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New Extended Trailer for ‘The Killer Inside Me’
6 November 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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Casey Affleck has been known to take some pretty intense roles as of late. His first being the role of Robert Ford in The Assassination of Jesse James and then his work on his brother’s project, Gone Baby Gone. It looks like Affleck is going to step it up once again as Sheriff Lou Ford in the ultra-violent The Killer Inside Me.
The film is based on the novel by Jim Thompson, who also wrote the novels films such as The Grifters and The Getaway were adapted from. The original 1976 film starred Stacey Keach, who took on the role that Affleck is now running with.
The extended trailer shows off some of the intense moments (hopefully not all) from the film, such as some raunchy aggressive sex with both Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, as well as a violent murder of one of them. This may just be the
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- Matt Raub
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Weird Trailer for Casey Affleck's 'Killer Inside Me'
5 November 2009 6:38 PM, PST
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I read The Killer Inside Me about 25 years ago, and in general I'm an admirer of the work of pulp novelist Jim Thompson. His most recognized works are probably that title, The Killing (later turned into an early Kubrick film), The Getaway, and The Grifters, released as a film over 10 years after his death. I heard about him while growing up in Oklahoma, because that's where he was from.
The Killer Inside Me is a whale of a book. I wouldn't say it's a must-read, but it's tougher than a bus station corndog. It's been turned into a movie before, and a new version was filmed this summer mostly in Oklahoma, even though Thomspson's book is set in Texas. Casey Affleck plays the sociopathic lawman Lou Ford, and you'll see what I mean when you watch this promo trailer.
According to The Playlist, this is very likely what's being used
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- Colin Boyd
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The Wild Bunch On Stage- November 12
4 November 2009 12:58 AM, PST
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The 40th Anniversary of director Sam Peckinpah's 1969 western The Wild Bunch, will be celebrated at the 'Jules Verne Légendaire Award Charity Event', November 12 @ Los Angeles' 2,000 seat, downtown 'Million Dollar Theater', bringing the ground-breaking feature back up on the big screen.
The film's surviving lead actors Ernest 'Dutch Engstrom' Borgnine, Bo 'Crazy Lee' Hopkins, L.Q. 'T.C.' Jones, Alfonso 'Lt. Hererra' Arau and others will be accepting awards on stage.
In addition, Melissa Peckinpah will accept a special award on behalf of her father, director 'Bloody Sam' Peckinpah and Camille Fielding will accept a Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of her late father, composer Jerry Fielding.
Celebrities confirmed to attend the event include Ali "The Getaway" MacGraw, composer Lalo "Dirty Harry" Schifrin, director Walter "The Warriors" Hill and actor Malcolm "A Clockwork Orange" McDowell.
"It will be the last great ride of the movie," organizers said.
Premise of the film,
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First there is a Mad Men, then there is no Mad Men, then there is
19 October 2009 12:00 PM, PDT
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So the opening scene establishes that the Drapers are religiously unobservant, attending church only on Christmas (not even Easter, since Betty dresses like an Easter egg all year round), which is perhaps for the best, since daughter Sally seems to have all the fixings of a fanatic vessel of wrath. If she believed she was an instrument of God’s will, neighboring towns might go up in flames while she stood by, blankly fulfilled, yet plotting further harm. Don is looking awfully tired tonight, the two-timing dog. “I don’t know if you’re hungry, but I made date-nut bread,” says Sally’s teacher (greeting Don for one of his drop-in dick-ins), one of those lines of dialogue that just clunks off the curb, like Ali McGraw’s explanation for why she was late picking up Steve McQueen after his prison release in The Getaway--”I was at the
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Walter Hill: The Hollywood Interview
9 September 2009 12:07 AM, PDT
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Director Walter Hill.
Kicking Ass with Walter Hill
by Jon Zelazny
Action flicks. Two-fisted tales. Guy movies. Whatever you want to call them, writer, producer, and director Walter Hill is one of the living masters, with a resume full of classics from The Getaway (1972), to the Alien series, and the definitive eighties action-comedy blockbuster, 48 Hrs. (1982).
2009 marks the 30th anniversary of The Warriors (1979), Hill’s surreal “street gang on the run” cult classic, and his breakout success as a director.
Jon: A couple years ago, you did an audio commentary and on-camera intro for a new DVD edition of The Warriors. It was the first time I’d ever seen you; is it my imagination, or have you kept a low profile over the years?
Walter Hill: I’d never done a commentary before on one of my films. I don’t like the idea of explaining a movie; I
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Geek Deal: 58% Off Scorsese, McQueen and James Dean DVD Box Sets
18 July 2009 12:39 AM, PDT
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This might be the last day in Amazon's DVD/Blu-ray Gold Box week. Today they are actually offering three different DVD box sets for 58% off in the Gold Box Deal of the Day.
Martin Scorsese Collection (After Hours/Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore/Goodfellas/Mean Streets/Who's That Knocking At My Door?) for $25.49 ($60msrp)
The Complete James Dean Collection (East of Eden / Giant / Rebel Without a Cause Special Edition) for $28.99 ($69msrp)
The Essential Steve McQueen Collection (Bullitt Two-Disc Special Edition / The Getaway Deluxe Edition / The Cincinnati Kid / Papillon / Tom Horn / Never So Few) for $28.99 ($69msrp)
As with all the gold box deals, this deal vanishes at midnight Saturday night.
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- Peter Sciretta
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Steve McQueen Tribute At Lincoln Center- Family And Colleagues Host Screenings
16 May 2009 2:58 PM, PDT
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The Film Society of Lincoln Center will host a major tribute to Steve McQueen commencing on May 20. Throughout the week, there will be many screenings of McQueen films, some hosted by his family and colleagues. Norman Jewison will introduce The Cincinnati Kid; Candice Bergen will introduce a restored print of The Sand Pebbles, producer David Foster will introduce The Getaway, director Peter Yates will introduce Bullitt, and Robert Vaughn will introduce The Magnificent Seven. Many other McQueen films will be screened including Nevada Smith, The Towering Inferno, The Great Escape, Papillon and a rare big screen showing of An Enemy of the People, McQueen's little-seen adapation of the Ibsen classic. For details click here
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- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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Scribe Hired for McQueen Biopic
23 March 2009 9:20 PM, PDT
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Jesse Wigutow has been hired to pen the screenplay for a biographical treatment of screen legend Steve McQueen for producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the writing deal is for seven figures.
Wigutow will adapt Marshall Terrill's biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel", the film rights for which were nabbed by Cerenzie-Peters Prods. in January. The company will produce with Arthaus Pictures' Brian Oliver and Chuck Rock, who brought in the project.
Wigutow's script will trace McQueen's development from reform-school delinquent to the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and cover the star's obsession with motorcycles and racing, his drug abuse, his marriages and affairs and his hard-fought battle with cancer, which felled him in 1980 at age 50. According to the trade, Cerenzie acquired the cooperation of McQueen's widow, Barbara Minty, as well.
"McQueen wasn't only the leading man of his era,
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Blog Dudes Engage with Adult Female Lifeforms? Why, That's Crazy Talk!
23 March 2009 12:35 PM, PDT
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Katha Pollitt, digesting the prospect of Ross Douthat beaming aboard the NY Times' op-ed page: I haven't read his collected cyberworks, but even for a blogo-pundit, Douthat seems unusually averse to engaging with women intellectually, even on perennial topics like abortion and birth control, where you'd think we'd bring something missing to the table--like an interest in our health, well-being, happiness, longevity, pleasure and ability to have some control over our lives. Instead, he engages Slate's Will Saletan on whether contraception would prevent enough abortions to make it worth expanding government funding. Douthat thinks not; but if abortion is murder, wouldn't preventing 12,000 of them (his misleadingly low figure) be quite an accomplishment? That's equivalent to nearly two-thirds of the 17,000 murders of born people in the United States every year. In his ongoing stem cell debate with Michael Kinsley, sometimes embryos are people, and sometimes they're counters in arguments that are really about sex,
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New Steve McQueen Biopic in the Works
23 March 2009 6:00 AM, PDT
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Jesse Wigutow has been hired to write the screenplay for a big screen Steve McQueen biopic, which will be based on Marshall Terrill's biography "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel." Wigutow's script will trace McQueen's development from reform-school delinquent to the highest-paid actor in Hollywood and cover the star's obsession with motorcycles and racing, his drug abuse, his marriages and affairs and his hard-fought battle with cancer, which killed him in 1980 at age 50. "McQueen wasn't only the leading man of his era, he was the prototype for the modern-day movie star," Wigutow said. "Between the motorcycles and the paparazzi and his highly publicized relationship with Ali MacGraw, he epitomized fame and intrigue. When the opportunity comes along to really examine what makes a man like that tick, you say yes." The producers are looking to nail down a director and a star in time for a fall production.
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Writer hired for Steve McQueen Biopic
22 March 2009 11:58 PM, PDT
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Right now, for reasons we can’t entirely explain, there are two separate biopics of the late, great Steve McQueen in development – and today, one of them got a serious headstart on the other by hiring a writer.Jesse Wigutow has picked up a seven-figure deal (we hope for his sake that any decimal point comes after the seventh figure) to write an adaptation of Steve McQueen: Portrait Of An American Rebel, the Marshal Terrill biography to which producers Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters bought the rights back in January.Soon after that came news that producer David Foster, who worked with McQueen on The Getaway, was planning his own biopic of the legendary king of cool, based on the book, My Husband, My Friend, written by McQueen’s first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel.But with Wigutow’s hiring, American Rebel (Empire’s working title; the movie itself is
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Four More See 'The Killer Inside' Casey Affleck
7 February 2009 10:48 PM, PST
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About three months ago, we discussed the very cool adaptation in the works for The Killer Inside Me. Casey Affleck and Jessica Alba will star in the film, based on the novel by The Dimestore Dostoyevsky, Jim Thompson.
If you're not familiar with Thompson's name, you probably are familiar with his work, which includes two Stanley Kubrick movies (Paths to Glory and The Killing), plus The Grifters, The Getaway, and After Dark, My Sweet. Dark stuff, mostly, and The Killer Inside Me would suggest more of the same based on the title alone. And yes, it's pretty screwed up stuff.
Affleck will play a sheriff who over the course of the film becomes a homicidal maniac, while Alba plays a pro. Screen Daily has announced that four new cast members have signed on - Kate Hudson, Elias Koteas, Bill Pullman and Ned Beatty. Odd that Hudson would show up here.
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- Colin Boyd
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Another McQueen Biopic is in the Works
27 January 2009 9:22 PM, PST
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Producer David Foster (The Mask of Zorro) has announced that he is developing a project based the life of Steve McQueen. According to the trades Foster will be using a memoir penned by McQueen's first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel.
Foster started in Hollywood as McQueen's publicist before segueing to a successful producing career bringing such films as McQueen's The Getaway to the bigscreen. He is teaming on the biopic, which will be titled McQueen, with producer Kevin Kasha, who acquired Toffel's memoir My Husband, My Friend when he was an acquisitions executive at New Line.
The story will chronicle the relationship between McQueen and Toffel, which began in 1956 when Toffel was a Broadway star and under contract at MGM. The couple was married for more than 15 years and had two children and four grandchildren together. The father and son writing team of Roderick and Bruce Taylor (The Brave One) will pen the screenplay.
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- James Cook
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Two Battling Flicks About Steve McQueen
27 January 2009 6:33 PM, PST
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Two films about the iconic Steve McQueen are racing to the big screen!
Here's the comparison breakdown:
First Film
Working Title: "Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel"
Producers: Michael Cerenzie and Christine Peters
Based On: Marshall Terrill's biography of the same title
Project Will Focus On: McQueen's career as well as his three marriages, including his stormy relationship with Ali McGraw, as well as his battle against lung cancer.
McQueen Connection: Barbara Minty, McQueen's widow, is collaborating with the producers
Second Film
Working Title: "McQueen"
Producer: David Foster
Based On: Memoir by McQueen's first wife, Neile McQueen Toffel called "My Husband, My Friend"
Project Will Focus On: Relationship between Toffel and McQueen
McQueen Connection: Toffel, plus Foster used to be McQueen's publicist and he was also the producer of the actor's flick, "The Getaway"
Alright, both films have the blessings of McQueen's ex-wives, but the first film sound more intriguing -- drugs,
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- Manny
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McQueen gets biopic
14 January 2009 2:38 PM, PST
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While it's probably past due, a biopic focusing on the life of legendary actor Steve McQueen is in the works.
The epitome of old-school Hollywood cool (and a personal idol), McQueen was perhaps as well-known for his wild off-screen proclivities (motorcycles, cars, women, booze, drugs) as his celebrated roles in films like The Great Escape, Papillon, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt, The Getaway, The Towering Inferno and The Magnificent Seven.
The movie will be based on Marshall Terrill's
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Steve McQueen is Getting a Biopic
13 January 2009 10:58 PM, PST
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A biopic is in the works for Steve “The King of Cool” McQueen, star of The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, The Getaway and The Towering Inferno. The Oscar nominee passed away in 1980 at the age of 50.
Producers Michael Cerenzie (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead) and Christine Peters (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days) have acquired the rights to Marshall Terrill's biography Steve McQueen: Portrait of an American Rebel.
According to the trades, the film will primarily chronicle McQueen's Hollywood career, which began in 1956 when the Indiana native got his break in the film Somebody Up There Likes Me.
The biography, which was published in paperback in October, also delves into McQueen's off-screen desire for motorcycles, fast cars and drugs. The project will also examine his three marriages, including his stormy relationship with Ali McGraw, as well as his battle against lung cancer.
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- James Cook
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