What’s your favorite Pulp Fiction scene? There are so, so many to choose from, but did you know the most complicated (and expensive) scene to shoot was one of the movie’s most celebrated, non-violent moments? Indeed, today we break down the iconic Jack Rabbit Slim’s scene from Quentin Tarantino’s smash 1994 hit- Pulp Fiction. The film follows multiple characters that are seemingly unrelated as their paths intertwine in various ways. At the center of the film is Vincent Vega (John Travolta)- a hitman and enforcer for a local crime boss. Vincent is asked by his employer to take his wife out on the town so she doesn’t get lonely while he’s away on business. Enter Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) as the gorgeous and somewhat mysterious wife.
What ensues is a platonic date that feels like a nice break from the film’s otherwise violent and gritty tone.
What ensues is a platonic date that feels like a nice break from the film’s otherwise violent and gritty tone.
- 5/16/2024
- by Kier Gomes
- JoBlo.com
Uma Thurman reunited with her Pulp Fiction co-stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Harvey Keitel on Thursday to celebrate the film’s 30th anniversary as part of the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival opening night.
Thurman joined the cast of the 1994 Quentin Tarantino independent crime film as Mia Wallace—the role that catapulted her to stardom.
30 years later, Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Mia Wallace remains iconic, a testament to a role that was highly contested but became hers, defining a generation at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival (Credit: Miramax Films)
During the casting process for Mia Wallace in “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino and Miramax considered numerous actresses, including Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Halle Berry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Holly Hunter, Alfre Woodard, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was Tarantino’s preferred choice and auditioned for the role.
In the end, Thurman won the part, earning her an...
Thurman joined the cast of the 1994 Quentin Tarantino independent crime film as Mia Wallace—the role that catapulted her to stardom.
30 years later, Uma Thurman’s portrayal of Mia Wallace remains iconic, a testament to a role that was highly contested but became hers, defining a generation at the 2024 TCM Classic Film Festival (Credit: Miramax Films)
During the casting process for Mia Wallace in “Pulp Fiction,” Tarantino and Miramax considered numerous actresses, including Isabella Rossellini, Meg Ryan, Daryl Hannah, Joan Cusack, Kate Beckinsale, Halle Berry, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Holly Hunter, Alfre Woodard, and Michelle Pfeiffer, who was Tarantino’s preferred choice and auditioned for the role.
In the end, Thurman won the part, earning her an...
- 4/22/2024
- by Anne De Guia
- Your Next Shoes
It may be hard to believe, but it has been 30 years since Pulp Fiction changed the landscape of cinema both independent and mainstream, taking home the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, earning seven Oscar nods and going on to be one of the most heralded American films ever. To celebrate the occasion, some of the cast gathered for an event to help open this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival. One attendee was Vincent Vega himself, John Travolta, who remembered just what Pulp Fiction means to fans and himself.
Speaking with People on the red carpet, John Travolta commended the ongoing support of Pulp Fiction, suggesting it may not have landed in a different era. “It was epic and it evolved. The audiences made this movie what it was, and it wasn’t overnight. It took about a year of evolution. In those days, movies stayed in the theaters for a year.
Speaking with People on the red carpet, John Travolta commended the ongoing support of Pulp Fiction, suggesting it may not have landed in a different era. “It was epic and it evolved. The audiences made this movie what it was, and it wasn’t overnight. It took about a year of evolution. In those days, movies stayed in the theaters for a year.
- 4/19/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most talented filmmakers in the industry. Turning cinema into a lifestyle; he lives, breathes, and exists in movies. Not only is he an expert when it comes to films from all times, but his own works also reflect a level of understanding of his characters that is very rarely seen. His films can only be called masterpieces, telling stories with so many different layers that a viewer could get lost and end up finding themself.
Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction
The one project that best encompasses these traits and helped lay the foundation of his career was Pulp Fiction. The 1994 film was a compilation of all the highlights and cliches throughout Hollywood and kickstarted a new era of cinema that changed everything.
The impact that the film had can especially be credited to the attention to detail that Tarantino puts in his films. There...
Quentin Tarantino in Pulp Fiction
The one project that best encompasses these traits and helped lay the foundation of his career was Pulp Fiction. The 1994 film was a compilation of all the highlights and cliches throughout Hollywood and kickstarted a new era of cinema that changed everything.
The impact that the film had can especially be credited to the attention to detail that Tarantino puts in his films. There...
- 2/14/2024
- by Ananya Godboley
- FandomWire
Quentin Tarantino has been known for his storytelling as much as he’s been known for his filmmaking. Martin Scorsese, a prolific director in his own right, believed that actually writing films was the one thing Tarantino did that he couldn’t.
Martin Scorsese would’ve loved to be able to create like Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Tarantino has always fancied himself as much of a writer as he is a director. His filmography is almost entirely full of movies he’s penned from scratch with the exception of Jackie Brown. The director often pulls from a very personal place for his stories, which may partially explain why he’s rarely filmed other writers’ scripts.
“All my movies are achingly personal,” Tarantino once told The Telegraph. “People who really know me can see that in my work. In a film, I may be talking about a bomb in a theatre,...
Martin Scorsese would’ve loved to be able to create like Quentin Tarantino Quentin Tarantino | Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
Tarantino has always fancied himself as much of a writer as he is a director. His filmography is almost entirely full of movies he’s penned from scratch with the exception of Jackie Brown. The director often pulls from a very personal place for his stories, which may partially explain why he’s rarely filmed other writers’ scripts.
“All my movies are achingly personal,” Tarantino once told The Telegraph. “People who really know me can see that in my work. In a film, I may be talking about a bomb in a theatre,...
- 12/26/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Artists don’t always appreciate other artists. Quentin Tarantino was a massive fan of Elvis Presley but not The Beatles. On top of that, he preferred a band that’s often accused of copying The Beatles to The Beatles themselves.
Quentin Tarantino rejected The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and many other rock stars
In the 2022 book Cinema Speculation, Tarantino discussed learning about music history from his friend Floyd. “I was all ears about this firsthand rock ‘n’ roll history, because I wasn’t into ’70s white-boy rock,” he said. “I didn’t give a f*** about Kiss, I didn’t give a f*** about Aerosmith, I didn’t give a f*** about Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath or Jethro Tull. I didn’t own Frampton Comes Alive! I openly rejected that entire culture.
“At 16, I think I heard of Bruce Springsteen, but I’d never heard Bruce Springsteen,” he added.
Quentin Tarantino rejected The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and many other rock stars
In the 2022 book Cinema Speculation, Tarantino discussed learning about music history from his friend Floyd. “I was all ears about this firsthand rock ‘n’ roll history, because I wasn’t into ’70s white-boy rock,” he said. “I didn’t give a f*** about Kiss, I didn’t give a f*** about Aerosmith, I didn’t give a f*** about Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath or Jethro Tull. I didn’t own Frampton Comes Alive! I openly rejected that entire culture.
“At 16, I think I heard of Bruce Springsteen, but I’d never heard Bruce Springsteen,” he added.
- 12/15/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Artists don’t always appreciate other artists. Quentin Tarantino was a massive fan of Elvis Presley but not The Beatles. On top of that, he preferred a band that’s often accused of copying The Beatles to The Beatles themselves.
Quentin Tarantino rejected The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and many other rock stars
In the 2022 book Cinema Speculation, Tarantino discussed learning about music history from his friend Floyd. “I was all ears about this firsthand rock ‘n’ roll history, because I wasn’t into ’70s white-boy rock,” he said. “I didn’t give a f*** about Kiss, I didn’t give a f*** about Aerosmith, I didn’t give a f*** about Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath or Jethro Tull. I didn’t own Frampton Comes Alive! I openly rejected that entire culture.
“At 16, I think I heard of Bruce Springsteen, but I’d never heard Bruce Springsteen,” he added.
Quentin Tarantino rejected The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, and many other rock stars
In the 2022 book Cinema Speculation, Tarantino discussed learning about music history from his friend Floyd. “I was all ears about this firsthand rock ‘n’ roll history, because I wasn’t into ’70s white-boy rock,” he said. “I didn’t give a f*** about Kiss, I didn’t give a f*** about Aerosmith, I didn’t give a f*** about Alice Cooper or Black Sabbath or Jethro Tull. I didn’t own Frampton Comes Alive! I openly rejected that entire culture.
“At 16, I think I heard of Bruce Springsteen, but I’d never heard Bruce Springsteen,” he added.
- 12/15/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Quentin Tarantino has helmed many popular movies over the past three decades, but his 1994 crime drama Pulp Fiction is possibly the most beloved. The film not only put Tarantino on the map as Hollywood’s newest hitmaker, but it also revived John Travolta’s career, proving that he could headline a major movie, even after a lengthy gap in his resume.
There are a number of memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction, but the dance sequence between Travolta’s Vincent Vega and Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace is the most iconic. Interestingly enough, Tarantino was inspired by a Disney animated classic when coming up with the concept for the sequence.
‘Pulp Fiction’ became a major critical and commercial success
Tarantino was new on the scene when he wrote and directed Pulp Fiction. While his first movie, Reservoir Dogs, was critically praised, Pulp Fiction made him a star.
The plot, which occurs out of chronological order,...
There are a number of memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction, but the dance sequence between Travolta’s Vincent Vega and Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace is the most iconic. Interestingly enough, Tarantino was inspired by a Disney animated classic when coming up with the concept for the sequence.
‘Pulp Fiction’ became a major critical and commercial success
Tarantino was new on the scene when he wrote and directed Pulp Fiction. While his first movie, Reservoir Dogs, was critically praised, Pulp Fiction made him a star.
The plot, which occurs out of chronological order,...
- 8/17/2023
- by Suse Forrest
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Adapting the biography of a singular figure is hard enough, but how do you adapt the autobiography of a band? Bassist Nikki Sixx, guitarist Mick Mars, drummer Tommy Lee, and Vince Neil joined forces to make Mötley Crüe, one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and well-documented hedonist troublemakers.
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
In 2001, all four members of the band along with Neil Strauss released an autobiography called "The Dirt," describing the group as "the world's most notorious rock band." The book shot to the top 10 on the New York Times Best Seller list and stayed there for 10 weeks. On a personal note, I used the book as the subject of my own freshman year biography project book report in 2004, when I showed up to school dressed like Nikki Sixx and delivered my presentation in full character ... much to my teacher's chagrin.
In 2019, Netflix adapted "The Dirt" with "Jackass" creator and director Jeff Tremaine at the helm,...
- 8/13/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja, is coming back to the screens after the maternity break, will be soon seen in the upcoming crime drama ‘Blind’ in which she will essay the lead character who is visually impaired.
The trailer of ‘Blind’ was unveiled on Thursday and it presents a riveting tale of a blind girl, played by Sonam, who helps unravel a crime committed by Purab Kohli’s character.
Clocking 2 minutes in length, the trailer starts off with the reference to ‘Pulp Fiction’, as a woman named Mia Wallace goes missing. Sonam’s character goes to the authorities to report the missing woman saying that she has a strong feeling that the taxi she boarded had the girl in its boot. From there begins the cat and mouse chase with hints of Sonam’s house invasion.
‘Blind’ also stars Vinay Pathak, Lilette Dubey, and Shubham Saraf, and has been directed by Shome Makhija.
The trailer of ‘Blind’ was unveiled on Thursday and it presents a riveting tale of a blind girl, played by Sonam, who helps unravel a crime committed by Purab Kohli’s character.
Clocking 2 minutes in length, the trailer starts off with the reference to ‘Pulp Fiction’, as a woman named Mia Wallace goes missing. Sonam’s character goes to the authorities to report the missing woman saying that she has a strong feeling that the taxi she boarded had the girl in its boot. From there begins the cat and mouse chase with hints of Sonam’s house invasion.
‘Blind’ also stars Vinay Pathak, Lilette Dubey, and Shubham Saraf, and has been directed by Shome Makhija.
- 6/29/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Quentin Tarantino has created a roster of unique and memorable characters in his films. But earlier in his career, he confided that his most interesting character was perhaps his most overlooked.
Quentin Tarantino on the most interesting character he’s ever written Quentin Tarantino | Loic Venance/Getty Images
Tarantino’s most interesting character used to be one he didn’t know how he created in the first place. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, the director confided that none of his characters were as unique as Mia Wallace. The character was the wife of a drug kingpin in Tarantino’s classic Pulp Fiction. What made her interesting was that her existence was a bit of a mystery for the movie maker
“Because I have no idea where she came from. I have no idea whatsoever. She’s not from another movie, she’s not somebody I know, she’s not a fantasy girl,...
Quentin Tarantino on the most interesting character he’s ever written Quentin Tarantino | Loic Venance/Getty Images
Tarantino’s most interesting character used to be one he didn’t know how he created in the first place. In an interview with Creative Screenwriting, the director confided that none of his characters were as unique as Mia Wallace. The character was the wife of a drug kingpin in Tarantino’s classic Pulp Fiction. What made her interesting was that her existence was a bit of a mystery for the movie maker
“Because I have no idea where she came from. I have no idea whatsoever. She’s not from another movie, she’s not somebody I know, she’s not a fantasy girl,...
- 6/12/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
"This movie could never be made today" is an increasingly familiar refrain in our fractious times. As our society grows more diverse, and we reckon with the racism and sexism of less enlightened eras, some crotchety members of the old guard have a tendency to throw up their hands and lament that an assortment of classic films with perceived problematic content would never make it past development in modern Hollywood.
In certain, screamingly obvious cases, this is a very good thing. D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," a virulently racist movie that celebrates the Ku Klux Klan's heroic lynching of a freed slave would be a one-way ticket to infamy (or a three-picture deal with The Daily Wire). The mere notion of Walt Disney's "Song of the South" would probably result in the creator being ousted from his own company (and maybe offered a gig as the chief...
In certain, screamingly obvious cases, this is a very good thing. D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," a virulently racist movie that celebrates the Ku Klux Klan's heroic lynching of a freed slave would be a one-way ticket to infamy (or a three-picture deal with The Daily Wire). The mere notion of Walt Disney's "Song of the South" would probably result in the creator being ousted from his own company (and maybe offered a gig as the chief...
- 1/7/2023
- by Jeremy Smith
- Slash Film
Six actors, excluding the non-canon takes in Casino Royale (1967), have put on James Bond’s tux and holstered his Walther Ppk. That number will only grow as future film adventures unfold. In fact, the search is already on for the next 007 following Daniel Craig’s departure.
However, as many performers have taken on Bond himself, there are even more who have filled the role of the dastardly villain trying to bring him down. From Christopher Walken’s scenery chewing Max Zorin in A View to a Kill to Mads Mikkelsen’s starkly terrifying Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), there’s no denying the 007 franchise has some of the best baddies in cinema history. But 60 years since his debut, the secret agent has defeated virtually every kind of evil mastermind there is, and it’ll be up to Bond 26 to refresh the formula for a new era of stories. As...
However, as many performers have taken on Bond himself, there are even more who have filled the role of the dastardly villain trying to bring him down. From Christopher Walken’s scenery chewing Max Zorin in A View to a Kill to Mads Mikkelsen’s starkly terrifying Le Chiffre in Casino Royale (2006), there’s no denying the 007 franchise has some of the best baddies in cinema history. But 60 years since his debut, the secret agent has defeated virtually every kind of evil mastermind there is, and it’ll be up to Bond 26 to refresh the formula for a new era of stories. As...
- 12/8/2022
- by John Saavedra
- Den of Geek
Paris-based company Indie Sales (“My Life as a Zucchini”) has scored a raft of pre-sales on “Richard the Stork 2,” the sequel of the hit animated feature about a daring little sparrow that traveled to 155 countries.
The company is introducing the project to buyers at the AFM with an exclusive promo reel. Directed by Mette Rank Tange and Benjamin Quabeck, “Richard the Stork 2” has already pre-sold to a flurry of territories, including Finland and Scandinavia (Sf Studios), France (Paradis/Orange Studio), Germany/Austria/Switzerland (Wild Bunch Germany), Israel (Five Stars), Turkey (Filmarti), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), ex-Yugoslavia (Karantanija), as well as Cis (Nashe Kino) and the Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio Irasai).
The first film, “Richard the Stork,” was released in North America as “A Stork’s Journey” and grossed over 20 million worldwide.
The sequel follows Richard, a sparrow who was adopted by a stork family and is wintering at the Great Lake in...
The company is introducing the project to buyers at the AFM with an exclusive promo reel. Directed by Mette Rank Tange and Benjamin Quabeck, “Richard the Stork 2” has already pre-sold to a flurry of territories, including Finland and Scandinavia (Sf Studios), France (Paradis/Orange Studio), Germany/Austria/Switzerland (Wild Bunch Germany), Israel (Five Stars), Turkey (Filmarti), Portugal (Nos Lusomundo), ex-Yugoslavia (Karantanija), as well as Cis (Nashe Kino) and the Baltics (Garsu Pasaulio Irasai).
The first film, “Richard the Stork,” was released in North America as “A Stork’s Journey” and grossed over 20 million worldwide.
The sequel follows Richard, a sparrow who was adopted by a stork family and is wintering at the Great Lake in...
- 11/2/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Actress Uma Thurman (“Kill Bill”) poses for “Vogue” (Spain) magazine, photographed by Tess Ayano:
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role in the NBC musical...
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role in the NBC musical...
- 4/14/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Actress Uma Thurman (“Kill Bill”) poses for “Vogue” (Spain) magazine, photographed by Tess Ayano:
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role in the NBC musical...
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role in the NBC musical...
- 3/26/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Actress Uma Thurman (“Kill Bill”) poses for the latest issue of “Vogue (Spain)” magazine, photographed by Tess Ayano:
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role...
Following her first appearances on the December 1985 and May 1986 covers of “British Vogue”, Thurman's breakthrough role was “Dangerous Liaisons” (1988).
She played ‘Mia Wallace’ in director Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film “Pulp Fiction”, for which she was nominated for the ‘Academy Award’.
She reunited with Tarantino to play the main role of ‘The Bride’ in “Kill Bill: Volume 1” (2003) and “Kill Bill: Volume 2” (2004).
Thurman’s other notable films include “Henry & June” (1990), “The Truth About Cats & Dogs” (1996), “Batman & Robin” (1997), “Gattaca” (1997), “Les Misérables” (1998), “Paycheck” (2003), “The Producers” (2005), “My Super Ex-Girlfriend” (2006), “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief “(2013), “Nymphomaniac” (2013) and “The House That Jack Built” (2018).
For her performance in the HBO film “Hysterical Blindness” (2002), Thurman won the ‘Golden Globe Award’ for ‘Best Actress in a Television Film’ and for her five-episode role...
- 3/3/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
One of the tensest scenes in "Pulp Fiction" is the literal adrenaline shot that comes in the chapter entitled, "Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace's Wife." Vincent and Mia Wallace, played by John Travolta and Uma Thurman, have just come back from a date filled with milkshakes and dancing at the retro Jack Rabbit Slim's. Mia is wearing his coat, and while she's in the bathroom, she finds a bag of heroin in the pocket. Mistaking it for cocaine, she snorts it and overdoses.
Thus, we get the scene where Vincent drives Mia to the house of his drug dealer, Lance (Eric Stoltz), and has to plunge a...
The post How Pulp Fiction's Adrenaline Shot Scene Was Inspired By Martin Scorsese appeared first on /Film.
Thus, we get the scene where Vincent drives Mia to the house of his drug dealer, Lance (Eric Stoltz), and has to plunge a...
The post How Pulp Fiction's Adrenaline Shot Scene Was Inspired By Martin Scorsese appeared first on /Film.
- 12/15/2021
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
The image of Uma Thurman in the poster for "Pulp Fiction," lounging in black bob hair as her character, Mia Wallace — with a gun, cigarettes, and pulpy reading material — is one of the most iconic movie marketing images of all time. It's also been the subject of a lawsuit and copyright battle between Miramax Films and Firooz Zahedi, the photographer who snapped the picture of Thurman featured in that poster. Now, a judge has ruled in favor of Miramax.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zahedi shot the photo of Thurman at his private studio in April 1994 and was suing Miramax "for using the image on 'untold thousands of...
The post Miramax Prevails in Copyright Battle Over Pulp Fiction Poster appeared first on /Film.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Zahedi shot the photo of Thurman at his private studio in April 1994 and was suing Miramax "for using the image on 'untold thousands of...
The post Miramax Prevails in Copyright Battle Over Pulp Fiction Poster appeared first on /Film.
- 11/30/2021
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
Uma Thurman will join the cast of Showtime’s Super Pumped. The Oscar and Emmy-nominated actress is set to appear opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Kyle Chandler in the first installment of an anthology series from Billions co-creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien.
Based on Mike Isaac’s bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, Showtime’s Super Pumped tells the story of the ride-sharing company that stands out as both a marvel and a cautionary tale, featuring internal and external battles that ripple with unpredictable consequences.
Pivoting on Travis Kalanick (Gordon-Levitt), Uber’s hard-charging CEO who ultimately was ousted in a boardroom coup, the series will depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.
Thurman will take on as The Huffington Post co-founder and Uber board member Arianna Huffington. She will also join additional cast members Elisabeth Shue, Kerry Bishé,...
Based on Mike Isaac’s bestselling book Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber, Showtime’s Super Pumped tells the story of the ride-sharing company that stands out as both a marvel and a cautionary tale, featuring internal and external battles that ripple with unpredictable consequences.
Pivoting on Travis Kalanick (Gordon-Levitt), Uber’s hard-charging CEO who ultimately was ousted in a boardroom coup, the series will depict the roller-coaster ride of the upstart transportation company, embodying the highs and lows of Silicon Valley.
Thurman will take on as The Huffington Post co-founder and Uber board member Arianna Huffington. She will also join additional cast members Elisabeth Shue, Kerry Bishé,...
- 10/19/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
What do the Bride, Jackie Brown, Django, Mia Wallace, Hans Landa, Cottonmouth, Stuntman Mike McKay, Mr. Pink, Charles Manson and the Gimp all have in common? For one thing, that they’re all characters in a stage musical now playing at the Bourbon Room in Hollywood.
But its creators would rather that you not call “Tarantino Live” a musical per se, or at least not boil it down strictly to that term. For one thing, its “book” — largely an amalgam of dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s movies — is a sort of loose fantasia tying characters and themes from the films together into a surreal, seriocomic knot, more than any traditional, straight stage narrative. For another thing, the 50-plus songs from the filmmaker’s soundtracks are being licensed for an immersive concert nightclub experience, not a theatrical production… although a transfer to the legit stage is something that’s hoped for down the road.
But its creators would rather that you not call “Tarantino Live” a musical per se, or at least not boil it down strictly to that term. For one thing, its “book” — largely an amalgam of dialogue from Quentin Tarantino’s movies — is a sort of loose fantasia tying characters and themes from the films together into a surreal, seriocomic knot, more than any traditional, straight stage narrative. For another thing, the 50-plus songs from the filmmaker’s soundtracks are being licensed for an immersive concert nightclub experience, not a theatrical production… although a transfer to the legit stage is something that’s hoped for down the road.
- 9/25/2021
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
The video for Arizona Zervas’ viral hit-turned-legit smash “Roxanne” is, in its own way, a trip through ’90s movie history. The clip directed by Nick Jardona and released earlier this week references such classics as 1993’s “Groundhog Day,” 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” and 1996’s “Trainspotting” — in addition to 2003’s “Kill Bill” and 2004’s “50 First Dates.”
Transported in time, the video follows Arizona Zervas (known colloquially as Az or Arizona) as he’s trapped in an infinite loop where he dies each day only to wake up the following morning to live again. Roxanne is the common thread to his experience — channeling Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace, she and Arizona speed through parties complete with afros and “far out” 1970s decor — because as the song says, “all she wanna do is party all night.”
Today, having the right visual is “essential,” says Columbia Records vice president of video production Saul Levitz,...
Transported in time, the video follows Arizona Zervas (known colloquially as Az or Arizona) as he’s trapped in an infinite loop where he dies each day only to wake up the following morning to live again. Roxanne is the common thread to his experience — channeling Uma Thurman’s Mia Wallace, she and Arizona speed through parties complete with afros and “far out” 1970s decor — because as the song says, “all she wanna do is party all night.”
Today, having the right visual is “essential,” says Columbia Records vice president of video production Saul Levitz,...
- 2/14/2020
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
“All right ramblers, let’s get rambling”.
Imagine the jewellery heist of Reservoir Dogs hadn’t gone awry, and our multi-coloured moniker gang-members are sat around the table in Uncle Bob’s Pancake House, Tarantino’s camera performing its 360° dance while peering over their shoulders. Only this time they’re not discussing Madonna’s greatest hits, what’s playing on K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies Weekend, or the hypocrisy of the tipping system. Instead they’re exchanging views on the near three-decade career of their very own Mr Brown, Quentin Tarantino: discussing their favourite soundtrack, defending the decision to cut Kill Bill into two movies, or picking their best scenes from Pulp Fiction to Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.
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Not everyone’s...
Imagine the jewellery heist of Reservoir Dogs hadn’t gone awry, and our multi-coloured moniker gang-members are sat around the table in Uncle Bob’s Pancake House, Tarantino’s camera performing its 360° dance while peering over their shoulders. Only this time they’re not discussing Madonna’s greatest hits, what’s playing on K-Billy’s Super Sounds of the Seventies Weekend, or the hypocrisy of the tipping system. Instead they’re exchanging views on the near three-decade career of their very own Mr Brown, Quentin Tarantino: discussing their favourite soundtrack, defending the decision to cut Kill Bill into two movies, or picking their best scenes from Pulp Fiction to Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood.
We have three copies of Once Upon a Time in…. Hollywood to give away – to find out more check out our competition here.
Not everyone’s...
- 12/9/2019
- by Matt Rodgers
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From the stark contrast “Stuck In The Middle With You” provided for Mr. Blonde torturing a cop in “Reservior Dogs” to Mia Wallace and Vincent Vega’s iconic dance to Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell” in “Pulp Fiction,” Quentin Tarantino is a proven master in choosing just the right song, and the extensive track list in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” is no exception.
Tarantino discussed the music of his latest film during a 90-minute event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this week alongside guests who included Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band that contributed three pieces of sonic ’60s history to the movie.
Here are five things we learned from the event.
For the opening credits, the song made the sequence
The director said he had two songs in mind for the opening-credit sequence, which involves scenes of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie...
Tarantino discussed the music of his latest film during a 90-minute event at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles this week alongside guests who included Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere & the Raiders, a band that contributed three pieces of sonic ’60s history to the movie.
Here are five things we learned from the event.
For the opening credits, the song made the sequence
The director said he had two songs in mind for the opening-credit sequence, which involves scenes of Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie...
- 10/6/2019
- by Chris Lindahl
- Indiewire
David Crow Jul 29, 2019
We unpack the post-credits scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and how it builds on Quentin Tarantino's shared universe.
Who doesn’t love a shared universe? Oh sure, Disney and Marvel Studios would have you believe these days that they invented the concept, but films have been doing it since at least Universal Pictures’ iconic run of monster movies in the 1930s and ‘40s. And Quentin Tarantino has always been a quiet fan of world-building, with all or most of his films existing in the same universe since at least ‘94. This includes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Even as this latest movie is an elegiac love letter to a time gone by—if they existed at all—there is no denying that Tarantino’s meticulously researched recreation of late ‘60s Tinseltown is also a fantasy. The ending pivots on the idea of this being a genuine fairytale,...
We unpack the post-credits scene in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and how it builds on Quentin Tarantino's shared universe.
Who doesn’t love a shared universe? Oh sure, Disney and Marvel Studios would have you believe these days that they invented the concept, but films have been doing it since at least Universal Pictures’ iconic run of monster movies in the 1930s and ‘40s. And Quentin Tarantino has always been a quiet fan of world-building, with all or most of his films existing in the same universe since at least ‘94. This includes Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Even as this latest movie is an elegiac love letter to a time gone by—if they existed at all—there is no denying that Tarantino’s meticulously researched recreation of late ‘60s Tinseltown is also a fantasy. The ending pivots on the idea of this being a genuine fairytale,...
- 7/29/2019
- Den of Geek
Anyone who has followed Quentin Tarantino‘s film career as a writer-director know that he is as much about music selection as he is about searing profanity-laced monologues. Can anyone hear “Stuck in the Middle With You” by Stealers Wheel without thinking of Michael Madsen‘s Mr. Blonde as he cuts the ear off of a cop who’s tied up in a chair in “Resevoir Dogs”? Or who among us can’t help but to flashback to the sight of John Travolta‘s Vincent Vega and Uma Thurman‘s Mia Wallace dancing if they hear Chuck Berry’s “You Never Can Tell.”
As usual, Tarantino’s latest opus, the just-opened “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has several memorable music-related scenes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, together for the first time ever on the big screen while acting as a kind of middle-age male dynamite, is an event to celebrate in and of itself.
As usual, Tarantino’s latest opus, the just-opened “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” has several memorable music-related scenes. Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt, together for the first time ever on the big screen while acting as a kind of middle-age male dynamite, is an event to celebrate in and of itself.
- 7/27/2019
- by Susan Wloszczyna
- Gold Derby
Margot Robbie is reprising her comic book role of Harley Quinn in Warner Bros.’ 2020 tentpole “Birds of Prey,” which she tells MTV News will share the anarchic, subversive spirit of Quentin Tarantino films like “Reservoir Dogs” and “Pulp Fiction.” However, that’s not the only connection between “Birds of Prey” and Robbie’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director. The movie, directed by “Dead Pigs” filmmaker Cathy Yan, was made under the working title “Fox Force Five,” a direct reference to one of the most legendary scenes in Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction.”
The scene in question is the conversation Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) while sharing milkshakes before they compete in the dance competition. Mia tells Vincent about a television pilot she shot called “Fox Force Five” that never made it to air, a career milestone she calls her “fifteen minutes” of fame. The show...
The scene in question is the conversation Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) while sharing milkshakes before they compete in the dance competition. Mia tells Vincent about a television pilot she shot called “Fox Force Five” that never made it to air, a career milestone she calls her “fifteen minutes” of fame. The show...
- 7/25/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
When Norwegian black-metal firebrands Immortal ousted their frontman, Abbath, four years ago and pledged to carry on singing their odes to the icy, imaginary realm of Blashyrkh with only their drummer and lyricist running things, it seemed like a joke. Then they released Northern Chaos Gods last year and the metal world stopped laughing. The record was sharp and fun, and it ranked Number Seven on Rolling Stone’s list of the year’s best metal albums. Now it seems that record has awoken something deep within Abbath’s frosty heart.
- 4/19/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Working with Quentin Tarantino for the first time on “Pulp Fiction” presented Uma Thurman with several challenges, including one scene where she would have to painstakingly recreate a drug overdose, but nothing was more terrifying for the young actress than dancing opposite John Travolta. In what has become one of Tarantino’s most iconic scenes, Thurman’s Mia Wallace and Travolta’s Vincent Vega get up on stage at the fictional Jack Rabbit Slims restaurant and perform the twist during a dance competition. According to Thurman, it was the scene she dreaded most during the making of “Pulp Fiction.”
“I was more afraid of the dancing than almost anything because it was exactly to my total insecurity,” Thurman said during a keynote speech at France’s Series Mania Festival (via Variety). “Being big and awkward and still quite young then. But once I started dancing I didn’t wanna stop,...
“I was more afraid of the dancing than almost anything because it was exactly to my total insecurity,” Thurman said during a keynote speech at France’s Series Mania Festival (via Variety). “Being big and awkward and still quite young then. But once I started dancing I didn’t wanna stop,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Lille, France — People were lined up around the block for hours at Lille’s Le Nouveau Siècle theater on Tuesday night, hoping to get into a keynote speech given by Uma Thurman.
She was joined on stage by French journalist Olivier Joyard, where the two discussed highlights from the actress’ blockbuster career as well as her new Netflix Original Series “Chambers,” which bowed later that evening in the festival’s main International Competition.
“When Terry Gilliam cast me in his movie (“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”), all be it in an ingénue role,” she recalled, “I think that was the pivot that made me realize it was real, that I would dedicate my life to the dramatic arts and work like and animal until I got good at it.”
“Flying to Chichen Izta at 17 and seeing it transformed by his imagination, a true auteur, I realized I wasn’t just cheating out of school,...
She was joined on stage by French journalist Olivier Joyard, where the two discussed highlights from the actress’ blockbuster career as well as her new Netflix Original Series “Chambers,” which bowed later that evening in the festival’s main International Competition.
“When Terry Gilliam cast me in his movie (“The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”), all be it in an ingénue role,” she recalled, “I think that was the pivot that made me realize it was real, that I would dedicate my life to the dramatic arts and work like and animal until I got good at it.”
“Flying to Chichen Izta at 17 and seeing it transformed by his imagination, a true auteur, I realized I wasn’t just cheating out of school,...
- 3/28/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Pulp Fiction Oscar nominee and Golden Globe winning actress Uma Thurman has inked with ICM Partners. Thurman can next be seen this spring in Netflix’s Chambers, starring opposite Tony Goldwyn.
She will also return to the stage in Ghosts at the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. Two years ago, Thurman completed her Broadway debut as the star of The Parisian Woman.
Thurman completed production on various upcoming film releases including Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, James Haslam’s The Con is On, and Rodrigo Cortés’ Down a Dark Hall. She will also star opposite Robert De Niro in Tim Hill’s The War with Grandpa.
Thurman is best known for her motion picture canon with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino including her turn as alluring mob wife Mia Wallace in the Oscar- and Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Pulp Fiction, for which she received a 1995 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom,...
She will also return to the stage in Ghosts at the Williamstown Theater Festival this summer. Two years ago, Thurman completed her Broadway debut as the star of The Parisian Woman.
Thurman completed production on various upcoming film releases including Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built, James Haslam’s The Con is On, and Rodrigo Cortés’ Down a Dark Hall. She will also star opposite Robert De Niro in Tim Hill’s The War with Grandpa.
Thurman is best known for her motion picture canon with filmmaker Quentin Tarantino including her turn as alluring mob wife Mia Wallace in the Oscar- and Cannes Palme d’Or-winning Pulp Fiction, for which she received a 1995 Best Supporting Actress Oscar nom,...
- 3/18/2019
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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- 6/29/2018
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
With the release of Burnt, we look back at Thurman’s career-defining roles, which began with Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction
Uma Thurman is best known for her grungy, cult-status work with Quentin Tarantino, first on Pulp Fiction (1994) as the defiant, chain-smoking sex symbol Mia Wallace, then the revenge-hungry Bride in 2003’s Kill Bill. Her new film, Burnt, released in cinemas today, sees Thurman return as feisty restaurant critic Simone Forth, alongside a decent cast of Hollywood household names including Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Emma Thompson. Here’s our rundown of her five best movie moments.
Uma Thurman is best known for her grungy, cult-status work with Quentin Tarantino, first on Pulp Fiction (1994) as the defiant, chain-smoking sex symbol Mia Wallace, then the revenge-hungry Bride in 2003’s Kill Bill. Her new film, Burnt, released in cinemas today, sees Thurman return as feisty restaurant critic Simone Forth, alongside a decent cast of Hollywood household names including Bradley Cooper, Sienna Miller and Emma Thompson. Here’s our rundown of her five best movie moments.
- 11/6/2015
- by Jessica Labhart
- The Guardian - Film News
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