In the immortal words of Detective John Kimble: Who is your daddy and what does he do? In the case of Steven Spielberg's passion project inspired by his own childhood, the answer is Paul Dano. Hot off portraying a new iteration of The Riddler for Matt Reeves highly anticipated The Batman, Dano will shift gears to play a more wholesome and, well, Spielbergian character. For…...
- 4/8/2021
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
If you don’t count the Terminator franchise based on the loophole that he’s technically a different version of the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 in each of the five movies he’s appeared in, then outside of his winking self-referential cameos as Trench in the Expendables series, Conan the Barbarian is the only character Arnold Schwarzenegger has played more than once.
That’s not from a lack of trying, though, with countless failed attempts made at sequelizing his biggest hits over the years, including the fabled King Conan. The action icon has turned down every Predator movie that’s been produced since the 1987 original, True Lies 2 fell through when James Cameron decided to focus his efforts on painstakingly leading the technological advancement of cinema instead, potential follow-ups for Commando and Total Recall were also nixed, and Eddie Murphy joining Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Triplets never made it out of development hell.
That’s not from a lack of trying, though, with countless failed attempts made at sequelizing his biggest hits over the years, including the fabled King Conan. The action icon has turned down every Predator movie that’s been produced since the 1987 original, True Lies 2 fell through when James Cameron decided to focus his efforts on painstakingly leading the technological advancement of cinema instead, potential follow-ups for Commando and Total Recall were also nixed, and Eddie Murphy joining Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in Triplets never made it out of development hell.
- 1/2/2021
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
The tumultuous marriage of Judy Garland and Sid Luft gets the documentary treatment on Showtime this October, with director Stephen Kijak Sid & Judy making use of the recently public observations of Luft as well as never-before-heard recordings by Garland.
Showtime Documentary Films announced the doc today, with a TV premiere of Friday, October 18, 8 p.m. Et/Pt. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh narrate the film, which screened in June at the Frameline Festival in San Francisco and is set for Outfest Los Angeles on Saturday, July 27 in Hollywood.
Luft was Garland’s third husband as well as, for a while, her manager. In Showtime’s description, Sid & Judy chronicles their life together through “Luft’s observations, only recently made public, and Garland’s own words…” What emerges, says Showtime, is “a poignant portrait of a woman whose vulnerabilities were exploited by an industry she helped build, but whose resilience,...
Showtime Documentary Films announced the doc today, with a TV premiere of Friday, October 18, 8 p.m. Et/Pt. Jon Hamm and Jennifer Jason Leigh narrate the film, which screened in June at the Frameline Festival in San Francisco and is set for Outfest Los Angeles on Saturday, July 27 in Hollywood.
Luft was Garland’s third husband as well as, for a while, her manager. In Showtime’s description, Sid & Judy chronicles their life together through “Luft’s observations, only recently made public, and Garland’s own words…” What emerges, says Showtime, is “a poignant portrait of a woman whose vulnerabilities were exploited by an industry she helped build, but whose resilience,...
- 7/23/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
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