John McTiernan

For a few weeks now, we've been looking for the most emblematic Los Angeles movies ever and counting on crowd-sourcing to build a big list, then separate the wheat from the cinematic chaff. Now that we've got some serious chaff on our hands, it's time to...

Alan Rickman is aroused from a heavy-lidded languor recognizable from so many of his performances when the talk turns to a longtime crush. No, it's not Rima Horton, the economist he's lived with in London for 34 years. Nor is it the stage, which he...

Books can teach you plenty about Los Angeles. In fact, we’ve been getting readers to help us make lists of the best L.A. fiction and nonfiction. But as many people will tell you (just before asking you to read their screenplay), this is a movie...

The Vulture at New York Mag has word of two projects that tthe “Face/Off” co-stars Nic Cage and John Travolata may star in. Neither seems likely, as possible “Shrapnel” director John McTiernan's days as a free man (avoiding jail at...

The Anthony Pellicano wiretapping scandal has resulted in director John McTiernan (“Die Hard, “Roller Ball,” “Basic”) earning a year in jail. Will his friends call him by the name the crew uses for him on set? “McT&#...

Predators is a workable revival  of the B-movie hunters-become-the-hunted franchise that Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McTiernan launched back in 1987. It sets up as a taut, nervy Eight Rough Characters in Search of an Exit, flirts with the idea of...

If there were truth in advertising, the new Fox Blu-ray release entitled "Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition" might be called "Predator: The Camouflaged Commercial" -- a name that would prepare fans of the 1987 film for all the promos for the......

"Star Wars" and "Empire" producer Gary Kurtz makes a return to feature films with director Peter Briggs and the supernatural wartime tale of "Panzer 88"...

“Shrapnel” has been on Hollywood's “Black List,” that compendium of hot, quality, commercial and as yet unproduced screenplays. And now some Euro producers want to film the story of two war vets who take to hunting each other in...

Predators is a workable revival of the B-movie hunters-become-the-hunted franchise that Arnold Schwarzenegger and John McTiernan launched back in 1987. It sets up as a taut, nervy Eight Rough Characters in Search of an Exit, flirts with the idea of...

It's a big weekend for "Predators," the promising Fox film that began the ramp-up to its July 7 release with a sneak peek at South by Southwest in Austin. I just got off the phone with the film's director, Nimród......

The director of "Die Hard" has taken a starring role in his own legal thriller. John McTiernan was indicted Friday by a grand jury after a guilty plea on two counts of lying to the FBI and one count of perjury, according to The Hollywood Reporter....