John Malkovich News

John Malkovich put his idiosyncratic stamp on the role Vicomte de Valmont in the 1988 movie "Dangerous Liaisons," playing the nefarious aristocrat with a combination of alluring wit and reptilian chill.

What's with all of the action movies starring old people? The trend began in 2009 when Sly Stallone and his action buddies from the 80s starred together in The Expendables and continued later that year when Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich played in Red .

Sundance wild for Beasts Beasts of the Southern Wild and The House I Live In won the top awards at the Sundance Film Festival, making them likely favorites for independent movie audiences this year.

More than two decades after John Malkovich starred in "Dangerous Liaisons" as the film's arch seducer, the American actor is revisiting the classic French work, this time directing a stage version in Paris.

That hasn't prevented readers from being fascinated by the two schemers for more than 200 years.

THE final book of Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Cycle was finally published at the end of last year.