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In 1975, the sci-fi movies Death Race 2000 and Rollerball depicted 21st century futures that still feel relevant 50 years later.

In the middle of the 1970s, a group of filmmakers peered into the future and saw a hellscape of cruelty and violence. Released within months of each other in 1975, Death Race 2000 and Rollerball imagine 21st century dystopias where bloodthirsty competitions play out on TV.

The films are similar in genre and theme, but stylistically poles apart; one is blackly comic, the other grim-faced; one is pluckily low-budget, the other grand and expensive-looking. All the same, Death Race 2000 and Rollerball both offer a fascinating glimpse of the 21st century that, for all the 70s hairstyles and clothing, looks strangely recognisable.

Death Race 2000 came out first, but that was because producer Roger Corman, the wily old rascal, caught wind of Rollerball being in production and hurriedly commissioned a dystopian sports film of his own.

Modern audiences may be familiar with Paul W. S. Anderson’s Death Race, starring Jason Statham and Tyrese Gibson. In the high-adrenaline film, the head of a privatized prison earns millions by broadcasting "Death Race," a vehicular combat racing series where dangerous inmates battle each other in weaponized and armored cars with the goal of winning their freedom. Among the racers is a masked driver named Frankenstein (Statham). However, the story isn’t entirely original.

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*Availability in US Release Date April 27, 1975Runtime 84 minutesCast David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, Sylvester Stallone, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins, Martin Kove

The idea originated from the 1956 short story, "The Racer," by Ib Melchior. The story was then adapted into the dystopian sci-fi thriller, Death Race 2000, directed by Paul Bartel and produced by the legendary Roger Corman for New World Pictures. Released in 1975, the film starred David Carradine as the protagonist,...

The 1970s was a huge decade for cinema. In 1975, Steven Spielberg's Jaws hit theaters in June after being delayed for several months. Originally, Jaws was supposed to be a Christmas release, but due to complications with production (like the mechanical shark constantly breaking), the film was delayed. Jaws wasn't expected to do well due to the summer release date, but Jaws sold so many tickets that it single-handedly created the summer blockbuster phenomenon.

Jaws isn't the only iconic film to come out of the 1970s, though. The '70s gave birth to Halloween's (1978) Michael Myers and Alien's (1979) xenomorph. This decade saw rapid advancement in what could be accomplished for convincing movies. It also had an abundance of cheesy movies that were as iconic as they were cringey. Movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) go down in cinema history as some of the funniest and cheesiest movies ever made.

Meredith Grey performed her “last” surgery at Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital during the winter premiere of “Grey’s Anatomy” on Thursday. But Ellen Pompeo’s final episode as a series regular felt more like a “see you later,” leaving plenty of questions unanswered and the door open for her character’s return.

ABC promoted the episode, titled “I’ll Follow the Sun,” as Meredith’s big farewell to Seattle. Previews for the hour paid homage to the many traumatic moments, goodbyes, accomplishments and near-death experiences the doctor has procured across 19 seasons and over 400 episodes, but the hour itself played more like real life — with a dose of romantic comedy frustration.

The installment began as Meredith and her children arrived at the hospital for her last day on the job, in the aftermath of her longtime Seattle home sustaining damage in a fire. In a conversation with love interest Dr. Nick Marsh...

Since Grey’s Anatomy first premiered in 2005, it has aired 19 seasons, 406 episodes, and birthed 3 spinoffs. Naturally the show has had to adapt as cast members come and go throughout the years. This sometimes makes it hard to recall what exactly went on in season 1. Although who can forget Addison Montgomery (then Shepherd) saying the iconic line, “I’m Addison Shepherd … and you must be the woman who’s been screwing my husband.”

With every new intern class that Grey’s introduces viewers to, it always throws in a few Easter eggs to remind fans what made them fall in love with the show in the first place. However, it seems season 19 wanted to take this even further. Grey’s Anatomy season 19 launches a soft reboot that allows the series to ground itself in its season 1 roots. If the “begin again” tagline of the season 19 poster wasn’t a giveaway, season 19 throws back...

The Paley Center for Media has announced the full lineup for PaleyFest L.A. when the television festival returns to the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, running from March 31 until April 4

This year’s festival will feature panels for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”, “Yellowjackets”, “The Late Late Show with James Corden”, “The Mandalorian”, “Grey’s Anatomy”, “Yellowstone” and “Abbott Elementary”.

“We are delighted to announce the exciting full lineup for this year’s PaleyFest LA, the can’t-miss spring festival celebrating creative excellence in television,” said Maureen J. Reidy, President and CEO of The Paley Center for Media.

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“We are honoured to be invited to this year’s PaleyFest. It will be great seeing our incredible fans in person and talking all things Yellowstone,” said “Yellowstone” executive producer David Glasser.

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The Paley Center for Media on Tuesday revealed all seven TV series that will take part in the 40th annual PaleyFest LA, which is set to run March 31-April 4 at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland.

Disney+’s The Mandalorian (first announced to attend last month with Paramount Network’s Yellowstone and ABC’s Abbott Elementary and Grey’s Anatomy) will be the opening-night panel for the annual TV celebration. The Star Wars series will kick off its night with a special episode screening followed by a Q&a with showrunner/executive producer Jon Favreau and EPs Dave Filoni and Rick Famuyiwa, with other attendees Tbd.

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After 19 seasons, Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Grey is bidding her colleagues and the city of Seattle farewell in a new teaser trailer ahead of the popular medical drama series’ return on Feb. 23.

The midseason premiere, titled “I’ll Follow the Sun,” follows Meredith’s last day at Grey Sloan Memorial.

While doctors plan a goodbye surprise, Nick (Scott Speedman) will confront Meredith about the future of their relationship. Elsewhere, the interns compete to scrub in on Maggie (Kelly McCreary) and Winston’s (Anthony Hill) groundbreaking partial heart transplant procedure and Richard (James Pickens Jr.) asks Teddy (Kim Raver) an important question.

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ABC has released more information and a new promo for Grey’s Anatomy‘s Feb 23 winter return, entitled “I’ll Follow the Sun,” which will mark Meredith Grey’s (Ellen Pompeo) departure from Grey Sloan Memorial.

In the episode, written by Grey’s executive producer/showrunner Krista Vernoff and directed by series’ executive producer Debbie Allen, it’s Meredith’s last day at Grey Sloan Memorial and the doctors plan a goodbye surprise, while Nick confronts her about the future of their relationship. Elsewhere, the interns compete to scrub in on Maggie and Winston’s groundbreaking partial heart transplant procedure, and Richard asks Teddy an important question.

“Sometimes change is good, sometimes change is everything,” Meredith says in the voiceover for the promo.

And when she is toasted by her colleagues on her final day at the hospital, she deadpans, “You know I probably will be back next week.”

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A few weeks into season 19 of Grey’s Anatomy, the new class of interns has already proved itself as one of the best ones to ever appear on the medical dram. Consisting of Simone Griffith, Lucas Adams. Benson Kwan, Mika Yasuda, and Jules Millin, the team has been allocated as much screen time as the Grey Sloan veterans.

Given how well-developed the interns have been over the years, many viewers will agree that they are able to relate to certain characters more than others due to the fact that they have similar mannerisms and traits. It's also likely that, because of this, they have figured out which zodiac sign fits them best.

Aries – Lucas Adams

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Despite big names leaving Grey's Anatomy, they always pop back up.

The same can be said for Jesse Williams, who has closed a deal to return to the ABC medical drama for Grey's Anatomy Season 19 Episode 5.

Williams will also direct the episode, airing November 3, and titled "When I Get to the Border."

Deadline first reported the news.

This marks the second time Williams has returned since exiting as a series regular in early 2021.

The star returned for the Grey's Anatomy Season 18 finale earlier this year on ABC alongside longtime co-star Sarah Drew, who plays April Kepner.

However, Deadline reports that Drew will not be a part of the upcoming episode.

The highly anticipated hour features Meredith on a trip to Boston, where she catches up with her longtime friend.

It's unclear what the purpose of the trip to Boston will be, but it will be nice to see these two share the screen again.

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“Everything Has Changed” is the title of Grey’s Anatomy‘s Season 19 premiere, which aired tonight. Yet, a lot of it also felt very familiar. In a throwback to Grey’s Anatomy‘s pilot, the season opener, set six months after the Season 18 finale, chronicled the first day of Grey Sloan’s new interns, played by Harry Shum Jr., Adelaide Kane, Alexis Floyd, Niko Terho and Midori Francis, just like Episode 101 did with Meredith and her fellow wide-eyed rookie interns.

In another likely nod to the Grey’s Anatomy pilot — which famously started with Meredith having a one-night stand with Patrick Dempsey’s Derek — one of the new interns, Jules (Kane), also accidentally had slept with an attending, Link, on the eve of her starting the program. The revelation sent Link on a wild Hr goose chase, with Meredith deadpanning,...

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Genius has found its Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.

Kelvin Harrison Jr. (Godfather of Harlem) will play MLK in the fourth installment of Disney+ and National Geographic’s anthology series, while Aaron Pierre (The Underground Railroad) will portray Malcolm X.

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When viewers first met Dr. Meredith Grey, she was one of the new crop of interns brought into what was then known as Seattle Grace Hospital.

Now, nearly two decades later, Meredith (played by Ellen Pompeo) is seen greeting the new batch of surgical residents in a teaser for the upcoming 19th season of “Grey’s Anatomy”.

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In the clip, Meredith is seen bringing the interns into an operating room. “Congratulations,” she tells them. “You’re here. You will save lives with this equipment… and you will end them.”

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Alexis Floyd (“Inventing Anna”) shares that her character, Simone Griffith, “brings a very grounded but emotional connection to her work.

Roger Corman, the legendary film producer who has produced over 400 projects in his career, will be producing a reboot of Death Race 2000 called Death Race 2050 for Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, and it will star Malcolm McDowell.

The film is described in the press released as being “an outrageous action-packed film and reboot of the original Death Race 2000.” The story will revolve around a horde of automotive gladiators who earn points for killing pedestrians as well as their fellow drivers.

Corman was a producer on all of the previous Death Race films. The first one was released in 1975 and starred David Carradine, Simone Griffeth, and a young Sylvester Stallone. Paul W.S. Anderson remade the film in 2008, and that was followed by a couple of direct to DVD prequels, Death Race 2: Frankenstein Lives in 2011 and Death Race 3: Inferno in 2013.

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We are about to embark on what will hopefully be a rather fun summer of movies. With that in mind I focused the second installment of Streaming for Pleasure on some films you should see before this summer hits. Having a familiarity with an actor or director’s career can often shine some light on what their future projects may have in store. Also it can help garner more motivation to see a film you would have otherwise avoided. Curious what the Avengers might be like? What Tom Hardy has in store for the character of Bain? Well check out some of these films and they just might answer some of your questions.

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Title: Death Race 2000 (1975) Bd-25 Single-Layer Disc Video: 1080p/Avc Mpeg-4 Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 (1.85:1 theatrically) Subtitles: None available Run time: 80 minutes Studio: Shout Factory Rating: R Region Coding: Region A Only Equipment used for review: Sharp Lc-46SB57UN 46" 120Hz 1080p LCD (24fps), Onkyo TX-SR606 7.1 Receiver, Onkyo Sks-HT540 7.1, & LG BH200 Super Blu Cast/Crew Info: David Carradine as Frankenstein Simone Griffeth as Annie Smith Sylvester Stallone as Machine Gun Joe Viterbo Mary Woronov as Calamity Jane Roberta Collins as Matilda the Hun...

Never mind all that ridiculous business about seeing who shits on the sidewalk! The original big daddy of them all, Death Race 2000, is getting set to hit DVD and Blu-ray in style; and we've got the lowdown on what to expect!

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It’s time for full-throttle, full-tilt, fast and furious fun this summer as Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation, unleashes one of Roger Corman's classics that gives new meaning to the term “road rage.” June 22, 2010, will see the release of the Death Race 2000 Special Edition Blu-ray™ and DVD, earmarking the latest installment from Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.

Death Race 2000 Special Edition boasts a high-octane selection of extensive bonus content including all-new interviews and commentary with cast and crew, rare behind-the-scenes footage, and much more, making this definitive home entertainment release from Shout! Factory’s...

One of Roger Corman's most beloved cult classics will be getting a new DVD release and will debut on Blu-ray this June. Death Race 2000 will be released in a brand new DVD edition and will come out in Blu-ray for the first time on June 22. The new standard DVD edition will be priced at $19.93 Srp and the Blu-ray will be priced at $26.97 Srp. We have no cover art images at this time but you can take a look at the special features below. The film stars David Carradine, Sylvester Stallone, Simone Griffeth, Mary Woronov, Roberta Collins and Martin Kove.

Welcome to the year 2000, a bleak and politically oppressive world plagued by immorality and political unrest. The only thing that appeases the population is the three-day Transcontinental Death Race, a high-speed, coast-to-coast competition which is won by the driver who racks up the most points by killing spectators, pedestrians and other unlucky passers-by.

"Death Race" 2, the prequel to Universal's 2008 Jason Statham film, is shooting in South Africa right now, but it's going straight to DVD under the studios DVD Originals banner.

When I interviewed the 2008 "Death Race" cast and director Paul W.S. Anderson at Comic Con (check my complete interviews right here), Anderson revealed to me some plans for a sequel.

Apparently, those plans have been scrapped for a straight-to-dvd prequel.

Sean Bean is set to star opposite Luke Goss ("Hellboy 2: The Golden Army") along with Lauren Cohan, Ving Rhames, Danny Trejo and Frederick Koehler. Anderson is producing and Roel Reine is directing.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "the prequel is serving as the origin story for the character named Frankenstein, a convicted cop killer (Goss) in a declining American empire where a racing reality show is about to be born in the country's corrupt prison system."

So Statham, Joan Allen, and Ian McShane are not returning.

Despite popular opinion, remakes are not a new phenomenon, they’ve been around pretty much as long as cinema, and have given us some of the finest movies in cinematic history.

Unfortunately, they’ve also given us some real steaming piles of turd, particularly in recent years. Take a look at my own list of the “8 Remakes That Should Never Have Happened” and see for yourselves:

#1 – Death Race 2000 (1975)/Death Race (2008)

The Original: A cult 1975 action film based on the short story “The Rider” by Ib Melchior, the film starred David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone and was directed by Paul Bartel. The film told the story of a fascist America, that keeps the people satisfied through a stream of gory gladiatorial entertainment, which includes the bloody spectacle the Transcontinental Road Race, depicted as a symbol of American values and way of life.

What went right? : Heavily custom cars,...