John McTiernan

"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...

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&#...

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...

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......

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....

Editor's note: Rachel Abramowitz will be periodically checking in on the trial of Anthony Pellicano -- former private eye to the stars, who faces 110 counts of racketeering, wiretapping, conspiracy and other federal charges -- and writing about what the...

For the last six years, few plots in Hollywood have kept more power brokers and entertainment lawyers in suspense than the FBI investigation into onetime private eye to the stars Anthony Pellicano. With alleged victims including actors Sylvester Stallone...

To watch the new "Rollerball" is to understand why John McTiernan would be tempted to rework the 1975 Norman Jewison original. The earlier film was set in a future in which an ultra-violent sport served as an outlet for a world in which other violence had...