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Updated With new Dates: Fathom Events Returns With BLUES BROTHERS Later This Month

June 25, 2020 Rich Drees

The iconic musical-comedy-action film returns as cinemas begin to reopen and Fathom and TCM start back up their classic film series. [click for more]

New Releases: May 9, 2014

May 8, 2014 William Gatevackes

Calling this weekend a mixed bag would be an understatement. [click for more]

Emile Hirsch To Play John Belushi In Biopic

October 28, 2013 Rich Drees

An unusual choice to play the iconic funny man. [click for more]

WALTER MITTY Scribe To Direct John Belushi Biopic

October 23, 2013 Rich Drees

I’m just not sure about who he might be casting in the lead. [click for more]

HISTORY OF THE COMIC BOOK FILM: Let’s Get Metal.

January 27, 2012 William Gatevackes

In a sense, it should have been called “National Lampoon’s Heavy Metal” [click for more]

A BLUES BROTHERS Television Pilot Is In The Works

September 1, 2011 Rich Drees

Jake and Elwood are on a new mission to get onto television.
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BLUES BROTHERS’ Trumpeter Alan Rubin, 68

June 9, 2011 Rich Drees

Alan Rubin, the trumpeter for The Blues Brothers Band and who appeared in both musical-comedy films featuring the ensemble, died yesterday. He was 68. [click for more]

New Belushi Biopic In The Works

August 12, 2010 Rich Drees

Bob Woodward’s biography of the late comic actor John Belushi, Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi was almost universally reviled upon its release in 1984, just two years after the comic [click for more]

BLUES BROTHERS Heading To Small Screen?

February 23, 2010 Rich Drees

Is their latest mission from God taking them back to the medium that spawned them? According to Undercover, John Belushi’s widow Jane Belushi Pisano is spearheading an attempt to get the Blues Brothers back on [click for more]