Tag: Liam Neeson (21-28 of 28)

Jan 28 2012 02:48 PM ET

Box office update: Liam Neeson's 'The Grey' leads the way with $6.5 mil on Friday

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Liam Neeson’s late-career transformation into an action star continued as the 59-year-old actor’s latest thriller, The Grey, took a bite out of the box office with $6.5 million on Friday.

That places the R-rated man-versus-wolves movie on pace for an $18 million weekend. While that figure falls a bit short of other recent Neeson thrillers, such as Taken (opened to $24.7 million) and Unknown ($21.9 million), it’s still a solid start for The Grey and its young distributor, Open Road Films. This is only the second release from the AMC Theatres and Regal Cinemas-financed Open Road, which paid just $5 million to acquire the $34 million film. Looks like a wise purchase.

The tough movie received a “B-” rating from CinemaScore audiences. Of note is the fact that 67 percent of CinemaScore’s graders listed Neeson as the reason they bought a ticket, confirming the actor’s appeal as an action leading man. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 26 2012 09:54 PM ET

Box office preview: Liam Neeson should conquer weekend with 'The Grey'

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It’s all action, all the time. After such recent action releases as Contraband, Haywire, Red Tails, and Underworld: Awakening, this weekend will keep the thrills coming with two action thrillers and one action comedy.

The thrillers are The Grey, in which Liam Neeson stands up to a hungry pack of Alaskan wolves, and Man on a Ledge, in which Sam Worthington stands up to a ledge. The third film, One for the Money, will try to continue Katherine Heigl’s streak of starring in critically panned comedies that somehow perform decently at the box office. Also, the Best Picture nominee The Descendants, starring Best Actor frontrunner George Clooney, expands to 1,997 theaters.

Here are my weekend predictions: READ FULL STORY »

Jan 12 2012 06:00 PM ET

How personal tragedies brought Liam Neeson and the cast of 'The Grey' closer together

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It’s hard to imagine a scenario as harrowing as the one the characters in the upcoming action thrilled The Grey have to go through after their plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness, leaving them freezing, starving, and chased by a pack of hungry wolves. But the film’s star Liam Neeson has endured his own tragic ordeals (his wife of nearly 15 years, actress Natasha Richardson died after a 2009 skiing accident), and it was that nightmare and other similar personal trials that helped the film’s actors bond as they embarked on their own cinematic adventure.

On the red carpet of the film’s premiere in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, the actors revealed to Entertainment Weekly how they helped create the right environment for their film’s nerve-wracking tone, from watching movies like Deliverance and Jaws, to sharing each other’s most private personal trials and tribulations. READ FULL STORY »

Jan 12 2012 12:00 PM ET

'The Grey': Watch a clip of Liam Neeson from the upcoming survival flick! -- EXCLUSIVE VIDEO

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You’ve seen the multiple trailers — Liam Neeson and wolves not once, but twice! — and read our preview of the cold-weather survival flick The Grey that will storm theaters on Jan. 27. And you probably even read how Neeson actually replaced the much younger actor Bradley Cooper in the flick’s lead role of a security guy from an Alaskan oil rig who gets stranded after his plane goes down. But now, here’s a glimpse at a scene from the movie: EW is happy to premiere an exclusive, 35-second snippet from The Grey that finds a sage-y and grizzled Neeson fighting the cold and telling his compatriots how they should proceed to avoid the advances of the coming wolf pack. Yikes!

Before we leave you with the clip, though, we thought we’d share with you a pretty cool opportunity to win a chance to see an advance screening of The Grey in a city near you: To win a pair of passes, all you have to do is follow EW’s Twitter account @EW for details on how you can make those tickets yours! Interested or not, check out the exclusive clip of The Grey here:

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Oct 12 2011 02:48 PM ET

'A Good Day To Die Hard'? Valentine's Day 2013, apparently. Plus, 'Taken 2' also gets a release date!

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If Die Hard is one of the quintessential Christmas movies, then the upcoming A Good Day To Die Hard, the fifth film in the John McClane saga, might be the quintessential Valentine’s Day movie. That’s because, as 20th Century Fox confirmed to EW, the Bruce Willis vehicle will be released on Feb. 14, 2013. Next year, the Die Hard franchise will celebrate its 25th anniversary.

And speaking of middle-aged butt-kicking action stars, Liam Neeson will reprise his role as take-no-prisoners dad Bryan Mills for Taken 2, which will hit theaters on Columbus Day weekend, Oct. 5, 2012. The original became a sleeper hit in 2009 when it grossed over $226 million worldwide.

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Sep 21 2011 07:05 PM ET

'The Grey' trailer: Liam Neeson isn't afraid of the big bad wolves

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After his badass roles in Batman Begins, Taken, The A-Team, and Unknown, it’s no wonder Hollywood had to look beyond the human species to find a new adversary for Liam Neeson. This time his foes are Alaskan wolves, which — unfortunately for them — have no knowledge of Neeson’s recent filmography.

In the thriller The Grey, Neeson and several oil-rig workers are stranded in the snowy Alaskan wilderness after their plane crashes. In addition to contending with the relentlessly brutal weather, the men also find themselves being hunted by a pack of wolves that does not (as far as we know) turn into hot young men.

The film, which hit theaters Jan. 27, reunites Neeson with The A-Team director Joe Carnahan and producers Ridley and Tony Scott. Check out the teaser trailer below:  READ FULL STORY »

Apr 9 2011 12:06 AM ET

'The Hangover Part II': Liam Neeson's cameo cut from film

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Taken star Liam Neeson has been, well, taken out of The Hangover Part II. A Warner Bros. rep confirms to EW that the cameo Neeson filmed for the May 26 sequel has been cut from the comedy’s final draft. As Todd Phillips told Variety, the scene — in which Neeson played a tattoo artist — was snipped during the editing process when the director decided to do reshoots. Since the Oscar-nominated star was unavailable for additional filming, Phillips wasn’t able to shoot the altered scene with Neeson. The actor who filled his shoes? No, not Mel Gibson, who was cast in the role before getting axed after cast and crew members raised objections to filming with the embattled star. Instead, Nick Cassavetes, otherwise known as the director of The Notebook, was tasked to play Neeson’s tattoo artist. “We were in a complete time crunch so I called up Nick and asked if he would do the part,” Phillips told Variety. “He came in and crushed it and that is the scene that you will ultimately see in the film. [I'm excited for everyone] to see the film. It turned out great.”

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Liam Neeson in talks for ‘Hangover Part II’
‘The Hangover Part II’ trailer pulled from theaters. Were you offended?

Feb 21 2011 10:59 AM ET

The reinvention of Liam Neeson: As an action star, he's an aging, and ageless, dynamo

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taken-liam-neesonImage Credit: Stephanie BranchuLiam Neeson is 58 years old, but that fact alone doesn’t render him unique as an action star. Bruce Willis, still pounding the catch phrases and leaping with a grin out of speeding vehicles, will be 56 in just a few weeks (his shaved head lends him a lean-and-mean aerodynamic appeal), and Sylvester Stallone, who anchored last summer’s the-’80s-are-back-and-they’re-still-schlocky-as-hell kick-ass hit The Expendables with his sleepy glower and still-ripply physique, is now 65. But when you watch Bruce or Sly, at least in action films, you know on some level that they’re feeding off the fumes of their glory days. Movies like RED and The Expendables play up, with a wink, how long their heroes have been around. They have to makes jokes about it so that we don’t. READ FULL STORY »

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