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By Drew Grant 8/20/12 3:07pm

Update: Was Tony Scott Diagnosed With a Brain Tumor Before His Suicide Jump? [Video]

This morning we reported on the tragic, seemingly senseless suicide of Top Gun director Tony Scott, who jumped from the Vincent Thomas Bridge in Los Angeles after leaving detailed notes in both his car and his office of loved ones that he wanted notified of his death. (Among them, one can only assume, was Mr. Scott’s brother and creative partner, Ridley Scott.)

New information emerged about this case this afternoon, shedding some light on this sad turn of events. Read More

By Drew Grant 8/20/12 8:38am

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Director, Producer Tony Scott Dead at 68 After Reported Suicide Jump

The body of Tony Scott, the man behind the landmark queer cinema masterpiece Top Gun, was dragged from the Los Angeles Harbor Sunday evening in San Pedro, Calif. The director/producer plunged to his death after scaling the 10-foot fence surrounding Vincent Thomas Bridge. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 6/16/09 12:22pm

Come on, Hollywood! We Know You Love the ’70s … Just Don’t Love It This Much

Hollywood’s love affair with ’70s cinema is certainly well documented. From the Andersons (Wes and Paul Thomas) to Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton, the already forgotten Duplicity), director after director has taken the styling pioneered by filmmakers like Robert Altman and Sydney Pollack and co-opted it for their own personal successes. And huzzah to Read More

By Christopher Rosen 6/04/09 3:39pm

Reboot Fever: Keeping Track of the Hollywood Remakes, So You Don’t Have To!

Do you hear that sound? It’s a Hollywood executive riffling through an old box of VHS tapes to find the next great reboot! (“Let’s do Big Trouble in Little China… with Sawyer from Lost!”) With Hollywood seemingly completely out of ideas—last month it was announced that a movie based on Bazooka Joe comic strips Read More

By Gillian Reagan 10/31/07 2:50pm

Scotts To Produce “Tell-Tale Heart” Movie

Ridley and Tony Scott are planning to produce a psychological thriller inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Tell-Tale Heart," according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The $20 million project, dubbed "Tell-Tale," will shoot in early 2008 with Michael Cuesta at the helm. Casting is under way; the Scotts will produce via their Scott Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 6/19/06 12:00am

The Scott Disorder: Of Brother Directors, Tony’s the Great One

I was talking to a woman I know about my Tony Scott Disorder Theory. That in his last two films, Man on Fire and the sadly neglected (though profoundly insane) Domino, Tony Scott has done what his brother Ridley Scott had done with Blade Runner: given us the most hallucinatory accurate visual embodiment of the Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 6/19/06 12:00am

The Scott Disorder: Of Brother Directors, Tony’s the Great One

By Rex Reed 5/03/04 12:00am

Pretty Stars, In a Pretty Familiar Story

Every week the marquees change, and the choking surfeit

of trash we are boggled in gets replaced by … more trash! One look at the movie

ads clogging your newspaper can make you wonder if your brain is coming

derailed from your body. The Whole Ten

Yards , Johnson Family Vacation , Hellboy , Starsky Read More

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Update: Was Tony Scott Diagnosed With a Brain Tumor Before His Suicide Jump? [Video]

Director, Producer Tony Scott Dead at 68 After Reported Suicide Jump

Come on, Hollywood! We Know You Love the ’70s … Just Don’t Love It This Much

Reboot Fever: Keeping Track of the Hollywood Remakes, So You Don’t Have To!

Scotts To Produce “Tell-Tale Heart” Movie

The Scott Disorder: Of Brother Directors, Tony’s the Great One

The Scott Disorder: Of Brother Directors, Tony’s the Great One

Pretty Stars, In a Pretty Familiar Story

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