A week after then-high school senior Tom Leach applied for his first job, he was on a plane to New York to interview Hugh Jackman for his new movie “Van Helsing.” “I think (my parents) assumed that I would get a job at the local grocery store bagging groceries,” Leach said. Read more...
Photo: Rising in the reality television show ranks as one of Hollywood’s youngest producers, UCLA Producers Program alumnus Tom Leach recently made Forbes’ “30 Under 30: Entertainment” list.
Disguised as a gray-haired priest at the Ohio State Fair and later as a Texan playboy with a ten-gallon hat, Jason Statham’s character Parker dons many facades in order to pull off even the most impossible heist. Read more...
Director Pablo Larraín’s third entry into a series of films related to the Chilean dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet reflects on the gusto of the advertising market as it takes on the historical fascism of a world that feels refreshing despite how old it may be presented. Read more...
The Richard Stark novel “Flashfire” is reimagined for the big screen in “Parker,” a crime thriller starring Jason Statham as Parker and Jennifer Lopez as Leslie, a forty-year-old divorcee returning to the work force and struggling to make ends meet. Read more...
Photo: Jason Statham stars in the new action flick “Parker.” Directed by Taylor Hackford, the film is based on the popular book series of the same name by author Richard Stark.
With dual citizenship in the U.S. and in Greece, UCLA alumna Alethea Avramis finds a way to add dimension to her filmmaking while she is caught between two cultures. Read more...
Photo: The accomplishments of MFA Production/Directing candidate Alethea Avramis, who filmed her festival offering “The Foreigner” in her ancestral homeland of Greece, include the film’s nomination for Best International Short at Raindance in London. Her passion for film grew while she was an undergraduate at UCLA.
By most technical standards, Miguel Gomes’ “Tabu” is a film out of time. It’s shot in gauzy black and white, it’s framed in boxy Academy ratio, and the latter half of the film, titled “Paradise” and without dialogue, is devoted to a love story set in Portuguese-colonized Africa. Read more...
After shooting down a large hanging carcass in a dirt lot owned by a disillusioned hillbilly, played by none other than Johnny Knoxville, Sheriff Owens is soon shedding tears as he races to save the life of his ill-fated deputy. Read more...
Photo: When he says he’ll be back, he means it. In the action comedy “The Last Stand,” Arnold Schwarzenegger returns to the big screen in a leading role for the first time since 2003.
