Bill Paxton

Jimmy asks Bill about his role in "Hatfields and McCoys," which was shot in unusual locations.

Jimmy asks Bill about his role in "Hatfields and McCoys," which was shot in unusual locations.

Their bloody family feud made headlines after the Civil War, and over a century later, the 'Hatfields & McCoys' are making cable TV ratings history. History's 3-part miniseries 'Hatfields & McCoys' (airing Tues. and Wed. at 9 p.m. ET) attracted 13.9 million viewers on its initial showing, and 17 million overall, with 4.8 million falling into the 18-49 category. The impressive ratings represent cable's largest ad-supported non-sports audience ever, and are a huge win for History's foray into original historical drama. With all the success we have had at History, we felt strongly for some time that we should own historical drama, and in true History fashion, we have done it, with pardon the pun guns a-blazin! network president Nancy Dubuc said in a statement. We couldn t be more proud of the entire cast and crew from Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Mare Winningham, Powers Boothe, Tom Berenger, and everyone involved in truly making history! Before the release of 'Hatfield & McCoys,' star Kevin Costner told HuffPost TV that he was drawn to the series because he wanted to re-introduce the incident into popular culture, and remind modern audiences that it actually happened. 'I think that people think this is folklore, like maybe this is an imaginary event that happened,' Costner said. 'But no, this is real history. People went to court, governors were almost going to war, militias were amassing at the borders. This was not a folk tale. This was as real as could get. If you had CNN back then, they would have been sitting on some hilltop watching this. This was big doings if you think about.' Tune in to parts 2 and 3 of 'Hatfield & McCoys,' airing on Tuesday and Wednesday at 9 p.m. on History. Related on HuffPost:

Deftly blending pitch-black humor and intimate storytelling, Oscar -nominated director Stacy Title's The Last Supper is a dark comedy of good food, fine wine and potent points of view. Jude (Cameron Diaz), Paulie (Annabeth Gish) and Pete (Ron Eldard) are liberal graduate students who want to save the world from the hypothetical horrors of tomorrow. They hold a lively series of weekly dinner parties, with carefully chosen, politically controversial dinner guests (Jason Alexander, Bill Paxton, Mark Harmon, Ron Perlman). Regardless of the conversation, the repast is always delightful, delectable and deadly-with tomatoes picked fresh from the shockingly fertile backyard. This wickedly delicious satire puts a sharp and stylish spin on what's right and left-and right and wrong-in contemporary American politics.

Based on Scott Smith's bone-chilling blockbuster 1993 novel, A Simple Plan is a bit of a departure for horror-film director Sam Raimi. Instead of flying eyeballs and dancing corpses, A Simple Plan is a taught crime thriller in the vein of Joel Coen's Academy Award-winning Fargo. Set during the white winters of Minnesota, this story tells the eerie tale of Hank and Jacob Mitchell (played by Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton) who, along with a buddy, find a downed single-engine plane buried in the snowy woods. Inside it is a decaying pilot and a bag carrying four million dollars in one-hundred-dollar bills. The men decide to hide the money until spring when the snow is melted and the plane is found. If no one notices the missing money at that time, they will split it and live a wealthy new life. A simple plan, right? Wrong. Much like Humphrey Bogart's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, things can only get worse, as distrust and greed creep into the minds of the principles. They find it difficult to decide which one gets to hold the money ? and even more impossible to keep from dipping into the stash until spring. And so on. It also becomes increasingly tough to keep a secret of this magnitude. And if all this doesn't get movie-goers' right-brains working, it seems there are suspicious characters in town who just may be able to link them to the plane, forcing the more dangerous and bloody question of what to do with those people and how to cover their tracks.

Directed by Oscar winner* Steven Soderbergh (Contagion), this dynamic action-thriller introduces mixed martial arts (MMA) superstar Gina Carano as Mallory Kane, a black-ops agent for a government security contractor. After freeing a Chinese journalist held hostage, Mallory is double-crossed and left for dead ? by someone in her own agency. Suddenly the target of assassins who know her every move, Mallory unleashes the fury of her fighting skills to uncover the truth and turn the tables on her ruthless adversary. Featuring Carano performing her own high-adrenaline stunts and an all-star cast including Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas and Michael Douglas, HAYWIRE is explosive movie entertainment.

A mile-wide, 300 miles-per-hour force of total devastation is coming at you! In this adventure swirling with cliffhanging excitement and awesome special effects, Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton play scientists pursuing the most destructive weather front to sweep through mid-Americas Tornado Alley in 50 years. By launching electronic sensors into the funnel, the storm chasers hope to obtain data to create an improved warning system. But to do so, they must intercept the twisters' deadly path. The chase is on!

Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton star in 'Hatfields & McCoys'

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Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton have teamed up on the new TV miniseries 'Hatfields and McCoys.' The miniseries is the true story of a legendary family feud that spanned decades. Part one premieres on the History channel May 28 at 9/8c. (May 25)

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