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The Story: A corrupt American cop (Michael Douglas) and his partner (Andy Garcia) wind-up in Japan after a prisoner exchange gone awry. With their former captive cutting a swath through the local Yakuza in an attempt to establish himself as the new Tokyo boss, the cops are forced into an uneasy alliance with a by-the-book local police inspector (Ken Takakura).

The Players: Starring: Michael Douglas, Andy García, Ken Takakura, Kate Capshaw and Yusaku Matsuda. Directed by Ridley Scott. Music by Hans Zimmer.

The History: Michael Douglas was riding high in 1989. Following his Oscar-win for Wall Street, and Fatal Attraction’s boffo box office, his was considered one of the most bankable actors in Hollywood. Opting for a rare action role, grittier and more hard-edged than his turns in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile, Douglas, with his Fatal Attraction producers Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing (who would...

Robert Benton, who co-wrote movies such as Bonnie & Clyde and directed films such as Kramer Vs. Kramer and Places in the Heart, died at his home in Manhattan on Sunday at age 92. His passing was confirmed to the New York Times by Marisa Forzano, his assistant and manager.

Benton was born in during the Depression in Waxahachie, Texas, and many of his films echoed that milieu. In the early ’60s, he got a job at Esquire during the magazine’s golden age when it helped pioneer the New Journalism movement. It was also the prelude to the magazine’s great, high-concept covers.

Benton’s first screenplay was Bonnie and Clyde, co-written with David Newman, who would become a frequent collaborator. After becoming fascinated with the criminal couple’s Depression-era story, Benton and Newman decamped to the heartland to interview people who knew them and get a sense of what the film might be.

Stanley R Jaffe, the US studio executive and Oscar-winning producer of films including Kramer Vs Kramer and Fatal Attraction, has died. He was 84.

Jaffe died peacefully at his home in Rancho Mirage, near Los Angeles, on Monday (March 10).

Born in New York, Jaffe was the son of Columbia Pictures executive Leo Jaffe. After an early stint at the CBS network, the younger Jaffe was recruited in 1969 by Paramount Pictures, where he soon became the studio’s youngest-ever president.

After leaving Paramount, he operated as an independent producer before joining Columbia Pictures in 1977, but he returned to independent production to make Kramer Vs Kramer,...

Stanley R. Jaffe, the Oscar-winning producer and studio executive known for films such as “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Fatal Attraction,” has died at his home in Rancho Mirage at the age of 84. His daughter, Betsy Jaffe, confirmed his passing.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Jaffe was the son of Columbia Pictures chairman Leo Jaffe, who received the Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1979. He pursued a career in the entertainment industry, earning an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1962 before starting at Seven Arts as an assistant to co-founder Eliot Hyman.

Jaffe’s early success as a producer came with “Goodbye, Columbus” (1969), based on Philip Roth’s novella. The film, directed by Larry Peerce and starring Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw, became a hit for Paramount and led Gulf & Western president Charles Bluhdorn to offer Jaffe a leadership role at the studio.

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Stanley R. Jaffe, the veteran producer and studio executive who won the Best Picture Oscar for “Kramer vs. Kramer,” has died at his Rancho Mirage home at the age of 84, according to his daughter, Betsy.

Born in New Rochelle, New York, Jaffe was the son of Columbia Pictures chairman Leo Jaffe, who received the Film Academy’s Jean Hersholt Humanitarian award in 1978. The younger Jaffe decided from an early age to follow his father in showbiz and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1962 before getting his start at Seven Arts as an assistant to studio co-founder Eliot Hyman.

Jaffe’s first film as a producer was the 1969 romantic drama “Goodbye, Columbus,” which stars Richard Benjamin and Ali MacGraw as an army vet who ends up in a turbulent relationship with the daughter of an entrepreneur who struck it rich.

Directed by Larry Peerce and based on the 1959 novella by Philip Roth,...

Stanley R. Jaffe, who won an Oscar as producer of “Kramer vs. Kramer” in 1980 and served in top positions at several studios, died Monday in Rancho Mirage. He was 84.

Jaffe, the son of Columbia Pictures executive Leo Jaffe, also shepherded notable films including “Fatal Attraction,” “The Accused,” “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Bad News Bears.”

While partnered with Sherry Lansing at Jaffe-Lansing Productions, he received an Oscar nomination for 1987’s “Fatal Attraction.”

Born in New York, Jaffe started out in the business at Seven Arts Associates, then joined CBS. He produced the audacious 1969 Philip Roth adaptation “Goodbye, Columbus” for Paramount, then joined the studio as executive VP and chief operations officer. He was soon named president of Paramount, staying for just a year before leaving to become an independent producer. His company Jaffilms made “The Bad News Bears” and “Bad Company” before he joined Columbia Pictures as executive VP of worldwide productions.

Stanley R. Jaffe, a former Paramount Pictures president who became the youngest studio chief in history and later won a Best Picture Oscar for producing Kramer vs. Kramer and was nominated for Fatal Attraction, died today. He was 84.

CAA, which repped Jaffe, confirmed his death to Deadline.

Jaffe was a decade into his career when he produced Kramer vs. Kramer, the riveting 1979 child-custody drama starring Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep, both winning lead acting Oscars — Streep’s first of three. It also scored Best Director and Adapted Screenplay Oscars for director Robert Benton.

He followed that by producing Taps, about a mutiny at a soon-to-close military academy, starred Timothy Hutton and launched the careers of such future stars as Tom Cruise, Sean Penn and Giancarlo Esposito.

Those films came after Jaffe produced the 1969 Richard Benjamin-Ali MacGraw drama Goodbye, Columbus; I Start Counting (1970); the Jeff Bridges Civil War-era Bad Company (1972); and...

Stanley R. Jaffe, the producer and studio executive who won an Oscar in 1980 for Kramer vs. Kramer and shepherded other acclaimed films like Fatal Attraction, Goodbye, Columbus and The Bad News Bears, died Monday. He was 84.

Jaffe died peacefully at his home in Rancho Mirage, his daughter Betsy Jaffe announced.

A son of Leo Jaffe, an executive who spent more than a half-century at Columbia Pictures, Jaffe also received an Academy Award nomination for Fatal Attraction (1987), which he produced alongside Sherry Lansing during their fruitful eight-year partnership at Jaffe-Lansing Productions.

At age 29, Jaffe was named executive vp and COO of Paramount Pictures in October 1969, becoming the youngest head of a major studio in Hollywood history. Before he departed as president in August 1971 to return to independent producing, he greenlighted such films as Love Story (1970) and The Godfather (1972), projects also championed by chief of production Robert Evans.

Jaffe returned to the...

Vanished Into the Night is an Italian-American crime thriller film directed by Renato De Maria from a screenplay co-written by Luca Infascelli and Francesca Marciano. The Netflix film follows the story of a couple on the brink of breaking up when both of their children mysteriously vanish into the night under their father’s watch, leading them down a dangerous path to save their children. Vanished into the Night stars Riccardo Scamarcio and Annabelle Wallis in the lead roles with Massimiliano Gallo, Gaia Coletti, Lorenzo Ferrante, and Elena Riccardi starring in supporting roles. So, if you love the thrill and mystery of Vanished Into the Night, here are some similar movies you could watch next.

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Without a Trace is a crime drama film directed by Stanley R. Jaffe from a screenplay by Beth Gutcheon. Based on the novel titled...

Al Ruddy, who co-created the famed CBS sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, then captured Academy Awards for producing the best picture winners The Godfather and Million Dollar Baby, has died. He was 94.

Ruddy, also credited as one of the creators of the long-running CBS police drama Walker, Texas Ranger, died Saturday following a brief illness at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center, a publicist announced.

On the heels of The Godfather (1972), Ruddy produced another box-office hit with the original The Longest Yard (1974), the prison-set football movie that starred Burt Reynolds. The pair then reteamed for the action road films The Cannonball Run (1981) and its 1984 sequel, both directed by stuntman-turned-helmer Hal Needham.

The personable Ruddy also produced such films as Bad Girls (1994), the first Western with all female leads (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore); the baseball comedy The Scout (1994), starring Albert Brooks and Brendan Fraser; and Matilda (1978), a comedy...

If you were around in 1980, you can, sadly, imagine the confusion that might be caused if a woman drove up to the 20th Century Fox gate on Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles and claimed to be the new head of the studio. This simply didn't happen. Women didn't run Hollywood studios.

Someone had to shatter that glass ceiling, and Sherry Lansing was as qualified as anyone to do it. She started out as an actor (appearing opposite John Wayne in Howard Hawks' swan song "Rio Lobo"), but quickly grew dissatisfied with that area of the industry. She was far more interested in the behind-the-scenes aspect of filmmaking, and quickly proved she possessed the savvy and good taste to succeed as an executive. At Columbia Pictures, she was one of the driving forces behind such critical/commercial successes as "The China Syndrome" and "Kramer vs. Kramer".

This made Lansing a hot Hollywood commodity,...

Jonathan Dolgen, the tough-minded dealmaker and skillful numbers-cruncher who spent a decade at Viacom working for Sumner Redstone and alongside Paramount Pictures head Sherry Lansing, has died. He was 78.

Dolgen died Monday evening of natural causes at UCLA Medical Center surrounded by his family, a publicist announced. He had suffered a cerebral hemorrhage in 2012.

A native of Queens and a former Wall Street lawyer, Dolgen also held top positions at Columbia Pictures, Fox and Sony Pictures before becoming the first top executive recruited by Redstone for the newly merged entertainment conglomerate forged by Viacom’s $8.2 billion purchase of Paramount Communications.

“I had known Dolgen off and on over the years when I was a motion picture exhibitor, even before I gained control of Viacom,” Redstone recalled in his 2001 book, Passion to Win. “He was with Columbia Pictures, and I remember sitting with him in one particular meeting that became rather heated and thinking,...

Sherry Lansing, the former CEO of Paramount Motion Pictures Group, has been named the keynote commencement speaker for Chapman University’s Ddoge College of Film and Media Arts ceremony May 20.

Lansing currently chairs the board of Universal Music Group, and she also served on the University of California Board of Regents. Producing credits for Lansing include movies like “Fatal Attraction” and “The Accused.”

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“Sherry Lansing is one of the most remarkable people ever to work in Hollywood,” said Dodge College dean Stephen Galloway. “She not only proved that women are just as capable leaders as men, she outshone them all and she did it by showing that power and kindness can go hand in hand. I’m delighted she’ll be our commencement speaker.”

Lansing headed Paramount from 1992 to 2005, during which she greenlit the Academy Award winning films “Forrest Gump,...

Fatal Attraction — which wheezes back to life as a series starring Joshua Jackson and Lizzy Caplan, premiering April 30 on Paramount+ — began as the 1979 short Diversion, about a one-night stand gone haywire, which writer-director James Dearden fleshed out into a feature screenplay.

With contributions from Nicholas Meyer (writer-director of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), Paramount producers Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing were convinced they had a viable erotic thriller on their hands. The script tells the story of Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), a married New York lawyer who has what he thinks is no-strings sex with Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), a publishing executive, while his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and daughter are out of town. How wrong he is. Alex quickly becomes dangerously obsessed with Dan and the wife who stands in her way. The rest — from Alex’s “I’m not going to be ignored, Dan” to...

The series adaptation of Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is on the way from Paramount+, and the official trailer has arrived ahead of the series premiere on April 30, 2023.

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) is starring as female lead Alex Forrest in the upcoming Paramount+ reboot series, with Joshua Jackson (“Dr. Death”) playing Dan Gallagher.

“In the film, Alex is the villain of the story, and Dan is the hero and there is no gray area,” Caplan told Entertainment Weekly in a recent preview piece. “Now, audiences have changed so much, we are no longer primed to believe in this villainous woman story. She’s clearly mentally ill and that’s not something that is really touched upon at all in the movie.”

Amanda Peet (“The Chair”) and Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Lords of Salem) will also star.

“The series explores the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women,...

1992's "School Ties" didn't do very well at the box office, but it managed to launch the careers of a whole bunch of major Hollywood stars, including Brendan Fraser, Chris O'Donnell, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Anthony Rapp, and more. I'll never forget watching TV after school one day in the late afternoon and catching "School Ties" on cable, shocked that I had never heard of this movie before. Not only is it a heartbreaking and potent film about anti-Semitism that's unfortunately still all-too-relevant, but it's also a who's-who of then-unknowns who went on to become major players.

In a 2017 retrospective for Entertainment Weekly, the cast and crew of "School Ties" looked back on how the movie came to be and how it impacted many of the actors' careers. Producer Stanley Jaffe had the idea for the film and had a hand in casting the class of unknowns, making him at...

The series adaptation of Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is on the way from Paramount+, and Bloody Disgusting has learned today that the series will be premiering on April 30, 2023.

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) is starring as female lead Alex Forrest in the upcoming Paramount+ reboot series, with Joshua Jackson (“Dr. Death”) playing Dan Gallagher.

Watch the official teaser trailer for the “Fatal Attraction” series below.

“In the film, Alex is the villain of the story, and Dan is the hero and there is no gray area,” Caplan told Entertainment Weekly in a recent preview piece. “Now, audiences have changed so much, we are no longer primed to believe in this villainous woman story. She’s clearly mentally ill and that’s not something that is really touched upon at all in the movie.”

Amanda Peet (“The Chair”) and Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Lords of Salem) will also star.

“The series...

The series adaptation of Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is on the way from Paramount+, and Bloody Disgusting has learned today that the series will be premiering on April 30, 2023.

Additionally, the teaser trailer will hit the internet tomorrow, March 1st.

While you wait, check out a sneak peek below…

Hold on tight. Get a first look at the seductive new #FatalAttraction series coming to @paramountplus when the teaser drops Tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/QckkSfb2FN

— Fatal Attraction on Paramount+ (@FatalAttraction) February 28, 2023

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) is starring as female lead Alex Forrest in the upcoming Paramount+ reboot series, with Joshua Jackson (“Dr. Death”) playing Dan Gallagher.

“In the film, Alex is the villain of the story, and Dan is the hero and there is no gray area,” Caplan told Entertainment Weekly in a recent preview piece. “Now, audiences have changed so much, we are no longer primed to believe in this villainous woman story.

Tom Cruise was honoured for his nearly three decades of work as a producer, and “ Everything Everywhere All at Once ” solidified its status as the frontrunner for the best picture Oscar by taking the top prize at Saturday night’s Producers Guild of America Awards.

“We love you! We love you!” another Oscar favorite and one of the film’s stars, Ke Huy Quan, shouted gleefully from the stage as Jonathan Wang and the other producers of the multiversal dramedy accepted the award for best theatrical motion picture.

The award has proven to be perhaps the best indicator for what will win the top honour at the Oscars, with four of the past five and 11 of the past 14 PGA winners going on to win best picture.

PGA wins by “ Coda ” last year and “ Nomadland ” in 2021 set each apart as frontrunners before winning best picture.

The strong possibility of a big...

Dick Wolf is easily one of modern television's most prolific producers, if not the most prolific. His impact on network television can't be understated thanks to his work on the "Law & Order" franchise and "Miami Vice." What many may forget is that he's also had his hand in the film industry, writing the scripts for films such as "Masquerade" and "No Man's Land."

However, if there is one film of his that is worth talking about today, it's "School Ties." Starring a who's who of future acting stars, it centers around the conflicts surrounding a Jewish teenager in 1959 that starts attending a fancy prep school seemingly consisting of Anglo-Saxon bullies. David (Brendan Fraser) is, for a time, caught between two worlds — one where he needs to hide his Jewish faith and heritage, and another where he doesn't. Unfortunately, those worlds end up colliding in ways he could have never anticipated.

The series adaptation of Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is on the way from Paramount+, and Entertainment Weekly has just shared the very first image from the series this week.

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) is starring as female lead Alex Forrest, with Joshua Jackson (“Dr. Death”) playing Dan Gallagher. Check out your first look at the duo below.

“In the film, Alex is the villain of the story, and Dan is the hero and there is no gray area,” Caplan tells Entertainment Weekly in their preview piece. “Now, audiences have changed so much, we are no longer primed to believe in this villainous woman story. She’s clearly mentally ill and that’s not something that is really touched upon at all in the movie.”

Amanda Peet (“The Chair”) and Dee Wallace (Cujo, The Lords of Salem) will also star.

“The series explores the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity...

A series adaptation of Adrian Lyne’s Fatal Attraction is on the way from Paramount+, and Deadline reports today that Dee Wallace has joined the cast!

Deadline reports, “Wallace will portray Emma Rauch, who is described as open, friendly, chic, and interested but also sensitive to boundaries. She is a retired career woman, enthusiastic and helpful volunteer, mother of adult children, and a student of life— someone anyone but Alex (Lizzy Caplan) would be thrilled to have as their neighbor.”

David Meunier (Justified) also joins Alyssa Jirrels (Boo Bitch), Toby Huss (“Halt and Catch Fire”), Reno Wilson (“Good Girls”) and Brian Goodman (Chance).

Lizzy Caplan (“Castle Rock”) is set to star as female lead Alex, with Joshua Jackson (“Dr. Death”) playing Dan Gallagher. Amanda Peet (“The Chair”) will also star in the series.

“The series explores the timeless themes of marriage and infidelity through the lens of modern attitudes towards strong women,...

The disturbing British coming-of-age thriller I Start Counting (1970), starring Jenny Agutter, makes its US Blu-ray debut on a pristine remastered Region A disc, loaded with fresh extras, courtesy of boutique label Fun City Editions.

Adapted from the 1966 novel of the same name by Audrey Erskine Lindop, I Start Counting is a welcome relic of its era: it is distinctively late-1960s in its fashions and characterizations, and it is decidedly British in its affectations, despite harboring a rather risque subject matter.

I Start Counting

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1970 / Color / 1.85:1 widescreen / 106 min. / Street Date November 24, 2020 / available through Vinegar Syndrome / 24.99

Starring: Jenny Agutter, Bryan Marshall, Simon Ward, Clare Sutcliffe.

Cinematography: Alex Thomson

Film Editor: Keith Palmer

Composer: Basil Kirchin

Written by Richard Harris

Produced by David Greene and Stanley R. Jaffe

Directed by David Greene

Lovesick, imaginative 14-year-old Wynne Kinch (a young Jenny Agutter) is convinced that her much older, 32-year-old...

Believe it or not, long before a record-shattering 21 Oscar nominations, there was a time when Meryl Streep was not the queen of the movies. After finishing at Yale Drama School in the 1970s, Streep found steady work on stage and television before her breakout role in 1978’s Best Picture Oscar winner, “The Deer Hunter.” That film brought Streep her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress (and first loss) for her performance as Linda, the fiancee of a troubled Vietnam vet (Christopher Walken in an Oscar-winning performance).

The following year she starred in three major films: as the love interest of Alan Alda in “The Seduction of Joe Tynan;” as Woody Allen’s lesbian ex-wife in “Manhattan;” and as the troubled Joanna Kramer opposite Dustin Hoffman in “Kramer vs Kramer.” It was that latter role that brought her a first-ever win at the Academy Awards. The first words exclaimed by Streep were “Holy mackerel!

Hollywood’s real leading lady is telling all.

Sherry Lansing, the first woman to ever head a major movie studio, is the subject of Leading Lady: Sherry Lansing and the Making of a Hollywood Groundbreaker, a biography by Stephen Galloway that details her rise from struggling actress to Hollywood power player.

The Illinois native worked at MGM as a script reader and briefly worked at Columbia Pictures before becoming 20th Century Fox’s first female president in 1980. She then went on to become CEO of Paramount Pictures in 1992.

Lansing, who greenlit smash hits such as Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump...

On Dec. 19, 1979, Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman's landmark 105-minute drama Kramer vs. Kramer hit theaters. The film claimed five Oscar wins at the 52nd Academy Awards ceremony, including best picture. The Hollywood Reporter's original review is below.

Columbia's Kramer vs. Kramer may not be what is termed in contemporary usage an "event" movie. It has no earthquakes, no towering infernos, no colossal meteorites on a collision course with old Manhattan. What this Stanley R. Jaffe production does have is wisdom, insight, compassion and an extraordinary sensitivity to present-day problems and pain, which is more than enough to make...

Andrea Jaffe, a prominent publicist in the 1980s who later became a studio executive and was herself a member of one of Hollywood’s most storied dynasties, died today in Wilmington, North Carolina after a lengthy battle with illness. She was 66. The daughter of former Columbia Pictures chairman Leo Jaffe and sister to producer and former Paramount executive Stanley Jaffe, Jaffe started her career as an assistant at Rogers & Cowan. After establishing her own publicity…...

Andrea Jaffe, a member of one of Hollywood’s legendary dynasties who established herself as a prominent publicist in the 1980s, died Wednesday in Wilmington, N.C., following a lengthy illness. She was 66. Leo Jaffe, her late father, served as chairman of the board of Columbia Pictures from 1973 until 1981, while her brother, Stanley Jaffe, a producer of such films as Kramer vs. Kramer and Fatal Attraction, was president of Paramount and COO of Paramount from 1991 to 1994. Andrea Jaffe became a force in her own right as she handled publicity for Tom Cruise as he vaulted to

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Producer Robert Evans, circa 1970s, in the documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture.

Robert Evans: The Kid Is Alright

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Alex Simon

I interviewed legendary Hollywood producer Robert Evans in 2002 for Venice Magazine, in conjunction with the release of the documentary "The Kid Stays in the Picture," adapted from his iconic autobiography and audiobook. Our chat took place at Woodland, Evans' storied estate in Beverly Hills, in his equally famous screening room, which mysteriously burned down a couple years later. Evans was still physically frail, having recently survived a series of strokes, but his mind, his wit and his charm were sharp as ever, with near total recall for people, places and stories. Many, many stories. Here are a few of them.

It’s a widely-held belief that the years 1967-76 represent the “golden age” of American cinema. Just look at a few of these titles: Rosemary’s Baby,...

Fox is teaming up with Mad Men writers Andr&#233 Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton to write and executive produce an event series based on the 1987 thriller Fatal Attraction. The one-hour series is being developed through Paramount Television, with the Fox Broadcasting Company commissioning the script. Fox's president of entertainment, David Madden, developed the original Fatal Attraction movie while working as a Paramount executive.

No specific plot details were released, but the event series will follow a married man's affair that haunts him in deadly ways. The original thriller, directed by Adrian Lyne, centered on Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas), a wealthy lawyer who has a weekend fling with a publishing executive named Alex Forest (Glenn Close) that leads to the deranged woman stalking his family. The movie spawned the popular term "bunny boiler", after one of the thriller's most memorable scenes where Alex literally boils a rabbit.

Andr&#233 Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton...

Another film is getting the TV series reboot treatment. Fox is developing an event series based on Adrian Lyne’s 1987 thriller “Fatal Attraction,” TheWrap has learned. “Mad Men” duo Maria and Andre Jacquemetton are executive producing and writing the drama for Paramount Television. Also Read: 27 Movie-to-tv Remakes in the Works: Hollywood's Big Screen to Small Screen Craze (Photos) The original film starred Michael Douglas as a married lawyer who has an affair with Glenn Close‘s character – unfortunately for him, she begins to stalk him and his family increasingly in horrifying ways. Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin will also serve.

The reboot trend continues. Fox is developing a remake of 1987 Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer starrer Fatal Attraction, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Mad Men alums Maria and Andre Jacquemetton are on board to pen the script for Paramount Television and executive produce. The project, which received a script commitment, is being eyed as a short-order event series — but with the potential to continue for a second season. Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content's Rosalie Swedlin will exec produce. See more Broadcast TV's New Shows 2015-16 Current Fox president of entertainment David Madden developed

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Exclusive: Lock up your rabbits. Paramount is rebooting its iconic thriller Fatal Attraction into a one-hour event TV series with Maria and Andre Jacquemetton (Mad Men) exec producing and writing. The series is being developed under the auspices of Paramount Television Production. Fox Broadcasting Network is on-board and has commissioned the script. Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin are exec producing. Fox’s president of entertainment, David…...

Exclusive– Lock up your rabbits. Paramount is rebooting its iconic thriller Fatal Attraction into a one hour event TV series with Maria and Andre Jacquemetton (Mad Men) exec producing and writing. The series is being developed under the auspices of Paramount Television Production. Fox Broadcasting Network is on-board and has commissioned the script. Stanley R. Jaffe and Anonymous Content’s Rosalie Swedlin are exec producing. Fox’s president of entertainment, David…...

The recent trend of dusting off old 1980s and 1990s movies and reinventing them into contemporary TV series continues today with news that Fox is developing a small screen series remake of the 1987 thriller classic "Fatal Attraction".

Though being considered as a short-order 'event' series, the project is being assembled with the potential to continue on with a second season. "Mad Men" alums Maria and Andre Jacquemetton will pen the script and executive produce alongside Stanley R. Jaffe and Rosalie Swedlin.

Michael Douglas, Glenn Close and Anne Archer starred in the original Oscar nominated film in which a married man's indiscretion comes back to haunt him. It became a smash hit at the time, the highest grosser of the year with $320 million from a budget of just $14 million, and spawned endless discussion about the consequences of infidelity.

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‘Prisoners’ movie weekend box office: Best ‘serious’ (non-musical) Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal opening in years (photo: Hugh Jackman in ‘Prisoners’) The nearly two-and-a-half-hour thriller Prisoners, directed by Denis Villeneuve, and starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal, will easily top the North American box office this weekend, September 20-22, 2013. Currently playing at 3,260 locations, Prisoners took in $7.01 million on Friday, according to studio estimates found at Box Office Mojo. Budgeted at a reported $46 million — not including marketing and distribution expenses — the Warner Bros. release is expected to collect around $21 million by Sunday evening, as per Deadline.com. How does that compare to previous Hugh Jackman weekend debuts? Setting aside Tom Hooper’s "event musical" Les Misérables and action movies such as The Wolverine, the R-rated Prisoners may turn out to be Jackman’s strongest opening in an "adult (non-musical) film." For comparison’s sake, Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, co-starring Nicole Kidman,...

Nicholson and Hoffman: 85th Academy Awards list of presenters completed Multiple Oscar winners Dustin Hoffman and Jack Nicholson have been added to the roster of presenters at this year's Academy Awards show, Oscarcast producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have announced. (Pictured above: Academy Awards ceremony in 1980, with winners Stanley R. Jaffe, Robert Benton, Meryl Streep, and Dustin Hoffman.) Dustin Hoffman's Academy Awards nominations Hoffman has been nominated for a total of 7 Best Actor Oscars. He won twice, for Robert Benton's broken-family drama Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), with Meryl Streep, and Barry Levinson's fraternal drama Rain Man (1988), with Tom Cruise. Hoffman's other Academy Award nominations were for the following movies: Mike Nichols' comedy The Graduate (1967), with Anne Bancroft and Katharine Ross; John Schlesinger's social drama Midnight Cowboy (1969), with Jon Voight; Bob Fosse's psychological drama Lenny (1974), with Valerie Perrine; Sydney Pollack's comedy Tootsie (1982), with Jessica Lange...

Photos of Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel in Total Recall along with Miley Cyrus and Demi Moore in Lol.

Posters for Looper, Safe, The Cabin in the Woods, and Bel Ami.

Marvel.com will stream the World Premiere of "The Avengers" in Los Angeles on April 11th at 6:00 Pm Us-pt/9:00 Pm Us-et. You can watch the event at that time at YouTube.com/Marvel.

"'The Dark Knight Rises' has scored a PG-13 rating (just like its predecessors), in this case for "intense sequences of violence and action, some sensuality and language"…" (full details)

"At one time a full scale U.S.S. Enterprise was under consideration for the Las Vegas downtown area back in the early 90's. The idea almost came to fruition until then Paramount chairman Stanley Jaffe squashed the idea…" (full details)

"Speaking of 'Trek' it seems the major restoration of the first season...

One of the most recognizable space vehicles of all time is the U.S.S. Enterprise of Star Trek. For years, fans all over the world have wanted to explore the inside of this Constitution class starship; and for a brief time, it almost became a reality. A forward-thinking entertainment design firm was planning to build a full-size Enterprise in the middle of Las Vegas! How come this idea was left in spacedock?

In 1992, Las Vegas was in need of something big. Something to bring a whole new group of people that otherwise would never come. Gary Goddard, the head of a self-titled entertainment firm, turned to Star Trek. Realizing that Trekkers were one of the largest fanbases in all the world, Goddard planned to do the unbelievable - build a life-size scale version of the U.S.S. Enterprise. However, this would be no mere monument. Goddard says,

"The...

Back in 1992 a competition was held to come up with ideas to rejuvenate downtown Las Vegas, which at the time was running second fiddle to the main strip. Entertainment design firm, The Gary Goddard group came up with an idea that they thought would attract shed loads of tourists to the neglected area, an idea that would have got trekkies exited all over the world and that idea was to build a life size USS Enterprise.

According to Gary, the plan was for it would become a major attraction in Las Vegas that you would see as you flew into the city. Gary explains -

”The “big idea” was building the ship itself at full-scale. That was the main attraction. That being said, we also knew we would have to have some kind of “show” on board. So, conceptually, it was to be a “tour” of the ship, with all of the key rooms,...

Confessions of a Bad News Bear

by Jon Zelazny

The Reverend David Stambaugh is the Pastoral Associate at Hollywood United Methodist Church. He earned his BA from Messiah College, a Masters of Divinity from Alliance Theological Seminary, and a Masters of Sacred Theology from Drew University.

Prior to entering the ministry, he portrayed infielder Toby Whitewood in The Bad News Bears (1976), The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977), and The Bad News Bears Go to Japan (1978).

Dave Stambaugh: I was actually playing Little League at that time, so it was a world I really knew. I remember one time I couldn’t make it to a callback audition because our team was in the area play-offs. I like to think that helped me get the job: “Hey, that kid can’t come in for our movie today— because he’s playing baseball!”

The first auditions were readings in NYC casting offices,...

As the founder and CEO of McCorkle Casting, Patricia McCorkle has worked on hundreds of projects for stage and screen since 1979. She cast a pool of undiscovered young actors in Stanley Jaffe's film "School Ties"—including Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Brendan Fraser, and Chris O'Donnell—and has tagged a long list of actors early in their careers, from Holly Hunter and Samuel L. Jackson to Kelsey Grammer and Calista Flockhart. Her film and TV credits include "Ghost Town," "Funny Money," the remake of "The Thomas Crown Affair," "Die Hard: With a Vengeance," "Splash," "All the Right Moves," "Californication," "The L Word," "Strangers With Candy," and "Hack." Her Broadway credits include Martin McDonagh's "The Lieutenant of Inishmore," two revivals of "The Glass Menagerie" (one starring Jessica Lange and one starring Julie Harris), Arthur Miller's "The Ride Down Mt. Morgan," "Blood Brothers," Aaron Sorkin's "A Few Good Men,...