Ann-Margret movies: From sex kitten to two-time Oscar nominee. Ann-Margret: 'Carnal Knowledge' and 'Tommy' proved that 'sex symbol' was a remarkable actress Ann-Margret, the '60s star who went from sex kitten to respected actress and two-time Oscar nominee, is Turner Classic Movies' star today, Aug. 13, '15. As part of its “Summer Under the Stars” series, TCM is showing this evening the movies that earned Ann-Margret her Academy Award nods: Mike Nichols' Carnal Knowledge (1971) and Ken Russell's Tommy (1975). Written by Jules Feiffer, and starring Jack Nicholson and Art Garfunkel, the downbeat – some have found it misogynistic; others have praised it for presenting American men as chauvinistic pigs – Carnal Knowledge is one of the precursors of “adult Hollywood moviemaking,” a rare species that, propelled by the success of disparate arthouse fare such as Vilgot Sjöman's I Am Curious (Yellow) and Costa-Gavras' Z, briefly flourished from...
- 8/14/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
It seems Hugh Jackman can’t get Broadway out of his system. After the May 23 opening of the supersized Marvel opus X-Men: Days of Future Past, he will preside over the 2014 Tony Awards on CBS June 8 (where we can possibly see a taste of the song-and-dance man of The Boy From Oz and Oklahoma!), and it was just announced that he will return to the NYC stage this fall in a brand-new play by acclaimed playwright Jez Butterworth (Jerusalem) called The River, set in a remote rural cabin and featuring only three actors. And despite the fact that Jackman could...
- 5/10/2014
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chicago – The wonderful bonus of the Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is the opportunity to meet the real stars of past film eras. Ernest Borgnine and Bruce Dern were there during the show in March of this year.
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
Both actors carved out character careers during the period of the 1950s to the present. They have often explored the cowboy genre, and each starred opposite some legendary movie gunslingers. Ernest Borgnine appeared in one of the greatest westerns of all time, “The Wild Bunch” (1969). Bruce Dern starred opposite John Wayne in “The Cowboys” (1972).
The Hollywood Celebrities & Memorabilia Show is a biannual event that brings celebrities to Chicago to meet, sign autographs and interact with their admirers. Hosts Ray and Sharon Court announced at the March show that the upcoming October show would be their last, as they are retiring.
HollywoodChicago.com got the chance to interview Borgnine and Dern, and Joe Arce...
- 7/5/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Alexa here. When Annette Bening gave a shout-out to husband Warren Beatty's 1962 Golden Globe win in her acceptance speech, I was reminded of this 1962 Movieland magazine of mine. The issue means to cover Hollywood's "hot new crop of young lovers," and features Beatty, fresh off his Globe win and still under Elia Kazan's tutelage, on its cover. (A must-read is this recent New Yorker piece on Kazan, but I digress.) The issue also covers Troy Donahue, Dick Beymer, Gardner McKay, Horst Buchholz and George Maharis, so clearly Beatty was the right choice for the cover. The section devoted to him, excerpted below, is hilarious in its critique of his acting and its predictions for his future.
The handsomest of Today's Young Lovers and the one who's garnering most of the critical acclaim and column mentions: Warren Beatty. Many of those admirers have likened Beatty to James Dean. But...
The handsomest of Today's Young Lovers and the one who's garnering most of the critical acclaim and column mentions: Warren Beatty. Many of those admirers have likened Beatty to James Dean. But...
- 1/18/2011
- by Alexa
- FilmExperience
- Warner Brothers have unleashed a new round of stills from Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. Gotta love Hagrid's ride!
- It looks like Brian De Palma is finally moving on adapting Gardner McKay's novel about a "serial lunatic", Toyer. The film will be independently financed and is swapping out the novel's original setting of La for Venice, Italy, but if you ask me those two things only make the film even more interesting.
- It should be of no surprise, but just as Rooney Mara has been crowned as the new Lisbeth Salander, the original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace, is currently in Hollywood meeting with directors to help make her transition to the American film industry. Unfortunately the type of directors she's meeting with aren't very encouraging. I for one would hate to see her first English language role be in a film for Brett Ratner.
- 8/17/2010
- by Peter Hall
- Cinematical
Veteran director Brian De Palma is set to return to the thriller genre with an adaptation of Gardner McKay’s novel The Toyer…
It's been some time since we saw a really decent thriller from Brian De Palma, the respected director of 80s and 90s classics such as Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way. His 2007 Iraq war movie Redacted was well received, but his adaptation of James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia was critically panned when it appeared in 2006, and it could be argued that his last really great big screen movie was 1996's Mission: Impossible.
Now, however, reports are surfacing that the veteran director is set to return to a project he was initially attached to six years ago, an adaptation of Gardner McKay's thriller, The Toyer. In it, the twisted antagonist of the title subjects his victims to psychological torture before sending them into a drug-induced coma.
It's been some time since we saw a really decent thriller from Brian De Palma, the respected director of 80s and 90s classics such as Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way. His 2007 Iraq war movie Redacted was well received, but his adaptation of James Ellroy's The Black Dahlia was critically panned when it appeared in 2006, and it could be argued that his last really great big screen movie was 1996's Mission: Impossible.
Now, however, reports are surfacing that the veteran director is set to return to a project he was initially attached to six years ago, an adaptation of Gardner McKay's thriller, The Toyer. In it, the twisted antagonist of the title subjects his victims to psychological torture before sending them into a drug-induced coma.
- 8/17/2010
- Den of Geek
Vulture reports that after (a long) six years, Brian De Palma will finally be directing the diabolical Gardner McKay novel and stage play Toyer, which follows a "serial lunatic" whom doesn't murder or rape his beautiful female victims, he instead "toys" with them, torturing them psychologically, before putting them into a medically induced coma. "It has all the elements of suspense that Brian does so well in films like 'Blow Out' and 'Carrie'," producer Scott Steindorff says, adding, "And by that I mean, it's really frickin' scary: I read the script on a plane, and I was still terrified." Vulture adds: "The film will be shooting in Venice, Italy, late this fall and into the early winter. That's a switch from the Gardner version, which is set in L.A., but should be far creepier: De Palma plans to set the mayhem against Venice's famous Carnevale di Venezia.
- 8/16/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
Well, there's my entry in the Torturous Pun of the Year contest for 2010. Anyhoo, the news meat behind such wordplay silliness is that Brian De Palma - officially the movie brat director most overdue a comeback now Coppola's got it all together again - is apparently gearing up to make his version of Gardner McKay's psycho-on-the-loose play/novel, Toyer.
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- 8/16/2010
- by PaulMartin
- indiemoviesonline
Back in 2004 came reports that "Scarface" filmmaker Brian De Palma would next direct an adaptation of Gardner McKay's novel and stage play "Toyer".
The story follows the hunt for 'The Toyer', a 'serial lunatic' who doesn't rape or kill but rather psychologically tortures his beautiful female victims and then puts them into medically induced comas.
As no capital crime is committed (the strongest charge they can use is 'mayhem') and with hundreds of uncleared murder cases on the books, the case is made low priority. Soon a female neurologist who treats Toyer's victims and a newspaper editor team up in an attempt to draw him out.
Of course the project never happened, but six years on producers Tarak Ben Ammar ("La Traviata") and Scott Steindorff ("The Human Stain") have teamed and resurrected the project which De Palma is onboard once again to direct according to Vulture
McKay's work is set in Los Angeles,...
The story follows the hunt for 'The Toyer', a 'serial lunatic' who doesn't rape or kill but rather psychologically tortures his beautiful female victims and then puts them into medically induced comas.
As no capital crime is committed (the strongest charge they can use is 'mayhem') and with hundreds of uncleared murder cases on the books, the case is made low priority. Soon a female neurologist who treats Toyer's victims and a newspaper editor team up in an attempt to draw him out.
Of course the project never happened, but six years on producers Tarak Ben Ammar ("La Traviata") and Scott Steindorff ("The Human Stain") have teamed and resurrected the project which De Palma is onboard once again to direct according to Vulture
McKay's work is set in Los Angeles,...
- 8/16/2010
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Brian De Palma always gets what he wants. Or at least that's what the implication is after Vulture reports that the director of The Untouchables and Scarface is extremely close to getting Gardner McKay's novel Toyer to the big screen after six years of hard graft and toil.
De Palma is set to team up with indie producers Scott Steindorff and Tarak Ben Ammar for the film that centres on the story of a psychopath that .toys' with female victims, psychologically torturing them without raping or murdering them, and then putting them into a medically induced coma. This means that all the police can pin on him is 'causing mayhem', which allows him to go unpunished because they have more serious crimes to deal with. This prompts a female neurologist, who treats Toyer's victims, to join forces with a newspaper editor in an attempt to draw him out into the open,...
De Palma is set to team up with indie producers Scott Steindorff and Tarak Ben Ammar for the film that centres on the story of a psychopath that .toys' with female victims, psychologically torturing them without raping or murdering them, and then putting them into a medically induced coma. This means that all the police can pin on him is 'causing mayhem', which allows him to go unpunished because they have more serious crimes to deal with. This prompts a female neurologist, who treats Toyer's victims, to join forces with a newspaper editor in an attempt to draw him out into the open,...
- 8/16/2010
- Screenrush
Toyer is one of those projects that Brian De Palma just can’t give up. He’s been trying to get a film version of Gardner McKay’s novel/play up and running for six years, but now it looks like he’s closer to it happening than ever before.Vulture reports that he’s teaming up with indie producers Tarak Ben Ammar and Scott Steindorff for a new version of the tale. McKay’s plot finds a diabolical lunatic abducting and psychologically playing with beautiful female victims – but never killing or raping them. His trick is that once he’s sated his manic need to taunt, he puts them into a medically induced coma. Which means that the police and justice system can’t actually charge him with a capital crime, so they can only bring him in for “mayhem”. And since the La bureau is overburdened with seemingly more serious cases,...
- 8/16/2010
- EmpireOnline
Brian De Palma, who hasn’t made a movie since “Redacted” in 2007, is once again playing with the idea of adapting Gardner McKay’s novel “Toyer” to the big screen, according to Vulture. De Palma has kicked around this idea for six years, but This time, we’re told, “Toyer” really is happening, but as an indie financed via producers Tarak Ben Ammar, (who most famously produced Franco Zefferilli’s La Traviata) and the L.A.-based Scott Steindorff. Steindorff has brought heavyweight literature like Philip Roth’s The Human Stain and Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera to the screen, and tells Vulture that the film will be shooting in Venice, Italy, late this fall and into the early winter. “Toyer” is the story of a “serial lunatic”. He’s not a serial killer because he doesn’t kill his victims, he tortures them psychologically,...
- 8/14/2010
- by Brent McKnight
- Beyond Hollywood
After critical failures The Black Dahlia and Redacted, it looks like things may finally be heating up in the Brian De Palma camp.
According to Vulture, the legendary filmmaker is set to head back to the well, and pick up the pieces of a six year old film, Toyer. Based on a Gardner McKay novel and play, the film follows a “serial lunatic, who doesn’t rape or murder his beautiful female victims, he toys with them, torturing them psychologically, then putting them into a medically induced coma.”
Read more on Brian De Palma to direct Toyer…...
According to Vulture, the legendary filmmaker is set to head back to the well, and pick up the pieces of a six year old film, Toyer. Based on a Gardner McKay novel and play, the film follows a “serial lunatic, who doesn’t rape or murder his beautiful female victims, he toys with them, torturing them psychologically, then putting them into a medically induced coma.”
Read more on Brian De Palma to direct Toyer…...
- 8/14/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- GordonandtheWhale
Back in 2004, Brian De Palma was trying to figure out what his next project would be. Captivating his interest was a book titled Toyer by Gardner McKay. He eventually decided not to do it and made The Black Dahlia instead. It was a serious mistake that he is now trying to rectify. Vulture reports that the director, who hasn't made a movie since 2007's Redacted, is once again working to make a film adaptation of the novel. In the book, a psychotic man nicknamed "The Toyer" has established a special modus operandi: he follows and psychologically tortures beautiful women before putting them in medically induced comas. Because the police and prosecutors can't stick him with anything more than a "mayhem" charge, he is put down as a low priority. Seeing him as a threat, however, a female doctor who treat's the toyer's patients and a newspaper editor team up to...
- 8/13/2010
- cinemablend.com
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: I love the fact that on Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, and on Friday the 13th no less, we have news that noted Hitchcock enthusiast Brian De Palma might be working again … and soon.
De Palma last tested audiences with the critically panned “Redacted” in 2007, but was coming off – I thought – a very strong effort with the L.A. crime noir “The Black Dahlia.” Now the director reportedly is circling a project that has interested him for years: an adaptation of Gardner McKay’s “Toyer,” according to Vulture.
Amazon says McKay’s “gory” debut novel follows a serial killer who prefers to trap and “toy” with his victims rather than kill them. A neurologist and a female newspaper reporter join forces and try to flush the demon out of hiding.
Instead of L.A., however, Vulture is reporting that De Palma “plans to set the...
Hollywoodnews.com: I love the fact that on Alfred Hitchcock’s birthday, and on Friday the 13th no less, we have news that noted Hitchcock enthusiast Brian De Palma might be working again … and soon.
De Palma last tested audiences with the critically panned “Redacted” in 2007, but was coming off – I thought – a very strong effort with the L.A. crime noir “The Black Dahlia.” Now the director reportedly is circling a project that has interested him for years: an adaptation of Gardner McKay’s “Toyer,” according to Vulture.
Amazon says McKay’s “gory” debut novel follows a serial killer who prefers to trap and “toy” with his victims rather than kill them. A neurologist and a female newspaper reporter join forces and try to flush the demon out of hiding.
Instead of L.A., however, Vulture is reporting that De Palma “plans to set the...
- 8/13/2010
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
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