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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...

Members of the armed services can and will argue amongst themselves, but in the minds of people and pop culture, Navy SEALs loom large as the picture of the United States' most elite military men. We can probably thank the fiction of Tom Clancy, and the fact that a Seal team that killed 9-11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, but Hollywood has been enamored with the special operations force for at least the last three decades. When a character in any movie is declared to be either a current or former Navy Seal, it's a given that they won't go down easily. When we discuss the most ruthless thing a U.S. president can do short of a nuclear strike, more often than not it's, "Send in Seal Team 6!"

While movies often take artistic license, it's fair to say that some of the movies featuring Navy SEALs are significantly more accurate than others,...

Unlike Superman and Superman II, Superman III didn’t even bother teasing the next installment in the franchise. Really, by the time that movie’s end credits hit, did anyone even want another entry? Hadn’t the Salkinds done enough damage to the Man of Steel? And yet, as we all know, a fourth installment in the Superman series did indeed hit theaters…with a nearly unmatched thud.

If you remember from our previous instalment of What Happened to This Movie?!, Superman III was plagued with all sorts of problems both on and off the screen. So what happened this time around? Turns out, the series would be facing its greatest battles yet, with the rights being passed to another studio, its star only signing on so he could finance another movie altogether and the budget getting chopped in more than half!

And so, let’s suit up one more...

Wolfgang Petersen's 1985 sci-fi film "Enemy Mine" was beset with production problems and bogged down by massive marketing costs. The film's original director, Richard Loncraine (1995's "Richard III"), reportedly butted heads with producer Stephen Friedman and walked off the set after only a week of shooting. Petersen stepped in after that, moving the production to Germany and starting over. A film that was supposed to boast a modest budget of only $17 million ended up costing over $29 million.

"Enemy Mine" was then released into the very busy 1985 holiday season, competing with "Out of Africa," "The Color Purple," "Legend," "Clue," and "The Jewel of the Nile." Audiences, it seems, weren't in the mood for a modest sci-fi yarn, and stayed away in droves. "Enemy Mine" also opened alongside Terry Gilliam's dystopian nightmare "Brazil" and Richard Attenborough "A Chorus Line," but those films similarly tanked.

Additionally, the reviews for "Enemy Mine" were only middling at best.

My friend Robin Browne, who has died aged 82, was a cinematographer specialising in aerial photography and special effects. His was not a name in lights, but he consistently excelled without the razzmatazz of Hollywood. I doubt there is anyone who has seen one of his films and not marvelled at the skills and dangers involved.

He started out as a clapper boy in the late 1950s, and worked on dozens of distinguished films over the next five decades, as camera assistant, operator and as director of photography leading specialist units. A few titles give a flavour: Battle of Britain (1969); Catch 22 (1970); the television series The Adventures of Black Beauty (1972-74), on which he was camera operator for all 52 episodes; three Bond movies in the 1970s; A Bridge Too Far (1977); Krull (1983); A Passage to India (1984); The Jewel of the Nile (1985); King Kong Lives (1986); Gorillas in the Mist (1988); and Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (2009).

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Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!

Cujo 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber

Cujo will be released on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on October 24 via Kino Lorber. Celebrating its 40th anniversary, the 1983 horror film has been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision/Hdr.

Based on Stephen King’s 1981 novel, Lewis Teague directs from a script by Barbara Turner (Pollock) and Don Carlos Dunaway. Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh-Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Ed Lauter, and Christopher Stone star.

Special features include: three audio commentaries (two with Teague and one from film historian Lee Gambin), Dog Days: The Making of Cujo featurette, eight cast and crew interviews, and more.

Red Dragon 4K Uhd from Kino Lorber

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Michael Douglas, an iconic actor and producer, has graced our screens for decades with memorable performances in a wide variety of roles. From his early days in television to his starring roles in blockbuster films, Douglas has consistently captivated audiences with his talent and charisma. In this article, we will examine Michael Douglas’s versatility and impact in cinema, exploring his most memorable roles and the legacy he has left in Hollywood.

Born in 1944, Michael Douglas comes from a family of Hollywood royalty. His father, Kirk Douglas, was a renowned actor, while his mother, Diana Dill, was an actress and model. Growing up in the shadow of his father’s success, it was perhaps inevitable that Michael would pursue a career in acting. After attending the prestigious American Place Theatre and studying under legendary acting coach, Sanford Meisner, Michael began his foray into the world of acting and never looked back.

It’s last call for a number of noteworthy movies leaving HBO Max in December. If you remember “Project Popcorn” – the strategy that saw all 2021 Warner Bros. movies stream on HBO Max the same day they hit theaters – then “Mortal Kombat” and “Those Who Wish Me Dead” will sound familiar. The martial arts reboot and Taylor Sheridan thriller, respectively, will be leaving the streaming service this month.

It’s also final call for Martin Scorsese’s “Bringing Out the Dead,” the extended version of Ridley Scott’s “The Counselor” and Edgar Wright’s terrific sci-fi action-comedy “The World’s End” if auteurs are your thing. “Planet Earth” and “Planet Earth II” are also leaving the streaming service soon.

Here’s the full list of what’s leaving HBO Max in December 2022.

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If not for the Douglas family, who knows what would have become of Danny DeVito’s career? In DeVito’s early acting days, he was given a role in a movie produced by and starring the legendary Kirk Douglas, but the role that really put DeVito on the map came in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, produced by Kirk’s son, Michael Douglas. Over the years, DeVito and Michael Douglas went on to make several films together, including Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, and The War of the Roses. DeVito, who is now voicing the character of Satan on the new FX show Little Demon, told us that his good fortune with the Douglas family wasn’t exactly coincidental — it turns out that DeVito and Michael Douglas became close before either of them had made a movie. (Click on the media bar below to hear Danny DeVito) https://www.

Back in late March, when Paramount released “The Lost City,” starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and Brad Pitt, the movie looked like a cute enough rom-com adventure movie in the vein of “Romancing the Stone” and “The Jewel of the Nile.” Those two mid-80s movies brought together Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, the latter playing a romance novelist similar to Bullock’s character.

“The Lost City” opened #1 with 30.4 million and then proceeded to be one of the nicer box office surprises of the year, remaining in the top 10 for nine weeks straight but maintaining astounding business from week-to-week post-Easter with a few weekends where it barely dropped 12 from its previous week. As of Friday, the movie has now grossed 100 million with quite an amazing run in the top 10, and that’s despite being released on VOD and Paramount+ quite recently.

The comparisons to the Douglas-Turner ’80s adventure...

Michael Douglas said on a recent episode of Rob Lowe’s “Literally!” podcast that he refused to work with Debra Winger in “Romancing the Stone” after a meeting between them ended with Winger allegedly biting Douglas. Winger was the studio’s top choice to star in the film as Joan Wilder, a romance novelist who falls in love with a bird hunter (Douglas) while on an adventure in the Colombian jungle. Kathleen Turner ultimately landed the role in the Robert Zemeckis’ romance film.

Zemeckis and Douglas reportedly met with Winger in Texas while she was in the middle of shooting “Terms of Endearment.”

“She comes out for us to have a dinner one night and we all have dinner together and we are talking and knocking back some tequilas and this and that,” Douglas said. “We walk out and, just as you would kind of go, ‘Oh you!’ and give...

At first glance, “The Lost City” has all the hallmarks of “Romancing the Stone” repackaged for millennials and Zoomers.

We get Sandra Bullock assuming the Kathleen Turner role as a romance novelist who holds the key to the whereabouts of a remote hidden treasure. Daniel Radcliffe steps into the Danny DeVito part, albeit with more urbanity, as the novelist’s ruthless kidnapper with a passing Napoleon complex, who’s seeking said treasure. And Brad Pitt fills in for Michael Douglas as a raffish man of adventure who comes to the novelist’s rescue — though here in a reduced capacity.

That’s a good thing because Channing Tatum is the one who actually shares top billing with Bullock, and his Fabio-esque character is an original creation that helps the new film steer clear of a potential copyright claim.

At the prompting of her publisher, Beth (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), the reclusive Loretta...

Steven Spielberg is responsible for many things in the film world, including the popular spate of “animals attack” films of the ‘70s and early ‘80s, whether he liked it or not. One of the best of these films was the 1980 monster-in-a-city flick, Alligator, out this week in a 4K/Blu-ray combo release from Scream Factory. Directed by Lewis Teague, the film was script-doctored into significance by screenwriter John Sayles. Anyway, the plot of Alligator is basically that a...

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Michael Douglas may not have won an Emmy for the third and final season of “The Kominsky Method” like his character Sandy does in the series finale, but the actor has another shot at a trophy for the role. Douglas picked up two more Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations for the Netflix comedy in comedy actor and ensemble categories, and has now received bids for every season of the show.

The comedy actor race has no shortage of industry veterans this year. Douglas has far and away the most SAG nominations of the bunch with a total of eight, including two wins for the film ensemble of “Traffic” and for his individual performance in the TV movie “Behind the Candelabra.” He’s facing off against Jason Sudeikis, last year’s champion in this category for “Ted Lasso” who now has four lifetime citations from the guild. Sudeikis’s costar Brett Goldstein...

David J. Negron Sr., a conceptual painter, illustrator and storyboard artist with credits including Indiana Jones, Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park, died peacefully in his sleep on October 12, his family tells Deadline. He was 85.

“He was an inspiration to the Motion Picture community and the fine arts world,” the Negron family said in a statement. “We have lost a loving father, grandfather and a beautiful soul.”

Negron embarked on his career as a conceptual painter in the mid-1960s, going on to collaborate with Steven Spielberg on Indiana Jones and the Raiders of The Lost Ark and Jurassic Park, visualizing iconic scenes including the Giant Boulder chase for the former, along with various dinosaur environments for the latter. He also painted iconic images for Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi classic, Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

Other notable projects Negron was involved...

David Negron Sr., a conceptual painter, illustrator and storyboard artist with credits including Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner and the Ace Ventura movies, has died. He was 85.

Negron died Oct. 12 of natural causes in his home in Long Beach, California, his family announced.

Negron worked on other films including Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Gremlins (1984), Ghostbusters (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Midnight Run (1988), Ghost (1990), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Last Action Hero (1993) and Out of Time (2003).

For Steven Spielberg, Negron helped the director visualize the iconic giant boulder chase scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the ...

David Negron Sr., a conceptual painter, illustrator and storyboard artist with credits including Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, Blade Runner and the Ace Ventura movies, has died. He was 85.

Negron died Oct. 12 of natural causes in his home in Long Beach, California, his family announced.

Negron worked on other films including Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Gremlins (1984), Ghostbusters (1984), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Midnight Run (1988), Ghost (1990), Back to the Future Part III (1990), Last Action Hero (1993) and Out of Time (2003).

For Steven Spielberg, Negron helped the director visualize the iconic giant boulder chase scene in Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the ...

With Disney's Jungle Cruise looking to revive the romantic-adventure genre, the filmmakers cited the Michael Douglas/Kathleen Turner classic Romancing the Stone as one of their key inspirations. That film, which holds up beautifully thirty-seven years later, actually got a lesser-known sequel in 1985, The Jewel of the Nile, which reunited Douglas & Turner and co-star Danny DeVito, with cult director Lewis Teague directing. Unfortunately, however, the production…...

For four decades, Kathleen Turner has been a star. After bursting onto the scene as the sultry temptress in Lawrence Kasdan‘s 1981 film “Body Heat,” Turner has captivated audiences with successes on both stage and screen, from thrilling us as adventurer Joan Wilder in two “Romancing the Stone” movies to making us laugh as the seductive Jessica Rabbit. She has been nominated for one Academy Award (“Peggy Sue Got Married”), two Tony Awards and five Golden Globe Awards, winning two.

Yet Turner has never even been nominated for an Emmy.

That all may change this year, since she has become a prime contender for her supporting work in the comedy series “The Kominsky Method.” As Roz Volander, a doctor treating patients in the jungles of Colombia and the ex-wife of Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas), Turner briefly appeared in one episode in Season Two but has now been brought on board...

People were talking about the sizzling on-screen chemistry between Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner back in the ’80s, when they starred in Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile together. And people are still talking about it today, thanks to their reunion on The Kominsky Method. As far as Turner is concerned, though, […]

The post Chemistry Lessons? Kathleen Turner Couldn’t See It With Michael Douglas appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

The third and final season of Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method” debuted on May 28 with a batch of six episodes that wrap up the story of Michael Douglas’ acting coach Sandy Kominsky. Written by Chuck Lorre, the swan song season picks up after the death of Sandy’s best friend Norman (Alan Arkin) and explores the highs and lows that follow. Scroll down to watch our three exclusive video interviews with top Emmy contenders from the series.

In Arkin’s absence, Kathleen Turner returned to the role of Sandy’s ex-wife Roz that she originated in one episode in season two. The show reunites her with frequent co-star Douglas, as the pair previously worked together on “Romancing the Stone” (1984), “The Jewel of the Nile” (1985), and “The War of the Roses” (1989). Turner has had a storied career on stage and screen, with an Oscar nomination in 1987 for “Peggy Sue Got Married,...

“The Kominsky Method” saved the best for its third and final season. Ironically, there was never supposed to be a third season of the Chuck Lorre-created comedy starring Michael Douglas as Sandy Kominsky, a Hollywood acting teacher with a messy private life. “I just read the first script of the first season and the writing was so darn good I just wanted to it,” said Douglas during a Deadline Zoom conversation. “It was an original, two-year commitment contract with Netflix.” But Douglas wasn’t ready to let Sandy go. “I kind of pushed for this third season,” he said.

Alan Arkin, who played his long-suffering agent, Bff and conscious, bowed out after the second year. “Alan is a few years older than me. It’s tough doing these shows anyway, moving as quickly as this. I think two seasons was fine for him.” Lorre was also eager for a...

In the 1980s, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner made some movie magic together, teaming up for Romancing the Stone and its sequel, The Jewel of the Nile. With Douglas in his 70s and Turner in her 60s, they may not be heating up the screen with sexy love scenes anymore, they’ve still got unmistakable chemistry […]

The post Romancing The Past, Kathleen Turner Enjoyed Reuniting With Michael Douglas appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

If you watched the second season of The Kominsky Method, you likely did a double-take when the ex-wife of Michael Douglas’s character, Sandy Kominsky, was introduced. Yes, it was none other than Kathleen Turner, who’d co-starred with Douglas in three successful films back in the 1980s: Romancing the Stone, sequel The Jewel of the Nile, […]

The post Kathleen Turner As His ‘Kominsky’ Ex? Michael Douglas Wouldn’t Want It Any Other Way appeared first on Hollywood Outbreak.

Moviegoers have been flocking to see their favorite romantic couples on the silver screen since the early days of cinema from John Gilbert and Greta Garbo, Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Olivia de Havilland and Errol Flynn, Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland and more recently Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan and Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. But none of those partnerships have endured nearly four decades. Until now.

Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner first starred together in Robert Zemeckis’ romantic 1984 comedy adventure “Romancing the Stone,” which was the eighth-highest grossing film of the year, winning the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical and Turner winning the Globe for actress in the same category. Penned by the late Diane Thomas, “Romancing” cast Turner as plain Jane romance novelist Joan Wilder, who shares her apartment with her cat. After she get a frantic call from her sister who has been kidnapped by antiquities smugglers in Columbia,...

“I really hoped that Chuck Lorre would want to bring Roz back,” Kathleen Turner shares about her thoughts after filming her season two guest appearance on Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method.” Out of that short but memorable scene, a full-fledged character was born for the series’ third and final season. Turner plays Roz, an accomplished doctor who worked with Doctors Without Borders and who is also the first ex-wife of Sandy Kominsky (Michael Douglas). Watch our exclusive video interview above.

From that first episode in season two, Turner already had a great sense of her complex character, an “extremely realistic and sensible person who has seen a great deal of suffering.” “This woman runs the place, and she does it under very difficult circumstances,” she shares. Turner only had a limited number of episodes to give Roz depth, a task she knew exactly how to handle after four decades of experience in film,...

Kathleen Turner, Golden Globe winner and two-time Tony nominee, has been tapped to play a foul-mouthed lobbyist in HBO’s limited series “The White House Plumbers,” from the team behind “Veep.”

Turner will play Dita Beard, who works for an Itt corporation involved in some dirty deals with the Nixon Administration. She’s joining an impressively stacked cast that includes Woody Harrelson as E. Howard Hunt, Justin Theroux as G. Gordon Liddy, Domhnall Gleeson as John Dean and Lena Headey as Dorothy Hunt.

The five-part series tells the story of how President Richard Nixon’s own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, Hunt and Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were zealously trying to protect. Rounding out the cast are Kiernan Shipka, Ike Barinholtz, Yul Vazquez, David Krumholtz, Rich Sommer, Kim Coates, Liam James, Zoe Levin, Tony Plana, Zak Orth, Nelson Ascencio, Tre Ryder, Gary Cole, Toby Huss and John Carroll Lynch.

Jan de Bont cut his teeth in Hollywood as a cinematographer, working on some big movies like adventure sequel The Jewel of the Nile, Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October, Lethal Weapon 3 and Basic Instinct. And when the Dutchman decided to make the jump into directing, his first effort behind the camera turned out to be one of the greatest action blockbusters ever made.

High concept pitches were all the rage during the 1990s, and Speed has one of the best. A bomb is strapped to a bus, and if it slows down to less than 50 miles per hour, then it explodes. It sounds incredibly simple, but thanks to de Bont’s sharp direction, a relentless barrage of tension-fuelled action sequences and three phenomenal performances from leads Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper and Sandra Bullock, it became a massive box office smash hit and raked in over $350 million.

De Bont’s second movie,...

November can be a slow month for streaming services. Amazon, however, is entering into 2020’s penultimate month with some steam.

Amazon is really beefing up its TV library in November 2020. Both Community (which arrives on Nov. 8) and Scrubs (Nov. 14) will be added to Amazon Prime this month and in the process complete the streaming trifecta: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu. That’s pretty impressive stuff for both shows. And then on the film side of things, November 1 sees the arrival of The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Twilight, and the Underworld franchise. Somebody didn’t tell Amazon Spooky Season was over and bless them for it.

As for the originals, Alex Rider is the most intriguing TV series here. That is based on the British spy novel series and premieres on Nov. 13 on IMDb TV (which is available to all Prime subscribers). That will be followed by Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series on Nov.

Amazon Prime Video has a whole load of new content coming this November, and the best thing about the large haul is that all tastes are accounted for, so whatever you’re in the mood for, you’ll have a lot of options. From Christmas flicks to action films to some classic sci-fi and horror, subscribers will find much to enjoy from what’s hitting Prime next month.

Take a look at the full list below and scroll down further for our runthrough of the highlights:

Released November 1

28 Days Later (2003)

A Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)

A Christmas Switch (2018)

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Arizona Whirlwind (1944)

Article 99 (1992)

As Good As It Gets (1997)

Boyz N’ The Hood (1991)

Breathless (1983)

Country Strong (2011)

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Deja Vu (2006)

Did You Hear About The Morgans? (2009)

Firewalker (1986)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Marrying Father Christmas (2018) (Hallmark...

Hulu is out with its list of everything that’s coming and going from the streaming service in April, which should come in handy assuming we’re all still in isolation next month due to coronavirus.

The third and final season of “Future Man,” which stars Josh Hutcherson, Eliza Coupe, and Derek Wilson, will be available on April 3.

That same day, a new episode of Hulu’s monthly episodic anthology “Into the Dark” drops. April’s installment is called “Pooka Lives,” and follows a group of thirty-something friends who create their own Creepypasta about Pooka, but don’t like what they find once the thing goes viral.

Also Read: Why Disney Tied the Knot Between FX and Hulu

This year’s Oscar best-picture winner “Parasite” will also start streaming April 8.

Some good ones leaving in April are “My Best Friend’s Wedding” starring Julia Roberts and Dermot Mulroney, and “Bridget Jones’s Diary” starring Renee Zellwegger,...

Not to get too bleak at the outset here, but it could be a rough month for many people. As huge swaths of the world stay inside to self-isolate and exhibit social distancing from the Covid-19 pandemic, streaming options will be more useful than ever. Now Hulu is the first to release its new options for April 2020 to help schedule some time in.

Hulu’s only $5.99/month now, grab the deal here!

The biggest get for Hulu and Hulu-users this month is undoubtedly last year’s Oscar winner, Parasite. Bong joon-ho’s masterpiece arrives on April 8 so the late adopters can finally see what all the fuss is about.

Should you want to enjoy something a little less stressful, new seasons of Future Man (April 3) and What We Do In the Shadows (April 16) arrive this month as well. No need to wait for the middle of the month for entertainment...

The brutal 1989 hit took a much-loved onscreen pairing, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and tore them to pieces

It’s easy to forget just how consistently, bracingly nasty The War of the Roses is, thanks in great part to the extravagant, and festive, studio packaging it arrived in, unwrapped in cinemas 30 years ago this month. It was fast-paced, glossy, Christmassy and, deceptively, it starred one of the most beloved onscreen couples of the 80s: Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. Audiences were accustomed to seeing them bicker in the hit adventures Romancing the Stone and The Jewel of the Nile but their sparring was only ever of the screwball variety, a string of lighthearted quips signposting a Billy Ocean-soundtracked happy ending on the horizon.

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“It’s a nice full circle,” says Michael Douglas, speaking exclusively to Variety ahead of the Monte Carlo Television Festival, reflecting on a career that began in TV, blossomed in film, but has seen him return to the small screen in Netflix’s “The Kominsky Method.”

Douglas is this year’s recipient of Monte Carlo’s Crystal Nymph, awarded by Prince Albert II of Monaco to a major international television actor to recognize a stellar body of work.

For Douglas to accept an award from a TV festival is, on the surface, pretty remarkable. He fought hard early on to escape being pigeon-holed as a television actor.

While starring in the popular 1970s television series “The Streets of San Francisco,” he started his move into film, which was not an easy feat back then, producing 1975’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” best picture Oscar winner.

“It was extremely...

Longtime collaborators Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito spoke in conversation at the Produced By Conference today in Burbank.

They began working together in theater in the 1960s and through One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest into the ‘80s.

Tracing their intertwining careers, Douglas came to talk about the sequel to their hit Romancing the Stone.

Thirty five years later, many fans of the film may not even know there was a sequel. The 1985 film, The Jewel of the Nile, is not remembered fondly by fans of the original.

Whatever viewers may think of the sequel, there was going on behind the scenes.

It’s never a good sign when you have to sue the lead actor to be in the film. After the success of Romancing the Stone, Kathleen Turner had a lot of other offers and was set to star in The Money Pit (Shelly Long ultimately starred...

“Romancing the Stone” looks like a fun adventure romp onscreen, but making the Michael Douglas-Kathleen Turner movie that turns 35 this week was no stroll through the jungle. There were alligators, mud and plenty of back-and-forth with the studio — not to mention a tragedy after it opened.

The romantic comedy adventure opened March 30, 1984 and ended up as the eighth-highest grossing film of the year. It won the Golden Globe for best comedy or musical, and Turner took home the Globe for best actress in a comedy or musical.

Following in the footsteps of blockbuster “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Romancing the Stone” was a real game changer career-wise for star-producer Douglas, who became an even more popular leading man; Turner, who proved she was more than a femme fatale; and Douglas’ friend Danny DeVito, who became a bankable actor and director.

Director Robert Zemeckis went on to become one of Hollywood’s major filmmakers,...

Michael Douglas will encounter a familiar face on a Season 2 episode of his Netflix sitcom, “The Kominsky Method”: His “Romancing the Stone” co-star Kathleen Turner.

Turner has signed on to play Ruth Bederman, Sandy’s (Douglas) ex-wife and the mother of his daughter Mindy (Sarah Baker). As of now, Turner is scheduled to appear in one episode as Ruth, described as “Sandy’s second wife, who delights in still being able to push the buttons of her ex-husband.”

The casting of Turner comes as she and Douglas celebrate the 35th anniversary of “Romancing the Stone,” the hit romantic comedy/adventure about two strangers who find themselves chasing down a treasure in Colombia. Turner won a Golden Globe for the film (which also received the Globe for best comedy or picture movie), and a sequel, “The Jewel of the Nile,” was released in 1985.

Turner, Douglas and their “Romancing the Stone...

Danny DeVito is opening up about the time he saved Michael Douglas‘ life.

The Smallfoot actor, 73, revealed the two were filming their 1984 movie Romancing the Stone when Douglas, 73, was bitten by a snake on the set.

“We were in Mexico in this really rugged kind of place,” DeVito says during an interview on The Talk Thursday while promoting his new film Smallfoot. “There was this guy who had a truck with a cage on it and inside the pickup truck, in the bed of the truck, were snakes.”

He continued, “All the kids were around. I’m scared of snakes,...

Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has had a career of almost 50 years in feature films, beginning with his first credited performance in 1969’s “Hail, Hero!” and returning to the screen this month in “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” It is remarkable that after such a lengthy career, Douglas has found a new generation of fans, now that he has become part of the Marvel universe.

In his distinguished career, Douglas has been nominated for two Oscars and won both of them — as producer of the 1975 Best Picture winner “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and as Best Actor for 1987’s “Wall Street.” For his film work, he has also been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards, winning three — two for producing “Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Romancing the Stone” and one for his performance in “Wall Street.” And as a member of the cast of 2000’s “Traffic,” Douglas won a Screen...

Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Edward M. Abroms (1935-2018) - Editor. He received an Oscar nomination for his work on Blue Thunder and also edited Street Fighter, The Sugarland Express and numerous Colombo TV movies. He also worked on The Jewel of the Nile. He died on February 13. (Deadline) Lassie Lou Ahern (1920-2018) - Actress, Dancer. As a child, she appeared in a number of early Our Gang shorts (including Thundering Fleas, seen below) and silent features, including Uncle Tom's...

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When Romancing The Stone hit big, Fox wanted a sequel: quickly. And that, in turn, caused a few problems...

The recent addition of Robert Zemeckis’ Romancing The Stone to Netflix – starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner – stirred up a sizeable amount of love and nostalgia for the 1984 caper. In it, Douglas and Turner take on their own Indiana Jones-esque adventure, with crucially a couple at the heart of it that you could really root for.

But whereas Romancing The Stone tends to be very well loved, there’s a lot less affection for its rushed-out sequel, The Jewel Of The Nile. In fact, if anything, the film is best known for the song that Billy Ocean sings over the end credits, When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going (itself based on a line of dialogue that’s spouted a couple of times in the...

We're celebrating the cinematic year of 1984 this month. Here's Chris Feil on Romancing the Stone...

One of 1984's biggest hits was Romancing the Stone, a quippy twist on a harlequin romance dressed up as a jungle adventure. The film was the first big box office success for director Robert Zemeckis, though he only ever fleetingly matched Stone's glee for the sexy - it's almost odd that this film comes from a director who's film are often mostly crotchless.

But more importantly, Stone gifted us with the first cinematic gold pairing of Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. The duo is perfectly matched for their complimentary wits and evident sex appeal, resulting in both sequel The Jewel of the Nile and The War of the Rose before the decade's end. They may have had more overt steaminess elsewhere (see: Body Heat and Fatal Attraction, et al.), but even this film's PG rating can't contain their fireworks together.

This week sees the release of the rather self-explanatory Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, a crude comedy with Zac Efron and Adam DeVine, but how well do you know other movie nuptials?

Imagine Me & You

About Time

Definitely Maybe

Love Actually

Muriel's Wedding

Four Weddings and a Funeral

My Best Friend's Wedding

Three Men and a Baby

The 40-Year-Old Virgin

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Just Married

Old School

Frozen

The Princess and the Frog

Tangled

Shrek

Terms of Endearment

Sixteen Candles

The Jewel of the Nile

Heartburn

Joy

I Saw the Light

The Good Shepherd

American Sniper

Working Girl

Blind Date

Who's That Girl

Raising Arizona

Naked Gun 33 1/3

So I Married an Axe Murderer

Wayne's World II

A Very Brady Sequel

Father of the Bride

Addams Family Values

The Burbs

Runaway Bride

Legend

Brooklyn

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Blue Valentine

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Dancin' Dan here with a little bit of Actor Month fun. Witness has already hit us with its best shots, but I'm not quite ready to let Harrison Ford go just yet. Watching Witness for the first time can make you yearn for younger Ford, because.... Man was he so perfectly, ruggedly handsome in the 80s (and throughout most of the 90s). None of his roles captured that ruggedly handsome side of him quite so much as Indiana Jones, who is one of the best movie characters of all time.

But I'm unfairly stuffing the ballot box before the question. Who wore the "80s Adventurer Look" best? Tell us in the comments!

Harrison Ford's brilliant almost fearless (why did it have to be snakes?) archelogist/adventurer Indiana Jones is a prime hunk of man, but not exactly alone in the world of ruggedly handsome 80s franchise adventurers... There is...

The beginning of week two was when the highly anticipated first of three master classes were scheduled with Turkish helmer Fatih Akin breaking bread first. Giving insight into a career that has been celebrated at major film fests since Head-On won over the Berlinale, I’m of the opinion that his only true masterwork was 2007’s The Edge of Heaven. So if I needed a reason for not attending, then this is how I would clear my day for a slight detour.

The organizers gave attendees the possibility of visiting the vistas of Ouarzazate (about half an hour plane ride away from Marrekech). As it turns out, Morrocco has been host to several feature films dating back well beyond Lawrence of Arabia days.

Plenty of film folk made the trip which included stops at the impressive, wish we could have stayed longer Kasbah Ait Benhaddou (Unesco site and 1st set...

We may remember Independence Day, The Matrix, The Phantom Menace. But what about these forgotten 90s sci-fi films? And are any worth seeing?

Think back to the science fiction cinema of the 1990s, and some of the decade's biggest box-office hits will immediately spring to mind: The Phantom Menace, Jurassic Park, Independence Day, Men In Black, Armageddon and Terminator 2 were all in the top 20 most lucrative films of the era.

But what about the sci-fi films of the 1990s that failed to make even close to the same cultural and financial impact of those big hitters? These are the films this list is devoted to - the flops, the straight-to-video releases, the low-budget and critically-derided. We've picked 50 live-action films that fit these criteria, and dug them up to see whether they're still worth watching in the 21st century.

So here's a mix of everything from hidden classics to forgettable dreck,...

In May we will see almost 60 titles leave Netflix, but nearly 60 titles are being added. One of the big warnings I will heed is that you’ve got until May 5 to watch Skyfall, so get on that. The Netflix original Grace & Frankie makes its debut on May 8 and stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston.

Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, The Boxtrolls, and Fruitvale Station are just some of the great titles heading your way next month. Check out the full list of new movies and TV shows coming to Netflix.

Available May 1

Beyond Clueless (2014)

Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

Legally Blonde (2001)

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde (2003)

Longmire: Season 3

No No: A Dockumentary (2014)

Shameless: Series 10

The Last Waltz (1978)

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (2005)

Underclassman (2015)

Witnesses: Season 1

Available May 2

Lalaloopsy: Festival of Sugary Sweets (2015)

LeapFrog Letter Factory Adventures: Amazing Word Explorers (2015)

Available May 3

Anita (2013)

D.L. Hughley...

Want to watch that amazing train chase sequence from "Skyfall" one more time? Get to streaming the 2012 James Bond film before May 5, because it's one of the many films leaving Netflix's queue. How about the original "RoboCop"? You have until May 1 to comply, er, stream it. And if you want to catch up on Audrey Hepburn classics "Funny Face" and "Sabrina," those will also be leaving soon, as well as "Romancing the Stone" and its sequel, "The Jewel of the Nile."

Here's a complete list of the movies that Netflix is pulling from your streaming list. And, just so you're not left empty-handed, here's a list of what's new on Netflix in May 2015. (All titles and dates provided by Netflix and subject to change.)​

Leaving May 1

"6 Bullets" (2012)

"12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue" (2012)

"A Knight's Tale" (2001)

"The Accused" (1988)

"Airplane!" (1980)

"Airplane II: The Sequel" (1982)

"All I Want for Christmas" (1991)

"Along Came Polly...

The History Channel has found the creative team behind its remake of “Roots,” an Emmy award-winning miniseries that first aired on ABC in 1977.

Allen Hughes (“The Book of Eli”), of the directing duo the Hughes Brothers, will direct the event series, as well as executive produce alongside Mark Wolper and Marc Toberoff.

Also Read: History Channel to Air Six-Part World War Event Series

Screenwriting duo Mark Rosenthal and Larry Konner (“The Jewel of the Nile”) will write the project, which is an A+E Studios production in association with Marc Toberoff and The Wolper Organization for History.

History acquired the...

Many happy returns, Michael Douglas, who turns 70 today (September 25).

The actor, currently filming the highly-anticipated Marvel movie Ant-Man, has starred on the silver screen for over four decades, making his film debut with father Kirk Douglas in 1966's Cast a Giant Shadow.

To celebrate the Hollywood star's milestone birthday, we delve deep into the archives to pull out some classic images of the acting legend below:

1. Michael Douglas as a young boy lifts a goat to emulate father Kirk Douglas on the set of Howard Hawks's 1952 western The Big Sky.

2. Kirk Douglas shows off his strength (and skin-tight white swimming short shorts) as he lifts youngest son Joel (left) and eldest, Michael (right) during a family holiday circa 1955.

3. An inquisitive Michael inspects a world globe with brother Joel (centre) and father Kirk in the mid '50s.

4. Michael joins Kirk on the set of Melville Shavelson's Cast a Giant Shadow...