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The Bounty Hunter Poster Now Online
16 December 2009 1:40 AM, PST
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The poster for The Bounty Hunter, the action comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Gerard Butler, has gone online over at Yahoo! Movies, and it’s… intriguing.The central image of Butler, who plays a bounty hunter forced to transport his ex-wife across country, and Aniston handcuffed together instantly brings to mind classic mismatched-or-handcuffed couples road movies of the past, such as It Happened One Night, Midnight Run and, erm, Fled, even if it’s a little static.The splashes of blood on the beleaguered Butler’s shirt also could be a hint that this won’t be the play-safe, happy-go-lucky, PG-13 comedy we were expecting, but perhaps a harder-edged, swearier, violence-flecked effort. Which would seem unlikely coming from Andy Tennant, director of Hitch, especially giving the hugely perky day-glo font. (Yes, we’re the font police)Click the image above for more pictures on Yahoo! MoviesSo we’re no closer
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Jay Dipietro's Top Ten Films of All Time
12 December 2009 6:25 PM, PST
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Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. - Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile, we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of all time favorite films. This month we profile Jay Dipietro, helmer behind Peter & Vandy which receives its theatrical release via Strand Releasing on October.9th. He gave us his top ten (as of October 2009).
Midnight Run (1988) Martin Brest An all time favorite. I could recite that movie at one point.
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- Ioncinema.com Staff
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'Beverly Hills Cop' is 25 Years Old Today... Can You Believe It?
5 December 2009 2:38 AM, PST
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Reading up on the history of Beverly Hills Cop, it never should have worked. By the time the movie went into production, there were about 8 billion different versions of the script. The final product was basically scotch-taped together from those different versions and whatever else didn't work was improvised by the cast.
Way back when, the story looked like a star vehicle for Al Pacino or James Caan in what would have been a much more serious take on the story. Then Mickey Rourke was attached. Then Rourke walked. Sylvestor Stallone came on board for an even bloodier version that never came to fruition because it would have been too expensive (reportedly Stallone took many of that version's ideas and made Cobra. I'm assuming it was most of the really bad ideas). So what did the studio do with what was once a serious tale of revenge? They made it a comedy.
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- Andre Rivas
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Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse With Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg of ‘Zombieland’
1 October 2009 2:46 PM, PDT
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Chicago – Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg make an amazing comedy/horror duo in “Zombieland,” which is one of the most out-of-left-field surprises of 2009. It’s a great film that has been perfectly captured in the production notes in four words: “‘Midnight Run’ with zombies.” The stars of this buddy/road/horror movie recently sat down with HollywoodChicago.com to discuss the state of the genre, the end of the world, and how to make chaos look spontaneous.
Harrelson and Eisenberg star as Tallahasse and Columbus, respectively. Harrelson’s the alpha male and Eisenberg the neurotic follower and both are just trying to stay alive in a future where there are more undead than alive. The film is filled with increasingly over-the-top zombie deaths, but it’s the characters that will truly turn it into a cult classic, something that surprised the film’s stars.
Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson at
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Interview with Woody Harrelson & Jesse Eisenberg, Stars of Zombieland
1 October 2009 12:14 PM, PDT
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Oct 01, 2009
Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg survived the waking dead in the great Zombieland but could they survive a junket with five Chicago writers at one round table? Seriously, the stars have the same ridiculously potent chemistry in person as they do on-screen in the film that the production notes perfectly captured as “Midnight Run with zombies.” The buddy element of Zombieland is just as important as the undead and Harrelson and Eisenberg are fantastic. They were both affable and interesting as five writers, all of whom loved the film, fired questions ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com
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The Gatekeeper: Production Blog #4 - Mr. Miyagi and the guy who wrote Midnight Run
20 August 2009 1:32 PM, PDT
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I'd like to spend this blog talking about mentors. I grew up watching movies like The Karate Kid and always dreamed of having a Mr. Miyagi to help me guide me through the trials of life. I'm sure a lot of people in my generation, a generation of working parents and television babysitters, yearned for this as well. It was through the coming of age stories like Stand By Me that we learned important lessons about life and friendship. It was through The Karate Kid that we learned the value of discipline. I never had a Mr. Miyagi in my turbulent teen years. And I never went on a journey with my friends that left us with a better understanding of life. Instead, I grew up in the suburbs. The impenetrable boredom of little boxes lined up on a series of dead end streets and cul-de-sacs.
It wouldn't be til my mid twenties,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Isaac Meisenheimer)
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Cinematical Seven: Unexpectedly Bromantic Movies
11 August 2009 8:03 PM, PDT
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I Love You, Man comes out on DVD and Blu-ray today, and it's a light-hearted if quickly forgettable movie that squarely defines "bromance," which has quickly become one of the marketing industry's favorite terms. It's a word that's come to describe camaraderie between men on screen when "friends" just won't cut it. We're not talking about Brokeback Mountain levels of love between males here, but something just south of it.
Unfortunately, I Love You, Man doesn't really nail that moment until the very end of the film. By then, the only thing stuck in your head is Paul Rudd's "Slappin' de bass" line, and the bond between Rudd and Jason Siegel seems more like beer buddies than anything. But what about movies that nail between man, for better or worse? Here's seven examples of movies that are very pro-bro.
Midnight Run
Martin Brest's 1998 bounty hunter tracking down his
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- Kevin Kelly
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Robert Downey Jr. Joins Zach Galifianakis in "Due Date"
25 July 2009 9:36 AM, PDT
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Two weeks ago, we told you about "The Hangover" director Todd Phillips' plans to make a film titled "Due Date." (check the article right here)
The film will feature Zach Galifianakis as an unlikely companion of an expectant dad who races cross-country in hopes of making it home for the birth of his first child.
That expectant dad character is now going to be played by Robert Downey Jr.! Hurray!
I'm always open to see Downey in a straight-up comedy. His brilliant timing helped to add sparks when he's verbally sparring with Gwyneth Paltrow's Pepper Potts in "Iron Man" and of course, his Oscar-nominated turn as a method actor in "Tropic Thunder" is well-earned.
Although the "mismatched buddies on a road trip" plot has shades of John Hughes' "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" or Martin Brest's "Midnight Run" with Robert De Niro, I have faith that Phillips will
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Farina's Gun Charge Wiped From Record
17 July 2009 6:26 PM, PDT
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Actor Dennis Farina has been given a break by a Los Angeles judge - he's had a 2008 gun possession charge dropped and wiped from his record.
The Midnight Run star was arrested in May after he was caught carrying a loaded and unregistered .22 calibre pistol through security at Los Angeles' Lax Airport.
He was booked for carrying a concealed weapon but later reached a deal with prosecutors to have the felony reduced to the lesser accusation of entering an airport sanitary area with a weapon, reports TMZ.com.
Farina, 64, pleaded no contest to the charge last July and was sentenced to two years probation.
The actor was back in court on Friday, exactly one year after he accepted the deal, with his lawyer Blair Berk requesting the withdrawal of the no contest plea, telling the judge, "Not all mistakes should be prosecuted as crimes."
But he received more than he was asking for when the judge decided to scrap the charge altogether and have the arrest expunged from his otherwise clean record.
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Gallo readies for 'Columbus Circle'
1 July 2009 5:40 PM, PDT
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George Gallo is set for "Columbus Circle."According to The Hollywood Reporter, the veteran writer behind such action comedies as "Bad Boys" and "Midnight Run" will direct the indie thriller from a script he co-wrote with Kevin Pollak, who has a role in the film as well.Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Jason Lee and Giovanni Ribisi also star in "Circle." Oxymoron Entertainment's Christopher Mallick and Blue Star Entertainment's William Sherak and Jason Shuman will produce. "Circle" centers on a reclusive heiress (Blair) in an upscale Manhattan apartment building who is brought face-to-face with her fears when a detective (Ribisi) shows up to investigate a homicide next door and a new couple (Smart and Lee) moves in to that apartment. Pollak plays the
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- Adnan Tezer
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Cast Lined Up for Columbus Circle
30 June 2009 10:23 PM, PDT
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Selma Blair, Amy Smart, Jason Lee, Giovanni Ribisi and Kevin Pollak are set to star in Columbus Circle, an indie thriller that George Gallo is directing from a script he co-wrote with Pollack. Principal photography is slated to start this month in Los Angeles.
The film centers on a reclusive heiress (Blair) in an upscale Manhattan apartment building who is brought face-to-face with her fears when a detective (Ribisi) shows up to investigate a homicide next door and a new couple (Smart and Lee) moves in to that apartment. Pollak plays the building's concierge and one of the heiress' few friends.
On a recent episode of his internet talk show, Pollak revealed that the idea for the film came on a plane ride back from the Cannes Film Festival after producer Christopher Mallick had lost the rights to a remake of a Korean film. Two loft sets were already built and ready to go,
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- James Cook
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dream cast: hypothetical ‘Midnight Run’ remake
28 May 2009 3:15 PM, PDT
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I’ve been convinced to give Dream Cast another try. (Thank my brother Ken, who posts comments here sometimes as “Ken,” if you’re happy to see this feature return.) This week: Midnight Run, the 1988 action buddy comedy starring Robert DeNiro as a bounty hunter and Charles Grodin as the mob accountant on the run he’s been hired to bring in.
(If you have a suggestion for a classic TV show or movie we should play with, feel free to email me.)
Midnight Run is one of my favorite movies, and one that continues to make me laugh no matter how many times I see it, because the humor springs from the characters, not from punchlines, and from the inspired performances of and palpable chemistry between DeNiro and Grodin. Key to a successful remake would be finding two actors who could replicate that chemistry and who are funny without trying to be comic.
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- MaryAnn Johanson
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Int: George Gallo
6 May 2009 3:54 AM, PDT
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One of the main motivations to visit the set of Middle Men, for me, was the chance to chat with writer/director George Gallo. I am a huge fan of Midnight Run. The script he wrote provided some of the best material Robert De Niro has had to work with in the past twenty-five years. When I arrived at the Las Vegas Country Club they were setting up for a busy day, that would include two locations and several set ups and the production had allotted for just this one day to get it all. So I was
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- Rusty Eltringham
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