Sam Peckinpah

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• Wrangling for Westerns plus more weekend TV

  (Sunday 10 a.m.-1:10 p.m., Encore), with Gary Cole and Rosanna Arquette . There's also a portrait of a directing legend, " Sam Peckinpah 's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade" (Monday at 9:35 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., Encore Westerns). And vintage Westerns fill   Read more »

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• Movie Reviews: Movie news

  Smith (pictured, right) is in talks to star in and produce a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 western The Wild Bunch. Warner Bros. Studios will set the reboot in the present day and the plot follows a D.E.A. agent, likely played by Smith, as he battles a Mexican   from Lennox Herald Read more »

• Will Smith Boards "Wild Bunch" Reboot

  Smith is in talks to star in and produce a reboot of Sam Peckinpah's classic 1969 Western "The Wild Bunch" at Warner Bros. Pictures and Overbrook Entertainment. The original followed a group of aging outlaws that plan one last score on the Texas-Mexico border   from Original Signal: Movies Read more »

• Will Smith lassoes lead role in The Wild Bunch remake

  West. Photograph: Warner Bros/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar Will Smith is set to star in a modern-day remake of The Wild Bunch, Sam Peckinpah's classic tale of a gang of ageing outlaws organising one last heist in the dying days of the American old west, reports   from Guardian Unlimited Read more »

• Major Dundee (Blu-ray)

  not one of Sam Peckinpah's best films. That would be a tall order from a guy whose body of work includes The Wild Bunch,Straw Dogs, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Getaway and Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. He has no shortage   from DVD Verdict Read more »

• WB Is Going To Remake THE WILD BUNCH Whether You Like It Or Not!

  $7.99 via Amazon Prime, you can purchase a perfectly watchable Blu-ray of Sam Peckinpah's classic THE WILD BUNCH. That's money well spent - though I imagine there'll be a spiffed-up re-release at some point if only because it's a popular library title for   from Ain't It Cool News Read more »