Daniel Mays remembers Michael Douglas and Timothy Van Patten, the respectively star and director of new Apple TV drama Franklin, bursting into song whenever he appeared on set.
It came about because during the Franklin shoot in Paris, director Nicholas Hytner asked Mays to star at London’s Bridge Theatre as good old reliable Nathan Detroit in an immersive production of the classic Broadway fable Guys & Dolls by Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling.
Upon hearing this news, Douglas insisted, ”You’re doing it, Danny — no question about it.”
The adaption of Damon Runyon’s tales was Van Patten’s father’s favorite musical, “so then within the hour, more like a whole bloody second, every time I came on set, they kept playing ‘The Oldest Established [Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York], and Michael and Noah Jupe would join in.”
Even the French crew got in the swing of it.
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It came about because during the Franklin shoot in Paris, director Nicholas Hytner asked Mays to star at London’s Bridge Theatre as good old reliable Nathan Detroit in an immersive production of the classic Broadway fable Guys & Dolls by Frank Loesser, Abe Burrows and Jo Swerling.
Upon hearing this news, Douglas insisted, ”You’re doing it, Danny — no question about it.”
The adaption of Damon Runyon’s tales was Van Patten’s father’s favorite musical, “so then within the hour, more like a whole bloody second, every time I came on set, they kept playing ‘The Oldest Established [Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York], and Michael and Noah Jupe would join in.”
Even the French crew got in the swing of it.
In French or English?...
- 4/12/2024
- by Baz Bamigboye
- Deadline Film + TV
The grand-scale Biblical epics that midcentury Hollywood churned out to roaring box-office returns had many drawcards as (so to speak) mass entertainment — brawny action, transporting spectacle, then jaw-dropping effects — but a sense of humor, by and large, wasn’t one of them. That’s something British musician-turned-filmmaker Jeymes Samuel attempts to rectify in his offbeat messiah story “The Book of Clarence,” a newly invented tale that runs parallel to the life and death of Jesus in ways both blithely blasphemous and sincerely Christian. Following on from Samuel’s debut, the rollicking hip-hop western “The Harder They Fall,” with its flagrantly anachronistic remix of genre traditions and a predominantly Black cast, “Clarence” clearly seeks to be the first film loosely of its type to make any pop-cultural impact since Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” nearly 20 years ago.
It’ll certainly prove a hard sell to the U.S.
It’ll certainly prove a hard sell to the U.S.
- 10/12/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
You pick up a lot of baggage when you live to be 100, a sentiment confirmed by the long, long movie career of Bob Hope. His unofficial status as the preeminent entertainer of the 20th century is open to debate but he was without a doubt that era’s most conspicuous comedian. Marlon Brando’s infamous dismissal, “He’ll go to the opening of a market to receive an award”, was mean-spirited but it had the sting of truth; for over eighty years Hope was everywhere, for better or worse.
Living up to his nickname, “Rapid Robert”, the 31-year old Hope shot out of the gate in 1934 with a series of quick-on-their feet comic shorts revolving around his unique presence as a leading man and comical sidekick rolled into one. It wasn’t long before he was starring in pleasantly prosaic musicals like The Big Broadcast of 1938 and handsomely mounted...
Living up to his nickname, “Rapid Robert”, the 31-year old Hope shot out of the gate in 1934 with a series of quick-on-their feet comic shorts revolving around his unique presence as a leading man and comical sidekick rolled into one. It wasn’t long before he was starring in pleasantly prosaic musicals like The Big Broadcast of 1938 and handsomely mounted...
- 8/15/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
“You mean, there was actually a previous Nut Job?”
In response to the comment that often greets mention of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, indeed there was one.
An animated adventure featuring a frantic menagerie of urban park dwellers, the feature boasted little that separated it from the anthropomorphic pack save for a scene-stealing Maya Rudolph as an eager-to-please pug and the striking Damon Runyon-inspired, throwback art direction. Released during a decidedly uncrowded January weekend in 2014, the film ended up scurrying off with a surprising $25.7 million domestic opening on the way to a worldwide take of...
In response to the comment that often greets mention of The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature, indeed there was one.
An animated adventure featuring a frantic menagerie of urban park dwellers, the feature boasted little that separated it from the anthropomorphic pack save for a scene-stealing Maya Rudolph as an eager-to-please pug and the striking Damon Runyon-inspired, throwback art direction. Released during a decidedly uncrowded January weekend in 2014, the film ended up scurrying off with a surprising $25.7 million domestic opening on the way to a worldwide take of...
- 8/10/2017
- by Michael Rechtshaffen
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Irwin Corey, who Lenny Bruce once called “one of the most brilliant comedians of all time,” has died at 102.
A classic “comedian’s comedian,” Corey died on Monday at his home in Manhattan, NY his son Richard confirmed to NPR.
Billed as “the world’s foremost authority” and nicknamed “professor,” Corey was known for delivering quirky one-liners and slapstick routines as a wild-haired, faux professor dressed in a beat-up tuxedo and spaghetti tie.
Corey was a master of double-talk comedy and would make fun of academic pretenses by spouting strings of multisyllabic science-words in long nonsensical dialogues, often beginning with the word “however.
A classic “comedian’s comedian,” Corey died on Monday at his home in Manhattan, NY his son Richard confirmed to NPR.
Billed as “the world’s foremost authority” and nicknamed “professor,” Corey was known for delivering quirky one-liners and slapstick routines as a wild-haired, faux professor dressed in a beat-up tuxedo and spaghetti tie.
Corey was a master of double-talk comedy and would make fun of academic pretenses by spouting strings of multisyllabic science-words in long nonsensical dialogues, often beginning with the word “however.
- 2/8/2017
- by Mike Miller
- PEOPLE.com
Aaron Brookner with Paterson and Gimme Danger director Jim Jarmusch - Sara Driver on Uncle Howard: "I knew Howard’s nephew Aaron was interested in filmmaking ..."
In Aaron Brookner's search in the making of Uncle Howard, with timely editing by Masahiro Hirakubo (Orlando von Einsiedel's Virunga), we see glimpses of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, John Giorno, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman, Jim Carroll, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith at the Entermedia Nova Convention - Andy Warhol having Cities Of The Red Night inscribed by William Burroughs - clips from Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars - and a telling interview with Lindsay Law on Howard Brookner's film Bloodhounds Of Broadway, based on Damon Runyon stories, with Matt Dillon, Rutger Hauer, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Grey, Madonna, Anita Morris, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, and Steve Buscemi.
Sara Driver with Paul Bowles scholar Francis Poole and Richard Peña...
In Aaron Brookner's search in the making of Uncle Howard, with timely editing by Masahiro Hirakubo (Orlando von Einsiedel's Virunga), we see glimpses of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, John Giorno, Laurie Anderson, Anne Waldman, Jim Carroll, Frank Zappa, and Patti Smith at the Entermedia Nova Convention - Andy Warhol having Cities Of The Red Night inscribed by William Burroughs - clips from Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars - and a telling interview with Lindsay Law on Howard Brookner's film Bloodhounds Of Broadway, based on Damon Runyon stories, with Matt Dillon, Rutger Hauer, Randy Quaid, Jennifer Grey, Madonna, Anita Morris, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, and Steve Buscemi.
Sara Driver with Paul Bowles scholar Francis Poole and Richard Peña...
- 10/2/2016
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Old Globe today announced the first production of its 2017 Summer Season Guys and Dolls, a musical fable of Broadway. Based on the stories and characters by Damon Runyon, with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, Guys and Dolls will be directed and choreographed by Josh Rhodes, returning to the Globe after the great successes of Ken Ludwig's Baskerville A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, which he directed, and Bright Star, which he choreographed.
- 9/8/2016
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 7/21/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Michael Grandage ("Genius") has been announced as the director of "Guys and Dolls," 20th Century Fox and Working Title's upcoming remake of the classic stage and screen musical.
Adapted from Damon Runyon's short stories about the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s, the previous film version starred Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. The likes of Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were linked to a previous version of this remake, while Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel and Hugh Jackman have all mentioned desires to be involved in the past.
John Goldwyn is producing. Grandage is familiar with the property, he directed a stage version of the musical on the West End in 2005. That production starred Ewan McGregor as Masterson and Douglas Hodge as Nathan Detroit.
Source: Deadline...
Adapted from Damon Runyon's short stories about the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s, the previous film version starred Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons. The likes of Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt were linked to a previous version of this remake, while Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel and Hugh Jackman have all mentioned desires to be involved in the past.
John Goldwyn is producing. Grandage is familiar with the property, he directed a stage version of the musical on the West End in 2005. That production starred Ewan McGregor as Masterson and Douglas Hodge as Nathan Detroit.
Source: Deadline...
- 5/31/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Today in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
- 4/14/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 3/1/2016
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jerry Weintraub, who produced such hits as the Karate Kid and the Ocean's series, died Monday of cardiac arrest in Santa Barbara, his publicists said. He was 77. A promoter and impresario in the old sense, Weintraub was a larger-than-life, Damon Runyon-esque character. A steely, hard-charging personality, he was wildly successful in a wide-ranging entertainment career that spanned more than 50 years. Before his success as a motion picture producer, Weintraub was a force in the management and musical fields. He spent more than two decades promoting concerts and some of the top musical acts in
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- 7/6/2015
- by Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Today in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
- 4/14/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 3/1/2015
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Los Angeles' Colony Theatre Company will soon present the world premiere of Another Roll Of The Dice, a musical featuring the works of the team that created Guys and Dolls. With a book by Mark Saltzman, Another Roll Of The Dice includes the music of Frank Loesser and is based on the stories of Damon Runyon. The musical will premiere April 16 and will run through May 15, 2015.
- 2/5/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
★★★★☆ Damon Runyon is often imitated but never bettered - we won't even hold it against him that he’s partly responsible (via proxy) for the gangster films of Guy Ritchie and his ilk. Runyon's portrayal of the New York underworld and it's denizens with their peculiar argot seems to sound familiar and strange at the the same time to modern ears, but when it arrived in his tales published in the late 1930s it shone a light on an epoch that previously had only been know via arch genre films. Now, of course, this world is mostly known from Joseph L. Mankiewicz's film version of Guys and Dolls (1955) that has been beautifully restored and re-released.
- 12/19/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
St. Vincent The Weinstein Company Reviewed for Shockya by Harvey Karten. Data-based on Rotten Tomatoes. Grade: C+ Director: Theodore Melfi Screenwriter: Theodore Melfi Cast: Bill Murray, Melissa McCarthy, Jaeden Lieberher, Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd Screened at: Park Avenue, NYC, 11/11/14 Opens: October 24, 2014 A kid needs a father. If you think this is the taking-off point for a predictable, light comedy with more than a touch of sentiment, you’re probably thinking of “St. Vincent.” Struggling mom with a cheating soon-to-be-ex husband, adorable 12-year-old, scrofulous gaffer, Alzheimer’s afflicted wife, competent and tolerant Catholic brother, Damon Runyon gangsters, hooker with a heart of gold. Yup, they’re all there and their job [ Read More ]
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- 11/12/2014
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
There is a long tradition of hard-drinking American newspaper columnists who write about big city street life in a romantic and comic way. From Damon Runyon to Jimmy Breslin, these writers are fascinated by violence, criminality, gambling, infidelity and family strife. They see the humour and pathos in stories that, in their basic details, are often sordid or banal. They also relish the eccentricities of types others regard as thugs, slobs and deadbeats.
- 8/7/2014
- The Independent - Film
Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 7/21/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
This is the kind of film I usually root for: a collage of vignettes about offbeat, colorful characters, played by an A-list cast including the late, great Philip Seymour Hoffman. But God’s Pocket doesn’t quite work, and that’s a shame. Actor John Slattery, best known for his role as Roger Sterling on Mad Men, directed and co-wrote this adaptation of Pete Dexter’s novel, which takes place in an insular Philadelphia neighborhood where everybody knows everybody else’s business. The setting is the 1980s but the story doesn’t seem to belong to that time or any other that’s recognizably real. The lusty, cynical, hard-drinking characters might be more at home in a Damon Runyon story of the...
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- 5/9/2014
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
Today in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
- 4/14/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Spoiler Warning: I’m going discuss last season’s Justified which means I’ll talk a bit on what happened during it. If you intend to binge watch the show and haven’t done so yet, skip the column.
Last week, FX wound up its fifth season of the Elmore Leonard inspired series, Justified. It stars Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens, a supporting character and sometimes star of some of Leonard’s crime novels. You may not know all his books but a fair amount were made into good movies such Hombre, Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma, Jackie Brown and, as mentioned, the TV show Justified.
For those who don’t know: Elmore Leonard was noted for his spare style and his way with dialogue as well as his keenly drawn characters. Like Damon Runyon, Leonard liked the seamy side of people and expressed them with unique dialogue.
Last week, FX wound up its fifth season of the Elmore Leonard inspired series, Justified. It stars Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens, a supporting character and sometimes star of some of Leonard’s crime novels. You may not know all his books but a fair amount were made into good movies such Hombre, Get Shorty, 3:10 to Yuma, Jackie Brown and, as mentioned, the TV show Justified.
For those who don’t know: Elmore Leonard was noted for his spare style and his way with dialogue as well as his keenly drawn characters. Like Damon Runyon, Leonard liked the seamy side of people and expressed them with unique dialogue.
- 4/13/2014
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
Today in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 3/1/2014
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Cherubic child star of the 1930s who returned to public life as a Us diplomat
From 1934 to 1938, when she was at the height of her fame, Shirley Temple (later known as Shirley Temple Black), who has died aged 85, appeared in films as a bright-eyed, curly-topped, dimpled cherub, whose chirpy singing and toddler's tap dancing were perfect antidotes to the depression. "During this depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that, for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," Franklin D Roosevelt stated in 1935, referring to the world's biggest and littlest star.
Temple's message was "be optimistic", the title of the song she sang in Little Miss Broadway (1938). Her biggest hit songs were On the Good Ship Lollipop, from Bright Eyes (1934), which describes a...
From 1934 to 1938, when she was at the height of her fame, Shirley Temple (later known as Shirley Temple Black), who has died aged 85, appeared in films as a bright-eyed, curly-topped, dimpled cherub, whose chirpy singing and toddler's tap dancing were perfect antidotes to the depression. "During this depression, when the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time, it is a splendid thing that, for just 15 cents, an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles," Franklin D Roosevelt stated in 1935, referring to the world's biggest and littlest star.
Temple's message was "be optimistic", the title of the song she sang in Little Miss Broadway (1938). Her biggest hit songs were On the Good Ship Lollipop, from Bright Eyes (1934), which describes a...
- 2/11/2014
- by Ronald Bergan
- The Guardian - Film News
Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died, according to publicist Cheryl Kagan. She was 85. Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died at her home near San Francisco. A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor, Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranking of the top 50 screen legends ranked Temple at No.
- 2/11/2014
- by Associated Press
- PEOPLE.com
Martha Mendoza, Associated Press
San Francisco (AP) - Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.
Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home near San Francisco. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, publicist Cheryl Kagan said.
"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black," a family statement said. The family would not disclose Temple's cause of death.
A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor,...
San Francisco (AP) - Shirley Temple, the dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers, has died. She was 85.
Temple, known in private life as Shirley Temple Black, died Monday night at her home near San Francisco. She was surrounded by family members and caregivers, publicist Cheryl Kagan said.
"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife for fifty-five years of the late and much missed Charles Alden Black," a family statement said. The family would not disclose Temple's cause of death.
A talented and ultra-adorable entertainer, Shirley Temple was America's top box-office draw from 1935 to 1938, a record no other child star has come near. She beat out such grown-ups as Clark Gable, Bing Crosby, Robert Taylor,...
- 2/11/2014
- by The Associated Press
- Moviefone
The Sigma Protocol
Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
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Julie Bush has hired to pen the new draft for the film adaptation of Robert Ludlum's last novel "The Sigma Protocol" for Universal. Numerous scribes such as Irwin Winkler and Matt Holloway have penned previous drafts.
The story follows the son of a Holocaust survivor who gets entangled in an international conspiracy by industrialists and financiers to take advantage of wartime technology that reverses aging. [Source: Deadline
Fairyland
American Zoetrope has acquired the film rights to Alysia Abbott's critically acclaimed memoir, "Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father" which Sofia and Roman Coppola will produce. Sofia Coppola and Andrew Durham will co-write the screenplay.
The coming-of-age story is set against the backdrop of San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, both before and after the AIDS epidemic, a crisis that would later claim the life of Abbott's father, the widowed poet and gay activist Steve Abbott. [Source: 42West]
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- 12/17/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Los Angeles, Dec 17: Actor-writer Danny Strong will write the script of the remake of classic musical "Guys And Dolls".
The movie is based on author Damon Runyon's short stories about the gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s. The original "Guys And Dolls", which released in 1955, featured Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
The 20th Century Fox have been working on the project for over two years and have now decided to move forward with Strong as the writer, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Actors Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt had expressed their interest in bringing the film back to the.
The movie is based on author Damon Runyon's short stories about the gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s. The original "Guys And Dolls", which released in 1955, featured Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons and Frank Sinatra.
The 20th Century Fox have been working on the project for over two years and have now decided to move forward with Strong as the writer, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
Actors Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt had expressed their interest in bringing the film back to the.
- 12/17/2013
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
What's in the daily news? I'll tell you what's in the daily news! Story about a guy who bought his wife a small ruby The Guys and Doll remake has found new legs as 20th Century Fox selects a screenwriter to adapt the Broadway musical into a charming movie musical. Deadline reports Fox has hired The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 & 2 scribe Danny Strong to translate the Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows' book into a cinematic event sure to lure in modern audiences. Based on Damon Runyon's short stories, Guys and Doll is set in 1920s New York City, and centers on a pair of deceitful gangsters, Sky Masterson and Nathan Detroit. The latter is working on setting up a high-grossing craps game, but to make it a reality he needs start up. So, of course he places a bet. But instead of gambling on horses, he gambles...
- 12/16/2013
- cinemablend.com
After two and a half years of negotiations were completed earlier this year, 20th Century Fox is at last moving forward with its remake of Guys And Dolls. The studio has set Danny Strong to write the script adaptation. Strong scripted the final two installments of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, after scripting Lee Daniels’ The Butler and adapting the Dan Brown Da Vinci Code sequel The Lost Symbol. This is the project based on Damon Runyon’s short stories that captured the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s, which starred Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Over the years, those interested included Bob Fosse, Baz Luhrmann, and Hugh Jackman, and I reported earlier this year that the studio was intrigued by the potential pairing of Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, though there is no shortage of actors who want this. First, of course, they need a script.
- 12/16/2013
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
Nathan Lane will reprise the role of Nathan Detroit in a one-night-only Carnegie Hall concert on April 3 of Guys and Dolls, with Megan Mullally, Patrick Wilson and Sierra Boggess also set to star. The beloved Frank Loesser musical, based on Damon Runyon’s short stories about gangsters, gamblers and other denizens of the New York underworld, will be staged as a special benefit for Carnegie Hall’s artistic and music education programs. Three-time Tony-winner Jack O’Brien (currently in previews with a Broadway production of Macbeth, starring Ethan Hawke) will direct the concert. Lane earned his first Tony
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- 11/7/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Wasteland:
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs;
and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
When people argue over the quality of television programming, both sides — it’s addictive crap v. underappreciated populist art — seem to forget one of the essentials about commercial TV. By definition, it is not a public service. It is not commercial TV’s job to enlighten, inform, educate, elevate, inspire, or offer insight. Frankly, it’s not even commercial TV’s job to entertain. Bottom line: its purpose is simply to deliver as many sets of eyes to advertisers as possible. As it happens, it tends to do this by offering various forms of entertainment, and occasionally by offering content that does enlighten, inform, etc., but a cynic would make the point that if TV could do the same job televising fish aimlessly swimming around an aquarium,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 7/21/2013
- BroadwayWorld.com
“Where’s the money?” is, by a full fathom, the least appreciated famous-line Shakespeare ever wrote. The proper Elizabethan pronunciation, of course, is “wheyah’s da money?”—at least, according to Daniel Sullivan, Dean of Popular Bardology at the Delacorte Theater and Shakespeare in the Park's go-to Great Communicator. His cheerfully populist guys-and-dolls-and-clones interpretation of The Comedy of Errors—a clockwork Plautine comedy that needs little interpretation and, for exactly that reason, is always in danger of getting way too much of it—isn’t smothered under trowelfuls of thoughtful dramaturgy. No, Sullivan's basically just changing ducats to dollars, supplicating the spirit of Damon Runyon, and hoping he makes money on the exchange (and receives no hate mail from Stephen Greenblatt). The bet pays off: everyone wins. Except, occasionally, the meter. But hell, we’re Americans. Throw the meter! Cash up front!This buoyant, joyous, shamelessly weightless Park production relocates...
- 6/19/2013
- by Scott Brown
- Vulture
Tickets are currently on sale for a special screening of Frank Capra's 1933 film Lady for a Day at the Paramount. On hand to introduce the movie, and to talk more about classic films in general, will be film critic and historian Leonard Maltin. Maltin was one of the proponents for making this movie available on Blu-ray, and the event will include a rare 35mm projection of the classic, thanks to a loan from the Capra estate.
Lady for a Day is early Capra, made before he really burst on the scene with his big hit It Happened One Night. It's adapted from a Damon Runyon story by Robert Riskin, who continued to team up with Capra on many other movies in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The movie stars May Robson (whom I know best for her role as the daunting Aunt Elizabeth/Mrs. Carlton-Random in my favorite Bringing Up Baby) as Apple Annie,...
Lady for a Day is early Capra, made before he really burst on the scene with his big hit It Happened One Night. It's adapted from a Damon Runyon story by Robert Riskin, who continued to team up with Capra on many other movies in the 1930s and early 1940s.
The movie stars May Robson (whom I know best for her role as the daunting Aunt Elizabeth/Mrs. Carlton-Random in my favorite Bringing Up Baby) as Apple Annie,...
- 5/15/2013
- by Elizabeth Stoddard
- Slackerwood
20th Century Fox landed the rights to the stage and movie classic Guys and Dolls, which starred Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. The studio is looking to start developing the project soon. According to Deadline they want to cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum as the two main characters. Apparently, they're both interested in doing it. The studio still has yet to bring on a writer and director.
The musical was taken from Damon Runyon’s short stories that captured the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s. Here, Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) has a town full of captive gamblers and wants to set up a floating crap game but needs money to do it. He bets his pal Sky Masterson (Brando) that Sky can’t get the wholesome Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) — who runs a mission — to go with him to Havana.
The book was written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows,...
The musical was taken from Damon Runyon’s short stories that captured the rogue gangsters and gamblers of the 1920s and 1930s. Here, Nathan Detroit (Sinatra) has a town full of captive gamblers and wants to set up a floating crap game but needs money to do it. He bets his pal Sky Masterson (Brando) that Sky can’t get the wholesome Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons) — who runs a mission — to go with him to Havana.
The book was written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows,...
- 4/25/2013
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
New version of the classic musical would see them in roles originated on screen by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are being sought to take the lead roles in a new remake of Guys and Dolls currently being readied by 20th Century Fox.
Studios have been chasing the rights for years, but Jo Loesser, the widow of Guys and Dolls songwriter Frank Loesser, has been reluctant until now to give the go-ahead. Adapted from Damon Runyon's short stories, Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for classic songs such as Luck Be A Lady Tonight and Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat; the book was by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
Guys and Dolls had its Broadway premiere in 1950, and went on to become an Oscar-nominated film in 1955, famously starring Frank Sinatra (as gambler Nathan Detroit) and Marlon Brando.
Both Tatum and Levitt showcased their...
Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are being sought to take the lead roles in a new remake of Guys and Dolls currently being readied by 20th Century Fox.
Studios have been chasing the rights for years, but Jo Loesser, the widow of Guys and Dolls songwriter Frank Loesser, has been reluctant until now to give the go-ahead. Adapted from Damon Runyon's short stories, Loesser wrote the music and lyrics for classic songs such as Luck Be A Lady Tonight and Sit Down, You're Rocking The Boat; the book was by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows.
Guys and Dolls had its Broadway premiere in 1950, and went on to become an Oscar-nominated film in 1955, famously starring Frank Sinatra (as gambler Nathan Detroit) and Marlon Brando.
Both Tatum and Levitt showcased their...
- 4/25/2013
- by Lauren Mullineaux
- The Guardian - Film News
20th Century Fox has acquired the right to remake MGM's 1955 musical "Guys and Dolls" and is now in talks with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum to star in the new film. The original film revolves around a gambler who is challenged to take a cold female missionary to Havana, but the bet has a hidden motive to finance a craps game. It was based on the hit Broadway musical, which was based on a collection of Damon Runyon short stories. This is yet another attempt to remake the musical. Back in 2009, Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes) was set to direct the movie with Jason Statham and Justin Timberlake in the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Other actors who've expressed interested in playing the characters have been Russell Crowe, Vin Diesel, and Hugh Jackman.
- 4/25/2013
- WorstPreviews.com
Guys and Dolls remake supposedly to star Channing Tatum, Joseph Gordon-Levitt (photo: Channing Tatum in Magic Mike) Guys and Dolls will be brought back to the big screen by way of 20th Century Fox, according to Deadline.com. Back in 1955, Joseph L. Mankiewicz directed for independent producer Samuel Goldwyn a highly successful movie version of the Broadway musical based on a Damon Runyon short story. Distributed by MGM, that particular Guys and Dolls starred Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, and Vivian Blaine. This time around, Fox supposedly wants Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whose singing prowess was amply displayed in, respectively, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and The Dark Knight Rises. And Tatum and Gordon-Levitt can dance, too, as proven at the 2013 Oscar show (and, in Tatum’s case, Magic Mike). But hey, Goldwyn didn’t care that neither Marlon Brando nor Jean Simmons could sing (or dance), either. And Brando...
- 4/25/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
There are some projects that studios hunt down mercilessly as though they were characters in Moby Dick. For 20th Century Fox, that has long been the rights to remake stage and, even more famously, movie musical Guys And Dolls. Finally, the deal is done and development can begin in earnest, with Fox executives running the idea past Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.No official talks have started yet, though according to Deadline, both actors are interested. The main roles are tough to fill, given that Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando played them in the 1955 version. Yet if anyone can handle it, these two have a shot.The film’s plot, originally adapted from Damon Runyon’s short stories, finds roguish New York gambler Nathan Detroit (Sinatra in the original) looking to set up a big craps game. Trying to drum up the necessary funds, he accepts a bet that pal...
- 4/24/2013
- EmpireOnline
20th Century Fox has secured the rights to remake Guys and Dolls and has set Channing Tatum and Joseph Gordon-Levitt to star in roles previously played by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando, report sources. There's no director on board as yet. The original 1955 film was helmed by Joseph . Mankiewicz who also adapted the screenplay from the story by Damon Runyon, and the book for the musical play by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. That cast also had Jean Simmons, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith, Stubby Kate and B.S. Pully on board.
- 4/24/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Twentieth Century Fox has secured the rights to a big screen remake of MGM's 1955 hit music Guys and Dolls . Deadline reports that the studio is keen on courting Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum to star. The original film, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, was based on the hit Broadway musical from earlier that decade, in turn based on a collection of Damon Runyon short stories. The film follows a bet between two friends, Frank Sinatra's Nathan Detroit and Marlon Brando's Sky Masterson to win the affections of a woman who runs a mission, Sarah Brown (Jean Simmons). It's currently unclear whether or not the remake will retain a period setting or will update the action to present day. Gordon-Levitt can next be seen in his own directorial debut, Don Jon while Tatum...
- 4/24/2013
- Comingsoon.net
Today in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
- 4/14/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on 'The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown' and 'Blood Pressure', two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably 'Pick the Winner'. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 3/1/2013
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
In 2009 the Swedish film-maker Frank Gertten completed a documentary on a successful action for negligence brought by Nicaraguan plantation workers against the Dole Food Company. On the eve of its world premiere at the 2009 Los Angeles film festival, Gertten and the festival authorities were threatened with libel actions. This important documentary is an account of what it's like being on the receiving end when a rich, ruthless international corporation dislikes what you say and do. They turn their lawyers and their battery of unscrupulous PR people on you. By comparison a pack of rottweilers look as mild as the Queen's corgis, and most people back off and give up. At considerable cost to his health and welfare Gertten stood up and eventually, with the bipartisan support of the Swedish Riksdag and the backing of fellow Swedes, he won. Damon Runyon once said that "the race is not always to the swift,...
- 9/22/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Today in 1976, Guys and Dolls opened at the Broadway Theatre, where it ran for 239 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably Pick the Winner. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 7/21/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 1992, the second Broadway revival of Guys and Dolls opened at the Martin Beck Theatre now the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, where it ran for 1143 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably Pick the Winner. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, as well as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra and Vivian Blaine.
- 4/14/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today in 2009, Guys and Dolls opened at the Nederlander Theatre, where it ran for 121 performances. Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown and Blood Pressure, two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows characters and plot elements from other Runyon stories, most notably Pick the Winner. Premiering on Broadway in 1950, the original production ran for 1200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway revivals as well as West End productions.
- 3/1/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
In our writers' favourite films series, Andrew Pulver remains eternally loyal – and bound – to Woody Allen's lovable loser
• Tell us your version of Broadway Danny Rose by posting your review – or show some commitment to the comments below
Only one film poster has stayed with me throughout my entire time as a film journalist, surviving multiple moves and flatshares; it must say something that the six-foot-one-sheet of a Broadway Danny Rose has outlasted all-comers, the likes of The Cable Guy, Violent Cop and Tenghiz Abuladze's Repentance. I bought it in the mid-80s, a callow twentysomething on a trip Paris, at one of those stalls by the Seine, and had to fold it up to get it home. I honestly don't think a day has gone by without my reading aloud one or other of the sonorous critics' quotes printed in French down one side, next to the small...
• Tell us your version of Broadway Danny Rose by posting your review – or show some commitment to the comments below
Only one film poster has stayed with me throughout my entire time as a film journalist, surviving multiple moves and flatshares; it must say something that the six-foot-one-sheet of a Broadway Danny Rose has outlasted all-comers, the likes of The Cable Guy, Violent Cop and Tenghiz Abuladze's Repentance. I bought it in the mid-80s, a callow twentysomething on a trip Paris, at one of those stalls by the Seine, and had to fold it up to get it home. I honestly don't think a day has gone by without my reading aloud one or other of the sonorous critics' quotes printed in French down one side, next to the small...
- 10/28/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
Screenwriter David Koepp has been hired to write the script for Johnny Depp and Rob Marshall's remake of The Thin Man. Koepp is a well known screenwriter who has worked on films such as Mission: Impossible, Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Panic Room and a ton of other films. There's no doubt he'll do a great job bringing this story back to the big screen. Previous reports indicated that this new version of the film wold take elements from the first two movies, and work them into one story, "putting it into a period setting and giving it a Sherlock Holmes-like stylized treatment." According to Deadline the film will also include a couple of musical numbers, which isn't surprising for Marshall who also directed Chicago. Depp will play the character Nick in the story. Nick is a former detective who marries an adorable young socialite, drinks a lot and occasionally solves a case.
- 8/30/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
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