Feb 21, 2011
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One of the major science fiction pictures of its era. J. Lee Thompson was originally to direct, but was busy with McKenna's Gold. Franklin Schaffner was recommended to replace him by star Charlton Heston. Author Pierre Boulle objected to the famous ending provided by Rod Serling (rewritten by Michael Wilson), but later came to accept it as better than the one in his novel. Followed by four sequels, a short lived network tv series, a Saturday morning cartoon series and a 2001 remake.
has a new, heavily illustrated book coming out from DK Publishing called Monsters in the Movies.
John has conversations (not interviews) about the subject with people like Rick Baker, Christopher Lee, Ray Harryhausen, David Cronenberg, Sam Raimi, Guillermo del Toro and Joe Dante. It's available for pre-order at Amazon UK and has a scheduled release date of September 19. Read about it here.
new feature I Melt With You, a kinetic ensemble film, will be distributed in the US by The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnolia Pictures. Stars include Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven, Christian McKay, Carla Gugino and Sasha Grey.
executive produces a new thriller, Some Guy Who Kills People starring Kevin Corrigan, Barry Bostwick and Karen Black. Details and a trailer here.
talks Monsters to The New Yorker!
Read all about it here.
has a new website up and running, a video driven site on Latino history, art, music, literature, theater, cinema and food. It's up to 30 videos and counting. You can check it out at: www.Latinopia.com.
is receiving the Trailblazer Award from Bleedfest Film Festival, which is dedicated to showing the work of new filmmakers and especially increasing the visibility of worthy
indie genre movies by female filmmakers.
is busy as usual. He's hosting composer Lalo Schifrin In Person for a screening of Dirty Harry and Cool Hand Luke on Feb. 23rd at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood - 7:30 PM
Then he hosts Robert Forster & Haskell Wexler in person for a screening of the seldom screened Medium Cool on March 20 at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica - 7:30PM
He's also speaking to students this Friday night (Feb 11) on the Notre Dame campus in South Bend, IN and screening Ed Wood and The People Against Larry Flynt, plus some Trailers from Hell!
TFH congratulates Rick Baker on his latest Oscar nomination for Best Achievement in Makeup (with Dave Elsey) on The Wolfman remake.
is marking the upcoming Centennial of Louis Fueillade's 1913 Fantomas with a showing at LA's Hammer Museum of a newly restored print shipped in from Paris for the occasion next Thursday, January 13, details here.
Howard moderates a discussion with filmmaker/Godard collaborator/UCSD professor/genial troublemaker Jean-Pierre Gorin and Robin Walz (author of Pulp Surrealism).
And then a 100th birthday party in the courtyard. What's not to like?
Perhaps the best overview of the Fantomas films is Dave Kehr's piece on the DVD release here.
And here's Howard on Fantomas in The Huffington Post.
is pleased that his film Saturday Night Fever was named to The Library of Congress's National Film Registry.
has a rant on the FCC's "net neutrality" power grab that's serious and worth a look.
has a newish play opening in LA at the Geffen Playhouse in January called The Break of Noon, while his latest, In a Forest Dark and Deep, begins rehearsals in London.
who's lately being dubbed "The Ozploitation Legend", has a new film scheduled for worldwide DVD release in March. It's Arctic Blast, a spectacular apocalyptic thriller in which a new ice age is triggered by a solar eclipse. Here's a link to the trailer.
RIDING THE BULLET novella and screenplay was published by Lonely Road on November 29th.
is getting kudos for his work on Frank Darabont's AMC zombie series
The Walking Dead.
And Ernest just wrapped principal photography on Close Quarters, an action movie for Lifetime Television. The film stars Catherine Bell, Mekhi Pfieffer and Michael Anthony Hall and is being produced by Gale Ann Hurd.
is in New York City helming two more episodes of NBC's Law and Order:Special Victims Unit.
Planet of the Apes was, in some ways, kind of the forerunner of Star Wars, particularly in regards to the way Apes was franchised, sequelized, and merchandised to the ends of the earth and back. But its a great flick...
I've never read up on the history of the making of this project, but I have wondered why 20th didn't hand it off to their in-house scifi guy Irwin Allen to produce. .
Great movie, great commentary! Mr. Olson's observations on Old Hollywood's respect for not-so-young, not-so-glamorous stars is undercut slightly by that wonderfully cheesy poster! The one with the hunky guy groping the hot redhead with her clothes falling off?.
It's too bad that Heston's later political affiliations, supporting the NRA and hawking National Review, overshadow his strong support of the civil rights movement in the '50s and '60s, campaigning for Adlai Stevenson and John F. Kennedy, and even supporting LBJ's gun control act of 1968...
"White Hunter Black Heart" was a book before it was a movie, written by screenwriter Peter Viertel. Beats the movie of the same name by a mile...
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