Craig Brewer to Direct ‘The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills’

Posted on Friday, March 1st, 2013 by Angie Han

Coming off the relatively wholesome Footloose, Craig Brewer is looking to get back in with society’s shadier elements. The Hustle & Flow and Black Snake Moan director has just signed on to direct The Gangster Princess of Beverly Hills, about a Hollywood socialite who turns out to be a professional drug mule. If you think that sounds bizarre, the best part is that it really happened. The film is an adaptation of a Rolling Stone article that ran last summer. Hit the jump to keep reading.

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Brad Bird Writes About The Brilliance of ‘Die Hard’

Posted on Thursday, February 21st, 2013 by Germain Lussier

With the (not well reviewed) fifth installment in the Die Hard series now in theaters, many people have taken the opportunity to revisit the original 1988 film. Directed by John McTiernan, the movie depicting John McClane’s terrible night saving a Los Angeles office building from a bunch of thieves is widely considered one of the best action films ever made, if not the best.

Among its biggest fans is the director of one of the best action movies in recent years, Brad Bird. The Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol director took some time off Tomorrowland prep to pen a quick ode to Die Hard for Rolling Stone. Read it below. Read More »

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