Carla Gugino has spent the better part of the last decade playing some of the most complicated and interesting female characters in Hollywood. After early roles in lighthearted fare like Son in Law , she played an appropriately combative counterpart for Michael J. Fox's deputy Mayor on Spin City before appearing in Wayne Wang's The Center of the World as a troubled seductress, Robert Rodriguez' Sin...
Interesting project! Check the plug: " In 2007, we fell in love with all things American Gangster: Ridley Scott's Oscar nominated film, its soundtrack, and Jay-Z 's critically acclaimed album of the same name. Like all true Hov fans, we memorized every word of Jay's vividly weaved tale of a hustler's rise from the streets and his addiction to the lavish lifestyle accompanying his atypical success....
Across 110th Street is a 1972 American crime-drama film, starring Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, and Tony Franciosa, and directed by Barry Shear. Commonly associated with the blaxploitation genre at the time, it has received considerable critical praise from writer Greil Marcus and others for being a film that surpassed the limitations of that genre. more.. . Great movie and great soundtrack on Charly...
Now Available on DVD & Blu-ray See the Original Photo Slideshow Like Mifune was to Kurosawa, Rowlands was to Cassavetes, and De Niro and Di Caprio are to Scorsese, two-time Oscar winner Denzel Washington is to the brothers Scott. Although it’s Russell Crowe whom we usually associate with Ridley Scott and the smiling “need for speed” testosterone fueled early Tom Cruise fare of...
Columbia Pictures has acquired the rights to remake Red Riding , which like this year’s State of Play is based on a British production. According to Variety , the studio is negotiating with Ridley Scott to direct and Steve Zaillian to write the screenplay, which would condense the five-hour original into a single feature film. If a deal gets cemented, Red Riding would be produced through Scott...
Ridley Scott 's eyes may well be bigger than his stomach. He's been consuming a lot of projects lately, from Robin Hood to Monopoly to the Alien prequel to Brave New World , and those are just the big-name projects he's directing (plus one announced for next year called The Kind One with Casey Affleck). So how in the world can he find room for anything else? Apparently, Ridley was convinced that a...
Columbia Pictures announced earlier today via Variety that they've acquired remake rights to the UK TV mini-series known as Red Riding, a trilogy of feature films that have been playing the festival circuit this year. The studio is "negotiating" with Steve Zaillian (Gangs of New York, American Gangster) to write the script and Ridley Scott (Gladiator, American Gangster, Body of Lies) to direct....
A month ago at the Telluride Film Festival, the UK crime trilogy Red Riding played to good critical reception. The reception didn't escape the notice of studio execs, and Columbia has picked up the rights to remake the trilogy. The studio is negotiating a deal to have Steve Zaillian script the remake for Ridley Scott to direct. Add one more to Ridley's towering 'in development' pile! Variety reports...
The director of Alien and Gladiator has bought remake rights to the Channel 4 mini series and David Peace's quartet of novels, and plans to relocate the action from Yorkshire to the USRidley Scott is planning to remake Channel 4's Yorkshire crime trilogy Red Riding as a Hollywood movie. Columbia Pictures has bought the remake rights to the TV series, and to the original quartet of novels by David...
RIDLEY Scott could direct a big screen version of acclaimed TV mini-series Red Riding . Columbia Pictures have secured the rights and have approached Scott to direct and Steve Zaillian to adapt the screenplay, according to Variety. Based on four novels by David Peace, the Red Riding trilogy examined power and corruption within the police and the disappearance of several young girls. It spanned several...
Columbia Pictures has acquired rights to remake the U.K. miniseries "Red Riding," and is negotiating with Steve Zaillian to write the script and Ridley Scott to direct, says Variety . The project, based on four David Peace novels, will be distributed in the U.S. this fall by IFC. The studio has bought rights to the mini and the novel series. The miniseries is a study of power and police corruption...
Ridley Scott may direct Columbia Pictures' remake of the U.K. miniseries "Red Riding," based on four David Peace novels. Oscar-nominated screenwriter Steven Zaillian is in talks to write the screenplay. Variety says the series focuses on police corruption surrounding the investigation of the disappearance on a group of young girls. The compressed remake will be set in the U.S. rather than...
Oscar-winner Russell Crowe is getting ready to storm the silver screen as the legendary hero ‘Robin Hood,’ and ET joins the star and his little boy Tennyson on the film's set! “It’s a huge part of English-speaking peoples’ history, Robin Hood -- possibly the oldest-living story in the English language,” Russell tells ET's Thea Andrews about the classic tale of the...
The ego is one of most self-destructive mechanisms of a person's character and his or her abilities. In fact if you look at some people who've achieved massive success only to lose it all at the end of their lives, it's almost always a function of the ego that results in this. As strange as the following examples might be, drug dealers, and gangsters in the movies are blatant examples of people whose...
At this stage, I'll give you a 'possibly' on this one. But yeah, Variety reports Ridley Scott is indeed attached to direct the "Alien" prequel. Scott directed the first "Alien" in 1979, and the film quickly mutated into a huge success that provoked three sequels. Now 20th Century Fox is bringing the franchise back to life. Jon Spaihts will write the script, but plot details have...
Diane Lane on the topic of husband Josh Brolin being overlooked by Academy voters for "No Country for Old Men" and "American Gangster" came up. Listen to what she told us...
Subject: Denzel Washington and Brooks Army Medical Center. Don't know whether you heard about this but Denzel Washington and his family visited the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in San Antonio , Texas (BAMC) the other day. This is where soldiers who have been evacuated from Germany come to be hospitalized in the United States , especially burn victims. There are some buildings there called