Tommy Lee Jones
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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‘The Burial’ Review: Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones in a Satisfyingly Old-School Courtroom Drama
The stars headline Maggie Betts' film about a man who goes up against a corporate titan in order to hold on to his family's funeral home.
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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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Jamie Foxx Stars in Trailer for Amazon’s ‘The Burial’
Oscar winners Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones team up for a lighthearted drama in the trailer for Prime Video’s upcoming film The Burial. The official description: “When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral homeowner Jeremiah O’Keefe (Jones) enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary (Foxx) to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter […]
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Cormac McCarthy, Author of ‘No Country for Old Men,’ Dies at 89
Cormac McCarthy, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searing novel No Country for Old Men served as the foundation for the Coen brothers’ 2007 film that earned Oscars for best picture, supporting actor, directing and adapted screenplay, has died. He was 89. McCarthy died Tuesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, his publisher, […]
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Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan,’ ‘Heat’ and ‘Natural Born Killers’ Actor, Dies at 61
Tom Sizemore, who faced legal troubles and drug addiction amid a career that saw him star as Sgt. Mike Horvath in Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan and portray cops, crooks and psychopaths with the best of them, died Friday. He was 61. Sizemore died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, his rep Charles […]
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Anne Heche Taken Off Life Support, Rep Says; Dies at 53
Anne Heche, who starred in such films as Donnie Brasco, Volcano and Wag the Dog and on TV shows including Men in Trees and Hung during a troubled life and career, was taken off life support Sunday night, her rep announced. Heche, 53, had spent several days in a coma at the Grossman Burn Center […]
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Hollywood Flashback: ‘The Executioner’s Song’ Made True-Crime History in 1982
The Executioner’s Song — both Norman Mailer’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1979 novel and the NBC adaptation that won Tommy Lee Jones an Emmy in 1983 — are now considered classics of the true-crime genre. But that wasn’t always the case. Song depicts the tortured final months in the life of Gary Gilmore, who dominated headlines in […]
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Bob Elkins, Actor in ‘Coal Miner’s Daughter,’ Dies at 89
Bob Elkins, who had a small but pivotal role as a radio disc jockey in Coal Miner’s Daughter, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Cold Spring, Kentucky, a publicist announced. He was 89. In the 1980 Michael Apted-directed drama, nominated for best picture, Elkins’ Bobby Day is eventually convinced by Loretta Lynn (Oscar winner […]
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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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‘Wander’: Film Review
Aaron Eckhart, Tommy Lee Jones, Katheryn Winnick, and Heather Graham star in April Mullen's paranoid thriller, 'Wander,' which screened at the Deauville American Film Festival.
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‘Wander’ Trailer Gives First Look at Aaron Eckhart as Paranoid Private Investigator (Exclusive)
VMI Worldwide has dropped the first trailer to April Mullen's conspiracy thriller Wander, which includes a first look at Aaron Eckhart as a mentally unstable private investigator probing a death in a small town that links to cause of his daughter's death.
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