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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSam Neill reveals he’s being treated for stage-three blood cancer in his forthcoming memoir.“The thing is, I’m crook. Possibly dying,” he writes in chapter one of the book, Did I Ever Tell You This? “I may have to speed this up.”“I found myself with nothing to do,” The Jurassic Park star told The Guardian in an interview ahead of the release. “And I’m used to working. I love working. I…

If you came to Sam Neill’s memoir without knowing the first thing about it, chapter one would hold a terrible shock. It begins amusingly enough: a lovely anecdote about his daughter Elena being asked at school when she was little about what her dad does for work. “My daddy sits in caravans,” she says, an answer “both perceptive and entirely accurate” writes the actor, who then goes on to describe a life spent on film sets: sitting in trailers, reading the paper, having cups of tea, waiting for the magic moment when…

So that's what Gran Turismo is really about. The first Gran Turismo teaser shows off sleek cars and angles ripped straight out of the game franchise, all from the lens of District 9 director Neill Blomkamp. Blomkamp helped introduce the short video during Sony's CES 2023 show, where executives played up their plans to adapt even more game franchises to film and television. Gran Turismo is due to hit theaters on August 11th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jUYYF0VxwM The film is based on a true story, apparently — it…

Actor Sam Neill has spent nearly 50 years on screen scripting an era-defining career backed with Hollywood blockbusters, such as The Hunt for Red October and Jurassic Park franchise. But he doesn’t like to stay in Hollywood, because it is frustrating. The actor stays in his now-famous farm and vineyard in the Central Otago region of New Zealand. “I did take my family to Hollywood, and we did stay there for maybe two years. But I never liked living there. I really like working there, and everything about the film industry…

Illustration: Shutterstock (Shutterstock)People might be more hotheaded than we thought. In new research this week, scientists say they were able to create the first maps of healthy people’s brain temperatures. Their findings indicate that brain temperature varies widely depending on many factors, like the time of day and region of the brain, but that it’s typically warmer than the rest of our body.The study was conducted primarily by researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory for Molecular Biology in…

Sam Neill has recalled his horror at his 11-year-old son farting during the London premiere of Jurassic Park while in the presence of British royalty.Neill was speaking to his Jurassic Park costars Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum as part of a three-way interview for The New York Times.Neill explained that he and his son Tim were sat beside Princess Diana when suddenly, “about the time the T-Rex turns up, Tim started to fart”.“And the draft was drifting across me to royalty!” Neill said. “I spent the whole film in a muck…

via Universal Some dedicated fans can regularly read a little too far between the lines when dissecting and analyzing their favorite movies or franchises, although they often make a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, one widespread and hugely popular Jurassic Park theory has been shut down, and by no less of an authority than Sam Neill. You may have heard this one before, but as it goes, Alan Grant’s inability to fasten his seat belt during the helicopter ride into Isla Nublar has been interpreted as a…

Sam Neill might be the face of Jurassic Park, but he’s not particularly obsessed with it. Speaking to the actor on the occasion of the latest film, Jurassic World Dominion, he reveals that he’s only seen the original film maybe four times, all of which were when it came out in 1993. In fact, he was walking around a mall recently and couldn’t quite place the oddly familiar music he heard playing over the speakers. That music was John Williams’ theme to Jurassic Park.In 1993, Neill first appeared on screen as paleontologist…

Sam Neill as Alan Grant in Jurassic Park.Screenshot: UniversalIn Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park, life finds a way. An island comprised entirely of female dinosaurs finds a way to create new life when some of the creatures spontaneously change sex. It’s a crucial plot point and, according to a popular theory, it’s teased near the beginning of the film.As the main characters arrive on Jurassic Park via helicopter, they experience some turbulence. Everyone grabs their seatbelts for safety except Dr. Alan Grant,…

‘It was an overload time’ —that’s how Sam Neill describes the time spent shooting in India, and the memories continue to bring a smile to his face. And the bond with the country is more personal for the Hollywood actor. Neill came to India back in the 90s to shoot Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1994), which introduced him to the ‘desi’ world in Mumbai and Jodhpur. “I made a film in the country, and when you say India to me, all the time spent making it comes back to me so vividly. It was an amazing experience for me…