1995 wasn’t a good year for Sylvester Stallone at the multiplex. His summer tentpole, Judge Dredd, flopped domestically, and it was quickly followed by Richard Donner’s Assassins, which only grossed $30 million at the domestic box office. While Sly’s career had seen a few slumps, his straightforward action movies typically performed, and the failure of those two films put his clout as one of the world’s biggest stars in jeopardy. In this episode of Sylvester Stallone Revisited, we’re going to talk about a movie that was supposed to be a big-budget, commercial change of pace for the actor but wound up being the last would-be blockbuster he’d star in for years. That’s right; we’re going to talk about Rob Cohen’s Daylight.
Flashback to the mid-nineties. Sylvester Stallone had launched a major comeback with Cliffhanger and followed it up with two more global blockbusters,...
Flashback to the mid-nineties. Sylvester Stallone had launched a major comeback with Cliffhanger and followed it up with two more global blockbusters,...
- 7/13/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
A mad extortionist is blowing up rollercoaster rides. Put-upon George Segal must stop him because we all know that the time, the tide and roller coasters wait for no man. Producer Jennings Lang's by-the-numbers suspense thriller is light on suspense and thrills, but the cast is good and the screenplay at least partly intelligent. And hey -- it's got a teenage Helen Hunt! Rollercoaster Blu-ray Shout! Factory 1977 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 119 min. / Street Date June 21, 2016 / 19.99 Starring George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Henry Fonda, Helen Hunt, Harry Guardino, Susan Strasberg, Craig Wasson, Robert Quarry, Quinn Redeker, Dick Wesson, Gary Franklin, Steve Guttenberg. Cinematography David M. Walsh Original Music Lalo Schifrin Written by Richard Levinson, William Link, Tommy Cook Produced by Jennings Lang Directed by James Goldstone
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Jaws inspired plenty of rip-off movies about sharks, bears, killer whales and monster octopi threatening beaches. Since it wasn't safe to go back to the water,...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Jaws inspired plenty of rip-off movies about sharks, bears, killer whales and monster octopi threatening beaches. Since it wasn't safe to go back to the water,...
- 6/18/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
There's very little that Hollywood likes more than to take a cast of expensive actors, place them in a lavishly-produced set, and then blow everything up. The resulting mix of all-star casting and spectacular destruction is what makes a disaster film, and disaster films don't come any bigger than "The Towering Inferno." Released 40 years ago this month (on December 14, 1974), the film was so big that it was based on two novels by different authors, was the first movie that required the backing of two studios to make it (20th Century Fox and Warner Bros. were the collaborators), and featured two stars so huge (Steve McQueen and Paul Newman) that no one could agree on which of them should be billed first. (The solution: McQueen's name appeared in the poster and on the screen in the lower left, while Newman's was placed in the upper right, so that both names appeared to be first,...
- 12/16/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies who have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Sheila Allen (1932-2013) - Actress and widow of producer Irwin Allen who appears in his films The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Viva Knievel! and When Time Ran Out... and later produced the 2006 remake Poseidon. She died from pulmonary fibrosis on November 15. (THR) Marc Breaux (1924-2013) - Choreographer for Mary Poppins (see below), The Sound of Music and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. He died on November 19. (THR) Anwar Brett...
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- 12/2/2013
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Following in the footsteps of Irwin Allen, Roland Emmerich is this generation’s “Master of Disaster.” The former gave us such catastrophic films as The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno and When Time Ran Out... The latter has directed Independence Day, Godzilla, The Day After Tomorrow and now 2012. The two filmmakers have much in common: They’re fond of end-of-the-world stories, ensemble casts featuring well-known actors and long running times. The Towering Inferno clocked in at 165 minutes; 2012 isn’t too far behind at 158. End of the world? How about end of the Movie? By the time the great tsunami tidal waves were wiping out the planet, I was worried about another type of great flood—and made a 50-yard dash for the bathroom.
Natural disasters and apocalyptic events are the MacGuffins in an Emmerich movie—they set the story in motion, but does it Really matter what the cataclysmic cause is?...
Natural disasters and apocalyptic events are the MacGuffins in an Emmerich movie—they set the story in motion, but does it Really matter what the cataclysmic cause is?...
- 11/13/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (Allan Dart)
- Starlog
Paul Newman, who combined Method training with matinee idol looks to become the personification of the cool '60s rebel in such iconic roles as the reckless Hud, the defiant Cool Hand Luke and the hotshot Butch Cassidy, died Friday. Surrounded by friends and family, including his wife, Joanne Woodward, the actor and philanthropist passed away at his farmhouse home near Wesport, Conn., after a long battle with cancer. He was 83.
In a film career that spanned nearly six decades, Newman received seven Oscar nominations before he was finally presented with an Honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable and compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft."
But then he pulled out a trump card of his own, winning the best actor Academy Award the following year for "The Color of Money," in which he reprised the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felsen,...
In a film career that spanned nearly six decades, Newman received seven Oscar nominations before he was finally presented with an Honorary Oscar in 1986 "in recognition of his many and memorable and compelling screen performances and for his personal integrity and dedication to his craft."
But then he pulled out a trump card of his own, winning the best actor Academy Award the following year for "The Color of Money," in which he reprised the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felsen,...
- 9/27/2008
- by By Gregg Kilday and Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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