Tag: Ellen Burstyn
-
‘Exorcist’ Box Office: ‘The Believer’ Eyes $28M Domestic Opening, $47.1M Globally
The Exorcist: Believer topped the Friday box office with $11.9 million, including $2.9 million in previews. At this pace, the R-rated horror pic should open to $28 million domestically, a tepid number considering the high price paid for rights to the series.Globally, the film looks to open to $47.1 million for the weekend.The David Gordon…
-
Ellen Burstyn Says Her Career Continues Because ‘Everybody Else Who Could Play Those Parts Has Already Died’
Ellen Burstyn is a screen legend, and at age 90, she said she’s more in demand now as her peers have all already “died.”The “Exorcist: Believer” star, who returns to the franchise 50 years after William Friedkin’s original film, told her “Law and Order: Organized Crime” co-star Christopher Meloni while in conversation for Interview magazine…
-
David Gordon Green Was ‘Curious’ What William Friedkin Would Think of ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
David Gordon Green was hoping “The Exorcist” director William Friedkin would live to see “The Exorcist: Believer.”Friedkin, who died in August 2023 at age 87, helmed the original “Exorcist” film in 1973, which earned Best Picture and Best Director Oscar nominations. Green is directing a new “Exorcist” trilogy for Blumhouse and Universal Pictures; the first…
-
Where to Watch and Stream ‘The Exorcist: Believer’
Since 1973, The Exorcist has turned the heads of moviegoers across America. After two more sequential releases up til the 1990s and two prequels that came out in the 2000s, the next installment of an all-new trilogy is kicking off with The Exorcist: Believer. This time, there’s double the trouble when two little girls go…
-
The Exorcist review – Friedkin’s head-swivelling horror is still diabolically inspired
The 50th anniversary extended director’s cut of the 1973 tale of teenage possession still shocksWilliam Friedkin’s deadly serious contemporary horror, adapted for the screen from the bestseller by novelist William Peter Blatty, is back now in cinemas for its 50-year anniversary in the extended director’s cut. This is the film that whispered its evil into…
-
‘Mother, Couch’s Director Spills the Tea on How He Scored His Dream Cast
Starring Ewan McGregor and The Exorcist’s Ellen Burstyn, Mother, Couch marks writer-director Niclas Larsson’s debut feature film, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. While there promoting the film, Larsson stopped by Collider’s studio at the Cinema Center by Marbl to speak with Editor-in-chief Steve Weintraub about this unexpected journey with an unbelievable…
-
Mother, Couch! review – a first-rate cast gets lost in a second-rate muddle
Excellent performances from Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans and Lara Flynn Boyle are wasted on a baffling, surreal family indieHeads will be left thoroughly scratched by this rather bewildering curio, a rambling yet not entirely ineffectual comedy-drama about a fractured family forced together by unusual circumstance, starting out somewhat of this world before falling…
-
In 1973, ‘The Exorcist’ Was as Big as Watergate
There was a lot going on at the end of 1973 heading into the new year. The President of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon was embroiled in the fallout from the bungled robbery attempt of the Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, and a revolutionary horror classic hit movie screens just a day…
-
First ‘Mother, Couch’ Image: Ewan McGregor and Rhys Ifans Are Baffled
Ewan McGregor returns to the big screen in the upcoming film Mother, Couch, the feature-length directorial debut of Niclas Larsson, also starring Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn and Taylor Russell. Russell recently garnered much praise for her performance in Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, as well as in Trey Edward Shults’ 2019 feature Waves. The upcoming…
-
Charades, UTA Board ‘Mother, Couch,’ With Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor (Exclusive)
Charades and UTA Independent Film Group have boarded “Mother, Couch,” the high-profile feature debut of Niclas Larsson, which has just dropped its first-look image, shared in exclusivity with Variety.An all-star cast is led by Taylor Russell, Ewan McGregor, Ellen Burstyn, Rhys Ifans, Lara Flynn Boyle and F. Murray Abraham and now Lake Bell.Charades will handle…