News for
The Shining (1980)

photos

board

trailer

details

IMDbPro offers the latest entertainment industry news from the Hollywood Reporter. Sign-up for a two-week free trial today. Click here for a free trial!

Nicholson To Demolish Brando Home
9 August 2006 (WENN)
Jack Nicholson is planning to knock down Marlon Brando's former Los Angeles estate and plant flower beds on the property which neighbors his home. The Shining actor bought the property for $6.1 million following his close friend Brando's death in 2004, and has been advised it will be too expensive to renovate the "derelict" building which is plagued by mould. The 69-year-old says, "It's more likely that we will take the house down."

No More Jack the Cad
10 December 2002 (WENN)
Legendary actor and lothario Jack Nicholson has made a stunning admission - he's losing his sex drive. The 65-year-old once described by actress Kim Basinger as "the most highly sexed individual I have ever met," now claims that a lifetime of bedroom activity with a vast list of beautiful women has finally caught up with him. The Shining star says, "I'm a different guy here in my sixties. I don't have the same libido. It used to be that I didn't think I could sleep if I wasn't involved in some kind of amorous contact or another. Well, I spend a lot of time sleeping alone these days. That's different. And very liberating. It wasn't until the last few years that I became completely comfortable with it. You know, my fear is that I'm beginning to prefer it." Although father-of-four Nicholson is proud of his romantic exploits, which include Anjelica Houston, ex-wife Rebecca Broussard and a string of Hollywood beauties, he just doesn't feel he has enough energy anymore. His admission can only come as a disappointment to actress Lara Flynn Boyle who has once again been spotted out with the actor who's tipped to be nominated for a 12th Oscar for his performance in About Schmidt.

Thriller?
13 June 2001 (StudioBriefing)
The American Film Institute released its list of the "100 Most Thrilling American Films" Tuesday, and, like similar lists the AFI has issued in recent years, this one drew immediate criticism. New York Daily News film critic Jack Mathews commented that the main problem with the list is its definition of "thriller." Although finding no fault with the list's top ten, Mathews questions the inclusion of such films as High Noon, Lawrence of Arabia and The Wizard of Oz in the top 100, noting that they should more reasonably be included in a list of the best Westerns, biographical dramas, and children's movies. "Essentially, the institute has redefined the thriller, broadened it and, in the process, made the term -- and the new list -- moot."

The top thirty films on the AFI's "thriller" list: 1. Psycho; 2. Jaws; 3. The Exorcist; 4. North by Northwest; 5. The Silence of the Lambs; 6. Alien; 7. The Birds; 8. The French Connection; 9. Rosemary's Baby; 10. Raiders of the Lost Ark; 11. The Godfather; 12. King Kong; 13. Bonnie and Clyde; 14. Rear Window; 15. Deliverance; 16. Chinatown; 17. The Manchurian Candidate; 18 Vertigo; 19. The Great Escape; 20. High Noon; 21. A Clockwork Orange; 22. Taxi Driver; 23. Lawrence of Arabia; 24. Double Indemnity; 25. Titanic; 26. The Maltese Falcon; 27. Star Wars; 28. Fatal Attraction; 29. The Shining; 30. The Deer Hunter.

The Exorcist Judged Scariest Film Of All Time
29 October 1999 (StudioBriefing)
Just in time for Halloween, some 2, 000 readers of the British Total Film magazine, whose average age is 24, have rated the scariest films of all time. Topping the list was Exorcist, The (1973) (released in 1973, before most of them were born). The others in the top twenty: 2. Halloween (1978); 3. Shining, The (1980); 4. Nightmare on Elm Street, A (1984); 5. Scream (1996); 6. Alien (1979); 7. The Howling (1980); 8. Psycho (1960); 9. American Werewolf in London, An (1981); 10. Jaws (1975); 11. Thing, The (1982); 12. Evil Dead, The (1982); 13. Omen, The (1976); 14. Poltergeist (1982); 15. Carrie (1976); 16. Hellraiser (1987); 17. Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The (1974); 18. Birds, The (1963); 19. Se7en (1995); 20. I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997).