Damages

It’s become a major source of frustration for theater actors—those plum roles in Broadway and off-Broadway plays going to movie and television stars. Then again, it has brought people to the theater who, let’s face it, would normally be perfectly happy staying home, saving the money, and watching Dancing With the Stars. In this respect, Yasmina Reza’s God of Carnage—about two Brooklyn couples who are brought together after one of their sons knocks two teeth out of the other’s head—hits the motherlode. It stars James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Jeff Daniels, and Hope Davis, and there was not an empty seat in the house. For the audience last night at the Jacobs theater, getting to see Harden (most recently seen in the phenomenal Damages), America’s favorite gangster, the jerky husband from Terms of Endearment, and that somewhat familiar indie actress tear into

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The Eighth Annual Tribeca Film Festival is currently in-progress in New York City (through May 3), and the Fangoria crew is out in force. While you can look for expanded reviews and coverage from the fest to roll out over the next week, we've got our first exclusive video direct from the World Premier of Hysterical Psycho.
Fango's own Michael Gingold caught up with actor Dan Fogler (Fanboys, Balls Of Fury) who donned the writer/director cap for the first time with the film. In addition, actors Ariel Shafir (Bride Wars), Noah Bean (Damages, Fringe), and Randy Baruh joined in to discuss their experiences making this satirical tale of a theatre group faced with evil in a "cabin in the woods."


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Deadwood star Timothy Olyphant is returning to the world of cable television. The actor, who recently appeared on the second season of the FX series Damages, has signed on to star in the network’s upcoming drama pilot based on Elmore Leonard's short story Fire in the Hole. The untitled project, from Sony TV,Timberman/Beverly Productions and creator/executive producer Graham Yost, centers on U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Olyphant) who returns to his hometown in Kentucky. Yost, whose written such flicks as Speed, Broken Arrow and Hard Rain, previously created the short-lived television series Raines, starring Jeff Goldblum, and Boomtown, starring Donnie Wahlberg and Neal McDonough. Yost said he was interested in Olyphant from the get-go because he could see him as an Elmore Leonard character, just like the two actors who, in his opinion, have best embodied Leonard personages on the big screen: George Clooney in
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