Michael Shannon News

It's not the same thing, playing a bug-eyed bad guy in a live-action chase around Manhattan, as Michael Shannon did in last summer's Joseph Gordon-Levitt bike messenger romp, Premium Rush , and playing a real-life mob contract killer.

A few weeks ago, the announcement came that there would be early screenings of Man of Steel with tickets being sold exclusively through Walmart.

In Hollywood, summer starts in May, or even earlier ... give it a few more years and there'll be an Avengers tie-in movie ringing in the season in early February.

Michael Shannon has quietly become one of the most interesting and original actors of his era.

Few serial killers operated with the cold precision of Richard Kuklinski. The mob hit man is brought to life by the dynamic performance of Michael Shannon, a gifted actor with a tremendous range, in The Iceman .

Every TIFF gets that one all-star project that feels like it should have gone straight to cable.

Michael Shannon doesn't expect everyone will appreciate how he prepared for "The Iceman," a big-screen retelling of the life of contract killer Richard Kuklinski, who is thought to have killed between 100 and 250 people over several decades before he was finally busted in 1986.

"The Iceman" - Not to be confused with that "Iron Man" film, which opened the same day, "The Iceman" stars Michael Shannon as the real-life killer-for-hire Richard Kuklinski, who allegedly split time as a very busy mob contract killer and family man for decades.

But what city officials still are unsure about is whether there will be a special premiere of Plano, in its role as Smallville, the home of boyhood Clark Kent and Superman, before that.

Last week, Watertower Music released the first full track from composer Hans Zimmer's score for Man of Steel.

After debuting a brand new poster for Man of Steel last night, one would think Warner Bros.

Continuing the action-oriented theme of recent previews, the latest one-sheet for Zach Snyder 's adaptation of the D.C. Comics icon shows a blurred image of the hero soaring towards the Sun -- lens flare included.

"The Iceman" - directed by Ariel Vroman from a script he cowrote with Morgan Land - is based on the life of Richard Kuklinski, a hired killer who is believed to have murdered more people than any number of serial killers.

Even though he is one of the actors on HBO 's hit series, " Boardwalk Empire ," Michael Shannon said in a May 10 interview with Adweek that he finds television "tremendously uninteresting." Shannon has also appeared in several movies, including "The Iceman," which is now in theaters, and the upcoming Superman film, "Man of Steel." But he "hardly ... (more)

Who Michael Shannon Age 38 Accomplishments Stars on HBO's Boardwalk Empire; currently appearing in films Mud and The Iceman ; plays Superman nemesis General Zod in Man of Steel ; member of the band Corporal Base Brooklyn, N.Y. What's the first information you consume in the morning? I usually look at my emails and then look at The New York Times on ... (more)

As merchandising for Man of Steel kicks into high gear, we can expect to see all manner of things with the insignia slapped on them.

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Actor Michael Shannon and writer-director Jeff Nicholas are gearing up for a fourth feature film project together.

Ariel Vromen's The Iceman is inspired by real events in the life of Richard Kuklinski, a hitman convicted in 1986 for killing 100 men in the New York area during a 20-year period.

We're just over a month from seeing the return of Superman to the big screen in Man of Steel from director Zack Snyder .