October Sky News

Jake Gyllenhaal is still pushing his limits in the entertainment industry. He's already gone from indie to blockbuster, from kid to cowboy, and one of New York 's favorite acting sons, Jake Gyllenhaal , is still pushing his limits.

When we first took note of Jake Gyllenhaal, way back in 1999's October Sky , we never even dreamed that his career path would one day incorporate a "major action hero" phase.

Dark comedy, photographically as much as temperamentally, about a disturbed adolescent who has an imaginary friend in a demonic bunny suit giving him mischief-making orders.

The 2009 Secret City Festival takes place October 8-11 at the Oak Ridge Playhouse in Jackson Square.

A clear blue October sky was the limit Saturday as a sun-splashed crowd full of dreamers of all ages saw the stars and enjoyed the warmth of a McDowell County fall afternoon.

Actress Natalie Canerday as Elsie Hickam in the movie "October Sky" McDowell County Native Homer Hickam, a bestselling author, will be coming home this weekend for the 11th Annual October Sky Festival.

It's hard to believe it has been 10 years since the motion picture "October Sky" made its box-office launch.

When she first read the script for "October Sky" more than a decade ago, actress Natalie Canerday never anticipated the lasting appeal of the true story of the Rocket Boys of McDowell County.

Natalie Canerday played Homer Hickam's mother in the 1999 film "October Sky," but she's never seen the West Virginia town where the movie's events took place.

Forty years ago this month, the attention of the world was on the moon and Neil Armstrong's "giant leap for mankind." To celebrate the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, footage of the event will be shown at Todos Santos Plaza in downtown Concord as the kickoff to the summer outdoor movie season.

A rangy and intense character actor with a knack for playing taciturn authority figures, Chris Cooper found favor with audiences in the late 1990s and 2000s in such films as "Seabiscuit" , "The Bourne Supremacy".... A rangy and intense character actor with a knack for playing taciturn authority figures, Chris Cooper found favor with audiences in ...

A charismatic blue-eyed blond with a rough-hewn handsomeness and confident swagger that made him a perfect choice for rebellious "bad boy" roles, William Lee Scott proved more than just a one-note performer, capably.... A charismatic blue-eyed blond with a rough-hewn handsomeness and confident swagger that made him a perfect choice for rebellious ...

From the first images to the last -- the opening series of beautiful blackout shots of a dark, dismal, backward coal-mining community as it absorbs the news of the ascent of Sputnik in the fall of 1957, and the closing clips from charming old home movies of the real people on whom the characters were based -- this serves up a flavorful if sugary ...