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9 articles from 2009
Exclusive Coverage: Fango attends the House Of The Wolf Man World Premiere!
2 October 2009 3:58 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
On Thursday, October 1, 2009, a big fat full moon hung over Los Angeles. This proved a good omen, for Hollywood's historic Vista Theater was hosting the premiere of Eben McGarr's ambitious, totally retro horror flick, House Of The Wolf Man!
The sold-out crowd included director Donald F. Glut, Final Destination star Daniel Roebuck, character actor Chuck McCann, Jennifer's Body FX artist Emma Jacobs and Jay Leno Show announcer and Family Guy voice artist Wally Wingert.
The film stars Ron Chaney, grandson of legendary Wolf Man Lon Chaney, Jr. In the film, Chaney goes into the family business: Lycanthropy.
"It's fun being a werewolf," Ron Chaney smiles. "My grandfather would say it's in my blood... I would hope that he would be proud that I have joined the pack!"
Pictured: Ron Chaney and Denise Bomba
Wardrobe girl Denise Bomba confesses that "Ron really scared me when he showed up on set as The Wolf Man! »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
Paul W.S. Anderson Take On Three Musketeers
2 September 2009 5:22 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
Resident Evil and Aliens vs. Predator director Paul W.S. Anderson is trading in bullets for breeches as it’s been announced he’ll be bringing The Three Musketeers back to the big screen – in 3D! Anderson is producing the film with his Impact Pictures partner Jeremy Bolt and Robert Kulzer from Constantin Film, Constantin will be financing the picture.
It’s been sixteen years since the last appearance of The Three Musketeers on the big screen, the dismal 1993 film starred Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Oliver Platt and Chris O’Donnellas Aramis, Athos, Porthos and D’Artagnan and it currently holds a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes – decidedly stale!
Prior to 1993’s little indiscretion we’ve had countless adaptations of Alexandre Dumas’ classic 1884 tale, the most notable of which is probably 1948’s The Three Musketeers starring Gene Kelly and Lana Turner.
For the modern day version, Anderson co-wrote the script with Andrew Davies (Bridget Jones’s Diary, »
- Craig Sharp
The Way He Lived Then
26 August 2009 2:40 PM, PDT | Vanity Fair | See recent Vanity Fair news »
Dominick Dunne at the 2004 Vanity Fair Oscar party. By Eric Charbonneau/Berliner Studio/BEImages. To be a young man growing up in America before the halfway mark of the last century was to be almost genetically infatuated with one of the country’s two national pastimes. For some, it was baseball, where heroes like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Jimmie Foxx reigned. But, for others, it was the movies and their mythic provenance, Hollywood, where the real stars—Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cary Grant—constituted the occidental firmament. It seems safe to say that Dominick Dunne, who was born a few months after F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby was published, fell into the latter category. I bring up Fitzgerald not because my dear friend and late colleague Nick Dunne resembled that other Nick—Carraway, that is—but because he so thoroughly defied the great novelist’s most famous axiom. »
German Tryst On 'Postman' Plot
14 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT | NYPost.com | See recent New York Post news »
'The Postman Always Rings Twice," James M. Cain's pulp novel about a drifter who gets it on hot and heavy with a young woman married to an older guy, has served filmmakers well.
There are two well-known American versions, one in 1946 (starring John Garfield and Lana Turner) and the other in 1981 (with Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange doing it on the kitchen table).
In 1943, Italian master Luchino Visconti revisted the story in "Ossessione"; there's even an Asian variation, »
- By V.A. MUSETTO
Torino Glbt Film Festival 2009: Ferzan Ozpetek
26 April 2009 1:39 AM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »
2009 Torino Glbt Film Festival: Filmmaker Ferzan Ozpetek (above, with festival director Giovanni Minerba) presents "the films of his life." Ozpetek’s quotes below are from the festival’s press release. "I couldn’t have been happier when Giovanni Minerba made this proposition to me. I wanted to start out with a series of ‘Madames,’ ranging from the splendid Madame X, by David Lowell Rich, with Lana Turner, to Madame Rosa, [starring] Simone Signoret, and then on to Madame Sousatzka by John Schlesinger, with the intriguing Shirley MacLaine, and finishing off with Madame de… directed by Max Ophüls, in 1953. "Unfortunately there were problems in getting the films, so the only remaining ‘madame’ belongs to Ophüls himself, a film which had literally enraptured me [because of] its camera movement! There is another ‘mama’ that I dearly loved as a child: Auntie Mame by Morton Da Costa [made in] 1958. [...] »
- Andre Soares
10 Sexiest Non-Sex Scenes
19 February 2009 2:00 PM, PST | Spout.com | See recent Spout news »
One of the most popular sex scenes of all time is the kitchen scene from the 1981 version of The Postman Always Rings Twice. But many people find the more implicit parts of the 1946 version to be sexier. These people include the earlier film’s female lead, Lana Turner, who wrote in her autobiography, “[The makers of the 1981 film] didn’t have to worry about the censors. I’d had to project a rather intense sexual presence, but always with my clothes on. I was amused to read that [NY Times film critic] Vincent Canby considered the remake a pale, rather sexless imitation of my version.” Yes, a film with neither nudity nor simulated lovemaking can be quite sexy, likely sexier than an explicit remake, for innuendo and other teasing maneuvers around either the Hays Code or the MPAA ... »
- Christopher Campbell
Ricardo Montalban: From Latin Lovers to Khan (1920-2009)
16 January 2009 8:38 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Yesterday was a heavy business day so I'm late on the news.
The most important movie item yesterday was the passing of Ricardo Montalban (pictured left, source). He was 88 years old when he passed away on Wednesday. His greatest fame came in the 80s from television. You may remember him as either "Mr. Roarke" on Fantasy Island, "Zach Powers" on Dynasty spinoff The Colbys or as the title villain in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) --the only Star Trek outing I've ever loved and largely thanks to him. Khan was a character he was reprising from a guest stint on the 60s television show and yes, that was his real chest in the movie. He was eating his spinach as a sexagenarian.
Like many actors who get choice supporting roles in genre movies and/or television stardom in their senior years, Montalban was already famous. He'd been both »
- NATHANIEL R
Mexican actor Montalban dies, aged 88
15 January 2009 6:21 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Mexican actor Ricardo Montalban has passed away, aged 88. He died at his Bevely Hills home on Wednesday from "complications of advancing age". "He was in peace," said his son-in-law Gilbert Smith. "He will be missed." The actor's wife of 63 years, Georgiana, died last year. He is survived by four children and six grandchildren. In the 1940s, Montalban appeared in dozens of films with stars including Clark Gable and Lana Turner. However, in his autobiography he complained that MGM never gave him a starring role, which (more) »
- By Alex Fletcher
Actor Ricardo Montalban Dies at 88
14 January 2009 2:28 PM, PST | IMDb News
Ricardo Montalban, the dashing Mexican actor who gained fame for two iconic television roles -- that of the vengeful Khan in Star Trek and the mysterious Mr. Roark in Fantasy Island -- died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles; he was 88. No cause of death was given, though it was known that Montalban had suffered from complications after undergoing 9 1/2 hours of spinal surgery in 1993 to alleviate an injury he suffered in 1951 while filming the western Across the Wide Missouri. The surgery, however, did not resolve his medical problems, and he found himself primarily confined to a wheelchair. A career in Mexican films led to Hollywood and an MGM contract in 1946, and he was cast in a number of Esther Williams films (his American feature debut was in 1946's Fiesta opposite the swimming star) as well as westerns and dramas opposite such stars as Lana Turner and Jane Powell.
After leaving MGM in the mid-fifties, Montalban appeared on numerous television shows, though it was his singular turn as the villainous Khan Noonien Singh, one of a group of genetically engineered "supermen" in the "Space Seed" episode of Star Trek for which he became most remembered, and he reprised that role in the 1982 box office hit Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. By the time that film was released, Montalban had also become famous to a new generation of television viewers as the enigmatic Mr. Rourke, the host of the ABC Saturday night staple Fantasy Island (1978-1984), where he would preside over cautionary tales of those who wished to have their most desired fantasies fulfilled. (Around the same time, Montalban did a number of commercials for the Chrysler Cordoba, where his exhortations of the cars "rich Corinthian leather" would become an affectionate pop culture reference.)
After his role as Khan, Montalban continued to appear in television (most notably on the Dynasty spin-off The Colbys) and in film (as the villain of the comedy The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!) until his surgery curtailed his acting career. Montalban continued to work, however, appearing in all three of the Spy Kids films and doing voice work for the television shows Kim Possible and Family Guy. Montalban's wife, Georgiana Young (the younger sister of actress Loretta Young) died in 2007; the two had been married since 1944 and had four children. »
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