Bill Murray

'Zombieland' writer announces the series is dead at Amazon

2013-05-17 11:34:00

Amazon hasn't yet announced which of the 14 pilots it released last month will be getting series orders, but there's already been one confirmed casualty: "Zombieland." Co-creator and co-writer Rhett Reese, who also co-wrote the hit film the pilot was...

Amazon's big TV push reflects reality of a swiftly changing business

2013-05-08 06:00:00

Amazon, the online retailer, recently posted 14 original "TV pilots" on the Web for public viewing and reviewing. In an instant, and before a single show has officially debuted, it has established a brand. Television is changing fast, so fast that it is...

Amazon 'TV pilots' are set to fly (Part 1)

2013-04-23 07:07:00

Amazon, the online bookseller turned online department store, turned e-book-reader manufacturer, turned publisher, turned video streaming service, turning movie-and-TV studio, has posted its first 14 "TV pilots" -- six kids' shows and eight grown-up...

Amazon pilots (Part 3): The comedies

2013-04-28 14:19:00

In two previous posts, I discussed the Amazon pilots, a slate of proposed series by the cyberspace bookseller turned virtual moving-picture studio, now streaming online for viewer comment and ratings. (Thousands have already chimed in.) The first post was...

New releases: 'To the Wonder' a beautiful and rewarding film

2013-04-07 08:30:00

To the Wonder Available on VOD beginning April 12 Early buzz on Terence Malick's film pegged it as a muddled rehash of the director's crazily ambitious "The Tree of Life," but that's not entirely accurate. Some of Malick's trademarks have become...

How the famously famous never fade from view

2013-03-28 05:00:00

Whoever said fame was fleeting had no idea what they were talking about. Just ask Oprah Winfrey, Tom Cruise, Donald Trump, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Jordan or Bill Murray. They've been soaking up the spotlight for years. In fact, not only does fame...

Man About Town: A new stage for National Lampoon

2013-02-23 00:00:00

Like to laugh, don't care why or where. Don't care the occasion, formal or otherwise, though the formal ones always — to quote Jack Nicholson — "bring out the devil in me." Like to laugh with people and at people and for people, which is...

Zombie foreclosures: Not a monster, but a monster of a headache

2013-02-20 11:22:52

‘Warm Bodies’: Heading for box office win on Super Bowl weekend?

2013-02-01 06:33:40

Film Independent at LACMA celebrates Black History Month

2013-01-31 06:00:00

Film Independent at LACMA kicks off Black History Month on Friday at the Leo S. Bing Theater with a rare screening of Michael Roemer's 1964 drama "Nothing But a Man. " Penned by Roemer and Robert M. Young, the acclaimed drama stars Ivan Dixon, Abbey...

USC students hope for Bill Murray on Bill Murray Appreciation Day

2013-01-25 09:52:00

In recent years, Bill Murray has created quite a sideline for himself in odd one-off appearances. Yes, he still makes movies. (He was just at the Golden Globes ceremony with a nomination for playing FDR in "Hyde Park on Hudson.") But it could be...

Directors detail their films' crucial scenes

2012-12-13 10:30:00

For most directors, there is usually one moment in their film that brings it all together while they are shooting — or sometimes before production has even started — one scene that unlocks key relationships among the characters or clicks so...

Bill Murray and friend in "Caddyshack."

2013-04-10 00:00:00

CADDYSHACK, Bill Murray, 1980. (c) Warner Bros./ Courtesy: Everett Collection.

2013-04-10 00:00:00

How good is this timeless comedy about a swanky golf club and the misfits who work and hang out there? Think of it as the "Anchorman" of the 1980s, a movie so utterly quotable that you never get tired of reciting its ridiculous lines to your friends--and they never get tired of hearing them.

2013-02-21 13:07:00