The Story: A covert army unit goes to war with Cash Bailey (Powers Boothe), a well-connected drug dealer, who also happens to be the childhood best friend of an honest Texas Ranger (Nick Nolte) who’s caught in the middle of what’s turning into a bloody drug war.
The Players: Starring: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, María Conchita Alonso, and Rip Torn. Music by Jerry Goldsmith. Directed by Walter Hill.
The History: Let me take a moment here to pay tribute to an actor who never gets his due anymore: the late Powers Boothe. While never a household name, he was well-known as a character actor in a career that spanned four decades. He appeared in a lot of great movies, including Southern Comfort, The Emerald Forest, Sin City, heck – even The Avengers! But, one of the best roles he ever had was in...
The Players: Starring: Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside, Clancy Brown, William Forsythe, María Conchita Alonso, and Rip Torn. Music by Jerry Goldsmith. Directed by Walter Hill.
The History: Let me take a moment here to pay tribute to an actor who never gets his due anymore: the late Powers Boothe. While never a household name, he was well-known as a character actor in a career that spanned four decades. He appeared in a lot of great movies, including Southern Comfort, The Emerald Forest, Sin City, heck – even The Avengers! But, one of the best roles he ever had was in...
- 4/7/2024
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit.
The collision of awards season(s) is about to happen. Just as we get ready to head out to Venice/Telluride/Toronto and the beginning of Oscar season, the Emmy campaigns are on their final sprint.
As the Television Academy reminds its 20,000-ish voters on almost a daily basis, there are only a few precious days left to cast a final ballot for the 75th Emmy Awards. They do not want people to procrastinate like yours truly, who just hasn’t gotten around to it yet (but I will this weekend). All ballots must be in by 10 pm Pt on Monday. Certainly you have to live under a rock not to notice all the visible signs of the campaign around town, particularly with all those FYC ads and more Emmy nominee billboards than I can ever remember.
In any normal year,...
The collision of awards season(s) is about to happen. Just as we get ready to head out to Venice/Telluride/Toronto and the beginning of Oscar season, the Emmy campaigns are on their final sprint.
As the Television Academy reminds its 20,000-ish voters on almost a daily basis, there are only a few precious days left to cast a final ballot for the 75th Emmy Awards. They do not want people to procrastinate like yours truly, who just hasn’t gotten around to it yet (but I will this weekend). All ballots must be in by 10 pm Pt on Monday. Certainly you have to live under a rock not to notice all the visible signs of the campaign around town, particularly with all those FYC ads and more Emmy nominee billboards than I can ever remember.
In any normal year,...
- 8/25/2023
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Globo Filmes, the powerful film production arm of Brazil’s Globo, Latin America’s largest media company, has unveiled 11 new movie projects which join the biggest production slate of any company in Brazil.
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
Directors of new titles, all co-productions, range from star auteur Gabriel Mascaró, and celebrated doc director Eryk Rocha to multi-prized actor Dira Paes, who broke out in John Boorman’s “The Emerald Forest.”
Also in the cut is David Schurmann (“Little Secret”), who and Jean-Pierre Dutilleux whose 1976 “Raoni,” scored and was Oscar nomination and was championed by Marlon Brando.
Mascaró will direct “The Other Side of the Sky,” produced by Globo Filmes and Desvía Produções, a fantasy drama set in an alternative reality Brazil where anyone over 80 is confined to a colony, to help Brazil’s economic recovery. Rocha is prepping “Elza,” a doc portrait of legendary singer Elza Soares, Paes has in development her directorial debut,...
- 5/18/2023
- by John Hopewell and Callum McLennan
- Variety Film + TV
From The Video Archives Podcast, writer/director Roger Avary and writer/producer Gala Avary discuss a few of their favorite movies with Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Matinee (1993)
Dune (1984)
Terror On A Train a.k.a. Time Bomb (1953)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Batman (1989)
Yentl (1983)
Nuts (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Top Gun (1986)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
Mijn nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Day Of The Dolphin (1973)
Babylon (2022)
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Carrie (1976)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Blow Out (1981)
The Matrix (1999)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Killing Zoe (1993)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Rules Of Attraction (2002)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Giant (1956)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Babe (1995)
Time Bandits...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Taxi Driver (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Matinee (1993)
Dune (1984)
Terror On A Train a.k.a. Time Bomb (1953)
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Batman (1989)
Yentl (1983)
Nuts (1987)
Spaceballs (1987)
Die Hard (1988)
Top Gun (1986)
Cocksucker Blues (1972)
Mijn nachten met Susan, Olga, Albert, Julie, Piet & Sandra (1975)
Straw Dogs (1971)
The Godfather (1972)
A History Of Violence (2005)
Day Of The Dolphin (1973)
Babylon (2022)
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (2022)
Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School (1979)
Carrie (1976)
Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995)
Blow Out (1981)
The Matrix (1999)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Killing Zoe (1993)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The Tenant (1976)
Dr. Strangelove (1964)
Bugsy Malone (1976)
Phantom Of The Paradise (1974)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Rules Of Attraction (2002)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971)
Giant (1956)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Babe (1995)
Time Bandits...
- 2/28/2023
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
Vanessa Redgrave and Michael G Wilson have also been honoured.
Hope And Glory director John Boorman, Pressure filmmaker Horace Ové and No Time To Die producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are among those recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.
UK director Boorman was awarded a knighthood for his services to film. His credits include Point Blank, The Emerald Forest, The General and Queen And Country. He also received a Bafta Fellowship in 2004.
Pioneer of Black British filmmaking Ové, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, has also received a knighthood, for his services to media. The...
Hope And Glory director John Boorman, Pressure filmmaker Horace Ové and No Time To Die producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson are among those recognised in the 2022 New Year’s Honours List.
UK director Boorman was awarded a knighthood for his services to film. His credits include Point Blank, The Emerald Forest, The General and Queen And Country. He also received a Bafta Fellowship in 2004.
Pioneer of Black British filmmaking Ové, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, has also received a knighthood, for his services to media. The...
- 1/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Mentoring emerging cinematographers has always been a key mission at the EnergaCamerimage International Film Festival and this year’s online version of the event features a score of streaming master classes and seminars that inform and offer insights from top filmmakers and technology experts.
Streaming through the end of 2020 (online.energacamerimage.pl), the talks and teach-ins are, with rare exceptions, accessible without a password or online Camerimage entry card – unlike the usual live format of master classes at the festival, which invariably sell out if you don’t find a seat at least 20 minutes before the start.
One of the buzziest events from the festival, which officially ran Nov. 13-20, is the virtual career masterclass with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, in which he discusses his remarkable career, leading up to his latest feature, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
The Netflix drama is built around the sensational political...
Streaming through the end of 2020 (online.energacamerimage.pl), the talks and teach-ins are, with rare exceptions, accessible without a password or online Camerimage entry card – unlike the usual live format of master classes at the festival, which invariably sell out if you don’t find a seat at least 20 minutes before the start.
One of the buzziest events from the festival, which officially ran Nov. 13-20, is the virtual career masterclass with cinematographer Phedon Papamichael, in which he discusses his remarkable career, leading up to his latest feature, Aaron Sorkin’s “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
The Netflix drama is built around the sensational political...
- 12/18/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
The second shot of Edward Yang’s 1986 The Terrorizers—which just ended a month-long run on Mubi but which is still available in the Mubi library—is a close-up of a woman’s eyes. But the image is grainy and monochrome and there are paper folds beneath both eyes that look like tears. This is followed a beat later by a similar shot of the woman’s open mouth and a man in profile, again highly pixellated. Anyone familiar with Mike Nichols’ film of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but especially anyone familiar with its French poster, might recognize the faces of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.The grande-sized poster (though you never see the title or any of the other lettering) hangs on the wall of a photographer who is living with his girlfriend. Over the course of the film their lives will intersect with a number of other disparate characters,...
- 10/8/2020
- MUBI
Poland’s EnergaCamerimage Intl. Film Festival is honoring Oscar-winning French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot this year with its Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award.
Celebrating the art of cinematography and its creators, the festival described Rousselot as “an incredibly versatile cinematographer whose body of work encompasses a wide variety of genres and styles.”
Rousselot, who received an Academy Award for his work on Robert Redford’s “A River Runs Through It” in 1993, has worked with such acclaimed filmmakers as John Boorman (“Emerald Forest”), Neil Jordan (“Interview with the Vampire”), Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liaisons”), Miloš Forman (“The People vs. Larry Flynt”), Tim Burton (“Big Fish”), Guy Ritchie (“Sherlock Holmes”), Patrice Chéreau (“Queen Margot”), David Yates (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), Philip Kaufman (“Henry & June”), Jean-Jacques Annaud (“The Bear”) and Shane Black (“The Nice Guys”).
“He has shot independent European artistic films as well as visually impressive Hollywood blockbusters,” the festival added.
Celebrating the art of cinematography and its creators, the festival described Rousselot as “an incredibly versatile cinematographer whose body of work encompasses a wide variety of genres and styles.”
Rousselot, who received an Academy Award for his work on Robert Redford’s “A River Runs Through It” in 1993, has worked with such acclaimed filmmakers as John Boorman (“Emerald Forest”), Neil Jordan (“Interview with the Vampire”), Stephen Frears (“Dangerous Liaisons”), Miloš Forman (“The People vs. Larry Flynt”), Tim Burton (“Big Fish”), Guy Ritchie (“Sherlock Holmes”), Patrice Chéreau (“Queen Margot”), David Yates (“Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”), Philip Kaufman (“Henry & June”), Jean-Jacques Annaud (“The Bear”) and Shane Black (“The Nice Guys”).
“He has shot independent European artistic films as well as visually impressive Hollywood blockbusters,” the festival added.
- 10/1/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
It is good news of sorts that the first official Academy Awards screener that was mailed to members this week, “First Cow,” is directed by a woman, Kelly Reichhardt, and features Asian actor Orion Lee. Diversity counts more than ever these days. The filmmaker’s minimalist style usually caters more to the Independent Spirit crowd as well as such international festivals including Cannes and Venice when it comes to cinematic honors. Her previous movies include “Old Joy,” “Wendy and Lucy,” “Meek’s Cutoff” and “Certain Women,” the last three starring Michelle Williams.
The 2021 Oscar nominations won’t be announced until mid-March and the 93rd ceremony won’t take place until April 24 due to delayed productions and constantly moving opening dates because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the well-reviewed “First Cow” had its premiere at Telluride Film Festival last year and opened theatrically on March 6 to a strong first weekend. But the...
The 2021 Oscar nominations won’t be announced until mid-March and the 93rd ceremony won’t take place until April 24 due to delayed productions and constantly moving opening dates because of the coronavirus pandemic. But the well-reviewed “First Cow” had its premiere at Telluride Film Festival last year and opened theatrically on March 6 to a strong first weekend. But the...
- 7/23/2020
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Lost in a forest
Set during the War of 1812, Ted Geoghegan’s Mohawk is a thrilling drama which sees two Mohawk people, Oak and Calvin, and their British agent partner Joshua, try to escape a murderous group of American soldiers. In the first part of our interview on the subject, Ted and I discussed the history of the period, the way he researched the film and his approach to casting. In the second, we look at his approach to shooting in the forest and making the film authentic, and why he feels that in today’s world, political art is vital.
Unlike other films which generate fear in forest settings, Mohawk opens with a landscape that feels unthreatening. I ask Ted why he chose this approach.
“I took a page from the John Boorman film The Emerald Forest, which is an absolute masterpiece of cinema that creates this amazing tension in this beautiful,...
Set during the War of 1812, Ted Geoghegan’s Mohawk is a thrilling drama which sees two Mohawk people, Oak and Calvin, and their British agent partner Joshua, try to escape a murderous group of American soldiers. In the first part of our interview on the subject, Ted and I discussed the history of the period, the way he researched the film and his approach to casting. In the second, we look at his approach to shooting in the forest and making the film authentic, and why he feels that in today’s world, political art is vital.
Unlike other films which generate fear in forest settings, Mohawk opens with a landscape that feels unthreatening. I ask Ted why he chose this approach.
“I took a page from the John Boorman film The Emerald Forest, which is an absolute masterpiece of cinema that creates this amazing tension in this beautiful,...
- 3/4/2018
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Powers Booth, who won an Emmy for portraying crazed cult leader Jim Jones, has died at age 68. Booth had once been a leading man in feature films such as "The Emerald Forest", "Red Dawn" and "Southern Comfort" before finding a niche as a character actor in films and on television. His TV credits include "Deadwood", "24", "Hatfields and McCoys" and "24". Booth also appeared in the hit western feature film "Tombstone" and played Alexander Haig in Oliver Stone's "Nixon". Click here for more. ...
- 5/15/2017
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
John Boorman: Memories of Queen and Country
By Alex Simon
John Boorman first made his name as a filmmaker to be reckoned with upon the release of 1967’s Point Blank, one of the seminal films of that decade. Classics such as Deliverance (1972), Excalibur (1981) and The Emerald Forest (1985) followed, with 1987’s Hope and Glory, Boorman’s personal memoir of growing up in Ww II London during the Blitz, being one of his career high points, garnering five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, as well as winning a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (comedy) and sweeping that year’s BAFTAs in every major category.
2015 finds John Boorman, now 82, releasing what he says might be his swan song as a filmmaker, Queen and Country, the long-awaited sequel to Hope and Glory. The film finds Boorman’s alter ego Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) serving in the British army during the Korean War,...
By Alex Simon
John Boorman first made his name as a filmmaker to be reckoned with upon the release of 1967’s Point Blank, one of the seminal films of that decade. Classics such as Deliverance (1972), Excalibur (1981) and The Emerald Forest (1985) followed, with 1987’s Hope and Glory, Boorman’s personal memoir of growing up in Ww II London during the Blitz, being one of his career high points, garnering five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, as well as winning a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture (comedy) and sweeping that year’s BAFTAs in every major category.
2015 finds John Boorman, now 82, releasing what he says might be his swan song as a filmmaker, Queen and Country, the long-awaited sequel to Hope and Glory. The film finds Boorman’s alter ego Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) serving in the British army during the Korean War,...
- 2/27/2015
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
English filmmaker John Boorman returned to Cannes this year with Queen and Country, his autobiographical sequel to Hope and Glory. At 81 years old, Boorman claims this is his very last movie, and after such an illustrious career — with films including Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The Emerald Forest — he ends on a very high note. In 1952, young Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) must leave his idyllic countryside home on the River Thames for two years’ Army conscription. Rather than being shipped out to fight the Chinese in the Korean War, Bill is enlisted with his friend Percy (Caleb […]...
- 6/2/2014
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
English filmmaker John Boorman returned to Cannes this year with Queen and Country, his autobiographical sequel to Hope and Glory. At 81 years old, Boorman claims this is his very last movie, and after such an illustrious career — with films including Point Blank, Deliverance, Excalibur, and The Emerald Forest — he ends on a very high note. In 1952, young Bill Rohan (Callum Turner) must leave his idyllic countryside home on the River Thames for two years’ Army conscription. Rather than being shipped out to fight the Chinese in the Korean War, Bill is enlisted with his friend Percy (Caleb […]...
- 6/2/2014
- by Ariston Anderson
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Imagine a twisted world in which Back to the Future, a zany fable starring Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly and John Lithgow as Doc Brown — a mad scientist with a pet chimpanzee — is released by Disney in May 1985. The film ends with Marty traveling to a nuclear test site in Nevada and escaping the past via time-traveling refrigerator.
Not to mix our references, but this would indeed be the darkest timeline.
Thankfully, script rewrites, casting changes, and the power of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment combined to transform that possible Back to the Future into the one that was actually...
Not to mix our references, but this would indeed be the darkest timeline.
Thankfully, script rewrites, casting changes, and the power of Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment combined to transform that possible Back to the Future into the one that was actually...
- 4/9/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW.com - PopWatch
Yippee-ki-yay! It's action-movie time! From Die Hard to Deliverance, here's what the Guardian and Observer's critics think are the 10 best ever made. Let us know what you think in the comments below
• Top 10 romantic movies
Peter Bradshaw on action movies
In some ways, it should be the quintessential cinema genre. After all, what does the director shout at the beginning of a take? Action – at times a euphemism for violence and machismo – evolved into a recognisable genre in the 80s. Gunplay and athleticism resurfaced in a sweatier and more explicitly violent form, with movies such as Sylvester Stallone's First Blood. The hardware was all-important, and the metallic sheen of the guns was something to be savoured alongside the musculature of the heroes. The genre spawned the action hero. These were not pretty-boys there to melt female hearts: they were there to get a roar of approval from the guys.
• Top 10 romantic movies
Peter Bradshaw on action movies
In some ways, it should be the quintessential cinema genre. After all, what does the director shout at the beginning of a take? Action – at times a euphemism for violence and machismo – evolved into a recognisable genre in the 80s. Gunplay and athleticism resurfaced in a sweatier and more explicitly violent form, with movies such as Sylvester Stallone's First Blood. The hardware was all-important, and the metallic sheen of the guns was something to be savoured alongside the musculature of the heroes. The genre spawned the action hero. These were not pretty-boys there to melt female hearts: they were there to get a roar of approval from the guys.
- 10/10/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
John Boorman is the legendary British film director behind Point Blank, Deliverance, Zardoz, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest, Hope And Glory, The General, The Tailor Of Panama and many more.As he has been recently awarded a BFI fellowship - which is currently showing a selection of his films in a special John Boorman season - we asked him into the podcast studio for an in-depth interview, and here, ladies and gentlemen, is the fascinating result.P.S. Don't forget to check out our podcast photo gallery here and subscribe to the Empire Podcast via our iTunes page or this handy RSS feed.
- 4/5/2013
- EmpireOnline
Founder of Goldcrest Films with a string of Oscar-winning movies to his name
It is a mark of the wide-ranging success of Jake Eberts, founder of the once-mighty Goldcrest Films, who has died aged 71 after suffering from cancer, that few headline writers summing up his life could agree on his most notable producing credit. Was it Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982) or The Killing Fields (1984)? The Name of the Rose (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) or Dances With Wolves (1990)? Easier instead to herald him as the man whose films won a staggering 37 Oscars.
From the mid-1970s onwards, Eberts combined business acumen and creative energy with an integrity much admired in the film industry. The actor Kevin Costner, with whom he worked on Dances with Wolves and Open Range (2003), said of him: "Hollywood is full of people who either have intelligence or integrity. Jake is the only one with both." Lord Attenborough, who collaborated with Eberts on Gandhi,...
It is a mark of the wide-ranging success of Jake Eberts, founder of the once-mighty Goldcrest Films, who has died aged 71 after suffering from cancer, that few headline writers summing up his life could agree on his most notable producing credit. Was it Chariots of Fire (1981), Gandhi (1982) or The Killing Fields (1984)? The Name of the Rose (1986), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) or Dances With Wolves (1990)? Easier instead to herald him as the man whose films won a staggering 37 Oscars.
From the mid-1970s onwards, Eberts combined business acumen and creative energy with an integrity much admired in the film industry. The actor Kevin Costner, with whom he worked on Dances with Wolves and Open Range (2003), said of him: "Hollywood is full of people who either have intelligence or integrity. Jake is the only one with both." Lord Attenborough, who collaborated with Eberts on Gandhi,...
- 9/10/2012
- by Ryan Gilbey
- The Guardian - Film News
Rob Zombie has announced via his Facebook page that Meg Foster is joining the cast of The Lords Of Salem, where she will be playing the character of Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches.
Foster has appeared in such films as Josh Boorman’s The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter’s They Live, and Robert Karlor’s Carny.
The Lords Of Salem follows a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.
Foster has appeared in such films as Josh Boorman’s The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter’s They Live, and Robert Karlor’s Carny.
The Lords Of Salem follows a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.
- 9/20/2011
- by Barrett
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
Any time we think of star Meg Foster around here, the first thing that comes to mind are those strikingly haunting eyes of hers. Eyes that are now focused on Rob Zombie's latest film, The Lords of Salem.
Zombie made the announcement via his Facebook page:
"Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords of Salem as Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. Meg has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend and John Carpenter's They Live."
What? No mention of Masters of the Universe? We love that flick!
Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, and Oren Peli of Haunted Pictures are producing as well as Zombie regulars Andy Gould and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. More as it comes.
Synopsis
Heidi, a blonde rock chick, DJs at a local radio station and, together with the two Hermans...
Zombie made the announcement via his Facebook page:
"Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords of Salem as Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. Meg has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend and John Carpenter's They Live."
What? No mention of Masters of the Universe? We love that flick!
Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, and Oren Peli of Haunted Pictures are producing as well as Zombie regulars Andy Gould and Brian Kavanaugh-Jones. More as it comes.
Synopsis
Heidi, a blonde rock chick, DJs at a local radio station and, together with the two Hermans...
- 9/19/2011
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
We finally have our first official Lords casting news! As per Rob Zombie on Facebook, "Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords Of Salem as Margaret Morgan the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem." Meg has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter's They Live and Robert Kaylor's Carny. Shooting is expected to start this fall. Stay tuned for more news! Source…...
- 9/18/2011
- Horrorbid
Rob Zombie announced today via his official Facebook that Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords Of Salem, which begins lensing this fal from the producing team behind Insidious and Paranormal Activity. Foster will play "Margaret Morgan", the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. She has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest, Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend, John Carpenter's They Live and Robert Kaylor's Carny. "The story is about a local DJ who mistakenly unleashes a hellish curse on the town. 300 years earlier on the very streets of Salem that the townspeople walk on today, innocent folks were rounded up from their homes, convicted of being witches and sentenced to death. The Lords of Salem ran the town with an iron fist, but four witches who were tortured and killed in secrecy vowed that one day they would be back for revenge.
- 9/18/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
Things are heating up on Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem . Casting is officially underway! Zombie announced this weekend, "Meg Foster has joined the cast of The Lords of Salem as Margaret Morgan the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem. Meg has appeared in such films as John Boorman's The Emerald Forest , Sam Peckinpah's The Osterman Weekend and John Carpenter's They Live ." Zombie begins shooting on his latest horror film this fall for the producing team behind Paranormal Activity . For more on the film, follow this link to our film database where you'll find a plot synopsis.
- 9/18/2011
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Primeval ends, Outcasts starts, Bedlam kicks off, Bob's Burgers arrives, Arrested Development goes back to the start, there's Mad Dogs. And lots and lots of movies...
In a busier seven days than we've seen in the last couple of weeks, the schedules wave both hello and goodbye to a number of shows. Some return to proven praise. Others have the hard task of earning it over the next six or so weeks.
Saturday, February 5th brings the end of the fourth series of Primeval at 7:30pm on ITV1. The series has seen the return of a familiar face just recently. Is there room for one more? If you're a fan of the show, tune in and have a squawk about it when the finale review goes live early Monday morning.
New sci-fi show, Outcasts, breaks onto screens in two consecutive episodes over two nights, starting Monday, February 7th at...
In a busier seven days than we've seen in the last couple of weeks, the schedules wave both hello and goodbye to a number of shows. Some return to proven praise. Others have the hard task of earning it over the next six or so weeks.
Saturday, February 5th brings the end of the fourth series of Primeval at 7:30pm on ITV1. The series has seen the return of a familiar face just recently. Is there room for one more? If you're a fan of the show, tune in and have a squawk about it when the finale review goes live early Monday morning.
New sci-fi show, Outcasts, breaks onto screens in two consecutive episodes over two nights, starting Monday, February 7th at...
- 2/4/2011
- Den of Geek
Back To The Future:25th Anniversary Trilogy (Blu-Ray)Universal Home ENTERTAINMENTRated PG/1985, '89 & '90/Running Time 116, 109, 119 minsList Price $79.98 – Available October 26, 2010A kid from the 80's goes back in time thirty years and nearly causes his parents to never meet. Along the way he invents the skateboard and rock n roll and helps his father became a man. A simple premise that was wrapped up in some brilliant science fiction ideas and some great comedy. There are many, many reasons why Back to the Future and its subsequent sequels are still regarded as three of the best films ever made. To fully explore each one would be a massive undertaking, yet beyond the laughs, pop culture references and complete zaniness, lies a story with actual heart. It's the story of two men, seventeen-year-old High Schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and “crazy wide-eyed old man who claims to be a...
- 10/27/2010
- LRMonline.com
John Boorman, 1972
Warner Brothers originally fancied Roman Polanski for director. The novel's famously macho author, James Dickey, wanted Sam Peckinpah. And originally under consideration for the leads (later taken by Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight) were Lee Marvin and Marlon Brando. But Deliverance as it was finally made is so indelible, even after 38 years, and its impact has been so lasting, that even those mouthwatering possibilities are obliterated by what John Boorman finally wrought.
Depending on your viewpoint, Deliverance is the first eco-thriller (Dickey's novel was published in 1970, the year of the first Earth Day celebration, and remained a bestseller throughout the 70s), or a meditation on American machismo in its suburban, postwar variant. The thoughtful, sedentary adman Ed (Voight) must find it in himself to embrace the hunter-warrior ethic of his tougher friend Lewis (Reynolds) when the latter is crippled by his injuries, and Ed both loves and hates...
Warner Brothers originally fancied Roman Polanski for director. The novel's famously macho author, James Dickey, wanted Sam Peckinpah. And originally under consideration for the leads (later taken by Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight) were Lee Marvin and Marlon Brando. But Deliverance as it was finally made is so indelible, even after 38 years, and its impact has been so lasting, that even those mouthwatering possibilities are obliterated by what John Boorman finally wrought.
Depending on your viewpoint, Deliverance is the first eco-thriller (Dickey's novel was published in 1970, the year of the first Earth Day celebration, and remained a bestseller throughout the 70s), or a meditation on American machismo in its suburban, postwar variant. The thoughtful, sedentary adman Ed (Voight) must find it in himself to embrace the hunter-warrior ethic of his tougher friend Lewis (Reynolds) when the latter is crippled by his injuries, and Ed both loves and hates...
- 10/19/2010
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Here's a look back at past weekends comparable to June 2-4, 2010: 5 Years Ago - 2005 War of the Worlds stormed the box office with a $64.9 million first weekend at 3,908 locations, bringing its five-day opening to $100.6 million. At the time, it posted the second highest-grossing Independence Day weekend ever, though it didn't have the attendance impact of the holiday's previous alien invasion movie, Independence Day in 1996. The releases of the previous weekend and new entry Rebound were so weak that Batman Begins and Mr. & Mrs. Smith placed a distant second and third, respectively. * Weekend Report: 'War of the Worlds' Booms on Independence Day Weekend 10 Years Ago - 2000 The Perfect Storm blew into the top spot with $41.3 million at 3,407 locations, blasting past The Patriot, which was timed for the holiday and made $22.4 million at 3,061 locations ($31.7 million since its Wednesday start). Patriot might have paled compared to the harrowing disaster movie,...
- 7/5/2010
- by Brandon Gray <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
- Box Office Mojo
The summer of 1985. Has it really been twenty-five years. Wow! I don't really feel old, but its amazing that era was so long ago and yet the memories feel like yesterday. I was ten going on eleven and enjoying my summer break. Though my parents wouldn't let me leave my neighborhood with my friends, they always took me to the cinema as often as they could, which is where my love of movies comes from. I consider myself fortunate to have shared some great movie moments with my family and with my parents coming to town to visit me this summer, we hope to have some more.Hollywood still makes great movies today, but the eighties were a time when most of the movies you saw were good. At least they seemed to be good at that early age. Time can often be cruel and with maturity comes the revelation...
- 7/1/2010
- LRMonline.com
Only a month after release, Avatar is already building up an army of perhaps rather over-enthusiastic fans
Sometimes you've just got to stand back and give the guy some credit. James Cameron is presumably cackling inside his solid-gold mansion on the moon and guzzling buckets of 500-year-old whisky right now. His decision to spend the equivalent of the Gnp of Guinea-Bissau on Avatar appears to have paid off. Like a juggernaut with no brakes the film has overtaken The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King as the second in the list of all-time worldwide box-office grossers. As Avatar chugged into the weekend, its fourth on release, the figure was at $1.31bn (£821.83m). It has just opened in China ($14.4m in three days) and has already scooped up $90.2m in France, $62.9m in Germany, and $58.1m in Britain. (Its tickets, as with all 3D films, are more expensive than standard.
Sometimes you've just got to stand back and give the guy some credit. James Cameron is presumably cackling inside his solid-gold mansion on the moon and guzzling buckets of 500-year-old whisky right now. His decision to spend the equivalent of the Gnp of Guinea-Bissau on Avatar appears to have paid off. Like a juggernaut with no brakes the film has overtaken The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King as the second in the list of all-time worldwide box-office grossers. As Avatar chugged into the weekend, its fourth on release, the figure was at $1.31bn (£821.83m). It has just opened in China ($14.4m in three days) and has already scooped up $90.2m in France, $62.9m in Germany, and $58.1m in Britain. (Its tickets, as with all 3D films, are more expensive than standard.
- 1/11/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
British fantasy novelist Robert Holdstock was best known for his popular Ryhope Wood series that began with the 1981 World Fantasy Award-winning novella Mythago Wood. The series also included the novels including Lavondyss (1988), The Bone Forest (1991), The Hollowing (1993), Merlin’s Wood (1994), Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn (1997), and Avilion (2009).
Holdstock was born in Hythe, Kent, England, on August 2, 1948. He began writing short-stories in the late 1960s, and penned his first novel, Eye of the Blind, in 1977.
He wrote the novelization for the horror film Legend of the Werewolf in 1976, and adapted the unfilmed screenplay for The Satanists in 1977, both under the pseudonym Robert Black. He penned the Berserker trilogy – Shadow of the Wolf (1977), The Bull Chief (1979), and The Horned Warrior (1979) – under the name Chris Carlsen.
Writing as Richard Kirk, he teamed with Angus Wells to create the 5-volume Raven series in 1978. He also wrote several novels in The Professionals series under the house penname Ken Blake,...
Holdstock was born in Hythe, Kent, England, on August 2, 1948. He began writing short-stories in the late 1960s, and penned his first novel, Eye of the Blind, in 1977.
He wrote the novelization for the horror film Legend of the Werewolf in 1976, and adapted the unfilmed screenplay for The Satanists in 1977, both under the pseudonym Robert Black. He penned the Berserker trilogy – Shadow of the Wolf (1977), The Bull Chief (1979), and The Horned Warrior (1979) – under the name Chris Carlsen.
Writing as Richard Kirk, he teamed with Angus Wells to create the 5-volume Raven series in 1978. He also wrote several novels in The Professionals series under the house penname Ken Blake,...
- 12/19/2009
- by Harris Lentz
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
After his controversial and much-debated Calvaire, director Fabrice Du Welz leaves the Belgian backwoods and Deliverance territory behind for the jungles of Southeast Asia. Vinyan (coming on DVD from Sony Pictures April 7) is likely to prove just as polarizing to viewers, and while the film has its share of shortcomings, I found myself drawn into this haunting, hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness.
“Heart of darkness” is an apropos term, as Vinyan not only recalls Joseph Conrad’s symbolic story, but Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s loose but equally allegorical film adaptation of that 1902 novel. Six months after losing their only child in the Southeast tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) and Paul (Rufus Sewell) are watching a documentary about orphans living in the Burmese jungles when Jeanne stops the film. She is convinced that a boy in a Manchester United shirt is their son Josh. Paul is initially skeptical,...
“Heart of darkness” is an apropos term, as Vinyan not only recalls Joseph Conrad’s symbolic story, but Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s loose but equally allegorical film adaptation of that 1902 novel. Six months after losing their only child in the Southeast tsunami, Jeanne (Emmanuelle Béart) and Paul (Rufus Sewell) are watching a documentary about orphans living in the Burmese jungles when Jeanne stops the film. She is convinced that a boy in a Manchester United shirt is their son Josh. Paul is initially skeptical,...
- 3/18/2009
- Fangoria
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