Tag: Die Hard
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Berlin: Bruce Willis Sci-Fi Actioner ‘Anti-Life’ Sells Wide
Bruce Willis still packs them in.Anti-Life, the latest action feature from the Die Hard star, racked up sales worldwide at the European Film Market (Efm) in Berlin, with Film Mode Entertainment closing deals across Europe and Asia.Film Mode confirmed deals with the likes of Metropolitan (France), Scanbox (Scandinavia), Signature Entertainment (U.K.) and Twelve Oaks Pictures…
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Kevin Spacey Rebreaks Silence With Annual Creepy ‘House Of Cards’ Video Of Christmas Cheer
Happy holidays! Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey is back. After a year of silence from the thespian, heard last year offering creepy holiday cheer, vowing to not back down against multiple accusations of sexual assault, rape, and harassment that torpedoed his career—done in the voice of his character President Frank Underwood on Netflix’s “House Of Cards”—Spacey…
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‘Sudden Death’ Remake With a “Comedic Twist” is Headed to Netflix
Remember Sudden Death? It was a 1995 Die Hard knock-off set in an arena during a hockey game. Jean-Claude Van Damme played a firefighter who has to take on a group of terrorist – lead by Powers Boothe! – holding the entire arena hostage. Oh, and the Vice President is at the hockey game, too.…
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How Disney Will Handle Fox Archive Titles for Classic Bookings
As the merging of two distinct studio ecologies continues under Disney, questions have come up during the transition about how Twentieth Century Fox’s library titles will be managed under new ownership. Last week, after Fox put a halt to accepting any new dates, alarmed exhibitors who book repertory theaters or supplement first-run offerings with classic…
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The ultimate festive film? No, it’s not Die Hard | Hadley Freeman
A true Christmas movie must adhere to the following scientific, mathematical and logical rulesCome Christmas, I can sit back quietly while others make loud arguments about how Home Alone/Die Hard/Love Actually is the ultimate Christmas movie – but that is only because I have knocked myself into a chocolate coma and no longer have the…
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Daily Podcast: How To Save The Die Hard Franchise, What’s The Most You’d Pay For A Movie Ticket, Stranger Things 3, Spider-Man, Toxic Avengers, Jordan Peele
On the December 11, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, and senior writer Ben Pearson to talk about the latest movie and tv news, including Die Hard, Stranger Things 3, Spider-Man: Far From Home, Toxic Avengers, Jordan Peele and London movie theater…
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Daily Podcast: What Is & Is Not a Christmas Movie, Golden Globe Nominations, Chucky, Jump Street, Resident Evil, MoviePass, Die Hard
On the December 6, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor in chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Filmed weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to talk the latest film and tv news, including Golden Globe nominations, Chucky, 21 Jump Street, Resident Evil, MoviePass, and Die Hard. And /Film…
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New Poll Shows Most People Don’t Consider ‘Die Hard’ to be a Christmas Movie, So Can We Bury This Argument Already?
It’s the holiday season, which means it’s time for being to argue incessantly over whether or not Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Every year, this subject comes up, to the point where the argument has grown tired and stale. Hoping to put an end to this once and for all, a new survey was…
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‘Die Hard 6’ will officially be called ‘McClane’
The ‘Die Hard‘ franchise has never gone in for plain-Jane sequel titles like ‘Die Hard 3’ or ‘Die Hard 4’, opting instead for the much more badass ‘Die Hard With a Vengeance’ and ‘Live Free or Die Hard,’ titles that call to mind nothing but explosions and one-liners.But for the upcoming sixth installment they’re going…
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Daily Podcast: The Making of ‘Die Hard’, and How It Impacted a Generation of Filmmakers
On the July 17, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson presents a special episode of the podcast looking back on the making of John McTiernan‘s 1988 classic Die Hard, featuring snippets of interviews with people who made it and filmmakers who were inspired by it. You can subscribe to /Film Daily…