO series. Asked by the Jersey Journal about Cerbone's performance as Terry Malloy, the character made famous by Marlon Brando in the movie, Schulberg replied, "Well, nobody's ever been as good as Brando. ... But I really liked what he did with it very much. A very high-level performance." »
Screenwriter Budd Schulberg dies, aged 95
6 August 2009 2:07 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Screenwriter Budd Schulberg has died of natural causes in his Long Island, New York home. The 95-year-old was best known for penning the controversial Hollywood-based novels What Makes Sammy Run? and The Disenchanted. He also won an Oscar for his original screenplay On The Waterfront, Variety reports. The New York-born Schulberg worked as a publicist at Paramount Pictures at the age of 17, where his father was head of production in the 1930s, while his (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Remembering Budd Schulberg, Hollywood's Internal Critic
6 August 2009 9:40 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Budd Schulberg, from the April 1997 issue of Vanity Fair. Photograph by Nigel Parry. Budd Schulberg, who died yesterday at the age of 95, established himself early on as Hollywood’s quintessential outsider with his skewering satires, his political stances, and his chronicles of the downtrodden. Born to B.P. Schulberg, who ran Paramount Pictures in the 1930s (and helped define the era when studio chiefs had initials in lieu of first names), Budd was both a product of old Hollywood, and one of its most relentless critics. The characters of Sammy Glick, the backstabbing careerist from Schulberg’s 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run, and of Lonesome Rhodes, the vagrant-turned-tv-sensation from his screenplay for 1957’s A Face in the Crowd, are all too relevant today. Intended as caricatures when he wrote them, they wouldn’t seem out of place in the era of Ari Gold and reality television. Above all, Schulberg was an inveterate writer, »
On the Waterfront screenwriter and Oscar winner Schulberg dies
6 August 2009 5:54 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
New York - Budd Schulberg, the novelist and screenwriter who won an Oscar for the 1954 film On the Waterfront, has died at the age of 95. Schulberg died Wednesday at his home on Long Island in the Us state of New York, his wife, Betsy, told The New York Times. The New York native and son of a film producer wrote such prize-winning novels as What Makes Sammy Run and The Harder They Fall in the 1940s, but he was best known for penning the screenplay for On the Waterfront, which starred Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint and won a total of eight Oscars. Three years, later, Schulberg worked again with director Elia Kazan »
Remains of the Day: Machete, Little Red Riding Hood and Roth's Nation's Pride
6 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- At the Movies just got re-inserted into my television line-up: the return of A.O. Scott on At the Movies begins September 5th. Here is a mash-up of eight and 1/2 news items that we didn't have enough time to cover but are worth mentioning here for August 5th... 1. Down with the Bone The Lovely Bones trailer is up. Verdict: Could be worse. 2. Filmically Inclined 2009 MTV Music Video Awards noms worth mentioning: Johan Renck, Ray Tintori, Vern Moen, Chris Milk, Rciahrd Ayoade, Adria Petty, Taylor Cohen & Otto Arsenault, Walter Robot, Humble and Ferry Gouw. Check out coverage by The Playlist. 3. Film within a Film I'm not a fan of Inglourious Basterds, but Eli Roth's "Nation's Pride" faux trailer is the best thing in the marketing of Qt's film so far. 4. Casting is Sliced Up Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba, Michelle Rodriguez, Steven Seagal, Lindsay Lohan, Cheech Marin, Don Johnson and Jeff Fahey join Machete. »
On The Waterfront Scribe Schulberg Dies
6 August 2009 5:21 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
On The Waterfront screenwriter Budd Schulberg has died. He was 95.
Schulberg was taken from his Long Island, New York home on Wednesday to a local hospital, where he died after doctors failed to revive him.
The scribe was born in New York City in 1914, the son of Paramount Pictures boss B.P. Schulberg, and made a name for himself as a novelist in the 1940s.
He later went on to write screenplays for films including 1957's A Face In The Crowd, before penning his best-known work On The Waterfront, about mafia violence in New Jersey.
The 1954 drama received 12 Academy Award nominations, winning eight Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Marlon Brando and Best Story and Screenplay for Schulberg.
Schulberg is survived by his wife Betsy and four children. »
Budd Schulberg Dies Aged 95
6 August 2009 12:37 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Hollywood screenwriter Budd Schulberg, best known for his Oscar-winning screenplay for On The Waterfront, has died at his home on Long Island. He was 96.Born in 1914 in New York into a movie family - his father was Paramount production head B.P. Schulberg and his mother was sister of movie powerbroker Sam Jaffe - Schulberg wrote his first screenplay aged only 19. His entree into Hollywood came in 1937 with an uncredited contribution to David O. Selznick's A Star Is Born. He received his first credit on Little Orphan Annie a year later.During the war Schulberg served in the Oss, the fledgling espionage agency. Fittingly, his war years had a distinctly cinematic flavour: he was assigned to John Ford's documentary unit, helping record Us combat operations from D-Day to the liberation of the concentration camps and Nuremberg trials, and was involved in the arrest of German filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl in Austria. »
Writer Budd Schulberg Dead at 95
5 August 2009 6:39 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Won 1954 Oscar for "On the Waterfront"; also wrote anti-Hollywood novel, "What Makes Sammy Run."
By Wrap Staff
Writer Budd Schulberg, who won an Academy Award for "On the Waterfront," died on Wednesday at 95.
The son of B.P. Schulberg, head of Paramount Pictures, and Adeline Jafee-Schulberg, sister to agent/film producer Sam Jaffe, Schulberg was hardly a Hollywood insider. Aside from his 1954 Oscar, he’s best known for his iconic anti-Hollywood novel, “What Makes Sammy Run.”
The book made him almost as unpopular in the industry town as his appearance in 19 »
- Lew Harris
Hollywood Loses a Real Contender
5 August 2009 6:11 PM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
If you've ever repeated Marlon Brando's "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum…" speech, you have Budd Schulberg to thank. The novelist and On the Waterfront screenwriter died today at age 95. Schulberg, the son of a powerful Paramount exec, made his name with the iconic novel What Makes Sammy Run?, a scathing look at the cost of making it big in Tinseltown. The writer—who named names during the years of the Hollywood blacklist—teamed with director Elia Kazan not only on Waterfront, but on the classic A Face in the Crowd, which remains a primer on political demagoguery. »
Get Duped Into Loving ‘A Face in the Crowd’
31 May 2009 5:27 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Every week, Film School Rejects presents a film that was made before you were born and tells you why you should like it. This week, Old Ass Movies presents: A Face In the Crowd (1957) There's nothing like political paranoia to get a story going. There's also nothing like a film that was so far ahead of its time that it would predict the everyday use of concepts like "sound bites" and "media saturation." Somehow, even in 1957 as the television was changing the face of the game in the pop-culture corners of the country, Budd Schulberg, the screenwriter, and famous director Elia Kazan were able to see the implications of readily available mass-media three years before the famous televised debate between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. That debate is still studied today and widely regarded as the moment that camera-readiness took over as the main concern, it's a moment that more than a few political thinkers see »
- Cole Abaius
What Makes Sammy Run?-Koch Vision
18 March 2009 9:05 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
This has a soft place in my heart not only because it truly is a lost gem but because it sits in such good company. As troubled a period as the 1950s and 1960s were it’s become so fashionable to point this out that it’s easy to forget the vast number of really quality examinations of the business culture produced during the period. A Face In The Crowd and satires like Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter barely scratch the surface. Fans of the social commentary of Rod Serling who penned such powerful commentary on American business culture and personal ambition as Requiem For A Heavyweight and Patterns should go out of their way to catch What Makes Sammy Run? Sammy Glick starts off his corporate career as a copy boy but rises to the top by manipulation and cut throat tactics. Based on Budd Schulbergs highly controversial 1941 novel What Makes Sammy Run? »
- Canfield
DVD: Review: What Makes Sammy Run?
10 February 2009 10:00 PM, PST | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Hollywood has a long, tortured relationship with What Makes Sammy Run?,Budd Schulberg’s seminal show-biz novel about a ruthlessly ambitious Jewish striver and his desperate bid for power and fame. According to a biography of Samuel Goldwyn by Arthur Marx, the legendary mogul offered to pay Schulberg not to publish the novel, out of fear that it would exacerbate anti-Semitism with its dark portrait of an unscrupulous schemer out to make it any costs. Schulberg, whose father was a prominent studio executive in his own right, refused. Making a movie of Sammy has long been Ben Stiller’s dream »
Noir City 7—Eddie Muller’s Introductory Remarks to The Harder They Fall
2 February 2009 1:16 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
“Boxing,” Eddie Muller affirmed, “is noir.” In the early 1930s between the demise of Jack Dempsey as heavyweight champion of the world and the ascension of Joe Louis as heavyweight champion of the world, a couple of enterprising gangsters on the East Coast—Paul John (“Frankie”) Carbo and Frank (“Blinky”) Palermo (“I’m not making these names up,” Muller assured us)—attempted to take control of all the boxing rings by basically determining who would and would not fight for the championship fights that were being held in the greater New York area. Their great contribution to boxing was the creation of heavyweight champion Primo Carnera, a circus strongman that Carbo and Palermo had their hooks into who they basically led by a leash to the heavyweight championship of the world. Mark Robson’s The Harder They Fall is the fictionalized account of the Primo Carnera scandal.
In keeping with »
- Michael Guillen
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival Holds Rare Screening "Wind Across The Everglades" At Cinema Paradiso
26 January 2009 6:53 AM, PST | icelebz.com | See recent iCelebz news »
The Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival held a rare screening of a Christopher Plummer film, "Wind Across the Everglades" on Saturday, January 24 at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Plummer also attended the event and received a Lifetime Achievement award.
The showing was a rare occurrence for the film, which had very few showings in Los Angeles and New York in August and September of 1958. It has never been moved to DVD and has not been shown on television in recent decades. It was a onetime collaboration between director Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) and screenwriter Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront).
The night began with a showing of the 1958 movie, Plummer's second film in his movie career. He starred as Walt Murdock, a 19th-century Florida game warden who declares war on local bird poachers in the Everglades in the turn of the century in early Miami, Florida. Co-stars in the film include Burl Ives, »
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