Sam Peckinpah

Date of Birth

1925-02-21

Date of Death

1984-12-28

Place of Birth

Fresno, California, United States

Known for

The Visitor, Convoy, The Osterman Weekend

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Stephen King has shared a list of his 10 favorite movies, excluding films based on his own stories and novels

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Stephen King lists his 10 favorite movies (excluding adaptations of his own work)

Posted 9 months ago

Stephen King has shared a list of his 10 favorite movies, excluding films based on his own stories and novels

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Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Batman Returns, Gremlins, The Lion King, The Matrix, Scarface

Posted 1 year ago

Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have wanted...

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Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Alien: Romulus, The Bikeriders, Civil War, Her, Longlegs

Posted 2 years ago

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Mel Gibson wants Fassbender, Foxx, and Dinklage for his Wild Bunch remake

Posted 7 years ago

As this year's Cannes Film Festival continues to set up promising deals for some of Hollywood's most in-demand projects, the word around the circuit is that Mel Gibson is enaged in early talks with Michael Fassbender, Jamie Foxx and Peter Dinklage...

Warner Bros. taps Mel Gibson to direct & co-write a Wild Bunch remake

Posted 8 years ago

Boy howdy, folks. You'd better sharpen your spurs, clean your six-shooters and guzzle down a bottle or two of your preferred sarsaparilla, because Warner Bros. has just announced that they've wrangled Mel Gibson to direct and co-write a remake of...

Straw Dogs hits Criterion Edition Blu-ray this summer w/new special features

Posted 9 years ago

Sam Peckinpah is one of my favorite directors and his film STRAW DOGS is my favorite film of his. I saw it when I was WAAAYY too young and it made me think "Is this what all adult movies are...

Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Anchorman, The Hunger Games, King Kong, The Walking Dead

Posted 12 years ago

Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that 'a picture is worth a thousand words.' This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

Trailer for Drafthouse Films’ release of the 1979 sci-fi epic The Visitor

Posted 13 years ago

The phantasmagoric 1979 sci-fi/horror hybrid, THE VISITOR, will celebrate the first-time theatrical release of the full-length cut of the film starting this weekend in a dozen cities, including Austin and Los Angeles, before rolling out to New York on November...

Drafthouse Films bringing remastered horror epic The Visitor to theaters this Halloween; VOD/DVD/Blu-ray set for early 2014

Posted 13 years ago

Earlier this year we brought you the news that Drafthouse Films would be bringing us a remastered and uncut version of 1979's phantasmagorical sci-fi oddity THE VISITOR, a strange little film that mashed up elements from THE OMEN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS...

Drafthouse Films revives The Visitor; HD-restored release set for this year

Posted 13 years ago

Do you remember 1979's phantasmagorical sci-fi oddity THE VISITOR? It was a strange little film that mashed up elements from THE OMEN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE BIRDS, ROSEMARY'S BABY, THE FURY and STAR WARS into something truly...

Will Smith will try to play cowboy again in a contemporary remake of The Wild Bunch

Posted 13 years ago

Will Smith may have killed the big screen western when he made the god awful WILD, WILD WEST back in 1999, but he is going to give the genre one more try, albeit a modernized one, if plans work out...

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