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Roger Corman: Scorsese, Stallone, Sayles, and other A-listers talk about the B-movie king
13 November 2009 12:48 PM, PST | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
He gave life to teenage cavemen and candy-stripe nurses. Crab monsters and humanoids from the deep. T-bird gangs and towns that dreaded sundown. His name is Roger Corman. And on Nov. 14, he will receive an honor that no one would have predicted: an honorary Academy Award. The 83-year-old B-movie titan has made nearly 400 films as a director and producer. From the start, Corman was a magnet for hungry young actors, writers, and directors who would work for slave wages for the chance to make their first film. They called it the "University of Corman," and the alumni include Francis Ford Coppola, »
- Chris Nashawaty
The Blind Side Giveaway
11 November 2009 5:17 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Opening on November 20th is director John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side, which stars Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates. I’ll admit when I sat down to watch The Blind Side, I really didn’t expect much. I thought it would be a Lifetime movie of the week except on the big screen. But even though I walked in ready to dismiss the film, I’m forced to say The Blind Side was a lot better than I expected and I enjoyed the way it mixed a few different genres together. What you need to know is, The Blind Side is both a football movie and a family values film. It’s also a bit of a comedy. When films try and mix genres like this, you almost always end in disaster. So I have to give credit to director John Lee Hancock for crafting a film »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
AFI's 100 Years ...100 Movie Quotes
4 November 2009 4:45 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
"Extra" brings you AFI's 100 Best Movie Quotes of all time! From "The Wizard of Oz" to "Taxi Driver," see if your favorites made the list!
AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie QuotesGone with the Wind (1939)
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.” —Said by Clark Gable as Rhett Butler to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.
The Godfather (1972)
“I’m going to make him an offer he can’t refuse.” —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone.
On the Waterfront (1954)
“You don’t understand! »
Why Tom Hanks Needs to Go Sci-Fi
28 October 2009 7:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
By: John Gholson
How is it that someone as fascinated with space exploration as Tom Hanks has managed to go his entire career without appearing in a single science fiction film? Hanks has been an outspoken advocate for the space program since starring in Apollo 13 way back in 1995. He produced the award-winning HBO mini-series From the Earth to the Moon, wrote Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D, and sits on the Board of Governors for the National Space Society. Hanks was recognized for this passion by the Space Foundation who awarded him the Douglas S. Murrow Outreach Award in 2006. Is he more interested in the science than the science fiction?
I don't think the two can be totally separated, at least not when it comes to space exploration. Someone needs to imagine the unknown first, they need to theorize and speculate about it before they can creating a »
- Cinematical staff
Austin, We Have a Problem: Aff Plans An Unbelievable Apollo 13 Retrospective!
8 October 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Austin Film Festival, which kicks off on October 22, will be hosting quite possibly one of the coolest retrospectives that any space nerd could hope for. They will welcome director Ron Howard, his brother Clint, astronaut Jim Lovell and other very special guests to the Paramount Theater for a retrospective screening of Apollo 13 on Saturday, October 24th. The star-studded event will also include Apollo 13 screenwriters William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert (who directed one of my favorite space docs of all time, For All Mankind), as well as Nasa mission control specialists Jerry Bostick, John Aaron and Sy Liebergot (who was played by Clint Howard in the film) -- all of whom worked in mission control during the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. Most impressive of all is Jim Lovell (portrayed by Tom Hanks in the film), who was the mission commander and co-author of the book "Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13," upon »
- Neil Miller
James Horner's Avatar Score Promises to Be 'Hugely Cinematic'
7 October 2009 11:20 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »
I normally don't talk about movie scores before a movie comes out, but today I'm making an exception because it's Avatar, and I love James Cameron. MovieScore Magazine recently did an interview with Mike Knobloch, the executive VP of Fox Music, talking about composer James Horner (known for his work on movies like Braveheart, Apollo 13, Titanic) and his score for Avatar. While this could've been just another interview, Knobloch went all out, saying that the score he's working on will be "epic" and "hugely cinematic." Anyone else getting chills just thinking about it? Okay, sure that was cheesy, but I love great movie scores! "Horner is doing a brilliant job of creating music that transports us to another world, but supports the film using the traditional orchestral conventions to make a sound that’s hugely cinematic," Knobloch explained. He also goes on to says that Horner's score is "a »
- Alex Billington
Fan Made: Bill Paxton Pinball Machine
7 October 2009 7:32 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Oh, man. There are usually two groups of items on Fan Made: geeky-embarrassing and geeky-awesome. And my friends, this one-of-a-kind Bill Paxton pinball machine falls squarely into the latter category.
Corona's Coming Attractions steered us towards this pet project of one Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a pinball machine mod that takes its cues from Paxton's whole filmography, with references ranging from True Lies and Titanic to Apollo 13 and Aliens (and I heartily agree with the Corona-made suggestion that Paxton's Hicks Hudson better be the one saying "Game over, man!" when all is said and done).
On his own blog, Heckendorn explained that he's been cracking away at this since 2005 and hopes to have the machine done in time for the 2010 Midwest Gaming Classic in Milwaukee, Wi. Check out his site for more photos and videos; we've included one of the latter after the jump.
(...man, he even made room for a Vertical Limit reference! »
- William Goss
Ron Howard Talks 'Lovecraft' Adaptation
24 September 2009 6:57 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
It was revealed back in March that Director extraordinaire Ron Howard (The Da Vinci Code , Frost/Nixon, Apollo 13) could possibly take the reigns for The Strange Adventures Of H.P. Lovecraft, a live-action adaptation of Image's comic series for Universal and Imagine Entertainment. This evening the Los Angeles Times caught up with Howard, who speaks on the project he calls "new territory for me." "It very cleverly uses H.P. Lovecraft in a fictional way, but there's some loose biographical elements. But it certainly has the flavor and the tone of Lovecraft," Howard told the La Times speaking of the big budget Image Comics adaptation. "The character is a very young Lovecraft." »
Ron Howard Speaks About His Adaptation of The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft Comic
24 September 2009 3:07 PM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »
We've known for some time now that Ron Howard's first comic book adaptation will be a film version of the Image Comics series, The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft. The comic is a fictionalized story featuring a young Lovecraft who goes from a wimpy writer to an ass-kicker of the supernatural. Speaking to the La Times Hero Complex blog, Howard shared his excitement for the material---a project he will most likely direct: Look, it's challenging, but if we get it right, it could be really original and psychologically interesting and scary in a great way. And it's a graphic novel, this is new territory for me. I haven't yet read the comic, but apparently it's been well-received as pulpy horror fun. The concept does remind me somewhat of the ill-fated Terry Gilliam vehicle, The Brother's Grimm, so I'm hoping Howard's adaptation at least ends up besting that. As »
- Devindra Hardawar
Play The Game
28 August 2009 2:13 AM, PDT | The Scorecard Review | See recent Scorecard Review news »
Directed by: Marc Fienberg
Cast: Andy Griffith, Paul Campbell, Marla Sokoloff, Liz Sheridan
Running Time: 1 hr, 45 mins
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: August 28, 2009
Plot: The story of a grandfather whose allegiance to his deceased wife trumps his need to “play the field.” When his witty-remark-a-second grandson pays him a visit, he opens his eyes to the plethora of opportunities for him to score. With the guidance of the young Casanova, Grandpa Joe learns how to “play the game.” It’s only when David (Campbell) meets Julie (Sokoloff) that he finds there’s more to the “game” than the rules he’s passed on to his granddad.
Who’s It For? Fans of films that hold true to the strict rules of the predictable sit-com format. This film is a by-the-book interpretation of how lessons are learned by those who think they’ve already figured themselves out.
Expectations: My »
- Chris De Salvo
Gus Van Sant growing Restless
24 August 2009 8:08 PM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
It pays to know people. Here's a story about how it is so:
Jason Lew was a guy attending New York University that wrote plays while going to school. He also acted in productions put on by Nyu and it was there that he met Bryce Dallas Howard, daughter of former Happy Days star and now A-list director Ron Howard. The younger Howard found out that Lew was a budding playwright and read some of his material. One of his works was a story about young love called Restless. Upon the encouragement of Bryce, Lew fleshed out his play into screenplay format, who then gave it to the woman to show to her showbiz connections, namely her father's production company, Imagine Entertainment.
Flash forward a few years and after Lew's screenplay has received feedback, notes and recommendations from Imagine's executives and now it's in the process of becoming Gus Van Sant's next movie. »
- Patrick Sauriol
Comic-Con 2009 'Avatar' interview with James Cameron and Jon Landau.
4 August 2009 7:39 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
The ‘Titanic’ James Cameron has a seat alongside producer Jon Landau for the second session of our ‘Avatar’ interviews. First up, we spoke to Sigourney Weaver, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang about the eagerly anticipated science fiction wonder. James Cameron talks about founding his special effects company and the road to ‘Avatar’ saying “I founded the special effects company with the idea of…I didn’t necessarily want to be a service company for other filmmakers, although of course that’s how you pay for all the infrastructure. I wanted us to push out in front and do really cool stuff and use the new technology to create CG characters. I partnered with Sam Winston because he was wanting to do the same thing. He was even putting in CG workstations at his Creature Shop. That’s how prescient he was about where this was all going. So this was »
Ron Howard Directs Ludlum's Parsifal Mosaic
29 July 2009 11:35 PM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
Remember when Ron Howard was Opie? Can you believe that dude grew up to become a well-regarded film director with an Academy Award under his belt? And I.m supposed to feel bad for other child actors when they start snorting coke? No, thank you. Despite his creepy gingerness, Howard has made respectable darlings like A Beautiful Mind and Apollo 13, but he.s also recently gotten the thriller bug. And it looks as though that bug will keep biting, as Howard has signed on to direct an adaptation of a Robert Ludlum (writer of the Bourne series novels) book, The Parsifal Mosaic. According to Variety, David Self, of Road to Perdition fame, will adapt the novel, and Brian Grazer will produce (as if Howard would make a movie with anyone else). The novel follows a CIA operative who believes he witnessed the assassination of his lover who had been »
Bryce Dallas Howard Causes An Eclipse: Wake-Up Video
29 July 2009 5:45 AM, PDT | MTV Newsroom | See recent MTV Newsroom news »
It's official: Bryce Dallas Howard, the actress best-known for playing Gwen Stacy in "Spider-Man 3" and for starring in the worst M. Night Shyamalan films, will join the cast of "Twilight" starting with the third film "Eclipse" (scheduled for release in 2010). She'll take on the role of Victoria, the nomadic vampire who is trying to kill Bella and whose role beefs up significantly in the third film.
Howard is something of Hollywood royalty, as her father, Ron Howard, has been in the business for decades. He broke in as a child star on "The Andy Griffith Show," graduated to a role on "Happy Days" and has since become one of the most prolific and varied directors in film, creating modern classics like "Apollo 13," "Willow" and "Cinderella Man." (He is also responsible for "The Da Vinci Code," but it's hard to hold that against him considering he brought "Arrested Development »
- MTV News
question of the day: What’s your best tip for being cool at Comic Con?
22 July 2009 8:41 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
Newsweek has a piece up today offering “Seven Ways to Be Cool at Comic Con” -- and its definition of cool is definitely... bizarre. This is what Newsweek thinks you’ll be competing with: Today, the cheerleading squad has gatecrashed the cafeteria's geek corner: Gwyneth Paltrow goes to Comic Con, for Spock's sake. And Jessica Alba, and Robert Pattinson, and thousands of other blowdried, Chiclet-toothed people from movie studios, television networks, record labels, and the like. How does one come off as an authentic insider, now that the event beckons so many Twitter-happy poseurs? We broke out our slide rule, protractor, and decoder ring to create a foolproof method to fitting in: Here’s one tip for Newsweek: Comic Con hipsters won’t be carrying slide rules. iPhones, yes. And maybe a slide-rule app on the iPhone (of course they exist!) But Jesus H. Christ on a teleporter pad, a slide-rule joke? »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Monday Night Poll: Favorite Moon Movies?
20 July 2009 8:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
Sitting next to my father in a crowded station wagon on the evening of July 20, 1969, I listened to the radio as we drove and stared up into the heavens. Man had landed on the moon, and soon we would all be exploring the universe, just like they did on Forbidden Planet and Star Trek. Things haven't quite worked out that way, so, instead, I've turned to the movies to fulfill my deep space fantasies.
George Melies made the very first sci-fi flick in 1902, A Trip to the Moon, which lasted all of 14 minutes. Interest picked up in the post WWII-era with George Pal's production of Destination Moon; the 1950s were a golden age for science fiction films. Stanley Kubrick's classic 2001: A Space Odyssey put the moon in a whole new light. After Neil Armstrong set his foot down 40 years ago, real life footage replaced all the fictional creations. »
- Peter Martin
DVDs -- Celebrate Moon Landing With Little Known Classic For All Mankind
20 July 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
I saw For All Mankind in a nearly empty movie theater back in 1989 and I've been continually surprised ever since how few people know about this engaging, gorgeous and thrilling documentary about the Apollo missions. Criterion has just released a new edition of the film on regular DVD ($29.95) and BluRay ($39.98 -- but on sale at Amazon, the BluRay is only $20 -- $5 less than the regular DVD! I've only seen the regular DVD). Do yourself and your family a favor and rent or buy it immediately. There's no better way to celebrate the moon landing. Like a lot of great documentaries, For All Mankind breaks a lot of rules. Filmmaker Al Reinert (who went on to co-write Ron Howard's best film, Apollo 13) decided to treat all the Apollo missions as essentially one event. His film depicts... »
- Michael Giltz
For All Mankind: Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
17 July 2009 2:08 AM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Criterion is debuting For All Mankind on Blu-ray Disc cleverly marketed around the film's 20th anniversary and simultaneous 40th anniversary of Apollo 11's moon landing. As deliberate as its delivery into our hands is, the film's existence is a byproduct of coincidental happenstance. For All Mankind chronicles the voyages of 24 astronauts to the moon on Nasa Apollo missions launched between 1968 and 1972 as a single unified journey with footage cobbled together from the various missions. No astronaut, mission, or mission control member are identified by name (unless by choice, more on that in the bonus features) which, though slightly irritating at first, quickly becomes evident as a necessity for the film's name to make sense. These brave pioneering men, most of whom provide anonymous retrospective voiceover throughout the film, represent not themselves in these historic missions, but all of mankind. Footage director Al Reinart spliced together to create his film »
Ron Howard to Be Celebrated for Extraordinary Achievement at Austin Film Fest
16 July 2009 12:04 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Austin Film Festival holds a special place in my heart because it's the first festival that I covered for Fsr. It's always been an innovative festival that I've dug because of its focus on screenwriting and the craft of storytelling. I also plan on covering the hell out of it once it rolls around this year in late October. And now there may be one more reason to be excited. Apparently this year's Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award is going to none other than the narrator from "Arrested Development," Ron Howard. No touching! All kidding aside, the guy has spent the last few years trying to erase the good will he earned with Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind and about a dozen other films with Dan Brown adaptations. However, the man's legacy cannot be denied. He's certainly one of the best storytellers in the business and unafraid to experiment and step outside genre lines. I'm »
- Dr. Cole Abaius
Lance Bass Still Wants to Go to the Moon
15 July 2009 10:09 AM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Fly Me To The Moon. Lance Bass, a former N'Sync boy-band member who is perhaps best known for his astronaut aspirations. From PatrickMcMullan.com. "I'll fly that mission for sure!" said Lance Bass at Monday's Louis Vuitton cocktail party to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the lunar landing. Across the room R&B sensation Estelle took a more casual approach to the idea of space tourism: "If someone were to say to me it was like flying to Chicago, I'd definitely go," she said. "I think I'd go to the moon because you wouldn't get burned there." Others that descended upon the Natural History Museum for the space-themed shindig were singer Cassie, Eric Villency, Jessica Szohr, Alexandra Richards, and models Miranda Kerr and Adriana Lima, who proudly clutched her pregnant belly. One of the guests of honor, Apollo 13's Jim Lovell made a speech praising the fashion company for »
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