Bruce Willis & John Travolta To Reteam For First Time Since ‘Pulp Fiction’ In ‘Paradise City’; Praya Lundberg Also Stars Deadline 2 hrs ago
Paradise City. Production starts this Monday in Maui, Hawaii.
Willis plays renegade bounty hunter, Ryan Swan, who must carve his way through the Hawaiian crime world to wreak vengeance on the kingpin, played by Travolta, who murdered his father. I’m told the project is billed as being similar to
Miami Vice but with bounty hunters instead of cops. Thai actress and model Praya Lundberg has landed the lead female role.
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Paradise City technically reps the fourth time that Willis and Travolta are billed on a movie together, they only worked onscreen in the 1994 Oscar-winning $214M-grossing Quentin Tarantino movie
Emmy Season Begins With Clear Favorites – But Are They Safe?
“The Crown,” “Ted Lasso” and “The Queen’s Gambit” may be front runners, but the Oscars proved that doesn’t always mean much
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AWARDS BEAT
The long, messy and merciless Oscar season has ended with a colossal whimper, and Emmy season is upon us. But in this strangest of all awards seasons, is the race over as soon as it’s begun?
Consider: Among limited series, “The Queen’s Gambit” has won the top award from the Golden Globes, the Critics Choice Awards and the Scripter Awards, and also from these Hollywood guilds or professional societies: the Directors Guild, Producers Guild, Writers Guild, Art Directors Guild, American Cinema Editors, American Society of Cinematographers, Costume Designers Guild, Cinema Audio Society and Motion Picture Sound Editors.
Victor Garber on His Co-Star (and Gay Icon) Olympia Dukakis
Moonstruck to May 03 2021 8:31 PM EDT
As a young man, fresh out of college in the late ‘80s, my life revolved around politics because that was my job and booze, because that’s what all the young aides did on Capitol Hill in their off hours, so there was little time left for anything else.
When he was running for president in 1988, former Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis made a stop on Capitol Hill, and I vividly recall meeting him, and being a bit surprised at how short he was. Later that day, in one of the watering holes on the Hill, one of my friends told me that a first cousin to Dukakis, Olympia, was an Oscar-winner for
‘Steel Magnolias’ Star Olympia Dukakis Dies at 89 After ‘Many Months of Failing Health’
A heartbreaking loss. Olympia Dukakis died in New York City on Saturday, May 1, according to a social media post from her brother. She was 89.
“After many months of failing health she is finally at peace and with her [late husband] Louis [Zorich],” Apollo Dukakis wrote via Facebook on Saturday alongside a headshot of his “beloved sister.”
Best known for her work in Moonstruck (1987) and Steel Magnolias (1989), the late Hollywood star’s credits include more than 130 stage productions, 60 films and 50 television shows. She began her career in theater and quickly garnered critical acclaim, earning an Obie Award the Off-Broadway equivalent of a Tony Award in 1963.
Jon Hamm, Viola Davis, Game of Thrones, Olive Kitteridge score top drama Emmys
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Actress Viola Davis accepts the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder onstage during the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, 2015. Photo by Ken Matsui/UPI. | License Photo
Actress Viola Davis accepts the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder from actor Adrien Brody during the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 20, 2015. Photo by Ken Matsui/UPI. | License Photo