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Updates on 'The Absinthe Drinkers'
16 September 2009 2:53 AM, PDT
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One of the next projects The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and "Nurse Jackie" star star Peter Facinelli will be working on is The Absinthe Drinkers by John Charles Jopson (which is also being produced by Robert Pattinson's Little Ashes producer Carlo Dusi). ... all-star cast members such as Facinelli, Keith Carradine, and Alicja Bachleda (who is expecting her first child with partner Colin Farrell)) is the addition of two new cast members: Tim Roth and John Hurt .. Pulp Fiction and Planet Of The Apes .. Rob Roy ... also currently featured on the popular series Lie To Me. ... including The Elephant Man and Midnight Express, both of which earned Hurt an Oscar nomination), Hurt is regarded as one of the most prolific actors of his time. Mr. Ollivander in Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince: Part I and Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince: Part II.
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A-Team Casting: Bradley Cooper as Face, Liam Neeson as Hannibal
9 June 2009 6:13 AM, PDT
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Back in January it was announced [1] that Joe Carnahan (Smokin' Aces) had signed on to replace John Singleton as the director The A-Team movie, with both Ridley Scott and Tony Scott producing. Since then we haven't heard much more about the project, but with the movie scheduled to go before cameras this August, we can probably expect a flurry of casting updates over the next few weeks.
The first casting rumour to be pretty much confirmed is Bradley Cooper, fresh off his role in The Hangover, who is in talks to star as Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck. A-Team fans will remember that Face (who was played by Dirk Benedict in the TV series) was a smooth-talking master of disguise -- sounds like a perfect role for Cooper.
The other role that is currently being locked down right now is the team leader, cigar chomping Col. John "Hannibal" Smith (played by
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[DVD Review] Taken
18 May 2009 9:03 AM, PDT
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How far would you go to save a loved one? What would you do? Who would you kill? Asking these questions, Taken originally opened in Europe before its Us release; Parisian crowds were ecstatic for the brutal vision of director Pierre Morel and writer Luc Besson. But American audiences didn’t get to share in that vision. What came to American theaters was a limping watered down version of the film – consequently, critical and audience reception suffered. The Blu-ray release of Taken rectifies the theatrical mistake and gives audiences the choice between more or less brutality.
Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) has played the role of absentee father in the life of his daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) thanks in large part to his career in the secret service. Working as a freelance security specialist, his contact with Kim has been reduced to that of the stricter, over-protective father who finds himself
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'Ben Hur' Is Back In The Chariot
6 May 2009 12:43 PM, PDT
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Canadian production company Muse Entertainment has announced the beginning of principal photography for a new television adapation of Ben Hur. The finished film will air as a miniseries with a cast that includes Joseph Morgan, Stephen Campbell, Ray Winstone, Kristen Kreuk (Lana Lang in Smallville), Alex Kingston and Art Malik.
Muse is co-producing Ben Hur with companies from Spain, Morocco, Germany and the United States. Shooting is currently taking place in Morocco. Among the people named as producers is David Wyler, the son of William Wyler. The senior Wyler directed the 1959 film version of Ben Hur starring Charlton Heston. That film won 11 Academy Awards.
The press release from Muse announcing the start of filming is below.
Los Angeles, Barcelona, Berlin, Montreal: May 5, 2009 - The legendary story of Ben Hur began principal photography May 4, 2009 and is being produced for the first time for television. Based on the original 1880’s novel by Lew Wallace,
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Lie to Me's Tim Roth Talks Victims, Victimizers, and Breaking Down Lies
5 May 2009 3:19 PM, PDT
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Tim Roth understands victims and victimizers alike. As a child, he was abused by someone he won't name, except to say it wasn't either of his parents. Throughout his career, he has played both brutal victimizers (in his Academy Award-nominated turn as Rob Roy's villain, for example,) and the horribly victimized (most notably as a cop in Reservoir Dogs and a home-invasion victim in Funny Games).
Roth has a strange gift for making both extremes empathetic: Is there a more Rothian character than Pulp Fiction's would-be stickup man, Pumpkin? At first he earns our revulsion, but by the end of the film, as he looks down the barrel of Samuel L. Jackson's gun, we fear for his life.
The actor's exploration of victims and victimizers continues in his first television series, Lie to Me, which airs its penultimate episode Wednesday (9 pm/Et, Fox) and concludes its first season next week.
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- Tim Molloy
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Lie to Me's Tim Roth Talks Victims, Victimizers, and Breaking Down Lies
5 May 2009 3:19 PM, PDT
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Tim Roth understands victims and victimizers alike. As a child, he was abused by someone he won't name, except to say it wasn't either of his parents. Throughout his career, he has played both brutal victimizers (in his Academy Award-nominated turn as Rob Roy's villain, for example,) and the horribly victimized (most notably as a cop in Reservoir Dogs and a home-invasion victim in Funny Games).
Roth has a strange gift for making both extremes empathetic: Is there a more Rothian character than Pulp Fiction's would-be stickup man, Pumpkin? At first he earns our revulsion, but by the end of the film, as he looks down the barrel of Samuel L. Jackson's gun, we fear for his life.
The actor's exploration of victims and victimizers continues in his first television series, Lie to Me, which airs its penultimate episode Wednesday (9 pm/Et, Fox) and concludes its first season next week.
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- Tim Molloy
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ABC Revisiting Ben Hur
26 March 2009 9:54 PM, PDT
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ABC is bringing Ben Hur to the small screen. The network will air a new four hour mini-series based on Lew Wallace’s famous novel. Steve Shill, whose directed episodes of Rome, The Sopranos, Dexter and The Tudors, is on board to direct. Alan Sharp (Rob Roy, The Osterman Weekend) penned the screenplay.
Hur centers on a Jewish prince who is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend. He regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. It was previously adapted to the big screen by director William Wyler, a film that starred Charlton Heston and won 11 Oscars, including best picture.
Wallace’s novel was published on November 12, 1880 and became the best-selling American novel until the 1936 publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. The book was also the first work of fiction to be blessed by a Pope.
William Wyler’s son, David Wyler, will executive produce the miniseries.
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Movies That Deserve a Second Life: Action/Adventure Edition
13 March 2009 2:12 PM, PDT
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When referring to a movie that nabbed a second life, typically home video is the savior. There are countless movies that didn’t fare well in their original theatrical runs but have earned a so-called second life thanks to profitable video sales and rentals that make them much stronger than they ever were when they first arrived. Examples of this trend vary greatly, whether you’re referring to genre, era, proliferation (or magnitude of the “second life”) and, of course, how deserving it is. Most that get a boost long after its premiere got where it is now slowly, spread wide by word of mouth and critical re-analysis. Most of them were not well received during the initial run, and many are re-evaluated, and mistakes are mended. Among them: 2001, The Princess Bride, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Big Lebowski, Fight Club, Office Space and Dazed and Confused. These
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- Matt Medlock
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Tim Roth: The Hollywood Interview
6 March 2009 12:30 AM, PST
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Actor Tim Roth
Tim Roth Is Telling No Lies
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Alex Simon
Editor's Note: This article appears in the March issue of Venice Magazine.
One of the film world’s great chameleons, Tim Roth was born in London May 14, 1961, the son of a journalist and a school teacher. After dropping out of art school, Roth was discovered by maverick British director Alan Clarke, and cast in his incendiary 1982 study of the skinhead movement in the UK, Made in Britain. Tim Roth hasn’t stopped working since, with over 70 feature and TV roles to his credit including such iconic titles as The Hit, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Vincent and Theo, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Woody Allen’s Everyone Says I Love You, and most recently, the lead in Francis Coppola’s first feature in ten years, Youth Without Youth.
Roth stepped behind the
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Neeson Urges American Parents To Let Their Kids Go Travelling
14 January 2009 5:28 PM, PST
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Movie star Liam Neeson has urged American parents to let their kids see more of the world - so they can become balanced adults.
The Rob Roy star admits he's looking forward to letting his two sons go and explore the world when they turn 18 and Americans should also embrace the idea of allowing teens to travel.
He says, "My wife and I both plan, when our kids turn 18, to show them the door and tell them there's a big wide world out there, go and see some of it.
"I'll put my foot in my mouth and say that American parents are too over-protective. If kids travelled a little bit more and saw a little bit more of the world, there'd be a lot more tolerance of other cultures, nations and countries."
And the actor admits he was "a late bloomer" when it comes to world travelling: "I left Ballymena in Ireland and travelled down to Dublin and made it over to England, but I kept very close to home.
"As much as I romantically would've loved to have hitch-hiked around Europe, I was a late bloomer. I didn't do that until quite late - like last year."
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