It would be easy to dismiss Cliffhanger as little more than a fun riff on the Die Hard formula, with the action switching from the heights of Nakatomi Plaza to the Colorado Rockies. After all, the film largely pits Sylvester Stallone’s Gabe Walker—often wearing little more than a t-shirt on the mountain in place of John McClane’s vest—against a crack team of international terrorists led by John Lithgow, who is in deliciously deranged form as a psychotic military intelligence expert turned thief.
The comparisons are not helped by the fact that Cliffhanger arrived at a time when the Die Hard formula was being milked for all its worth. In the 12 months prior to its release, moviegoers had been served up the likes of Passenger 57 (Die Hard on a plane) and Under Siege (Die Hard on a boat), with Speed (Die Hard on a bus) hot...
The comparisons are not helped by the fact that Cliffhanger arrived at a time when the Die Hard formula was being milked for all its worth. In the 12 months prior to its release, moviegoers had been served up the likes of Passenger 57 (Die Hard on a plane) and Under Siege (Die Hard on a boat), with Speed (Die Hard on a bus) hot...
- 6/7/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
Who knew you could get this much mileage out of a ghost named Toby? Nine years ago this week, Oren Peli started production on "Paranormal Activity," which was made for $27, a box of Band-Aids, and three plates of ham sandwiches. Truly independent in every way, the film premiered a year later at ScreamFest, and then… didn't come out for two more years. While "Paranormal Activity" is a remarkable success story, it's also not an instant one. Peli had to struggle to get his film from that first screening to a major theatrical release, and there were plenty of fine-tuning that had to be done to get it there. "Paranormal" has many godfathers, and by the time the film came out in 2009, it had been through many hands. The result, though, has been one of the biggest horror franchises in recent memory, and it laid the foundation for Jason Blum's entire horror empire.
- 10/23/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
The first and most important thing that happened as a result of the staging of "Sticks and Stones" at the Met Theater as part of the Act One Festival was that Scott Swan and I got our first agent. Barbara Baruch worked for Ambrosio/Mortimer, a smaller boutique agency at the time, and from the moment we met her, she seemed like what I imagined an agent to be. She was nurturing, she was a cheerleader, she was a ballbuster, and she was always, always, always in our corner. Our time with her was unfortunately too short, and by the time the agency imploded in accusations of embezzlement, we were already repped by Gersh out of New York. Barbara was first, though, and she was the first one to start pushing people to come see our show and to read our work. The strangest thing about those early days is...
- 6/11/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
How do we deal with an avalanche? What shorts do we wear while mountain climbing? 90s action flick Cliffhanger has the answers to these questions and more...
Renny Harlin’s 1993 action masterpiece Cliffhanger is quite a remarkable film, and unexpectedly educational. Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a mountain rescue chap, whose relationship with his colleague and friend Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker) is strained when he fails to save their mutual friend Sarah (Michelle Joyner) from falling to her death.
The pair are later reunited when they team up to help some climbers trapped on the same mountain range. It soon transpires that all is not as it seems, and the pair are being used to help retrieve $100m for the dastardly Eric Qualen (John Lithgow) and his gang.
Not only does Cliffhanger provide almost two hours of tight shorts, mountains, Stallone, Michael Rooker and John Lithgow revelling in his role as the villain,...
Renny Harlin’s 1993 action masterpiece Cliffhanger is quite a remarkable film, and unexpectedly educational. Stallone plays Gabe Walker, a mountain rescue chap, whose relationship with his colleague and friend Hal Tucker (Michael Rooker) is strained when he fails to save their mutual friend Sarah (Michelle Joyner) from falling to her death.
The pair are later reunited when they team up to help some climbers trapped on the same mountain range. It soon transpires that all is not as it seems, and the pair are being used to help retrieve $100m for the dastardly Eric Qualen (John Lithgow) and his gang.
Not only does Cliffhanger provide almost two hours of tight shorts, mountains, Stallone, Michael Rooker and John Lithgow revelling in his role as the villain,...
- 11/23/2011
- Den of Geek
The last episode of Bones was terrific, wasn't it? It set in place what I think will be a great story arc for Booth about his sniper history, even if it was one of the grossest episodes ever. A new episode of Bones will be airing on February 3 and it's going to be like an episode of Big Love, with a polygamist the victim of murder (well, Big Love in the sense of multiple wives, not the polygamist dying). Will the episode help Booth recognize his feelings for Brennan?
Below we have promo photos, a synopsis and a trailer from Fox.
Jealousy Takes Its Toll On Sister Wives On An All-new “Bones” On Thursday, February 3, On Fox
Elon Gold (“Stacked”) Guest-Stars
A body disguised as a scarecrow is found with a bullet wound in a remote cornfield, and the team is forced to work against the clock to avoid a...
Below we have promo photos, a synopsis and a trailer from Fox.
Jealousy Takes Its Toll On Sister Wives On An All-new “Bones” On Thursday, February 3, On Fox
Elon Gold (“Stacked”) Guest-Stars
A body disguised as a scarecrow is found with a bullet wound in a remote cornfield, and the team is forced to work against the clock to avoid a...
- 1/29/2011
- by Clarissa
- TVovermind.com
Geoffrey Rush is in negotiations to join Russell Crowe in the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award winning novel Eucalyptus. Rush would play the Australian widower Holland, a man who plants hundreds of different eucalyptus trees on his plantation west of Sydney. When his daughter Ellen comes of age, Holland tests all potential suitors by making them correctly identify every single species. Only one man succeeds, but by then Ellen already has lost her heart to a handsome stranger played by Crowe, who has entranced her with stories not of trees but about people. The film is being directed by Jocelyn Moorehouse, written by Michelle Joyner and Moorehouse with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing. Rush is repped by CAA.
- 9/29/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russell Crowe is going back to his roots. The Oscar-winning actor is in negotiations to topline the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award-winning novel Eucalyptus. The project would reunite Crowe with director Jocelyn Moorhouse, for whom he starred in 1991's Proof. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing, with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. House also produced Proof. Michelle Joyner adapted the book and wrote the original screenplay, with Moorhouse coming in to work on the script. Searchlight's Zola Mashariki is understood to be overseeing for the studio. Searchlight declined comment.
- 7/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Russell Crowe is going back to his roots. The Oscar-winning actor is in negotiations to topline the big-screen adaptation of Australian author Murray Bail's award-winning novel Eucalyptus. The project would reunite Crowe with director Jocelyn Moorhouse, for whom he starred in 1991's Proof. Fox Searchlight Pictures is financing and distributing, with Uberto Pasolini and Lynda House producing. House also produced Proof. Michelle Joyner adapted the book and wrote the original screenplay, with Moorhouse coming in to work on the script. Searchlight's Zola Mashariki is understood to be overseeing for the studio. Searchlight declined comment.
- 7/19/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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