Bronson Pinchot
Days after his interview with The Onion's A.V. Club, Bronson Pinchot has amended some of his less-than-kind observations about Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington.
The Wall Street Journal contacted the Perfect Strangers star to clarify his widely publicized comments about...
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Bronson Pinchot
Perfect Strangers star Bronson Pinchot spoke out against his past co-stars, calling Tom Cruise homophobic and describing working with Denzel Washington as...
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Shakira, Stevie Wonder and Usher
Beyonce, U2, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Jamie Foxx, Garth Brooks and Jack Black were among the many celebrities who participated in Barack Obama's inaugural kick-off concert at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday.
More than 300,000 people ...
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Denzel Washington by Arnold Turner/WireImage.com
Denzel Washington will take on the post-apocalyptic landscape in the new thriller The Book of Eli The Hollywood Reporter reportsThe two-time Oscar winner will also produce the project along with Joel Silver Susan Downey and Alcon Entertainments Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson Allen and Albert Huges will directBased on a story by Gary Whitta with a screenplay by Anthony Peckham the film follows the plight of a lone futuristic action hero Washington as he attempts to save a dilapidated America with knowledgeProduction starts in January in New Mexico A release date has not been set Joyce Eng
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Denzel Washington by Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Does MGM have a Bourne winner The studio has beat out several rivals to grab rights to Robert Ludlums The Matarese Circle shop Amazon a Cold War-set thriller about two spies one from the CIA and one from the KGB who reluctantly team up to bring down an international cabal of killers called the MatareseMichael Brandt and Derek Haas 310 to Yuma will pen the script and Denzel Washington is loosely attached to play the American agent Matt MitovichMore movie news149 Box Office 21 Does a Number on George Clooney149 Film Icon Charlton Heston Dead at 84149 24s Rajskub Cooks Up Role in Julie and Julia
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Brad Pitt by Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
It's a good thing they quit their day jobs....1) Brad Pitt: Restaurant mascot 2) Denzel Washington: Coffin polisher3) Jerry Seinfeld: Phone sales (lightbulbs) 4) Ellen DeGeneres: Oyster shucker5) Jack Nicholson: Toy-store employee6) Lucy Liu: Pajama-factory worker7) Tom Hanks: Bellboy8) Jim Carrey: Janitor9) Jerry Springer: Cincinnati mayor10) Charles Bronson: Coal miner11) David Letterman: Weatherman12) Jay Leno: Mechanic13) Norm MacDonald: Garbage collector14) Mr. T: Gym teacher15) Danny DeVito: Hairdresser16) Quentin Tarantino: Video-store clerk17) Ken Kercheval: Cemetery-plot salesman18) Whoopi Goldberg: Funeral-parlor makeup artist19) Calista Flockhart: Aerobics instructor20) Josh Holloway: Chicken-farm worker21) Robin Williams: Street mime22) Bruce Willis and Sandra Bullock: Bartender23) Lorenzo Lamas: Fry cook24) Dennis Franz: Postman25) Carroll O’Connor: Substitute teacher26) Carol Burnett: Hatcheck girl27) Steve Buscemi: Fireman28) John Goodman: Bouncer29) Groucho Marx...
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three DVD art courtesy MGM Home Video
So Denzel Washington is starring in a remake of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three 1974 for director Tony Scott with a new screenplay by David Koepp Now Washington and Koepp are very talented and Scott can get a movie made but among movies in no need of remaking The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ranks high on the list So this weeks DVD Tuesday is dedicated to the original in all its grimy gloryHow do you steal a New York City subway train Former movie publicist Morton Freedgood figured out a way and his 1973 novel written under the pseudonym John Godey was snapped up before publication and immediately put into production under director Joseph Sargent and screenwriter Peter Stone Needless to say city officials and representatives of the Metropolitan Transit Authority werent wild about the story of four identically dressed hijackers hiding behind color-coded nicknames whats betting this is where Quentin Tarantino connoisseur of all things down and dirty got
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Denzel Washington courtesy Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Denzel Washington will channel Walter Matthau in an update of the 1974 film The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3, in which four hijackers hold a subway train's passengers for ransom. David Koepp penned the screenplay.... Also per Variety, Samuel L. Jackson and Bernie Mac will dance and sing as soul legends begrudgingly reunited on tour in the comedy Soul Men (C. Thomas Howell not included).... Jason Bateman is joining Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the feature take on the U.K. miniseries State of Play.... Per the Reporter, Ben Kingsley is William Shakespeare in a movie based on Will, a new novel concerning the Bard's deathbed confab with his lawyer.
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Per Variety, Brendan Fraser has finally signed on the dotted line for The Mummy 3, but leading lady Rachel Weisz took a big, fat pass. The follow-up, penned by Smallville's Miles Millar and Al Gough, features Jet Li as the baddie.... Producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis are out to reinvent Barbarella as "a free, modern gal who survives in a futuristic world through her intelligence, fighting skills and sexuality." Hate to say it, but Lindsay Lo just found a franchise (intelligence can always be faked).... Forest Whitaker has joined The Great Debaters, a fact-based drama directed by and featuring Denzel Washington as a small-town college debate-team coach.
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Ray Winstone (Jack Nicholson's bearded right-hand man in The Departed) has joined the fourth Indiana Jones film, playing Harrison Ford's sidekick, sources tell the Hollywood Reporter.... Oscar winner Forest Whitaker is in final talks to join James Ellroy's cop drama The Night Watchman, about an alcoholic LAPDer (Keanu Reeves) pitted against his longtime mentor.... Denzel Washington will produce and may star in Journal for Jordan, a drama inspired by the 200-page journal a U.S. soldier had written for his son before he was killed in Baghdad a month before returning home.
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