Phillip Noyce

Tom Payne pulls off playing a jockey in HBO's "Luck," but the British actor says he won't be making a career change any time soon. "I value my health too much," Payne told me during a recent phone interview, laughing. "Jockeys—it's so difficult ......

I dismissed the sudsy new prime-time thriller “Revenge” (9 p.m. Wednesday, ABC; 3 stars) when I watched its pilot over the summer, but I was too quick to judge. It’s terrifically trashy and a lot of fun. Sweet Emily VanCamp from “...

Mandate Pictures has a script that they'd like Phillip Noyce to direct — “The Arrangement.” From Variety, here's the ripped-from-today's-headlines summary — “Story follows a married woman who makes a deal to spend three...

ABC on Tuesday announced its 2011-12 prime time schedule that includes 13 new shows, seven of which will premiere this fall. Among the new entries is "Pan Am," adrama about pilots and flight attendants set in the 1960s (everyone seems to be creating their...

Watch video clips of ABC dramas 'Revenge,' and 'Good Christian Belles'...

An international action thriller about Navy SEALS rescuing a Russian president and stopping a coup, “Hunter Killer” has everything but a director. Ok, and a cast. But Aussie action vet Phillip Noyce may be the filmmaker to fill that behind the...

Angelina Jolie plays action heroine again, in a very big way, in this adventure of a CIA operative accused by a defector of being a double agent. She goes on the lam to prove her innocence, as former colleagues pit their skills against hers to try to...

FX has ordered two new drama series, 'Terriers' and 'Lights Out,' for premiere next year. The light drama 'Terriers' stars Donal Logue and Michael Ramond-James as a former cop and his best friend who are endeavoring to start their own......

Salt is a Hollywood stuntman (and stunt woman) stimulus package, an espionage thriller filled with epic brawls, shootouts and a chase across the roofs of assorted semi trucks and tankers along the highway interchanges of Greater Washington, D.C. What, you...

Not a great weekend for hot-from-the-oven cinema, as the Phillip Noyce thriller Salt has earned mixed notices, a serious comedown from the first flush of feverish praise from a handful of quarters (people whose banner ads--for Salt--make their...

"Salt" the film and Evelyn Salt the character are perpetually in motion and that's a good thing for its own sake and because it keeps audiences from dwelling on how unapologetically preposterous the plot in question is. And really, who goes to summer...

There's a freshness and authenticity to the characters in "The Kids Are All Right" that makes it seem like a rarity these days: a movie about a normal family, warts and all. One parent is more uptight and controlling, the other a bit insecure and...