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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Dricus du Plessis, plus, Paul Heyman, Keyshawn Davis, and Keith Jardine all in studio, On The Nose The Ariel Helwani Show
Catch today's stacked edition of The Ariel Helwani Show live as Ariel and The Boys In The Back take over the combat sports landscape with an eclectic lineup of guests. Wednesday's rundown can be seen below: 1 p.m. ET: Ariel and the gang kick off the show with the latest news and notes. 1:15 p.m. ET: UFC veteran Keith Jardine joins us in-studio to discuss life after fighting and his new film "Kill Me Again." 2 p.m. ET: Ariel answers all your questions on the latest edition of On The Nose. 2:30 p.m. ET: UFC middleweight champion Dricus du Plessis previews his UFC 319 showdown against Khamzat Chimaev. 3 p.m. ET: Keyshawn Davis returns in-studio to discuss his next move after dropping the WBO lightweight title on the scale. 4 p.m. ET: WWE manager extraordinaire Paul Heyman is next up in-studio after a wild SummerSlam weekend.
Winnipeg Free Press
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Winnipeg Free Press
Once a cage fighter, Keith (The Dean of Mean) Jardine transitions to movie director
Keith (The Dean of Mean) Jardine wore many hats before making his name as a mixed martial arts fighter in the UFC, where he registered wins over future Hall of Famers Chuck (The Iceman) Liddell and Forrest Griffin. The former wildland firefighter, miner and bounty hunter has since found a new career, progressing from acting to writing and directing his first feature film. 'Kill Me Again,' starring Canadian Brendan Fehr, opens Friday and is available to stream on a variety of platforms. As the 49-year-old Jardine describes it, the film is 'Groundhog Day' featuring a serial killer. Fehr plays Charlie, also known as the Midnight Mangler, who finds himself trapped in a time loop in a diner. Bloody mayhem ensues — with a twist — as Charlie attempts, unsuccessfully, to reassert control over his life. 'I was always fascinated with the time loop genre, 'Edge of Tomorrow' and 'Groundhog Day' and all that. Like what can I do? What's interesting? What's my flavour on this thing?' Jardine said in an interview. 'What if the protagonist is a serial killer? That's super-interesting. What if we had to walk in the steps of a serial killer through one of his most notorious crimes, and we have to live that over and over and over with him? That was fascinating to me. I knew I had something magical, and I started raising money from then on.' Enough money for a 12-night shoot in New Mexico, where both Jardine and Fehr make their homes, from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. It was a gruelling schedule complicated by the fact that the plot features time repeating itself. 'Everything had to match up … That was a hell of an undertaking,' said Jardine. Fehr, who said he kept copious notes to keep track of when and where he was emotionally in each scene, said he was taken aback when he first read the script. 'I just went 'Oh, that's scary.' And that's not in the serial killer/horror sense but in the 'Do I have the ability to pull this off?'' he said. 'And those are generally the roles that you should be doing, that you should gravitate towards … it's the ones where you question yourself and doubt yourself that you're going to grow as an actor, grow as a person.' Jardine, who also acts in the film, got what he wanted from Fehr playing 'a really really bad guy.' 'There's not too many actors who can pull off what he did on such a tight schedule. He's in every scene … And only he is charismatic enough to get the audience actually pulling for him. All of a sudden, you start rooting for him in a way. What a strange thing that is. And that was my goal when I wrote the movie.' Jardine credits his cast and crew, including cinematographer Juergen Heinemann, for helping bring his vision to life. Fehr, meanwhile, praises Jardine for being open and collaborative during the condensed shoot. Jardine's pro MMA career stretched from 2001 to 2012, ending in a decision loss to Brazil's Roger Gracie in the Strikeforce promotion. He retired with a 17-11-2 record, including a 6-7-0 stretch in the UFC. A cast member of Season 2 of 'The Ultimate Fighter' reality TV show in 2005, Jardine started acting while still fighting. Initially typecast — his credits include roles as a bouncer, Russian thug and burly doorman — Jardine branched out into stunt work and earned meatier roles. He has some 61 entries on his IMDb filmography, including credits for such films as 'John Wick,' 'Crank,' 'Inherent Vice,' and the TV mini-series 'Godless.' Jardine says he turned down a lot of roles in a bid to escape the UFC fighter tag. 'It has been a journey,' he said. In 2022, he wrote and directed the short film 'El Paso 11:55' which also featured Fehr and former fighters Donald (Cowboy) Cerrone and Tait Fletcher. Cerrone and Fletcher are both in 'Kill Me Again,' as are fellow fighters Maurice (The Crochet Boss) Greene and Michelle (The Karate Hottie) Waterson. The success of the short, in which Fehr plays a man with a bag of cash waiting for the night bus to El Paso, helped him put together 'Kill Me Again.' 'It was a learning process,' Jardine said. 'Every step of the way, from the financing to writing, casting actors to the actual shoot and editing … And now getting the movie sold and set for release.' 'My fingerprints are on everything in this movie.' Jardine's film company is called Broken Ear Productions, a nod to his MMA background. The former fighter got to know Fehr while the two filmed the NBC series 'The Night Shift' and offered him the role in 'El Paso 11:55' when the original lead dropped out. 'He's Canadian, so that obviously means he's an MMA fan,' said Jardine. 'So we hit it off.' Fehr was born in B.C., growing up in the Lower Mainland before moving to Winnipeg with his family when he was 12. He initially started modelling and kind of fell into acting while planning to become a math teacher. 'They didn't think I was going to make it as a model, which I couldn't argue with. But they said, 'You've got an interesting enough look to be an actor.'' Weekly A weekly look at what's happening in Winnipeg's arts and entertainment scene. Good call. Now 47 and a father of three, Fehr's extensive resume includes starring on 'Roswell' and 'CSI: Miami.' 'Kill Me Again' reunites him with female lead Majandra Delfino, whom he dated while working on 'Roswell,' which aired from 1999 to 2002. Jardine, meanwhile, leaves later this month for Morocco to wrap up filming Season 2 of 'The Terminal List.' — This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 6, 2025
The Guardian
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Michael Madsen – a life in pictures
Michael Madsen in his high school yearbook photo Photograph: Alamy Madsen in the TV series Our Family Honor, in New York in 1985 Photograph: Walt Disney Television Photo Archives/ABC Madsen in Kill Me Again, 1989 Photograph: ITV/Shutterstock Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock Val Kilmer (center) and Michael Madsen (right) in The Doors, 1991 Photograph: Tristar Pictures/Allstar Madsen with actors Susan Sarandon (center left) and Geena Davis, and director Ridley Scott on the set of Thelma And Louise, 1991 Photograph:Madsen in Reservoir Dogs, 1992 Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature From left, Michael Madsen, Quentin Tarantino, Harvey Keitel, Chris Penn, Lawrence Tierney, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi and Edward Bunker in Reservoir Dogs Photograph: Rank Film/Allstar Madsen in The Getaway, 1993 Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy From left, Dennis Quaid, Linden Ashby, Kevin Costner and Michael Madsen in Wyatt Earp, 1994 Photograph: Kobal Collection From left, Michael Madsen, Forest Whitaker, Ben Kingsley and Marg Helgenberger in Species, 1994 Photograph: MGM/Allstar Madsen in Mulholland Falls, 1996 Photograph: Kobal Collection From left, Chris Penn, Nick Nolte, Michael Madsen and Chazz Palminteri in Mulholland Falls Photograph: THA/Shutterstock From left, James Russo, Al Pacino and Michael Madsen in Donnie Brasco, 1997 Photograph: Tristar/Sportsphoto/Allstar Photograph: Mark Liley/Allstar Madsen at the 43rd Monaco TV festival in Monaco, 2003 Photograph: Alain Benainous /Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Madsen in Blueberry, 2004 Photograph: AJ OZ Films/Allstar Madsen in Kill Bill: Vol. 2, 2004 Photograph: Miramax/Allstar Madsen in Hell Ride, 2008 Photograph: Dimension Films/Allstar Madsen at the closing ceremony of the 67th Cannes international film festival in 2014 Photograph: DPA Picture Alliance/Alamy Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian Madsen at the 2015 Ambi Gala in Toronto, Canada Photograph: Arthur Mola/Invision/AP Madsen in Tarantino's The Hateful Eight, 2015 Photograph: Andrew Cooper/Weinstein Company/Allstar Madsen in the Red Bull racing garage during qualifying for the Formula One Grand Prix of Austria at Red Bull Ring in July 2016 Photograph:Madsen in Dark Feathers: Dance of the Geisha, 2024 Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock Photograph: Eamonn McCabe/Guardian
Otago Daily Times
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Obituary: Val Kilmer, actor
Val Kilmer films Kill Me Again in a casino in Las Vegas February 12, 1989 Las Vegas, Nevada . For some he was difficult to work with, for others he was a dedicated craftsman, but actor Val Kilmer was a performer everyone in Hollywood had an opinion on. A dedicated method actor, Kilmer's more extreme efforts at preparation included taking an ice bath before playing Doc Holliday's death from tuberculosis in Tombstone, wearing leather pants all the time and asking castmates and crew to only refer to him as "Jim" when playing Doors frontman Jim Morrison in The Doors. The Los Angeles native trained at Juilliard and quickly picked up theatre roles before making his film debut in 1984 spy spoof Top Secret! One of his more iconic roles — hotshot pilot Tom "Iceman" Kazansky opposite Tom Cruise in 1986's Top Gun — almost did not happen. Kilmer had turned the part down, but relented after the director promised his character would improve from the initial script. By the early 1990s, Kilmer had made a name for himself as a dashing leading man, but his career almost foundered on the rocks of 1995's Batman Forever — his sole turn as the Caped Crusader was much derided, something which the actor blamed on a suffocating Batsuit. Kilmer subsequently mixed arthouse and big box office films, as well as pursuing passion projects: Citizen Twain, a one-man stage show where he played author Samuel Clemens, was one notable example. A talented musician and published poet, Kilmer was also a visual artist. Val Kilmer died on April 1 aged 65. — APL/agencies
The Guardian
02-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Val Kilmer – a life in pictures
Val Kilmer arrives at the 56th Academy Awards in 1984, with Cher Photograph: William Nation/Sygma via Getty Images Real Genius, 1985, directed by Martha Coolidge Photograph: Allstar/Tristar Pictures Photograph: Paramount/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Photograph: Moviestore collection/Alamy With Joanne Whalley in Kill Me Again, 1989, directed by John Dahl Photograph: Allstar/Propoganda Films As Jim Morrison in The Doors, 1991 Photograph: Moviestore collection/Alamy Kurt Russell, left, and Kilmer as Doc Holliday in Tombstone, 1993 Photograph: Everett Collection/REX With Chris O'Donnell in Batman Forever, 1995, directed by Joel Schumacher Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros With Ashley Judd in Heat, 1995, directed by Michael Mann Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros The Island of Dr Moreau, 1996 With Elisabeth Shue in The Saint, 1997 Photograph: Allstar/Paramount Photograph: Cine Text/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar Photograph: REX/Shutterstock With Colin Farrell in Alexander, 2004, directed by Oliver Stone Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, 2005, directed by Shane Black Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros On the set of Deja Vu with Denzel Washington and Adam Goldberg, directed by Tony Scott, 2006 Photograph: Robert Zuckerman/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Director Werner Herzog, Val Kilmer and Nicolas Cage on location filming Bad Lieutenant, 2009 Photograph: Ronald Grant Twixt, 2011, directed by Francis Ford Coppola Photograph: Zoetrope/REX/Shutterstock The Lotus Community Workshop, part of The Fourth Dimension, 2012, directed by Harmony Korine Photograph: Album/Alamy Photograph: Everett/REX/Shutterstock Photograph: Universal/Jack English/Allstar Photograph: Octane Entertainment/Allstar
