It might be redundant to say that Tom Hardy is an actor who has worn many masks — that's kind of his job, right? But there is something to be said of the extent to which he morphs himself into the characters he plays. After all, Hardy has shown he's in that special category of actors who are willing to sacrifice their bodies at the altar of any role they take. Be it to adopt the chiseled physique of a mixed martial arts fighter in "Warrior" or to create the illusion of a certain beefed-up supervillain in "The Dark Knight Rises." Every role he appears in is distinct, because Hardy never prepares for a part the same way twice.
I once heard someone complain that Liam Neeson was once one of their favorite actors — until they realized he was playing the same version of himself from "Taken" in pretty much every movie he'd released afterwards.
I once heard someone complain that Liam Neeson was once one of their favorite actors — until they realized he was playing the same version of himself from "Taken" in pretty much every movie he'd released afterwards.
- 9/8/2022
- by Steven Ward
- Slash Film
Anna Gross, a producer and film executive who collaborated with Dino De Laurentiis, Sydney Pollack, Bernd Eichinger and Vittorio Cecchi Gori, has died. She was 68.
Gross died July 23 of cancer in Twentynine Palms, California, her cousin Mikie Heilbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
Soon after graduating from Columbia University, Gross began an eight-year stint with De Laurentiis, serving in various capacities on the producer’s films including Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), King Kong (1976), The Shootist (1976), King of the Gypsies (1978) and Ragtime (1981).
As vp production for Pollack, she worked on the director’s The Electric Horseman (1979) and on ...
Gross died July 23 of cancer in Twentynine Palms, California, her cousin Mikie Heilbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
Soon after graduating from Columbia University, Gross began an eight-year stint with De Laurentiis, serving in various capacities on the producer’s films including Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), King Kong (1976), The Shootist (1976), King of the Gypsies (1978) and Ragtime (1981).
As vp production for Pollack, she worked on the director’s The Electric Horseman (1979) and on ...
Anna Gross, a producer and film executive who collaborated with Dino De Laurentiis, Sydney Pollack, Bernd Eichinger and Vittorio Cecchi Gori, has died. She was 68.
Gross died July 23 of cancer in Twentynine Palms, California, her cousin Mikie Heilbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
Soon after graduating from Columbia University, Gross began an eight-year stint with De Laurentiis, serving in various capacities on the producer’s films including Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), King Kong (1976), The Shootist (1976), King of the Gypsies (1978) and Ragtime (1981).
As vp production for Pollack, she worked on the director’s The Electric Horseman (1979) and on ...
Gross died July 23 of cancer in Twentynine Palms, California, her cousin Mikie Heilbrun told The Hollywood Reporter.
Soon after graduating from Columbia University, Gross began an eight-year stint with De Laurentiis, serving in various capacities on the producer’s films including Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), King Kong (1976), The Shootist (1976), King of the Gypsies (1978) and Ragtime (1981).
As vp production for Pollack, she worked on the director’s The Electric Horseman (1979) and on ...
Check out the first trailer that was recently released for the text-based horror game Beyond the Veil from Sun's Shadow Studios. Also in today's Highlights: details on a Maniac screening by Film Noir Cinema and theatrical and VOD release details for Something.
Watch the First Beyond the Veil Game Trailer: "Beyond the Veil is a text-based horror game, with a focus on character-driven storytelling. Drawing on the rich history of New Orleans, the choices you make will not only alter the story, but also the personality of the protagonist."
For more information, visit:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020670/Beyond_The_Veil/
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Maniac Screening Details: "Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
Watch the First Beyond the Veil Game Trailer: "Beyond the Veil is a text-based horror game, with a focus on character-driven storytelling. Drawing on the rich history of New Orleans, the choices you make will not only alter the story, but also the personality of the protagonist."
For more information, visit:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1020670/Beyond_The_Veil/
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Maniac Screening Details: "Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.
- 3/1/2019
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Chicago – Yep, “Eric Roberts is the F**king Man”! That is the name of the podcast, and the mercurial actor recorded it live in front of an audience at Music Box Theatre in Chicago, as part of their Cinepocalypse Film Festival. Roberts’ filmography includes “The Pope of Greenwich Village” (1984), “Cecil B. Demented” (2000), “The Dark Knight” (2008) and “Inherent Vice” (2014).
Eric Roberts is The Man at the Music Box Theatre, Chicago
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Eric Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his younger sibling is Julia Roberts. He began his career on the soap opera “Another World” in 1977, and made his film debut – garnering a Golden Globe nomination – with “King of the Gypsies” (1978). He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1985 for “Runaway Train,’ and starred on Broadway in 1987 in “Burn This!” He is known for his intensity… his catchphrase is “Charlie,...
Eric Roberts is The Man at the Music Box Theatre, Chicago
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com
Eric Roberts was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his younger sibling is Julia Roberts. He began his career on the soap opera “Another World” in 1977, and made his film debut – garnering a Golden Globe nomination – with “King of the Gypsies” (1978). He was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 1985 for “Runaway Train,’ and starred on Broadway in 1987 in “Burn This!” He is known for his intensity… his catchphrase is “Charlie,...
- 11/16/2017
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Halfway through The Patriarch (Mahana), young Simeon (Akuhata Keef) is enjoying a trip to the cinema that he’s fought hard for. His grandfather, Tamihana (Temuera Morrison), who rules undisputed over his extended Maori family, sees him as insubordinate and certainly would prefer the kids don’t “waste money on make-believe.” But Simeon loves westerns, and a town screening of 3:10 to Yuma is too good to pass up. Yet even Glenn Ford and Van Eflin’s march towards that train platform is derailed by intrusions from the real world, with a member of a rival family riding a horse into the cinema and an unexpected kiss opening up new perspectives in the ensuing confusion.
It’s a brief moment of autobiographical fun for director Lee Tamahori, who sprinkles bits of his own New Zealand upbringing on top of this adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
It’s a brief moment of autobiographical fun for director Lee Tamahori, who sprinkles bits of his own New Zealand upbringing on top of this adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel Bulibasha: King of the Gypsies.
- 2/15/2016
- by Tommaso Tocci
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Company will also launch new films from Lee Tamahori, Bouli Lanners and Sylvie Verheyde at Afm.Wild Bunch has boarded Cuban director Alejandro Brugues’s Antonio Banderas-starring New Faith about an American couple whose marriage-saving trip to Cuba lands them in a web of lies, violence, sexual intrigue and deadly double-crossings. “In reality both partners have separate hidden agendas, the dream trip quickly degenerates and the film tips into a genre movie in the vein No Country for Old Men and Blood Simple,” said Wild Bunch co-head Vincent Maraval. Banderas has signed to play a shady American expat fixer who crosses the couple’s path. Casting of the couple is expected to be announced during the Afm this week. It is a second feature for Brugues, whose debut political zombie thriller Juan of the Dead put him on the map as a talent to watch and won several including Spain’s Goya Award for Best...
- 11/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
At the time of its production, Louis Malle’s 1978 title Pretty Baby (the title derived from the Tony Jackson song) was quite the scandal, a period piece frankly depicting child prostitution in turn of the century New Orleans. But like many provocative titles from the period (another being Richard Brooks’ Looking For Mr. Goodbar), decades of suppression has resulted in unavailability and a disappearance from modern cinematic conversations. Recently made available courtesy of the Warner Bros. Archive collection (solely on DVD) this is property begging for a more masterful restoration.
In the Red Lights district of 1917 New Orleans, legal prostitution is on the wane as a surge of conservative, religious rhetoric begins to sweep through the country. Nell (Francis Faye) owns a booming brothel in the famed Storyville district, and one of her most notable employees is Hattie (Susan Sarandon), whose twelve-year-old daughter Violet (Brooke Shields) has grown up within the house.
In the Red Lights district of 1917 New Orleans, legal prostitution is on the wane as a surge of conservative, religious rhetoric begins to sweep through the country. Nell (Francis Faye) owns a booming brothel in the famed Storyville district, and one of her most notable employees is Hattie (Susan Sarandon), whose twelve-year-old daughter Violet (Brooke Shields) has grown up within the house.
- 10/20/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A forgotten gem of the late 1970s comes to Blu-ray for the first time, Frank Pierson’s adaptation of the novel King of the Gypsies. Notable for several reasons, namely as the credited debut for actor Eric Roberts and a star studded cast packed to distraction, this is the kind of pulp oddity often whisked off the shelves of the bestseller list for glossy cinematic reinterpretation. This gypsy saga was based on a novel by Peter Maas, better known as the biographer of Serpico, which resulted in the novel inspiring Sidney Lumet’s classic 1973 film starring Al Pacino. Eventually, Maas’ works, often revolving around sensational true crime treatments, would be adapted mainly for television (including the 1991 Valerie Bertinelli Lifetime film, In a Child’s Name), and this sometimes outlandish antique feels like an exaggerated heirloom in the Harold Robbins’ vein (The Carpetbaggers; The Betsy; The Adventurers), a frumpy comparison...
- 7/28/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
My First R-rated Movie Or…
How I Became The 007 Of Covert Forbidden Film Viewing
By Alex Simon
For those of us who grew up in the suburbs in the pre-home video, pre-cable TV and pre-Netflix coupons 1970s and early ‘80s, there were few dangerous pleasures as heady as sneaking into an R-rated movie at the local multiplex. The multiplex cinema was a ‘70s phenomenon that made regulating children’s viewing habits infinitely more difficult than the old days of stand-alone, single screen theaters. Ironically, the new freedom that filmmakers enjoyed with the advent of the MPAA rating system in late 1968 was almost in perfect synch with the rise of multi-screen cinemas. Some things do happen for a reason.
You never forget your first...
My first R-rated film was during Thanksgiving of 1976. We were visiting my dad’s family in Birmingham, Alabama and the men adjourned after dinner to go see Two Minute Warning,...
How I Became The 007 Of Covert Forbidden Film Viewing
By Alex Simon
For those of us who grew up in the suburbs in the pre-home video, pre-cable TV and pre-Netflix coupons 1970s and early ‘80s, there were few dangerous pleasures as heady as sneaking into an R-rated movie at the local multiplex. The multiplex cinema was a ‘70s phenomenon that made regulating children’s viewing habits infinitely more difficult than the old days of stand-alone, single screen theaters. Ironically, the new freedom that filmmakers enjoyed with the advent of the MPAA rating system in late 1968 was almost in perfect synch with the rise of multi-screen cinemas. Some things do happen for a reason.
You never forget your first...
My first R-rated film was during Thanksgiving of 1976. We were visiting my dad’s family in Birmingham, Alabama and the men adjourned after dinner to go see Two Minute Warning,...
- 3/24/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Hollywood director and screenwriter who won an Oscar for Dog Day Afternoon
In Sunset Boulevard, William Holden's character remarks: "Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along." Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained him Academy Award nominations, with the last of them winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Yet most of the plaudits for Dog Day Afternoon went to Sidney Lumet, the director, and Al Pacino, the star. Pierson, whose work had as much to do with structure and character as dialogue, shaped the script from a Life magazine article about a bungled bank robbery that took place...
In Sunset Boulevard, William Holden's character remarks: "Audiences don't know somebody sits down and writes a picture. They think the actors make it up as they go along." Given the difficulties in quantifying their contributions, screenwriters seldom get the recognition they deserve. Frank Pierson, who has died aged 87, wrote the screenplays for 10 films but his reputation rests on Cat Ballou (1965), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Dog Day Afternoon (1975), all of which gained him Academy Award nominations, with the last of them winning the Oscar for best original screenplay.
Yet most of the plaudits for Dog Day Afternoon went to Sidney Lumet, the director, and Al Pacino, the star. Pierson, whose work had as much to do with structure and character as dialogue, shaped the script from a Life magazine article about a bungled bank robbery that took place...
- 7/26/2012
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Dog Day Afternoon screenwriter Frank Pierson has died at the age of 87. The writer's family confirmed that he passed away on Monday (July 23) following a battle with an undisclosed illness. Pierson made his breakthrough in Hollywood in the late 1950s as a script editor for Have Gun, Will Travel before moving into screenwriting. He earned an Academy Award for the hit Al Pacino film Dog Day Afternoon and also penned Cool Hand Luke, Cat Ballou and Route 66. Pierson later turned to directing, with projects including the 1976 version of A Star Is Born, King of the Gypsies and Conspiracy. He also served as the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2001 to 2005. In recent years, (more)...
- 7/24/2012
- by By Justin Harp
- Digital Spy
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Pierson has passed away at the age of 87. Pierson is best known for his Oscar-nominated screenplays "Cool Hand Luke," "Cat Ballou" and "Dog Day Afternoon," the latter of which won him the gold in 1976. The Hollywood staple also served as President of the Writers Guild of America, from 1981-1983 and again from 1993-1995. More recently, he was President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2001-2005. Born in Chappaqua, New York on May 12, 1925, Pierson began writing for TV shows in 1959 and made his film directorial debut in 1969 with "The Looking Glass War." While he would be lauded for his screenplays, Pierson kept directing features, notably 1976's "A Star Is Born" and "King of the Gypsies" in 1978. In recent years, the filmmaker had been getting back to his television roots; he served as a consulting producer to the hit shows "The Good Wife" and "Mad Men.
- 7/23/2012
- by Jessie Heyman
- Moviefone
Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, Tom Hardy has finally revealed where his inspiration for Bane's accent in The Dark Knight Rises came from. For those of you who may not know, Bartley Gorman (1944 - 2002) was an Irish Traveller who was the undefeated Bare-knuckle boxing champion of the United Kingdom and Ireland, often referred to as the, "King of the Gypsies". He tells the site, "The choice of the accent is actually a man called Bartley Gorman, who was a bare knuckle fighter. A Romani gypsy. Which I wanted to underpin the Latin, but a Romani Latin opposed to Latino. His particular accent is very specific, which was a gypsy accent. So that's why it was difficult to understand. But once you tune into it, you get it. I hope." Make sure to watch the interview for more of Hardy's thoughts on his role in Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated finale...
- 7/17/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Middletown businessman to wed The Young And The Restless star (after accidentally emailing her a picture of the engagement ring)
Stephen L. Hightower II, vice president of Hightowers Petroleum, a company based in Middletown, recently purchased an engagement ring for actress Julia Pace Mitchell, who stars as Sofia Dupre on Y&R. Hightower showed off the ring to his brother and sister who work at the company, and he wanted to do the same to his other sister, Sabrina, who resides in Atlanta. So he took a picture of the ring, and sent an email.
To his girlfriend.
“I had Julia on my mind,” he said with a laugh.
As soon as he hit the “send” button, he realized he had “goofed up,” he said. He made the short drive from his office to his Middletown apartment, where his girlfriend was staying. He hoped she was in the shower and hadn’t read the email.
Stephen L. Hightower II, vice president of Hightowers Petroleum, a company based in Middletown, recently purchased an engagement ring for actress Julia Pace Mitchell, who stars as Sofia Dupre on Y&R. Hightower showed off the ring to his brother and sister who work at the company, and he wanted to do the same to his other sister, Sabrina, who resides in Atlanta. So he took a picture of the ring, and sent an email.
To his girlfriend.
“I had Julia on my mind,” he said with a laugh.
As soon as he hit the “send” button, he realized he had “goofed up,” he said. He made the short drive from his office to his Middletown apartment, where his girlfriend was staying. He hoped she was in the shower and hadn’t read the email.
- 7/11/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Photo by: Syfy
Last year, Hollywood’s fallen angel Mickey Rourke had hisbig time comeback, scooping up awards for his performance in The Wrestler. And,having known what it was like to be down-and-out, he made this public plea ashe accepted his Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor, "Eric Roberts isgreat actor, and you should all give him a break like you did me.”
Rourke’s Pope of Greenwich Village co-star seemed to wince alittle, but he really could use a break. He was after all, once more than justJulia’s brother and Emma’s dad. And with some stellar performances early in hiscareer, it seemed he could have been a contender. He could have been somebody.
So did Tinseltown big wigs listen to Mickey? Well, Robertscertainly has had an interesting year. He was in one of the biggestblockbusters of the year, the has-been-action-star filled flick TheExpendables. He did a...
Last year, Hollywood’s fallen angel Mickey Rourke had hisbig time comeback, scooping up awards for his performance in The Wrestler. And,having known what it was like to be down-and-out, he made this public plea ashe accepted his Independent Spirit Award for Best Actor, "Eric Roberts isgreat actor, and you should all give him a break like you did me.”
Rourke’s Pope of Greenwich Village co-star seemed to wince alittle, but he really could use a break. He was after all, once more than justJulia’s brother and Emma’s dad. And with some stellar performances early in hiscareer, it seemed he could have been a contender. He could have been somebody.
So did Tinseltown big wigs listen to Mickey? Well, Robertscertainly has had an interesting year. He was in one of the biggestblockbusters of the year, the has-been-action-star filled flick TheExpendables. He did a...
- 9/27/2010
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
The most talented of all the Roberts' clan, actor Eric Roberts, has signed up for "Celebrity Rehab." This breaks my heart. Roberts is such a towering inferno of talent and has such an illustrious body of great work to his credit, that the idea he is to share the same air as Janice Dickinson and Jeremy London is sacrilege. He's Eric Roberts! As Mickey Rourke reminds us, he's the effing Man: Now we have to watch Dr. Drew psychoanalyze the man who brought us outstanding roles in "The Dark Knight," "The King of the Gypsies", "Star 80", "The Pope of Greenwich Village," "Runaway Train" (he was nominated for an Oscar in this film) and "Fight Club," and...
- 7/24/2010
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
(Eric Roberts in "Crash," above.)
Rediscovering Roberts
Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For...
Rediscovering Roberts
Eric Roberts never really left, but 2009 audiences are learning (or relearning) the charms of the actor Mickey Rourke has called the best he ever worked with.
By Terry Keefe
(This article is currently appearing in this month's Venice Magazine.)
“Eric Roberts is the [expletive deleted] Man,” proclaimed Mickey Rourke at this past year’s Independent Spirit Awards, while accepting his trophy for Best Male Lead, at the very beginning of a speech which then saw him singling out Roberts, his one-time co-star in 1984’s The Pope of Greenwich Village, as someone who was worthy of a comeback like Rourke had with The Wrestler. From the audience, Roberts himself watched his friend at the podium with what looked to be a combination of embarrassment at being mentioned and some pleasure at the same, finally throwing it back at Rourke by shouting good-naturedly, “Accept your award!” For...
- 11/2/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
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