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9 articles from 2009
Books: Review:Rhino Ranch
26 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
For its first 200 pages or so, Rhino Ranch seems like it should be titled Larry McMurtry’s Guide To Having Sex With Women Much Younger Than You. It’s the purported final chapter in the saga of Duane Moore, the main character from The Last Picture Show, who traveled like Rabbit Angstrom through three other novels, and winds up in this slim volume as an old, old man. Perhaps the most episodic novel yet from a writer who tends to write episodic novels, Rhino Ranch sometimes feels more like a collection of aborted tries at short stories starring these ... »
Cover Girl, Frontier Woman
22 May 2009 6:58 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Every third month or so I miss magazines.
Missing Julianne Moore happens far more frequently.
Chloe promotional poster [via]
But never fear. A healthy dose of Julie Anne Smith face time coming our way in 2009 and 2010 (provided that the distribution gods are kind). Up first: a supporting role in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. Then? Release dates are hiding but she's the lead in a horror thriller Shelter (uh oh. Julie + genre = trouble) and working the drama (ahhh, much better) with Colin Firth in A Single Man. Rather intriguingly (plot & auteurial wise) she's offering up Amanda Seyfried to her husband Liam Neeson in Atom Egoyan's Chloe. The teaser poster tag line makes it sound like "cheesy misogynistic thriller"... like Obsessed or something, but it's Atom Egoyan so it's safer to place your bets on "good psychologically compelling movie".
No obvious Oscar bait on the way except for the lead role of a frontier mother, »
- NATHANIEL R
'Father Knows Best' Getting Made Over For the Big Screen
16 April 2009 5:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
I thought the television-into-movies trend was going to die in the 90s after Inspector Gadget, The Mod Squad, and Lost in Space annoyed the crap out of everyone. A last gasp like Josie and the Pussycats was understandable, but it's kept on going, and it doesn't get any better. Most of them are a Bewitched level of quality that makes Miami Vice seem like Chinatown.
But Hollywood is just going to keep on trying, and the latest to get the makeover treatment is Father Knows Best. According to Variety, Fox has bought the rights and set Chad and Dara Creasey down to write a script. The film will be a contemporary version focusing on a father whose modern day parenting style clashes with that of his traditional father ... and guess who's coming to live with them and clash over which father knows best? Yep. I expect this to be Gran Torino meets Meet the Parents. »
- Elisabeth Rappe
Father Knows Best TV Show Being Adapted
16 April 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | WorstPreviews.com | See recent Worst Previews news »
New Regency and 20th Century Fox are teaming to turn the classic TV series "Father Knows Best" into a feature. A rights deal has been closed, and Chad and Dara Creasey have been set to write the script. The contemporized film will involve a father whose modern-day parenting displeases his more traditional father, who comes to live with the family. They clash over which father knows best. Hollywood has long been attracted to the idea of making a film out of the series that starred Robert Young. "Father Knows Best" began on NBC radio in 1949, moved to TV in 1954 and ran until 1960, when Young called it quits even though the show was peaking in popularity. Universal tried to make a film in 1994 with a script by "Brokeback Mountain" scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, with Young serving as a consultant. That didn't pan out, and the project was refashioned as »
Fox Says Father Knows Best
16 April 2009 1:43 AM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
New Regency and Fox are planning a film version of Father Knows Best, bringing a 60 year-old radio and TV series to the big screen as a generation-gap comedy.The series was created as a radio show in 1949 and then transformed into a TV series between 1954 and 1960, profiling a typical '50s nuclear family: patriarchal father Jim, mother Margaret, two teenagers and a younger daughter. The film version, however, will be set in the present day, and will focus as much on a grandfather who disapproves of his son's modern child-rearing techniques. So it's not so much father knows best, as a question of which father knows best.This is not the first attempt to turn the show into a film: it was also mooted back in 1994 with Brokeback Mountain writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana set to write it, and again set up as a comedy with Tim Allen in 2003. This time, »
Father Knows Best Film in the Works
15 April 2009 10:01 PM, PDT | TheMovingPicture.net | See recent TheMovingPicture news »
20th Century Fox and New Regency are joining forces to bring the classic TV series Father Knows Best to the big screen. According to the trades, the rights have been secured and Chad and Dara Creasey have signed on to write the script. Father Knows Best starred Robert Young and centered on a middle class family’s life in the Midwest. It was created by writer Ed James and began on NBC radio in 1949, moved to TV in 1954 and ran until 1960, when Young called it quits even though the show was peaking in popularity. The contemporized film will involve a father whose modern-day parenting displeases his more traditional father, who comes to live with the family. They clash over which father knows best. Universal tried to make a film in 1994 with a script by Brokeback Mountain scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, with Young serving as a consultant. That didn't pan out, »
- James Cook
Brokeback Mountain - Blu-ray Review
27 March 2009 8:48 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
One of our most constantly surprising filmmakers, Ang Lee fashioned one of his most commercially (against all odds) and critically successful films with 'Brokeback Mountain.' It was a film which garnered him a Best Director statue and went on to become a zeitgeist of pop culture. This ostensibly 'gay' Western is one of the best love stories to make it to celluloid in this past decade with all the repressed, timeless emotion that such an effort would require. With all participants firing on all cylinders including Ang Lee, a standout performance from Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and composer Gustavo Santaolalla, the film rarely if ever hits a false note. »
- Frankie Dees
DVD, Blu-Ray Round Up, Mar. 10, 2009: ‘Scarlett Johansson Collection,’ ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ ‘Witch Mountain’
10 March 2009 11:02 AM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – The Round-Up, HollywoodChicago.com’s famous recurring column about lesser Blu-Ray and DVD titles that may have slipped through your fingers at the store recently, is in clean-up mode this week. With a DVD collection for a famous young actress, an old cartoon, a straight-to-video horror movie, and three movies with the word “Mountain” in the title, the only word that comes to mind to tie these titles together is “random”.
You know those bins of “impulse buy” items you’ll see in stores near the cash register? Stuff that you may not have put on your shopping list and that you may not even know you want until you see them? That’s what this week’s Round-Up column is like. Peek in the bin and take a look at “Jonny Quest,” “The Scarlett Johansson Collection,” “Dead in 3 Days,” “Brokeback Mountain,” “Escape to Witch Mountain,” and “Return to »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Objects of Their Affection: Five Musicians and the Instruments They Love
23 January 2009 12:00 PM, PST | Pastemagazine.com | See recent PasteMagazine news »
After winning a 2006 Golden Globe for his co-screenwriting on Brokeback Mountain, novelist Larry McMurtry caused a certain amount of confusion when his acceptance speech deviated from the familiar litany of award-show thank yous. Instead of acknowledging the usual suspects—mom, dad, husband, wife, agent, stylist, Jesus, etc.—McMurtry made the following statement: “Most heartfelt, I thank my typewriter. My typewriter is a Hermes 3000, surely one of the noblest instruments of European genius.” »
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