Iron Maiden and Z2 Comics have announced a graphic novel based on the band’s Piece of Mind album, arriving November 21st. Below you can get an exclusive first look at the special alternate cover featuring Eddie as “The Trooper” and its accompanying collector’s card.
The graphic novel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the legendary 1983 album, which contains all-time Maiden classics such as “Where Eagles Dare,” “Die with Your Boots On,” and “The Trooper.”
With a solid track record of heavy metal collaborations with Anthrax, King Diamond, and more, Z2 Comics pulled out all the stops for Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind. The book features stories based on each of the album’s songs, including writing from frontman Bruce Dickinson (“Revelations”) along with an introduction penned by longtime Maiden manager Rod Smallwood.
“When the idea of a Piece of Mind 40th Anniversary graphic novel first came up, I felt...
The graphic novel celebrates the 40th anniversary of the legendary 1983 album, which contains all-time Maiden classics such as “Where Eagles Dare,” “Die with Your Boots On,” and “The Trooper.”
With a solid track record of heavy metal collaborations with Anthrax, King Diamond, and more, Z2 Comics pulled out all the stops for Iron Maiden: Piece of Mind. The book features stories based on each of the album’s songs, including writing from frontman Bruce Dickinson (“Revelations”) along with an introduction penned by longtime Maiden manager Rod Smallwood.
“When the idea of a Piece of Mind 40th Anniversary graphic novel first came up, I felt...
- 11/8/2023
- by Jon Hadusek
- Consequence - Music
NBC Sports Network and ESPN across Latin America are among the broadcasters to have picked up Endeavor Content’s The Story of Rugby ahead of the Rugby World Cup later this month.
The event runs from September 20 and Endeavor Content has sold the six-part series to a slew of international networks including Nhk in Japan, CBC Gem in Canada, Movistar+ in Spain, Viaplay in the Nordics, Fox in Australia, Rte in Ireland, Supersport in Africa and Tvnz in New Zealand.
Steven O’Meagher (The Golden Hour) is showrunner on the sports doc series, which tackles colonialism, class war and sexism and focuses on the social, economic, historical and cultural impact of the sport of rugby. Filmed in 24 countries and across six continents, the series examines national cultures and identities through the larger-than-life personalities and little known behind-the-scenes stories of world rugby and includes interviews with some of rugby’s greatest legends,...
The event runs from September 20 and Endeavor Content has sold the six-part series to a slew of international networks including Nhk in Japan, CBC Gem in Canada, Movistar+ in Spain, Viaplay in the Nordics, Fox in Australia, Rte in Ireland, Supersport in Africa and Tvnz in New Zealand.
Steven O’Meagher (The Golden Hour) is showrunner on the sports doc series, which tackles colonialism, class war and sexism and focuses on the social, economic, historical and cultural impact of the sport of rugby. Filmed in 24 countries and across six continents, the series examines national cultures and identities through the larger-than-life personalities and little known behind-the-scenes stories of world rugby and includes interviews with some of rugby’s greatest legends,...
- 9/16/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
From director Ridley Scott (The Martian, Gladiator) comes the thrilling crime drama All The Money In The World, available on Digital March 27 and on Blu-ray and DVDApril 10 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams (2016, Best Supporting Actress, Manchester by the Sea) and 2017 Academy Award nominee Christopher Plummer (Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role, All The Money In the World) and Mark Wahlberg (The Fighter, The Departed) star in the explosively entertaining story inspired by the 1973 Getty kidnapping. This Oscar®-nominated thriller makes its eagerly awaited home entertainment debut with must-own bonus features, including 8 deleted scenes and 3 featurettes inspired by the true events of this shocking tale and an inside look at its already-legendary production.
Join director Ridley Scott and the cast and crew as they discuss the fast-paced and exciting way Scott filmed this epic movie — including looks into the wardrobe, locations and score...
Join director Ridley Scott and the cast and crew as they discuss the fast-paced and exciting way Scott filmed this epic movie — including looks into the wardrobe, locations and score...
- 3/29/2018
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Some movies send a shiver down your spine or make the hair on the back of your neck stand up repeatedly, and the nerve-wracking All the Money in the World is one of those films. ‘All The Money In The World’ Film Review Ridley Scott’s crime thriller is based on John Pearson’s 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes […]
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- 1/12/2018
- by Pablo Mena
- Uinterview
Ridley Scott’s story of the abduction of Jean Paul Getty III shows little sense of urgency
Ridley Scott’s plodding biographical drama tells the story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and his attempts by his mother, Gail (Michelle Williams), to get his rapacious billionaire grandfather, J Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, no relation), to pay the ransom.
It is my favourite thing when movie titles appear as dialogue in films, so imagine my glee when Roman Duris’s kidnapper, Cinquanta, calls up Gail and sneers down the phone in his best Italian accent: “Get it from your father-in-law, he has all the money in the world.” Based on John Pearson’s 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty, the film is obsessed with the concept of wealth and its accumulation. “There’s a purity in beautiful...
Ridley Scott’s plodding biographical drama tells the story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer), and his attempts by his mother, Gail (Michelle Williams), to get his rapacious billionaire grandfather, J Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer, no relation), to pay the ransom.
It is my favourite thing when movie titles appear as dialogue in films, so imagine my glee when Roman Duris’s kidnapper, Cinquanta, calls up Gail and sneers down the phone in his best Italian accent: “Get it from your father-in-law, he has all the money in the world.” Based on John Pearson’s 1995 book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty, the film is obsessed with the concept of wealth and its accumulation. “There’s a purity in beautiful...
- 1/7/2018
- by Simran Hans
- The Guardian - Film News
When the grandson of the richest man in the world was snatched off the streets of Rome in 1973, the most shocking aspect about John Paul Getty III’s ordeal was that the person with the power to save him, J. Paul Getty, refused to do so.
Young Paul Getty, then 16, endured five long months held in captivity by Italian gangsters and the gruesome removal of his right ear before his grandfather agreed to pay the ransom that would set him free, Even then, the only reason J. Paul agreed to pay anything was due to a tax loophole through which...
Young Paul Getty, then 16, endured five long months held in captivity by Italian gangsters and the gruesome removal of his right ear before his grandfather agreed to pay the ransom that would set him free, Even then, the only reason J. Paul agreed to pay anything was due to a tax loophole through which...
- 1/3/2018
- by Kara Warner
- PEOPLE.com
MaryAnn’s quick take… The most interesting thing about this all-over-the-place drama-thriller is Ridley Scott’s last-minute Hail Mary pass to replace a disgraced cast member. The finale is tense and exciting, but it’s a slog to get there. I’m “biast” (pro): nothing
I’m “biast” (con): hot and cold on Ridley Scott lately
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Well, it’s one way to ensure that your movie is remembered in the annals of cinema: replace one of your leading actors after the film is finished, reshoot and reedit and do all the other ancillary work (new posters!) in a mere few weeks, and still meet your release date. Nothing like this had ever been done before in Hollywood, but Ridley Scott pulled it off,...
I’m “biast” (con): hot and cold on Ridley Scott lately
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Well, it’s one way to ensure that your movie is remembered in the annals of cinema: replace one of your leading actors after the film is finished, reshoot and reedit and do all the other ancillary work (new posters!) in a mere few weeks, and still meet your release date. Nothing like this had ever been done before in Hollywood, but Ridley Scott pulled it off,...
- 1/2/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
“All the Money in the World” screenwriter David Scarpa calls it “the day of infamy:” On October 29, actor Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of “making a sexual advance” 31 years ago, when Rapp was 14. Soon, others came forward with similar claims, and director Sir Ridley Scott went into action. “I didn’t exactly go, ‘Yipee!,'” he said. “I go into battle mode.”
Self described as “born competitive,” Scott recently told a Q&A audience: “Within hours, I said, ‘Right, I’m going to recast this.'” And with that he added an estimated 25 percent (about $10 million) to the film’s budget and made a kind of cinematic history, replacing the scandal-plagued Spacey with acting veteran Christopher Plummer.
Read More: ‘All the Money in the World’ Review: Ridley Scott Proves an Expert Surgeon, but the Results Are Less Impressive
Time was of the essence: Not only did the December release date...
Self described as “born competitive,” Scott recently told a Q&A audience: “Within hours, I said, ‘Right, I’m going to recast this.'” And with that he added an estimated 25 percent (about $10 million) to the film’s budget and made a kind of cinematic history, replacing the scandal-plagued Spacey with acting veteran Christopher Plummer.
Read More: ‘All the Money in the World’ Review: Ridley Scott Proves an Expert Surgeon, but the Results Are Less Impressive
Time was of the essence: Not only did the December release date...
- 12/20/2017
- by Jenna Marotta
- Indiewire
Director Ridley Scott is a real magician. He sure as hell pulls a rabbit out of a hat in All the Money in the World, a fact-based kidnap thriller that seemed on the road to becoming the first cinema casualty of the sexual misconduct era. There was Scott, ready to release his film version of how the world's richest man, John Paul Getty (Kevin Spacey), balked at paying the ransom for his 16-year-old grandson, known as Paul. Then, a month before the film's scheduled release, a scandal broke that embroiled...
- 12/20/2017
- Rollingstone.com
For Ridley Scott and the stars of the his movie All the Money in the World, the Monday night premiere of their film marked the end of a sprint to the finish line. Just six weeks before, the director made the unprecedented decision to recast a key role played by Kevin Spacey in the wake of the Oscar winner’s sexual misconduct scandal.
Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Timothy Hutton, and Christopher Plummer —who stepped in to replace Spacey in the role of the real-life billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty —were among the actors at the event, held at the...
Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Timothy Hutton, and Christopher Plummer —who stepped in to replace Spacey in the role of the real-life billionaire oil tycoon J. Paul Getty —were among the actors at the event, held at the...
- 12/19/2017
- by Dave Quinn
- PEOPLE.com
If its production history weren’t overshadowed by the last-minute decision to reshoot one major actor’s scenes with another, “All the Money in the World” would be a serviceable look at the perils of greed. As it stands, it’s a minor miracle. Ridley Scott’s slick dramatization of billionaire J. Paul Getty’s resistance to paying ransom for his grandson’s 1973 kidnapping was ready two months ago, with Kevin Spacey under mounds of makeup in the pivotal role as the octogenarian Getty. When Spacey’s career collapsed in the wake of sexual assault allegations, Scott replaced him with real-life octogenarian Christopher Plummer, and he did it with the ease of a brain surgeon who saves lives in his sleep.
See More:‘All The Money in the World’ Trailer: Christopher Plummer Makes His Debut After Replacing Kevin Spacey
Plummer is a world-class performer who endows Getty with a smarmy...
See More:‘All The Money in the World’ Trailer: Christopher Plummer Makes His Debut After Replacing Kevin Spacey
Plummer is a world-class performer who endows Getty with a smarmy...
- 12/19/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Ridley Scott’s drama about the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III looked sunk after allegations were made against the actor, but Christopher Plummer excels as his last-minute replacement
‘The rich are different from you and me,” said F Scott Fitzgerald, to which Ernest Hemingway is famously alleged to have replied: “Yes, they have more money.” This film suggests they also have more fear of their own children – fear that they will parasitically suck away energy that should be devoted to building up riches and status; that they will fail to be worthy inheritors of it, or waste it, or cause it to be catastrophically mortgaged to their own pampered weakness. This fear is the driving force of Ridley Scott’s raucous pedal-to-the-metal thriller about the ageing and super-rich oil tycoon J Paul Getty, freely adapted by screenwriter David Scarpa from the 1995 page-turner Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes...
‘The rich are different from you and me,” said F Scott Fitzgerald, to which Ernest Hemingway is famously alleged to have replied: “Yes, they have more money.” This film suggests they also have more fear of their own children – fear that they will parasitically suck away energy that should be devoted to building up riches and status; that they will fail to be worthy inheritors of it, or waste it, or cause it to be catastrophically mortgaged to their own pampered weakness. This fear is the driving force of Ridley Scott’s raucous pedal-to-the-metal thriller about the ageing and super-rich oil tycoon J Paul Getty, freely adapted by screenwriter David Scarpa from the 1995 page-turner Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes...
- 12/19/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Yesterday a TV spot was released that gave us our first footage of Christopher Plummer in the role of J. Paul Getty, a role previously held by Kevin Spacey. After Spacey was accused of all the crazy sexual misconduct stuff, director Ridley Scott cast Plummer and went out and reshot all of Spacy's parts in the film, which is pretty crazy, but he did it. Apparently, he shot it pretty quickly, as now we have a new full trailer showing off more footage of Plummer in the film.
All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son’s captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son’s life in the balance,...
All the Money in the World follows the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother Gail (Michelle Williams) to convince his billionaire grandfather (Christopher Plummer) to pay the ransom. When Getty Sr. refuses, Gail attempts to sway him as her son’s captors become increasingly volatile and brutal. With her son’s life in the balance,...
- 11/30/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
When it was announced that director Ridley Scott would be removing Kevin Spacey from his upcoming biopic, All The Money In The World, a sizeable shockwave reverberated through the film industry and its consumers. The idea that a hitherto Hollywood powerhouse could so easily and quickly be excised from the firmament seemed to send an important, laudable, and long-overdue message – that abusive behaviour is intolerable, and nobody is above being replaced. This message only gains power now that it’s becoming clear just how much this act of replacement is going to cost the studio.
All The Money In The World is written by David Scarpa and is based on the book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes Of The Heirs Of J. Paul Getty, by John Pearson. The movie specifically dramatizes the events of 1973, when then teenage John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by an organized crime group and mutilated,...
All The Money In The World is written by David Scarpa and is based on the book Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes Of The Heirs Of J. Paul Getty, by John Pearson. The movie specifically dramatizes the events of 1973, when then teenage John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by an organized crime group and mutilated,...
- 11/11/2017
- by Sarah Myles
- We Got This Covered
For Sony and director Ridley Scott, to do nothing would have been likely the riskiest and most costly option. Kevin Spacey portrayed oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty in the just-completed film “All the Money In the World,” but before its scheduled AFI closing-night premiere November 16, Spacey faced mounting allegations ranging from sexual harassment to rape.
Spacey went from heavily lauded actor to toxic waste dump In the space of a fortnight, transforming a much-needed potential bright spot in the Sony calendar into a $40 million albatross. No amount of clever PR and marketing could make up the difference with Spacey in that role; if there’s one thing the last 35 days have taught us, taking the wait-it-out approach to sexual-assault charges is futile.
Sony and Scott’s choice to quickly reshoot the film with Christopher Plummer in the role of Getty is groundbreaking; it also feels like the morally charged action...
Spacey went from heavily lauded actor to toxic waste dump In the space of a fortnight, transforming a much-needed potential bright spot in the Sony calendar into a $40 million albatross. No amount of clever PR and marketing could make up the difference with Spacey in that role; if there’s one thing the last 35 days have taught us, taking the wait-it-out approach to sexual-assault charges is futile.
Sony and Scott’s choice to quickly reshoot the film with Christopher Plummer in the role of Getty is groundbreaking; it also feels like the morally charged action...
- 11/9/2017
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Kevin Spacey will be removed from Ridley Scott film, All the Money in the World, Deadline reports. The film is already finished, and in a rare move the scenes in which Kevin Spacey appears as J. Paul Getty will be replaced with newly shot footage featuring Christopher Plummer.
The decision follows multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey, including accusations by Anthony Rapp, Tony Montana, Roberto Cavazos and Richard Dreyfuss' son Harry Dreyfuss. Last week, Netflix announced it was severing ties with Spacey, who stars in its popular series,...
The decision follows multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey, including accusations by Anthony Rapp, Tony Montana, Roberto Cavazos and Richard Dreyfuss' son Harry Dreyfuss. Last week, Netflix announced it was severing ties with Spacey, who stars in its popular series,...
- 11/9/2017
- Rollingstone.com
AFI Fest has confirmed that Getty kidnapping drama “All the Money in the World” (December 8, Sony) starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, and Kevin Spacey, will close the festival on November 16 accompanied by a tribute to veteran director Ridley Scott. The AFI Fest often launches late-breaking movies such as “Selma” and “American Sniper” into the Oscar race.
“For five decades, Ridley Scott’s tremendous visions of cities, new worlds, histories and science have transformed and influenced not only film, but our culture,” said Jacqueline Lyanga, AFI Fest Director. “We’re honored to be celebrating the artistry of a director whose work has had an indelible influence on cinema culture, and the lexicon of visual style.”
Three-time Oscar directing nominee Scott (“Black Hawk Down,” “Gladiator,” “Thelma & Louise”) earned a fourth Oscar nomination for producing “The Martian.”
His latest, “All the Money in the World,” is adapted by David Scarpa from the book...
“For five decades, Ridley Scott’s tremendous visions of cities, new worlds, histories and science have transformed and influenced not only film, but our culture,” said Jacqueline Lyanga, AFI Fest Director. “We’re honored to be celebrating the artistry of a director whose work has had an indelible influence on cinema culture, and the lexicon of visual style.”
Three-time Oscar directing nominee Scott (“Black Hawk Down,” “Gladiator,” “Thelma & Louise”) earned a fourth Oscar nomination for producing “The Martian.”
His latest, “All the Money in the World,” is adapted by David Scarpa from the book...
- 10/19/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
AFI Fest has confirmed that Getty kidnapping drama “All the Money in the World” (December 8, Sony) starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams, and Kevin Spacey, will close the festival on November 16 accompanied by a tribute to veteran director Ridley Scott. The AFI Fest often launches late-breaking movies such as “Selma” and “American Sniper” into the Oscar race.
“For five decades, Ridley Scott’s tremendous visions of cities, new worlds, histories and science have transformed and influenced not only film, but our culture,” said Jacqueline Lyanga, AFI Fest Director. “We’re honored to be celebrating the artistry of a director whose work has had an indelible influence on cinema culture, and the lexicon of visual style.”
Three-time Oscar directing nominee Scott (“Black Hawk Down,” “Gladiator,” “Thelma & Louise”) earned a fourth Oscar nomination for producing “The Martian.”
His latest, “All the Money in the World,” is adapted by David Scarpa from the book...
“For five decades, Ridley Scott’s tremendous visions of cities, new worlds, histories and science have transformed and influenced not only film, but our culture,” said Jacqueline Lyanga, AFI Fest Director. “We’re honored to be celebrating the artistry of a director whose work has had an indelible influence on cinema culture, and the lexicon of visual style.”
Three-time Oscar directing nominee Scott (“Black Hawk Down,” “Gladiator,” “Thelma & Louise”) earned a fourth Oscar nomination for producing “The Martian.”
His latest, “All the Money in the World,” is adapted by David Scarpa from the book...
- 10/19/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Raymond Benson and Peter Janson-Smith in Krakow.
By Raymond Benson
Peter Janson-Smith passed away on Friday, April 15, 2016, at the age of 93. He was a giant in the world of British publishing, a major figure in that arena for nearly seventy years. Serious James Bond fans will know him as Ian Fleming’s literary agent, the man who spearheaded the exploitation of Fleming’s 007 novels around the world from 1956 until Peter’s retirement in 2002.
On a personal level, Peter’s death is a great loss. For me, he was a mentor, a friend, a teacher, and someone I called my “English dad.” He was instrumental in the research for my 1984 book, The James Bond Bedside Companion, and he hired me to write the continuation James Bond novels in the mid-90s. In short, I owe much of my career to him.
Peter was born on September 5, 1922, in Navestock, England, which is...
By Raymond Benson
Peter Janson-Smith passed away on Friday, April 15, 2016, at the age of 93. He was a giant in the world of British publishing, a major figure in that arena for nearly seventy years. Serious James Bond fans will know him as Ian Fleming’s literary agent, the man who spearheaded the exploitation of Fleming’s 007 novels around the world from 1956 until Peter’s retirement in 2002.
On a personal level, Peter’s death is a great loss. For me, he was a mentor, a friend, a teacher, and someone I called my “English dad.” He was instrumental in the research for my 1984 book, The James Bond Bedside Companion, and he hired me to write the continuation James Bond novels in the mid-90s. In short, I owe much of my career to him.
Peter was born on September 5, 1922, in Navestock, England, which is...
- 4/28/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
By Fred Blosser
The conventions of the gangster movie are rigidly defined, critic Robert Warshow observed in a famous 1948 essay. At heart is the character arc of the socially deviant protagonist, whether Rico Bandello, Tony Montana, or Michael Corleone: “a steady upward progress followed by a very precipitate fall.”
In Brian Helgeland’s excellent biopic “Legend” (2015), currently playing in limited theatrical release, the twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray (Tom Hardy, in a dual role) are already on the upward curve of Warshow’s character arc in the 1960s London underworld as the film begins. “Reggie was a gangster prince of the East End,” Reggie’s future wife Frances (Emily Browning) muses in voiceover. “Ronnie was a one-man mob.” In the first scene, the dapper Reggie derisively brings tea to two rumpled detectives who are staking him out, the senior of whom, Inspector Nipper Read (Christopher Eccleston), is determined to bring him down.
The conventions of the gangster movie are rigidly defined, critic Robert Warshow observed in a famous 1948 essay. At heart is the character arc of the socially deviant protagonist, whether Rico Bandello, Tony Montana, or Michael Corleone: “a steady upward progress followed by a very precipitate fall.”
In Brian Helgeland’s excellent biopic “Legend” (2015), currently playing in limited theatrical release, the twin brothers Reggie and Ronnie Kray (Tom Hardy, in a dual role) are already on the upward curve of Warshow’s character arc in the 1960s London underworld as the film begins. “Reggie was a gangster prince of the East End,” Reggie’s future wife Frances (Emily Browning) muses in voiceover. “Ronnie was a one-man mob.” In the first scene, the dapper Reggie derisively brings tea to two rumpled detectives who are staking him out, the senior of whom, Inspector Nipper Read (Christopher Eccleston), is determined to bring him down.
- 12/11/2015
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 pairs of advance-screening movie passes up for grabs to the new gangster film “Legend” starring Tom Hardy in a double performance as London’s notorious Kray brothers!
“Legend,” which opens on Nov. 25, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Paul Anderson and Tara Fitzgerald from Oscar-winning writer and director Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential,” “Mystic River”) based on the book by John Pearson. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Legend” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
“Legend,” which opens on Nov. 25, 2015 and is rated “R,” also stars Emily Browning, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Christopher Eccleston, Joshua Hill, Paul Anderson and Tara Fitzgerald from Oscar-winning writer and director Brian Helgeland (“L.A. Confidential,” “Mystic River”) based on the book by John Pearson. Note: You must be 17+ to win and attend this “R”-rated screening.
To win your free passes to “Legend” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our social media widget below. That’s it! This screening is on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015 at 7 p.m. in Chicago. The more social actions you complete, the more points you score and the higher yours odds of winning! Completing these social actions...
- 11/21/2015
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There was a time when London’s by-now infamous West End was considered notorious for high-end crime and gangs. Of all the amoral, double-faced criminals to rule the roost in the English capital, perhaps one of the most prominent was Ronald and Reginald Kray, the hardboiled twin brothers who governed the city’s criminal underbelly right up until the moment they were sentence to life in prison in 1969.
It’s a defining rise and fall that formed the backbone of John Pearson’s acclaimed novel The Progression Of Violence, and one that will be brought to the silver screen in Brian Helgeland’s soon-to-be-released crime drama, Legend.
With Mad Max: Fury Road star Tom Hardy on board to play both Ronald and Reginald Kray, the based-on-real-events flick has been garnering a lot of attention for the dual performance, and it’s one that takes center stage in today’s brand new red band clip.
It’s a defining rise and fall that formed the backbone of John Pearson’s acclaimed novel The Progression Of Violence, and one that will be brought to the silver screen in Brian Helgeland’s soon-to-be-released crime drama, Legend.
With Mad Max: Fury Road star Tom Hardy on board to play both Ronald and Reginald Kray, the based-on-real-events flick has been garnering a lot of attention for the dual performance, and it’s one that takes center stage in today’s brand new red band clip.
- 9/22/2015
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
★★★☆☆ There has always been a wide appeal to the myth of the Kray brothers, who ruled London's underworld in the Swinging Sixties. Now they are the subjects of Brian Helgeland's glossy biopic Legend (2015). Tom Hardy takes on the double role of the infamous twins, in what ultimately is a well polished, but plodding biopic, driven by strong character performances and a well-chosen cast. Helgeland has based his take on the twins on John Pearson's The Profession Of Violence and thankfully we do not tread the same material Peter Medak's unfairly derided Nineties gangster flick, The Krays. The film opens at a time when the brothers were securing their position as London's top mob-lords.
We witness, albeit briefly, the Kray's rivalry with the South London Richardson 'torture' gang, with a brief cameo from Paul Bettany as Charlie Richardson, before entering the film's main action. Hardy's performance as the...
We witness, albeit briefly, the Kray's rivalry with the South London Richardson 'torture' gang, with a brief cameo from Paul Bettany as Charlie Richardson, before entering the film's main action. Hardy's performance as the...
- 9/13/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Tom Hardy is bang-on as both Ronnie and Reggie in a cartoonish but entertaining account of the Kray twins’ East End reign
Any retelling of the over-mythologised Kray twins’ tale walks a thin line between the glamorised cliches of Ronnie and Reggie nostalgia and the pin-sharp parody of Monty Python’s Piranha brothers’ Doug and Dinsdale sketch. A “combination of violence and sarcasm” fuelled the Piranhas’ reign of terror, and the same could be said of these latest screen Krays, with writer-director Brian Helgeland deploying much deadpan humour amid the beatings, stabbings and shootings of East End folklore.
Hinging on the double-barrelled blast of Tom Hardy’s bang-on central performance(s), Legend is a brash, cartoonish affair, happy to bask in the reflected glory of its subjects’ bizarre cultural icon status. With an eye on the international market, Helgeland (who co-wrote the screenplay for La Confidential) tips his hat to Scarface,...
Any retelling of the over-mythologised Kray twins’ tale walks a thin line between the glamorised cliches of Ronnie and Reggie nostalgia and the pin-sharp parody of Monty Python’s Piranha brothers’ Doug and Dinsdale sketch. A “combination of violence and sarcasm” fuelled the Piranhas’ reign of terror, and the same could be said of these latest screen Krays, with writer-director Brian Helgeland deploying much deadpan humour amid the beatings, stabbings and shootings of East End folklore.
Hinging on the double-barrelled blast of Tom Hardy’s bang-on central performance(s), Legend is a brash, cartoonish affair, happy to bask in the reflected glory of its subjects’ bizarre cultural icon status. With an eye on the international market, Helgeland (who co-wrote the screenplay for La Confidential) tips his hat to Scarface,...
- 9/13/2015
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hardy is bang-on as both Ronnie and Reggie in a cartoonish but entertaining account of the Kray twins’ East End reign
Any retelling of the over-mythologised Kray twins’ tale walks a thin line between the glamorised cliches of Ronnie and Reggie nostalgia and the pin-sharp parody of Monty Python’s Piranha brothers’ Doug and Dinsdale sketch. A “combination of violence and sarcasm” fuelled the Piranhas’ reign of terror, and the same could be said of these latest screen Krays, with writer-director Brian Helgeland deploying much deadpan humour amid the beatings, stabbings and shootings of East End folklore.
Hinging on the double-barrelled blast of Tom Hardy’s bang-on central performance(s), Legend is a brash, cartoonish affair, happy to bask in the reflected glory of its subjects’ bizarre cultural icon status. With an eye on the international market, Helgeland (who co-wrote the screenplay for La Confidential) tips his hat to Scarface,...
Any retelling of the over-mythologised Kray twins’ tale walks a thin line between the glamorised cliches of Ronnie and Reggie nostalgia and the pin-sharp parody of Monty Python’s Piranha brothers’ Doug and Dinsdale sketch. A “combination of violence and sarcasm” fuelled the Piranhas’ reign of terror, and the same could be said of these latest screen Krays, with writer-director Brian Helgeland deploying much deadpan humour amid the beatings, stabbings and shootings of East End folklore.
Hinging on the double-barrelled blast of Tom Hardy’s bang-on central performance(s), Legend is a brash, cartoonish affair, happy to bask in the reflected glory of its subjects’ bizarre cultural icon status. With an eye on the international market, Helgeland (who co-wrote the screenplay for La Confidential) tips his hat to Scarface,...
- 9/13/2015
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Tom Hardy is fab, but this is GoodFellas-lite, depicting violent sociopaths as glamorous, even amusing, and lacking all understanding of what made them tick. I’m “biast” (pro): love Tom Hardy
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tom Hardy is Ronnie Kray. And Tom Hardy is Reggie Kray. And Tom Hardy (London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road) is the best — and pretty much the only — reason to check out this rather shockingly laudatory crime thriller based on the life and, er work of two of the most notorious gangsters London has ever borne witness to. As both of the identical Kray twins, Hardy is a wonder, carrying his body, comporting his face, and subtly shifting his voice in ways that never leave the viewer in any doubt as to which brother he is...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Tom Hardy is Ronnie Kray. And Tom Hardy is Reggie Kray. And Tom Hardy (London Road, Mad Max: Fury Road) is the best — and pretty much the only — reason to check out this rather shockingly laudatory crime thriller based on the life and, er work of two of the most notorious gangsters London has ever borne witness to. As both of the identical Kray twins, Hardy is a wonder, carrying his body, comporting his face, and subtly shifting his voice in ways that never leave the viewer in any doubt as to which brother he is...
- 9/11/2015
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Lord Lucan Mystery. Acorn Rlj Entertainment
Kieran Kinsella
Fans of British TV have an enduring fascination with murder mysteries. The most intriguing cases are often based on real events and the brutal murder of Sandra Rivett certainly falls into that category. The identity of the victim herself is often over shadowed by the notoriety surrounding her alleged killer: Lord Lucan. He was never charged with the crime but she was the nanny of his estranged family and was found dead on the very same day that Lucan vanished. The case has never been solved and Lucan’s whereabouts have remained a mystery for the last 40 years. Rumors abound that he continues to evade capture thanks to the aiding and abetting of his high society friends. That said, 81 years on since his birth, the sands of time may catch up with him even if he continues to evade the long arm of the law.
Kieran Kinsella
Fans of British TV have an enduring fascination with murder mysteries. The most intriguing cases are often based on real events and the brutal murder of Sandra Rivett certainly falls into that category. The identity of the victim herself is often over shadowed by the notoriety surrounding her alleged killer: Lord Lucan. He was never charged with the crime but she was the nanny of his estranged family and was found dead on the very same day that Lucan vanished. The case has never been solved and Lucan’s whereabouts have remained a mystery for the last 40 years. Rumors abound that he continues to evade capture thanks to the aiding and abetting of his high society friends. That said, 81 years on since his birth, the sands of time may catch up with him even if he continues to evade the long arm of the law.
- 4/27/2015
- by Edited by K Kinsella
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