Tag: The Firm
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This Tom Cruise Performance Was Written With Tom Hanks in Mind
Although Tom Cruise is most closely associated with the action genre due to the success of Top Gun and Mission: Impossible, in the 1990s, it feels like he made it a goal to work with nearly every great filmmaker on a prestige project. Between Sydney Pollack’s The Firm, Rob Reiner’s A Few Good Men, Neil…
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Samuel L. Jackson Sounds Off On A Time To Kill Cutting An Oscar-Worthy Scene
For a time in the 1990s, a film adaptation of a John Grisham novel was guaranteed to turn a tidy profit at the box office, if not mushroom into a full-on blockbuster. “The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief” and “The Client” all made loads of money off of a built-in audience that just had to see…
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This Tom Cruise Legal Thriller Had Him Facing Off Against Gene Hackman
John Grisham’s second novel, The Firm, was so popular that a film adaptation was already hotly anticipated by the time the book hit the shelves. Thirty years ago, Sydney Pollack’s feature adaptation was released, and combined with the success of the book, the two created a mutually massive hit, which soared on the screen as…
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Wilford Brimley, ‘The Natural’ and ‘Cocoon’ Star, Dies at 85
Wilford Brimley, best known for his roles in “The Natural,” the 1982 remake of “The Thing,” “The Firm” and “Cocoon,” died on Saturday. He was 85.His agent, Lynda Bensky, told The New York Times that he had been sick with a kidney problem for two months.Brimley was also famous for the series of commercials for…
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Peacock to Stream ‘Ray Donovan,’ ‘The Godfather’ Trilogy, Other Popular ViacomCBS-Owned Titles
“Ray Donovan,” “Everybody Hates Chris,” and “The Affair” are among the popular ViacomCBS titles that will be available on NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming service when the platform launches nationally on July 15.NBCUniversal announced its upcoming streaming service has inked a content licensing agreement with ViacomCBS on Wednesday. Other ViacomCBS-owned television shows that will be available on…