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Billy Bob Thornton

  1. a long talk
    ‘The Thing Is, to Me, a Movie Is Alive’Carl Franklin on how noir and the blues shaped One False Move, and the story behind that final shot.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  2. onward and upward
    Hollywood’s Six Pathways from Supporting Parts to StardomHow some of the most beloved character actors became some of the most beloved leads.
    By Joe Reid
  3. movie review
    A Million Little Pieces Turns a Literary Scandal Into a Boring MovieHowever much of James Frey’s rehab saga was true or fudged, Sam and Aaron Taylor-Johnson can’t make the case for why it’s worth adapting.
    By Alison Willmore
  4. chat room
    Billy Bob Thornton on Goliath and Why TV Is the New Indie FilmAnd what Hollywood always gets wrong about the South.
    By Noel Murray
  5. roll clip!
    Billy Bob Thornton Missed Out on Early Roles Because He Wasn’t Southern EnoughOf all people!
    By Stacey Wilson Hunt
  6. phobia watch
    Filming Love Actually Forced Billy Bob Thornton to Confront Some of His PhobiasMaybe it was good for him?
    By Emma Barrie
  7. chat room
    Billy Bob Thornton Knows What You’ll Think of Bad Santa 2“I know exactly how it’s gonna go and I’m hardly ever wrong.”
    By Kyle Buchanan
  8. great things
    Billy Bob Thornton Enjoys My Little PonyFluttershy is his fave.
    By Devon Ivie
  9. anniversaries
    Gene Hackman Was Hell on the Hoosiers SetJack Nicholson was the first choice for his role. 
    By David Marchese
  10. tv review
    Amazon’s Goliath Doesn’t Challenge Its Brilliant CastThe gap between Billy Bob Thornton’s talent and the quality of Goliath is a show in itself.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  11. trailer mix
    New Bad Santa 2 Red-Band Trailer: Violent Night, Unholy NightThis Santa is at it again.
    By Nate Jones
  12. trailer mix
    Watch Billy Bob Thornton in the Goliath TrailerComing to Amazon in October.
    By Devon Ivie
  13. the industry
    Amazon Picks Up New David E. Kelley Show TrialTrial will star Billy Bob Thornton and William Hurt.
    By Nate Jones
  14. movie review
    Our Brand Is Crisis is a Lively But Flawed Political Black ComedyFeaturing Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton as campaign rivals.
    By David Edelstein
  15. Billy Bob Thornton Is Returning for ‘Bad Santa 2’A sequel to 2003’s Bad Santa is in the works, and Billy Bob Thornton has officially signed on to reprise his role. According to Variety, […]
    By Megh Wright
  16. overnights
    The Big Bang Theory Recap: When BBT Met BBTWith a surprise guest-appearance by Billy Bob Thornton.
    By Kimberly Potts
  17. chat room
    Billy Bob Thornton on Fargo and Ken Burns Hair“I look like a boyish devil, you know?”
    By Denise Martin
  18. Here’s the First 7 Minutes of FX’s ‘Fargo’ Fargo, FX’s new anthology series loosely based on the 1996 Coen Brothers crime-comedy-drama of the same name, premieres on April 15th, and the […]
    By Bradford Evans
  19. trailer mix
    New Fargo Trailer: Rumor Travels Faster“What a day.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  20. coming attractions
    Watch Billy Bob Thornton in a Fargo TeaserOooh, snowy.
    By Margaret Lyons
  21. casting couch
    Billy Bob Thornton Joins Entourage MovieHe’s playing a character, not himself.
    By Jesse David Fox
  22. movie review
    Movie Review: Jayne Mansfield’s CarSet in 1969 Alabama and starring Robert Duvall, Kevin Bacon, and John Hurt.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  23. casting couch
    Billy Bob Thornton Set for Fargo TV ShowIt’s not just a remake of the movie.
    By Margaret Lyons
  24. ‘Bad Santa 2’ Takes Another Drunken Step ForwardAbout this time last year, we reported that two different people were working on a sequel to Bad Santa. Well, now Accepted and Hot Tub Time […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  25. chat room
    Billy Bob Thornton on Jayne Mansfield’s Car and the Rumor His Next Film Is About Angelina Jolie [UPDATE]“We haven’t even started on this movie yet! And the idea has nothing to do with the way I met her or anything to do with her.”
    By Miranda Siegel
  26. Billy Bob Thornton Says Bad Santa 2 Will Shoot This FallBilly Bob Thornton says that Bad Santa 2 is currently in rewrites and on track to shoot this fall for a Christmas 2013 release. It’s unclear […]
    By Hallie Cantor
  27. movies
    Billy Bob Thornton’s Next Film About Angelina JolieIt’s a road movie inspired by their relationship.
    By Kyle Buchanan
  28. Bad Santa Writers Not So Sure About This SequelBad Santa 2 is in the works, but without the original’s screenwriters Glen Ficarra and John Requa.  Which is is probably for the best since […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  29. Bad Santa 2 In The Works With Two Separate Scripts In a piece of good news for people who love filth and the holiday spirit, the L.A. Times reports that Bad Santa 2 is on the way. Billy Bob […]
    By Halle Kiefer
  30. Billy Bob Thornton May Be Starring in Bad Santa 2Billy Bob Thornton is in talks to star in a sequel to Bad Santa. A rep from the Weinstein Company says “We feel that it’s a Christmas perennial […]
    By Adam Frucci
  31. paychecks
    Forbes: Will Ferrell Makes Too Much MoneyAnd Shia Labeouf makes too little.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  32. the industry
    Amy Adams to Bring Zach Galifianakis Out of His ShellPlus: Adam Sandler plays both Jack and Jill!
    By Adam K. Raymond
  33. the industry
    Samuel L. Jackson and Tommy Lee Jones to Make Awkward Subway-Platform ConversationPlus: ‘Excalibur’!
    By Amos Barshad
  34. quote machine
    Billy Bob Thornton Comes CleanPlus: For the last time, people, Hugh Jackman isn’t gay!
    By Emma Pearse
  35. quote machine
    Jamie Foxx, Method ActorPlus: Asher Roth is not a one-hit wonder.
    By Emma Pearse
  36. Take Heart, Billy Bob Thornton: Tom Petty’s Acting Is Worse Than Your SingingThornton was interviewed on a Canadian radio show yesterday, and he might’ve offhandedly compared his own musical career to that of Tom Petty’s a dozen or so times.
    By Lane Brown
  37. quote machine
    Marisa Tomei Is Not Just a Naked LadyAnd Clint Eastwood explains how he’s mastered the nasty-old-bigot role.
    By Tammy Oler
  38. apropos of nothing
    Michael Bay Foiled by Science!An Australian Ph.D. student won a science prize for an asteroid-diverting technique rejected in Bay’s ‘Armageddon.’
    By Lane Brown
  39. the industry
    They Are Actually Trying to Convince Ryan Gosling to Play Jack RyanPlus: Laurence Fishburne has never made a bad movie.
  40. the industry
    Fifty Percent of Olsen Twins to Appear in FilmElton John, Dolly Parton, and more
  41. the industry
    Simon Cowell Has One IdeaPlus industry news on Jack Black, Vince Lombardi, and John Singleton.