"The Twilight Zone" isn't any old kind of zone. It's a bizarre place where anything can happen. Aliens can invade at any moment, William Shakespeare can get a job as a Hollywood ghostwriter. Heck, the creator of the series, Rod Serling, even got killed by his own creations once. The limits are only those of the human imagination, which are damn near infinite, except maybe without the words "damn near."
Yes, sometimes "The Twilight Zone" shows us things we never expected to see, which are hard to describe without making it seem like you're the one making it up. This is especially true for the less-popular, but still sometimes great reboots, which in the 1980s, early 2000s, and late 2010s allowed a whole new generation of actors, writers, and filmmakers to play in Rod Serling's unusual sandbox. Unlike the 1960s series, which was a cultural phenomenon in the 1960s and...
Yes, sometimes "The Twilight Zone" shows us things we never expected to see, which are hard to describe without making it seem like you're the one making it up. This is especially true for the less-popular, but still sometimes great reboots, which in the 1980s, early 2000s, and late 2010s allowed a whole new generation of actors, writers, and filmmakers to play in Rod Serling's unusual sandbox. Unlike the 1960s series, which was a cultural phenomenon in the 1960s and...
- 12/3/2023
- by William Bibbiani
- Slash Film
Holy Moses! Has it really been 35 years since Young Guns rode with guns ablazing into theaters? You better believe it, pardner, and Lionsgate plan to celebrate the occasion with a timed 35th-anniversary release of the modern Western on a SteelBook in National 4K Ultra HD (+ Blu-ray + Digital), plus a Best Buy exclusive release on December 5th. This is the first time the film will be available in 4K with a brand-new transfer featuring Dolby Vision Hdr. A new Dolby Atmos audio mix and the original 2.0 stereo theatrical mix will be included. This is also the first time the film will be on digital and Blu-ray.
Here’s the official synopsis for Youg Guns via Lionsgate:
The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranch owner, hires six rebellious boys as “regulators” to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators,...
Here’s the official synopsis for Youg Guns via Lionsgate:
The year is 1878, Lincoln County. John Tunstall, a British ranch owner, hires six rebellious boys as “regulators” to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the Regulators,...
- 10/9/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Howdy pardners! Today, we’re galloping back to 1988, when Christopher Cain and a band of rootin’ tootin’ outlaws shot up the silver screen for the American Western action film Young Guns. Presented as a retelling of the adventures of Billy the Kid during the Lincoln Couty War, Young Gun features a murderers’ row of talent, including Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance, and Terry O’Quinn.
Cain directs from a script by John Fusco. Young Guns revolves around a group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, who become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. However, when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Historian Paul Hutton once called Young Guns the most historically accurate of all films focusing on the dirty deeds of Billy the Kid as of its year of release.
Cain directs from a script by John Fusco. Young Guns revolves around a group of young gunmen, led by Billy the Kid, who become deputies to avenge the murder of the rancher who became their benefactor. However, when Billy takes their authority too far, they become the hunted.
Historian Paul Hutton once called Young Guns the most historically accurate of all films focusing on the dirty deeds of Billy the Kid as of its year of release.
- 8/16/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Apple TV+’s hit limited series “Hijack” starring Idris Elba is a nail-biting thrill ride set in real-time. Over the years, there have been many types of hijack films. Besides planes, there have been suspenseful takeovers of ships, trains, subways and even trucks.
“The Taking of the Pelham One Two Three,” from 1974 — avoid the two remakes — is a superb thriller about four men who take over a New York subway car and hold the passengers, conductor and an undercover policeman hostage unless they get $1 million (remember that was a lot of money 49 years ago). If their demands aren’t met, they will start killing hostages. Directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted by Peter Stone from the best-selling novel by John Godey, “Taking” boasts a stellar cast at the top of their game including Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo and Martin Balsam. David Shire penned the influential score.
A year...
“The Taking of the Pelham One Two Three,” from 1974 — avoid the two remakes — is a superb thriller about four men who take over a New York subway car and hold the passengers, conductor and an undercover policeman hostage unless they get $1 million (remember that was a lot of money 49 years ago). If their demands aren’t met, they will start killing hostages. Directed by Joseph Sargent and adapted by Peter Stone from the best-selling novel by John Godey, “Taking” boasts a stellar cast at the top of their game including Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Hector Elizondo and Martin Balsam. David Shire penned the influential score.
A year...
- 8/8/2023
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is set to take place from September 7th through the 17th, and yesterday they invited film fans to guess which ten movies they’ll be screening in their Midnight Madness lineup this year. The hints were the titles of ten movies that could be compared to the films in the lineup in some way. They were Trey Parker’s Orgazmo, Geoff Murphy’s Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Jimmy Wang Yu’s Fantasy Mission Force, Charles Martin Smith’s Trick or Treat, Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man, Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead, Paul Schrader’s Blue Collar, Ingmar Bergman’s Hour of the Wolf, and Theodore J. Flicker’s Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang. Now TIFF has announced the full lineup for both their Midnight Madness and Discovery programmes, and...
- 8/3/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Andrew Davis’ Under Siege is usually considered Steven Seagal’s best movie. However, at the time, most critics singled out Tommy Lee Jones’s performance as the baddie, Strannix, as a scene-stealer. According to Nick de Semlyen’s new book, “Last Action Heroes”, Jones dominating the film was intentional, as Seagal was somewhat reluctant to sign onto the movie. To help entice the star, his screen time was kept to only about 41 minutes. As Davis tells de Semlyen, “Between the Pentagon stuff and all the other cutaways, Tommy is actually in the movie more than Steven.”
According to Davis, Jones took the lead in reworking his bad guy, who he remembers was “flat” and “boring” in the original script. “Tommy said, ‘Why can’t I be a rock n’roll kinda guy? It was a little weird, but Tommy made it work.” Indeed, Jones’s performance would elevate his career,...
According to Davis, Jones took the lead in reworking his bad guy, who he remembers was “flat” and “boring” in the original script. “Tommy said, ‘Why can’t I be a rock n’roll kinda guy? It was a little weird, but Tommy made it work.” Indeed, Jones’s performance would elevate his career,...
- 6/27/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
When we think of the most iconic late night talk show moments, there are a few that stand out: Crispin Glover nearly taking off David Letterman’s head, Jerry Lawler slapping Andy Kaufman in the face in 1982 and Jay Leno asking Hugh Grant on July 10th, 1995, “What the hell were you thinking?” following his June arrest for engaging in sexual acts with a prostitute named Divine Brown. We couldn’t have said it better, Jay.
Speaking with Chris Wallace on his titular show, Jay Leno remembered giving Hugh Grant one last chance to back out of the interview, which was scheduled well before the incident. “You know, he was great. Nowadays, you’d have 100 handlers. I called him up, and I said, ‘You still in for tomorrow?’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘You know, I effed up. And, you know, it’s my fault.’”
Hugh Grant also handled the situation...
Speaking with Chris Wallace on his titular show, Jay Leno remembered giving Hugh Grant one last chance to back out of the interview, which was scheduled well before the incident. “You know, he was great. Nowadays, you’d have 100 handlers. I called him up, and I said, ‘You still in for tomorrow?’ He goes, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘You know, I effed up. And, you know, it’s my fault.’”
Hugh Grant also handled the situation...
- 6/3/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The Film
I’m trying to remember the title of a movie. There’s a bomber, who puts a device on public transport. If it registers a speed over… ah I forget what the exact marker was, but anyway, that arms the bomb, then if it goes below that speed…Boom! So the cops have to figure out who this guy is, and how to disarm the bomb. I think it was called “The bus that couldn’t slow down”, but it might have been a bit snappier than that.
That aside, 1975’s The Bullet Train definitely bears some striking similarities to, you know, that bus movie. Ken Takahara plays Okita, he’s 40, has lost his company in a bankruptcy and is recently divorced. Recruiting two friends (Kei Yamamoto and Akira Oda) to help set it up, he develops a plan to hold a bullet train with approximately 1500 passengers to...
I’m trying to remember the title of a movie. There’s a bomber, who puts a device on public transport. If it registers a speed over… ah I forget what the exact marker was, but anyway, that arms the bomb, then if it goes below that speed…Boom! So the cops have to figure out who this guy is, and how to disarm the bomb. I think it was called “The bus that couldn’t slow down”, but it might have been a bit snappier than that.
That aside, 1975’s The Bullet Train definitely bears some striking similarities to, you know, that bus movie. Ken Takahara plays Okita, he’s 40, has lost his company in a bankruptcy and is recently divorced. Recruiting two friends (Kei Yamamoto and Akira Oda) to help set it up, he develops a plan to hold a bullet train with approximately 1500 passengers to...
- 4/27/2023
- by Sam Inglis
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Martin Wiley, a veteran producer and executive whose credits include Acts of Violence, Never Talk to Strangers and Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, died March 20, his son Cameron told Deadline. He was 65.
A USC alum who got his post-graduate degree from UCLA, Wiley served as a creative executive in charge of development on films produced at Warner Bros., Sony, Lionsgate and other studios and the supervising producer and/or unit production manager for more than a dozen theatrical features.
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Wiley began his career in the late 1980s, serving as a producer or co-producer on films including Mutator, Diving In and Little Sister. His...
A USC alum who got his post-graduate degree from UCLA, Wiley served as a creative executive in charge of development on films produced at Warner Bros., Sony, Lionsgate and other studios and the supervising producer and/or unit production manager for more than a dozen theatrical features.
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Wiley began his career in the late 1980s, serving as a producer or co-producer on films including Mutator, Diving In and Little Sister. His...
- 3/23/2023
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Geoff Murphy's 1992 sci-fi thriller "Freejack" has a fun premise. In the distant dystopian future of 2009, the ultra-wealthy can afford to hire special time-traveling agents called bonejackers to reach back in time and kidnap people the second before they are about to die. The wealthy then use futuristic technology to shunt their consciousnesses into the bodies of those they kidnapped. It's an effective way to assure immortality, as well as a clean way to acquire bodies that will not be missed by history. The problem is, when the victims are kidnapped from the past, they arrive in the future unscathed. The wealthy will indeed have to effectively "kill" their victims in order to take over their bodies.
The victims who escape are called freejacks.
As 1990s sci-fi thrillers go, "Freejack" is not terribly well remembered, nor was it an overwhelming hit (it made a mere 17 million at the domestic box office). The premise,...
The victims who escape are called freejacks.
As 1990s sci-fi thrillers go, "Freejack" is not terribly well remembered, nor was it an overwhelming hit (it made a mere 17 million at the domestic box office). The premise,...
- 12/26/2022
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Exclusive: A reboot of the 1992 hit Steven Seagal action movie Under Siege is underway at Warner Bros. with Timo Tjahjanto directing and Umair Aleem writing. The duo, I hear, collaborated and developed the pitch together with the movie being planned to stream on HBO Max.
There’s no word yet if Seagal will reprise his role as Casey Ryback, the ex-Navy Seal turned cook who was the only person in that movie to stop a group of terrorists from taking control of a U.S. battleship. The movie, directed by Andrew Davis, grossed over $156M WW when it was released and spawned a 1995 sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory which minted over $104M-plus WW. Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey starred in the first movie.
Indonesian filmmaker Tjahjanto got his start by directing the V/H/S/2 segment “Safe Haven”. He went on to direct The Night Comes for Us...
There’s no word yet if Seagal will reprise his role as Casey Ryback, the ex-Navy Seal turned cook who was the only person in that movie to stop a group of terrorists from taking control of a U.S. battleship. The movie, directed by Andrew Davis, grossed over $156M WW when it was released and spawned a 1995 sequel Under Siege 2: Dark Territory which minted over $104M-plus WW. Tommy Lee Jones and Gary Busey starred in the first movie.
Indonesian filmmaker Tjahjanto got his start by directing the V/H/S/2 segment “Safe Haven”. He went on to direct The Night Comes for Us...
- 11/17/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The actor/comedian/writer/director joins us to talk about some of the objectively bad movies he loves.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Explorers (1985)
Chinatown (1974)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Oath (2018)
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Tango and Cash (1989)
The Thing (1982)
Runaway Train (1985)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Conrack (1974)
Volcano (1997)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
Earthquake (1974)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Road House (1989)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
West Side Story (1961)
Chicago (2002)
The Producers (1967)
Outbreak (1995)
Volunteers (1985)
Splash (1984)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philadelphia (1993)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Con Air (1997)
Bad Boys (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Mandy (2018)
Out For Justice (1991)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Goodfellas (1990)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Above The Law (1988)
Under Siege (1992)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
The Asian Connection (2016)
Contract To Kill (2016)
The Perfect Weapon (2016)
Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
The Glimmer Man (1996)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Contagion (2011)
Other Notable Items
The...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Explorers (1985)
Chinatown (1974)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Oath (2018)
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Tango and Cash (1989)
The Thing (1982)
Runaway Train (1985)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Conrack (1974)
Volcano (1997)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
Earthquake (1974)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Road House (1989)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
West Side Story (1961)
Chicago (2002)
The Producers (1967)
Outbreak (1995)
Volunteers (1985)
Splash (1984)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philadelphia (1993)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Con Air (1997)
Bad Boys (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Mandy (2018)
Out For Justice (1991)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Goodfellas (1990)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Above The Law (1988)
Under Siege (1992)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
The Asian Connection (2016)
Contract To Kill (2016)
The Perfect Weapon (2016)
Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
The Glimmer Man (1996)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Contagion (2011)
Other Notable Items
The...
- 9/15/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
"Looks like I've bitten off more than I can choo, choo." Indican Pictures has released the official trailer for Killer Raccoons 2: Dark Christmas in the Dark, a sequel to a local cult favorite action horror from Ohio. This long-awaited follow-up is filmmaker Travis Irvine's big step up from local director to nationally-renowned genre mastermind. Killer Raccoons 2 is officially a sequel to Irvine's cult classic Coons! Night of the Bandits of the Night from 2006. This time everything is bigger, better, crazier, and coonier. And there's even a whole action set piece on a train. It is essentially a spoof of "several bad action movie sequels, using plot elements from Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Die Hard 2 and Speed 2: Cruise Control." Starring Yang Miller, Ron Lynch, Tom Lyons, James Myers, and Zach Riedmaier as "Dr. Billington". Even if you've never seen the original, this still looks like it...
- 5/3/2020
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
D.L. Hughley has a lot on his mind. The actor and comedian, who’s known for sharing his unfiltered opinions on social media, now has a late-night platform, and he’s not holding back.
The Dl Hughley Show launched March 18 on TV One. The nightly series features Hughley and co-host Jasmine Sanders using humor to tackle everything from hard news and politics to celebrity fare. Hughley serves as an executive producer on the show and says there are no subjects he won’t touch.
“I don’t believe that any topic is off limits, but I’m careful as to how to broach them and to be clear about what my intent is,” Hughley said recently during an interview at the Burbank studio where the series tapes.
While other late-night shows feature games, karaoke and mean tweets, Hughley wants his guests to keep it real, like the time he asked...
The Dl Hughley Show launched March 18 on TV One. The nightly series features Hughley and co-host Jasmine Sanders using humor to tackle everything from hard news and politics to celebrity fare. Hughley serves as an executive producer on the show and says there are no subjects he won’t touch.
“I don’t believe that any topic is off limits, but I’m careful as to how to broach them and to be clear about what my intent is,” Hughley said recently during an interview at the Burbank studio where the series tapes.
While other late-night shows feature games, karaoke and mean tweets, Hughley wants his guests to keep it real, like the time he asked...
- 6/9/2019
- by Anita Bennett
- Deadline Film + TV
Geoff Murphy, a leading figure in the New Zealand movie industry in the 1970s and ’80s who also helmed such Hollywood fare as Young Guns II and Freejack and was second-unit director on The Lord of the Rings trilogy, has died. He was 80. Murphy’s death was confirmed by The New Zealand Herald.
His directing credits also include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Never Say Die , Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth, for which he won Best Director at the 1987 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. He also was second-unit helmer on such films as xXx: State of the Union and Dante’s Peak. Murphy also produced more than a half-dozen of the films he worked on.
Murphy was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film in 2014 and previously had been named as an Arts Icon by the Arts Foundation, which...
His directing credits also include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Never Say Die , Goodbye Pork Pie, Utu and The Quiet Earth, for which he won Best Director at the 1987 New Zealand Film and TV Awards. He also was second-unit helmer on such films as xXx: State of the Union and Dante’s Peak. Murphy also produced more than a half-dozen of the films he worked on.
Murphy was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to film in 2014 and previously had been named as an Arts Icon by the Arts Foundation, which...
- 12/4/2018
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Batman became widely known as a comic character via the 1960s television series before Tim Burton's Batman redefined him on the big screen in 1989. Christopher Nolan's highly-praised Batman trilogy deepened the character still further. Zack Snyder's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice introduced Ben Affleck as an older, more weary version of the Dark Knight; he appeared again in Suicide Squad and Justice League (above). Now another director is seeking to redefine the character in a new film. What's in store for the Caped Crusader? Here's everything we know. Who is directing? Matt Reeves. His early writing credits include Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and the crime drama The Yards. He created the popular TV series Felicity with J.J. Abrams and the two...
- 8/3/2018
- by Peter Martin
- Movies.com
Mark Allison Dec 12, 2017
It's 20 years today that Tomorrow Never DIes first landed in UK cinemas. But was it, in its own way, ahead of its time?
Imagine a world in which deceitful news reporters and mysterious computer hackers are conspiring to destabilise the geopolitical status quo. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has developed delusions of grandeur about its place in the world, and begun to embark upon an effort to restore itself to former imperial greatness. All this might seem a little familiar to anyone who has glanced at a newspaper recently, but it’s not a summary of recent events – this is a synopsis for the seventeenth James Bond film, Roger Spottiswoode’s Tomorrow Never Dies, which has just turned 20 years old.
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Described by this website...
It's 20 years today that Tomorrow Never DIes first landed in UK cinemas. But was it, in its own way, ahead of its time?
Imagine a world in which deceitful news reporters and mysterious computer hackers are conspiring to destabilise the geopolitical status quo. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has developed delusions of grandeur about its place in the world, and begun to embark upon an effort to restore itself to former imperial greatness. All this might seem a little familiar to anyone who has glanced at a newspaper recently, but it’s not a summary of recent events – this is a synopsis for the seventeenth James Bond film, Roger Spottiswoode’s Tomorrow Never Dies, which has just turned 20 years old.
See related Riverdale season 2 episode 7 review: Tales From The Darkside Riverdale season 2 episode 6 review: Death Proof Riverdale season 2 episode 5 review: When A Stranger Calls
Described by this website...
- 12/3/2017
- Den of Geek
Some celebrities handle fame with grace and humility. Others use it as a means to set ablaze whatever lies in their wake. A new video from Looper exposes the latter, chronicling the shifty eyes and bad attitudes of 12 different celebrities in a way that will no doubt cause them to flick the chip from their shoulders and repent. Probably not, but it’s still pretty entertaining.
There are a few obvious ones on there: Nobody should be all that surprised to see Alec Baldwin, Shia Labeouf, or Katherine Heigl here, but to hear Mandy Patinkin say how “abominably” he has behaved on sets is surprising. Gwyneth Paltrow, Bruce Willis, and Patrick Dempsey are also represented, as is Steven Seagal, whose despicableness surpasses mere dickish behavior. During a “private audition” for Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Seagal allegedly urged Jenny McCarthy to strip nude for him, despite there being no ...
There are a few obvious ones on there: Nobody should be all that surprised to see Alec Baldwin, Shia Labeouf, or Katherine Heigl here, but to hear Mandy Patinkin say how “abominably” he has behaved on sets is surprising. Gwyneth Paltrow, Bruce Willis, and Patrick Dempsey are also represented, as is Steven Seagal, whose despicableness surpasses mere dickish behavior. During a “private audition” for Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Seagal allegedly urged Jenny McCarthy to strip nude for him, despite there being no ...
- 1/26/2017
- by Randall Colburn
- avclub.com
From Jurassic Park to Office Space, films in the 1990s were peppered with plot lines based around computer hacking, seemingly all of which featured random keyboard tapping, unnecessary video game-like 3-D interfaces, and everyone yelling “Hack the Gibson!” for some reason. Computers were exciting, hacker culture was cool, and almost none of it was remotely accurate.
In part two of his ongoing series about hacking on film, Rich Haridy at New Atlas explores the quintessentially ’90s approach to the new and exciting world of computer systems. On his trip through the decade, Haridy examines the hacker evolution from loner nerd characters of the 1980s to rave culture infused black-hats of the 1995 movie Hackers. Plot lines range from the laughably absurd—like hacking Steven Seagal’s Apple Newton in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory—to the mundane yet realistic depiction of uploading a computer virus in Mike Judge’s Office ...
In part two of his ongoing series about hacking on film, Rich Haridy at New Atlas explores the quintessentially ’90s approach to the new and exciting world of computer systems. On his trip through the decade, Haridy examines the hacker evolution from loner nerd characters of the 1980s to rave culture infused black-hats of the 1995 movie Hackers. Plot lines range from the laughably absurd—like hacking Steven Seagal’s Apple Newton in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory—to the mundane yet realistic depiction of uploading a computer virus in Mike Judge’s Office ...
- 10/20/2016
- by Dan Neilan
- avclub.com
If I'd listened to the guy at Blockbuster, I might never have seen Wet Hot American Summer at such a pivotal time. "Don't get this," the Blockbuster guy said when I brought the DVD to the register. "You'll regret it." In all my years of Blockbuster-ing I had never been told that I'd "regret" a rental, not even Under Siege 2: Dark Territory or Rob Schneider's The Animal. I asked him why he hated it so much. "Because it's dumb as hell and it makes no sense," he clarified. I rented it anyway. And then I took it to my friend's house where we proceeded to laugh harder than we'd ever laughed before, all the while wondering: What were we seeing that this other guy didn't? And: Why wasn't this a thing that everyone was talking about? Looking back on the initial reviews of the film — and they are famously,...
- 7/31/2015
- by Lucas Kavner
- Vulture
Our look at underappreciated films of the 80s continues, as we head back to 1988...
Either in terms of ticket sales or critical acclaim, 1988 was dominated by the likes of Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Coming To America. It was the year Bruce Willis made the jump from TV to action star with Die Hard, and became a star in the process.
It was the year Leslie Nielsen made his own jump from the small to silver screen with Police Squad spin-off The Naked Gun, which sparked a hugely popular franchise of its own. Elsewhere, the eccentric Tim Burton scored one of the biggest hits of the year with Beetlejuice, the success of which would result in the birth of Batman a year later. And then there was Tom Cruise, who managed to make a drama about a student-turned-barman into a $170m hit, back when $170m was still an...
Either in terms of ticket sales or critical acclaim, 1988 was dominated by the likes of Rain Man, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Coming To America. It was the year Bruce Willis made the jump from TV to action star with Die Hard, and became a star in the process.
It was the year Leslie Nielsen made his own jump from the small to silver screen with Police Squad spin-off The Naked Gun, which sparked a hugely popular franchise of its own. Elsewhere, the eccentric Tim Burton scored one of the biggest hits of the year with Beetlejuice, the success of which would result in the birth of Batman a year later. And then there was Tom Cruise, who managed to make a drama about a student-turned-barman into a $170m hit, back when $170m was still an...
- 5/6/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Exclusive: Morris Chestnut, who made his film debut in John Singleton’s seminal 1991 drama Boyz N The Hood, has signed a three-picture deal with Sony’s Screen Gems as an actor and producer. The first of the pics is upcoming thriller The Perfect Guy, which stars Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, and Chestnut. The next film to follow will be When The Bough Breaks, a psychological thriller that will star Chestnut and Regina Hall.
Bough, directed by Jon Cassar, tracks a professional couple who hire a blue-collar surrogate who develops a violent obsession with the husband. The pic is being produced by New Line founders and Lord of the Rings EPs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, and Chestnut will exec produce.
Chestnut’s third Screen Gems project will be The Syndicate, from writer Cliff Dorfman (Entourage, Warrior). Chestnut is producing that project, which is exec produced by Jeff Waters and James Farrell.
Bough, directed by Jon Cassar, tracks a professional couple who hire a blue-collar surrogate who develops a violent obsession with the husband. The pic is being produced by New Line founders and Lord of the Rings EPs Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, and Chestnut will exec produce.
Chestnut’s third Screen Gems project will be The Syndicate, from writer Cliff Dorfman (Entourage, Warrior). Chestnut is producing that project, which is exec produced by Jeff Waters and James Farrell.
- 11/19/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
We’ve reviewed every summer movie season since 1980 to find out which are the best, and which are the worst. Last week we posted our picks for the worst, and here we post our picks for the best.
2015 and 2016 may just be the most overthetop summer movie seasons yet. It seems like nearly every movie slated for a summer 2015 or 2016 release is heavily anticipated. Because of these impending summers of movie awesomeness, we’ve decided to take a look back at summer movie seasons of years past. The idea of the summer movie season is currently in full swing, but it didn’t catch on immediately. Hollywood had to do its fair share of experimenting to determine what types of films would be most successful. As a result, some summer movie seasons have been better than others. We’ve reviewed them all for you and ranked them from worst to best.
2015 and 2016 may just be the most overthetop summer movie seasons yet. It seems like nearly every movie slated for a summer 2015 or 2016 release is heavily anticipated. Because of these impending summers of movie awesomeness, we’ve decided to take a look back at summer movie seasons of years past. The idea of the summer movie season is currently in full swing, but it didn’t catch on immediately. Hollywood had to do its fair share of experimenting to determine what types of films would be most successful. As a result, some summer movie seasons have been better than others. We’ve reviewed them all for you and ranked them from worst to best.
- 9/15/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (G.S. Perno)
- Cinelinx
Move over, Governator, here comes the … Aikidonator? Hey, if Arnold Schwarzenegger can get himself elected governor of California, why can’t Steven Seagal? The action movie star and Aikido master recently told a news outlet that he is, indeed, mulling over a run for the Governor’s seat of the great and very arid state of Arizona. The star of such badass flicks as “Marked for Death,” “Under Siege,” and “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory” recently told news station Knxv-tv about his possible plans: Joe Arpaio and I were talking about me running for governor in Arizona which was kind of a joke… But I suppose I would remotely consider it…but probably I would have a lot of other responsibilities that may be more important to address. Seagal goes on to discuss various political hot button topics, quotes Reagan, and takes a little jab or two at Obama. You...
- 1/6/2014
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
"Olympus Has Fallen" hits theaters this weekend and if you've seen the trailers, well, it might look just a little familiar to you. Gerard Butler plays a disgraced Secret Service agent who finds himself trapped inside the White House when it's overrun by terrorists. Armed only with courage and, well, a gun, he wages a one-man war to save the President — and America itself.
In other words, it's "Die Hard" in the White House.
Not that we're bagging on "Olympus Has Fallen." Since "Die Hard" hit theaters more than a quarter century ago, dozens of films have completely ripped off its formula of one man, trapped inside ... something, facing down an overwhelming force in order to save ... someone. And since many of those ripoffs were actually totally cool action movies, we thought the release of "Olympus Has Fallen" would be the perfect time to take a look at some of...
In other words, it's "Die Hard" in the White House.
Not that we're bagging on "Olympus Has Fallen." Since "Die Hard" hit theaters more than a quarter century ago, dozens of films have completely ripped off its formula of one man, trapped inside ... something, facing down an overwhelming force in order to save ... someone. And since many of those ripoffs were actually totally cool action movies, we thought the release of "Olympus Has Fallen" would be the perfect time to take a look at some of...
- 3/18/2013
- by Scott Harris
- NextMovie
"I don't have rage. I'm a happy guy. You see this face? This is a happy face."
The second season of True Justice kicked off with a bang — and a thud, crunch, slice, thwack, and several booms — on Friday, with Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal) and his new team racking up some serious numbers. In celebration of the return of Seagal's own personal brand of, ahem, justice to ReelzChannel, we decided this would be a great time to look back at his action-packed movie career. Put on your gi, focus your chi, and help us choose Seagal's best movies.
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True Justice | Steven Seagal | Under Siege | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Above The Law | Hard to Kill | Out for Justice | Marked for Death | Executive Decision | On Deadly Ground | Machete | The Glimmer Man | Exit Wounds | Fire Down Below | Half Past Dead...
The second season of True Justice kicked off with a bang — and a thud, crunch, slice, thwack, and several booms — on Friday, with Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal) and his new team racking up some serious numbers. In celebration of the return of Seagal's own personal brand of, ahem, justice to ReelzChannel, we decided this would be a great time to look back at his action-packed movie career. Put on your gi, focus your chi, and help us choose Seagal's best movies.
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True Justice | Steven Seagal | Under Siege | Under Siege 2: Dark Territory | Above The Law | Hard to Kill | Out for Justice | Marked for Death | Executive Decision | On Deadly Ground | Machete | The Glimmer Man | Exit Wounds | Fire Down Below | Half Past Dead...
- 1/8/2013
- by BrentJS Sprecher
- Reelzchannel.com
"I'm just a cook."
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Seagal was slowly becoming an action star with movies like 1988's Above the Law and 1990's Hard to Kill, but it was 1992's Under Siege that made Seagal a legitimate star. The movie saw Seagal play former Navy Seal Casey Ryback, who works as a cook on the USS Missouri after losing his security clearance. But when an ex-cia operative (Tommy Lee Jones) and a rogue Naval commander (Gary Busey) take control of the Missouri with the intent purpose of stealing the ship's Tomahawk missiles, there's only one man that can stop them. You guessed it, Seagal.
Directed by Andrew Davis, who would go on to direct The Fugitive next (and earn Jones an Oscar), Under Siege earned $156 million worldwide and spawned a sequel, 1995's Under Siege: Dark Territory, which sees Ryback have to protect his niece (Katherine Heigl...
Back in the early 1990s, Steven Seagal was slowly becoming an action star with movies like 1988's Above the Law and 1990's Hard to Kill, but it was 1992's Under Siege that made Seagal a legitimate star. The movie saw Seagal play former Navy Seal Casey Ryback, who works as a cook on the USS Missouri after losing his security clearance. But when an ex-cia operative (Tommy Lee Jones) and a rogue Naval commander (Gary Busey) take control of the Missouri with the intent purpose of stealing the ship's Tomahawk missiles, there's only one man that can stop them. You guessed it, Seagal.
Directed by Andrew Davis, who would go on to direct The Fugitive next (and earn Jones an Oscar), Under Siege earned $156 million worldwide and spawned a sequel, 1995's Under Siege: Dark Territory, which sees Ryback have to protect his niece (Katherine Heigl...
- 10/27/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
HollywoodNews.com: This one dropped a couple days ago, so pardon the tardiness. Anyway, I know nothing about the Stephanie Plum character or the Janet Evanovich novels that this film is adapted from.
All I can say is that it’s a big clearer why Lionsgate moved this film from its original mid-summer 2011 slot to January 27th, 2011. It’s no secret that I’d be all smiles about a female-centric action franchise. But this looks quite terrible, borrowing the worst parts of The Bounty Hunter and, most crucially, refusing to take its premise remotely seriously. Again, I can’t say if this is faithful to the novels, but why must this female-driven action film be burdened by camp and in fact sell the idea that women cannot be convincing action stars?
Before she became a star on Grey’s Anatomy, Heigl dabbled in action (macing Everett McGill in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory...
All I can say is that it’s a big clearer why Lionsgate moved this film from its original mid-summer 2011 slot to January 27th, 2011. It’s no secret that I’d be all smiles about a female-centric action franchise. But this looks quite terrible, borrowing the worst parts of The Bounty Hunter and, most crucially, refusing to take its premise remotely seriously. Again, I can’t say if this is faithful to the novels, but why must this female-driven action film be burdened by camp and in fact sell the idea that women cannot be convincing action stars?
Before she became a star on Grey’s Anatomy, Heigl dabbled in action (macing Everett McGill in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory...
- 9/28/2011
- by Scott Mendelson
- Hollywoodnews.com
New to Netflix Streaming On Thursday July 7th:The Tourist (PG13 | 2010)
Flickchart Ranking: #4688
Times Ranked: 3030
Win Percentage: 42%
How Many Top-20′s: 5 Users
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The Netflix Api is spitting this one out but we can’t verify it and it seems like this is a casualty of the Sony/Starz contract dispute that pulled a bunch of movies of Netflix Instant Watch. Check back Thursday to see if it’s available.
Directed By: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Johnny Depp •� Angelina Jolie •� Paul Bettany •� Timothy Dalton
Genres: Drama •� Paranoid Thriller •� Thriller
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Four Rooms (R | 1995)
Flickchart Ranking: #1934
Times Ranked: 23088
Win Percentage: 28%
How Many Top-20′s: 33 Users
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Directed By: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Tim Roth •� Jennifer Beals •� Quentin Tarantino •� Paul Calderon •� Sammi Davis
Genres: Comedy •� Farce
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New to Netflix Streaming On Friday July 8th:The Winning Season (PG13 | 2009)
Flickchart Ranking: #9636
Times Ranked: 221
Win Percentage: 30%
How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users...
Flickchart Ranking: #4688
Times Ranked: 3030
Win Percentage: 42%
How Many Top-20′s: 5 Users
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The Netflix Api is spitting this one out but we can’t verify it and it seems like this is a casualty of the Sony/Starz contract dispute that pulled a bunch of movies of Netflix Instant Watch. Check back Thursday to see if it’s available.
Directed By: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Starring: Johnny Depp •� Angelina Jolie •� Paul Bettany •� Timothy Dalton
Genres: Drama •� Paranoid Thriller •� Thriller
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Four Rooms (R | 1995)
Flickchart Ranking: #1934
Times Ranked: 23088
Win Percentage: 28%
How Many Top-20′s: 33 Users
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Directed By: Allison Anders, Alexandre Rockwell, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez
Starring: Tim Roth •� Jennifer Beals •� Quentin Tarantino •� Paul Calderon •� Sammi Davis
Genres: Comedy •� Farce
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New to Netflix Streaming On Friday July 8th:The Winning Season (PG13 | 2009)
Flickchart Ranking: #9636
Times Ranked: 221
Win Percentage: 30%
How Many Top-20′s: 0 Users...
- 7/4/2011
- by Daniel Rohr
- Flickchart
Cloverfield was one of the more heavily divisive films of 2008 (and is it me, or does it feel like it came out more than three years ago?). Our own Dan Carlson enjoyed it, though noted that it's not without its flaws, an opinion I pretty much agree with -- I thought it was a tightly made, entertaining bit of monster mayhem that got bogged down and had some really annoying characters. But overall, I really dug it. But a lot of people hated it, or thought it was shaky-cammed to the point of nausea-inducing, or just thought it was crap. Each their own, right?
Well, either way, you're probably going to see a sequel. Total Film interviewed director Matt Reeves, and he had this to say about it:
"Well, you are going to see it -- we just don't know when [laughs]. At the moment we are talking about the story quite a lot.
Well, either way, you're probably going to see a sequel. Total Film interviewed director Matt Reeves, and he had this to say about it:
"Well, you are going to see it -- we just don't know when [laughs]. At the moment we are talking about the story quite a lot.
- 3/22/2011
- by TK
Oh, how 1994 seems sooo long ago. Bill Clinton was president, “Internet” was a scary new word, and the lumbering, shaggy-haired Frenchman Gerard Depardieu was a bona fide A-list movie star.
The ’94 family comedy “My Father the Hero” may have the distinction of being the film that put a swift end to Depardieu’s brief stint as a Hollywood leading man (see also “Green Card”), but we’d rather think of it as the film that introduced us to “Life As We Know It” star Katherine Heigl, who played Gerard’s fastidious 14-year-old (sorry, 14-and-a-half-year-old) daughter.
Most consider Heigl a TV star (first on “Roswell,” then in the career-making “Grey’s Anatomy”) who crossed over into movies (“Knocked Up,” “The Ugly Truth”) but the actress got her start on the big screen, debuting in 1992′s “That Night,” a romantic drama co-starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis.
Roles in “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory...
The ’94 family comedy “My Father the Hero” may have the distinction of being the film that put a swift end to Depardieu’s brief stint as a Hollywood leading man (see also “Green Card”), but we’d rather think of it as the film that introduced us to “Life As We Know It” star Katherine Heigl, who played Gerard’s fastidious 14-year-old (sorry, 14-and-a-half-year-old) daughter.
Most consider Heigl a TV star (first on “Roswell,” then in the career-making “Grey’s Anatomy”) who crossed over into movies (“Knocked Up,” “The Ugly Truth”) but the actress got her start on the big screen, debuting in 1992′s “That Night,” a romantic drama co-starring C. Thomas Howell and Juliette Lewis.
Roles in “Under Siege 2: Dark Territory...
- 2/8/2011
- by Kevin Polowy
- NextMovie
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s. The Disappearance Of Alice Creed The Disappearance of Alice Creed opens with two men prepping for what we can only assume—given the title of the film (despite any revelations about its meaning that may come later)—is a kidnapping. We assume correctly. They pull a girl into a van, tie her to a bed, strip her of all her clothes, snap photos of her, and put new clothes on her. All of this takes places without any dialogue, or any understanding of who these people are, how they know each other, or what their motivations are. The less you know about what happens from that point forward, the better. This is the sort of assured, smartly...
- 11/24/2010
- by Adam Quigley
- Slash Film
Last week's poll explored some of the the finest train-related thrill rides that cinema has to offer, and clearly there was no shortage of good stuff to choose from. Votes ended up being distributed a little more evenly than usual, but Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited came out on top. Definitely a bit of a surprise, given that it's not one of his most highly praised films. Under Siege 2 and Transsiberian came in at #2 and #3 (also somewhat surprising) followed closely by Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train and Runaway Train. Meanwhile, The Great Train Robbery brought up the caboose with just 5% of the votes. Are you pleased with the results, or did Film Junk readers go off the rails with this one? 1. The Darjeeling Limited -- 16.4% 2. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory -- 13.1% 3. Transsiberian -- 12.4% 4. Strangers on a Train -- 12% 5. Runaway Train -- 11.6% 6. The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (1974) --...
- 11/18/2010
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Editor's Note: Unfortunately this promotion has expired and the service has reverted to trade-ins only for Warner Brother titles. DVDs from other studios are no longer accepted - hopefully they'll do this again soon though.
Warner Brothers' push to have consumers fully embrace the Blu-ray format started in April of last year when they announced their Red2Blu program, which allowed anyone who'd purchased a WB title on HD-DVD to exchange it with about $5 per disc and they'd receive the exact same title on Blu-ray. For anyone who'd sunk some cash in the defunct HD-DVD format it was a pretty nice deal; unfortunately other studios never jumped on board with quite the same gusto.
Then, at about this time last year, Warner Brothers announced an addition to the Blu-ray exchange concept: they put out a selection of 55 titles which, if you owned the DVD version, could be exchanged for the...
Warner Brothers' push to have consumers fully embrace the Blu-ray format started in April of last year when they announced their Red2Blu program, which allowed anyone who'd purchased a WB title on HD-DVD to exchange it with about $5 per disc and they'd receive the exact same title on Blu-ray. For anyone who'd sunk some cash in the defunct HD-DVD format it was a pretty nice deal; unfortunately other studios never jumped on board with quite the same gusto.
Then, at about this time last year, Warner Brothers announced an addition to the Blu-ray exchange concept: they put out a selection of 55 titles which, if you owned the DVD version, could be exchanged for the...
- 11/12/2010
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Oh no! A runaway train is heading straight towards some sort of built-up area and 150 adorable schoolchildren and a horse. Can Denzel Washington manually avert disaster?
When it comes to high-octane action films set on public transport, the train is most definitely an under-represented minority. Planes have Die Hard 2, Passenger 57, Red Eye and Executive Decision. Boats have Titanic. Even buses have got Speed, and buses are rubbish. But trains? Well, there's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, but that barely even counts as a film.
Luckily, having dabbled in the area with his remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Tony Scott has decided to focus all his energy on putting this injustice right. His imminent Denzel Washington-fronted Unstoppable is all set to make action films about trains fashionable again. But before Unstoppable is released, let's take a look at its trailer to see what the film is actually about.
When it comes to high-octane action films set on public transport, the train is most definitely an under-represented minority. Planes have Die Hard 2, Passenger 57, Red Eye and Executive Decision. Boats have Titanic. Even buses have got Speed, and buses are rubbish. But trains? Well, there's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, but that barely even counts as a film.
Luckily, having dabbled in the area with his remake of The Taking of Pelham 123, Tony Scott has decided to focus all his energy on putting this injustice right. His imminent Denzel Washington-fronted Unstoppable is all set to make action films about trains fashionable again. But before Unstoppable is released, let's take a look at its trailer to see what the film is actually about.
- 11/3/2010
- by Stuart Heritage
- The Guardian - Film News
During my visit to Fantastic Fest in Austin Texas, I got an opportunity to sit down with filmmaker Matt Reeves. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Reeves co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and made his feature directorial debut with The Pallbearer. The film screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section but went on to make only $5.6 million domestically, delaying Reeves chances at a feature film career. Reeves used this time to co-create the television series Felicity with his friend Jj Abrams, whom he met at age 13 while they were both screening short films on a cable public access channel. In addition to writing, Reeves directed a handful of Felicity episodes including the pilot. He later got a opportunity to break out of "director's jail" with the Abrams-produced monster movie Cloverfield, which was a big hit. His ...
- 10/1/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Katherine Heigl has revealed her worst date was with a fame-hungry personal trainer. The 31-year-old actress agreed to go out with the gym hunk when she was just 18 and visiting him to lose weight, but the fitness fanatic only asked her out because he wanted to become an actor.
"I was 20 lbs heavier and trying real hard to work it off at the gym and my trainer asked me out," she said when speaking at a press conference for her new movie "Life as We Know It", in which she stars with Josh Duhamel. "He took me to Sizzler and gave me his head shot and asked me if I could get him in my agency. I knew it wasn't the extra 20 lbs that turned him on!"
Katherine started her career as a child model and starred in her first movie "That Night" in 1992 when she was just a teenager.
"I was 20 lbs heavier and trying real hard to work it off at the gym and my trainer asked me out," she said when speaking at a press conference for her new movie "Life as We Know It", in which she stars with Josh Duhamel. "He took me to Sizzler and gave me his head shot and asked me if I could get him in my agency. I knew it wasn't the extra 20 lbs that turned him on!"
Katherine started her career as a child model and starred in her first movie "That Night" in 1992 when she was just a teenager.
- 9/28/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Filmmaker Matt Reeves is now on Twitter, you can follow him @mattreevesLA. And as always, you can follow us on Twitter at @slashfilm. After graduating from the University of Southern California, Reeves co-wrote a script that eventually became Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and made his feature directorial debut with The Pallbearer. The film screened at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section but went on to make only $5.6 million domestically, delaying Reeves chances at a feature film career. Reeves used this time to co-create the television series Felicity with his friend Jj Abrams, whom he met at age 13 while they were both screening short films on a cable public access channel. In addition to writing, Reeves directed a handful of Felicity episodes including the pilot. He later got a opportunity to break out of "director's jail" with the Abrams-produced monster movie Cloverfield, which was a ...
- 9/22/2010
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Remember that movie Speed back in 1995, where we saw a speeding bus crush its way through La with a bomb. That movie was awesome. Die Hard on a bus as I called it. I always thought a great sequel to that movie should have taken place on a train. Instead, Fox thought a cruise boat was better, while Under Siege 2: Dark Territory stole my idea while executing it poorly.
Finally, I am getting the movie I wanted in the form of Unstoppable and you can see the first trailer for this exciting suspense film below. Directed by Tony Scott, Unstoppable follows two train engineers and a radio dispatcher who must stop a train from with toxic cargo from speeding out of control into a nearby city. Chris Pine plays the novice conductor who is replacing Washington’s recently laid-off engineer character. Kevin Dunn plays the unlikable boss, while Rosario Dawson plays the radio dispatcher.
Finally, I am getting the movie I wanted in the form of Unstoppable and you can see the first trailer for this exciting suspense film below. Directed by Tony Scott, Unstoppable follows two train engineers and a radio dispatcher who must stop a train from with toxic cargo from speeding out of control into a nearby city. Chris Pine plays the novice conductor who is replacing Washington’s recently laid-off engineer character. Kevin Dunn plays the unlikable boss, while Rosario Dawson plays the radio dispatcher.
- 8/6/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple thrust into a high-stakes spy adventure.
By Josh Wigler
Ashton Kutcher in "Killers"
Stop us when you've heard this one: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy quits his job in order to marry girl. Job doesn't quit boy, sends a wide array of hit men and assassins after boy, and effectively forces boy to confess to girl that he's a former super-spy with a bounty on his head.
Doesn't sound familiar? That's the plot for "Killers," director Robert Luketic's new action/comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The movie arrives in theaters Friday (June 4) with an equal mixture of gunshots, laughs and kisses guaranteed to please romantic-comedy lovers of all shapes and sizes. In order to prepare you for your first viewing of the film, MTV News is here to offer up another edition of...
By Josh Wigler
Ashton Kutcher in "Killers"
Stop us when you've heard this one: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy quits his job in order to marry girl. Job doesn't quit boy, sends a wide array of hit men and assassins after boy, and effectively forces boy to confess to girl that he's a former super-spy with a bounty on his head.
Doesn't sound familiar? That's the plot for "Killers," director Robert Luketic's new action/comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The movie arrives in theaters Friday (June 4) with an equal mixture of gunshots, laughs and kisses guaranteed to please romantic-comedy lovers of all shapes and sizes. In order to prepare you for your first viewing of the film, MTV News is here to offer up another edition of...
- 6/4/2010
- MTV Movie News
Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl play a married couple thrust into a high-stakes spy adventure.
By Josh Wigler
Ashton Kutcher in "Killers"
Stop us when you've heard this one: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy quits his job in order to marry girl. Job doesn't quit boy, sends a wide array of hit men and assassins after boy, and effectively forces boy to confess to girl that he's a former super-spy with a bounty on his head.
Doesn't sound familiar? That's the plot for "Killers," director Robert Luketic's new action/comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The movie arrives in theaters Friday (June 4) with an equal mixture of gunshots, laughs and kisses guaranteed to please romantic-comedy lovers of all shapes and sizes. In order to prepare you for your first viewing of the film, MTV News is here to offer up another edition of...
By Josh Wigler
Ashton Kutcher in "Killers"
Stop us when you've heard this one: Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy quits his job in order to marry girl. Job doesn't quit boy, sends a wide array of hit men and assassins after boy, and effectively forces boy to confess to girl that he's a former super-spy with a bounty on his head.
Doesn't sound familiar? That's the plot for "Killers," director Robert Luketic's new action/comedy starring Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl. The movie arrives in theaters Friday (June 4) with an equal mixture of gunshots, laughs and kisses guaranteed to please romantic-comedy lovers of all shapes and sizes. In order to prepare you for your first viewing of the film, MTV News is here to offer up another edition of...
- 6/4/2010
- MTV Music News
Actor Morris Chestnut has hit out at Hollywood action star Steven Seagal for refusing to hold back in movie fight scenes and unintentionally beating up his co-stars.
The Boyz N the Hood star, 41, appeared alongside Seagal in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory in 1995 and recalls how adamant the veteran actor was about fighting for real to make the scenes more believable.
But Chestnut, who recently landed a role on sci-fi TV show V, was surprised at how hard Seagal would strike his movie opponent, insisting he was "wrong" for using all his strength for stunts.
He tells Sister 2 Sister magazine, "He doesn't hold back. I was talking to one of my stunt co-ordinators for V the other day. He doesn't hold back and he really goes at it with the people he's fighting against, which is wrong. You're not really supposed to do that."
But Chestnutt understands why few people have failed to confront Seagal about his roughness on set.
He says, "What happens is when he's on the set he's the star of the movie. So, if you're a stunt man trying to make a living, you're really not going to complain because, number one, you're working, and two, you're working on a Steven Seagal movie. So that kind of helps you get your next job.
"(But) he really would go after those stunt cats."...
The Boyz N the Hood star, 41, appeared alongside Seagal in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory in 1995 and recalls how adamant the veteran actor was about fighting for real to make the scenes more believable.
But Chestnut, who recently landed a role on sci-fi TV show V, was surprised at how hard Seagal would strike his movie opponent, insisting he was "wrong" for using all his strength for stunts.
He tells Sister 2 Sister magazine, "He doesn't hold back. I was talking to one of my stunt co-ordinators for V the other day. He doesn't hold back and he really goes at it with the people he's fighting against, which is wrong. You're not really supposed to do that."
But Chestnutt understands why few people have failed to confront Seagal about his roughness on set.
He says, "What happens is when he's on the set he's the star of the movie. So, if you're a stunt man trying to make a living, you're really not going to complain because, number one, you're working, and two, you're working on a Steven Seagal movie. So that kind of helps you get your next job.
"(But) he really would go after those stunt cats."...
- 1/12/2010
- WENN
Steven Seagal has said that he is eager to make a third Under Siege movie. The 57-year-old star last performed as a Us Navy Seal in 1995's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory. The martial arts expert has since dedicated much of his time to projects off screen, including work as a deputy sheriff near his home in Louisiana. However, (more)...
- 12/1/2009
- by By Oli Simpson
- Digital Spy
Steven Seagal is begging studio bosses to make a third Under Siege movie - insisting he would "give anything" to return to the action franchise.
The 57-year-old star last won over audiences as a U.S. Navy Seal in 1995's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.
The martial arts expert has since dedicated much of his time to working as a deputy sheriff near his home in Louisiana - but he admits he'd be tempted back to Hollywood by the right offer.
Seagal says, "Under Siege 3? Everybody wants to see a sequel, including me. I would give anything to make that."...
The 57-year-old star last won over audiences as a U.S. Navy Seal in 1995's Under Siege 2: Dark Territory.
The martial arts expert has since dedicated much of his time to working as a deputy sheriff near his home in Louisiana - but he admits he'd be tempted back to Hollywood by the right offer.
Seagal says, "Under Siege 3? Everybody wants to see a sequel, including me. I would give anything to make that."...
- 12/1/2009
- WENN
Buckets of blood, violence, foul language and mother-lovin' Danny Trejo aside, "Machete" boasts some serious assets in the form of its impressive ensemble cast. Some of the actors lining up for the Robert Rodriguez-produced "Grindhouse" spin-off include Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan, Don Johnson and Steven Seagal. Seriously -- Steven Seagal! The same martial arts genius that brought you "Above the Law," "Hard to Kill" and my personal favorite, "Under Siege 2: Dark Territory"! Not to mention this little gem...
Assuming that all goes as it should, "Machete" is in a position to become one of the most enjoyable ensemble films of all time. The giddier I get about the news, the more and more I think about other classic ensemble movies that "Machete" will one day measure up to. For your reading pleasure, here are five slices from the never-ending ensemble movie pie.
Clue: Based on the...
Assuming that all goes as it should, "Machete" is in a position to become one of the most enjoyable ensemble films of all time. The giddier I get about the news, the more and more I think about other classic ensemble movies that "Machete" will one day measure up to. For your reading pleasure, here are five slices from the never-ending ensemble movie pie.
Clue: Based on the...
- 8/6/2009
- by Josh Wigler
- MTV Movies Blog
Hot off the Enterprise’s boosters from Star Trek, the man who played James Tiberius Kirk is now going to be even more Unstoppable.
Variety is reporting that Chris Pine is in negotiations to star in Unstoppable a drama from 20th Century Fox to be directed by The Taking of Pelham 123’s Tony Scott. Denzel Washington is already attached to the project.
The film is about “a young conductor who jumps into a locomotive with an experienced engineer in chase of a runaway train that carries a cargo of toxic chemicals.” Pine is zeroing on playing the young conductor in the story based on actual events. The script was written by Mark Bomback.
Julie Yorn, Tony Scott, and Mimi Rogers will be producing, with Chris Ciaffa executive producing.
Trains don’t have the same so-called flexibility, especially compared to planes and automobiles. However, they’ve given us some pretty great action movies,...
Variety is reporting that Chris Pine is in negotiations to star in Unstoppable a drama from 20th Century Fox to be directed by The Taking of Pelham 123’s Tony Scott. Denzel Washington is already attached to the project.
The film is about “a young conductor who jumps into a locomotive with an experienced engineer in chase of a runaway train that carries a cargo of toxic chemicals.” Pine is zeroing on playing the young conductor in the story based on actual events. The script was written by Mark Bomback.
Julie Yorn, Tony Scott, and Mimi Rogers will be producing, with Chris Ciaffa executive producing.
Trains don’t have the same so-called flexibility, especially compared to planes and automobiles. However, they’ve given us some pretty great action movies,...
- 6/11/2009
- by Nick Allen
- The Scorecard Review
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