by Crimespree Magazine | May 25, 2007 | Films
From the Associated Press: Paul Newman says he’s given up acting.”I’m not able to work anymore as an actor at the level I would want to,” Newman, 82, told ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Thursday. “You start to lose your...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 24, 2007 | Films
Blackfilm.com revealed that Cedric the Entertainer has joined the cast of Night Watch. I’m doing this movie that’s shooting in LA called “Night Watch”. David Ayer is directing it. I play an informant named Scribbles. There are all these corrupt...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 23, 2007 | Films
In 2005, John Herzfeld (2 Days in the Valley) directed Paul Walker and Laurence Fishburne in a film version of Don Winslow’s The Death & Life of Bobby Z. Since then, the film has been sitting in post-production hell. A decision has finally been made: Sony...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 23, 2007 | Features, TV
The Starter Wife debuts this weekend on the USA Network. Crimespree has received an advanced peek. You may ask why. Here at the office I did. Crimespree/Chick T.V. It hardly seemed simpatico. That said, The Starter Wife is several delightful hours of television. Debra...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 22, 2007 | Films
The Coen Brothers have debuted their new film, No Country for Old Men, as the Cannes Film festival. Early feedback has been very positive. There is a foreign site that has five clips, from the film, for viewing. Give ’em a look. No Country for Old Men is based...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 22, 2007 | Features
I am a huge fan of pulp characters. The Shadow, The Avenger and Doc Savage are at the top of that list. I was originally introduced to these characters in the 70’s by DC Comics, later I saw some stuff on TV and then started picking up the paperbacks. Pulps have...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 22, 2007 | Films
Variety has reported that Kenneth Branagh has signed on for Valkyrie, a WW II thriller from the creative forces behind The Usual Suspects. Branagh will play a german general that devises the plan to assassinate Hitler, and is also a mentor to Count Claus Schenk von...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 21, 2007 | Films
Dark Places, James Ellroy’s autobiography, has been sitting in Hollywood for years. It now appears that it will finally start to move forward in it’s journey towards the silver screen.According to Reuters, Myriad Pictures and Killer Films are teaming up to...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 19, 2007 | Films
Naomie Harris, while speaking with MTV, revealed that she has signed on to star in Night Watch.Harris has previously starred in 28 Days Later and was Trudy in the Miami Vice film and voodoo queen Tia Dalma in the second Pirates of the Caribbean flick. No mention was...
by Crimespree Magazine | May 18, 2007 | Films
In the past fifteen or so years, several attempts have been made to bring WITHOUT REMORSE to a theater near you. At various times, Gary Sinise (CSI-New York, Apollo 13) and Brandon Routh (Superman Returns) have been slated to play John Clark. Each time things have...
