Domestic audiences are rejecting this summer's procession of tired sequels, and international grosses won't be enough to keep studios afloat forever. Take a quick glance at the box-office returns for June, and you could draw an easy conclusion: Hollywood has a franchise problem.
Back in 1975, Steven Spielberg made the beach terrifying to families enjoying a day off on the 4th of July by bringing Jaws to theaters. Helping to make the prospect of a shark-infested beach that much more scary was the iconic, suspenseful notes that John Williams composed to add even more suspense to what became the first summer blockbuster.
Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver set to reprise her surprise cameo in ITV series Doc Martin as she's spotted filming in sleepy Cornish village And it looks as though Hollywood star Sigouney Weaver, 67, had a whale of a time with Martin Clunes and co, as she's been spotted back on the Cornwall set of the popular ITV drama for the eighth series. The Alien actress blended in, ditching the glam for a bucket hat and anorak, with a camera slung around her neck.
In the fourth episode of Slate 's Conspiracy Thrillers Movie Club, Sam Adams and film critic Carrie Rickey discuss Blow Out , an unconventional conspiracy thriller in which John Travolta gives one of his best performances.
Brody, who won the Academy Award for best actor for his performance in Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama The Pianist , will be on hand to accept the prize, the Leopard Club Award, in Locarno August 4. Brody has had a impressive and varied career, moving between art house and indie cinema - Ken Loach's Bread and Roses , Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line , Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel - to studio fare like King Kong and Predators .
Liam Neeson may have given his career some extra bounce with "Taken" and other vigilante flicks, but he's never faced more daunting opponents than he does in 2012's Perhaps that's why his performance as an oil rigger being tracked by wolves in the Alaskan tundra is one of his all-time best. TCM's tribute to Alfred Hitchcock offers a full slate of classic thrillers every Wednesday and Friday this month.
Counterclockwise from left, the cast of "Disaster" includes, Rebecca Paige, Grayson Oliver, Andrew Friedrich, Michelle Phillips, Nancy Lopez, Doug Fowler, Jason Solis, Jonathan Garcia, Jacob Rivera-Sanchez, Mike Hathaway, and Carlos Brumfield. Counterclockwise from left, the cast of "Disaster" includes, Rebecca Paige, Grayson Oliver, Andrew Friedrich, Michelle Phillips, Nancy Lopez, Doug Fowler, Jason Solis, Jonathan Garcia, Jacob Rivera-Sanchez, Mike Hathaway, and Carlos Brumfield.
While the return of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise has gotten mixed reviews from critics overseas, it's bound to be a hit in Japan for two reasons: Johnny Depp and Paul McCartney. "As a big music fan, I was thrilled we got Paul McCartney aboard as my Uncle Jack," Depp tells The Japan Times.
Freddy Krueger's lethal killing glove from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is one of the most iconic monster accessories in Geekland, and it's taken on quasi-religious aspects in horror-fan circles. Here are three new ways to celebrate Robert Englund's supernatural stalker in a trio of custom hybrid gloves from Mark Phillips' Nightmares Unlimited, featuring one inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Re-Animator , one from Clive Barker's Hellraiser , and one ginormous glove being designed to draw attention to the company's booth at trade shows and conventions.