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Many of the original stars of the film are returning, but there is no sign of Cody Horn, who played Tatum's love interest last time around.

One of the original stars of the film franchise, portraying Rogue back in 2000's X-Men and a number of subsequent features, Anna Paquin has revealed her thoughts on a cameo appearance in the latest X-Men themed TV series The Gifted.

Not exact matches

StarTalk airs on Monday nights at 11 p.m. ET, and features the scientist interviewing cultural and political figures like George Takei of the original «Star Trek» series, film director Christopher Nolan and former President Jimmy Carter.

Taking place before the events of the 1977 original film, «Rogue One» follows Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) and a group of Rebel fighters on a mission to steal plans for the Death Star.

The first in a series of Star Wars «anthology» films — which are in addition to the new Star Wars trilogy — Rogue One takes place before the events of the original film, as a group of rebels try to steal the Death Star.

The truly amazing part of the play's history is that it was originally conceived for the husband - wife film - star team of Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester 50 years ago, with the great director James Whale (the original Frankenstein) attached to helm the production.

Which can make it easy to forget that the original Star Trek series brought the first interracial kiss to broadcast TV, or that the first Star Wars film was steeped in the world's collective memory of the fear of Nazi Germany in WWII.

Yet, just as the original Star Wars films gave us a tantalising glimpse into the history of the main characters, so Chesterton leaves us in no doubt that his own childhood was of immense importance to the development of his ideas.

Enjoy a screening of the original «Cars» film, part of the Town of Chapel Hill and Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership's «Movies Under the Stars» summer series.

Though director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) originally ceased production of Dark Blood when the film's young star Phoenix died tragically at 23, the film arrived onscreen nearly 20 years after its original scheduled release date.

The original director of A Prayer for the Dying, Franc Roddam, left the production midway through shooting due to disputes with the producers, and star Mickey Rourke later attempted to disassociate himself from the film.

J. Michael Straczynski's original script was jettisoned in favor of an unfinished one by political thriller specialist Matthew Michael Carnahan (State of Play, Lions for Lambs), with «LOST» - alum script doctors Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, Cloverfield) and Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus) brought in later to write a host of reshoots, including a new climax and ending to the film (the repeated use and imbibing of Pepsi products during these scenes would indicate the source for much of the additional reshoot budget), that pushed the release date from a winter of 2012 release to the summer of 2013.

In addition to rumors of a bloated budget and unrest on the set between director Mark Forster and star Brad Pitt, the film's original release date was pushed back six months to accommodate major rewrites and additional shooting.

The original stars are demanding so much money to do another turn that the film's budget is reminiscent of the US national debt.

I'm an original Star Trek series (you know, Kirk, Spock) fan myself, but I can honestly say that this is not only one of the best Star Trek films ever, but this may be one of the best Sci - fi movies ever.

After watching this film, you will ask yourself, «Why didn't they start the original Star Wars Saga with this story, instead of Episode 4: A New Hope?

It was also light years ahead of all film special effects that preceded it, and nothing came close to redefining the look of a «space movie» until the original Star Wars, a decade later.

Out of all the Star Trek series and films, Enterprise is easily the most overlooked, and was the only one since the original to be cancelled.

In fact, at its best, Farscape is the TV show that has come the closest to matching the magic of the original Star Wars film.

One of the few sequels that surpasses the original in every way, Empire Strikes Back is one of the closest examples to a perfect film that there is, and anyone who disagrees is either an imbecile or (and most likely this) has formed a biased opinion that Star Wars is a nerd series that they are above (so an imbecile).

DICK DINMAN & EDDIE MULLER DISPENSE A DOUBLE DOSE OF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana AndrewOF DANA: The Warner Archive has just released on Blu - ray legendary director Fritz Lang's last two American - made edge - of - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrewof - your - seat thrillers WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS and BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT in their original wide screen SuperScope incarnations and popular film noir author and TCM host Eddie Muller rejoins producer / host Dick Dinman as they both salute the unjustly underrated star of both films, Dana Andrewof both films, Dana Andrews.

This is the BEST of the Star Wars films and the BEST of the original trilogy.

Thankfully the film, although not as good as the original trilogy, delivers pretty much all you'd expect from both star & director in the fourth part of the series.

Director J.J. Abrams is clearly a fan of the original films; this shines through in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

The Hollywood Reporter put together a nice roundtable featuring not only McKay but also the author of the original book, Michael Lewis, and the film's stars, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale.

The site reports that casting continues — with one of the titular eight roles still to be filled — while «there is every possibility» that stars from the original Steven Soderbergh - directed trilogy of films could also appear in cameo roles.

With today's debut of the official trailer for «Star Wars: Rogue One,» a standalone installment of the intergalactic franchise about the events leading up to the original film, we've got lightsabers on the brain.

A smaller film like Before Midnight was never going to be in with a shot for any of the main categories but its witty and intelligent script, co-written by director Richard Linklater and stars Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke, should have scored an original screenplay nod.

The original film was directed by the late, great Tony Scott and starred Will Smith during the period when he was fully emerging as the most famous movie star on the planet and Gene Hackman when he was still, you know, regularly acting and being one of the finest actors all time.

Previously revealed were the president of the jury for the Un Certain Regard sidebar (Tim Roth), the mistress of ceremonies (The Artist star Bérénice Bejo) and a redux version of Sergio Leone's 1984 film Once Upon a Time in America, which adds 40 minutes of footage to the original 229 - minute running time.

But even yesterday it looked like a long shot, and despite Carrey's apparent love of Matthew Vaughn's film, The Hollywood Reporter is saying that their sources think the chances of Carrey taking the role of Colonel Stars (a mobster - turned - fundamentalist - Christian - turned - superhero - recruiter) are slim — presumably the smaller budget of the sequel to the underperfoming original can't quite afford him.

Bacon starred alongside Fred Ward, Finn Carter, Michael Gross and Reba McEntire in the original film about an isolated area of Nevada plagued by giant killer worms.

Fresh off his Golden Globe wins for his FX series Atlanta, Donald Glover is getting ready to step into the galaxy far, far away by portraying a younger version of Lando Calrissian — played by Billy Dee Williams in the original Star Wars trilogy — in the untitled Han Solo anthology film.

It's dirty and grimy the way Star Wars should look — part of the original trilogy's appeal was that it wasn't a polished, shiny science fiction vision, it was scummy and kind of gross and kicked off an era of lived - in production design for these types of films.

Starring Paul Rudd (Ant - Man), in his first feature film, as Tommy Doyle, and introducing J.C. Brandy as the new Jamie Lloyd (taking over the role from Danielle Harris), «Halloween 666» is the original title for what would ultimately become the infamous «Producer's Cut» of Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, a very different version of which was released in theaters in 1995.

Our studio had its first ever $ 1 billion worldwide grossing film in Michael Bay's hit «Transformers: Dark of the Moon;» we successfully re-launched our «Mission Impossible» franchise with Tom Cruise, JJ Abrams and Brad Bird; our latest installment in the «Paranormal Activity» franchise had another $ 100 million dollar success; our first original animated film «Rango,» from director Gore Verbinski, earned rave reviews and more than $ 100 million at the domestic box office; and we released global phenomenon «Super 8,» directed by JJ Abrams, who will now direct the newest «Star Trek» for 2013.

The original film, starring cult favourites Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins and Robert D' Zar, told the story of Officer Matt Cordell, a disfigured New York cop on a murderous rampage throughout the iconic city's sleazy streets.

Against All Odds is an interesting but ultimately flawed remake of the film noir classic Out of the Past (which is paid homage to by casting the star of the original (Greer, The Big Steal) as the mother).

The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs» ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.

Just as the original featured an all - star cast of Who's Who celebrities, this new film will attempt to capture some of the original magic for today's audience.

Audiences have come to expect a fair share of massive brass for important themes in Star Wars, but these subtle chords, combined with a sequence of Rey's day - to - day activities, marked the first moment in the film that showed fans that this film would give us incredible new characters that would get as close to our hearts as characters from the original films.

Travers points to Plummer, who reshot the role of J. Paul Getty after the film's original star, Kevin Spacey, was accused of multiple allegations of sexual assault.

In hindsight, the 1984 hit Footloose — starring Kevin Bacon and directed by Herbert Ross — along with its contemporary Flashdance, can be seen as the link between the old Hollywood model of a let's - put - on - a-show musical, based on original songs brought to life in elaborate choreographed numbers, and the later Hollywood model of youth films, perfected in the»80s by John Hughes and terminally calcified over the decades to follow, in which a contemporary pop music soundtrack serves as both a structural backbone to the film itself and an ancillary product that can outgross and outlive the film that spawned it.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson, who helmed two of the most original films of the last five years, has fashioned a nearly flawless hat trick: a unique treatise on love and anguish centered on a truly unlikely star.

From George Lucas» frustratingly blah «Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace» to Ridley Scott's sleep - inducing «Alien» bummer «Prometheus,» so - called origin films often fail to live up to, or even approach, the magic of the original.

The as - yet untitled Star Wars standalone movie, heavily rumoured to follow a group of bounty hunters around the galaxy, has been gaining traction of late; Gary Whitta, the movie's original writer, left the project, while Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Star Wars Rebels) has joined The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan for the second standalone film, which will be directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle).

Taylor, who had only a small role in the original film, assumed a co-starring position in the 1971 sequel, «Billy Jack,» for which she earned a Golden Globe nomination as New Star of the Year — Actress.

The film seems like an obvious vehicle for a pop star to break into acting, although that wasn't quite the case for the original's seasoned but not yet famous 16 - year - old Irene Cara (an alumna of «The Electric Company», who appropriately enough would find Fame).

Williams has written the complete scores for all eight of the main Star Wars films, winning an Oscar for the 1977 original and nominations for three of the other seven.

The young Texan's movie star aura makes for a weirdly magnetic, polished version of the original's unpredictable insanity, and his unhinged performance might constitute the closest thing this film has to actual merits worth recommending.