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Maureen Hingert, the Sri Lanka-born beauty queen who appeared as an actress in The King and I, Gun Fever and Gunmen From Laredo, has died. She was 88.

Hingert died Sunday of liver failure at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, her daughter, Marisa Zamparelli, told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was a beautiful and peaceful passing,” she said.

As Miss Ceylon, the 18-year-old Hingert finished second runner-up at the 1955 Miss Universe contest held in Long Beach, California, then appeared as a royal wife in Fox’s lavish adaptation of the Broadway musical The King & I (1956), starring Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr and Rita Moreno.

She followed with more substantial parts as Native American girls in Gun Fever (1958), starring, directed and co-written by Mark Stevens, and, billed as Jana Davi, Gunmen From Laredo (1959).

Born in Colombo, Ceylon, on Jan. 9, 1937, Maureen Neliya Hingert appeared in two 1954 films made in her home country, Circus Girl and...

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It’s always been clear from watching Richard Linklater films that the auteur — who rose to fame during the independent film movement of the ‘90s and stands as one of the modern masters of American cinema — is fascinated by time. Not just the practical application of it, nor just the passage, but the true essence of it. How does one capture childhood? What about the teen years and college? What does it look like to compress these into one vs. focusing in on one moment? These are questions Linklater has answered, but a question the audience should be asking in return is why does Linklater use his films to make these studies?

I believe the answer lies in the history of film itself and what it has given Linklater, in terms of inspiration and influence, but also in terms of how the art form...

Upcoming indie genre pic Violence, described as an “operatic punk rock thriller,” has found its leads in Halloween Ends‘ Rohan Campbell and Malignant‘s Maddie Hasson, Deadline reports today.

Connor Marsden is set to direct the thriller from a script written by Marsden, William Woods, and Devin Myler.

Violence is “set in an alternate 1980s, we find our anti-hero Henry Violence caught in the middle of an intensifying drug war.”

The ’80s set thriller will be scored by NOWHERE2RUN, comprised of members of the two-time Grammy Award-nominated band Code Orange.

“The team breathing life into this film has equaled my decade-long passion in a way I could only dream of,” Marsden said in a statement. “I can’t wait for audiences around the world to meet these characters, brought to life by this remarkable cast.”

No word on who Campbell and Hasson will be playing at this time. While...

Exclusive: Rohan Campbell and Maddie Hasson have signed on to star in the thriller pic Violence from filmmaker Connor Marsden.

The film is produced by Julian Geneen for Grand Touring Productions, William Woods (The Kid Detective) for Woods Entertainment, Albert Shin (The White Fortress) for Timelapse Pictures, and Maddy Falle (Dada) for Obvious Allegory. The script was written by Marsden, Woods, and Devin Myler. Cameras roll next month in Sudbury, Northern Ontario.

Pic is described as an “operatic punk rock thriller.” The Synopsis reads: Set in an alternate 1980s, we find our anti-hero Henry Violence caught in the middle of an intensifying drug war. The film will be scored by NOWHERE2RUN, comprised of members of the two-time Grammy Award-nominated Code Orange. Exec producers are Steven Schneider (Paranormal Activity and Insidious franchises) along with Tom Spriggs, Andrew Bronfman, Andrew Webster, Mark Stevens,...

Edward L. Rissien, who produced the Burt Lancaster-starring war film Castle Keep and served as an executive at ABC, Bing Crosby Productions, Filmways and Playboy Productions, has died. He was 98.

Rissien died April 8 of natural causes at his home in Los Angeles, his nephew, Emmy-nominated director Michael Zinberg (The Bob Newhart Show, The Good Wife, NCIS), told The Hollywood Reporter.

“Eddie was a well-respected man who had beautiful taste in material,” Zinberg said. “He was always looking for something that would make a difference.”

An Iowa native who started out as a stage manager on Broadway, Rissien helped set up Harry Belafonte‘s HarBel Productions after acquiring the film rights for Odds Against Tomorrow (1959), the Robert Wise-directed drama that starred Belafonte, Robert Ryan and Shelley Winters.

He also produced Snow Job (1972), starring legendary French skier and Olympic champion Jean-Claude Killy as a thief in his only feature role,...

Sarah Niles is a British actress. She is best known for her roles in The Crucible (2014), Ted Lasso (2021) and Riches (2022).

Sarah Niles Biography: Age, Early Life, Family, Education

Sarah Niles was born on June 17, 1987 (Sarah Niles’ age: 35), in London, England. In the late 50s, her parents, an electrician, and a care nurse, moved from Barbados to Britain. Niles is the youngest of three children. She studied at the Manchester School of Theatre, a branch of the Manchester Metropolitan University.

Sarah Niles Biography: Career

Niles started her career on the stage in the National Theatre, The Old Vic, The Bush Theatre and The Royal Court. In 2014 she played as Tituba in The Crucible to a sold-out crowd at The Old Vic, which was later streamed to movie theaters. Other movies Niles had a role in include Happy-Go-Lucky (2008), Rocks (2019) and This is Christmas (2022). Niles also spent some time on the television screen...

Respectability has been a pillar of Black American culture since Emancipation. Since Black people arrived on the shores of America, we have been subjected to hardships and cruelties based solely on our skin color. For centuries we’ve combated horrible stereotypes in our everyday lives and American popular culture. For Black women, in particular, being anything other than docile and likable meant that you could be seen as masculine, mean, overly sexual, asexual, and conniving. These terms were weaponized against Black people by outsiders and insiders like W.E.B Dubois, who touted his talented tenth, the most educated of the race, as the epitome of “good” Blackness and the embattled Bill Cosby with his “perfect” portrayal of the Black family in “The Cosby Show.”

Though respectability has been lauded as a tool for full citizenship in the Black community, it’s a falsehood. More than that, the performance of likability is exhausting.

Find out where to watch Season 1 of Riches, the new drama-filled series about family members battling for control of a powerful haircare and beauty empire.

The central themes of Riches hardly seem unique, especially with popular series like Succession offering a corporate drama filled with power struggles, scandals, deceptions, and plot twists. Still, Riches offers a transcontinental spin on the traditional business-oriented soap opera formula. Nina, played by Deborah Ayorinde, starts the series as a successful businesswoman in the United States at the pinnacle of her career. Suddenly, she receives word that her father, Stephen Richards, who abandoned her family many years ago and had been running a highly profitable cosmetics business in the UK, had passed away. Nina and her brother Simon set off for the UK for the funeral and to meet with their British family members to read the will of Stephen Richards, played by Hugh Quarshie...

It would be easy to fill this column with worthwhile movies that recently played theaters or notable TV shows making their return, but there’s too much interesting stuff to waste space on the familiar. So let’s get that out of the way up top.

Netflix viewers will be able to catch up with Bardo, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, and White Noise, all of which arrive on the service after brief theatrical runs.

On the TV front, fans of South Side, Slow Horses,...

Get ready for Prime Video‘s new series about beautiful people behaving very badly in the new series Riches from Abby Ajayi. The series follows “the exploits of the stylish, privileged, super-successful Richards family. When Stephen Richards passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down. As his business hangs in the balance, his different sets of children are about to collide as they vie for control.” All six episodes are set to drop on Friday, December 2. Amazon Prime The high-stakes family drama stars Deborah Ayorinde, Hugh Quarshie (Absentia), Sarah Niles, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Ola Orebiyi, Nneka Okoye, and Emmanuel Imani. The trailer starts out with an ominous female voiceover saying, “He hasn’t been my father since a sunny day in 1993 when he told me he had ...

“Who needs enemies when you have family?”

That’s the central question behind Prime Video’s Riches, a six-episode family drama created by Abby Ajayi (How to Get Away With Murder, Inventing Anna).

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Per the show’s official logline, Riches “follows the exploits of the stylish, privileged, super-successful Richards family. When Stephen Richards passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down.

Prime Video released the official teaser for upcoming series “Riches,” the streamer’s family drama about the privileged Richards family.

The high-stakes series is written and created by Abby Ajayi and stars ​​Deborah Ayorinde, Hugh Quarshie, Sarah Niles, Adeyinka Akinrinade, Ola Orebiyi, Nneka Okoye and Emmanuel Imani.

Here’s the logline: When Stephen Richards, played by Quarshie, passes suddenly, the family’s world comes crashing down and threatens the viability of the family business. His different sets of children, with conflicting ideals and goals, collide in an attempt for unilateral control of the business.

The series is produced by Greenacre Films in association with Monumental Television, and commissioned by ITV. Amazon Studios co-produces. Nadine Marsh-Edwards, Amanda Jenks and writer/creator Ajayi serve as executive producers for Greenacre Films, and Alison Owen and Alison Carpenter are executive producers for Monumental Television.

All six episodes will premiere on Prime Video in the U.

Fox Sports Films has announced the upcoming original documentary “David Ortiz: Legend of the Fall,” spotlighting Boston Red Sox veteran and Fox MLB analyst Ortiz (aka Big Papi). The sports documentary is set to premiere Oct. 14 on FS1.

“David Ortiz: Legend of the Fall” follows the baseball career and legacy of Ortiz, from the Red Sox’s three World Series championships to his Hall of Fame induction. The documentary film features exclusive interviews with various teammates and rivals, along with behind-the-scenes footage showcasing Ortiz’s intimate moments and celebrations.

“This film sends the message to my fans that if you have faith and don’t quit, you can achieve your dreams,” said Ortiz in a statement. “I was very fortunate to achieve mine and I am humbled by my entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame. I am honored that Fox Sports, Check Point Productions and my very own Big Papi Productions...

3-D in CinemaScope? That seems like a strange combination, but this obscure treasure hunt adventure with Joanne Dru and Mark Stevens is indeed billed as being filmed in the ‘Miracle of Stereo-Vision,’ five years after the demise of Hollywood’s first fling with ‘depthies.’ Kino and the 3-D Film Archives extras include two vintage 3-D shorts, one of them never screened in 3-D.

September Storm

3-D Blu-ray

Kino Classics

1960 / Color / 2:39 widescreen / 92 min. / Street Date March 28, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 34.95

Starring: Joanne Dru, Mark Stevens, Robert Strauss Asher Dann, Jean-Pierre Kérien, Véra Valmont..

Cinematography: Lamar Boren, Jorge Stahl Jr.

Film Editor: Alberto Valenzuela

Art Direction: Boris Leven

Underwater director: Paul Stader

Original Music: Edward L. Alperson Jr., Raoul Kraushaar

Written by W.R. Burnett from a story by Steve Fisher

Produced by Edward L. Alperson

Directed by Byron Haskin

The 3-D Film Archive has been an amazing resource for the fascinating depth format,...

The New York Film Festival has established itself as a haven for film purists, a place where the masters of cinema are treated like titans and auteurism supersedes all other other religions. In keeping with that spirit, the fest has always made sure to steer an uncommon (and greatly appreciated) degree of attention towards the history of the medium, complementing their roster of contemporary films with in-depth retrospectives and well-curated revival screenings.

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Nyff 54 is no exception. In fact, this year’s retrospective section offers two programs for the price of one — centering on director Bertrand Tavernier, the wonderfully expansive sidebar doesn’t just appreciate its subject as a filmmaker, but as a film thinker as well. Only showing one of Tavernier’s narrative features, the retrospective focuses instead on his unmissable new cinematic essay,...

The already-incredible line-up for the 2016 New York Film Festival just got even more promising. Ang Lee‘s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk will hold its world premiere at the festival on October 14th, the NY Times confirmed today. The adaptation of Ben Fountain‘s Iraq War novel, with a script by Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire), follows a teenage soldier who survives a battle in Iraq and then is brought home for a victory lap before returning.

Lee has shot the film at 120 frames per second in 4K and native 3D, giving it unprecedented clarity for a feature film, which also means the screening will be held in a relatively small 300-seat theater at AMC Lincoln Square, one of the few with the technology to present it that way. While it’s expected that this Lincoln Square theater will play the film when it arrives in theaters, it may be...

Michael Curtiz's wartime tale of Devil's Island convict Humphrey Bogart fighting to get back and defend France has a still-controversial scene of violence. The convoluted storyline nests enough flashbacks-within-flashbacks to confuse any viewer, and packs the screen with every actor on the Warner lot who can handle a foreign accent. With Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, and Michèle Morgan. Passage to Marseille Blu-ray Warner Archive Collection 1944 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 109 min. / Street Date November 10, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Humphrey Bogart, Claude Rains, Michèle Morgan, Philip Dorn, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, George Tobias, Helmut Dantine, John Loder, Victor Francen, Vladimir Sokoloff, Eduardo Ciannelli. Cinematography James Wong Howe Art Direction Carl Julius Weyl Film Editor Owen Marks Original Music Max Steiner Written by Casey Robinson, Jock Moffitt from a novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall Produced by Jack L. Warner Directed by Michael Curtiz...

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Coleen Gray actress ca. 1950. Coleen Gray: Actress in early Stanley Kubrick film noir, destroyer of men in cult horror 'classic' Actress Coleen Gray, best known as the leading lady in Stanley Kubrick's film noir The Killing and – as far as B horror movie aficionados are concerned – for playing the title role in The Leech Woman, died at age 92 in Aug. 2015. This two-part article, which focuses on Gray's film career, is a revised and expanded version of the original post published at the time of her death. Born Doris Bernice Jensen on Oct. 23, 1922, in Staplehurst, Nebraska, at a young age she moved with her parents, strict Lutheran Danish farmers, to Minnesota. After getting a degree from St. Paul's Hamline University, she relocated to Southern California to be with her then fiancé, an army private. At first, she eked out a living as a waitress at a La Jolla hotel...

Martha Stewart: Actress / Singer in Fox movies apparently not dead despite two-year-old reports to the contrary (Photo: Martha Stewart and Perry Como in 'Doll Face') According to various online reports, including Variety's, actress and singer Martha Stewart, a pretty blonde featured in supporting roles in a handful of 20th Century Fox movies of the '40s, died at age 89 of "natural causes" in Northeast Harbor, Maine, on February 25, 2012. Needless to say, that was not the same Martha Stewart hawking "delicious foods" and whatever else on American television. But quite possibly, the Martha Stewart who died in February 2012 -- if any -- was not the Martha Stewart of old Fox movies either. And that's why I'm republishing this (former) obit, originally posted more than two and a half years ago: March 11, 2012. Earlier today, a commenter wrote to Alt Film Guide, claiming that the Martha Stewart featured in Doll Face, I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now,...

Time Table

Written by Eben Kandel

Directed by Mark Stevens

USA, 1956

The longevity of television’s Dexter speaks to audience interest in and creative potential of the premise in which an authoritative figure, a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst in the case of the Showtime drama, commits the very crimes he or she is specialized in thwarting. The morally ambiguous nature of said character, the possible venues to create tension, the commentary on institutions dedicated to crime investigation, and more are ripe for commentary. Films have also concerned themselves with the subject, such as the Italian psychological drama Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and the film under review this week, 1956’s Time Table, directed by and starring Mark Stevens.

On a train heading toward Phoenix, Arizona in the wee hours of the morning, Dr. Paul Brucker (Wesley Addy) is called into duty when someone is announced gravely ill in one of the nearby cabins.

Mark Stevens is joining Seven as chief football reporter.

The journalist calls time on 14 years as an Afl reporter at the Herald Sun to join the TV network, which yesterday announced the signing of Giaan Rooney as a weather presenter.

Stevens has also spent a time covering Afl on Triple M radio.

Director of Seven News Melbourne, Simon Pristel, said: “Mark is a great pick-up for the Seven News team. As a proven news-breaker with a wealth of experience and first-class contacts he will make a substantial contribution to our football coverage.

Stevens starts in his new role in the new year.

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The gray rolling seas thundered through the forest of pilings under the piers, sometimes cresting enough to send a geyser of wind-whipped froth up onto the decking. Other places, it poured through the gaps the wind and tide had eaten through the dunes and poured into the beach town streets. It pulled boats large and small from their moorings in the lagoon marinas and piled them like a child’s toys up on the land. Some in apartment buildings would tell of the cars in the ground level garage floating against each other bathtub playthings. But there was nothing childlike in the way it took entire houses, made seaside villages look like an extension of the ocean and not the land.

For the day and a half I watched Hurricane Sandy pound my home state of New Jersey – which was all the time I had before I lost my cable...

Motor City could have its villain in Adrien Brody who's in talks to replace Gary Oldman Brody is in negotiations for the Albert Hughes film which tells of a felon who's released from prison and starts tracking down those who framed him. Hold on a second, didn't we get the same story from CBS Films' Faster, starring Dwayne Johnson? Chad St. John wrote the script for the film coming from Dark Castle and being produced by Joel Silver, Andrew Rona, Ethan Erwin, Randall Emmett and George Furla. Steve Richards of Dark Castle will serve as executive producer on Motor City. Variety reports that production is set to start in Atlanta on September 17th and Warner Bros. will send the film out to theaters in April, 2013.

Lindsay Lohan's "Saturday Night Live" performance may not have been Emmy-worthy, but her efforts on the show could be the baby steps she needs to repair her long-tarnished brand.

"She showed that she wants to work again," Cooper Lawrence, author of "Cult of Celebrity" told The Huffington Post. "She was relaxed, confident and professional. She may not have been funny the whole time, but she did show up, seemed sober and did not come off like a drug addict pulling the wool over our eyes. I was left with the feeling that she may be tired of being the punch line."

Lohan received mixed reviews for her work on "SNL" this weekend, where she was quick to lampoon her past legal troubles and made light of the fact that she is often less than reliable, but she still wasn't able to pull off the kind of top-notch performance she...

Lindsay Lohan's "Saturday Night Live" performance may not have been Emmy-worthy, but her efforts on the show could be the baby steps she needs to repair her long-tarnished brand.

"She showed that she wants to work again," Cooper Lawrence, author of "Cult of Celebrity" told The Huffington Post. "She was relaxed, confident and professional. She may not have been funny the whole time, but she did show up, seemed sober and did not come off like a drug addict pulling the wool over our eyes. I was left with the feeling that she may be tired of being the punch line."

Lohan received mixed reviews for her work on "SNL" this weekend, where she was quick to lampoon her past legal troubles and made light of the fact that she is often less than reliable, but she still wasn't able to pull off the kind of top-notch performance she...

By Susan Granger - You know things have gone from bad to worse when John Travolta starts riffing himself, evoking the far better bang-bang days when he was working with Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.

James Reece/Richard Stevens (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is a double agent in Paris, toiling as an adroit, multi-lingual, chess-playing attaché to the American Ambassador (Richard Durden) and as a low-level undercover CIA errand-boy who swaps license plates on cars in dark parking garages. Plus, he's got a gorgeous French/Muslim fiancée, Caroline (Kasia Smutniak). Problem is: when he gets a really challenging assignment, he's teamed with a foul-mouthed operative, Special Agent Charlie Wax (Travolta), a free-wheeling former mercenary, whose trigger-happy, bad-boy antics could well blow their cover as they're trying to take down Chinese coke dealers and capture a suicide bomber tied up with a Pakistani terrorist ring. Uzi-toting, leather-clad Wax is introduced as he...

If a title like From Paris With Love sounds as if it may be more than a familiar knockoff of say, the James Bond Russian turf classic, you’re probably not far from the truth. The usual homicidal espionage extinction outing but lacking the bold wit, icy elegance and, shall we say, relative subtlety that has characterized Bond escapades, From Paris With Love is less From Russia With Love than a cynically fashioned version of Pulp Fiction’s comical cruelty…read more [News Blaze]

Luc Besson is a movie-making maniac, an action auteur whose signature is all over the films he produces and writes, though the ones he directs haven’t measured up since The Professional, which is now 16 years ago.

Part Peckinpah, part Hong Kong, the movies Besson creates – including Pierre Morel’s From Paris With Love, which he produced and wrote the story for (and, also this week, District 13: Ultimatum) — are kinetic juggernauts,...

French movie website, EuropaCorp have released two new teaser trailers for Pierre Morel’s upcoming action film From Paris with Love, starring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

There are a number of films being released in 2010 which I am very much looking forward to, and this is definitely one of them. Although I am a fan of John Travolta, the main reason I want to watch this film is because of the director/producer partnership of Pierre Morel and Luc Besson. The duo have previously made District 13 and Taken, and although both movies were weak in certain areas, they were two of the most entertaining action films of the past decade. Whilst the action genre in Hollywood has suffered greatly in recent times as the major studios have pushed for watered-down, family friendly action movies, these two French filmmakers have helped fill the void for entertaining, balls to the wall,...

The Photo Gallery has been updated with new photos from the upcoming “From Paris With Love” movie. You can check out bigger versions of each by clicking them below.

“From Paris With Love” Plot: A low-ranking intelligence operative (Meyers) working in the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France takes on more than he bargained for when he partners with a wisecracking, fast-shooting, high-ranking U.S. agent (Travolta) who’s been sent to Paris to stop a terrorist attack.

“From Paris with Love” is directed by French filmmaker Pierre Morel (The Transporter, Taken), stars John Travolta (The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Pulp Fiction) and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, Mission Impossible: III). The film also stars Kasia Smutniak, Amber Rose Revah, Melissa Mars, Richard Durden and Farid Elouardi.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers as James Reece / Richard Stevens in From Paris With Love

John Travolta as Charlie Wax in...

I've yet to determine whether John Travolta shot The Taking of Pelham 123 or From Paris with Love first, but it's nice to see him progress from a shaved-bald baddie with a fu manchu and a fondness for the f-word to a shaved-bald bad-ass with a full goatee and a fondness for the f-word. Such range he has.

Travolta's Agent Wax (yes, really) is teamed up with American lackey Richard Stevens (played by Dublin's own Jonathan Rhys Meyers) to prevent a terrorist attack in Paris (played by Paris). If the new expletive-laden trailer from Movie City News is any indication, there'll be plenty of wisecracks and crack shots in Pierre Morel and Luc Besson's follow-up to Taken, whose credits alone should've told us as much.

It's strange to see a trailer takes its own tonal turn towards the end, but it looks like things go from cheeky fun to...

John Travolta: the name used to be synonymous with dancing, bad accents, Scientology, and mediocre films. Then Pulp Fiction came out and reminded everyone in Hollywood that he’s actually a pretty good leading man. Often times he plays such an intriguing bad guy, that one can’t help but enjoy his performance, whether you want to or not. Arguably, he was the best part about Face/Off, Primary Colors, A Civil Action, The General’s Daughter, Swordfish and even the ridiculous Battlefield Earth.

After this summer’s mild hit The Taking of Pelham 123, Travolta will channel his best Denzel Washington from Training Day in Pierre Morel’s latest action flick From Paris with Love. Co-starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors, August Rush) as an embassy worker who gets paired up with Detective Wax (Travolta) in Paris, the two seem to work together on a French drug deal - or are they?...

  Last time Pierre Morel lent his name to something, we got the awesome Liam Neeson vehicle Taken, a film so bad ass it made Transporter 2 look like Transporter 3. This time around the name of the flick is From Paris With Love, again co-written and produced by Luc Besson, champion of French B-Movie cinema for two decades. The plot follows American spy Charlie Wax (a freshly shorn John Travolta), as he hooks up with Us Embassy employee Richard Stevens (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), in order to foil a terrorist plot in Paris. Expect...

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Another teaser trailer at the forthcoming "From Paris With Love" has been made available for viewing pleasure. More than two minutes long and features two of its leading men John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, the preview video highlights more on the actions and explosions to be seen in the movie instead of giving hints on storyline.

In this action movie, Rhys-Meyers plays a young embassy worker by the name of Richard Stevens. Working at the office of the U.S. Ambassador in France as a low-ranking intelligence operative, Stevens gets more than what he bargained for when he teams up with Travolta's FBI Agent Charlie Wax to stop a terrorist attack in Paris.

Developed using a script co-written by French filmmaker Luc Besson, "From Paris With Love" is directed by "District B13" helmer Pierre Morel. Aside from Travolta and Rhys-Meyers, the action movie also features Amber Rose Revah and Melissa Mars.

Semifinalists have been announced in the Eighth Annual Key Art Awards Student Competition.

In the trailers category, the semifinalists are: Greg Burke, Columbia College Hollywood; German Izquierdo, Columbia College Hollywood; Andrew Meacham, Art Institute of California, San Diego; Nima Shoghi, Columbia College Hollywood; Arman Sarkissian, Pasadena City College; Sean Hernandez, Inner-City Filmmakers; Julie Douglas, Cal State Fullerton; Lindsey Bixler, Michigan State University; Chi-Hao Cheng, Cal State Fullerton; Edward Mikasa, Chapman University; Lauren Kearns, Michigan State University; Evan Phan, Pasadena City College.

Semifinalists in the category of one-sheets are: Stephen Richards, Art Institute of Philadelphia; Jimmy Hsieh, Cal State Fullerton; Jordan Lee, Cal State Fullerton; Annie Marcotte, Maryland Institute College of Art; Aaron Avila, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Nicolette Cornelius, Maryland Institute College of Art; Bekim Bacovic, Fashion Institute of Technology; Omar Rajput, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising; Peter Owen, Maryland Institute College of Art; Jessica Cardelucci, Chapman University; Yookyung Min,...

A sneak peek into the upcoming action movie "From Paris With Love" has been unraveled through the film's international teaser trailer. In the one-minute video footage, it can be seen that John Travolta goes bald and abominable for his part as FBI Agent Shashank Gates, while Jonathan Rhys-Meyers plays a completely opposite character as young embassy worker Richard Stevens.

Starting with a scene in which Stevens walks in an alley of a building, the trailer opens with a narrator describing the embassy worker as someone young, ridiculous and determine. The narrator then continues explaining that Stevens thinks that he will team up with an exemplary cop, instead he meets with an over-the-top agent, Gates.

Developed using a script co-written by French filmmaker Luc Besson, "From Paris With Love" is directed by "District B13" helmer Pierre Morel. Aside from John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, the action movie also features Amber Rose Revah and Melissa Mars.