Voiceover artist Hal Douglas has died at the age of 89.
Douglas was known to millions around the world as the voice of numerous blockbuster movie trailers, narrating promos for films including Forrest Gump, Meet the Parents, Philadelphia and Lethal Weapon.
Douglas died on Friday (March 7) at his Virginia home as a result of complications from pancreatic cancer, his daughter Sarah told the New York Times.
Born in Connecticut in 1924, Douglas trained as a pilot and served in the navy during World War II. He then trained as an actor, starting his radio career in the 1950s before moving into voiceover work full-time.
Based in New York and later Virginia rather than Hollywood, he lent his distinctive voice to countless movie trailers, documentaries and promos for TV networks.
Douglas made a rare appearance on screen in a trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian playing Jack, a voiceover artist who can only speak in trailer clichés,...
Douglas was known to millions around the world as the voice of numerous blockbuster movie trailers, narrating promos for films including Forrest Gump, Meet the Parents, Philadelphia and Lethal Weapon.
Douglas died on Friday (March 7) at his Virginia home as a result of complications from pancreatic cancer, his daughter Sarah told the New York Times.
Born in Connecticut in 1924, Douglas trained as a pilot and served in the navy during World War II. He then trained as an actor, starting his radio career in the 1950s before moving into voiceover work full-time.
Based in New York and later Virginia rather than Hollywood, he lent his distinctive voice to countless movie trailers, documentaries and promos for TV networks.
Douglas made a rare appearance on screen in a trailer for the Jerry Seinfeld documentary Comedian playing Jack, a voiceover artist who can only speak in trailer clichés,...
- 3/13/2014
- Digital Spy
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In last week’s column, I offered a few ideas for improving Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the just-okay non-superhero Marvel spinoff with tantalizingly limitless potential. Said ideas ran the gamut from reasonable (Solve the Coulson mystery) to outlandish (Make everyone evil) to the extremely unlikely (bring in the Black Knight)! In response, readers posted their own exciting Shield-reboot ideas. Let’s take a look at some of the best.
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In last week’s column, I offered a few ideas for improving Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the just-okay non-superhero Marvel spinoff with tantalizingly limitless potential. Said ideas ran the gamut from reasonable (Solve the Coulson mystery) to outlandish (Make everyone evil) to the extremely unlikely (bring in the Black Knight)! In response, readers posted their own exciting Shield-reboot ideas. Let’s take a look at some of the best.
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- 10/31/2013
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
The 2nd edition of The Inner Path, a festival on Buddhism, will be held from September 6 – 10 at Iccr, Azad Bhawan, New Delhi.
Organised by Netpac India in association with the Asoka Mission, the festival celebrates Buddhism through films, art and philosophy.
Kim Ki Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring, David Grubin’s The Buddha and Acha Dayal’s Land Of Buddha are some of the films to be screened during the five day festival.
For more information write to innerpath@netpacasia.org or netpacindia@gmail.com
For schedule, click here
Full list of films:
Alms
Director: Edward A. Burger
Angin (An Essence Of Wind)
Director: Winaldo Artaraya Swastia
Buddhism In Europe Part 2
Director: Beomsu Kim
Cave In The Snow
Director: Liz Thompson
Impermanence
Director: Goutam Ghose
Kanzeon
Director: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell
Karma
Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Land Of Buddha
Director: Abha Dayal
Milarepa.
Director: Liliana Cavani
Plum...
Organised by Netpac India in association with the Asoka Mission, the festival celebrates Buddhism through films, art and philosophy.
Kim Ki Duk’s Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… And Spring, David Grubin’s The Buddha and Acha Dayal’s Land Of Buddha are some of the films to be screened during the five day festival.
For more information write to innerpath@netpacasia.org or netpacindia@gmail.com
For schedule, click here
Full list of films:
Alms
Director: Edward A. Burger
Angin (An Essence Of Wind)
Director: Winaldo Artaraya Swastia
Buddhism In Europe Part 2
Director: Beomsu Kim
Cave In The Snow
Director: Liz Thompson
Impermanence
Director: Goutam Ghose
Kanzeon
Director: Tim Grabham, Neil Cantwell
Karma
Director: Tsering Rhitar Sherpa
Land Of Buddha
Director: Abha Dayal
Milarepa.
Director: Liliana Cavani
Plum...
- 9/2/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
On the Internet, everything old is eventually new again. People stumble across bits of Web history and share them with folks who maybe missed them on the first go-round (or liked them so much that it’s nice just to see them again). It’s sort of like recycling, only more entertaining. Take, for instance, today’s video clip. Titled 5 Guys in a Limo, this vid first made the rounds back in 2008. Featuring five of Hollywood’s trailer voiceover kingpins (including the greatly missed Don Lafontaine) spouting off nearly every hoary movie trailer cliché you can think of, the video has a certain cheesy charm. If you ever wondered if guys like Al Chalk, John Leader, Nick Tate, Mark Elliot and Lafontaine took themselves as seriously as they seem to when narrating...
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- 10/2/2012
- by Mike Bracken
- Movies.com
Screenterrier reported back in 2009 on the filming of Powder, the adaptation of Kevin Sampson's rock and roll novel about a small time band that makes it big in the music industry and succumbs to all the evils it has to offer. Now the film, packed full of up-and-coming young actors gets an official release day of 26th August 2011. Check out the trailer below.
Made by the team behind Awaydays and filmed on location in Ibiza, London, Liverpool and live at the V Festival, Powder is an unflinching journey into the tortured psyche of a musical genius.
Directed by Mark Elliot, and written by Kevin Sampson, the film stars Liam Boyle (represented by Cam) as Keva, and Alfie Allen (recently seen in Game of Thrones) as Wheezer, the hapless manager of the band The Grams. Oliver Lee plays guitarist James Love and the film also features Screenterrier Face to Watch...
Made by the team behind Awaydays and filmed on location in Ibiza, London, Liverpool and live at the V Festival, Powder is an unflinching journey into the tortured psyche of a musical genius.
Directed by Mark Elliot, and written by Kevin Sampson, the film stars Liam Boyle (represented by Cam) as Keva, and Alfie Allen (recently seen in Game of Thrones) as Wheezer, the hapless manager of the band The Grams. Oliver Lee plays guitarist James Love and the film also features Screenterrier Face to Watch...
- 8/5/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
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