Dianne Crittenden, the casting director whose impressive résumé included the first Star Wars film, The In-Laws and the Terrence Malick features Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, has died. She was 82.
Crittenden died Wednesday at her home in Pacific Palisades after a battle with several cancers, fellow casting director Ilene Starger told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Dianne was my mentor, we’ve known each other for 44 years,” Starger said. “She was also my dear friend, more like an older sister, really. So generous, kind, brilliant, funny. A people magnet. Her knowledge of and insight into actors was extraordinary.”
A former head of casting at Warner Bros., Crittenden collaborated with Martin Ritt on Murphy’s Romance (1985) and Stanley & Iris (1990); with Roger Donaldson on Thirteen Days (2000) and The World’s Fastest Indian (2005); and with Peter Weir on Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Green Card (1990).
Crittenden was born in Queens on Aug.
Crittenden died Wednesday at her home in Pacific Palisades after a battle with several cancers, fellow casting director Ilene Starger told The Hollywood Reporter.
“Dianne was my mentor, we’ve known each other for 44 years,” Starger said. “She was also my dear friend, more like an older sister, really. So generous, kind, brilliant, funny. A people magnet. Her knowledge of and insight into actors was extraordinary.”
A former head of casting at Warner Bros., Crittenden collaborated with Martin Ritt on Murphy’s Romance (1985) and Stanley & Iris (1990); with Roger Donaldson on Thirteen Days (2000) and The World’s Fastest Indian (2005); and with Peter Weir on Witness (1985), The Mosquito Coast (1986) and Green Card (1990).
Crittenden was born in Queens on Aug.
- 3/21/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
William Lucking, the actor best known for his role as biker Piney Winston on the hit series “Sons of Anarchy,” died on Oct. 18 in his Las Vegas home. Lucking was 80.
“Although William often played toughs and strongmen, in his actual life he was an elegant man with a brilliant intellect who loved to argue about politics and current affairs, discuss philosophy and physics and assert fine-pointed opinions about art and poetry,” his wife Sigrid Insull Lucking wrote in an obituary posted on Facebook by his friend and fellow actor Stephen Macht.
Lucking famously played Samcro member Piermont “Piney” Winston on 35 episodes of Kurt Sutter’s FX crime drama “Sons of Anarchy,” from the start of the series through the fourth season (2008 to 2011).
Some more of Lucking’s most notable roles include Army Col. Lynch on “The A-Team” from 1983 to 1984, as well as Bajoran Furel on three episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
“Although William often played toughs and strongmen, in his actual life he was an elegant man with a brilliant intellect who loved to argue about politics and current affairs, discuss philosophy and physics and assert fine-pointed opinions about art and poetry,” his wife Sigrid Insull Lucking wrote in an obituary posted on Facebook by his friend and fellow actor Stephen Macht.
Lucking famously played Samcro member Piermont “Piney” Winston on 35 episodes of Kurt Sutter’s FX crime drama “Sons of Anarchy,” from the start of the series through the fourth season (2008 to 2011).
Some more of Lucking’s most notable roles include Army Col. Lynch on “The A-Team” from 1983 to 1984, as well as Bajoran Furel on three episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine...
- 11/4/2021
- by Katie Song
- Variety Film + TV
Native American actor Saginaw Grant, who was best known recently for his role in “Breaking Bad,” died in his sleep of natural causes in a private care facility in Hollywood on Wednesday. He was 85.
“He loved both Oklahoma and L.A.,” Carmichael said. “He made his home here as an actor, but he never forgot his roots in Oklahoma. He remained a fan of the Sooner Nation,” Lani Carmichael, Grant’s publicist, said in a statement.
Grant, who began his acting in the 1980, was known for films including “The World’s Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins and as Chief Big Bear in the “The Lone Ranger” starring Johnny Depp. He also appeared in several TV series, “Veep,” “Community,” “Breaking Bad” and “Shameless” among them.
Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, in 1936, Grant was a US Marine Corps veteran and remained active in the veterans community. As the hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma,...
“He loved both Oklahoma and L.A.,” Carmichael said. “He made his home here as an actor, but he never forgot his roots in Oklahoma. He remained a fan of the Sooner Nation,” Lani Carmichael, Grant’s publicist, said in a statement.
Grant, who began his acting in the 1980, was known for films including “The World’s Fastest Indian” with Anthony Hopkins and as Chief Big Bear in the “The Lone Ranger” starring Johnny Depp. He also appeared in several TV series, “Veep,” “Community,” “Breaking Bad” and “Shameless” among them.
Born in Pawnee, Oklahoma, in 1936, Grant was a US Marine Corps veteran and remained active in the veterans community. As the hereditary chief of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma,...
- 7/31/2021
- by Antoinette Siu
- The Wrap
Saginaw Grant, the esteemed Native American character actor known for turns in The Lone Ranger, The World’s Fastest Indian and more, died on Wednesday at a private care facility in Hollywood, California. He was 85.
Grant’s publicist and longtime friend, Lani Carmichael, confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying that he died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes.
The actor was born July 20, 1936, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, amassing nearly 60 credits in film and TV, starting in the late 1980s. The first film he appeared in was Franc Roddam’s 1988 action drama War Party, which starred Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon and more.
Grant was perhaps best known on the film side for turns in Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger. He appeared in the former opposite Anthony Hopkins; in the latter, he shared the screen with Johnny Depp.
Grant’s early TV...
Grant’s publicist and longtime friend, Lani Carmichael, confirmed his death to the Associated Press, saying that he died peacefully in his sleep of natural causes.
The actor was born July 20, 1936, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, amassing nearly 60 credits in film and TV, starting in the late 1980s. The first film he appeared in was Franc Roddam’s 1988 action drama War Party, which starred Billy Wirth, Kevin Dillon and more.
Grant was perhaps best known on the film side for turns in Roger Donaldson’s The World’s Fastest Indian and Gore Verbinski’s The Lone Ranger. He appeared in the former opposite Anthony Hopkins; in the latter, he shared the screen with Johnny Depp.
Grant’s early TV...
- 7/31/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Saginaw Grant, the Native American actor who worked alongside Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger and with Anthony Hopkins in The World’s Fastest Indian, has died. He was 85.
Grant died Wednesday in his sleep of natural causes at a private care facility in Hollywood, his publicist and friend Lani Carmichael told the Associated Press. “His motto in life was always respect one another and don’t talk about one another in a negative way,” she said.
Grant had a recurring role on the 1993-94 CBS series Harts of the West, starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, and his character ...
Grant died Wednesday in his sleep of natural causes at a private care facility in Hollywood, his publicist and friend Lani Carmichael told the Associated Press. “His motto in life was always respect one another and don’t talk about one another in a negative way,” she said.
Grant had a recurring role on the 1993-94 CBS series Harts of the West, starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, and his character ...
- 7/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Saginaw Grant, the Native American actor who worked alongside Johnny Depp in The Lone Ranger and with Anthony Hopkins in The World’s Fastest Indian, has died. He was 85.
Grant died Wednesday in his sleep of natural causes at a private care facility in Hollywood, his publicist and friend Lani Carmichael told the Associated Press. “His motto in life was always respect one another and don’t talk about one another in a negative way,” she said.
Grant had a recurring role on the 1993-94 CBS series Harts of the West, starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, and his character ...
Grant died Wednesday in his sleep of natural causes at a private care facility in Hollywood, his publicist and friend Lani Carmichael told the Associated Press. “His motto in life was always respect one another and don’t talk about one another in a negative way,” she said.
Grant had a recurring role on the 1993-94 CBS series Harts of the West, starring Beau Bridges and his father, Lloyd Bridges, and his character ...
- 7/30/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
If you thought you’d seen it all when it came to Superheroes, the mega hit series ‘The Boys’ by Amazon Prime Original series made everyone eat humble pie. The series offers an alternative take on the superhero world and the way they are perceived in a way beyond your wildest imagination.
Set in a world where the multi-billion corporation Vought has their own brand of superheroes called The Seven or Supes, who have undisputed power over the public, politicians and the truth, we see a band of people team up to put them in their place and revolt against injustice.
After a phenomenal season 1, The Boys are ready to rock in season 2 with new episodes being dropped every Friday on Amazon Prime Video. With a third season already on the cards, it appears as though the show's incredible cast is going to be around for a very long time.
Set in a world where the multi-billion corporation Vought has their own brand of superheroes called The Seven or Supes, who have undisputed power over the public, politicians and the truth, we see a band of people team up to put them in their place and revolt against injustice.
After a phenomenal season 1, The Boys are ready to rock in season 2 with new episodes being dropped every Friday on Amazon Prime Video. With a third season already on the cards, it appears as though the show's incredible cast is going to be around for a very long time.
- 9/10/2020
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
Always be wary of claims of “first” or “only.” Such is the case with brand-new streaming platform Documentary Plus+, which announced this summer that it would be “the first of its kind to focus exclusively on documentary films.” The venture comes from Xtr, the well-financed Los Angeles-based nonfiction film and television studio that Oscar-nominated documentary short producer Bryn Mooser (“Lifeboat”) launched last year.
Xtr, which took five co-financed films to Sundance 2020 — including well-received docs “Feels Good Man,” “Mucho Mucho Amor,” and “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” — plans to roll out Documentary Plus+ this fall; a representative said they’re hoping for the end of September.
Billed as a “highly curated documentary streaming service,” Documentary Plus+ aims to “provide audiences with the best in documentary film and further serve as a permanent home for the work of nonfiction filmmakers along with added distribution and amplification of their projects across all social channels.
Xtr, which took five co-financed films to Sundance 2020 — including well-received docs “Feels Good Man,” “Mucho Mucho Amor,” and “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets” — plans to roll out Documentary Plus+ this fall; a representative said they’re hoping for the end of September.
Billed as a “highly curated documentary streaming service,” Documentary Plus+ aims to “provide audiences with the best in documentary film and further serve as a permanent home for the work of nonfiction filmmakers along with added distribution and amplification of their projects across all social channels.
- 8/20/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Roger Donaldson, whose long career in Hollywood has encompassed movies including The Bounty, Species, Cocktail, Dante’s Peak and The World’s Fastest Indian, is attached to direct the German-produced and Vietnam-set TV series Nhiem.
The show comes from local producers Carte blanche International, which is at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin with its feature film Merkel, about the German premier, which Paramount is releasing locally.
Heinrich Hadding, who wrote the 2009 feature Pope Joan, is penning the screenplay with David Wenham and John Goodman. The series will follow titular character Nhiem, a 19-year-old film student who is forced to leave his studies and join the Vietnam War, eventually becoming the Viet Cong’s documentary eye.
Producers are Carte Blanche International’s Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner. Director Donaldson and van Dülmen previously collaborated on The World’s Fastest Indian starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd.
Donaldson most...
The show comes from local producers Carte blanche International, which is at this week’s European Film Market in Berlin with its feature film Merkel, about the German premier, which Paramount is releasing locally.
Heinrich Hadding, who wrote the 2009 feature Pope Joan, is penning the screenplay with David Wenham and John Goodman. The series will follow titular character Nhiem, a 19-year-old film student who is forced to leave his studies and join the Vietnam War, eventually becoming the Viet Cong’s documentary eye.
Producers are Carte Blanche International’s Alexander van Dülmen and Stephan Wagner. Director Donaldson and van Dülmen previously collaborated on The World’s Fastest Indian starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Diane Ladd.
Donaldson most...
- 2/23/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Transmission Films has formed a new venture to manage its film distribution activities in New Zealand..
Transmission Films New Zealand (Tmfnz) will be headed by Michael Eldred in the role of general manager.
He will oversee all of Transmission.s interests in New Zealand..
Eldred will work in close association with Sony Pictures New Zealand, the current home media sub-distributor for Transmission films..
Under a new arrangement, Sony will also handle the booking of Transmission.s theatrical releases under direction from, and in co-ordination with, Tmfnz..
The move consolidates Transmission.s activities in the New Zealand market, where they have been releasing films with various local partners since 2008..
Over the intervening period the company has invested in and brought over 75 films to New Zealand audiences, including such successful local films as Boy, The Dark Horse, The Dead Lands, The Orator and Slow West..
Tmfnz under Eldred signals Transmission.s major...
Transmission Films New Zealand (Tmfnz) will be headed by Michael Eldred in the role of general manager.
He will oversee all of Transmission.s interests in New Zealand..
Eldred will work in close association with Sony Pictures New Zealand, the current home media sub-distributor for Transmission films..
Under a new arrangement, Sony will also handle the booking of Transmission.s theatrical releases under direction from, and in co-ordination with, Tmfnz..
The move consolidates Transmission.s activities in the New Zealand market, where they have been releasing films with various local partners since 2008..
Over the intervening period the company has invested in and brought over 75 films to New Zealand audiences, including such successful local films as Boy, The Dark Horse, The Dead Lands, The Orator and Slow West..
Tmfnz under Eldred signals Transmission.s major...
- 12/3/2015
- by Inside Film Correspondent
- IF.com.au
Roger Donaldson is attached to direct two projects, a feature doc and a feature, inspired by the lives of two famous Kiwis.
McLaren will profile Bruce McLaren, the Formula One champion who won the Us Grand Prix when he was 23, the youngest ever to do so.
The Guinea Pig Club will chronicle the story of renegade plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, who revolutionised the treatment of burns victims during WW2.
The New Zealand Film Commission has offered conditional investment to both projects. Donaldson has already shot some footage for McLaren, using Nzfc development funds.
The Nzfc is also co-funding The Patriarch, just the second Kiwi feature from director Lee Tamahori, who broke through with Once Were Warriors in 1994.
Due to shoot on March 24, the drama is scripted by John Collee, based on Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha. The protagonist is the youngest son of a huge extended Maori family of shearers,...
McLaren will profile Bruce McLaren, the Formula One champion who won the Us Grand Prix when he was 23, the youngest ever to do so.
The Guinea Pig Club will chronicle the story of renegade plastic surgeon Sir Archibald McIndoe, who revolutionised the treatment of burns victims during WW2.
The New Zealand Film Commission has offered conditional investment to both projects. Donaldson has already shot some footage for McLaren, using Nzfc development funds.
The Nzfc is also co-funding The Patriarch, just the second Kiwi feature from director Lee Tamahori, who broke through with Once Were Warriors in 1994.
Due to shoot on March 24, the drama is scripted by John Collee, based on Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera's novel Bulibasha. The protagonist is the youngest son of a huge extended Maori family of shearers,...
- 2/3/2015
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
The New Zealand Film Commission is getting out of the business of selling feature films and shorts internationally as part of a wide revamp of the agency.s structure and mission.
The Nzfc will seek to place the new and recent films it represents with sales agents and is hiring a consultant with sales experience to manage the transition. That process will start on April 1.
The organisation, which has 129 films under its care, will continue to handle sales of at least some of the older titles. The Commission has sold the films it produced or invested in for more than 40 years, including An Angel at My Table, Bad Taste, Vigil, Once Were Warriors, Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, The Navigator, The World's Fastest Indian and, more recently, Black Sheep, Eagle vs Shark, Two Little Boys and Fresh Meat.
Lindsay Shelton, who served as marketing director from its inception in 1979 until 2001, was...
The Nzfc will seek to place the new and recent films it represents with sales agents and is hiring a consultant with sales experience to manage the transition. That process will start on April 1.
The organisation, which has 129 films under its care, will continue to handle sales of at least some of the older titles. The Commission has sold the films it produced or invested in for more than 40 years, including An Angel at My Table, Bad Taste, Vigil, Once Were Warriors, Sleeping Dogs, Smash Palace, The Navigator, The World's Fastest Indian and, more recently, Black Sheep, Eagle vs Shark, Two Little Boys and Fresh Meat.
Lindsay Shelton, who served as marketing director from its inception in 1979 until 2001, was...
- 3/7/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
We're getting to know The Film Experience community one-by-one. Today we're talking to Morgan Borthwick from New Zealand. We've never been but it's on our brains due to Jane Campion's stunning miniseries "Top of the Lake". Here's Morgan.
Hi, Morgan. Do you love Jane Campion? (Please note: There is only one correct answer to this question)
Morgan: Of course! She understands film is as much art as it is storytelling and I could rhapsodise all day about her many gifts. As a director, I love what she does with her actresses, particularly Barbara Hershey who is beyond superlatives in Portrait of a Lady, Abby Cornish in Bright Star and Elizabeth Moss in Top of the Lake, making me forget Peggy of Mad Men ever existed. She should have two best director nominations by now at least, but that's a gripe for another time about the academy and their "we've nominated you once,...
Hi, Morgan. Do you love Jane Campion? (Please note: There is only one correct answer to this question)
Morgan: Of course! She understands film is as much art as it is storytelling and I could rhapsodise all day about her many gifts. As a director, I love what she does with her actresses, particularly Barbara Hershey who is beyond superlatives in Portrait of a Lady, Abby Cornish in Bright Star and Elizabeth Moss in Top of the Lake, making me forget Peggy of Mad Men ever existed. She should have two best director nominations by now at least, but that's a gripe for another time about the academy and their "we've nominated you once,...
- 4/29/2013
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
For many across the United States it's spring break, that blissful time of year where we toss aside our responsibilities, grab the suntan lotion and a bathing suit, and travel to an exotic.or at the very least notably warmer.locale to let loose! Spring break forever and all that. Of course, amid the carefree frivolity, drunken debauchery, and sunny snapshots, there can be room for terrible tragedy. And that dark possibility is what lies at the center of the new trailer.via The Playlist--for Wish You Were Here. The Australian thriller begins with a vacation, then spins into a neo-noir that got bloggers buzzing at its Sundance debut in 2012. Joel Edgerton (Animal Kingdom) stars as one of four friends who head out for a carefree holiday in Cambodia. But when one of their group (The World's Fastest Indian's Anthony Starr) goes missing, they return home stuck deep in...
- 3/27/2013
- cinemablend.com
Picture the film equivalent of one of those dodgy auctions in a hollowed-out high street store where punters bid for what is described as genuine designer perfume. Studios and production companies have been competing to win a package that promises to bring the compelling story of racing half-brothers Walt and Art Arfons to life with Ryan Reynolds starring and Jon Favreau directing.New Regency is currently in final negotiations for Battle For Bonneville, which would also feature a script by Dan Gilroy, who co-wrote The Bourne Legacy with younger bro Tony.The half-brothers were obsessed with drag racing, and built their first vehicle together, the Green Monster. They would go on to compete both together and against one another through the years.But Art yearned to also break a land speed record, and utilised jet-powered cars and would snatch the land speed record three times between 1964 and 1965 with his Green...
- 10/14/2012
- EmpireOnline
Ahead of the release of British cop thriller Blitz in UK cinemas, we caught up with film editor John Gilbert to discuss his work on the film and much, much more…
In the lengthy, frequently difficult collaborative process of movie making, the vital role of the film editor is sometimes overlooked. An "invisible art", as one New York Times writer once described it, it's the film editor's task to sculpt what can amount to dozens of hours' footage into a coherent narrative.
It was particularly fascinating, then, to get the chance to talk to seasoned film editor, John Gilbert, whose recent project, Blitz, is out in UK cinemas this week. We spoke to him about the process of editing this British cop thriller into its lean current form, directing pick-up shots, and working with Jason Statham, as well as his wider career to date, which includes the epic Fellowship Of...
In the lengthy, frequently difficult collaborative process of movie making, the vital role of the film editor is sometimes overlooked. An "invisible art", as one New York Times writer once described it, it's the film editor's task to sculpt what can amount to dozens of hours' footage into a coherent narrative.
It was particularly fascinating, then, to get the chance to talk to seasoned film editor, John Gilbert, whose recent project, Blitz, is out in UK cinemas this week. We spoke to him about the process of editing this British cop thriller into its lean current form, directing pick-up shots, and working with Jason Statham, as well as his wider career to date, which includes the epic Fellowship Of...
- 5/19/2011
- Den of Geek
...and if you thought that it was only the 'lucky' Freida Pinto who's cashing and bagging in all the big Hollywood films, then you better re-think because here's why! So what's the first thing a journalist would do when he hears the 'Breaking News' coming all the way from Hollywood? We all know, don't we? Well, I happened to text my dear friend Anil Kapoor. Read on! Breaking News has just come in from the other side of the ocean that acclaimed director / writer Roger Donaldson (Hungry Rabbit Jumps, The Bank Job, The Recruit) has locked in his next directorial project titled Cities which will star Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Clive Owen (Duplicity, Inside Man, Children Of Men, Closer) and our very own Anil Kapoor. This is Anil Kapoor's second big Hollywood film that he has bagged after getting famous in the West with his Oscar winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.
- 5/4/2011
- by Devansh Patel
- BollywoodHungama
Filed under: Movie News
TV star David Boreanaz will make good use of his 'Bones' hiatus downtime to take a leading role in the indie feature 'Officer Down,' a paranormal thriller that stars Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang, James Woods and AnnaLynne McCord. Here's the film's story line, according to Deadline: When a doctor and security guard dream at night, their dreams consist of what the other person did during the day. They meet when the security guard murders his wife, is then hit by a car and brought into the doctor's emergency room. Boreanaz will play a humorless, ambitious rival detective to a cop played by Dorff. The film, the first feature for director Brian A. Miller, begins shooting in Connecticut this week.
Aussie director Roger Donaldson ('The Bank Job,' 'The Recruit' and 'The World's Fastest Indian') will direct 'Cities,...
TV star David Boreanaz will make good use of his 'Bones' hiatus downtime to take a leading role in the indie feature 'Officer Down,' a paranormal thriller that stars Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang, James Woods and AnnaLynne McCord. Here's the film's story line, according to Deadline: When a doctor and security guard dream at night, their dreams consist of what the other person did during the day. They meet when the security guard murders his wife, is then hit by a car and brought into the doctor's emergency room. Boreanaz will play a humorless, ambitious rival detective to a cop played by Dorff. The film, the first feature for director Brian A. Miller, begins shooting in Connecticut this week.
Aussie director Roger Donaldson ('The Bank Job,' 'The Recruit' and 'The World's Fastest Indian') will direct 'Cities,...
- 5/4/2011
- by Harley W. Lond
- Moviefone
The Pillars Of The Earth. Dave's One Night Stand. Mark Gatiss. Buzzcocks. Sanctuary. The Inbetweeners. Movies. It's a busy week of British telly ahead...
For the second week running, there's a lot to get through over the next seven days of UK telly, so we'll be short and, hopefully, sweet in helping you set your reminders early.
8 Out Of 10 Cats bids farewell to Tellyville tonight, Friday, October 15th at 10:00pm on Channel 4. The show, hosted by Jimmy Carr with team captains Sean Lock and Jason Manford, will, no doubt, get the groans going amid the giggles, with this week's guest comedians Rufus Hound and Russell Kane seeing the current series out.
The Pillars Of The Earth debuts on Saturday, October 16th at 9:00pm on Channel 4. The mini-series, set in 12th century England, stars Donald Sutherland, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Hayley Atwell and looks like a...
For the second week running, there's a lot to get through over the next seven days of UK telly, so we'll be short and, hopefully, sweet in helping you set your reminders early.
8 Out Of 10 Cats bids farewell to Tellyville tonight, Friday, October 15th at 10:00pm on Channel 4. The show, hosted by Jimmy Carr with team captains Sean Lock and Jason Manford, will, no doubt, get the groans going amid the giggles, with this week's guest comedians Rufus Hound and Russell Kane seeing the current series out.
The Pillars Of The Earth debuts on Saturday, October 16th at 9:00pm on Channel 4. The mini-series, set in 12th century England, stars Donald Sutherland, Ian McShane, Rufus Sewell and Hayley Atwell and looks like a...
- 10/14/2010
- Den of Geek
Tonight's Hollywood's Top Ten takes a look at the best motorcycle scenes on the big screen. Which movies made the list? Find out in the clip below. Then tune in tonight at 8:00 Pm Et / 5:00 Pm Pt to see the full episode, or catch one of its encore showings. ReelzChannel is 299 on Dish, 238 on DirecTV, and available on your cable system.
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Hollywood's Top Ten | The World's Fastest Indian | Tomorrow Never Dies | Terminator 2: Judgment Day | The Dark Knight | The Matrix Reloaded | Easy Rider | The Great Escape | The Bourne Ultimatum | The Wild One | Mission: Impossible 2...
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- 7/26/2010
- by reelz reelz
- Reelzchannel.com
Jennifer Carpenter, once a scream-queen in The Exorcism of Emily Rose and these days best known for playing Dexter's sister (and off-screen wife), has signed up to star in Hungry Rabbit Jumps, where she'll appear alongside Nicolas Cage, January Jones and Guy Pearce.Directed by the underrated Roger Donaldson, the story sees Cage join a vigilante organisation after his wife (played by Jones) becomes a victim of crime. Carpenter would play Jones' best friend.This all raises a few questions. How did Cage's character persuade the gorgeous Jones to marry him instead of Don Draper? What is Pearce's role in all this? Why do we keep trying to write "Garner" instead of "Carpenter" here? And has Donaldson, director of ace-film-cripped-by-a-bad-title The World's Fastest Indian, surpassed himself here in the inappropriate title stakes? Surely someone will change it before release, right?In any case, it's all based on a script...
- 12/14/2009
- EmpireOnline
On its blog Heat Vision, The Hollywood Reporter writes that Nicolas Cage has signed on to star in the upcoming thriller Hungry Rabbit Jumps. The news comes just one week after the announcement that Cage would star in another revenge flick, Drive Angry.
Hungry Rabbit Jumps is being directed by Roger Donaldson, who also helmed Thirteen Days, The Recruit, and The World's Fastest Indian. The script by Robert Tannen involves a man who becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization after his wife falls victim to a brutal crime.
Tobey Maguire is acting as one of the movie's producers (through his company, Maguire Entertainment), and the movie is reportedly scheduled to begin filming in New Orleans this coming January. Also producing is Jim Stern of Endgame, who commented briefly on the project:
As a company, we've been wanting to do a thriller for a long time ... In the best of the Hitchcockian tradition,...
Hungry Rabbit Jumps is being directed by Roger Donaldson, who also helmed Thirteen Days, The Recruit, and The World's Fastest Indian. The script by Robert Tannen involves a man who becomes entangled with an underground vigilante organization after his wife falls victim to a brutal crime.
Tobey Maguire is acting as one of the movie's producers (through his company, Maguire Entertainment), and the movie is reportedly scheduled to begin filming in New Orleans this coming January. Also producing is Jim Stern of Endgame, who commented briefly on the project:
As a company, we've been wanting to do a thriller for a long time ... In the best of the Hitchcockian tradition,...
- 9/8/2009
- by Rich Z Zwelling
- Reelzchannel.com
Roger Donaldson, the man behind The World's Fastest Indian* and The Bank Job, is in talks to direct Umbra, which is being described as a paranoid thriller.Of course, that's all it's being described as, since further plot details are still under wraps. Steven Karczynski wrote the script, which doesn't give us much to go on. A quick google search, however, reveals that Umbra is either a "worldwide leader in original, casual, contemporary, affordable design for the home" based in Toronto, or a word meaning the darkest part of the shadow. Hmm, we're not sure which would make us more paranoid: darkness, or the prospect of shopping for furniture.Donaldson previously directed paranoid thrillers No Way Out and The Recruit, so this isn't too much of a stretch for him and would, we're guessing, come behind The Day They Stole The Mona Lisa on his To Do list.*Better than...
- 5/26/2009
- EmpireOnline
Roger Donaldson, the director behind The World's Fastest Indian, is headed back to the screen with The Day They Stole The Mona Lisa, about the daring heist of Da Vinci's painting from the Louvre in 1911.Based on the 1981 book of the same name by Seymour Reit, the story is based around the real-life theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, a loss which made it the most famous painting in the world. Con man Eduardo de Valfierno, transporting six forgeries of the painting around the world before arranging for the real thing to be stolen. He didn't even bother picking up the real deal from his accomplice, just sold the six fakes to dealers instead, confident that they wouldn't turn him in to police. The real Da Vinci was turned in to police a couple of years later.There's no word on a screenwriter or cast yet, but Donaldson already proved...
- 4/29/2009
- EmpireOnline
Roger Donaldson, who most recently directed the Jason Statham film The Bank Job, is set to helm another fact-based heist flick. The filmmaker, Phoenix Pictures and Robert Chartoff are teaming for a screen adaptation of Seymour Reit’s book The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa. The book centers on the theft of the world's most famous painting from the Louvre in 1911. It was missing for more than two years before an Italian carpenter named Vincent Perugia showed up with the painting in Florence. The film will center on the conman who masterminded the theft. Mike Medavoy and Chartoff will produce with Lynn Hendee and Phoenix's Arnie Messer, Brad Fischer and David Thwaites. Phoenix is in post-production on the Martin Scorsese-directed Leonardo DiCaprio thriller Shutter Island. Donaldson’s previous credits include The World's Fastest Indian, The Recruit, Thirteen Days, Dante's Peak, Species and the 80s Tom Cruise comedy Cocktail.
- 4/29/2009
- by James Cook
- TheMovingPicture.net
Sir Anthony Hopkins is to play revered author and adventurer Ernest Hemingway in a new movie, directed by Andy Garcia.
The Welsh actor, who has played real-life figures in Nixon, Surviving Picasso, Amistad and The World's Fastest Indian, will play Hemingway in independent movie Hemingway & Fuentes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Garcia co-wrote the script with Hemingway’s niece, author Hilary Hemingway. He will star opposite Hopkins - as fishing-boat captain Gregorio Fuentes, who befriended the writer in the last decade of his life.
Fuentes is reportedly the inspiration behind Hemingway’s Santiago character in his beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning tale The Old Man and the Sea.
Annette Bening is in talks to play Hemingway’s wife Mary Welsh, according to the publication.
The Welsh actor, who has played real-life figures in Nixon, Surviving Picasso, Amistad and The World's Fastest Indian, will play Hemingway in independent movie Hemingway & Fuentes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Garcia co-wrote the script with Hemingway’s niece, author Hilary Hemingway. He will star opposite Hopkins - as fishing-boat captain Gregorio Fuentes, who befriended the writer in the last decade of his life.
Fuentes is reportedly the inspiration behind Hemingway’s Santiago character in his beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning tale The Old Man and the Sea.
Annette Bening is in talks to play Hemingway’s wife Mary Welsh, according to the publication.
- 3/25/2009
- WENN
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Homegrown films kept the New Zealand boxoffice buoyant in the first half of 2006, helping it to notch up NZ$146.4 million ($101 million) for the year.
That figure was down marginally from 2005's NZ$146.8 million ($101.3 million) but reported as a "particularly impressive" result by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of New Zealand, which cited the lack of big hits with Kiwi links like the previous year's King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The World's Fastest Indian.
However, independent New Zealand movies contributed about 10% of the boxoffice total in the first six months, MPDA president Andrew Cornwell said in an interview. "They kept it at a good level relative to other markets around the world," he said.
Among them was Sione's Wedding, which grossed NZ$4.1 million ($3.2 million) to finish in fifth place. The top four grossers were Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with NZ$7 million ($4.8 million), The Da Vinci Code ($3.6 million), Ice Age 2 ($3.3 million) and Casino Royale ($2.8 million).
That figure was down marginally from 2005's NZ$146.8 million ($101.3 million) but reported as a "particularly impressive" result by the Motion Picture Distributors Association of New Zealand, which cited the lack of big hits with Kiwi links like the previous year's King Kong, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and The World's Fastest Indian.
However, independent New Zealand movies contributed about 10% of the boxoffice total in the first six months, MPDA president Andrew Cornwell said in an interview. "They kept it at a good level relative to other markets around the world," he said.
Among them was Sione's Wedding, which grossed NZ$4.1 million ($3.2 million) to finish in fifth place. The top four grossers were Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest with NZ$7 million ($4.8 million), The Da Vinci Code ($3.6 million), Ice Age 2 ($3.3 million) and Casino Royale ($2.8 million).
- 1/25/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The World's Fastest Indian star Anthony Hopkins is racing to The City of Your Final Destination. According to Production Weekly, the actor will join Laura Linney, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Omar Metwally in James Ivory's feature adaptation of Peter Cameron's novel about a young grad student who travels to South America to write a biography about his favorite author. Hopkins will take on the role of the late author's brother, who is none-to-pleased with the student's writing plans. The move marks Hopkins' fourth collaboration with Ivory. The pair worked together previously on Howards End, The Remains of the Day and Surviving Picasso. Oscar-winning scribe Ruth Prawer Jhabvala will pen Destination, which is scheduled to shoot later this month in Argentina and the U.S.
- 11/7/2006
- IMDbPro News
SYDNEY -- Nominations in an additional three international categories at the upcoming Australian Film Institute Awards were announced Monday by AFI president James Hewison.
Aimed at recognizing the achievements of Australians in internationally produced film and television, the additional categories were added to the AFI awards roster several years ago and join the nominations in film and TV categories announced last month.
Nominees in the AFI International Award for Best Actor for 2006 include Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain, Eric Bana (Munich), Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta) and Anthony LaPaglia (Winter Solstice).
In the best actress category, Toni Collette (In Her Shoes) goes up against Naomi Watts (King Kong), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under).
AFI International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking nominations include Donald McAlpine (cinematography for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"); Roger Ford (production design for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"); Dion Beebe (cinematography for Memoirs of a Geisha) and Roger Donaldson (producing/direction/screenplay for The World's Fastest Indian).
Aimed at recognizing the achievements of Australians in internationally produced film and television, the additional categories were added to the AFI awards roster several years ago and join the nominations in film and TV categories announced last month.
Nominees in the AFI International Award for Best Actor for 2006 include Heath Ledger for Brokeback Mountain, Eric Bana (Munich), Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta) and Anthony LaPaglia (Winter Solstice).
In the best actress category, Toni Collette (In Her Shoes) goes up against Naomi Watts (King Kong), Radha Mitchell (Silent Hill) and Rachel Griffiths (Six Feet Under).
AFI International Award for Excellence in Filmmaking nominations include Donald McAlpine (cinematography for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"); Roger Ford (production design for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"); Dion Beebe (cinematography for Memoirs of a Geisha) and Roger Donaldson (producing/direction/screenplay for The World's Fastest Indian).
- 11/7/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
LONDON -- British-based indie distributor Icon Film Distribution on Wednesday said it has set up its own U.K. home entertainment division and hired former HMV chief Ian Dawson to spearhead the unit. Dawson, most recently HMV head of DVD and related products, will take up his new post at the beginning of October and will report to Icon U.K. CEO Martin Bigham, the company said. The new London-based division replaces previous deals Icon has struck with Warner Bros. in the U.K. to handle home video titles, a spokesperson said. The last films released through Icon's deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment were The World's Fastest Indian and Romance and Cigarettes.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Films directed by New Zealanders helped to rescue the Kiwi boxoffice last year. According to figures released Tuesday by the Movie Producers and Distributors Assn., those films grossed NZ$146.8 million ($99.8 million) here compared with NZ$152.8 million in 2004. MPDA executive director Bill Hood said there was a resurgence in the last quarter of 2005, when the boxoffice was up 26% from the same period a year ago because of releases with strong Kiwi links: Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian, Peter Jackson's King Kong and Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe, all of which were filmed here.
Tommy Lee Jones' The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and Roger Donaldson's The World's Fastest Indian have been selected for the two centerpiece galas at AFI Fest 2005. Burials will screen Nov. 7 at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, with Indian following Nov. 8 at the ArcLight Cinerama Dome in Hollywood. The fest runs Nov. 3-13 and is headquartered at the ArcLight Cinemas.
- 10/6/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Expatriate director Roger Donaldson's first New Zealand movie in more than 20 years, The World's Fastest Indian, will have its world premiere Oct. 12 in the small Kiwi town of Invercargill, where much of it was shot, the film's domestic distributors REP/Becker announced Monday. REP/Becker's John Hart expects the strategy, which also includes other premieres at regional centers, to create "tremendous" word of mouth and tips the Anthony Hopkins starrer to gross $NZ6 million to $NZ9 million ($4-6 million) in a territory where the year's biggest hit, Star Wars: Episode 3 -- Revenge of the Sith, has grossed $NZ5.6 million ($3.75 million) to date.
- 7/12/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
WELLINGTON -- The New Zealand government will not recapitalize the funding initiative that spawned Whale Rider and Roger Donaldson's new movie, The World's Fastest Indian, Prime Minister Helen Clark has told the country's principal funding agency, the New Zealand Film Commission. In an April 11 letter obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Clark said the extra $NZ10 million ($7.3 million) per annum allocated to the commission last year should be enough to cover bigger-budget movies that traditionally were beyond the commission's scope and have become the domain of the Film Fund. The notification, which has yet to be made public, follows months of intensive lobbying by filmmakers and the commission, in the expectation that a government in election-year mode would top up the $NZ22 million Film Fund which has generated about $NZ90 million ($65.7 million) worth of production.
- 4/26/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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