Robert Parker (aka Butch Cassidy)

Ibon Cormenzana’s Arcadia Motion Pictures is going to produce director Mateo Gil’s Blackthorn . The film is “a reprise of the Butch Cassidy legend.” It takes place in 1910 and will star Sam Shepard, Stephen Rea and Eduardo Noriega. Shepard is going to play Butch Cassidy 15 years after he was thought to have been gunned down by the Bolivian police. He is now planning to come back to the U.S. and retire. Noriega will play a free wheeling cowboy who loses Cassidy’s life savings. This pushes Cassidy into a final job which is a mine heist. Rea is going to be a railroad ... Read Full Story

Director: George Roy Hill, 1969. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were two real outlaws, depicted in this film as likable rogues, a sort of western Robin Hood and his merry men. In real life they led a gang called "The Wild Bunch." But The Wild Bunch was a Sam Peckinpah film also released in 1969 so their gang is renamed as "The Hole in the Wall Gang." Paul Newman plays Butch and Robert Redford is Sundance. They are salt and pepper. As Sundance says to Butch, "You just keep thinkin' Butch. That's what you're good at." And Butch replies, "I have vision, and ... Read Full Story

Tom Cruise wants to remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-Los Angeles.Tom Cruise is reportedly planning a remake of the 1969 Western Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid which is about two lovable bank robbers - last year and hopes to star in the movie with his close friend John Travolta. The 46-year-old star even got the blessing of Paul Newman - who originally played the role of Cassidy - before he died from lung cancer last September and is currently in talks with scriptwriters. A source said: "It has been a pet project of his that has been on the back-burner for years. ... Read Full Story

PAUL NEWMAN , the Oscar winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as 'Hud', 'Cool Hand Luke' and 'The Color of Money' - and as an activist, race car driver and popcorn impresario - has died. He was aged 83. Newman died this past Friday after a long battle with cancer, at his farmhouse near Westport. Publicist Jeff Sanderson said he was surrounded by his family and close friends. Newman got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and quickly went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held ... Read Full Story

     Paul Newman the Hollywood screen legend and philanthropist died on Friday, September 26th, after a long battle with cancer. He was 83 years old. He became so well known not only in the film industry but in the food industry too with his own charitable Paul Newman brand throughout the supermarkets.  According to Extra Entertainment News, Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, political activist, entrepreneur humanitarian, and an auto racing enthusiast. His home-made salad dressings turned out to be a multi-million dollar food empire, which he donated more than $250 million to many different charities since 1982. He also developed ... Read Full Story