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• 007 Elements Cinematic Installation - since July 12, 2018. "The brand new James Bond Installation in Sölden, Austria stands for a cinematic peak experience. Where Daniel Craig was in front of the camera for the Spectre movie shooting, visitors will experience an unprecedented highlight for film enthusiasts from 12 July 2018 onwards. It will lead deep into the cinematic universe of the planet's most famous Secret Agent." Bergbahnen Sölden, Dorfstraße 115, 6450 Sölden, Austria.
• 3-D FILM - Wikipedia.
• 4th wall - performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the actors act as if they cannot.
• 5 Lies Hollywood Tells Itself - The New York Times.
• 5-SECOND FILMS - created by Brian “Boss Man” Firenzi in the Spring of 2005, after being disappointed by so many 5,400-second films. The rules are simple: 2 seconds of beginning titles, 5 seconds of film, 1 second of end titles.
• 6 French Films That Speak to the Identity of the Nation - The New York Times.
• 7TH ART - the making of motion pictures; filmmaking.
• 8 brilliant true stories about Bill Murray - The Telegraph.
• 8 David Lynch Films to Watch Before ‘Twin Peaks’ - The New York Times.
• 8 knockout Rocky filming locations in Philadelphia - The Telegraph.
• 9 greatest best picture winners at the Oscars - "As the awards celebrate their ninth decade, we look back on the times the Academy got it right when it came to the biggest prize."
• 10 Best Movie Performances of 2018 - "Here are TIME’s best movie performances of 2018, from 'A Star Is Born's' Lady Gaga to Melissa McCarthy in 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'"
• 10 Best Movies of 2018 - TIME Magazine.
• 10 biggest box office flops of all time – in pictures - The Guardian.
• 10 Great Multi-Plot Films - LoveFilm.com.
• 10 Movies that have crossed the $1 billion mark - The Hollywood reporter.
• 11 films that were booed at Cannes - The Telegraph.
• 12 directors who could take on Bond - The Telegraph.
• 14 movie star homes you can rent right now - The Telegraph.
• 15 stars who were on drink & drugs when they made their movies - The Telegraph.
• 17 'Star Wars' locations that actually exist - CNN.com.
• 19 Awkward Child Stars Who Are Insanely Hot Today - Fame Focus.
• 20 forgotten Hollywood bombshells - The Telegraph.
• 20 great actors who've never been nominated for an Oscar - The Telegraph.
• 20 greatest Oscar snubs ever - Ranked! - The Guardian.
• 20 highest-grossing romcoms of all time - The Telegraph.
• 23 best superhero movies - The Telegraph.
• 25 Absolute Best Halloween Movies of All Time You Can Watch Right Now - "Whether you're a scary movie junkie or more of a hide-under-the-blanket kind of viewer, celebrate Halloween with one of these festive flicks."
• 25 Best Christmas Movies to Watch Right Now and All Season Long - "Get in the holiday spirit with one of these festive movies - including a ton of classics."
• 25 Best Film Schools Rankings - The Hollywood reporter.
• 25 most romantic on-screen couples - The Telegraph.
• 29 best war movies ever made - The Telegraph.
• 30 Most Expensive Movies Ever Made - Business Insider.
• 30 Things 'Back to the Future II' Got Right or Wrong About October 21, 2015 - CityLab.
• 50 best horror movies of all time - The Telegraph.
• 50 great quotes about acting - The Telegraph.
• 50 Greatest Films of All Time - Sight & Sound magazine, August 1, 2012.
• 50 greatest movie quotes of all time - The Telegraph.
• 50 most revealing red carpet dresses of all time - The Telegraph.
• 50 ways to make the oscars more entertaining
• 50 years of 2001: A Space Odyssey - how Kubrick's sci-fi 'changed the very form of cinema' - The Guardian.
• 75 best British films ever made - The Telegraph.
• 75 years of Citizen Kane: on the trail of Orson Welles - The Telegraph.
• 100 best films of the 21st century - "Gangsters, superheroes, schoolkids, lovers, slaves, peasants, techies, Tenenbaums and freefalling astronauts – they’re all here in our countdown of cinema’s best movies since 2000."
• 100 Funniest Movies - Bravo/IMDb.
• 100 greatest films of all time - The Telegraph.
• 100 Greatest Movie Characters - Empire Magazine.
• 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism - The Guardian.
• $150 million of bling: how Cartier recreated a 1930s masterpiece for Ocean’s 8 - The Telegraph.
• 180-degree rule - basic guideline regarding the on-screen spatial relationship between a character and another character or object within a scene.
• 2016 US$232,000 Oscars Gift Bag - GQ.
• A-LIST - the most bankable movie stars in the Hollywood movie industry.
• Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Steve Jobs’ Con - The New York Times.
• ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES | AMPAS - a professional honorary organization in the U.S. dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures. The Academy is known around the world for its annual Academy Awards, informally known as the "Oscars".
• Actor Michael Douglas voices his own real estate ad - "After struggling to sell his Mallorca mansion since 2014, Michael Douglas is now lending his voice to his own real estate video promoting the $32 million listing."
• ACTOR'S ACTOR - definition & explanation.
• AFI | AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
• AFI's 10 Top 10 - honors the ten greatest US films in ten classic film genres.
• After The Maltese Falcon: how film noir took flight - The Guardian.
• All the biggest questions from Avengers: Endgame, answered - "Explaining all of the details in the MCU’s biggest movie yet."
• All-star cast - Wikipedia.
• ALLMOVIE - a commercial database of information about movie stars, movies and television shows.
• ALLROVI - movies & music. Commercial database that compiles information about music and movies from the former services Allmovie and Allmusic.
• AMAZON.COM: MOVIES ON DEMAND - as of October 20, 2011: 43,589 results.
• AMAZON.COM: MOVIES ON DVD - as of October 20, 2011: 67,377 results.
• AMC Theatres - since 1920. American movie theater chain.
• AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE - independent, non-profit cultural organization in Los Angeles dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the Moving Image in all its forms.
• ANTHOLOGY FILM - Wikipedia.
• Anton Chigurh - main antagonist of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men, and its film adaptation, in which he is portrayed by Javier Bardem. The character received much praise during the film's theatrical run, where Javier Bardem was awarded an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for his performance. Chigurh has been included on numerous lists of greatest villains, most notably in Empire Magazine's List of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters Of All Time.
• ANTON KARAS - Viennese zither player, best known for his soundtrack to CAROL REED's 1949 adaptation of The Third Man.
• AP ARCHIVE & BRITISH MOVIETONE ON YouTube - includes over 1.7 million global news and entertainment stories dating back to 1895.
• Apple & Amazon are reportedly in the running for James Bond movie rights - "Distribution rights to a massively popular franchise could change the game for streaming companies."
• APPLE TV - Apple TV gives you access to an easy-to-navigate world of entertainment. Rent HD movies. Buy HD movies and get iTunes Extras. Buy HD TV shows. Listen to your iTunes music and Internet radio.
• Arri Alexa - film-style digital motion picture camera system made by Arri first introduced in April 2010. The camera marks Arri's first major transition into digital cinematography after smaller previous efforts such as the Arriflex D-20 and D-21.
• ARRI GROUP - the world’s largest manufacturer and distributor of motion picture camera, digital intermediate and lighting equipment.
• ART FILM - (also known as art movie, specialty film, art house film, or in the collective sense as art cinema) is typically a serious, independent film aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.
• ASC | AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS
• Asta Nielsen: Silent star’s 1913 film celebrating suffragettes goes on show in London - The Guardian.
• AT THE MOVIES - movie posters original and vintage.
• At the Movies (U.S. TV series) - (originally Siskel and Ebert and The Movies, and later At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper) is a movie review television program produced by Disney-ABC Domestic Television in which two film critics shared their opinions of newly released films. The program aired under various names. Its original hosts were Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times and Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune. (1986-2010).
• Audrey Hepburn’s personal Collection on sale at Christie’s - The New York Times.
• Audrey Hepburn's personal possessions to be auctioned - The Telegraph.
• 'Avengers: Endgame' beats 'Avatar' to become highest-grossing movie ever - "Marvel's superhero saga "Avengers: Endgame" has pushed passed James Cameron's "Avatar" to become the highest-earning movie of all time. If accounting for inflation, however, "Gone with the Wind" still holds the crown."
• ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Conquers the World With a $1.2 Billion Opening - The New York Times.
• Avengers: Endgame - spoiler-free review - "No plot details, just general thoughts on the end of an era."
• AVN MEDIA NETWORK

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• B MOVIE - Wikipedia.
• Barry Lyndon: why it’s time to reassess Kubrick’s ‘coffee-table’ movie - The Guardian.
• Batman v Superman review: a very expensive reaction video for Man of Steel - The Verge.
• BATMAN'S UTILITY BELT
• best classic horror movies to watch at Halloween - The Telegraph.
• best jewellery at the Cannes Film Festival through the ages - The Telegraph.
• BEST MOVIE WEBSITES
• BEST OF... - greatest film scenes.
• BFI | BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE - "Our world-renowned archive, cinemas, festivals, films, publications and learning resources are here to inspire you."
• big budget Russian blockbusters the world will never see - The Guardian.
• Bigger than the big screen: can Netflix conquer cinema? - The Guardian.
• Biggest Snubs of the 2018 Golden Globes Nominations - TIME Magazine.
• Bill Cosby, in Deposition, Said Drugs and Fame Helped Him Seduce Women - The New York Times.
• Bill Cosby sentenced to state prison for sexual assault - "Comedian Bill Cosby has been sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison for sexual assault."
• Bill Murray, Brooklyn Bartender - The New York Times.
• Billionaire Superyacht Showdown: Who's Who at Cannes Film Festival - Forbes.
• BINGE VIEWING - the practice of watching television for longer time spans than usual, usually of a single television show.
• BIOPIC | Biographical film - film that dramatizes the life of an actual person or people. They differ from films "based on a true story" or "historical films" in that they attempt to comprehensively tell a person’s life story or at least the most historically important years of their lives.
• BLOCKBUSTER - was an American-based provider of home movie and video game rental services through video rental shops, DVD-by-mail, streaming, video on demand, and cinema theater. At its peak in 2004, Blockbuster consisted of nearly 60,000 employees and over 9,000 stores.
• Blowup - 1966 mystery thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni. It was Antonioni's first entirely English-language film, and follows a London fashion photographer, played by David Hemmings, who believes he has unwittingly captured a murder on film.
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• Blowup - Then & Now - Maryon Park.
• Blowup - Then & Now - "Then & Now scenes and a whole lot more from the cult film made in 1966..."
• BLU-RAY.COM - your source for everything related to Blu-ray Disc (BD): movies, players, news, reviews.
• BODY DOUBLE - definition & definition.
• Bodyguard star Richard Madden criticises 'unrealistic' weight demands - "Bodyguard star Richard Madden has spoken out against the "unrealistic" demands he and his fellow actors face regarding their weight and body image."
• BOFFO - hit show.
• BOLLYWOOD - Mumbai, India.
• BOX OFFICE MOJO - since 1999. Tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
• Brigitte Bardot on life in the spotlight - "Actor reflects on her despair at human nature and how animals have brought her peace."
• BROADCAST FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION - the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing 199 television, radio and online critics.
• Bruce Lee bio debunks myths about the 'kung fu Jesus' - CNN.
• Buddy cop film - film with plots involving two people of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process.
• Burning off - the low-profile airing of otherwise-abandoned unaired television programs, usually by scheduling in far less important time slots or on less important sister networks.
• BUSEY - definition & explanation.
• buyer pays $405,700 for Olivia Newton-John’s Grease outfit - "Actor’s famous black trousers and leather jacket sold at auction along with other memorabilia, raising $2.4m."

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• Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created? - The New York Times.
• Cannes competition: Stars' Film Festival fight for the city's best hotel suites - The Telegraph.
• CARA | THE CLASSIFICATION AND RATING ADMINISTRATION - reasons for movie ratings; movie rating search.
• Cary Grant: from the Bristol docks to the Hollywood hills - The Guardian.
• Cary Grant: how 100 acid trips 'changed my life' - The Guardian.
• CARY GRANT'S "NORTH BY NORTHWEST" SUIT - Cary Grant's Kilgour suit in the 1959 Alfred Hitchcock thriller film North by Northwest.
• Charlie Sheen's PA reveals the life with the out-of-control star - Daily Mail.
• Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic - The New York Times.
• charting the steady decline of Johnny Depp - The Telegraph.
• Chroma key - Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries.
• CINEMA DE LA MER - 13-seat private Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A. home theater.
• CinÉma du look - French film movement of the 1980s.
• CINEMA OF HONG KONG - one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan.
• CINEMA VÉRITÉ - Wikipedia.
• Cinema's greatest sporting contests - The Telegraph.
• CINEMATICAL - online blogging and discussion focused on movies, celebrities, and entertainment.
• CITIZEN KANE - at the Internet Movie Database.
• CLASSIC NOIR ONLINE - for the classic movie fan and the die-hard film noir junkie, classicnoir.com gives you hundreds of film noir brainteasers and is packed with information.
• Classical Hollywood cinema - 1927 and 1963.
• Clothes on film - since 2009. "Screen style & identity." The aim of Clothes on Film is to examine costume and identity in movies, featuring detailed articles on outfits, reviews, news and exclusive interviews.
• CMB WORLDWIDE - represents the intellectual property of celebratory icons from then, now & forever.
• COMINGSOON.NET - film database.
• Cosby in His Own Words: Sex, Drugs, Deceit - The New York Times.
• 'Crazy Rich Asians' puts spotlight on region's inequalities - "The film Crazy Rich Asians hit the box office this month, and the glossy rom-com has put a spotlight on the region's growing number of super-rich."
• Creative Artists Agency | CAA - since 1975. Talent and sports agency, headquartered in Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
• CULT FILM - Wikipedia.
• Cyclorama - large curtain or wall, often concave, positioned at the back of the stage area.

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• D-LIST - a very minor celebrity.
• Daniel Craig is 'done' playing James Bond - but will Tom Hiddleston be the next 007? - The Telegraph.
• Daniel Craig offered $150m for two more Bonds - The Guardian.
• Danny Trejo: the hardest man in Hollywood - "He’s brought menace, mayhem and machetes to everything from Breaking Bad to Three-Headed Shark Attack. Meet Danny Trejo, the ex-con who punched his way into the movies."
• Darth Vader - fictional character in the Star Wars universe. He appears in the original trilogy as a pivotal figure, as well as the prequel trilogy as a central figure.
• David Lynch: 'You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing' - The Guardian.
• Deadline Hollywood - "Hollywood Entertainment Breaking News."
• DEARLY DEPARTED - "Bus Tours of Hollywood Celebrity, Movies, Movie Filming Sites, Scandals, & Death."
• Deities of Men’s Style - The New York Times.
• Developers given go ahead to demolish Fawlty Towers hotel in Torquay - Western Morning News.
• DIGITAL CINEMA - Wikipedia.
• DINO DE LAURENTIIS - Italian Academy Award-winning movie producer.
• Direct-to-video - Wikipedia.
• Director's cut - Wikipedia.
• DIRECTORS GUILD OF AMERICA
• DOCUMENTARY - Wikipedia.
• Dog-and-pony show - definition & explanation.
• DOGME 95 - an avant-garde filmmaking movement.
• DOLBY THEATRE - 6801 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (Formerly known as the Kodak Theatre, and temporarily renamed the Hollywood and Highland Center theatre in 2012). Since its opening on November 9, 2001, the theatre has been the home of the annual Academy Awards Ceremonies (The Oscars), which were first held there in March 2002, and is the first permanent home for the awards.
• Doris Day, America's archetypal girl next door - "Doris Day was the fresh-faced, all-American girl who became one of the world's most bankable film stars."
• Drama film - film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes.
• Dumb Blonde - the notion of "dumb blonde" has been a topic of academic research reported in scholarly articles and university symposia, which tend to confirm that many people hold to the perception that light-haired women are less intelligent than women with dark hair.
• Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is the world's highest paid actor - The Guardian.

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• Easy Rider at 50: how the rebellious road movie shook up the system - "In 1969, Dennis Hopper and friends set out to make one of the last great movies of the decade, changing independent film-making forever."
• Edith Head - (October 28, 1897 – October 24, 1981) was an American costume designer who won eight Academy Awards, more than any other person in the category of costume design.
• Edward Fox on Harrison Ford - 'For all his later Indiana Jones bravado, he was hardly the adventuring sort.'
• Elizabeth Taylor's "Green Goddess" Rolls-Royce is going on sale at a New York auction - CNN style.
• Ellen Burstyn: five best moments - The Guardian.
• Ensemble cast - cast members in which the principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production.
• Establishing shot - sets up, or establishes the context for a scene by showing the relationship between its important figures and objects. It is generally a long- or extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where, and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes place.
• EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY | EFA - an initiative of a group of European filmmakers who came together in Berlin on the occasion of the first presentation of the European Film Awards in November 1988.
• Every Single X-Men Movie, Ranked - TIME Magazine.
• Every Star Wars film - ranked! - The Guardian.
• Every Woody Allen Movie - "A chronological journey through every Woody Allen movie."
• EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STAR WARS' BB-8 - Wired.
• Evolution partly to blame for obsession with Brangelina - The Verge.
• Explore Batman v Superman's incredibly detailed Batcave in Google Street View - The Verge.
• EXPLORE HOLLYWOOD - Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

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• FBI finds stolen ruby slippers from Wizard of Oz after 13 years - "Judy Garland’s shoes, considered one of the most prized pieces of film memorabilia, were recovered in Minnesota."
• Festival de Cannes - "Download the 2019 official app."
• FILM NOIR - Wikipedia.
• FILM PRODUCER - Wikipedia.
• Film Snob? Is That So Wrong? - The New York Times.
• FILM STYLES - A film style is a recognizable group of conventions used by filmmakers to give specific meaning, or depth to their work. Film style is distinct from film genre, which defines what a film is about.
• FILMography - FILM + photography = FILMography.
• FILMPOSTERS - movie posters to buy online.
• FILMSITE - is a unique website containing interpretive, descriptive review commentary and historical background, and hundreds of colorful, vintage film posters for some of the best Hollywood and American classic films in the last century.
• Filthy rich: our tortured love affair with wealth porn - The Guardian.
• FIND A GRAVE - find famous graves.
• FIRST IMPRESSIONS THEME THEATRES - private digital cinema interiors.
• FLIXTER - "Watch movies. Tell friends." Flixter is a community for movie fans of all shapes and sizes. Whether you are a die-hard horror fan or lover of romantic comedies (or both), Flixster is a place where you can find others who share your taste and through them discover new movies that you will love.
• Former Beverly Hills Home of Jennifer Aniston & Brad Pitt Asks $49 Million - "The California mansion, built in 1934, has a tennis court and guest house."
• Fort Lee, New Jersey - "America's original Hollywood." The history of cinema in the United States can trace its roots to the East Coast where, at one time, Fort Lee was the motion picture capital of America. The industry got its start at the end of the 19th century with the construction of Thomas Edison's "Black Maria", the first motion picture studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
• Fourth wall - performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes, the actors act as if they cannot.
• Frank Lucas, the drug lord who inspired American Gangster, dies aged 88 - "Mobster who climbed ranks of New York crime in 1970s was played by Denzel Washington in acclaimed 2007 movie."
• Frat Pack - nickname given to a group of male Hollywood comedy actors who have appeared together in many of the highest grossing comedy movies since the late 1990s. The group usually includes Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Owen Wilson, Luke Wilson, Will Ferrell, Vince Vaughn, and Steve Carell.
• FRENCH NEW WAVE - La Nouvelle Vague.
• From Game of Thrones to The Crown: the woman who turns actors into stars - "Nina Gold’s role is invisible, and yet her taste has shaped much of what we watch on film and TV."
• funniest Pink Panther quotes - The Telegraph.

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• Gene Wilder – five key performances - The Guardian.
• George Clooney highest paid actor ever - BBC.
• George Lucas Criticizes Latest ‘Star Wars’ Installment - The New York Times.
• gesamtkunstwerk - definition & explanation.
• GOLD DERBY - "Tom O'Neil has the inside track on Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and all the award shows."
• golden age of cinema returns to Los Angeles - The Telegraph.
• Golden era of Hollywood - (1917-1960). Lasted from the end of the silent era in American cinema in the late 1920s to the early 1960s, thousands of movies were issued from the Hollywood studios. The start of the Golden Age was arguably when The Jazz Singer was released in 1927, ending the silent era and increasing box-office profits for films as sound was introduced to feature films.
• GOTHAM CITY - Wikipedia.
• GRAUMAN'S CHINESE THEATRE - movie theater located at 6925 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood along the historic Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• Grauman's Chinese Theatre handprint ceremonies - "This is a list of handprint ceremonies for the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California (originally 'Grauman's Chinese Theatre'). Footprints and signatures are also included, and in some cases imprints of other objects." Different from the Hollywood Walk of Fame!
• GREEN LIGHT - leading global consultancy, providing corporate, advertising, and media clients access to iconic music, film, celebrities, and entertainment content. "Our rights representation group manages the personality rights of iconic estates, including Albert Einstein, Bruce Lee, Steve McQueen, and Johnny Cash. GreenLight is based in Los Angeles and serves clients in more than 50 countries."
• Green screen - Chroma key compositing, or chroma keying, is a visual effects / post-production technique for compositing (layering) two images or video streams together based on color hues (chroma range). The technique has been used heavily in many fields to remove a background from the subject of a photo or video – particularly the newscasting, motion picture and videogame industries.
• GUINNESS BOOK OF FILM: THE TOP 100 BY GENRE

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• ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress - The Guardian.
• Hays Office 'Doom Book' - list of 117 names created in the 1930s by United States censor Will Hays. The list included actors, actresses, directors, and others in the film industry whose private lives were "contrary to public morals" and who as a result should not be employed by Hollywood studios.
• ‘He is a psychopath’: has the 2019 Joker gone too far? - "Todd Phillips’s take has been mired in controversy, but it’s not the first time the character has reflected society."
• Helen Rose - (1904-1985). American costume designer and clothing designer who spent the bulk of her career with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the late 1960s, Rose left the studio to open her own design business and continued to provide fancy attire for the famed and the wealthy.
• here are the Hollywood marriages made in heaven - The Telegraph.
• 'Hereditary': Why in the movies, home is the scariest place to be - CNN style.
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• Hero Batpod Vehicle - from the action films The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, directed by Christopher Nolan.
• Highest Paid Actors on TV in 2018 - TIME Magazine.
• History's strangest red carpet moment? - "Remember when Björk wore a swan dress at the Oscars?"
• HOLLYWOOD - Wikipedia.
• Hollywood accounting - refers to the opaque accounting methods used by the film, video and television industry to budget and record profits for film projects. Expenditures can be inflated to reduce or eliminate the reported profit of the project thereby reducing the amount which the corporation must pay in royalties or other profit-sharing agreements, as these are based on the net profit.
• Hollywood and Booze: An Enduring Marriage - The New York Times.
• Hollywood at war: film-makers feud with each other - The Guardian.
• Hollywood Debates Screening vs. Streaming - The New York Times.
• Hollywood Career-o-Matic - "What Rotten Tomatoes data tell us about the best, worst, and most bizarre Hollywood trajectories."
• HOLLYWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - official website.
• HOLLYWOOD FOREIGN PRESS ASSOCIATION | HFPA - an organization comprising journalists who cover the United States film industry. The group is best known for the Golden Globe Awards.
• HOLLYWOOD FOREVER CEMETERY - 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A. Visitors come from all over the world to pay respects Johnny Ramone, Cecil B. DeMille, Jayne Mansfield, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, and hundreds more of Hollywood’s greatest stars.
• Hollywood horse trainer reveals big-screen tricks - The Telegraph.
• HOLLYWOOD MUSEUM - visit the world’s largest collection of costumes, props, posters, photographs and other priceless memorabilia from Hollywood’s greatest films, TV shows and music acts. See 10,000 REAL showbiz treasures.
• HOLLYWOOD PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION - "This collection is the largest photographic and reference collection on the subject of hollywood. The collection contains thousands of photographs which date from 1880 to 1987."
• HOLLYWOOD RESOURCE WEBSITE - shopping & dining in Hollywood, nightlife in Hollywood.
• HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME - official website. As of February 9, 2012: 2,460 consists five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along fifteen blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• HOLLYWOOD WAX MUSEUM - the displays house some 180 wax figures of movie stars, television personalities and characters.
• HOLLYWOOD'S BEST ACTORS FOR THE BUCK - Forbes.
• HOLLYWOOD's Golden age - 1927 and 1963.
• Hollywood’s grim century of fat-shaming - The Guardian.
• Hollywood's Most Overpaid Actors 2015 - Forbes.
• HOLLYWOOD'S TOP 40 EARNERS - Vanity Fair Magazine.
• how casting-couch culture endures in Hollywood - The Guardian.
• How Debbie Reynolds amassed a priceless Hollywood memorabilia collection - then lost it - The Telegraph.
• How did Mission: Impossible become Hollywood's most reliable franchise? - "Critical adoration and box office success has met the sixth installment of Tom Cruise’s series, an unlikely 22-year phenomenon that shows no signs of tiring."
• How crazy rich are Asia's wealthiest families? - "The success of the movie "Crazy Rich Asians" is drawing attention to the region's growing wealth."
• How the Bafta Winners Do (and Don’t) Foretell the Oscars - The New York Times.
• How the iconic music of 2001: A Space Odyssey came to be - Vox.
• How to download any video online - Tech Advisor.
• How to fix Hollywood's race problem - The Guardian.
• how to grow a $22bn franchise - The Guardian.
• How to Share Books & Movies Through Amazon Household - "The retail giant offers a way to share your Prime benefits - including Kindle titles, audiobooks, and free shipping - with others in your home."
• How to spot a bad film without even seeing it - The Guardian.
• how Warren Beatty became the king of Hollywood flops - The Telegraph.
• How we made In the Heat of the Night - The Guardian.
• How Will the Movies (As We Know Them) Survive the Next 10 Years? - The New York Times.

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• 'I did the first nude in Vogue': Marisa Berenson on being a blazing star of the 70s and beyond - "She was photographed by Warhol, and Dalí wanted to paint her; the first films she made were Death in Venice and Cabaret. So why did she walk away?"
• ‘I go nowhere, I see no one’: Garbo letters reveal lonely life of film icon - "The star told her closest friend of her isolation in a series of notes that are now up for auction."
• 'I had to be stitched into them': Olivia Newton-John's skintight Grease outfit goes to auction - "The actor is selling more than 500 items, including memorabilia from the hit film, to raise funds for her cancer treatment centre."
• 'I haven't got it yet!' - The relentless, ridiculous perfectionism of Stanley Kubrick.
• IBDB | The INTERNET BROADWAY DATABASE - since 2000. Online database of Broadway theatre productions and their personnel. "The official source for Broadway information."
• IFTA | IRISH FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY - "Celebrating a wealth of Irish talent."
• IMAX - specializing in immersive motion picture technologies.
• IMDB | THE INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE - since 1990. Online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media.
• In like Flynn - slang phrase meaning "having quickly or easily achieved a goal or gained access as desired". In addition to its general use, the phrase is sometimes used to describe success in sexual seduction, and its folk etymology often asserts the phrase has sexual origins.
• Ingmar Bergman’s flawed way with women - The Guardian.
• Indiegogo - "The World's Funding Platform." Since 2008. International crowdfunding site where anyone can raise money for film, music, art, charity, small businesses, gaming, theater, and more.
• Inside The $85,000 Oscar Nominee Goodie Bag - Business Insider.
• INSIDE THE MIND OF STEVEN SPIELBERG - Wired.
• 'Invisible effects' - The best kept secret in Hollywood - The Telegraph.
• IOBDB | The Internet Off-Broadway Database - provides a catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway.
• IRVING THALBERG - legendary American film producer during the early years of motion pictures.
• ISFDB | The Internet Speculative Fiction Database - since 1995. Database of bibliographic information on science fiction and related genres such as fantasy fiction and horror fiction.
• ITDB | The INTERNET THEATRE DATABASE - "By the fans for the fans."

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• Jack Black & Will Ferrell 'Get Off the Stage' Oscar song - YouTube.
• JACK WARNER - (1892-1978). Late president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios in Hollywood. Warner's 45-year career was longer than that of any other traditional Hollywood studio mogul.
• JAMES BOND - Wikipedia.
• Jason Statham 39 films - ranked! - "We rate the action man’s bone-crunching output from Guy Ritchie’s cockney geezer to the Fast & Furious movies."
• Jennifer Aniston’s daily schedule: a 16-hour fast - and celery juice as a treat - "The star’s wellbeing secrets include fasting, meditation and five workouts a week. But when does she have fun?"
• jennifer aniston's scathing essay on pregnancy reports - The Guardian.
• JERRY SEINFELD - Personal Archives. Showing three new film clips each day.
• John Cleese has launched a YouTube channel - The Telegraph.
• john cleese on political correctness - The Big Think.
• John Lennon's missing Rolls-Royce rides again - The Telegraph.
• Johnny Depp: an unruly misfit who has a troubled relationship with fame - The Guardian.
• Johnny Depp: how Hollywood's biggest star fell from grace - The Guardian.
• 'Joker' shatters box office records despite its controversial depiction of violence - "The gritty Warner Bros. film about the origins of the crazed Batman nemesis brought in an estimated $93.5 million in North America this weekend. That makes 'Joker' the highest-grossing opening in the history of October. The film shattered the record held by Sony Pictures' 'Venom,' which made $80 million last October."
• Joker stairs - and eight other movie locations that are big tourist attractions - "Film fans have made major destinations of all sorts of unlikely places, from Hugh Grant’s door in Notting Hill to the delicatessen in which Sally faked a very enthusiastic orgasm."
• JOOST - It's a way to watch videos – music, TV, movies and more – over the Internet.
• Joseff of Hollywood - (1905-1948). "Costume jewelry made by Eugene Joseff many of which were used in Hollywood films."

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• Keyser SÖze - fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects.
• KEYSER SÖZE SYNDROME - definition & explanation.

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• La Dolce Vita star Anita Ekberg dies - BBC News.
• LA NOUVELLE VAGUE - Wikipedia.
• Lady Chablis, transgender nightclub star, dies aged 59 - The Guardian.
• Lars Von Trier film prompts mass walkouts at Cannes - The Guardian.
• Lars von Trier on filmmaking & fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ - "His new film, the typically shocking The House That Jack Built, is supposed to be the director’s big comeback. But his demons seem to have the upper hand."
• LEE STRASBERG THEATRE AND FILM INSTITUTE - "The Method is simply what all actors have done when acting well!"
• Leni Riefenstahl archive to throw new light on Hitler's film-maker - The Guardian.
• Letterboxing (filming) - is the practice of transferring film shot in a widescreen aspect ratio to standard-width video formats while preserving the film's original aspect ratio.
• List of film remakes - Wikipedia.
• List of film sequels by box-office improvement - Wikipedia.
• list of the greatest female American screen legends of all time - American Film Institute.
• list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time - American Film Institute.
• List of prequels - Wikipedia.
• Looking For Tom Lehrer, Comedy’s Mysterious Genius
• LORTEL ARCHIVES - The Internet Off-Broadway Database. provides a catalogue of shows produced Off-Broadway.
• LOUIS B. MAYER - legendary American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in its golden years.
• Love through a lens - "How Ingrid Bergman took the world’s breath away."

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• MacGuffin - plot device in the form of some goal, desired object, or other motivator that the protagonist pursues, often with little or no narrative explanation.
• Madame Tussauds Hollywood - "Meet the icons." 6933 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90028, U.S.A.
• Make them wait! Why the age of bingewatching may finally be over - "Disney’s new streaming service will release episodes once a week, rather than in one go, bringing an end to Netflix’s exhausting all-you-can-eat model."
• marilyn monroe & 10 other jfk mistresses: photos - The Daily Beast.
• Marilyn Monroe: 7 rarely seen pictures & the stories behind them - The Telegraph.
• Marilyn Monroe Auction Online Catalog 2014 - Julien's Auctions.
• Marilyn Monroe & Bobby Kennedy 'were an item', letters to the Hollywood icon suggest - The Telegraph.
• Marilyn Monroe: the unseen files - The Telegraph.
• 'Marilyn Monroe was impossible to work with' - The Telegraph.
• 
• Maryon Park - urban public park located in Charlton in the Royal Borough of Greenwich, London, England, U.K. The park was the filming location of key scenes in Blowup (1966), a drama mystery-thriller film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring David Hemmings, Sarah Miles and Vanessa Redgrave. The park is little changed since the making of the film.
• MAW - short for: Model, Actress, Whatever - a young woman without much talent who attains celebrity through physical attractiveness.
• Max Jacobson - (1900-1979). German-born New York physician, nicknamed "Miracle Max" and "Dr. Feelgood", who administered amphetamines and other medications to several high-profile clients, including President John F. Kennedy. A Jew, Jacobson fled Berlin in 1936, and set up an office on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where he treated many famous individuals including Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Leonard Bernstein, Humphrey Bogart, Yul Brynner, Maria Callas, Truman Capote, Van Cliburn, Montgomery Clift, Rosemary Clooney, Maya Deren, Cecil B. DeMille, Marlene Dietrich, Eddie Fisher, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Alan Jay Lerner, Mickey Mantle, Liza Minnelli, Thelonious Monk, Marilyn Monroe, Zero Mostel, Elvis Presley, Anthony Quinn, Paul Robeson, Nelson Rockefeller, David O. Selznick, Elizabeth Taylor, Billy Wilder and Tennessee Williams.
• Meisner technique - approach to acting which was developed by the American theatre practitioner Sanford Meisner. The Meisner technique develops externally, as opposed to "method" acting, which develops from an internal source such as emotional recall, sense of memory, etc. The focus of the Meisner approach is for the actor to "get out of their head," such as that the actor is behaving instinctively to the surrounding environment.
• METACRITIC - "Keeping score of entertainment". Discover what's new and notable. Compare what's new this week, what's great this year, and all-time favorites. Finding quality entertainment is easy with the Metacritic scorecard.
• METHOD ACTING - range of techniques for training actors to achieve better characterizations of the characters they play, as formulated by Lee Strasberg.
• Michael Caine ... actor changes his name due to Isis - The Guardian.
• Michael Caine interview - The Guardian.
• Michael Caine’s best films - ranked! - "As The Italian Job gets a 50th anniversary re-release, we have painstakingly charted the charming hardnut’s 50 greatest performances, from Alfie to Zulu."
• MICHAEL MOORE'S FILMS
• Mickey Rooney's amazing sex life - The Telegraph.
• MIPCOM - since 1985. "The world's entertainment content market." TV and entertainment market which is held in the town of Cannes once every year, normally in October. It is essentially a content event for co-producing, buying, selling, financing and distributing entertainment content. It provides the people involved in the TV, film, digital and audiovisual content, production and distribution industry a market and networking forum to discover future trends and trade content rights on a global level.
• Mittyesque - definition & explanation.
• MOCKBUSTER - film created with the apparent intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major film with a similar title or theme and is often made with a low budget.
• Mockumentary - type of film or television show in which fictional events are presented in documentary style to create a parody.
• MONDO FILM - exploitation documentary film, sometimes resembling a pseudo-documentary and usually depicting sensational topics, scenes, or situations.
• Montgomery Clift: the untold story of Hollywood's misunderstood star - "In a new documentary, myths and assumptions about the Oscar-nominated heartthrob who struggled with his sexuality are replaced with the little-known truth."
• MONUMENT VALLEY - featured in many forms of media since the 1930s. Appearances include films, such as Westerns by director John Ford.
• MORPHING - Wikipedia.
• Moses Farrow Defends Father Woody Allen, Claims Mia Farrow Was Abusive
• Most stunning 'Game of Thrones' locations - "Spain's most pivotal 'Game of Thrones' filming locations."
• most watched YouTube videos of all time - The Telegraph.
• MOVIE GOODS - movie posters, photos, and other movie memorabilia.
• MOVIE HOUSES - Hooked on Houses.
• MOVIE MISTAKES - goofs, bloopers, pictures, quotes and trivia from thousands of movies.
• MOVIE MOVIE - "Probably the world’s most extensive chronology of film history."
• Moviola - device that allows a film editor to view a film while editing.
• MPA INTERNATIONAL - operates around the world working with local governments and law enforcement to promote the movie industry and protect copyrights.
• MPAA | MOTION PICTURE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - founded in 1922 as the trade association of the American film industry. Serve as the voice and advocate of the American motion picture, home video and television industries, domestically through the MPAA and internationally through the MPA.
• MSP FILMS - Matchstick Productions: the leader in action sport filmmaking - from wakeboarding, mountain biking, kayaking, motocross, and base jumping right back to their roots in snowboarding and skiing.
• Mulholland Drive leads list of 21st century's top films - The Guardian.
• Multi-Plot Film - definition & explanation.
• MUSICALS101.COM - "The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musicals."
• My name is Michael Caine ... actor changes name due to Isis - The Guardian.

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• National Society of Film Critics | NSFC - "The Truth, Once Every 12 Months." American film critic organization. As of December 2007 the NSFC had approximately 60 members who wrote for a variety of weekly and daily newspapers.
• Netflix's biggest competitor? Sleep - The Guardian.
• New German Cinema - Wikipedia.
• Nickelodeon (movie theater) - the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures. Usually set up in converted storefronts, these small, simple theaters charged five cents for admission and flourished from about 1905 to 1915.
• Nicole Kidman: 'Cruise marriage protected me from harassment' - "'Being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed'."
• night before oscars party - celebrates the entertainment industry's Academy Awards nominees and presenters along with some of Hollywood's biggest stars and influencers, while raising money and awareness for Motion Picture & Television Fund. Held at the historic Beverly Hills Hotel, this annual benefit raises funds to help provide health and social services to more than 150,000 people each year in MPTF's mission of taking care of our own.
• Nokia Theatre L.A. Live - music and theatre venue located in downtown Los Angeles, California located at L.A. Live. It is sponsored by then Finnish cellphone maker, Nokia. The theatre auditorium seats 7,100 and holds one of the largest indoor stages in the United States.
• NOLLYWOOD - colloquialism for the Nigerian video feature film industry.
• Nordic Noir - (Scandinavian crime fiction, Scandi noir, Scandinavian noir) is a genre of crime fiction written from a police point of view. The language is simple and eschews metaphor, the settings have bleak landscapes, and the mood is dark and morally complex. The genre depicts a tension between the apparently still and bland social surface in Scandinavia and the murder, misogyny, rape, and racism it depicts as lying underneath. It contrasts with the whodunit style such as the English country house murder mystery.
• NOUVELLE VAGUE | NEW WAVE

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• Oliver Reed, Saddam Hussein & the true story of the world's most bizarre film - The Telegraph.
• Oliver Stone Talks Secrets, Spies, and Snowden - Wired.
• ONLINE SERIES - "Watch Full Episodes - TV Shows, Seasons, Online Series."
• Oprah Talks Apple Plans, '60 Minutes' Exit, 'Leaving Neverland' Backlash and Mayor Pete 'Buttabeep, Buttaboop' - "What's left for the media empress and icon of inspiration? In a wide ranging interview, Winfrey explains her streaming strategy (including a possible interview series), who she's eyeing for 2020 ('I'd like to see what's up with Butta' - aka Pete Buttigieg) and the creative fire that fuels her now."
• Orson Welles memoir found 30 years after great director's death - The Guardian.
• Oscar Bait - definition & explanation.
• Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties - Amazon.com.
• Oscar swag bags: $167,000 - and racy - CNBC.
• Oscars 2019: Lady Gaga's Priceless 128.54 Carat "Tiffany Diamond" Necklace Was Last Worn by Audrey Hepburn in 1961 - W Magazine.
• Oscars 2019: who should be the host? - "The Academy is yet to announce who’ll take charge of next year’s ceremony, and with dwindling ratings, the time is ripe for a major change."
• Over-40 actors still fighting the ageism that stymied Judy Garland - "Renée Zellweger’s Garland biopic is a powerful reminder of the attitudes that infect youth-obsessed Hollywood."

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• Palme d'Or winners - ranked! - The Guardian.
• PANAVISION- motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses.
• PAPARAZZI - definition & explanation.
• Paul Newman Rolex Sells at Auction for Record $17.8 Million - The New York Times.
• Peanut gallery - was, in the days of vaudeville, a nickname for the cheapest and ostensibly rowdiest seats in the theater, the occupants of which were often known to heckle the performers. The least expensive snack served at the theatre would often be peanuts, which the patrons would sometimes throw at the performers on stage to convey their disapproval.
• PICKFAIR - 22-room mansion in Beverly Hills, California named as an amalgamation of the names of its original residents, silent film actors Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford.
• PIERS MORGAN ON HOLLYWOOD - YouTube.
• Point of view shot - (also known as POV shot or a subjective camera) is a short film scene that shows what a character (the subject) is looking at (represented through the camera). It is usually established by being positioned between a shot of a character looking at something, and a shot showing the character's reaction (see shot reverse shot). The technique of POV is one of the foundations of film editing.
• Policier - a film based on a police novel, portraying crime and its detection by police.
• Potboiler - low-quality novel, play, opera, film, or other creative work whose main purpose was to pay for the creator's daily expenses.
• Pre-Code Hollywood - refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the introduction of sound pictures in 1929 and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code censorship guidelines in 1934, usually labeled, albeit inaccurately, as the "Hays Code".
• PREMIERE.COM - read movie reviews and get the latest movie news.
• Prequel - Wikipedia.
• Primetime Emmy Award - awards presented by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American primetime television programming. First awarded in 1949, they were originally referred to as just the "Emmy Awards" until the first Daytime Emmy Award ceremonies were held in the 1970s, and the word "primetime" was added to distinguish between the two. The Primetime Emmys generally air in mid-September, on the Sunday before the official start of the fall television season.
• Princess Diana was set to star in sequel to The Bodyguard with Kevin Costner - "Actor has confirmed the late Princess of Wales was keen to play role after conversations instigated by Sarah Ferguson."
• PRODUCERS GUILD OF AMERICA
• PROFILES IN HISTORY - "founded in 1985, Profiles in History is the U.S.A.'s leading dealer in guaranteed-authentic original historical autographs, letters, documents, vintage signed photographs and manuscripts."
• Prop Store - since 1998. "Ultimate Movie Collectables." One of the worlds leading vendors of original movie props and costumes.
• Psycho thrillers: five movies that teach us how the mind works - The Guardian.

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• QUIGLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY - publishers of the yearly international motion picture, television & video almanacs.

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• Radio Times - since 1923. British weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. The world's first broadcast listings magazine.
• Rashomon effect - contradictory interpretations of the same event by different people. The phrase derives from the film Rashomon, where the accounts of the witnesses, suspects, and victims of a rape and murder are all different.
• REAL NAMES OF FAMOUS FOLK - celebrity pseudonym central: almost 6000 real names, and more to come.
• RED CARPET - traditionally used to mark the route taken by heads of state on ceremonial and formal occasions, and has in recent decades been extended to use by VIPs and celebrities at formal events. The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC.
• REMAKE - Wikipedia.
• RenÉe Zellweger Is Back & Standing Up for Herself - The New York Times.
• RESPECT COPYRIGHTS
• Retroscripting - term for two techniques used in movie and television programs, pre- and post- production. A retroscripted script contains a plot outline and leaves dialogue deliberately vague for interpretation by the actors through improvisation. It gives realism and characterization to dialogue, and is regularly employed in the improvised situation comedy genre. In this respect it is very similar to the historical medium of Commedia dell'arte.
• RIVERWOOD - Nairobi, Kenya.
• Road Movie - definition & explanation.
• Robert De Niro: ‘I’d like to punch Donald Trump in the face’ - The Guardian.
• Robert De Niro on his father's journals: 'It was sad for me to read. He had his demons' - "Robert De Niro Sr left notebooks that revealed struggles with his sexuality and mental health. His son still can’t bear to read them."
• Robert Evans, celebrated Hollywood producer of Chinatown, dies aged 89 - "Renowned 1970s studio executive who gained a cult following with his autobiography The Kid Stays in the Picture."
• Robert Forster (1941-2019): a coolly charismatic character actor with an intensely sympathetic air - "Forster was a performer whose all-American looks could convey a deeper, more complex personality, something Quentin Tarantino and David Lynch picked up on."
• Roger Ebert - (1942-2013). "The most powerful pundit in America." American journalist, film critic, and screenwriter. He was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death. In 1975, he was the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. As of 2010, his columns were syndicated to more than 200 newspapers in the United States and abroad.
• Roger Moore's life & career in pictures - From knitwear model to 007.
• ROMCOM - romatic comedy film.
• Rotten fruit: why it's time to give up on the Razzies - The Guardian.
• Rowan Atkinson: why I just couldn't say no to Maigret - The Telegraph.
• RUBLJOVKA - German film: Road to Bliss.

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• Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut - The Guardian.
• SAMUEL GOLDWYN - legendary American film producer, and founder of several motion picture studios.
• Sandra Bullock: rank her films from best to worst - The Telegraph.
• scariest movie of the year - CNN.
• Scarlett Johansson Bot Is Robotic Objectifying Women - Wired.
• Scent of Mystery - 1960 mystery film that featured the one and only use of Smell-O-Vision, a system that timed odors to points in the film's plot.
• Scotty Bowers, ‘male madame to the stars’, dies aged 96 - "Claimed to have slept his way through golden-age Hollywood. Helped stars hide and indulge their true sexual natures."
• Scream queen - actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre as a frequent victim or through constant appearances as the female protagonist.
• SCREEN ACTORS GUILD
• SCREEN MAGAZINE - a weekly film and video resource detailing current and future productions.
• SCREENONLINE - "The definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history."
• SCREENWRITER - Wikipedia.
• Seatwave - "Your ticket to a great time." Online marketplace where fans can buy and sell tickets for concerts, theatre, sports and just about any other live event.
• SEEING STARS IN HOLLYWOOD - "The ultimate guide to celebrities & Hollywood". The Ultimate Guide to Hollywood and Celebrities in Southern California, with an emphasis on seeing celebrities in person. Actors, actresses, movie stars, TV stars, famous singers, etc.
• Sequel - Wikipedia.
• SEVENTH ART - the making of motion pictures; filmmaking.
• Sex, death & cannibalism: why mondo movies still shock - The Guardian.
• shockumentary - a form of documentary used to generate a reactionary effect in an audience; especially such a documentary containing scenes of violence, gore, or other disturbing imagery.
• SHVOONG.COM - "The Global Source for Summaries & Reviews". Shvoong is a global hub for Summaries & Reviews on virtually every topic imaginable. On Shvoong you’ll find book reviews, book summaries, movie reviews, website reviews, make money online reviews, business reviews, product reviews, travel reviews, and much more.
• Silent Film - Wikipedia.
• Slender Man - fictional supernatural character that originated as an Internet meme created by Something Awful forums user Eric Knudsen (a.k.a. "Victor Surge") in 2009. It is depicted as resembling a thin, unnaturally tall man with a blank and usually featureless face, wearing a black suit.
• Smell-O-Vision - system that released odor during the projection of a film so that the viewer could "smell" what was happening in the movie.
• Sneak Previews - (1975-1996).
• Soap opera effect - "Tom Cruise wants you to turn it off. Here's how. If you have a newer TV, chances are it's smoothing out your movies in a way that makes them look like daytime TV."
• SPAGHETTI WESTERN - sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.
• SPFX Masks - "The Inventor of the ORIGINAL Silicone Halloween Mask!" SPFXMasks crafts a variety of realistic disguise silicone masks. A Division of Hollywood Mask Masters!
• Stanislavski's system - systematic approach to training actors that the Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski developed in the first half of the 20th century.
• Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon: ‘It puts a spell on people’ - The Guardian.
• STAR CAR CENTRAL - Hollywood based TV and Movie car group of owners / builders of famous vehicles.
• Star system - the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films. Movie studios would select promising young actors and glamorise and create personas for them, often inventing new names and even new backgrounds. Examples of stars who went through the star system include Cary Grant (born Archie Leach), Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur), and Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.).
• Star Wars: Hollywood's most explosive - and expensive - divorces - The Telegraph.
• STAR WARS IS BECOMING A RELIGION - Wired.
• STARZ - premium movie service provider operating in the United States. It offers 16 movie channels.
• Stephen King on screen: the 47 best movie and TV adaptations, ranked - The Telegraph.
• STEWART FILMSCREEN CINE-W - curved screen re-creates cinematic experience.
• STREAMING ISN’T EVERYTHING & BLU-RAYS ARE BACK TO PROVE IT - Wired.
• Streaming TV Isn’t Just a New Way to Watch. It’s a New Genre. - The New York Times.
• Studio System - (used during a period known as the Golden Age of Hollywood) is a method of film production and distribution dominated by a small number of "major" studios in Hollywood. Although the term is still used today as a reference to the systems and output of the major studios, historically the term refers to the practice of large motion picture studios between the 1920s and 1960s of (a) producing movies primarily on their own filmmaking lots with creative personnel under often long-term contract, and (b) dominating exhibition through vertical integration, i.e., the ownership or effective control of distributors and exhibition, guaranteeing additional sales of films through manipulative booking techniques such as block booking.
• SUBZIN.COM - find phrases in movies and series.
• Summer nights: the US drive-in cinemas still packing ‘em in - "Grab a soda and a pizza, and watch under the stars. After decades of decline, this slice of quintessential Americana is making a minor comeback."
• SUNDANCE INSTITUTE - a non-profit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences.
• SUNGLASSES ID - "Serious About Celebrity Sunglasses & Eyeglasses." SunglassesID.com is a comprehensive guide to sunglasses worn by celebrities and spotted in the movies. Looking for a new pair of sunglasses? Start your search by selecting your favorite celebrity, movie or brand to get inspiration.
• Sunset Boulevard: what Billy Wilder's satire really tells us about Hollywood - The Guardian.
• Suppressed film of Yves Saint Laurent finally released after ‘ugly fight’ - "The designer and his partner Pierre Bergé are seen at the height of their success, but permission to screen it was refused."
• Surprisingly rich movie stars - who didn't make all their money from movies - The Telegraph.
• Sword-and-sandal - genre of largely Italian-made Historical or Biblical Epics (costume dramas) that dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western".

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• TCM CLASSIC MOVIES
• TCM MOVIE DATABASE - the TCM archives.
• TELEVISION & MOVIE HOUSES - Hooked on Houses.
• Terms and Conditions May Apply - 2013 documentary that discusses how corporations and the government utilize the information that users provide when agreeing to browse a website, install an application or purchase goods online. It discusses the language used in user-service agreements on the web, how they collect information, and the usage of the information.
• Test Your ‘Star Wars’ Knowledge - The New York Times.
• THE ACTORS STUDIO - a membership organization for professional actors, theatre directors and playwrights (New York City, NY, U.S.A.).
• The best hotels in films - The Telegraph.
• The Big Business of Being Gwyneth Paltrow - "Inside the growth of Goop - the most controversial brand in the wellness industry."
• The Black List - since 2005. The Black List is where filmmakers find great material to make films and great material finds filmmakers to make them. "Every December, we survey over 600 production company and film financier executives about their most liked screenplays and aggregate the responses for the industry and the public."
• The Dark Knight at 10: how Christopher Nolan reshaped superhero cinema - The Guardian.
• The Disney Effect - the act of making a bad/horrendous/cop-out-of-a-sequel or prequel to an originally good movie.
• THE ENVELOPE - the awards insider.
• The Gonzo Vision of Quentin Tarantino - The New York Times.
• THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF THE COLLAR BOMB HEIST - Wired.
• The Irishman review: Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years - "Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and - especially - Joe Pesci turn in performances of wintry brilliance in Scorsese’s epically daring late stage mob masterpiece."
• THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL | JUILLIARD - performing arts conservatory: dance, drama, music (New York City, NY, U.S.A.).
• The Lambs - "America’s First Professional Theatrical Club. Founded in 1874." Social club in New York City for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the theatre. It is America's oldest theatrical organization.
• The Man With the Most Oscars on Earth - Bloomberg.
• The New York of Mad Men - CN Traveller.
• THE NOIR ZONE - film noir.
• THE OSCARS - Academy Awards homepage.
• THE OTHER NETWORK WRITERS ROOM - "Inside the art, craft and business of writing." The brainchild of alternative comedy goddess Beth Lapides, who realized that a lot of brilliant TV writers' best work was literally gathering dust in the closet!
• THE MUSIC VIDEO DATABASE - "If you're looking for music video information and resources, then look no more! This is the perfect place for you."
• The Oscars: the 87 films to win Best Picture - The Oscars.
• THE RAT PACK - refers to a group that called itself "the summit" or "the clan," featuring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop.
• The rise & fall of Sacha Baron Cohen - The Guardian.
• THE ROOM - described as "one of the worst movies ever made" and "the Citizen Kane of bad movies". A 2003 American independent drama film written, directed, produced by & starring Tommy Wiseau.
• The Saddest Movie in the World - Smithsonian Magazine.
• The Shining has lost its shine – Kubrick was slumming it in a genre he despised - The Guardian.
• THE SMOKING GUN - large collection of public documents on crimes, celebrities, politicians, and the FBI.
• The terrorist inside my husband's brain - essay written by actor Robin Williams' widow.
• THE ULMER SCALE - Hollywood's most trusted guide to the global star power of actors and directors!
• The Unknown Known - free online documentary by Errol Morris. Duration: 96 minutes.
• the woman spilling Hollywood's long-held secrets - The Guardian.
• The Women of Hollywood Speak Out - The New York Times.
• Theadora Van Runkle - (1928-2011). Was an American costume designer.
• These Movies Have Good Clothes - The New York Times.
• things you didn't know about Cary Grant - LSD, Sophia Loren & living in Bachelor Hall.
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: 40 years on, the labyrinthine thriller is still TV caviar - "The BBC adaptation of John Le Carré’s novel mystified a nation - but also featured one of the greatest performances ever seen on the small screen."
• Tisch School of the Arts - one of the 15 schools that make up New York University. Founded in 1965, Tisch has become one of the nation’s leading centers of study in the performing and media arts.
• TK THEATERS - Theo Kalomirakis's design firm specializes in the design of residential home theaters.
• Tom Cruise running on screen equals movie gold, math shows - "According to Rotten Tomatoes, Cruise has run over 24,000 feet on screen, and that's translated to box office success."
• Tom Hiddleston gave a convincing audition for Bond in The Night Manager - The Telegraph.
• top 20 Tom Cruise movies - ranked! - The Guardian.
• TOP MOVIES - IMDb charts: USA weekend box-office summary.
• Top Rated TV Shows - Top 250 as rated by IMDb Users.
• TRAILER ADDICT - your daily dose of hi-res movie trailers.
• Triple Crown of Acting - term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award in the acting categories. 23 people have achieved the triple crown of acting (14 women, 9 men).
• True Crime - non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
• Turnaround - an arrangement in the film industry, whereby the production costs to a project which one studio has developed are declared a loss on the company's tax return, thereby preventing the studio from exploiting the property any further.
• TV.COM - free full episodes & clips, show info and TV listings guide.

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• Vanity Fair's most awkward Hollywood issue covers - The Guardian.
• Vanity Fair's Oscar Party - hosted by Graydon Carter.
• Vanessa Redgrave on why she was ready to die - ‘Trying to live was getting too tiring'.
• VICPINE - "The rare film specialist. Welcome to a world of classic, rare and cult movies. We love old films and we love to help you find them."
• VIMEO - "Video Sharing For You." Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make. We provide the best tools and highest quality video in the universe. 3,400,000 members as of May, 2010.
• VOICE ACTOR - Wikipedia.

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• WALK OF FAME - official website. As of February 10, 2017 comprises of more than 2,601 five-pointed terrazzo and brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
• WALL STREET - the original screenplay by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. See also: OPM.
• Wall Street Film Locations - On the set of New York.com.
• Watch Lady Gaga’s Star Being Born - "Bradley Cooper narrates a sequence from his film, in which he stars with Lady Gaga."
• We Can Do Better - Renee Zellweger.
• Wes Craven's Favorite Scary Movies - The Daily Beast.
• WETA DIGITAL LTD. - world leading visual effects company.
• what films should you never watch on an airplane? - The Guardian.
• what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip - The Guardian.
• What Hollywood Is Like (if You’re Not a Straight White Man) - The New York Times.
• What makes The Great Gatsby great? - The Guardian.

July 5, 2019

• What Marilyn Monroe ate in a day - "Every Item Included In Marilyn Monroe's Strange Diet & Exercise Routine."
• what watching 40 Eastwood films has taught me - The Guardian.
• What will films be like in 20 years? - "An array of rapidly developing technologies offer thrilling potential for the future of motion pictures. Luke Buckmaster asks the experts what’s next."
• What’s their beef? Why today’s leading men are driven to be buff - "Aidan Turner’s Poldark has ushered in a new age of brawn, but many are asking if the trend has gone too far."
• Where does fake movie money come from? - CNN style.
• Who killed Superman? The sinister true story behind the death of George Reeves - The Telegraph.
• Why an underpass in Berlin is Hollywood’s biggest breakout star - "From the Bourne Supremacy to Atomic Blonde, the Messedamm subway has starred in six blockbusters over the past 13 years."
• Why are we hooked on films about mass destruction? - The Guardian.
• Why do Oscar voters hate children? - The Telegraph.
• Why John Cleese is leaving the UK for Nevis - BBC News.
• why old age can't keep Arnold Schwarzenegger down - The Telegraph.
• Why superfans love Avengers: Infinity War & hate Star Wars: The Last Jedi - The Guardian.
• Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit - "As the classic noir gets a 70th anniversary re-release, it’s hard to ignore the parallels between a shattered postwar Vienna teeming with spivs and the future the Brexiters have in mind."
• Will Hollywood’s new youthifying tech keep old actors in work for ever? - "From Samuel L Jackson to Will Smith, established stars are de-ageing in films - a trick that might not always benefit the industry."
• William Morris Endeavor | WME - "A Talent & Literary Agency." The world's largest diversified talent agency, with offices in Beverly Hills, New York City, London, Miami, and Nashville. The company was founded in April 2009, after the merger of the William Morris Agency and the Endeavor Agency. WME represents artists across all media platforms, specifically movies, television, music, theatre, digital and publishing. It also represents a variety of entertainment brands, including the WWE, the UFC, and the NFL.
• Woody Allen: 40 best one-liners - The Telegraph.
• Woody Allen: 'I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement' - The Guardian.
• Woody Allen: 'There are traumas in life that weaken us. That’s what has happened to me' - The Guardian.
• World's Best Movies - Amazon.com.
• WORLD CINEMA FOUNDATION - dedicated to the preservation and restoration of neglected films around the world.
• WORLD'S BEST FILM SCHOOL IS FREE ON YOUTUBE - Wired.
• World's Highest-Paid Actors 2018: George Clooney Tops List With US$239 Million - "Fuelled by tequila Clooney earned almost a quarter of a billion dollars in 2017, Forbes reports, largely through the sale of alcohol outfit Casamigos Tequila."
• World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2015 - Forbes.
• world's most expensive film props & costumes - in pictures - The Telegraph.
• WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, EAST
• WRITERS GUILD OF AMERICA, WEST
• WUXIA - a broad genre of Chinese fiction concerning the adventures of martial artists set in ancient China. Wuxia is a component of popular culture for many Chinese-speaking communities worldwide.

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• XDC - "The European leader in Digital Cinema."

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• YOU TUBE - video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view films and videos.
• You Won’t Look Like Sharon Stone at 59 - The New York Times.

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• ZEITGEIST FILMS - "The Spirit of the Times." Focusing on the more discriminating and adventurous filmgoer, whose needs were not being met by traditional “arthouse” fare. Zeitgeist films are strongly auteur-driven and have a distinct visual style and unique content.