Altitude has come aboard to handle international sales on The Mystery Of Db Cooper, helmed by John Dower (My Scientology Movie, Live Forever, Thriller In Manila) and based on a true story. On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper, wearing a black suit and raincoat, carrying only a briefcase, walked up to the Northwest Orient desk at Portland airport and bought a $20 one-way ticket to Seattle. Once on the plane he hands a note to a stewardess saying he has a…...
- 10/26/2017
- Deadline
The FBI has decided to close the books on the unsolved case of skyjacker D.B. Cooper. FBI Closes D.B. Cooper Case Back in 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper parachuted out of a plane flying over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 ransom strapped to his body. Ever since, the FBI has been investigating to […]
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- 7/14/2016
- by Chelsea Regan
- Uinterview
Documentaries about El Chapo, Alexander Hamilton and Db Cooper and a new reality series starring Ozzy Osbourne and his son Jack join previously announced event series Roots and docu-drama Barbarians Rising as highlights of History’s summer lineup. The cable also said today that it has slotted July 18 for the premiere of its new military drama series Six. The Rise and Fall of El Chapo, premiering Monday, August 8, takes an in-depth look at drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo”…...
- 5/16/2016
- Deadline TV
The first time I encountered Todd Snider was seeing his performance on “Austin City Limits.” It was shortly after he released the album “Songs for the Daily Planet”, and not even two days later, I special ordered it from the CD store roughly 30 miles from my house (it was the closest one).
It was the first album I ever bought that had a swear word in one of the songs. I got that album home and I listened to it and listened to it again and kept listening to it almost constantly. To this day, it’s still one of my “desert island” albums. One of the other ones is Snider’s “Happy to Be Here”, which came out while I was in college.
I wanted to see him in concert, but the closest in geographical proximity he ever got was Ames, Iowa and at the time I had no...
It was the first album I ever bought that had a swear word in one of the songs. I got that album home and I listened to it and listened to it again and kept listening to it almost constantly. To this day, it’s still one of my “desert island” albums. One of the other ones is Snider’s “Happy to Be Here”, which came out while I was in college.
I wanted to see him in concert, but the closest in geographical proximity he ever got was Ames, Iowa and at the time I had no...
- 9/28/2015
- by Patricia
- Boomtron
Journeyman
Showcase Inventory
Created by Kevin Falls
Produced by Left Coast Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Aired on NBC for 1 season (13 episodes) from September 24, 2007 – December 19, 2007
Cast
Kevin McKidd as Dan Vasser
Gretchen Egolf as Katie Vasser
Moon Bloodgood as Olivia Beale
Reed Diamond as Jack Vasser
Brian Howe as Hugh Skillen
Charles Henry Wyson as Zack Vasser
Show Premise
Dan Vasser is your average every day newspaper reporter living in San Francisco with a wife and child, both of whom he loves and works hard for. One day Dan finds himself randomly transported through time with no idea of when he is, why he was sent back in time, or what he’s supposed to do. Dan quickly begins to realize that he’s been brought back on a mission to track a person’s life and help them in some way. In time, Dan discovers he has been given...
Showcase Inventory
Created by Kevin Falls
Produced by Left Coast Productions, 20th Century Fox Television
Aired on NBC for 1 season (13 episodes) from September 24, 2007 – December 19, 2007
Cast
Kevin McKidd as Dan Vasser
Gretchen Egolf as Katie Vasser
Moon Bloodgood as Olivia Beale
Reed Diamond as Jack Vasser
Brian Howe as Hugh Skillen
Charles Henry Wyson as Zack Vasser
Show Premise
Dan Vasser is your average every day newspaper reporter living in San Francisco with a wife and child, both of whom he loves and works hard for. One day Dan finds himself randomly transported through time with no idea of when he is, why he was sent back in time, or what he’s supposed to do. Dan quickly begins to realize that he’s been brought back on a mission to track a person’s life and help them in some way. In time, Dan discovers he has been given...
- 6/27/2015
- by Jean Pierre Diez
- SoundOnSight
History repeats itself, first as a bad Disney inspirational underdog sports movie and then as the series finale for one of the greatest TV dramas ever made. In 2014's "Million Dollar Arm," Jon Hamm plays a soulless sports agent who has lost his way and become a dead-eyed automaton, joylessly banging interchangeable bimbettes, but losing the true joy he once had. Only through importing two Indian baseball players and adopting a few key pieces of their approach to life is Hamm's character able to get his groove back, rediscover enlightenment. Thanks, Disney! In Sunday (May 17) night's "Mad Men" finale, Donald Draper also had lost himself. But through appropriating a different kind of Indian culture, he's able to find enlightenment or cynically rediscover his mojo. No, the transcendental meditation that helps Don Draper realign after a nightmarish few weeks wandering in the desert, isn't really Indian culture, but if we're being...
- 5/18/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
This recap contains spoilers from Mad Men‘s series finale, so make sure you watch before you read!
No, Don is not D.B. Cooper
No, Megan does not become a victim of the Manson family murderers.
But Peggy and Stan kiss and admit they love each other in Mad Men‘s series finale, and the final shot is one that makes you think (but not one that infuriates you with its open-endedness). Therefore, I’m good with the AMC drama’s much-heralded final episode (though I could’ve dealt with more face-to-face interactions and fewer phone calls).
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No, Don is not D.B. Cooper
No, Megan does not become a victim of the Manson family murderers.
But Peggy and Stan kiss and admit they love each other in Mad Men‘s series finale, and the final shot is one that makes you think (but not one that infuriates you with its open-endedness). Therefore, I’m good with the AMC drama’s much-heralded final episode (though I could’ve dealt with more face-to-face interactions and fewer phone calls).
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- 5/18/2015
- TVLine.com
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner has heard all of your theories about how the series will end its seven-season run on May 17, and he stopped by Conan on Thursday to debunk two of them.
For one, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is not D.B. Cooper. D.B. Cooper, as Weiner explained to host Conan O'Brien, is a man who hijacked a plane in 1971, demanding a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes. He was never seen again. Apparently, more than a few Mad Men conspiracy theorists think that Don will become D.B.
Not so, said Weiner.
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For one, Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is not D.B. Cooper. D.B. Cooper, as Weiner explained to host Conan O'Brien, is a man who hijacked a plane in 1971, demanding a $200,000 ransom and four parachutes. He was never seen again. Apparently, more than a few Mad Men conspiracy theorists think that Don will become D.B.
Not so, said Weiner.
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- 5/8/2015
- by Amanda Michelle Steiner, @amandamichl
- People.com - TV Watch
If you're like us and value your sleep, you probably nodded off into your Ambien dreamland before the party started on post-prime time TV. Don't worry; we've got you covered. Here's the best of what happened last night on late night.
Tina Fey is taking a stand against dresses! This comedy legend visited "The Late Show" and vowed never to wear a dress on a talk show again. Annnnd, then she stripped off her outfit and revealed a custom made set of Spanx that said "Bye Dave." You're welcome, world.Jimmy Kimmel sounded off on Kylie Jenner's lips (she recently admitted to having fillers), and he didn't hold back. Zingers include: "I always thought her lips swelled up because she was allergic to something, like work" and "it's kinda like the Smurfs finally admitting to being blue." In the mood to watch Jane Fonda's disembodied head deliver facts...
Tina Fey is taking a stand against dresses! This comedy legend visited "The Late Show" and vowed never to wear a dress on a talk show again. Annnnd, then she stripped off her outfit and revealed a custom made set of Spanx that said "Bye Dave." You're welcome, world.Jimmy Kimmel sounded off on Kylie Jenner's lips (she recently admitted to having fillers), and he didn't hold back. Zingers include: "I always thought her lips swelled up because she was allergic to something, like work" and "it's kinda like the Smurfs finally admitting to being blue." In the mood to watch Jane Fonda's disembodied head deliver facts...
- 5/8/2015
- by Mehera Bonner
- Moviefone
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner visited Conan tonight, and brought with him a “clip” from the “finale.” But first, Conan asked him what is the strangest finale theory he’s heard to date. "I'm not going to dismiss it because want people to watch the show, but the strangest theory I hear is this D.B. Cooper theory,” Weiner said. D.B. Cooper is the name given to a man who famously hijacked a plane near Seattle in November 1971, extorted $200K in ransom and parachuted away. The…...
- 5/8/2015
- Deadline TV
Ever since it premiered in 2007, Mad Men has inspired conspiracy theories, especially about how the '60s – and now '70s – drama will end.
Is Don Draper (Jon Hamm) the falling figure in the intro? Will he jump off the Time & Life Building to his death? Or Will Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser)? Will Megan (Jessica Paré) meet the same grisly fate as Sharon Tate?
And then, there's this whopper: Don Draper isn't the final identity the man born Dick Whitman will assume.
It's a story that fan Lindsey Green first posited two years ago on Medium: That in the finale in two weeks,...
Is Don Draper (Jon Hamm) the falling figure in the intro? Will he jump off the Time & Life Building to his death? Or Will Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser)? Will Megan (Jessica Paré) meet the same grisly fate as Sharon Tate?
And then, there's this whopper: Don Draper isn't the final identity the man born Dick Whitman will assume.
It's a story that fan Lindsey Green first posited two years ago on Medium: That in the finale in two weeks,...
- 5/7/2015
- by Michele Corriston, @mcorriston
- People.com - TV Watch
The draw of a period piece is twofold. We can travel back in time to another world, where the style, art, technology and social values differ from our own, and more importantly, observe how those differences, and the characters and locations that exhibit them, reflect on the present. AMC's revered 1960s ad agency drama "Mad Men" not only accomplishes these goals with aplomb, it does so in an entirely original fashion, exploring such disparate elements as civil rights, feminism, office politics, jealousy, hypocrisy, and the very nature of love, possession, happiness, and identity. In 2007, "Mad Men" entered a TV landscape dominated by "American Idol", "Big Bang Theory" and "Gossip Girl". The show's laconic pacing and relatively low-stakes plotting set it apart from a narrative standpoint, especially as its run continued and thrillers like Showtime's "Homeland" and AMC stablemates "Breaking Bad" and "The Walking Dead" drew in more viewers. In its production values,...
- 4/3/2015
- by Beth Kelly
- Rope of Silicon
Sharon Tate was a sex symbol and fledgling movie star. The "Fearless Vampire Killers" and "Valley of the Dolls" star was married to Roman Polanski. Tate and four others were killed by The Manson Family in August 1969. Megan from "Mad Men" is not Sharon Tate. D.B. Cooper is the name given to a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971, secured $200,000 in ransom and parachuted out of the plane, never to be seen again or definitively identified. Don Draper from "Mad Men" is not D.B. Cooper. Probably. For reasons that are vaguely baffling to me, a recent trend in "Mad Men" viewership has been to decide that despite no indications at all in those directions, the Emmy-winning drama had been heading toward one or possible two grand historical revelations in which our fictional characters turned out to be famous or notorious real world figures. "Mad Men" hit the Television Critics Association...
- 1/11/2015
- by Daniel Fienberg
- Hitfix
This winter press tour is going to feature goodbye sessions for several beloved, long-running series, and few shows have been as loved by the TCA as "Mad Men," which is bringing creator Matt Weiner and stars Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks and John Slattery to the stage to reminisce about their time together. (Earlier today, AMC announced that the final season will resume on April 5.) Though AMC has done a few "Mad Men"-related events since the series premiere, this will be the first formal TCA panel since then, and it should be an interesting time, especially with this mix of strong talent and personality. As I did earlier today for "Better Call Saul," I'll be live-blogging the whole thing, as often as my fingers and the ballroom wi-fi will allow, so check back frequently. (All times are Pacific.) 9:42 a.m.: We open with some "Mad Men" greatest hits,...
- 1/10/2015
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Covering Fantasia for the first time was a hectic, enjoyable experience. They give you a badge with your name on it and everything. However, as for this year’s lineup, I have a little trouble being enthusiastic. With some major exceptions like Guardians of Galaxy, not listed here only because it’s appearance at the Festival seemed more coincidental than prestigious, a lot of the hyped up releases played weakly. Also, I’ve been no stranger to openly criticizing Fantasia audiences as a whole, more than willing to behave as sheep (or, in this case, cats) and applaud even the weakest of films due to a genre-note or laugh –however unintentional. So I found respite in some of the quieter films, and maybe a few major ones. No matter; Here are five things that truly deserve to gain wider audiences.
The Top Five Films of Fantasia
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- 8/14/2014
- by Kenny Hedges
- SoundOnSight
John Carpenter’s 1986 kung fu fantasy masterpiece Big Trouble in Little China was a flop when it was first released, but a long life on home video helped foster a retroactive appreciation for star Kurt Russell’s fast-talking Jack Burton and the style with which Carpenter delivers his crazy tale. It is now a bona fide cult classic, and it is getting resurrected in comic book form.
Beginning with the first issue on June 4, Boom! Studios will be rolling out Big Trouble in Little China, the new comic book series co-written by Eric Powell (creator of the awesome series The Goon) and Carpenter,...
Beginning with the first issue on June 4, Boom! Studios will be rolling out Big Trouble in Little China, the new comic book series co-written by Eric Powell (creator of the awesome series The Goon) and Carpenter,...
- 5/27/2014
- by Kyle Anderson
- EW.com - PopWatch
In the annals of oddball “versus” cinema, I’m fairly certain nobody ever thought a Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper film would ever become a reality.
I’m fairly certain nobody besides writer-director David DeCoteau ever even conceived of such a strange pairing.
We all know who Bigfoot is, but D.B. Cooper might be a mystery to some of you. An enduring mystery is exactly what the story of D.B. Cooper continues to be today.
A man using the alias “D.B. Cooper” skyjacked a 727 passenger plane over the Pacific Northwest with a suitcase bomb, demanding a ransom of $200,000. Once back in the air with his money, Cooper escaped by performing the nearly impossible feat of skydiving out of jumbo jet. That he was never seen nor heard from ever again and virtually no evidence has ever been found as to his whereabouts is what has made the story of D.B. Cooper...
I’m fairly certain nobody besides writer-director David DeCoteau ever even conceived of such a strange pairing.
We all know who Bigfoot is, but D.B. Cooper might be a mystery to some of you. An enduring mystery is exactly what the story of D.B. Cooper continues to be today.
A man using the alias “D.B. Cooper” skyjacked a 727 passenger plane over the Pacific Northwest with a suitcase bomb, demanding a ransom of $200,000. Once back in the air with his money, Cooper escaped by performing the nearly impossible feat of skydiving out of jumbo jet. That he was never seen nor heard from ever again and virtually no evidence has ever been found as to his whereabouts is what has made the story of D.B. Cooper...
- 4/1/2014
- by Foywonder
- DreadCentral.com
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner would be a mad man, indeed, if major plot points from the upcoming season of AMC’s Emmy-winning drama surfaced on the web. He likes to stay mum about the details of future episodes – the show’s “Next Time on Mad Men” clips are vague to the point of parody. However, that has not stopped fervent fans from trying to decipher the symbolism behind new material, such as these recently released photos (which you can see below).
In them, adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm) looks pensive and intense as he sits next to business partner Roger Sterling (John Slattery) on an airplane, as well as creative copywriter Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) in the terminal. Another picture has television’s favourite enigmatic, womanizing marketing genius staring off into the distance, with his much younger wife Megan (Jessica Paré) in tow.
So what do these new images say?...
In them, adman Don Draper (Jon Hamm) looks pensive and intense as he sits next to business partner Roger Sterling (John Slattery) on an airplane, as well as creative copywriter Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) in the terminal. Another picture has television’s favourite enigmatic, womanizing marketing genius staring off into the distance, with his much younger wife Megan (Jessica Paré) in tow.
So what do these new images say?...
- 3/12/2014
- by Jordan Adler
- We Got This Covered
Leverage takes a curtain call this month as 20th Century Home Entertainment releases the fifth and final season on DVD. The four-disc set contains the complete fifteen episode season, which was aired in two batches across summer and winter 2012. Since then, the series has remained in the public eye thanks to three incredibly fun novels along with its well-deserved honor as Favorite Cable TV Drama at the 39th People’s Choice Awards.
Much as we here at ComicMix have adored the show, the audience has been dwindling; opening the final year with 3.39 million viewers and the final drew a smaller 3.04 million, far too small these days to be sustained. However, co-creators Dean Devlin and John Rogers suspected this was the make-it or break-it season and prepared accordingly. From the outset of the season, Nate Ford (Tim Hutton) was up to something and we saw him pushing the other members of...
Much as we here at ComicMix have adored the show, the audience has been dwindling; opening the final year with 3.39 million viewers and the final drew a smaller 3.04 million, far too small these days to be sustained. However, co-creators Dean Devlin and John Rogers suspected this was the make-it or break-it season and prepared accordingly. From the outset of the season, Nate Ford (Tim Hutton) was up to something and we saw him pushing the other members of...
- 9/27/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
[Spoilers ahead.] Last night’s episode of Justified wrapped up season four’s major story line, the search for a D.B. Cooper–like figure named Drew Thompson who saw the current head of the Detroit mob commit a horrible crime three decades earlier. Thompson was eventually revealed as one of the show’s ongoing characters, Jim Beaver’s Shelby Parlow. In previous seasons, Shelby had seemed little more than a morally compromised supporting player, a corrupt sheriff in the back pocket of Walton Goggins’s backwoods gangster Boyd Crowder. By the end of last night’s installment, Drew was in custody, removed from the drama and being packed off to prison — a surprisingly peaceful end to his story, considering how bloodthirsty Justified can be.Beaver, a veteran character actor, flowered on Justified this year. He used the decent, likable quality that he naturally projects in other roles (including Supernatural and Deadwood) to...
- 3/27/2013
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
As I wrote when putting it in my top 10 list of best shows from last year, Justified’s approach to storytelling is old hat at this point. The first half of every season is mostly made up of one-off, case of the week episodes that pepper in the overarching seasonal plot throughout. The back end then slowly shifts the balance, and by the last few episodes, Raylan Givens’ collision course with the heavies floating around the fringes of Harlan County comes into sharp focus. It’s a structure that a lot of basic cable dramas follow, placing the narrative requirements of each episode somewhere between the procedural comfort of network TV, and the meticulous, novelistic planning of HBO.
It makes for a delicate operation, wherein the writers are building a house of cards out of a deck they made themselves. The real trick is in how deftly you weave the...
It makes for a delicate operation, wherein the writers are building a house of cards out of a deck they made themselves. The real trick is in how deftly you weave the...
- 1/10/2013
- by Sam Woolf
- We Got This Covered
Leverage S05E06: "The D.B. Cooper Job"
This week, Leverage played with a little trick they've done before.the majority of the episode was a flashback to another decade that didn't include any of the main characters.
Before we talk about this episode, I want to briefly hit upon the show's last attempt at this maneuver in "The Van Gogh Job," an episode early in Season 4. In it, an elderly African American man told Nate the story of his star-crossed love during World War II. The story... More >>...
This week, Leverage played with a little trick they've done before.the majority of the episode was a flashback to another decade that didn't include any of the main characters.
Before we talk about this episode, I want to briefly hit upon the show's last attempt at this maneuver in "The Van Gogh Job," an episode early in Season 4. In it, an elderly African American man told Nate the story of his star-crossed love during World War II. The story... More >>...
- 8/27/2012
- by Julia Bergen
- TV.com
Some of my favorite Leverage episodes are flashbacks where team members portray the people in the story we watch. There was the "The Rashomon Job," where we got to see the same event from each of the team’s point of view, along with last season’s "The Van Gogh Job," where Aldis Hodge and Beth Riesgraf portrayed Charlie and Dorothy - and were amazing.
It's these episodes that keep us on our toes. They tend to break the mold a bit and in some cases have a very strong emotional connection for us and the team. This week the trend continued in "The D.B. Cooper Job," as Nate and the team agreed to help Agent McSweeten clear the black mark on his dying father’s service record with the FBI.
It's safe to say that Agent Todd McSweeten has changed since we first met him in season one. He started out a bit bumbling,...
It's these episodes that keep us on our toes. They tend to break the mold a bit and in some cases have a very strong emotional connection for us and the team. This week the trend continued in "The D.B. Cooper Job," as Nate and the team agreed to help Agent McSweeten clear the black mark on his dying father’s service record with the FBI.
It's safe to say that Agent Todd McSweeten has changed since we first met him in season one. He started out a bit bumbling,...
- 8/27/2012
- by [email protected] (Jim Garner)
- TVfanatic
On TV this Sunday: True Blood‘s fang gang signs off for a while, there’s unrest in The Newsroom at the end of its freshman run, Episodes and The Great Escape wrap their seasons, and Drop Dead Diva’s Stacy may not be able to have her “pake” and eat it, too. Here are 10 programs to keep on your radar tonight.
8 pm Good Luck Charlie (Disney Channel) | Teddy takes her volleyball coach’s advice too seriously, and Bob finds solace at Pj’s new apartment.
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9 pm True Blood (HBO...
8 pm Good Luck Charlie (Disney Channel) | Teddy takes her volleyball coach’s advice too seriously, and Bob finds solace at Pj’s new apartment.
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9 pm True Blood (HBO...
- 8/26/2012
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
TNT’s Leverage swings back into action tonight at 8/7c, in a new (yet not new) locale. Coming off the events of Season 4′s finale, Nate’s team bid Beantown adieu and set up shop in Portland – aka the city where the caper drama has filmed all these years. Also new: Hardison and Parker are “out” with their romance, so we thought it a good time to chat up Aldis Hodge about that fun dynamic. Plus: Why Leverage‘s master hacker wants to suit up as a certain Marvel hero.
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Tvline | Season 4 is here,...
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- 7/15/2012
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
What can fans expect from Leverage Season 5, which premieres this Sunday night on TNT? Who better to ask than the brains behind Leverage Inc., Mr. Timothy Hutton?
I sat in last week on a conference call with the star and have posted the following excerpts from the enlightening interview, which touched on upcoming guest stars, themes and the most pressing topic of all: Sophie's real name.
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What can we expect in Season Five?
The Leverage team has officially moved to Portland where we film the show. So they've left Boston, and what it's allowed the writers to do is use all these amazing locations around Portland and just outside the city for storylines.
Another thing about season five is that the team have really come a lot closer together. And for Nate, with the way that his father died the year [in the Leverage Season 4 finale] I think it's kind of made him someone...
I sat in last week on a conference call with the star and have posted the following excerpts from the enlightening interview, which touched on upcoming guest stars, themes and the most pressing topic of all: Sophie's real name.
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What can we expect in Season Five?
The Leverage team has officially moved to Portland where we film the show. So they've left Boston, and what it's allowed the writers to do is use all these amazing locations around Portland and just outside the city for storylines.
Another thing about season five is that the team have really come a lot closer together. And for Nate, with the way that his father died the year [in the Leverage Season 4 finale] I think it's kind of made him someone...
- 7/12/2012
- by [email protected] (Jim Garner)
- TVfanatic
Combining the glamorously bold crimes of John Dillinger and the bizarre mysteries of identity surrounding Anastasia Romanov, Geoffrey Gray’s acclaimed novel, Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, will be adapted for the screen by director Will Gluck, best known for Easy A and Friends With Benefits. Veering slightly from Gluck’s previous sex-crazed comedies, Skyjack focuses on the strange-but-true story of Cooper, who committed America’s only unsolved case of air piracy when he hijacked a Boeing 727 aircraft in 1971, stealing $200,000 from its passengers and crew before escaping via parachute. The air pirate (which, by ...
- 6/14/2012
- avclub.com
The only D.B. I knew before writing this article was Fire in the Sky star D.B. Sweeney. Sadly my knowledge of American criminal history was limited to the classroom more or less, so I hadn't heard of the infamous plane hijacker D.B. Cooper until now. There's a planned big screen adaptation of the novel "Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper" by Geoffrey Gray in the works. Deadline reports this incredible story will be helmed by the director of the delightful comedy Easy A, Will Gluck for CBS Films.
- 6/14/2012
- by Get The Big Picture
- GetTheBigPicture.net
It remains one of the greatest unsolved cases in FBI history. Dan .D.B.. Cooper hijacks a Boeing 727 in mid-air in 1971, holding the plane.s crew and passengers hostage until he collected $200,000. After obtaining the cash, Cooper demanded to go back up into the air, where he parachuted to safety and disappeared. He was never heard from again. Cooper.s crime has been documented in the compelling book .Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper,. penned by Geoffrey Gray. And now that book, according to Deadline, is making its way to the big screen. And rightfully so. The Cooper case has so many elements of a riveting thriller, we.re thoroughly shocked it hasn.t been adapted into a movie countless times already. CBS Films acquired the rights to Gray.s book, and is setting the project up as a directorial task for Easy A director Will Gluck. Keith Bunin ( ...
- 6/14/2012
- cinemablend.com
One of these days, I’d like to buy a non-fiction book that gathers all the evidence about this D.B. Cooper fella and really immerse myself in his life and crime. Until then, the only D.B. Cooper I know is the one from the TV show “Prison Break”, which is pretty much all made-up stuff for the purposes of the show. Thanks to “Easy A” and “Friends with Benefits” director Will Gluck and CBS Films, though, we might know even more about Cooper when they adapt the Geoffrey Gray novel “Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper”. Keith Bunin (“In Treatment”) will write the script, adapting the “action-comedy” novel that “follows the story of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, and jumped out over the Pacific Northwest. He was never caught and hailed as a folk hero. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of...
- 6/14/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
After properly announcing himself with the excellent Emma Stone vehicle “Easy A,” and then following that up with another surprisingly decent comedy in the form of “Friends With Benefits," Will Gluck marked himself as a director to watch. We’d totally tell you what we think about his debut film, “Fired Up!,” but this writer has to admit to not having seen it. He currently has an action-comedy (“Secretaries Day”), an adaptation of “About Last Night…”, a comedy caper (“Sex On The Moon”), a potential re-team with Emma Stone, and a remake of a Swiss drama (“How to Disappear Completely”) on his to-do list. He’s one helluva busy man, and now it looks like he’s lined up another project.
CBS Films are planning an adaptation of the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel “Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper” and Gluck has been lined up to produce and direct. The...
CBS Films are planning an adaptation of the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel “Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper” and Gluck has been lined up to produce and direct. The...
- 6/14/2012
- by Joe Cunningham
- The Playlist
Will Gluck, director of the wildly popular comedy Easy A, is in talks to direct Skyjack.
Skyjack is the real life story of a man using the alias of Dan Cooper, popularly known as D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 back in 1971. Cooper extorted $200,000 in ransom money before parachuting off the airplane somewhere over the Pacific Northwest, never to be heard from again – even though the FBI keeps it as an open case.
Gluck is reportedly going to be pulling double duty as both director and producer. The script is an adaption of the novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper written by Geoffrey Gray, which reads like a pick your own ending tale with three possible suspects.
If production for Skyjack starts moving along, hopefully Gluck will be able to bank on his recent hits, Easy A and Friends With Benefits, to navigate the film into a Hollywood success story.
Skyjack is the real life story of a man using the alias of Dan Cooper, popularly known as D.B. Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 back in 1971. Cooper extorted $200,000 in ransom money before parachuting off the airplane somewhere over the Pacific Northwest, never to be heard from again – even though the FBI keeps it as an open case.
Gluck is reportedly going to be pulling double duty as both director and producer. The script is an adaption of the novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper written by Geoffrey Gray, which reads like a pick your own ending tale with three possible suspects.
If production for Skyjack starts moving along, hopefully Gluck will be able to bank on his recent hits, Easy A and Friends With Benefits, to navigate the film into a Hollywood success story.
- 6/14/2012
- by Lindsay Sperling
- We Got This Covered
For fans (if there is such a thing?) for renegade airplane-hijackers, no one is as revered as D.B. Cooper, the perpetrator of the U.S.’s only unsolved case of air piracy. On November 24, 1971, Cooper (or whatever his real name was), hijacked a Boeing 727 as it flew between Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington. Cooper used the old “I have a bomb” note trick, which led to his taking over the plane, having it land in Seattle for a refuel and to pick up $200,000 in cash, and setting the crew on a course to Mexico City. Cooper didn’t make it to Mexico, though, as he disappeared early in the flight and is believed to have parachuted out of the plane after about twenty or so minutes in the air. Cooper is also not believed to have survived his jump, but that has not stopped the FBI from maintaining an active case file and it also has not...
- 6/13/2012
- by Kate Erbland
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Easy A director Will Glick is in talks to bring the legendary story of D.B. Cooper to the big screen. The movie will be an adaptation of the action-comedy novel written by Geoffrey Gray called Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper.
For those of you not familiar with D.B. Cooper, on November 24th, 1971 he hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and then jumped out of the plane with a parachute over the Pacific Northwest to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive FBI investigation, which is still going on, Cooper has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him.
This is such a interesting story, one that will definitely make for a great movie. Unsolved mysterys are always fun to play around with.
For those of you not familiar with D.B. Cooper, on November 24th, 1971 he hijacked a Boeing 727, extorted $200,000 in ransom, and then jumped out of the plane with a parachute over the Pacific Northwest to an uncertain fate. Despite an extensive manhunt and an exhaustive FBI investigation, which is still going on, Cooper has never been located or positively identified. The case remains the only unsolved case of air piracy in American aviation history. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him.
This is such a interesting story, one that will definitely make for a great movie. Unsolved mysterys are always fun to play around with.
- 6/13/2012
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
In 1971, a man known as D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 in ransom money, and parachuted off somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, never to be caught. In the years since he's become a minor folk hero, and if that isn't a story worth telling on film, I'm not sure what is. Deadline is reporting that Easy A director Will Gluck is producing and directing a film based on Geoffrey Gray's book Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, with "In Treatment" writer Keith Bunin tackling a script. The book follows three different people claiming to be Cooper, which sounds a bit like the beginning of Catch Me If You Can. This project sounds reminiscent of the Barefoot Bandit's escapades, which drew Hollywood's attention. Fox paid over a million dollars for the rights to his story, which included similar adventures including stealing cars, boats and even planes, and resulting in ...
- 6/13/2012
- by Ben Pearson
- firstshowing.net
Since the story of D.B. Cooper — in short: anonymous guy hijacks plane for money, receives money, jumps out of plane, is never seen again — just kind of feels like something a screenwriter would devise, I’m all for a movie that explores this murky American legend. I just didn’t expect the director of Easy A and Friends with Benefits to give the man his cinematic due.
But, according to Deadline, Will Gluck is CBS Films’ favorite to helm and produce Skyjack, an action-comedy that approaches this tale from one of its only logical points: multiple perspectives. Instead of making one of the many suspects its main subject and rolling from there, the film — which, it should be said, is based on a novel by Geoffrey Gray — will follow events told by three different men who have claimed to be him over the past few decades. Overlaps, conflicts, and inconsistencies...
But, according to Deadline, Will Gluck is CBS Films’ favorite to helm and produce Skyjack, an action-comedy that approaches this tale from one of its only logical points: multiple perspectives. Instead of making one of the many suspects its main subject and rolling from there, the film — which, it should be said, is based on a novel by Geoffrey Gray — will follow events told by three different men who have claimed to be him over the past few decades. Overlaps, conflicts, and inconsistencies...
- 6/13/2012
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Exclusive: Easy A helmer Will Gluck is at the center of a deal that CBS Films is making for the bestselling Geoffrey Gray novel Skyjack: The Hunt For D.B. Cooper, which was published by Crown. Gluck is in talks to direct and produce via his Olive Bridge banner, and Keith Bunin will write the script. Bunin scripted episodes of the HBO series In Treatment, and is writing for Universal and Illumination Entertainment a live-action film about the life of Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) as a vehicle for Johnny Depp to star in and produce. The Skyjack novel is an action-comedy that follows the story of D.B. Cooper, who on November 24, 1971, hijacked a Boeing 727, demanded $200,000 and parachutes, and jumped out over the Pacific Northwest. He was never caught and hailed as a folk hero. The book tracks his story from the perspectives of three different people claiming to be him. Gluck most recently co-wrote,...
- 6/13/2012
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
CBS Films has attached Easy A and Friends with Benefits director Will Gluck to a big screen adaptation of Skyjack: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper , Deadline reports. The novel, released last year, is written by Geoffrey Gray and is officially described as follows: "I have a bomb here and I would like you to sit by me.. That was the note handed to a stewardess by a mild-mannered passenger on a Northwest Orient flight in 1971. It was the start of one of the most astonishing whodunits in the history of American true crime: how one man extorted $200,000 from an airline, then parachuted into the wilds of the Pacific Northwest and into oblivion. D.B. Cooper.s case has become the stuff of legend as well as an obsession for his pursuers, cursing them with everything from...
- 6/13/2012
- Comingsoon.net
TNT’s Leverage is sticking with tradition and loading up on fun guest stars for its upcoming season.
In addition to the previously announced Cary Elwes, Treat Williams and Matthew Lillard, series lead Timothy Hutton tells TVLine that Ronny Cox (Total Recall) and go-to toughie Fred Ward (Tremors) will both appear in this season’s sixth episode, titled ”The D.B. Cooper Job.”
Leverage Season 5 premieres Sunday, July 15, at 8/7c.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…
• HBO has dished out another teaser for True Blood‘s upcoming fifth season (launching Sunday, June 10), and while this one doesn’t contain any new footage,...
In addition to the previously announced Cary Elwes, Treat Williams and Matthew Lillard, series lead Timothy Hutton tells TVLine that Ronny Cox (Total Recall) and go-to toughie Fred Ward (Tremors) will both appear in this season’s sixth episode, titled ”The D.B. Cooper Job.”
Leverage Season 5 premieres Sunday, July 15, at 8/7c.
Ready for more of today’s TV dish? Well…
• HBO has dished out another teaser for True Blood‘s upcoming fifth season (launching Sunday, June 10), and while this one doesn’t contain any new footage,...
- 5/21/2012
- by Megan Masters
- TVLine.com
Joshua Marston put a big stamp on independent cinema with 2004′s praised Maria Full of Grace… and then disappeared. Okay, perhaps I’m being a little overdramatic (he isn’t D.B. Cooper), but he followed that feature debut with episodes of TV shows ranging in quality from Six Feet Under to Swingtown, and only got around to releasing another film this year, The Forgiveness of Blood. (To his credit, it played at both Telluride and Tiff, and is Albania’s submission for Best Foreign Language Film, so it might be worth something.) He’ll begin to move at a more consistent rate with projects, then, because THR informs us that he’s remaking Italy’s thriller, The Double Hour.
Giuseppe Capotondi‘s original film centered on “a Slovenian hotel maid and an ex-cop who fall in love after meeting at a speed-dating event.” After “retreat[ing] to his employer’s house in the Turin countryside,...
Giuseppe Capotondi‘s original film centered on “a Slovenian hotel maid and an ex-cop who fall in love after meeting at a speed-dating event.” After “retreat[ing] to his employer’s house in the Turin countryside,...
- 11/10/2011
- by [email protected] (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
Here is our first look at pages from The Darkest Hour limited edition collectible comic book. It is a collaboration with 13 popular comic artists, “featuring stunning artistic takes on the global events of the film’s post-alien invasion world.” Below are the prologue pages done by Ben Templesmith that show the early history of the earth and mankind and how the aliens have been hiding in plain sight as lightning phenomena. The comic will be available in hard cover, digital download and as a motion comic today (Friday, October 14th 2011).
Official Information:
The hard cover will be available as a handout to attendees at New York Comic-Con this weekend.
The comic will also be available for mobile devices via Comixology starting Friday, 10/14 at this link – https://comics.comixology.com/issue/14973/The-Darkest-Hour
The digital motion comic will be live on Friday, 10/14 on The Darkest Hour official site -
http://darkesthourmovie.com...
Official Information:
The hard cover will be available as a handout to attendees at New York Comic-Con this weekend.
The comic will also be available for mobile devices via Comixology starting Friday, 10/14 at this link – https://comics.comixology.com/issue/14973/The-Darkest-Hour
The digital motion comic will be live on Friday, 10/14 on The Darkest Hour official site -
http://darkesthourmovie.com...
- 10/14/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
Summit Entertainment has given us two images to exclusively premiere from The Darkest Hour comic book. The limited edition collectible comic is a collaboration with 13 popular comic artists, "featuring stunning artistic takes on the global events of the film’s post-alien invasion world." After the jump you can see two of the prologue pages by artist Ben Templesmith. These pages show the early history of the earth and mankind and how the aliens have been hiding in plain sight as lightning phenomena (Summit has previously posted real life examples of ball lightning on a viral website for the movie [1]). The comic will be available in hard cover, digital download and as a motion comic today (Friday, October 14th 2011). [gallery columns="2"] Official Information: The hard cover will be available as a handout to attendees at New York Comic-Con this weekend. The comic will also be available for mobile devices via Comixology starting Friday,...
- 10/14/2011
- by Peter Sciretta
- Slash Film
Initially a straightforward investigation into the identity of “D.B. Cooper”—the anonymous perpetrator of the only unsolved American airline hijacking—Geoffrey Gray’s Skyjack follows a pattern similar to David Fincher’s Zodiac, as a crime with major iconic significance continues to linger unsolved, deranging everyone who tries to crack it. While many books have been published about the case, they’ve mostly been written by people trying to prove that one suspect or another was the real criminal. Gray instead pursues all the threads and comes up short. The tone is established via a paranoid epigraph from Richard ...
- 8/24/2011
- avclub.com
Lost in a sea of debt ceiling sturm and drang is another news story that has been overlooked by many in the press, a potentially resolved mystery that has captivated the nation's attention and has even been the focus of a feature film in the earlys'80s. It's the story of D.B. Cooper, the alleged skyjacker of a commercial flight in the early 70s, who has been a legend of mythic proportions and, thus far, an unsolved case. Until now, perhaps, thanks to a Marla Cooper, who is the niece of Lynn Doyle Cooper, who she believes is the real D.B. Cooper.
- 8/3/2011
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
While it seems like since Rodriguez/Tarantino’s Grindhouse, a slew of other similar styled throwback films have cluttered up our appreciation of drive-ins, James Bickert’s upcoming biker/horror film Dear God No! is going to change that, giving us a loving “lost” film in the vein of Werewolves on Wheels. Killer Film caught up with the director, who’s in post-production finishing the score and sound mix as we speak, for the low down on what should be a fan favorite soon.
Jon: If IMDb is to be believed, it’s been about 10 years since your last directed film in Troma’s Dumpster Baby. During this interval, what led to Dear God No‘s inception?
James Bickert: IMDb is correct. Dear God No! was one of many projects I had planned to do 10 years ago. It was called The Sketchy Seven and more of a biker Seven Samurai-meets-Cemetery without Crosses.
Jon: If IMDb is to be believed, it’s been about 10 years since your last directed film in Troma’s Dumpster Baby. During this interval, what led to Dear God No‘s inception?
James Bickert: IMDb is correct. Dear God No! was one of many projects I had planned to do 10 years ago. It was called The Sketchy Seven and more of a biker Seven Samurai-meets-Cemetery without Crosses.
- 6/8/2011
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
7.00pm Martial Law (Bravo)
Police drama series following the investigations of a Chinese detective and martial arts expert working in Los Angeles. Sammo and Terrell go undercover to infiltrate a gun-smuggling operation run by prison inmates. Season One, episode 11.
8.00pm Leverage (Bravo)
New Us action series featuring hi-tech Robin Hoods exacting revenge on the wealthy and wicked. The team try to avenge the death of a young girl, who was killed by toxic fertilizer, but the CEO of the conglomerate that makes the chemical is prepared to go to any lengths to protect his company’s interests. Season One, episode 9.
9.00pm Maneater (Zone Horror)
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter,...
7.00pm Martial Law (Bravo)
Police drama series following the investigations of a Chinese detective and martial arts expert working in Los Angeles. Sammo and Terrell go undercover to infiltrate a gun-smuggling operation run by prison inmates. Season One, episode 11.
8.00pm Leverage (Bravo)
New Us action series featuring hi-tech Robin Hoods exacting revenge on the wealthy and wicked. The team try to avenge the death of a young girl, who was killed by toxic fertilizer, but the CEO of the conglomerate that makes the chemical is prepared to go to any lengths to protect his company’s interests. Season One, episode 9.
9.00pm Maneater (Zone Horror)
A former FBI profiler, now a sheriff of a small town and a single parent of a high school aged daughter,...
- 3/19/2010
- by Phil
- Nerdly
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