Michael Shannon News

Leaving the vampires behind for a spell, Kristen Stewart will star as Joan Jett in the feature-length movie a oeRunawaysa at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

At 6' 3" the tall, lumbering Michael Shannon doesn't look like a leading man with his rumpled character-actor looks.

Writer-director Noah Buschel has made a throwback film that also starts a new genre: the 9/11 noir.

Michael Shannon has been stealing scenes in so many major films over the last few years - he even got nominated for an Oscar for what amounted to a cameo in last year's Revolutionary Road - that it's almost strange to see him in a leading role in the neo-noir The Missing Person , in which he plays a troubled private detective tasked with tailing a ...

Writer/Director Noah Buschel's third feature, The Missing Person, stars Michael Shannon as John Rosow, a private detective hired to tail a man, Harold Fullmer, on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles.

A Red Orchid Theater presentation of a play in one act by Craig Wright. Directed by Dexter Bullard.

Michael Shannon is not an easy man to forget. At 6-foot-4, with hooded brow and piercing eyes, the shaggy-haired actor is a commanding presence whether walking down the street or onstage portraying one of the complex, lifeworn characters that have propelled his career.

For four decades, no Werner Herzog film ever was accepted for competition at the Venice Film Festival.

Anyone can play a scene with a dead fish. But it takes a special caliber of actor to give that fish mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with any degree of credibility.

Artist: Shannon, Michael Kentucky's Michael Shannon was nominated for an Academy Award for his sterling work in Revolutionary Road, as the human truth serum who angrily tells Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet the facts of life.

Actor Michael Shannon is in talks to join the cast of the Joan Jett movie "The Runaways," The Hollywood Reporter said.

This week's new releases, available Tuesday, by Jay Bobbin of Zap2it, are rated on a scale of one to four, with * equivalent to a poor rating and **** meaning excellent.