Fifty years ago this month, Steve Railsback was a 23-year-old actor in New York when he caught a newspaper headline that Sharon Tate and four others had been brutally massacred in a house in L.A. “I remember thinking, ‘God, what’s happening in this fucking world?’” Railsback recalls.
Seven years later, in 1976, Railsback would be part of one of the first attempts to depict what transpired that horrific night. In the two-part TV movie Helter Skelter, based on the Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry best-seller about Charles Manson, his Family,...
Seven years later, in 1976, Railsback would be part of one of the first attempts to depict what transpired that horrific night. In the two-part TV movie Helter Skelter, based on the Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry best-seller about Charles Manson, his Family,...
- 8/19/2019
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
Two years after the Summer of Love in 1967 came the summer of blood. That is when the followers of cult leader Charles Manson killed actress Sharon Tate, wife of director Roman Polanski, as well as her unborn baby and four other victims in her Los Angeles home. The coven-like collective would commit a total of nine murders in four locations in July and August of 1969.
The macabre deadly spree and the mad mastermind figure behind them became a cultural phenomenon, starting with the 1974 book, “Helter Skelter,” co-written by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Manson took the term from a Beatles’ song. An acclaimed 1976 two-part TV film based on the book was nominated for three Emmys scored a household share of 36.5, making it the 16th highest-rated movie to air on network TV.
A half-century later, filmmakers are hoping that audiences will be drawn again to the skin-crawling horrors that Manson...
The macabre deadly spree and the mad mastermind figure behind them became a cultural phenomenon, starting with the 1974 book, “Helter Skelter,” co-written by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry. Manson took the term from a Beatles’ song. An acclaimed 1976 two-part TV film based on the book was nominated for three Emmys scored a household share of 36.5, making it the 16th highest-rated movie to air on network TV.
A half-century later, filmmakers are hoping that audiences will be drawn again to the skin-crawling horrors that Manson...
- 3/18/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
A charismatic cold-blooded killer is a far cry from the dim-witted yet endearing country bumpkin Ryan Kwanten portrays on the sexy HBO series "True Blood" — but the Australian actor is taking on the challenge.
Kwanten has signed on to play Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious criminals, in the movie "The Family." Kwanten announced the news during a press conference for his Western, "Red Hill," TheWrap.com first reported.
Written and directed by "The Machinist" scribe Scott Kosar, "The Family" follows Manson during the late 1960s, when he instructed his acolytes to commit several murders, including, most famously, the slaying of actress Sharon Tate in 1969. Manson has spent nearly four decades in prison.
When MTV News spoke with Kwanten this week, he admitted the role will be a massive undertaking. "It's going to be quite a challenge,...
Kwanten has signed on to play Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious criminals, in the movie "The Family." Kwanten announced the news during a press conference for his Western, "Red Hill," TheWrap.com first reported.
Written and directed by "The Machinist" scribe Scott Kosar, "The Family" follows Manson during the late 1960s, when he instructed his acolytes to commit several murders, including, most famously, the slaying of actress Sharon Tate in 1969. Manson has spent nearly four decades in prison.
When MTV News spoke with Kwanten this week, he admitted the role will be a massive undertaking. "It's going to be quite a challenge,...
- 10/29/2010
- MTV Movie News
'True Blood' actor will star in 'The Family' movie.
By Amy Wilkinson
Ryan Kwanten
Photo: MTV News
A charismatic cold-blooded killer is a far cry from the dim-witted yet endearing country bumpkin Ryan Kwanten portrays on the sexy HBO series "True Blood" — but the Australian actor is taking on the challenge.
Kwanten has signed on to play Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious criminals, in the movie "The Family." Kwanten announced the news during a press conference for his Western, "Red Hill," TheWrap.com first reported.
Written and directed by "The Machinist" scribe Scott Kosar, "The Family" follows Manson during the late 1960s, when he instructed his acolytes to commit several murders, including, most famously, the slaying of actress Sharon Tate in 1969. Manson has spent nearly four decades in prison.
When MTV News spoke with Kwanten this week, he admitted the role will be a massive undertaking. "It's going to be quite a challenge,...
By Amy Wilkinson
Ryan Kwanten
Photo: MTV News
A charismatic cold-blooded killer is a far cry from the dim-witted yet endearing country bumpkin Ryan Kwanten portrays on the sexy HBO series "True Blood" — but the Australian actor is taking on the challenge.
Kwanten has signed on to play Charles Manson, one of America's most notorious criminals, in the movie "The Family." Kwanten announced the news during a press conference for his Western, "Red Hill," TheWrap.com first reported.
Written and directed by "The Machinist" scribe Scott Kosar, "The Family" follows Manson during the late 1960s, when he instructed his acolytes to commit several murders, including, most famously, the slaying of actress Sharon Tate in 1969. Manson has spent nearly four decades in prison.
When MTV News spoke with Kwanten this week, he admitted the role will be a massive undertaking. "It's going to be quite a challenge,...
- 10/29/2010
- MTV Music News
Creator of the CBS television series Ghost Whisperer, writer and director John Gray’s new movie has been described as an emotionally charged coming of age drama. “White Irish Drinkers” is based on his childhood memories of growing up in working class Brooklyn."It's a personal story I couldn't let go of." Gray told the La Times. Gray wrote the script over a decade ago but after he failed to get backing for the project the director decided to fund the production himself. Set in the 1970’s in Bay Ridge Brooklyn the film is a semi-autobiographical tale that explores the lives of two brothers’ 18 year old Brian and his older brother Danny. The movie follows the siblings as they try to make it on the streets and deal with their abusive Irish Catholic father and a long suffering mother. "I had an easier time of it than Brian, but I...
- 9/16/2010
- IrishCentral
Four more days to go! Yes, almost all of the doors on the Boxwish advent calendar have been opened and the chocolate swiftly scoffed as we hit the last straight in the run-up to Christmas. This means that online shopping is now over at most stores (though today’s the last day at Amazon), the last date for posting your Christmas cards has passed and it’s time to start thawing out your turkey. We hope you’re looking forward to it as much as we are, but if not we’ve got a nice selection of DVDs heading your way to help distract from the Christmas chaos. Please note these aren’t out from today but are hitting store shelves on Friday.
If you see… Man on Wire, the remarkable award-winning documentary following Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center.
If you see… Man on Wire, the remarkable award-winning documentary following Philippe Petit’s 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York’s World Trade Center.
- 12/22/2008
- Boxwish.com
A stop-motion-animated musical inspired by the Manson family crimes is about to hit the midnight-movie circuit. Wellspring said Thursday that it has acquired all North American rights to director John Roecker's Live Freaky! Die Freaky! which boasts a voice cast headed by Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day and Tim Armstrong of Rancid and Operation Ivy. Tim Armstrong's Hellcat Pictures produced the movie, its first project. Freaky tells the tale of a young man (voiced by Billie Joe Armstrong) in the year 3069 who discovers a copy of Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's Helter Skelter, which described the murders committed in the '60s by Charles Manson and his followers. Treating the book as a biblical text and adopting Manson as a messiah, the young man preaches a better world through "music, murder and mayhem."...
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