Ed Harris, 56, was born in New Jersey. Having attended Columbia University in New York, he then studied acting. He worked as a house painter and got small television and film roles, before being cast as John Glenn in The Right Stuff. He has been nominated for an Oscar four times: for Apollo 13, The […]

More than a decade ago, Greg Mottola spent $30,000 and 17 days filming The Daytrippers, a small but smart story about a feuding family looking for a wayward spouse on a sudden, daylong road trip through New York City. The film, which was produced by Steven Soderbergh but was nevertheless rejected by Sundance, went on […]

In the autumn of 1980, Martin Scorsese arranged a preview on the Paramount lot of his latest film, a drama about prize fighter Jake LaMotta. Afterwards cinematographer Michael Chapman and Paul Schrader, one of two credited writers on the film, strolled out to the car park and mulled over what they had just seen. ‘Wow,’ […]

Steven Spielberg has been the center of much talk lately, little of it having to do with his filmmaking.  There is the controversy about his being the artistic director of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, something that Mia Farrow has blasted him for, even calling him the “Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing games.”  There is also […]

French actress Julie Delpy had been acting for over a decade before most Americans were introduced to her in Richard Linklater’s 1995 movie Before Sunrise with Ethan Hawke. Nine years later, the trio were reunited for the follow-up Before Sunset, which got Delpy and her collaborators an Oscar nomination for their script. At the time, […]

The last time ComingSoon.net/Superhero Hype! spoke to producer/director Matthew Vaughn, it was two years ago and he was inNew York City promoting his directorial debut, the Brit crime drama Layer Cake, which was playing at the Tribeca Film Festival. At the time, he had just been signed up to direct the third “X-Men” movie, but […]

For Hollywood writer Jason Byers, the 1998 movie Armageddon was his first big break. But he didn’t write the screenplay or contribute any dialogue. It was the taglines he wrote for the movie’s advertisements that established his career.  Byers, now 35, struck gold with five one-liners for the film’s ads, including “It’s time to kick […]

“The Company,” a three-episode miniseries (starring Michael Keaton, Alfred Molina and Chris O’Donnell) about the spies working in the heat of the Cold War, premieres tonight on TNT. Ridley Scott, one of the executive producers, is also the director of “Gladiator,” “Alien” and the forthcoming “American Gangster,” starring Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. And there’s […]

For those of us who are interested in the life and art of Angelina Jolie, and how they manage to co-exist, there are many standout moments in A Mighty Heart - Michael Winterbottom’s film of the memoir by Mariane Pearl, whose husband, Daniel, a Wall Street Journal reporter, was kidnapped by Islamic extremists in the […]

Johnny Drama enjoys the life afforded him by his movie star brother Vincent Chase. In real life, actor Kevin Dillon can enjoy the perks of stardom too. At a party for HBO, Dillon scarfed down some lobster tails cooked to order on one of two poolside grills. “Lobster is my favorite thing to eat in […]