By Chrisdfw (Chrisdfw) (209.246.135.69 - 209.246.135.69) on Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 02:49 pm:
| By Chrisdfw (Chrisdfw) (209.246.135.69 - 209.246.135.69) on Saturday, October 13, 2001 - 02:49 pm: |
Tom Hanks on the set.
| By Chrisdfw (Chrisdfw) (209.246.135.138 - 209.246.135.138) on Sunday, October 14, 2001 - 05:01 am: |
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 - 12:40 pm: |
Oscar winners Steven Spielberg, left, and Tom Hanks, right, joining Hollywood's Honorary Mayor Johnny Grant in a "thumbs-up" salute to the troops fighting in Afghanistan. The trio holds a special package of this year's Academy Award nominated films destined for the combat zone. (AP Photo/Hollywood Chamber of Commerce)
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Saturday, June 29, 2002 - 11:54 am: |
Hanks during Ep. 5
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| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (12.239.86.117) on Tuesday, July 16, 2002 - 10:07 pm: |
| By JANE Southern England (Jane) (195.93.48.7) on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 02:09 am: |
Just to let you know, if you get British tv, Saving Private Ryan is on CH 5 tomorrow at 9pm, however, before it's on, there is a docu' about Omaha Beach, which I presume is different to the one shown on the BBC recently.
as tomorrow is 9/11, my thoughts will be with you all.
love from Jane, in England (and thankfully, it's stopped raining!!!)
| By Ilja Buschman (Bobandluzfan) (212.129.207.209) on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 06:14 am: |
is CH 5 a US channel? i would really like to see the docu about omaha beach but if its a US channel i cant see it?!
| By JANE Southern England (Jane) (195.93.48.7) on Tuesday, September 10, 2002 - 09:28 am: |
I beg your pardon, please forgive me (all the rain has got to my brain!!!!)....SPR & the docu is on Chanel 5 tonight!!!!... It is a British chanel, but even most of us in Britain can't get it as you seem to need a booster to your ariel!!!
sorry for the confusion.
Jane S.
| By Susan Jefferies (Jefferies) (195.92.67.209) on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 04:52 pm: |
Hello.
my name is Sue and I've only just registered. Can Anyone tell me which scene in B of B Tom Hanks is in? I can never seem to spot him. I Presume the episode is Crossroads as the picture of him in the British Para outfit, above, shows.
| By Susan Jefferies (Jefferies) (195.92.67.209) on Wednesday, July 16, 2003 - 05:05 pm: |
Hello.
my name is Sue and I've only just registered. Can Anyone tell me which scene in B of B Tom Hanks is in? I can never seem to spot him. I Presume the episode is Crossroads as the picture of him in the British Para outfit, above, shows.
| By keith suvara (Keith) (194.128.29.93) on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 07:46 am: |
Hi Sue,
Yes it is in Crossroads, and I think the best guide to spotting him came from a post by Stephen Stallebrass here...
He is also rumoured to be on one of the British tanks in the same episode, but that one is still undecided I think...
| By Chris Langlois (Chrisdfw) (4.42.202.200) on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 06:32 pm: |
Hanks, Spielberg Take on Imperial Japan
By Josh Grossberg
Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg are gearing up for another tour of duty.
The Emmy-winning producing team behind HBO's critically acclaimed epic Band of Brothers, which charted American soldiers' heroism against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, are switching theaters to the Pacific and Imperial Japan.
According to the trades, Hanks and his Playtone producing partner Gary Goetzman are reuniting with the Saving Private Ryan director to mount a new 10-part WWII miniseries, dubbed for now "Untitled World War II Pacific Theater Project," which is on the fast track at
DreamWorks.
Like Band of Brothers, the new mini-series will channel the scope and spirit of that award-winning docudrama by focusing on a battalion of
soldiers through America's island assault against the Japanese, which culminated in the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The story will also have a similar $100 million-plus budget, but unlike Brothers, which was based on famed historian Stephen Ambrose's bestselling book following the trials of Easy Company, the 506th Airborne regiment after landing in France on D-Day, the new project will be an original work.
Spielberg, Hanks, and Goetzman are reportedly eyeing scribe Bruce McKenna, who won a Writers Guild of America award for penning several
episodes of Band of Brothers, to take charge of the writing team for the Pacific campaign.
The trio is expected to meet with him and strategize over the various episodes once McKenna finishes up adapting The Perfect Mile, helmed
by Frank Marshall, for Universal Pictures and Spyglass Entertainment. The writer is also hard at work plotting Hands of Shang Chi, another
Marvel Comics' adventure for DreamWorks.
Band of Brothers earned HBO an impressive 19 Emmy nominations, and took home six awards, including outstanding miniseries. It also won
The mini-series was also a high watermark for Hanks' Playtone Productions, which seems to be staking a claim on the long lost art of the mini-series.
The company also produced and took home an Emmy trophy for outstanding miniseries for From the Earth to the Moon, an epic story detailing America's ventures into space during the Cold War.
And expect more epic history lessons from Playtone's upcoming slate including John Adams, a 13-part mini about the American Revolutionary
War based on David McCullough's book John Adams. Hanks and company have also optioned George Crile's book, Charlie Wilson's War, centering on an eccentric ex-Texas congressman who convinced the CIA to back mujahadeen fighters in Afghanistan in their fight against the Soviets that helped bring an end to the Cold War.
According to Variety, Hanks is eyeing the role of Wilson (not the volleyball), a womanizing alcoholic who kept a bevy of former beauty
pageant contestants he called "Charlie's Angels" on staff and nearly had to give up his job after being caught in a hot tub with cocaine-
snorting Vegas showgirls.
| By jennie (Jennie) (193.128.157.33) on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 - 05:14 am: |
hay,
I was wondering if this new mini serious by Tom Hanks will be based on a true story like bob?
Thanks