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More “The Box” Photos And Poster
29 October 2009 2:02 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
Take a look at a batch of photos and new poster for Richard Kelly – directed supernatural thriller “The Box” which opens theaters tomorrow.
The movie is based on the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson (”Duel,” “I am Legend“) stars Frank Langella, Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, James Rebhorn, Gillian Jacobs, Holmes Osborne and Celia Weston.
A mysterious stranger (Langella), delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world…someone they don’t know.
With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma (Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (Marsden) find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
More about the movie, trailers, images and posters you can find at “The Box »
- Fiona
'Paranormal Activity' Director Oren Peli Calls Steven Spielberg's Praise 'Amazing'
28 October 2009 10:12 PM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »
'Even if he watched it and hated it I would have been stoked,' Peli says.
By Christopher Campbell, with additional reporting by Adam Rosenberg
Photo: MTV News
"Paranormal Activity" wouldn't have been shown in mainstream theaters if not for movie fans demanding it. But we can also thank one particular movie lover for getting it distributed: Steven Spielberg. A widely circulated part of the film's backstory involves Spielberg viewing — and being terrified by — the low-budget horror flick.
And "Paranormal Activity" writer/director Oren Peli couldn't be happier about his idol's reaction.
"It was amazing," he told MTV News of Spielberg's interest in the film. "One of the most shocking moments of my life was to hear that not only he saw the movie, but he loved it and was frightened by it."
Peli admitted Spielberg has been a major influence on him from the beginning, not just »
“The Box” Poster And Movie Clips
14 October 2009 12:38 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
A new poster as well as three clips from the upcoming supernatural thriller “The Box” have appeared online. Check them out below.
A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world…someone they don’t know.
With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
The movie which is directed by Richard Kelly (”Donnie Darko,” “Domino”) is based on the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson (”Duel,” “I am Legend“) also stars James Rebhorn, Gillian Jacobs, Holmes Osborne and Celia Weston and is scheduled to hit theaters on November 6th, »
- Fiona
'Paranormal Activity': A marketing campaign so ingenious it's scary
7 October 2009 1:51 PM, PDT | EW.com - The Movie Critics | See recent EW.com - The Movie Critics news »
Every so often, the marketing campaign for a movie is itself a work of art. A famous example is The Blair Witch Project (1999), which was advertised via the Internet with a strategy that operated on two interlocking levels. Most obviously, Blair Witch was one of the first films to exploit the viral power of the Web to stir up word-of-mouth. What made the campaign brilliant, however, is the way that it took full advantage of the murky/underground/conspiracy-theory side of the Internet to imply that the movie was "real." (I'd love to know exactly how many people went into »
- Owen Gleiberman
Hugh Jackman Boxing in ‘Real Steel’
30 September 2009 8:49 PM, PDT | newsinfilm.com | See recent newsinfilm news »
Hugh Jackman is in discussions to join Real Steel, a futuristic boxing movie for DreamWorks. Shawn Levy took over the director’s chair after Peter Berg left for Universal’s Battleship movie.
The plot centers on a fighter who becomes a boxing promoter when the sport switches from human contenders to robots. According to Variety, he then discovers an old, discarded bot who battles his way to the top. It’s just like Rocky, only with robots… and Hugh Jackman.
The character also discovers he has a 13-year-old son, and I’m not entirely certain on this, but I’m pretty sure they bond. Another “man finds out he has a kid” story? I think we’ve all been there, am I right guys?
The script has been re-written several times, but it was originally based on a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote “Button, Button” (which became Richard Kelly’s latest film, »
- Jeff Leins
Hollywood Producer Eckstein Dies
15 September 2009 9:06 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Hollywood producer and TV writer George Eckstein has died, aged 81.
Eckstein co-wrote the final episode of 1960s TV series The Fugitive - one of the most watched TV episodes in U.S. history.
He also wrote 10 episodes of the drama, and served as associate producer and co-producer on the series.
He later produced Steven Spielberg 's 1971 TV movie Duel, The Billy Barnes Revue on Broadway and worked as a casting director and business manager before continuing his stellar TV career.
In addition to his credits on The Fugitive, Eckstein produced movies for the small screen including Amelia Earhart and Tail Gunner Joe. He executive produced TV miniseries Masada and TV series Love, Sidney.
His work on The Untouchables launched his TV writing career. He later wrote for series including Dr. Kildare, Gunsmoke, The Invaders and TV movie Perry Mason.
Eckstein was a former board member of the Writers Guild of America and a founding member and a former chairman of the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors.
He died on Saturday in Los Angeles.
He is survived by his wife of 41 years, actress Selette Cole, three daughters and two granddaughters. »
The Box Poster And New Images
6 September 2009 12:56 PM, PDT | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »
An international (French) poster as well as new images from the upcoming Richard Kelly – directed supernatural thriller “The Box” have appeared online.
A mysterious stranger, played by Frank Langella, delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world…someone they don’t know.
With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma (Cameron Diaz) and Arthur Lewis (James Marsden) find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity.
The movie which is based on the short story “Button, Button” by Richard Matheson (”Duel,” “I am Legend“) also stars James Rebhorn, Gillian Jacobs, Holmes Osborne and Celia Weston and is scheduled to hit theaters on October 30th 2009.
More about the movie, trailers, »
- Fiona
Exclusive: Debbie Rowe In Her Own Words
12 July 2009 10:11 PM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »
Read MTV News' complete interview with Michael Jackson's ex-wife, mother of Paris and Prince.
By James Montgomery, with reporting by Rebecca White
Photo: MTV News
In early 2008, MTV News received a pitch from a writer named Rebecca White, who said she was good friends with Debbie Rowe, the mother of Michael Jackson's first two children (Michael Joseph Jr., a.k.a. Prince Michael, and Paris and his wife for more than three years. White said she had been invited to Rowe's horse ranch near Palmdale, California, and that Rowe was interested in doing an on-camera interview.
Obviously, we were interested in making it happen.
So, on April 6, we sent White and a crew to Rowe's ranch. To be honest, we didn't know what we'd find when we got there. Since divorcing from Jackson in 1999, Rowe had retreated to the dusty hills, having granted custody of the »
Trailer For The Box Online
24 June 2009 11:39 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Richard Kelly Makes Straight Thriller Shock! The Box, adapted from a short story by Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, Duel) stars James Marsden and Cameron Diaz. Check out the super-tense new trailer here. Isn't that the theme from Saw?The writer-director of the awesome-as-it's-supposed-to-be Donnie Darko, and the what-the-hell-is-it-supposed-to-be Southland Tales (he also wrote the screenplay for Domino) has clearly had a career re-think following Southland's production problems and box office disappearance. If this trailer is anything to go by, the self-indulgence has been truly reigned in, leaving something leaner and more focused in its place.Which is not to say it doesn't look as if there are some nicely bizarro touches in there. We like the Father Christmas / train wreck snippet particularly, although we're less convinced by the CGI splodge on Frank Langella's face.The story was adapted once before, in 1986, as a Twilight Zone episode. The movie's »
This Book is Legend - A look at He Is Legend
28 April 2009 11:49 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Richard Matheson gave horror something unforgettable: worlds such as I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, and Hell House.
His writing inspired numerous authors and challenged the entire genre to explore not just the horrors issued from demons, werewolves, or vampires but from the human condition, from the gore of heartache.
Matheson is the master of taking ordinary men and throwing them into extraordinary circumstances.
Much in this regard, Gauntlet Press attempted a similar feat, when Gauntlet owner and publisher, Barry Hoffman, and editor, Christopher Conlon, gathered some of today’s best and most revered horror writers and asked them to write short stories based in Richard Matheson’s worlds for Gauntlet Press’ latest release, He Is Legend: An Anthology Celebrating Richard Matheson.
“What I said to Chris Conlon at the time, ‘Is that the only thing that we’re going to have to do is...have a large number of A-list writers, »
First look at the poster for Richard Kelly's The Box
3 April 2009 3:11 PM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
To continue our trend at bringing you tiny posters for cool projects, we present you with the first look at the poster for Richard Kelly's The Box. Based on the short story "Button, Button" by legendary screenwriter and novelist Richard Matheson ("Duel," "I am Legend"), the story was also the subject of a great (yet a bit campy) New Twilight Zone Episode called the same thing.
Norma Lewis and James Marsden and Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. A mysterious stranger delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world…someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, »
Richard Matheson: An Appreciation By Matthew R. Bradley
22 February 2009 12:02 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 After the hundreds of pages I have written and edited about Richard Matheson, it’s tough to sum up his significance to film and television in a few sentences, but here goes. Start with the movies that would never have been made if he hadn’t written the novels or stories—and in many cases the scripts—first: the Hugo Award-winning The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Emmy Award-winning Duel (Steven Spielberg’s feature-length debut), The Legend of Hell House, Trilogy of Terror (with Karen Black’s Zuni-doll smackdown), the Oscar-nominated Somewhere in Time, the Oscar-winning What Dreams May Come, Stir of Echoes, and a little half-billion-dollar hit called I Am Legend (plus its two previous incarnations, The Last Man on Earth and The Omega Man).
Now add his adaptations of works by Edgar Allan Poe (House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum, »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
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