George Romero, whose classic "Night of the Living Dead" and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries and who saw his flesh-devouring undead spawn countless imitators, remakes and homages, has died. He was 77. Romero died Sunday following a battle with lung cancer, said his family in a statement provided by his manager Chris Roe.
This image provided by the New Orleans Museum of Art shows Ida Kohlmeyer's mixed media on canvas, titled "Synthesis BB," 1983.
There's serious cause for applause this morning as Anna Chlumsky and Shemar Moore revealed this year's pool of Emmy nominees live from the Wolf Theatre at the Television Academy's Saban Media Center in Los Angeles. From industry newcomers to on-screen legends, the honorees this year come from all corners of Hollywood.
Best known for playing iconic characters such as Indiana Jones and Han Solo, Harrison Ford as become one of Hollywood's go-to action stars. Now 75, he hasn't lost a step since the "Star Wars" premiered four decades ago.
The name Michael Armstrong will be familiar to horror fans, probably most prominently for his still-shocking Witchfinder General -riff Mark of the Devil , starring Herbert Lom and Udo Kier and whose international release was accompanied by vomit bags. Now, at the ripe old age of 73, Armstrong is creating history by being the first film-maker to publish his entire screenwriting output.
Starting with a blade-wielding killer who attacks a woman in the shower, Brian De Palma's 1981 conspiracy thriller Blow Out begins where his 1980 erotic suspense film Dressed to Kill ended, but only so that the director can distance himself from the kind of stalk-and-slash film that he has been pigeonholed as making. "I'm typed as the specialist in B-movie horror," he has said, and so Blow Out begins with a scene that is gradually revealed to be from a film-within-the-film, a low-budget horror movie called Coed Frenzy .
When ABC announced that it was bringing Roseanne back to audiences for a brand new season, the only things that interrupted fans' jubilant cheers were inquisitive ponderings on how in the world the revival would explain and/or reverse the show's reviled finale and things that happened after the show went off the air. Some of those issues have been addressed, such as Dan's heart attack and the whole memoirs aspect, but not much has been said about the character Mark Healy, whose portrayer Glenn Quinn died in 2002.
This image released by HBO shows Anthony Hopkins in a scene from, "Westworld." The program was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding drama series on Thursday, July 13, 2017.
In February of 1995 Charlton Heston called Rush Limbaugh's radio program to read from Jurassic Park the book, not the movie. In his best Old Testament boom, Heston declaimed a speech about man's hubris that Michael Crichton had written for Dr. Ian Malcolm, the chaos theoretician played onscreen by Jeff Goldblum.