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Joe Johnston’s 1991 superhero movie The Rocketeer begins in the usual way, with orange opening credits against a black screen. Only the slight tinkling of piano hints at something greater, little notes of inspiration under the art deco script on display. Sure enough, after the title reveal, the score pauses. The black screen is revealed to actually be the doors of a hangar bay, and the strings in James Horner’s score rise to a crescendo. They are announcing the hopes hanging on the yellow biplane that emerges.

A warm, confident scene of pilot Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) proving to his mechanic Peevey (Alan Arkin) and their pals that he’s got what it takes to win a race is an odd way to open a superhero movie, even one of the pulp-inspired films that Hollywood cranked out after Batman hit it big in 1989. By the end of The Rocketeer,...

There is renewed interest at Amazon to adapt Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature:

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...

...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The abnormal size decrease of his body initially brings teases and taunting from local youths, then causes friction in his marriage and family life.

Thanks to the success of Marvel’s “Ant-Man, there is renewed interest at MGM for Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", to reboot the property as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature for Amazon Prime:

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...

...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The abnormal size decrease of his body initially brings...

Combing through their vast library, there is renewed interest at MGM for Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature for Amazon Prime:

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...

...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The abnormal size decrease of his body initially...

Charles Grodin, best known for the neurotic comic wit he demonstrated in such films as “The Heartbreak Kid,” “Heaven Can Wait” and “Midnight Run” and for his role in the “Beethoven” movies, died Tuesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 86.

The New York Times reported that his son said he died of bone marrow cancer.

After getting his start in television, Grodin graduated to both leading and character roles in motion pictures, usually portraying the exasperated urban neurotic. His dry, understated sense of humor also made him a perfect talkshow guest, and later, host of his own cable show. Grodin also wrote plays and books.

The wry 1972 comedy “The Heartbreak Kid,” written by Neil Simon and directed by Elaine May, highlighted Grodin’s trademark neurotic befuddlement, and won him a Golden Globe nomination. But it was one of the few successful films in his career in which he was center stage.

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Netflix's Halston drops many big names, including the titular fashion designer (Ewan McGregor), who himself rubbed shoulders with many other legends at the height of his illustrious career. One unassuming character who appears in the limited series is Joel Schumacher (Rory Culkin), who works as Halston's bright but nervous assistant. And if you were wondering, yes, this is *the* Joel Schumacher you're thinking of - the same film icon who directed those Batman movies in the '90s. So who was Schumacher in his early days, and what happened to him? Read ahead for all that you need to know!

Joel Schumacher indeed started his career in fashion after studying at the Parsons School of Design. The would-be director struggled with substance abuse in his early years, shooting up speed several times a day in the '60s. Because of his background in fashion, he managed to...

The unsung trailblazers behind electronic music are paid harmonic homage in Lisa Rovner’s enchanting documentary

Lisa Rovner’s superb documentary pays a deeply deserved, seldom-expressed tribute to the female composers, musicians and inventors from the brief history of electronic music. The focus falls on about nine or 10 women in the field, from experimental music pioneer Clara Rockmore, a Theremin maestro in bias-cut evening dress, through to the British composer and mathematician Delia Derbyshire (probably best known for co-creating the Doctor Who theme), up to Suzanne Ciani, the first woman to score a major Hollywood movie (The Incredible Shrinking Woman in 1981) and her contemporary, composer and early software designer Laurie Spiegel.

Related: The 20 best music documentaries – ranked!

Lily Tomlin isn’t exactly the superhero type — the closest she’d come in the past was playing the title role in The Incredible Shrinking Woman — but she was very excited when she got a voice role in the animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Though she was somewhat of a stranger to the world [...]

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Together, Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner make up more than half-century of romantic partnership and comedy gold. Their work together — Tomlin, the legendary actress and sketch comedian, and Wagner, the writer who has penned most of Tomlin’s famous characters, comedy albums and television specials — has shaped a specific, irreplicable canon in American social commentary. It’s heralded the kind of comedy that walks the fine line of racial performance in “Juke and Opal” to lay bare the alienations of addiction, race and class, or finds in a 5-year-old Edith Ann’s curiosity the ironies of American life.

“She expresses how I feel, which I have no ability to do,” Tomlin said of Wagner, her wife and longtime partner, on Tuesday. “She can express in words what I feel about the world, about humans, about the struggle that we’re in — and, presumably, not the inevitability of it all, something...

I’ll never forget the one time I got to talk to Joel Schumacher, the fluky, baroquely skilled, stylishly protean Hollywood filmmaker who died Monday at 80. It was June 1985, and I was one of the journalists attending the New York press junket for “St. Elmo’s Fire,” the post-teenage soap opera that already felt like a reunion of “The Breakfast Club.” The junket was buzzier than anyone had anticipated, because it coincided with the arrival of the latest issue of New York magazine, with its famous cover headline that christened the film’s stars “the Brat Pack.”

At the time, I was still in the demo for “St. Elmo’s Fire,” and had a real soft spot for it. In hindsight, it’s a quintessential Schumacher movie: a little smart, a little sappy, more than a little in love with its glamorously questing and angst-ridden twentysomething characters. In its glossy ’80s-youth-market way,...

The late Joel Schumacher was remembered by film stars upon news of his passing on Monday, reflecting on his career that included hit films like “Lost Boys” and “Flatliners.”

One actor who starred in both of those films, Kiefer Sutherland, said that Schumacher’s “joy, spirit and talent will live on in my heart and memory for the rest of my life” and that “his mark on modern culture and film will live on forever.”

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— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 22, 2020

Patrick Wilson, who starred in Schumacher’s adaptation of “The Phantom of the Opera” in 2004, noted that Schumacher “started the careers of many. Too many to name.” Along with casting Wilson and Sutherland in some of their first film roles, Schumacher also helped launch the careers of stars like Colin Farrell in “Phone Booth” and Matthew McConaughey in “A Time to Kill.”

“This breaks my heart.

Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and more celebrities are mourning the death of one of director Joel Schumacher, director of films including “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Lost Boys” and “Falling Down,” who died on Monday from a year-long battle with cancer. He was 80.

Schumacher, a costume designer-turned-director, famously took over the Batman franchise when director Tim Burton exited Warner Bros. He directed 1995’s “Batman Forever,” starring Val Kilmer, Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey and Nicole Kidman, and directed 1997’s “Batman and Robin,” with George Clooney and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Sutherland, who starred in the 1987’s “The Lost Boys,” took to Twitter to share his condolences to one of his “dearest friends and partners in filmmaking.” He added that Schumacher’s “joy, spirit and talent” would continue to live in the actor’s heart and memory.

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— Kiefer Sutherland (@RealKiefer) June 22, 2020

Fellow “Lost Boys” star Corey Feldman shared...

Joel Schumacher, the colorful director of 23 feature films including Flatliners, Falling Down and perhaps the two most polarizing entries in the Batman franchise, has died at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer, according to Deadline.

Other films on his resume included one of the defining movies of the “Brat Pack” era, St. Elmo’s Fire, along with the John Grisham adaptations A Time to Kill and The Client, the highly influential horror film The Lost Boys and the screen version of the long-running Broadway musical The Phantom of the Opera.

But Schumacher was arguably best known for directing 1995’s Batman Forever and its follow-up, 1997’s Batman and Robin, which veered the series away from the dark, psychologically twisted tone established on Tim Burton’s Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992) and into campier territory closer in spirit to the 1960s TV show.

Schumacher was born in New York City on...

Joel Schumacher, the director, screenwriter and costume designer with a wide-ranging filmography that includes St. Elmo’s Fire, The Lost Boys, several John Grisham movies and two Nineties Batman films, died Monday after a year-long battle with cancer, Variety reports. He was 80.

Schumacher’s publicist confirmed the filmmaker’s death, though did not offer any specifics on Schumacher’s cancer diagnosis. The publicist said he “passed away quietly” and “will be fondly remembered by his friends and collaborators.”

Schumacher spent five decades in Hollywood, an openly gay man who moved...

In some shocking and sad news, it was announced today that prolific director Joel Schumacher – probably most notable for his two DC movies, 1995’s Batman Forever and 1997’s Batman & Robin – has passed away at the age of 80 after a year-long battle with cancer. This news was revealed by his representatives at ID PR.

Schumacher started his career in the fashion industry before crossing over to the movie business to work as a costume designer. His real passion was for filmmaking, though, which he successfully transitioned into after a stint as a screenwriter. His debut directorial effort was 1981’s The Incredible Shrinking Woman, starring Lily Tomlin.

His first major hit was 1985 coming-of-age drama St. Elmo’s Fire. He then followed that up with another smash – 1987’s cult vampire flick The Lost Boys. It’s no surprise, then, that he was Warner Bros.’ top choice to replace Tim Burton as the custodian...

Joel Schumacher, the outspoken and shameless American filmmaker whose often flamboyant productions have become cult classics, died Monday morning at the age of 80. He passed away peacefully after a year-long battle with cancer, Schumacher’s representatives confirmed to IndieWire. His last efforts behind the camera were directing two episodes of the Netflix series “House of Cards” in 2013, though he’d since continued to regale with his unfiltered stories of Hollywood lore, most recently in a 2019 profile of the filmmaker in New York Magazine.

Born in New York City, Schumacher studied at Parsons New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology — an education that informed his dazzling visual style as a filmmaker — before moving to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. His earliest credits in Hollywood included as costume designer on “Play It as It Lays” and Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” and “Interiors,” and as screenwriter of cult favorites “Sparkle,...

Joel Schumacher, the outspoken and shameless American filmmaker whose often flamboyant productions have become cult classics, died Monday morning at the age of 80. He passed away peacefully after a year-long battle with cancer, Schumacher’s representatives confirmed to IndieWire. His last efforts behind the camera were directing two episodes of the Netflix series “House of Cards” in 2013, though he’d since continued to regale with his unfiltered stories of Hollywood lore, most recently in a 2019 profile of the filmmaker in New York Magazine.

Born in New York City, Schumacher studied at Parsons New School for Design and the Fashion Institute of Technology — an education that informed his dazzling visual style as a filmmaker — before moving to Los Angeles to study at UCLA. His earliest credits in Hollywood included as costume designer on “Play It as It Lays” and Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” and “Interiors,” and as screenwriter of cult favorites “Sparkle,...

Joel Schumacher, who directed some two dozen films including Batman Forever, Batman & Robin, Brat Pack pics St. Elmo’s Fire and The Lost Boys along with Falling Down and John Grisham adaptations The Client and A Time to Kill, died today. He was 80.

His publicists at ID PR said he had a yearlong battle with cancer.

Schumacher was revered as one of Hollywood’s great storytellers. He had enormous charm and wit and could walk onto a tense set and instantly change everyone’s mood. It was magic chemistry.

His credits also include the 1980s pics D.C. Cab and The Incredible Shrinking Woman. He also helmed The Phantom of the Opera, Flatliners, Flawless, 8Mm Phone Booth, Trespass and most recently two 2013 episodes of Netflix’s House of Cards.

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The native New Yorker also wrote the 1976 low-budget comedy Car Wash and the...

Combing through their vast library, there is renewed interest at MGM for Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature:

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...

...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The abnormal size decrease of his body initially brings teases and taunting from local youths,...

Throughout her extraordinary career, Lily Tomlin has received numerous awards, including six Emmys and a recent nomination for her narration on “An Apology to Elephants”; a Tony for each of her one-woman Broadway shows, Appearing Nitely and Jane Wagner’s The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe; a Grammy for her comedy album, This is a Recording; and two Peabody Awards. In 2003, she was the recipient of the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.

Tomlin was born in Detroit, Michigan, and rose to national prominence in December 1969 in the cast of the top-rated Laugh-In. Tomlin went on to co-write, with Jane Wagner, and star in six comedy television specials, and has guest starred on numerous television shows, such as Homicide, X-Files, Will and Grace, Murphy Brown, The West Wing, NCIS, and the acclaimed FX series, Damages. She is also heard as the voice of the science teacher Ms.

Now that Marvel Studios 'Ant-Man' has proven popular with fans, there is renewed interest at MGM for Richard Matheson's sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material as a tragic, modern-day dramatic feature:

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures...

...including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The abnormal size decrease...

From lady “Ghostbusters” to talk of a female James Bond, Hollywood has taken a shine to remaking classic movies or TV shows with gender-swapped leads as a way of mixing up a tried and true formula. But the trend dates back farther than to just the last few years. The latest example of this is “What Men Want” opening Friday, which swaps out Mel Gibson for Taraji P. Henson. But here are some other movies that looked to remake something old with not just a fresh face but from an entirely different point of view.

“His Girl Friday” (1940)

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell move a mile a minute and have a natural chemistry as reporters Walter Burns and Hildy Johnson in Howard Hawks’s screwball comedy classic “His Girl Friday.” But missing from its source material, both the play and the movie “The Front Page” by playwright Ben Hecht, is...

To celebrate the Blu-ray release of The Incredible Shrinking Man, available on Blu-ray from 13th November, we have a copy of the film on Blu-ray up for grabs, courtesy of Arrow Video!

Based on the novel by the massively influential sci-fi and horror writer Richard Matheson (I Am Legend, The Martian Chronicles), with a script adapted by Matheson himself, and directed by Fifties sci-fi king Jack Arnold (Creature From The Black Lagoon), this is rightly regarded as being one of the finest science-fiction films of all time, a critically-acclaimed smash hit that currently has a 90 per cent score on Rotten Tomatoes. Genuinely thrilling, and, as Scott’s plight becomes more desperate, tense and gruelling, the film features superbly realised special effects that bely the era, and the setting Scott finds himself in – filled with oversized household objects that suddenly become threatening and dangerous – takes on a wonderfully surreal atmosphere.

This...

We have another busy week of home releases to look forward to, with an array of films that hit a bunch of different subgenres. For those who may have missed it in theaters earlier this year, you can now catch up with Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde this Tuesday, and if you missed seeing it online this fall, Amityville: The Awakening hits both Blu-ray and DVD as well.

For you cult cinema fans out there, I hope your wallets are ready for some serious damage, as there are a ton of great offerings coming home on November 14th, including the gorgeous limited edition Hellraiser Steelbook, The Paul Naschy Collection II, J.D.’s Revenge, and Arrow’s stunning Blu-ray set honoring one of horror’s true greats—George A. Romero—that features HD releases of Season of the Witch, There’s Always Vanilla, and The Crazies.

Other notable...

Later this month, the mighty Kong returns to the big screen! To celebrate, we’re looking back at all the major primate appearances in film.

For as long as films were being made, humans have starred alongside primates. Unlike other animals, their human-like qualities can lend a sense of comedy or horror. Throughout the history of film, primates have been used to fulfill certain roles. In the early days, they were often a form of antagonist, carrying out dastardly deeds or causing mayhem. More common is the primate cast in a role of mischief, causing all sorts of comedic hijincks. While most primate roles were portrayed by live animals, it was not uncommon for men to dress up in ape suits for roles where the primates needed to carry out specific actions. Later, the advent of CGI has led to men mimicking primates in real time to create a motion-capture performance.

As if there were any doubt, Lily Tomlin reminded the world of her singular talents as she received the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award on Sunday night in Los Angeles.

Taking the stage at the 23rd annual SAG Awards, the acclaimed actress, comedian, writer and producer accepted the honor from Dolly Parton, her longtime friend and costar in the 1980 comedy hit Nine to Five.

Tomlin took the stage to accept the award, joking that it came “just in the nick of time.”

“What a week this has been though. You are kind of anti-climactic,” she joked. “Doomsday clock moved...

When it comes to Hollywood relationships, Lily Tomlin and her wife, Jane Wagner, seem to have outlasted them all.

Tomlin says the secret to their 45-year relationship is simply a mutual “admiration and respect.”

Tomlin and Wagner — who is also the actress’ writing partner — tied the knot on Dec. 31, 2013. A few days before their wedding ceremony, they tried to go incognito to get their marriage license.

“We went in Van Nuys because if anyone should see us, we didn’t want them to write about us,” Tomlin tells People. “There were all kinds of young kids there getting married.”

A few days later,...

Later this year, Joel Schumacher’s landmark horror comedy The Lost Boys celebrates its 30th anniversary, and to celebrate the milestone, author and filmmaker Paul Davis is embarking on his newest project, Lost in the Shadows: The Story of The Lost Boys, which is a book that chronicles every aspect that went into bringing the vampires of Santa Cruz, and those who fought against them, to life.

Over the weekend, Davis (whose recent print retrospective for An American Werewolf in London sold out in record time) hosted a 30th anniversary panel at Imats (International Make-Up Artist Trade Show) 2017 Los Angeles to celebrate the brilliant special effects of The Lost Boys, and he brought a few friends along with him, including co-stars Alex Winter, Jamison Newlander, and Billy Wirth, as well as legendary makeup artists Ve Neill, Greg Cannom, and Steve Laporte.

Even though we recently ran our Practical-ly Perfect column for this month,...

Once a staple of 80s American comedy, appearing in the likes of All Of Me, Big Business and Nine to Five, the fantastic Lilly Tomlin returns to the silver screen in her first solo-lead role since The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981). Reuniting with Writer/ Director Paul Weitz (About a Boy, American Pie) for Grandma, her

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Sony continues developing author Richard Matheson’s sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material in a modern-day update.

The new film will be produced by Dick Matheson Jr. and Alan Gasmer for Matheson Entertainment, with Director of Development Matt Dines supervising for MGM.

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into the motion pictures "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray after accidentally ingesting insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and deduces, to his dismay, that his body will continue to shrink.

"The...

What had ETonline readers buzzing this week?

1. Emily Maynard Engaged

Former Bachelorette star Emily Maynard is taking another shot at finding true love. The Southern belle has confirmed to Et that she's engaged to boyfriend Tyler Johnson.

This marks Maynard's fourth engagement. Her first fiancé, race car driver Ricky Hendrick, died tragically in a plane crash in 2004 before the couple could walk down the aisle. She and Hendrick had a daughter named Ricki, who is now age eight. Her second engagement came at the end of The Bachelor's 15th season when she accepted Brad Womack's proposal only to return his engagement ring shortly thereafter. In 2012, Maynard became engaged to Jef Holm on the season finale of The Bachelorette, but split up months later.

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One of the most bizarre obsessions to be featured on TLC's reality series My Strange Addiction is a mother of six who has already undergone at least...

Lily Tomlin and Jane Wagner, who’ve been in a relationship for over four decades, were married on New Year’s Eve.

Lily Tomlin Marries Jane Wagner

Tomlin, 74, and Wagner, 78, tied the knot in a private ceremony in Los Angeles, the actress’ publicist Jennifer Allen told Us Weekly, adding, “They are very happy.”

"It was an eventful New Year's Eve," wrote Chicago Tribune gossip columnist Liz Smith last week before the nuptial news was confirmed. "My longtime friends, Lily Tomlin and her love, the writer Jane Wagner, got married on the eve of 2014...My wish is that their happiness will be as great as their combined talents."

Tomlin met Wagner for the first time back in 1971, when the duo worked together on Tomlin’s comedy album This Is a Recording. Proving their comedic chemistry, the album won the 1972 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording.

Wagner also wrote with Tomlin for...

Lily Tomlin has married her longtime partner, Jane Wagner.

The 74-year-old actress/comedian wed Wagner, 78, in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Tomlin's rep confirmed Tuesday to People magazine. "They're very happy," spokesperson Jennifer Allen told the publication about the couple, who have spent 42 years together.

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The two reportedly met while Tomlin was searching for a collaborator to help her develop her character of the wicked child Edith Ann. 

The couple has collaborated on many professional projects written by Wagner, including Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, as well as the 1981 movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

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Show-stopping actress and comedian Lily Tomlin and her partner of 42 years, Jane Wagner, were married in a private ceremony in Los Angeles on New Year's Eve, Tomlin's rep confirmed to People on Tuesday. "They're very happy," says the spokesperson, Jennifer Allen. Besides their relationship, the couple's many celebrated collaborations, written by Wagner, include Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, which played on Broadway, toured and was filmed for the screen, as well as the movie The Incredible Shrinking Woman. Wagner, 78, was born and raised in Morristown, Tennessee. Tomlin, 74, is from Detroit. It...

Lily Tomlin and her partner of 42 years, writer/director Jane Wagner, apparently have marriage on the brain.

In an interview with E! News at The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Pre-Emmy Performers Peer Group reception on August 19, Tomlin revealed that she and Wagner -- both in their 70s -- are considering tying the knot, now that it's finally possible for them to say, "I do."

"We're thinking maybe we'll get married," Tomlin said. "You don't really need to get married, but marriage is awfully nice. Everybody I know who got married, they say it really makes a difference. They feel very very happy about it."

The "9 to 5" star added that she never even believed she'd have the option, at least not in her lifetime. "It's pretty remarkable," she gushed about the Supreme Court's recent rulings on Doma and Prop 8.

Tomlin and Wagner first met in March 1971, when Tomlin invited the writer to L.

MGM has acquired screen rights to author Richard Matheson’s sci-fi novel "The Shrinking Man", with the studio's intention to reboot the material (like "RoboCop", "Carrie" and "Poltergeist") as a modern-day dramatic feature.

"It’s one of those fantasy concepts that does not age," said Matheson Sr., who will write and produce the new film with his son Dick Matheson Jr. and Alan Gasmer for Matheson Entertainment, with Director of Development Matt Dines supervising for MGM.

Published in 1956, "The Shrinking Man" was previously adapted into two motion pictures, including "The Incredible Shrinking Man" (1957) and "The Incredible Shrinking Woman" (1981) :

"....while on holiday, 'Scott Carey' is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no...

Writer Richard Matheson to update classic sci-fi novel for new 'existential action movie' that will include new scientific advances

The Incredible Shrinking Man is to be seen on the big screen once again after it was announced that Richard Matheson, the 86-year-old sci-fi novelist and screenwriter whose stories have formed the basis of films such as Steven Spielberg's Duel and the 2007 Will Smith vehicle I Am Legend, was to adapt his 1953 book The Shrinking Man for a second time.

Working with his son Richard Matheson Jr, the author plans an "existential action movie" that will hold true to the cold war themes of the novel and the Hugo award-winning 1957 film which followed it, while taking account of advances in science such as nanotechnology. "My original story was a metaphor for how man's place in the world was diminishing," Matheson told the Hollywood Reporter. "That still holds today, where all...

One of the most unwavering networks –beyond CBS- is The CW. The mini network and its stable of cult like genre shows have been able to sustain good ratings in the all-important 18-34 demographic, at times beating last place NBC. So far, for the 2012-13 TV season, they’ve only canceled one show, the medical drama Emily Owens, MD. Now, the network has announced early pick-ups of freshman superhero show Arrow, The Vampire Diaries (which is headed into season five, with a potential spin-off called The Originals may be added) and Supernatural –which heads into season nine, becoming the networks longest running show behind Smallville. Beauty and the Beast is also likely to be renewed as well. But other shows like 90210, Nakita, and The Carrie Diaries remain questionable network until the network heads can look over the upcoming pilots.

Independent distributor The Weinstein Company has made its first foray into...

If you listen to the official Destroy the Brain podcast – which you Should! – you may remember that a few weeks ago (on the episode found Here) I caught the original 1957 Universal film The Incredible Shrinking Man while flipping through the TV. It had been years since I had seen the film but was something that always stuck with me over the years as the idea was quite frightening to me as a little kid. Richard Matheson wrote the original book The Shrinking Man which the film was based on. A film sequel was written by the author as well but was never made by Universal. They did however go for a more comedic remake of sorts in 1981 with The Incredible Shrinking Woman directed by Joel Schumacher (The Lost Boys). Now, it seems, MGM is interested in the property as they have just acquired the rights to Richard Matheson’s novel.

In 1956, Richard Matheson's novel, The Shrinking Man, was published. A year later the book was adapted to film as The Incredible Shrinking Man, and again in 1981 for The Incredible Shrinking Woman. The 1957 film was directed by Jack Arnold, and starred Grant Williams. Fast forward to now, and MGM has acquired the rights to Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man. What's most interesting is that Matheson (87 years-old) and his son, Richard Matheson Jr., will be writing the screenplay. While the film will receive a modern take, the tone will stay the same as the original - bleak. Richard Matheson is a legend in the science-fiction community as he contributed to Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone," wrote the novel I Am Legend, and one of Steven Spielberg's most intense films, Duel. Describing the new iteration as “an existential action movie,” the elder Matheson says, “My original story was a...

Not pornography but a certain type of R-Rated film that one may have enjoyed at the Drive-ins in the 1970′s is the focus of Super-8 Sex Movie Madness November 6th at The Way Out Club. In this edition of our monthly film festival (now in its fourth year!) where we show edited version of movies (average length: 15 minutes) on old-school Super-8 Sound film, we’ll celebrate the days when men were hairy and women were natural (and hairy). We’re showcasing Sylvester Stallone in an 18-minute condensed version of The Italian Stallion, a 1970 soft-core sex film (originally titled Party At Kitty And Studs) he starred in six years before Rocky that was re-titled to cash in on his Oscar-winning success. It has to be seen to be believed! The other films we’ll be showing to fit this month’s theme are the Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood’s 1957 cross-dressing classic Glen Or Glenda,...

In 1970, six years before he ran up the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art to Bill Conti.s anthem in Rocky, Sylvester Stallone claims he was living in a bus shelter and needed money. So like many hungry actors he agreed to star and appear nude in a sex film and was paid $200 for two days work. The resulting film was a 60-minute drama with a $5000 budget titled Party At Kitty And Stud.S.

So what does the audience get for Stallone.s $200 gig? Basically, it is a standard-issue early 70s skin flick but it.s the type of arty skin flick popular at the time, two years before hardcore features like Deep Throat broke through to the masses. A .sex. film at that time meant lots of nudity and simulated intercourse. Hard-core penetration footage could be found in shorts and .loops. but features at this time usually just...

The Secret World of Arrietty aka Kari-gurashi no Arietti

Written by Hayao Miyazaki and Keiko Niwa, based on the novel The Borrowers by Mary Norton

Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi

Japan 2010 imdb

Listen to the Mousterpiece podcast about The Secret World of Arrietty or read Josh’s extended thoughts about the film!

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The most astonishing thing about The Secret World of Arrietty is that it took so long for someone to try an animated adaptation of Mary Norton’s beloved award-winning book. Granted, there is a long-standing tradition of shooting films where humans see the world from the perspective of an insect: on film in The Incredible Shrinking Man, the Lily Tomlin remake The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and the Honey I Shrunk the Kids franchise, on TV in Land of the Giants and in the documentary Microcosmos. (Not to mention the various live adaptations of The Borrowers.) But there is something...

We also check in with Justin Guarini, Ruben Studdard, Constantine Maroulis and more 'Idol' alumni before season 11 kicks off.

By Jim Cantiello

Katharine McPhee

Photo: Getty Images

"American Idol" kicks off its 11th season Wednesday night with its first of eight audition episodes. But before we're inundated with a new batch of contestants (many of whom we'll forget about by June), let's play catch-up with some noteworthy alums.

Sure, our Kellys and Carries have remained household names throughout the years, but others — like Katharine McPhee and Leah Labelle — are poised to have their biggest post-"Idol" years yet.

Let's check in with standouts from seasons one through five:

Season One

The One You Know: Kelly Clarkson's fifth studio album, Stronger, is selling just fine, even if recent "Ron Paul sales bump" rumors were proven to be a bunch of hooey. The original Idol just kicked off her latest tour last week.

There's been a lot to write about filmmaker Joel Schumacher over the years. For example, his directorial debut was 1981's The Incredible Shrinking Woman. He also directed Flatliners and The Lost Boys. Oh, and Batman Forever. And Batman & Robin. How the man went from directing The Phantom of the Opera in 2004 to Blood Creek in 2009 is anybody's guess, and let's be honest: the man's latest effort, the migraine-inducing Nicolas Cage thriller Trespass, is nobody's idea of a good time. So perhaps it's good news that Joel Schumacher is out of the director's chair on the upcoming horror/thriller called The Hive. (Nothing personal, Joel.) The news of his replacement, however, is certainly exciting to those who call themselves fans of Session 9...

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In a career spanning over four decades Lily Tomlin has virtually done it all -- but, as she told Movieline this week at the Savannah Film Festival, in town to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, she's not done yet. After rising to stardom on Laugh-In (where she created indelible characters like Ernestine the telephone operator and Edith Ann, the impossibly precocious 5-year-old), the funny woman won Grammys for her comedy albums, won a Tony for her one-woman Broadway show, earned an Oscar nod making her dramatic debut in Robert Altman's Nashville, and starred in '80s comedy classics like 9 to 5 and The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

The legendary Lily Tomlin has refused to be typecast throughout her career, which spans more than four decades. Her recent Emmy-nomination for Damages was for a very serious role, something much different than some of her most celebrated characters in films like 9 to 5 or The Incredible Shrinking Woman. But the shift back to television has given her an opportunity to explore, which is why Lily is having the time of her life guest starring on NCIS one week while working on the Showtime series Web Therapy the next. This kind of range is one reason her Web Therapy co-stars mention her name in the same breath as another guest star, Meryl Streep, while at the Showtime TCA Day.

"You know what's so great to see with someone like Meryl Streep or Lily Tomlin," creator/star Lisa Kudrow told reporters, "that you understand why they're so great, because they don't do anything halfway — no matter what.

Full Moon High (Original Release Date: 27 February 1981?)

I had some difficulty figuring out exactly when this one came out. The date above was one of the ones I found. Wikipedia says 7 October, and some other places give other dates. After a little digging, it looks like 27 February may have been the day the film was printed. A New York Times article from 30 August mentions it will be coming out soon, so the 7 October release date looks more and more like the right one. I decided to go ahead and review it early, since I was eager to see it, and since the other movie I wanted to review this Thursday didn’t get to me on time.

1981 was a banner year for wolf movies. Of the four wolf-themed major releases -- An American Werewolf in London, The Howling, and Wolfen being the other three -- Full Moon High is probably the least well-known.

Eyewitness (Original Release Date: 13 February 1981)

Among the movies I’ve watched so far for the column, Eyewitness is the one most obviously of its era. Where something like The Incredible Shrinking Woman might stake its claim to the early eighties based wholly on eccentricities, Eyewitness nabs an adjacent plot with an endearing effortlessness. That couch you remember from your aunt’s trailer with the heavy wooden arm rests and the burlap-y plaid upholstery is there, as are the hard angles on cars, the idea of home video as a novelty, the pale-red-paint look of movie blood, and, perhaps most importantly, a nearness to the Vietnam War that makes coping with it seem more a given than some form of filmmaker fetishism.

The Vietnam War connection is rolled out bit by bit throughout Eyewitness’s first half, and I found myself wondering if audiences of the time would have been quicker...