Quentin Tarantino
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BirthDate BirthPlace |
03/26/1963
Knoxville, TN |
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Tarantino feuding with Miramax
July 16, 2001 11:17am ESTQuentin Tarantino and Miramax are feuding over the studio's decision to put the director's latest film, Kill Bill on hold after the film's star, Uma Thurman, said that because of her pregnancy, she could not meet the planned production schedule, reports in the United Kingdom said over the weekend.
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Tarantino's mom goes indie
July 05, 2001 8:25am ESTDo you think Quentin Tarantino recently received a T-shirt from his mother with the words, "My mom went to Prague and all she got me was a deal with an independent production company?" Connie Zastoupil was visiting the set of Blade 2 in the Czech Republic, when she inked a deal with Prague Indies Production. "I originally came to research a project and hang out with the director, my friend Guillermo del Toro. I became interested in PIP because they have so many projects going on," she told Daily
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Little Nicky Review
June 19, 2001 12:37pm ESTThis little number will make you laugh like hell.
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Depp and Dafoe cross the border
June 16, 2001 7:48am ESTJohnny Depp, Willem Dafoe and Mickey Rourke will join Antonio Banderas in the third installment of director Robert Rodriguez's trilogy loosely based on Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns. Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Desperado 2 will begin shooting in Mexico this week, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The trilogy began with El Mariachi in 1992 and followed with Desperado three years later. Desperado, which starred Banderas, Quentin Tarantino and Selma Hayek, grossed $25 million domestically.
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Sequel to "Desperado" a possibility
May 09, 2001 1:36pm ESTDirector Robert Rodriguez and his favorite leading man Antonio Banderas, both hot off the hit film Spy Kids, will reteam for Once Upon a Time in Mexico for Dimension Films. Continuing the trilogy that began with Rodriguez's El Mariachi and Desperado, the new film is loosely based on the spaghetti Western classic The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Rodriguez told the Hollywood Reporter that he will return to a more "down and dirty, more experimental style of shooting" as he displayed in the first fil
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Travolta and Madsen Join Tarantino for Prequel
March 24, 2001 4:43am ESTQuentin Tarantino fanatics rejoice: the Indie director is planning to release a prequel to his two biggest hits by resurrecting characters from Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.
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Lee Spikes Will Smith
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Nov. 12, 2000 -- Social activist and director Spike Lee's latest target of wrath has centered on superstar Will Smith and his new film's depiction of racial stereotypes. At a Harvard University discussion panel on race held last week, Lee voiced his displeasure over Smith's decision to play a mystical and spiritual golf caddy in Robert Redford’s "The Legend of Bagger Vance." In an interview with the New York Post, Lee criticized Smith's role as Matt Damon's subordinate in the film he
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ROLE CALL: The Return of Cool
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27, 2000 -- He's baaack! After virtually disappearing from the scene since 1997's "Jackie Brown," director Quentin Tarantino, who single-handedly started a genre trend with 1994's "Pulp Fiction," will finally return to the helm with his next project "Kill Bill," The Hollywood Reporter says. The project, also written by Tarantino, is said to be a revenge film intended as a starring vehicle for actress Uma Thurman, whom he directed to an Oscar-nominated turn in "Pulp Fiction." Mira
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CHANNEL SURFER: 'If These Walls Could Talk,' What Would Howard Stern Say?
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTSANTA MONICA, Calif., March 5, 2000 -- Well, the February sweeps are finally over.Once the remainder of NBC's "10th Kingdom" is flushed from the system, it will all be just a distant memory. Regis Philbin won, if you were scoring along at home. If the February sweeps were like network TV's playoffs, Regis was Michael Jordan -- only shorter and dressed like a bootlegger from the 1920s.The good news? Now that the quarter-hour numbers don't mean as much to the bean counters, you might find a few hi
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Spike Lee: 'Patriot'-Hatin'
March 19, 2001 11:50am ESTHOLLYWOOD, July 6, 2000 -- Spike Lee hates "The Patriot." The director of "Summer of Sam," "Malcolm X" and other films blasted the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War-epic-cum-action-movie in today's Hollywood Reporter, calling it "a complete whitewashing of history, revisionist history" because none of the characters, conveniently, are depicted as slaveholders. Lee also noted the absence of American Indians in the movie. "When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget, lea
