As a filmmaker, Ridley Scott has always been somewhat reticent to embrace the urgency of the contemporary moment. Though he’s never less than competent in terms of form and as a director of actors, Scott remains to this day a genre-driven stylist and a lover of the physical design, cultural symbols, and lingo that characterize a specific era. Scott’s best films called for immense design work, the crafting of vehicles and creatures, and the imagining of a culture far removed from our current standings; Gladiator and The Duellists bloomed largely due to exhaustive detailing and accuracy of historical costume design, if not historical events exactly.
Life in the present boxes Scott in creatively, as he’s in a way required to show us a world we will recognize as the same one that we will see when we exit the theater. That world doesn’t bore Scott necessarily,...
Life in the present boxes Scott in creatively, as he’s in a way required to show us a world we will recognize as the same one that we will see when we exit the theater. That world doesn’t bore Scott necessarily,...
- 5/19/2023
- by Chris Cabin
- Slant Magazine
Exclusive: The story of pool phenom Danny Basavich (aka Kid Delicious) is in the works for the small screen. Emmy-winning writer Todd Robinson (White Squall) and producer Rocky Lang have acquired Basavich’s life rights to develop an eight-episode limited series.
Basavich grew up in Manalapan Township, New Jersey. An innocuous kid turned international pool hustler, Basavich eventually had to turn his sights to professional pool when his impressive talent was exposed via the internet. No one would play him for money. He acquired the nickname Kid Delicious after defeating a player monickered Kid Vicious.
“Over two years ago, Robinson traveled to New Jersey to spend time with Danny and his family and has been staying in close contact with them since then in the hope of acquiring the much sought-after rights to this inspiring tale about the ultimate hustle,” said a representative for Robinson.
Robinson will write and direct...
Basavich grew up in Manalapan Township, New Jersey. An innocuous kid turned international pool hustler, Basavich eventually had to turn his sights to professional pool when his impressive talent was exposed via the internet. No one would play him for money. He acquired the nickname Kid Delicious after defeating a player monickered Kid Vicious.
“Over two years ago, Robinson traveled to New Jersey to spend time with Danny and his family and has been staying in close contact with them since then in the hope of acquiring the much sought-after rights to this inspiring tale about the ultimate hustle,” said a representative for Robinson.
Robinson will write and direct...
- 4/9/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
0:00 - Intro 8:10 - Review: Prometheus 43:55 - Headlines: Justice League Movie Back in Development, Guinness Book of World Records: The Movie, World War Z Rewrite and Reshoots, Jackass 4: Bad Grandpa, Django Unchained Trailer, Wreck-It Ralph Trailer 1:10:50 - Other Stuff We Watched: Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, Alien: Resurrection, It! The Terror from Beyond Space, Planet of the Vampires, Leviathan, DeepStar Six, Wanderlust, Dennis the Menace, White Squall, Black Rain 1:56:45 - Junk Mail: Directors We'd Like to See Return to a Franchise, Batman Premium Podcast, Cinema Studies Responses, Ti West vs. Alexandre Aja vs Rob Zombie, Movies That We Wish Found a Bigger Audience, Movie Catchphrases That Enter Your Daily Vernacular 2:17:45 - This Week's DVD Releases 2:18:30 - Outro 2:20:24 - Spoiler Discussion: Prometheus
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- 6/12/2012
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
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