While it might be hard for many to believe, Kevin Costner was not always so confident about his acting. Having made his feature film debut with Malibu Hot Summer, it would still take him some time to grow into showbiz. After all, his first project was not one he would like to write home about. His real break would come 4 years later with Silverado, but he still harbored doubts about his caliber at the time. And it came back to haunt him while he was working with Sean Connery.
Kevin Costner was grateful for being a part of The Untouchables
Kevin Costner was elated to have been a part of The Untouchables l Author: Joel Kowsky Credits: Wikimedia Commons
The chance to work on The Untouchables was an opportunity that Kevin Costner would forever cherish. Directed by Brian De Palma and based on the true story of Eliot Ness, the...
Kevin Costner was grateful for being a part of The Untouchables
Kevin Costner was elated to have been a part of The Untouchables l Author: Joel Kowsky Credits: Wikimedia Commons
The chance to work on The Untouchables was an opportunity that Kevin Costner would forever cherish. Directed by Brian De Palma and based on the true story of Eliot Ness, the...
- 6/5/2024
- by Smriti Sneh
- FandomWire
From leading the most acclaimed Star Wars release, The Empire Strikes Back to starring in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Blade Runner, the ’80s saw Harrison Ford at his peak. Moreover, apart from taking leading roles in major sci-fi and fantasy releases, he also made sure to star in several acclaimed dramas, including Witness, which earned him an Oscar nod for Best Actor.
But while Ford took on many iconic gigs, especially in the 80s, the actor also chose to turn down a plethora of them, including Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables.
Harrison Ford Rejected the Offer to Headline Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables Harrison Ford | Credit: Star Wars (Lucasfilm and Disney)
By the time Harrison Ford was done with the original Star Wars trilogy, the actor was one of the most in-demand actors in the world and was reasonably the favorite pick for many directors. Brian De Palma,...
But while Ford took on many iconic gigs, especially in the 80s, the actor also chose to turn down a plethora of them, including Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables.
Harrison Ford Rejected the Offer to Headline Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables Harrison Ford | Credit: Star Wars (Lucasfilm and Disney)
By the time Harrison Ford was done with the original Star Wars trilogy, the actor was one of the most in-demand actors in the world and was reasonably the favorite pick for many directors. Brian De Palma,...
- 6/3/2024
- by Santanu Roy
- FandomWire
Kevin Costner was a rising young actor featuring in minor roles in the early 80s. The future superstar was on the verge of stardom by the mid-80s and was cast in two films that would become his breakout hits. First, he was cast in Roger Donaldson’s action thriller No Way Out. After finishing that film, he was approached by director Brian De Palma for the crime drama The Untouchables.
Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman in No Way Out
Costner was not a big name at the time but Paramount and De Palma seem to know the potential that he had. No Way Out had also not come out yet and the studio led with a generous $800,000 offer for the role of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables. Costner, knowing the responsibility of playing a real-life American hero bargained his way to increase his pay to $1 million.
Kevin Costner Stood...
Kevin Costner and Gene Hackman in No Way Out
Costner was not a big name at the time but Paramount and De Palma seem to know the potential that he had. No Way Out had also not come out yet and the studio led with a generous $800,000 offer for the role of Eliot Ness in The Untouchables. Costner, knowing the responsibility of playing a real-life American hero bargained his way to increase his pay to $1 million.
Kevin Costner Stood...
- 5/11/2024
- by Rahul Thokchom
- FandomWire
Lawmen: Bass Reeves is an American Western series that premiered late last year. However, it has already received a very positive critical reception, earning an impressive 93% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes and becoming the most watched show worldwide on Paramount+.
The show is clearly destined for a series renewal. However, to the surprise of fans, the show's creators have stated that the second season is likely to be very different from the first.
What is Lawmen: Bass Reeves about?
The Western-themed show follows the story of real-life Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, the first African-American to hold the position in the Upper Midwest Territory. Also based on The Bass Reeves book trilogy by Sidney Thompson, the plot of each episode follows Reeves (played by David Oyelowo) as he goes from being held as a slave to becoming one of the most famous lawmen in history.
The series also features...
The show is clearly destined for a series renewal. However, to the surprise of fans, the show's creators have stated that the second season is likely to be very different from the first.
What is Lawmen: Bass Reeves about?
The Western-themed show follows the story of real-life Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves, the first African-American to hold the position in the Upper Midwest Territory. Also based on The Bass Reeves book trilogy by Sidney Thompson, the plot of each episode follows Reeves (played by David Oyelowo) as he goes from being held as a slave to becoming one of the most famous lawmen in history.
The series also features...
- 4/25/2024
- by info@startefacts.com (Dan Bentley)
- STartefacts.com
Phil Karlson’s The Scarface Mob was originally made as a two-part pilot for the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse anthology series before the 80-minute episodes were re-cut for theatrical release. Given the sterility of so much dramatic television in the 1950s, it’s hard to imagine Karlson—best known for hard-hitting noirs like Kansas City Confidential and The Phenix City Story—seeing the format as suitable for his style. But Desi Arnaz, a huge admirer of the latter film, promised Karlson no studio interference. And while The Scarface Mob’s story presents a clear battle between good and evil in the form of Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) and Al Capone’s (Neville Brand) Chicago bootlegging empire, Karlson’s gritty brutality finds its way on-screen as the film conflates the maniacal ruthlessness of both men’s actions.
Stack’s performance went a long way in cementing Ness’s legacy in the public imagination.
Stack’s performance went a long way in cementing Ness’s legacy in the public imagination.
- 4/12/2024
- by Derek Smith
- Slant Magazine
This article contains spoilers for Tokyo Vice season 2.
The second season of the acclaimed Max original series Tokyo Vice featured a bloody power struggle between different yakuza clans for control of Tokyo’s criminal underworld in the late ‘90s. At the center was Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida), the head of the Tozawa clan who viciously murders any rivals that won’t concede to his rise to power, while pulling the strings of the Japanese government and major news media outlets. Scrambling to dethrone Tozawa are investigative journalist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), veteran police detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), and rival yakuza boss Akiro Sato (Show Kasamatsu).
In an exclusive interview with Den of Geek, Tokyo Vice creator, showrunner, and executive producer J.T. Rogers and director and executive producer Alan Poul unpack the twists and turns of season 2, explain how they set up the season’s grand finale, and reveal their...
The second season of the acclaimed Max original series Tokyo Vice featured a bloody power struggle between different yakuza clans for control of Tokyo’s criminal underworld in the late ‘90s. At the center was Shinzo Tozawa (Ayumi Tanida), the head of the Tozawa clan who viciously murders any rivals that won’t concede to his rise to power, while pulling the strings of the Japanese government and major news media outlets. Scrambling to dethrone Tozawa are investigative journalist Jake Adelstein (Ansel Elgort), veteran police detective Hiroto Katagiri (Ken Watanabe), and rival yakuza boss Akiro Sato (Show Kasamatsu).
In an exclusive interview with Den of Geek, Tokyo Vice creator, showrunner, and executive producer J.T. Rogers and director and executive producer Alan Poul unpack the twists and turns of season 2, explain how they set up the season’s grand finale, and reveal their...
- 4/4/2024
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Being two of Hollywood’s most prominent actors, Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro once collaborated for their 1987 crime thriller The Untouchables. Among other famous faces starring in the film, there was the James Bond actor Sean Connery who appeared as Jim Malone in Brian De Palma’s film.
Kevin Costner in a still from The Untouchables (1987)
While the success of The Untouchables helped young Kevin Costner catapult his Hollywood fame and become one of the biggest stars of his era, the actor had a unique experience working with Robert De Niro. Despite being ever professional on set, Costner surprisingly struggled to work alongside De Niro. So much so that he even asked for Sean Connery’s help to sort out his issue.
Kevin Costner Struggled Working With Robert De Niro
Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro are two of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. With several critically acclaimed...
Kevin Costner in a still from The Untouchables (1987)
While the success of The Untouchables helped young Kevin Costner catapult his Hollywood fame and become one of the biggest stars of his era, the actor had a unique experience working with Robert De Niro. Despite being ever professional on set, Costner surprisingly struggled to work alongside De Niro. So much so that he even asked for Sean Connery’s help to sort out his issue.
Kevin Costner Struggled Working With Robert De Niro
Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro are two of the most bankable stars in Hollywood. With several critically acclaimed...
- 4/4/2024
- by Krittika Mukherjee
- FandomWire
David Grann's "Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" is one of the finest nonfiction books of the 21st century. His account of a vile criminal conspiracy wherein members of the Osage tribe, who'd been awarded highly lucrative headrights to the oil deposits discovered on their land, were murdered by white Oklahomans is as absorbing as it is infuriating. Grann does a masterful job of blending the story of the Osage with the procedural tale of the investigation by the United States' newly formed Bureau of Investigation (soon to be the FBI). It's never less than gripping, but, even with the conviction of William Hale, who orchestrated the murder of his nephew's Osage wife and many of her family members, you're left fuming at the abject evil of these predators.
Grann's story is primarily driven by Tom White, a former Texas Ranger...
Grann's story is primarily driven by Tom White, a former Texas Ranger...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
It’s no exaggeration to say that filmmaking legend Brian De Palma has had an eclectic and often spectacular career, spanning over fifty years that have brought audiences many unforgettable and classic movies. 1976’s Carrie remains an often referenced (we’re looking at you Wednesday!) horror masterpiece, crime drama Scarface is all time gangster gold, while his first entry in the Mission: Impossible franchise is still perhaps one of the strongest instalments for a then young and even more sprightly Tom Cruise. However, it’s De Palma’s 1987 The Untouchables, an adaptation of the 1950’s TV serial that focuses on the attempts to bring down crime lord Al Capone, that really shows his versatility as a director. The award winning film features several iconic scenes that are now etched in the minds of movie fans around the globe; from the Union Station shoot-out with full-on baby-in-great-peril slow-mo action shot, to...
- 4/2/2023
- by Adam Walton
- JoBlo.com
TV loves itself some mobsters. There’s no getting around it. From Tony Soprano to Nucky Thompson to Frank “The Fixer” Tagliano, we’re enchanted by the bad guys and what they bring to the table. Shows like “The Sopranos,” “Peaky Blinders” and “Boardwalk Empire” – as well as “The Untouchables” in the early 1960s – have captivated us and generated plenty of awards attention in the bargain.
And now here comes another show with malice in its heart, if a wink in its eye, looking to compete for some Emmy attention: “Tulsa King,” the Paramount+ series that launched its first season last November and is plotting to enter production on season two soon (likely early this summer). It’s a crime dramedy set in Tulsa, Oklahoma that stars Sylvester Stallone in his first scripted starring role on TV.
SEEWill Sylvester Stallone land an Emmy nomination for ‘Tulsa King’?
Stallone portrays New...
And now here comes another show with malice in its heart, if a wink in its eye, looking to compete for some Emmy attention: “Tulsa King,” the Paramount+ series that launched its first season last November and is plotting to enter production on season two soon (likely early this summer). It’s a crime dramedy set in Tulsa, Oklahoma that stars Sylvester Stallone in his first scripted starring role on TV.
SEEWill Sylvester Stallone land an Emmy nomination for ‘Tulsa King’?
Stallone portrays New...
- 3/27/2023
- by Ray Richmond
- Gold Derby
After a long break from feature films, director Uwe Boll is back and ready to roll with his latest project, a crime drama about two mismatched New York City cops on their first day as partners.
“First Shift” stars Kristen Renton (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Gino Anthony Pesi (“Shades of Blue”) as the badge-carrying duo, she a transplant from Atlanta new to the Big Apple, he a jaded Brooklyn cop who prefers to work alone but forced to take on the new partner.
Set to start shooting in New York City next month, “First Shift” has moved ahead of two other projects Boll has in the works, a South Africa-set thriller and a feature about Prohibition-era federal agent Eliot Ness — famously played by Kevin Costner and Robert Stack in the 1987 film and the 1959 series “The Untouchables” — during the latter part of his career.
Produced by Boll’s L.A. and Vancouver-based Event Film,...
“First Shift” stars Kristen Renton (“Sons of Anarchy”) and Gino Anthony Pesi (“Shades of Blue”) as the badge-carrying duo, she a transplant from Atlanta new to the Big Apple, he a jaded Brooklyn cop who prefers to work alone but forced to take on the new partner.
Set to start shooting in New York City next month, “First Shift” has moved ahead of two other projects Boll has in the works, a South Africa-set thriller and a feature about Prohibition-era federal agent Eliot Ness — famously played by Kevin Costner and Robert Stack in the 1987 film and the 1959 series “The Untouchables” — during the latter part of his career.
Produced by Boll’s L.A. and Vancouver-based Event Film,...
- 2/16/2023
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
Harrison Ford didn't exactly need a hit in 1989 when he signed on for "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," but his agent was probably overjoyed that he was returning to the blockbuster franchise that broadened his appeal beyond "Star Wars." Though the character of Indiana Jones was not tailor made for Ford (Tom Selleck had been offered the role first), he'd imbued the whip-cracking archaeologist with the same roguish, seat-of-his-pants charm that made Han Solo such a dashing delight. Indy is certainly capable, but not overly confident. He's accident prone. He's constantly improvising his way out of peril, and, in doing so, piles more rough mileage on that middle-aged frame.
Moviegoers lined up to see Ford as Han and Indy, but they were less enthusiastic about his dramatic turns. He'd scored a surprise hit as a Philadelphia cop hiding out in Amish country in Peter Weir's "Witness," but found...
Moviegoers lined up to see Ford as Han and Indy, but they were less enthusiastic about his dramatic turns. He'd scored a surprise hit as a Philadelphia cop hiding out in Amish country in Peter Weir's "Witness," but found...
- 12/28/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Boll is marking his return after seven years with an action thriller titled ‘12 Hours’.
German director Uwe Boll is making his filmmaking comeback with two features in the works.
After a seven-year hiatus from the industry, that included setting up a restaurant in Canada, Boll is marking his return with an action thriller titled 12 Hours. The feature follows a man who returns with his family to Cape Town, South Africa, for his mother’s funeral, only for his whole family to get kidnapped, leaving him with 12 hours to kill five people to get his family back.
It will be produced through Boll’s outfit,...
German director Uwe Boll is making his filmmaking comeback with two features in the works.
After a seven-year hiatus from the industry, that included setting up a restaurant in Canada, Boll is marking his return with an action thriller titled 12 Hours. The feature follows a man who returns with his family to Cape Town, South Africa, for his mother’s funeral, only for his whole family to get kidnapped, leaving him with 12 hours to kill five people to get his family back.
It will be produced through Boll’s outfit,...
- 11/4/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Before 1987, Kevin Costner might've been best known in Hollywood for the movie in which he didn't appear.
Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" gave just about everyone involved a massive career boost, and probably would've done likewise for Costner had he not been cut out of the film. He played Alex Marshall, the character whose death by suicide brings a group of college friends back together for a fall weekend in South Carolina. Though Kasdan shot flashbacks featuring Costner, he ultimately cut them out of the movie, which became a Baby Boomer favorite.
Costner's bid for movie stardom officially began in 1985, with lead roles in Kevin Reynolds' "Fandango" (another Boomer nostalgia piece) and John Badham's "American Flyers." He also landed a flashy supporting role in Lawrence Kasdan's Western throwback, "Silverado." The first two films not only bombed, they barely received a theatrical release, while Kasdan's movie performed well below the studio's commercial expectations.
Lawrence Kasdan's "The Big Chill" gave just about everyone involved a massive career boost, and probably would've done likewise for Costner had he not been cut out of the film. He played Alex Marshall, the character whose death by suicide brings a group of college friends back together for a fall weekend in South Carolina. Though Kasdan shot flashbacks featuring Costner, he ultimately cut them out of the movie, which became a Baby Boomer favorite.
Costner's bid for movie stardom officially began in 1985, with lead roles in Kevin Reynolds' "Fandango" (another Boomer nostalgia piece) and John Badham's "American Flyers." He also landed a flashy supporting role in Lawrence Kasdan's Western throwback, "Silverado." The first two films not only bombed, they barely received a theatrical release, while Kasdan's movie performed well below the studio's commercial expectations.
- 9/14/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Casting movie stars can be a tricky proposition, especially if you're making a big-budget film with unproven talent. In 1987, that's exactly what Kevin Costner was. He'd appeared in three box-office bombs in 1985, and, prior to this, had been cut out of Lawrence Kasdan's Baby Boomer smash "The Big Chill." But after missing out on the more established Don Johnson (who was red hot at the time thanks to "Miami Vice"), Costner wound up being Brian De Palma's Eliot Ness in the hit-hungry director's big-screen rendition of "The Untouchables." And while De Palma had a bit of movie star insurance in Sean Connery as the veteran beat cop Malone, David Mamet's masterful screenplay screamed for a larger-than-life Al Capone.
De Palma only had eyes for Robert De Niro, and he had a history with the actor, having worked with him in the counterculture comedies "Greetings" and "Hi, Mom!
De Palma only had eyes for Robert De Niro, and he had a history with the actor, having worked with him in the counterculture comedies "Greetings" and "Hi, Mom!
- 8/31/2022
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Eliot Ness hunts a killer, Nicolas Cage plays the Man of Steel and Marilyn Monroe is The Girl in Pink Tights in films that were never released. A writer, a producer and a film expert tell the movies’ hidden histories
Warner Bros’s previously announced Batgirl film is the latest big-budget project that will never see the light of day, despite being in post-production, with shooting already completed. Hollywood is brutal – for every film released there are numerous others that never make it to the big screen. These are projects in which the studios invest millions – only for them to be spurned at the script stage, trapped in that infamous “development hell”, or even halted mid-production. Part of the appeal of abandoned films is that we can build them up in our heads to be whatever we want. But perhaps the most interesting element of these ghost films is the...
Warner Bros’s previously announced Batgirl film is the latest big-budget project that will never see the light of day, despite being in post-production, with shooting already completed. Hollywood is brutal – for every film released there are numerous others that never make it to the big screen. These are projects in which the studios invest millions – only for them to be spurned at the script stage, trapped in that infamous “development hell”, or even halted mid-production. Part of the appeal of abandoned films is that we can build them up in our heads to be whatever we want. But perhaps the most interesting element of these ghost films is the...
- 8/12/2022
- by Lizzy Dening
- The Guardian - Film News
Directed by Brian De Palma and nominated* for four Academy Awards®, the acclaimed drama The Untouchables is available on 4K Ultra HD from Paramount Home Entertainment for the first time. To celebrate the release, we’re giving away a copy of The Untouchables 4K Uhd + Blu-ray Special Collector’s Edition SteelBook® to one lucky winner!
Originally released on June 3, 1987, The Untouchables celebrates its 35th anniversary this year and remains a must-see masterpiece featuring visionary filmmaking and exceptional performances from an outstanding cast. Robert De Niro as mob warlord Al Capone and Kevin Costner as law enforcer Eliot Ness are unforgettable in a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of good versus evil on the streets of Prohibition-era Chicago.
Sean Connery won his only Oscar® for his portrayal of veteran officer Jimmy Malone in the blockbuster hit that was the fourth highest grossing film of 1987. Written by David Mamet, The Untouchables also boasts...
Originally released on June 3, 1987, The Untouchables celebrates its 35th anniversary this year and remains a must-see masterpiece featuring visionary filmmaking and exceptional performances from an outstanding cast. Robert De Niro as mob warlord Al Capone and Kevin Costner as law enforcer Eliot Ness are unforgettable in a glorious, fierce, larger-than-life depiction of good versus evil on the streets of Prohibition-era Chicago.
Sean Connery won his only Oscar® for his portrayal of veteran officer Jimmy Malone in the blockbuster hit that was the fourth highest grossing film of 1987. Written by David Mamet, The Untouchables also boasts...
- 6/24/2022
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
By Lee Pfeiffer
The niche market video label Code Red continues its distribution alliance with Kino Lorber, which is a very good thing for lovers of obscure retro movies. Case in point: "Story of a Woman", a 1970 drama that I will admit I was unaware of until receiving a review screener. The film is a truly international affair, shot in Europe by Italian director/writer/producer Leonardo Bercovici and starring two American male leads and Sweden's Bibi Andersson as the female protagonist. Andersson was making a name for herself in English-language cinema after having appeared in several of Ingmar Bergman classics. She plays Karin Ullman, an adventurous young Swedish woman who has left her home to study piano at a music conservatory in Rome in 1963. Here, she meets cute with Bruno Cardini (James Farantino), a hunky and charismatic medical student who has the good fortune of inadvertently causing a fender...
The niche market video label Code Red continues its distribution alliance with Kino Lorber, which is a very good thing for lovers of obscure retro movies. Case in point: "Story of a Woman", a 1970 drama that I will admit I was unaware of until receiving a review screener. The film is a truly international affair, shot in Europe by Italian director/writer/producer Leonardo Bercovici and starring two American male leads and Sweden's Bibi Andersson as the female protagonist. Andersson was making a name for herself in English-language cinema after having appeared in several of Ingmar Bergman classics. She plays Karin Ullman, an adventurous young Swedish woman who has left her home to study piano at a music conservatory in Rome in 1963. Here, she meets cute with Bruno Cardini (James Farantino), a hunky and charismatic medical student who has the good fortune of inadvertently causing a fender...
- 2/12/2022
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Exclusive: Mindful that David Mamet gave me the best quote I’ve ever gotten in 30 years of trade reporting, I have been chasing him down to try to get him to answer a question on my mind. What does it feel like for a great writer of dialogue to have an actor like the late Sean Connery — who won his only Oscar with the Mamet-scripted Brian De Palma-directed drama The Untouchables — elevate the words like Connery did as the rough and tumble Irish cop Jim Malone? Or, for that matter, when Alec Baldwin and the other stellar stars turned Glengarry Glen Ross in a master class in toxic testosterone.
But when you talk to him, Mamet is like his best plays and scripts: unpredictable. That was the case back in my Daily Variety days, when I got Mamet on the phone to discuss the abrupt exit of actor Jeremy Piven...
But when you talk to him, Mamet is like his best plays and scripts: unpredictable. That was the case back in my Daily Variety days, when I got Mamet on the phone to discuss the abrupt exit of actor Jeremy Piven...
- 11/13/2020
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
When I heard that Ennio Morricone had died, at 91, my first thought was that the cinema had lost one of the most romantic of all screen composers. Morricone, who worked with filmmakers from around the world but rarely left his native Rome (he insisted on not speaking in any language but Italian), wrote movie scores suffused with romance, with majestic waves of yearning and heartbreak and rapture and lyric melancholy. His most famous scores were the ones he composed for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns, and that music, so gorgeous and plaintive, with a kind of Grindhouse of the Old World incandescence, was the thing that elevated Leone’s grand, crude, stylized, nearly wordless hombre operas into a pulp dreamscape, a place where bursts of violence were set off by the lonely quavering sound of an ocarina, which seemed to be suspending time itself.
Yet when you think back on those films,...
Yet when you think back on those films,...
- 7/6/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
I have been very fortunate over the years to work for people who I consider to be excellent bosses – people I’ve learned from and who have helped me grow. Bosses can be some of the most nurturing individuals, but there are a few who can go over the top. Throughout the history of television, there have been all kinds of bosses, ranging from business owners on sitcoms, to leaders of government agencies, to ruthless CEOs. And they have provided some of the most iconic, award-winning performances in the history of the medium.
SEECarl Reiner Interview: ‘If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’
In the very early days of television, the groundbreaking series “The Untouchables” gave us the unforgettable Eliot Ness, and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” gifted us with the comedic genius of Alan Brady. In the glitz and glamour of the 1970’s and 1980’s, we tuned...
SEECarl Reiner Interview: ‘If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’
In the very early days of television, the groundbreaking series “The Untouchables” gave us the unforgettable Eliot Ness, and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” gifted us with the comedic genius of Alan Brady. In the glitz and glamour of the 1970’s and 1980’s, we tuned...
- 6/24/2020
- by Susan Pennington and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
I have been very fortunate over the years to work for people who I consider to be excellent bosses – people I’ve learned from and who have helped me grow. Bosses can be some of the most nurturing individuals, but there are a few who can go over the top. Throughout the history of television, there have been all kinds of bosses, ranging from business owners on sitcoms, to leaders of government agencies, to ruthless CEOs. And they have provided some of the most iconic, award-winning performances in the history of the medium.
In the very early days of television, the groundbreaking series “The Untouchables” gave us the unforgettable Eliot Ness, and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” gifted us with the comedic genius of Alan Brady. In the glitz and glamour of the 1970’s and 1980’s, we tuned in each week to see what conniving business deals J.R. Ewing...
In the very early days of television, the groundbreaking series “The Untouchables” gave us the unforgettable Eliot Ness, and “The Dick Van Dyke Show” gifted us with the comedic genius of Alan Brady. In the glitz and glamour of the 1970’s and 1980’s, we tuned in each week to see what conniving business deals J.R. Ewing...
- 6/22/2020
- by Susan Pennington, Chris Beachum and Misty Holland
- Gold Derby
Exclusive: We hear that Blockers filmmaker and Pitch Perfect franchise scribe Kay Cannon will direct the biopic Del & Charna about Charna Halpern and her partnership with the late legendary improv maestro Del Close. Together they built Chicago’s Improv Olympic, a prestigious comedy training ground for Saturday Night Live players and scribes, as well as the New York and Hollywood showbiz scene that boasts an all-star award-winning alum roster of Mike Myers, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Chris Farley, Jon Favreau, Adam McKay, Stephen Colbert, Rachel Dratch, Cecily Strong, Seth Meyers, Matt Walsh, Vanessa Bayer, Bob Odenkirk, David Koechner, Andy Dick, Cannon herself and many more.
Del & Charna will follow the unlikely pairing and tumultuous 19-year relationship of Close and Halpern, the latter who continues to own, run and teach at the Io theater. Together as friends, saviors and soulmates, the duo helped each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and...
Del & Charna will follow the unlikely pairing and tumultuous 19-year relationship of Close and Halpern, the latter who continues to own, run and teach at the Io theater. Together as friends, saviors and soulmates, the duo helped each other overcome his addiction, financial ruin, and...
- 11/4/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Charles Martin Smith (Dolphin Tale) to direct.
The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea and his team are preparing to kick off pre-sales in Toronto next week on family title A Gift From Bob from A Dog’s Way Home director Charles Martin Smith.
The follow-up to 2017 international theatrical release A Street Cat Named Bob is based on A Gift From Bob: How A Street Cat Helped One Man Learn The Meaning Of Christmas, James Bowen’s memoir about a busker who gains news insights into life through his cat. Garry Jenkins helped Bowen write the Bob books and adapted the screenplay.
The Exchange CEO Brian O’Shea and his team are preparing to kick off pre-sales in Toronto next week on family title A Gift From Bob from A Dog’s Way Home director Charles Martin Smith.
The follow-up to 2017 international theatrical release A Street Cat Named Bob is based on A Gift From Bob: How A Street Cat Helped One Man Learn The Meaning Of Christmas, James Bowen’s memoir about a busker who gains news insights into life through his cat. Garry Jenkins helped Bowen write the Bob books and adapted the screenplay.
- 8/27/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Today, April 18, the producers of The Play That Goes Wrong are celebrating the birthdays of Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, Eliot Ness and Kate Hudson by releasing new video of the brilliant new cast of the show, and simultaneously insuring that this release is the only time that the emperor, Mr. Ness and Ms. Hudson will ever get a hit on Google in the same place.
- 4/19/2019
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
In 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker drove into an ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. They had come there with the intent of laying low while visiting fellow gang member Henry Methvin’s family home. A number of policemen — and two Texas Rangers — opened fire on them as their stolen car sped down a country road. We know that, by the time they were taken down, the duo had been on a two-year-long crime wave. We know that they had become folk heroes, worshipped by a public who viewed them as...
- 3/12/2019
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
That romanticized image of Bonnie and Clyde as folk hero outlaws and lovers is being stripped away in “The Highwaymen,” a new film starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as the two Texas Rangers who made it their mission to hunt the famous outlaws.
Because while there’s some humor in this first trailer for the film, Bonnie and Clyde come across as ruthless killers, the type who turn you over on your back to look you in the eyes before they shoot you. But still the legend of their romance and their bloody end persists.
“We’re the bad guys,” Costner says in the trailer, channeling an Eliot Ness in “The Untouchables” vibe. His character, Frank Hamer, was portrayed by Denver Pyle in the classic 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
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Because while there’s some humor in this first trailer for the film, Bonnie and Clyde come across as ruthless killers, the type who turn you over on your back to look you in the eyes before they shoot you. But still the legend of their romance and their bloody end persists.
“We’re the bad guys,” Costner says in the trailer, channeling an Eliot Ness in “The Untouchables” vibe. His character, Frank Hamer, was portrayed by Denver Pyle in the classic 1967 film “Bonnie and Clyde” starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway.
Also Read: Paramount Network Denies Accusation That Cow Corpses Were 'Mutilated' for Kevin Costner's...
- 2/20/2019
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Academy Award-nominated director Paul Greengrass tackles the true story of Norway’s deadliest terror attack since World War II in the first trailer for “22 July.”
On that day in 2011, a far-right extremist set off a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 77 people, many of whom were teens, were killed. The trailer, and the film itself, analyzes the attack through the eyes of one survivor, who has to go through a physical and emotional journey to heal.
“22 July,” which Greengrass also wrote, is based on the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway — and Its Aftermath,” by Asne Seierstad.
Also Read: Paul Greengrass to Direct Eliot Ness Biopic for Paramount
Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen star.
Scott Rudin, Gregory Goodman, Eli Bush and Greengrass produced.
On that day in 2011, a far-right extremist set off a car bomb in Oslo before carrying out a mass shooting at a leadership camp for teens. 77 people, many of whom were teens, were killed. The trailer, and the film itself, analyzes the attack through the eyes of one survivor, who has to go through a physical and emotional journey to heal.
“22 July,” which Greengrass also wrote, is based on the book “One of Us: The Story of an Attack in Norway — and Its Aftermath,” by Asne Seierstad.
Also Read: Paul Greengrass to Direct Eliot Ness Biopic for Paramount
Anders Danielsen Lie, Jon Øigarden, Jonas Strand Gravli, Maria Bock, Thorbjørn Harr, Ola G. Furuseth, Seda Witt, Isak Bakli Aglen star.
Scott Rudin, Gregory Goodman, Eli Bush and Greengrass produced.
- 9/4/2018
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has abandoned the development of the Brian Michael Bendis/Marc Andreyko project Ness (previously titled Torso), which Paul Greengrass was attached to direct in what was to be a possible feature franchise property. Well, we’re told no longer. So what happened?
Sources said that no one could agree on a script and the versions of the script were really not representative of the book which focuses on the 1930s Torso murder cases. The project was based on the graphic novel Torso and the last script was from Brian Helgeland, who earned Academy Award nominations for Mystic River and L.A. Confidential.
This is the second go-round for this project as the studio also tried to develop this property with David Fincher in 2008. But that fell apart when creative differences arose with studio exec Rob Moore.
Ness is a crime thriller that follows Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness...
Sources said that no one could agree on a script and the versions of the script were really not representative of the book which focuses on the 1930s Torso murder cases. The project was based on the graphic novel Torso and the last script was from Brian Helgeland, who earned Academy Award nominations for Mystic River and L.A. Confidential.
This is the second go-round for this project as the studio also tried to develop this property with David Fincher in 2008. But that fell apart when creative differences arose with studio exec Rob Moore.
Ness is a crime thriller that follows Treasury Department agent Eliot Ness...
- 5/8/2018
- by Anita Busch
- Deadline Film + TV
The hazard of traveling through time attempting to preserve history in “Timeless” is the many opportunities to mess up.
The show’s protagonists, Lucy (Abigail Spencer), Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) and Wyatt (Matt Lanter), are always one step behind villain Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnjic) as he gallivants across American history. Flynn’s ultimate goal: destroy the Illuminati-like organization known as Rittenhouse. He’s willing to ruin any historical moment to do it, and while the time travel team attempts to stop him, they’re usually not completely successful.
Even when the trio, which Rufus dubs the “Time Team,” thwart Flynn’s plans, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. Somebody usually screws things up such that history is altered, even if the change is subtle. And a few key players in our timeline have been, uh, killed, either accidentally or not so much. The good news is that America isn’t destroyed yet, but the alterations are piling up.
Also Read: 13 Time Travel TV Shows You Should Be Watching Right Now (Photos)
Here is every single change “Timeless” has made to the history of America, in order from most mundane to most widespread.
14. A nuke goes missing but no one cares
Flynn heads to Las Vegas in an attempt to steal a nuclear weapon. The Time Team worries he’s going to set it off (or later give it to the Nazis), but Flynn just uses it to power his time machine. Apparently the U.S. misplacing a nuclear warhead in the 1960s had no lasting repercussions.
13. Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight crashes
In 1920s Paris, Flynn shoots down the Spirit of St. Louis just miles before Lindbergh is set to land in Paris and complete the first solo transatlantic flight in history. Nothing much changes, though — Lindbergh’s fame is delayed by a few weeks after the crash, but he still shows up to claim his fame and fortune. And he still becomes a vocal Nazi sympathizer, despite Lucy’s best efforts to convince him Nazis are not so good.
Also Read: Top 20 Best Netflix Original Series, Ranked From Great to Phenomenal (Photos)
12. Al Capone never goes to prison
With a careful bit of evidence destruction, Flynn prevents Eliot Ness and the Untouchables from making their tax evasion case against Capone. Ness winds up murdered more than 20 years too early. Still, the Time Team still manages to bring down Capone without much additional bloodshed, so not much goes differently. That Kevin Costner/Sean Connery movie is presumably a little different, though.
11. Lucy gets a random fiancé (who saves Rufus)
The changes in Lucy’s life are pretty widespread when she gets home from the first mission. She loses a sister but gains a fiancé she’s never met. It’s mostly just awkward, and then Lucy doesn’t talk to him for the rest of the season. Until, that is, he’s expedient for plot purposes in the finale.
10. Flynn saves his half-brother from bees
Flynn and pals attempted to sabotage the Apollo 11 moon landing from Mission Control, but were stopped along the way by the Time Team. In the meantime, Flynn slipped off, found his own mother, and saved his half-brother he’d never met from dying of anaphylactic shock as a child. This one doesn’t have many ripples, but it does show that Flynn is sometimes a good dude.
9. Bonnie and Clyde die at a cabin and not in their car
After accidentally interfering with a Barrow Gang bank robbery, Lucy and Wyatt hang out with Bonnie and Clyde for a bit. The time traveler interference changes how the pair meet their grisly end, with a posse of police descending on them in their cabin, rather than ambushing them on the road. The change robbed Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Nevada of the famous bullet-riddled car the bandits originally died in.
8. Lucy rewrites Texas history
Flynn rewrites history by killing Lt. Col. William Travis at the Alamo before he can complete his famous letter. Lucy takes up the task of penning a document key to Texas history and, basically, makes it up as she goes along. Everyone, including Davy Crockett and James Bowie, still dies at the Alamo and Texas is still a thing, so the overall effect is minimal.
Also Read: Top 20 Best HBO Original Series, From 'Six Feet Under' to 'Game of Thrones' (Photos)
7. John Wilkes Booth isn’t the Lincoln assassin
Flynn attempts to help John Wilkes Booth be even more successful in assassinating Abraham Lincoln, adding Army General Ulysses S. Grant, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. The Time Team stops the additional murders, and Flynn only succeeds in being the guy who offs Lincoln instead of Booth.
6. Benedict Arnold dies in America
With the Time Team helping, Flynn grabs Benedict Arnold, a founding member of the evil Rittenhouse organization, and uses him to try to assassinate the other founders. Arnold gets shot and dies, getting some traitor comeuppance. In our history, Arnold betrayed George Washington and then escaped to England to live happily ever after, dying roughly two decades later.
6. Jesse James murders people for a couple more days
Flynn returns to the Old West and interferes with Jesse James‘ assassination. He recruits James as a guide, and in the process they add a few more folks to James’ body count. James still buys it with a bullet in the back, but his historical assassin, Robert Ford, never goes on to become “the coward Robert Ford.” Because he winds up dead, too.
5. The Hindenburg erases Lucy’s sister from existence
After messing around at the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 and saving all its victims, Lucy returns home to find the show’s most meaningful time travel ripple: her cancer-suffering mother is now healthy, and her previously alive sister was never born. This one is personally devastating for Lucy and, what’s worse, nobody knows how it happened or how to fix it.
4. The Time Team stops H. H. Holmes
America’s first serial killer, H. H. Holmes, created an elaborate hotel that later was dubbed the “murder castle.” Holmes would kill people in the building throughout the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 (and before and after), but Wyatt shot and killed him three years before he would otherwise have been captured and hanged.
3. Wyatt erases a serial killer
Stealing the time machine, Wyatt and Rufus travel back to 1983 to prevent the meeting of the parents of the man who supposedly would one day kill Wyatt’s wife. The plan is to just prevent the future parents from hooking up, but Wyatt ends up causing the father’s accidental death. It’s still a success, since two of the killer’s victims are still alive in 2017 — just not Wyatt’s wife.
2. The Hindenburg doesn’t explode (until later)
The infamous disaster (“Oh, the humanity!”) doesn’t happen when the Hindenburg arrives in New York. Flynn intervenes, altering the series of freak accidents that causes a spark to ignite the airship’s huge hydrogen balloon. The upshot is the Time Team manages to save just about everyone who otherwise would have died in the disaster.
1. The team creates a new James Bond movie
In World War II, the Time Team hooks up with Sir Ian Fleming while he’s an undercover spy. Claiming to be CIA operatives, they try to stop Flynn. Fleming uses the inspiration for a Bond novel that never existed in our timeline, called “Weapons of Choice.” Time travel creates a new Bond movie, which rules.
Read original story ‘Timeless': Every History-Altering Time Travel Change, Ranked from Jesse James to James Bond (Photos) At TheWrap...
The show’s protagonists, Lucy (Abigail Spencer), Rufus (Malcolm Barrett) and Wyatt (Matt Lanter), are always one step behind villain Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnjic) as he gallivants across American history. Flynn’s ultimate goal: destroy the Illuminati-like organization known as Rittenhouse. He’s willing to ruin any historical moment to do it, and while the time travel team attempts to stop him, they’re usually not completely successful.
Even when the trio, which Rufus dubs the “Time Team,” thwart Flynn’s plans, it’s a Pyrrhic victory. Somebody usually screws things up such that history is altered, even if the change is subtle. And a few key players in our timeline have been, uh, killed, either accidentally or not so much. The good news is that America isn’t destroyed yet, but the alterations are piling up.
Also Read: 13 Time Travel TV Shows You Should Be Watching Right Now (Photos)
Here is every single change “Timeless” has made to the history of America, in order from most mundane to most widespread.
14. A nuke goes missing but no one cares
Flynn heads to Las Vegas in an attempt to steal a nuclear weapon. The Time Team worries he’s going to set it off (or later give it to the Nazis), but Flynn just uses it to power his time machine. Apparently the U.S. misplacing a nuclear warhead in the 1960s had no lasting repercussions.
13. Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight crashes
In 1920s Paris, Flynn shoots down the Spirit of St. Louis just miles before Lindbergh is set to land in Paris and complete the first solo transatlantic flight in history. Nothing much changes, though — Lindbergh’s fame is delayed by a few weeks after the crash, but he still shows up to claim his fame and fortune. And he still becomes a vocal Nazi sympathizer, despite Lucy’s best efforts to convince him Nazis are not so good.
Also Read: Top 20 Best Netflix Original Series, Ranked From Great to Phenomenal (Photos)
12. Al Capone never goes to prison
With a careful bit of evidence destruction, Flynn prevents Eliot Ness and the Untouchables from making their tax evasion case against Capone. Ness winds up murdered more than 20 years too early. Still, the Time Team still manages to bring down Capone without much additional bloodshed, so not much goes differently. That Kevin Costner/Sean Connery movie is presumably a little different, though.
11. Lucy gets a random fiancé (who saves Rufus)
The changes in Lucy’s life are pretty widespread when she gets home from the first mission. She loses a sister but gains a fiancé she’s never met. It’s mostly just awkward, and then Lucy doesn’t talk to him for the rest of the season. Until, that is, he’s expedient for plot purposes in the finale.
10. Flynn saves his half-brother from bees
Flynn and pals attempted to sabotage the Apollo 11 moon landing from Mission Control, but were stopped along the way by the Time Team. In the meantime, Flynn slipped off, found his own mother, and saved his half-brother he’d never met from dying of anaphylactic shock as a child. This one doesn’t have many ripples, but it does show that Flynn is sometimes a good dude.
9. Bonnie and Clyde die at a cabin and not in their car
After accidentally interfering with a Barrow Gang bank robbery, Lucy and Wyatt hang out with Bonnie and Clyde for a bit. The time traveler interference changes how the pair meet their grisly end, with a posse of police descending on them in their cabin, rather than ambushing them on the road. The change robbed Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Nevada of the famous bullet-riddled car the bandits originally died in.
8. Lucy rewrites Texas history
Flynn rewrites history by killing Lt. Col. William Travis at the Alamo before he can complete his famous letter. Lucy takes up the task of penning a document key to Texas history and, basically, makes it up as she goes along. Everyone, including Davy Crockett and James Bowie, still dies at the Alamo and Texas is still a thing, so the overall effect is minimal.
Also Read: Top 20 Best HBO Original Series, From 'Six Feet Under' to 'Game of Thrones' (Photos)
7. John Wilkes Booth isn’t the Lincoln assassin
Flynn attempts to help John Wilkes Booth be even more successful in assassinating Abraham Lincoln, adding Army General Ulysses S. Grant, Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. The Time Team stops the additional murders, and Flynn only succeeds in being the guy who offs Lincoln instead of Booth.
6. Benedict Arnold dies in America
With the Time Team helping, Flynn grabs Benedict Arnold, a founding member of the evil Rittenhouse organization, and uses him to try to assassinate the other founders. Arnold gets shot and dies, getting some traitor comeuppance. In our history, Arnold betrayed George Washington and then escaped to England to live happily ever after, dying roughly two decades later.
6. Jesse James murders people for a couple more days
Flynn returns to the Old West and interferes with Jesse James‘ assassination. He recruits James as a guide, and in the process they add a few more folks to James’ body count. James still buys it with a bullet in the back, but his historical assassin, Robert Ford, never goes on to become “the coward Robert Ford.” Because he winds up dead, too.
5. The Hindenburg erases Lucy’s sister from existence
After messing around at the Hindenburg disaster in 1937 and saving all its victims, Lucy returns home to find the show’s most meaningful time travel ripple: her cancer-suffering mother is now healthy, and her previously alive sister was never born. This one is personally devastating for Lucy and, what’s worse, nobody knows how it happened or how to fix it.
4. The Time Team stops H. H. Holmes
America’s first serial killer, H. H. Holmes, created an elaborate hotel that later was dubbed the “murder castle.” Holmes would kill people in the building throughout the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 (and before and after), but Wyatt shot and killed him three years before he would otherwise have been captured and hanged.
3. Wyatt erases a serial killer
Stealing the time machine, Wyatt and Rufus travel back to 1983 to prevent the meeting of the parents of the man who supposedly would one day kill Wyatt’s wife. The plan is to just prevent the future parents from hooking up, but Wyatt ends up causing the father’s accidental death. It’s still a success, since two of the killer’s victims are still alive in 2017 — just not Wyatt’s wife.
2. The Hindenburg doesn’t explode (until later)
The infamous disaster (“Oh, the humanity!”) doesn’t happen when the Hindenburg arrives in New York. Flynn intervenes, altering the series of freak accidents that causes a spark to ignite the airship’s huge hydrogen balloon. The upshot is the Time Team manages to save just about everyone who otherwise would have died in the disaster.
1. The team creates a new James Bond movie
In World War II, the Time Team hooks up with Sir Ian Fleming while he’s an undercover spy. Claiming to be CIA operatives, they try to stop Flynn. Fleming uses the inspiration for a Bond novel that never existed in our timeline, called “Weapons of Choice.” Time travel creates a new Bond movie, which rules.
Read original story ‘Timeless': Every History-Altering Time Travel Change, Ranked from Jesse James to James Bond (Photos) At TheWrap...
- 5/7/2018
- by Phil Hornshaw
- The Wrap
Exclusive: Shameless actor Noel Fisher and Tilda Del Toro joined the cast in the Tom Hardy-led Al Capone biopic Fonzo, written and directed by Chronicle helmer Josh Trank. The film is focused on the final days of the ruthless businessman who ruled Chicago with an iron fist during the Prohibition Era and was the most infamous and feared gangster of American lore before being famously taken down by Eliot Ness. At the age of 47, following nearly a decade of imprisonment…...
- 3/26/2018
- Deadline
Just because you’re a well-established director with award-winning hits and/or commercial successes doesn’t mean you can make any movie you want. Just ask Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Darren Aronofsky, and more. All these auteurs have had passion projects over the years they’ve had to kill or put on indefinite hiatus for a variety of reasons, which is a shame given how incredible all of them sound on paper.
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Christopher Nolan taking on Howard Hughes. Spike Lee making a boxing epic around Joe Louis. Kathryn Bigelow resurrecting Joan of Arc for a female warrior saga unlike any the big screen had ever really seen in the 1990s. We’d buy a ticket for all them years in advance if we knew they were definitely happening.
With many of our favorite auteurs currently in production on new movies,...
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Christopher Nolan taking on Howard Hughes. Spike Lee making a boxing epic around Joe Louis. Kathryn Bigelow resurrecting Joan of Arc for a female warrior saga unlike any the big screen had ever really seen in the 1990s. We’d buy a ticket for all them years in advance if we knew they were definitely happening.
With many of our favorite auteurs currently in production on new movies,...
- 7/28/2017
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
On June 3, 1987, director Brian De Palma released The Untouchables, based on the true story of how Treasury agent Eliot Ness brought down notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. Written by David Mamet and starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Sean Connery (who won an Oscar — his only one — for his role), the film was a critical and commercial success. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to ...
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to ...
On June 3, 1987, director Brian De Palma released The Untouchables, based on the true story of how Treasury agent Eliot Ness brought down notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. Written by David Mamet and starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Sean Connery (who won an Oscar — his only one — for his role), the film was a critical and commercial success. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to ...
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to ...
This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the release of Brian De Palma’s spirited and sweeping Prohibition gangster movie The Untouchables—a great crowd-pleaser that is just as well remembered for its two-fisted turns of phrase (courtesy of screenwriter David Mamet) and its stylized artistic flourishes. Not the least of these flourishes is the way the film uses the imposing architecture of The A.V. Club’s home base, Chicago. For this inaugural edition of The Local Scene, editor Sean O’Neal and film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky visit some of the movie’s iconic downtown filming locations to discuss how The Untouchables uses the city to create an operatic backdrop for the conflict between the straight-arrow lawman Eliot Ness and the despotic gangster Al Capone, and drop into the office of official city historian Tim Samuelson to talk about the real men behind the myth.
- 6/2/2017
- by Sean O'Neal, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
- avclub.com
On June 3, 1987, director Brian De Palma released The Untouchables, based on the true story of how Treasury agent Eliot Ness brought down notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. Written by David Mamet and starring Kevin Costner, Robert De Niro, Andy Garcia and Sean Connery (who won an Oscar — his only one — for his role), the film was a critical and commercial success. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to put him...
Four police chiefs, three district attorneys, a wad of grand juries couldn't bring Al Capone down. It took a green government graysuit named Eliot Ness to put him...
- 5/31/2017
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Star Trek, Serenity, Muppets and more: our favourite movie adaptations of TV showsStar Trek, Serenity, Muppets and more: our favourite movie adaptations of TV showsJenny Bullough4/17/2017 10:01:00 Am With the movie adaptation of the classic 80s TV show CHiPs out in theatres now, and the Baywatch movie just around the corner, we’ve been thinking about the classic and beloved TV series that have been reborn on the big screen as movies (and sometimes even movie franchises)! Not all of these movies ended up as critically-acclaimed award winners, but frankly, we love them anyway. There’s just something sweetly nostalgic about seeing a TV show you loved when you were younger, or even an older TV show that you missed out on, reimagined for the movie screen. Here’s our list of the top ten TV shows adapted into movies: 10: The Brady Bunch Movie How do you adapt...
- 4/17/2017
- by Jenny Bullough
- Cineplex
Star Trek, Serenity, Muppets and more: our favourite movie adaptations of TV showsStar Trek, Serenity, Muppets and more: our favourite movie adaptations of TV showsJenny Bullough4/17/2017 10:01:00 Am With the movie adaptation of the classic 80s TV show CHiPs out in theatres now, and the Baywatch movie just around the corner, we’ve been thinking about the classic and beloved TV series that have been reborn on the big screen as movies (and sometimes even movie franchises)! Not all of these movies ended up as critically-acclaimed award winners, but frankly, we love them anyway. There’s just something sweetly nostalgic about seeing a TV show you loved when you were younger, or even an older TV show that you missed out on, reimagined for the movie screen. Here’s our list of the top ten TV shows adapted into movies: 10: The Brady Bunch Movie How do you adapt...
- 4/17/2017
- by Jenny Bullough
- Cineplex
With the success of series like Narcos which features the story of the infamous Medellin drug cartem ran by Pablo Escobar, I knew it was a matter of time before the story of Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera aka "El Chapo" was picked up by a studio or network.
According to Variety Sony Pictures is in negotiations to acquire the film rights to the book Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord. The book is written by Cole Merrell and Douglas Century At the same time Sony Pictures is also in talks with Michael Bay, who is currently in post-production on Transformers: The Last Knight, to either direct or produce the film.
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Here is a summery of the book which is listed on Amazon:
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty,...
According to Variety Sony Pictures is in negotiations to acquire the film rights to the book Hunting El Chapo: The Thrilling Inside Story of the American Lawman Who Captured the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord. The book is written by Cole Merrell and Douglas Century At the same time Sony Pictures is also in talks with Michael Bay, who is currently in post-production on Transformers: The Last Knight, to either direct or produce the film.
Related: Transformers: The Last Knight - Trailer #2 Drops
Here is a summery of the book which is listed on Amazon:
A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Emmanuel Gomez
- LRMonline.com
Paramount is hoping director Paul Greengrass and screenwriter Brian Helgeland – a terrific combo – can launch an Eliot Ness trilogy. The studio wants the Jason Bourne director and L.A. Confidential screenwriter to make another film about Ness, the man who led the Untouchables and helped bring down Al Capone. Greengrass’ film, titled Torso, is based on Brian Michael Bendis and […]
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- 3/30/2017
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Director Paul Greengrass (Bourne Ultimatum, Captain Philips) has officially signed on to helm the big screen adaptation of Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko’s graphic novel Torso, which tells the true story of Eliot Ness on the hunt for a serial killer.
The film will be called Ness and has been in development at Paramount Pictures for years. Over that time both David Fincher (Zodiac) and David Lowery (Pete's Dragon) have been attached to direct it. The project has now landed in the lap of Greengrass. Yeah, I would have rather seen Fincher direct it, but I think Greengrass will still give us a great movie. I like most of the films that he has made in his career.
The film will depict the true story of Eliot Ness’ time after his Al Capone days, when he moved to Cleveland and got embroiled in the hunt of a serial...
The film will be called Ness and has been in development at Paramount Pictures for years. Over that time both David Fincher (Zodiac) and David Lowery (Pete's Dragon) have been attached to direct it. The project has now landed in the lap of Greengrass. Yeah, I would have rather seen Fincher direct it, but I think Greengrass will still give us a great movie. I like most of the films that he has made in his career.
The film will depict the true story of Eliot Ness’ time after his Al Capone days, when he moved to Cleveland and got embroiled in the hunt of a serial...
- 3/28/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
While legendary lawman Eliot Ness has already been a central figure in De Palma’s Untouchables, Bourne helmer Paul Greengrass is planning to take his own stab at the man responsible for cleanin’ up crime in Chicago, including the takedown of infamous mob boss Al Capone.
Deadline reports that the Captain Phillips director is in negotiations to direct Ness, which is penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential), who is adapting the story from the graphic novel Torso by Marc Andreyko and Brian Michael Bendis. Aiming to begin production this fall, Paramount Pictures is hoping this film kicks off a franchise for the studio.
With Greengrass’ unique approach to action, along with the source material coming from a graphic novel, Ness should be a strong divergence from the stylistic and narrative trappings of De Palma’s renowned picture. Not to mention, De Palma’s film is now 30 years old,...
Deadline reports that the Captain Phillips director is in negotiations to direct Ness, which is penned by Oscar-winning screenwriter Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential), who is adapting the story from the graphic novel Torso by Marc Andreyko and Brian Michael Bendis. Aiming to begin production this fall, Paramount Pictures is hoping this film kicks off a franchise for the studio.
With Greengrass’ unique approach to action, along with the source material coming from a graphic novel, Ness should be a strong divergence from the stylistic and narrative trappings of De Palma’s renowned picture. Not to mention, De Palma’s film is now 30 years old,...
- 3/28/2017
- by Mike Mazzanti
- The Film Stage
Though The Untouchables has seemed like the definitive Eliot Ness movie for a few decades, Paul Greengrass is stepping up to direct a new Eliot Ness movie for a new generation. Titled Ness, the movie will be based on Brian Michael Bendis and Marc Andreyko’s graphic novel Torso, which chronicled Ness’ attempt to capture a torso-chopping serial killer in Cleveland in the years after bringing down Al Capone. The screenplay is being written by La Confidential’s Brian Helgeland, who also worked on Greengrass’ The Bourne Supremacy.
This comes from Deadline, which says that the studio (Paramount Pictures) is hoping to turn this into a franchise. If that’s the case, subsequent movies will probably have to be prequels, since the most famous thing Eliot Ness ever did wasn’t catching this torso killer. There’s also no casting information yet, but Matt Damon is definitely waiting by his...
This comes from Deadline, which says that the studio (Paramount Pictures) is hoping to turn this into a franchise. If that’s the case, subsequent movies will probably have to be prequels, since the most famous thing Eliot Ness ever did wasn’t catching this torso killer. There’s also no casting information yet, but Matt Damon is definitely waiting by his...
- 3/28/2017
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
If you are a fan of history or film (or even history of film), then you should know the name Eliot Ness. Ness was an American Prohibition Agent who famously took down Al Capone with his team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables. Yes, like the 1987 classic film The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness and directed by Brian De Palma. There was also a show in the late '50s, early '60s of the same name, but that might not be as fresh in your memory.
Ness' story hardly ended with the prosecution of Capone, as he went on the be the Public Safety Director of Cleveland when a series of grisly murders took place between 1935 and 1938. Twelve victims were confirmed over these three years, all beheaded and often dismembered, some with their torso cut clean in half. The heads were almost never found. The...
Ness' story hardly ended with the prosecution of Capone, as he went on the be the Public Safety Director of Cleveland when a series of grisly murders took place between 1935 and 1938. Twelve victims were confirmed over these three years, all beheaded and often dismembered, some with their torso cut clean in half. The heads were almost never found. The...
- 3/28/2017
- by Nick Doll
- LRMonline.com
Paul Greengrass, director of “Captain Philips” and three films in the Jason Bourne series, has signed on to direct “Ness,” Paramount’s biopic about famed prohibition agent and gangster hunter Eliot Ness, TheWrap has learned. Ness became famous in pop culture after he became the leader of The Untouchables, a team of law enforcement agents responsible for the downfall of Al Capone’s criminal empire. Though he was known for refusing bribes from Capone and other criminals, he died in 1957 nearly broke. His legacy was set in stone following the release of his memoir, “The Untouchables,” a month after his death.
- 3/27/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
In so many words, fact-about.org states that, the lawman Eliot Ness (1903 - 1957) was famous for being the founder and leader of the notorious team known to many as The Untouchables. Coming into law enforcement during Prohibition, and seen as a rising star in his field of expertise, Ness was given the task of upholding the laws as well as finding a way to shut down the many illegal operations... Read More...
- 3/27/2017
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Tony Sokol Mar 28, 2017
Bourne director Paul Greengrass is to tackle the story of the untouchable Eliot Ness...
The reputedly incorruptible FBI Agent Eliot Ness couldn’t be bribed. That’s why they called him an untouchable. That didn’t mean his crack squad of law enforcement agents didn’t bend every other criminal ethic to bag a collar, and now his story is coming to the screen. Again. For Paramount Pictures is producing Ness, an updated version of the lawman’s life. Paul Greengrass, who helmed the best three entries in the Jason Bourne movie franchise, is in talks to direct the film.
Like the classic Untouchables TV series, Ness is looking good as a possible motion picture franchise. Paramount is looking at a fall production start.
Ness will tell the story of Elliot Ness after his days as the head of a squad of clean-living Prohibition agents. Called The Untouchables,...
Bourne director Paul Greengrass is to tackle the story of the untouchable Eliot Ness...
The reputedly incorruptible FBI Agent Eliot Ness couldn’t be bribed. That’s why they called him an untouchable. That didn’t mean his crack squad of law enforcement agents didn’t bend every other criminal ethic to bag a collar, and now his story is coming to the screen. Again. For Paramount Pictures is producing Ness, an updated version of the lawman’s life. Paul Greengrass, who helmed the best three entries in the Jason Bourne movie franchise, is in talks to direct the film.
Like the classic Untouchables TV series, Ness is looking good as a possible motion picture franchise. Paramount is looking at a fall production start.
Ness will tell the story of Elliot Ness after his days as the head of a squad of clean-living Prohibition agents. Called The Untouchables,...
- 3/27/2017
- Den of Geek
Hollywood is giving Eliot Ness another shot at the big screen.
Ness, the famous lawman who chased gangster Al Capone, is getting the movie treatment via Jason Bourne franchise filmmaker Paul Greengrass, who is in negotiations to direct a new feature project.
Brian Helgeland, who won a best adapted screenplay Oscar for L.A. Confidential, wrote the project, titled Ness, which is set up at Paramount. The studio previously tackled the figure with the 1987 Brian De Palma-helmed pic The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro and earned Sean Connery a best supporting actor Oscar.
The new project isn’t...
Ness, the famous lawman who chased gangster Al Capone, is getting the movie treatment via Jason Bourne franchise filmmaker Paul Greengrass, who is in negotiations to direct a new feature project.
Brian Helgeland, who won a best adapted screenplay Oscar for L.A. Confidential, wrote the project, titled Ness, which is set up at Paramount. The studio previously tackled the figure with the 1987 Brian De Palma-helmed pic The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner and Robert De Niro and earned Sean Connery a best supporting actor Oscar.
The new project isn’t...
- 3/27/2017
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
How the director’s use of god’s-eye view heightens tension.
We’ve talked before in these virtual pages about the bird’s-eye or god’s-eye view in cinema, that shot that takes place above a scene, independent of any participating perspective, and as such serves as a visual, omnipotent narrator revealing to us in the audience things the characters on screen could never see.
Tarantino employs this shot often, as do other directors like David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson, but perhaps no contemporary director is a bigger proponent of the god’s-eye view than Brian DePalma, who utilizes the shot in his various thrillers to heighten both the tension and the conflicting moralities his films often depict. DePalma’s is a cinema of subjectivity, it deals with what the world sees versus reality: Carrie as a mousy nerd worthy of ridicule versus Carrie as a victim of abuse worthy of sympathy; Eliot Ness as a...
We’ve talked before in these virtual pages about the bird’s-eye or god’s-eye view in cinema, that shot that takes place above a scene, independent of any participating perspective, and as such serves as a visual, omnipotent narrator revealing to us in the audience things the characters on screen could never see.
Tarantino employs this shot often, as do other directors like David Fincher and Paul Thomas Anderson, but perhaps no contemporary director is a bigger proponent of the god’s-eye view than Brian DePalma, who utilizes the shot in his various thrillers to heighten both the tension and the conflicting moralities his films often depict. DePalma’s is a cinema of subjectivity, it deals with what the world sees versus reality: Carrie as a mousy nerd worthy of ridicule versus Carrie as a victim of abuse worthy of sympathy; Eliot Ness as a...
- 3/23/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including Homeland, Arrow, Nashville and Scandal!
1 | Did Hawaii Five-0‘s Melissa occasionally let slip a look suggesting that she was mulling a more (ahem) Cinemax-appropriate ending to her, Danny, Steve and Lynn’s Valentine’s double date?
2 | Did Emerald City‘s “handiwork” between Lady Ev and Jack forever run The Wizard of Oz‘s “Oil me” scene for you?
3 | The way Homeland‘s Carrie has been quickly and easily shuttled between New York City and Washington,...
1 | Did Hawaii Five-0‘s Melissa occasionally let slip a look suggesting that she was mulling a more (ahem) Cinemax-appropriate ending to her, Danny, Steve and Lynn’s Valentine’s double date?
2 | Did Emerald City‘s “handiwork” between Lady Ev and Jack forever run The Wizard of Oz‘s “Oil me” scene for you?
3 | The way Homeland‘s Carrie has been quickly and easily shuttled between New York City and Washington,...
- 2/17/2017
- TVLine.com
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