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17 September 2008 5:46 PM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »

Empire Online managed to catch with British action man Jason Statham to talk about his new film DEATH RACE, but during the interview, the CRANK star touched on a rather interesting project that he was thinking of tackling. Here's a snippet.

"We've got a movie we're trying to do, written by David and Janet Peoples, in the vein of an old film, 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,' Statham said. John Huston's The Treasure of the Sierra (1948) starred Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston as gold diggers who become contaminated by greed.

"It's not a remake or anything," clarified Statham, "But it's a little bit like that - about relationships and how greed contaminates the relationships these three people have. The working title is 'The Grabbers.'"

Statham can be seen in the upcoming DEATH RACE, followed by THE TRANSPORTER 3 and next year's CRANK 2: HIGH VOLTAGE. Hit the link for more. »

7 September 2008 4:02 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Silent movie star Anita Page has died at the age of 98.

The veteran actress passed away in her sleep at her Los Angeles home on Saturday morning.

Page - real name Anita Pomares - broke into Hollywood in 1928, at the age of 18, when she landed a role alongside Joan Crawford in Our Dancing Daughters.

She went on to win a role in the musical The Broadway Melody in 1929, and the film became the first spoken word movie to win an Academy Award in 1930 for Best Picture.

Page wed her first husband, The Broadway Melody composer Nacio Herb Brown, in 1934, but the union was annulled the following year.

In 1936, she married second husband Herschel House, six weeks after they met, and took a near 30-year break from acting to became a doting housewife to the U.S. Navy officer.

But she returned to the limelight in 1994, three years after House's death, with a part in thriller Sunset After Dark.

Throughout her career, Page starred alongside the likes of Lon Chaney, Walter Huston, Clark Gable and silent film legend Buster Keaton, with whom she appeared in 1930's Free and Easy, and 1931's Sidewalks of New York.

Her last film appearance came in Frankenstein Rising, a horror due for release later this year. »

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24 June 2008 9:03 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

Anthony Mann spent much of the 1940s directing tough noirs and most of the 1950s directing psychologically complex Westerns. Set on and around a sprawling Arizona ranch, The Furies appears to fall squarely into the latter camp, but it's an untraditional Western even by Mann's tradition-pushing standards. One of four Mann movies released in 1950—three of them Westerns—it's less concerned with gunfighters and the settling of the frontier than with the persistence of wildness even after civilization has set in. Lorded over by T.C. Jeffords (Walter Huston, in a memorable swan song), the eponymous cattle ranch dominates the land around it. Huston even has the power to issue his own currency—he calls his IOUs "TCs"—but some recall the less-than-friendly ways Huston conquered the land. Others, particularly a group of Hispanic squatters led by Gilbert Roland, suggest he never truly conquered the land at all. He's certainly never conquered his. »

- Keith Phipps

3 articles from 2008