Poor William Bonney is facing an uphill battle in the Lincoln County War.
That continued to be made abundantly clear on Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 5.
It's Billy and a handful of good-hearted ranchers and farmers who are up against the greedy and corrupt in Lincoln and New Mexico in general.
It doesn't seem fair, does it?
Billy's supporters can't catch a break.
For example, take the Regulators' encounter with "Buckshot" Roberts.
Granted, Buckspot is a sharpshooter, but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, as he proved in his demise.
Horizon: An American Saga: Release Date, Cast, Trailer and Everything We Know About Kevin Costner's Western Epic
Yet somehow, he doggedly, if drunkenly, tracked Billy through the wilderness and rode right into the Regulators' camp, with no one stopping this apparent threat.
There was Buckshot against eight to ten Regulators, and still, he shot four of them...
That continued to be made abundantly clear on Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 5.
It's Billy and a handful of good-hearted ranchers and farmers who are up against the greedy and corrupt in Lincoln and New Mexico in general.
It doesn't seem fair, does it?
Billy's supporters can't catch a break.
For example, take the Regulators' encounter with "Buckshot" Roberts.
Granted, Buckspot is a sharpshooter, but he's not the sharpest tool in the shed, as he proved in his demise.
Horizon: An American Saga: Release Date, Cast, Trailer and Everything We Know About Kevin Costner's Western Epic
Yet somehow, he doggedly, if drunkenly, tracked Billy through the wilderness and rode right into the Regulators' camp, with no one stopping this apparent threat.
There was Buckshot against eight to ten Regulators, and still, he shot four of them...
- 6/3/2024
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
In Billy the Kid season 2, part 1, we saw that Pat Garrett was made the sheriff of Lincoln City after Bradley was killed in broad daylight by Billy. Billy and Jesse also came face-to-face, but they abstained from fighting with each other. Jesse, no matter what he said, had a lot of affection for Billy. He saw him as a friend, and even Billy valued their friendship. People knew about the equation they shared and that’s why, a lot of times, their allegiance was questioned. Billy, after the death of Tunstall, made it his life’s mission to take revenge on Murphy and Riley, and he very truthfully went to Dulcinea del Tobosco and told her about it. She loved Billy, and that’s why she asked him not to go back to the life he had left. She didn’t want him to become an outlaw, but Billy didn’t have an option.
- 6/2/2024
- by Sushrut Gopesh
- DMT
"One-Eyed Jacks" might have been Marlon Brando's sole directing stint, but the 1961 western comes as close to perfection as possible within the confines of the genre. A high-stakes robbery acts as a catalyst for the dramatic ebb and flow that defines the unforgettable story, where a man contends with the heinous betrayal by his mentor, the father figure who has shaped him into the person he is today. This brooding, brokenhearted man, Rio (Brando) flits between vengeance and forgiveness, with a budding romance complicating the instinctual need to settle scores the old-fashioned way. The film is also stunning to behold, its gaze lingering on beautiful landscapes that blend the romanticism of Westerns with the naturalistic impulses within its complicated characters.
The making of such an intense, kinetic drama was filled with roadblocks, and Brando was not involved with it from the get-go. "One-Eyed Jacks" was initially intended to function...
The making of such an intense, kinetic drama was filled with roadblocks, and Brando was not involved with it from the get-go. "One-Eyed Jacks" was initially intended to function...
- 5/24/2024
- by Debopriyaa Dutta
- Slash Film
Tom Cruise has finally entered The Criterion Collection. While technically, “Cocktail” has been available on the Criterion Channel in the past, in announcing its July titles today, Criterion made Cruise’s inclusion with a DVD/Blu-Ray title official today with the addition of 1983’s classic comedy, “Risky Business,” the actor’s breakthrough film. Directed by Paul Brickman, the coming-of-age comedy film, sometimes said to be modeled after a more risqué, “The Graduate,” centers on a Chicago teenager (Cruise) and his sexual exploits while his parents are away on vacation, including spending time with prostitutes.
Continue reading Criterion Adds 4-Disc ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid’ 50th Anniversary Edition & ‘Risky Business’ To July 2024 Releases at The Playlist.
Continue reading Criterion Adds 4-Disc ‘Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid’ 50th Anniversary Edition & ‘Risky Business’ To July 2024 Releases at The Playlist.
- 4/15/2024
- by The Playlist
- The Playlist
Cruise. Criterion. Just a matter of time, really, until the world’s premier movie star made his way into the collection. Smart money might not have been on Paul Brickman’s Risky Business, a great film mostly known for one or two sequences but which will now be seen in 4K when released this July, a month that brings 2,160-pixel releases for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (featuring an essay from the great novelist Steve Erickson), Perfect Days, Farewell My Concubine, and the stunning-looking Le Samouraï restoration.
Don’t sleep, however, on maybe the best film to get a release in July: Glauber Rocha’s Cinema Novo masterpiece Black God, White Devil, which recently received a 4K restoration that looks so good I envy anybody who saw it for the first time like so.
Find artwork below and more details at Criterion:
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Don’t sleep, however, on maybe the best film to get a release in July: Glauber Rocha’s Cinema Novo masterpiece Black God, White Devil, which recently received a 4K restoration that looks so good I envy anybody who saw it for the first time like so.
Find artwork below and more details at Criterion:
The post The Criterion Collection’s July...
- 4/15/2024
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Dan Wallin, the music scoring engineer who recorded such classic film scores as “Spartacus,” “Bullitt,” “The Wild Bunch” and “Out of Africa,” died early Wednesday in Hawaii. He was 97.
Twice Oscar-nominated for best sound (1970’s “Woodstock” and 1976’s “A Star Is Born”), he won a 2009 Emmy for sound mixing on the Academy Awards telecast and received two additional Emmy nominations in the sound mixing category.
But it was Wallin’s skill behind the console, recording and mixing musical scores for movies and TV, that won him legions of fans among nearly all of Hollywood’s top composers and ensured steady employment for more than half a century.
He recorded the music for an estimated 500 films, including those for “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Finian’s Rainbow” in the 1960s; “The Way We Were,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Nashville,” “King Kong” and “Saturday Night Fever” in the 1970s; “Somewhere in Time,” “The Right Stuff...
Twice Oscar-nominated for best sound (1970’s “Woodstock” and 1976’s “A Star Is Born”), he won a 2009 Emmy for sound mixing on the Academy Awards telecast and received two additional Emmy nominations in the sound mixing category.
But it was Wallin’s skill behind the console, recording and mixing musical scores for movies and TV, that won him legions of fans among nearly all of Hollywood’s top composers and ensured steady employment for more than half a century.
He recorded the music for an estimated 500 films, including those for “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “Finian’s Rainbow” in the 1960s; “The Way We Were,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Nashville,” “King Kong” and “Saturday Night Fever” in the 1970s; “Somewhere in Time,” “The Right Stuff...
- 4/10/2024
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
In 1971, just six years after Frank Herbert published his groundbreaking science-fiction novel "Dune," Arthur P. Jacobs' Apjac International obtained the rights to the story for a film adaptation. The producer behind "Planet of the Apes" was ready to craft another world set in a distant future, but with the sequel film "Beneath the Planet of the Apes" on its way, "Dune" was delayed.
Jacobs went through a handful of different directors and screenwriters in early development, but he tragically passed away in 1973. David Lynch would eventually bring "Dune" to the big screen in 1984, but there were multiple failed attempts that paved the way for his film and a remake in his wake that led to Denis Villeneuve's recent adaptations. The messy histories of failed "Dune" adaptations could justify their own feature-length documentaries but allow this to be a crash course on the bizarre "Dune" movies that never came to be.
Jacobs went through a handful of different directors and screenwriters in early development, but he tragically passed away in 1973. David Lynch would eventually bring "Dune" to the big screen in 1984, but there were multiple failed attempts that paved the way for his film and a remake in his wake that led to Denis Villeneuve's recent adaptations. The messy histories of failed "Dune" adaptations could justify their own feature-length documentaries but allow this to be a crash course on the bizarre "Dune" movies that never came to be.
- 3/4/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
On Friday nights, IndieWire After Dark takes a feature-length beat to honor fringe cinema in the streaming age.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Ain’t It Just Like the Movies to Play Tricks When You’re Trying to Be So Quiet?
As if assembling the greatest songbook in the history of Western music through six decades (and counting!) of nonstop creative growth and experimentation wasn’t enough, Bob Dylan has made a surprisingly large impact on the world of film. In 1966, he helped launch the cinéma vérité movement — and captivated audiences with the mystery of who broke that fucking glass — by allowing D.A. Pennebaker to follow him for the landmark documentary “Don’t Look Back.
First, the spoiler-free pitch for one editor’s midnight movie pick — something weird and wonderful from any age of film that deserves our memorializing.
Then, the spoiler-filled aftermath as experienced by the unwitting editor attacked by this week’s recommendation.
The Pitch: Ain’t It Just Like the Movies to Play Tricks When You’re Trying to Be So Quiet?
As if assembling the greatest songbook in the history of Western music through six decades (and counting!) of nonstop creative growth and experimentation wasn’t enough, Bob Dylan has made a surprisingly large impact on the world of film. In 1966, he helped launch the cinéma vérité movement — and captivated audiences with the mystery of who broke that fucking glass — by allowing D.A. Pennebaker to follow him for the landmark documentary “Don’t Look Back.
- 1/13/2024
- by Christian Zilko and Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Earlier this month, a handful of lucky Bob Dylan fans in Europe stumbled upon a new release entitled 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 in record stores scattered across the continent. The 28-track collection consists of nothing but studio outtakes from the 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid soundtrack sessions, but it’s sent the Dylan collecting community into a frenzy. Bids are surging past the $500 mark for the few copies available on Ebay — and fans are combing the shelves of European stores in the hopes of finding one.
Fiftieth-anniversary collections like this...
Fiftieth-anniversary collections like this...
- 12/18/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
The Lincoln County War has begun in earnest now.
But becoming wanted men didn't slow down Billy and the Regulators on Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 4.
It's helpful to have an experienced outlaw in your ranks.
All the ranchers and farmers that make up the Regulators wanted to lay low until the heat died down.
But there's a problem with that logic. They're up against the corrupt forces of the justice system in New Mexico in the form of the Santa Fe Ring. The heat was never going to die down.
It soon became evident how true that was as Alexander McSween, the lawyer who switched sides from Major Murphy to Tunstall, became a target of The House.
McSween informed Billy and the Regulators they were all now wanted men thanks to Billy's execution of Baker and Morton, two of the posse members who had killed Tunstall.
That wasn't surprising since Thomas Catron,...
But becoming wanted men didn't slow down Billy and the Regulators on Billy the Kid Season 2 Episode 4.
It's helpful to have an experienced outlaw in your ranks.
All the ranchers and farmers that make up the Regulators wanted to lay low until the heat died down.
But there's a problem with that logic. They're up against the corrupt forces of the justice system in New Mexico in the form of the Santa Fe Ring. The heat was never going to die down.
It soon became evident how true that was as Alexander McSween, the lawyer who switched sides from Major Murphy to Tunstall, became a target of The House.
McSween informed Billy and the Regulators they were all now wanted men thanks to Billy's execution of Baker and Morton, two of the posse members who had killed Tunstall.
That wasn't surprising since Thomas Catron,...
- 11/6/2023
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
One of the hardest things to do in Hollywood is to make a highly anticipated movie sequel that lives up to the original, much less surpasses it. But if you had a loaded six-shooter pressed to your temple and had to answer as quickly and honestly as possible, what would you say the all-time best movie Western sequel happens to be? Sergio Leone’s Dollars trilogy certainly comes to mind as the most sterling example. Yet, in terms of a Western that uses historical events to tell a compelling biographical tale, it’s hard to eclipse the blistering entertainment value of Young Guns II – a movie that continues the saga of William H. Bonney, aka, Billy the Kid, and his gunslinging compatriots, The Regulators, following their valiant efforts fighting in the Lincoln County War. Released two years after the original, Young Guns II became nearly as successful as the original...
- 11/1/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
“Billy the Kid” is back with even more thrilling adventures on MGM+ with the premiere of Season 2 this weekend! The series follows the famous American outlaw Billy the Kid from his childhood to his days as a cowboy and beyond. Season 1 was a huge hit so the story continues with four new episodes coming to the streaming platform very soon. The first episode is available to begin streaming only on MGM+ on Sunday, Oct. 15 at 9 p.m. You can watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of MGM+.
How to Watch ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Premiere When: Sunday, October 15, 2023 Where: MGM+ Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of MGM+. 7-Day Free Trial$5.99+ / month via amazon.com About ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Premiere
“Billy the Kid” is set in the 19th century in the American Old West and follows him from his humble beginnings to his epic days as an outlaw. Throughout the season,...
How to Watch ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Premiere When: Sunday, October 15, 2023 Where: MGM+ Stream: Watch with a 7-Day Free Trial of MGM+. 7-Day Free Trial$5.99+ / month via amazon.com About ‘Billy the Kid’ Season 2 Premiere
“Billy the Kid” is set in the 19th century in the American Old West and follows him from his humble beginnings to his epic days as an outlaw. Throughout the season,...
- 10/15/2023
- by Aubrey Chorpenning
- The Streamable
Billy the Kid? More like Billy the Crisis Averter!
MGM+ on Wednesday unveiled the key art and official trailer for Billy the Kid Season 2, and it promises to be filled with action.
Seriously, we need the second season right now.
"The epic romantic adventure inspired by the life of America's most infamous outlaw continues in Season Two, as Billy and his allies square off against his oldest friend Jesse Evans and the corrupt powers of the Santa Fe Ring," the streaming service teases.
"When shots are fired, the conflict erupts into the bloody Lincoln County War. Amidst the fighting, Billy will struggle to hang onto his soul—and to the love of his life."
"The other side has the advantage," Billy declares in the action-packed trailer.
"You're farmers," he adds.
"Jesse Evans and his gang are all practiced killers."
It seems like Billy will have his work cut out for...
MGM+ on Wednesday unveiled the key art and official trailer for Billy the Kid Season 2, and it promises to be filled with action.
Seriously, we need the second season right now.
"The epic romantic adventure inspired by the life of America's most infamous outlaw continues in Season Two, as Billy and his allies square off against his oldest friend Jesse Evans and the corrupt powers of the Santa Fe Ring," the streaming service teases.
"When shots are fired, the conflict erupts into the bloody Lincoln County War. Amidst the fighting, Billy will struggle to hang onto his soul—and to the love of his life."
"The other side has the advantage," Billy declares in the action-packed trailer.
"You're farmers," he adds.
"Jesse Evans and his gang are all practiced killers."
It seems like Billy will have his work cut out for...
- 9/13/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Billy the Kid will be back on TV screens very soon.
MGM+ this week that Billy the Kid Season 2 will debut on Sunday, October 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
There is a little bit of a catch:
Four episodes of the season will air this year, with the final four being held until 2024.
A reason for the decision has not been revealed, but there's a good chance it has something to do with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
"The epic romantic adventure inspired by the life of America's most infamous outlaw continues in Season Two, as Billy and his allies square off against his oldest friend Jesse Evans and the corrupt powers of the Santa Fe Ring," the streaming service teases.
"When shots are fired, the conflict erupts into the bloody Lincoln County War. Amidst the fighting, Billy will struggle to hang onto his soul—and to the love of his life.
MGM+ this week that Billy the Kid Season 2 will debut on Sunday, October 15, at 9 p.m. Et/Pt.
There is a little bit of a catch:
Four episodes of the season will air this year, with the final four being held until 2024.
A reason for the decision has not been revealed, but there's a good chance it has something to do with the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.
"The epic romantic adventure inspired by the life of America's most infamous outlaw continues in Season Two, as Billy and his allies square off against his oldest friend Jesse Evans and the corrupt powers of the Santa Fe Ring," the streaming service teases.
"When shots are fired, the conflict erupts into the bloody Lincoln County War. Amidst the fighting, Billy will struggle to hang onto his soul—and to the love of his life.
- 8/25/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Garth Craven, the British-born sound and film editor and second-unit director whose credits included six Sam Peckinpah features, as well as Turner and Hooch, My Best Friend’s Wedding and Legally Blonde, has died. He was 84.
A resident of Malibu, Craven died May 20 after he suffered a medical emergency while flying back to Los Angeles from a safari in Namibia, his daughter, Willow Kalatchi, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Craven collaborated with the maverick director Peckinpah on Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), The Killer Elite (1975) and Convoy (1978).
He worked with fellow editor Roger Spottiswoode on the first three of those films, and when Spottiswoode graduated to director, they partnered on the features Shoot to Kill (1988), Turner and Hooch (1989) and Air America (1990) and on two HBO telefilms: 1989’s Third Degree Burn and 1993’s And the Band Played On.
Craven also cut Gaby: A True Story...
A resident of Malibu, Craven died May 20 after he suffered a medical emergency while flying back to Los Angeles from a safari in Namibia, his daughter, Willow Kalatchi, told The Hollywood Reporter.
Craven collaborated with the maverick director Peckinpah on Straw Dogs (1971), The Getaway (1972), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973), Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974), The Killer Elite (1975) and Convoy (1978).
He worked with fellow editor Roger Spottiswoode on the first three of those films, and when Spottiswoode graduated to director, they partnered on the features Shoot to Kill (1988), Turner and Hooch (1989) and Air America (1990) and on two HBO telefilms: 1989’s Third Degree Burn and 1993’s And the Band Played On.
Craven also cut Gaby: A True Story...
- 8/22/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Film and sound editor Garth Craven, who edited films including “Legally Blonde” and got his start in film editing with Sam Peckinpah’s “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid,” died May 20 in Barcelona. He was 84.
His death was only recently announced by his daughter Willow.
Craven not only worked in the cutting room but also in sound departments and served as second unit director on several films. At the beginning of his career, Craven worked on Federico Fellini’s fantasy drama “Satyricon” (1969) in the sound editing department, which served as his introduction to filmmaking.
Back in England, he continued working on films in London. Resuming his work in the sound department, Craven received a BAFTA for the critically acclaimed romantic drama “The Go-Between” (1971) directed by Joseph Losey.
He eventually became a frequent collaborator and friend of Peckinpah. Craven worked as a sound consultant on “The Getaway,” a sound editor on “Straw Dogs,...
His death was only recently announced by his daughter Willow.
Craven not only worked in the cutting room but also in sound departments and served as second unit director on several films. At the beginning of his career, Craven worked on Federico Fellini’s fantasy drama “Satyricon” (1969) in the sound editing department, which served as his introduction to filmmaking.
Back in England, he continued working on films in London. Resuming his work in the sound department, Craven received a BAFTA for the critically acclaimed romantic drama “The Go-Between” (1971) directed by Joseph Losey.
He eventually became a frequent collaborator and friend of Peckinpah. Craven worked as a sound consultant on “The Getaway,” a sound editor on “Straw Dogs,...
- 8/21/2023
- by Jaden Thompson
- Variety Film + TV
In 2003, Bob Dylan starred in the film Masked and Anonymous with a number of Hollywood heavy hitters. His co-stars included Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Luke Wilson, Jessica Lange, Penelope Cruz, Val Kilmer, and many others. Dylan didn’t have nearly as much acting experience as his co-stars. While he had a leading role in the film, his inexperience caused some issues. Dylan seemed far more interested in watching his castmates than he was in giving a performance of his own.
Bob Dylan found his co-stars in a film riveting to watch
Masked and Anonymous had a stacked cast at least partly because the actors wanted a chance to work with Dylan.
“I think John [Goodman] really responded to the part, but a lot of the other people responded to just the idea of working with Bob,” director Larry Charles told Uproxx in 2023. “We were able to attract a lot of people because of that,...
Bob Dylan found his co-stars in a film riveting to watch
Masked and Anonymous had a stacked cast at least partly because the actors wanted a chance to work with Dylan.
“I think John [Goodman] really responded to the part, but a lot of the other people responded to just the idea of working with Bob,” director Larry Charles told Uproxx in 2023. “We were able to attract a lot of people because of that,...
- 7/14/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Charley Crockett made an appearance on The Daily Show on Tuesday night, sitting with this week’s host Jordan Klepper to talk about his early days of busking in New York, hitchhiking through the Pacific Northwest, and the Bob Dylan song he reworked.
“I learned how to stand behind my guitar, playing on street corners, working farm parties,” Crockett told Klepper. “And I learned to hitchhike in the Pacific Northwest… People are more likely to make bad decisions and pick up hitchhikers out there.”
Crockett also talked at length about...
“I learned how to stand behind my guitar, playing on street corners, working farm parties,” Crockett told Klepper. “And I learned to hitchhike in the Pacific Northwest… People are more likely to make bad decisions and pick up hitchhikers out there.”
Crockett also talked at length about...
- 4/19/2023
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Wow, a ‘new’ Sam Peckinpah western! While we await the rumored Blu-ray of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid to surface (or was Alex Cox misinformed?), correspondent Darren Gross has come across a watchable web encoding of a Peckinpah TV drama that seems to be more or less ‘lost.’ Good star performances and intense characterizations prove once again that Peckinpah could deliver superior dramatics. The home video companies should do some investigating — there’s a market out there for this one.
The Lady Is My Wife
TV episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater
CineSavant Revival Screening Review
1967 / Color / 1:33 TV / 47 min. / first Aired February 1, 1967 / Not on Home Video
Starring: Jean Simmons, Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Begoña Palacios, L.Q. Jones, Roberto Contreras, Alan Baxter, Jim Boles, Billy M. Greene, E.J. André, Billy M. Greene.
Cinematography: Dale Deverman
Art Director: Lloyd S. Papez
Costumes: Kay Hayden
Film Editor: Edward Biery...
The Lady Is My Wife
TV episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater
CineSavant Revival Screening Review
1967 / Color / 1:33 TV / 47 min. / first Aired February 1, 1967 / Not on Home Video
Starring: Jean Simmons, Bradford Dillman, Alex Cord, Begoña Palacios, L.Q. Jones, Roberto Contreras, Alan Baxter, Jim Boles, Billy M. Greene, E.J. André, Billy M. Greene.
Cinematography: Dale Deverman
Art Director: Lloyd S. Papez
Costumes: Kay Hayden
Film Editor: Edward Biery...
- 3/4/2023
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Barry Keoghan has been set to play Billy the Kid in an upcoming biopic set to retell the notorious criminal’s story.
The new telling of his story will lean into Billy’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood.
Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of 15 when his mother died and his stepfather abandoned him. His first arrest for robbery came a year later, and by the time he was 18, he was wanted for murder after an altercation in Arizona. His notoriety escalated, and he was 21 when Sheriff Pat Garrett shot him to death.
Also in news – Emma Corrin joins ‘Deadpool 3’
‘American Animals’ director Bart Layton is aboard to direct the feature. Ed Guiney, of Element Pictures, will produce. Keoghan approached Layton with the story while working together on ‘American Animals.’
“We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,...
The new telling of his story will lean into Billy’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood.
Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of 15 when his mother died and his stepfather abandoned him. His first arrest for robbery came a year later, and by the time he was 18, he was wanted for murder after an altercation in Arizona. His notoriety escalated, and he was 21 when Sheriff Pat Garrett shot him to death.
Also in news – Emma Corrin joins ‘Deadpool 3’
‘American Animals’ director Bart Layton is aboard to direct the feature. Ed Guiney, of Element Pictures, will produce. Keoghan approached Layton with the story while working together on ‘American Animals.’
“We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Deadline reports that Barry Keoghan, who recently scored an Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin, is set to star in a new movie about the infamous outlaw Billy the Kid.
Bart Layton, who directed Barry Keoghan in American Animals, is set to helm the Billy the Kid movie, which Element Pictures and Raw will produce with Film4. “We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,” Keoghan said in a statement to Deadline. “My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way.” Element Pictures producer Ed Guiney added, “This isn’t just a passion project for Barry. This approach is something new, and it’s a version of the tale we hope the world will want to see.
Bart Layton, who directed Barry Keoghan in American Animals, is set to helm the Billy the Kid movie, which Element Pictures and Raw will produce with Film4. “We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,” Keoghan said in a statement to Deadline. “My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way.” Element Pictures producer Ed Guiney added, “This isn’t just a passion project for Barry. This approach is something new, and it’s a version of the tale we hope the world will want to see.
- 2/16/2023
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
Riding high on acclaim for his recent work (including an Oscar nomination for The Banshees Of Inisherin), Barry Keoghan is looking to strike while the iron is hot and set up some projects on his own. He's now pushing forward a Billy the Kid biopic that has long been a film the actor has wanted to make.
"We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before," Keoghan tells Deadline. "My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way."
The film, which will reunite Keoghan with his American Animals director Bart Layton, aims to lean into the Kid’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood. Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of...
"We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before," Keoghan tells Deadline. "My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way."
The film, which will reunite Keoghan with his American Animals director Bart Layton, aims to lean into the Kid’s Irish ancestry and complicated childhood. Born in New York as Henry McCarty, he was orphaned at the age of...
- 2/15/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Fresh from his Oscar nomination for The Banshees of Inisherin, Irish actor Barry Keoghan is turning his attention back towards a dream assignment: a new feature retelling of the story of Billy the Kid. Keoghan’s American Animals director Bart Layton is aboard to direct the feature, produced by Element Pictures with Film4.
“We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,” Keoghan tells Deadline. “My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way.”
“This isn’t just a passion project for Barry,” notes Element Pictures producer Ed Guiney, who came aboard having worked with Keoghan on The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Calm with Horses. “This approach is something new, and it’s a version...
“We’ve seen many versions of Billy the Kid on screen before,” Keoghan tells Deadline. “My interest was in trying to tell a version that breaks from the facade of that cool, calm, and collected gunslinger Billy the Kid that we’re all used to seeing. I wanted to humanize him in a way.”
“This isn’t just a passion project for Barry,” notes Element Pictures producer Ed Guiney, who came aboard having worked with Keoghan on The Killing of a Sacred Deer and Calm with Horses. “This approach is something new, and it’s a version...
- 2/15/2023
- by Joe Utichi
- Deadline Film + TV
Legend has it that Billy the Kid shot and killed 21 men; one for each year of his life. The legendary outlaw's own life was taken sometime after midnight on July 14, 1881, by the reformed lawman Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. There is still speculation that Garrett, a longtime acquaintance of Billy's (whose birth name was Henry McCarty) never actually shot down his old friend and allowed him to escape in the dark of night.
Garrett was also accused of ambushing McCarty, which led to him hiring a ghost writer named Marshall Upton who detailed Garrett's version in "The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid." The book has become a great historical reference, but at the time of its release in 1882, it failed to change the popular opinion that Garrett may have acted ungentlemanly the night Billy the Kid was slain.
Most Westerns don't ever get a sequel, but the...
Garrett was also accused of ambushing McCarty, which led to him hiring a ghost writer named Marshall Upton who detailed Garrett's version in "The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid." The book has become a great historical reference, but at the time of its release in 1882, it failed to change the popular opinion that Garrett may have acted ungentlemanly the night Billy the Kid was slain.
Most Westerns don't ever get a sequel, but the...
- 2/13/2023
- by Drew Tinnin
- Slash Film
Over the past 32 years, Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series has proved that the singer’s studio albums represent just a tiny fraction of his musical output. Some of the releases in the series spotlight key concerts from tours like his 1966 European run with the Hawks or the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue, but most of them focus on albums — both loved and unloved — to let listeners in on Dylan’s creative process and show just how much stunning material he discards along the way.
The newest set, Fragments — Time Out of Mind...
The newest set, Fragments — Time Out of Mind...
- 2/3/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
"The picture that couldn't be stopped!" trumpeted the tagline for "The Outlaw," Howard Hughes' fictional tale of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, with Doc Holliday and a little of Jane Russell's cleavage thrown in for good measure. The latter made the film one of the most controversial pictures of its day, and it would take the Hollywood mogul five years to secure the movie a wide release.
Producer and director Hughes had no qualms about using Russell's sex appeal to sell his movie; when it came to picking a young starlet to play her part from a nationwide casting call, Hughes chose Russell because her bust was the most to his liking. Much of the publicity was focused on the 19-year-old making her screen debut, resulting in one of the most famous and controversial images of '40s Hollywood: Jane Russell reclining in a haystack with a gun in her hand,...
Producer and director Hughes had no qualms about using Russell's sex appeal to sell his movie; when it came to picking a young starlet to play her part from a nationwide casting call, Hughes chose Russell because her bust was the most to his liking. Much of the publicity was focused on the 19-year-old making her screen debut, resulting in one of the most famous and controversial images of '40s Hollywood: Jane Russell reclining in a haystack with a gun in her hand,...
- 12/18/2022
- by Lee Adams
- Slash Film
Who doesn't love John Wayne? The tough-talking cowboy dominated the silver screen for decades, captivating audiences with his endless charisma and dynamic swagger. Growing up, I saw many of the Duke's films — my mom loved him — but only later discovered some of his greatest adventures, including "The Searchers." All told, Wayne appeared in over 250 films, earned three Academy Award nominations, and took home an Oscar for Best Actor ("True Grit"). One need only glance at his resume to notice a handful of classic films: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," "Sands of Iwo Jima," "The Quiet Man," "Rio Bravo," "The Shootist," and "Stagecoach," among many, many others.
Each of these films comes with a plethora of memorable scenes. Be it a line of colorful dialogue, a well-executed action sequence, or a simple character beat in which Wayne shows off his effortless charm, there are plenty of unforgettable Duke moments to choose from,...
Each of these films comes with a plethora of memorable scenes. Be it a line of colorful dialogue, a well-executed action sequence, or a simple character beat in which Wayne shows off his effortless charm, there are plenty of unforgettable Duke moments to choose from,...
- 12/3/2022
- by Jeff Ames
- Slash Film
Writer/Director Lucky McKee discusses a few of his favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tár (2022)
Speed Racer (2008)
The Matrix (1999)
Gloria (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Old Man (2022)
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Avatar (2009)
Band of the Hand (1986)
May (2002)
The Piano (1993)
The Crying Game (1992)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
The Dark Crystal (1982) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Cockfighter (1974) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Days of Heaven (1978)
Sweetie (1989)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
A History Of Violence (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary,...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Tár (2022)
Speed Racer (2008)
The Matrix (1999)
Gloria (1980) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Howling (1981) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Randy Fuller’s wine pairings
Old Man (2022)
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Avatar (2009)
Band of the Hand (1986)
May (2002)
The Piano (1993)
The Crying Game (1992)
Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977)
Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Star Wars: Episode VI – Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)
Star Wars: Episode II – Attack Of The Clones (2002)
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith (2005)
The Dark Crystal (1982) – Bernard Rose’s trailer commentary
Cockfighter (1974) – Jon Davison’s trailer commentary
Days of Heaven (1978)
Sweetie (1989)
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary
A History Of Violence (2005)
Se7en (1995)
Straw Dogs (1971) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Howard Hughes's deliriously ahistorical "The Outlaw" is probably best known for star Jane Russell's brassiere, which the director painstakingly designed to accentuate her 38Dd bosom. Never mind that Russell claimed she wore it all of a few minutes, loathed the fit, and padded her own bra the old-fashioned way; the undergarment is still on display in a Hollywood museum -- the, er, stuff of showbiz legend.
The film itself is an agreeably campy Western. Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) rides into Lincoln, New Mexico looking to recover his stolen horses. He tells his friend Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) that Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) is the thief, which sets up a not-terribly-understated homoerotic love triangle. It's a goofy movie that should be a lot more fun than it is, but its script by Jules Furthman boasts some nifty flourishes, one of which finds the sharp-shooting Holliday trying to goad...
The film itself is an agreeably campy Western. Doc Holliday (Walter Huston) rides into Lincoln, New Mexico looking to recover his stolen horses. He tells his friend Pat Garrett (Thomas Mitchell) that Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel) is the thief, which sets up a not-terribly-understated homoerotic love triangle. It's a goofy movie that should be a lot more fun than it is, but its script by Jules Furthman boasts some nifty flourishes, one of which finds the sharp-shooting Holliday trying to goad...
- 10/5/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Clu Gulager, a veteran actor known for his roles in the NBC series “The Virginian” and the 1985 horror-comedy “The Return of the Living Dead,” has died of natural causes. He was 93 years old.
Gulager’s son, John, shared a photo of his father on his Facebook as a tribute. Filmmaker Sean Baker, who directed Gulager on the 2015 feature “Tangerine,” confirmed the news of his death on Twitter.
Rip Clu Gulager. I had the honor to work with the legend in Tangerine and a fashion shoot for V Magazine in 2016. He was incredibly talented, hilarious, gentle and kind. And he adored cinema. We will miss you Clu. pic.twitter.com/hy6r1v7QRs
— sean baker (@Lilfilm) August 6, 2022
Diane Goldner, Gulager’s daughter-in-law, also shared a family statement on Facebook confirming the news, saying that he died “surrounded by his loving family.”
“Clu was as caring as he was loyal and devoted to his craft,...
Gulager’s son, John, shared a photo of his father on his Facebook as a tribute. Filmmaker Sean Baker, who directed Gulager on the 2015 feature “Tangerine,” confirmed the news of his death on Twitter.
Rip Clu Gulager. I had the honor to work with the legend in Tangerine and a fashion shoot for V Magazine in 2016. He was incredibly talented, hilarious, gentle and kind. And he adored cinema. We will miss you Clu. pic.twitter.com/hy6r1v7QRs
— sean baker (@Lilfilm) August 6, 2022
Diane Goldner, Gulager’s daughter-in-law, also shared a family statement on Facebook confirming the news, saying that he died “surrounded by his loving family.”
“Clu was as caring as he was loyal and devoted to his craft,...
- 8/6/2022
- by J. Kim Murphy
- Variety Film + TV
Click here to read the full article.
Clu Gulager, the real-life cowboy from Oklahoma known for his turns on The Tall Man, The Virginian, The Last Picture Show and horror movies including The Return of the Living Dead, has died. He was 93.
Gulager died Friday of natural causes at the Los Angeles home of his son John and daughter-in-law Diane, they told The Hollywood Reporter.
Gulager also portrayed the protégé of hitman Charlie Strom (Lee Marvin) taken out by a mob boss (Ronald Reagan) in Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964), a race-car mechanic opposite Paul Newman in Winning (1969) and a detective working alongside John Wayne’s character in John Sturges’ McQ (1974).
More recently, he showed up on the big screen in such critical darlings as Tangerine (2015), Blue Jay (2016) and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
Gulager’s performance in The Killers convinced Peter Bogdanovich to cast him as Abilene,...
Clu Gulager, the real-life cowboy from Oklahoma known for his turns on The Tall Man, The Virginian, The Last Picture Show and horror movies including The Return of the Living Dead, has died. He was 93.
Gulager died Friday of natural causes at the Los Angeles home of his son John and daughter-in-law Diane, they told The Hollywood Reporter.
Gulager also portrayed the protégé of hitman Charlie Strom (Lee Marvin) taken out by a mob boss (Ronald Reagan) in Don Siegel’s The Killers (1964), a race-car mechanic opposite Paul Newman in Winning (1969) and a detective working alongside John Wayne’s character in John Sturges’ McQ (1974).
More recently, he showed up on the big screen in such critical darlings as Tangerine (2015), Blue Jay (2016) and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019).
Gulager’s performance in The Killers convinced Peter Bogdanovich to cast him as Abilene,...
- 8/6/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Charley Crockett just released his latest album Jukebox Charley in April and he’s already made plans for another one. The Man From Waco, the Texas singer-songwriter’s second full-length of 2022, will be released in September and includes the lead single “I’m Just a Clown.”
Funky and downcast at the same time, “I’m Just a Clown” combines the humid brass of Memphis soul with a real down-and-out story of loss and betrayal. “On my face, I wear a frown,” Crockett sings in his characteristically laid-back way.
Crockett worked...
Funky and downcast at the same time, “I’m Just a Clown” combines the humid brass of Memphis soul with a real down-and-out story of loss and betrayal. “On my face, I wear a frown,” Crockett sings in his characteristically laid-back way.
Crockett worked...
- 7/13/2022
- by Jon Freeman
- Rollingstone.com
L.Q. Jones, a veteran character actor whose résumé included more than 60 screen credits in film and many television appearances, died of natural causes Saturday at his home in Hollywood. He was 94 and his death was confirmed by his grandson, Erté deGarces, as cited in multiple news reports.
Born Justice Ellis McQueen on August 19, 1927 in Beaumont, Texas, he took his stage name from his first film role in the 1955 Raoul Walsh film, Battle Cry.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
His film roles included parts in Don Siegel’s An Annapolis Story, Mervyn LeRoy’s Toward the Unknown, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
He also appeared in Martin Campbell’s The Mask of Zorro, Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, and Martin Scorsese’s Casino.
On television, he specialized in Westerns, appearing on Gunsmoke, The Virginian and Bonanza.
Born Justice Ellis McQueen on August 19, 1927 in Beaumont, Texas, he took his stage name from his first film role in the 1955 Raoul Walsh film, Battle Cry.
Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2022: Photo Gallery
His film roles included parts in Don Siegel’s An Annapolis Story, Mervyn LeRoy’s Toward the Unknown, and Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, Ride the High Country and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
He also appeared in Martin Campbell’s The Mask of Zorro, Roland Emmerich’s The Patriot, and Martin Scorsese’s Casino.
On television, he specialized in Westerns, appearing on Gunsmoke, The Virginian and Bonanza.
- 7/9/2022
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
L.Q. Jones, the colorful character actor who worked on dozens of Westerns, including the Sam Peckinpah classics The Wild Bunch and Ride the High Country as a member of the famed filmmaker’s regular posse, has died. He was 94.
Jones died Saturday of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills, his grandson Erté deGarces told The Hollywood Reporter.
Jones portrayed ranch hand Andy Belden on 25 episodes of NBC’s The Virginian over an eight-year span, was one of the bad guys who slipped a noose over Clint Eastwood’s neck in Hang ‘Em High (1968) and played a sheriff on the 1983-84 NBC primetime soap The Yellow Rose, starring Sam Elliott, Cybill Shepherd and Chuck Connors.
The Texas native also portrayed Clark County Commissioner Pat Webb, Robert De Niro’s nemesis, in Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) and country singer Chuck Akers in...
Jones died Saturday of natural causes at his home in the Hollywood Hills, his grandson Erté deGarces told The Hollywood Reporter.
Jones portrayed ranch hand Andy Belden on 25 episodes of NBC’s The Virginian over an eight-year span, was one of the bad guys who slipped a noose over Clint Eastwood’s neck in Hang ‘Em High (1968) and played a sheriff on the 1983-84 NBC primetime soap The Yellow Rose, starring Sam Elliott, Cybill Shepherd and Chuck Connors.
The Texas native also portrayed Clark County Commissioner Pat Webb, Robert De Niro’s nemesis, in Martin Scorsese’s Casino (1995) and country singer Chuck Akers in...
- 7/9/2022
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The metamorphosis of Billy the Kid continued in this season finale.
On Billy the Kid Season 1 Episode 8, the former Billy McCarty made the fateful choice that moved him from outlaw to legend.
Whether he is becoming a hero depends on the viewer's perspective.
So what separated Billy from the others he had been riding with in the 7 RIvers Gang? His life experience.
Thanks to his sainted mother, Kathleen, Billy grew up a good religious boy who values the importance of hard work.
He also grew up a member of the hardscrabble poor, worrying about where his next meal would come from.
Hardscrabble poor, just like those immigrant farmers trying to scratch a living out of the New Mexican soil. Billy could relate to their struggle and was sympathetic toward them, unlike the other, more mercenary gang members.
Recently, Billy had reluctantly accepted the outlaw label society had applied to him...
On Billy the Kid Season 1 Episode 8, the former Billy McCarty made the fateful choice that moved him from outlaw to legend.
Whether he is becoming a hero depends on the viewer's perspective.
So what separated Billy from the others he had been riding with in the 7 RIvers Gang? His life experience.
Thanks to his sainted mother, Kathleen, Billy grew up a good religious boy who values the importance of hard work.
He also grew up a member of the hardscrabble poor, worrying about where his next meal would come from.
Hardscrabble poor, just like those immigrant farmers trying to scratch a living out of the New Mexican soil. Billy could relate to their struggle and was sympathetic toward them, unlike the other, more mercenary gang members.
Recently, Billy had reluctantly accepted the outlaw label society had applied to him...
- 6/20/2022
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
Summer TV programming is getting underway, and that can only mean one thing:
Exciting TV premieres!
Check out what we recommend for the coming week, TV Fanatics.
Saturday, June 4
8/7c Buried in Barstow (Lifetime)
It’s finally here! One of the most talked-about movies of the year.
Angie Harmon stars as Hazel King, and Hazel’s got a dirty past she has tried to wash away. Now, she’s a doting mom to her daughter, Joy.
But just about the time a hard-on-his luck guy named Elliott (Kristoffer Polaha) hits town, Hazel’s past bubbles up. Can she contain it from ruining everything she’s achieved?
Sunday, June 5
8/7c MTV TV & Movie Awards (MTV)
The 2022 MTV & TV Movie Awards is here, and you can tune in to see which of your favorite films and TV shows walk away with a bunch of awards.
The event will also honor Jennifer Lopez with the Generation Award.
Exciting TV premieres!
Check out what we recommend for the coming week, TV Fanatics.
Saturday, June 4
8/7c Buried in Barstow (Lifetime)
It’s finally here! One of the most talked-about movies of the year.
Angie Harmon stars as Hazel King, and Hazel’s got a dirty past she has tried to wash away. Now, she’s a doting mom to her daughter, Joy.
But just about the time a hard-on-his luck guy named Elliott (Kristoffer Polaha) hits town, Hazel’s past bubbles up. Can she contain it from ruining everything she’s achieved?
Sunday, June 5
8/7c MTV TV & Movie Awards (MTV)
The 2022 MTV & TV Movie Awards is here, and you can tune in to see which of your favorite films and TV shows walk away with a bunch of awards.
The event will also honor Jennifer Lopez with the Generation Award.
- 6/5/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Fate keeps bringing Billy back to the wrong places.
Billy reconnected with a pair of old friends and made a new ally on Billy the Kid Season 1 Episode 6.
Most significant among these is that new friend, Pat Garrett, who will turn on Billy in a big way in the future.
After this episode, Billy plans to meet up with Jesse and the 7 Rivers Gang in Lincoln County in New Mexico Territory, a location that historically did not treat Billy well.
For the historically uninformed, after this friendly start to their relationship, Garrett becomes why the outlaw never becomes Billy the Middle-Aged.
Of course, "Wild West outlaw" wasn't a profession that lent itself to reaching retirement age.
Kathleen always wanted her boy to grow up to become a good man. But Billy's choices weren't going to help him alter his destiny.
Heading into Texas, a territory where he wasn't currently wanted by authorities,...
Billy reconnected with a pair of old friends and made a new ally on Billy the Kid Season 1 Episode 6.
Most significant among these is that new friend, Pat Garrett, who will turn on Billy in a big way in the future.
After this episode, Billy plans to meet up with Jesse and the 7 Rivers Gang in Lincoln County in New Mexico Territory, a location that historically did not treat Billy well.
For the historically uninformed, after this friendly start to their relationship, Garrett becomes why the outlaw never becomes Billy the Middle-Aged.
Of course, "Wild West outlaw" wasn't a profession that lent itself to reaching retirement age.
Kathleen always wanted her boy to grow up to become a good man. But Billy's choices weren't going to help him alter his destiny.
Heading into Texas, a territory where he wasn't currently wanted by authorities,...
- 5/30/2022
- by Dale McGarrigle
- TVfanatic
“Vikings” creator Michael Hirst takes on his childhood hero in “Billy the Kid.” Starring Tom Blyth as the legendary gunslinger, born Henry McCarty, the eight-episode series – co-produced by Epix Studios and MGM International Television Productions, in association with Viaplay – is currently screening at French TV festival Series Mania ahead of its April 24 premiere.
“It’s probably true that you shouldn’t meet your heroes; I have met a couple of mine and it didn’t go particularly well. But what I want more than anything else is for people to love this Billy,” Hirst tells Variety in Lille.
“Michael [Wright, president of Epix] allowed me to tell a story I wanted to tell, which doesn’t happen very often. This show is saying to people: ‘You think you know Billy the Kid because you have heard his name.’ You think he is a bit of a rough guy, a gunman and a killer.
“It’s probably true that you shouldn’t meet your heroes; I have met a couple of mine and it didn’t go particularly well. But what I want more than anything else is for people to love this Billy,” Hirst tells Variety in Lille.
“Michael [Wright, president of Epix] allowed me to tell a story I wanted to tell, which doesn’t happen very often. This show is saying to people: ‘You think you know Billy the Kid because you have heard his name.’ You think he is a bit of a rough guy, a gunman and a killer.
- 3/22/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Pat Garrett, Ellie Jeffreys, Pete Bird, Ben Manning, Michael Coombes, Pable Raybould, Ayvianna Snow, Keith Temple, Oliver Robert Russell, Emily Lane, Katy Dalton, Lewis Booton | Written by Keith Temple | Directed by Jonathan Zaurin
From the opening shots of the film you know you’re in for something special with Wyvern Hill, as director Jonathan Zaurin gives us snippets of… something. Something sinister, something torturous, something evil, that’s happening to a handful of terrified people. That footage is intercut with newsreel talking about mysterious deaths and possibly Hertfordshire’s first serial killer…
The film tells the story of Beth (a wonderful Pat Garrett), a mother in her sixties who is showing signs of early Alzheimer’s. Worried about her, her daughter Jess (Ellie Jeffreys) and son in law Connor (Pete Bird), try to find a way to help her. Together they purchase an old house on Wyvern Hill so...
From the opening shots of the film you know you’re in for something special with Wyvern Hill, as director Jonathan Zaurin gives us snippets of… something. Something sinister, something torturous, something evil, that’s happening to a handful of terrified people. That footage is intercut with newsreel talking about mysterious deaths and possibly Hertfordshire’s first serial killer…
The film tells the story of Beth (a wonderful Pat Garrett), a mother in her sixties who is showing signs of early Alzheimer’s. Worried about her, her daughter Jess (Ellie Jeffreys) and son in law Connor (Pete Bird), try to find a way to help her. Together they purchase an old house on Wyvern Hill so...
- 3/1/2022
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
As you may know Nerdly, the website, and our fledgling – but growing – YouTube channel are proudly latched on to the Romford Film Festival. I have loved working on the panels and having discussions about what we should and shouldn’t show, what should be nominated and what should win. However, I and my esteemed judges don’t always agree and sometimes you can see your favourite falling down the list. It’s not to say you were wrong to champion the flick just that something else just shone that little bit brighter, this my friends is the true magic of cinema.
I’ve already brought you my choices of Nerdly’s pick for the Best Feature Film. The thought process is that, honestly, I have a terrible memory and can’t actually remember what won what. I am going to go through some of the categories and give you what...
I’ve already brought you my choices of Nerdly’s pick for the Best Feature Film. The thought process is that, honestly, I have a terrible memory and can’t actually remember what won what. I am going to go through some of the categories and give you what...
- 2/26/2022
- by Kevin Haldon
- Nerdly
Premium network Epix has greenlighted Billy the Kid, an hourlong series about the famous American outlaw, written by Vikings and The Tudors creator Michael Hirst.
Otto Bathurst is set to direct the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season, executive produced by Hirst, Donald De Line of De Line Pictures, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television, and Bathurst and Toby Leslie via One Big Picture.
The series is described as an epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid, also known as William H. Bonney — from his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
“Billy the Kid has always been a hero of mine since I was – well, a kid. I grew up in the North of England but it made no difference. Billy...
Otto Bathurst is set to direct the first two episodes of the eight-episode first season, executive produced by Hirst, Donald De Line of De Line Pictures, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Amblin Television, and Bathurst and Toby Leslie via One Big Picture.
The series is described as an epic romantic adventure based on the life of Billy the Kid, also known as William H. Bonney — from his humble Irish roots and his early days as a cowboy and gunslinger in the American frontier, to his pivotal role in the Lincoln County War and beyond.
“Billy the Kid has always been a hero of mine since I was – well, a kid. I grew up in the North of England but it made no difference. Billy...
- 5/4/2021
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
If anyone else’s brain hasn’t seized up trying to think of how this could possibly happen then it might have already happened, I’ve gone crazy enough to slip into a parallel dimension where a Young Guns 3 could have any possibility of happening. Even more than that, this is building off of the idea that Jose Chavez y Chavez is still alive, and so is Billy the Kid. In the 1990 movie Young Guns II, there’s no doubt that Billy, played by Emilio Estevez, survived after Pat Garrett tried to kill him, but was still discredited by the end of
Are We Going To be Seeing a Young Guns 3?...
Are We Going To be Seeing a Young Guns 3?...
- 4/17/2021
- by Tom
- TVovermind.com
Bon Jovi rode their 1987 single “Wanted Dead or Alive” — with its power-ballad metaphor about a wandering outlaw, his steel horse, and a loaded six-string — into Eighties jukebox history. And it cemented singer Jon Bon Jovi as a rock-star cowboy in the process. He returned to the Wild West theme, with cowriters Richie Sambora and Holly Knight, for a pair of songs (“Ride Cowboy Ride,” “Stick to Your Guns”) on 1988’s New Jersey too. He and Sambora even wore cowboy hats onstage.
But nowhere did Jon Bon Jovi embrace his inner...
But nowhere did Jon Bon Jovi embrace his inner...
- 12/17/2020
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
By 1973, singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson had starred in a handful of feature film roles, playing outlaw Billy the Kid in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, which also co-starred Bob Dylan. That same year, just after her 14th birthday, Marie Osmond, of the performing Osmond clan, launched her recording career, becoming the youngest female act to hit Number One on the country chart with her song “Paper Roses.” Although their career (and, indeed, personal) trajectories couldn’t be more divergent, the paths of Kristofferson and Osmond, along with her teen-idol brother Donny,...
- 5/4/2020
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Ethan Hawke, seen earlier this year playing Pat Garrett in The Kid, stars as an ex-convict in the upcoming feature Adopt A Highway.
Russ Millings (Hawke) has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction. Now a free man, Russ is trying to adapt to a world that he feels [...]
The post Ethan Hawke Cares For Abandoned Baby In ‘Adopt A Highway’ Trailer appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.
Russ Millings (Hawke) has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction. Now a free man, Russ is trying to adapt to a world that he feels [...]
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- 10/21/2019
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Hoping for the release of Martin Scorsese’s four-hour “The Wolf of Wall Street”? You’ll have to keep waiting, as the movie Scorsese released in December 2013 is the only director’s cut that exists. In a new interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scorsese rejects the notion of a director’s cut and maintains that in most cases theatrical cuts are director’s cut.
“The director’s cut is the film that’s released — unless it’s been taken away from the director by the financiers and the studio,” Scorsese said. “[The director] has made their decisions based on the process they were going through at the time. There could be money issues, there could be somebody that dies [while making] the picture, the studio changes heads and the next person hates it. Sometimes [a director says], ‘I wish I could go back and put it all back together.’ All these things happen. But I do think once the die is cast,...
“The director’s cut is the film that’s released — unless it’s been taken away from the director by the financiers and the studio,” Scorsese said. “[The director] has made their decisions based on the process they were going through at the time. There could be money issues, there could be somebody that dies [while making] the picture, the studio changes heads and the next person hates it. Sometimes [a director says], ‘I wish I could go back and put it all back together.’ All these things happen. But I do think once the die is cast,...
- 10/16/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary’s Revelations Entertainment has optioned Arthur T. Burton’s book Black, Red & Deadly for a TV series that they’ll develop about 19th century Arkansas slave-turned U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves. Revelations will work on the project with Malcolm Spellman, Ben Watkins, Josef Sawyer and Grey’s Anatomy actor James Pickens Jr.
Reeves was a notable lawman, a ‘Lone Ranger’ before there ever was one, whose legend has largely been ignored by history. Reeves captured 3K criminals –more than Pat Garrett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Wyatt Earp– with the use of flamboyant detective skills that were ahead of their time, i.e. sting operations to dressing up in disguises. His story unfurled against the backdrop of the birth of statehood and the foundation of Oklahoma. He partnered with a brash Irishman named Chauncey Lee, and together they were tasked with the impossible: impose the...
Reeves was a notable lawman, a ‘Lone Ranger’ before there ever was one, whose legend has largely been ignored by history. Reeves captured 3K criminals –more than Pat Garrett, Wild Bill Hickok, and Wyatt Earp– with the use of flamboyant detective skills that were ahead of their time, i.e. sting operations to dressing up in disguises. His story unfurled against the backdrop of the birth of statehood and the foundation of Oklahoma. He partnered with a brash Irishman named Chauncey Lee, and together they were tasked with the impossible: impose the...
- 9/20/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Alabama musician, songwriter, and actor Donnie Fritts, an architect of Southern soul music whose songs were covered by dozens of artists from Waylon Jennings to Dusty Springfield, died Tuesday night. His publicist confirmed Fritts’ death at the age of 76.
Fritts’ friend and fellow songwriter Gary Nicholson posted a tribute to Fritts on Facebook early Wednesday morning, writing in part, “There aren’t words to describe what his loving friendship has meant to me through the years, so many songs and stories, it’s gonna take awhile to process this one.
Fritts’ friend and fellow songwriter Gary Nicholson posted a tribute to Fritts on Facebook early Wednesday morning, writing in part, “There aren’t words to describe what his loving friendship has meant to me through the years, so many songs and stories, it’s gonna take awhile to process this one.
- 8/28/2019
- by Stephen L. Betts
- Rollingstone.com
Commemorating an era of revisionist-revisionist Westerns (we’re now further away in time from the deconstructed ones than the ones that deconstructed them were from the originals), “The Kid” simultaneously wants to humanize and mythologize its cowboys — and neither effort works.
Yet another story about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, this time presented from the viewpoint of an impressionable teenager witnessing the final days of their cat-and-mouse camaraderie, Vincent D’Onofrio’s film is a maudlin, violent affair that wants us both to admire and to understand the two Old West luminaries, but all it really does is remind us that famous people should seldom if ever be seen as role models.
Jake Schur plays Rio Cutler, a 14-year-old who intervenes in a fight between his mother, Mirabel, and father, Pete, and accidentally shoots him to death. Pete’s brother Grant (Chris Pratt) shows up full of grief and fury,...
Yet another story about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, this time presented from the viewpoint of an impressionable teenager witnessing the final days of their cat-and-mouse camaraderie, Vincent D’Onofrio’s film is a maudlin, violent affair that wants us both to admire and to understand the two Old West luminaries, but all it really does is remind us that famous people should seldom if ever be seen as role models.
Jake Schur plays Rio Cutler, a 14-year-old who intervenes in a fight between his mother, Mirabel, and father, Pete, and accidentally shoots him to death. Pete’s brother Grant (Chris Pratt) shows up full of grief and fury,...
- 3/8/2019
- by Todd Gilchrist
- The Wrap
The extended dance of death played out by lawman Pat Garrett and outlaw Billy the Kid has inspired countless accounts of varying authenticity in literature, cinema and primetime TV, ranging from Sam Peckinpah’s violently elegiac 1973 Western (featuring a singularly hunky Kris Kristofferson as the desperado also known as William Bonney) to “The Tall Man,” a 1960-’62 NBC series which fancifully imagined Garrett (Barry Sullivan) and Billy (Clu Gulager) as frontier frenemies in Lincoln, N.M.
It’s to the considerable credit of actor-turned-director Vincent D’Onofrio and screenwriter Andrew Lanham that they’ve come up with a satisfyingly fresh take on this familiar mythos in “The Kid,” a consistently involving and often exciting drama in which the two Wild West icons are presented from the p.o.v. of an impressionable adolescent who weighs the pros and cons of each man as a role model.
The title refers not...
It’s to the considerable credit of actor-turned-director Vincent D’Onofrio and screenwriter Andrew Lanham that they’ve come up with a satisfyingly fresh take on this familiar mythos in “The Kid,” a consistently involving and often exciting drama in which the two Wild West icons are presented from the p.o.v. of an impressionable adolescent who weighs the pros and cons of each man as a role model.
The title refers not...
- 3/8/2019
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety Film + TV
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