Charles Dierkop, the busy character actor who played tough guys in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Sting and the 1970s Angie Dickinson series Police Woman, has died. He was 87.
Dierkop died Sunday at Sherman Oaks Hospital after a recent heart attack and bout with pneumonia, his daughter, Lynn, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Wisconsin native also appeared alongside Rod Steiger in Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker (1964), played the mobster Salvanti in Roger Corman’s The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and was a murderous Santa Claus in the cult horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).
After portraying an uncredited pool-hall hood in the Paul Newman-starring The Hustler (1961), Dierkop got to work with Newman again in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) when he was hired to play Hole in the Wall Gang outlaw George “Flat Nose” Curry.
Dierkop had broken his nose in fights several times as a kid,...
Dierkop died Sunday at Sherman Oaks Hospital after a recent heart attack and bout with pneumonia, his daughter, Lynn, told The Hollywood Reporter.
The Wisconsin native also appeared alongside Rod Steiger in Sidney Lumet’s The Pawnbroker (1964), played the mobster Salvanti in Roger Corman’s The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) and was a murderous Santa Claus in the cult horror movie Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984).
After portraying an uncredited pool-hall hood in the Paul Newman-starring The Hustler (1961), Dierkop got to work with Newman again in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) when he was hired to play Hole in the Wall Gang outlaw George “Flat Nose” Curry.
Dierkop had broken his nose in fights several times as a kid,...
- 2/26/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Butler, a television director for the pilot shows for Star Trek, Batman, Hill Street Blues, and Moonlighting, has died. He was 95.
Butler’s family announced that the Emmy award-winning director died on Nov. 3 in Los Angeles.
Graduating from UCLA where he majored in English, Butler started his career in entertainment as an usher at CBS. His first credit as a director would come in 1959 when he directed an episode for the military comedy-drama Hennesey which starred Jackie Cooper and Abby Dalton.
Over the years, Butler was sought out to direct pilots for shows like Hogan’s Heroes (1965), the original Star Trek (1966), Batman (1966), the first mini-series on television The Blue Knight (1973), Hill Street Blues (1978), Moonlighting (1985), Sisters (1991) and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).
Butler won two Emmy Awards, the first one for The Blue Knight pilot in 1973 and the second one in 1981 for Hill Street Blues. In 2015 he was...
Butler’s family announced that the Emmy award-winning director died on Nov. 3 in Los Angeles.
Graduating from UCLA where he majored in English, Butler started his career in entertainment as an usher at CBS. His first credit as a director would come in 1959 when he directed an episode for the military comedy-drama Hennesey which starred Jackie Cooper and Abby Dalton.
Over the years, Butler was sought out to direct pilots for shows like Hogan’s Heroes (1965), the original Star Trek (1966), Batman (1966), the first mini-series on television The Blue Knight (1973), Hill Street Blues (1978), Moonlighting (1985), Sisters (1991) and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993).
Butler won two Emmy Awards, the first one for The Blue Knight pilot in 1973 and the second one in 1981 for Hill Street Blues. In 2015 he was...
- 11/11/2023
- by Armando Tinoco
- Deadline Film + TV
On the verge of the premiere of miniseries Justified: City Primeval next week, its origins have become clear, with writer/director Quentin Tarantino having influenced its early development.
As it turns out, Quentin Tarantino had a hand in getting the project off the ground back in 2018. While filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Justified star Timothy Olyphant (who played Lancer star James Stacy in the movie), Tarantino got to talking about the Elmore Leonard book “City Primeval” as a potential inspiration for a season of the FX series.
While the pitch from Tarantino and Olyphant didn’t pan out right away, Justified: City Primeval co-showrunner Michael Dinner was able to use it once he got FX on board for a continuation, telling IndieWire, “They said, ‘What are you thinking about doing?’ And I said, ‘Are you familiar with “City Primeval”?’ They said, ‘Yeah, Tim pitched that to us a year ago.
As it turns out, Quentin Tarantino had a hand in getting the project off the ground back in 2018. While filming Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Justified star Timothy Olyphant (who played Lancer star James Stacy in the movie), Tarantino got to talking about the Elmore Leonard book “City Primeval” as a potential inspiration for a season of the FX series.
While the pitch from Tarantino and Olyphant didn’t pan out right away, Justified: City Primeval co-showrunner Michael Dinner was able to use it once he got FX on board for a continuation, telling IndieWire, “They said, ‘What are you thinking about doing?’ And I said, ‘Are you familiar with “City Primeval”?’ They said, ‘Yeah, Tim pitched that to us a year ago.
- 7/15/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
The film world is still reeling from the recent loss of actor Rick Dalton, whose passing was first announced on May 19th, 2023 by The Video Archives Podcast's official Twitter account. Dalton, who passed away at his Honolulu, Hawaii home (shortly after celebrating his 90th birthday in April), is survived by his wife, one-time Italian starlet Francesca Cappucci.
The Video Archives Podcast, created and hosted by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, aired an episode on May 22nd that is apparently part one of a multi-episode run that revolves around the directors' memories of Dalton and his work.
While other friends and fans of the actor such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have yet to make any official statements or remembrances, Tarantino has made sure that Dalton's name isn't fading into the ether like so many stars of yesteryear. The "Pulp Fiction" director made sure to include a tribute to...
The Video Archives Podcast, created and hosted by filmmakers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary, aired an episode on May 22nd that is apparently part one of a multi-episode run that revolves around the directors' memories of Dalton and his work.
While other friends and fans of the actor such as Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt have yet to make any official statements or remembrances, Tarantino has made sure that Dalton's name isn't fading into the ether like so many stars of yesteryear. The "Pulp Fiction" director made sure to include a tribute to...
- 5/24/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
Michael J. Fox revealed to Empire magazine (via IndieWire) that Leonardo DiCaprio and Quentin Tarantino crossed his mind when he landed on the decision to stop acting for good amid his Parkinson’s disease. The “Back to the Future” icon was filming scenes for the television series “The Good Fight” at the time and was struggling to remember his lines.
“I thought of ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,'” Fox said. “There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines anymore. He goes back to his dressing room and he’s screaming at himself in the mirror. Just freaking insane. I had this moment where I was looking in the mirror and thought, ‘I cannot remember it anymore. Well, let’s move on.’ It was peaceful.”
The scene Fox referenced is one of the more memorable sequences in Tarantino’s “Hollywood.” DiCaprio’s character,...
“I thought of ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood,'” Fox said. “There’s a scene where Leonardo DiCaprio’s character can’t remember his lines anymore. He goes back to his dressing room and he’s screaming at himself in the mirror. Just freaking insane. I had this moment where I was looking in the mirror and thought, ‘I cannot remember it anymore. Well, let’s move on.’ It was peaceful.”
The scene Fox referenced is one of the more memorable sequences in Tarantino’s “Hollywood.” DiCaprio’s character,...
- 5/12/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Sharon Acker, best known as Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 film Point Blank, died March 16 in a Toronto residential home. She was 87 and her death was confirmed by daughter Kim Everest, a casting director.
Acker had a long and varied resume in film, television, and the stage. In 1956, she played the teacher Mrs. Stacey on a CBC adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. She then joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival company, starring as Anne Page opposite future Star Trek costar William Shatner in a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
In addition to Point Blank, her film credits include Lucky Jim (1957). Acker also was in Don’t Let the Angels Fall (1969), which played in competition at Cannes. She was selected by the Motion Picture Exhibitors of Canada as their Film Star of Tomorrow that year,
Her memorable TV roles included a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing...
Acker had a long and varied resume in film, television, and the stage. In 1956, she played the teacher Mrs. Stacey on a CBC adaptation of Anne of Green Gables. She then joined the Stratford Shakespeare Festival company, starring as Anne Page opposite future Star Trek costar William Shatner in a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor.
In addition to Point Blank, her film credits include Lucky Jim (1957). Acker also was in Don’t Let the Angels Fall (1969), which played in competition at Cannes. She was selected by the Motion Picture Exhibitors of Canada as their Film Star of Tomorrow that year,
Her memorable TV roles included a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing...
- 4/1/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Sharon Acker, the Canadian actress who portrayed Lee Marvin’s unfaithful wife in the 1967 neo-noir classic Point Blank and the right-hand woman Della Street opposite Monte Markham on a rebooted Perry Mason in the 1970s, has died. She was 87.
Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”
She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)
In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...
Acker died March 16 in a retirement home in her native Toronto, her daughter Kim Everest, a casting director, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Star Trek fans know Acker for her January 1969 turn as Odona, a desperate woman from an overpopulated planet, on the third-season episode “The Mark of Gideon.”
She also starred on a 1976-77 CBS adaptation of Executive Suite, playing the wife of Mitchell Ryan‘s Dan Walling. (Acker and Ryan assumed the parts performed by William Holden and June Allyson in the 1954 MGM film directed by Robert Wise.)
In John Boorman’s Point Blank, Acker’s character takes up with John Vernon’s Mal Reese after he shoots Walker (Marvin...
- 4/1/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Kevin O’Neal, the younger brother of Oscar-nominated actor Ryan O’Neal and a regular on the 1960s ABC comedy No Time for Sergeants, has died. He was 77.
O’Neal died Saturday in his sleep of natural causes in Thousand Oaks, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
O’Neal also appeared as the character Yale in one of Elvis Presley’s final films, The Trouble with Girls (1969).
O’Neal portrayed Private Ben Whitledge on No Time for Sergeants, which lasted one season. The 1964-65 comedy was produced by George Burns’ production company and Warner Bros.
Based on a novel by Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants premiered on Broadway in 1954 and was adapted a year later for an ABC U.S. Steel Hour production and then for a 1958 feature. All three starred Andy Griffith.
Geoffrey Garrett O’Neal was born in Los Angeles on March 26, 1945. His parents were novelist-screenwriter Charles “Blackie” O...
O’Neal died Saturday in his sleep of natural causes in Thousand Oaks, a family spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter.
O’Neal also appeared as the character Yale in one of Elvis Presley’s final films, The Trouble with Girls (1969).
O’Neal portrayed Private Ben Whitledge on No Time for Sergeants, which lasted one season. The 1964-65 comedy was produced by George Burns’ production company and Warner Bros.
Based on a novel by Mac Hyman, No Time for Sergeants premiered on Broadway in 1954 and was adapted a year later for an ABC U.S. Steel Hour production and then for a 1958 feature. All three starred Andy Griffith.
Geoffrey Garrett O’Neal was born in Los Angeles on March 26, 1945. His parents were novelist-screenwriter Charles “Blackie” O...
- 1/31/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Quentin Tarantino did have a favorite scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — but he recently revealed it was a moment audiences never saw.
In an interview with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to promote his novelization of the 2019 Sony film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the Oscar-winning writer-director gave more insight into his material and admitted he made a cut to the film that made both himself and DiCaprio emotional. However, the scene does take place in the novelization.
The moment in question is between DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton and Julia Butters’ Trudi Fraser (the young actress in the fictitious Lancer pilot within the ...
In an interview with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to promote his novelization of the 2019 Sony film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the Oscar-winning writer-director gave more insight into his material and admitted he made a cut to the film that made both himself and DiCaprio emotional. However, the scene does take place in the novelization.
The moment in question is between DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton and Julia Butters’ Trudi Fraser (the young actress in the fictitious Lancer pilot within the ...
Quentin Tarantino did have a favorite scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — but he recently revealed it was a moment audiences never saw.
In an interview with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to promote his novelization of the 2019 Sony film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the Oscar-winning writer-director gave more insight into his material and admitted he made a cut to the film that made both himself and DiCaprio emotional. However, the scene does take place in the novelization.
The moment in question is between DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton and Julia Butters’ Trudi Fraser (the young actress in the fictitious Lancer pilot within the ...
In an interview with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast to promote his novelization of the 2019 Sony film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, the Oscar-winning writer-director gave more insight into his material and admitted he made a cut to the film that made both himself and DiCaprio emotional. However, the scene does take place in the novelization.
The moment in question is between DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton and Julia Butters’ Trudi Fraser (the young actress in the fictitious Lancer pilot within the ...
“A love letter to cinema” was the tired-but-true trope that everyone trotted out when Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the movie, hit theaters two years ago. But it’s now clear just how insufficient a mere mash note to the movies was for Tarantino. This week saw the arrival of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the 400-page book, as his epic Penthouse Forum Letter to cinema. You’ll know this trade-paperback novelization is cineaste-populist porn when you see it.
The end result is not so much like reliving the movie on the page — although the book does have a few scenes in which the dialogue and descriptive beats are transcribed note-for-note from the screenplay — as much as a catalog of constant diversions that’s like being locked inside the New Beverly for a week with Pauline Kael, Harry Knowles and Leonard Maltin. Let that intrigue...
The end result is not so much like reliving the movie on the page — although the book does have a few scenes in which the dialogue and descriptive beats are transcribed note-for-note from the screenplay — as much as a catalog of constant diversions that’s like being locked inside the New Beverly for a week with Pauline Kael, Harry Knowles and Leonard Maltin. Let that intrigue...
- 7/3/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ Never-Before-Seen Footage Debuts in Trailer for Tarantino’s New Book
Harper Perennial has debuted an official trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming novelization of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and it’s jam-packed with never-before-scene footage from the director’s ninth feature film. “Hollywood” was a critical and commercial hit when it opened theatrically in July 2019 following a world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film grossed $374 million worldwide and picked up 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director. Brad Pitt won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novelization trailer, which can be viewed exclusively on Entertainment Weekly (IndieWire will include video below when it becomes embeddable), showcases footage Tarantino left on the cutting room floor for the movie’s theatrical cut. “Hollywood” ran 161 minutes in theaters, but Tarantino’s assembly cut was around four hours. Never-before-seen footage featured in the trailer includes new scenes with Al Pacino’s...
The “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” novelization trailer, which can be viewed exclusively on Entertainment Weekly (IndieWire will include video below when it becomes embeddable), showcases footage Tarantino left on the cutting room floor for the movie’s theatrical cut. “Hollywood” ran 161 minutes in theaters, but Tarantino’s assembly cut was around four hours. Never-before-seen footage featured in the trailer includes new scenes with Al Pacino’s...
- 6/21/2021
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Drew Barrymore is trying to kill me! On this week’s episode of Lancer, we’ve got more of the Cruiserweight Tournament and Michael Madsen squints too much. Are you ready to rock? I said…Are You Ready To Rock?! Well…too bad!
Match #1: Dakota Kai & Raquel González def. Tegan Nox & Shotzi Blackheart The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Tegan Nox finally had a hand against her rivals Dakota Kai & Raquel González, but it didn’t matter on this occasion. Kai’s enforcer put Shotzi Blackheart away with an impressive one-armed Powerbomb.
My Opinion: 2.3 out of 5 – There’s not much here that really happened outside of some moves and a finish. Nox did well and every-body else held it together, but this was just a car with no juice in the tank.
Match #1: Dakota Kai & Raquel González def. Tegan Nox & Shotzi Blackheart The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Tegan Nox finally had a hand against her rivals Dakota Kai & Raquel González, but it didn’t matter on this occasion. Kai’s enforcer put Shotzi Blackheart away with an impressive one-armed Powerbomb.
My Opinion: 2.3 out of 5 – There’s not much here that really happened outside of some moves and a finish. Nox did well and every-body else held it together, but this was just a car with no juice in the tank.
- 4/24/2020
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
During his opening monologue at the Golden Globes last month, Ricky Gervais announced, “It was a big year for pedophile movies — ‘Surviving R. Kelly.’ ‘Leaving Neverland.’ (pause) ‘The Two Popes.'” The audience erupted in laughter but I felt sick to my stomach. What about “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” a film that went on to win three of the top awards that night, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy?
Quentin Tarantino’s new movie includes Timothy Olyphant in a supporting role as James Stacy, an actor on the real-life Western TV show “Lancer” (starring Leonardo DiCaprio’s fictional Rick Dalton in the film) who was a serial pedophile. Stacy, who is my great uncle, in 1995 pleaded no contest to molesting an 11-year-old girl and served six years in prison. Although he had a charming role in Tarantino’s latest film, Stacy has long been the villain in...
Quentin Tarantino’s new movie includes Timothy Olyphant in a supporting role as James Stacy, an actor on the real-life Western TV show “Lancer” (starring Leonardo DiCaprio’s fictional Rick Dalton in the film) who was a serial pedophile. Stacy, who is my great uncle, in 1995 pleaded no contest to molesting an 11-year-old girl and served six years in prison. Although he had a charming role in Tarantino’s latest film, Stacy has long been the villain in...
- 2/7/2020
- by Nicole Haggard
- The Wrap
Quentin Tarantino’s earliest memory of Los Angeles was as a young boy visiting Grauman’s Chinese Theater, standing in the courtyard and looking at the handprints of John Wayne and Roy Rogers. He recollects the Mold-a-Rama machine outside that dispensed a souvenir wax pagoda if you inserted a quarter.
The director had toyed with re-creating that memory as the opening to his Oscar-nominated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He went so far as to have Barbara Ling, his production designer, track down the makers of the machine, but the idea never materialized. Instead, the film opens with black-and-white newsreel footage of Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), setting the scene for their coming exploits. But Tarantino has the machine: “It sits in my garage,” he chuckles as he lounges across the table from Ling and the film’s costume designer, Arianne Phillips...
The director had toyed with re-creating that memory as the opening to his Oscar-nominated “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” He went so far as to have Barbara Ling, his production designer, track down the makers of the machine, but the idea never materialized. Instead, the film opens with black-and-white newsreel footage of Rick Dalton (played by Leonardo DiCaprio) and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), setting the scene for their coming exploits. But Tarantino has the machine: “It sits in my garage,” he chuckles as he lounges across the table from Ling and the film’s costume designer, Arianne Phillips...
- 1/29/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
David Crow Jan 17, 2020
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood might be over, but the adventures of Bounty Law’s Jake Cahill have only just begun!
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino made one of the best movies of 2019 by channeling his deep and affection for 1960s Hollywood into a grand epic of nostalgia daydreaming. The film, mistaken initially by many to be about the “Manson murders,” was instead a laconic hangout dramedy, led by washed up TV Western star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), who was famous 10 years prior for playing Jake Cahill on Bounty Law. Now that legend of Cahill will live on past Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’s wistful closing shot.
Speaking with Deadline while in the midst of the Oscars campaign season, Tarantino revealed that while imagining a fictional ‘50s TV Western for Rick Dalton to star in—think Steve McQueen on Wanted: Dead...
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood might be over, but the adventures of Bounty Law’s Jake Cahill have only just begun!
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Quentin Tarantino made one of the best movies of 2019 by channeling his deep and affection for 1960s Hollywood into a grand epic of nostalgia daydreaming. The film, mistaken initially by many to be about the “Manson murders,” was instead a laconic hangout dramedy, led by washed up TV Western star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio), who was famous 10 years prior for playing Jake Cahill on Bounty Law. Now that legend of Cahill will live on past Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood’s wistful closing shot.
Speaking with Deadline while in the midst of the Oscars campaign season, Tarantino revealed that while imagining a fictional ‘50s TV Western for Rick Dalton to star in—think Steve McQueen on Wanted: Dead...
- 1/17/2020
- Den of Geek
Drunk, hungover, drunk again, washed-up, has-been, tortured. Rick Dalton goes through all of the emotions throughout Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and as played by Leonardo DiCaprio, the actor-within-the-actor is a compellingly hilarious, self-aware mess of a man. In this video exclusive to IndieWire, below, DiCaprio talks about his character in Tarantino’s 1969-set love letter to Tinseltown.
Currently, DiCaprio is a contender for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. Recently, Tarantino also spoke about one of the more iconic aspects of DiCaprio’s turn as middling actor Dalton who’s spinning out on booze and busted dreams of fame — as star of the western series “Lancer.” “Leo said, ‘I think I need to fuck it up and forget the lines,’” Tarantino said. “I just wanted to do my ‘Lancer’ scene, a way to do this Western through the back door. [Leo] said, ‘I know...
Currently, DiCaprio is a contender for the Best Actor Academy Award for his performance. Recently, Tarantino also spoke about one of the more iconic aspects of DiCaprio’s turn as middling actor Dalton who’s spinning out on booze and busted dreams of fame — as star of the western series “Lancer.” “Leo said, ‘I think I need to fuck it up and forget the lines,’” Tarantino said. “I just wanted to do my ‘Lancer’ scene, a way to do this Western through the back door. [Leo] said, ‘I know...
- 12/21/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Leonardo DiCaprio’s character Rick Dalton has no shortage of memorable moments in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” (it’s impossible to forget the flamethrower that kills one of the Manson family cult members), but his best occurs when he has a breakdown on the set of the Western television series “Lancer.” An extended scene-within-a-scene depicts a “Lancer” sequence that is ruined because Rick can’t remember his lines. Feeling embarrassed, Rick goes to his trailer and freaks out by yelling at himself. It turns out that was not how Tarantino originally wrote Rick’s big breakdown.
In a new interview with Deadline, Tarantino reveals the original “Lancer” scene did not include Rick messing up the dialogue and therefore the trailer breakdown moment did not even occur. It was DiCaprio himself who approached Tarantino and pitched the idea for Rick to screw up on the “Lancer” set.
In a new interview with Deadline, Tarantino reveals the original “Lancer” scene did not include Rick messing up the dialogue and therefore the trailer breakdown moment did not even occur. It was DiCaprio himself who approached Tarantino and pitched the idea for Rick to screw up on the “Lancer” set.
- 12/20/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Asked to assess what it meant to get Leonardo DiCaprio for his first starring role since his Best Actor Oscar win for The Revenant, Quentin Tarantino is blunt: “He is one of the most if not the most talented actor or his generation, and the most naturally gifted actor I’ve ever worked with.”
Tarantino’s first written part for DiCaprio was an awful slave plantation owner named Calvin Candie in Django Unchained. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino cast DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, a fading TV series leading man struggling with the realization he is a falling star in a changing moment in 1969 Hollywood. That turn is counterbalanced by the adventures of Dalton’s longtime stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and Dalton’s next-door neighbors Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, for a Pulp Fiction-like pastiche of stories that connect in the final act.
While Pitt’s...
Tarantino’s first written part for DiCaprio was an awful slave plantation owner named Calvin Candie in Django Unchained. In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Tarantino cast DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, a fading TV series leading man struggling with the realization he is a falling star in a changing moment in 1969 Hollywood. That turn is counterbalanced by the adventures of Dalton’s longtime stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), and Dalton’s next-door neighbors Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, for a Pulp Fiction-like pastiche of stories that connect in the final act.
While Pitt’s...
- 12/19/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Quentin Tarantino’s masterful projection of 1960s La may rewrite history, but is saturated with his love of the era
This article contains spoilersThe year’s 50 best films
Not much stands between us and the Netflix-inspired bonfire of the cinemagoing experience: even titans such as Martin Scorsese have succumbed, caught between the pressing needs of escalating production budgets and shrinking box-office expectations. To give him his due, Quentin Tarantino is not going down without a fight. This is a director who prizes the actual projection of celluloid on large silver screens – and, in fact, one of the most enjoyable sequences in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows starlet Sharon Tate into a movie-theatre showing of the spy comedy The Wrecking Crew, in which she appeared opposite Dean Martin. From the lobby cards to the upholstery to the glittering beams of light, Tarantino offers a lovingly detailed homage to...
This article contains spoilersThe year’s 50 best films
Not much stands between us and the Netflix-inspired bonfire of the cinemagoing experience: even titans such as Martin Scorsese have succumbed, caught between the pressing needs of escalating production budgets and shrinking box-office expectations. To give him his due, Quentin Tarantino is not going down without a fight. This is a director who prizes the actual projection of celluloid on large silver screens – and, in fact, one of the most enjoyable sequences in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood follows starlet Sharon Tate into a movie-theatre showing of the spy comedy The Wrecking Crew, in which she appeared opposite Dean Martin. From the lobby cards to the upholstery to the glittering beams of light, Tarantino offers a lovingly detailed homage to...
- 12/12/2019
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
For those who like stats, here is a bounty of facts and figures about the nominees for the 2020 SAG Awards, which will air on TBS and TNT on Sunday, January 19, at 8 p.m. Et/ 5 p.m. Pt.
There is always a first-timer’s club for participants of showbiz honors. Here is the list of TV and film performers getting their first chance ever to compete for an individual Screen Actors Guild Award at the 26th annual event:
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”)
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”)
Scarlett Johansson
Joey King (“The Act”)
Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”)
Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)
Some nominees are keeping it all in the family. Bruce Dern is part of the ensemble nomination for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” while daughter Laura Dern is up for both her lawyer role in the film “Marriage Story” and as part of...
There is always a first-timer’s club for participants of showbiz honors. Here is the list of TV and film performers getting their first chance ever to compete for an individual Screen Actors Guild Award at the 26th annual event:
Jodie Comer (“Killing Eve”)
Taron Egerton (“Rocketman”)
Cynthia Erivo (“Harriet”)
Scarlett Johansson
Joey King (“The Act”)
Jennifer Lopez (“Hustlers”)
Joe Pesci (“The Irishman”)
Andrew Scott (“Fleabag”)
Phoebe Waller-Bridge (“Fleabag”)
Some nominees are keeping it all in the family. Bruce Dern is part of the ensemble nomination for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” while daughter Laura Dern is up for both her lawyer role in the film “Marriage Story” and as part of...
- 12/12/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Cinematography this century has moved in three distinct directions: desaturation, unlit, and a looser (handheld) and more floating (gimble) camera movement. And then there’s the style of Robert Richardson, who continued to shoot films with bold colors, a strong overhead light that pushed pockets of the celluloid to the edge of exposure, and a precise camera that moves with conviction. Every inch of his considerable technical prowess front and center.
After playing a key roll in delivering the intentionally over-the-top visual excess of “Casino,” and the swirling disorientation of “Bringing Out the Dead,” Martin Scorsese recognized Richardson as the perfect conduit to the “movie” phase of his career that would follow. Richardson’s ability to precisely dial-in to each of a director’s wide array of camera movements had never been more evident, from the sweeping playfulness of “Hugo,” to the high flying mania of Howard Hughes in “The Aviator,...
After playing a key roll in delivering the intentionally over-the-top visual excess of “Casino,” and the swirling disorientation of “Bringing Out the Dead,” Martin Scorsese recognized Richardson as the perfect conduit to the “movie” phase of his career that would follow. Richardson’s ability to precisely dial-in to each of a director’s wide array of camera movements had never been more evident, from the sweeping playfulness of “Hugo,” to the high flying mania of Howard Hughes in “The Aviator,...
- 12/3/2019
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Quentin Tarantino’s bittersweet intersection of fact and fiction in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” takes a creepy turn when introducing the hippie Manson Family, who lived at the rundown Spahn Movie Ranch during the lead up to the infamous Sharon Tate murders in August, 1969. Naturally, Tarantino couldn’t resist riffing on “Night of the Living Dead.”
“What’s neat — and I can’t truly take credit for it — is just the mise-en-scene,” Tarantino told IndieWire’s Anne Thompson. “It’s the production design [by Barbara Ling]. One of the best sets I ever had of any of my movies was rebuilding the Spahn Ranch. And we did a wonderful job casting those gals. It’s scary and it is creepy. We’re not doing anything to make anything scary or creepy, it just is. It’s a wonderful alchemy we captured and I didn’t break the mood.”
“The...
“What’s neat — and I can’t truly take credit for it — is just the mise-en-scene,” Tarantino told IndieWire’s Anne Thompson. “It’s the production design [by Barbara Ling]. One of the best sets I ever had of any of my movies was rebuilding the Spahn Ranch. And we did a wonderful job casting those gals. It’s scary and it is creepy. We’re not doing anything to make anything scary or creepy, it just is. It’s a wonderful alchemy we captured and I didn’t break the mood.”
“The...
- 12/2/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Since 2016, Julia Butters had been flying relatively low on the Hollywood radar, playing Anna-Kat, the youngest daughter on the ABC sitcom American Housewife. But her quiet intensity on the show caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino, who was so impressed with Butters that he wrote a part for her in his period Tinseltown saga Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Butters, age 10, stole scenes playing Trudi Fraser, the straight-shooting child actor who shares the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton in a TV Western called Lancer. She talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her new cachet as muse to a director ...
- 11/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Since 2016, Julia Butters had been flying relatively low on the Hollywood radar, playing Anna-Kat, the youngest daughter on the ABC sitcom American Housewife. But her quiet intensity on the show caught the attention of Quentin Tarantino, who was so impressed with Butters that he wrote a part for her in his period Tinseltown saga Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Butters, age 10, stole scenes playing Trudi Fraser, the straight-shooting child actor who shares the screen with Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton in a TV Western called Lancer. She talked to The Hollywood Reporter about her new cachet as muse to a director ...
- 11/27/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is his personal love letter to Tinseltown, set during the seismic clash in 1969 of old and new cultures. And that posed a unique creative challenge for his go-to costume designer Arianne Phillips, who was unaccustomed to interweaving so much history and fiction in a Tarantino movie.
“It required its own unique process because here we have real life events, real people that are part of the culture — the Manson murders and Hollywood at that time [including Margot Robbie as slain actress Sharon Tate],” Phillips said. “And then at the center of that, we have these two fictional characters, Rick Dalton [Leonardo DiCaprio] and Cliff Booth [Brad Pitt], the cowboy actor and his stunt double. Also, this required a certain reportage feel, in that we really wanted to transport the audience and revisit Hollywood as it was in 1969.”
Naturally, like every other member of Team Tarantino,...
“It required its own unique process because here we have real life events, real people that are part of the culture — the Manson murders and Hollywood at that time [including Margot Robbie as slain actress Sharon Tate],” Phillips said. “And then at the center of that, we have these two fictional characters, Rick Dalton [Leonardo DiCaprio] and Cliff Booth [Brad Pitt], the cowboy actor and his stunt double. Also, this required a certain reportage feel, in that we really wanted to transport the audience and revisit Hollywood as it was in 1969.”
Naturally, like every other member of Team Tarantino,...
- 11/18/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” ends with Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) being welcomed into Sharon Tate’s home for the first time after his bloody confrontation with members of the Manson Family cult. Some Tarantino fans have wondered if Rick finally being introduced to one of Hollywood’s most promising rising stars would reignite his dwindling career, but it turns out that’s not what’s in store for the “Lancer” actor.
During an appearance on “The Margaret Cho” podcast, Tarantino weighed in on what happens to Rick’s career after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” ends. The answer shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the real-life figures Tarantino based Rick on when scripting the character.
“There are a few different ways his career could have gone depending on who you hitch your horse to of who he is representing. The George Maharis way is this way,...
During an appearance on “The Margaret Cho” podcast, Tarantino weighed in on what happens to Rick’s career after “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” ends. The answer shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with the real-life figures Tarantino based Rick on when scripting the character.
“There are a few different ways his career could have gone depending on who you hitch your horse to of who he is representing. The George Maharis way is this way,...
- 11/5/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
As aging TV star Rick Dalton, one of Leonardo DiCaprio’s most iconic scenes in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” comes during a private moment in his trailer following an unsuccessful shoot on the set of “Lancer,” the popular television series he’s guest starring on as his career skids into slow decline. But it turns out this freakout scene, which involves DiCaprio throwing things and angrily reflecting on how his heavy drinking led to him forgetting his lines, didn’t appear in Quentin Tarantino’s original script. In fact, DiCaprio himself came up with the seed for the freakout, the director revealed during a post-screening Q&a at his New Beverly Cinema over the weekend.
“It wasn’t in the script actually, so we never rehearsed it or anything,” Tarantino said. “Leo had a whole thing. At some point it was like, ‘Look, I need I need to...
“It wasn’t in the script actually, so we never rehearsed it or anything,” Tarantino said. “Leo had a whole thing. At some point it was like, ‘Look, I need I need to...
- 11/4/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
One of the most memorable moments in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Rick Dalton's (Leonardo DiCaprio) frantic meltdown in his trailer after he forgets his lines while shooting a pilot for the Western series Lancer. As it turns out, that scene was not in the original script, and was added by writer-director Quentin Tarantino at DiCaprio's behest.
The star told the filmmaker, "I need to fuck up during the Lancer sequence, and when I fuck up during the Lancer sequence, I need to have a real crisis of conscience about it and I have to come back ...
The star told the filmmaker, "I need to fuck up during the Lancer sequence, and when I fuck up during the Lancer sequence, I need to have a real crisis of conscience about it and I have to come back ...
- 11/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
One of the most memorable moments in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is Rick Dalton's (Leonardo DiCaprio) frantic meltdown in his trailer after he forgets his lines while shooting a pilot for the Western series Lancer. As it turns out, that scene was not in the original script, and was added by writer-director Quentin Tarantino at DiCaprio's behest.
The star told the filmmaker, "I need to fuck up during the Lancer sequence, and when I fuck up during the Lancer sequence, I need to have a real crisis of conscious about it and I have to come back ...
The star told the filmmaker, "I need to fuck up during the Lancer sequence, and when I fuck up during the Lancer sequence, I need to have a real crisis of conscious about it and I have to come back ...
- 11/2/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, his sixth film with Quentin Tarantino, cinematographer Robert Richardson sought to capture ‘60s Los Angeles in all its glory, filtered through the auteur’s singular aesthetic, as well as his childhood memories.
Following a frustrated television actor struggling to make his transition to features and his loyal stunt double, the starry pic often lingers on the world behind the scenes of Hollywood’s Golden Age, featuring recreations of real television series of the era—including Lancer and Hullabaloo—the fictional Bounty Law, as well as bits of cinematic wizardry that place Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in well-known dramas, like John Sturges’ The Great Escape.
Balancing the overarching aesthetic of Once Upon a Time with that of each of these productions, Richardson wound up shooting with a handful of cameras and many more lenses, on Super 8, 16 and 35mm, daunted by the question...
Following a frustrated television actor struggling to make his transition to features and his loyal stunt double, the starry pic often lingers on the world behind the scenes of Hollywood’s Golden Age, featuring recreations of real television series of the era—including Lancer and Hullabaloo—the fictional Bounty Law, as well as bits of cinematic wizardry that place Leonardo DiCaprio’s Rick Dalton in well-known dramas, like John Sturges’ The Great Escape.
Balancing the overarching aesthetic of Once Upon a Time with that of each of these productions, Richardson wound up shooting with a handful of cameras and many more lenses, on Super 8, 16 and 35mm, daunted by the question...
- 10/30/2019
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
This season’s top three editing contenders, “The Irishman,” “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and “Joker,” offer complex and confounding narratives. They challenge conventions of reality, fantasy, history, and memory, which definitely enrich their stories about stardom, violence, love, and death.
Martin Scorsese’s go-to editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, aims for her fourth Oscar win with the gangster epic, “The Irishman.” It’s the director’s summary statement about “loyalty, love, trust, and ultimately betrayal.” Robert De Niro’s elderly mob hitman, Frank Sheeran, looks back on his violent life and divided loyalties between cunning Philly crime boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and hot-headed Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). The narrative contains a dense, zigzagging structure, complicated by Industrial Light & Magic’s innovative VFX de-aging of the three actors. This meant that Schoonmaker’s editing was made more difficult by the quality of the facial animation. Scorsese would carefully...
Martin Scorsese’s go-to editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, aims for her fourth Oscar win with the gangster epic, “The Irishman.” It’s the director’s summary statement about “loyalty, love, trust, and ultimately betrayal.” Robert De Niro’s elderly mob hitman, Frank Sheeran, looks back on his violent life and divided loyalties between cunning Philly crime boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and hot-headed Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). The narrative contains a dense, zigzagging structure, complicated by Industrial Light & Magic’s innovative VFX de-aging of the three actors. This meant that Schoonmaker’s editing was made more difficult by the quality of the facial animation. Scorsese would carefully...
- 10/29/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Luke Perry continues to grace to big screen even after his death.
In a newly released deleted scene from Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Perry appears opposite Timothy Olyphant for more of the 1960s-set cowboy TV series.
In the clip, Perry and Olyphant banter as real-life actors Wayne Maunder and James Stacy in Lancer, a Western that aired from 1968 to 1970 on CBS. Actress Julia Butters also appears in the scene with the two veteran actors.
“Now, daddy won’t act like it at first — he can be a bit of a mule head — but no matter what he says,...
In a newly released deleted scene from Quentin Tarantino‘s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Perry appears opposite Timothy Olyphant for more of the 1960s-set cowboy TV series.
In the clip, Perry and Olyphant banter as real-life actors Wayne Maunder and James Stacy in Lancer, a Western that aired from 1968 to 1970 on CBS. Actress Julia Butters also appears in the scene with the two veteran actors.
“Now, daddy won’t act like it at first — he can be a bit of a mule head — but no matter what he says,...
- 10/29/2019
- by Ashley Boucher
- PEOPLE.com
A new deleted scene from Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” as revealed by Entertainment Weekly, is the first of many cut scenes soon to come from the summer hit Hollywood love letter. The film’s upcoming December 10 Blu-ray release promises 20 minutes of additional footage, and the below clip offers a charming snippet of the bonus materials to expect. Here, the scene features stars Timothy Olyphant, Luke Perry, and Julia Butters on the set of the 1960s cowboy TV series “Lancer,” which Tarantino lovingly recreated as a starring vehicle for his fictional Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio).
Currently, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is touring multiplexes as an extended cut, a cash grab that adds new context to Tarantino’s film. As IndieWire previously wrote, “It’s nothing that significantly adds to the experience or can’t wait to be watched on the Blu-ray, but the bonus...
Currently, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is touring multiplexes as an extended cut, a cash grab that adds new context to Tarantino’s film. As IndieWire previously wrote, “It’s nothing that significantly adds to the experience or can’t wait to be watched on the Blu-ray, but the bonus...
- 10/28/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”]
Of all the reimagined bits of history that round out Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” there’s one sequence that continues to divide moviegoers. The scene — a wild, on-set, hand-to-hand battle between Brad Pitt’s stuntman Cliff Booth and Mike Moh as the legendary Bruce Lee — involves plenty of elements worth unpacking, including the use of a historical figure. But some audiences are struggling to understand where it fits in the film’s narrative.
The Bruce Lee/Cliff Booth fight has become one of the film’s biggest points of controversy since “Hollywood” hit theaters late last month. Both Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee and protégé Dan Inosanto have spoken out against Tarantino for his portrayal of the martial arts and acting legend in the scene.
Actor Mike Moh, who plays Lee in the film, recently admitted that he was conflicted at first about taking on the part as written,...
Of all the reimagined bits of history that round out Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” there’s one sequence that continues to divide moviegoers. The scene — a wild, on-set, hand-to-hand battle between Brad Pitt’s stuntman Cliff Booth and Mike Moh as the legendary Bruce Lee — involves plenty of elements worth unpacking, including the use of a historical figure. But some audiences are struggling to understand where it fits in the film’s narrative.
The Bruce Lee/Cliff Booth fight has become one of the film’s biggest points of controversy since “Hollywood” hit theaters late last month. Both Lee’s daughter Shannon Lee and protégé Dan Inosanto have spoken out against Tarantino for his portrayal of the martial arts and acting legend in the scene.
Actor Mike Moh, who plays Lee in the film, recently admitted that he was conflicted at first about taking on the part as written,...
- 8/7/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Minor spoilers for “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” below.
There’s a moment midway through “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” where Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, finally loses it. While describing the plot of a book he’s reading to his young co-star, he breaks into tears as he realizes that the book’s story of a past-his-prime gunslinger hews too close to his own life. All the missed opportunities, bad decisions, and regrets that have plagued him since the film’s start finally overwhelm him.
Bruce Dern knows exactly how that feels.
“That moment where he freezes and chokes up…I’ve been there,” Dern told TheWrap. “I was there much earlier in my career because I had such a hard time getting out of TV and into movies, and I was by no means a TV star.”
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There’s a moment midway through “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood” where Rick Dalton, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, finally loses it. While describing the plot of a book he’s reading to his young co-star, he breaks into tears as he realizes that the book’s story of a past-his-prime gunslinger hews too close to his own life. All the missed opportunities, bad decisions, and regrets that have plagued him since the film’s start finally overwhelm him.
Bruce Dern knows exactly how that feels.
“That moment where he freezes and chokes up…I’ve been there,” Dern told TheWrap. “I was there much earlier in my career because I had such a hard time getting out of TV and into movies, and I was by no means a TV star.”
Also Read: 'Once Upon a Time... in...
- 7/30/2019
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
Nearly two years after first contacting Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio, PETA has reached out again this week to the film collaborators calling on them to help free the chimpanzee that was featured in “The Wolf of Wall Street.” PETA obtained new video of the chimpanzee being tied up and forced to perform in a circus show. A PETA representative told IndieWire the organization sent letters to Scorsese and DiCaprio asking if they will help in the animal’s release.
“Dear Mr. Scorsese and Mr. DiCaprio,” the letter reads. “Our team recently obtained this footage of Chance, the chimpanzee used in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’ As you’ll see, he’s still being used in a circus sideshow, tethered and forced to perform in front of frightening crowds. There’s still time to help him. Will you? Please let us know.”
Upon first discovering the chimpanzee’s fate following “The Wolf of Wall Street,...
“Dear Mr. Scorsese and Mr. DiCaprio,” the letter reads. “Our team recently obtained this footage of Chance, the chimpanzee used in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street.’ As you’ll see, he’s still being used in a circus sideshow, tethered and forced to perform in front of frightening crowds. There’s still time to help him. Will you? Please let us know.”
Upon first discovering the chimpanzee’s fate following “The Wolf of Wall Street,...
- 7/30/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”]
Good luck finding a full Quentin Tarantino script floating around Hollywood while the filmmaker is in production: the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director is notoriously secretive about his screenplays, often requesting even the heaviest of heavy-hitters to read his work at his own house (and under his own watchful gaze). The same process was in place for his latest feature, an ode to the waning days of Hollywood in the late-’60s.
As Tarantino explained to Esquire earlier this year, when he finished writing the screenplay, he only kept one copy of the entire finished version. Only leading actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and producer David Heyman were able to read the full script from start to finish. The rest of Tarantino’s other stars, including Margot Robbie, only got to read the parts of the script pertaining to their character.
Breakout star Margaret Qualley was subjected to the same super-secret treatment.
Good luck finding a full Quentin Tarantino script floating around Hollywood while the filmmaker is in production: the “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director is notoriously secretive about his screenplays, often requesting even the heaviest of heavy-hitters to read his work at his own house (and under his own watchful gaze). The same process was in place for his latest feature, an ode to the waning days of Hollywood in the late-’60s.
As Tarantino explained to Esquire earlier this year, when he finished writing the screenplay, he only kept one copy of the entire finished version. Only leading actors Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt and producer David Heyman were able to read the full script from start to finish. The rest of Tarantino’s other stars, including Margot Robbie, only got to read the parts of the script pertaining to their character.
Breakout star Margaret Qualley was subjected to the same super-secret treatment.
- 7/30/2019
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
One of the great surprises of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” was that Quentin Tarantino got to make his third western (following “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight”) with his retro-contemporary redo of the actual ’60s TV series “Lancer.” Only he originally had something much more subversive in mind for Leonardo DiCaprio’s has-been actor, Rick Dalton, doing a guest shot as a hippie-looking gunslinger.
“It’s shot like a movie and Quentin was very cognizant of that,” said editor Fred Raskin. “Because early on in the screenplay and the design of the movie, when you’re introduced to ‘Lancer,’ you weren’t aware as to what you were watching. At a certain point, we cut to this western world and there was this disorientation of, ‘Wait a minute, where are we now?’ And as we were editing the movie and shaping and refining it, that was one element...
“It’s shot like a movie and Quentin was very cognizant of that,” said editor Fred Raskin. “Because early on in the screenplay and the design of the movie, when you’re introduced to ‘Lancer,’ you weren’t aware as to what you were watching. At a certain point, we cut to this western world and there was this disorientation of, ‘Wait a minute, where are we now?’ And as we were editing the movie and shaping and refining it, that was one element...
- 7/29/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
With “The Irishman” almost locked and set for a world premiere on opening night of the 2019 New York Film Festival, Martin Scorsese is moving on to developing his next feature. The legendary director spent the July 26 weekend posting photos to his Instagram page from Osage County, Oklahoma, the setting for his upcoming serial killer drama “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The 1920s-set drama is based on David Grann’s historical book and centers around the Osage Nation murders, in which members of the Native American tribe were killed after the group became rich after discovering oil at their reservation. The murders attracted the attention of the newly-created FBI.
Scorsese confirmed in October 2018 that “Killers of the Flower Moon” would be his next film after “The Irishman,” with Paramount Pictures boarding the project last month. Paramount’s deal brings Scorsese back to the studio after making both “The Irishman” and his...
Scorsese confirmed in October 2018 that “Killers of the Flower Moon” would be his next film after “The Irishman,” with Paramount Pictures boarding the project last month. Paramount’s deal brings Scorsese back to the studio after making both “The Irishman” and his...
- 7/29/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
In an interview with The Sunday Times (via The Independent), Brad Pitt compares the effects of the Manson murders on Hollywood to that of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment and abuse. Pitt’s latest film, Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, is set in 1969 and flirts with the real history of the Manson family cult and the tragic death of Sharon Tate (played in the film by Margot Robbie). Pitt was joined for the Sunday Times interview by his “Hollywood” co-star Leonardo DiCaprio.
“When my parents described it,” DiCaprio said in the interview, “it was as the end of this idealized revolution. My parents are still hippies, but it was the loss of this dream. As Quentin describes, you sort of portray this utopia, but there is a mildew around the canvas that brought the darkness of humanity into play and ended a lot of my...
“When my parents described it,” DiCaprio said in the interview, “it was as the end of this idealized revolution. My parents are still hippies, but it was the loss of this dream. As Quentin describes, you sort of portray this utopia, but there is a mildew around the canvas that brought the darkness of humanity into play and ended a lot of my...
- 7/29/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” did more than just conquer the box office this weekend with the director’s biggest unadjusted opening to date ($40 million domestically). On the heels of critical praise, “Hollywood” went on to dazzle the industry over its opening weekend as it earned high praise from directors like Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro. Other industry giants like Mindy Kaling took to social media to share rave reactions to “Hollywood,” which stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt as an actor and his stuntman struggling to keep up with the changing industry in 1969.
“To me, watching ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ at the New Beverly, was a beautiful experience,” del Toro wrote. “Beautifully crafted and poignant. Chokefull of yearning. A tale of a time that probably never was, but still feels like a memory. I am eagerly seeing it again next week…I miss hanging out with the characters.
“To me, watching ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ at the New Beverly, was a beautiful experience,” del Toro wrote. “Beautifully crafted and poignant. Chokefull of yearning. A tale of a time that probably never was, but still feels like a memory. I am eagerly seeing it again next week…I miss hanging out with the characters.
- 7/29/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Ten-year-old Julia Butters is certainly the breakout star of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” In the film, she plays co-star to Leonardo DiCaprio’s middling screen actor Rick Dalton, and the two wax philosophical together. She tells him the goal of acting is “to achieve 100% effectiveness. Which is impossible.” It’s a brief, but haunting moment.
Tarantino, it turns out, discovered the young starlet off of TV’s “American Housewife,” in which she stars as Ocd-addled Anna-Kat Otto.
Speaking to IndieWire, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” producer David Heyman said, of all the cuts in the nearly three-hour film, he most mourns a tour-de-force third encounter with Dalton’s “Lancer” costar (Butters). “Quentin is adept at throwing out a great scene,” said Heyman. “If she was in, she’d get an Oscar nomination for that performance. But it didn’t serve the film. It’s all about the film rhythm,...
Tarantino, it turns out, discovered the young starlet off of TV’s “American Housewife,” in which she stars as Ocd-addled Anna-Kat Otto.
Speaking to IndieWire, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” producer David Heyman said, of all the cuts in the nearly three-hour film, he most mourns a tour-de-force third encounter with Dalton’s “Lancer” costar (Butters). “Quentin is adept at throwing out a great scene,” said Heyman. “If she was in, she’d get an Oscar nomination for that performance. But it didn’t serve the film. It’s all about the film rhythm,...
- 7/28/2019
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
As the Summer film season begins to wind down, moviegoers get to do a little “universe-jumping” once again. That sounds a touch out there, doesn’t it? Well, over this year we’ve had three trips to the “Marvel movie universe” (we’re not going to count the dud that was Dark Phoenix). And three trips to the “Disney classics universe. Now it’s time for a long-overdue (nearly four years) trek into the “Tarantino movie universe”. Aside from springing from the mind (and on to the page and camera lense) of Quentin, the now nine films (sidebar controversies: Is Kill Bill really just one film? Do we count his half of Grindhouse? What about his single scene in the first Sin City?) share many actors, some fictional “products”, and a love of different film genres (plus that often “off-kilter” dialogue). Well with this current project, Qt gets to indulge...
- 7/26/2019
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” marks the director’s summary statement about the importance of the dream factory in countering life’s failure and disappointment. And, without hesitation, his go-to cinematographer, Robert Richardson, thinks that it’s Tarantino’s most emotional movie. The challenge was finding the right look for depicting 1969 at the end of the golden age and the rise of the counter culture in Hollywood.
“When Quentin goes, ‘I want to feel retro but I want to be contemporary,’ I tried to weave time periods,” said Richardson, the three-time Oscar winner who’s made half a dozen movies with Tarantino. That meant shooting in Kodak 35mm (mostly anamorphic) with Panavision cameras and lenses (including the new T Series for extreme close-ups and greater contrast and resolution). They discussed 65mm but that proved too difficult and costly with the use of zooms; they also shot...
“When Quentin goes, ‘I want to feel retro but I want to be contemporary,’ I tried to weave time periods,” said Richardson, the three-time Oscar winner who’s made half a dozen movies with Tarantino. That meant shooting in Kodak 35mm (mostly anamorphic) with Panavision cameras and lenses (including the new T Series for extreme close-ups and greater contrast and resolution). They discussed 65mm but that proved too difficult and costly with the use of zooms; they also shot...
- 7/22/2019
- by Bill Desowitz
- Indiewire
Microsoft's "Gears of War 5" will feature a new 'character pack' showcasing the iconic 'T-800 Endoskeleton' from producer James Cameron's upcoming feature "Terminator: Dark Fate", available for Xbox One and PC, Sept. 10, 2019:
"...the 'T-800 Endoskeleton' wields Gears of Wars' 'Lancer' guns and chainsaw bayonet, as 'Kate Diaz' tries to unlock the truth hidden within her 'Locust Medallion'..."
"Gears of War" was created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The Coalition and owned and published by Xbox Game Studios. The series focuses on the conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the 'Locust Horde' and their mutated counterparts, the 'Lambent' and the 'Swarm'. The franchise consists of five third-person shooter video games, which has also been supplemented by a comic book series and five novels.
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"...the 'T-800 Endoskeleton' wields Gears of Wars' 'Lancer' guns and chainsaw bayonet, as 'Kate Diaz' tries to unlock the truth hidden within her 'Locust Medallion'..."
"Gears of War" was created by Epic Games, developed and managed by The Coalition and owned and published by Xbox Game Studios. The series focuses on the conflict between humanity, the subterranean reptilian hominids known as the 'Locust Horde' and their mutated counterparts, the 'Lambent' and the 'Swarm'. The franchise consists of five third-person shooter video games, which has also been supplemented by a comic book series and five novels.
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- 6/10/2019
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
It has been 25 years to the day since Quentin Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, crystalizing a cinema revolution, and we have never looked back. Yet here’s one more Qt anniversary, a bit less monumental but, in its way, as meaningful: It has been 10 years since the premiere of “Inglourious Basterds,” which also took place at Cannes — and for me, at least, that means it’s been a decade since Quentin Tarantino gave us an unambiguously great Quentin Tarantino movie.
You know the difference as well as I do, because it’s one that you can feel in your heart, gut, and soul: the difference between a Quentin movie that’s got dazzle and brilliance and a number of hypnotic sequences, and is every inch the work of his fevered movie candy brain, and a Quentin film that enters your bloodstream like a drug and stays there,...
You know the difference as well as I do, because it’s one that you can feel in your heart, gut, and soul: the difference between a Quentin movie that’s got dazzle and brilliance and a number of hypnotic sequences, and is every inch the work of his fevered movie candy brain, and a Quentin film that enters your bloodstream like a drug and stays there,...
- 5/21/2019
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Luke Perry’s last role will be in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and his co-star Timothy Olyphant got a front-row seat to the late actor’s final performance.
Perry, who died this March after suffering a massive stroke, had completed all of his scenes in the upcoming film prior to his sudden death.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which hits theaters this summer, stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up actor and his longtime stunt double. The film is set in 1969 Hollywood against the backdrop of the rise of the Charles Manson cult, with Pitt and DiCaprio’s character living next door to Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie), the actress famously killed in the Manson murders.
Perry will play the role of real-life actor Wayne Maunder, who co-starred in the late ’60s TV western “Lancer” with actor James Stacy, who will be portrayed by Olyphant.
Perry, who died this March after suffering a massive stroke, had completed all of his scenes in the upcoming film prior to his sudden death.
“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” which hits theaters this summer, stars Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio as a washed-up actor and his longtime stunt double. The film is set in 1969 Hollywood against the backdrop of the rise of the Charles Manson cult, with Pitt and DiCaprio’s character living next door to Sharon Tate (played by Margot Robbie), the actress famously killed in the Manson murders.
Perry will play the role of real-life actor Wayne Maunder, who co-starred in the late ’60s TV western “Lancer” with actor James Stacy, who will be portrayed by Olyphant.
- 4/17/2019
- by Elizabeth Wagmeister
- Variety Film + TV
Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie are going back in time.
The three star in Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — and DiCaprio finally shared the first teaser for the highly-anticipated movie on Wednesday after revealing the poster earlier this week.
The Oscar winner, 44, plays actor Rick Dalton, while Pitt, 55, stars as his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. The two are struggling with a changing Hollywood landscape at the height of hippy Hollywood, all exemplified by Dalton’s next door neighbor Sharon Tate, played by Robbie, 28.
Though the teaser didn’t offer many details...
The three star in Quentin Tarantino’s 9th film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood — and DiCaprio finally shared the first teaser for the highly-anticipated movie on Wednesday after revealing the poster earlier this week.
The Oscar winner, 44, plays actor Rick Dalton, while Pitt, 55, stars as his longtime stunt double Cliff Booth. The two are struggling with a changing Hollywood landscape at the height of hippy Hollywood, all exemplified by Dalton’s next door neighbor Sharon Tate, played by Robbie, 28.
Though the teaser didn’t offer many details...
- 3/20/2019
- by Ale Russian
- PEOPLE.com
Two years after the Summer of Love in 1967 came the summer of blood. That is when the followers of cult leader Charles Manson killed actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, as well as her unborn baby and four other victims in her Los Angeles home. The coven-like collective would commit a total of nine murders in four locations in July and August of 1969.
The macabre deadly spree and the mad mastermind figure behind them became a cultural phenomenon, starting with the 1974 book, “Helter Skelter,” co-written by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Manson took the term from a Beatles’ song. An acclaimed 1976 two-part TV film based on the book was nominated for three Emmys scored a household share of 36.5, making it the 16th highest-rated movie to air on network TV.
A half-century later, filmmakers are hoping that audiences will be drawn again to the skin-crawling horrors that Manson...
The macabre deadly spree and the mad mastermind figure behind them became a cultural phenomenon, starting with the 1974 book, “Helter Skelter,” co-written by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Manson took the term from a Beatles’ song. An acclaimed 1976 two-part TV film based on the book was nominated for three Emmys scored a household share of 36.5, making it the 16th highest-rated movie to air on network TV.
A half-century later, filmmakers are hoping that audiences will be drawn again to the skin-crawling horrors that Manson...
- 3/18/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
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