GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Westerns were once one of Hollywood’s most popular genres. And while the cowboy motif draws from a lot of southwest culture, it also has roots in Michigan. This week will ...

Long before superheroes filled the multiplex, America already had its own masked champion riding across the airwaves and into ...

It won’t be only Disney executives who are watching the box office returns for “The Lone Ranger” this weekend. Lots of people are wondering whether Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer can ride to the rescue ...

The Rifleman follows the various adventures of a Wild West rancher Lucas McCain played by Chuck Connors, who travels with his son, Mark McCain, and a rapid-fire Winchester file in hand. Johnny ...

Did The Lone Ranger Kill the Western? Fans of the Western bristle at any attempt to yoke The Lone Ranger‘s box-office failure to the genre’s fortunes: Make a good Western, see how it does, then get ...

"It's really about telling a good story," director Gore Verbinski tells THR about Disney's big budget film. By Rebecca Ford The Lone Ranger Depp Hammer Close Up - H 2012 “With my kids, they don’t even ...

Christina Radish is the Senior Entertainment Reporter at Collider. Having worked at Collider for over a decade (since 2009), her primary focus is on film and television interviews with talent both in ...

While the Lone Ranger’s family had all but been wiped out by the Butch Cavendish gang, Reeves had an extensive family life, including a first and second wife and a bevy of children. And whereas the ...

Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger” is the Western for this age of meta-cinema, a time when viewers see beyond movies to their making and their marketing. In effect, “The Lone Ranger,” like other ...

This holiday weekend, two family-oriented tentpoles will be vying for American eyeballs: Disney’s “The Lone Ranger” and Universal’s “Despicable Me 2.” We recommend both. Plagued by production hiccups, ...