(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Movie: Near Dark Where You Can Stream It: The Criterion Channel The Pitch: Boy meets girl. Girl is a vampire. Girl bites boy, and her gang of vampire friends takes him under their…
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Bill Paxton, beloved by movie fans for his work in Aliens, Titanic, Twister, Tombstone, Apollo 13, and more, has passed away at 61.
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With Ethan Hawke opting out of the lead role, Bill Paxton has taken the top role in the Training Day TV series cast, an adaptation of the movie at CBS.
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Term Life, starring Vince Vaughn, will be available On Demand and Digital HD on March 1st and opens in theaters on April 8th. Watch the Term Life trailer.
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BBC has just released The Gamechangers trailer, a sneak peek at their movie about the creation of Grand Theft Auto and the major protest that followed.
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We'll see Bill Paxton in Grand Theft Auto as Jack Thompson, the fiery Florida attorney who attacked explicit music, movies, and video games.
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Nightcrawler stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a guy who discovers that his intense work ethic and lightweight moral sense combine to make him a talent in the field of shooting bottom-feeding TV news. Initially unsuccessful in his job hunt, a chance encounter with a news team led by Bill Paxton leads Gyllenhaal's character to start gathering news…
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Will we see Bill Paxton in Avatar sequels? At WonderCon, the actor said he waits by the Batphone for Commissioner James Cameron to give him the call.
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Author Joe R. Lansdale is having a minor resurgence on movie screens. The film Cold in July, adapted from Lansdale's novel, played well at Sundance last month and is en route to theaters via IFC. Now Bill Paxton has set another Lansdale novel, The Bottoms, as the next film he'll direct. In fact, the same…
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The fate of the second season of Marvel's Agents of SHIELD is still up in the air -- will there be one? -- but while the first season is still on, showrunners Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon are pulling out all the stops. They've already tackled the Agent Coulson mystery, ramifications of Thor: The Dark World,…
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One of the many projects that David O. Russell's attached himself to and then detached himself from over the past several years is 2 Guns, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Steven Grant. He originally had Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in mind for the lead roles, as two undercover federal agents who don't…
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The opening text crawl for Edge of Tomorrow, the new film with Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, was "Live/Die/Repeat." That's the film in a nutshell -- Cruise plays an Army PR guy who is thrown into combat and immediately killed. But that's not his end; for reasons unknown to him, Cruise lives his last day…
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2 Guns obviously isn't a thriller, because it gives up the basic mystery right off the bat: apparent bank robbers Bobby (Denzel Washington) and Marcus (Mark Wahlberg) are really undercover agents, each of which doesn't realize the other is also a lawman. Forced to team up after being disavowed in the wake of a messy operation,…
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Relativity Media unveiled Steven Soderbergh's action movie Haywire this past weekend at the AFI Fest, to mixed/positive reviews. The idea behind the movie is that Soderberg saw MMA fighter Gina Carano in action, and wanted to build a movie around her. He and screenwriter Lem Dobbs (The Limey) came up with a story about a…
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Even though the bulk of my Kung Fu knowledge comes from Jules in Pulp Fiction and Peter in Office Space, I still know this is big news. Bill Paxton, star of such films as Twister, Aliens and Titanic and the director Frailty and The Greatest Game Ever Played, is in talks to direct a feature…
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Last summer we saw the first trailer for Steven Soderbergh's B-movie action experiment in which MMA star Gina Carano beats the hell out of an big-name cast that includes Channing Tatum, Ewan McGregor, Antonio Banderas, Bill Paxton, Michael Douglas and Michael Fassbender. The action looks fantastic and there's a definite appeal to seeing this cast…
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Here's a 'family feud' themed set of casting updates. After the break you'll find info on: Adam Scott dealing with his feuding parents in A.C.O.D., Bill Paxton facing off against Kevin Costner in The Hatfields and the McCoys, and Rosemarie DeWitt sparring with husband Ben Stiller before a bigger threat -- aliens -- comes to…
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Would it be so bad if the first official image from all of our most anticipated films for the next year involved a prominent cast member firing a rifle with some massive muzzle flash, would it? We saw an image like this featuring Bruce Willis from Looper, and now here's the first official still from…
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There have been some conflicting, or perhaps we should say contended, reports about when and how Steven Soderbergh's new film Haywire will be released. Relativity financed the film and originally made a deal with Lionsgate to distribute in the US and worldwide, but when Relativity's domestic distribution arm was formed, a long process of bringing…
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Steven Soderbergh has two big pictures coming down the pipe for 2011: Contagion, which he recently finished shooting, and Haywire, the thriller in which MMA fighter Gina Carano makes her big acting debut as a double-crossed black ops soldier who is out for revenge. We haven't seen very much at all from Haywire, despite the…
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Update: I've spoken with a rep at Overture, who denies that there is any story here. Not a huge piece of info here, but there's a report from The Playlist that Steven Soderbergh's film Haywire (formerly Knockout) is leaving LionsGate for Overture. Ryan Kavanaugh produced the film and now owns Overture, which he picked up…
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