Ben Foster
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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Will Smith’s ‘Emancipation’: What the Critics Are Saying
The review embargo for Antoine Fuqua’s much-talked about escaped slave drama Emancipation lifted Wednesday evening and early critics reaction to the Apple Original Films feature is decidedly mixed. Critics praised Emancipation‘s cast, with Will Smith, the film’s controversy-stricken star, receiving plaudits along with co-stars Ben Foster and Charmaine Bingwa. There was also praise for the […]
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‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith Leads Antoine Fuqua’s Propulsive but Shallow Slave Drama
The Oscar winner stars alongside Ben Foster and Charmaine Bingwa in a narrative based on the true story of "Whipped Peter," an enslaved man who escaped a Confederate army labor camp.
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‘The Survivor’ Star Ben Foster Talks the Challenges of Playing a Concentration Camp Prisoner
In Barry Levinson’s HBO film The Survivor, Ben Foster plays Harry Haft, who survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz by winning life-and-death boxing matches with other prisoners orchestrated by Nazis. The director and star have a long-standing collaborative relationship — Levinson cast the actor in his first film role, in 1999’s Liberty Heights. The Oscar-winning […]
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Adam Sandler and Queen Latifah in Netflix’s ‘Hustle’: Film Review
NBA player Juancho Hernangómez also stars in Jeremiah Zagar’s inspirational drama about a struggling Philly pro basketball scout betting everything on an unknown talent.
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‘The Survivor’ Star Ben Foster Talks Losing 62 Pounds for Holocaust Role
One thing to know about Ben Foster is that he craves intense roles, such as the ones in films like Alpha Dog, 3:10 to Yuma and Hell or High Water (for which he won an Independent Spirit Award for supporting actor). Another is that the actor, 41, was a terrible student while growing up in […]
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Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace, Jenna Ortega to Star in Crime Drama ‘Finestkind’
Paramount+ has picked up the rights in key international territories, including the U.S., to the crime drama Finestkind, from Brian Helgeland, the Oscar-winning writer-director behind Mystic River, L.A. Confidential and A Knight’s Tale. The feature stars Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. Helgeland will write and helm the film set in […]
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Chris Pine in ‘The Contractor’: Film Review
A former Green Beret signs on for lucrative black-ops work that quickly turns disastrous in an action thriller that also stars Ben Foster, Gillian Jacobs and Eddie Marsan.
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Ben Foster in ‘The Survivor’: Film Review | TIFF 2021
Barry Levinson tells the true story of a Jewish boxer who's haunted by what it took to survive the Holocaust.
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Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa Join Will Smith in ‘Emancipation’ Drama
Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor and Mustafa Shakir have joined Will Smith in Emancipation, the freedom quest tale being directed by Antoine Fuqua for Apple Studios. Smith plays Peter, a man who escapes from slavery, relying on his wits, unwavering faith and deep love for his family to evade cold-blooded hunters and the unforgiving […]
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London’s National Theatre Exploring Streaming Options for NT Live Library
In what could be a small silver lining in the dark cloud of prolonged live theater shutdowns on both sides of the Atlantic due to the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's National Theatre for the first time is showing signs that it might consider making its superb library of NT Live productions available for streaming.
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