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As Rolling Stone noted in our 10 Essential Movies list, Val Kilmer was a “Juilliard graduate, a movie star, an actor who could play anything from fantasy heroes to flyboy villains, bank robbers to superheroes, dashing lead roles or demented sidekicks — Val Kilmer was all of these things, and way, way more.”

But before any of those roles, there was Chris Knight, Kilmer’s endlessly wisecracking character in 1985’s Real Genius. Playing the role as a combination of Will Hunting meets Bluto Blutarsky, Kilmer infuses Knight, who leads a bunch of...

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When a group of crazy college geniuses put their heads together, almost anything can happen. Hold on for a freewheeling, uproarious look at just how much mischief a bunch of high-IQers can concoct. Chris (Val Kilmer) is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch (Gabe Jarret) is the 16-year-old whiz kid, and Lazlo (Jonathan Gries), America’s number one brain, literally lives in a world of his own…Chris’ closet. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project, they still find time to turn the dorm into an ice-skating rink, and throw a beach party in the auditorium complete with a lagoon and bikini-clad beauties. When the geniuses discover that their unscrupulous mentor Professor Hathaway (William Atherton) has had them working on a secret weapon for the military, they plot an elaborate revenge. Their plan culminates in an incredible scheme that outsmarts the military and convinces the...

Grab some popcorn and pull up a chair, it’s a moral imperative that we celebrate the 35th birthday of Martha Coolidge’s science whiz classic Real Genius!

The wise-cracking Val Kilmer starrer, which details the adventures of a group of brilliant physics undergrads at the fictional Pacific Tech University (clearly a stand-in for Caltech), stands as a wonderful slice of ’80s fun. It’s the kind of feel-good adventure that can be watched over and over again, spun like a favorite album.

Kilmer plays Chris Knight, a senior at Pacific Tech on the verge of burnout after years working with a special research team under the tutelage of the sleazy Dr. Jerry Hathaway (William Atherton). Chris, now prone to wearing goofy t-shirts and slippers and generally flaunting any sort of authority with playful jabs, convinces Hathaway to let him room with brilliant freshman Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret), a 15-year-old winter term addition to campus.

Val Kilmer is having a moment, thanks to Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s whatever-happened-to…? portrait of him in The New York Times Magazine, which was pegged to the release of his memoir “I’m Your Huckleberry.” It’s one of those buzzy voyeuristic profiles that takes the measure of a movie star who slipped between the cracks and became a gonzo ghost/parody of himself, propelled at times by an engine of self-destructive behavior. Yet the Kilmer saga is singular. In his heyday, he looked like a brainy sun god and was a hard-to-cast, flaked-out talent who fell away from Hollywood without ever having entirely fit into it. The Times profile captures Kilmer the high-flying eccentric and the Christian Scientist. The acting prima donna and the has-been. The throat-cancer victim who lost his voice and now speaks in a whisper. The cockeyed optimist and the survivor. And the legend?

The weirdest thing...

A Medical Examiner conducting autopsies on victims of a horrible car crash, imagines how they may have lived their lives. "Tales from the Dead Zone" is written and directed by Barry J. Gillis, while starring Bret Hart, Corey Feldman, Kim Sønderholm, Tom Malloy, Gabriel Jarret, Len J. Phillips, Dakota House. Terrence Van Camp, Madison Nyenhuis, Maria J. Parker, Ken F. Campbell, Dori Book, Ramez Fawzy, Charlene Michalko, Alice Creed, Holly Reiter, Herb Stanley. Trailer Voice Over: Scott Fortney Stories in the Anthology include, Legend of the Peoples Demon, Rope a Dope, Inside the Room, and L.J.'s Finest Hour. "Tales from the Dead Zone" is in the works and is set for release in 2020. Meanwhile, Gillis' latest film "House of Many Sorrows" has been picked up...

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Gabriel Jarret, who co-starred with Val Kilmer in "Real Genius," claims his ex-gf went nuts on him ... refusing to leave his home, and accusing him of child molestation, rape and more ... TMZ has learned.   Gabriel filed for and got a restraining order Monday against Jennifer Marie Alfano ... and in the docs he says she called him a few weeks ago, crying about being thrown out of a hotel and losing all of her possessions, so...

NBC is moving forward on a small screen reboot of the 1985 cult comedy classic Real Genius, turning it into a single-camera sitcom.

Workaholics co-executive producer Craig Digregorio is co-writing and executive producing the pilot episode alongside Parks and Recreation's David King.

The Real Genius TV Show has received a script commitment, and is being produced through Adam Sandler's Happy Madison banner and Sony TV.

The series will be a present-day reboot of the movie, set as a workplace comedy. The story will follow the relationship between a rock star-like genius, who was originally played by Val Kilmer, and one of his sheltered, very naive co-workers. Martha Coolidge directed the original, which opened in August of 1985 and grossed $13 million, before becoming a mainstay on VHS during the home video boom of the mid-80s.

Now the next question is, will Val Kilmer return in some capacity?

Real Genius was released August 7th,...

I'm probably too close to Real Genius to make an objective call as to whether it's a great movie or not, but damn do I love it. I often used to consider Val Kilmer's carefree but brilliant Chris Knight my spirit animal until I realized I was neither brilliant or carefree. Martha Coolidge's 1985 comedy also gave us the great characters of Lazlo (played by Jon Gries), Jordan (Michelle Meyrink) and even Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret) not to mention two all-timer douchebag villains in William Atherton's Jerry Hathaway and Robert Prescott's Kent. I'm itching to watch that movie even as I type this. Will Adam Sandler's Happy Madison, Sony TV, 3 Arts and NBC be able to recapture that excitement? Hard to tell so far, but they're going to have to try because they're making Real Genius as a half-hour comedy. Hit the jump for more on the Real Genius TV Show.

Danny Trejo and Vinnie Jones two of the most intimidating men in the industry will team up for a brand new horror flick titled Reaper. Good news for those who do follow the genre religiously Danny Trejo (Machete From Dusk Till Dawn) and Vinnie Jones (Midnight Meat Train Snatch) are starring in a brand new horror movie titled Reaper. Joining these two intimidating fellows on screen are Gabriel Jarret (Pawn) Jake Busey (Frighteners) William Shockley (Robocop) and Shayla Beesley (Perkins 14). Phillip Shih is the man taking to the directors chair.

Danny Trejo and Vinnie Jones. If ever there were a magic pairing of violence and machismo in cinema, this is it. Putting these two together is a no-brainer, and now thanks to this new film, appropriately titled Reaper, that's just what we're getting!

According to Variety, Trejo (pictured) and Jones are starring in the horror movie along with Gabriel Jarret, Jake Busey, William Shockley, and Shayla Beesley.

The film is produced by Alejandro Salomon, Frederick Cipoletti, and Andrew Hunt, with Phillip Shih directing. Shooting has started in the Los Angeles area. The script, written by James Jurdi and Mark James, centers on a routine execution going wrong, unleashing an unholy being on the surrounding community.

Look for more on this one, we're sure, very soon!

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A hostage situation gone wrong... I have a feeling that we’re all a little bit mysterious about the upcoming crime thriller Pawn. Don’t know why when this movie definitely deserves our full attention: an interesting story, an awesome cast, what else can you wish for? Trailer from the whole thing, perhaps? Ok then, check out the rest of this report to find the video…

Pawn script comes from Jay Anthony White and the movie comes from director David A. Armstrong. Unfortunately, there’s still nothing about an official release date, but as usual – we’ll keep you updated. In the meanwhile check out this video and take a first look at Armstrong’s crime thriller:

The story is about a group of gunmen who try and hold up a diner only to discover that the establishment is owned by the mob. The situation quickly escalates and cops, feds...

There is murder, extortion and double dealings in Breaking Glass Picture's upcoming feature - iCrime. Sara Fletcher stars as Carrie a young woman out to defend her sister, Stefy (Kelly Noonan), who has lost an "old sex tape" (Breaking Glass). Along the way, she must uncover an internet fraud, while maintaining her heartbeat in a world of deception and brutality known as Hollywood.

Breaking Glass Pictures will release this title on DVD this September and the early poster art for the film warns viewers that cyberspace is a place where truth is sometimes lost. Well, here at 28Dla we only use little white lies in the spirit of sensationalism. So, get your partial truth on the release details for iCrime below.

The synopsis for iCrime is here:

"Carrie Kevin may seem like a typical Hollywood ingénue -- a small-town girl looking to break into acting -- but underneath her fresh-faced...

It has been a very “up and down” sort of career for Val Kilmer- lauded and inundated with a multitude of offers one minute- mocked and reduced to saccharine sub-tv movies the next. For every Top Gun enjoyed, there has been a Red Planet endured, for every venerated The Doors, there has been a Batman Forever panned. Not all his fault, of course- few can turn down the lure of the caped-crusader, but history would have been very different had he donned the bat-suit under the tutelage of a director more akin to Christopher Nolan than Joel Schumacher.

Certainly, few possessed Nolan’s breathy charisma which has an effortlessness that intrigues infinitely more than Bale’s over-earnest method acting.

If there has been one film starring Kilmer that has increased in reputation since its release, it is the independent comedy, Real Genius, the story of two science students exacting revenge upon their senior tutor.

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The summer of 1985. Has it really been twenty-five years. Wow! I don't really feel old, but its amazing that era was so long ago and yet the memories feel like yesterday. I was ten going on eleven and enjoying my summer break. Though my parents wouldn't let me leave my neighborhood with my friends, they always took me to the cinema as often as they could, which is where my love of movies comes from. I consider myself fortunate to have shared some great movie moments with my family and with my parents coming to town to visit me this summer, we hope to have some more.Hollywood still makes great movies today, but the eighties were a time when most of the movies you saw were good. At least they seemed to be good at that early age. Time can often be cruel and with maturity comes the revelation...

0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false Nineteen eighty-five was a great year film wise. In addition to Back to the Future (and, ahem, Teen Wolf, both starring Michael J. Fox), moviegoers in 1985 could pick from any number of soon-to-be classics, near-classics, or soon-to-be cable fodder at movie theaters, including Rambo: First Blood Part II, Rocky IV, Jewel of the Nile, Out of Africa (a multiple Academy Award winner), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, The Goonies, Year of the Dragon, Young Sherlock Holmes, and for the horror-oriented, George A. Romero's Day of the Dead, and Return of the Living Dead, a horror-parody of Romero's contributions to the undead sub-genre. For me, Martha Coolidge's Real Genius, a Reagan-era, geek comedy-satire loaded with quotable lines, memorable scenes, a synth-pop score by a who's who of 80s' one-hit wonders, and Val Kilmer, giving one of his all-time best performances, deserves to be at or...

Of all the 80s movies you could conceive of Hollywood throwing into the Brundlefly remake machine to come outlooking all shiny, new and yet mutated, you probably thought quote-factory Val Kilmer vehicle Real Genius was safe. You thought wrong.According to Pajiba’s increasingly reliable Hollywood Cog source, Imagine Entertainment (yes, that’s Ron Howard and Brian Grazer) have now targeted the movie as a likely candidate.The 1985 original, which despite a low box office result, remains a beloved cult comedy for those of a certain age (raises hand, nods head), followed the (mis)adventures of college students figuring out their own intellects while simultaneously being duped by a slimy professor (William Atherton, the king of such roles) into working on a laser project that will be twisted into military uses.Naturally, they fight back, but before any of that, there’s time for a coming of age tale about...

Last month I recommended that Hollywood throw more work at William Atherton, of Ghostbusters, Die Hard and Real Genius fame. I even encouraged the years-old plan for a Real Genius sequel so long as Atherton returned as Jerry Hathaway. Well, that support has gone unnoticed, and instead there's rumor today that Columbia Pictures and original producer Brian Grazer are remaking the 1985 science-nerd comedy. Pajiba has the scoop -- courtesy of their consistently reliable yet anonymous source -- in a post that also brings word of a House Party reboot. Which one hurts your childhood more?

For me, it's definitely Real Genius. I'm imagining computer-generated popcorn overfilling Hathaway's house and romantic leads who aren't quite as awkwardly gender-neutral as Gabe Jarret and Michelle Meyrink. The whole thing slaps this version of me right in the face. Those nerd movies of the '80s, whether as popular as Revenge of the Nerds...

In the 1980s, moviegoers learned that being a Real Genius meant making sure the technology you developed didn't fall into the wrong hands -- and by "wrong hands" the movie meant the U.S. military. Most audiences were happy to see a group of nerdy tech students, led by Chris Knight (Val Kilmer) and Mitch Taylor (Gabriel Jarret), prevent the government from acquiring a megawatt laser weapon capable of vaporizing human...

It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Real Genius, the 1985 comedy about science geeks, college life, and the military-industrial complex. (This Dream Cast was suggested by reader John. If you have a suggestion for an 80s TV show or movie we should play with, feel free to email me.) The original cast included: Chris Knight: Val Kilmer Mitch Taylor: Gabe Jarret Professor Jerry Hathaway: William Atherton Jordan Cochran: Michelle Meyrink Lazlo Hollyfeld: Jon Gries Oh my god, don’t hate me, but I’ve never actually seen Real Genius, so I’m gonna have to sit this one out. Well, sort of. If I had to pick a young Val Kilmer for today, I’d probably go with Michael Cera. I feel I’m constantly picking Cera for teen stuff, but he’s really...