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Columbus Short on Armored
2 December 2009 4:33 PM, PST
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Columbus Short.s career has just started rapidly rising since his starring role in Stomp the Yard. Armored marks his first foray into the action genre.
Columbus Short is Armored
.I was looking for an action drama,. Short said. .I was looking for something that was high stakes and set in the realm in reality, not Justice League and not Passenger 57. I wanted something that was real, and it.s going to blow people away. There hasn.t been a movie like this in years, and it.s refreshing. It has that anxiety. It has that .Oh, my God!..
We saw Short on the set of Armored at Sony studios in Culver City. The armored truck was crashed on a soundstage.
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Late Actor Swayze's "Black Dog" Released On DVD
15 October 2009 1:26 PM, PDT
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The Patrick Swayze film "Black Dog" is currently available on DVD from Universal Studios Home Entertainment. Released on Sept. 22, the 1998 action film, co-starring country music star Randy Travis and rock singer Meat Loaf, focuses on a longtime trucker who finds himself in dire straits and in need of cash.
Swayze plays ex-convict Jack Crews, who turns the highway into a war zone with his partner (Travis) as they struggle to escape from a psychotic rival (Meat Loaf) while delivering their final haul. The stakes get higher and higher as Jack's family is taken hostage and federal agents get thrown into the mix. The PG-13 film also features performances by Gabriel Casseus, Charles S. Dutton and Stephen Tobolowsky and is directed by actor Kevin Hooks. Hooks's directorial filmography includes the Wesley Snipes action movie "Passenger 57," the Laurence Fishburne/Stephen Baldwin vehicle "Fled," and episodes of both the Fox crime drama
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Wesley Snipes Back in Action in ‘Game of Death’
8 October 2009 7:16 AM, PDT
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Don't call it a comeback for Wesley Snipes and director Abel Ferrara, they've been here for years. Of course, it's been a long time since they've been at the top of their games -- notably in 1990, when they teamed up to deliver the cult hit King of New York.
Since then they've chosen different paths. Snipes went on to become a major action star of the 90s (and beyond) with films such as Passenger 57, The Fan and the Blade trilogy. He's been off his game since about 2005 due to some off-camera tax problems. Ferrara, on the other hand, has been off his game for much longer than that. He followed King of New York with several solid efforst over the next four years, including Bad Lieutenent, a not quite awesome horror remake Bodysnatchers and the Harvel Keitel and Madonna led pic Dangerous Game. But he's been far from the spotlight ever since. Perhaps
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- Neil Miller
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Writer sells Mourning After pitch
14 September 2009 12:04 AM, PDT
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Lakeview Terrace screenwriter David Loughery has sold his latest film pitch, a supernatural thriller called Mourning After. THR describes the project as set in San Francisco and involves a man who falls in love with a woman who harbors a secret. Hey, vampires are in right now; d'you think Loughery's mysterious lady is a bloodsucker? I'm taking odds, place yer bets, place yer bets...
The companies that purchased the pitch are Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, A Bigger Boat and GreeneStreet Films. All three firms will develop Loughery's idea -- which as it turns out originally came from Charles Segars and Steve Ireland and then Loughery pitched it -- as it becomes a screenplay.
Loughery's feature writing career started in 1984 with Dreamscape, a thriller with sci-fi overtones that starred Dennis Quaid and Kate Capshaw. He then wrote Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Passenger 57, the 1993 version of The Three Musketeers, a
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- Patrick Sauriol
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Dan Gordon to write "The King of Sting"
30 June 2009
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Dan Gordon, veteran writer with credits like "Passenger 57," "Gulag" and "Wyatt Earp," will write the screenplay for the drama "The King of Sting."
Film would focus on the life of con man Craig Glazer and is based on a book he wrote. The story tells of the writer's twenty year run where he posed as an undercover narcotics agent and pocketed money from stings. Apparently, Glazer and his partner were so good at conning victims that the Kansas City Police Department actually hired them to conduct real stings.
Eric Eisner is producing the project via his L+E Prods. banner
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20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
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- Matt Medlock
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Captain Pike Beams Into Vulcan's 'Star Trek'
6 May 2009 11:46 AM, PDT
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Canadian actor Bruce Greenwood, who plays Captain Christopher Pike in J.J. Abrams Star Trek, is to be a guest at a special screening of the film arranged for the residents of the Alberta town of Vulcan. The advance screening of the film was arranged for 300 residents of Vulcan after the town's tourist board failed in its bid to persuade Paramount let them host the film's world premiere. That has since taken place in Sydney, Australia.
Captain Pike is seen in trailers for Star Trek urging Chris Pine's Kirk to enlist in Starfleet. The character appeared twice in the original series of Star Trek on which the new film is based. Jeffrey Hunter played Pike in the originally unaired first pilot for the series, 'The Cage'. When footage from that pilot was incorporated into the two-part episode 'The Menagerie', a badly disfigured Pike was played by Sean Kenney.
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Is 'Irena's Vow' the next Holocaust awards champ?
13 March 2009 10:57 AM, PDT
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Now that "The Reader" has proved the continued strength of Holocaust films in the awards derby, reaping an overdue Oscar for Kate Winslet plus nominations for best picture, director, screenplay and cinematography, there should be keen interest in "Irena's Vow." The Broadway play, which opens March 29, has already been optioned for a feature film and shows strong potential, just like "The Reader," in the lead actress race.
"Irena's Vow" is based upon the real-life experiences of Irena Gut Opdyke, a Polish Catholic who saved 12 Jews from extermination by hiding them in the basement of a Nazi officer's villa. The Broadway production at the Walter Kerr could finally earn theater veteran Tovah Feldshuh her first Tony Award after four losses: "Golda's Balcony" (lead actress in a play, 2004), "Lend Me a Tenor" (featured actress in a play, 1989), "Sarava" (lead actress in a musical, 1979), "Yentl" (lead actress in a play, 1976).
Feldshuh is known primarily as a stage actress,
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