Krzysztof Komeda was dead at the age of 37. In that truncated life this Polish medical doctor had penned the scores for over 40 films, including most of Roman Polanski's up to and including Rosemary's Baby . Simultaneously he was a jazz pianist who did more than anyone since Django Reinhardt to develop a variant of jazz that was overtly European in flavour.
The legendary director spoke to the Wall Street Journal on Thursday about whether he would be involved in the new version of the 1986 action film that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is in talks to star in . "I'm ambivalent about a remake," said Carpenter, who is also known for directing Halloween and Escape From New York .
For her performance as Cookie, "Empire" star Taraji P. Henson accepts the award for Best Actress in a Drama Series, presented by Allison Janney and Anna Faris, at the 5th Annual Critics' Choice TV Awards, May 2015. Taraji P. Henson is the hottest actress on television as Cookie Lyon on Empire , and as the series look forward to its second season, as she remembers she was ready to pass on the breakout role of her career.
Just try explaining the premise to someone who wasn't around at the time: " Gremlins was a movie about a cute little thing that turned into ugly little things, and you couldn't get them wet or feed them after midnight, because they'd kill people. But it was a family movie, and America loved the one nice Gremlin."
IN A career spanning more than six decades, Sir Christopher Lee appeared in 281 films and television series. He played Count Dracula just eight times.
The headlines, the word play writes itself for the fourth entry in the Jurassic series, a hoped-for return to Steven Spielberg's classic, early-90s formula, which would just maybe wipe out the unintentionally comical taste of Jurassic Park III . 20 years or so later, after Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern screamed and stampeded their way through a two-hour theatrical thrill ride, it seems the humans have finally mastered the art of playing god.
Vampire, evil wizard, Bond nemesis and Scottish laird. There was no part Christopher Lee wouldn't play.
With Jurassic World in theaters and the "Jurassic Park Theme" a Billboard top 10 hit at last , Billboard is looking back on John Williams' indelible additions to the cinematic musical canon. From fantasy franchises to WWII dramas, here are the prolific composer's 10 best movie scores, ranked.
Steve Giesbrecht will follow in his late father's elongated footsteps as he walks on stilts at Saskatoon's Relay for Life. Incredibly, it took the Saskatchewan government three full days to respond to the release of Justice Murray's Truth and Reconciliation Commission's summary report, and then only in the most general of... "I'm not going to sit here and commit as to whether he's going to play Saturday.