Ving Rhames

Recently, I've been doing quite a bit of traveling.  I write this as I sit at the DFW airport in Dallas, after a canceled return flight home.  Who knows how long I'll be here, but if you don't see a blog post on Monday, please someone bring some food and a pillow to gate A34. I would be most appreciative. While traveling this time around, I got to spend time with some local filmmakers, along with some who were passing through like myself. Meetings with filmmakers are always quite interesting because we are all our own worst critics.  So when you hear a "praise" ... Read Full Story

The film that opened the Screamfest Film Festival this year The Tournament will be released on DVD beginning October 20th. A film with a plethora of big names including: Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, and Robert Carlyle and a whole slew of action sequences means that this film will be a must have for 2009. Don't believe me? Then check out the trailer for The Tournament below and find out why this film was chosen as the premiere film at the SFF. The synopsis for The Tournament here: "Every seven years, thirty of the world's most deadly assassins face off against one another for an ... Read Full Story

Ving Rhames is preparing to step into the shoes of noble waiter Sam, the lead character in a big screen adaptation of "Master Harold ... and the Boys," a role Danny Glover originated on Broadway. Based on Athol Fugard's 1982 play, "Master Harold" is set on the southeast coast of South Africa and follows the relationship between a white young man named Hally (Freddie Highmore), and two black waiters, Sam (Rhames) and Willie. In the play, Sam and Willie were servants of Hally's family and have been a part of his upbringing. Hally educated Sam with the knowledge acquired from school textbooks, and Sam ... Read Full Story

A man working as a caretaker in a home owned by "Pulp Fiction" star Ving Rhames was found dead inside the property, apparently the victim of a vicious attack by two dogs, police said Friday. The man, who as in his 40s, had dog bites all over his body when he was found in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, but a coroner has yet to determine the exact cause of death, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, "appears to have suffered a number of injuries as a result of the dog mauling," Los Angeles police lieutenant Ray Lombardo ... Read Full Story

A man working as a caretaker in a home owned by "Pulp Fiction" star Ving Rhames was found dead inside the property, apparently the victim of a vicious attack by two dogs, police said Friday. The man, who as in his 40s, had dog bites all over his body when he was found in the upscale Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood, but a coroner has yet to determine the exact cause of death, authorities said. The man, whose name was not immediately released, "appears to have suffered a number of injuries as a result of the dog mauling," Los Angeles police lieutenant Ray Lombardo ... Read Full Story