According to a recent report from the Playlist, author Cormac McCarthy is currently in the midst of adapting his acclaimed and notoriously bleak 1985 novel "Blood Meridian; or, the Evening Redness in the West" into a screenplay for director John Hillcoat. Hillcoat was announced as the director of a "Blood Meridian" feature film in late April. The filmmaker also directed the 2009 McCarthy film adaptation "The Road" as well as the nihilistic Western "The Proposition" and the 2016 heist movie "Triple 9." McCarthy will not only write "Blood Meridian," but will serve as executive producer alongside his son, John Francis McCarthy.
McCarthy himself, the author of the celebrated novels "Suttree," "All the Pretty Horses," and "No Country for Old Men," has written several screenplays in his career, although only one -- the script for Ridley Scott's "The Counselor" -- has been produced to date. McCarthy wrote several unpublished screenplays for movies called "Cities of the Plain,...
McCarthy himself, the author of the celebrated novels "Suttree," "All the Pretty Horses," and "No Country for Old Men," has written several screenplays in his career, although only one -- the script for Ridley Scott's "The Counselor" -- has been produced to date. McCarthy wrote several unpublished screenplays for movies called "Cities of the Plain,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" is a modern American epic, a mythic tale that unflinchingly captures the brutal and violent spirit of the West, devoid of any of the heroism and starry-eyed optimism that's usually part of the genre. Shockingly, however, despite the novel's immense influence and grand cinematic scope, "Blood Meridian" has never been adapted for the big screen. Finally, after numerous attempts from a long line of filmmakers eager to bring McCarthy's seminal work to life, John Hillcoat will be directing a proper adaptation, according to Deadline.
There's an argument to be made that "Blood Meridian" is quite possibly the most savage, cynical, and terrifyingly bleak Western ever written. There are no beacons of justice in McCarthy's Wild West; instead, there's only the scalp-hunting Glanton gang and the carnage that his crew perpetuates. A deconstruction of Western tropes that serve to highlight the racist, imperialist, and sadistic...
There's an argument to be made that "Blood Meridian" is quite possibly the most savage, cynical, and terrifyingly bleak Western ever written. There are no beacons of justice in McCarthy's Wild West; instead, there's only the scalp-hunting Glanton gang and the carnage that his crew perpetuates. A deconstruction of Western tropes that serve to highlight the racist, imperialist, and sadistic...
- 4/28/2023
- by Andrew Housman
- Slash Film
“ It‘s a big day for American cycling, to have two Americans beat an Olympic champ. You must feel some pride.”
Kevin Costner in American Flyers (1985) will be available on Blu-ray April12th from Warner Archive. It can be ordered in advance from the Warner Archive Store Here
“American Flyers,” Rex Reed wrote, “is a fine mixture of romance, humor, and tears with action sequences among the most exciting ever captured on film. It’s guaranteed to increase the viewer’s adrenalin.” Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Costner and David Marshall Grant star as brothers struggling to win a world-class cycling competition — and regain the respect and affection they once shared. The painful events surrounding their father’s death have caused a rift. To bridge the gap, both enter the Hell of the West, a grueling race through the Rocky Mountains. While training and racing together, each confronts the fear...
Kevin Costner in American Flyers (1985) will be available on Blu-ray April12th from Warner Archive. It can be ordered in advance from the Warner Archive Store Here
“American Flyers,” Rex Reed wrote, “is a fine mixture of romance, humor, and tears with action sequences among the most exciting ever captured on film. It’s guaranteed to increase the viewer’s adrenalin.” Two-time Academy Award winner Kevin Costner and David Marshall Grant star as brothers struggling to win a world-class cycling competition — and regain the respect and affection they once shared. The painful events surrounding their father’s death have caused a rift. To bridge the gap, both enter the Hell of the West, a grueling race through the Rocky Mountains. While training and racing together, each confronts the fear...
- 3/28/2022
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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Need new books to add to your reading list? Quentin Tarantino has a few recommendations for you. The director, screenwriter, producer, and author shared his literary picks during an interview with “The Bigger Picture” podcast late last month to promote his debut novel, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Besides speaking in depth about what it took to pen his first novel, and revealing plans for a potential book version of “Reservoir Dogs,” Tarantino discussed the art of film novelizations, before listing a few books that inspired his work.
Regardless of whether you’re a fan of Tarantino’s movies, diving into a good book is the kind of fun summer activity that...
Need new books to add to your reading list? Quentin Tarantino has a few recommendations for you. The director, screenwriter, producer, and author shared his literary picks during an interview with “The Bigger Picture” podcast late last month to promote his debut novel, “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”
Besides speaking in depth about what it took to pen his first novel, and revealing plans for a potential book version of “Reservoir Dogs,” Tarantino discussed the art of film novelizations, before listing a few books that inspired his work.
Regardless of whether you’re a fan of Tarantino’s movies, diving into a good book is the kind of fun summer activity that...
- 7/19/2021
- by Latifah Muhammad
- Indiewire
Wynn Handman, co-founder of American Place Theatre, the Off Broadway non-profit company that championed a young playwright named Sam Shepard and cast such actors as Dustin Hoffman, Rául Juliá, Faye Dunaway, John Leguizamo and Robert de Niro early in their careers, died of complications from the coronavirus Saturday, April 11, at his home in New York. He was 97.
His death was announced by daughter Laura Handman.
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Handman co-founded Apt in 1963 with Michael Tolan and Sidney Lanier, and the theater would quickly become a vital player on the New York theater scene. In 1964, the theater staged its first full production: the Obie-winning The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller (Beyond the Fringe) and starring Frank Langella,...
His death was announced by daughter Laura Handman.
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Handman co-founded Apt in 1963 with Michael Tolan and Sidney Lanier, and the theater would quickly become a vital player on the New York theater scene. In 1964, the theater staged its first full production: the Obie-winning The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, directed by Jonathan Miller (Beyond the Fringe) and starring Frank Langella,...
- 4/13/2020
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Having brain-screamed at yet another driver blowing through a stop sign at 30 miles per hour in my quiet, child-filled residential neighborhood, I got to wondering: Whatever happened to Garp?
Released 37 years ago, in the summer of 1982, George Roy Hill’s film version of John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp seemed to define the absurd universe for many of us now of a certain age. And then suddenly, it was gone.
We still quote The Godfather. We apologize for Pretty Woman. We endlessly remake Star Wars.
But somehow Garp, with all of its crazy lessons about “lunacy and sorrow,” didn’t quite stick. When Robin Williams, who starred as T. S. Garp, died five years ago, the movie earned one-third a sentence in his New York Times obituary. It shared that smidgen of literary space with Popeye and Mork & Mindy, though Garp, which gave Williams his second major film role,...
Released 37 years ago, in the summer of 1982, George Roy Hill’s film version of John Irving’s novel The World According to Garp seemed to define the absurd universe for many of us now of a certain age. And then suddenly, it was gone.
We still quote The Godfather. We apologize for Pretty Woman. We endlessly remake Star Wars.
But somehow Garp, with all of its crazy lessons about “lunacy and sorrow,” didn’t quite stick. When Robin Williams, who starred as T. S. Garp, died five years ago, the movie earned one-third a sentence in his New York Times obituary. It shared that smidgen of literary space with Popeye and Mork & Mindy, though Garp, which gave Williams his second major film role,...
- 8/2/2019
- by Michael Cieply
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin Costner has returned to the western genre which has so often brought him success. It’s not feature films this time but with the new television series “Yellowstone,” currently bringing excellent ratings to the Paramount Network. Westerns have been good to Costner at the movies, with his most successful winning him two Oscars as producer and director of “Dances with Wolves” in 1990.
Costner almost had a career that ended before it really started. After very small roles in a number of big films such as Ron Howard’s “Night Shift” and the Jessica Lange vehicle “Frances” Costner then got what could have been a star-making role. However, his role as a suicide victim in flashback scenes for “The Big Chill” was cut by director Lawrence Kasdan. The same director wou would later make it up to Costner by casting him in a showy role in the film “Silverado.”
That...
Costner almost had a career that ended before it really started. After very small roles in a number of big films such as Ron Howard’s “Night Shift” and the Jessica Lange vehicle “Frances” Costner then got what could have been a star-making role. However, his role as a suicide victim in flashback scenes for “The Big Chill” was cut by director Lawrence Kasdan. The same director wou would later make it up to Costner by casting him in a showy role in the film “Silverado.”
That...
- 6/27/2018
- by Robert Pius and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Based on a novel published in 1978, "The World According To Garp" was released in 1982, and yet watching the film on the recently-released Blu-ray from Warner Archive, I was struck by how timely and even urgent the material felt, and how much more adult and daring it is than most of the movies released by studios today. Not only do they not make them like this anymore, but I'd offer the opinion that they never really did. How can a film from 1978 have a better handle on the times we're living in right now than most of the films coming out this year? After all, much of John Irving's novel is a direct reaction to the late '70s and what Irving thought of the social landscape at that particular moment. How relevant could it be today, since we've obviously progressed so much since then? You'd be surprised. For those...
- 9/30/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
The cycling movie is an expansive genre, covering everything from sports documentaries like the recent Pantani: The Accidental Death of a Cyclist to quirky comedies such as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and fondly remembered children's adventure movies, like the oh-so-1980s BMX Bandits.
Cycling as a professional sport is also well represented on screen, whether it's the Indiana University Little 500 race in classic comedy-drama Breaking Away, an animated Tour de France in Belleville Rendez-vous or the Paris–Roubaix in Jørgen Leth's stunning documentary A Sunday in Hell.
With the Tour de France about to enter its final week, Digital Spy takes a look at the ten best cycling movies.
1) Breaking Away (1979)
Peter Yates' wonderful small town comedy-drama won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and was nominated for four more, including Best Picture. Dennis Christopher stars as Dave Stoller, an Indiana teenager obsessed with the Italian cycling team, who gets...
Cycling as a professional sport is also well represented on screen, whether it's the Indiana University Little 500 race in classic comedy-drama Breaking Away, an animated Tour de France in Belleville Rendez-vous or the Paris–Roubaix in Jørgen Leth's stunning documentary A Sunday in Hell.
With the Tour de France about to enter its final week, Digital Spy takes a look at the ten best cycling movies.
1) Breaking Away (1979)
Peter Yates' wonderful small town comedy-drama won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and was nominated for four more, including Best Picture. Dennis Christopher stars as Dave Stoller, an Indiana teenager obsessed with the Italian cycling team, who gets...
- 7/20/2014
- Digital Spy
The late screenwriter Thomas S. Cook, who passed away in January aged 65, will be honored with the Morgan Cox Award for Guild service at the Writers' Guild Awards in February, it was announced today. Cook was best known for co-writing the 1979 issue thriller "The China Syndrome," for which he shared in an Oscar nomination and a WGA Award. (He and his co-writers lost the former to Steve Tesich for "Breaking Away.") It would be his only big-screen credit. Cook subsequently worked extensively in television, collaborating on such projects as a 2000 remake of "High Noon," and 1995's Laurence Fishburne-starring...
- 12/11/2013
- by Guy Lodge
- Hitfix
Remember when Jeff Daniels pined for Meryl Streep? You don't?
That happened -- on screen, anyway -- long before the actor earned his 2013 Emmy nomination, the first of his career, as anchorman Will McAvoy on HBO's "The Newsroom."
Among his numerous movies was director Mike Nichols' 1986 take on Nora Ephron's autobiographical best seller "Heartburn," casting Daniels as the smitten editor who haplessly watched food writer Streep (as Ephron, basically) fall for a columnist played by Jack Nicholson (more or less representing Carl Bernstein) at a wedding. Take a look:
From that point forward, Daniels' roles primarily were starring ones, such projects as "Terms of Endearment" and Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo" having boosted him toward that status. But television gave him a couple of his earliest roles, and he was just getting started as an iconic series was ending.
Pics: Before they were 2013 Emmy nominees...
That happened -- on screen, anyway -- long before the actor earned his 2013 Emmy nomination, the first of his career, as anchorman Will McAvoy on HBO's "The Newsroom."
Among his numerous movies was director Mike Nichols' 1986 take on Nora Ephron's autobiographical best seller "Heartburn," casting Daniels as the smitten editor who haplessly watched food writer Streep (as Ephron, basically) fall for a columnist played by Jack Nicholson (more or less representing Carl Bernstein) at a wedding. Take a look:
From that point forward, Daniels' roles primarily were starring ones, such projects as "Terms of Endearment" and Woody Allen's "The Purple Rose of Cairo" having boosted him toward that status. But television gave him a couple of his earliest roles, and he was just getting started as an iconic series was ending.
Pics: Before they were 2013 Emmy nominees...
- 9/17/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
More than 30 years after its release, 1979′s Breaking Away is still one of the most beloved coming-of-age films ever made, and its zero-to-hero rise from a tiny, under-the-radar movie with no major stars to a sleeper hit and Best Picture nominee is one of Hollywood’s great underdog stories. Over the years, no one has felt the love for Breaking Away more than Dennis Christopher, who starred as Dave Stoller, the wannabe-Italian midwestern teen misfit who, much to his close-minded father’s consternation, dreams of becoming a cycling champion.
When the 56-year-old actor came to the photo shoot for EW...
When the 56-year-old actor came to the photo shoot for EW...
- 10/9/2012
- by Josh Rottenberg
- EW - Inside Movies
Arthur Penn’s episodic, determinedly non-Hollywood drama follows the fortunes of three boys and a girl from high school through college and beyond. Steve Tesich’s layered, semi-autobigraphical screenplay was shot on location Indiana, Illinois and Pennsylvania with a non-star cast. Praised on release as one of the most evocative portraits of the 1960s, it has fallen through the cracks and is pretty much unknown today.
- 4/4/2012
- by Danny
- Trailers from Hell
With the annual Tour de France winding up this weekend, it seems like an opportune time to consider an inspiring moment from the most inspirational cycling movie ever made: Breaking Away. Written by the late Steve Tesich, who earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the movie was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Yates), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Barbara Barrie), and Best Music (Patrick Williams). Breaking Away is notable for its great cast, especially Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, and Jackie Earle Haley, who portray the small circle of friends surrounding Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher). Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley play his supportive parents, while Robyn Douglass is the object of his affections. You can also see familiar faces like...
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- 7/22/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com
With the annual Tour de France winding up this weekend, it seems like an opportune time to consider an inspiring moment from the most inspirational cycling movie ever made: Breaking Away. Written by the late Steve Tesich, who earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, the movie was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director (Peter Yates), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Barbara Barrie), and Best Music (Patrick Williams). Breaking Away is notable for its great cast, especially Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, and Jackie Earle Haley, who portray the small circle of friends surrounding Dave Stoller (Dennis Christopher). Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley play his supportive parents, while Robyn Douglass is the object of his affections. You can also see familiar faces like...
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- 7/22/2011
- by Movies.com
- Movies.com - Celebrity Gossip
Dishonesty becomes a ticking timebomb for a hapless lawyer who just wants a better life for himself and his family… and a wrestling cup
Win Win brings together two of the most interesting figures in American cinema, Paul Giamatti and Tom McCarthy. Both are distinguished character actors in mainstream movies: the versatile Giamatti was in Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, Oscar-nominated as the boxing manager in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, and played Tolstoy's secretary in The Last Station; Tom McCarthy appeared in Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, and George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck and was co-author of the story for Up, the delightful, Oscar-winning, animated film.
But their most rewarding work (artistically if not financially) has been in the independent sector where Giamatti has played the lead in Alexander Payne's beguiling wineland comedy Sideways and Tom McCarthy has directed The Station Agent and The Visitor.
Win Win brings together two of the most interesting figures in American cinema, Paul Giamatti and Tom McCarthy. Both are distinguished character actors in mainstream movies: the versatile Giamatti was in Saving Private Ryan, The Truman Show, Oscar-nominated as the boxing manager in Ron Howard's Cinderella Man, and played Tolstoy's secretary in The Last Station; Tom McCarthy appeared in Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, and George Clooney's Good Night, and Good Luck and was co-author of the story for Up, the delightful, Oscar-winning, animated film.
But their most rewarding work (artistically if not financially) has been in the independent sector where Giamatti has played the lead in Alexander Payne's beguiling wineland comedy Sideways and Tom McCarthy has directed The Station Agent and The Visitor.
- 5/23/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Eyewitness (Original Release Date: 13 February 1981)
Among the movies I’ve watched so far for the column, Eyewitness is the one most obviously of its era. Where something like The Incredible Shrinking Woman might stake its claim to the early eighties based wholly on eccentricities, Eyewitness nabs an adjacent plot with an endearing effortlessness. That couch you remember from your aunt’s trailer with the heavy wooden arm rests and the burlap-y plaid upholstery is there, as are the hard angles on cars, the idea of home video as a novelty, the pale-red-paint look of movie blood, and, perhaps most importantly, a nearness to the Vietnam War that makes coping with it seem more a given than some form of filmmaker fetishism.
The Vietnam War connection is rolled out bit by bit throughout Eyewitness’s first half, and I found myself wondering if audiences of the time would have been quicker...
Among the movies I’ve watched so far for the column, Eyewitness is the one most obviously of its era. Where something like The Incredible Shrinking Woman might stake its claim to the early eighties based wholly on eccentricities, Eyewitness nabs an adjacent plot with an endearing effortlessness. That couch you remember from your aunt’s trailer with the heavy wooden arm rests and the burlap-y plaid upholstery is there, as are the hard angles on cars, the idea of home video as a novelty, the pale-red-paint look of movie blood, and, perhaps most importantly, a nearness to the Vietnam War that makes coping with it seem more a given than some form of filmmaker fetishism.
The Vietnam War connection is rolled out bit by bit throughout Eyewitness’s first half, and I found myself wondering if audiences of the time would have been quicker...
- 2/17/2011
- by Thurston McQ
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Peter Yates, who died this past weekend at age 81, was one of several British directors invited to make movies in The States in the 1960s, all of whom had a particular and rare filmmaker’s gift for capturing a sense – the feel — of a setting often better than native-born filmmakers could. Yates’ obits talked about the car chase in Bullitt (1968), the Oscar nods for Breaking Away (1979) and The Dresser (1983), but they missed how this gift he shared with his UK colleagues was such a critical part of what made his best work so special.
Think of the hundreds – the thousands – of American-helmed movies set against the country’s great metropolises where the city sits inertly behind the action, as undistinguished and indistinguishable as a generic theatre backdrop. Then compare them to the almost hallucinogenically surreal Los Angeles of John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), Manhattan’s desperate, grubby demimonde in John Schlesinger...
Think of the hundreds – the thousands – of American-helmed movies set against the country’s great metropolises where the city sits inertly behind the action, as undistinguished and indistinguishable as a generic theatre backdrop. Then compare them to the almost hallucinogenically surreal Los Angeles of John Boorman’s Point Blank (1967), Manhattan’s desperate, grubby demimonde in John Schlesinger...
- 1/12/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Versatile British film director known for Bullitt, The Deep and Breaking Away
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
The director Peter Yates, who has died aged 81, helped Steve McQueen achieve iconic status with the cop movie Bullitt (1968), enjoyed a massive box-office success with The Deep (1977) and made one of the most beguiling of all youth movies in Breaking Away (1979). He maintained a steady career throughout five decades, initially in the theatre and then in mainstream cinema, but he suffered the critical neglect so often accorded those who tackle a variety of subjects and genres and become known, somewhat disparagingly, as journeyman directors.
Pauline Kael described him as a competent director "with a good serviceable technique for integrating staged movie action into documentary city locations". David Thomson suggested that, in America, Yates had "done nothing more profound than send hubcaps careering around corners". Bullitt's famous San Francisco car chase (later revived by Ford as part of...
- 1/11/2011
- by Brian Baxter
- The Guardian - Film News
British director Peter Yates, who died on January 9 at the age of 81, created one of Hollywood’s best car chase scenes in the 1968 thriller Bullitt, tracking a showdown on the hilly streets of San Francisco between Steve McQueen behind the wheel of a Ford Mustang Gt and two bad guys in a Dodge Charger. But for a chase with just as much excitement and even more emotional tug, there’s nothing to match what Yates did in Breaking Away (1979), pitting a teen on a racing bike against a big rig on the roads around Bloomington, Ind. Come to think of it,...
- 1/10/2011
- by Lisa Schwarzbaum
- EW - Inside Movies
(1979, 12, Second Sight)
Equally at home on either side of the Atlantic, British movie-maker Peter Yates hit both the American tempo and the box-office jackpot with his first Hollywood film, Bullitt (1968). But after working with big stars he made this, his true masterpiece, with a little-known cast and a young writer, Steve Tesich, who won an Oscar for his first screenplay. Dealing lightly and perceptively with class conflict and the inequities of the social system, it's an unerringly accurate coming-of-age story about four discontented blue-collar 18-year-old boys (admirably played by Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley and Dennis Quaid) spending their last summer of freedom in a midwestern university town, unemployed and patronised by snobbish students. Christopher is particularly endearing in the chief role as a teenage dreamer who becomes obsessed with cycling and adopts an Italian persona to distance himself from his father, a grumpy used-car salesman (Paul Dooley). Funny,...
Equally at home on either side of the Atlantic, British movie-maker Peter Yates hit both the American tempo and the box-office jackpot with his first Hollywood film, Bullitt (1968). But after working with big stars he made this, his true masterpiece, with a little-known cast and a young writer, Steve Tesich, who won an Oscar for his first screenplay. Dealing lightly and perceptively with class conflict and the inequities of the social system, it's an unerringly accurate coming-of-age story about four discontented blue-collar 18-year-old boys (admirably played by Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley and Dennis Quaid) spending their last summer of freedom in a midwestern university town, unemployed and patronised by snobbish students. Christopher is particularly endearing in the chief role as a teenage dreamer who becomes obsessed with cycling and adopts an Italian persona to distance himself from his father, a grumpy used-car salesman (Paul Dooley). Funny,...
- 7/10/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
Sam Cohn, the legendary talent agent who joined Icm at its inception, died Wednesday following a brief illness in New York, five days shy of his 80th birthday.
Cohn was with Icm from 1975 until February. A tried and true New Yorker, he chose to remain on the East Coast during his career, heading the agency's Big Apple office for almost 25 years.
Cohn's clients included Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Marshall Brickman, E.L. Doctorow, Nora Ephron, Bob Fosse, Jackie Gleason, John Guare, Kander & Ebb, Peter Maas, Arthur Miller, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Peter Stone, Meryl Streep, Steve Tesich, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Dianne Wiest, among many others.
Cohn was often referred to as "the most difficult man in the business to get on the phone."
In 1982, the New Yorker observed that in the previous year, there were "10 feature films and nine Broadway or...
Cohn was with Icm from 1975 until February. A tried and true New Yorker, he chose to remain on the East Coast during his career, heading the agency's Big Apple office for almost 25 years.
Cohn's clients included Woody Allen, Robert Altman, Marshall Brickman, E.L. Doctorow, Nora Ephron, Bob Fosse, Jackie Gleason, John Guare, Kander & Ebb, Peter Maas, Arthur Miller, Paul Newman, Mike Nichols, Arthur Penn, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, Peter Stone, Meryl Streep, Steve Tesich, Lily Tomlin, Kathleen Turner, Sigourney Weaver and Dianne Wiest, among many others.
Cohn was often referred to as "the most difficult man in the business to get on the phone."
In 1982, the New Yorker observed that in the previous year, there were "10 feature films and nine Broadway or...
- 5/6/2009
- by By Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
William Monahan is in negotiations to adapt Scott Rudin's long-gestating feature film of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed novel Blood Meridian, which is now set up at Paramount Pictures. Although no offer has been made, Ridley Scott has been approached to direct. Scott and Monahan are currently writing and directing two projects together -- Kingdom of Heaven and Tripoli, which are both set up at 20th Century Fox. In the last incarnation of Blood Meridian in the late 1990s, Tommy Lee Jones was set to direct and rewrite Steve Tesich's adaptation and take a small role in McCarthy's dark Western. The film was set up then with Rudin at Columbia Pictures. Columbia also snapped up the rights to McCarthy's Border trilogy, the first of which (All the Pretty Horses) was adapted for the big screen by Columbia and Miramax. Published before the trilogy in 1985, Blood Meridian, declared by some critics as one of the great novels of the 20th century, takes place on the Texas/Mexico border and looks at the uncompromising depiction of a crucial junction in American history. Set in the 1840s, the story centers on a young boy who gets in with a gang of outlaws employed by the territorial governors to clear Indians from the Mexican border area. Other Monahan credits include Martin Scorsese's Infernal Affairs at Warner Bros. Pictures and Jurassic Park IV at Universal Pictures. Monahan is repped by Endeavor. Scott is repped by WMA. Both agencies declined comment.
- 5/10/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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