Richard Linklater
  • Zac Efron fancies himself 'Footloose'-free

    ...appeared as a guest star for various TV dramas, in the short-lived "Summerland," the to-be-released Richard Linklater film "Me and Orson Welles" with Claire Danes and the comedy " 17 Again ," which hits......

  • Zac Efron's 'Footloose' Dancing Forward

    ...the current hit "HSM3" and the next spring's "17 Again," Efron will be seen in a more dramatic role in Richard Linklater 's "Me and Orson Welles ."...

  • 'School of Rock' Sequel Preparing to Roll

    ...is working on sequelizing his original script with the tentative title "School of Rock 2: America Rocks." Richard Linklater is attached to direct and, as you might imagine, Jack Black would return as rocker-turned-substitute......

  • Appendix Gone, Zac Efron's Feeling 'Welles'

    ... , Efron will play the lead role in the coming-of-age drama "Me and Orson Welles" from director Richard Linklater ("Before Sunset"). Scripted by Holly Gent Palmo, "Me and Orson Welles" is set in 1937 and focuses on......

  • 'Fast Food Nation'

    The question is not "Where's the beef?" In director Richard Linklater 's "Fast Food Nation," the questions are more about who cut up the cow that turned into the patty; where the cutters and......

  • Giamatti May Play Philip K. Dick

    ...Minority Report." Then again, "Screamers," "Imposter" and "Paycheck" all started from Dick works as well. Richard Linklater 's adaptation of Dick's "A Scanner Darkly" is now in theaters and next up is a version of Dick's "Next......

  • Willis Sues Former Friend for Extortion

    ...Blocks," "Lucky Number Slevin" and as the voice of a raccoon in "Over the Hedge." He next appears in the Richard Linklater -directed adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book "Fast Food Nation," to be released in October....

  • 'A Scanner Darkly'

    ...the many movies of his stories (notably 1982's "Blade Runner"), though few of them are the pure stuff. Richard Linklater 's film of "A Scanner Darkly" comes close, though. It's one of the most faithful movie adaptations of any......

  • The Challenges of Scanning 'A Scanner Darkly'

    ...the first really true adaptation of a Philip K. Dick work." Reeves is referring to "A Scanner Darkly," Richard Linklater 's new Dick adaptation, a complicatedly dystopic fable about an undercover cop (Reeves) whose investigations......

  • News and Notes from the L.A. Film Festival

    ...love story and it feels, at its very best, like Richard Linklater 's brilliant "Before Sunset," my favorite...last week, he told me, "I'm trying to stalk Richard Linklater while he's here... I wrote him this letter like......

  • Three American Films Make Cannes Cut

    Sofia Coppola , Richard Linklater and Richard Kelly are the three American filmmakers who will have projects in competition at next month's Cannes Film Festival......