Director Kevin Reynolds’ graphic, gritty desert combat movie is about a lost tank in the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Besides being 98 an unpleasant downer, it now reminds us that we got into the exact same fix just a decade after the Russkis threw in the towel. Cruel Russki soldiers commit atrocities against vengeful Moujahedin resistance, and there’s really nobody to root for. George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer and Stephen Baldwin endure a rough ordeal out in the dirt, hoping for the next war movie breakthrough hit.
The Beast
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #143
1988 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date July 27, 2022 / The Beast of War / Available from Imprint / 39.95
Starring: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, Kabir Bedi, Erick Avari, Haim Gerafi, Shosh Marciano.
Cinematography: Douglas Milsome
Production Designer: Kuli Sander
Art Director: Richard James
Film Editor: Peter Boyle
Original Music: Mark Isham
Written...
The Beast
Region Free Blu-ray
Viavision [Imprint] #143
1988 / Color / 1:78 widescreen / 111 min. / Street Date July 27, 2022 / The Beast of War / Available from Imprint / 39.95
Starring: George Dzundza, Jason Patric, Steven Bauer, Stephen Baldwin, Don Harvey, Kabir Bedi, Erick Avari, Haim Gerafi, Shosh Marciano.
Cinematography: Douglas Milsome
Production Designer: Kuli Sander
Art Director: Richard James
Film Editor: Peter Boyle
Original Music: Mark Isham
Written...
- 8/16/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Theater, film and television writer-director Robert Allan Ackerman died Jan. 10. He was 77.
Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theater directing awards.
Ackerman started out directing at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. In the 1980s his theater productions included Martin Sherman’s Tony nominated “Bent,” starring Richard Gere and David Dukes; John Byrne’s “Slab Boys,” starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer and William Mastrosimone’s “Extremities” starring Susan Sarandon. He went on to direct Peter Allen in “Legs Diamond” and Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome.”
When reached for comment, Al Pacino said, “I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace. To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created.
Nominated twice for Golden Globes and five times for Emmys, Ackerman also received numerous theater directing awards.
Ackerman started out directing at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre. In the 1980s his theater productions included Martin Sherman’s Tony nominated “Bent,” starring Richard Gere and David Dukes; John Byrne’s “Slab Boys,” starring Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon and Val Kilmer and William Mastrosimone’s “Extremities” starring Susan Sarandon. He went on to direct Peter Allen in “Legs Diamond” and Al Pacino in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome.”
When reached for comment, Al Pacino said, “I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace. To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created.
- 1/13/2022
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Robert Allan Ackerman, the director whose television work scored five Emmy nominations and who directed acclaimed Broadway productions including Bent and Extremities, died Jan. 10 of kidney failure at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 77.
His death was announced by family through a spokesman.
“I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace,” said actor Al Pacino, who starred in Ackerman’s 1992 Broadway staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. “To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created. When an artist has that special gift it is unexplainable, it just happens. When he stopped directing, he started writing again and his writing also had that same magic. He will be missed.”
In 2016, Pacino would re-team with Ackerman in a Pasadena Playhouse production of God Looked Away,...
His death was announced by family through a spokesman.
“I love Bob. I loved being around him, his aurora, his steady peace,” said actor Al Pacino, who starred in Ackerman’s 1992 Broadway staging of Oscar Wilde’s Salome. “To work with him was joyous. He understood the language of theater art and communicated it with such ease. His gift was intangible and there’s no way of understanding how he created. When an artist has that special gift it is unexplainable, it just happens. When he stopped directing, he started writing again and his writing also had that same magic. He will be missed.”
In 2016, Pacino would re-team with Ackerman in a Pasadena Playhouse production of God Looked Away,...
- 1/13/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Johnnie Planco, a former Wma agent and co-founder of the Parseghian Planco management and production company, died on Sunday from a brain and respiratory infection. He was 68.
Planco started out in the Wma mailroom in 1972 and rose in the ranks at the talent agency before he left in 2000. He was the youngest department head and senior vice president in the company’s history, and ran both the motion picture department in New York and the William Morris talent department, which he created. Some of the clients he represented included Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, John Malkovich, Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon.
After leaving, he and Gene Parseghian formed Parseghian Planco and represented Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Schrader, Judi Dench, F. Murray Abraham and many others. The company produced two feature films, “Perfume” in 2001 with Jeff Goldblum and Peter Gallagher and Schrader’s “The Walker” in 2007 starring Woody Harrelson, plus William Mastrosimone’s...
Planco started out in the Wma mailroom in 1972 and rose in the ranks at the talent agency before he left in 2000. He was the youngest department head and senior vice president in the company’s history, and ran both the motion picture department in New York and the William Morris talent department, which he created. Some of the clients he represented included Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, John Malkovich, Michael Douglas and Susan Sarandon.
After leaving, he and Gene Parseghian formed Parseghian Planco and represented Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Schrader, Judi Dench, F. Murray Abraham and many others. The company produced two feature films, “Perfume” in 2001 with Jeff Goldblum and Peter Gallagher and Schrader’s “The Walker” in 2007 starring Woody Harrelson, plus William Mastrosimone’s...
- 6/6/2019
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Johnnie Planco, the longtime New York-based Wma agent who partnered with Gene Parseghian in the management/production company Parseghian Planco, has died. Planco passed away on Sunday, June 2 in New York City, after struggling with an infection that quickly affected both his brain and respiratory system. He was 68.
Planco was born and raised in New York City, as was his father and grandfather, latter of whom was a Rough Rider under Teddy Roosevelt. Planco joined the famed Wma mailroom after graduating Fordham U at Lincoln Center with a BA in Theater. This was in 1972, and he would remain with that agency until 2000.
In those 28 years he became the youngest Department Head and Senior Vice President in the agency’s history, running both the Motion Picture department in New York and creating and running the William Morris Talent Department. Among the clients he represented were Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, John Malkovich,...
Planco was born and raised in New York City, as was his father and grandfather, latter of whom was a Rough Rider under Teddy Roosevelt. Planco joined the famed Wma mailroom after graduating Fordham U at Lincoln Center with a BA in Theater. This was in 1972, and he would remain with that agency until 2000.
In those 28 years he became the youngest Department Head and Senior Vice President in the agency’s history, running both the Motion Picture department in New York and creating and running the William Morris Talent Department. Among the clients he represented were Tom Hanks, Richard Gere, John Malkovich,...
- 6/3/2019
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
J.B.J Film and Elevated Films announced today that acclaimed actor Ben Foster has been cast as the lead in director Petr Jákl’s historical action drama Medieval. Jákl wrote the screenplay and will produce alongside Cassian Elwes. The film will be produced with the support of private investors and many Czech state institutions and regions, including the Czech Film Fund, the Prague Film Fund, Creative Europe – Media and others. Principal photography is scheduled to begin this fall in Prague and the surrounding Czech countryside.
The film is inspired by the origin story of the legendary 14th century warlord Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Foster), who along with his band of mercenaries became entangled with an heiress and battled a rival King in a struggle for equality for the Czech people.
Foster is best known for his roles in Hell Or High Water, 3:10 To Yuma, The Messenger and Alpha Dog.
The film is inspired by the origin story of the legendary 14th century warlord Jan Zizka of Trocnov (Foster), who along with his band of mercenaries became entangled with an heiress and battled a rival King in a struggle for equality for the Czech people.
Foster is best known for his roles in Hell Or High Water, 3:10 To Yuma, The Messenger and Alpha Dog.
- 8/23/2018
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Political intrigue is the order of business in Long Wharf Theatre's production of Ride the Tiger, by William Mastrosimone, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. The play will take place from tonight, March 27, 2013 through April 21, 2013 on The Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck III Mainstage. Tickets are 40-70. The press opening is Wednesday, April 3 at 730 p.m. Check out the production shots below...
- 3/29/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Political intrigue is the order of business in Long Wharf Theatre's production of Ride the Tiger, by William Mastrosimone, directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. The play will begin performances tonight, March 27, 2013 and will play through April 21, 2013 on The Claire Tow Stage in the C. Newton Schenck III Mainstage. Tickets are 40-70. The press opening is Wednesday, April 3 at 730 p.m.
- 3/27/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Theater mavens know that staged readings — i.e. intimate, paired down (often to just a few tables and chairs) presentations of unproduced plays — rarely grow into full Broadway productions featuring the same actors. For every How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (which Daniel Radcliffe read in 2009 and is now headlining), there’s a Promises, Promises (which Anne Hathaway read in 2008 and Kristin Chenoweth starred in the next year). And that’s if the show ever makes it to a theater in the first place.
But it doesn’t mean we can’t get excited when Variety reports that Jon Hamm,...
But it doesn’t mean we can’t get excited when Variety reports that Jon Hamm,...
- 3/8/2011
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
There have been rumors for months that James Franco is on his way to Broadway, and the Oscar host said last week that he hopes the upcoming Nicole Kidman-led revival of Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth will be his next project. (When contacted by EW, the show’s rep could only confirm that Franco might be headed to the Great White Way this fall). Am I shocked and excited? If anything James Franco decides to do still surprises you, you must also get a little rush when the sun rises or your toilet flushes, yet I trust him...
- 2/4/2011
- by Aubry D'Arminio
- EW.com - PopWatch
Chloe Sevigny and Katie Holmes have reportedly been approached to appear in a new Broadway show together. Both actresses have been asked to star in William Mastrosimone's play Extremeties. The play is centred on a woman who "turns the tables" on a would-be rapist, and then struggles to decide what to do with the man, along with her two roommates. Sevigny has yet to sign for the role, telling Entertainment Weekly: "I was reading it and I'm kind of seeing how (more)...
- 12/28/2010
- by By Tom Eames
- Digital Spy
Chloe Sevigny is to join Katie Holmes on Broadway in rape drama Extremities.
Holmes has been cast as a sex attack victim who seeks revenge in William Mastrosimone's play.
The role of Marjorie in the production has been played by both Susan Sarandon and Farrah Fawcett.
The Kenny Leon-directed play is set to open in New York next year.
Holmes has been cast as a sex attack victim who seeks revenge in William Mastrosimone's play.
The role of Marjorie in the production has been played by both Susan Sarandon and Farrah Fawcett.
The Kenny Leon-directed play is set to open in New York next year.
- 12/28/2010
- WENN
The cast party might be the most interesting part of this show.
Katie Holmes is rumored to be headed back to Broadway, as she's considering taking a role in an upcoming production of William Mastrosimone's drama 'Extremities.' Joining her, perhaps, will be 'Big Love' star Chloe Sevigny, Entertainment Weekly reports.
"I was reading it and I'm kind of seeing how the cast is gonna pan out," Sevigny told the site. "I know the director is great but I feel like the cast has gotta be real strong. And it's such a commitment."
Sevigny, whose run in 'Big Love' will end this season, has starred in two off-Broadway productions, including a 1998 run of 'Hazelwood Junior High.' Holmes, on the other hand, featured in a 2008 production of Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons.'...
Katie Holmes is rumored to be headed back to Broadway, as she's considering taking a role in an upcoming production of William Mastrosimone's drama 'Extremities.' Joining her, perhaps, will be 'Big Love' star Chloe Sevigny, Entertainment Weekly reports.
"I was reading it and I'm kind of seeing how the cast is gonna pan out," Sevigny told the site. "I know the director is great but I feel like the cast has gotta be real strong. And it's such a commitment."
Sevigny, whose run in 'Big Love' will end this season, has starred in two off-Broadway productions, including a 1998 run of 'Hazelwood Junior High.' Holmes, on the other hand, featured in a 2008 production of Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons.'...
- 12/27/2010
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
Katie Holmes is contemplating a return to Broadway for a production of William Mastrosimone's psychological drama Extremities.
Show producers want to launch the play in the Big Apple by the 2011-2012 season - and Holmes is at the top of the list to star, according to the New York Times.
A spokeswoman for the actress confirms that she has been approached about the role.
The play centres around a woman who turns the tables on her would-be rapist before contemplating what to do with him with her two roommates.
Extremities premiered Off Broadway in 1982 with Susan Sarandon in the lead role, later taken over by Farrah Fawcett, who also played the part in a 1986 film version. It has never been produced for Broadway.
Holmes made her Broadway debut in 2008 in a revival of All My Sons.
Show producers want to launch the play in the Big Apple by the 2011-2012 season - and Holmes is at the top of the list to star, according to the New York Times.
A spokeswoman for the actress confirms that she has been approached about the role.
The play centres around a woman who turns the tables on her would-be rapist before contemplating what to do with him with her two roommates.
Extremities premiered Off Broadway in 1982 with Susan Sarandon in the lead role, later taken over by Farrah Fawcett, who also played the part in a 1986 film version. It has never been produced for Broadway.
Holmes made her Broadway debut in 2008 in a revival of All My Sons.
- 12/16/2010
- WENN
New York, New York (X17online) - Katie Holmes has reportedly been offered the starring role in a Broadway revival of William Mastrosimone's edgy drama Extremities. The controversial play focuses on a woman (Holmes) who turns the tables on her rapist. With the help of her roommates, she struggles to decide what to do with him. Chloe Sevigny has reportedly been offered a role as one of the roommates. Extremities is expected to run during the 2011-2012 season. Holmes is currently shooting the comedy Jack and Jill, co-starring Adam Sandler as both Jack and Jill, with Dana Carvey and Al Pachino.
- 12/16/2010
- x17online.com
Katie Holmes has been approached about the possibility of returning to Broadway, reports The New York Times. A representative for the actress has confirmed to the newspaper that she has been offered a part in the drama production Extremities but declined to reveal any further details. The William Mastrosimone play revolves around a woman who manages to fight back against a would-be rapist in her home and ties him up before her roommates return and they discuss what will happen next. Holmes, who recently announced the Golden Globe Award nominees in Los Angeles, (more)...
- 12/16/2010
- by By Lara Martin
- Digital Spy
Katie Holmes is in talks to return to Broadway, Access Hollywood has learned.
The 31-year-old actress, who made her well-received Broadway debut in 2008's staging of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," has been offered the starring role in William Mastrosimone's "Extremeties," a rep for Katie told Access.
"Extremities" - a psychological drama -- tells the story of a young woman who manages to overtake a would-be rapist in her home, and the drama that ensues as she and her roommates decide what to do with the man.
Producers were reportedly looking to cast Matt Dillon as the ...
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The 31-year-old actress, who made her well-received Broadway debut in 2008's staging of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons," has been offered the starring role in William Mastrosimone's "Extremeties," a rep for Katie told Access.
"Extremities" - a psychological drama -- tells the story of a young woman who manages to overtake a would-be rapist in her home, and the drama that ensues as she and her roommates decide what to do with the man.
Producers were reportedly looking to cast Matt Dillon as the ...
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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
- 12/15/2010
- by nobody@accesshollywood.com (AccessHollywood.com Editorial Staff)
- Access Hollywood
Anybody who has taken an acting class has likely looked at the instructor and wondered, "What if the tables were turned? How would I be as the one devising the improvisations and coaching students through scenes?"Such thoughts get self-censored for various reasons. Even actors with extensive experience and knowledge sometimes feel unworthy to teach a class. Others may feel that if they were to pursue teaching, it would interfere with their performing career—perhaps even signaling defeat. After all, the maxim "Those who can't do, teach" has been repeated so many times that people tend to believe it. But teaching acting doesn't necessarily mean giving up on acting.Back Stage spoke with five actors who have incorporated teaching or coaching into their working lives. They shared how they came to be teachers, how they've grown in the classroom or studio, and how they balance the twin parts of their work.
- 4/9/2010
- backstage.com
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