Even filmmaker Stephen Gaghan will admit it’s been far too long since he’s had a movie in theaters with the Oscar-nominated political thriller Syriana. It got him his second Oscar nomination after winning an Oscar for writing Stephen Soderbergh’s Oscar-winning Traffic a few years earlier.
He’s finally back with Gold, a movie loosely based on the real-life Bre-x gold scandal with Matthew McConaughey playing Kenny Wells, a man struggling to keep his father’s mining business alive after his passing. A vision of there being gold in Indonesia, puts him in contact with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) who believes that he can help Wells find that gold. After a trying start where Kenny almost succumbs to malaria, Acosta finds evidence of gold, which gets many investing in their company, but as with the Bre-x scandal, things weren’t what they seemed.
Unlike Syriana and Traffic,...
He’s finally back with Gold, a movie loosely based on the real-life Bre-x gold scandal with Matthew McConaughey playing Kenny Wells, a man struggling to keep his father’s mining business alive after his passing. A vision of there being gold in Indonesia, puts him in contact with geologist Michael Acosta (Edgar Ramirez) who believes that he can help Wells find that gold. After a trying start where Kenny almost succumbs to malaria, Acosta finds evidence of gold, which gets many investing in their company, but as with the Bre-x scandal, things weren’t what they seemed.
Unlike Syriana and Traffic,...
- 1/19/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The story of the controversial Mad Monk, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is now the subject of the new rock musical Brother Russia, which makes its world premiere at the Tony Award-winning Signature Theatre. The new musical features Music by Dana Rowe and Book and Lyrics by John Dempsey the award-winning creators behind The Fix 1998 and The Witches of Eastwick 2007. Directed by Signatures Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer, the production will star John Lescault Signatures Art and The Lieutenant of Inishmore as the infamous and enigmatic Rasputin, Natascia Diaz Kiss of the Spider Woman at Signature, and Savage in Limbo at MetroStage, Doug Kreeger Signatures The Visit, Amy McWilliams Signatures The Witches of Eastwick and Urinetown, and Tracy Lynn Olivera Les Misrables and Merrily We Roll Along at Signature. Erin Driscoll, Stephen Gregory Smith, Rachel Zampelli, Russell Sunday, Kevin McAllister, and Christopher Mueller round out the cast for this world premiere event. Brother...
- 2/7/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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