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By 2008, writer/director Luc Besson had already had a long and fruitful career, both here and in his native France, with such credits as The Professional, La Femme Nikita, and The Fifth Element to show for it. (He also wrote the French movie that wou...

The Headliner Taken 2 When a somewhat under-the-radar movie breaks out in a big way, it's natural for producers to go back to the well and make a sequel. The problem is when this happens with a movie that wasn't really left open-ended. So with ...

Every year, right in the middle of that grotesquely smug, garrulously sycophantic tradition known as movie award season, come the Razzies, gleefully pointing their finger right at the bottom of the Hollywood barrel to soothe the blackest hearts among...

Note: This will be our last Trailers of the Week of 2012. We thank you for tuning in for more than 50 trailer roundups with us this year, and can't wait to get back to overanalyzing (Dan) and always being afraid of everything (Rembert) in 2013. &#821...

Editor's note: Welcome to the second installment of the "Playbook Q," in which we query the rooting interests of celebrities. Liam Neeson has played Zeus, Oskar Schindler, a Jedi knight, Ra's al Ghul and a talking lion. But today he reprises the r...

Before he was Rob Roy, Col. Hannibal Smith or "Taken," action star Liam Neeson was the real thing -- an amateur boxer. In a recent visit to ESPN headquarters, Neeson offered his thoughts on the fight game.

Bad movies and brilliant career moves for Liam Neeson.

The pop culture world is all about payback this week, with Liam Neeson returning to the big screen to exact all sorts of bloody Eurocentric revenge in Taken 2 (if you're not excited for this film, don't worry, Samuel L. Jackson's enthusiasm is enough...

Colin will be joined by former Jets QB Ken O'Brien (10:45 a.m. ET), ESPN NFL analyst Tedy Bruschi (11:15), actor Liam Neeson (11:45), Patriots CB Devin McCourty (12:00 p.m.) and ESPN Radio's Scott Van Pelt and Ryen Russillo (12:30) on Wednesday. As ...

Very, VERY excited! We just hope he doesn't squeeze it so hard we have to send Liam Neeson up there to retrieve it from captivity. He leaves a body count. BONUS SECTION! Top 10 Recent Samuel L. Jackson Semi-Phonetic Twitter Spellings of "Mother...

This new clip for Taken 2 doesn't offer anything we don't already know about the sequel — gloriously, and with a righteous lack of shame, the powers that be (Olivier Megaton has stepped in for Pierre Morel in the director's chair, but Luc Besso...

The Headliner The Grey "Wild wolves are generally timid around humans." Perhaps, but Liam Neeson is no ordinary human, and this Alaska-set battle between man and nature is no ordinary B-movie. I love everything about The Grey; the solemnity a...

Did you know that 20th Century Fox has already gone and made Taken 2? It's not surprising that they would, of course: Taken was rad, and made a ton of money on a small budget, and had an easily repeatable concept. (In fact, Neeson already quasi-repea...

Jack Nichol-who? Los Angeles La-what? OK, the Lakers still draw quite the crowd to their playoff games. But they've got some company in terms of bringing in high-profile celebs -- and it comes from the hockey world, but not Hollywood. Sure, the Ki...

After Christian Bale and Michael Fassbender passed on Christian Bale's Noah movie, it's Russell Crowe's turn to theoretically survive a world population-ending flood. Deadline reports: "Darren Aronofsky is ready to set sail on Noah, the Biblical stor...

Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay tops Page 2's Power Rankings.