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The Writers Guild on Sunday will present its 2024 Laurel Award for Screenwriting Achievement to Walter Hill. It seemed a fortuitous time for The Film That Lit My Fuse to tap the iconic writer-turned-director for his formative influences, but mainly to dish on some of the great movies he was part…

Walter Hill, who wrote and/or directed and produced such films as 48 Hrs., The Warriors, The Getaway and many more, will receive the WGA West’s 2024 Laurel Award. He will be presented with the career achievement honor April 14 during the strike-delayed Writers Guild Awards’ L.A. ceremony. The award…

For many years now Venice has been a respectful platform for those big-name directors of the 1970s and early '80s who are happy to go back into the fray long after those juicy studio budgets dried up: Brian De Palma, William Friedkin, Paul Verhoeven, John Carpenter and — to a lesser extent — George Romero all found a…

Ahead of accepting the Venice Film Festival's Glory to the Filmmaker Award this evening, legendary filmmaker Walter Hill met with the press corps here on the Lido to talk about his new western, Dead For A Dollar. Screening out of competition at Venice, Dead for a Dollar follows a famed bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz)…

Quiver Distribution has unveiled the trailer for its Walter Hill Western Dead for a Dollar, fronted by two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz (The French Dispatch), which is slated for release in theaters on September 30th, after making its world premiere as an official selection of the Venice Film Festival on…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Walter Hill was honored with a Tribute Ceremony in France on Tuesday evening, which marked the opening night of the International Thriller Film Festival – Reims Polar. A retrospective of Hill’s films are being shown at the festival, which runs through April 10, including The Warriors, 48 Hrs.…

EXCLUSIVE: Hamish Linklater (Midnight Mass, The Big Short) is the latest addition to Dead for a Dollar, the Western that Walter Hill helmed for Quiver Distribution, which has wrapped production in New Mexico. He joins a cast that includes Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, Emmy…

EXCLUSIVE: Benjamin Bratt (Miss Congeniality, Coco, Traffic) has joined the cast of Dead for a Dollar, the Western helmed by Walter Hill for Quiver Distribution, which is currently in production in New Mexico. The SAG Award winner will star alongside Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz, Academy Award nominee Willem…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun one uniting three screen greats. Oscar winner Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds) and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Spider-Man) are set to star in Western thriller Dead For a Dollar from legendary filmmaker and Western aficionado Walter Hill (The Warriors). The film will mark Waltz’s first…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Walter Hill and comedian/filmmaker Keenen Ivory Wayans are both being honored this year in Austin at the annual Austin Film Festival & Writers Conference. Hill, whose film career goes back decades with such films as The Warriors and 48 Hrs. and HBO’s Deadwood will be honored with the Extraordinary…

Walter Hill is set to direct two episodes of Amazon drama series Goliath, from David E. Kelley and Jonathan Shapiro. He'll join new showrunner Clyde Phillips (Dexter) to helm the opening and closing episodes of the upcoming second season. The Goliath cast is led by Billy Bob Thornton, who in January won the Golden…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe and Anthony Russo are taking a breather from the Marvel world to adapt cult-classic film The Warriors as a one-hour drama with Paramount TV and Hulu. The brothers will reimagine Walter Hill’s iconic 1979 film, itself an adaptation of Sol Yurick’s classic novel. Their take will honor the original film…