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18 articles from 2008
Craig praises late actor Newman
8 November 2008 2:04 PM, PST | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Daniel Craig has praised late actor Paul Newman's dedication to his craft. Craig appeared in 2002 film Road To Perdition alongside the star, who died of cancer in September. "The best thing I can say about Paul Newman was he worried about his craft and worried about what he was doing. He talked it through, and when he got it right it pleased him and when he got it wrong it really [ticked] him off," Craig told USA Today. "I thought: 'You're in your 70s, this (more)
By Michael Thornton
Mendes talks Preacher
7 November 2008 3:38 PM, PST | From JoBlo.com | See recent JoBlo news
Plenty of comic fans got reasonably excited about the recent news that the outstanding DC/Vertigo book Preacher would finally receive the feature treatment, and under the direction of someone as capable as Sam Mendes (Road To Perdition). Apparently it was premature -- as Mendes explains to Empire, "Basically they should have written, ‘Mendes in development with Preacher’. What I’m doing is, I’ve gotta find a script. I’ve just got to get...
Dave Davis
'Road To Perdition' sequels announced
5 November 2008 3:32 PM, PST | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news
Two sequels to comic book adaptation Road To Perdition are in the pipeline. Max Allan Collins, who penned the original comic series, has been tipped to write and direct the follow-ups, with Emo Films and Jbm Productions lined up to produce. "Road To Purgatory will follow the character of Michael Sullivan Jr., the son of Tom Hanks's character in the original film, who returns from World War II with (more)
By Michael Thornton
Road To Perdition Sequels Happening
4 November 2008 10:35 PM, PST | From cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news
It contains the last great on film performance of Paul Newman, and it was one of the very best movies of 2002. Now Road to Perdition is getting a series of sequels. There's no way this can work, is there? The news was announced today via press release. The sequel movies will be called Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise. They'll follow the son of Tom Hanks' character in the original movie, Michael Sullivan Jr., who returns from World War II and sets out to avenge the death of his father. That sucks him back into the mob world his father was trying to escape, leading him to Al Capone who orders him to kill Frank Nitti. Since nearly everyone of any consequence in the original movie ended up dead, at least they won't have to worry about bringing back any of the original's high-priced actors. They also aren't
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Max Allan Collins to Direct 'Road' Sequels
4 November 2008 6:38 AM, PST | From Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news
Max Allan Collins revisits the world he crafted for Road to Perdition by signing to write and direct movies based on the prose novel sequels, Road to Purgatory and Road to Paradise.
Collins will be working with Illinois-based Jbm Production Company (Leprechaun) and Emo Films (April Showers).
The prolific crime author wrote Road to Perdition as a graphic novel for DC Comics’ Paradox Press imprint and it was subsequently adapted into a big budget film starring Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. The film, directed by Sam Mendes, won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Cinematography with a nomination for Newman.
The initial story tells of Michael Sullivan, a hitman for he mob, who suddenly becomes the hunted when his son witnesses a murder committed by the son of Sullivan’s boss.
Road to Purgatory will follow the character of Michael Sullivan, Jr., the son of Tom Hanks' character in the original film,
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Graphic Novelist to Write, Direct 'Road to Perdition' Sequels
3 November 2008 4:28 PM, PST | From GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news
Remember how great Road to Perdition was? Remember asking yourself, "Why in the world didn't more people see that?" Tom Hanks was terrific. Paul Newman probably deserved the Oscar for Supporting Actor, we got a look at Daniel Craig in one of his more villainous portrayals, and Jude Law continued his trend of walking into a movie and stealing it. He did that a few times way back when.
The film also looked sensational, thanks to the elder Conrad Hall, who won a posthumous Oscar for his cinematography, and director Sam Mendes.
And though it took six years, there will be more roads to travel. Jpm Productions and Emo Films have partnered with Max Allan Collins, co-creator of the original graphic novel, to write and direct two sequels.
Colin Boyd
Two sequels to Road To Perdition planned
2 November 2008 8:08 PM, PST | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news
I've just received the following email about two proposed sequels to the superb Road To Perdition, a film that boasted the directing talents of Sam Mendes and the acting talents of one Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Jude Law and the late, great Paul Newman.
"Road to Perdition," the Oscar-winning 2002 film directed by Sam Mendes that starred Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Daniel Craig and the late Paul Newman, is becoming a trilogy. The follow-up films are "Road to Purgatory" and "Road to Paradise."
"Road to Purgatory" will follow the character of Michael Sullivan, Jr., the son of Tom Hanks' character in the original film, who returns from World War II with a new determination to avenge his murdered father. His quest ultimately leads him to Frank Nitti, whom he is urged to kill on the orders of Al Capone. The second sequel will follow Sullivan's continued plight.
Pic will be helmed by Max Allan Collins,
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Preacher feature finally a go
29 October 2008 1:50 PM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news
According to The Hollywood Reporter, a movie version of the Vertigo comic Preacher will at long last reach the big screen, courtesy of Columbia Pictures. Sam Mendes, who’s got experience with graphic-novel adaptation from Road To Perdition, is set to direct for producers Neal Moritz of Original Films and Jason Netter of Kickstart Productions.
Preacher, created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, followed Jesse Custer, a man of the cloth who has been granted supernatural powers by a being called Genesis—the spawn of an angel and a demon. In an attempt to confront God about His dereliction of heavenly duties, Jesse travels across America accompanied by a former girlfriend and an Irish vampire. Previously, HBO had a series adaptation in the works, with Howard Deutch directing a pilot script by Mark Steven (Ghost Rider) Johnson, and before that, Kevin Smith’s View Askew company developed a feature with
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Stars Turn Out For Newman's Fundraiser
28 October 2008 5:10 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
A host of stars including Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Julia Roberts and Sean Penn turned out for an annual fundraiser for late actor Paul Newman's children's charity.
Newman died after a battle with cancer on 26 September, at the age of 83.
The gala was held on Monday night in San Francisco to benefit The Painted Turtle, a camp for children with life-threatening illnesses, which was started by Newman in 1999.
And celebrities attending the event used the opportunity to pay their respects to the acting legend.
Lethal Weapon star Danny Glover told the crowd, "We expected Paul to be with us and so this kind of turned into kind of a tribute. This is the first time we are doing this without Paul - there is a void there, without a doubt."
Fellow actor Tom Hanks - who starred with Newman in 2002's Road to Perdition - also took to the stage, calling for the late star's humanitarian efforts to be recognised officially.
He adds, "Paul was a member of the ensemble more than anything else. He didn't care about the hierarchy, but he was a guy, quite frankly, who should have won the Nobel Peace Prize."
Newman and his charitable organisations donated more than $250 million (GBP162 million) to good causes over the years.
Hanks Remembers 'Extraordinary' Newman
1 October 2008 12:24 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Tom Hanks has paid tribute to his Road To Perdition co-star Paul Newman, hailing the late actor an "extraordinary artist and man".
The Hollywood superstar spoke out five days after Newman lost his battle to cancer at the age of 83.
And Hanks, who will celebrate the star's life at a celebrity-packed tribute in San Francisco, California later this month, recalls the vulnerable side of the revered actor.
Hanks says, "Paul Newman told me his hotel in Chicago was a room at the Ymca, which was not hard to imagine.
"He considered himself just another member of the acting company, who would call his wife during breaks and confess to feeling self-conscious on the first day of shooting."
He adds, "But he was Paul Newman, and could not mask the fact he was simply - yet elegantly - an extraordinary artist and man. How lucky we all have been."
Newman was cremated after a private funeral service near his home in Westport, Connecticut on Monday.
Hollywood Mourns Newman's Death
28 September 2008 7:36 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Hollywood stars Robert Redford, George Clooney and Julia Roberts have led the tributes to movie legend Paul Newman, who lost his battle with lung cancer on Friday.
News of the Oscar winner's death was confirmed by his spokesperson Marni Tomljanovic on Saturday, and the tributes have been flooding in ever since.
Redford, who starred with Newman in 1969's Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, was one of the first celebrities to comment on the 83 year old's passing.
In a statement issued on Saturday, the Spy Game actor said: "There is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real friend. My life - and this country - is better for his being in it."
Clooney hailed the late Cool Hand Luke star as "the best" in the business, saying, "He set the bar too high for the rest of us", while his Ocean's Eleven co-star Roberts adds, "He was my hero, he was a total inspiration."
Newman, who died at his home in Westport, Connecticut, had reportedly been given only weeks to live after completing chemotherapy treatment at a New York hospital in August.
He was nominated for 10 Oscars in his five-decade-long career, winning the best actor accolade for his role opposite Tom Cruise in The Color Of Money in 1986.
He also won two Golden Globe awards, a Screen Actors Guild award, a Cannes Film Festival award and an Emmy award.
In 2007, he announced his retirement, admitting he was too old to continue his work in Hollywood.
But his legacy will be remembered for years to come, claims actor/director Kevin Spacey.
He says, "An era just ended. Paul Newman was a great humble giant. He said it was all down to luck, but the rest of us know it was his talent, wit and generous heart that made him the star he was.
"He should be an example to the acting profession because he seemed to have had his ego surgically removed."
Newman was also famed for his charity work. Following the death of his only son Scott from an accidental drug overdose in 1978, the star set up the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention.
He was also the founder of food company Newman's Own, from which Newman donated all profits and royalties to charity.
And filmmaker Sam Mendes, who directed Newman in Road To Perdition in 2002, has credited the star for his philanthropy: "Working with him on Road to Perdition was the highlight of my professional life. To say he was an extraordinary man would be an understatement. It seems to me one of the great 20th century lives, a shining example of how to use global fame for the greater good."
Newman is survived by his wife - actress Joanne Woodward - and their three daughters, Elinor, Melissa and Claire. He also has two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, from his first marriage to Jackie Witte.
Paul Newman dies of cancer at 83
27 September 2008 6:25 PM, PDT | From The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news
Hollywood legend Paul Newman has died after a battle with cancer. He was 83. The star of such films as Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, The Hustler, The Color Of Money, Road To Perdition and many more over a career spanning 50 years, was surrounded by members of his family at the time of his death.
Newman was nominated for ten Oscars over the years, winning three, the first for the 1986 film The Color Of Money, directed by Martin Scorsese.
Newman acted in 60 films in all, appearing in some with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in like Long Hot Summer and Paris Blues. He worked alongside legends like Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Robert Redford, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall and Tom Hanks. He even provided his voice for the 2006 Pixar movie Cars, which turned out to be his last role.
Newman gave up acting in 2007 because he felt that he couldn't give the
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Paul Newman: 1925 - 2008
27 September 2008 8:49 AM, PDT | From IMDb News
Beloved actor and humanitarian Paul Newman has died of cancer in his home in Westport, Connecticut. He was 83.
Newman, whose stunning blue eyes and immense capacity for generosity made him one of the most cherished personalities of his era, was an extremely private man and was rumored to have been seriously ill for several months. He had canceled some planned appearances in the summer.
Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio in 1925, Newman first made his mark on the stage and TV but his startling good looks and undeniable presence destined him to appear on the screen. Newman often played troubled characters with streaks of nobility such as “Fast” Eddie Felson in The Hustler, and the eponymous, irrepressible roles of Hud Bannon in Hud and the imprisoned rebel, Cool Hand Luke.
But it was his role as Butch in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, opposite Robert Redford, that thrust him into the realm of superstardom. He followed it with other classic films including The Sting, The Towering Inferno, Slap Shot, and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.
Newman was a star right out of the gate, however, being nominated for an Oscar for his third major role as Brick Pollitt, the drunken husband locked in a loveless marriage with Elizabeth Taylor’s smoldering “Maggie the Cat” in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Newman’s real-life relationship was exactly the opposite. He was married to actress Joanne Woodward for 50 years. The two worked together in 1958’s The Long Hot Summer. It was the same year they were wed and that Woodward won an Oscar for her work in 1957’s The Three Faces of Eve.
It was not the end of their professional collaborations. Newman also directed her to another Oscar nomination in Rachel, Rachel (the film picked up four nominations, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay by their lifelong friend, Stewart Stern). Newman also directed Woodward in The Glass Managerie and starred with her in Mr. & Mrs. Bridge.
Nominated for seven Oscars (including Best Actor nods for Absence of Malice and The Verdict), Newman finally won on his eighth nomination for his reprisal role of Fast Eddie in Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money (he would be nominated two more times afterward, for Best Actor in Nobody’s Fool and Best Supporting Actor in Road to Perdition).
But of all the trophies Newman won or was awarded in his life, none seem more appropriate than his honorary 1994 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Newman’s charitable giving, from his Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, a camp for seriously ill children or his proceeds from Newman’s Own, are legendary. As was the man. As will be his legacy.
Newman is survived by Woodward, his five daughters and several grandchildren. A son, Scott Newman, died of an accidental drug overdose in 1978.
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Miller Keeps It Real
29 August 2008 5:09 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news
Actress Sienna Miller shuns bodyguards and limousines - because she likes to pretend she isn't famous.
The Alfie star hit the headlines recently after pictures emerged of her frolicking with married Balthazar Getty last month.
But despite the attentions of the paparazzi, Miller likes to make out she is not in the public eye and steers clear of the trappings of fame.
She says, "When I'm not working, I want to be myself. I don't have assistants, bodyguards or even a driver because I try to pretend in my own head that this isn't happening.
"I think a lot of actresses live in this cotton wool world but I'm very free-spirited and I want to be able to live the life I do."
And, referring to her former relationship with Road To Perdition star Jude Law, she adds: "I was well known before I had a film out but I don't court attention. I don't go to other people's premieres. I haven't been out to a club in London for years."
Darren Aronofsky Shockingly Will Direct 'RoboCop' Remake
26 July 2008 11:44 AM, PDT | From Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news
Upon hearing there was going to be a remake of 1987's RoboCop I basically blew it off because I didn't care, it just sounded like another bad idea trying to make some cheap money. Then there was a screwy rumor that Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain director, Darren Aronofsky, was in talks to direct the film. This came as a surprise considering Aronofsky seems above this kind of a production, but at the same time I begin thinking if a guy like Aronofsky is interested in this maybe there is a reason. Well, today the news of Aronofsky directing RoboCop came true as MGM sent out a press release announcing the news with Road to Perdition writer David Self penning the script for a 2010 release. The original RoboCop, which premiered in July 1987, was "part man, part machine and all cop." The film's storyline focused on the future of
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Brett Ratner, God of War?
25 July 2008 9:33 AM, PDT | From ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news
The guys over at Slash Film were looking over the press release they got from MGM about the Robocop reboot - when they noticed an interesting little sidebar about a certain well-respected director who will be taking on the monumental task of bringing one of video games most popular anti-heroes of the last decade to the big screen.
And who would this well-respected director be?
That’s right folks, Brett Ratner, the “auteur” behind such big-budget far as X-Men: The Last Stand and the inexplicably popular Rush Hour trilogy (It’s so sad that I can call it that,) seems to have been tapped by the powers that be over at MGM to bring über popular video game God Of War to the big screen. From the Robocop press release:
“[Writer] David Self’s credits include 13 Days and Road To Perdition. He wrote God of War for Universal, to
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Kofi Outlaw
It’s Official: Darren Aronofsky Bringing Robocop Back To The Big Screen
25 July 2008 2:50 AM, PDT | From TwitchFilm.net | See recent Twitch news
There have been rumblings about this for a while and our thanks to our man at the San Diego Comic Con, Joseph Perez, for bringing word that it is now official: Darren Aronofsky will be bringing Robocop back to the big screen in 2010. Road To Perdition screenwriter David Self will write the script. Hopefully this one will wash the bad taste left by the original Robocop sequels - not to mention the bad Canadian TV series - away. The complete announcement is below the break.
Todd Brown
It's Official! Darren Aronofsky Directing New Robocop!
24 July 2008 9:31 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news
It's official! Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky (Requiem For A Dream, The Fountain, The Wrestler) will direct the new Robocop film from a script by David Self (The Road To Perdition, The Haunting). While plot details are unconfirmed, the new Robocop is rumored to be more sequel than remake. No word on if the plan is still to shoot it in 3D like we reported earlier Here. Below is the press release from MGM!
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures (MGM) has signed Darren Aronofsky to direct and David Self to write a new installment for its "RoboCop" franchise. Aronofsky, the director of The Fountain, and Self, the writer of Road to Perdition, make a formidable creative team, fast tracking the RoboCop motion picture and spotlighting it as one of the most anticipated new films for 2010.
In making the announcement Parent said: "Darren is undeniably one of the most talented, original and visceral film makers, and
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