It seems that Road House was – in every sense – a hit. Not only did it feature a lot of people getting, well, hit, but it received solid reviews, as well as drawing in millions of viewers on Prime Video. Plenty of reason, then, for Amazon to double down and demand a return trip to the Road House. Yes, a sequel is on the way, with Jake Gyllenhaal back on board for more brawls, booze, brooding, and bro-tactic bodaciousness.
The news was confirmed on social media, teasing few details, but noting that Gyllenhaal will be back in the role of Elwood Dalton – the no-nonsense bouncer who, with his Mma background, makes short work of any rabble-rousers at the ludicrously idyllic bar run by Jessica Williams’ Frankie. It remains to be seen if Conor McGregor’s swaggering troublemaker Knox will be back, after – Spoiler Warning – the first film’s mid-credits sequence made...
The news was confirmed on social media, teasing few details, but noting that Gyllenhaal will be back in the role of Elwood Dalton – the no-nonsense bouncer who, with his Mma background, makes short work of any rabble-rousers at the ludicrously idyllic bar run by Jessica Williams’ Frankie. It remains to be seen if Conor McGregor’s swaggering troublemaker Knox will be back, after – Spoiler Warning – the first film’s mid-credits sequence made...
- 5/14/2024
- by Ben Travis
- Empire - Movies
Conor McGregor has made his acting debut alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in the action film Road House. With the Mma star venturing into the world of Hollywood, comparisons naturally arise with another icon who traveled a similar path, Dwayne Johnson. The former wrestling champion made his feature film debut in the early 2000s and has since become one of the most prominent names in the film industry.
Conor McGregor in a still from Road House
However, McGregor is already setting himself apart by defying a notable rule reportedly upheld by Johnson by embracing the antagonistic role of Knox in his debut film.
Conor McGregor Signals Bold Departure from Hollywood Norms
Conor McGregor’s debut in Doug Liman’s adaptation of the 1989 film Road House has generated significant buzz, even drawing comparisons to Dwayne Johnson’s transition from wrestling to acting. And after claiming to surpass him as the highest-paid acting debut,...
Conor McGregor in a still from Road House
However, McGregor is already setting himself apart by defying a notable rule reportedly upheld by Johnson by embracing the antagonistic role of Knox in his debut film.
Conor McGregor Signals Bold Departure from Hollywood Norms
Conor McGregor’s debut in Doug Liman’s adaptation of the 1989 film Road House has generated significant buzz, even drawing comparisons to Dwayne Johnson’s transition from wrestling to acting. And after claiming to surpass him as the highest-paid acting debut,...
- 3/22/2024
- by Laxmi Rajput
- FandomWire
One day in 1979, the phone rang at producer Bob Weiss’ house. “Be on your property tonight,” said the voice on the other line. According to the book Wild and Crazy Guys: The Comedy Mavericks of the ’80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen, later that evening, an object came flying over the fence and onto Weiss’ backyard. It was the script for a Blues Brothers movie that Wiess commissioned from Dan Aykroyd, who created the musical comedy act with John Belushi for Saturday Night Live.
If the way that Aykroyd delivered the manuscript was odd, the contents inside were even weirder. Titled The Return of the Blues Brothers and credited to the “Scriptatron Gl-9000,” the script was 324 pages long, far more than the 120 page standard, and filled with unlikely digressions.
Weiss shouldn’t have been surprised. Even if the 26-year-old Aykroyd had written a script before (he hadn’t...
If the way that Aykroyd delivered the manuscript was odd, the contents inside were even weirder. Titled The Return of the Blues Brothers and credited to the “Scriptatron Gl-9000,” the script was 324 pages long, far more than the 120 page standard, and filled with unlikely digressions.
Weiss shouldn’t have been surprised. Even if the 26-year-old Aykroyd had written a script before (he hadn’t...
- 3/22/2024
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
One of the first people Jake Gyllenhaal's Elwood Dalton meets in Road House is Charlie, played by rising Hollywood star, Hannah Love Lanier.
Amazon Prime Video's reimagining of Patrick Swayze's Road House from 1989 stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse.
Playing Charlie, a young teenage girl who befriends the mysterious Elwood, is 16-year-old Los Angeles native Hannah Love Lanier.
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Amazon Prime Video's reimagining of Patrick Swayze's Road House from 1989 stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Elwood Dalton, a former UFC fighter who takes a job as a bouncer at a Florida Keys roadhouse.
Playing Charlie, a young teenage girl who befriends the mysterious Elwood, is 16-year-old Los Angeles native Hannah Love Lanier.
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- 3/22/2024
- by Savannah Sanders
- The Direct
There are some key differences between the Dalton of Rowdy Herrington’s 1989 cult classic Road House and the Dalton of Doug Liman’s equally boisterous remake. To start, the stoic bouncer’s first name is now Elwood instead of John. He rolls into town — the Florida Keys, not Kansas City — on a Greyhound bus instead of in a new car. This Dalton walks everywhere, wearing down the soles of his cigar brown combat boots with each mile. His swagger is enhanced by a mellow kindness — at one point, a character compares him to Mr. Rogers (with a violent edge, of course).
What hasn’t changed all that much are Dalton’s motivations and his notoriety. When we meet the infamous man, played here with compelling restraint by Jake Gyllenhaal, his face is shrouded by his black hoodie. He saunters into an underground fight club with a menacing determination. The camera trails him,...
What hasn’t changed all that much are Dalton’s motivations and his notoriety. When we meet the infamous man, played here with compelling restraint by Jake Gyllenhaal, his face is shrouded by his black hoodie. He saunters into an underground fight club with a menacing determination. The camera trails him,...
- 3/9/2024
- by Lovia Gyarkye
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Steve Lawrence, the charismatic Grammy- and Emmy-winning crooner who delighted audiences for decades in nightclubs, on concert stages and in film and television appearances, died Thursday. He was 88.
Lawrence, who partnered in a popular act with his wife of 55 years, the late Eydie Gormé, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, a publicidst announced.
With his boyish good looks, silky voice and breezy personality, Lawrence broke into show business when he won a talent competition on Arthur Godfrey’s CBS show and signed with King Records as a teenager. The singer chose to stay old school and resist the allure of rock ‘n’ roll.
“It didn’t attract me as much,” Lawrence once said. “I grew up in a time period when music was written by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and Sammy Cahn and Julie Stein.
Lawrence, who partnered in a popular act with his wife of 55 years, the late Eydie Gormé, died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease, a publicidst announced.
With his boyish good looks, silky voice and breezy personality, Lawrence broke into show business when he won a talent competition on Arthur Godfrey’s CBS show and signed with King Records as a teenager. The singer chose to stay old school and resist the allure of rock ‘n’ roll.
“It didn’t attract me as much,” Lawrence once said. “I grew up in a time period when music was written by Irving Berlin and Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin and Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart and Sammy Cahn and Julie Stein.
- 3/7/2024
- by Chris Koseluk
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Original TV series based on Arab and Muslim characters are beginning to go global, a Netflix executive said Saturday at the Red Sea Film Festival.
Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content, Netflix Europe, Middle East and Africa, said that a new, distinctive voice was emerging from the region.
“Recently, a friend called me and her mother-in-law – who is 100% American – was recommending one of our Arab series [“Finding Ola,” starring Hind Sabri] to all her friends,” he said at a panel about writing for television.
“This wave [of Arab and Muslim stories] is beginning; the U.S. audience is becoming open to watching stories that are outside of the U.S. experience.”
The region was rich in a tradition of storytelling that meant there were many original scripts being written, he said.
“There are so many stories in this region that have not been told before, so [our job is] about harvesting that intellectual property.”
“This is a culture...
Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content, Netflix Europe, Middle East and Africa, said that a new, distinctive voice was emerging from the region.
“Recently, a friend called me and her mother-in-law – who is 100% American – was recommending one of our Arab series [“Finding Ola,” starring Hind Sabri] to all her friends,” he said at a panel about writing for television.
“This wave [of Arab and Muslim stories] is beginning; the U.S. audience is becoming open to watching stories that are outside of the U.S. experience.”
The region was rich in a tradition of storytelling that meant there were many original scripts being written, he said.
“There are so many stories in this region that have not been told before, so [our job is] about harvesting that intellectual property.”
“This is a culture...
- 12/2/2023
- by Nick Holdsworth
- Variety Film + TV
The end of peak TV, the contrasting explosion of storytelling opportunities in the Middle East, AI and the portrayal were among the hot topics of debate as Red Sea 360°, the panel program of the market portion of the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia kicked off on Saturday.
Starting off the sessions of the third edition of the fest was a panel entitled “The Writer’s Journey: Navigating Scripts for Film, TV & Future Storytelling Formats.” Appearing on it were Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content development at Netflix Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea), Karim Zreik, executive producer and president of Cedar Tree Productions, Sheri Elwood, executive producer, writer and director at Elwood Ink, and writer and journalist Mohamed Hassan who is the creator and showrunner of the Sky original series Miles From Nowhere, a comedy about identity, surveillance and the Muslim community, which is premiering at the festival.
Starting off the sessions of the third edition of the fest was a panel entitled “The Writer’s Journey: Navigating Scripts for Film, TV & Future Storytelling Formats.” Appearing on it were Ahmed Sharkawi, director of Arab content development at Netflix Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea), Karim Zreik, executive producer and president of Cedar Tree Productions, Sheri Elwood, executive producer, writer and director at Elwood Ink, and writer and journalist Mohamed Hassan who is the creator and showrunner of the Sky original series Miles From Nowhere, a comedy about identity, surveillance and the Muslim community, which is premiering at the festival.
- 12/2/2023
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Three seasons into Central Park, songwriters Kate Anderson and Elyssa Samsel are thrilled with how much room they’ve been given to explore new genres. Told through the eyes of a busker narrator named Birdie (Josh Gad), the musical series follows Owen Tillerman (Leslie Odom Jr.), the manager of the park, who lives in the park with his journalist wife Paige (Kathryn Hahn) and two children Cole (Tituss Burgess) and Molly (Emmy Raver-Lampman). As they deal with issues across the park, elderly heiress Bitsy (Stanley Tucci) is plotting to turn the park into condominiums. Anderson and Samsel chose the song “Backing Up” for Emmy consideration, performed by Owen (Odom Jr.) as he deals with the possible loss of his family’s memories from a hard drive. As the pair played the song for the show runners, they found it “hit a nerve in a good way.”
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- 6/13/2023
- by Ryan Fleming
- Deadline Film + TV
The CW has unveiled its slate of original scripted and unscripted programming set to debut on the network this summer.
Canadian family comedy Run The Burbs, from Kim’s Convenience breakout star Andrew Phung and dramedy Moonshine, about dysfunctional siblings battling for control of their family business are among titles on the network’s scripted slate for summer debut. Legal drama Family Law, starring Jewel Staite and Victor Garber, and comedy series Bump also return for second seasons.
New summer unscripted programs include the four-part docuseries Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982, chronicling a classic moviegoing year in pop culture, and extreme cooking competition Recipe for Disaster. Additionally, Down To Earth With Zac Efron will make its broadcast television debut, along with new seasons of returning alternative series Great Chocolate Showdown and Mysteries Decoded. Airdates and times for all these series will be announced at a later date.
All join prevously announced summer series,...
Canadian family comedy Run The Burbs, from Kim’s Convenience breakout star Andrew Phung and dramedy Moonshine, about dysfunctional siblings battling for control of their family business are among titles on the network’s scripted slate for summer debut. Legal drama Family Law, starring Jewel Staite and Victor Garber, and comedy series Bump also return for second seasons.
New summer unscripted programs include the four-part docuseries Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982, chronicling a classic moviegoing year in pop culture, and extreme cooking competition Recipe for Disaster. Additionally, Down To Earth With Zac Efron will make its broadcast television debut, along with new seasons of returning alternative series Great Chocolate Showdown and Mysteries Decoded. Airdates and times for all these series will be announced at a later date.
All join prevously announced summer series,...
- 5/10/2023
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Gordon Lightfoot wasn’t necessarily one of the biggest names in folk music and classic rock history. Still, the Canadian singer-songwriter left behind a significant legacy and a huge net worth when he died on May 1, 2023.
Gordon Lightfoot | Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Gordon Lightfoot’s had a $40 million net worth when he died
A fruitful decades-long career ended when Lightfoot died of natural causes at a Toronto hospital (per his verified Facebook page). He was 84.
Lightfoot found music as his muse in the late 1950s, started his recording career in the 1960s, and achieved his commercial peak in the 1970s. Yet he continued recording albums and playing live into the 2020s. He released the album Solo in 2020 and toured in 2022. However, Lightfoot canceled his 2023 tour.
The years of making and selling records, writing popular and heavily covered songs, and touring behind his music paid off. Lightfoot amassed a $40 million net...
Gordon Lightfoot | Scott Dudelson/Getty Images Gordon Lightfoot’s had a $40 million net worth when he died
A fruitful decades-long career ended when Lightfoot died of natural causes at a Toronto hospital (per his verified Facebook page). He was 84.
Lightfoot found music as his muse in the late 1950s, started his recording career in the 1960s, and achieved his commercial peak in the 1970s. Yet he continued recording albums and playing live into the 2020s. He released the album Solo in 2020 and toured in 2022. However, Lightfoot canceled his 2023 tour.
The years of making and selling records, writing popular and heavily covered songs, and touring behind his music paid off. Lightfoot amassed a $40 million net...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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