Tag: Midnight Run
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Director Martin Brest Revisits the Triumphs of ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and ‘Midnight Run,’ and Reflects On His Post-‘Gigli’ Hollywood Exile (Exclusive)
Ascending the driveway of a sprawling home in the Hollywood Hills for a face-to-face interview with Martin Brest, the legendary — and legendarily reclusive — director of “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Midnight Run,” it was tough not to immediately think of Xanadu, the protective enclave Charles Foster Kane retired to at the end of “Citizen…
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Working With Robin Williams Earned Robert De Niro A Broken Nose
We’ve seen Robert De Niro mix it up quite a bit when it comes to physicality on screen. We’ve seen the decorated actor involved in fights, stabbings, and shootouts in movies such as “Midnight Run,” “The Godfather Part II,” and “Heat.” De Niro managed to walk off those film sets unscathed, but it was an…
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Frank Pesce, ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Actor,’ Dies at 75
Frank Pesce, a character actor whose many credits include “Top Gun,” “Beverly Hills Cop” and “Midnight Run,” has died of complications from dementia, his girlfriend, Tammy Scher confirmed to TheWrap on Wednesday. He was 75.“It’s very sad. He was loved by so many and had more friends than anyone I’ve ever known in my life.…
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Venom: Let There Be Carnage Deleted Scene: Carnage Will Eat Your Face
Venom is back, but unfortunately, so is his unholy spawn. Following the success of Marvel’s “Venom” in 2018, the sassy symbiote returns in “
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Charles Grodin, ‘Midnight Run’ and ‘Beethoven’ Star, Dies at 86
Charles Grodin, an actor known for movies, television, and theater, died Tuesday at the age of 86.The New York Times reported he had bone marrow cancer.Grodin had an illustrious career as an entertainer. Moviegoers saw his work in “Rosemary’s Baby,” “The Heartbreak Kid,” “The Great Muppet Caper,” “Beethoven,” and numerous other films over six decades.…
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Film Review: ‘The Poison Rose’
It is 1978 in the City of Angels and the hard-drinking washed-up sleuth Carson Phillips is having another boozy day through its atmospheric streets. There is a hint of innate coolness and self-deprecation in his elongated voiceover intro — you might even briefly mistake Carson, played by a one-note John Travolta, for a Philip Marlowe…
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Film Review: ‘Furlough’
“Furlough” looks, sounds and plays like a comedy — albeit without the actual jokes. The story of an African-American corrections officer tasked with taking a Caucasian inmate on a trip to see her dying mother, Laurie Collyer’s film assumes the racially-mismatched-buddy form of “48 Hrs.” and the contentious central dynamic of “Midnight Run,” except that…
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Morgan Freeman, Forest Whitaker in Talks to Join John Travolta’s ‘Poison Rose’
Morgan Freeman and Forest Whitaker are in talks to join John Travolta in the action-thriller “The Poison Rose.”George Gallo will direct from a script he wrote with Richard Salvatore, based on Salvatore’s novel of the same name. Salvatore will produce through his March on Productions with Jeff Elliott (“Imperium”), Oscar Generale (“Speed Kills”), and David…