New, expanded version of Sergio Leone's last film makes its appearance on Blu-Ray and DVD on September 30. Fresh 'Once Upon A Time In America' Cut Worth Every Second - N.Y. Post http://nypost.com/2014/09/21/fresh-once-upon-a-time-in-america-cut-worth-every-second/
We can finally get to see the legendary William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes! Early Sherlock Holmes Film Discovered In Paris - N.Y. Times http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/03/early-sherlock-holmes-film-discovered-in-paris/?_php=true&_type=blogs&module=Search&mabReward=relbias:s,{"2":"RI:12"}&_r=0
Orson Welles' Final Film May Finally Be Released - N.Y. Times http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/m...ar-for-orson-welles-last-film.html?ref=movies PARIS — For more than four decades, Hollywood insiders, financiers and dreamers have been obsessed by the quest to recover “The Other Side of the Wind,” the unfinished last film of Orson Welles. Cinema buffs consider it the most famous movie never released, an epic work by one of the great filmmakers. Endless legal battles among the rights holders, including Welles’s daughter, kept the 1,083 reels of negatives inside a warehouse in a gritty suburb of Paris despite numerous efforts to complete the film — a movie within a movie about the comeback attempt of an aging, maverick director played by John Huston. The quest may be over...
Private Ryan, Big Lebowski, Willy Wonka, Ferris Bueller Join National Film Registry - Variety https://variety.com/2014/film/news/...onal-film-registrys-25-selections-1201380203/ Here's the list for 2014: 13 Lakes (2004) Bert Williams Lime Kiln Club Field Day (1913) The Big Lebowski (1998) Down Argentine Way (1940) The Dragon Painter (1919) Felicia (1965) Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) The Gang's All Here (1943) House of Wax (1953) Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000) Little Big Man (1970) Luxo Jr. (1986) Moon Breath Beat (1980) Please Don't Bury Me Alive! (1976) The Power and the Glory (1933) Rio Bravo (1959) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Ruggles of Red Gap (1935) Saving Private Ryan (1998) Shoes (1916) State Fair (1933) Unmasked (1917) V-E Day + 1 (1945) The Way of Peace (1947) Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Interesting. Private Ryan has the best first half hour of most WWII stories, the rest should be cut and destroyed. Haven't seen Big Lebowski, maybe I should Netflix it. Watched Willy Wonka with my grandkids. Tried Ferris Bueller but cut it off before quarter way through it. I guess you had to go to high school here. There are a few on that list I should look out for. Rio Bravo, now that is just too funny and makes the list seem fake. Ricky Nelson's first and last movie. Hey I bought a couple of his records back then and played them on my old guitar........... but acting!
I've seen the 1933 State Fair (part of the DVD set with the two Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals I think). Not too bad, but not quite as good as the novel (though it's pre-code, so the movie got away with things that would not be allowed a year or two later).
New Years Honours: John Hurt Receives A Knighthood - BBC http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-30625196
If Warren Beatty Is Directing, Shooting Can Wait... For Years - N.Y. Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/m...oting-can-wait-for-years.html?ref=movies&_r=0 LOS ANGELES — An incurable tinkerer, Warren Beatty was at work again last weekend, shooting a scene for a 40-year passion project whose status is almost as mysterious as its subject: the industrialist Howard Hughes. That film, so far invisible and largely shot nine months ago, may be nearing completion and could be ready for release this year. When it finally reaches an audience, the film could crown a storied career for a wily Hollywood operator. If, in fact, this filmmaker-star, still baby-faced at 77, ever stops tinkering with a film that features stars like Lily Collins; Matthew Broderick; Martin Sheen; Mr. Beatty’s wife, Annette Bening; and Mr. Beatty himself as Hughes. Reached through his hilltop office on Tuesday — he runs his production company out of a nondescript professional building behind a strip mall near Mulholland Drive — Mr. Beatty declined to discuss his progress on the movie. As ever, it was a charming turndown. According to the Internet Movie Database, a widely used log of film information, the long-promised Hughes movie — or, more properly, its spiritual descendant — is finally to be released on May 21. Yet the date is inaccurate, perhaps reflecting speculative reports that Mr. Beatty would have it ready for the annual spring festival in Cannes. People involved with the production, speaking on condition of anonymity because of confidentiality strictures, say the movie instead may be done late this year, possibly in time for the coming Oscar season. In truth, according to one person briefed on the evolution of Mr. Beatty’s film, it has changed considerably with the years, and is no longer entirely about Howard Hughes. Seasoned actors populate the film. In addition to Mr. Broderick, Mr. Sheen and Ms. Bening, they include Dabney Coleman, Candice Bergen and Oliver Platt. Alec Baldwin appears in a cameo role as the Hughes associate Robert Maheu.
They are going to remake Big Trouble in Little China with Dwayne Johnson. I don't know what to say. Oh wait, I do. It's going to suck and I hate everyone involved with this. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/dwayne-johnson-big-trouble-in-little-china-remake-cast-1201509737/
Was in Barnes & Noble today to pick up a few CDs and they are having a huge in-store DVD and BluRay sale... 40% off ALL DVDs and BluRays from today (June 9) until June 22. Get going!!!
New releases from Criterion: Day For Night (1973) Directed by François Truffaut Starring Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Léaud ********** The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) Directed by Karel Reisz Starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons ******** Night and the City (1950) Directed by Jacques Dassin Starring Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney
Yes. They're actually making Assassin's Creed, the movie. https://www.yahoo.com/movies/assassins-creed-first-look-heres-michael-127715456582.html
Prometheus 2 To Be Called 'Alien: Paradise Lost' - Comicbook http://comicbook.com/2015/09/24/prometheus-2-to-be-called-alien-paradise-lost/ After just one installment, "Prometheus" filmmaker Ridley Scott has apparently decided sequels to that film would do better with the Alien franchise explicitly attached. During an interview released today, Scott revealed that the forthcoming film previously known only as "Prometheus 2" will in fact be titled "Alien: Paradise Lost." Last year, many thought Scott’s Prometheus follow-up would land in March 2016, but the director first decided to tackle "The Martian," an adaptation of Andy Weir best-selling sci-fi novel. Now "Alien: Paradise Lost" is expected to begin production in January. The Prometheus sequel will pick up where the last movie left off, with Noomi Rapace’s Elizabeth Shaw and Michael Fassbender’s David the android headed to the homeworld of the Engineers to have them answer a very important question: Why did they create humans and then try to eradicate us? Additionally... About 'Alien 5' - Alien5-movie http://www.alien5-movie.com/ Neill Blomkamp will be directing a new Alien movie for 20th Century Fox and it will be a sequel to Ridley Scott's 1979 "Alien" and James Cameron's 1986 "Aliens." Sigourney Weaver will reprise her role as Ellen Ripley and face the dreaded Xenomorph once again. Currently, no release date is set for Blomkamp's "Alien 5." However, the plot for the film will take place well after the events of Ridley Scott's "Prometheus" and closer to the timeline between "Aliens" and "Alien 3" (1992).
Didn't you guys ever build model cars or planes when you were kids, then destroy them with, say, firecrackers or lighter fluid, or a combination of both?
I build them now, and I preserve them in a glass top case. Next to the pile of IPMS awards from local shows.
Official press release confirming rumors of a new King Kong vs. Godzilla... Legendary & Warner Bros. Announce Franchise Uniting Godzilla, Kong, Others - Legendary http://www.legendary.com/legendary-...la-king-kong-and-other-iconic-giant-monsters/ BURBANK, CA – Following Legendary’s and Warner Bros. Pictures’ 2014 success with the global reinvention of the Godzilla franchise, the companies have come together to create an epic, new shared cinematic franchise. All-powerful monsters become towering heroes for a new generation, revealing a mythology that brings together Godzilla and Legendary’s King Kong in an ecosystem of other giant super-species, both classic and new. Monarch, the human organization that uncovered Godzilla in the 2014 film, will expand their mission across multiple releases. The announcement that the reinvention of monsters continues was made today by Legendary CEO, Thomas Tull and Kevin Tsujihara, Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. The initial trio of films are 2017’s KONG: SKULL ISLAND, GODZILLA 2 in 2018 and then GODZILLA VS. KONG, arriving in theaters in 2020. While Legendary maintains its new home at Universal Pictures, the GODZILLA films remain in partnership with Warner Bros., who will now also distribute KONG as a part of this franchise. Production on KONG: SKULL ISLAND begins October 19th. KONG: SKULL ISLAND stars Tom Hiddleston, Sam Jackson, Brie Larson, John Goodman, Tian Jing, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, John Ortiz, Shea Whigham, and Toby Kebbell. Directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts. Kong: Skull Island will fully immerse audiences in the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island. Warner Bros. will distribute the film in 3D and IMAX 3D on March 10, 2017. GODZILLA 2 will be directed by Gareth Edwards. The film is set to be released by Warner Bros. on June 8, 2018. GODZILLA VS. KONG will be released in 2020.
I laughed out loud twice during this trailer. I hope they aren't the only two good jokes in the movie. I look forward to renting this from Redbox.