The Yakuza
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1975 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 & 123 min. / Street Date February 14, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Brian Keith, Eiji Okada, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi, James Shigeta, Herb Edelman.
Cinematography: Kozo Okazaki, Duke Callaghan
Production Design: Stephen Grimes
Art Direction: Yoshiyuki Ishida
Film Editor: Don Guidice, Thomas Stanford
Original Music: Dave Grusin
Written by: Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, Robert Towne
Produced by: Michael Hamilburg, Sydney Pollack, Koji Shundo
Directed by Sydney Pollack
The Warner Archive Collection is on a roll with a 2017 schedule that has so far released one much-desired library Blu-ray per week. Coming shortly are Vincente Minnelli’s Bells are Ringing, Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon Ken Russell’s The Boy Friend and Val Guest’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and that only takes us through February. First up is a piercing action drama from 1975.
There are favorite movies around Savant central,...
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1975 / Color / 2:40 widescreen / 112 & 123 min. / Street Date February 14, 2017 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Brian Keith, Eiji Okada, Richard Jordan, Keiko Kishi, James Shigeta, Herb Edelman.
Cinematography: Kozo Okazaki, Duke Callaghan
Production Design: Stephen Grimes
Art Direction: Yoshiyuki Ishida
Film Editor: Don Guidice, Thomas Stanford
Original Music: Dave Grusin
Written by: Leonard Schrader, Paul Schrader, Robert Towne
Produced by: Michael Hamilburg, Sydney Pollack, Koji Shundo
Directed by Sydney Pollack
The Warner Archive Collection is on a roll with a 2017 schedule that has so far released one much-desired library Blu-ray per week. Coming shortly are Vincente Minnelli’s Bells are Ringing, Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon Ken Russell’s The Boy Friend and Val Guest’s When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, and that only takes us through February. First up is a piercing action drama from 1975.
There are favorite movies around Savant central,...
- 1/24/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
As Legend hits UK cinemas, Brian Helgeland talks to us about working with Tom Hardy, and why he wanted to make a movie and not a TV series.
Brian Helgeland's career began in horror, as he wrote the scripts for such genre pieces as A Nightmare On Elm Sreet 4 and 976-evil. But it was his adapted screenplay for the 1997 thriller La Confidential that really put Helgeland on the Hollywood map; netting him an Oscar and receiving rave reviews, its success paved the way for his more recent career, which included the hit thriller Payback (1999), Helgeland's big-screen debut as a director, and his script for the acclaimed drama Mystic River (2003).
Helgeland's latest film is Legend, a British gangster thriller about the exploits of the Kray twins. Rising from London's underworld to become unlikely celebrities at the height of the swinging 60s, Ron and Reggie Kray were more famous as nightclub...
Brian Helgeland's career began in horror, as he wrote the scripts for such genre pieces as A Nightmare On Elm Sreet 4 and 976-evil. But it was his adapted screenplay for the 1997 thriller La Confidential that really put Helgeland on the Hollywood map; netting him an Oscar and receiving rave reviews, its success paved the way for his more recent career, which included the hit thriller Payback (1999), Helgeland's big-screen debut as a director, and his script for the acclaimed drama Mystic River (2003).
Helgeland's latest film is Legend, a British gangster thriller about the exploits of the Kray twins. Rising from London's underworld to become unlikely celebrities at the height of the swinging 60s, Ron and Reggie Kray were more famous as nightclub...
- 9/3/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
With shows like "The Americans" and "Homeland" drawing in viewers week after week, Hollywood is eager to keep audiences gripping their seats with tales of espionage. And now they're drawing on a classic '70s thriller as material for what could be the next small screen sensation. Megan Ellison's brother David Ellison's Skydance is working with MGM and Paramount TV on a small screen version of Sydney Pollack's "Three Days Of The Condor." The 1975 movie follows a CIA analyst trying stay alive when he gets caught up in a conspiracy after all his colleagues are murdered. The movie snagged an Academy Award nomination for Best Editing and is powered by great turns from Robert Redford, Faye Dunaway, and Max von Sydow. It's not clear if the plans are for a miniseries or regular series, but Jason Smilovic ("Lucky Number Slevin") and Todd Katzberg will write the script.
- 3/13/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
The 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor is in the midst of getting a small screen remake.
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Skydance Productions, which is owned by David Ellison, is currently shopping around a TV series remake of the Sydney Pollack classic, written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg. Smilovic is no stranger to television thrillers, having been the creator of two short-lived series in the genre, Kidnapped and My Own Worst Enemy. This show will mark Katzberg’s first foray into writing.
Ellison is no stranger to remakes either. The brother of Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison, David’s Skydance Productions has been involved in numerous big budget remakes over the years, from Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Star Trek Into Darkness, to the forthcoming Terminator: Genisys. Last summer also saw the production company dip its toes into television with the Wgn nuclear bomb-building period piece Manhattan, with...
As per The Hollywood Reporter, Skydance Productions, which is owned by David Ellison, is currently shopping around a TV series remake of the Sydney Pollack classic, written by Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg. Smilovic is no stranger to television thrillers, having been the creator of two short-lived series in the genre, Kidnapped and My Own Worst Enemy. This show will mark Katzberg’s first foray into writing.
Ellison is no stranger to remakes either. The brother of Annapurna Pictures’ Megan Ellison, David’s Skydance Productions has been involved in numerous big budget remakes over the years, from Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Star Trek Into Darkness, to the forthcoming Terminator: Genisys. Last summer also saw the production company dip its toes into television with the Wgn nuclear bomb-building period piece Manhattan, with...
- 3/12/2015
- by Deepayan Sengupta
- SoundOnSight
Skydance Productions’ David Ellison is uniting with MGM and Paramount TV for a small screen remake of Three Days Of The Condor. The show’s format is uncertain at this stage, though, as the options for a miniseries or full-length serial are both still on the table while Ellison and co. shop it to networks.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, there’s no sniff of a director – yet. On the wordsmith front, Jason Smilovic (Arms & The Dudes, Lucky Number Slevin) and Todd Katzberg (Kidnapped) are currently putting in the hard graft on the show’s scripts, that may or may not be based on the original’s source material.
The 1975 feature directed by Sydney Pollack starred Robert Redford as a CIA analyst who goes on the run for 72 hours after he unearths a conspiracy that leaves his co-workers dead. As is the case with TV reboots, it’s unlikely Redford...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, there’s no sniff of a director – yet. On the wordsmith front, Jason Smilovic (Arms & The Dudes, Lucky Number Slevin) and Todd Katzberg (Kidnapped) are currently putting in the hard graft on the show’s scripts, that may or may not be based on the original’s source material.
The 1975 feature directed by Sydney Pollack starred Robert Redford as a CIA analyst who goes on the run for 72 hours after he unearths a conspiracy that leaves his co-workers dead. As is the case with TV reboots, it’s unlikely Redford...
- 3/11/2015
- by Gem Seddon
- We Got This Covered
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. All Is Lost Robert Redford stars as a man sailing solo who encounters trouble out at sea. He awakens to the impact of his sailboat colliding with a derelict shipping container and quickly sets about trying to fix the damage before catastrophe occurs. His experience grows increasingly precarious, and soon he’s fighting against nature and circumstance for his very life. Writer/director J.C. Chandor‘s follow-up to the excellent Wall Street drama Margin Call is even more engaging, but it accomplishes the feat through an opposite degree of dialogue. While that film was filled with fast-talk and lots of it, Redford’s character is the only one onscreen here leaving him no one to talk to but himself. (Sure, that didn’t stop Sandra Bullock from being a lonely chatterbox in Gravity, but...
- 2/11/2014
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
New Zealand increasing financial incentives for international films.
At least another three Avatar films are to be made in New Zealand and the country is to increase its financial incentives for all international films costing more than Us$12.4m to 20% from April 1, 2014 – and provide an additional points-based sweetener that could add a further five per cent.
A memorandum of understanding (Mou) signed today by Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and the Nz Government stipulates that a minimum of $414m (Nz$500m) will be spent on the films and that 100% of the live action and 90% of the visual effects – including character animation – will take place in New Zealand, subject to the country having the capacity and capability. The post-production mixing on at least one of the films will also happen in Nz.
Prime Minister John Key, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Chris Finlayson went public with the big news in Wellington this morning...
At least another three Avatar films are to be made in New Zealand and the country is to increase its financial incentives for all international films costing more than Us$12.4m to 20% from April 1, 2014 – and provide an additional points-based sweetener that could add a further five per cent.
A memorandum of understanding (Mou) signed today by Lightstorm Entertainment, 20th Century Fox and the Nz Government stipulates that a minimum of $414m (Nz$500m) will be spent on the films and that 100% of the live action and 90% of the visual effects – including character animation – will take place in New Zealand, subject to the country having the capacity and capability. The post-production mixing on at least one of the films will also happen in Nz.
Prime Minister John Key, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Chris Finlayson went public with the big news in Wellington this morning...
- 12/16/2013
- by Sandy.George@me.com (Sandy George)
- ScreenDaily
It's an early indication of which movies lead the running for the Academy awards, and which TV dramas have made an impact. So who's made the list?
• Read the Guardian team's 10 best films of 2013
• Read Time's 10 worst films of the year list
The American Film Institute has named its top films of 2013, offering up one of the most accurate pictures so far of the likely nominees for next year's Oscar for best film.
The AFI list is, in alphabetical order:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr Banks
Twelve Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street.
Last year eight out of the 10 films chosen by the institute were also named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best picture category. Oscars experts are predicting that this year's list of Academy award nominees could be shorter, so the AFI...
• Read the Guardian team's 10 best films of 2013
• Read Time's 10 worst films of the year list
The American Film Institute has named its top films of 2013, offering up one of the most accurate pictures so far of the likely nominees for next year's Oscar for best film.
The AFI list is, in alphabetical order:
American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Nebraska
Saving Mr Banks
Twelve Years a Slave
The Wolf of Wall Street.
Last year eight out of the 10 films chosen by the institute were also named by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best picture category. Oscars experts are predicting that this year's list of Academy award nominees could be shorter, so the AFI...
- 12/10/2013
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
‘American Hustle,’ ‘Gravity’: AFI Awards 2013 – big-studio movies rule once again (photo: Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper in ‘American Hustle’) The American Film Institute has released AFI Awards list featuring the Top Ten Movies of 2013. As usual, the AFI Awards mostly focus on mainstream, popular fare from the big studios; in fact, they’re a sort of more upscale, Oscar-friendlier People’s Choice Awards, i.e., no Twilight, no The Fast and The Furious, no Adam Sandler, scattered super-hero movies, mostly bypassing Harry Potter. (You’ll see why they’re so big-studio-friendly once you scroll down a bit to check out the list of this year’s AFI Awards’ jury members.) Six of the AFI’s Top Ten 2013 movies come courtesy of the Hollywood majors: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Gravity, Her, Saving Mr. Banks, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Additionally, 12 Years a Slave was released by Fox Searchlight Pictures,...
- 12/9/2013
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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