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CTV News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CTV News
Kiefer Sutherland to pay tribute to late father Donald at Canadian Screen Awards
Father and son Donald, left, and Kiefer Sutherland pose on the red carpet for the film "Foresaken" during the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese TORONTO — Kiefer Sutherland will pay tribute to his late father, Canadian acting icon Donald Sutherland, at this year's Canadian Screen Awards. Tammy Frick, CEO of the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, says the '24' star will present the 'In Memoriam' segment of the show, during which he will honour his dad. Donald Sutherland died at the age of 88 last June. At the time, Kiefer took to social media to remember his father, calling him 'one of the most important actors in the history of film.' Frick says Kiefer will deliver a 'really heartfelt moment' at the Screen Awards that she believes will be a highlight of the annual bash. The Screen Awards celebrate the best in Canadian film, television and digital sectors and are set to stream live on CBC Gem on June 1. Kiefer is one of Donald's four sons, also including Roeg, Rossif and Angus. The late actor also had a daughter, Rachel. Kiefer and Donald appeared onscreen together in several projects over the years, including 1983's 'Max Dugan Returns,' 1996's 'A Time to Kill' and 2015's 'Forsaken.' Article by Alex Nino Gheciu.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kiernan Shipka, Kiefer Sutherland & Krysten Ritter Pic ‘Stone Cold Fox' Boarded For Sales At Cannes Market, First Look Images Revealed
EXCLUSIVE: The Syndicate has boarded foreign sales rights to revenge thriller Stone Cold Fox starring Kiernan Shipka, Kiefer Sutherland and Krysten Ritter. Set in the 1980s, the film sees Fox (Shipka) escape an abusive commune to find her family. When the commune's queenpin (Ritter) kidnaps Fox's little sister and sends a crooked cop (Sutherland) after her, Fox is forced to infiltrate the very place she escaped to save her sister and exact her revenge. Above and below are first look images. More from Deadline Imax, Federation & Imago Join Forces On Documentary 'Patrouille De France' - Cannes Sarah Paulson, Toni Collette, Dianne Wiest & Toby Wallace Leading Cody Fern's 'Mother Courage'; Mk2 Launching At Cannes Market 'Snabba Cash' & 'Paradis City' Makers Team For Legal Thriller 'Burden Of Justice' From SVT, Strive Stories & Film i Vast; Scandi Pubcasters & DR Sales Attached Pic marks the feature directorial debut of Sophie Tabet, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Julia Roth. Cast also includes Lorenza Izzo, Jamie Chung, and Karen Fukuhara. The film is produced by Bee-Hive Productions, The Wonder Company, and Bang Bang Pictures, in association with Streamline Global. UTA Independent Group and Verve Ventures represent North American rights. 'Stone Cold Fox is a rip-roaring-and-wild ride with some very memorable performances with A-list actors in roles we've never seen them play before, and knowing all of that, The Syndicate and their repertoire of selling like-minded films made them an obvious choice for us,' said producer Eric B. Fleischman. 'Stone Cold Fox screams originality in every aspect — style, visuals, script, and energy — and we are thrilled to be involved and working with the talented filmmakers that brought this film to life,' added Shaun Sanghani, CEO of The Syndicate. Kiefer Sutherland in Stone Cold Fox Best of Deadline Where To Watch All The 'Mission: Impossible' Movies: Streamers With Multiple Films In The Franchise Everything We Know About 'My Life With The Walter Boys' Season 2 So Far 'Bridgerton' Season 4: Everything We Know So Far
The Guardian
15-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
The 20 best US remakes of foreign language films – ranked!
Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) obsesses over the fate of his missing girlfriend in George Sluizer's American remake of his own 1988 Franco-Dutch psychochiller. Is it as devastating as the original? Absolutely not! But Jeff Bridges has never been creepier, and at least the dumb Hollywood ending won't give you nightmares. In case we sickos didn't get the message in 1997, Austrian gloom-meister Michael Haneke recycles his brutally efficient home invasion diatribe shot-for-shot, but this time in English. Michael Pitt and Brady Corbet play polite young men who knock on Naomi Watts' door and ask to borrow eggs. What happens next will harsh your vibe. Steve Carell plays Barry Speck, whose passion is building dead mice dioramas, making him the perfect stooge for a dinner party where rich scumbags mock eccentric losers. Hollywood sweetens an acidic French farce, Le Dîner de Cons (1998), and bungles its subplots, but compensations include Carell going full-on nerd and Jemaine Clement as a pretentious artist. You can't fault Josh Brolin's commitment to his role as an alcoholic advertising executive trying to discover why he was held prisoner for 20 years in Spike Lee's Americanisation of Park Chan-wook's baroque revenge thriller. But an uneasy mix of neo-noir realism and South Korean stylisation makes it feel like a half-baked copy of the 2003 masterpiece. Those who prefer their horror grim should stick with the 2002 Danish-Dutch original. James Watkins' do-over, in which an American family goes to stay with the friendly Britons they met on holiday, is more conventional, but also more fun, with James McAvoy attaining peak psycho as a host testing the limits of his guests' good manners. That damnable stuffed rabbit appears in both versions. If you must film an American version of a hit French farce, you might as well get Elaine May to write the dialogue, as Mike Nichols does here. Gay couple Armand and Albert (Robin Williams and Nathan Lane) try to pass as straight when their son's fiancee's parents come to dinner. Chucklesome complications include Gene Hackman, bless him, dressed in drag. Takashi Shimizu directs the US remake of his own haunted house franchise, but keeps it in Tokyo, with American actors imported to play cannon fodder for Greasy-Haired Ghost and Small Boy Who Makes Mewing Noises. The story is confusing, which somehow makes the scary bits (the lift! Oh good grief, the bedclothes!) even scarier. Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidèle (1969) gets the Hollywood treatment from Adrian Lyne, with unexpectedly classy results. Diane Lane is wonderful as an unhappy housewife who embarks on an affair, while her husband (Richard Gere) finds murdering her lover more therapeutic than any amount of marriage counselling. Tom Cruise plays a New York yuppie whose reality starts to fragment after a car crash. Writer and director Cameron Crowe transposes Alejandro Amenábar's lower budgeted brain teaser from Madrid to Manhattan; Penélope Cruz plays the girlfriend in both versions. Crowe is no Amenábar, alas, but he does have a bigger star, and more pop music. Christopher Nolan's remake of a 1997 Norwegian thriller will seem perfectly acceptable to anyone who hasn't seen the tauter, more claustrophobic original. Al Pacino plays a Los Angeles detective summoned north to investigate a murder in Alaska, where constant daylight and lack of sleep lead to a fatal error. Robin Williams, in one of his three creepy performances that same year, plays the killer. Bob Fosse made his screen directing debut with the film of the Broadway show based on Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria (1957). Shirley MacLaine plays the ever-hopeful taxi dancer with a talent for picking the wrong guy. It flopped, but nowadays we can only gaze in awe at impeccably choreographed musical numbers such as the Rich Man's Frug. James Cameron pumps testosterone and money into what began as a modest French action-comedy, La Totale! (1991). Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Harry Tasker, a superspy whose wife thinks he's a boring salesman. Cameron distracts you from the film's mean-spirited elements by blowing up half the Florida Keys. David Fincher's adaptation of Stieg Larsson's bestseller is slicker than its 2009 Swedish predecessor, is set to a terrific Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross score, and features fake Swedish accents from everyone except Daniel Craig and Stellan Skarsgård. What it doesn't have is the 2009 film's Noomi Rapace, the definitive Lisbeth Salander. Martin Scorsese finally won an Oscar for his remake of the cracking Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002). Leonardo DiCaprio plays a cop in deep cover with the Boston mafia, Matt Damon a mobster who has infiltrated the police. It's a lot baggier than its prototype, and further knocked off balance by Jack Nicholson's untrammelled scenery chewing as mob boss Frank Costello. Matt Reeves does a decent job of Americanising Tomas Alfredson's vampire masterpiece, with the Swedish housing estate replaced by Reagan-era New Mexico, where a bullied 12-year-old schoolboy befriends the mysterious girl next door. Reeves tends to spell out what might be better left implicit, but comes into his own in some added action sequences. While most American J-horror remakes dilute their originals, Gore Verbinski's reworking of Hideo Nakata's Ring (1998) whips up an entirely different but no less nerve-racking ambience, making full use of a bigger budget, Pacific Northwest locations and Naomi Watts as the journalist investigating a viral death curse spread by VHS. Though not as lean and mean as Le Convoyeur (2004), its French progenitor, Guy Ritchie's revenge thriller does its own thing, ties an initially simple narrative into convoluted knots, and unleashes Jason Statham on a hardboiled cast playing armoured truck guards. All this without any of the laddishness that mars some of Ritchie's other work, making this his most satisfying film in years. Bill Murray co-directs as well as stars in this nifty remake of Hold-Up (1985), a French Canadian action comedy starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Murray is at his sardonic best as Grimm, a bankrobber disguised as a clown. The robbery is easy; the hard part is trying to get out of town with the loot. Whereas the original gets bogged down in car chases, Murray's remake keeps it tense and funny to the end. William Friedkin said his adaptation of Georges Arnaud's novel was not a remake, but since it had already been filmed by Henri-Georges Clouzot as The Wages of Fear (1953), let's call it one anyway. Either way, this action-thriller about four expat losers driving dynamite-laden trucks across rugged Latin American terrain is now almost as much of a classic as its antecedent, enhanced by Tangerine Dream's haunting score and Roy Scheider's demonstrating the ultimate thousand-yard stare. Akira Kurosawa's samurai movies were already heavily influenced by the western genre, so it wasn't hard for Hollywood to convert Seven Samurai (1954) back into a bona fide oater. Yul Brynner plays gunslinger Chris, who persuades six mercenaries to protect a Mexican village from bandits, then spends the rest of the film trying not to get upstaged by Steve McQueen, James Coburn and an Elmer Bernstein score that makes you break out in goose pimples. One of the best remakes ever.
Daily Mirror
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
ITV viewers can now stream 'best show of 2023' for free
The show comes from the directors of hit series Paradise A Game of Thrones star legend and Kiefer Sutherland are lighting up screens in an 'addictive' spy thriller that's just landed on ITVX for free binge-watching. The complete series of the gripping espionage drama 'Rabbit Hole' has been dropped into ITVX's eclectic mix of shows. Initially a 2023 exclusive on Paramount+ with a premium subscription, it's now available to all at no extra charge. 'Rabbit Hole' stars Sutherland as John Weir, a master manipulator in the cutthroat world of corporate spying, who finds himself wrongly accused of murder by shadowy figures with the power to sway the masses. The show boasts a stellar lineup including 'Game of Thrones' alum Charles Dance, Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Jason Butler Harner, Walt Klink, and Rob Yang. Behind the scenes, the series is the brainchild of directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, known for their work on the acclaimed thriller 'Paradise', reports Surrey Live. ITV's Sasha Breslau, Head of Content Acquisitions, praised the series: "Kiefer Sutherland is magnetic as the lead in this addictive and tense thriller. Rabbit Hole is a perfect fit for the kind of premium drama our audiences expect from ITVX." With a solid 76% score on Rotten Tomatoes, 'Rabbit Hole' is poised to become a cult favourite. Some even suggest that fans of the Apple TV hit Slow Horses should queue it up next. They're billing it as the 'ultimate spy thriller' and the buzz around the series is raving, drawing parallels to the iconic show 24, partly due to its nail-biting premise and the star power of its lead. Critics are singing praises; one went so far as to say that it was the best show of the year it was first aired. Their verdict didn't end there: "Rabbit Hole is easily one of the best series of 2023 so far. If you're into thrilling storylines and mind blowing twists and turns delivered with a highly cinematic aesthetic, Rabbit Hole is an absolute must-see." Adding their voice, another critic enthused: "You wouldn't believe all the craziness that Kiefer Sutherland encounters every 24 oh wait, you WOULD believe it or at least go with it, especially if you were a fan of the ludicrous but undeniably entertaining 24.." Many viewers who have already seen the show have shared their thoughts online with their recommendations. A fan exclaimed: "Excellent show which both my husband and I really liked. Lots of twists and turns and misdirection." They continued: "This is NOT a show to watch while playing with your phone, as there are time jumps along with the twists and you'll get lost, but it's definitely worth the undivided attention. Give it more than one episode to catch the full experience. Bingeing is recommended." Another viewer shared: "One of the best things I've watched this year. It's like watching a season of 24; intense, twisty, very well acted. A twist in nearly every episode, so rabbit hole is accurate! Towards the end you feel like the lead, completely uncertain what is real." Rabbit Hole is streaming on ITVX.
Metro
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
All 8 episodes of 'exceptional' thriller finally dropping on streamer for free
A free UK streaming platform is just days away from adding a twisty thriller that has been described as one of the 'best' examples of the genre. On May 11, crime drama Rabbit Hole will be available to binge-watch on ITV's streamer ITVX. It follows 24 actor Kiefer Sutherland, 58, as John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, who is framed for murder by powerful forces who can influence and control populations. Alongside The Lost Boys star, the gripping eight-part series features an impressive cast including Charles Dance, Meta Golding, Enid Graham, Jason Butler Harner, Walt Klink and Rob Yang. On Google, viewers have described Rabbit Hole as 'intense, twisty and very well acted' and urged others to add it to their watch lists. Among them is Kirstie Gray, who wrote: 'It's been a while since I've watched something that's been so gripping, instantly drawn in spinning my own theories, all of which were wrong LOL! Definitely, one of the best shows I've watched, the curveballs are so well written and you never see them coming, and you're just like woahhhh! Just watched the season finale, one word…Brilliant! I was on the edge of my seat from start to finish, and had to physically shift forward in my chair whilst I watched it play out.' Echoing their sentiment, Ronald Hee shared: 'One of the best things I've watched this year. It's like watching a season of 24; intense, twisty, very well acted. A twist in nearly every episode, so rabbit hole is accurate! Towards the end, you feel like the lead, completely uncertain of what is real. The chemistry between the two leads is very good, feels real. Solid supporting cast too.' Debbie Russell also added: 'This is one of the best shows of its type. It drew me in with the 1st episode. The only other series that was this good is 'The Old Man' with Jeff Bridges. The writing is unique & exceptional. Every episode brings unexpected revelations. I'm watching it as it airs 1 week at a time, & I hate waiting for another week. I'm also a huge fan of Kiefer Sutherland & Charles Dance. I gave this 5 stars because it's that good. Highly recommend this one.' Rabbit Hole originally ran on Paramount Plus in 2023. Months after its final episode, it was cancelled after one season as part of the streamer's cost-cutting measures. However, speaking about the thriller's new home on ITVX, Sasha Breslau, head of content acquisitions at ITV, said: 'Kiefer Sutherland is magnetic as the lead in this addictive and tense thriller. Rabbit Hole is a perfect fit for the kind of premium drama our audiences expect from ITVX.' If you can't wait until Rabbit Hole drops on ITVX, you can binge-watch 'high-octane' thriller Safe Harbor now. It stars Game of Thrones actors Alfie Allen and Jack Gleeson, as well as Peaky Blinders' Charlie Murphy, Hell on Wheels actor Colm Meaney and Maxima star Martijn Lakemeier. Inspired by true events, Safe Harbor follows gifted hacker Tobias (Alfie) and his best friend Marco (Martijn) as they try to crack into the tech billionaires club. They're plucked from obscurity and plunged into the chaos of organised crime when they come across an Irish gang lead by Sloane (Charlie) and her brother Farrell (Jack). More Trending The pair are enlisted to hack into the security of Europe's largest shipping port in Rotterdam harbour to secure undetected deliveries of drug shipments. On IMDB, kathrinstoffenstein raved:'I really love the show. Mainly dialogue driven, but the action pieces are really impressive! 'The first half of episode one left me wondering where it was going. But from that point onward I was completely hooked. The show is ambitious and has great action.' Echoing their sentiment, William said: 'I'm really enjoying this show and I'm on the edge of my seat. This coming from someone who is very critical of TV shows and is very hard to convince to start watching something.' View More » Rabbit Hole is coming to ITVX on May 11. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Spend your bank holiday Monday bingeing 'outstanding' thriller on Amazon Prime MORE: Netflix viewers rediscover 00s sci-fi thriller with 'unexpected' twist as it climbs the charts MORE: New 'deliciously twisted' thriller soars to number 1 on Amazon Prime Video
