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With a legacy spanning decases, it's still inconceivable that anyone could dislike "The Princess Bride." Released in 1987, the fantasy romantic comedy was written by William Goldman (already a two-time Academy Award-winner for his work on "All the President's Men" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"), directed by Rob Reiner (then best known for directing "Stand By Me" the year prior), and featured a miraculously stacked cast. Though it did just okay at the box office, the film has since become a cult classic that -- in large part through the continued success of this cast -- retroactively vindicates those who were early champions of its brilliance.

Whether senior actor or child star, veteran of the screen or relative newcomer, everyone with a role in the core ensemble of "The Princess Bride" brings something wildly unexpected to their individual role no matter how small. Incidentally, the vast majority of these...

Morgan Freeman's hometown comes under siege by the living dead in Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies, and at American Film Market, Gravitas Ventures acquired the action horror film for domestic distribution:

Press Release: Santa Monica, CA (November 4, 2017) - Director Mark Newton's Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies, winner of "Goriest Film" at last week's FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego, has been acquired by Gravitas Ventures for domestic distribution, announced Daniel Wood, Executive Producer.

"Attack of the Southern Fried Zombies has a great Southern vibe and gives a unique twist to the zombie film genre, with a little Zombieland and Shaun of the Dead in the mix. Plus, there's a zombie horde, carnival mayhem, Southern rock, and mad scientists. It's a fun ride!" said Joshua Spector, Director of Acquisitions for Gravitas Ventures.

The deal was brokered by Wood on behalf of the film, and by Spector for Gravitas Ventures.

I Miss Me screens Wednesday, July 20th at 7:00pm at The Tivoli Theater as part of this year’s St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase. Ticket information can be found Here

Writer/director Chelsea Zotta’s I Miss Me tells the story of Kevin Masterson (Brock Roberts), who has everything a handsome bachelor could want: a high-powered job as an attorney, a list of women on speed dial, and enough money to get his kicks anytime, anywhere. But Calvin’s perfect life is flipped upside down when he is nearly killed by a drunk driver. Bed-ridden and depressed, Calvin must confront his inner demons to survive.

Chelsea Zotta took the time to answer questions about her film for We Are Movie Geeks in advance of it’s screening at the St. Louis Filmmaker’s Showcase.

We Are Movie Geeks: What was your filmmaking experience before I Miss Me?

Chelsea Zotta: After graduating college,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Jan. 8 , 2013

Price: DVD $39.98, Blu-ray $49.99

Studio: Warner Home Video

Laura Dern (Everything Must Go) tries to get Enlightened in this HBO TV show.

Dern stars as Amy Jellicoe, a self-destructive 40-year-old woman who has a mental breakdown then tries to turn her life around with a spiritual awakening and self-help. But her new perspective, including daily meditation, causes havoc with her home and work.

In the first season, Dern’s Amy searches for a new job, takes up the cause of a undocumented immigrant mother and deals with the married man with whom she had an affair.

Diane Ladd (American Cowslip) and Luke Wilson (Middle Men) also star in the comedy-drama TV show.

The Enlightened: The Complete First Season DVD and Blu-ray contain all 10 episodes of season one and audio commentaries.

Here’s the show’s trailer:

Buy or Rent Enlightened: The Complete First Season...

Chicago – By the age of 15, actress Hanna Hall had delivered iconic lines in two of the most acclaimed films of the ’90s. After famously yelling, “Run, Forrest, run!” in Robert Zemeckis’s Oscar-winner, “Forrest Gump,” Hall nailed the unforgettable line, “Obviously, doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl,” in Sofia Coppola’s directorial debut, “The Virgin Suicides.”

Since then, Hall has tackled a wide variety of audacious roles in both mainstream releases, such as Rob Zombie’s 2007 “Halloween” remake, and independent productions including Adam Sherman’s edgy 2010 drama, “Happiness Runs.” In her latest film, “Scalene,” Hall plays Paige, a compassionate college student who signs up to care for a mentally handicapped man, Jakob (Adam Scarimbolo). When she suspects that Jakob is being abused by his mother, Janice (Margo Martindale), Paige attempts to “save” him by devising a plan that could potentially result in her own doom. Director/co-writer Zack Parker...

DVD Release Date: May 29, 2012

Price: DVD $26.95

Studio: Monterey

The husband-and-wife team of Sam Jaeger and Amber Jaeger star in the 2011 independent romantic comedy film Take Me Home.

With no job prospects and a landlord who’s just thrown all his belongings out into the hallway, Thom (Sam Jaeger, TV’s Parenthood) must turn to his recurring last resort: driving his illegal taxicab around the streets of New York. Fortunately for him, Claire Barrow (Amber Jaeger, Loveless in Los Angeles) isn’t having a good day, either, what with her husband flirting with his new secretary and then discovering that her estranged father has suffered a heart attack in California. In frenzy, Claire runs out into the night and hails what she assumes to be a cab. What she gets instead … is Thom. On a whim, Claire decides to pay Thom to drive her out to California. With nothing in New York to call his own,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 1, 2012

Price: Blu-ray $19.99

Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Timed to the theatrical release of the third movie in the science-fiction franchise, the high-definition Blu-ray debut of Men in Black II comes with a bunch of special features, although no new ones.

The 2002 film reteams Will Smith (Hancock) and Tommy Lee Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger) as the Men in Black, agents tasked with keeping the peace among all the aliens that live in the world. In their second adventure, they take on a renegade Kylothian monster, Serleena, disguised as a lingerie model (Lara Lynn Boyle, TV’s The Practice), who is searching for The Light of Zartha and has it out for Rosario Dawson (Zookeeper).

Tony Shalhoub (TV’s Monk), Patrick Warburton (TV’s Rules of Engagement), Rip Torn (American Cowslip) and David Cross (TV’s Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret) also star in the comedy movie.

DVD Release Date: May 22, 2012

Price: DVD $129.99

Studio: Shout! Factory

George Maharis( l.) and Martin Milner get their kicks on Route 66.

Shout! Factory gets its kicks with the release of the 1960 road tip drama television show Route 66: The Complete Series which marks the first time all four seasons of the show have been issued as one set.

Created by Academy Award-winning writer Stirling Silliphant and producer Herbert Leonard, Route 66 follow the lives of two young men: Yale graduate Tod Stiles (Martin Milner, TV’s Adam-12), an intellectual who has led a privileged and sheltered life, and Buz Murdock (George Maharis, TV’s The Most Deadly Game), a tough young man raised in “Hell’s Kitchen” who’s been struggling his entire life just to survive. When his wealthy father dies, Tod finds himself unexpectedly penniless with just one possession, a Chevrolet Corvette. On a quest to find...

Release Date: Sept. 20, 2011

Price: DVD $29.99

Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

It's all in the family for Brad Dillahunt (l.), Martha Plimpton and Lucas Neff in Raising Hope.

Created by Emmy Award winner Greg Garcia (TV’s My Name is Earl), the comedy television series Raising Hope stars newcomer Lucas Neff, Martha Plimpton (The Goonies), Garret Dillahunt (Winter’s Bone) and Cloris Leachman (American Cowslip).

In the sitcom, a one-night stand becomes a life-long commitment when 23-year-old Jimmy Chance (Neff) inadvertently impregnates a wanted felon. After she has had the baby behind bars, Jimmy decides to raise Hope (aka Princess Beyonce) on his own. Jimmy, together with his family – his Maw Maw (Leachman), his mother Virginia (Plimpton) and his father Burt (Dillahunt) – face play dates, amusing family photo shoots, rock star dreams, vasectomies and a whole lot more.

The TV show, which was renewed for a second season, picked up...

Us actor whose success as the scruffy TV detective Columbo was complemented by a wide range of stage and screen roles

Show-business history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who has died aged 83, made his stage debut the year before he left high school, presciently cast as a detective. Despite the 17-year-old's fleeting success, he had no thoughts of pursuing acting as a career – if only because tough kids from the Bronx considered it an unsuitable job for a man. Just 24 years later, Falk made his first television appearance as the scruffy detective, Columbo, not only becoming the highest paid actor on television – commanding $500,000 an episode during the 1970s – but also the most famous.

Inevitably the lieutenant dedicated to unravelling the villainy of the wealthy and glamorous dominated his career, although – unlike some actors – he escaped the straitjacket, or in his case shabby raincoat, of typecasting. In addition to stage work,...

Actor, who had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, died at his Beverly Hills home

Peter Falk, the American actor famous for his role in the TV detective series Columbo, has died at the age of 83.

Falk died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday evening, said a family friend, Larry Larson. Falk had reportedly been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

Perhaps one of Us television's most popular detectives, Falk won four Emmys for his starring role in Columbo, which ran from 1971 until 2003, and one for his role in the TV drama The Price of Tomatoes. He received Oscar nominations for Murder, Inc, his breakthrough film role, in 1960, and the comedy-drama Pocketful of Miracles, a year later. Falk also starred in the films The Princess Bride, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; Robin and the Seven Hoods, The Great Race, and The Cheap Detective.

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TMZ.com is reporting that 83 year old Peter Falk, known best for his role in ‘Columbo’ died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home the evening of June 23, 2011. According to reports he had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease. Peter also starred in “Princess Bride”, “The Great Race” and “Brigadoon” and more recently as Father Randolph in 2009′s “American Cowslip” with co-stars Val Kilmer, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Diane Ladd, Cloris Leachman and Rip Torn. Peter’s remarkable career in film and television spanned over 50 years. Peter is survived by his wife, Shera and two daughters. “If your mind is at work, we’re in danger of reproducing another cliche. If we can...

Emmy-winning actor Peter Falk has passed away at the age of 83. The man behind the iconic TV character Columbo died peacefully in his Beverly Hills home late last night. He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease prior to his passing.

Nominated for two Academy Awards, the first in 1960 for his supporting role in Murder, Inc., and then again for a supporting role in 1961's Pocketful of Miracles, Peter Falk began his career on stage, hitting the local community theater and eventually venturing into off-Broadway productions. Hollywood first started to take notice of the actor in 1957, when he began appearing on many different television series all in a short span of time.

He would continue to jump back and forth between film and television in bit parts and supporting roles, until 1968, when he starred in the telefilm Columbo. Serving as a two-hour pilot, Columbo went onto become one of the most successful detective dramas on television.

Peter Falk, the Oscar-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor best known for his portrayal of the raincoat-wearing, cigar smoking TV detective Columbo, died Thursday evening at his home in Beverly Hills, CA; he was 83. Though an exact cause of death was not released by his family, it had been known that Falk was suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Though he received two Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor in 1960 and 1961 for Murder, Inc. and Pocketful of Miracles, and was an acclaimed stage actor, winning a Tony Award for 1972's The Prisoner of Second Avenue, he was known to millions as the irascible Lieutenant Columbo, one of television most beloved detectives, whose apparent absent-mindedness belied his cunning deductive skills and ease at outwitting even the most clever and devious of criminals. In all, he received four Emmy Awards and 10 nominations for the role, which he played from 1968 (in the TV film Prescription: Murder) to a special 2003 episode of the series.

Born in New York City in 1927, Falk underwent surgery at only the age of three to have his right eye removed because of a malignant tumor; for the rest of his life he would wear a glass eye, which became one of his most notable traits. Rejected by the armed forces because of his eyesight, he enlisted in the Merchant Marines during World War II, returning home to finish his college education, obtaining a master's degree in public administration and taking a job as an efficiency expert in Hartford, Connecticut in the early 1950s. It was there that he began his acting career, studying with the acclaimed actress and teacher Eva Le Gallienne. After moving to New York to pursue acting full time, he co-starred in the 1956 revival of The Iceman Cometh alongside Jason Robards, and was on Broadway within the same year, and started appearing on television as well. In the late '50s he took a number of small film roles, and was hailed by critics for his turn as a murderer in the 1960 gangster film Murder Inc., which proved to be his breakthrough role. An Oscar nomination followed, as did a role in Frank Capra's Pocketful of Miracles the next year, which was the acclaimed director's last film and for which Falk received a second Oscar nod.

With back-to-back Academy Award nominations and his first Emmy Award (for a 1961 episode of The Dick Powell Theater), Falk worked steadily throughout the 1960s in both television and film, with small roles in It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World and Robin and the 7 Hoods, and a starring role in the short-lived legal TV series The Trials of O'Brien. He first played the role of Lieutenant Columbo in the 1968 TV movie Prescription: Murder, which was originally written as a Broadway play and then reworked for television. The film set up a number of tropes for the upcoming TV series: the seeming ineptitude of detective Columbo and the intricate cat-and-mouse mysteries in which the killer, known to viewers, seemed to dance around the detective's bumbling investigations. Columbo became a TV series in 1971, with a young 25-year-old Steven Spielberg helming the very first episode. The series was an unqualified hit for NBC, and ran through 1977 in 90 or 120 minute movie-length segments that appeared every third week as part of the network's "Sunday Mystery Movie" series, with a wide variety of acclaimed guest stars. Even after it went off the air, it spawned the short-lived Mrs. Columbo (based on the detective's unseen wife), starring a young Kate Mulgrew.

While becoming one of the signature television stars of the 1970s, Falk also appeared on the big screen in two of close friend John Cassavetes' films, Husbands (1970) and the Oscar-nominated A Woman Under the Influence (1971). Falk also played a Sam Spade-style detective in the comedy Murder By Death, and also starred in The Brink's Job (1978), The Cheap Detective (also 1978), and The In-Laws (1979). After the Columbo series came to a close in 1977, Falk continued acting in film, appearing in two highly notable roles in 1987: the storybook-reading Grandfather in Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride, and an acclaimed turn as a slightly modified version of himself as a man who converses with angels in Wim Wender's Wings of Desire. He returned to the role of Columbo in 1989 when ABC began commission TV movies centered on the character that would appear twice a year. After his last Columbo turn in 2003, Falk appeared sporadically in film and TV, his last role in the 2009 indie comedy American Cowslip.

In December 2008, his daughter Catherine Falk had filed court documents stating her father suffered from Alzheimer's Disease and petitioned to be his guardian; he is survived by his two daughters and wife, Shera.

Film and television fans around the world are mourning the loss of a true Hollywood legend today as veteran actor Peter Falk has died at the age of 83, Variety reports.

Best known for portraying the iconic television detective "Colombo" over the span of several decades beginning in 1968, Falk also appeared in more than 40 films, with his most famous big screen role arguably coming as the grandfather narrating the hit 1987 film "The Princess Bride."

Born in 1927, Falk lost his right eye to a tumor at the age of three, resulting in the use of a glass eye for the rest of his life. Because of this quirk, which many studios viewed as a career ending deformity, he didn't break into movies until the age of 30. Once in the door, however, he quickly proved his star quality by earning Academy Award nominations for 1961's "Murder, Inc." and 1962's "Pocketful of Miracles."

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Actor Peter Falk, best known for his television role as Lieutenant Frank Columbo in the series “Columbo,” died Thursday night in Beverly Hills. He was 83 years old.

The cause of death wasn’t immediately disclosed.

In a December 2008 court document, Falk’s daughter Catherine said her father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, the AP reported.

Born in New York City, Falk was nominated for two Academy Awards, won five Emmys and a Golden Globe.

The actor was...

Once in a while in this line of work, some strange titles just magically fall into your lap. I must confess I had no idea what American Cowslip was when I got it for review. Situations like these usually result in one of two possibilities: either it's going to be a wonderful, woefully overlooked surprise; or I'm going to voodoo someone for digging buried junk for me.

Looking at the DVD cover only served to confuse even more. Mainly because it has Peter Falk, Val Kilmer, Clorice Leachman and Rip Torn on the cover, but also because it identifies itself as a "Redneck Comedy," whatever that means. I can see Rip Torn, that crazy bastard, yukking it up with Larry the Cable Guy, but Peter Falk? The phrase, naturally, conjured images of a slapstick Blue Collar Comedy kind of movie, which I dreaded with utmost dread. After watching the actual movie,...

Look at Val Kilmer. He looks bewildered, no? Perhaps that’s because, as we learned yesterday, the actor will be appearing in front of a board of county commissioners to talk about derogatory comments made towards New Mexico during a Rolling Stone interview. Craziness! (Some people take issue to his comment claiming 80 percent of “the people in my county are drunk,” meaning Kilmer lives in the Most Fun County Ever.) But this is hardly the first time the actor has had a run-in with the bizarre. After the jump, check out some of the most, er, interesting moments in Kilmer’s professional life.

Director: Mark David Wtiter(s): Mark David, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Christopher Morrison Starring: Ronnie Gene Blevins, Val Kilmer, Diane Ladd, Rip Torn Ethan (Ronnie Gene Blevins) is an agoraphobic heroin addict with no job, and his only ambition is gardening. Ethan’s parents are long gone, but he is still living in the same house that he was raised in. His neighbor Trevor (Rip Torn) is also his evil landlord who has been trying to evict Ethan for several months – as an unemployed heroin addict, Ethan cannot afford his rent. Other than his landlord, most of the residents of Blythe (a small California desert town) try to help Ethan get by. A few old ladies occasionally drop by for a game of cards (letting Ethan win in order to give him much needed cash). The aged prostitute across the street has also taken a liking to Ethan; as has...