Ask FlickChick Is The Dark Knight a cursed production Plus the celebrity name game name that movie and more movie questions answeredSend your movie questions to FlickChickQuestion Do you believe that some movies are cursed I know it sounds ridiculous but theres been some talk about a curse of The Dark Knight and it seems as though a lot of bad things have happened to people who were involved starting with Heath Ledger -- KaraFlickChick In a word no In a few more words I think the twin curses of recklessness and cutting corners to save money have caused more grief than any malevolent supernatural forces In the case of The Dark Knight a visual effects technician named Conway Wickliffe died during a test run of a car stunt on September 25 2007 before principal shooting started By all accounts that was simply a very unfortunate accident -- Wycliffe was on a camera truck which ran into a tree -- he wasnt even in the stunt car which was unmanned Heath Ledger died
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Question: In a Saab TV commercial, the background music sounds similar to the music in the chase scene from either The Bourne Identity or The Bourne Supremacy. Can you find out the title of that music and if it's available for purchase? It's very catchy. Thanks.
Answer: That's Paul Oakenfold's "Ready Steady Go," and it is indeed the same song featured in The Bourne Identity, as well as Collateral, some Fox NASCAR promos and a few other places I can't think of at the moment. Mr. Oakenfold has very considerately made the song available for purchase. You'll find it on his 2002 release Bunkka (Maverick).
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The new thriller Collateral (opening today) offers up an unusual buddy-movie pairing: Tom Cruise is Vincent, a gray-haired, fortysomething hitman. ("He's rough trade in a good suit," the actor says, summing his character up.) Jamie Foxx is Max, the Los Angeles taxi driver he takes hostage for a night of deadly errands. How'd this unlikely do get together?
Foxx jokes that he'd "sing showtunes and do my ABCs" in a film, as long as he got to co-star with Cruise. "This cat is on the top of the food chain," he says. "There's nobody bigger in movies. I had met Tom before, when I read for Jerry Maguire. I didn't quite, um, get that part, and Cuba went on to get my Oscar."
For Cruise, the big draws were a killer role (sorry, we couldn't resist) and acclaimed director Michael Mann. "I like taking on challenges," he says, "and this is a great part. Vincent's riding on that razor's edge; he's an enigmatic character. A
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The new thriller Collateral (opening today) offers up an unusual buddy-movie pairing: Tom Cruise is Vincent, a gray-haired, fortysomething hitman. ("He's rough trade in a good suit," the actor says by way of summing him up.) Jamie Foxx is Max, the Los Angeles taxi driver he takes hostage for a night of deadly errands. How'd this unlikely do get together?
Foxx jokes that he'd "sing showtunes and do my ABCs" in a film, so long as he got to co-star with Cruise. "This cat is on the top of the food chain," he says. "There's nobody bigger in movies. I had met Tom before when I read for Jerry Maguire. I didn't quite, um, get that part, and Cuba went on to get my Oscar."
For Cruise, the big draws were a killer role (sorry, we couldn't resist) and acclaimed director Michael Mann. "I like taking on challenges," he says, "and this is a great part. Vincent's riding on that razor's edge; he's an enigmatic character. As
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