Brian Helgeland
Oscar Winner Brian Helgeland on 30-Year Journey to Make ‘Finestkind,’ Most Personal Film of His Career
Hollywood is overflowing with stories about films that took years of blood, sweat and tears to bring to the screen. Brian Helgeland’s Finestkind represents one of the longest kinds. The Oscar-winning screenwriter of Mystic River and veteran director of such films as Legend, 42, A Knight’s Tale and Payback finished the script when he was […]
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‘Finestkind’ Review: Not Even Jenna Ortega and Tommy Lee Jones Can Keep Brian Helgeland’s Clichéd Maritime Drama Afloat
Ben Foster and Toby Wallace co-star in a New England-set crime drama written and directed by the Oscar-winning 'L.A. Confidential' screenwriter.
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Manny Coto, Writer-Producer on ’24’ and ‘American Horror Story,’ Dies at 62
Manny Coto, the Cuban-born writer and producer who received an Emmy for his work on 24 and spent four seasons on American Horror Story and two more on American Horror Stories, has died. He was 62. Coto, whose childhood love of Star Trek and Super-8 moviemaking led to a 40-year career in film and television, […]
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U.K. Box Office: ‘Legend’ Takes Top Spot With Record-Breaking Bow
The Tom Hardy-starring London crime biopic had the biggest September opening, the biggest opening for a British 18-certificate and the biggest opening for StudioCanal.
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‘Legend’: Film Review
Tom Hardy co-stars with himself to play notorious London gangsters Ron and Reggie Kray in director Brian Helgeland's violent period drama.
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First Look: Tom Hardy as Infamous London Gangster Twins (Photo)
The actor stars as both Reggie and Ronnie Kray in Brian Helgeland's "Legend" about the East End criminals.
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John Singleton: Can a White Director Make a Great Black Movie? (Guest Column)
"42" and "The Help" had white helmers; "The Butler" and "12 Years a Slave" didn't. The Oscar-nominated director questions the studios' motives in telling black stories with scant African-American input: "It's as if the studios are saying, 'We want it black, just not that black.' "
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Becoming Jackie Robinson: How Chadwick Boseman Landed the Lead in ’42’
Director Brian Helgeland recalls the actor’s “big and brave” audition that got him the part.
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