Alfred Hitchcock: Last News

Stu Silver, the screenplay writer for the 1987 comedy Throw Momma From The Train, died July 18 in Rochester, NY from complications of prostate cancer. He was 76, his son said.

EXCLUSIVE: The American Play Company, most recently led by Oscar-winning actor Michael Douglas and his business partner, Mark Shankman, is being acquired by the theatrical division of International Literary Partners.

The Monkey director Osgood Perkins says he has no desire to make a James Bond movie now that the franchise has been acquired by Amazon.In a recent Reddit AMA, the horror director was asked by a fan: “Are you open to directing a Bond movie/trilogy? If so, who would you cast as your version of Bond?”Perkins simply replied: “No, because fuck Jeff Bezos.”It comes after billionaire Bezos previously appeared to publicly support President Donald Trump, writing that it was “an honour” to attend Trump’s second inauguration in 2025. “Excited to collaborate on accelerating innovation and supercharging the American economy,” Bezos commented at the time.While Perkins ruled out Bond because of Bezos, he did disclose another iconic franchise he’d be happy to join – Star Wars.Perkins wrote that his ideal film, if budget was no object, would be “the collected dreams and nightmares of Darth Vader told as short stories.”Other projects on the director’s list include “a totally made up biopic about a real person, a neo-futuristic Freudian Western, [and] a movie about someone famous who died young and their experience of the afterlife.”Perkins went on to explain that his visual style was influenced by his favourite films.

Patrick Wilson (The Conjuring franchise) has joined Amy Adams and Javier Bardem in Apple TV+ series Cape Fear, from Nick Antosca, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor It’s ironic that a quarter of the way into the 21st century, when studios have seemingly accepted home streaming as their primary means of movie distribution, DP Lol Crawley has earned an Oscar nomination for “The Brutalist,” shot on VistaVision, a widescreen film process developed by Paramount Pictures in 1954 to help lure viewers away from their living room TVs and into the theaters. Used for such films as John Ford’s “The Searchers,” Cecil B.

Clayton Davis Senior Awards Editor The prestigious DGA Awards, one of the most crucial precursors to the Oscars, are announcing their winners. A wide-open year has unfolded with plenty of twists and turns, coming from campaign controversies and surprising Oscar snubs like DGA nominee Edward Berger and recent Critics Choice shocking victor Jon M.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “The Brutalist’s” Lol Crawley has won the British Society of Cinematographers Award for best cinematography in a feature film award. Jody Lee Lipes won for his work on the BBC drama “The Listeners.” Lipes took home the award in the television drama (UK Terrestrial) category.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Storyboards by more than 50 famed filmmakers and animators including Martin Scorsese, Hayao Miyazaki, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Wes Anderson, and Alfred Hitchcock are set to go on display in an exhibition organised by Italy’s Prada Foundation. The show, titled “A Kind of Language: Storyboards and Other Renderings for Cinema,” will kick off Jan. 30 in Milan at the Prada Foundation’s Osservatorio outpost and then travel to Prada’s Rong Zhai space dedicated to cultural activities in Shanghai in Nov.

Visual artist and The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich is among the names that have been set for the Talents programme at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. 

Duke University, this includes a huge number of songs that were originally published in 1929. One of the most famous is the classic track ‘Singin’ In The Rain’, which was written by Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown for Broadway’s Hollywood Music Box Revue.

The New Year's and birthday honours lists are often viewed as the pinnacle of recognition for a life committed to public service. These lists, which feature thousands of names from all over the UK, both civilian and celebrity, celebrate their accomplishments and service with awards such as knighthoods, damehoods, or MBEs.

The New Year's and birthday honours lists are often viewed as the ultimate recognition of a life spent in public service.These lists, brimming with thousands of names from all over the UK, both celeb and civilian, celebrate their accomplishments and contributions with awards like knighthoods, damehoods, or MBEs.The latest list is due to be revealed on the evening of 30 December 2024. However, not everyone who is offered an honour accepts it.

The New Year's and birthday honours lists are by many seen as the ultimate recognition of a life dedicated to public service.

Brady Corbet would shoot “The Brutalist” on. Cinematographer Lol Crawley says, “We’ve always shot on film.” “The Brutalist” tells the story of Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth, played by Adrien Brody. He escapes the Holocaust and moves to the U.S., where he gets a taste of the American dream after meeting a wealthy industrialist who changes his life.

Archibald Thomson Hall left prison in 1975 and used a new alias to climb the social ladder, eventually becoming one of Scotland’s most notorious serial killers.

Javier Bardem has booked his next TV role!

Apple TV+ has given a formal green light to Cape Fear, a TV series executive produced by two Oscar winners, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. They are joined by a third, Javier Bardem, who will star and executive produce.

Rotten Tomatoes has compiled the 100 best flicks in the genre based on the website’s critics score.For the cream of the crop, we’ve listed the top 10 movies in the list below.1. Laura (1944)2. Shadow Of A Doubt (1943)3. The Maltese Falcon (1941)4. The Third Man (1949)5. Sunset Boulevard (1950)6. Sweet Smell Of Success (1957)7. Strangers On A Train (1951)8. Kiss Me Deadly (1955)9. Detour (1945)10. Double Indemnity (1944)Otto Preminger’s Laura takes the top spot, with a rating of 100%.

The Producers Guild said Monday that Disney Entertainment co-chairman Dana Walden will receive the Milestone Award, given annually by the PGA for extraordinary contribution to the entertainment industry. The honor will be bestowed during the 36th annual PGA Awards on February 8.

recently announced that Season 3 of Ryan Murphy’s hit Netflix anthology series, “Monster” — which had popular previous seasons about Jeffrey Dahmer and the Menendez brothers — will be about Gein, starring Charlie Hunnam. Harold Schechter, a true crime historian and author who wrote the definitive book about Gein, “Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho,” told The Post that up until Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” came out in 1960, all the horror movie monsters were from “other places – Eastern European monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein or the Wolfman.

J. Kim Murphy Colman Domingo is set to make his feature directorial debut with “Scandalous,” a period drama about the 1950s romance between movie star Kim Novak and singer Sammy Davis Jr., and the bigoted scrutiny that the pair faced once their relationship came to light. Sydney Sweeney and David Jonsson are in talks to play the two leads.

Monster series will see Tom Hollander star as Alfred Hitchcock.Murphy recently announced that season three will star Charlie Hunnam as the 1950s serial killer Ed Gein. He became infamous when authorities discovered that he not only had killed multiple people, but had dug up graves from a cemetery near his home and fashioned all manner of household items and clothing from human remains.Now according to Variety, Hollander, Hacks star Laurie Metcalf and The Crown‘s Olivia Williams have been added to the cast.Metcalf will play Gein’s mother, Augusta, while Williams will play Alma Reville, Hitchcock’s wife.It is thought that because Gein served as one of the inspirations for Norman Bates and Hitchcock’s film Psycho, season three of the hit Netflix anthology will delve into how his crimes influenced the film and the novel upon which the movie was based.Hollander recently worked with Murphy on the second season of Feud as Truman Capote in the the series.Elsewhere, Murphy recently suggested that he might not be finished with Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.Following the news that a court hearing has been set for Erik and Lyle Menendez, and that new evidence that they were allegedly molested by their father is now being considered, Murphy has expressed an interest in extending the season.The show charts the brothers’ conviction and sentencing to life in prison for the first-degree murder of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez, in 1989.Following its release Erik blasted Murphy in a statement, calling the show naive and inaccurate.