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Kate Winslet: I Chose to Do ‘Small’ Movies After ‘Titanic’ Because ‘Being Famous Was Horrible’
The Oscar winner expressed relief that her excessive fame has died down slightly — though she still has to avoid “Titanic” fans whenever she’s on a boat.
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How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio’s golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn’t scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: “They’re not going to give up,” says an insider.
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Here's How Much Disney Has Made Off Marvel and Star Wars
Marvel and Star Wars have generated $11.6 billion and $13.2 billion in value, respectively, since their $4 billion acquisitions in 2009 and 2012
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Coppola Shares Passion for Food, Film with Cuban Students
Director Francis Ford Coppola was reflecting on his brush with Fidel Castro, the blandishments to make another gangster film, and the pressure of borrowing at 29 percent interest to shoot "Apocalypse Now."
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The 100 greatest American films
BBC Culture polled film critics from around the world to determine the best American movies ever made. The results are surprising – Gone With the Wind appears at 97.
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The Warriors: Last Subway Ride Home
The gang from The Warriors reunite for one last ride to their old stomping grounds.
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Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults
Will McKinley, a New York film writer, is dying to get his hands on a copy of "Alias Nick Beal," a 1949 film noir starring Ray Milland as a satanic gangster. For classic film blogger Nora Fiore, the Grail might be "The Wild Party" (1929), the first talkie to star 1920's "It" girl Clara Bow, directed by the pioneering female director Dorothy Arzner. Film critic Leonard Maltin says he'd like to score a viewing of "Hotel Haywire," a 1937 screwball comedy written by the great comic...
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23 Science Fiction Books Being Adapted into TV Shows
Comic book adaptations might be all the rage right now, but TV execs are rapidly seeking inspiration from the world of science fiction writing for their next shows. With studios gobbling up adaptation rights to everything from Asimov's classics to as-yet-unreleased stories, our TV screens are soon going to be littered with some of the greatest stories this genre has ever told.
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Elvis Film Premiered 49 Years Ago Today (23 Nov)
'Spinout', Elvis Presley's 22nd film, premiered in Los Angeles, California. In the musical film, Elvis plays a rock-&-roll singing race-car driver, Mike McCoy who leads a carefree life on America's highways, traveling the country with his racing crew/back-up band. Along the way, McCoy becomes romantically entangled with three young women who attempt, to no avail, to get the racer to settle down. Actress Shelley Fabares who starred as Elvis’s romantic interest in two other Presley vehicles...
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Birds Ring the Environmental Alarm—and Inspire Action—in New Documentary
“The Messenger” tells us that the world’s songbirds are disappearing—and we need to heed their warning.
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The Legend of Tarzan
From Warner Bros. Pictures and Village Roadshow Pictures comes the action adventure “The Legend of Tarzan,” starring Alexander Skarsgård (HBO’s “True Blood”) as the legendary character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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Quentin Tarantino's Visual References
Created for Press Play/IndieWire's "Genius Directors in Three Minutes" series: It is a well known fact that Quentin Tarantino is a self-proclaimed cinephile. But the writer/director's love for cinema is most obviously expressed through his own films. In addition to showing his characters spending a great deal of time discussing cinema, Tarantino's films are jam-packed with homages and visual references to the movies that have intrigued him throughout his life.
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Star Wars' Abrams leads move from CGI to reality
JJ Abrams, director of the new Star Wars movie, is among the high-profile film-makers going back to using traditional means of scene-setting instead of relying on the relative ease of CGI.
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Box Office: 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Blazes to Record $120.5M Friday, Crosses $250M Globally
J.J. Abrams' movie is also making history overseas, where it's already earned $129.5 million; 'Sisters' and 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip' dare to open opposite 'Force Awakens' in North America. J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is making history at the worldwide box office, landing the biggest Friday of all time in North America with $120.5 million and crossing $250 million globally in just three days.
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Crowdfunded 'Star Trek' Movie Draws Lawsuit from Paramount, CBS
For decades, Paramount and CBS have tolerated and even encouraged fans of the Star Trek franchise to use their imagination at will, but on Tuesday the entertainment companies went to their battle stations and launched a legal missile at a production company touting the first independent Star Trek film. Axanar, the subject of a lawsuit filed on Friday in California federal court, is no ordinary Star Trek film. The forthcoming feature film (preceded by a short film)...
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George Lucas on 'Force Awakens': It's like a "break up"
"It's a very very very hard thing to do." George Lucas explains why he had to "break up" with Star Wars so that he and 'The Force Awakens' could both move on.
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Deleted Scenes
After Finn crash-lands on Jakku, we don’t see a whole lot of his long exhausting trek to the Nima Outpost. But I’m pretty sure they shot a scene where he attempts to hitch a ride into town. The above piece of concept art is featured in The Art of The Force Awakens book, and it was created shortly before filming began. The official novelization also features the scene. Finn flags down the ship, not caring if it is occupied by followers of the First Order.
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‘Pan’s Labyrinth’: A Richly Imagined, Dreamlike Voyage of Self-Discovery and Character Formation
The 2001 gothic horror film was set in Spain, in 1939, and the picture, which del Toro allegedly considers his most personal film ever, is an exceptionally crafty and compelling portrayal of that specific dark period of European and world history.
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Watch: How Did Film Noir Evolve? A Video Essay
What exactly is film noir? Is it a movement, a mode, a style, or a genre? These questions have preoccupied film scholars for decades. According to filmmaker P
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2015: 25 Films
Every year, I try my best to honor the best that cinema had to offer. Each of these films challenged us and provoked us in their own unique way, but altogether they spoke to a collective longing. A drive. Our hopes, anxieties, nightmares, and dreams. The order is somewhat scientific, mostly arbitrary, but these cinematic wonders are all undoubtedly extraordinary. Honorable Mentions: Creed, World of Tomorrow, The Martian, Kumiko the Treasure Hunter, Kingsman: The Secret Service.
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