By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 25, 2007 in DVD, New Releases, Special Features | 0 Comments
BLACK SNAKE MOAN - WIDESCREEN
Special Features:
Commentary by Writer/Director Craig Brewer
Conflicted: The Making of Black Snake Moan
Rooted in the Blues
The Black Snake Moan
Deleted Scenes
PRIDE - WIDESCREEN
Special Features:
Director Commentary
Deleted and Extended Scenes
Music Montages
SHOOTER - WIDESCREEN
Special Features:
7 Deleted Scenes
Survival of the Fittest: The Making of Shooter
Audio Commentary by director Antoine Fuqua
Featurette: Independence Hall
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 24, 2007 in Filmmaking, Hollywood, Writers | 0 Comments
WHEN they befriended each other in a high school class on French New Wave cinema, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci vowed that some day they would write intimate, character-driven films in the style of Jean-Luc Godard. “We were totally gung-ho to make really revolutionary independent movies,” Mr. Kurtzman said in a recent conversation. “We wanted [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 24, 2007 in TV | 0 Comments
When you work on a show like HBO’s John From Cincinnati (Sundays at 9 pm/ET), it can screw with your head. Recently, Austin Nichols, who plays the enigmatic John, was memorizing lines for a scene when he had a premonition. “I knew in my heart that I should scream, ‘Stare me down!’” he says. “The [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 24, 2007 in Film Business, Filmmaking, Hollywood, Producers | 0 Comments
Producer John A. Davis is the most unlikely casting choice to play Hollywood’s Most Regular Guy. Yet he’s so perfectly pedestrian — in a Bel Air sort of way — that it makes him remarkable.
(Source: Variety)
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 24, 2007 in Filmmaking, Hollywood, Horror, Writers | 0 Comments
Stephen King knows it’s the little things that frighten the most.
So it’s fitting that the best-selling novelist, who has had more film adaptations from his work than any modern author, finds his short stories capturing Hollywood’s attention these days.
Among them are the sinister hotel-room thriller 1408, opening Friday, the creatures-in-the-fog story The Mist, coming [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 23, 2007 in Commentary | 0 Comments
Say what you will about how “The Sopranos” ended—and people are still giving us an earful—it got us thinking about what makes a good ending to a story … and a bad ending. So in the time it takes to say “happily ever after,” we began assembling lists of good endings for movies, television series [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 23, 2007 in Awards, Hollywood, News | 0 Comments
The years have been kind to “Citizen Kane,” including the last decade. The 1941 Orson Welles classic — the story of a wealthy young idealist transformed by scandal and vice into a regretful old recluse — was again rated the best movie ever Wednesday by the American Film Institute.
In the CBS special “AFI’s 100 Years … [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 23, 2007 in Actors, Directors, Filmmaking, Interview | 0 Comments
Did you hear the one about the Polish hit man (Sir Ben Kingsley) who gets sent from Buffalo to San Francisco to sober up? That’s the nutshell plot of John Dahl’s You Kill Me, a return to the off-kilter crime tales of his earlier independents The Last Seduction and Red Rock West. Téa Leoni doesn’t [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jun 23, 2007 in Film Business, Hollywood, Special Features | 0 Comments
The accidental-pregnancy comedy “Knocked Up” owes some of its box-office success to scenes that didn’t even make it into the movie.
In recent weeks, Universal Pictures has posted several deleted scenes from the comedy online, advertising “restricted clips” in Web ads and the bonus material on television, too. Since then, the clips have racked up more [...]