Pete Hamill — the celebrated journalist, novelist, columnist, and a titan of the New York City tabloid and journalism world — died Wednesday morning, the New York Times reports. He was 85.
Hamill died after his kidneys and heart failed while in the hospital, his brother, journalist Denis Hamill, confirmed. Hamill had fallen Saturday, August 1st, and was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery; he was then placed in the intensive care unit.
Hamill was born in Brooklyn in 1935 to immigrants from Northern Ireland. He got his first newspaper job...
Hamill died after his kidneys and heart failed while in the hospital, his brother, journalist Denis Hamill, confirmed. Hamill had fallen Saturday, August 1st, and was rushed to the hospital where he underwent emergency surgery; he was then placed in the intensive care unit.
Hamill was born in Brooklyn in 1935 to immigrants from Northern Ireland. He got his first newspaper job...
- 8/5/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Pete Hamill, the Brooklyn-born journalist whose street-savvy writing style and editorial hand lent an authentic, even quintessential voice to city tabloids The New York Post and The Daily News over a 50-year-career, died today in his native borough. He was 85.
His brother, the writer Denis Hamill, told The New York Times that Hamill fell at home on Saturday after returning from a dialysis treatment. He was taken to Brooklyn’s Methodist Hospital were he died apparently from kidney and heart failure.
Hamill began his newspaper career at the Post in 1960. Over the next decades he would write for the Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone and many other publications. Along with columnist Jimmy Breslin, Hamill popularized a streetwise writing style that could seem equal parts Norman Mailer, Damon Runyon and the millions of outer borough residents he both championed and chronicled.
The...
His brother, the writer Denis Hamill, told The New York Times that Hamill fell at home on Saturday after returning from a dialysis treatment. He was taken to Brooklyn’s Methodist Hospital were he died apparently from kidney and heart failure.
Hamill began his newspaper career at the Post in 1960. Over the next decades he would write for the Daily News, Newsday, The Village Voice, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Playboy, Rolling Stone and many other publications. Along with columnist Jimmy Breslin, Hamill popularized a streetwise writing style that could seem equal parts Norman Mailer, Damon Runyon and the millions of outer borough residents he both championed and chronicled.
The...
- 8/5/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Pete Hamill, the New York newspaperman who went to bat for the disenfranchised and became a larger-than-life personality during the city's last great era of print journalism, has died. He was 85.
Hamill died Wednesday in Brooklyn, his brother, Denis Hamill, told The New York Times. He had taken a fall at his home on Saturday after returning from dialysis and was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital when "his kidneys and heart failed him," he said.
A high school dropout who was a hard-drinking man's man before he quit alcohol at age 38, Hamill was a New ...
Hamill died Wednesday in Brooklyn, his brother, Denis Hamill, told The New York Times. He had taken a fall at his home on Saturday after returning from dialysis and was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital when "his kidneys and heart failed him," he said.
A high school dropout who was a hard-drinking man's man before he quit alcohol at age 38, Hamill was a New ...
Pete Hamill, the New York newspaperman who went to bat for the disenfranchised and became a larger-than-life personality during the city's last great era of print journalism, has died. He was 85.
Hamill died Wednesday in Brooklyn, his brother, Denis Hamill, told The New York Times. He had taken a fall at his home on Saturday after returning from dialysis and was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital when "his kidneys and heart failed him," he said.
A high school dropout who was a hard-drinking man's man before he quit alcohol at age 38, Hamill was a New ...
Hamill died Wednesday in Brooklyn, his brother, Denis Hamill, told The New York Times. He had taken a fall at his home on Saturday after returning from dialysis and was in intensive care at Methodist Hospital when "his kidneys and heart failed him," he said.
A high school dropout who was a hard-drinking man's man before he quit alcohol at age 38, Hamill was a New ...
The Assignment is now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD from Lionsgate
Now you can own The Assignment Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has Four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie directed by Walter Hill (mine is Hard Times!). It’s so easy!
Good Luck!
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The Assignment, the jaw-dropping audacious revenge thriller from legendary director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver (Best Actress, Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey; 1989; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture, Working Girl, 1989,) heads home to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and...
Now you can own The Assignment Blu-ray. We Are Movie Geeks has Four copies to give away. All you have to do is leave a comment answering this question: What is your favorite movie directed by Walter Hill (mine is Hard Times!). It’s so easy!
Good Luck!
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be A Us Resident. Prize Will Only Be Shipped To Us Addresses. No P.O. Boxes. No Duplicate Addresses.
2. Winners Will Be Chosen From All Qualifying Entries.
The Assignment, the jaw-dropping audacious revenge thriller from legendary director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver (Best Actress, Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey; 1989; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture, Working Girl, 1989,) heads home to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and...
- 6/11/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
The Assignment will be available on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital HD on June 6th from Lionsgate
The Assignment, the jaw-dropping audacious revenge thriller from legendary director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver (Best Actress, Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey; 1989; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture, Working Girl, 1989,) heads home to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and Digital HD on June 6 from Lionsgate. The film is available On Demand now. Rodriguez stars as a lowlife killer put through a full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon played by Weaver. Also starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® winners Tony Shalhoub (Golden Globe®: Best Actor, Television Series – Comedy, “Monk”, 2003) and Anthony Lapaglia (Golden Globe®: Best Actor, Television Series – Drama, “Without a Trace,” 2004), The Assignment Blu-ray Combo Pack and...
The Assignment, the jaw-dropping audacious revenge thriller from legendary director Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hrs.), starring Michelle Rodriguez and Golden Globe winner Sigourney Weaver (Best Actress, Motion Picture – Drama, Gorillas in the Mist: The Adventure of Dian Fossey; 1989; Best Supporting Actress, Motion Picture, Working Girl, 1989,) heads home to Blu-ray™ Combo Pack (plus DVD and Digital HD), DVD and Digital HD on June 6 from Lionsgate. The film is available On Demand now. Rodriguez stars as a lowlife killer put through a full male-to-female gender reassignment surgery by a score-settling surgeon played by Weaver. Also starring Emmy® and Golden Globe® winners Tony Shalhoub (Golden Globe®: Best Actor, Television Series – Comedy, “Monk”, 2003) and Anthony Lapaglia (Golden Globe®: Best Actor, Television Series – Drama, “Without a Trace,” 2004), The Assignment Blu-ray Combo Pack and...
- 5/22/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Premiering back in September at the Toronto Film Festival, Walter Hill‘s The Assignment (formerly known as (Re)Assignment) came not necessarily as a galvanizing work from an old action master, but a charming, off-beat genre exercise as well as show-off for older thespians (chiefly Sigourney Weaver and Tony Shaloub). With the film now in theaters and on VOD, we were able to talk to Hill about the freedom and fun he had in making his first real low-budget film.
The Film Stage: How have action films changed since you returned to directing with Bullet to the Head?
Walter Hill: I think the changes were well in the works before I did Bullet to the Head. Obviously the superhero comic-book film has taken over. They’re now what’s referred to as action films, but I think they’re very different from the kind of movies we used to...
The Film Stage: How have action films changed since you returned to directing with Bullet to the Head?
Walter Hill: I think the changes were well in the works before I did Bullet to the Head. Obviously the superhero comic-book film has taken over. They’re now what’s referred to as action films, but I think they’re very different from the kind of movies we used to...
- 4/10/2017
- by Ethan Vestby
- The Film Stage
The problem with “The Assignment,” Water Hill’s neo-noir action thriller about a hit man-turned-woman against his will by a vengeful doctor, is all in the title.
Originally known as “(Re)Assignment,” the title is based on an outdated surgical term, “gender reassignment,” now known as gender confirmation surgery. The change reflects that transgender individuals who choose to undergo medical transition are confirming their true gender identity, not re-assigning it.
In “The Assignment,” which follows Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) as a hit man who receives the surgery against his will by a vengeful doctor named Rachel Kay (Sigourney Weaver), using the accurate terminology would be inaccurate. That should give you a hint as to why “The Assignment” is exploitative, insulting, and dangerous to trans people.
Trans rights and good-taste advocates alike delivered their disdain swiftly and loudly when the first trailer for Walter Hill’s movie dropped in 2015. The fact...
Originally known as “(Re)Assignment,” the title is based on an outdated surgical term, “gender reassignment,” now known as gender confirmation surgery. The change reflects that transgender individuals who choose to undergo medical transition are confirming their true gender identity, not re-assigning it.
In “The Assignment,” which follows Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) as a hit man who receives the surgery against his will by a vengeful doctor named Rachel Kay (Sigourney Weaver), using the accurate terminology would be inaccurate. That should give you a hint as to why “The Assignment” is exploitative, insulting, and dangerous to trans people.
Trans rights and good-taste advocates alike delivered their disdain swiftly and loudly when the first trailer for Walter Hill’s movie dropped in 2015. The fact...
- 4/7/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
The Assignment's journey from page to screen took decades. The film, which stars Michelle Rodriguez as a hitman forced to undergo a sex-reassignment surgery at the hands of a vengeful doctor (Sigourney Weaver), began life as a 1978 story by Denis Hamill.
It caught the attention of director Walter Hill at the time, but nothing came of it. In the 1990s, Hill called up Hamill to ask if the rights were still available, but the project continued to languish until the director rediscovered a copy of the story several years ago in his basement.
The Assignment's uphill battle continued on,...
It caught the attention of director Walter Hill at the time, but nothing came of it. In the 1990s, Hill called up Hamill to ask if the rights were still available, but the project continued to languish until the director rediscovered a copy of the story several years ago in his basement.
The Assignment's uphill battle continued on,...
- 4/7/2017
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Stars: Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Caitlin Gerard, Tony Shalhoub, Terry Chen, Anthony Lapaglia, Paul McGillion, Paul Lazenby, Ken Kirzinger, Zak Santiago, Caroline Chan, Adrian Hough | Written by Walter Hill, Denis Hamill | Directed by Walter Hill
Frank Kitchen is an assassin at the top of his game. When he’s double-crossed by a group of ruthless gangsters he falls into the hands of a rogue surgeon, known only as The Doctor, who transforms him into a woman against his will. Aided by a nurse with her own set of secrets, Frank the hitman becomes Tomboy the hitwoman and revenge is the first thing on her mind…
Tomboy (aka The Assignment), arrives on DVD and VOD here in the UK to little fanfare. Which, looking at the cast and crew, you’d think is surprising. The film is headlined by Michelle Rodriguez from the Fast & Furious franchise and Aliens’ Sigourney Weaver; with...
Frank Kitchen is an assassin at the top of his game. When he’s double-crossed by a group of ruthless gangsters he falls into the hands of a rogue surgeon, known only as The Doctor, who transforms him into a woman against his will. Aided by a nurse with her own set of secrets, Frank the hitman becomes Tomboy the hitwoman and revenge is the first thing on her mind…
Tomboy (aka The Assignment), arrives on DVD and VOD here in the UK to little fanfare. Which, looking at the cast and crew, you’d think is surprising. The film is headlined by Michelle Rodriguez from the Fast & Furious franchise and Aliens’ Sigourney Weaver; with...
- 4/7/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
In “The Assignment,” director and co-writer Walter Hill handles the medical and psychological complexities of transgender surgery with all the subtlety and anatomical understanding of Ray Milland’s head being sewn onto Rosey Grier’s body in “The Thing with Two Heads.” Never mind that the transgender community in this country (and in much of the world) has become a target for hate, with trans individuals more likely to face discrimination, violence and homicide than almost any other segment of the population because of the fear and ignorance promulgated by conservative pundits and politicians: For Hill and co-writer Denis Hamill...
- 4/3/2017
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
America’s greatest living action filmmaker returns in top form in The Assignment, the deliriously entertaining new film from director Walter Hill. The premise, from a screenplay co-written by Hill and Denis Hamill, is pure lurid pulp: male assassin Frank Kitchen (Michelle Rodriguez) runs afoul of a brilliant but deranged surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) who has him abducted and knocked unconscious. When Frank comes to, he discovers that he’s been surgically altered and now has the body of a woman – a revelation that only briefly slows down his obsessive quest for revenge. It’s a provocative conceit that might be offensive in […]...
- 3/30/2017
- by Jim Hemphill
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Walter Hill hasn’t been as prolific in recent years as he was in his heyday — the genre maestro directed the likes of “48 Hrs.,” “The Warriors” and “Streets of Fire,” among many others — but he’s back with “The Assignment,” which premiered to mixed reviews and no shortage of controversy at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Formerly known as “(re)Assignment,” the film stars Michelle Rodriguez as a killer seeking vengeance after involuntarily undergoing gender-reassignment surgery. Watch the trailer below.
Read More: Michelle Rodriguez’s Ridiculous Gender-Bender ‘re(Assignment)’ Is A Hot Mess — Toronto Review
“This operation is your reminder of the terrible thing you did,” the surgeon responsible (Sigourney Weaver) says as the trailer opens. “This is your opportunity for redemption.” Things progress as you’d expect from there: Rodriguez begins plotting revenge, Weaver offers skewed justification for her act and bodies pile up.
Read More: Critics...
Read More: Michelle Rodriguez’s Ridiculous Gender-Bender ‘re(Assignment)’ Is A Hot Mess — Toronto Review
“This operation is your reminder of the terrible thing you did,” the surgeon responsible (Sigourney Weaver) says as the trailer opens. “This is your opportunity for redemption.” Things progress as you’d expect from there: Rodriguez begins plotting revenge, Weaver offers skewed justification for her act and bodies pile up.
Read More: Critics...
- 1/23/2017
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
If you've ever clinked bottles on your fingers while chanting "War-ri-orssss, come and out and pla-ayyyy," dressed as a member of the Baseball Furies for Halloween, watched a Xenomorph scurry around darkened spaceship hallways or enjoyed that foul-mouthed poetry of Deadwood's pilot, then you owe Walter Hill a serious debt. The 74-year-old writer, director and producer has had a hand in some of the more memorable tough-guy films and genre flicks of the past 40 years. He's the man who gave us the colorful New York gang movie The Warriors,...
- 9/16/2016
- Rollingstone.com
When spending eight straight days at a film festival, you’re bound to be let down at least once. Enter Walter Hill’s transgender assassination thriller (re)Assignment, quite possibly the most drab flick I’ve seen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Gone are the days of Hill’s The Warriors hayday, replaced with unenthusiastic genre generics and an absolutely asinine story that does little for gender-swapping advancement. This is a tough pill to swallow, light on brutal choreography and dumbfounding in its genre exploitation. If you’re making a socially relevant comment, at least go full force – don’t just tease us with the tip and rip it away (literally).
Michelle Rodriguez stars as hitman Frank Kitchen, who eventually becomes known as the “Tomboy” once his gender is switched unwillingly. Yes, Mr. Kitchen pissed off the wrong people, and instead of getting payback through death, Kitchen...
Michelle Rodriguez stars as hitman Frank Kitchen, who eventually becomes known as the “Tomboy” once his gender is switched unwillingly. Yes, Mr. Kitchen pissed off the wrong people, and instead of getting payback through death, Kitchen...
- 9/15/2016
- by Matt Donato
- We Got This Covered
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Tomboy, a Revenger’s Tale, starring Fast and the Furious and Resident Evil star Michelle Rodriguez. Walter Hill’s gender-swapping action movie also stars Anthony Lapaglia and Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Aliens, Ghostbusters). “The script, written by Hill from a story by Denis Hamill, centers on an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and […]...
- 5/23/2016
- by MrDisgusting
- bloody-disgusting.com
Saban Films has acquired North American rights to Walter Hill's controversial gender-reassignment crime thriller "Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale".
Michelle Rodriguez stars as a male assassin who gets double crossed by gangsters and finds himself in the hands of a rogue surgeon known as The Doctor (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hit woman, sets out for revenge.
Tony Shalhoub, Anthony Lapaglia and Caitlin Gerard also star in the film which was written by Hill and Denis Hamill. Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt produced.
Source: Heat Vision...
Michelle Rodriguez stars as a male assassin who gets double crossed by gangsters and finds himself in the hands of a rogue surgeon known as The Doctor (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hit woman, sets out for revenge.
Tony Shalhoub, Anthony Lapaglia and Caitlin Gerard also star in the film which was written by Hill and Denis Hamill. Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt produced.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 5/23/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Here’s Cannes sales art featuring Fast and the Furious and Resident Evilstar Michelle Rodriguez in Walter Hill’s gender-swapping action movie Tomboy, a Revenger’s Tale, which also stars Anthony Lapaglia and Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Aliens, Ghostbusters). “The script, written by Hill from a story by Denis Hamill, centers on an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into […]...
- 5/13/2016
- by MrDisgusting
- bloody-disgusting.com
Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale
Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Walter Hill, Denis Hamill
Following a remarkable year in cinematic transgender representation with films like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, and Gaby Dellal’s About Ray, not to mention prolific public figures such as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox maintaining notable visibility, positive depictions of the transgender community have marked 2015 as a watershed year. But not unlike the first wave queer theory which bitterly criticized historically negative depictions of Lgbt characters prior to the early 90s New Queer Cinema movement, Trans representation is under increased scrutiny, which results in severe cultural policing. One of the reasons we fail to see queer characters utilized in contemporary genre film is due to an exploitative history we’ve been unable to divorce ourselves from, those unseemly memories of demeaning cinematic representation. Comedy and horror were once the only ‘low...
Director: Walter Hill
Writers: Walter Hill, Denis Hamill
Following a remarkable year in cinematic transgender representation with films like Sean Baker’s Tangerine, Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, and Gaby Dellal’s About Ray, not to mention prolific public figures such as Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox maintaining notable visibility, positive depictions of the transgender community have marked 2015 as a watershed year. But not unlike the first wave queer theory which bitterly criticized historically negative depictions of Lgbt characters prior to the early 90s New Queer Cinema movement, Trans representation is under increased scrutiny, which results in severe cultural policing. One of the reasons we fail to see queer characters utilized in contemporary genre film is due to an exploitative history we’ve been unable to divorce ourselves from, those unseemly memories of demeaning cinematic representation. Comedy and horror were once the only ‘low...
- 1/15/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Tony Shalhoub, Anthony Lapaglia and Caitlin Gerard ("American Crime") have joined the cast of Walter Hill's gender-swapping action thriller "Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale".
Michelle Rodriguez plays an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman. The hitman - now a hitwoman - sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie (Gerard) who also has secrets.
Shalhoub will play a Californian psychiatrist who specializes in unusual cases, Lapaglia is a criminal named 'Honest John' who operates under the guise of a small business with many different entrepreneurial investments.
Denis Hamill penned the script, while Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt are producing. Filming kicks off in Vancouver next week.
Source: Heat Vision...
Michelle Rodriguez plays an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman. The hitman - now a hitwoman - sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie (Gerard) who also has secrets.
Shalhoub will play a Californian psychiatrist who specializes in unusual cases, Lapaglia is a criminal named 'Honest John' who operates under the guise of a small business with many different entrepreneurial investments.
Denis Hamill penned the script, while Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt are producing. Filming kicks off in Vancouver next week.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 11/6/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
“Tracking Shot” is a top of month featurette here on Ioncinema.com that looks at the projects that are moments away from lensing. This November, we’ve got a fivesome of projects that we feel are worth signaling out, but before we put the focus on those, the previous month was a rather fruitful one for mostly indiewood film productions. Films that we’ll be seeing in 2016 and which are for the most part still filming include: Mark Williams‘ workplace drama The Headhunter’s Calling (with Alison Brie, Gretchen Mol, Gerard Butler, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina), Philippe Falardeau‘s bio boxing drama The Bleeder (with Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Elisabeth Moss), Taron Lexton’s coming-of-ager In Search of Fellini (with Ksenia Solo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Maria Bello), Kevin Tent‘s Black List scripted rom-com (with Domhnall Gleeson, Christina Applegate, Thomas Haden Church, Nina Dobrev), Sophie Brooks‘ NYC set Euro-fizzled comedy,...
- 11/2/2015
- by Eric Lavallee
- IONCINEMA.com
Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez is going under the knife in upcoming gender swap thriller Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale.
She'll be playing an assassin who is forced into the hands of a rogue surgeon known as 'The Doctor' who turns him into a woman.
The assassin then sets out for revenge against the scalpel-wielding medic, who will be played by Sigourney Weaver.
Producer of the Alien films, Walter Hill will be directing from a script by Denis Hamill.
The thriller will kick off filming next month and has been slated for a 2017 release.
Rodriguez recently starred in Demi Lovato's music video for 'Confident' and also ate a mouse stewed in her own urine on Running Wild with Bear Grylls. As you do.
Weaver has just wrapped filming a cameo on the new Ghostbusters and has also signed up for the long-awaited Avatar 2.
She'll be playing an assassin who is forced into the hands of a rogue surgeon known as 'The Doctor' who turns him into a woman.
The assassin then sets out for revenge against the scalpel-wielding medic, who will be played by Sigourney Weaver.
Producer of the Alien films, Walter Hill will be directing from a script by Denis Hamill.
The thriller will kick off filming next month and has been slated for a 2017 release.
Rodriguez recently starred in Demi Lovato's music video for 'Confident' and also ate a mouse stewed in her own urine on Running Wild with Bear Grylls. As you do.
Weaver has just wrapped filming a cameo on the new Ghostbusters and has also signed up for the long-awaited Avatar 2.
- 10/29/2015
- Digital Spy
Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale: Michelle Rodriguez will star as a hit man turned hit woman in Tomboy: A Revenger's Tale. The story follows a male assassin who falls under the clutches of a rogue doctor (Sigourney Weaver), who performs a gender-reassignment surgery on the fellow. Walter Hill (Bullet to the Head) wrote the screenplay, based on a story by Denis Hamill, and will direct. [THR] The Revenant: Leonardo DiCaprio is featured in a new image from The Revenant, a...
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- 10/29/2015
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
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Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious franchise, Girlfight, Machete) is set to star in the title role in the crime noir thriller feature film Tomboy, A Revenger’S Tale opposite Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Alien), it was announced today by producers Saïd Ben Saïd of Sbs (Carnage, Maps To The Stars) and Michel Merkt (upcoming Life, Maps To The Stars).
The film is written and to be directed by Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Walter Hill (48 Hours, The Warriors). The screenplay is based upon a story by Denis Hamill.
The Solution Entertainment Group, co-founded by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, is handling international sales on the project and will introduce it to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. ICM is representing North American rights.
The feature film will begin shooting on November 9th in Vancouver.
Tomboy, A Revenger’S Tale is...
Michelle Rodriguez (Fast & Furious franchise, Girlfight, Machete) is set to star in the title role in the crime noir thriller feature film Tomboy, A Revenger’S Tale opposite Academy Award nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Sigourney Weaver (Avatar, Alien), it was announced today by producers Saïd Ben Saïd of Sbs (Carnage, Maps To The Stars) and Michel Merkt (upcoming Life, Maps To The Stars).
The film is written and to be directed by Emmy-Award winning filmmaker Walter Hill (48 Hours, The Warriors). The screenplay is based upon a story by Denis Hamill.
The Solution Entertainment Group, co-founded by Lisa Wilson and Myles Nestel, is handling international sales on the project and will introduce it to buyers at the upcoming American Film Market. ICM is representing North American rights.
The feature film will begin shooting on November 9th in Vancouver.
Tomboy, A Revenger’S Tale is...
- 10/28/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In a movie that could either help the Transgender movement exponentially or set it back a dozen or so years, Walter Hill is directing Tomboy, A Revenger.s Tale, which revolves around Michelle Rodriguez being turned from a hitman into a hitwoman by Sigourney Weaver's evil surgeon. The Hollywood Reporter were the first to confirm that Walter Hill.s tale of double-crossing and sex surgery is currently in the final stages of pre-production, and will indeed commence filming on November 9th in Vancouver, Canada. But what will it actually entail? Well the script, which was written by Walter Hill from a story by Denis Hamill, revolves around Michelle Rodriguez.s hitman, who is regarded as one of the best in the business when it comes to murdering folks. Unfortunately, the hitman becomes involved with a group of rather evil gangsters who decide to double cross Rodriguez.s character. But...
- 10/28/2015
- cinemablend.com
Michelle Rodriguez will star in the title role of noir crime thriller Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale opposite Sigourney Weaver.
The Solution Entertainment Group will kick off sales at the Afm for producers Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt.
Walter Hill directs from a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Denis Hamill about an assassin who is betrayed by gangsters and a rogue plastic surgeon.
ICM represents North American rights and production is set to begin on November 9 in Vancouver.
The Solution Entertainment Group will kick off sales at the Afm for producers Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt.
Walter Hill directs from a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Denis Hamill about an assassin who is betrayed by gangsters and a rogue plastic surgeon.
ICM represents North American rights and production is set to begin on November 9 in Vancouver.
- 10/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Michelle Rodriguez will star in the title role of noir crime thriller Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale opposite Sigourney Weaver.
The Solution Entertainment Group will kick off sales at the Afm for producers Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt.
Walter Hill directs from a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Denis Hamill about an assassin who is betrayed by gangsters and a rogue plastic surgeon.
ICM represents North American rights and production is set to begin on November 9 in Vancouver.
The Solution Entertainment Group will kick off sales at the Afm for producers Saïd Ben Saïd and Michel Merkt.
Walter Hill directs from a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Denis Hamill about an assassin who is betrayed by gangsters and a rogue plastic surgeon.
ICM represents North American rights and production is set to begin on November 9 in Vancouver.
- 10/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Furious 7‘s Michelle Rodriguez is set to star in the title role in the crime noir thriller feature film Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale opposite Sigourney Weaver. The film will be directed by Walter Hill from a screenplay he wrote based on a story by Denis Hamill. The film is about an ace assassin (Rodriguez) who is double crossed by gangsters and a rogue plastic surgeon (Weaver) operating on the fringes of society. The story becomes a trail of self-discovery and redemption…...
- 10/28/2015
- Deadline
Walter Hill is tackling gender reassignment themes in his next film, albeit in the guise of an action thriller. Michelle Rodriguez and Sigourney Weaver are on board to star in Tomboy, A Revenger’s Tale. Hill has written the script based on a story by Denis Hamill, which sees a top assassin double-crossed by gangsters and handed over to a rogue surgeon (Weaver) who turns him into a woman. Now a hit woman, she heads out for some vengeance, aided by a nursed named Johnnie who also has secrets. It’ll be an interesting role for Rodriguez to tackle and a welcome leading performance give how often she’s been in ensembles recently. She’s taking over the job from Freida Pinto, who was attached a couple of months ago before the film made its initial rounds at the Toronto Film Festival’s market. Hill will start rolling the cameras next month in Vancouver.
- 10/28/2015
- EmpireOnline
Michelle Rodriguez ("Furious 7," "Avatar") has scored the lead role in Walter Hill's gender-swapping action thriller "Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale" for Sbs.
The story centers on an ace assassin (Rodriguez) who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman.
The hitwoman now sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie, who also has secrets. Hill penned the script from a story by Denis Hamill.
Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt will produce. Filming is set to kick off November 9th in Vancouver.
Source: Heat Vision...
The story centers on an ace assassin (Rodriguez) who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon (Sigourney Weaver) who turns him into a woman.
The hitwoman now sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie, who also has secrets. Hill penned the script from a story by Denis Hamill.
Said Ben Said and Michel Merkt will produce. Filming is set to kick off November 9th in Vancouver.
Source: Heat Vision...
- 10/28/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Fast and Furious star Michelle Rodriguez will go under the knife for Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale, the gender-swapping action movie to be directed by Walter Hill. Sigourney Weaver is already on board to also star in the project, being produced by Said Ben Said (Map to the Stars) and Michel Merkt of Sbs. The script, written by Hill from a story by Denis Hamill, centers on an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as "The Doctor," who turns him into a woman. The hitman (now a hitwoman)
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- 10/27/2015
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sigourney Weaver and Freida Pinto are in negotiations to co-star in the Walter Hill-directed high-profile transgender-themed action thriller "Tomboy" for The Solution.
The story follows a successful male assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and ends up in the hands of a rogue surgeon (Weaver) who turns him into a woman.
She sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie (Pinto) who also has secrets. A search is underway for an actress to take on the role after the originally slated Andrea Riseborough had to pass due to "Bloodline" scheduling issues.
Hill and Denis Hamill penned the script while Said Ben Said will produce.
Source: THR...
The story follows a successful male assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and ends up in the hands of a rogue surgeon (Weaver) who turns him into a woman.
She sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie (Pinto) who also has secrets. A search is underway for an actress to take on the role after the originally slated Andrea Riseborough had to pass due to "Bloodline" scheduling issues.
Hill and Denis Hamill penned the script while Said Ben Said will produce.
Source: THR...
- 9/14/2015
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
As the film award circus continues, Darren Aronofsky is beginning to develop The Wolverine, a Japan-set story based on the Marvel Comics X-Men character. But what we didn't know is, this isn't the only comic book movie Aronofsky is currently developing. In a recent interview, Darren revealed that he is "doing a comic book of a script that’s really hard to make and we’re going to do a comic version first and see what happens." It seems like Darren is trying to use the world of graphic novels as a backdoor into getting the movie made. And this wouldn't be the first time that Aronofsky has turned to the world of comics. His initial version of The Fountain was released in graphic novel form by Vertigo Comics in 2005 after Brad Pitt left the project high and dry. Which project could this possibly be for? We try to figure it out,...
- 1/17/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Damsels in Distress
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much...
- 12/28/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Damsels in Distress
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Ryan Metcalf
Director: Whit Stillman
Summary: The story revolves around a group of style-obsessed college girls who take in a new student (Gerwig) and teach her their misguided ways of helping people at their grungy university.
Analysis: The first film in a decade from arthouse darling Whit Stillman, a filmmaker's filmmaker whose three Manhattan-based, yuppie-themed mannerist comedies - "Metropolitan," "Barcelona" and "The Last Days of Disco" - were a big influence on the likes of auteurs such as Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach. Stillman says this film varies somewhat from his previous trilogy of sorts, telling First Things that "This film is different, Completely different. Okay, not completely different, but it’s different".
Independently financed by Castle Rock CEO Martin Shafer, the project recently wrapped filming in Manhattan where Stillman returned to last year after having spent much...
- 12/28/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
With his film Black Swan due out in 2010, writer/director Darren Aronofsky is non-stop action, adding another project to his list this week: the story of Britain's biggest heist (approximately $85 million) and Ufc fighter "Lightning" Lee Murray who was arrested in 2006 for allegedly masterminding the crime. Screenwriter Kerry Williamson, who adapted Denis Hamill's novel Fork in the Road for Alexander Payne, is writing the script from a Sports Illustrated article titled Breaking the Bank by John Wetheim, and Howard Sounes' book Heist: The Inside Story of the World's Biggest Robbery. With all the hype surrounding mixed martial arts these days, it was merely a matter of time before Hollywood took its chunk of the profits. It seems fitting that Aronofsky, who brilliantly directed and resurrected Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler (2008), should be the director and producer of the film. His involvement will undoubtedly have movie-goers scrambling for tickets.
- 9/23/2009
- by Melanie Lefebvre
- SoundOnSight
Darren Aronofsky is developing a gritty heist thriller based on "the daring robbery of the Securitas Depot in Tonbridge, a £53 Million Sterling score (around $86 million Us) thought to be masterminded by former mixed martial arts fighter and Ufc star 'Lightning' Lee Murray." Screenwriter Kerry Williamson (who also adapted Denis Hamill's novel Fork in the Road for Alexander Payne) is adapting the script, which Aronofsky is eyeing as a directing vehicle. Details after the jump. The underlying rights package that includes an article from an April 14th 2008 issue of Sports Illustrated Magazine titled Breaking the Bank by Jon Wertheim, and the non-fiction book Heist: The Inside Story of the World’s Biggest Robbery by Howard Sounes. The Tonbridge Securitas heist, which took place outside of London in February 2006, is valued at over $85M Usd – dwarfing previous cash hauls including the infamous 1963 Great Train Robbery and ...
- 9/21/2009
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
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