2009 |
2008 |
2002 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997
12 articles from 2009
The world's only Bill Paxton pinball machine
29 September 2009 11:18 PM, PDT
| Corona's Coming Attractions
| See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news
»
I spend a lot of time every day connected to the internet and I see many things. Very few of them come as close to being as incredibly geeky and super-cool as what Benjamin J. Heckendorn is making in his off-time: the world's only and fully working pinball machine meant to honor the film career of Bill Paxton. Twister. Aliens. True Lies. Frailty. The Dark Backward. Weird Science. The Terminator. The man is worthy -- nay, Owed -- a pinball machine to his geek greatness.
Heckendorn has been working on his custom pinball machine since 2005; he is considered an expert game modder and so has a bunch of other projects on the go at any given time but now Heckendorn hopes to have his Bpp game ready for playing next year. Based on the photos and videos he's showing us, the dream will be realized on time.
Heckendorn's pinball machine
»
- Patrick Sauriol
Permalink | Report a problem
Point Break Sequel is Dead
11 September 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
| WorstPreviews.com
| See recent Worst Previews news
»
Back in March, director Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister) was getting ready to shoot the "Point Break" sequel in Indonesia and Australia. Then Bont was replaced by Jeff Wadlow and the project seemingly came to a screeching halt. Moviehole tried to get in touch with several of its studio contacts to find out if there has been any movement on "Point Break Indo," but didn't get many responses. Then a bit later in the day, the site heard back from two trusted sources, both stating that the project is currently dead. The sequel may one day happen, but at this stage, all attached cast members (Damien Walshe-Howling, Rick Otto) have been freed up to work on other projects.
»
Permalink | Report a problem
Steven Spielberg Developing Pirate Latitudes
28 August 2009 6:07 AM, PDT
| Reelzchannel.com
| See recent ReelzChannel news
»
Steven Spielberg is planning on returning to the works of one of the writers who have served him the best in the past, the late Michael Crichton. Spielberg adapted Jurassic Park from the novel by Crichton and now he plans to make a big-budget "mission movie" from Crichton's soon-to-be-published novel, Pirate Latitudes, about an English pirate who plots to steal Spanish gold in the New World.
About Pirate Latitudes, Spielberg said:
Michael wrote a real page-turner that already seems suited for the big screen. Michael and I have had almost two decades of solid collaborations. Whenever I made a film from a Michael Crichton book or screenplay, I knew I was in good hands. Michael felt the same, and we like to think he still does.
David Koepp, the writer who adapted Jurassic Park and Lost World for the screen, is attached to craft the screenplay of Pirate Latitudes. Spielberg is producing,
»
- BrentJS Sprecher
Permalink | Report a problem
Spielberg To Develop Michael Crichton Pirate Movie
27 August 2009 7:50 AM, PDT
| ScreenRant.com
| See recent Screen Rant news
»
In November last year we heard of the sad passing of the great novelist and screenwriter (amongst other things), Michael Crichton, who was responsible for such works as Jurassic Park (both the novel and screenplay), The 13th Warrior (novel) and Twister (screenplay). He wrote 27 fiction novels in his 40-plus years of writing, two of them unpublished.
And so, it seems fitting that Crichton’s long-time collaborator, Steven Spielberg, is going to develop one of those yet-unpublished novels into a movie: Pirate Latitudes.
USAToday reports that Spielberg has already tapped writer David Koepp - who co-wrote Jurassic Park’s screenplay with Crichton - to pen the script for Pirate Latitudes. Spielberg is planning on producing the adaptation, and will possibly direct as well. The acclaimed director has called the story a, “real page-turner that already seems suited for the big screen.” Check out the full quote from him:
“Michael wrote a
»
- Ross Miller
Permalink | Report a problem
Spielberg Developing Crichton’s Pirate Latitudes
26 August 2009 9:36 PM, PDT
| TheMovingPicture.net
| See recent TheMovingPicture news
»
USA Today is reporting Steven Spielberg is developing a feature adaptation of Pirate Latitudes, an unpublished adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665 from the late Michael Crichton.
Spielberg, who directed adaptations of Crichton’s Jurassic Park and The Lost World, plans to produce and is considering directing. Along with Park, Spielberg and Crichton also developed TV's ER together and the tornado movie Twister.
The novel, which HarperCollins will release on November 24, stars a pirate named Hunter who, together with the governor of Jamaica, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure. David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and its sequel, will adapt Latitudes.
DreamWorks Studios describes the novel as the story of "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure." The studio also says the movie will be more grounded in reality,
»
- James Cook
Permalink | Report a problem
Spielberg and Crichton set sail for 'Pirate Latitudes'
26 August 2009 7:30 PM, PDT
| Hitfix
| See recent Hitfix news
»
Michael Crichton and Steven Spielberg were good friends for most of their professional lives, meeting originally in the early '70s at Universal. Their friendship's most famous by-product was "Jurassic Park" and its sequels, but they also collaborated on "E/R" and "Twister" over the years. I guess, then, it shouldn't come as a huge surprise that they have one final collaboration developing right now, and it sounds like it could be a perfect vehicle for Spielberg to return to merge his skill at staging adventure while also indulging his appetite for history. Anthony Breznican broke the story over at USA Today, and
»
Permalink | Report a problem
"It's a twister! It's a twister!": Rating movie tornadoes
13 August 2009 3:31 PM, PDT
| ifc.com
| See recent IFC news
»
Creating a tornado in a film has always been a test of the limits of special effects, but most people, luckily, haven't gotten up close and personal with enough of them to spot the differences.
Keith Cecere and Rich Ruggiero, both active storm chasers (and co-stars in IFC's storm-chasing mockumentary "Funnel of Darkness"), have.
That's why they've offered their judgments on five movies known for their wicked weather sequences, which they've rated (both for the effects and the acting -- hey, everyone's a critic) on the Fujita scale, a scale for rating tornado intensity, from f1 (weakest) to f5 (strongest).
"Twister" (1996)
Directed by Jan de Bont
Rich Ruggiero: This classic gets an F5. The effects are really good -- and it came out 13 years ago! In special effects time, that's like 200 years. There've been a lot of advancements since then, but the filmmakers did a sick job with what they had back then.
»
- Keith Cecere
Permalink | Report a problem
Bill Paxton Tees Up for The Greatest Game Ever Played
16 June 2009 1:14 PM, PDT
| MovieWeb
| See recent MovieWeb news
»
Director Bill Paxton talks about the amazing true story, working with Shia Labeouf, the new Blu-ray release and more
While Bill Paxton is primarily known as an actor, with such films under his belt as True Lies, Apollo 13, Twister, Titanic along with his Golden-Globe-nominated turn as Bill Henrickson on Big Love, he's also quite talented on the other side of the camera as well. Paxton made his directorial debut with the absolutely astounding film Frailty, that to this day is one of my favorites, and Paxton followed that suspsenseful thriller with the true-story sports film The Greatest Game Ever Played, which was just released on Blu-ray today, June 16. Earlier today I had the chance to speak with the actor/director over the phone about his 2005 golf film that starred Shia Labeouf long before he became a household name. Here's what Paxton had to say.
The Greatest Game Ever Played
»
Permalink | Report a problem
Van Ling Talks Terminator 2: Judgment Day on Blu-ray
18 May 2009 7:43 PM, PDT
| MovieWeb
| See recent MovieWeb news
»
The visual effects coordinator and DVD producer talks about his multi-faceted involvement in this classic film
Van Ling got a pretty good start to a career in special effects with his first film The Abyss, which he got to work on after a chance encounter with director James Cameron. That lead to career which spanned such effects-heavy films as Twister, Starship Troopers and Titanic, which he transitioned into a career as a DVD producer, but Ling's second film was the blockbuster sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day, which will be released in a "Skynet Edition" Blu-ray and a six-disc limited edition Blu-ray (DVD editions that he himself also produced) on May 19. I had the chance to speak with Ling over the phone, and here's what he had to say.
Your first feature credit was with James Cameron on The Abyss, so were you talking about this film while you were working on that,
»
Permalink | Report a problem
20 Years of Summer Movies, A Love/Hate Relationship
7 May 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
| JustPressPlay.net
| See recent JustPressPlay news
»
With the release of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, the 2009 summer movie season has begun. A cursory glance at the upcoming slate of summer releases looks pretty weak this year, but I’m not here to look ahead. Instead, I noticed that we’ve reached the twenty-year anniversary of the “true” summer movie age. Sure, Jaws and Star Wars were the godfathers of the movement, and the close-following summers since that time often saw two or three big releases looking to cash in on the popcorn-munching crowd, but it was 1989 when the summer movie calendar started to become bloated. The large number of crowd-pleasing titles (and bevy of sequels) included the following: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Batman, Ghostbusters II, License to Kill, Star Trek V, Lethal Weapon 2, The Abyss, Honey I Shrunk the Kids and, to a lesser extent, The Karate Kid: Part III. So on the Platinum Anniversary of the summer flick phenomenon,
»
- Matt Medlock
Permalink | Report a problem
An Original Feature: 8 Remakes That Should Never Have Happened – Part 1
29 March 2009 5:46 AM, PDT
| FilmShaft.com
| See recent FilmShaft.com news
»
Despite popular opinion, remakes are not a new phenomenon, they’ve been around pretty much as long as cinema, and have given us some of the finest movies in cinematic history.
Unfortunately, they’ve also given us some real steaming piles of turd, particularly in recent years. Take a look at my own list of the “8 Remakes That Should Never Have Happened” and see for yourselves:
#1 – Death Race 2000 (1975)/Death Race (2008)
The Original: A cult 1975 action film based on the short story “The Rider” by Ib Melchior, the film starred David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone and was directed by Paul Bartel. The film told the story of a fascist America, that keeps the people satisfied through a stream of gory gladiatorial entertainment, which includes the bloody spectacle the Transcontinental Road Race, depicted as a symbol of American values and way of life.
What went right? : Heavily custom cars,
»
- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)
Permalink | Report a problem
Villain Cast in Point Break Sequel
4 March 2009 6:00 PM, PST
| WorstPreviews.com
| See recent Worst Previews news
»
Australian actor Damian Walshe-Howling (Ned Kelly, Macbeth) spoke with Moviehole, revealing that he has been cast in the "Point Break" sequel, entitled "Point Break Indo" and is directed by Jan de Bont (Speed, Twister). Plot: When Billy Dalton, military special ops and star surfer, is disqualified from the pro-surfing tour, he takes off for the coast of Bali looking for the perfect wave. While there he's recruited by a private security force who are trying to find a gang known as The Bush Administration, surfing outlaws and modern day pirates who work like "The Ex-Presidents," a bank robbing crew from Malibu twenty years ago. Walshe-Howling will play the bad guy, a sea-pirate named Dali. He and his team wear masks of The Bush Administration (George Bush, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, etc) as they rob boats. Dali's sister, Teela, ends up falling in love with Dalton, an undercover Fed working in Dali's gang,
»
Permalink | Report a problem
2009 |
2008 |
2002 |
1999 |
1998 |
1997
12 articles from 2009
See all NewsDesk partners
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the
above news articles. News articles are published for the entertainment of our
users only. The news items do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we
guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the
site responsible for the article in question to report any concerns you may
have.
