Oscar Isaac (Moon Knight) is in talks to star in and executive produce the crime thriller series Helltown for Amazon Studios – and if the deal goes through, Isaac will be taking on the role of author Kurt Vonnegut, the writer of such novels as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. Mohamad El Masri (Severance) is writer, executive producer, and showrunner on Helltown, which is based on a novel by Casey Sherman (pick up a copy Here).
Deadline reports that Ed Berger, director, co-writer, and producer of the Best International Film Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front remake, is on board to direct and executive produce the series.
Helltown is set to consist of eight episodes and will tell the story of Kurt Vonnegut before he was a renowned author and cultural lightning rod. In 1969 Kurt was a struggling novelist and car salesman living life with his wife and five children on Cape Cod.
Deadline reports that Ed Berger, director, co-writer, and producer of the Best International Film Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front remake, is on board to direct and executive produce the series.
Helltown is set to consist of eight episodes and will tell the story of Kurt Vonnegut before he was a renowned author and cultural lightning rod. In 1969 Kurt was a struggling novelist and car salesman living life with his wife and five children on Cape Cod.
- 3/13/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
That Peter Weir's 1998 film "The Truman Show" managed to claim as many accolades as it did was kind of extraordinary. It was nominated for three Academy Awards -- Best Director, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Screenplay -- and won numerous other awards from various other critical bodies. Part comedy, part high-concept sci-fi film, "The Truman Show" followed the everyday life of the good-natured everyman Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) as he treks to and from work, makes small talk with his neighbors, and enjoys evenings with his wife Meryl (Laura Linney).
Unbeknownst to Truman, however, he is the lone subject of an elaborate, lifetime-long unscripted TV show watched by billions the world over. His hometown is completely enclosed in an enormous dome, and all the people he has interacted with for his entire life are being fed lines and scenes by the show's all-seeing director Christof (Ed Harris).
Truman, now an adult,...
Unbeknownst to Truman, however, he is the lone subject of an elaborate, lifetime-long unscripted TV show watched by billions the world over. His hometown is completely enclosed in an enormous dome, and all the people he has interacted with for his entire life are being fed lines and scenes by the show's all-seeing director Christof (Ed Harris).
Truman, now an adult,...
- 8/18/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
To mark the release of Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time, out now, we’ve been given a bundle of Kurt Vonnegut novels including Mother Night, Breakfast of Champions, Timequake, and Slaughterhouse 5 to give away.
Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time is a remarkable, essential tribute to the iconoclastic superstar author, guru, philosopher and oracle who wrote, hilarious and scathingly about how to act decently in an indecent society. This decades-in-the-making feature documentary – the first of its kind on Vonnegut, and released in the centenary year of his birth – is a wildly entertaining and enlightening look at the author’s upbringing and his creative output, supplemented with a wealth of never before seen footage.
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck In Time is a remarkable, essential tribute to the iconoclastic superstar author, guru, philosopher and oracle who wrote, hilarious and scathingly about how to act decently in an indecent society. This decades-in-the-making feature documentary – the first of its kind on Vonnegut, and released in the centenary year of his birth – is a wildly entertaining and enlightening look at the author’s upbringing and his creative output, supplemented with a wealth of never before seen footage.
Please note: This competition is open to UK residents only
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Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is in cinemas and on digital exclusively at Altitude.film from 22 July
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- 7/29/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If Abigail Disney had listened to her financial advisers growing up, the heiress would have concentrated on one thing above all else: getting even richer.
The granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney says of those early money managers, “They were really lovely, wonderful, nice people who had known me since I was a child… and they taught me some things that it took me a long time to break open and really unpack. Nobody said this out loud—this was just implied—but if you end your life without more than you started with, then you’ve somehow failed. And beyond that, your children should be better off than you were.” But with her, the imperative to compile wealth on top of wealth didn’t take. “I think that’s an appropriate thing, maybe in the middle class or the working class,” she notes. “But I...
The granddaughter of The Walt Disney Company co-founder Roy O. Disney says of those early money managers, “They were really lovely, wonderful, nice people who had known me since I was a child… and they taught me some things that it took me a long time to break open and really unpack. Nobody said this out loud—this was just implied—but if you end your life without more than you started with, then you’ve somehow failed. And beyond that, your children should be better off than you were.” But with her, the imperative to compile wealth on top of wealth didn’t take. “I think that’s an appropriate thing, maybe in the middle class or the working class,” she notes. “But I...
- 5/23/2022
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
Bob Iger is barely out the door at the Walt Disney Company and already a film from a scion of the founding family has come along to give the well compensated ex-ceo a kick in the ass.
However, the Abigail Disney co-directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales documentary doesn’t have much to add to the discussions of income inequity, ice cold hearted corporations and the legacy of the Reagan Revolution, except a high profile and well-heeled surname.
Debuting with its world premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival tonight as the House of Mouse’s stock took a whack from Wall Street, the Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales proves to be less an exercise for social and economic justice and more a vanity exercise with talking heads.
Which is more than a real shame, it is a tragically missed opportunity.
However, the Abigail Disney co-directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales documentary doesn’t have much to add to the discussions of income inequity, ice cold hearted corporations and the legacy of the Reagan Revolution, except a high profile and well-heeled surname.
Debuting with its world premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival tonight as the House of Mouse’s stock took a whack from Wall Street, the Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales proves to be less an exercise for social and economic justice and more a vanity exercise with talking heads.
Which is more than a real shame, it is a tragically missed opportunity.
- 1/25/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking—whether in your creative process, the way you finance your films, your production methodology or the way you relate to your audience—did you have to reinvent in order to make and complete the film you are bringing to the festival this year? Disney: Early in the pandemic, I descended pretty quickly into an identity crisis as a filmmaker. I wondered what would happen to film when it can […]
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- 1/24/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The last two years have prompted much contemplation and reconsideration of the reasons why we make our films as well as the ways in which we make them. What aspect of your filmmaking—whether in your creative process, the way you finance your films, your production methodology or the way you relate to your audience—did you have to reinvent in order to make and complete the film you are bringing to the festival this year? Disney: Early in the pandemic, I descended pretty quickly into an identity crisis as a filmmaker. I wondered what would happen to film when it can […]
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- 1/24/2022
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Phoenix Rising, a new documentary from Oscar nominee Amy Berg centered on actress, activist and domestic abuse survivor Evan Rachel Wood, has been added to the Special Screenings section of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, taking place virtually from January 20-30, along with directors Abigail E. Disney and Kathleen Hughes’ new doc The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales. The news from the Sundance Institute was accompanied by an announcement that single film ticket sales will open on January 13 at 10 a.m. Mt.
Both Phoenix Rising and The American Dream are making their world premieres at Sundance.
The former two-parter produced by Kirsten Sheridan, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller watches as Wood uses her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women, intimately charting her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.
Both Phoenix Rising and The American Dream are making their world premieres at Sundance.
The former two-parter produced by Kirsten Sheridan, Nancy Abraham and Lisa Heller watches as Wood uses her experience as a survivor of domestic violence to pursue justice, heal generational trauma, and reclaim her story in a culture that instinctively blames women, intimately charting her journey as she moves toward naming her infamous abuser for the first time.
- 1/12/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Thomas Anderson grew up in the San Fernando Valley, which played an important role in his 1997 breakthrough film “Boogie Nights,” which looked at Valley’s porn industry during the ‘70s and 80s. In his new United Artists release “Licorice Pizza,” Anderson returns to the Sfv for a nostalgia-tinged comedy-of-age story set in 1973 starring Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim. Both young performers received strong notices with the L.A. Times’ Justin Chang declaring Haim as the true star of “this boisterous, bighearted movie and its raison d’être.” And Bradley Cooper has earned positive notices for his funny turn as hairdresser turned film producer Jon Peters, who ironically was a producer on Cooper’s 2018 “A Star is Born.”
So, what was the world like in 1973? It was the year of Watergate, Roe Vs. Wade and “The Exorcist” hitting the big screen. Let’s travel back almost half a century to look at the top films,...
So, what was the world like in 1973? It was the year of Watergate, Roe Vs. Wade and “The Exorcist” hitting the big screen. Let’s travel back almost half a century to look at the top films,...
- 12/2/2021
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
There’s a good reason why so much of Robert B. Weide and Don Argott’s “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is spent explaining why and how the film came to be: This is a biographical documentary aimed at people who love Vonnegut’s books, but people who love Vonnegut’s books have already read about the key points of his biography. Not only do they bleed through the bindings of “Slaughterhouse-Five” as if his wounds were still fresh, they’re also smudged across the most dog-eared pages of novels like “Player Piano,” “Breakfast of Champions,” and “Timequake” (the last of which even interrogates his creative process in its own playful way).
Vonnegut’s writing laughs at our place in the stars by seeing it through the pinhole of personal experience, and his readers can’t have their minds blown by the cosmic adventures of characters like Billy Pilgrim and...
Vonnegut’s writing laughs at our place in the stars by seeing it through the pinhole of personal experience, and his readers can’t have their minds blown by the cosmic adventures of characters like Billy Pilgrim and...
- 11/19/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
“Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” is two documentaries in one. It’s a film about the life and work of Kurt Vonnegut, and on that score it covers most of the bases and captures what it was that made Vonnegut the quintessential pop-philosopher novelist of his era — the quips and catchphrases and sci-fi curlicues, the whimsically upbeat cynicism of his chain-smoking Mark-Twain-of-the-counterculture image, the way that, in “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969), he took his experiences as a witness to the bombing of Dresden in World War II and turned them into a mythology of war that caught the despair and bitter insanity of the Vietnam era, and the fact that he wrote fervently, obsessively, but always in the spry, plainspoken, wit-as-dry-as-kindling voice of the Midwestern scion of Indianapolis he was. If you want a handy primer on one of the fabled writers of his time, “Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time” will more than do.
- 11/19/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
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The release of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” arriving so quickly on the heels of “Apple’s Foundation” adaptation, shows and films that the lure of adapting so-called “unfilmable” books for the screen remains as strong as ever. No matter how successful — or not, as anyone who’s watched the “Breakfast of Champions” movie knows all too well — any adaptation of a book people believed couldn’t be done nonetheless appears to be such an accomplishment that filmmakers can’t help but look for subjects to aim their attention towards.
With that in mind, here are some of the few remaining untouched unfilmable masterpieces left in the world of genre literature to explore for yourself in their original form,...
The release of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune,” arriving so quickly on the heels of “Apple’s Foundation” adaptation, shows and films that the lure of adapting so-called “unfilmable” books for the screen remains as strong as ever. No matter how successful — or not, as anyone who’s watched the “Breakfast of Champions” movie knows all too well — any adaptation of a book people believed couldn’t be done nonetheless appears to be such an accomplishment that filmmakers can’t help but look for subjects to aim their attention towards.
With that in mind, here are some of the few remaining untouched unfilmable masterpieces left in the world of genre literature to explore for yourself in their original form,...
- 10/25/2021
- by Graeme McMillan
- Variety Film + TV
Maid Trailer — Netflix‘s Maid (2021) TV mini-series teaser trailer has been released. The Maid trailer stars Margaret Qualley, Billy Burke, Andie MacDowell, Nick Robinson, Anika Noni Rose, Tracy Vilar, Rylea Nevaeh Whittet, Bj Harrison, Erin Karpluk, Toby Levins, Alessandro Juliani, Hilaria Larriva, and Mozhan Marno. Crew John Wells, Helen Shaver, Nzingha Stewart, [...]
Continue reading: Maid (2021) TV Mini-series Trailer: Struggling Mom Margaret Qualley Cleans Houses While Chasing the American Dream [Netflix]...
Continue reading: Maid (2021) TV Mini-series Trailer: Struggling Mom Margaret Qualley Cleans Houses While Chasing the American Dream [Netflix]...
- 8/24/2021
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The Doobie Brothers have unveiled their 15th studio album, Liberté, out Friday, October 1st.
The band produced and co-wrote all 12 tracks of the album with John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus). Rather than release the songs sequentially as singles, the Doobie Brothers have released a special extended play, The Doobie Brothers EP, featuring four tracks from Liberté: “Oh Mexico,” “Cannonball,” “Don’t Ya Mess With Me,” and “Better Days.” The EP is available now on streaming.
Later this month, the Doobie Brothers will embark on their highly anticipated 50th anniversary tour,...
The band produced and co-wrote all 12 tracks of the album with John Shanks (Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus). Rather than release the songs sequentially as singles, the Doobie Brothers have released a special extended play, The Doobie Brothers EP, featuring four tracks from Liberté: “Oh Mexico,” “Cannonball,” “Don’t Ya Mess With Me,” and “Better Days.” The EP is available now on streaming.
Later this month, the Doobie Brothers will embark on their highly anticipated 50th anniversary tour,...
- 8/6/2021
- by Claire Shaffer
- Rollingstone.com
Ice Cold, a YouTube docuseries about the connection between hip-hop and ostentatious jewelry, premieres tonight, July 8th. Ahead of the debut episode, Rolling Stone has a preview of what to expect from the four-episode series that features interviews with artists like J Balvin, Lil Baby, City Girls, Slick Rick and many more.
“I was addicted to jewelry. At one point in time, I was spending every cent on diamonds,” Lil Yachty admits in the trailer. “When you’re wearing big diamonds, it’s like a big ‘Fuck you’ to everybody.
“I was addicted to jewelry. At one point in time, I was spending every cent on diamonds,” Lil Yachty admits in the trailer. “When you’re wearing big diamonds, it’s like a big ‘Fuck you’ to everybody.
- 7/8/2021
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
IFC Films has scooped up the North American rights to Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, the documentary about the life and career of legendary novelist by directors Robert B. Weide and Don Argott.
Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at age 84, became renowned for novels like the Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. His novels, short stories, essays and plays were filled with humor, social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.
IFC Films plans a summer 2021 release for the long-gestating feature documentary that has 32-year-old footage that the Oscar-nominated Weide captured of Vonnegut through their long friendship.
“IFC Films has ...
Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at age 84, became renowned for novels like the Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. His novels, short stories, essays and plays were filled with humor, social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.
IFC Films plans a summer 2021 release for the long-gestating feature documentary that has 32-year-old footage that the Oscar-nominated Weide captured of Vonnegut through their long friendship.
“IFC Films has ...
- 11/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
IFC Films has scooped up the North American rights to Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time, the documentary about the life and career of legendary novelist by directors Robert B. Weide and Don Argott.
Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at age 84, became renowned for novels like the Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. His novels, short stories, essays and plays were filled with humor, social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.
IFC Films plans a summer 2021 release for the long-gestating feature documentary that has 32-year-old footage that the Oscar-nominated Weide captured of Vonnegut through their long friendship.
“IFC Films has ...
Vonnegut, who died in 2007 at age 84, became renowned for novels like the Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat’s Cradle and Breakfast of Champions. His novels, short stories, essays and plays were filled with humor, social commentary, science fiction and autobiography.
IFC Films plans a summer 2021 release for the long-gestating feature documentary that has 32-year-old footage that the Oscar-nominated Weide captured of Vonnegut through their long friendship.
“IFC Films has ...
- 11/11/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Spawn and Dark Knight actor has landed the lead role of James Baker, the DEA agent who faces off with Mickey Rourke’s villain in Asif Akbar’s The Commando.
Baker has Ptsd and returns home after a botched mission. He’s faced with protecting his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. The movie shoots in New Mexico this month. Michael Jai White’s feature credits also include Black Dynamite, Why Did I Get Married Too?,...
Baker has Ptsd and returns home after a botched mission. He’s faced with protecting his family from a newly released prison criminal, played by Rourke, and his henchmen who’ve come after a stash of millions inside the agent’s house.
Koji Steven Sakai wrote the original screenplay from a story by Al Bravo, Akbar and Sakai as well. Elias Axume of Premiere Entertainment Group will be handling all world-wide sales and serving as producer. The Commando is a co-production with Al Bravo Films, Little Nalu Pictures and Avail Entertainment. Kimberly Hines will serve as EP. The movie shoots in New Mexico this month. Michael Jai White’s feature credits also include Black Dynamite, Why Did I Get Married Too?,...
- 10/12/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
This Katy Keene review contains spoilers.
Katy Keene Episode 6
“That’s when I knew I was royally screwed.”
As this episode opens, Katy realizes that it’s time to move on from K.O., a sentiment that is echoed by her friends. And viewers. She has only ever experienced romance with him, and let’s face it, dude was super lame. (I still can’t believe that the ever-candid Jorge has never spoken up to tell Katy this fact). After learning that her mom did in fact work at Lacy’s for a short while, she is thrust into helping Prince Errol Swoon and his bride-to-be Patricia prepare for their engagement photo shoot at Lacy’s. Not really having time to process this information.
Unfortunately, the pair are bickering and Katy uses her flawless people skills and fashion sense to save the day and the shoot. It’s there that...
Katy Keene Episode 6
“That’s when I knew I was royally screwed.”
As this episode opens, Katy realizes that it’s time to move on from K.O., a sentiment that is echoed by her friends. And viewers. She has only ever experienced romance with him, and let’s face it, dude was super lame. (I still can’t believe that the ever-candid Jorge has never spoken up to tell Katy this fact). After learning that her mom did in fact work at Lacy’s for a short while, she is thrust into helping Prince Errol Swoon and his bride-to-be Patricia prepare for their engagement photo shoot at Lacy’s. Not really having time to process this information.
Unfortunately, the pair are bickering and Katy uses her flawless people skills and fashion sense to save the day and the shoot. It’s there that...
- 3/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Chicago – He moved deftly from British matinee idol to formidable movie star to reliable character actor, and was nominated four times for an Academy Award (no wins). Albert Finney had a nearly 50 year stage and screen career that encompassed virtually all types and genres of acting. He died in London on February 7th, 2019. He was 82.
He was born Albert Finney Jr., and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating at age 20 in 1956. He became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company shortly thereafter, and appeared on the stage throughout the late 1950s, and throughout his career. His debut film role was “The Entertainer” in 1960. He was the title character in the Oscar Best Picture “Tom Jones” (1963), and other films in that decade included “Night Must Fall” (1964), “Two for the Road” (1967) and “Charlie Bubbles”.
An Early Career Albert Finney
Photo credit: File Photo
His most fruitful film era was arguably the 1980s and ‘90s,...
He was born Albert Finney Jr., and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating at age 20 in 1956. He became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company shortly thereafter, and appeared on the stage throughout the late 1950s, and throughout his career. His debut film role was “The Entertainer” in 1960. He was the title character in the Oscar Best Picture “Tom Jones” (1963), and other films in that decade included “Night Must Fall” (1964), “Two for the Road” (1967) and “Charlie Bubbles”.
An Early Career Albert Finney
Photo credit: File Photo
His most fruitful film era was arguably the 1980s and ‘90s,...
- 2/26/2019
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
“Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” is the ambitious, provocative, sometimes frustrating story of a young man wrestling with his sanity as he tries to design a “Choose Your Own Adventure”-style video game in time for Christmas 1984. You, the viewer, help him make key decisions along the way, just like in the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books.
The title is drawn from the works of Lewis Carroll, who is famous for writing about rabbit holes, and a stuffed rabbit is essential to the plot — or rather, plots. Netflix has marketed “Bandersnatch” as a film, but it’s a video game, too, in the sense that the simple decisions you make along the way — through clicks on your laptop, phone or whatever — help decide which way certain scenes go.
Your clicks take the lead character, Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), in divergent-but-not-that-divergent directions, leading to several possible storylines and endings.
Also Read: How 'Black Mirror:...
The title is drawn from the works of Lewis Carroll, who is famous for writing about rabbit holes, and a stuffed rabbit is essential to the plot — or rather, plots. Netflix has marketed “Bandersnatch” as a film, but it’s a video game, too, in the sense that the simple decisions you make along the way — through clicks on your laptop, phone or whatever — help decide which way certain scenes go.
Your clicks take the lead character, Stefan (Fionn Whitehead), in divergent-but-not-that-divergent directions, leading to several possible storylines and endings.
Also Read: How 'Black Mirror:...
- 12/28/2018
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Above: Us one sheet for Trouble in Mind (1985). Art direction by Mike Kaplan, illustration by Ignacio Gomez.Alan Rudolph may not be one of the best known names in American independent film and that is a shame because his 22-feature filmography comprises a unique body of work of literate, off-kilter, romantic, humanistic cinema. New Yorkers have a chance to devour that work over the next few weeks at the Quad Cinema in their essential retrospective, "Alan Rudolph’s Everyday Lovers."Rudolph’s poster-ography is as erratic and full of gems as his filmic career. It starts out with a couple of genre horror films—with gaudy posters to match—before launching into the early masterpieces Welcome to L.A. and Remember My Name, both film which were released by Mike Kaplan’s Lagoon. Kaplan, who had previously worked with Stanley Kubrick, is a keen connoisseur and collector of posters himself,...
- 4/27/2018
- MUBI
Looking back on this still-young century makes clear that 2007 was a major time for cinematic happenings — and, on the basis of this retrospective, one we’re not quite through with ten years on. One’s mind might quickly flash to a few big titles that will be represented, but it is the plurality of both festival and theatrical premieres that truly surprises: late works from old masters, debuts from filmmakers who’ve since become some of our most-respected artists, and mid-career turning points that didn’t necessarily announce themselves as such at the time. Join us as an assembled team, many of whom were coming of age that year, takes on their favorites.
In the world of Japanese pop auteurs, there are few rising stars as unpredictably eclectic, temperamental, and consistently fascinating as Hideaki Anno. Anno began his professional life in the early 1980s as a young animator working literally...
In the world of Japanese pop auteurs, there are few rising stars as unpredictably eclectic, temperamental, and consistently fascinating as Hideaki Anno. Anno began his professional life in the early 1980s as a young animator working literally...
- 9/7/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
When the thought of making waffles from scratch sounds like too much of a hassle, Kylie Jenner has just the trick.
The reality star, who is known for creatively whipping up dishes on Snapchat, is sharing her easy way for making “special” cinnamon roll waffles on her website.
The recipe — which she may have inherited from her sister Kendall after she shared the technique way back in 2014— involves only two ingredients: non-stick spray and packaged cinnamon rolls (and the icing that comes with it). Sounds easy enough, right?
“They’re really simple, but really good,” she says on Snapchat.
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The reality star, who is known for creatively whipping up dishes on Snapchat, is sharing her easy way for making “special” cinnamon roll waffles on her website.
The recipe — which she may have inherited from her sister Kendall after she shared the technique way back in 2014— involves only two ingredients: non-stick spray and packaged cinnamon rolls (and the icing that comes with it). Sounds easy enough, right?
“They’re really simple, but really good,” she says on Snapchat.
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- 3/14/2017
- by Jessica Fecteau
- PEOPLE.com
If you haven’t noticed, Kylie Jenner is “pretty damn domestic.”
When she’s not expanding her beauty empire, the reality star can be found cooking away on her Snapchat. Sometimes she’s making lasagna in her underwear and other times she’s starting a national dialogue on ramen noodles. (We didn’t give her the 2016 Foodie Award for Best Snapchat Chef for nothin’, people.) But Jenner says breakfast is by far her favorite meal to prepare.
“I seriously love being home and cooking for my friends and family, especially breakfast,” she writes in a new post on her app and website.
When she’s not expanding her beauty empire, the reality star can be found cooking away on her Snapchat. Sometimes she’s making lasagna in her underwear and other times she’s starting a national dialogue on ramen noodles. (We didn’t give her the 2016 Foodie Award for Best Snapchat Chef for nothin’, people.) But Jenner says breakfast is by far her favorite meal to prepare.
“I seriously love being home and cooking for my friends and family, especially breakfast,” she writes in a new post on her app and website.
- 1/3/2017
- by acalderone1271
- PEOPLE.com
There’s a classic childhood nightmare that most of us get over pretty quickly: What if everyone is a robot except for you? How can you ever know that anyone else is real? Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions” features a character who goes mad after reading this passage, which describes a delusion all of us have felt at some point in our lives: You are surrounded by loving machines, hating machines, greedy machines, unselfish machines, brave machines, cowardly machines, truthful machines, lying machines, funny machines, solemn machines. Their only true purpose is to stir you up in every conceivable way,...
- 9/28/2016
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
What does Giada de Laurentiis eat for breakfast on her birthday? Cake, of course! The restaurateur and Food Network star's 46th birthday got off to an excellent start Monday when her boyfriend, Shane Farley, presented her with a rather tempting-looking chocolate cake in the morning—and of course she shared a pic of the confection on Instagram. And not only was Farley the one doing the baking (or at least visiting the bakery), he was also wielding the camera. "Breakfast of champions on my bday!! Thx to @shanefarley #i❤️mybday," Giada captioned the photo, which is of her taking a picture of the cake. Looks like life...
- 8/22/2016
- E! Online
Warning: serious Fomo-fuel ahead. Sean "Diddy" Combs hosted a New Year's Eve bash at his mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island, and the pictures will make you wish you partied with all his celeb pals. Laverne Cox, Taraji P. Henson, The Weeknd, Rita Ora, Amber Rose, Keke Palmer and more danced the night away at the Ciroc-sponsored blowout. After sipping on cocktails including the Midnight Kiss (recipe below), guests were treated to a 3 a.m. "Breakfast of Champions" prepared by Dwyane Wade's personal chef Richard Ingraham. The man of the hour kept it classy in a tuxedo: Empire stars...
- 1/1/2016
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- PEOPLE.com
Warning: serious Fomo-fuel ahead. Sean "Diddy" Combs hosted a New Year's Eve bash at his mansion on Miami Beach's Star Island, and the pictures will make you wish you partied with all his celeb pals. Laverne Cox, Taraji P. Henson, The Weeknd, Rita Ora, Amber Rose, Keke Palmer and more danced the night away at the Ciroc-sponsered blowout. After sipping on cocktails including the Midnight Kiss (recipe below), guests were treated to a 3 a.m. "Breakfast of Champions" prepared by Dwyane Wade's personal chef Richard Ingraham. The man of the hour kept it classy in a tuxedo: Empire stars...
- 1/1/2016
- by Lydia Price, @lydsprice
- PEOPLE.com
The Goosebumps author turns up as a creepy weirdo in this spine-tingling romp full of villains from his bestselling novels
Creators have been mixing it up with their characters for a while. You can see it in Fellini’s 8½, Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, or, heck, the Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck. Then there are the times when it’s not an author character showing up, but the actual author, such as Stephen King in The Dark Tower or Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions. Somewhere in between is Charlie Kaufman writing the character Charlie Kaufman for Nicolas Cage to play in Adaptation.
Now this mind-scrambling list needs to find a place for Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander’s character Rl Stine – based on the actual creator of the popular Goosebumps novels – who encounters many Goosebumps villains in the new movie called Goosebumps.
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Creators have been mixing it up with their characters for a while. You can see it in Fellini’s 8½, Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, or, heck, the Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck. Then there are the times when it’s not an author character showing up, but the actual author, such as Stephen King in The Dark Tower or Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions. Somewhere in between is Charlie Kaufman writing the character Charlie Kaufman for Nicolas Cage to play in Adaptation.
Now this mind-scrambling list needs to find a place for Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander’s character Rl Stine – based on the actual creator of the popular Goosebumps novels – who encounters many Goosebumps villains in the new movie called Goosebumps.
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- 10/5/2015
- by Jordan Hoffman
- The Guardian - Film News
Ray Donovan Season 3, Episode 4 “Breakfast of Champions” (original air date Aug. 2, 2015): Lots of crazy cereal talk in this episode. Made me pick up a box of Captain Crunch (so why does that cereal rip out the top of your mouth, anyways?). Ok, enough of that, here’s the recap Ray Donovan Episode 4. The episode begins with Abby returning to Boston to visit her Southie family. She surprises her brother Dave (Aaron Hendry) at their family bar. “You look like a fucking teenager,” he tells her. “I feel like an old woman.” Abby (Paula Malcomson) takes no … Continue reading →
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- 8/3/2015
- by Barb Oates
- ChannelGuideMag
Good news, Bruce Jenner: Wheaties has your back as you make the transition of a lifetime. General Mills, the company behind the cereal dubbed the “Breakfast of Champions,” has voiced its support for the former Olympian, who recently announced he’s transitioning from male to female. “Bruce Jenner continues to be a respected member of Team Wheaties,” a spokesman for General Mills told TheWrap in a statement on Thursday. See photo: See Bruce Jenner Pose in New Picture With Ex-Wives Jenner famously appeared on the Wheaties box in the 1970s at the apex of his Olympic fame. Last week,...
- 4/30/2015
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
It's the bidding of champions! Bruce Jenner's iconic Wheaties boxes are going up in value following his two-hour special interview with Diane Sawyer, which aired last Friday, April 24. The orange cereal boxes, which famously captured Jenner's 1976 Olympic gold decathlon medal moment, have been selling on eBay for several hundreds of dollars. General Mills first released its "Breakfast of Champions" special edition box in 1977 after his world-famous win in Montreal that previous year. The box, which features Jenner in his athletic wear during the Olympics, shows [...]...
- 4/28/2015
- Us Weekly
A new documentary, Unstuck In Time, covers the story of Kurt Vonnegut over a period of almost 20 years...
One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Kurt Vonnegut's novels were full of intelligence and dry humour. Perhaps his most famous work, the semi-autobiographical novel Slaughterhouse-Five, was both a horrifying account of the firebombing of Dresden and a dark time travel comedy.
Such books as Cat's Cradle, Player Piano and Breakfast Of Champions offered up amusing and often worryingly accurate portraits of human nature at its lowest, where lives are ruined or existences snuffed out through naivety or plain madness. In short, Vonnegut was one of the sharpest sci-fi writers of all time.
In 1982, filmmaker Robert Weide wrote to Vonnegut in the hope that the author would let him make a documentary about his life. To Weide's surprise, Vonnegut agreed. Between 1988 and 2007, Weide met with Vonnegut many times,...
One of the most important American writers of the 20th century, Kurt Vonnegut's novels were full of intelligence and dry humour. Perhaps his most famous work, the semi-autobiographical novel Slaughterhouse-Five, was both a horrifying account of the firebombing of Dresden and a dark time travel comedy.
Such books as Cat's Cradle, Player Piano and Breakfast Of Champions offered up amusing and often worryingly accurate portraits of human nature at its lowest, where lives are ruined or existences snuffed out through naivety or plain madness. In short, Vonnegut was one of the sharpest sci-fi writers of all time.
In 1982, filmmaker Robert Weide wrote to Vonnegut in the hope that the author would let him make a documentary about his life. To Weide's surprise, Vonnegut agreed. Between 1988 and 2007, Weide met with Vonnegut many times,...
- 2/10/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 to universal acclaim and became one of the most celebrated works in American literature. Despite winning a Pulitzer Prize and earning Lee a Congressional Medal of Freedom in 2007, it was the author's only published book.
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On July 14, Lee's second novel Go Set a Watchman will be hitting bookstore shelves, nearly 54 years after To Kill a Mockingbird. The story, which Lee actually wrote before her debut novel but never published, serves as a sequel to Mockingbird, and follows the original book's beloved characters years after the events depicted in Lee's masterpiece.
Now that To Kill a Mockingbird has a follow-up, it's time to go back and see what other famous literary works could use a Part Two. Here are six classic novels that are begging for a sequel.
1. The Catcher...
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On July 14, Lee's second novel Go Set a Watchman will be hitting bookstore shelves, nearly 54 years after To Kill a Mockingbird. The story, which Lee actually wrote before her debut novel but never published, serves as a sequel to Mockingbird, and follows the original book's beloved characters years after the events depicted in Lee's masterpiece.
Now that To Kill a Mockingbird has a follow-up, it's time to go back and see what other famous literary works could use a Part Two. Here are six classic novels that are begging for a sequel.
1. The Catcher...
- 2/4/2015
- Entertainment Tonight
There was plenty to celebrate this weekend, from the Bachelorette winner's big birthday to another reality couple reuniting off-camera. One star announced she's pregnant, and another made it clear her wedding ring is on tight. Here's the news you might have missed: 5. A Bachelorette Birthday Andi Dorfman surprised her fiancé Josh Murray with a party to celebrate him turning 30 years old. From a private dinner to a secret trip to a bowling alley, the couple stayed affectionate throughout the night. Go inside the birthday bash. 4. Breakfast of Champions Elsewhere in reality TV land, Dancing with the Stars winners Meryl Davis...
- 8/11/2014
- by Michele Corriston, @mcorriston
- PEOPLE.com
There was plenty to celebrate this weekend, from the Bachelorette winner's big birthday to another reality couple reuniting off-camera. One star announced she's pregnant, and another made it clear her wedding ring is on tight. Here's the news you might have missed: 5. A Bachelorette Birthday Andi Dorfman surprised her fiancé Josh Murray with a party to celebrate him turning 30 years old. From a private dinner to a secret trip to a bowling alley, the couple stayed affectionate throughout the night. Go inside the birthday bash. 4. Breakfast of Champions Elsewhere in reality TV land, Dancing with the Stars winners Meryl Davis...
- 8/11/2014
- by Michele Corriston, @mcorriston
- PEOPLE.com
Bruce Willis' baby girl just made her social networking debut in an interesting way.The 59-year-old actor snapped a photo of newborn daughter Evelyn and shared it via his wife Emma Hemming's Instagram page on Saturday. The picture, which shows mother and daughter breastfeeding, was captioned "Breakfast of Champions."This is the first time we've seen the little one since her birth just two weeks ago.Emma's followers have applauded her for not being shy about breastfeeding in such a public way, helping "normalize" the practice."What a beautiful picture and message," wrote one fan. "Love when a celebrity is proud to post that they breastfeed! helps make it 'normal,'" wrote another.Evelyn is the couple's second child together, joining 2-year-old daughter Mabel. Bruce also has three kids with ex-wife Demi Moore, Tallulah, Rumer and Scout. Read more...
- 5/25/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
Hello, Evelyn! Two weeks after her arrival, Bruce Willis and his wife Emma Heming-Willis introduced their little baby girl to the world in a very personal photo via Facebook on Saturday, May 24. "Breakfast of Champions. Photo cred: B. Willis," Heming-Willis, 35, wrote. In the snapshot, the mom of two is holding baby Evelyn while breastfeeding. The little tyke is wrapped in a blanket, and only the side of her face and dark locks are seen. Willis, 59, and the model's new addition joined big sister Mabel, 24 months, [...]...
- 5/24/2014
- Us Weekly
“Whenever there is a decline of righteousness and rise of unrighteousness then I send forth Myself.”
—Lord Krishna to Prince Arjuna,The Bhagavadgita (Song of God)
Sanskrit in origin, and a central principle of the Hindu religion, an avatar is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the incarnation of a deity in human or animal form to counteract an evil in the world. A central principle of Hinduism, it usually refers to 10 appearances of Vishnu, including an incarnation as the Buddha Gautama and the Buddha yet to come, called Kalkin.”
In the 21st century, it has also come to mean that little picture that represents the user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan on the Internet, and (usually) will tell you something about that person, whether it is whom that user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan admires or identifies with, or even their sense of humor about themselves. (See...
—Lord Krishna to Prince Arjuna,The Bhagavadgita (Song of God)
Sanskrit in origin, and a central principle of the Hindu religion, an avatar is defined in the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “the incarnation of a deity in human or animal form to counteract an evil in the world. A central principle of Hinduism, it usually refers to 10 appearances of Vishnu, including an incarnation as the Buddha Gautama and the Buddha yet to come, called Kalkin.”
In the 21st century, it has also come to mean that little picture that represents the user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan on the Internet, and (usually) will tell you something about that person, whether it is whom that user, blogger, columnist, commentator, gamer, or fan admires or identifies with, or even their sense of humor about themselves. (See...
- 2/24/2014
- by Mindy Newell
- Comicmix.com
It's 1976, a year when all the groovy girls are traipsing around in tiny suede skirts and all the cool guys have Badfinger hair. One of those guys was English racing driver James Hunt, the charismatic rapscallion who won that year's Formula One World Championship—the embroidered badge on his driving suit read "Sex, the Breakfast of Champions." His nemesis, Austrian-born Niki Lauda, was something else again, a straight arrow with square hair and equally rigid rules about how, exactly, one ought to put the pedal to the metal.
Lauda had won the championship in 1975, and had every reason to think he could do so again. What happened when he faced Hunt during the 1976 season surprised, horrified, and ultimately amazed everyone who followed the sport. That championship year i...
Lauda had won the championship in 1975, and had every reason to think he could do so again. What happened when he faced Hunt during the 1976 season surprised, horrified, and ultimately amazed everyone who followed the sport. That championship year i...
- 9/18/2013
- Village Voice
Ron Howard's populist take on James Hunt and Niki Lauda's 70s rivalry is a thrilling hymn to male pride and motor sport
A true story of chalk-and-cheese Formula One drivers – one hot-headed, the other coolly calculating – locked together in a life-and-death rivalry may well seem familiar to UK filmgoers. Yet Asif Kapadia's brilliantly dramatic documentary Senna remains largely unseen by mainstream audiences in America, where it was also scandalously overlooked at the Oscars (here, it won two prestigious Baftas).
To fill that gap, we now have Rush, Ron Howard's multiplex-friendly account of the friction-filled relationship between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, which eerily echoes the tensions teased out between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in Kapadia's groundbreaking work. Well oiled, excitingly noisy and machine-tooled for maximum popcorn appeal, Howard's roaring drama depicts men risking life and limb in insanely dangerous circumstances, although the film itself prefers...
A true story of chalk-and-cheese Formula One drivers – one hot-headed, the other coolly calculating – locked together in a life-and-death rivalry may well seem familiar to UK filmgoers. Yet Asif Kapadia's brilliantly dramatic documentary Senna remains largely unseen by mainstream audiences in America, where it was also scandalously overlooked at the Oscars (here, it won two prestigious Baftas).
To fill that gap, we now have Rush, Ron Howard's multiplex-friendly account of the friction-filled relationship between James Hunt and Niki Lauda, which eerily echoes the tensions teased out between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost in Kapadia's groundbreaking work. Well oiled, excitingly noisy and machine-tooled for maximum popcorn appeal, Howard's roaring drama depicts men risking life and limb in insanely dangerous circumstances, although the film itself prefers...
- 9/14/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
The Super Bowl will be held in New Orleans on Feb. 3 and there’s no better way to tailgate and watch the game than to have a drink in hand! Check out these easy-to-make cocktails for your Super Bowl Sunday bash!
Super Bowl Sunday is here! Whether you’re throwing a party with friends, or just watching it with your guy, you’ll definitely need a festive cocktail. HollywoodLife.com has reached out to the hottest restaurants like The Ainsworth in NYC and brands like Skyy Vodka to get the perfect recipes for you and your friends this weekend!
The Berry Beer
Where to find it: 121 Fulton Street
4 Muddled Raspberries 2 oz. ciroc red berry Shake and top with Hoegarden Serve with lemon and blackberry garnish The Ainsworth’s Finest
Where to find it: The Ainsworth
Ron Zacapa Rum fresh lime simple syrup topped wih ginger beer sugar rim Bloody Beer...
Super Bowl Sunday is here! Whether you’re throwing a party with friends, or just watching it with your guy, you’ll definitely need a festive cocktail. HollywoodLife.com has reached out to the hottest restaurants like The Ainsworth in NYC and brands like Skyy Vodka to get the perfect recipes for you and your friends this weekend!
The Berry Beer
Where to find it: 121 Fulton Street
4 Muddled Raspberries 2 oz. ciroc red berry Shake and top with Hoegarden Serve with lemon and blackberry garnish The Ainsworth’s Finest
Where to find it: The Ainsworth
Ron Zacapa Rum fresh lime simple syrup topped wih ginger beer sugar rim Bloody Beer...
- 2/1/2013
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
Bruce Willis and Michael Bay have paid tribute to Michael Clarke Duncan. The Oscar nominated actor died yesterday (03.09.12) two months after suffering a heart attack, and the actor and director who worked on his big break, 1998's 'Armageddon', have remembered him. Bruce told E! news: 'Michael Duncan was a great actor, a great human being, and he was my very dear friend. I will miss Big Mike in a Big Way.' Later in their careers the two actors worked again, appearing in three further films together: 'Sin City', 'Breakfast of Champions' and 'The Whole Nine Yards'. Bay, director of 'Armageddon' - about an oil drilling team sent to space to break up an asteroid which threatens to destroy...
- 9/5/2012
- Monsters and Critics
A coroner has ruled actor Michael Clarke Duncan died of natural causes.
Michael Clarke Duncan suffered a cardiac arrest two months ago
The Green Mile star, who suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles in July, passed away in hospital on Monday morning.
Duncan never fully recovered from his health scare, and on Tuesday, Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter confirmed his death was down to natural causes.
Winter has revealed the actor's personal physician signed off the cause of death and the coroner's office found no reason to contradict that finding, according to E! News.
Duncan's former co-stars Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Bruce Willis are among the famous faces who paid tribute to the actor following his death.
More: Tom Hanks Pays Tribute To 'Big Mike'
Armageddon director Michael Bay will always have fond memories of Michael Clarke Duncan, revealing the actor cried at...
Michael Clarke Duncan suffered a cardiac arrest two months ago
The Green Mile star, who suffered a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles in July, passed away in hospital on Monday morning.
Duncan never fully recovered from his health scare, and on Tuesday, Assistant Coroner Chief Ed Winter confirmed his death was down to natural causes.
Winter has revealed the actor's personal physician signed off the cause of death and the coroner's office found no reason to contradict that finding, according to E! News.
Duncan's former co-stars Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise and Bruce Willis are among the famous faces who paid tribute to the actor following his death.
More: Tom Hanks Pays Tribute To 'Big Mike'
Armageddon director Michael Bay will always have fond memories of Michael Clarke Duncan, revealing the actor cried at...
- 9/5/2012
- by WENN
- Huffington Post
Bruce Willis and Michael Bay have paid tribute to Michael Clarke Duncan. The Oscar nominated actor died yesterday (03.09.12) two months after suffering a heart attack, and the actor and director who worked on his big break, 1998's 'Armageddon', have remembered him. Bruce told E! news: ''Michael Duncan was a great actor, a great human being, and he was my very dear friend. I will miss Big Mike in a Big Way.'' Later in their careers the two actors worked again, appearing in three further films together: 'Sin City', 'Breakfast of Champions' and 'The Whole Nine Yards'. Bay, director of 'Armageddon'...
- 9/4/2012
- Virgin Media - Celebrity
American actor best known for his film role as the gentle giant in The Green Mile
Every character actor who has ever been typecast dreams of a role that will transcend the cliches of his image. For Michael Clarke Duncan, who has died aged 54 of complications from a heart attack suffered in July, that breakout role also drew on the hidden truth of his own personality, and the results were spectacular.
Duncan was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor in The Green Mile (1999), the film of the Stephen King story in which he plays John Coffey, a gentle giant with extraordinary powers, on death row for raping and killing two young girls. The film's climax, when Coffey, innocent of the crimes but having punished the real killer and an evil guard, goes to the electric chair telling Tom Hanks not to put a hood over his head because...
Every character actor who has ever been typecast dreams of a role that will transcend the cliches of his image. For Michael Clarke Duncan, who has died aged 54 of complications from a heart attack suffered in July, that breakout role also drew on the hidden truth of his own personality, and the results were spectacular.
Duncan was nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor in The Green Mile (1999), the film of the Stephen King story in which he plays John Coffey, a gentle giant with extraordinary powers, on death row for raping and killing two young girls. The film's climax, when Coffey, innocent of the crimes but having punished the real killer and an evil guard, goes to the electric chair telling Tom Hanks not to put a hood over his head because...
- 9/4/2012
- by Michael Carlson
- The Guardian - Film News
Michael Clarke Duncan was a big actor in every sense of the word, a former bodyguard who got a huge break at the age of 41 with a stunning performance in "The Green Mile," and turned in an eclectic range of memorable roles in action, comedy, and dramas.
After tragically dying of a heart attack yesterday at age 54, we're paying tribute to the man by laying out his five career-best filmic turns.
Do you agree with our picks? Leave your thoughts and share your sadness at this great loss in the comments.
5. 'The Whole Nine Yards' (2000)
Famously, it was tough guy Bruce Willis who gave Duncan his big breakthrough, recommending to director Frank Darabont that he cast the 6-foot-5 behemoth in "The Green Mile," even after Willis himself had been turned down for the Tom Hanks lead. It was this act of generosity that perhaps led Duncan to return...
After tragically dying of a heart attack yesterday at age 54, we're paying tribute to the man by laying out his five career-best filmic turns.
Do you agree with our picks? Leave your thoughts and share your sadness at this great loss in the comments.
5. 'The Whole Nine Yards' (2000)
Famously, it was tough guy Bruce Willis who gave Duncan his big breakthrough, recommending to director Frank Darabont that he cast the 6-foot-5 behemoth in "The Green Mile," even after Willis himself had been turned down for the Tom Hanks lead. It was this act of generosity that perhaps led Duncan to return...
- 9/4/2012
- by Max Evry
- NextMovie
We take a look back at the work of the much loved star of The Green Mile, who died yesterday
Michael Clarke Duncan's move from bodyguard duties into acting was pretty seamless: lots of bit parts in TV shows and films like Back in Business, Bulworth and The Players Club came his way, all of the "bouncer", "body builder" and "security guard" variety. His big break came after he stopped real-life minding, and scored a role in Jerry Bruckheimer's epic space-disaster movie Armageddon. Though only one of the squad guys, he earned instant immortality with his "you the man" utterance in the final climactic sequence. (It's at 4:48.)
And anyone supposing he was the new Ving Rhames was put to rights in the scene where Duncan began frugging in leopardskin underpants - it's even more effective with the Spanish dubbing.
But it was his subsequent casting in The Green Mile,...
Michael Clarke Duncan's move from bodyguard duties into acting was pretty seamless: lots of bit parts in TV shows and films like Back in Business, Bulworth and The Players Club came his way, all of the "bouncer", "body builder" and "security guard" variety. His big break came after he stopped real-life minding, and scored a role in Jerry Bruckheimer's epic space-disaster movie Armageddon. Though only one of the squad guys, he earned instant immortality with his "you the man" utterance in the final climactic sequence. (It's at 4:48.)
And anyone supposing he was the new Ving Rhames was put to rights in the scene where Duncan began frugging in leopardskin underpants - it's even more effective with the Spanish dubbing.
But it was his subsequent casting in The Green Mile,...
- 9/4/2012
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Character actor who was Oscar-nominated for his 1999 breakthrough film fails to recover after heart attack
Michael Clarke Duncan, the prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in The Green Mile, has died aged 54.
Duncan died on Monday at the Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, according to his fiancee, Omarosa Manigault.
The muscular, 6ft 4in Duncan – a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s – "suffered a myocardial infarction on 13 July and never fully recovered", said a statement issued by a spokesman.
"Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date."
Earlier this year Duncan had appeared in a video for Peta, the animal rights organisation, in which he spoke...
Michael Clarke Duncan, the prolific character actor whose dozens of films included an Oscar-nominated performance as a death row inmate in The Green Mile, has died aged 54.
Duncan died on Monday at the Cedars-Sinai medical centre in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for a heart attack, according to his fiancee, Omarosa Manigault.
The muscular, 6ft 4in Duncan – a former bodyguard who turned to acting in his 30s – "suffered a myocardial infarction on 13 July and never fully recovered", said a statement issued by a spokesman.
"Manigault is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date."
Earlier this year Duncan had appeared in a video for Peta, the animal rights organisation, in which he spoke...
- 9/4/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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