WILD ABOUT HARRY

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of visiting the Motion Picture Academy Library with Diego Domingo and reading several drafts of the Houdini ...

While working on a recent installment of Deconstructing Houdini '53 , I realized that I rarely mention screenwriter Philip Yordan by n...

My bedtime reading these days is Tom Weaver's latest "Scripts from the Crypt" series about Universal's The Mummy's Han...

Deadline Hollywood has posted this year's Black List, a roundup of Hollywood’s "most-liked unproduced screenplays." Coming in...

This Memorial Day weekend Top Gun Maverick roars into movie theaters and is already setting box office records. I loved the movie and think...

Our good friend Joe Notaro at Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence kicks off a new series today in which he'll look at the 12 known fi...

It's not generally known that when Melville Shavelson was preparing his 1976 TV biopic The Great Houdinis for ABC, a rival Houdini m...

This is the final week to see the exhibition  Houdini: Terror on the Magic Isle at  Catalina Island Museum  in Avalon. The last day wil...

Today sees the opening of Houdini: Terror on the Magic Isle at the Catalina Island Museum in Avalon. The exhibit is devoted to Houdini...

An early handwritten Houdini letter from 1897 sold for a whopping $18,720 (including 17% premium) at Haversat & Ewing 's Winter Magi...

Here's one that's a spoiler if Lionsgate's The Secret Life of Houdini movie ever gets made. If not, then we have a record of wh...

Until the Houdini miniseries aired earlier this year, no Houdini biopic had ever acknowledged his movie career. But that would have been di...

No Hollywood producer tried harder or longer to make a movie about Houdini than Ray Stark. For more than three decades, Stark struggled to b...

Nicholas Meyer's screenplay for the Houdini miniseries has been nominated by The Writers Guild of America for outstanding achievement ...

In my review of the Houdini miniseries, I certainly had some things to say about screenwriter Nicholas Meyer's work. So I thought it o...

The Houdini miniseries is a strange confection of fact and fantasy that is stylish and breezy enough to be entertaining to general audiences...

Looks like Sony's Houdini movie is still alive with Deadline Hollywood reporting that Chronical screenwriter Max Landis  (son of dir...

Our friend Joe Notaro at Harry Houdini Circumstantial Evidence is branching out from his focus on all things Grim Game and has now unco...

In the late 1990s Columbia Pictures planned to make a big-budget Houdini movie starring Tom Cruise. The film was to be directed by Paul ...