Posted on October 17, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
The News In Film Web site reports that Gary Ross is close to being named to direct a new Matt Helm movie.
An excerpt:
According to The Playlist, George Clooney and Jon Hamm were considered for the title character, but eliminated for separate reasons. Bradley Cooper (The Hangover, The A-Team) is the front runner for the [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
Variety reported on July 29 that Steven Spielberg was interested in directing a Matt Helm movie.
An excerpt: Spielberg’s camp said he is attached to produce, but it’s unclear if he’s going to direct. Clearly, Spielberg is excited about the project again after the rewrite that Paul Attanasio delivered last week.
A day later, reports [...]
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Posted on April 28, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
One of the most famous James Bond movie posters was For Your Eyes Only, the 1981 Roger Moore 007 movie, where we see, in the foreground, a woman’s legs rather prominently. If you’ve forgotten, well, just CLICK RIGHT HERE.
Fifteen years earlier, The Silencers, Dean Martin’s first screen outing as Matt Helm debuted. One version of [...]
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Posted on February 27, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
We wrap up our look at the titles of Matt Helm movies with a brief discussion of the series finale, The Wrecking Crew.
To be honest, it’s a mixed bag. The visuals are much stronger than the series previous entry, The Ambushers. They’re at least based on something in the movie, a bank of monitors used [...]
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Posted on February 22, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
We’ve taken a look at the titles of the first two Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin. So when you’re on a roll, you might as keep going.
The third Helm movie, The Ambushers, is often cited as the worst in the four-film series (a shame because it’s based on a very good serious Helm novel [...]
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Posted on February 16, 2009 by The HMSS Editors
It’s nothing significant but it seems too much just to be coincidence.
Some time back, we linked to the main titles of The Silencers, the first Matt Helm movie produced by Irving Allen, the ex-parter of Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli. Allen utilized women doing strip tease dances (plus Cyd Charisse lipsynching to Vicki Carr’s vocals) [...]
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Posted on December 23, 2008 by The HMSS Editors
Of all the 1960s spy entertainment produced to capitalize on the success of James Bond, The Silencers, the first of four Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin, may be the closest to an altnerate universe James Bond movie.
What do we mean by that? It was the one movie where alternate choices — the actors, crew [...]
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Posted on December 6, 2008 by The HMSS Editors
One of the oddities of the 1960s spy craze was The Wrecking Crew, the fourth, and final, Matt Helm movie starring Dean Martin. It has the distinction of being Chuck Norris’s debut (as a thug) and one of the final appearances of Sharon Tate.
But perhaps the most unusual aspect was the participation of Bruce [...]
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