"From my point of view, the design was a great technical challenge, because a lot of what is there is based on history, [and you] really have to kind of work within that world," Greyhound production designer David Crank says about finding the perfect balance in the Tom Hanks starrer from Apple TV+. "We certainly took…
In or around 1976, I caught a forlorn moment near New York's Bleecker St. It was early morning. The sun was just up. Two ragged guys were shuffling toward me on the sidewalk, when one offered the other a bottle in a bag.
But the drink was declined.
"I guess I lost my taste for it," sighed the saddest voice I'd ever…
To rework an exchange William Wyler and Billy Wilder had at Ernst Lubitsch's funeral 73 years ago: "'No more Telluride. 'Worse than that, no more Telluride films.'" That's the way I, and I know many others, feel with the announcement that the best-curated and, due to its small size and remote setting, most rarified…
“Old fashioned” is a term that can be used in a non-flattering way, but in describing Tom Hanks’ new World War II film, it is a compliment. In terms of a genre that has been done repeatedly since, and during, that immortal conflict itself, it is hard to think of a way to bring any new light to it. Greyhound, a…
Tom Hanks didn’t name names, but decried the overall U.S. response to COVID-19 during a 10-minute appearance on Today on Tuesday. (Watch video clips below.)
“There’s a darkness on the edge of town here, folks,” he said. “Let’s not confuse the fact. It’s killing people. … You can say, ‘Well, traffic accidents kill a…
EXCLUSIVE: Grantchester actor Tom Brittney, who will next be seen alongside Tom Hanks in WWII war movie Greyhound, has partnered with actor and writer Oliver Powell (Devs) to form TV and film production company Wild Nest Pictures.
The London-based company has acquired the rights to The Mayfair 100 novels, penned by…
Apple has set a July 10 release date for Greyhound, the World War II drama that stars Tom Hanks, who wrote the script from C.S. Foreste’s novel The Good Shepherd. The film will make its global premiere exclusively on streaming service Apple TV+Â in more than 100 countries.
Greyhound was slated to be released…
EXCLUSIVE: In a real shocker, the WWII naval drama Greyhound that Tom Hanks wrote and stars in has abruptly changed course and will berth at Apple. Originally on the Sony Pictures theatrical calendar for Father’s Day weekend, the film instead will become the biggest feature film commitment made by Apple to premiere on…
There’s a whole lot of shuffling going on at Sony Pictures with their release slate. The new release dates are the result of the current coronavirus outbreak.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (Columbia Pictures) has been moved to March 5, 2021 from its original July 10 release date while the Sony/Marvel pic Morbius(Columbia…
Sony’s Tom Hanks World War II movie Greyhound is jumping from its May 8 weekend to June 12, as a means to tee off before the Father’s Day weekend of June 19-21. I hear the pic’s rescheduling has nothing to do with coronavirus fears which are weighing on many distribs’ minds, but rather it being an opportune time to…
Sony Pictures has set official release dates for its Spider-Man spinoff Morbiusand Jason Reitman’s new Ghostbusters. The moves were revealed Friday evening among several tweaks in the studio’s 2019-20 release slate, including pushing back the bows of two Tom Hanks movies: Columbia Pictures’ Greyhoundand TriStar’s…
UPDATED, 2:23 PM: For the second time in a month, Sony Pictures has shifted the release date of its Tom Hanks World War II movie Greyhound. The Aaron Schneider-helmed film now will open March 22, after being moved from April 5 to February 8.
On its new new weekend, the Allies-vs.-U-boats film will take to the seas…
