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This week, we're busting out the slammer and potentially wishing we were back in it depending on who you ask, as we team up with the canary-clad copper to take down a star-studded mob in a wildly stylish and outlandishly conceived blockbuster starring a charming old man incapable of doing action scenes, that's been seemingly buried in the Disney vault in the years since. It's 1990's Dick Tracy, directed and produced by Warren Beatty, and starring Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, Dustin Hoffman, Seymour Cassel, William Forsythe, Charles Durning, Dick Van Dyke, Paul Sorvino, James Caan, Kathy Bates and Catherine O'Hara. Most of these stars are unrecognizeable under the monstrous makeup required to make them look like their vintage crime comic strip counterparts, but Pacino made enough of an impression with a wildly comedic take on his typical mobster persona that he netted an Oscar nom for Best Supporting Actor, losing to Joe Pesci for GoodFellas. While Beatty is at least a decade too old to be proper fit as the movie's lead, it's his ambition behind the camera that makes the movie such a curiosity all these years later, as the film is either an enchanting dreamscape filled with unsolvable How Did They Do That movie magic puzzles, or a steaming pile of neon-drenched puke depending on which of our two hosts you ask. But that's okay, as we have some heated disagreement this week that is maybe the closest we've yet come to vintage Siskel & Ebert kinda stuff. Plus: We've both been to the theater and are happy to sound off on Ryan Coogler's latest as JMo and Hayley both greatly enjoyed Sinners in the cinema, and Justin's got a bonus theatrical field report on Drop, the latest from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon. If you'd like to watch Dick Tracy before listening along to our conversation, good luck finding a physical copy, and Disney will seemingly never stream this thing on Disney+ -- possibly for rights reasons to avoid paying anything more to Warren Beatty, or possibly because they are cowards who are ashamed of the fun movie they made. Either way, it's tough to find outside of renting it on YouTube. Other works discussed in this episode include Creed, Fruitvale Station, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish, Mad Max: Fury Road, Loki, The Accountant, The Perfect Storm, Bridge of Spies, War Horse, The Adventures of Tintin, Red Eye, Trap, Reign of Fire, Surrogates, The Expendables 2, The Last Boy Scout, Princess Mononoke, Hook, This Is The Tom Green Documentary, Cutthroat Island, Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl, G20, The Silence of the Lambs, Longlegs, Resident Orca, Avatar: The Way of Water, Blackfish, Batman ('89), Batman Returns, Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, X-Men, Blade, The Shadow, The Phantom, The Rocketeer, Darkman, Speed Racer, Furiosa, Challengers and Sin City, among others. We'll be back (more than likely) next week, with another special in-theaters spectacular, as 100+ episodes after we covered the original film, it is tax season once again and we're back for more Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal in The Accountant 2. So look for that next Friday, and until then we'll see you at the movies!!
Russ and Jared are still talking about shapes! When they left off in part 1, things were looking pretty positive for the Circlers, Mae's parents were getting health insurance, and the political tide seemed to be turning in the company's favor. That's right, the guys are wrapping up The Circle (2017), starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Ellar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Patton Oswalt, and Beck. Stay tuned for an all-new movie Trailer Trash next week!
You know what's not circling the drain? ITMT! Russ and Jared are barreling into 2025 with a terrible movie that feels all-too-real. It's The Circle (2017), starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Ellar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Patton Oswalt, and Beck. Stay tuned for part 2 on Thursday!
What do a seasoned con-man who competes with a younger adversary, and an aging man whose daughter and wife are both expecting, have in common? This week on THE MOVIE CONNECTION: KC Watched: "DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS" (5:18) (Directed by, Frank Oz. Starring, Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly...) Jacob Watched: "FATHER OF THE BRIDE: PART 2" (29:35) (Directed by, Charles Shyer. Starring, Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, Martin Short...) Talking Points include: Recasting Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Did these movies need a sequel? When you know you shouldn't be laughing... and more!! Send us an email to let us know how we're doing: movieconnectionpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram Rate and Review on Apple Podcasts Check out more reviews from Jacob on Letterboxd Cover art by Austin Hillebrecht, Letters by KC Schwartz
Time for a new movie, and this one has a stacked cast! Russ and Jared are taking on big tech with The Circle (2017), starring Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, John Boyega, Ellar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Patton Oswalt, and oddly enough, Beck. Stay tuned for the full scene-by-scene breakdown next week!
Dorian Price, Alexis Hejna, Chae Tate and Mark Radulich review movies currently on streaming services and in theaters: Dick Tracy/The Phantom/The Shadow Movie Review! First up is Dick Tracy (1990). Then we move on to The Phantom (1996). Finally we review The Shadow (1994).Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action crime film based on the 1930s comic strip created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty produced, directed and starred in the film, whose supporting cast includes Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly and Charlie Korsmo, with appearances by Dustin Hoffman, James Keane, Charles Durning, William Forsythe, Seymour Cassel, Mandy Patinkin, Catherine O'Hara, Ed O'Ross, James Caan, James Tolkan, R. G. Armstrong and Dick Van Dyke. Dick Tracy depicts the detective's romantic relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Trueheart, as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice and his henchmen. Tracy also begins fostering a young street urchin named Kid.The Phantom is a 1996 superhero film directed by Simon Wincer. Based on Lee Falk's comic strip The Phantom by King Features, the film stars Billy Zane as a seemingly immortal crimefighter and his battle against all forms of evil. The Phantom also stars Treat Williams, Kristy Swanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, James Remar and Patrick McGoohan.The Phantom was released on June 7, 1996, and received mixed reviews from film critics. Despite financial failure in its theatrical release, the film has enjoyed success on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray, and has developed a cult following.The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film from Universal Pictures, produced by Martin Bregman, Willi Bear, and Michael Scott Bregman, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. It stars Alec Baldwin, supported by John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Jonathan Winters, and Tim Curry. The film is based on the pulp fiction character of the same name created in 1931 by Walter B. Gibson.The film was released to theaters on July 1, 1994, received mixed reviews, and was a commercial failure.Disclaimer: The following may contain offensive language, adult humor, and/or content that some viewers may find offensive – The views and opinions expressed by any one speaker does not explicitly or necessarily reflect or represent those of Mark Radulich or W2M Network.Mark Radulich and his wacky podcast on all the things:https://linktr.ee/markkind76alsohttps://www.teepublic.com/user/radulich-in-broadcasting-networkFB Messenger: Mark Radulich LCSWTiktok: @markradulichtwitter: @MarkRadulichInstagram: markkind76RIBN Album Playlist: https://suno.com/playlist/91d704c9-d1ea-45a0-9ffe-5069497bad59
25 years after its initial release, Kurt Vonnegut's biting portrayal of America's mad chaos, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS returns in a restored 4K version, the perfect film for our complicated times. Directed by Alan Rudolph, and starring Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Glenne Headly, Barbara Hershey, Omar Epps, Luka Haas and many more, the incisive comedy has been overlooked for far too long. And, in conjunction with the comedy's 25th Anniversary, there's no better time to rediscover Rudolph's unique cinematic vision and the timeless relevance of Vonnegut's work in a pristine restoration ready to provoke thought and captivate audiences all over again. BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS tells the story of car dealership titan Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), the most respected man in Midland City. His smiling face appears on every local channel and billboard - a shining symbol of the American success syndrome. His message is "You Can Trust Dwayne Hoover." And so they do. But Dwayne Hoover is not smiling inside. Nor can he be trusted. Dwayne's shady prosperity, picture-frame family, and small mind are cracking. His television commercial-addicted wife (Barbara Hershey) may or may not be physically present when he's with her. His son (Lukas Haas) resides in a bomb shelter aspiring to be a lounge singer. His paranoid sales manager (Nick Nolte) has a significant sex secret. A Dwayne Hoover worshipper (Omar Epps) has taken up residence on his car lot. And his adulating secretary/lover (Glenne Headly) wonders if Dwayne Hoover has changed. The reeling business titan needs to find something or someone immediately to tell him the truth, to guide him out of this punishing, yet well-deserved, self-doubt. Simultaneous to Dwayne expanding breakdown, an impoverished and nonsensical science fiction writer, Kilgore Trout (Albert Finney), is making his way to Midland City's Fine Arts Festival, hailed as the world's greatest author by Midland City's wealthiest cultural leader. Once Hoover discovers Trout's impending arrival, he is maniacally determined to meet the author and receive the message that will restore his confidence and well-being. But when their orbits finally collide, neither Dwayne Hoover, Kilgore Trout, nor Midland City is prepared for the inexplicable and volatile results.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.
25 years after its initial release, Kurt Vonnegut's biting portrayal of America's mad chaos, BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS returns in a restored 4K version, the perfect film for our complicated times. Directed by Alan Rudolph, and starring Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Glenne Headly, Barbara Hershey, Omar Epps, Luka Haas and many more, the incisive comedy has been overlooked for far too long. And, in conjunction with the comedy's 25th Anniversary, there's no better time to rediscover Rudolph's unique cinematic vision and the timeless relevance of Vonnegut's work in a pristine restoration ready to provoke thought and captivate audiences all over again. BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS tells the story of car dealership titan Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), the most respected man in Midland City. His smiling face appears on every local channel and billboard - a shining symbol of the American success syndrome. His message is "You Can Trust Dwayne Hoover." And so they do. But Dwayne Hoover is not smiling inside. Nor can he be trusted. Dwayne's shady prosperity, picture-frame family, and small mind are cracking. His television commercial-addicted wife (Barbara Hershey) may or may not be physically present when he's with her. His son (Lukas Haas) resides in a bomb shelter aspiring to be a lounge singer. His paranoid sales manager (Nick Nolte) has a significant sex secret. A Dwayne Hoover worshipper (Omar Epps) has taken up residence on his car lot. And his adulating secretary/lover (Glenne Headly) wonders if Dwayne Hoover has changed. The reeling business titan needs to find something or someone immediately to tell him the truth, to guide him out of this punishing, yet well-deserved, self-doubt.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.
Up in the hills, hitmen Lee (James Spader) and Dosmo (Danny Aiello) are listening to Olympic skiier Becky Foxx (Teri Hatcher) have a nightmare. When they pull up in their Buick and murder ex-husband Roy (Peter Horton) in her bed, the real nightmare begins. But was he killed over his contact with Lee's lover Helga Svelgen (Charlize Theron) or for his life insurance? Vice cops Strayer (Jeff Daniels) and Taylor (Eric Stoltz) stumble upon a convoluted scheme involving a sexual art dealer (Greg Cruttwell), his sister (Marsha Mason), and assistant (Glenne Headly), a washed up suicidal director (Paul Mazursky), a couple of homicide detectives (Keith Carradine/Ada Maris), and a couple of DAWGS. In 2 Days in the Valley - this week on Doom Generation. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/doomgeneration/support
RMR 0278: Special Guest, Director, Rob Mabry, joins your hosts Chad Robinson, and Russell Guest for the Retro Movie Roundtable as they revisit Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels (1988) [PG] Also check out Rob Marbry's films The Legend of El Chupacabra (2023) and award winning short film, Spare Me (2024) Genre: Comedy, Crime, Caper, Farce Starring: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Meagen Fay, Frances Conroy, Nicole Calfan Director: Mel Damski Recorded on 2024-08-16
It's the war of the Wyatts! Jim O'Heir and Greg Levine break down every jab in this week's walkthrough of “Ben's Parents.” In this episode, Leslie presents a unity quilt to Ben's divorced parents (Jonathan Banks and Glenne Headly), Tom and Jean-Ralphio aim to make Ron a ground-level investor in Rent-A-Swag, and Chris goes on a rollercoaster of emotion. Plus, Greg talks about writing his first solo episode of Parks and Rec: everything from the Goldilocks story outline he created, to reworking jokes on set, to the corkboard full of notes he never brought back to the Radford lot. Got a question for the Pawnee Town Hall? Send us an email at ParksandRecollectionTownHall@gmail.com!
We're diving deep into a world of crime for a look at the torrid romance of Warren Beatty's 1990 film Dick Tracy, starring Beatty as the classic detective being torn between Glenne Headly's Tess Trueheart and Madonna's Breathless Mahoney. Join in as we discuss Tracy's history, the complicated saga of Beatty's attempts to maintain the rights to the character, the movie's incredible visual style, and the ill-advised marketing blitz that surrounded the film. Plus: Why is Big Boy's priority a nightclub act? What's the deal with Dick Tracy Jr? Why won't anyone let Tess do anything? And, most importantly, what did Tracy himself think of the movie? Make sure to rate, review, and subscribe! Next week: Crimson Peak (2015) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/we-love-the-love/message
Jonathan Parker writes, directs and produces films which blend together the aspects of art he gravitates toward, including architecture, music, storytelling and intricate attention to detail. The Northern California native grew up in an artistic family, and studied English at Stanford. It was when he joined a New Wave band, and directed their first music video that he discovered film's nature of acting as a matrix for his artistic interests. After directing several short films, Jonathan wrote and directed his first feature film — Bartleby —an adaptation of Herman Melville's short story: Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street. The film marked the first of several feature film collaborations with Catherine DiNapoli, with whom he co-wrote the screenplay. He included a satirical bent relevant to his time and place (just as Melville did in the 1850s) in his adaptation, which starred David Paymer, Glenne Headly, and Crispin Glover playing the eponymous character. He continued this philosophy as he embarked on his next film — The Californians — an adaptation of Henry James's The Bostonians. The film, which starred Noah Wyle, Ileana Douglas, Kate Mara and Keith Carradine, premiered on Showtime and surveyed the conflicted love-triangle between an idealistic real estate developer (Wyle); his environmentalist sister (Douglas); and the protest folk singer who comes into their lives (Mara). Jonathan's own experience as a real estate developer informed the film's scenic undertone, the characters' diverse perspectives and their motivations. This theme of incorporating personal experience into narrative film carried into his next project — (Untitled) — which starred Adam Goldberg, and followed an experimental musician's plight into the New York City art scene; and in The Architect, starring Parker Posey, Eric McCormack and James Frain, which explores the confluence of a couple who's vision of “the perfect home” is in diametric opposition and an eager, theoretically-motivated architect as he attempts to construct their dream home. The former was scored by David Lang, who won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music. His latest work is the documentary film Carol Doda Topless at the Condor, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival in 2023 and navigates the rise to fame of an influential San Franciscan topless dancer in 1964. Jonathan co-directed the film with Marlo McKenzie, while Lars Ulrich serves as a producer. The film analyzes Doda's impact on the sociocultural narrative of feminism, free speech, fashion and politics in the United States. In our conversation, we discussed Jonathan's journey into music and film; imbuing each of his projects with his own personal experiences; and the unique story of Carol Doda's plight in San Francisco.Opening Credits: 1st Contact - Cavemen I Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0); The New Mystikal Troubadours - A Cinematic Influence I Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US). Closing Credits: The Agrarians - Hey, Augusta I Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US).
This week, the guys talk about The Circle, a super-dumb critique of social media and Big Tech and starring... Tom Hanks as the villain? WHAT!? Yes, this is a real movie. They also discuss Nathan's interesting viewing experience of the film, Mae's changing personality in every scene, the fascist "happy ending," all the kayaking scenes, Bill Paxton and much more. Next week: the Internet - what's up with that, huh? What We've Been Watching: Talk to Me "The Freak Brothers" Questions? Comments? Suggestions? You can always shoot us an e-mail at wwttpodcast@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/wwttpodcast Facebook: www.facebook.com/wwttpodcast Twitter: www.twitter.com/wwttpodcast Instagram: www.instagram.com/wwttpodcast Theme Song recorded by Taylor Sheasgreen: www.facebook.com/themotorleague Logo designed by Mariah Lirette: www.instagram.com/its.mariah.xo Montrose Monkington III: www.twitter.com/montrosethe3rd The Circle stars Emma Watson, Karen Gillan, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, Bill Paxton, Glenne Headly, Nate Corddry, Mamadou Athie and Tom Hanks; directed by James Ponsoldt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Please join Emmy-winner Beth Maitland in The Locher Room to celebrate the 40th anniversary of her debut as Traci Abbott on CBS's The Young and the Restless.Beth made her debut in 1982 and in 1985 she was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She received a second nomination for her work in 2019.Beth recently appeared in the film, Number Two. She appeared in an Emmy-nominated episode of Criminal Minds, and she portrayed the deaf school principal both signing and speaking her role in Mr. Holland's Opus with Richard Dreyfuss and Glenne Headly.Another highlight of her career was appearing with Carol Burnett and Hal Holbrook in an ABC production of Plaza Suite, and an opera singing episode of the Love American Style reboot with Tony Dow.This June, The Young and the Restless marked the 40th anniversary since Y&R fans were first introduced to Traci and her sister Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson). Don't miss the chance to catch up with Beth Maitland!Original Airdate: 7/14/2022
This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville) TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to. Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries. As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group. But we'll get there in a moment. Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents. Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford. Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year. In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents. Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release. Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son. When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher. A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams. I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here. Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever. Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse. Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till. Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred. As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets. In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song. Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround. Which they did, in 1986. It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group. The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself. While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m. The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid. The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week, losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold. The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that… In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive. Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres. But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron. On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video. Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film. In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would. Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack. Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop. Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out. So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form. Thank you for listening. We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
This week, we finish our three part episode on the 1980s distribution company Vestron Pictures. ----more---- The movies discussed on this week's episode are: The Adventures of a Gnome Named Gnorm (1990, Stan Winston) Big Man on Campus (1989, Jeremy Paul Kagan) Dream a Little Dream (1989, Marc Rocco) Earth Girls Are Easy (1989, Julien Temple) Far From Home (1989, Meiert Avis) Paperhouse (1989, Bernard Rose) Parents (1989, Bob Balaban) The Rainbow (1989, Ken Russell) Wonderland (1989, Philip Saville) TRANSCRIPT From Los Angeles, California, the Entertainment Capital of the World, it's The 80s Movies Podcast. I am your host, Edward Havens. Thank you for listening today. At the end of the previous episode, Vestron Pictures was starting to experience the turbulence a number of independent distributors faced when they had a successful film too soon out of the gate, and the direction of the company seemingly changes to go chasing more waterfalls instead of sticking to the rivers and the lakes they were used to. Welcome to Part Three of our miniseries. As we enter 1989, Vestron is seriously in trouble. More money has gone out then has come back in. It seems that they needed one more hit to keep going for a while longer. But if you were to look at their release schedule for the year, which included a pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, there wasn't really anything that felt like it could be a Dirty Dancing-like break out, except for maybe the pickup from the recently bankrupt DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group. But we'll get there in a moment. Their first film from 1989 is a certifiable cult film if there ever was one, but the problem with this label is that the film tagged as so was not a success upon its initial theatrical release. Bob Balaban, the beloved character actor who had been regularly seen on screen since his memorable debut in Midnight Cowboy twenty years earlier, would make his directorial debut with the black comedy horror film Parents. Bryan Madorsky stars as Michael Laemle, a ten year old boy living in the California suburbs in the 1950s, who starts to suspect mom and dad, played by Mary Beth Hurt and Randy Quaid, might be cannibals. It's a strange but fun little movie, and even Ken Russell would compare it favorably over David Lynch's Blue Velvet during one contemporary interview, but sadly, it would take far more time for the film to find its audience than Vestron could afford. Opening in 94 theatres on January 27th, the $3m Parents could not overcome a series of negative reviews from critics, and it would only gross $278k in its first three days. Vestron would not strike any additional prints of the film, and would cycle the ones they did have around the country for several months, but after four months, the film could only attract $870k in box office receipts. But it would become something of a cult hit on video later in the year. In 1992, British filmmaker Bernard Rose would make his American directing debut with an all-time banger, Candyman. But he wouldn't gotten Candyman if it wasn't for his 1989 film Paperhouse, an inventive story about a young girl whose drawings seem to manifest into reality. British actor Ben Cross from Chariots of Fire and American actress Glenne Headly from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels plays the young girl's parents. Outside of Gene Siskel, who would give the film a thumbs down on his movie review show with Roger Ebert despite acknowledging Rose's talent as a filmmaker and being fascinated by the first two-thirds of the movie, the critical consensus was extraordinary. But it appears Siskel may have never actually written a review of the film for the Chicago Tribune, as the film still has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. But the film would only earn $6,700 from its single screen playdate at the Carnegie Hall Cinemas when it opened on February 17th, and the film would get little support from Vestron after that. More single playdates in major cities that added up to a $241k box office tally after fourteen weeks in release. Marc Rocco's Dream a Little Dream would be the third film in The Two Coreys Cinematic Universe. Corey Feldman plays a high school student who, through one of the strangest plot twists in the whole body switching genre, finds himself switching places with two time Academy Award-winner Jason Robards, playing a professor who is looking for immortality through entering a meditative alpha state. Meredith Salinger and Piper Laurie also find themselves switching bodies as well, while Corey Haim plays the goofball best friend with not a whole lot to do. The supporting cast also includes veteran character actors Harry Dean Stanton and Alex Rocco, the latter who agreed to do the film because it was directed by his son. When the film opened on March 3rd, it would be Vestron's second widest release, opening on more than 1,000 theatres. But just like the previous year's License to Drive, the pairing of Corey Haim and Corey Feldman did not set the box office on fire, opening in fifth place with $2.57m in ticket sales, compared to the #1 film of the week, the Morgan Freeman drama Lean on Me, which would gross twice as much as Dream a Little Dream while playing in 125 fewer theatres. In its second week, the film would lose 56 theatres and 52% of its opening weekend audience, falling all the way to 13th place with a gross of only $1.25m. By week three, the movie would move to dollar houses, and trudge along for several more months, until it closed in the middle of summer with only $5.55m in the till. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, writer/director Jeremy Paul Kagan had directed and occasionally written several big ticket movies, including the 1977 Henry Winkler drama Heroes, which also starred Sally Field and, in his first post-Star Wars movie, Harrison Ford, and the 1985 Meredith Salinger/John Cusack adventure film The Journey of Natty Gann. Which makes his Natty Gann follow up, Big Man on Campus, such a head scratcher. A modern adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Big Man on Campus was written by Allan Katz, who had been working in television for nearly twenty years writing for and producing shows like All in the Family, Sanford and Son, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH. Katz would also star in the movie as the titular hunchback, even though he had never once acted on any of his shows. But at least he had a good cast supporting him, including Gerrit Graham, Melora Hardin, Jessica Harper, Tom Skerritt, and Cindy Williams. I can only find one playdate for the film ever, in Los Angeles at the American Cinematheque in March 1989, so while this mostly qualifies as a direct to video release, I feel compelled to at least give it a token mention here. Have you ever heard of a movie called The Fruit Machine? Of course you haven't, because that's a horrible name for a movie, no matter what it's about. When Vestron acquired this British drama about young gay men who go on the run after they witness a murder, the first thing they did was change the title to Wonderland. Not that Wonderland gives you any more of an idea of what the movie is about than The Fruit Machine. But, whatever. Today, the movie has two things going for it. One, an early role for Robbie Coltrane, playing a transvestite who operates a nightclub for gay men and transvestites called, you guessed it, The Fruit Machine. Second, the musical score was written by Hans Zimmer, in one of his earliest film jobs. Ironically, Wonderland would be the the third movie scored by Hans Zimmer to be released by Vestron in a four month period, after Burning Secret and Paperhouse. Wonderland would open at the Quad Cinemas in New York City on April 28th, to poor reviews but a decent $11,500 opening weekend. But the film would not be able to maintain much of an audience, and after five weeks, Wonderland was out of the Quad Cinemas, never to play another theatre in America, with just $50k in the till. Ken Russell's third and final film in his contract with Vestron was The Rainbow, an adaptation of a 1915 novel by D.H. Lawrence, whose 1920 novel Women in Love had been adapted by Russell in 1969. Glenda Jackson, who had won the Academy Award for her role in Women in Love, here plays the mother of the character she played in the other film. Here, she co-stars with Sammi Davis as Ursala, the younger sister of Jackson's Women in Love character, who finds herself attracted to Anton, a young man in town, as well as her gym teacher Winifred. As one would expect from Ken Russell, the supporting cast is top notch, including future Eighth Doctor Paul McGann, regular Russell collaborator Christopher Gable, and Blowup star David Hemmings. The film would open at the Paris Theatre in New York City on May 5th, where it would gross a very good $22k, spurred on by great reviews from most of the city's major critics, several of which noted the film to be Russell's best in a number of years. So it would be sad that the film would end up being the lowest grossing of the three films he'd make with Vestron, only earning a total of $444k after three months in mostly single playdates in major markets. In 1985, Geena Davis and Jeff Goldblum would work together on a forgettable horror comedy film called Transylvania 6-5000, whose name was a pun on a popular 1940 song recorded by Glenn Miller. In 1986, the pair would work together again in David Cronenberg's amazing remake of the cheesy 1950s horror film The Fly. In late 1987, shortly after the pair married, they would work together for a third time, on another comedy, and on a movie that was this time based on an actual song. Earth Girls Are Easy was the name of a song that appeared on comedian Julie Brown's 1984 EP Goddess in Progress, and was originally developed as a movie at Warner Brothers Studio. The studio would get cold feet when Absolute Beginners, the big British musical directed by music video director Julien Temple, failed big time everywhere in the world except for the UK. Temple was slated to direct Earth Girls Are Easy, and Brown, as the co-writer and co-star of the film, was committed to the filmmaker, even if it meant Warners putting the film into turnaround. Which they did, in 1986. It would take nearly a year to get the project back on track, after being rejected by every other major studio and production company in Hollywood, until the French banking giant Credit Lyonnais agree to finance the film, provided they could cut the budget from $14m to $10m, and if the filmmakers could make a distribution deal with the bank's preferred distributor, the then newly-formed DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group. The film, about a manicurist in Los Angeles who helps three aliens blend into human culture after they accidentally crash land their spaceship into her pool, would begin production in Los Angeles in October 1987. Davis played the manicurist, and Goldblum one of the aliens, alongside Damon Wayans and Jim Carrey, while the remaining cast would include a number of great comedic actors like MASH's Larry Linville, Michael McKean, Rick Overton, and Charles Rocket, as well as Los Angeles media personality Angelyne as basically herself. While the film was nearing completion in early 1988, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group would go out of business, leaving Credit Lyonnais in need of a new distributor for their investment. But after Temple turned in his first cut of the film, Credit Lyonnais would send Temple back into his editing bay, where he and his team would spend nearly another five months winnowing out various scenes and completely excising a big and expensive musical number based on one of the other songs on Brown's 1984 EP, I Like ‘Em Big and Stupid, because it just didn't work for the film. Additional scenes would be shot, and the budget would end up being $11m. The film would have its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival in September 1988, and attract attention from a number of distributors including MGM/UA, New World Pictures and Twentieth Century-Fox, but Vestron would end up putting in the winning bid. The film would originally be set for a February 1989 release, but would get delayed until May 12th. When it finally opened on 317 screens in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philly, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC, the film would gross $893k, putting in twelfth place for the weekend, but its per screen average would be the fourth best amongst the films in the top twenty. The film would fall one place in its second week, losing 35% of its opening weekend audience, grossing $577k. The film would slowly hemorrhage theatres and box office until the plug was pulled in mid-July with only $3.9m in tickets sold. The sole lasting legacy of the film is that Damon Wayans enjoyed working so much with Jim Carrey that when Damon's brother Kenan Ivory Wayans was putting together a new comedy television show together thanks to the success of his movie I'm Gonna Get You Sucka, Damon would get his brother to give Carrey a chance. In Living Color would make Carrey and the Wayans Brothers stars, and would change the course of comedy. So there's that… In late June, the Lightning Pictures imprint would release their first movie in nearly two years, Far From Home. The film starred the then-fourteen year old Drew Barrymore as a young girl traveling cross country with her father, who get stuck in a small desert town in Nevada on their way to back to Los Angeles, who must deal with some very strange characters in the trailer park they're staying in, as they slowly discover nothing is as it's supposed to be. Matt Frewer, Max Headroom himself, plays the dad, who must protect his daughter while he figures out how to get the hell out of town alive. Truth be told, the movie sucks, and it's really creepy in how it sexualizes Barrymore, but there's one hell of a great supporting cast doing their best to keep the joint from totally stinking the place up. Richard Masur, Academy Award nominee Susan Tyrell, Anthony Rapp from Adventures in Babysitting, Jennifer Tilly, and beloved character actor Dick Miller. When Vestron opened the film in four theatres in third-tier regions on June 30th, it was little surprise the film got some very bad notices, although one unnamed reviewer for Variety felt the need to note that Barrymore, who again was only fourteen at the time, had “a baby face, dreamy eyes and a playboy model's body.” The film would gross just $3,763 in its first and only weekend in theatres. But that wasn't even the worst news of the week for Vestron. On the same day as they opened Far From Home, Vestron had been informed by Security Pacific Bank in Los Angeles that the $100 million line of credit the company had with them was being terminated. 140 of the approximately 300 Vestron staff members, mostly from the Los Angeles office, were let go, including the President of Production, the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Distribution, and the Vice President of Publicity and Promotion. While Vestron Video would continue for a while, in large part thanks to a $15.7m payoff during a dispute over home video ownership rights to the 1986 Best Picture winner Platoon, the theatrical distribution unit was effectively dead. Some movies, including the Fred Savage/Howie Mandel comedy Little Monsters, the Harry Dean Stanton-led comedy Twister, and the Kathryn Bigelow-directed action thriller Blue Steel with Jamie Lee Curtis, would be sold off to other companies, but the titles left behind would see their planned theatrical releases cancelled and eventually be released direct to video. Thanks to some of the legacy titles in their video catalog, including Dirty Dancing, Vestron would be able to stave off the inevitable, but in January 1991, the company would file for bankruptcy, their final film being the Stan Winston-directed fantasy buddy comedy The Adventures of a Gnome named Gnorm. Filmed in 1988 as Upward, the film featured Anthony Michael Hall as an Los Angeles Police Detective who has to team up with a gnome, a puppet created by Winston, the effects wizard who also directed the film, to solve a murder. For Winston, it was deja vu all over again, as his previous directorial effort, Pumpkinhead, found itself in limbo for a while when its distributor, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, filed for bankruptcy in 1987 before they could release that film. In bankruptcy court, Live Entertainment, partially owned by 1990s mega movie production company Carolco Pictures, would purchase all of Vestron's assets for $24m. Live used the assets as collateral to secure a line of credit from industry friendly banks, so they could start their own production and distribution company, of which their only moment of note was helping to finance Reservoir Dogs when no one else would. Eventually, Live Entertainment would be sold off to Bain Capital, a private investment firm co-founded by Mitt Romney, in 1997, and they would rebrand Live as Artisan Entertainment. Artisan today is best known as the little independent distributor of The Blair Witch Project, but they also would enter into an agreement with Marvel Comics to make movies for 15 of their characters, including Ant-Man, Black Panther, Deadpool, Iron Fist, Longshot, Morbius, Mort the Dead Teenager, and the Power Pack. Artisan would produce two movies based on Marvel characters, Man-Thing and The Punisher, although neither of those films would be released by Artisan. Artisan would declare bankruptcy in 2003, and Marvel would be one of the companies to place a bid for them. Lionsgate would end up becoming the winning bidder for Artisan's assets, which is how the vast majority of Vestron titles are now owned by a company that didn't even exist when Vestron closed shop. Today, Lionsgate is the owner of the assets of a number of the companies we've spoken about on this podcast in the past, and will be talking about in the future, including Crown International, the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group, Embassy Pictures, and New World Pictures. And it's also a major reason why so many of the movies we discuss in these episodes looking back at past companies are completely unknown today. As big as Lionsgate is, with nearly $3.6 billion in revenue in 2022, they aren't going to be able to keep up with the chain of ownership for every movies from every company they've purchased, and they're not going to put the money in to the movies that are barely remembered today. The Film Foundation, the non-profit organization co-founded by Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, which is dedicated to film preservation, estimates the average cost to do a photochemical restoration of a color feature with sound to between $80,000 to $450,000 dollars, not including the cost of a 2k or 4k digital scan. I'm going to have a link in the show notes on our website at The80sMoviePodcast.com to a November 2018 article from the Science History Institute about the process of restoring films. It's not a long read, but it's a fascinating read. I hope you'll check it out. So there you have it, the end of the line for Vestron Pictures, and many of the movies they helped to make and distribute, most of which you cannot find today in any form. Thank you for listening. We'll talk again next week when Episode 105, on the 1985 teen comedy O.C. and Stiggs, directed by Robert Altman, will be discussed. Remember to visit this episode's page on our website, The80sMoviePodcast.com, for extra materials about the movies we covered this episode. The 80s Movies Podcast has been researched, written, narrated and edited by Edward Havens for Idiosyncratic Entertainment. Thank you again. Good night.
On series 8, episode 7 of Paid in Puke, we're thrilled to bring you this deep cut gem from 1987: “Making Mr. Right”. Susan Seidelman's retro-futurism genre bender stars the incomparable Ann Magnuson, as well as Glenne Headly, and Laurie Melcalf. We were lucky enough to snag Ann for an interview! We discuss pop culture's timeless obsession with A.I.. This movie presents so many themes that were later explored in more serious properties like “Her”, “Ex Machina”, and “Westworld”. It also depicts a rare character in cinema (especially in 1987): a nuanced working woman who isn't driven by her need to find and keep a man. The film is also stylish, hilarious, and truly unique! Throughout our discussion, we include clips from our interview with Ann, who discusses working in Miami, bringing her prodigious London and NYC underground experience to a Hollywood rom com, and why the time is right for a film that celebrates good will and charm. Listen to the entire interview in our bonus episode and buy the special edition blu-ray of Making Mr. Right - out now, including commentary from Seidelman and Magnuson! Ann Magnuson on instragram Ann Magnuson's website/store (including SIGNED Making Mr. Right blu-rays)! Clips from Ann's incredible interpretation of David Bowie's “Moonage Daydream” peppered throughout
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This week Mark and Allen break down the Episode that introduces us to Ben's parents, Julia and Steve! Leslie and Ben announce their engagement to the gang and go through engagement party details with Ann, although Ben is nervous about his parents coming because they are divorced and hate each other. When Ben's parents arrive, all hell breaks loose. Ben's father, Steve Wyatt, brings his much younger girlfriend, Ulani, whom Ben's mother, Julia Wyatt, completely detests. The two waste no time taking shots at each other, and their catty behavior becomes completely unbearable. Leslie does her best to diffuse the situation, but Ulani's presence was something Leslie and Ben hadn't predicted. Finally, Leslie calls upon the thing she is sure will fix everything ... her masterpiece: the Knope-Wyatt Unity Quilt. Meanwhile, Tom and Jean-Ralphio are preparing to pitch Tom's idea, "Rent-A-Swag", to Ron, who is considering investing some start-up money. After a flashy, loud, ridiculous rehearsal in front of April and Andy, April convinces them they need to start over and tailor their pitch to Ron - simply, to the point, etc. At the engagement party, Ron learns Tom is partnering with Jean-Ralphio ... a fact that does not make him happy. Determined to make the pitch work for Ron, Tom prepares to pull an all-nighter, but Jean-Ralphio lazily implies he has no interest in the project, and instead wants to go clubbing. Finally, when Leslie and Ben's engagement was announced, Chris was very happy for them, yet disproportionately affected by this news. Later, at the engagement party, and feeling raw from his therapy sessions, Chris has an emotional breakdown, happy for his friends, but depressed because he's alone. Desperate to not let Chris' unexpected happy-sad outburst ruin the engagement party, Ann, April, and Andy try their best to comfort and contain the delirious, giggling, blubbering mess that is Chris Traeger. As always, we tackle the tough questions, such as ... Can Leslie convince Ben's parents to get along? Will Ron like Tom's business pitch? Can Champion, the 3-legged wonder dog, help Chris out of his funk? Will Leslie's mother, Marlene Griggs-Knope, make things better or worse? Can Tom be successful partnering with Jean-Ralphio again? Will Chris be able to get past this outburst and start clean? Does the Knope-Wyatt Unity Quilt save the day? What new idea does Jean-Ralphio come up with? Is Dave Matthews Band considered a "good" thing, or a "bad" thing? Podcast viewers, tune in for another great episode, and also to support Benslie! Hopefully they can make it past this. Many thanks to our incredible sponsor, Pawnee "What If".
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Dirty Rotten Soundrels is Dave's pick for this month and stars Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly and Ian McDiarmid. Directed by Frank Oz and written by Dale Launer, Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning. This is a well-loved comedy by some, but that doesn't always mean it will get the thumbs up from Chris! If you enjoy the show we have a Patreon, become a supporter. www.patreon.com/thevhsstrikesback Plot Summary: Lawrence and Freddie are con men, big-time and small-time, respectively. They unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this town (on the French Riviera) ain't big enough for the two of them. They agree to a "loser leaves" bet. The bet brings out the best and worst in the two. thevhsstrikesback@gmail.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thevhsstrikesback/support
Scream (1996) was a damn masterpiece. Easily a 9/10, if to a 10/10. Does this one hold up? Chris is "the Master of Man sciences". Roger is moving! Every guy has that box of cords and adapters. And we will never part with it. Ever. 0:07:30 - Box Office and Upcoming Releases 0:22:30 *** What's Streaming *** DISNEY+ THE SECRETARIAT, Dir. Randall Wallace – Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Dylan Walsh, James Cromwell, Scott Glenn. 2010 THE SANDLOT, Dir. David Mickey Evans – Tom Guiry, Mike Vitar, Art LaFleur, Patrick Renna, Dens Leary, Marley Shelton, James Earl Jones. 1993 MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS, Dir. Stephen Herek – Richard Dreyfuss, William H Macy, Terrence Howard, Jean Louisa Kelly, Glenne Headly. 1995 0:23:40 - Trailers - JACKASS FOREVER / MOON KNIGHT / LORD OF THE RINGS: RINGS OF POWER 0:37:30 - SCREAM (2022), Dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin / Tyler Gillett (4-6/10) Hosted, produced and mixed by Grayson Maxwell and Roger Stillion. Guest appearance by Christopher Boughan. Music by Chad Wall. Quality Assurance by Anthony Emmett. Visit the new Youtube channel, "For the Love of Cinema" to follow and support our short video discussions. Roger wears aviators! Please give a like and subscribe if you enjoy it. Follow the show on Twitter @lovecinemapod and check out the Facebook page for updates. Rate, subscribe and leave a comment or two. Every Little bit helps. Send us an email to fortheloveofcinemapodcast@gmail.com Thank you for Listening!
In 1988, we got another Frank Oz gem with Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. This flick gave us a look at two conmen with two very different approaches who are vying for one territory. So they decide to make a bet out of one of their marks by seeing who can con $50,000 out of her first. The winner will keep their rich little town in the French Riviera and the loser will move on to browner pastures. Starring Michael Caine, Steve Martin, and Glenne Headly, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was not short on talent, made $42 million at the box office, and became a comedy classic. But does it hold up? Listen in as Jon, Colin, and Brent debate corks on forks and scam philosophy as we try to see if this flick is the real deal or if we've been conned.
Skipper & Ray review Dick Tracy (1990), featuring a surprising cat & its stuffed stunt double. Based on the characters of Chester Gould. Director/Star Warren Beatty, The Rodent Neil Summers, Breathless Madonna; Glenne Headly, Mandy Patinkin, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Catherine O'Hara, Danny Elfman. Transcript: https://bit.ly/CFPtranscript-DickTracy Support Skipper & Ray at https://pod.fan/catsonfilmpod and get exclusive bonus content! Cats on Film Pod is voiced & produced by Ray Ilyn, with music by The DōsMan, and additional sounds from FreeSound.org. FREE full episodes & more at https://www.catsonfilmpod.com Instagram @CatsOnFilmPod PodFan @CatsOnFilmPod
EPISODE 31 – DICK TRACY Musical May goes Sondheim with Brian’s pick: Dick Tracy! This week, Chris can’t get a word in; Ashley tries to imitate Al Pacino; Joel misremembers lyrics; Brandon keeps a bit notebook; and Brian loses his mind over Amazon reviews. BTW: The grossest line in cinema history! Starring: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Mandy Patinkin, and Al Pacino Directed by Warren Beatty “Dick Tracy: The Most Bonkers Comic Book Movie Ever”, Patrick Willems: https://youtu.be/_V-I1_fVV-M FOLLOW US:Instagram (@trashwatchpodcast)Twitter (@trashwatchcast)Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/trashwatchpodcast/)Email (trashwatchpodcast@gmail.com)Listen to Brian’s music at (https://www.brianhorne.com)
Charles Skaggs & Xan Sprouse discuss "Tricks", the first episode of the HBO drama anthology series Hotel Room from 1993, directed by David Lynch and featuring Harry Dean Stanton as Moe Boca, Freddie Jones as Lou Holchak, and Glenne Headly as Darlene! Find us here: Twitter: @GhostwoodCast @CharlesSkaggs @udanax19 Facebook: Facebook.com/GhostwoodPodcast Email: GhostwoodPodcast@gmail.com Listen and subscribe to us in Apple Podcasts and leave us a review!
Are you in the mood for a big glass of 1990s pulp? Produced, directed, and starring Warren Beatty, Dick Tracy is the action crime film based on the 1930s comic strip character of thw same name. Luke and Jae revisit this period set caper which features a supporting cast that includes Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, and Charlie Korsmo. Hard-boiled detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) is searching for evidence that proves Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice is the city's most dangerous crime boss. He may have found the key to unraveling the crimelord's illegal empire in Breathless Mahoney (Madonna), an enigmatic barroom singer who has witnessed some of Caprice's crimes firsthand. However, she seems more set on stealing Dick away from his girlfriend, Tess (Glenne Headly), than helping him solve the case of his career.
"I've got culture coming out of my ass!" Join us and guest Megan Spell from On the Download to talk this quirky and possibly problematic movie? It's pretty darn funny though? It's Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Let us know your thoughts on this comedic crime movie! Email the show at discoveringdirectorspodcast@gmail.comFind us on twitter @DDirectorPod or on Facebook at Discovering Directors Podcast.Special thanks to Michael Thompson at LEVEL UP Agent Services for our logo!
‘Mr. Holland’s Opus’ With Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, Sean Fennessey, and Van Lathan take a seat in Mr Holland’s music-appreciation class to rewatch the 1995 drama “Mr. Holland's Opus,’ starring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, and Jean Louisa Kelly.
País Estados Unidos Dirección Ron Shelton Guion Ron Shelton Música Alex Wurman Fotografía Barry Peterson Reparto Morgan Freeman, Tommy Lee Jones, René Russo, Joe Pantoliano, Glenne Headly, Elizabeth Ashley, Mel Raido, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Alma Sisneros, Graham Beckel, Kristen Rakes, George Wallace, Nick Peine, Eli Goodman, Drago Sumonja, Kat Sawyer Sinopsis Duke Diver (Morgan Freeman) es el irresponsable manager del Villa Capri, un resort de lujo en Palm Springs. Con un pasado misterioso, Diver es un hacha en asegurarse de que la vida de los residentes de Villa Capri sea una gran fiesta continua. Duke verá peligrar su estatus cuando un encantador exmilitar llamado Leo (Tommy Lee Jones) llega a Villa Capri dispuesto a ser el rey del mambo y compitiendo con Duke por los favores de la recién llegada Suzie (Rene Russo). Pero cuando el pasado de Duke le alcanza inesperadamente, los dos hombres dejarán atrás sus rivalidades y trabajarán juntos para salvar Villa Capri y detener a quien intenta asesinar a Duke.
Mark and James discuss the 1990 comic book adaptation Dick Tracy, Directed by Warren Beatty, and starring Warren Beatty (again), Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman and Glenne Headly, this PG-rated (which is insane) film was marketed as a summer blockbuster, but plays more like an old-school crime noir that features excellent production design. In this episode, they discuss color palettes, swimming with fishes, and comic book movies. Enjoy!
Josh, Zak and Special Guest Ben Pennell (Snap Crackle Podcast) talk about Dick Tracy (1990)! Dick Tracy is a 1990 American action crime film based on the 1930s comic strip character of the same name created by Chester Gould. Warren Beatty produced, directed, and starred in the film, whose supporting cast includes Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, and Charlie Korsmo. Dick Tracy depicts the detective's romantic relationships with Breathless Mahoney and Tess Trueheart, as well as his conflicts with crime boss Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice and his henchmen. Support this podcast
In this completely honest and in no way deceitful or manipulative episode of Adapt or Perish, we discuss the many versions of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels! In this episode we discuss: Bedtime Story (Universal, 1964), directed by Ralph Levy, written by Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning, and starring David Niven, Marlon Brando, and Shirley Jones. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Orion, 1988), directed by Frank Oz, written by Dale Launer, Shapiro, and Henning, and starring Michael Caine, Steve Martin, and Glenne Headly. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels: The Musical (2004), music and lyrics by David Yazbek, book by Jeffrey Lane, and originally starring John Lithgow and Norbert Leo Butz. The Hustle (MGM, 2019), directed by Chris Addison, written by Jac Schaeffer, Launer, Shapiro, and Henning, and starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson. Footnotes: Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest The original teaser for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Sherie Rene Scott sings "April's Ballad" from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Coming Out of Their Shells tour Patton Oswalt on doing "punch up" We were on another podcast! We were invited onto the Castle of Horror podcast to speak with host and author Jason Henderson as part of their "Castle Talk" interview series, and had a ton of fun. Listen to it on the web or on Apple Podcasts. You can follow Adapt or Perish on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and you can find us and all of our show notes online at adaptorperishcast.com. If you want to send us a question or comment, you can email us at adaptorperishcast@gmail.com or tweet using #adaptcast.
Fight the Future Minute #27: Glenne Headly Welcome to our detailed coverage of The X-Files: Fight the Future, unpacking the 1998 movie one minute at a time! In minute twenty-seven, host Carl Sweeney and guest Katie Doe discuss Mulder drinking his sorrows in a Washington bar, and the late Glenne Headly's barmaid... Host / Editor Carl Sweeney Guest Katie Doe With thanks to our Patrons: Adam Chamberlain, Michelle Milbauer, Ferdinando Bianchini, Cathy Glinski, Kurt North, Jenn Ferguson, Adam Silva, Marlene Stemme, Deana Ferreri, Katie Doe, Donna Pirkle, Isabelle Dubois, Andrew Blaker, Cortlan Waters Bartley, Martha Payne, Delta 51, Clarissa de Becker, Sarah Devicomte, Caredwen Foley, Daniela Marlitsis, Justin Bernstein, Calla Dreams, Wanda Vincent, Karen McKenna, Luke Winch, Caleb Burnett, Chandru Ravindran, Mark O'Brien, Ana Afloarei, Kathryn Shellman, Charnette Soto, Russell Hugo, Kelsey L Mayer, Sarah Ford. Twitter: @TheX_Cast Facebook: The X-Cast Basement: An X-Files Podcast Fan Group We Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispod www.wemadethispod.com
Fight the Future Minute #27: Glenne HeadlyWelcome to our detailed coverage of The X-Files: Fight the Future, unpacking the 1998 movie one minute at a time!In minute twenty-seven, host Carl Sweeney and guest Katie Doe discuss Mulder drinking his sorrows in a Washington bar, and the late Glenne Headly's barmaid...Host / EditorCarl SweeneyGuestKatie DoeWith thanks to our Patrons:Adam Chamberlain, Michelle Milbauer, Ferdinando Bianchini, Cathy Glinski, Kurt North, Jenn Ferguson, Adam Silva, Marlene Stemme, Deana Ferreri, Katie Doe, Donna Pirkle, Isabelle Dubois, Andrew Blaker, Cortlan Waters Bartley, Martha Payne, Delta 51, Clarissa de Becker, Sarah Devicomte, Caredwen Foley, Daniela Marlitsis, Justin Bernstein, Calla Dreams, Wanda Vincent, Karen McKenna, Luke Winch, Caleb Burnett, Chandru Ravindran, Mark O'Brien, Ana Afloarei, Kathryn Shellman, Charnette Soto, Russell Hugo, Kelsey L Mayer, Sarah Ford.Twitter: @TheX_CastFacebook: The X-Cast Basement: An X-Files Podcast Fan GroupWe Made This on Twitter: @wemadethispodwww.wemadethispod.com
This week Brian and Kenna diving into Dick Tracy (1990) starring Warren Beatty, Charlie Korsmo, Glenne Headly, Madonna and Al Pacino. If you like what you hear please tell your friends! If you LOVE what you hear give us a 5-star rating and review wherever you get your podcasts. And don't forget to follow us on Twitter/Instagram (@rebootedpod) for more fun stuff! You can also now find us on Ko-fi, a platform made for you to be able to support the creators you enjoy for the price of a cup of coffee. It's easy to use and will help us continue to bring you quality content every week: ko-fi.com/rebootedpod
No QueIssoAssim de hoje, Brunão, Miotti e Zitos voltam no tempo e visitam o período da Grande Depressão para conversar sobre um filme que é sobre um filme dentro de um filme. Confuso? Não se você já assistiu A Rosa Púrpura do Cairo, clássico de 1985 dirigido por Woody Allen! Embarque com a gente nessa aventura de homenagem à sétima arte! FICHA TÉCNICA DO FILME Mandem cartinhas e coisinhas para nós:Portal RefilCaixa Postal 4450CEP 70842-970Brasília-DF Seja um Patrão do Portal Refil Patreon Padrim Picpay ASSINE O FEED Feed iTunes Google Podcasts
Em área pobre de Nova Jersey, durante a Depressão, uma garçonete (Mia Farrow) que sustenta o marido bêbado e desempregado, que só sabe ser violento e grosseiro, foge da sua triste realidade assistindo filmes. Mas ao ver pela quinta vez “A Rosa Púrpura do Cairo” acontece o impossível! Quando o herói da fita sai da tela para declarar seu amor por ela, isto provoca um tumulto nos outros atores do filme e logo o ator que encarna o herói viaja para lá, tentando contornar a situação. Assim, ela se divide entre o ator e o personagem. FICHA COMPLETA DO FILME
Comedian and returning champion Penina Beede joins us to discuss the 1988 film, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly. We talk about Pez conventions, find out why Jewish mothers slap their daughters, and we explore the dumbest lies we've ever told. Penina also tells us about her upcoming podcast, 25 for 25, where she interviews 25 people about what their lives were like at age 25. The first episode is out March 1st. https://peninabeede.squarespace.com/25for25 https://dustyvcr.com https://www.instagram.com/thedustyvcr/ https://www.facebook.com/thedustyvcr/ https://twitter.com/thedustyvcr https://www.reddit.com/r/dustyvcr/
Happy New Year! We kick off 2020 with the first of our four-part series on (and stay with me here) movies from the 1990s that are based/inspired by heroes of the 1930s that we are reviewing in 2020. Whew! Everyone get that? Great! We start our series off with the 1990 film "Dick Tracy" which was produced-by, directed-by, and starring Warren Beatty in the role of the titular detective. Along with Beatty is an all-star cast including Al Pacino, Madonna, Glenne Headly, Charlie Korsmo, Paul Sorvino, William Forsythe, and Dustin Hoffman. And that doesn't even count the cameos! So how does it hold up after 30 years? Is Dick Tracy still knocking out the bizarre bad guys or has this slipped comfortably into a desk job? Check out our take on the Video Junkyard Podcast!
Lunchtime Movie Review - Reviewing films from the 70s and 80s
Orion Pictures released Dirty Rotten Scoundrels to theaters on December 14, 1988. Frank Oz directed the film starring Steve Martin, Michael Caine, and Glenne Headly. The post Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) appeared first on Movie House Memories.
To be with another woman, that is French. To be caught, that is American. To be talking about "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (1988), that is this episode of Cinema Decalogue! Find out what David Bowie has in common with the Pink Panther, why Jarrod doesn't watch movie trailers, and why there are three versions of this film!
The Second episode of The SPIRAKEN MOTION PICTURE REVIEW PODCAST, is kinda underhanded and dirty. Xan and Gretta review a classic crime comedy that was a remake of a film starring David Niven and Marlon Brando. So enjoy as our hosts review "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" directed by Frank Oz. It is starring Michael Caine, Steve Martin, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers and Ian McDiarmid. ----more---- Besides going over the similiarities between this and the original film "Bedtime Stories", our hosts also speculate on what differences will appear in the new remake of this film "The Hustle. Please send us any comments concerns and ideas on how to make this podcast better. Let us know so we can do something about it. Rate us on iTunes, check out the facebook fangroup Spiraken Movie Review, purchase some stuff from our amazon store in order to fund this podcast and finally, listen to the primary podcast, The Spiraken Manga Review. Hope you enjoy the episode. Music Used in the Episode: Opening Theme- Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Miles Goodman (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OST), Closing Theme- End Credits- Miles Goodman (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OST) Our Website http://www.spiraken.com Our tumblr http://spiraken.tumblr.com/ Our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/spiraken/Our Email Spiraken@gmail.com Xan's Email xan@spiraken.com Our Twitter Spiraken Xboxlive Gamertag Xan Spiraken Our Amazon Store http://www.amazon.com/shops/spiraken Random Question of the Day: Do you think The Hustle will be as good as this?
We are joined by podcast host extraordinaire and multi-creative Heidi Bennett to discuss her pick Four Friends (1981). Rather than the sex comedies prevalent in the early 80s, Heidi found and connected to a more serious coming of age story. Polina and Diana were unfamiliar with the movie, but found the elements that would have attracted our younger sensibilities. Find Heidi's podcast Vibrant Visionaries at: http://vibrantvisionaries.com/ Support her work at: https://www.patreon.com/VibrantVisionaries Find her on Twitter @HeidiMBennett @vibrantviscast @spinaltapminute & @cabinminutecast The semi-autobiographical movie written by Steve Tesich (Breaking Away) follows the path of the title characters from high school to college during the often turbulent 1960s and beyond. Stars Craig Wasson, Jodi Thelen, Michael Huddleston, Jim Metzler, Miklos Simon, Elizabeth Lawrence, Julia Murray, Reed Birney, James Leo Herlihy, Lois Smith, and Glenne Headly and is directed by Arthur Penn. (from wikipedia.org) The novel Polina mentions is The Serial: A Year in the Life of Marin County and her Pinterest page about it is: https://pin.it/2phldxjgkkqgwu Spinal Tap Minute episode with “Viv Savage” David Kaffinetti can be found at http://spinaltapminute.com/podcast/bonus-episode-viv-savage-in-studio/ Heidi's conversation with Amber Karnes including Body Positive Yoga can be found: http://spinaltapminute.com/podcast/preview-episode-heidis-upcoming-podcast-project/ Find other amazing podcasts by searching #ladypodsquad on Twitter, Facebook, and all the social media platforms. Tweet us @HEAMCast, like us on Facebook @HappilyEverAftermath, and e-mail us at contact@heamcast.com.
This week we recast one of our all-time favorite comedies, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. A film that feels like it was specifically written for the brilliant comedic stylings of Michael Caine and Steve Martin, is actually quite the opposite. This film was first intended to feature David Bowie and Mick Jagger after the success of their hit video for Dancing in the Street, an idea brought to you by copious and copious amounts of cocaine, by the looks of it. The original production also had Sean Young as the part of Janet Colgate, before she dropped out and made way for Glenne Headly. Talk about a pair of Hall of Fame happy accidents.
Story: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglücklich. Sie hat einen Job in der angesagtesten Firma der Welt ergattert: beim "Circle", einem Internetkonzern, der alle Kunden mit einer einzigen Internetidentität ausstattet, über die alles abgewickelt werden kann. Mae stürzt sich voller Begeisterung in die schöne neue Welt mit ihren lichtdurchfluteten Büros und High-Class-Restaurants, Gratis-Konzerten und coolen Partys. Während sie innerhalb der Firma immer weiter aufsteigt, wird sie vom charismatischen Firmengründer Eamon Bailey ermutigt, an einem für den "Circle" bahnbrechenden Experiment teilzunehmen. Die Teilnahme an dem Experiment und ihre Entscheidungen zugunsten des "Circles" beeinflussen zunehmend das Leben und die Zukunft ihrer Freunde und Familie. Und dann ist da auch noch ihr mysteriöser Kollege Kalden, zu dem sie sich auf unerklärliche Weise hingezogen fühlt... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 26.01.2018 (Warner Home Video Germany) The Circle Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comicverfilmung Land: USA / United Arab Emirates 2017 Laufzeit: ca. 110 min. FSK: 12 Regie: James Ponsoldt Drehbuch: James Ponsoldt Comicvorlage: Dave Eggers Kamera: Matthew Libatique Musik: Danny Elfman Produzenten: Anthony Bregman, Gary Goetzman, James Ponsoldt, Mit Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Elar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Nate Corddry, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, ...
Story: Die 24-jährige Mae Holland ist überglücklich. Sie hat einen Job in der angesagtesten Firma der Welt ergattert: beim "Circle", einem Internetkonzern, der alle Kunden mit einer einzigen Internetidentität ausstattet, über die alles abgewickelt werden kann. Mae stürzt sich voller Begeisterung in die schöne neue Welt mit ihren lichtdurchfluteten Büros und High-Class-Restaurants, Gratis-Konzerten und coolen Partys. Während sie innerhalb der Firma immer weiter aufsteigt, wird sie vom charismatischen Firmengründer Eamon Bailey ermutigt, an einem für den "Circle" bahnbrechenden Experiment teilzunehmen. Die Teilnahme an dem Experiment und ihre Entscheidungen zugunsten des "Circles" beeinflussen zunehmend das Leben und die Zukunft ihrer Freunde und Familie. Und dann ist da auch noch ihr mysteriöser Kollege Kalden, zu dem sie sich auf unerklärliche Weise hingezogen fühlt... DVD/Blu Ray-Release: 26.01.2018 (Warner Home Video Germany) The Circle Genre: Thriller, Drama, Comicverfilmung Land: USA / United Arab Emirates 2017 Laufzeit: ca. 110 min. FSK: 12 Regie: James Ponsoldt Drehbuch: James Ponsoldt Comicvorlage: Dave Eggers Kamera: Matthew Libatique Musik: Danny Elfman Produzenten: Anthony Bregman, Gary Goetzman, James Ponsoldt, Mit Emma Watson, Tom Hanks, Elar Coltrane, Glenne Headly, Bill Paxton, Karen Gillan, Nate Corddry, John Boyega, Patton Oswalt, ...
Doug and Eric can't stop running their rat-holes about their favorite new show, the Seth Rogen and Josh Hutcherson project Future Man now available on Hulu. If dick jokes and non-stop sci-fi callbacks aren't your thing, we pity you, fool, but feel free to skip to 25:30 for What Eric's Playing: Super Mario Odyssey, Star Wars Battlefront 2, Plague Road, and Battle Chasers. This episode is dedicated to the memory of the late, lovely Glenne Headly. Support our favorite charity, Cap for Kids http://www.capforkids.org Beer ratings now on Untappd! https://untappd.com/user/TapInGeekOut Lagunitas Brewing Company's A Little Sumpin' Sumpin Ale: 7.5% ABV, 65 IBU - Eric 4.25/5 Lagunitas Brewing Company's Sakitumi: 9% ABV, 42 IBU - Doug 3.5/5
Meryl Streep and The Movies with Zachary Scot Johnson and Maryl McNally
Longtime friends and Meryl Streep fans Zachary Scot Johnson (www.zacharyscotjohnson.com) and Maryl McNally (www.neverlandtheatre.com) interview 3 time Academy Award winner Robert Benton! Robert directed Meryl to her first Oscar in "Kramer Vs. Kramer" and also in 1982's "Still of The Night". He also directed "Bad Company" (with Jeff Bridges and John Savage), "The Late Show" (with Lily Tomlin and Art Carney), "Places In The Heart" (with Sally Field, Ed Harris, John Malkovich, Amy Madigan and Danny Glover), "Nadine" (with Jeff Bridges, Kim Basinger, Rip Torn, Gwen Verdon, Glenne Headly and Jerry Stiller), "Billy Bathgate" (with Nicole Kidman, Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis and Steve Buscemi), "Nobody's Fool" (with Paul Newman, Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith and Philip Seymour Hoffman), "Twilight" (with Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, Reese Witherspoon, James Garner, Stockard Channing and Liev Schreiber), "The Human Stain" (with Anthony Hopkins, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris and Gary Sinise) and "Feast of Love" (with Morgan Freeman, Radha Mitchell and Greg Kinnear). He wrote most of those movies, too, along with "Bonnie and Clyde", "What's Up Doc?", "Superman", "The Ice Harvest" and more. It was a thrill to talk to such a legend and we hope you enjoy the interview. Email us at MerylStreepPodcast@gmail.com and remember to rate, review and subscribe to this podcast.
Ryan and Jason pay tribute to a fallen Lady: a woman whose distinctive face and voice is emblematic of a different time in Hollywood, one in which character and talent was valued above bland conventional sex appeal, and when theatre actors could transition seamlessly to a film career. Our tribute to a Lady whose life and work were cut egregiously short by her sudden death, Glenne Headly.
Hola! Episode 22 arrives and its Rob’s choice “one of the best 80s comedies”, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, the 1988 comedy classic from Frank Oz starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin. Michael Caine is the distinguished English gent, who also happens to be a world class con-man, then along comes Steve Martin another con-man but a brash, American much to his annoyance - the fun really begins when they meet the charming Glenne Headly. It's easy to forget how funny Steve Martin was during the late 70s and throughout the 80s - if you’re looking for a reminder then this is a great place to start. A near perfect balance of physical comedy and witty one liners. Scores [supsystic-tables id='23'] Dirty Rotten Scoundrels scored reasonably high at 3.8. The Twitter response was pretty favourable too. Don’t take this film too seriously - it could have starred David Bowie and Mick Jagger (!) enjoy the silliness and the genuinely enjoyable twist ending. What do you guys think? Have you seen Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? What did you think? Please let us know in the comments below! Episode #022 Crew Links Thanks to the Episode #022 Crew of Rob Garwood and John (@JohnLunny) of www.mixcloud.com/john-lunny and futuremusic.fm Please make sure you give them some love Flixwatcher Spotify Playlist There's no real song in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels the film, BUT... there is a musical. We have chosen the song "It's All About Ruprecht" from the musical. More about Dirty Rotten Scoundrels For more info on Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, you can visit the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels IMDB page here or the Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Rotten Tomatoes page here. Final Plug! Subscribe, Share and Review us on iTunes If you enjoyed this episode of Flixwatcher Podcast you probably know other people who will like it too! Please share it with your friends and family, review us, and join us across ALL of the social Media links below. PS we have a private Flixwatcher Podcast Facebook Group that is only available to members of our email subscribers list. You will be sent the link to the group when you sign up for the competition! Win win! Join the banter - SPOILERS ALLOWED!
I Will Watch Anything Once - Conversations about Movies Missed or Avoided
Joseph Kibler joins me to watch Don Jon and discuss the intrigue of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's first movie being about porn and OCD plus how Academy Award winner Brie Larson is very underused. IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2229499/?ref_=nv_sr_1Written and Directed by: Joesph Gordon-LevittStarring: Joesph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, Tony Danza, Brie Larson, Glenne Headly, Rob Brown, Jeremy LukeMovie Trailer: https://youtu.be/RAhtdVdc3Y4Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_JonRotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/don_jon/Roger Ebert Review: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/don-jon-2013Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Don-Jon-Blu-ray-Joseph-Gordon-Levitt/dp/B00DY64ADU/ref=sr_1_2_twi_blu_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1501108231&sr=8-2&keywords=Don+JonIf you are enjoying I Will Watch Anything Once, please subscribe, rate and review on iTunes, like it on Facebook and follow IWWAO on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and Tumblr.Additional Links:Joseph Kibler - Twitter: https://twitter.com/JosephKibler, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jkibler17/Monopoly Show: A Monoscene Improv Show - https://m.facebook.com/MonopolyShow/Walk On documentary: http://www.walkondocumentary.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Talkin new movies (SPOILERS!) with Grill Master Alex C. In this episode: Retron 77 Atari 2600 system by Hyperkin, redesigned HDMI Atari 2600 and Sega Genesis consoles from AtGames, Retroblox aka Polymega emulation console,celebrity deaths (Roger Moore, Glenne Headly, Adam West),Logan (2017) starring Hugh Jackman and Patrick Stewart,Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) starring Chris Pratt and Kurt Russell,Alien: Covenant (2017) directed by Ridley Scott,and the Blade Runner 2049 trailers. 64 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com
To celebrate the life of actor Glenne Headly we watched 2 Days in the Valley, a fun film. During that discussion we mention Short Cuts, Pulp Fiction, Drop Dead Fred, Superman II, Stan Bush, Spiderman and the Manwolf on Power Records, Men at Work, Spawn, the Golden Raspberry awards, Too Much, Joe Satriani, and Dougie. Jason’s story of surviving Kawasaki Syndrome is from 25:30-36:40 References: One Ton Tomato - Crabmeat Thompson Big Bad Moon - Joe Satriani File length 1:01:54 File Size 56.9 MB Subscribe to us on iTunes Listen to us on Stitcher Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter Send your comments to show@notinacreepyway.com Visit the show website at www.notinacreepyway.com
On this week's episode, guest host Alfie talks with Dusty about the first American sports star to talk openly about mental illness, a pioneer in wetsuits, a beloved star of stage and screen and the voice behind Wallace and Gromit.
Biking from Parma to Verona. Lots to tell. Back home, remembering Frank Deford, Jim Piersall and Glenne Headly. From Fast Food to Fast Fine Food. Can a Museum of Failure succeed? Tamsen is ready for a glass of Spanish Rosé. Here's to the Understudies! Credits: Talent: Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Engineer: Ellie Suttmeier Art: Zeke Abuhoff
On this episode I review 1973 cult classic 'The Long Goodbye', and discuss how it fits in with the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s and '70s.We also discuss the 6th episode of the new season of 'Twin Peaks', and pay tribute to the late Glenne Headly, Peter Sallis and Adam West.Originally aired on June 13th, 2017.Enjoy!
Streaming Breakdown (0:00): Debby Ryan dramedy, The Goldbergs 1990s spinoff, Adam West, Batmobile, Glenne Headly, Future Man, Fred Koenekamp, The Towering Inferno, Gypsy, Naomi Watts, Billy Crudup, Fifty Shades of Grey, Snow Fall, CIA, Northern Exposure revival?, and CW Fall Lineup. 5 Best ( In-Depth on the pilot of "I'm Dying Up Here." (15:24) Spoiler Alert!!!!! I'm Dying Up Here, plus older series Mad Men, Six Feet Under, and The Shield. My issue with the triumphant moment and talk about the twist. Video Store: The Manager's Special (39:25): Flaked, The Accountant, No Way Out, Disgraced, and Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine. Goodbye (46:55).
We wrap up '80s month with a housecall from Doctor Detroit (1983), the story of mild-mannered professor, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) and how he transforms into super-pimp Doctor Detroit.Based on the short story "Detroit Abe" by Bruce Jay Friedman, Mike talks to screenwriters Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb along with director Michael Pressman. This episode also includes the third and final part of the interview with actress Glenne Headly.Aaron Peterson and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss this unusual comedy.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special Guests: Michael Pressman, Carl Gottlieb, Robert Boris, Glenne HeadlyGuest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Aaron PetersonWe wrap up '80s month with a housecall from Doctor Detroit (1983), the story of mild-mannered professor, Clifford Skridlow (Dan Aykroyd) and how he transforms into super-pimp Doctor Detroit.Based on the short story "Detroit Abe" by Bruce Jay Friedman, Mike talks to screenwriters Robert Boris and Carl Gottlieb along with director Michael Pressman. This episode also includes the third and final part of the interview with actress Glenne Headly.Aaron Peterson and Heather Drain join Mike to discuss this unusual comedy.Links:Buy Doctor Detroit on DVDBuy The Collected Short Fiction of Bruce Jay Friedman by Bruce Jay FriedmanHear more of Robert Boris on the Electra Glide in Blue episodeKeep up with Heather Drain at Mondo HeatherBe sure to check out The Hollywood OutsiderListen to Remake This Movie Right
País Estados Unidos Director Stephen Herek Guion Patrick Sheane Duncan Música Michael Kamen Fotografía Oliver Woods Reparto Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Olympia Dukakis, William H. Macy, Jay Thomas, Alicia Witt, Jean Louisa Kelly, Terrence Howard, Balthazar Getty Sinopsis Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) ve como su trabajo actual como músico en fiestas privadas no da para mucho, mientras sueña con componer su gran obra. Cuando se decide a cambiar de trabajo y se convierte en profesor de una destartalada escuela, descubre su verdadera vocación; enseñar a los jóvenes a entender la vida a través de la música.
In Susan Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987), Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is an ad executive whose new client, ChemTec, needs a major PR campaign in order to make the Ulysses robot (John Malkovich) palatable to the American public.Laurie Frank and Floyd Byars penned this sci-fi romantic comedy.The episode features the second of the three-part interview with actress Glenne Headly. Hear the first part on the Dick Tracy episode.Beth Accomando and Miguel Rodridguez join Mike to discuss this delightfully quirky film.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Special Guest: Susan Seidelman, Ann Magnuson, Glenne Headly, Laurie Frank, Floyd ByarsGuest Co-Host: Beth Accomando, Miguel RodriguezIn Susan Seidelman's Making Mr. Right (1987), Frankie Stone (Ann Magnuson) is an ad executive whose new client, ChemTec, needs a major PR campaign in order to make the Ulysses robot (John Malkovich) palatable to the American public.Laurie Frank and Floyd Byars penned this sci-fi romantic comedy.The episode features the second of the three-part interview with actress Glenne Headly. Hear the first part on the Dick Tracy episode.Beth Accomando and Miguel Rodridguez join Mike to discuss this delightfully quirky film.Links:Buy Making Mr. Right on DVDVisit the official Ann Magnuson websiteVisit the Frank Picture GalleryRead Beth Accomando's film reviewsVisit the Horrible Imaginings Film Festival website
Special Guests: Glenne Headly, Garyn G. Roberts, Dan KamplingGuest Co-Hosts: Jared Case, Frank SantopadreWarren Beatty's Dick Tracy is a beautiful recreation of the four-color world of Chester Gould's square-jawed detective. It's also something of an uneasy marriage of Stephen Sondheim songs, Madonna, and a cavalcade of character actors as Gould's "Rogues Gallery."Interviews feature Glenne Headly who plays Tracy's love interest, Tess Trueheart, as well as author Garyn G. Roberts, and Dick Tracy afficianado Dan Kampling. We also hear just a bit of executive producer Floyd Mutrux from a previous interview.Jared Case and Frank Santopadre join Mike to debate if the film ultimately works.
The summer of 1983 was poised to be the season that SNL alum Dan Aykroyd broke out as a movie star with no less than three movies coming out in as many months. He found success co-starring with Eddie Murphy in the hit Trading Places and made a brief appearance in the tragedy plagued but profitable Twilight Zone: The Movie. But the third film, released before the other two and positioned as a starring vehicle for Aykroyd, would become one of the Canadian born actor's greatest flops. Doctor Detroit, released May 6, 1983, is mostly forgotten today but boasts a cast of actors that would go on to greater acclaim -- Howard Hesseman, Fran Drescher, Lynn Whitfield, future Mrs. Aykroyd Donna Dixon, TK Carter and in a blink-and-you'll-miss-her non speaking role, Glenne Headly. Dan and Vicky diagnose Doctor Detroit for Hot Date Episode 22 and agree that he's anemic and fairly malnourished. But there's plenty for our hosts to get fired up about as they give their passionate thoughts on Netflix's Making a Murderer and This American Life's Serial podcast and take us back to a time in the early 80's when AIDS claimed lives while our government dragged it's feet. Recording from the great city of Chicago (where Dan is doing a play and Vicky is visiting for the first time since living there fifteen years ago) our Hot Date hosts take you on a Devo and James Brown soaked visit to one of the early 80's lost comedy duds. Bend over and spread eagle for Hot Date 22: Doctor Detroit!
Guerreiros, em guarda! Nesta nova missão, Fábio Moreira (@facosmo), Rafael Motta (@RalfMotta), Marcos Moreira (@marvincosmo) e Ivanildo Campos (@ianildo1) vão acompanhar as investigações do homem da capa, que combate o crime junto com seu parceiro-mirim, nas ruas de uma cidade corrupta! E não, não é o Batman!
It’s back to school week here at Mass Moviecide! This week, we celebrate a couple of great teachers (whether fictional or not)! First up, we’re watching the true story of Jaime Escalante. It’s STAND AND DELIVER, directed by Ramon Menendez and starring Edward James Olmos, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Andy Garcia. After that, we head on down to music class with MR HOLLANDS OPUS, directed by Stephen Herek and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, and William H. Macy. Composition notebooks and number 2 pencils at the ready, folks! It’s time to commit MASS MOVIECIDE!
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