News for
Steve McQueen (I)

photos

board

add

contact

details

8 articles from 2008

24 August 2008 11:05 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Katy Perry has notched up a third week on top of the UK singles chart with 'I Kissed A Girl'. Irish trio The Script climb to second position with 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved', while Kid Rock slips to third with 'All Summer Long'. Meanwhile, Rihanna's 'Disturbia' jumps to a new peak of four, becoming the fifth top five single from her Good Girl Gone Bad album. The highest new entry of the week comes from Scottish rock trio Biffy Clyro, who land at ten with 'Mountains'. Other notable new entries come from The Automatic, who debut at 16 with 'Steve McQueen', and Gabriella Cilmi, who bows at 33 with (more)

By Nick Levine

24 August 2008 11:05 AM, PDT | From Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news

Katy Perry has notched up a third week on top of the UK singles chart with 'I Kissed A Girl'. Irish trio The Script climb to second position with 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved', while Kid Rock slips to third with 'All Summer Long'. Meanwhile, Rihanna's 'Disturbia' jumps to a new peak of four, becoming the fifth top five single from her Good Girl Gone Bad album. The highest new entry of the week comes from Scottish rock trio Biffy Clyro, who land at ten with 'Mountains'. Other notable new entries come from The Automatic, who debut at 16 with 'Steve McQueen', and Gabriella (more)

By Nick Levine

21 July 2008 4:28 AM, PDT | From Rope Of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news

Hounsou Tackles Thulsa Doom: Djimon Hounsou has partnered with Dynamite Entertainment to star in and produce a bigscreen feature about immortal sorcerer Thulsa Doom, a central figure in the Conan the Barbarian and Kull comicbooks. Doom was portrayed by James Earl Jones in 1982's Conan the Barbarian. Planned pic will showcase the origins of the flawed hero and show how his road to hell was paved with good intentions. [Variety] Producers team for Papillon Redo: New Spanish production shingle Atlantia Canarias is teaming with L.A. producers Branko Lustig and John Kelly for a remake of the Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman starrer Papillon. Currently in the earliest stage of development, with no screenwriter or director attached, Papillon will shoot in English on a budget of about $90 million, Lustig said. As someone that thinks Papillon is the best McQueen movie (yup, better than Bullitt, Magnificent Seven, etc.) I think this is a Horrible idea.

Brad Brevet

23 May 2008 12:17 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Angelina Jolie's action-packed motorcycle chase in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider has been named the best two-wheeled movie moment of all time, in a poll by biker fans.

The actress' bike chase in the 2001 hit computer game adaptation topped of a poll issued by U.K. bike insurers Bennetts - beating legendary actor Steve McQueen's iconic on-bike flight in The Great Escape.

Tom Cruise's high-fuelled motorbike adventures in Top Gun was voted in third place, with special effect blockbusters The Matrix Reloaded and Terminator 2 taking the fourth and fifth places respectively.

Jack Nicholson and Dennis Hopper's cult 1969 road movie Easy Rider - which depicts the life of a group of doomed bikers - was snubbed by film fans, failing to make the poll's top five.

Permalink | Report a problem

15 May 2008 10:23 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Warren Cowan, whose Rogers and Cowan public relations company has represented many of Hollywood's leading luminaries and the music industry's best-selling recording artists over more than a half century, died Wednesday of cancer at age 87. His clients included Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Gene Kelly, John Wayne, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland, Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Sylvester Stallone, Ronald Reagan, The Doors, Elton John, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Michael Jackson.

Permalink | Report a problem

24 April 2008 7:00 AM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Thirties and Forties screen star Kay Linaker, who co-wrote horror classic The Blob, has died, aged 94.

The actress/writer made her film debut in 1936's The Murder of Dr. Harrigan and went on to star in 50-plus films in the following decade, including Drums Along The Mohawk and They Dare Not Love.

Linaker also co-starred in a series of Charlie Chan films.

But, after marrying writer Howard Phillips in 1945, the actress became a screenwriter, often teaming up with her husband to create TV and radio shows. Her biggest success came under her married name, Kay Phillips, when she co-wrote The Blob, which was to become an early film for movie icon Steve McQueen.

Linaker died in New Hampshire.

Permalink | Report a problem

25 March 2008 6:28 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

The estate of Steve McQueen has taken legal action against a clothing company for allegedly using the late actor's image and name without permission.

McQueen's family filed its lawsuit in New York on Tuesday, accusing Clothing Company S.P.A. and its parent company Belstaff of the "willful and brazen unauthorised use of the name, image, signature and likeness" of the Getaway star in its Steve McQueen Celebration fashion line.

The estate also claims a Belstaff employee requested a license to use McQueen's image in 2007 and, despite being turned down, the company began manufacturing the clothing line anyway.

McQueen died of cancer in 1980 aged 50.

Permalink | Report a problem

11 March 2008 6:18 PM, PDT | From wenn.com | See recent WENN news

Steve McQueen's widow Barbara and his longtime stunt double have been announced as the special guests at the second annual Steve McQueen Days festival in Slater, Missouri.

Devotees of the movie icon will gather in the actor's boyhood hometown on 28 and 29 March to celebrate McQueen's life and work.

Steve McQueen Days is timed around the actor's birthday; the late The Great Escape star would have been 78 on 24 March.

As well as Barbara McQueen and stuntman Loren Janes, fans will be able to meet and greet the actor's longtime friend Richard Martin, who has just produced a documentary on McQueen's life, titled An American Rebel.

The film is based on the book Steve McQueen: Portrait Of An American Rebel by noted biographer Marshall Terrill, who will also be a key speaker during the festivities in Slater.

Highlights of the festival will include a Steve McQueen Lookalike Contest and a Classic Car and Motorcycle Show.

Permalink | Report a problem

8 articles from 2008