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Shane Black is shaping up to be Sony Pictures’ go-to guy for pulp adventures.
Aug. 21, 2014
Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival, stars of “The Predator” addressed director Shane Black’s decision to cast registered sex offender Steven Wilder Striegel in the film and praised Olivia Munn for speaking out about the move, which prompted a last-minute recut made public in a report by the Los Angeles Times.
Sept. 8, 2018
Twentieth Century Fox was just days away from locking picture on “The Predator” when an urgent note came in: Delete the scene featuring Steven Wilder Striegel.
Sept. 6, 2018
Entertainment & Arts
Another director has come forth to testify on the lasting effects of Fox’s “Deadpool.”
May 17, 2016
“The Predator” is unmistakably a Shane Black movie, right from the opening scene of its camouflaged sniper hero (Boyd Holbrook) wisecracking amid the nighttime flora.
Sept. 7, 2018
May 1, 2013
The Los Angeles Film Festival’s Sunday “Coffee Talks” panels on June 16 are scheduled to feature “Iron Man 3” director/co-writer Shane Black and actors Joe Manganiello (“True Blood”) and Virgina Madsen (“Sideways”).
June 4, 2013
A slasher classic at the New Beverly, “Shane” at the Academy Museum with Christopher Nolan, and David Cronenberg’s immortal “The Dead Zone” at the Los Feliz 3.
Dec. 8, 2023
More than once in “The Predator,” a slicked-up, snarked-out piece of action-comedy bloodletting from the writer-director Shane Black, the characters pause to debate whether their enemy really deserves the name he’s been given.
Sept. 12, 2018
World & Nation
The move to cut the size of America’s armed forces after the end of the Cold War is expected to narrow job opportunities sharply for a segment of American society that can least afford it: the nation’s black youths.
Sept. 24, 1991