Robbie Knott, who worked on special effects for such films as The Muppet Movie, Field of Dreams and The Nutty Professor remake before a scuba-diving accident ended his career, has died. He was 73.
Knott died June 29 in Portland, Oregon, his son, Brian, told The Hollywood Reporter. His death was due to complications from the accident that occurred in 2006 during a visit to Micronesia, when Knott got the bends and became paralyzed from the waist down, he said.
Knott helped build the giant Animal puppet with a 15-foot head that came crashing through a roof after accidentally ingesting one ...
Knott died June 29 in Portland, Oregon, his son, Brian, told The Hollywood Reporter. His death was due to complications from the accident that occurred in 2006 during a visit to Micronesia, when Knott got the bends and became paralyzed from the waist down, he said.
Knott helped build the giant Animal puppet with a 15-foot head that came crashing through a roof after accidentally ingesting one ...
- 7/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robbie Knott, who worked on special effects for such films as The Muppet Movie, Field of Dreams and The Nutty Professor remake before a scuba-diving accident ended his career, has died. He was 73.
Knott died June 29 in Portland, Oregon, his son, Brian, told The Hollywood Reporter. His death was due to complications from the accident that occurred in 2006 during a visit to Micronesia, when Knott got the bends and became paralyzed from the waist down, he said.
Knott helped build the giant Animal puppet with a 15-foot head that came crashing through a roof after accidentally ingesting one ...
Knott died June 29 in Portland, Oregon, his son, Brian, told The Hollywood Reporter. His death was due to complications from the accident that occurred in 2006 during a visit to Micronesia, when Knott got the bends and became paralyzed from the waist down, he said.
Knott helped build the giant Animal puppet with a 15-foot head that came crashing through a roof after accidentally ingesting one ...
- 7/10/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Plus… Screen Media Ventures gets Us rights to Yellow and Red Entertainment lines up Navy Seal biopic
Chinese producer-distributor Fundamental Films has partnered with Stan Lee Global Entertainment on Realm to star Li Bingbing. Details of Lee’s first Chinese female superhero are expected to emerge shortly.
Bingbing will also produce alongside Gill Champion from Stan Lee Global Entertainment and Gregory Ouanhon of Fundamental, who will oversee production on behalf of their companies. Fundamental’s Gary Glushon is executive producer.
Screen Media Ventures has signed a deal with Moon River in association with Magna Entertainment to handle Us distribution and international sales on Nick Cassavetes’ dark comedy Yellow starring Sienna Miller, Heather Wahlquist and Ray Liotta.
Red Entertainment has hired Robert Knott to write the authorised Bradley Snyder biopic. Red Sanders and Los Angeles-based Red Entertainment will produce the story about the former Navy Seal who went on to become a gold medal paralympic swimmer.
Magnolia Pictures has hired...
Chinese producer-distributor Fundamental Films has partnered with Stan Lee Global Entertainment on Realm to star Li Bingbing. Details of Lee’s first Chinese female superhero are expected to emerge shortly.
Bingbing will also produce alongside Gill Champion from Stan Lee Global Entertainment and Gregory Ouanhon of Fundamental, who will oversee production on behalf of their companies. Fundamental’s Gary Glushon is executive producer.
Screen Media Ventures has signed a deal with Moon River in association with Magna Entertainment to handle Us distribution and international sales on Nick Cassavetes’ dark comedy Yellow starring Sienna Miller, Heather Wahlquist and Ray Liotta.
Red Entertainment has hired Robert Knott to write the authorised Bradley Snyder biopic. Red Sanders and Los Angeles-based Red Entertainment will produce the story about the former Navy Seal who went on to become a gold medal paralympic swimmer.
Magnolia Pictures has hired...
- 10/28/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
"Breaking Bad" and "Revolution" actor Giancarlo Esposito has lined up historical drama "Patriotic Treason" as his next directorial effort.
Ed Harris is set to star as radical abolitionist John Brown who lead the 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry. Brown hoped the attack would ignite a slave uprising.
Instead it left eleven dead and led to Brown’s capture, after which he was found guilty of treason and hanged. The notoriety of his violent attacks are credited with sparking the Civil War.
Esposito will also star in the project as Frederick Douglass, a freed slave-turned-abolitionist and orator who declined to join the Harper’s Ferry attack.
Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries," "On The Road") adapted the script from Evan Carton's 2006 book. Esposito, Keith Sweitzer, Robert Knott, Jesse Singer and David Johnson will produce. Filming aims to begin early in the Summer.
Source: TV Week...
Ed Harris is set to star as radical abolitionist John Brown who lead the 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry. Brown hoped the attack would ignite a slave uprising.
Instead it left eleven dead and led to Brown’s capture, after which he was found guilty of treason and hanged. The notoriety of his violent attacks are credited with sparking the Civil War.
Esposito will also star in the project as Frederick Douglass, a freed slave-turned-abolitionist and orator who declined to join the Harper’s Ferry attack.
Jose Rivera ("Motorcycle Diaries," "On The Road") adapted the script from Evan Carton's 2006 book. Esposito, Keith Sweitzer, Robert Knott, Jesse Singer and David Johnson will produce. Filming aims to begin early in the Summer.
Source: TV Week...
- 11/21/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
FX is moving forward with its TV series adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain" novel trilogy. The cable network has given the project a thirteen episode order.
del Toro, Hogan and Carlton Cuse will produce the vampire drama which is aiming for a July 2014 premiere. Cuse will also serve as show runner.
FX has also begun development of "Desperadoes," a six-hour miniseries based on Ron Hansen's 1979 novel about Old West outlaws the Dalton Brothers. Robert Knott is penning and executive producing the project alongside Josh Maurer and Alixandre Witlin.
The Dalton Brothers gang specialized in bank and train robberies and the mini-series chronicles their infamous crime spree in the 1890s, as seen through the eyes of the youngest brother Emmett Dalton.
Source: FX...
del Toro, Hogan and Carlton Cuse will produce the vampire drama which is aiming for a July 2014 premiere. Cuse will also serve as show runner.
FX has also begun development of "Desperadoes," a six-hour miniseries based on Ron Hansen's 1979 novel about Old West outlaws the Dalton Brothers. Robert Knott is penning and executive producing the project alongside Josh Maurer and Alixandre Witlin.
The Dalton Brothers gang specialized in bank and train robberies and the mini-series chronicles their infamous crime spree in the 1890s, as seen through the eyes of the youngest brother Emmett Dalton.
Source: FX...
- 11/19/2013
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
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