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It’s been six years since Matthew McConaughey starred in a movie, and when you watch “The Rivals of Amziah King,” it’s easy to see why this was the one that lured him back. It gives him a role that fits his scraggly aging-bad-boy redneck charm like a glove — and, at the same time, it’s different from anything he’s ever done.

The film itself is different from anything you’ve ever seen, in ways both good (the first half) and not as good (the second half doesn’t always parse). Yet there’s an audacity to this movie, which is a neorealist beekeeper Western musical revenge fable, that gets inside your system. The director, Andrew Patterson, has a vision — of life, and of how to tell a story — that he enacts with so much confidence and verve that even when what he’s doing doesn’t totally work,...

Ryan Reynolds thinks one of Eddie Murphy's comedic performances was overlooked by the Academy. During a recent appearance on Variety's Awards Circuit podcast, the Deadpool & Wolverine actor shared that Murphy not receiving an Oscar nod for his multi-character work on The Nutty Professor is one of the "greatest, most, greatest injustices." When asked what he considered the greatest Oscars snub of all time, Reynolds shared:

"One of the greatest, most, greatest injustices is that Eddie Murphy doesn't have an Oscar for 'The Nutty Professor.'"

The Murphy-led comedy is a remake of the 1963 movie of the same name that starred Jerry Lewis. Directed by Tom Shadyac, the 1996 version sees Murphy tackle seven different roles, including Professor Sherman Klump and his charming but devious alter ego Buddy Love. The film earned mostly positive reviews from critics (and currently holds a 66% rating on Rotten Tomatoes), who praised Murphy for his hilarious portrayals.

The 1997 movie awards season was shaping up to be surprisingly competitive in the early fall of that year. "L.A. Confidential," "Boogie Nights," and "The Sweet After" were making serious noise, while summer sleepers "The Full Monty" and "Ulee's Gold" appeared likely to stay in the picture as everyone awaited the arrival of presumed heavy hitters like Steven Spielberg's "Amistad," James L. Brooks' "As Good as It Gets," and Quentin Tarantino's "Jackie Brown." But when James Cameron's "Titanic," a wildly expensive coin flip from a director best known for popcorn flicks, began screening for critics and guilds in early November, everything clicked into place. The boat movie was an Oscar lock for Best Picture and Director, "As Good as It Gets" had Best Actor and Actress sewn up, and everyone else was playing for the honor to be nominated.

The one no one saw coming, at least...

Bridget Fonda's car accident was not the reason for her acting exit; she chose personal fulfillment with family life. The actor's career peaked with diverse roles, a cultivated fan base, and critical acclaim. With her signature work in notable movies like Single White Female and Jackie Brown, Fonda's career was a brief triumph.

Bridget Fonda was in a major car accident in 2003, but that wasn't why she quit acting. A scion of the esteemed Fonda acting dynasty, which includes Hollywood legends like her grandfather, western movie star Henry Fonda, and aunt Jane Fonda, Bridget Fonda carved out her own niche in the film industry with a compelling presence and versatile acting skills. Beginning her career in the 1980s, Bridget quickly ascended to fame with notable roles in films such as Single White Female, Point of No Return, and Jackie Brown.

Fonda's ability to embody diverse characters across various genres...

Exclusive: Producers Peter Saraf and Eddie Rubin, who are in Park City to premiere the Sundance buzz titles Out of My Mind and Winner, have joined forces to create Optimistic Pictures, to develop and produce film and TV properties with an independent sensibility.

Saraf is the co-founder of Big Beach, the producer/financier responsible for one of the greatest successes to break at Sundance, the 2006 film Little Miss Sunshine. After a massive bidding battle that was won by Fox Searchlight ($10.5 million and 10% gross), the film got four Oscar noms including Best Picture, won two Oscars and grossed $101 million, on an $8 million production budget.

After their first teaming on The Farewell, Saraf and Rubin are reuniting with that indie hit’s star Awkwafina. She’ll produce and star in an adaptation of G, the Ling Ma short story which is included in her National Book Critics Circle Award winning collection, Bliss Montage.

“I remember seeing a film that became really formative for me called ‘Ruby in Paradise.’ It was a film about a young woman finding herself. It’s a simple film. A beautiful film. And I thought, ‘Wow. I didn’t know a film could be like this.’ I’d never seen anything like this before.”

That was director Ava DuVernay in the documentary “Only in Theaters” talking about “Ruby in Paradise,” winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and one of several exquisitely crafted dramas from Florida writer-director Victor Nunez. Since his feature debut “Gal Young Un” in 1979, Nunez has slowly, quietly, and consistently built one of the American independent cinema’s most vital bodies of work, one centered around complex regional character studies like “Ruby” and its follow-up “Ulee’s Gold,” for which Peter Fonda was nominated for an Oscar.

These films, along with Nunez’s 1984 masterpiece “A Flash of Green,...

When he made his first feature, Gal Young ‘Un, in 1979, director Victor Nuñez was a pioneer in an American independent film movement still in its early stages. Over the next several decades, Nuñez continued to work on personal projects on his home turf of northern Florida. He worked rewardingly with gifted actors like Ed Harris in A Flash of Green and launched Ashley Judd’s acting career with Ruby in Paradise in 1993. Peter Fonda earned his only Oscar nomination as an actor when he starred in Nuñez’s Ulee’s Gold in 1997.

But Nuñez has not directed a film in over a decade. He returns to the screen with Rachel Hendrix and helps to revitalize the acting career of Lori Singer, still best known for her starring role opposite Kevin Bacon in 1984’s Footloose. Singer, also an accomplished classical musician, had a few other notable acting credits, in Alan Rudolph’s...

A blockbuster film tied big records, a legendary actor set a new record, a viewership record was achieved and the Academy celebrated its platinum anniversary in a big way. Billy Crystal hosted the 70th Academy Awards on March 23, 1998, where one film made a “titanic” splash, and the ceremony saw its highest viewership of all time, with more than 55 million people tuning in — a record that stands today not only for the Oscars, but all live awards programs.

It’s a film that people either love or hate (or at least wonder what all the fuss is about), but either way, the huge impact that James Cameron‘s “Titanic” made on the film industry cannot be denied. The most expensive movie ever produced up to that time, many doubted that the romantic tragedy would result in box office gold. However, “Titanic” went on to become the highest grossing movie of all...

Producers Ed Saxon and Nina Yang Bongiovi are taking on new roles in support of the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California.

Saxon will serve as the program’s Chair, with Bongiovi filling a new role, as its Associate Chair and Producer-In-Residence.

Both producers are alums of USC’s School of Cinematic Arts. They were chosen following a multi-stage selection process, involving a comprehensive analysis and review of the program’s curriculum, and will take their posts immediately.

As Chair, Saxon will build on the program’s legacy, adapting it to meet the needs of students and the realities of the job market. In her role, Bongiovi will ensure that students are supported and mentored, as they receive on-the-ground training, reflecting current industry practice.

The change in leadership at USC was announced today by Elizabeth M. Daley, who serves as Dean of the School of Cinematic Arts.

With 2019 now ending, Gold Derby celebrates over 40 celebrities who died in the past 12 months. Tour our photo gallery above as we feature tributes to these actors, actresses, musicians, producers and entertainers from this past year.

Just a few of the people honored in our special photo gallery:

Iconic singer and actress Diahann Carroll died at age 84 on October 4. She was the first African-American woman to star on her own TV show. She also starred in “Dynasty” and was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in 2011. She was an Oscar nominee for “Claudine” in 1974.

Tim Conway died on May 14 at age 85. The comedy legend won six Emmy Awards during his lengthy career, including four for “The Carol Burnett Show,” one for “Coach” and one for “30 Rock.” He was inducted into the TV Academy Hall of Fame in 2002.

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At one point I was thinking about Nick Nolte to play the beekeeper, and then I got a call in the middle of the night. "This is Peter Fonda." I don't know how he got it, we never sent it to him, but he said, "I've just read your script and that's me. You know, my dad was a beekeeper." I didn't know, but it turns out Henry Fonda had two or three hives in his backyard.

So I met with Peter. He was in Montana and offered to fly to L....

Peter Fonda, the son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda who made his own name as a writer and star of the 1969 counterculture classic Easy Rider and later earned a best actor Oscar nom for 1997's Ulee's Gold, died of lung cancer Aug. 16 at the age of 79. By clicking below, you can hear Fonda discuss his unusual life and colorful career over the course of an hourlong conversation with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg at the TCM Classic Film Festival on March 27, 2015, a few months before the establishment of the Awards Chatter podcast.

Past guests include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Lorne ...

Peter Fonda, the son of Henry Fonda and brother of Jane Fonda who made his own name as a writer and star of the 1969 counterculture classic Easy Rider and later earned a best actor Oscar nom for 1997's Ulee's Gold, died of lung cancer Aug. 16 at the age of 79. By clicking below, you can hear Fonda discuss his unusual life and colorful career over the course of an hourlong conversation with The Hollywood Reporter's Scott Feinberg at the TCM Classic Film Festival on March 27, 2015, a few months before the establishment of the Awards Chatter podcast.

Past guests include Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Lorne ...

Us actor and filmmaker Peter Fonda, who became an international star in 1969 with "Easy Rider," died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 79.

The cause of death was respiratory failure arising from lung cancer.

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"It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that Peter Fonda has passed away," the family said on Friday, Efe news reported.

"In one of the saddest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our hearts. And, while we mourn the loss of this sweet and gracious man, we also wish for all to celebrate his indomitable spirit and love of life," his family told the media.

"In honour of Peter, please raise a glass to freedom," the family statement concluded, quoting a line from "Easy Rider."

Son of Hollywood...

A look back at the most memorable roles of actor Peter Fonda, who died aged 79 on Friday. Fonda was a well-known figure of the 1960s counterculture movement and earned an Oscar nomination for co-writing the classic 1969 road movie Easy Rider. In 1997, he was nominated for his performance as a Vietnam veteran and widowed beekeeper in Ulee's Gold.

Peter Fonda, celebrated actor known for Easy Rider, dies aged 79...

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Peter Fonda in "Ulee's Gold"

Peter Fonda was born Hollywood royalty, as the only son of classic movie star Henry Fonda. Like his iconic elder sister Jane, he had a tense relationship with his father. Unlike Jane he didn't have his own On Golden Pond (1981) to share with his father. Their only film together was the forgotten Wanda Nevada (1979). Not that Peter's career was without its own creative and commercial peaks. The film with which he'll always be associated, Easy Rider (1969), the counter-culture smash that he both co-wrote and co-starred in with Dennis Hopper, was both.

Because most career-retrospectives of Peter Fonda appear to begin and end with Easy Rider (1969) we thought it would be more interesting today to look at the way his career started and what happened after Easy Rider...

Jane Fonda has released a statement following the death of her brother, Peter Fonda, after the veteran Hollywood actor died in his Los Angeles home on Aug. 16 due to complications from lung cancer. He was 79 years old.

"I am very sad. He was my sweet-hearted baby brother," the actress said in a statement, according to Variety. "The talker of the family. I have had beautiful alone time with him these last days. He went out laughing." His wife, Margaret "Parky" DeVogelaere, also released a statement on behalf of the family, writing, "In one of the saddest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our hearts . . . And, while we mourn the loss of this sweet and gracious man, we also wish for all to celebrate his indomitable spirit and love of life. In honor of Peter, please raise a glass to freedom.

(Fonda and Dennis Hopper in "Easy Rider") 

By Lee Pfeiffer

Peter Fonda, the actor, screenwriter, producer and director, has died at age 79 from lung cancer. His family represented one of America's most legendary acting dynasties. His father was Henry Fonda, his sister Jane Fonda and he was the father of actress Bridget Fonda. He and Jane had a fractured relationship with their father that ultimately saw them reconcile in Henry's later years. Their mother committed suicide when they were very young and they were initially told she had died of a heart attack. Peter almost died as a teenager when he accidentally shot himself in the stomach. He and Jane both found success as actors, following in their father's footsteps. Peter's early films found him in supporting roles but his breakthrough role as a leading man came in Roger Corman's 1966 biker film "The Wild Angels", which was made on...

It's a very sad day in Hollywood as legendary actor and Easy Rider star Peter Fonda has reportedly passed away. A rep for Fonda confirmed the actor's passing, but as of now, there's no details on a possible cause of death. Reportedly, Fonda had been spending a lot of time in the hospital with an undisclosed ailment which may have contributed to his passing. He was 79 years old.

Fonda is a member of the famous Fonda acting family, which is also comprised of father Henry, sister Jane, and daughter Bridget. Born in 1940 in New York City, the future Hollywood legend did not have the easiest childhood. When Fonda was 10 years old, his mother committed suicide in a mental hospital, although he didn't learn about the circumstances of her death until years later. Things got worse soon after on Fonda's 11th birthday, when he accidentally shot himself and nearly died. Years later,...

Peter Fonda has passed away at the age of 79. The star of hit films like Easy Rider, 3:10 to Yuma and Ulee's Gold died from respiratory failure caused by lung cancer. A rep for Peter and his family tells E! News, "It is with deep sorrow that we share the news that Peter Fonda has passed away." The statement continues, "[Peter] passed away peacefully on Friday morning, August 16 at 11:05am at his home in Los Angeles surrounded by family... In one of the saddest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our hearts. As we grieve, we ask that you respect our privacy." The famous family hopes that people...

Eckhart Tolle is best known for his self-help books like "The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment" and "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life.s Purpose," two books that likely won't ever find their way to the big screen. But such is not the case with Milton's Secret, the story that Tolle wrote with Robert Friedman - and not only is a film adaptation in the works, the project has just landed its first actor. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Peter Fonda, the two-time Oscar nominee best known for performances in films like Easy Rider and Ulee's Gold, has signed on for a key part in the developing movie. Set to be adapted by Barnet Bain (who is also directing) and Donald Martin, the film will tell the story of an eight-year-old boy named Martin who begins to fear going to school because of a bully...

Jessica Biel has been playing both sides of the Hollywood coin for most of her career, alternating between wide releases and specialty fare. She was at it again this past weekend with two movies in theaters: new release "Playing for Keeps" from FilmDistrict and holdover "Hitchcock” from Fox Searchlight. Given the woeful $6 million gross with which “Keeps” opened, Biel would be smart to stick to the indie side of things. Biel began bouncing between crowd-pleasers and smaller fare early on. Her first live-action feature film, "Ulee's Gold," was followed by Disney's "I'll Be Home for Christmas" and Warner Bros.' "Summer Catch." Then came Lionsgate's raw and risqué "The Rules of Attraction," where she portrayed a party girl who was the polar opposite of Mary Camden, her character on TV's popular, wholesome "7th Heaven." Read More: Honor Roll 2012: Matthew McConaughey...

Peter Fonda, Parky Fonda Oscar-nominated Actor Peter Fonda (Ulee's Gold) and wife Parky attend the 2011 Governors Awards in the Grand Ballroom at Hollywood & Highland in Hollywood, on Saturday, November 12. [Photo: Matt Petit / ©A.M.P.A.S.] Actor James Earl Jones (The Great White Hope, the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars movies) was a long-distance Honorary Oscar recipient, as Jones is co-starring with Vanessa Redgrave in Driving Miss Daisy on the London stage. Veteran makeup artist Dick Smith (The Cardinal, Death Becomes Her, The Exorcist), however, was present at the ceremony to receive his Honorary Oscar. TV talk show hostess Oprah Winfrey, a 1985 Best Supporting Actress nominee for Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple, was handed the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Son of Oscar winner Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond) and brother of two-time Oscar winner Jane Fonda (Klute, Coming Home), among Peter Fonda's credits are The Wild Angels, The Trip, Easy Rider, with...

AA Milne's Pooh Bear is one of the thickest, most tedious characters in fiction, but elsewhere in the movies apiarists and honey collectors are a mysterious, obsessive collection of individuals. One thinks of the taciturn father in Víctor Erice's Spirit of the Beehive, Marcello Mastroianni in Theo Angelopoulos's The Bee Keeper, Michel Piccoli in Louis Malle's Milou en mai and Peter Fonda's Oscar-nominated performance in Ulee's Gold. Honey (aka Bal) is the concluding film in Semih Kaplanoglu's The Yusuf Trilogy, about a boy growing up in rural north-eastern Turkey where his father keeps bees in hives at the top of tall trees in the nearby forest and supports his young wife and little son by collecting honey. The six-year-old Yusuf, a serious, introspective boy through whose large, expressive eyes the world is presented, has a serious stammer that sets him apart from most of those around him,...

Julie Christie in Alan Rudolph's Afterglow (top); Judi Dench in John Madden's Mrs. Brown (middle); Vanessa Zima, Peter Fonda in Victor Nunez's Ulee's Gold (bottom) Lynn Redgrave, James Coburn, Fernanda Montenegro: Oscar Veterans 1998 Julie Christie Julie Christie was nominated as Best Actress for Alan Rudolph's Afterglow. She lost to Helen Hunt in James L. Brooks' As Good As It Gets. Christie had two previous Best Actress nominations: for John Schlesinger's Darling (1965), for which she won, and Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971). Following Altman's "anti-Western," Christie had to wait 26 years for another Oscar nod.   Judi Dench Judi Dench was nominated as Best Actress for John Madden's Mrs. Brown. That was Dench's first nomination. She lost to Helen Hunt in As Good As It Gets. On the other side of the Atlantic, Dench had already won three British Academy Awards for her film work,...

I love that a heated discussion over Titanic’s infamous Oscar sweep of 1998 has already begun over at Laurent’s excellent retrospective. I guess it’s just the nature of this particular film. There is something about Titanic that hits a raw nerve in people and they feel a need to defend/criticize it so passionately.

As it happens, I fall in the ‘unconditional love’ category and I’m not afraid to admit it. To this day I have a passion for Titanic, a film that so perfectly matches what a glorious, spellbinding, big spectacle romance against an historic backdrop should be, and those films are so rare, especially when they are made with such precise and meticulous detail from James Cameron.

We shouldn’t be embarrassed over how much we loved Titanic in the 90′s. We should embrace it. So as our third ‘Choose The Winners’ article, we are...

Actress Jessica Biel, currently seen in the Vancouver-lensed feature "A-Team", will return to British Columbia to star in the $15 million suspense-thriller "The Tall Man", a Canadian-France co-production, set to film in Vancouver in September, directed by Pascal Laugier.

Premise of the story follow Biel's character as a tough mother who tracks down a mysterious 'Tall Man', who has kidnapped her child.

28-year old Biel got her professional start as a 12-year old model, before landing, at age 14 the role of a preacher's daughter in the WB TV drama "7th Heaven", airing for a record-breaking 11 seasons.

Her first feature role was in "Ulee's Gold", followed by "Summer Catch", "The Rules Of Attraction", "Texas Chainsaw Massacre", "Blade: Trinity", "Stealth", "Elizabethtown", "The Illusionist", "Home Of The Brave", "Next", "I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry", "Powder Blue", "Easy Virtue" and "Valentine's Day".

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"Zack Hemsey's music track 'Mind Heist', which is used in the new trailer for "Inception", can be found online. Cheers to Devin 'The Spandex Fog' Faraci at Chud for the digging..." (full details)

"Michael Bay has denied reports that the somewhat racist Autobot twins - Skids and Mudflap - will be back for the third "Transformers" installment..." (full details)

"Harold Ramis apparently revealed in an ABC 7 interview that a Christmas 2012 release date is being targeted for a third "Ghostbusters"..." (full details)

"Colin Farrell will play one of the title characters in the Seth Gordon-directed New Line comedy "Horrible Bosses"..." (full details)

"IFC films has launched a new genre label called IFC Midnight. Included in their early slate are Jake West's "Doghouse" and Marina de Van's "Don't Look Back" in June, Nicolas Winding Refn...

Victor Nunez is attached to direct "El Lector" which is being produced by produced by Jane Startz Productions., Lauren Versel and Lucky Monkey Pictures. The upcoming movie adaptation of the 2007 William Durbin novel follows a Floriday girl who hopes of becoming a reader hired to entertain workers in a cigar factory. Flaminia Ocampo and Nunez ("Ruby in Paradise" and "Ulee's Gold") wrote the screenplay. Also in the cards for Lucky Monkey ("City Island") is upcoming Amy Heckerling pic "Vamps." Jane Startz Productions, known for "Ella Enchanted," has "The Cold Kiss" and "Lord of the Nutcracker Men" upcoming.

As has been rumored, even celebrities must heed nature's call. Sometimes all over nature. "I panicked. We were in the desert, no place to pee. So I peed outside. [I thought] on the cover of the tabloids there's going to be a picture of me peeing by a cactus. And yes, I did it. I'll do it again." Is potty mouth Julia Roberts the shamless desert drainer? Did Ulee's Gold star Jessica Biel dampen the scorched sand? Maybe Sandra Bullock is the proud cactus tinkler. Vote now! nullGet the answer after the jump. The girl who couldn't hold it is... Sandra Bullock!

Renee Taylor has joined the cast of NBC's comedy pilot Early Bird, while Christine Dunford has been tapped to star opposite Donal Logue in the network's comedy pilot The Dennis. Early Bird, from NBC Universal TV Studio and 3 Arts Entertainment, centers on a twentysomething (Timm Sharp) who moves into a retirement community. Taylor, an Oscar-nominated screenwriter, most recently co-starred in Alfie. She is repped by the Bauman, Redanty & Shaul Agency and manager Bette Smith. The Dennis, from 20th Century TV and Adelstein-Parouse Prods., centers on a young savant who is forced by his parents (Logue, Dunford) to leave their home and business so he can become a man. Dunford, whose credits include the feature Ulee's Gold and the series Something So Right and The Secret Lives of Men, is repped by SMS and Lesher Entertainment.

Jessica Biel, who stars in New Line Cinema's upcoming remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, has signed to star in another New Line film, Blade: Trinity. Biel will play Abigail, the daughter of Whistler (Kris Kristofferson) who inherits the vampire-slaying duties that once belonged to Blade (Wesley Snipes). The third installment of the Marvel Comics-based franchise is being written and directed by David Goyer. "I think Jessica will blow people away in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and we are excited to have her next movie," New Line production president Toby Emmerich said. Trinity is being produced by Goyer, Snipes, Lynn Harris and Peter Frankfurt. Emmerich and New Line production exec Cale Boyter are overseeing the project with a September start date planned for the Vancouver shoot. Best known for her role on the WB Network's long-running drama 7th Heaven, Biel's big-screen credits include The Rules of Attraction, Ulee's Gold and Summer Catch. She is repped by CAA.