A brand-new trailer for racing drama Rush has hit the net, courtesy of MSN Movies. Set in the 1970s, the film details the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda.
Thor himself – Chris Hemsworth – plays the English driver, while Inglourious Basterds star Daniel Bruhl plays the Austrian.
Written by Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Queen), Rush is directed by Ron Howard and set to hit screens worldwide this September.
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By Tim Beyers, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Television audiences can’t seem to get enough of bloody murder, and Netflix is more than happy to oblige. The streaming sensation releases all 13 episodes of new horror series Hemlock Grove on April 19, just three days before releasing first-quarter earnings.
Unlike political thriller House of Cards, which earns a remarkable nine out of 10 stars over more than 26,000 ratings at IMDB, Hemlock Grove is a genuine chiller in which a Rust Belt town is paralyzed by an unknown werewolf lurking among them:
Sources: Netflix, YouTube.
Can actor and horror director Eli Roth deliver as Kevin Spacey and David Fincher have? Netflix stock jumped nearly 10% in the week following the Feb. 1 debut of House of Cards, a high bar. In terms of ratings, the show also purportedly rivaled the HBO hit Girls during this debut week.
Roth, meanwhile, is known for playing the “Bear Jew” in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds and for directing profitable torture flicks Hostel and Hostel II for Lions Gate Entertainment . Hemlock Grove doesn’t appear to be as harsh, but it’s a sure bet Roth’s werewolf will have a sharper and bloodier bite than the shirtless lycanthropes featured in the Twilight films.
Netflix is also airing Hemlock Grove at an interesting time. AMC Networks is coming off yet another record-setting season for apocalyptic drama The Walking Dead, which drew 12.4 million viewers during its Easter Sunday finale. Shares of AMC are up more than 27% year to date.
So get ready to get scared. Especially if you’re among the brave souls shorting Netflix stock right now.
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By The Huffington Post News Editors
Famed director Quentin Tarantino turns the ripe old age of 50 on Wednesday, March 27. Tarantino made his name with bold, boundary-pushing films such as 1992’s “Reservoir Dogs,” 1994’s “Pulp Fiction,” and 1997’s “Jackie Brown.”
Tarantino was nominated for Best Director for “Pulp Fiction” at the 1995 Oscars, but he won the award for Best Original Screenplay at the ceremony. In 2010, “Inglourious Basterds” earned Tarantino Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, while 2013’s Best Picture-nominee “Django Unchained” also won Tarantino the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
In celebration of Tarantino’s 50th birthday, we’ve compiled 50 of the best quotes from his films. Click through below and let us know your favorites in the comments.
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Christoph Waltz won Best Supporting Actor at the 85th annual Academy Awards, besting four other former Oscar winners.
Waltz’s Oscar win capped off one of the more competitive races in Academy Awards history.
Waltz, who plays a German bounty hunter in Quentin Tarantino’s Spaghetti Western homage, had previously won Best Supporting Actor awards from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (Golden Globes) and BAFTA. Pairing with Tarantino has been a bingo for Waltz; he also won Best Supporting Actor for “Inglourious Basterds,” Tarantino’s revisionist World War II drama, at the 2010 Oscars ceremony.
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Oscar winner Christoph Waltz hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend where the show parodied the films of his Django Unchained and Inglourious Basterds director Quentin Tarantino in the short below:
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As Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained approaches $130 million at the domestic box office, the film also surpasses the total for the filmmaker’s last feature Inglourious Basterds, which grossed $120.5 million stateside. This makes Django Tarantino‘s highest-grossing movie. You can see the box office results for all of Tarantino’s works here.
Django recently won two Golden Globes for Best Supporting Actor (Christoph Waltz) and Best Screenplay (Tarantino). The western is also nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Movies