Serbian producer Milos Antic has acquired the film rights to late director Sam Peckinpah’s screenplay 'Castaway' from the Peckinpah Estate, and he is planning to produce a feature based on the script ...

The maverick director brought him to America, and he went on to cut features including 'Turner and Hooch,' 'Soapdish,' 'My Best Friend's Wedding' and 'Legally Blonde.' By Mike Barnes Senior Editor ...

The Sam Peckinpah film series, which began in October and continues on Thursdays through December 16, is now at the halfway point. The presentation has been a revelation because it has provided the ...

How’s this for true grit? Famously combative, alcoholic, and drug-addled filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (The Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs) is, as Chevy Chase might joke, “still dead” (he passed away in 1984 at the ...

When Fox remade John Ford's "Stagecoach" in 1966, the studio took out a full-page notice in <I>Variety</I> warning that anyone caught exhibiting the original "will be vigorously prosecuted." Don't ...

The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, announced today that it has acquired what its curators describe as “a significant collection of items and archives” from the ...

I’m on one of my periodic Sam Peckinpah benders. (“You call that a bender?” I can hear Sam sneer, as he gestures scornfully to my beer bottle with way too little ullage.) The trigger this time was a ...

Master of the old Western film Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 classic “The Wild Bunch” remains, to this day, one of the most memorable (and sometimes gory) movies of its type. Master of the old Western film Sam ...

There are a few dozen books out there about legendary filmmaker Sam Peckinpah, director of such grittily violent Westerns in the 1960s and ’70s as The Wild Bunch, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, and ...

Over the past few weeks, the Film Center at New York’s Lincoln Center screened all 14 movies by maverick film director Sam Peckinpah. Peckinpah may be less revered than Stanley Kubrick or Martin ...

The title of the four-movie/six-disc set Sam Peckinpah's The Legendary Westerns Collection implies that these are the essential Peckinpah Westerns, and though fans of the director's cult TV series The ...