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Law Abiding Citizen
16 October 2009 7:05 AM, PDT
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Law Abiding Citizen
Directed by: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney, Leslie Bibb
Running Time: 1 hr. 48 mins.
Rating: R
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Plot: A man (Butler) decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain by the district attorney (Foxx) sets his family’s killers free.
Who’S It For? Either people are lazy or movies are really hard to make. There are moments of ugly violence in this film, and supposedly funny violence (when the phone rings, you’ll know what I mean). Simply rent Silence of the Lambs and Falling Down, then mash them together and maybe you’ll have what this movie was trying to achieve. Maybe.
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“I am a law abiding citizen … I’m just a regular guy.” Really? Really? Let’s examine the facts Ok? And yes, some plot spoilers will be discussed here so
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- Jeff Bayer
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FX Greenlights Two Dramas with Terriers and Lights Out
1 October 2009 8:25 AM, PDT
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FX continues its unprecedented ramp up of original programming with the network today placing series orders of two new dramas, Terriers and Lights Out, announced FX President and General Manager John Landgraf. FX has ordered 13 episodes of each series, with Terriers tentatively slated to premiere next summer and Lights Out in late 2010.
Terriers, from Creator/Executive Producer Ted Griffin (Ocean's Eleven) and Executive Producer Shawn Ryan (The Shield), is a comedic drama starring Donal Logue (The Tao of Steve, Damages) and Michael Raymond-James (True Blood). It centers on "Hank Dolworth" (Logue), an ex-cop who partners with his best friend "Britt Pollack" (Raymond-James) to launch an unlicensed private investigation business. The duo, both struggling with maturity issues, solve crimes while avoiding danger and responsibility. Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, The Shield) directed the pilot episode. Terriers is produced by Fox 21.
Lights Out, from Executive Producer/Showrunner Warren Leight (In Treatment) and Creator
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Quentin Tarantino: Imagining Hollywood without him
21 August 2009 6:57 AM, PDT
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Take your seats, class: Senior writer Chris Nashawaty concludes his in-depth weeklong study of all things Quentin Tarantino with his final installment of EW University. Check out our gallery of 20 Tarantino movie and movie poster faves, our look at the original 1978 Inglorious Bastards, our guide to the film-geek references in Tarantino's Basterds, and our Quentin Tarantino final exam.
Imagining Hollywood -- and the world beyond it -- without Quentin Tarantino
No one divides moviegoers like Quentin Tarantino. Those who are in his corner love his infectious cineaste enthusiasm, his references to obscure B-movies, and his pop culture-drenched, rat-a-tat-tat dialogue. The haters find his movies too long, too talky, and too ... well, just too much of everything. But just for a second, try to imagine Hollywood without him.
It's harder than you think.
Ever since the video store clerk-turned-world famous auteur unveiled 1992's Reservoir Dogs, his influence has rippled out and
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- Chris Nashawaty
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Video: Timothy Olyphant Returns to TV in FX’s ‘Lawman’
13 August 2009 2:37 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Timothy Olyphant, star of HBO’s “Deadwood” and FX’s “Damages,” and films including “Go,” “A Perfect Getaway,” “Hitman,” “Catch and Release,” and many more, returns to television early next year in FX’s latest original series, “Lawman,” from creator Graham Yost (“Boomtown”) and based on a character created by Elmore Leonard (“Get Shorty,” “Out of Sight”).
The official synopsis from FX:
“Olyphant stars in the lead role of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Givens is a modern day 19th century-style lawman, enforcing his brand of justice in a way that puts a target on his back with criminals and places him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. That conflict results in a reassignment for Givens to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up. He is an anachronism – a tough, soft spoken gentleman who finds his quarry fascinating, but never gives an inch.
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Charlie Matthau will get 'Freaky'
17 July 2009 11:38 AM, PDT
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Writer-director Charlie Matthau is going after Elmore Leonard. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matthau has written a screenplay inspired by Leonard's 1988 novel "Freaky Deaky" and will direct an adaptation of it. The novel involves a bunch of former 1960s radicals and their lives in 1974 Los Angeles. Production is scheduled to begin in January. Matthau, son of the late Oscar-winning actor Walter Matthau, also is producing the film through his Matthau Company. Simon Horsman of Future Films USA and Fred Pauzar of Blackwood Entertainment Group are executive producing. Leonard's works have been spun into such films as "Out of Sight," "3:10 to Yuma," "Get Shorty," "Jackie Brown" and "The Big Bounce."
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- Adnan Tezer
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Elmore Leonard’s ‘Freaky Deaky’ Headed for the Screen
17 July 2009 10:49 AM, PDT
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Ah, Elmore Leonard! The master of the edgy, humorous, gritty thriller will see his work on the screen again. This time it’s his 1988 novel “Freaky Deaky” that’s been tapped for a screen adaptation. Charlie Matthau is adapting the novel with input by Leonard.
The book is about radicals from the 1960’s who’ve decided to go mainstream and join the world of capitalism rather than fight it. Their intention is to put their bomb-making skills to good use in their quest for cash. In the novel there’s an alcoholic millionaire who they want to set up for the financial kill. Right now there’s not much information on how close the film will stick to the book. And there’s no information about casting.
Matthau is going to direct the film with production set to go in January. Future Films and Blackwood Entertainment Group are producing the film along with Matthau.
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- Robin Ruinsky
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Columbia Pictures to Produce Tom Swift, Barry Sonnenfeld to Direct
1 June 2009 4:02 AM, PDT
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Variety reports that Columbia Pictures will produce a big-screen adaptation of the Tom Swift novels, which first arrived in 1910. Director Barry Sonnenfeld (Get Shorty, Men in Black II) and BenDavid Grabinski pitched the idea successfully as a potential directing vehicle for Sonnenfeld.
The original stories were part of a sci-fi series that featured Swift as a brilliant young inventor, and this new version will reportedly have Swift as half of a father-son team.
This is not the first time studios have tried to adapt Tom Swift for the movies. Gene Kelly was scheduled to direct a version in the late 1960s, but it was canceled at the last minute. Another adaptation was planned in the mid-1970s, but it too was axed.
Sonnenfeld is currently working on MGM's action-comedy The How-To Guide for Saving the World, which is adapted from Grabinski's script.
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Sonnenfeld and Grabinski Reteam for Swift
31 May 2009 8:30 PM, PDT
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Last year it was announced that Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black, Get Shorty, Pushing Daisies) had signed on to direct The How-To Guide for Saving the World, a much buzzed about sci-fi action comedy screenplay which appeared on the 2008 Black List. I'm not sure the status of the project, but Sonnenfeld has again teamed up with Saving the World scribe BenDavid Grabinski to develop Swift, a big screen reimagining of the Tom Swift adventure novels.
Published under the pseudonym Victor Appleton , the books told the story of a young inventor named Tom Swift, who used his genius-level knowledge of inventing in his many adventures -- which total over a hundred volumes in all. Grabinski's pitch reimagines Swift as "one-half of a father-son team who are among the greatest inventors of all time." I've never read any of the Tom Swift novels, so I'm not sure I completely grasp the concept.
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- Peter Sciretta
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Olyphant in FX Channel’s Fire in the Hole
27 April 2009 8:23 AM, PDT
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Timothy Olyphant must really like the idea of playing a U.S. marshal in the new TV series Fire in the Hole, because he’s putting aside a thriving movie career to take the lead in the new series for the FX Channel and creator/producer Graham Yost (”Speed”). According to THR, the show would see Olyphant, who previously played a cowboy Sheriff in the HBO series Deadwood, playing a U.S. Marshal name Raylan Givens who returns to his hometown in Kentucky to pursue a criminal.
Fire in the Hole is based on a short story by crime novelist Elmore Leonard (”Get Shorty”, “Out of Sight”), and here’s a great description of it from Book Page:
U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens journeys back to his roots in an Eastern Kentucky coal-mining town to pursue Boyd Crowder, a white supremacist income tax evader who plans to blow up a Cincinnati IRS building.
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DVD release inspirations including Australia
27 April 2009 2:08 AM, PDT
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Good morning and welcome to the week Boxwishers and what a week it promises to be. The summer season of blockbuster movies starts here with this Wednesday’s cinematic release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Why on a Wednesday you ask and it’s a jolly good question. But frankly, we just don’t care. We’re so psyched about this mutated beast of a movie that we’re going to be brandishing our claws in celebration with some Wolverine-inspired features later this week. However, before we check out Hugh Jackman on action man form, let’s see him as a romantic lead in today’s big new DVD release Australia. And if you don’t fancy that, then it’s a good job we’ve also got some family comedy and cutting satire. Click over for more…
If you see… Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman in the sweeping epic romance directed by Baz Luhrmann,
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FX Pilot Grabs Timothy Olyphant
26 April 2009 9:30 PM, PDT
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Deadwood star Timothy Olyphant is returning to the world of cable television. The actor, who recently appeared on the second season of the FX series Damages, has signed on to star in the network’s upcoming drama pilot based on Elmore Leonard's short story Fire in the Hole.
The untitled project, from Sony TV,Timberman/Beverly Productions and creator/executive producer Graham Yost, centers on U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Olyphant) who returns to his hometown in Kentucky.
Yost, whose written such flicks as Speed, Broken Arrow and Hard Rain, previously created the short-lived television series Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum, and Boomtown, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough.
Yost said he was interested in Olyphant from the get-go because he could see him as an Elmore Leonard character, just like the two actors who, in his opinion, have best embodied Leonard personages on the big screen: George Clooney in
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- James Cook
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Al Pacino Playing Napoleon
8 April 2009 12:13 AM, PDT
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In Get Shorty, Danny DeVito's Martin Weir played Napoleon Bonaparte in one of the biggest movies
of that year. Because the studios like to mimic each other, I can't believe we will have waited another 15 years to see a Hollywood studio go after Napoleon. Al Pacino has signed on to play a version of Napoleon in the upcoming childrens book adaptation, Betsy
and the Emperor. He would be the Emperor in that equation.
The book was written by Staton Rabin, and the film version will come up through Killer Films. You can get all the financial
details at The Hollywood Reporter. John Curran will direct the movie, which is said to be ramping up for an autumn
production start.
And now, for the first time ever, we quote an official synopsis from School Library Journal:
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Get Shorty's Elmore Leonard Got His Start With Westerns
20 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Out of Sight, Get Shorty, and Jackie Brown have more in common than crackling dialogue and jackknifing storylines: They all come from the pen of crime novelist Elmore Leonard. The author of over 40 books, Leonard is a king among devotees of hard-boiled fiction... but he learned his craft writing Westerns. In the 1950s, pulp magazines offered a huge market for Wild West stories. And Leonard (at two cents a
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Get Shorty's Elmore Leonard Got His Start With Westerns
20 March 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Out of Sight, Get Shorty, and Jackie Brown have more in common than crackling dialogue and jackknifing storylines: They all come from the pen of crime novelist Elmore Leonard. The author of over 40 books, Leonard is a king among devotees of hard-boiled fiction... but he learned his craft writing Westerns. In the 1950s, pulp magazines offered a huge market for Wild West stories. And Leonard (at two cents a
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Barry Sonnenfeld to Helm Remake of Korean Hit 'Scandal Makers'
3 March 2009 3:03 PM, PST
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It's been a few years since we were last treated to a Barry Sonnenfeld film, and considering that the guy's most recent efforts were Men in Black 2, Big Trouble, and Rv ... well, we can be forgiven if we're not screaming for a comeback. But it looks like the cinematographer-turned-director has found inspiration in the recent Korean hit Scandal Makers.
According to Variety, the comedy "centers on a philandering pop singer whose life is turned upside-down when he discovers that he has a daughter and a grandson," which creates visions of a Disney version starring Dwayne Johnson, Anne Hathaway, and whichever Breslin kid happens to be two years old right now. Mr. Sonnenfeld will be producing as well as directing, and he's presently looking to hook up with a studio (and probably a screenwriter).
And just so he doesn't think we don't respect him, we'll remind the Cinematical readers that Barry Sonnenfeld
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Movie Review - 'Killshot'
23 January 2009 12:02 AM, PST
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Killshot
Starring Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Thomas Jane, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Directed by John Madden
Rated R
Fresh off a Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for his work in The Wrestler, there's another Mickey Rourke movie in theaters this weekend. Now, it wasn't planned this way originally. His "new" film, an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard novel called Killshot, was filmed years ago.
Killshot has been a troubled project all along, bouncing around for years in development before it wound up on the plate of director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love). The film went into production in October 2005, so when we thank Darren Aronofsky for reviving Rourke's career, John Madden certainly gave it a shot, too.
Why the delayed release? Primarily because the film just isn't spectacular in any way. It has been sitting on a shelf for over two years now and the best chance to make
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- Colin Boyd
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