Gary Sinise
Although this intense actor was almost 30 when he made his television debut, he had been honing his craft for years on stage as a founding member of the critically acclaimed Chicago-based Steppenwolf...
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
03/16/1955
Blue Island, IL |
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BUZZ/SAW: How to Make 'Mars'
August 15, 2001 11:35am ESTNEW YORK, March 14, 2000 -- The critics so hated last weekend's box-office smash "Mission to Mars" -- in fact, some were downright mean to director Brian De Palma's new-agey sci-fi pic -- they forgot to mention that the film's visuals, including the amazing special effects, are, ahem, out of this world. Two special-effects houses -- Dream Quest Images and George Lucas' renowned Industrial Light and Magic -- were needed for the more than 400 special-effects shots that invoke the scary Mars surfa
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BUZZ/SAW: 'Mars' Landing in Digital
August 15, 2001 11:35am ESTNEW YORK, March 7, 2000 -- When "Mission to Mars" touches down on thousands of screens Friday, the flick about space pioneers will help pioneer a little cinematic history.Disney has elected to project the sci-fi actioner starring Gary Sinise, Tim Robbins and Don Cheadle, in digital format on 12 screens. This means that in a dozen theaters, good ol' scratch-prone and dust-attracting celluloid won't be running through projectors. Instead, "Mission to Mars" will be fed from DVD disks on players thr
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'Whole Nine Yards' Continues to Score
July 31, 2001 12:30pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2000 -- Warner Bros.' "The Whole Nine Yards" easily held on to first place despite tracking studies that had projected Dimension Films' opening of "Reindeer Games" would be the weekend's big winner. "Reindeer Games " Although the tracking data had pointed to an opening of $10 million to $12 million for "Reindeer," no film managed to crack double digits last weekend. "Reindeer" wound up an embarrassed No. 3 for the weekend with a red face and nose. The weekend's
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'Burbank, We Have a Problem...'
July 23, 2001 9:52am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 4, 2000 -- A couple of years ago it was deadly asteroids slamming into Earth, and big-budget cartoons about talking bugs. This summer, the Hollywood fad was supposed to be spaceships landing on Mars -- but at least one interplanetary mission is being put on hold.According to today's Daily Variety, Warner Bros. is postponing the release of "Red Planet" from June 16 to Nov. 10. This is the second time the film has been pushed back -- its original release date was slated
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Bon Jovi celebrates Independence Day
May 30, 2001 6:50am ESTBon Jovi will provide the musical entertainment during the second annual Macy's 4th of July parade in New York City. According to the band's official Web site, the band will perform "One Wild Night." The show will feature a celebrity host still to be announced and patriotic readings by such actors as Martin Sheen, Kelsey Grammer, Gary Sinise and Angela Basset, Launch.com reports. The parade will end with the traditional fireworks, which will be displayed over the East River choreographed to musi
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Broadway's newest source
May 08, 2001 3:00pm ESTWith the huge Broadway success of Mel Brooks' The Producers, it looks like you can bring the movies to the stage. On Monday, Brooks' musical stage adaptation of his classic movie received 15 Tony nominations, including nods for best musical, for stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, and for Brooks for best book and score.
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The Pitt, Fincher Cook Off
May 08, 2001 4:19am ESTThe first rule of the cooking club is that you never, ever talk about the cooking club. And the second rule of the cooking club is ... well, you get the point. Sexy Brad Pitt might reunite with director David Fincher, whom the actor worked with in "Seven" and "Fight Club," to do a film called "Seared." According to Daily Variety, the film is a loose reworking of chef Anthony Bourdain's "Kitchen Confidential," which centers on the career of a New York celebrity chef. 'DEATH' TRAP: Variety says th
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On a 'Mission' to No. 1?
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 9, 2000 -- Looks like the Red Planet will generate most of this weekend's box-office green. "Mission to Mars" should blast off in first place with about $25 million, according to studio-tracking studies that see everything else in the marketplace flying in a much lower orbit. The most recent tracking scores for "Mission," starring Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins as astronauts on a Mars-bound expedition, show the film being pegged as the No. 1 flick of choice by 17 percen
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Hollywood launches off to Mars
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTPASADENA, Calif. -- After nearly a week of trying to make contact with the $165 million Mars Polar Lander, scientists and NASA officials have all but given up the mission as a failure. Never an industry to shy away from big-money crap shoots, the motion picture community is putting a great deal of faith in a pair of Mars-related pictures that it hopes will generate substantially more interest and success than the recent NASA fiasco. Disney is putting a great deal of time and strength behind its
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ROLE CALL: Woo Walks
December 31, 1899 7:00pm ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2000 -- Director John Woo has left Sony and signed a three-year movie and TV deal with MGM, according to Entertainment Weekly Online. Woo didn't end up making any films with his resident studio, planning two other projects instead with MGM. The projects include "Wind Talkers," starring Nicolas Cage. For now, Woo's got another action flick on his plate: "Mission: Impossible 2," starring Tom Cruise, opens this summer. SECRET AGENT MAN: John Dahl, who directed the noi
