This remake of a pre-Code classic adds amazing European locations, glorious Technicolor and entire armies on the move, yet doesn’t improve on the original. Producer David O. Selznick secured Rock Hudson to play opposite Jennifer Jones, but the chemistry is lacking. Why did the man spend twenty years trying to top Gone With the Wind?
A Farewell to Arms
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 152 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch.
Cinematography: Oswald Morris, Piero Portalupi
Production Designer: Alfred Junge
Art Direction: Mario Garbuglia
Film Editors: John M. Foley, Gerard J. Wilson
Original Music: Mario Nascimbene
Written by Ben Hecht from a play by Laurence Stallings from a novel by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by David O. Selznick
Directed by Charles Vidor
What happens when a major Hollywood producer thinks he has all the answers?...
A Farewell to Arms
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1957 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 152 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Rock Hudson, Vittorio De Sica, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch.
Cinematography: Oswald Morris, Piero Portalupi
Production Designer: Alfred Junge
Art Direction: Mario Garbuglia
Film Editors: John M. Foley, Gerard J. Wilson
Original Music: Mario Nascimbene
Written by Ben Hecht from a play by Laurence Stallings from a novel by Ernest Hemingway
Produced by David O. Selznick
Directed by Charles Vidor
What happens when a major Hollywood producer thinks he has all the answers?...
- 4/29/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Paper Mill Playhouse's spring musical, Pump Boys And Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James Barry Jim,Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam WeberEddie. Pump Boys And Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys And Dinettes is directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys And Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through May 1, 2016. BroadwayWorld brings you photos from inside opening night below...
- 4/11/2016
- by Genevieve Rafter Keddy
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paper Mill Playhouse's spring musical, Pump Boys And Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James Barry Jim, Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam WeberEddie. Pump Boys And Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan,John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys And DINETTESisdirected by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys And Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10.Check out highlights from the production below...
- 4/7/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paper Mill Playhouse'sspring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes, begins tonight, featuring James BarryJim, Gabe Bowling Jackson,Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theaterthrough May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. BroadwayWorld brings you a first look at the production below...
- 4/6/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paper Mill Playhouse will soon present its spring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes, featuringJames BarryJim, Gabe Bowling Jackson,Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha UmphressRhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick,Debra Monk,Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann.Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater from April 6 through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2015-2016 Season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank.
- 3/31/2016
- by TV - On the Road
- BroadwayWorld.com
Paper Mill Playhouse has announced casting for its spring musical, Pump Boys and Dinettes. This Tony Award nominee features James Barry Jim, Gabe Bowling Jackson, Julie Foldesi Prudie, Jason Ostrowski L.M., Alysha Umphress Rhetta and Sam Weber Eddie. Pump Boys and Dinettes is conceived and written by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann. Pump Boys and Dinettes will be directed by John Foley with choreography by JoAnn M. Hunter. Pump Boys and Dinettes will run eight times a week at the Millburn, New Jersey, theater from April 6 through May 1, 2016. The official press opening night is Sunday, April 10, at 700pm. Paper Mill Playhouse's 2015-2016 Season is proudly sponsored by Investors Bank.
- 3/2/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This just in New York City Center's acclaimed Encores Off-Center series, under the artistic direction of Jeanine Tesori, will return this summer for a second season of landmark Off-Broadway musicals. The season opens with Jonathan Larson's tick, tick Boom, June 25 - 28, starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Karen Olivo, directed by Oliver Butler, and continues with a one-night only performance of Randy Newman'sFaust The Concert, with Randy Newman as the Devil, directed by Thomas Kail, on July 1. Pump Boys and Dinettes, withbook, music and lyrics by John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann , directed by Lear deBessonet and choreographed by Danny Mefford, wraps up the season, running July 16 - 19. Chris Fenwick is the Encores Off-Center music director.
- 3/9/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Abby Lee, David B. Brode and Executive Producer Tom Viertel just announced that the hit 1982 Tony nominated Best Musical Pump Boys And Dinettes will return to Broadway this spring at a theatre to be announced. Conceived and written by the original company, John Foley, Mark Hardwick, Tony Award winner Debra Monk, Cass Morgan, John Schimmel and Jim Wann, Pump Boys And Dinettes will be presented in a new production with direction and musical staging by Tony Award winner John Doyle.
- 10/22/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Chicago – Following our low-grade review of the new Jesse Eisenberg and Aziz Ansari comedy “30 Minutes or less,” what we find most interesting is why these talented stars think it’s much funnier than it actually is.
HollywoodChicago.com recently discussed the keep-it-real film with “The Social Network” Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg and “Parks and Recreation” star Aziz Ansari. But overall, they struggled to sell a middle-of-the-road gag reel as the top-notch comedy they’d like it to be.
Aziz Ansari in “30 Minutes or Less”.
Image credit: Wilson Webb, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group
HollywoodChicago.com: The humor in “30 Minutes or Less” comes from keeping it real and being clueless. Like when Jesse Eisenberg’s character has a bomb strapped to his chest and he has no idea what to do. So, of course, he turns to Wikipedia.
Aziz Ansari: Yes, we had the same thought when we shot the film.
HollywoodChicago.com recently discussed the keep-it-real film with “The Social Network” Oscar nominee Jesse Eisenberg and “Parks and Recreation” star Aziz Ansari. But overall, they struggled to sell a middle-of-the-road gag reel as the top-notch comedy they’d like it to be.
Aziz Ansari in “30 Minutes or Less”.
Image credit: Wilson Webb, Columbia TriStar Marketing Group
HollywoodChicago.com: The humor in “30 Minutes or Less” comes from keeping it real and being clueless. Like when Jesse Eisenberg’s character has a bomb strapped to his chest and he has no idea what to do. So, of course, he turns to Wikipedia.
Aziz Ansari: Yes, we had the same thought when we shot the film.
- 8/15/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Chicago – The new half-unfunny comedy “30 Minutes or Less” stands as a destructive come down for newly minted star Jesse Eisenberg following his high-profile role as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in David Fincher’s “The Social Network”.
Rating: 2.0/5.0
That 2010 film only won three Oscars and racked up another 88 award wins and 79 nominations. Plus “The Social Network” grossed $224 million at the global box office on a production budget of $40 million. And yes, there’s a reason I’m discussing this past Eisenberg film more prominently so far in this review than his current film.
The disparity between those past award wins and that box-office success as compared to Eisenberg’s current film (he voiced the animated film “Rio” between the two) will be light years apart. No Oscar nominations will be earned for this new comedy from first-time writer Michael Diliberti, basically first-time scribe Matthew Sullivan and, most disappointingly, the director of...
Rating: 2.0/5.0
That 2010 film only won three Oscars and racked up another 88 award wins and 79 nominations. Plus “The Social Network” grossed $224 million at the global box office on a production budget of $40 million. And yes, there’s a reason I’m discussing this past Eisenberg film more prominently so far in this review than his current film.
The disparity between those past award wins and that box-office success as compared to Eisenberg’s current film (he voiced the animated film “Rio” between the two) will be light years apart. No Oscar nominations will be earned for this new comedy from first-time writer Michael Diliberti, basically first-time scribe Matthew Sullivan and, most disappointingly, the director of...
- 8/12/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
If you had any doubt that Hollywood was reliant on big movie franchises, let them be eradicated right about now...
As has long been the case, sequels are a reliable way of making plenty of cash from recognisable names. They've been a part of the Hollywood filmmaking process for decades, and as this list of 95 sequels currently in the works proves, will continue to be so for as long as we stump up the cash to go and see them.
We've been doing this list annually for a couple of years now, and this year's collection is, perhaps unsurprising, the longest round-up of upcoming sequels that we've done. Still, given that there are nearly a hundred sequels listed below, we're a little sad to see that Hollywood's people in suits couldn't find room for a belated return to Mac And Me...
Here's what you've got to look forward to...
300 2
The...
As has long been the case, sequels are a reliable way of making plenty of cash from recognisable names. They've been a part of the Hollywood filmmaking process for decades, and as this list of 95 sequels currently in the works proves, will continue to be so for as long as we stump up the cash to go and see them.
We've been doing this list annually for a couple of years now, and this year's collection is, perhaps unsurprising, the longest round-up of upcoming sequels that we've done. Still, given that there are nearly a hundred sequels listed below, we're a little sad to see that Hollywood's people in suits couldn't find room for a belated return to Mac And Me...
Here's what you've got to look forward to...
300 2
The...
- 4/27/2011
- Den of Geek
The novelist who wrote the book behind George Clooney's breakthrough movie Out Of Sight is urging the actor to reprise his role for a sequel.
The Hollywood heart-throb made a successful transfer from TV to the big screen when he landed the part of charming bank robber Jack Foley, opposite Jennifer Lopez, in the 1998 thriller.
The film was based on the 1996 book of the same name by Elmore Leonard, the writer behind Get Shorty and Rum Punch, which was adapted as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown.
The author released a sequel to his original book, Road Dogs, last year and he has sent a copy to Clooney in the hope the actor will bring the character back to the big screen.
Leonard tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Clooney is one of the few actors who can deliver the words exactly the way that I heard them when I wrote them. I've sent the new book to George. The role is the same guy as Out Of Sight. I don't know if he's read it yet though."...
The Hollywood heart-throb made a successful transfer from TV to the big screen when he landed the part of charming bank robber Jack Foley, opposite Jennifer Lopez, in the 1998 thriller.
The film was based on the 1996 book of the same name by Elmore Leonard, the writer behind Get Shorty and Rum Punch, which was adapted as Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie Jackie Brown.
The author released a sequel to his original book, Road Dogs, last year and he has sent a copy to Clooney in the hope the actor will bring the character back to the big screen.
Leonard tells Britain's Daily Mail, "Clooney is one of the few actors who can deliver the words exactly the way that I heard them when I wrote them. I've sent the new book to George. The role is the same guy as Out Of Sight. I don't know if he's read it yet though."...
- 4/8/2011
- WENN
The two central scenes of Steven Soderbergh’s highly entertaining 1998 flick Out Of Sight are of George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez crammed into the trunk of a car, and the same couple flirting with each other in a classy bar. In the former scene, fate (/screenwriting) brings the two together; he a bank robber freshly escaped from prison, she a federal marshal they had to abduct at the last minute. In the bar scene, they put their respective livelihoods on hold and allow themselves a ‘time out’ to see what it might be like had they met under different circumstances. Lopez, playing Karen Sisco, is approached by a series of lonely businessmen whom she all politely declines before Clooney – playing Jack Foley – appears, reflected in the mirror, Zippo lighter in his hand.
Both scenes are movie-literate; the pair connects in the trunk through a discussion about “Bonnie & Clyde,” and in...
Both scenes are movie-literate; the pair connects in the trunk through a discussion about “Bonnie & Clyde,” and in...
- 3/23/2011
- by Adam Whyte
- Obsessed with Film
Marvel Studios' summer-launching comics actioner "Iron Man 2" handily outpaced its franchise predecessor but without industry records, opening atop domestic rankings with an estimated $133.6 million in weekend boxoffice.
The first "Iron Man" pic -- also starring Robert Downey Jr., who enjoyed a personal-best bow with the sequel -- debuted with $98.6 million in May 2008. Some had suggested that broad pre-release buzz could translate into a record opening by "Iron Man 2," but the $158.4 million first-frame performance of "The Dark Knight" in July 2008 remains secure in the record books.
Distributed by Paramount, "Iron Man 2" marked the fifth biggest bow ever and Paramount's best to date.
Heated expectations for the opening gave us knots in our subject, a relieved Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige conceded Sunday.
"But what untied those knots was watching the film with a paying audience," Feige added. "It really was an indication to us that they're still with us for this ride.
The first "Iron Man" pic -- also starring Robert Downey Jr., who enjoyed a personal-best bow with the sequel -- debuted with $98.6 million in May 2008. Some had suggested that broad pre-release buzz could translate into a record opening by "Iron Man 2," but the $158.4 million first-frame performance of "The Dark Knight" in July 2008 remains secure in the record books.
Distributed by Paramount, "Iron Man 2" marked the fifth biggest bow ever and Paramount's best to date.
Heated expectations for the opening gave us knots in our subject, a relieved Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige conceded Sunday.
"But what untied those knots was watching the film with a paying audience," Feige added. "It really was an indication to us that they're still with us for this ride.
- 5/9/2010
- by By Carl DiOrio
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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