Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth produced a script for a Cher biopic – but the star has rejected the screenplay. More here.
If we go all the way back to May of 2021, it was reported that Cher had given the idea of a biopic of her life story the go ahead. It was being set up at Universal Pictures, and was being produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, along with Cher. Craymer and Goetzman had produced Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, in which Cher has a memorable cameo.
At that point it was announced that Cher’s “dear dear friend”, screenwriter Eric Roth, had been recruited to pen the screenplay. That’s the Eric Roth who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Forrest Gump, and who recently matched the record for penning the most films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.
Eric Roth is also the latest guest on the Film Stories podcast,...
If we go all the way back to May of 2021, it was reported that Cher had given the idea of a biopic of her life story the go ahead. It was being set up at Universal Pictures, and was being produced by Judy Craymer and Gary Goetzman, along with Cher. Craymer and Goetzman had produced Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, in which Cher has a memorable cameo.
At that point it was announced that Cher’s “dear dear friend”, screenwriter Eric Roth, had been recruited to pen the screenplay. That’s the Eric Roth who won a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Forrest Gump, and who recently matched the record for penning the most films nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award.
Eric Roth is also the latest guest on the Film Stories podcast,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Simon Brew
- Film Stories
2024 really is the year of the Difficult Second Series: after wowing us in 2023 and even earlier, shows like The Tourist, Extraordinary, The Rig, Suspect and Bad Sisters are on the way back for another helping this year, but the question is: will they live up to series one?
In among this, a trio of behemoth shows coming back: Doctor Who will return for series 14, or season one as it’s being styled, the first with Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, Wolf Hall is returning after nine years to cover the late Hilary Mantel’s final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, and dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will return to Netflix for its seventh series. There’s even talk of a prequel series to Red Dwarf, if that comes off.
This is our round-up of the British TV shows we’re most excited to see returning for new...
In among this, a trio of behemoth shows coming back: Doctor Who will return for series 14, or season one as it’s being styled, the first with Fifteenth Doctor Ncuti Gatwa, Wolf Hall is returning after nine years to cover the late Hilary Mantel’s final book in the trilogy, The Mirror and The Light, and dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will return to Netflix for its seventh series. There’s even talk of a prequel series to Red Dwarf, if that comes off.
This is our round-up of the British TV shows we’re most excited to see returning for new...
- 1/4/2024
- by Lauravickersgreen
- Den of Geek
What’s The Story Sounds are delighted to announce some new additions to our talented team!
David Waters has joined us from the production company Novel, while Alex Gatenby has joined us from Folding Pocket.
David will become Wts new ‘Head of Narrative’ – overseeing our production and development of narrative series. David comes with a wealth of experience – he is a multi-award winning journalist and audio producer, specialising in character focussed narrative documentary series, including Suspect, The Superhero Complex, Witness: Borderlands and Deliver Us From Ervil. In his previous role, David established and ran Europe’s largest longform audio documentary department at Novel, leading a team of producers and editors who were responsible to a number of global chart-topping series including The Girlfriends, Harsh Reality, Filthy Ritual and Stolen Hearts.
Alex joins the team as Senior Producer, focused on long-form narrative storytelling. Her past role was as Development Producer with Folding Pocket,...
David Waters has joined us from the production company Novel, while Alex Gatenby has joined us from Folding Pocket.
David will become Wts new ‘Head of Narrative’ – overseeing our production and development of narrative series. David comes with a wealth of experience – he is a multi-award winning journalist and audio producer, specialising in character focussed narrative documentary series, including Suspect, The Superhero Complex, Witness: Borderlands and Deliver Us From Ervil. In his previous role, David established and ran Europe’s largest longform audio documentary department at Novel, leading a team of producers and editors who were responsible to a number of global chart-topping series including The Girlfriends, Harsh Reality, Filthy Ritual and Stolen Hearts.
Alex joins the team as Senior Producer, focused on long-form narrative storytelling. Her past role was as Development Producer with Folding Pocket,...
- 12/19/2023
- Podnews.net
Today sees the DVD release of The Intruder, a new film in which Dennis Quaid plays the ex-owner of a house who doesn’t take too kindly to the new owners when he is forced to sell it. The psychological thriller was directed by Deon Taylor and written by David Loughery and gives Quaid the opportunity to terrify audiences with an intensity which marked out much of his best work. To that end Cai Ross looks back at some of his greatest roles.
For about 20 years, Dennis Quaid was Hollywood’s nearly-man. Following a break-out performance in Peter Yates’s wonderful cycling drama Breaking Away in 1979, it seemed that the world might just have found its new James Dean. Impressive performances in Walter Hill’s familial Western The Long Riders (alongside elder sibling Randy and a host of Keach and Carradine brothers) and Philip Kaufman’s epic space drama The Right Stuff,...
For about 20 years, Dennis Quaid was Hollywood’s nearly-man. Following a break-out performance in Peter Yates’s wonderful cycling drama Breaking Away in 1979, it seemed that the world might just have found its new James Dean. Impressive performances in Walter Hill’s familial Western The Long Riders (alongside elder sibling Randy and a host of Keach and Carradine brothers) and Philip Kaufman’s epic space drama The Right Stuff,...
- 12/2/2019
- by Cai Ross
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at Harmony Gold followed by a Q&a that drew standing ovations for Eastwood and the man he cast as Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser. There also was big applause for co-stars Kathy Bates, who plays Jewell’s mother, Bobbi; Sam Rockwell as his lawyer, Watson Bryant; and Jon Hamm, who plays Tom Shaw (a fictional name representing a number of FBI agents). The real Watson Bryant and Bobbi Jewell were also among those in attendance at the premiere and afterparty.
The four-time Oscar winner for producing and directing Best Picture winners...
The four-time Oscar winner for producing and directing Best Picture winners...
- 11/21/2019
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Hollywood, aiming for more diversity, hopes inclusion riders will help broaden the composition of behind-the-camera crews. But so far, people with disabilities — who comprise nearly 20% of the population — have been left out of the conversation.
David Shore, creator of Sony TV-ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” is one of the few execs who has been scrupulous about giving opportunities to people with disabilities behind the scenes. “These people are incredibly underrepresented in films and TV,” he says. “It’s important to have characters like this on-screen, but it would be hypocritical to put them in front of the camera and not behind. They’re capable of so much, and we should make it possible.”
Though statistics on below-the-line hiring are shockingly low, some individuals are proving that the practice is successful.
James Cude has been working as an editor for 18 years, on series including MTV’s “Suspect” and Syfy’s “Cosplay Melee” and “Haunted Highway,...
David Shore, creator of Sony TV-ABC’s “The Good Doctor,” is one of the few execs who has been scrupulous about giving opportunities to people with disabilities behind the scenes. “These people are incredibly underrepresented in films and TV,” he says. “It’s important to have characters like this on-screen, but it would be hypocritical to put them in front of the camera and not behind. They’re capable of so much, and we should make it possible.”
Though statistics on below-the-line hiring are shockingly low, some individuals are proving that the practice is successful.
James Cude has been working as an editor for 18 years, on series including MTV’s “Suspect” and Syfy’s “Cosplay Melee” and “Haunted Highway,...
- 8/29/2018
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix and Warner Bros. topped the nominations, announced Wednesday, for the Golden Trailer Awards with 61 each.
Winners will be announced May 31 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles with Michelle Buteau (“The Tick”) hosting.
Netflix was represented by work on “Stranger Things” Season 2, “The Crown,” “Icarus,” and “Mudbound,” while Warner Bros. saw nods for “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk,” “It,” “Ocean’s 8,” and “Westworld” Season 2. Fox scored 53 nominations for marketing campaigns including “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “American Horror Story: Cult,” and “Isle of Dogs.”
“The Shape of Water” and “Hitman’s Bodyguard” earned the most nominations of any film with eight each, followed by “Black Panther,” “Thoroughbreds,” and “Westworld,” each with seven nominations.
Top trailer houses were Buddha Jones with 30 nominations, Trailer Park with 29, and Mark Woollen & Associates with 23.
See all the nominees below.
Best Action
Kingsman: The Golden Circle, “Team,” 20th Century Fox,...
Winners will be announced May 31 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles with Michelle Buteau (“The Tick”) hosting.
Netflix was represented by work on “Stranger Things” Season 2, “The Crown,” “Icarus,” and “Mudbound,” while Warner Bros. saw nods for “Wonder Woman,” “Dunkirk,” “It,” “Ocean’s 8,” and “Westworld” Season 2. Fox scored 53 nominations for marketing campaigns including “The Shape of Water,” “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” “American Horror Story: Cult,” and “Isle of Dogs.”
“The Shape of Water” and “Hitman’s Bodyguard” earned the most nominations of any film with eight each, followed by “Black Panther,” “Thoroughbreds,” and “Westworld,” each with seven nominations.
Top trailer houses were Buddha Jones with 30 nominations, Trailer Park with 29, and Mark Woollen & Associates with 23.
See all the nominees below.
Best Action
Kingsman: The Golden Circle, “Team,” 20th Century Fox,...
- 5/9/2018
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Based on a novel published in 1978, "The World According To Garp" was released in 1982, and yet watching the film on the recently-released Blu-ray from Warner Archive, I was struck by how timely and even urgent the material felt, and how much more adult and daring it is than most of the movies released by studios today. Not only do they not make them like this anymore, but I'd offer the opinion that they never really did. How can a film from 1978 have a better handle on the times we're living in right now than most of the films coming out this year? After all, much of John Irving's novel is a direct reaction to the late '70s and what Irving thought of the social landscape at that particular moment. How relevant could it be today, since we've obviously progressed so much since then? You'd be surprised. For those...
- 9/30/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
Liam Neeson is back in Cineplex theatres this week reprising his role as ex-cia agent Bryan Mills in Taken 3, opening on Friday. The 6’4” Irish giant has grown into an action hero as of late thanks to movies like Taken, The A-Team, and The Grey, even though we’ll always have a soft spot for his more dramatic roles in Kinsey, Michael Collins and as widower Daniel in the dramedy Love Actually, just to name a few. We’ve been big fans of Neeson since way back in the 80s in movies like The Bounty and in Suspect where he plays a deaf-mute homeless man defended by attorney Cher when he is accused of murder. Sounds intriguing, right? And of course, who can forget his defining role as Oskar Schindler in 1993’s Schindler’s List.
Are you a fan of Liam Neeson? Test your Neeson knowledge in our quiz below!
Are you a fan of Liam Neeson? Test your Neeson knowledge in our quiz below!
- 1/5/2015
- by Rachel West
- Cineplex
Murder mysteries are so commonplace on TV that each week offers seemingly dozens of them on police procedural series and detective shows. But in the movies, whodunits are surprisingly rare, and really good ones rarer still. There's really only a handful of movies that excel in offering the viewer the pleasure of solving the crime along with a charismatic sleuth, often with an all-star cast of suspects hamming it up as they try not to appear guilty.
One of the best was "Murder on the Orient Express," released 40 years ago this week, on November 24, 1974. Like many films adapted from Agatha Christie novels, this one featured an eccentric but meticulous investigator (in this case, Albert Finney as Belgian epicure Hercule Poirot), a glamorous and claustrophobic setting (here, the famous luxury train from Istanbul to Paris), and a tricky murder plot with an outrageous solution. The film won an Oscar for passenger...
One of the best was "Murder on the Orient Express," released 40 years ago this week, on November 24, 1974. Like many films adapted from Agatha Christie novels, this one featured an eccentric but meticulous investigator (in this case, Albert Finney as Belgian epicure Hercule Poirot), a glamorous and claustrophobic setting (here, the famous luxury train from Istanbul to Paris), and a tricky murder plot with an outrageous solution. The film won an Oscar for passenger...
- 11/28/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Liam Neeson has long been a favorite of mine. All the way back to his performance in Suspect . and well before . he has proven to be one of the most powerful actors working in the business. The past few years of course he has become a modern day action hero with Taken and he kicked serious wolf ass in The Grey. He has even charmed the young ones with his terrific work in The Lego Movie. In A Walk Among The Tombstones, Neeson is at his best. In this thrillingly suspenseful film he creates a...
- 9/15/2014
- by JimmyO
- JoBlo.com
"Excalibur" was a formative theatrical experience for me. It was one of the first R-rated films I specifically decided I wanted to see in a theater. I'd seen other R-rated films before that, but always at random and because someone else decided I was going to see it. With "Excalibur," I was crazy to see it, and the film landed on me like a ton of bricks. Surreal, violent, beautiful, explicit, and for a mythology nut, seeing how the film dealt with each of the characters, each of the Arthurian archetypes, I was in love. One of the guys who made an impression in the film was a young Liam Neeson, and for the rest of the '80s, he racked up a number of performances where, good film or bad, he made an impression. How could he not? No one else looked like him. Slightly over eight feet tall,...
- 9/14/2014
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
We've all got to do our part to help with the Scotus situation today, kids. I know I'm doing mine: Here are eight fabulous female performanes in courtroom movies to inspire you for the day ahead. Even if they drive younuts, you still qualify to look glamorously insane like Frances Farmer.
1. Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
Joanna Kramer ditched her family not because she was bored of parenting (which I would've completely understood), but because her despair was so significant that she felt it best to remove herself from the home she shared with her obnoxious husband and tolerable son. Later, when she wanted custody of the scamp, she delivered a tearful monologue about painting clouds on bedroom walls and the misery of the Kramer household, concluding with the defiant line, "I am his mother." Meryl famously wrote most of this great soliloquy, and knowing Meryl's talents, she probably also sewed her own costume,...
1. Meryl Streep in Kramer vs. Kramer
Joanna Kramer ditched her family not because she was bored of parenting (which I would've completely understood), but because her despair was so significant that she felt it best to remove herself from the home she shared with her obnoxious husband and tolerable son. Later, when she wanted custody of the scamp, she delivered a tearful monologue about painting clouds on bedroom walls and the misery of the Kramer household, concluding with the defiant line, "I am his mother." Meryl famously wrote most of this great soliloquy, and knowing Meryl's talents, she probably also sewed her own costume,...
- 3/27/2013
- by virtel
- The Backlot
It was rumored earlier this year that Liam Neeson would return to reprise his role as Ra's al Ghul in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. He was spotted on the set of the film, but until today there's been no confirmation of his involvement. Warner Bros. made the announcement in the production notes for the film that says,
Neeson next appears in Peter Berg's actioner "Battleship," and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated action thriller "The Dark Knight Rises.
It makes perfect sense to me that his character would be back as this Batman finale as we've heard Nolan would bring everything back around in full circle in the franchise. I can't wait to see what this film has in store for us! I just can't help but think it's going to be mind blowing.
Josh Pence is playing Ra's al Ghul in the films flashbacks.
Neeson next appears in Peter Berg's actioner "Battleship," and he also will be seen in Christopher Nolan's much-anticipated action thriller "The Dark Knight Rises.
It makes perfect sense to me that his character would be back as this Batman finale as we've heard Nolan would bring everything back around in full circle in the franchise. I can't wait to see what this film has in store for us! I just can't help but think it's going to be mind blowing.
Josh Pence is playing Ra's al Ghul in the films flashbacks.
- 3/28/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
If J.J. Jareau is caught smiling a little more than usual during tonight’s Criminal Minds, it’s for good reason. Her portrayer A. J. Cook — who fans need not be reminded was unceremoniously fired from the show a little over a year ago — is back. What’s more, she’s been promoted to profiler. So just how does it feel to return to the series that turned her into a trending topic on Twitter and what’s in store for fans of the actress as Criminal Minds kicks off its much-anticipated seventh season tonight? We recently had the pleasure of talking to the fellow Canadian to find out just that. See for yourself, after the jump.
Since we feel like the story of your initial exit has been already covered, we wanted to ask what your first reaction was to getting the phone call that Criminal Minds wanted you back.
Since we feel like the story of your initial exit has been already covered, we wanted to ask what your first reaction was to getting the phone call that Criminal Minds wanted you back.
- 9/21/2011
- by theTVaddict
- The TV Addict
With action thriller Unknown out in cinemas this week, we chat to actor Liam Neeson about his greatest geek films and the possibility of a Taken sequel…
I'm actually at a slight loss as to how to introduce Liam Neeson. He's a magnificent actor, who's been in my life for decades, always defying expectations and as adept at portraying heartbreak in the likes of Love Actually as he is at breaking bones in Taken.
His geek credentials run far and deep, from John Boorman's Excalibur back in 1981, as one of the heroic thieves in the mighty Krull, playing the redneck brother to Patrick Swayze and Bill Paxton in Next Of Kin, as the tormented Peyton Westlake in Darkman, before a tremendous dramatic run including Schindler's List, Nell, Rob Roy and Michael Collins led him to become a Jedi Knight in The Phantom Menace.
The list of Neeson's towering performances is incredible,...
I'm actually at a slight loss as to how to introduce Liam Neeson. He's a magnificent actor, who's been in my life for decades, always defying expectations and as adept at portraying heartbreak in the likes of Love Actually as he is at breaking bones in Taken.
His geek credentials run far and deep, from John Boorman's Excalibur back in 1981, as one of the heroic thieves in the mighty Krull, playing the redneck brother to Patrick Swayze and Bill Paxton in Next Of Kin, as the tormented Peyton Westlake in Darkman, before a tremendous dramatic run including Schindler's List, Nell, Rob Roy and Michael Collins led him to become a Jedi Knight in The Phantom Menace.
The list of Neeson's towering performances is incredible,...
- 3/2/2011
- Den of Geek
New photos from The Rite, Sanctum, The Housemaid, The Mechanic, No Strings Attached, Evangelion 2.0: You Can (Not) Advance, The Way Back, The Dilemma, The Green Hornet and My Idiot Brother.
Impressive banners for Sucker Punch and Kung Fu Panda 2 along with one-sheets for Kaboom, Burning Palms and Margin Call. Also various merchandising tie-in artwork is out for Green Lantern.
Two bits of "Captain America: The First Avenger" image-related news today - a shot of Hugo Weaving in character as Red Skull (pre-makeup) holding the Cosmic Cube is is here, while apparent concept art of Red Skull after the transformation is here.
An apparent description of the teaser trailer for "X-Men: First Class" has emerged at The Daily Blam.
"Oscar-nominated English filmmaker Peter Yates, who directed such cult hits as "The Deep," "Bullitt," "Krull," "The Hot Rock," "The Dresser," "Suspect" and "Breaking Away", died Sunday in London at the...
Impressive banners for Sucker Punch and Kung Fu Panda 2 along with one-sheets for Kaboom, Burning Palms and Margin Call. Also various merchandising tie-in artwork is out for Green Lantern.
Two bits of "Captain America: The First Avenger" image-related news today - a shot of Hugo Weaving in character as Red Skull (pre-makeup) holding the Cosmic Cube is is here, while apparent concept art of Red Skull after the transformation is here.
An apparent description of the teaser trailer for "X-Men: First Class" has emerged at The Daily Blam.
"Oscar-nominated English filmmaker Peter Yates, who directed such cult hits as "The Deep," "Bullitt," "Krull," "The Hot Rock," "The Dresser," "Suspect" and "Breaking Away", died Sunday in London at the...
- 1/11/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Versatile British film director known for Bullitt, The Deep and Breaking Away
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
- 1/11/2011
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
Four time Oscar nominee Peter Yates passed away on January 9th at the age of 82 after a long battle with an undisclosed illness. He directed and produced several films over the years, starting his career in 1963 with Summer Holiday.
After working as a director for television shows, he moved to the crime triller Robbery in 1967, which grew into a very impressive career. Some of the films he was best known for was Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Suspect, and The Dresser. And while it doesn't hold up today, he also directed one of my favorite films from my youth, Krull.
After working as a director for television shows, he moved to the crime triller Robbery in 1967, which grew into a very impressive career. Some of the films he was best known for was Bullitt, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Suspect, and The Dresser. And while it doesn't hold up today, he also directed one of my favorite films from my youth, Krull.
- 1/10/2011
- by Josh Baldwin
- GetTheBigPicture.net
Peter Yates, director of the classic cop tale Bullitt, has died. Yates passed away January 9th, 2011 in London, aged 81. Yates' work also included the sci-fi Krull, The Deep and the thriller, Suspect. Working from 1963 right up to 2004, the director has enjoyed a long and healthy career and leaves behind one of the most kick-ass car chases in cinema history. For anyone who hasn't seen it, right now would be a great time to pick up Bullitt, featuring the legendary Steve McQueen.
- 1/10/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ferg)
- www.themoviebit.com
Well, last week we passed along the unfortunate news that Pete Postlethwaite had died [1], and now this week Hollywood has lost another Pete. Peter Yates, director of such classics as Bullitt, Murphy's War, and the Jay Cheel favourite Krull has passed away after a long illness. He also directed The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which turned up at the top of Ben Affleck's list of best heist films [2] just a few days ago. He was 82 years old. Yates had a long and fruitful career and directed a wide variety of films in a number of different genres starting with Summer Holiday starring Cliff Richard and The Shadows in 1963. In addition to some of the classic crime films for which is best known, he also directed Peter Benchley's The Deep, Suspect starring Cher and Dennis Quaid, Year of the Comet, and Mother, Jugs & Speed starring Bill Cosby, Harvey Keitel and Raquel Welch.
- 1/10/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
British director of Summer Holiday, Breaking Away and Steve McQueen film Bullitt has died after long illness
Peter Yates, the four-time Oscar-nominated British director of Bullitt, Breaking Away and The Dresser, has died in London after a long illness. He was 82.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art whose first film as a director was the lightweight Cliff Richard and the Shadows vehicle Summer Holiday, Yates made his name with the action-packed 1967 crime thriller Robbery, a dramatisation of the great train robbery. Hollywood beckoned, and Yates's first Us effort, Bullitt, featured the first car chase in the modern style, with star Steve McQueen himself taking the wheel for a large part of a bravura extended sequence in which his Ford Mustang slaloms and chicanes through the streets of San Francisco.
Academy recognition came later in Yates's career with the 1979 coming-of-age tale Breaking Away. The comedy about four working-class...
Peter Yates, the four-time Oscar-nominated British director of Bullitt, Breaking Away and The Dresser, has died in London after a long illness. He was 82.
A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art whose first film as a director was the lightweight Cliff Richard and the Shadows vehicle Summer Holiday, Yates made his name with the action-packed 1967 crime thriller Robbery, a dramatisation of the great train robbery. Hollywood beckoned, and Yates's first Us effort, Bullitt, featured the first car chase in the modern style, with star Steve McQueen himself taking the wheel for a large part of a bravura extended sequence in which his Ford Mustang slaloms and chicanes through the streets of San Francisco.
Academy recognition came later in Yates's career with the 1979 coming-of-age tale Breaking Away. The comedy about four working-class...
- 1/10/2011
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
There's just something about the "old guard" UK film directors that makes them so memorable. A filmmaker like Peter Yates might not be mentioned all that much these days, but to a certain generation of film fanatics his was always known as a reliable name. That's not to say that all his films were classics, but even on the lighter or even sillier projects, there was a competence and confidence that most British filmmakers exhibit. Call it work ethic or class, but Peter Yates was one of those guys. The 81-year-old passed away over the weekend in his native London.
Oscar-nominated twice as a director (for the excellent 'Breaking Away' and the unfairly forgotten 'The Dresser') and then once again as a producer on both films, Mr. Yates had a colorful career of hits and misses, but one never got the...
There's just something about the "old guard" UK film directors that makes them so memorable. A filmmaker like Peter Yates might not be mentioned all that much these days, but to a certain generation of film fanatics his was always known as a reliable name. That's not to say that all his films were classics, but even on the lighter or even sillier projects, there was a competence and confidence that most British filmmakers exhibit. Call it work ethic or class, but Peter Yates was one of those guys. The 81-year-old passed away over the weekend in his native London.
Oscar-nominated twice as a director (for the excellent 'Breaking Away' and the unfairly forgotten 'The Dresser') and then once again as a producer on both films, Mr. Yates had a colorful career of hits and misses, but one never got the...
- 1/10/2011
- by Scott Weinberg
- Moviefone
Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical
There's just something about the "old guard" UK film directors that makes them so memorable. A filmmaker like Peter Yates might not be mentioned all that much these days, but to a certain generation of film fanatics his was always known as a reliable name. That's not to say that all his films were classics, but even on the lighter or even sillier projects, there was a competence and confidence that most British filmmakers exhibit. Call it work ethic or class, but Peter Yates was one of those guys. The 81-year-old passed away over the weekend in his native London.
Oscar-nominated twice as a director (for the excellent 'Breaking Away' and the unfairly forgotten 'The Dresser') and then once again as a producer on both films, Mr. Yates had a colorful career of hits and misses, but one never got the...
There's just something about the "old guard" UK film directors that makes them so memorable. A filmmaker like Peter Yates might not be mentioned all that much these days, but to a certain generation of film fanatics his was always known as a reliable name. That's not to say that all his films were classics, but even on the lighter or even sillier projects, there was a competence and confidence that most British filmmakers exhibit. Call it work ethic or class, but Peter Yates was one of those guys. The 81-year-old passed away over the weekend in his native London.
Oscar-nominated twice as a director (for the excellent 'Breaking Away' and the unfairly forgotten 'The Dresser') and then once again as a producer on both films, Mr. Yates had a colorful career of hits and misses, but one never got the...
- 1/10/2011
- by Scott Weinberg
- Cinematical
Late Sunday evening the news broke on Nikki Finke's Deadline that director Peter Yates had passed away. He was 82 and suffering from what the site only refers to as a "long illness."
Yates was one of those names on the periphery of becoming an A-list director, fully competent in his craft but never quite breaking through into the next level. While I'm on the border of speaking ill of the man's work (and I truly don't mean to do a disservice to his memory), as I look back at his resume, few of Yates' films ever stood out and most feel trapped in the eras in which they were made. Still, even though several of his films themselves aren't memorable or well regarded today, I always felt that Yates was able to impart a certain kind of classiness and sophistication to his work. That made his pictures stand out from...
Yates was one of those names on the periphery of becoming an A-list director, fully competent in his craft but never quite breaking through into the next level. While I'm on the border of speaking ill of the man's work (and I truly don't mean to do a disservice to his memory), as I look back at his resume, few of Yates' films ever stood out and most feel trapped in the eras in which they were made. Still, even though several of his films themselves aren't memorable or well regarded today, I always felt that Yates was able to impart a certain kind of classiness and sophistication to his work. That made his pictures stand out from...
- 1/10/2011
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Four time Oscar-nominated British director Peter Yates has passed away at the age of 82. Deadline [1] reports that he died in London after a long illness. Yates is probably best known for the 1968 Steve McQueen film Bullitt, the 1983 Oscar-nominated drama The Dresser, the 1983 cult fantasy film Krull, the 1977 horror/thriller The Deep, and the 1979 sports drama Breaking Away. His filmography also includes Curtain Call, The Run of the Country, Roommates, Year of the Comet, An Innocent Man, The House on Carroll Street, Suspect, Eleni, The Dresser, Eyewitness, Mother Jugs & Speed, For Pete's Sake, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, The Hot Rock, Murphy's War and John and Mary, and Robbery. I've included trailers for some of these films after the jump. Please feel free to post in remembrance of Yates (and the movies he directed) in the comments below. Bullitt Krull Breaking Away The Deep The Dresser The Hot Rock [1] http://www.
- 1/10/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Peter Yates, the man who brought us Bullitt, Breaking Away, The Dresser and the mighty Krull, has died at the age of 82.
Some really sad news here to start the week. Peter Yates, the director of Bullitt, Summer Holiday, Breaking Away and The Dresser, has died at the age of 82.
Nominated for four Oscars across his extensive career, Yates started off working with Cliff Richard before taking on a diverse collection of movies across his 40 years of directing movies and TV.
He also helmed a real Den Of Geek favourite, Krull (a film that this writer enjoyed more than once at the cinema), as well as episodes of the TV shows The Saint and Danger Man.
Plus, spare a moment for the likes of Robbery, The Hot Rock, The Deep and Suspect. Few directors can jump genres convincingly, yet over the course of his career, that's just what Yates managed.
Some really sad news here to start the week. Peter Yates, the director of Bullitt, Summer Holiday, Breaking Away and The Dresser, has died at the age of 82.
Nominated for four Oscars across his extensive career, Yates started off working with Cliff Richard before taking on a diverse collection of movies across his 40 years of directing movies and TV.
He also helmed a real Den Of Geek favourite, Krull (a film that this writer enjoyed more than once at the cinema), as well as episodes of the TV shows The Saint and Danger Man.
Plus, spare a moment for the likes of Robbery, The Hot Rock, The Deep and Suspect. Few directors can jump genres convincingly, yet over the course of his career, that's just what Yates managed.
- 1/10/2011
- Den of Geek
Deadline has learned that English film director and producer and 4-time Oscar nominee Peter Yates -- who helmed such celebrated and dissimilar films as Bullitt, The Friends Of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Suspect, and The Dresser -- has passed away in London after a long illness. He was 82. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he was a stage actor before working as an assistant director for Tony Richardson. Yates' feature directorial debut was the early 1960s low-budget Summer Holiday (1963) with Cliff Richard And The Shadows. He soon graduated to the 1967 crime thriller Robbery, a fictionalized version of Britain's The Great Train Robbery. It was a short jump to his first American film, Bullitt (1968), starring Steve McQueen in one of the definitive cop movies of all time thanks to that car chase through the streets of San Francisco. Other films he directed included John and Mary (1969), Murphy's War...
- 1/10/2011
- by NIKKI FINKE
- Deadline Hollywood
Cher!
Did you feel it?
Cher!
Did you feel the tingling?
It's a little known fact that the word causes a biological reaction in the gay brain, resulting in a tingling sensation, followed by an involuntary "Squee!," culminating in what's scientifically referred to as a Chergasm.
Well get ready for an all-out Cherplosion (I promise that's my last Cher pun) with the November 2nd release of "Cher: The Film Collection."
The box set contains six Cher films: Good Times, Chastity, Silkwood, Moonstruck, Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini.
Wait a minute. What?
I agree that Silkwood, Moonstruck, Mermaids, and the underrated Tea are must-haves, but those first two movies should have stayed in the time capsule, especially when there are so many other classic Cher films to pick from. I realize that they may not have had the "rights" or whatever to include them, but that's not going to stop my hackles from raising.
Did you feel it?
Cher!
Did you feel the tingling?
It's a little known fact that the word causes a biological reaction in the gay brain, resulting in a tingling sensation, followed by an involuntary "Squee!," culminating in what's scientifically referred to as a Chergasm.
Well get ready for an all-out Cherplosion (I promise that's my last Cher pun) with the November 2nd release of "Cher: The Film Collection."
The box set contains six Cher films: Good Times, Chastity, Silkwood, Moonstruck, Mermaids and Tea With Mussolini.
Wait a minute. What?
I agree that Silkwood, Moonstruck, Mermaids, and the underrated Tea are must-haves, but those first two movies should have stayed in the time capsule, especially when there are so many other classic Cher films to pick from. I realize that they may not have had the "rights" or whatever to include them, but that's not going to stop my hackles from raising.
- 9/28/2010
- by snicks
- The Backlot
Let's hope the new series avoids the picture of unfulfilled women at law popularised in Hollywood films such as Jagged Edge
In a recent press release, the BBC promised that its new legal drama series Silk would present a true-to-life portrait of a female barrister applying for QC or "silk".
On the big screen female lawyers have not fared all that well in representing their real-life counterparts, despite similar promises from Hollywood. This was especially true in the 1980s and 1990s, when female stars were cast almost obsessively as lawyers: Glenn Close in Jagged Edge (1985), Cher in Suspect (1987), Jessica Lange in Music Box (1989), Barbara Hershey in Defenseless (1991) , Susan Sarandon in The Client (1994), and Julia Roberts as a law student in The Pelican Brief (1993), an assistant Us attorney in Conspiracy Theory (1997), and a legal assistant in Erin Brokovich (2000) – to name just a few.
These Hollywood lawyers are women in or just...
In a recent press release, the BBC promised that its new legal drama series Silk would present a true-to-life portrait of a female barrister applying for QC or "silk".
On the big screen female lawyers have not fared all that well in representing their real-life counterparts, despite similar promises from Hollywood. This was especially true in the 1980s and 1990s, when female stars were cast almost obsessively as lawyers: Glenn Close in Jagged Edge (1985), Cher in Suspect (1987), Jessica Lange in Music Box (1989), Barbara Hershey in Defenseless (1991) , Susan Sarandon in The Client (1994), and Julia Roberts as a law student in The Pelican Brief (1993), an assistant Us attorney in Conspiracy Theory (1997), and a legal assistant in Erin Brokovich (2000) – to name just a few.
These Hollywood lawyers are women in or just...
- 8/9/2010
- by Cynthia Lucia
- The Guardian - Film News
In the latest update to the shocking Criminal Minds casting shakeup, a source clarifies to Deadline.com, which originally broke the news, that the decision to cut A.J. Cook and reduce the episodes of Paget Brewster are "creative" decisions and are not financial in nature.
'Criminal Minds' Spin-off Finally Gets 'Suspect' Name
Needless to say, Criminal Minds fans are up in arms over the development, with a petition list urging CBS to change its mind regarding the season 6 futures of Cook, who plays Jennifer Jareau, and Brewster, who plays Emily Prentiss, on Criminal Minds.
Joe Mantegna tweeted a link to it yesterday, while both Kirsten Vangsness and Thomas Gibson retweeted it.
'Criminal Minds' Spin-off Finally Gets 'Suspect' Name
Needless to say, Criminal Minds fans are up in arms over the development, with a petition list urging CBS to change its mind regarding the season 6 futures of Cook, who plays Jennifer Jareau, and Brewster, who plays Emily Prentiss, on Criminal Minds.
Joe Mantegna tweeted a link to it yesterday, while both Kirsten Vangsness and Thomas Gibson retweeted it.
- 6/15/2010
- by editor@buddytv.com
- buddytv.com
It’s getting close to the end of the season, which means that all of our favorite procedurals are taking brief dips into the serialized swimming pool. The Mentalist and CSI, that irascible pair of Thursday night poker buddies, both had season finales that focused on long-running storylines: Patrick Jane came face to face with Red John, and CSI brought back one psychopath (hi, Haskell!) to catch another (bye, Jekyll!) On CSI: Miami, Horatio’s ex-girlfriend returned… and got killed. On CSI: NY, Mac’s ex-girlfriend returned… and got hugged. Meanwhile, in the Law & Orderverse, it was all about marriages.
- 5/21/2010
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
Actor Liam Neeson has raised almost $400,000 to renovate a theater in his native Ireland. The "Love Actually" star threw a glitzy bash in New York earlier this month, on January 10, with stars including Meryl Streep and Aidan Quinn turning out to raise funds to help rebuild Belfast's Lyric Theatre.
Irish performers Brian Kennedy and Conleth Hill entertained the guests, and Neeson, a longterm patron of the establishment, took to the stage to urge the audience to support the theater's fundraising campaign. The new venue will cost $27.2 million, and officials must raise 1.3 million pounds by June 2010 to receive further financial backing.
His theater renovation campaign aside, Irish actor Liam Neeson moved to Hollywood after he was offered a high-profile role in 1987 movie called "Suspect," portraying Carl Anderson. The Golden Globe Awards-nominated actor has played in several movies such as "Gangs of New York", "Kinsey", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Batman Begins".
Irish performers Brian Kennedy and Conleth Hill entertained the guests, and Neeson, a longterm patron of the establishment, took to the stage to urge the audience to support the theater's fundraising campaign. The new venue will cost $27.2 million, and officials must raise 1.3 million pounds by June 2010 to receive further financial backing.
His theater renovation campaign aside, Irish actor Liam Neeson moved to Hollywood after he was offered a high-profile role in 1987 movie called "Suspect," portraying Carl Anderson. The Golden Globe Awards-nominated actor has played in several movies such as "Gangs of New York", "Kinsey", "Kingdom of Heaven" and "Batman Begins".
- 1/20/2010
- by AceShowbiz.com
- Aceshowbiz
Police seize items from Dr. Conrad Murray's office, storage unit.
By Gil Kaufman
D.E.A. agents raid Dr. Conrad Murray's office on Wednesday
Photo: Eric Kayne/ Getty Images
Los Angeles police have identified Michael Jackson's personal physician as a suspect in their manslaughter probe into the singer's death. The Los Angeles Times reports that court records filed on Thursday in Houston name Dr. Conrad Murray as a suspect in the criminal investigation that resulted in two different search warrants served on Wednesday at the doctor's Houston clinic and a storage unit in the area.
The search warrants said that investigators were looking for "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense." After interviewing Murray twice and not saying whether he was a suspect, the court records offered the first public confirmation by police that Murray...
By Gil Kaufman
D.E.A. agents raid Dr. Conrad Murray's office on Wednesday
Photo: Eric Kayne/ Getty Images
Los Angeles police have identified Michael Jackson's personal physician as a suspect in their manslaughter probe into the singer's death. The Los Angeles Times reports that court records filed on Thursday in Houston name Dr. Conrad Murray as a suspect in the criminal investigation that resulted in two different search warrants served on Wednesday at the doctor's Houston clinic and a storage unit in the area.
The search warrants said that investigators were looking for "items constituting evidence of the offense of manslaughter that tend to show that Dr. Conrad Murray committed the said criminal offense." After interviewing Murray twice and not saying whether he was a suspect, the court records offered the first public confirmation by police that Murray...
- 7/24/2009
- MTV Music News
Filming has officially begun today for "A Serious Man," starring Tony Award nominee Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed (from "Suspect") and Richard Kind ("The Visitor"). The Coen brothers Ethan and Joel will write, direct and produce and Working Title's Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan are serving as execs alongwide Robert Graf who has worked six times previously with the brothers. Also cast are actors Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus and Aaron Wolf from Minnesota where filming is taking place.
- 9/8/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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