In a competitive situation, New Regency has picked up the film rights to the Gothic Western 'The Hawkline Monster' in a deal that involved the estates of both author Richard Brautigan and Hal Ashby, ...

Hal Ashby liked characters—especially characters who were characters. Empathy was Ashby's ace in the hole. In a 1978 Minneapolis Star interview, Ashby admitted he didn't socialize with the set ...

Ashby would never lose his vibey guru mien thereafter, and through the Me Decade, he turned out a remarkable stretch of socially conscious, bitingly funny and character-rich pictures — including “The ...

Numerous landmark directors did remarkable work in Hollywood in the 1970s, but a convincing argument can be made that Hal Ashby and his films represented that decade at its best. As filmmaker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After being introduced to Ashby through her friends in film school, Scott continued her career as an editor, and when she read the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If Arquette is candid, and there’s no reason she shouldn’t be, it will be a sad, complicated conversation. The film flopped. Stark ...

"He'd smoke some pot, and he would work all night." Oscilloscope Labs has unveiled an official full-length trailer for a documentary titled Hal, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier ...

Hal Ashby directing a string of acclaimed movies in the 1970s, scoring an Oscar nom for Coming Home, but he’s largely overshadowed by the filmmaking kings of the Me Decade. Now a new documentary turns ...

When director Hal Ashby is mentioned now, he’s often squeezed into a cohort called New Hollywood, or as I think of it AltmanBogdanovichCoppolaFriedkinScorsese. This lineup changes depending on who’s ...

Hal Ashby wouldn’t happen today. He and his films were indelible phenomena of the 1970s, no less than Watergate, WIN buttons, leisure suits and Farrah hair. Unlike the leisure suit and the hair, ...

For a director who had one of the greatest cinematic runs in history, Hal Ashby really ought to be more of a household name. Certainly just as much of one as his New Hollywood peers from the ‘70s: ...