Tag: Carpenter

15 FEB

David Boreanaz Breaks Silence, Offers Charisma Carpenter His ‘Support’ in Wake of Joss Whedon Allegations

RELATED STORIES David Boreanaz has offered a pledge of public support to Charisma Carpenter, just days after his former costar detailed the “toxic” and “hostile” abuse she allegedly suffered under Buffyverse auteur Joss Whedon. Though Carpenter — who played Cordelia Chase on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spinoff Angel — has alluded to her […]

01 NOV

The Right Stuff’s James Lafferty Talks Flight Order Reveal and Why He Was ‘Born to Play’ Scott Carpenter

RELATED STORIES The Right Stuff has selected its first three astronauts to take flight, and unfortunately for Mercury Seven hopeful Scott Carpenter, he wasn’t among the chosen trio in this past Friday’s episode of the Disney+ drama. With Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom and John Glenn picked to head into space, in that order, it “absolutely” […]

03 OCT

John Carpenter Prefers Playing Video Games to Directing, Thank You Very Much

Will John Carpenter ever direct a feature film again? Maybe. What John Carpenter would really like to do, though, is play video games and watch basketball. As great as it would be to have a new Carpenter movie, who are we to deny the legendary filmmaker the simple pleasures he craves? Still, Carpenter says there’s always […]

24 NOV

The Water Cooler: John Carpenter in Concert, an Incredible Magic Show, and Buzzfeed Unsolved

Welcome to The Water Cooler, a weekly feature where the /Film staff is free to go off-topic and talk about everything except the movies and TV shows they normally write about. In this edition: Chris Evangelista sees John Carpenter in concert, Peter Sciretta attends a David Copperfield show, Jacob Hall plays Hidden Agenda, Hoai-Tran Bui watches Buzzfeed Unsolved, and Ethan […]

25 OCT

John Carpenter Coming Out of Retirement For ‘Tales For a Halloween Night’ TV Pilot

Horror fans, rejoice! John Carpenter, the filmmaker behind iconic classics like Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China and Escape From New York, is coming out of retirement to direct again. The filmmaker hasn’t directed a narrative feature in seven years, but he’ll get back in the director’s chair for the pilot episode of the anthology series Tales for a […]

13 OCT

John Carpenter Will Create ‘Halloween’ Reboot Score; Trent Reznor to Release New ‘Halloween’ Theme

Not only is John Carpenter an iconic horror movie director, he’s also created some of the most memorable horror movie soundtracks in film history. Carpenter’s moody, synth-heavy music has often been imitated by never duplicated, and now the filmmaker is set to return to the soundtrack game with the score for the new reboot of […]

13 SEP

Blumhouse Promises New ‘Halloween’ Movie in 2018, John Carpenter Wants to Score

It’s been years since fans of horror maestro John Carpenter‘s Halloween franchise have been truly thrilled with a new entry in the series, and now we know they’ll only have to wait one more year to see if that streak is broken. Producer Jason Blum, the CEO of the budget-conscious and incredibly successful Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The […]

17 AUG

As Charisma Carpenter and Julie Benz Brace to Do Battle, BFFs Talk Dunk Tank Fears, Female Unity and Angel Bites

ABC’s Battle of the Network Stars will be touched by Angel when both Charisma Carpenter and Julie Benz have field days on the rebooted competition series. The Buffyverse alumni will not find themselves on opposite ends of a tug-of-war — Carpenter is part of the “Sci-Fi/Fantasy” team aiming to collar “TV Cops” this Thursday at 9/8c, while […]