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My Movie Diary (2000-2009)
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I can’t remember why, I’ve slept since then, but, in January of 2000, I found myself sitting in front of a blank Word document. I had an idea in my head of what I wanted to do, and, now, 10 years later, I’m still working strong at it. I began keeping a sort of diary, listing the days and months and putting down the films I saw in the theater into it. I don’t remember why I only included movies I saw in the theater. I could have started just as an idea-giver on how many movies I actually saw each year (I also kept a running count each year). It began on January 7th, 2000, when I entered Bicentennial Man as my first film in this long and ever-growing endeavor.
In 2000, I saw 166 films in the theater. There were many a high (seeing Gladiator on May 5th and
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- Kirk
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Paramount Wants To Bring The Western Back With The Adventures Of Doc Holliday
17 December 2009 10:40 PM, PST
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One of the saddest deaths in the world of cinema over the past 20 years has been the classic western. While there have been the occasional hits (Unforgiven, Open Range, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) and the Coen Brothers' appear to be making some efforts to bring it back (No Country For Old Men, their upcoming remake of True Grit), the western genre is a shadow of its former self. With recent developments, however, it might be ready to make a comeback.
Paramount Pictures has picked up a spec script titled The Further Adventures of Doc Holliday, which they hope to turn into a summer tentpole, according to Variety. The spec was written by Chad St. John, who does not currently have any titles to his name (yet has an IMDb page?), but his name has been attached to Warner Bros. remake of the Sean Connery
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'The Road' Explores the Knife-Edge of Human Entropy
28 November 2009 12:00 AM, PST
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The post-apocalyptic drama The Road begins with shots of barking dogs, blooming flowers, and nuzzling horses, but it is soon revealed that these everyday pleasures are fading memories for its protagonists. With a palette of grays and browns, it quickly shifts to the leafless trees and broken ground of a wasteland that has only barely survived an unnamed catastrophe. The world smolders when it doesn't all-out burn, and the vestiges of humanity struggle to survive and retain the things that made them human.
Amid bands of roving cannibals, an unnamed father (Viggo Mortensen, Eastern Promises) and his son (Kodi Smit-McPhee, Romulus, My Father) have left their home behind and are traveling toward the coast with hopes that the warmer weather and proximity to the ocean will provide a haven. The Man remembers the world before, but The Boy was born to The Man's wife (Charlize Theron, Hancock) after the apocalypse.
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I Reckon Westerns Are Coming Back ...
15 June 2009 5:03 PM, PDT
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Sorry, Hugh Jackman ... I don't think its musicals that are back. I think it's the clink of spurs, and the fast draw that's enjoying a renaissance. I know, they say William Munny killed it along with Little Bill Daggett (and if so, it certainly went out with one hell of a last line), but then came The Missing, The Proposition, Open Range, 3:10 to Yuma, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, and Appaloosa. There's also been a few that stretched the definition beyond the classic, pistols-at-sunset sort and tackled a more modern definition and locale, such as All the Pretty Horses, Brokeback Mountain, No Country for Old Men, and Australia. Asia has gotten in on the fun with Sukiyaki Western Django and the upcoming The Warrior's Way.
Of course I'm leaving a few of them out (apologies to the Texas Rangers fans out there), and it's
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- Elisabeth Rappe
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Movie News Wrap Up: May 25, 2009
25 May 2009 12:34 PM, PDT
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This week:
Ben Stiller has no time for Salvation at the box office; George Clooney is a Private Gentleman; Lyndsy Fonseca gets into the Hot Tub Time Machine; Milla Jovovich throws a Stone; Ridley Scott looks for a younger Robin Hood and Kevin Costner makes a western - I’m not kidding.
Box Office
It looks like Ben Stiller is going to stay bankable in family films. Night at the Museum 2: Battle Of The Smithsonian should bank an impressive $70 million over the four day weekend. Does that mean that they’ll inflict a third movie on us? Probably.
Terminator: Salvation will shoot up about $62 million over the long weekend. Not exactly the box office superstar they were hoping it would be.
Angels and Demons and Star Trek should both manage about $28 million over the weekend. Star Trek has blown past Wolverine in U.S. ticket sales despite having opened
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- Niall Browne
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Warner Bros. Looking for Good Ol Fashion Tale of Revenge in Gunslinger
12 May 2009 9:48 PM, PDT
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I love me a good gunslinger movie. It’s too bad Hollywood just doesn’t make a whole lot of them anymore. Kevin Costner’s “Open Range” was kinda in that genre, though not really. The lead character was an ex-gunslinger of sorts. Anyways, Warner Bros. is looking to add to the disappearing genre with “The Gunslinger”. According to THR, the movie is about an ex-Texas Ranger who pursues his brother’s killer, the same men who took his nephew. We presume much shootin’, horse ridin’, and guys going, “Ma’am” while tipping their hat ensue.
There isn’t a whole lot else known about the movie, except that Andrew Lazar, Matt Reilly and Elisha Holmes will be overseeing the film for Warner Bros, and that the script for “The Gunslinger” was a spec by John Hlavin that the studio snatched up.
Since it’s been ages since we got
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- Nix
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Kevin Costner to develop four-hour mini-series for A&E
12 May 2009
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Kevin Costner will be making his return to the Western genre by developing a new four-hour miniseries project at A&E.The project which has yet to be titled, partners Costner with producer Armyan Bernstein ("Open Range"). The story focuses on the post-Civil War covering a major conflict in the settlement of the West.
Costner is in to executive produce and may direct part of the miniseries."Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit," said Tana Nugent Jamieson, A&E's senior Vice President Drama Programming.
Additionally, Costner may make an appearance in the project but this depends on the final script.
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Kevin Costner to develop four-hour mini-series for A&E
12 May 2009 12:32 AM, PDT
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Kevin Costner will be making his return to the Western genre by developing a new four-hour miniseries project at A&E.
The project which has yet to be titled, partners Costner with producer Armyan Bernstein ("Open Range"). The story focuses on the post-Civil War covering a major conflict in the settlement of the West.
Costner is in to executive produce and may direct part of the miniseries.
"Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit," said Tana Nugent Jamieson, A&E's senior Vice President Drama Programming.
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Kevin Costner to develop four-hour mini-series for A&E
12 May 2009 12:32 AM, PDT
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Kevin Costner will be making his return to the Western genre by developing a new four-hour miniseries project at A&E.
The project which has yet to be titled, partners Costner with producer Armyan Bernstein ("Open Range"). The story focuses on the post-Civil War covering a major conflict in the settlement of the West.
Costner is in to executive produce and may direct part of the miniseries.
"Costner understands the Western better than anybody, and he respects the genre. He knows every bit of detail about the West; this is a genre he feels a lot of passion for. It's a perfect fit," said Tana Nugent Jamieson, A&E's senior Vice President Drama Programming.
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Appaloosa DVD Review
19 January 2009 2:30 PM, PST
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Recently Hollywood has seen a nostalgic resurgence in the western genre. 3:10 to Yuma was an excellent late entry and Open Range a worthy, under seen addition. But they stand alone in a vast plain of rolling tumbleweeds these days. Even “modern” favorites like Tombstone and Unforgiven were in the early 90s.
The latest western, Appaloosa, doesn’t belong in the same saloon as those films. In fact, I reckon if this movie were to mosey around those parts, we’d have an old fashioned shootin’ on our hands. As a western story, it’s average. As a movie, it’s just boring.
What you may have enjoyed about the traditional western is still present. Men of few words carrying out their law enforcement duties and face off against ruthless outlaw bandits. But in this case it is marred by a prominent love triangle that distracts its cowboys from doing much of anything.
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- Jeff Leins
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Blu-ray Review: Appaloosa
18 January 2009 11:31 PM, PST
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The western genre is a tricky one for feature films nowadays. They used to be a dime a dozen, but it seems they went out of style for good after Clint Eastwood made the superb Unforgiven in 1992 and has yet to return to the genre. Kevin Costner made the stinker of a film in Wyatt Earp in 1994 but then redeemed himself in 2003 with the under-appreciated and under seen Open Range. Even those that want to point to Tombstone have to remember it was released in 1993 and another great western in The Proposition has been virtually ignored. Hell, despite being set in space Serenity was a fantastic western in 2005 and spaceships couldn't even get audiences into the seats. Nope, to make a western is to be all alone on the range with a camera, some dirt and hopefully a story compelling enough to make your money back on home video. Appaloosa
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- Brad Brevet
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DVD Review: Bumpy Ride to ‘Appaloosa’ is Worth the Trip
9 January 2009 11:32 AM, PST
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Chicago – I expect “Appaloosa” to be one of the more hard-to-get movies at your local video stores for the next few months. It’s the kind of movie - action-driven and widely missed in theaters - that does very well on the home market. Renters will find an old-fashioned Western that may not transcend its genre but will certainly provide more than enough entertainment on a snowy winter’s eve.
With “Appaloosa,” the great Ed Harris steps behind the camera to direct for the first time since “Pollock,” and the result is an old-fashioned Western in the mold of “3:10 to Yuma” or “Open Range”. Harris shoots for the timeless quality of the genre, the one that makes “Appaloosa” feel like it could have been made fifty years ago without much change to the production at all. On one hand, it’s refreshing to see an ensemble as talented as
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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