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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 Movie Performances of the 2010s - "From Mahershala Ali to Melissa McCarthy, these actors gave the best performances of the decade, according to TIME's film critic Stephanie Zacharek."
• 10 Best Movie Performances of 2019 - "From Eddie Murphy to Jennifer Lopez, these are TIME's picks for the best movie performances of the year."
• 10 Best Movies Based on a True Story - TIME Magazine.
• 10 Best Movies of 2018 - TIME Magazine.
• 10 Best Movies of 2019 - "From 'The Irishman' to 'Parasite,' read on for TIME's picks for the best movies of the year that was 2019."
• 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.
• 10 of the best movie villains - "Sadism, demons and disappearing pencils: these are the big-screen baddies whose evil antics have haunted our nightmares."
• 10 of the best Vietnam war films - " From Platoon to Winter Soldier."
• 10 Rillington Place: a truly horrifying true-crime classic - "Fifty years ago this week, a film about serial killer John Christie was released starring Richard Attenborough. It still sets the standard for true-crime drama, writes Adam Scovell."
• 11 films that were booed at Cannes - The Telegraph.
• 12 Best Curb Your Enthusiasm Cameos of All Time - TIME Magazine.
• 12 directors who could take on Bond - The Telegraph.
• 14 movie star homes you can rent right now - The Telegraph.
• 15 Rarest Vehicles From James Bond Movies (And How Much They’re Worth) - "One of the highlights of every James Bond movie are the cars in the films. These are the rarest ones, which are worth a pretty penny today."
• 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 best Frankenstein films - ranked! - "With Emma Stone lined up to play a female version of the monster in Poor Things, we rate a century’s worth of cinema inspired by Shelley’s novel."
• 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 films of 2020 in the US: 20-11 - "Our pick of the finest movies released in a topsy-turvy year continues with aa darkly comic thriller and Chadwick Boseman’s final performance."
• 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.
• 52 perfect romcoms for Valentine's day in lockdown - "For Richard Curtis it’s Gregory’s Girl, Gurinder Chadha prefers Tootsie and Katy Brand goes for Dirty Dancing. Whatever your relationship status, here are the film and TV romances to curl up with."
• 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 Fellini - The New Yorker.
• 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.
• AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes - Part of The American Film Institute, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema.
• After The Maltese Falcon: how film noir took flight - The Guardian.
• Airplane! at 40: the best spoof comedy ever made? - "The tirelessly joke-packed 1980 film might have dated in some ways but its relentless desire to amuse still makes it an undeniable winner."
• Alan Rickman - a life in pictures - "Veteran actor Alan Rickman, best known for roles on stage and in films such as Die Hard and the Harry Potter franchise, has died aged 69. We look back over his life and career in photographs."
• 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.
• And cut! Hollywood’s obsession with suits as status symbols - "In spy films such as Bond, Kingsman and Tenet, the real code you have to crack is a sartorial one."
• 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.
• Apocalypse Now Final Cut - trailer & official movie site. "See it as it was meant to be seen in 4K UHD."
• 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 star Robert Pattinson 'tests positive for Covid-19' - "Actor will reportedly self-isolate as Warner Bros halts UK production of The Batman."
• 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 films of 2019 - "Cinema-goers have enjoyed many riches this year from the silver screen, with offerings including Midsommar, The Irishman and Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood."
• best jewellery at the Cannes Film Festival through the ages - The Telegraph.
• best movie moments of 2019 - "From an awkward scene with a knife to an A-lister’s comeback with the sounds of Fiona Apple, Guardian writers pick their favourite big screen bits of the year."
• BEST MOVIE WEBSITES
• Best Movies of 2020 So Far - "From Emma, a sly and sweet new Jane Austen adaptation, to The Half of It, a teenage love triangle with echoes of Cyrano de Bergerac."
• BEST OF ... - greatest film scenes.
• Beyond the silk pyjamas: the style of NoËl Coward - "A new exhibition is devoted to the visual flair of a debonair playwright whose tastes are almost impossible to define"
• 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 granted right to appeal against sexual assault conviction - "Decision could test legal framework of #MeToo cases. Cosby, 82, serving three- to 10-year sentence in prison."
• 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 & Rashida Jones Match Each Other Beat for Beat in Sofia Coppola's Wistful On the Rocks - "Very rarely is there pleasure to be had in anxiety, except, sometimes, in the movies, where a smart filmmaker can brush it with just enough glitter dust to draw us in."
• Bill Murray, Brooklyn Bartender - The New York Times.
• Bill Nighy: ‘It takes me a long time to recover if I see myself on screen' - "Famous for his languid charm, Bill Nighy is anything but relaxed. He talks acting, anxiety - and the dreadful challenge of casual dressing."
• Billionaire Superyacht Showdown: Who's Who at Cannes Film Festival - Forbes.
• Billy Crudup: ‘Life is hard. It’s filled with grief, confusion, unpredictability ... - "Raised by a ‘hustler’, always worried the acting work might dry up, Crudup is now riding high in Apple TV’s hit The Morning Show. He talks about childhood, coronavirus and #MeToo."
• 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.
• Brad Pitt's zen reinvention has paved the way for Oscar glory - "As final votes are cast, the Hollywood heavyweight has been putting in a winning - and carefully calibrated - turn as a wise-cracking sage."
• Brian Cox: ‘I take guests out, my apartment is so untidy’ - "The actor takes us through his 10,000 daily steps, from watching Andrew Marr to going back to bed to making a rollmop salad in the evening."
• Brian Cox: ‘I was touched up by Princess Margaret’ - "Fresh from winning a Golden Globe for his portrayal of media tycoon Logan Roy, the actor talks about class, cannabis and an odd royal encounter."
• Brian Dennehy, veteran actor of stage and screen, dead at 81 - "Brian Dennehy, a versatile character actor whose career spanned five decades, has died at the age of 81, his talent agency confirmed."
• Brigitte Bardot on life in the spotlight - "Actor reflects on her despair at human nature and how animals have brought her peace."
• Britt Ekland on Peter Sellers: ‘He was a very tormented soul’ - "Married to the comedy actor in the 1960s, the former Bond girl talks for the first time about their fights and his controlling ways."
• 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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• Cameron Diaz reveals why she 'couldn't imagine' returning to acting - "It has been seven years since Cameron Diaz appeared on the big screen, but the former Hollywood actress has said she is in no rush to return to acting."
• Can Netflix Survive in the New World It Created? - The New York Times.
• Candice Bergen on working with Streep, dating Trump, and the reality of the Manson murder house - "Candice Bergen could well claim to be the woman who’s done it all, met all the famous faces and been at all the big events."
• 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.
• Cate Blanchett says she's an 'actor not an actress' - "'Not as a political statement, but I've always referred to myself as an actor,' she said. 'I don't think we have a very gender specific language and I'm of a generation where the word 'actress' was used always in a pejorative sense. So I think I claim the other space.'"
• Charlie Sheen's PA reveals the life with the out-of-control star - Daily Mail.
• Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles - ranked! - "As her new film hits Netflix, here’s a run down of the actor’s greatest performances, from sci-fi action and comedy to the portrayal of a serial killer."
• Charlize Theron’s Sick Work Ethic - The New York Times.
• Charlize Theron's transformation into Megyn Kelly nets 'Bombshell' an Oscar - "Take one quick look at the 'Bombshell' movie poster and you'll know something remarkable is going on in the makeup department: Charlize Theron is almost unrecognizable as former Fox news anchor Megyn Kelly, following a jaw-dropping transformation."
• charting the steady decline of Johnny Depp - The Telegraph.
• Chris Noth, 65, reveals his new quarantine buzzcut - "'I decided dealing with hair was superfluous during these times'."
• Christopher Plummer, Sound of Music star and oldest actor to win an Oscar, dies aged 91 - "Veteran and respected Canadian actor had a career stretching back to the 1950s, but won his Oscar for best supporting actor for Beginners in 2011."
• 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.
• Cicely Tyson, award-winning star of stage and screen, dies at 96 - "The star of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Sounder has died after an illustrious career."
• 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 films I've never seen - "The Shawshank Redemption. This enduring, much-loved classic about wrongful incarceration and dreams of liberation is an unlikely but irresistible joy in the lockdown era."
• 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.
• Dan Aykroyd & John Landis: how we made The Blues Brothers - "‘For some of the crew working nights on the film, cocaine was almost like coffee. I never liked it myself but I wasn’t going to police others’ behaviour’."
• 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.
• Democrats push to drop John Wayne’s name from airport over racist comments - "Democrats in Orange county, California, call for change in light of ‘racist and bigoted statements’ actor made in 1971 interview."
• 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
• Disney delays blockbuster films due to pandemic - "Walt Disney has delayed and postponed the release of three major films, dealing a fresh blow to cinema operators struggling amid the pandemic. The new Avatar and Star Wars films have been delayed a year, while Mulan has been removed from schedules completely."
• Disney has no idea what it's doing with 'Mulan' - "It's basically making up this Disney+ thing as it goes along."
• 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.
• Don Johnson: ‘I didn’t expect to live to 30, so it’s all been gravy’ - "The Miami Vice star discusses his new film Knives Out, his 20 minutes with Trump and the pitfalls of being too good-looking."
• 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."
• Dr. Fischer of Geneva - or The bomb party (1980) is a novel by the English novelist Graham Greene. The eponymous party has been examined as an example of a statistical search problem. The novel was made into a TV film, Dr. Fischer of Geneva, in 1985, starring James Mason (in his last role) as Dr. Fischer, Alan Bates as Alfred Jones, and Greta Scacchi as Anna-Luise. It was directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. YouTube: 1:37:21.
• 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 Debicki: ‘I’m not interested in being comfortable’ - "Elizabeth Debicki had us all enthralled in The Night Manager (including Le Carré himself). Now she’s back in a new spy thriller. And, despite her 6ft 3in height and A-list pals, she’s still the down-to-earth girl from Melbourne ..."
• Elizabeth Taylor's "Green Goddess" Rolls-Royce is going on sale at a New York auction - CNN style.
• Ellen Burstyn, Cinema legend: 'It was never my intention to be a movie star' - "As she prepares to smash an Oscar record, the great actor talks about drawing on her own suffering, missing her violent mother - and surviving the Hollywood ‘hamburger machine’."
• 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.
• Ethan Hawke on regrets, race and surviving Hollywood: 'River Phoenix was a big lesson to me’ - "Hawke could have been a superstar to rival Leonardo DiCaprio or Matt Damon. But, as he turns 50, the actor is thinking more about the dangers he avoided than the opportunities he turned down."
• 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."
• Federico Fellini's films - ranked! - "To celebrate the centenary of the birth of the great Italian director, here’s a cavalcade of his extraordinary feature films."
• 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.
• Framing Britney Spears review - a sobering look at sexism & celebrity - "The hit documentary arrives on Sky and Now TV, and explores the feeding frenzy that has surrounded the pop star since she was 10 years old."
• 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."
• From Memento to Interstellar: our writers pick their favourite Christopher Nolan films - "With the much-anticipated staggered release of Tenet, writers argue why each of Christopher Nolan’s 10 previous films should be seen as his best."
• funniest Pink Panther quotes - The Telegraph.

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• Gabriel Byrne: 'There’s a shame about men speaking out. A sense that if you were abused, it was your fault' - "The actor’s autobiography confronts the abuse he experienced at the hands of the church. But he has just as much contempt for Hollywood - and US presidents from Obama to Trump."
• Gary Busey: “I passed away after brain surgery. Then I came back” - "The star of Big Wednesday and Point Break on being the hardest-partying man in Hollywood, the motorbike accident that changed his life - and his new reality show, Pet Judge."
• Gene Wilder – five key performances - The Guardian.
• George Clooney GQ Icon of the Year 2020 - "George Clooney When We Need Him Most. The actor, director, and GQ Icon of the Year is the one thing we can all agree on - at a time when we can’t agree on anything."
• George Clooney highest paid actor ever - BBC.
• George Clooney: ‘It’s been a crappy year, but we will come out of it better’ - "Marriage and fatherhood have given George Clooney a new perspective on life, work and the world we all share. While his young twins play outside, he talks about outsmarting war criminals, battles with Boris and dinnertime debates with Amal."
• George Clooney Says He's Been Cutting His Own Hair with a Flowbee for 25 Years - "The actor's impressive coiffure is (shockingly) his own creation, so we asked an expert if you can expect the same level of success."
• George Lucas Criticizes Latest ‘Star Wars’ Installment - The New York Times.
• gesamtkunstwerk - definition & explanation.
• Gillian Anderson: 'Not living together works so well' - "Actor and Peter Morgan are one of a growing number of couples trying ‘living apart together’ (LAT)."
• Gillian Anderson on A Streetcar Named Desire: 'I was hanging on to reality by a thread' - "As the Young Vic’s 2014 production is streamed for National Theatre at Home, its star reveals how deeply she inhabited her character."
• 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.
• Golden Globes 2020: Complete list of winners - "The 77th annual Golden Globes kicked off Sunday night with comedian Ricky Gervais hosting for his fifth time. He warned the audience he would be as mean as he's always been at the award show, but reminded them 'they're just jokes' and to not take it too hard."
• Goldie Hawn: ‘I was born with a high set point for happiness’ - "One of the biggest film stars of the 70s and 80s, Hawn left acting and producing behind for 15 years. She talks about Hollywood, patriarchy, dancing - and how meditation changed her life."
• Gone With the Wind dropped from HBO Max over depiction of slavery - "Temporary move followed call by 12 Years a Slave scriptwriter John Ridley for streaming services to review content that is ‘blatant in its demonisation’ of race."
• Gone With the Wind Should Not Be Erased, Argue Film Historians. But It Should Not Be Watched in a Vacuum - "HBOMax removed 'Gone With the Wind' from its platform. Here's the historical context you need to know before you watch the film."
• Goodfellas at 30: Martin Scorsese's damning study of masculinity - "While the acclaimed 1990 gangster drama has been viewed by some as a bro fantasy, a closer look shows an elegant and brutal dissection of male ego."
• GOTHAM CITY - Wikipedia.
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• 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!
• greatest decade in cinema history? - "The era that began 100 years ago brought more change and produced more influential films than any other. Luke Buckmaster makes the case for the Roaring Twenties."
• 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.
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• Greystone Mansion & Gardens - completed in 1928 for the son of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny, Greystone Mansion & Gardens is a Beverly Hills and Los Angeles treasure. The City of Beverly Hills purchased the property in 1965, and in 1971 the entire 18.3 acre site was formally dedicated as a public park. Greystone was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and in 2013 was designated Beverly Hills Local Historic Landmark No. 4. Greystone Mansion & Gardens is a popular event site for weddings, corporate events, photo shoots, meetings and other private functions. Long an iconic location for motion picture and television shoots, Greystone has been featured in dozens of films, including The Big Lebowski, Spider-Man, The Social Network, and There Will Be Blood.
• GUINNESS BOOK OF FILM: THE TOP 100 BY GENRE

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• Hal Holbrook, Deep Throat in All the President's Men, dies aged 95 - "Distinguished actor was also famed for portraying American icons Mark Twain and Abraham Lincoln, and had long career in film and TV."
• ‘Happy Birthday, Mr President’: the story of Marilyn Monroe and that dress - The Guardian.
• Harrison Ford: The ups & downs of his long flying career - "The film industry loves a franchise. And with that thought, we bring you the latest instalment in the long-running series, Harrison Ford's Aerial Mishaps."
• 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."
• 'He didn't even pretend to let us win'... Growing up with the world's biggest stars, by their children - "The sons and daughters of John Wayne, John Lennon, Caitlyn Jenner and others tell us what it was like to grow up with a world-famous dad."
• He's probably been in more movies than any actor in history - "He spoke Mandarin with Keanu Reeves in 'The Day the Earth Stood Still.' He backflipped his way out of a fight in 'Wayne's World 2.' He was the supportive, noodle-loving Mr. Ping in 'Kung Fu Panda.' On television, he was the maître d' in the episode of 'Seinfeld' titled 'The Chinese Restaurant.'"
• Helen Mirren at 75: wild costumes, blazing performances - and a spell as a rock banshee - "She has played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers. As Helen Mirren turns 75, we celebrate her astonishing career - and remember her letter to the Guardian that led to questions in parliament."
• 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.
• Herbert Stempel, Who Blew the Whistle on Rigged 1950s Quiz Show, Dies at 93 - "Herbert Stempel, a fall guy and whistleblower of early television whose confession to deliberately losing on a 1950s quiz show helped drive a national scandal and join his name in history to winning contestant Charles Van Doren, has died age 93."
• 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 Of 2020 - "Netflix Helped Boost Earnings For Everyone From The Rock To Adam Sandler."
• 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 & Booze: An Enduring Marriage - The New York Times.
• 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 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 comes to the high court for Johnny Depp face-off - "Libel case over the Sun’s claim that star abused his ex-wife Amber Heard opens this week."
• 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 nervously awaits fallout from explosive Johnny Depp trial - "Amber Heard’s team will have their say this week. Whatever the result, reputations could be tarnished."
• 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 obsession with suits as status symbols - "In spy films such as Bond, Kingsman and Tenet, the real code you have to crack is a sartorial one."
• HOLLYWOOD'S TOP 40 EARNERS - Vanity Fair Magazine.
• how casting-couch culture endures in Hollywood - The Guardian.
• 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 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 Hollywood costumes shaped a fashion legend - "Alaïa and Adrian: Exhibition explores ties between two fashion greats."
• How Hollywood feted the black power movement - and fell foul of the FBI - "The biopic Seberg tells the tragic story of film star Jean Seberg who - along with Marlon Brando and Jane Fonda - gave money and public support for the Black Panthers."
• How Izzy Demsky became Kirk Douglas: the ultimate Hollywood makeover - "The scrawny son of Jewish immigrants transformed himself into an icon of US manhood – a narrative the nation is forgetting in the Trump era. Yet a darker side lurked too."
• how long is an acceptable time to wait before discussing spoilers? - "Nobody watches anything at the same time, and everyone blurts their opinions on social media as soon as they’ve seen anything. It’s a free-for-all, and it’s untenable. This can only mean one thing: it is time to definitively locate the point when spoiling a film or TV show is OK."
• How the Bafta Winners Do (and Don’t) Foretell the Oscars - The New York Times.
• How The Billionaire Behind The Movie ‘Contagion’ Is Working To Stop This Pandemic - And The Next One - "Jeff Skoll has been funding pandemic preparedness for more than a decade, even longer than Bill Gates. In recent months, he’s increased his philanthropic giving to help combat Covid-19."
• How the iconic music of 2001: A Space Odyssey came to be - Vox.
• How 'The Matrix' is a trans story, according to Netflix and co-director - "Netflix has posted a Twitter thread explaining the trans themes in 'The Matrix,' after one of its co-directors confirmed earlier this week that the movie was an allegory for gender transition."
• 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 make a film that’s so bad it’s good - "Anyone can make a bad movie. But, from The Room to Cats, it takes something special to make a turkey that stands the test of time."
• 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.
• Hugh Grant never wanted to be Hollywood’s ‘romantic Englishman.’ So he gave it up - Los Angeles 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.
• Ian Holm: a life & career in pictures - "We look back over key performances from Ian Holm, who has died at the age of 88."
• Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew - and charm - "Alien, Lord of the Rings, Chariots of Fire and so many more extraordinary performances in classic films - what an exemplary career the actor Ian Holm, who has died aged 88, leaves behind."
• 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."
• 'I'm naming this award Harry, because it's coming back to the US with me!' - "Brad Pitt's cheeky Megxit quip at BAFTAs."
• Ill-advised car journeys on film - ranked! - "Dominic Cummings’ drive to Barnard Castle is unlikely to cut it as a road movie, but here are some nightmarish trips that did make it into the cinema."
• IMAGINE A WORLD WITHOUT YOUTUBE - "Fifteen years ago this month, one of the most important web domains in history was registered: youtube.com. Today’s teenagers have never known an internet that couldn’t host as much video as they want for free, server costs be damned. YouTube has helped elect politicians, create entire industries, and taught millions of people how to use eyeliner. It’s not a stretch to say it shaped the internet as we know it."
• 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.
• Inside the odyssey: taking a closer look at Stanley Kubrick's 2001 - "At an expansive new exhibition in New York, the director’s defining science fiction opus is explored in detail with help from those who made it with him."
• '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.
• Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars? - "At the age of 64, and now entering his fifth decade on our movie screens, Tom Hanks has settled into the role of a movie star who could be called cinema's resident dad. With a reputation for being as nice in real life as you might hope, Hanks has aged into a paternal, white-bearded presence, with the concomitant boomer-friendly roles to go with it."
• 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.
• Jane Fonda: ‘If Greta Thunberg can do it, so can I’ - "In an exclusive extract from her new book, the actor recalls the beginnings of her climate crisis protests outside the White House."
• 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."
• 'Jaws,' the ultimate summer movie, meets the age of coronavirus - "Remember the mayor in 'Jaws,' coaxing that family to go in the water, before they grab their raft and tentatively wade into the ocean? That image -- introduced 45 years ago this month -- keeps coming to mind as entertainment options, including movie theaters, gradually reopen in the age of coronavirus."
• Jean Reno: 'A villain again, why not?' - is Jean Reno the greatest Eurobaddie ever? - "He made his name as a hitman in Leon. Now he’s back in a kung fu heist caper set in New York. The art-loving, olive oil-making French actor explains why he loves playing ‘le baddie’."
• 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.
• Joel Grey: 'Life is tough. But it's also beautiful' - "From winning an Oscar to starring opposite Rock Hudson - and coming out at 82, the theatre legend has done it all. But he came close to giving up acting to work on a hotdog stand."
• Joel Schumacher, Batman Forever & The Lost Boys director, dies aged 80 - "The film-maker behind hits including The Client, St Elmo’s Fire and Falling Down has died from cancer."
• Joel Schumacher's life in pictures - "The American film director, screenwriter, and producer has died at the age of 80. He was best known for St Elmo’s Fire, Flatliners, The Lost Boys and the Batman films. Here we look back at his career."
• 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.
• John Malkovich: 'I had a lot of violence growing up, but so what?' - "The actor lost four close family members in five years, and his life savings to Bernie Madoff - so why does he still think he is the luckiest man around?"
• John Saxon: a life in pictures - "From teen movies to westerns to horror, the American actor, who has died aged 83, appeared in almost 200 movies during a career that spanned seven decades."
• 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.
• Johnny Depp loses libel case against Sun over claims he beat ex-wife Amber Heard - "Pirates of Caribbean actor had sued newspaper publisher for damage to his reputation."
• Johnny Depp trial: how the judge ruled on 14 alleged assaults - "Twelve of 14 allegations by Amber Heard found to be ‘proved to the civil standard’."
• Joker becomes first R-rated film to make $1bn at global box office - "Comic book film Joker passed the $1bn mark in global ticket sales this weekend, becoming the first R-rated movie to do so."
• '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."
• Judi Dench: 'In my mind's eye I'm six foot & willowy and about 39' - "At 86 and in lockdown, the actor finds herself in the rare position of not working. Instead, she talks about theatrical ghosts, her friendship with Harvey Weinstein and definitely not being a national treasure."
• Julie Andrews: 'I was certainly aware of tales about the casting couch' - "The celebrated actor had a turbulent upbringing before becoming world-famous for playing two perfect nannies. Now she’s bonding with a new generation of children through her storytelling podcast."

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• Kate Winslet's 20 best performances - ranked! - "From a washerwoman chased by De Sade to mindbending romcom with Jim Carrey, via Titanic: as Winslet reaps more acclaim for the forthcoming Ammonite, we put the free-spirited actor’s starry career in order."
• Keanu wants to go on a Zoom date with you -- for a good cause - "Keanu Reeves is giving one lucky fan the chance to spend some quality one-on-one time with him for a very important cause."
• Kelly Preston - a life in pictures - "Kelly Preston, whose long acting career included hits such as Twins, Jerry Maguire and What a Girl Wants, has died, her husband, John Travolta, said. She was 57."
• Kernel - "Kernel is a movie tracker that lets you countdown your favorite upcoming movies all in one place. Explore through the massive collection of upcoming films and check out the latest information on the movie such as the synopsis, trailer, release date and more!"
• Kevin Bacon: 'I couldn't care less about being heroic or handsome' - "Having broken through off Broadway with Sean Penn and Val Kilmer, it’s no surprise that the actor has spent 35 years striving to put being a teen idol behind him. ‘I’m drawn to dark things,’ he says."
• Keyser SÖze - fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects.
• KEYSER SÖZE SYNDROME - definition & explanation.
• Kim Basinger’s “L.A. Confidential” Home! - "A part of Hollywood film history, the L.A. Confidential movie home for Academy Award-winner Kim Basinger in her role as high-class, call-girl Lynn Bracken is for sale. Considered by many movie critics as the best Los Angeles crime movie ever made, the home was chosen for its classic Old World Spanish style that is as popular today as it was in the late 1940s era when the movie was set. Now after almost two years of new updating and expansion, it is for sale priced at $7.495 million."
• Kim Novak on art, bipolar, Hitchcock and happiness - "‘I had to leave Hollywood to save myself’. Kim Novak starred in Vertigo - voted the best film ever made - but knew she was too fragile for fame. She talks about her tough childhood, the sensitive side of Sinatra and starting again in her forties."
• Kirk Douglas (1916-2020) - a life in pictures - "Kirk Douglas, the last great star of Hollywood’s golden age, once said he had ‘made a career playing sons of bitches’, a career that began in 1946 with the film The Strange Love of Martha Ivers. Douglas was Oscar nominated three times - for Champion, The Bad and the Beautiful and Lust For Life - but had to be content with the honorary award he was eventually given in 1995."
• Kirk Douglas, acclaimed actor, dead at 103 - CNN entertainment.
• Kristin Scott Thomas: ‘I want action. I want desert, camels and 600 extras’ - "Kristin Scott Thomas can thank lockdown for one thing: it’s made her stay put. But now she is craving the bright lights and buzz of a film set..."

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• La Dolce Vita at 60: the fame, the fortune, the fountain - "Federico Fellini’s sumptuous yet existentially punishing drama offers up a view of an elite class that has since gone rotten."
• 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.
• Letterboxd - since 2011. "Track films you’ve watched. Save those you want to see. Tell your friends what’s good." Online social networking service. The site is meant for sharing its members' tastes in films. Members can use it as a diary to record their opinions about films, keep track of films they have seen in the past, write reviews or make lists of films and showcase their favorite films, as well as meet and interact with other cinephiles. Films can be rated, reviewed, included in a list and tagged with relevant keywords.
• 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.
• Mads Mikkelsen confirmed as Johnny Depp's replacement in Fantastic Beasts 3 - "Danish Bond star Mikkelsen to take over the role of dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald in the third Harry Potter prequel."
• Mads Mikkelsen's fantasy festival: the guests are kidnapped & Hannibal Lecter does the catering - "The actor, who is receiving the Honorary Heart of Sarajevo at this year’s virtual Sarajevo film festival, takes inspiration from his filmography for his own imaginary programme."
• 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."
• Malcolm McDowell: 'I have no memory of doing most of my films' - "He was once the embodiment of youthful rage and rebellion. Now, the Clockwork Orange star is reconciled to a life of golf, gangster flicks and the odd glimpse of genius."
• 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.
• Mark Wahlberg: 'I was a little rough around the edges' - "From troubled youth to boy band to model to Hollywood royalty... Mark Wahlberg talks to Sophie Heawood about fighting, family and his newfound faith."
• Marlon Brando’s ‘Apocalypse Now’ Rolex Sells for $1.95 Million - "The watch is notable for missing the 24-hour bezel that GMT-Master is known for—Brando is said to have popped it off on set of the movie - and inscribed with his name on the back. The piece was considered missing by Rolex collectors until it came up for auction at Phillips' Game Changers sale in New York held on December 10."
• 'Marriage Story was stunningly on-point': what divorce lawyers want you to know - "If you have gone from hoping that your marriage will last for ever to hoping that it will all be over cheaply and painlessly, the experts have some bad news."
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• 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.
• Matt Dillon's still ready to rumble: 'I have never lived a sheltered life' - "He’s played a teen tearaway, a racist cop, a conman and a serial killer. But can he play a cellist? The star talks about his role in Yorgos Lanthimos’s first film since The Favourite - and making a jazz documentary."
• Matthew McConaughey's New Memoir Details 'Dazed and Confused' Breakout to Infamous Naked Arrest - "In his new memoir 'Greenlights,' out Tuesday, the Oscar-winning actor reflects on the prominent moments in both his professional and personal life."
• 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.
• Max von Sydow Brought Greatness, Humanity & Spirit - "Max von Sydow's work is a reminder of the way actors, at their best, can drive home the complexity of the human spirit, writes TIME's Stephanie Zacharek."
• 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.
• Mel Gibson was hospitalised with coronavirus in April - "The actor spent a week in a Los Angeles hospital after contracting the illness and was treated with the drug Remdesivir."
• 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 Lonsdale, Bond villain Hugo Drax in Moonraker, dies aged 89 - "The César-winning actor appeared in films by François Truffaut and Alain Resnais, and played religious figures in Of Gods and Men and The Name of the Rose."
• MICHAEL MOORE - Wikipedia.
• Michel Piccoli - a life in pictures - "The prolific actor Michel Piccoli, who has died aged 94, acted in dozens of films for virtually every major French director across seven decades, including Godard, Malle and Rivette; here are some of the highlights."
• Michel Piccoli, renowned French acting veteran, dies aged 94 - "Actor best known for his collaborations with Luis Bunuel and other major directors was a stalwart of French art cinema."
• 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.
• Mission impossible? How to shoot a blockbuster in the coronavirus era - "With stipulations of mass testing and on-camera distancing from actors, it’s not just the romcom facing a bleak future."
• 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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• NASA is working with Tom Cruise to shoot a film in outer space. Yes, really - "Tom Cruise wants to fly into outer space in the name of filmmaking, and NASA says it's happening."
• 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.
• 'No aspect of writing makes you rich' - why do authors get a pittance for film rights? - "Joanne Harris has revealed that she was paid only £5,000 for the film rights to Chocolat. So why do some authors get the big bucks and some have to settle for the crumbs?"
• 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
• Now Is the Perfect Time to Revisit the Movies That Brought America Comfort in the Past - "We aren’t the first humans to have faced hardship and uncertainty, and those who came before us have left all sorts of survival manuals. The movies of Depression-era Hollywood - melodramas and gangster stories, comedies and musicals - constitute just one of those guides."

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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.
• Olivia de Havilland: a life in pictures - "The Academy award-winning actor, who has died aged 104, starred in Gone With the Wind and won Oscars for To Each His Own and The Heiress."
• Olivia de Havilland, Golden Age of Hollywood star, dies at 104 - "Olivia de Havilland, one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood, has died at the age of 104."
• Olivia de Havilland, star of 'Gone With the Wind,' dies at 104 - "Olivia de Havilland, a two-time Oscar winner and for decades the last surviving star of 'Gone With the Wind,' has died at the age of 104, her publicist Lisa Goldberg told CNN."
• Olivia de Havilland: what it's like working for a Hollywood legend - "As as scruffy student in Paris, I was lucky enough to land a job as the personal assistant to the Gone With the Wind star, then in her 90s - and still a tremendous performer."
• Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta reunite in iconic Grease costumes - "'I haven't sung in a year': Cancer-stricken Olivia Newton-John, 71, sings Hopelessly Devoted To You in iconic Grease costume during a special moment with co-star John Travolta, 65."
• 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."
• Outrage as Polanski film nominated for 12 'French Oscars' - "Campaigners say Césars are acclaiming ‘an abuser and rapist on the run’."
• 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.
• 'People want blood and gore': what we got wrong about filming sharks - "From Jaws to James Bond, film-makers have tried to make a fish not inclined to bite humans look hell-bent on doing so."
• 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."
• Princess Grace of Monaco's most dazzling jewellery moments - "From her silver screen jewellery moments to the royal collection she established as the Princess of Monaco."
• 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 at 60: the enduring power of Hitchcock's shocking game-changer - "In 1960, audiences were unprepared for the director’s devious rug-pulling thriller and years later, its impact still reverberates."
• 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.
• Raging Bull at 40: Scorsese's brutal boxing saga still bruises - "Robert De Niro’s Oscar-winning performance as Jake LaMotta remains chilling yet it’s a defiant refusal to soften a deeply unlikable lead character that hits hardest."
• 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.
• Remember when Marilyn Monroe's white cocktail dress made movie history? - "The story behind this iconic moment."
• 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.
• Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years' - "His life has been a rollercoaster ever since Jaws. Richard Dreyfuss talks about Hollywood hell-raising, cocaine burnout, his flirting heyday - and the trouble with #MeToo."
• 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."
• Robert Shaw's son revisits Jaws' stormy shoot in The Shark Is Broken - "Ian Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg’s first blockbuster."
• Robin Williams's widow: 'There were so many misunderstandings about what had happened to him' - "Susan Schneider Williams watched her husband suffer with undiagnosed Lewy body dementia before he killed himself in 2014. Her new film tries to educate others about the condition - and put to rest assumptions about his death."
• 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.
• Ron Howard: 'I'm introverted & risk-averse. But not when there's a story to be told' - "As a young star, he found fame as Richie Cunningham in Happy Days. Now one of Hollywood’s biggest directors, he discusses friendship, wildfires and workaholism."
• Rotten fruit: why it's time to give up on the Razzies - The Guardian.
• Rowan Atkinson 'didn't enjoy Mr Bean' as character is 'stressful & exhausting' - "Rowan Atkinson has celebrated the success of his comic creation, Mr Bean, but has said that playing the character was not as fun as it looked."
• Rowan Atkinson: why I just couldn't say no to Maigret - The Telegraph.
• RUBLJOVKA - German film: Road to Bliss.

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• Sacha Baron Cohen's films - ranked! - "As he takes a starring role in The Trial of the Chicago 7, and with Borat 2 waiting in the wings, what better time to look over the lethally offensive but gasp-inducing efforts of the accomplished provocateur."

October 15, 2020

• 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.
• Samuel L Jackson: 'A fullness comes upon me every time I land in Africa' - "As their hard-hitting TV show Enslaved comes to an end, the star and his wife LaTanya Richardson talk about roots, race, revolution - and how to get rid of ‘the orange man’."
• 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 - since 1933. American labor union which represented over 100,000 film and television principal and background performers worldwide.
• 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.
• Sean Connery - retired Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in July 2000 after receiving Kennedy Center Honors in the US in 1999. Connery's breakthrough came in the role of British secret agent James Bond. He was reluctant to commit to a film series, but understood that if the films succeeded, his career would greatly benefit. He played 007 in the first five Bond films: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967) – then appeared again as Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Never Say Never Again (1983). All seven films were commercially successful. James Bond, as portrayed by Connery, was selected as the third-greatest hero in cinema history by the American Film Institute.
• Sean Connery at 90 - "An Untouchable actor and the ultimate James Bond."
• Sean Connery did not write a mean letter to Steve Jobs - "Following the James Bond actor’s death, the long-debunked 'letter' has resurfaced."
• SEAN CONNERY DIED FROM PNEUMONIA, HEART FAILURE - "Sean Connery died in his sleep from pneumonia, heart failure and old age ... according to his death certificate."
• Sean Connery, famed for playing James Bond, dies age 90 - CNN Entertainment.
• Sean Connery had dementia, his wife reveals - "Micheline Roquebrune says the late James Bond actor’s dementia ‘took its toll on him’."
• Sean Connery: In His Own Words - YouTube 58:50.
• Sean Connery: James Bond actor dies aged 90 - "The Scottish actor was best known for his portrayal of James Bond, being the first to bring the role to the big screen and appearing in seven of the spy thrillers."
• Sean Connery Obituary (1930-2020) - "For many, Sean Connery was the definitive James Bond. Suave and cold-hearted, his 007 was every inch the Cold War dinosaur of the books."
• Sean Connery Stumbled in His Final Turn as James Bond - "Never Say Never Again was initially famous for what it brought back - the original James Bond, Sean Connery - but then later best known for what it lacked."
• Sean Connery voted best Bond, with Timothy Dalton & Pierce Brosnan runners up - "Roger Moore, Daniel Craig and George Lazenby sidelined in Radio Times poll asking readers to name best portrayal of 007."
• Sean Connery was the ultimate movie star - "Sean Connery was a movie star, like few before him and practically no one since. Made famous by the role of Bond, James Bond, the Oscar-winning actor established himself as much more than just 007, although his standard-setting work in that role is surely the most indelible aspect of his screen legacy."
• Sean Connery's 5 decades of unforgettable roles included kings, rogues & an Oscar - "Sean Connery earned screen immortality with seven star turns as super-spy James Bond 007. But the long career of the Oscar winner -- who died Saturday at 90 -- was packed with full-blooded performances as other larger-than-life characters, as well."
• Sean Connery's former Nice seafront home, Villa Le Roc Fleuri, for sale - "Live and let buy: Inside Sean Connery’s former luxury seafront villa in Nice as it goes on sale for £27million. The luxurious property located in the green hills of the Cap de Nice boasts views over the French Riviera. The villa is complete with a spa and gym, which also features plunging views of the sea, and an infinity pool."
• Sean Connery’s Rolex Submariner Could Follow The Same Path As The Paul Newman Daytona - "A few weeks ago, famed Scottish actor Sean Connery passed away at the age of 90. Connery was best-known for his role as the original James Bond, a role that would go on to define not just his career but an entire film franchise. However, Connery can also be credited with the popularity of one of the world’s most iconic watches, the Rolex Submariner."
• 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."
• Social distance cinema: drive-in theatres boom - in pictures - "With the widespread closures of cinemas as part of measures to stem the spread of Covid-19, drive-in movie theatres around the world, where social distancing is guaranteed, have been enjoying new-found popularity."
• Sophia Loren: 'Cary Grant never proposed to me on set' - "Actor puts myth to bed in Radio Times interview in which she also reveals her one regret."
• Sophia Loren: 'Female directors don't yell' - "Hollywood veteran Sophia Loren, who has picked her favourite female-focused movies and TV shows for Netflix in recognition of International Women's Day, discusses her choices, the challenges facing female directors, and her love of pizza."
• Sophia Loren returns to movies aged 86 - "Italian superstar plays a Holocaust survivor who befriends an orphan in Netflix film The Life Ahead, directed by her son Edoardo Ponti."
• Sophia Loren: 'The body changes. The mind does not' - "The 86-year-old, star of the Netflix drama The Life Ahead, looks back at her own life, from the squalor of wartime Naples to the glamour of international fame."
• 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.
• Stanley Tucci's 20 best films - ranked! - "Lockdown viewers are hot for his cocktail-making skills, and cineastes await Supernova, a buzzy romance in which he stars opposite Colin Firth. Until then, here are Tucci’s top turns."
• 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.
• Steve Martin at 75 by Sarah Silverman, Lucy Porter, David Baddiel & more - "He’s a master of slapstick, a surrealist clown, the don of comic film roles from Roxanne to The Jerk. As he turns 75, comics including Reginald D Hunter and Rose Matafeo pay tribute to the hilarious majesty of Steve Martin."
• Steve McQueen ‘Bullitt’ Mustang Sells For Record $3.74 Million At Auction - "1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Driven By Steve McQueen In ‘Bullitt’ Sells For A Record $3.74 Million."
• Steven Spielberg Wasn't Allowed to Direct a 007 Film - "He even wanted to direct a Bond film at multiple points. However, it was not to be. Spielberg has opened up about why 007 producer Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli wouldn’t allow him to get into the director’s chair."
• 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.
• Sue Lyon, Star of Lolita, Dies at Age 73 - Vanity Fair.
• 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 Capote Tapes: inside the scandal ignited by Truman's explosive final novel - "He partied with high society America but caused outrage when he spilled their secrets. Ebs Burnough talks us through his new film about Answered Prayers - the ‘smart, salacious’ novel Capote never finished."
• 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 Empire Strikes Back at 40: did the Star Wars saga peak too early? - "A thrilling sequel opened up the Star Wars universe back in 1980 for better or worse with many underwhelming chapters then following."
• THE ENVELOPE - the awards insider.
• The fall of Johnny Depp: how the world's most beautiful movie star turned very ugly - "In the 1990s, he was a different kind of film star - eloquent, artistic and cool. But this week, with the loss of his court case against the Sun, the dream has decisively soured."
• The future of film: can cinema survive Covid-19? - "Film fans flocked online during lockdown. As restrictions ease, what’s happening to revive cinema-going and restart shoots? Our critic heads to the cinema to find out."
• 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 Kingmaker review – exquisitely horrible portrait of Imelda Marcos - "The former first lady of the Philippines is revealed as a monstrous, loathsome, absurdly queenly figure in Lauren Greenfield’s superb documentary."
• 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 most disturbing talking animals in film - ranked! - "As Dolittle hits the multiplex of our hearts, we take a look at the creepiest vocalising varmints of cinema history."
• The most exciting movies of 2020 - blockbusters - "Maverick swoops back on screen, Ghostbusters comes back to life and the 25th Bond film arrives (finally) in next year’s impressive array of big-budget knockouts."
• The New York of Mad Men - CN Traveller.
• The Night Porter: Nazi porn or daring arthouse eroticism? - "There were bids to ban this film about a sexual liaison between an SS officer and a teenage concentration camp prisoner. As it returns four decades on, does director Liliana Cavani still feel their relationship was ‘beautiful’?"
• 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 secrets behind the superhero look - "Costume marvel: The secrets behind the superhero look."
• 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 Social Network is 'hands down' the best film of 2010s - "After naming Dunkirk runner-up in January, the director has revealed his top pick from the last decade as David Fincher’s Facebook drama, which ‘crushes all the competition’."
• 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 War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time - "The brutal 1989 hit took a much-loved onscreen pairing, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and tore them to pieces."
• 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.
• Tilda Swinton's films - ranked! - "From Okja to Orlando to The Grand Budapest Hotel, we assess every film role of the dazzlingly versatile British actor."
• 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 - Leah Remini exposes Scientology’s biggest asset - "This week, she revealed to us that when she was preparing the book, she wrote most of a chapter about her personal experiences with Tom Cruise and his camp, and with revealing details about Tom Cruise behind closed doors. She portrayed the Cruise the public never gets to see: His dedication not only to Scientology but to its ruthlessness and inhumanity."
• Tom Cruise recorded shouting & swearing at Mission: Impossible crew over Covid issues - "The film star can be heard saying ‘if you don’t do it, you’re fired’, reportedly after crew members in Leavesden studios failed to socially distance."
• 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 Hanks & Rita Wilson are officially Greek citizens - "The couple and their children became honorary Greek citizens last year -- after officials highlighted Hanks' role in helping raise awareness about the 2018 fires that devastated areas near Athens and claimed the lives of more than 100 people."
• Tom Hanks becomes honorary citizen of Greece - "Actor and family given honour for ‘exceptional services’ after helping wildfire victims."
• Tom Hanks' 25 best films - ranked! - "The actor was one of the first celebrities to contract coronavirus. To celebrate his recovery, we round up his finest performances."
• Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances - ranked! - "The actor’s latest movie, Capone, further builds upon his beefy and menacing screen presence, but there is another side that shines through in some of Hardy’s great roles."
• Tom Hiddleston gave a convincing audition for Bond in The Night Manager - The Telegraph.
• Tom Selleck gives a rare interview on fame, family & why he quit 'Magnum P.I.' - "Tom Selleck was one of the hottest stars of the 1980s when he suddenly quit his hit show, Magnum P.I.."
• 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.
• Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best - "The 1990 adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story slickly combined biting satire with a deliriously entertaining Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller."
• Tourists flock to 'Parasite' filming locations - "'Parasite' filming locations you can visit in Seoul"
• 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).
• Trolls, tweets & famous friends: the vicious PR war between Johnny Depp & Amber Heard - "As the court case between the actor and his ex-wife nears its conclusion, an even nastier battle is taking place in public."
• True Crime - non-fiction literary and film genre in which the author examines an actual crime and details the actions of real people.
• Trust your nose: what rich people can learn from Parasite - "Bong Joon-ho’s savage Oscar-winning satire offers plenty of helpful insights into how the wealthy can avoid being preyed on by the less fortunate."
• Turns out your favorite movie is racist. What now? - "Last week, novelist, director and television writer John Ridley -- an Academy Award winner for his screenplay for the movie '12 Years a Slave' -- wrote a brief but compelling op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, asking HBO (a sister company of CNN under the ownership of WarnerMedia) to take the movie 'Gone With the Wind' off of its much-hyped new streaming platform HBO Max."
• 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."
• Viggo Mortensen casts a clear eye on dementia - Falling review - "In the Lord of the Rings star’s powerful debut as a director, Lance Henriksen plays a homophobic father compelled to move in with his gay son."
• Viggo Mortensen on Falling star Lance Henriksen: ‘He’s like a wolf who might gobble you up’ - "In the former’s directorial debut, the pair play a father and son facing up to the older man’s dementia. It offers 80-year-old Henriksen the meatiest role of his astonishing career."
• 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.
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• Wall Street Artwork - "When most people watch Wall Street they think about the stockbroking and inside trading etc. Art was a prominent feature in the Wall Street movie which is often over looked ... In particular I always liked the artwork that was in Gordon Gecko’s office."
• Wall Street Film Locations - On the set of New York.com.
• War of the Roses at 30: still one of the nastiest comedies of all time - "The brutal 1989 hit took a much-loved onscreen pairing, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, and tore them to pieces."
• 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.
• Wesley Snipes on art, excellence & life after prison: 'I hope I came out a better person' - "After a fall as dramatic as any of his film roles, Snipes is back on track, starring with Eddie Murphy in the long-awaited Coming 2 America. He discusses police brutality, Michael Jackson - and his secret society."
• 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 is the most prescient science fiction film? - "This week we explore the multiple ways Hollywood has tried to predict the future, from flying cars to AI to a barren dystopia."
• What makes The Great Gatsby great? - The Guardian.
• 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."
• When every set looks like Contagion: inside Hollywood's pandemic year - "Actors are slowly returning to work after a long shutdown caused vast economic damage: ‘How many people gave up their dreams?’"
• Where does fake movie money come from? - CNN style.
• Where Hollywood's A-listers hung out - "When the races were Hollywood's place to be seen."
• 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 movie villains love radical architecture - "Why movie villains love modern architecture. 'Modern domestic architecture has become identified almost exclusively with characters who are evil, unstable, selfish, obsessive, and driven by pleasure of the flesh,' Joseph Rosa writes in an essay."
• 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."
• Why were black cowboys erased from pop culture? - "The untold story of the Wild West's black cowboys."
• 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.
• Wolf of Wall Street's Jordan Belfort sues film's producers for $300m - "Former stockbroker sues scandal-hit production company Red Granite for fraud and breach of contract."
• 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 can buy a Tom Cruise 'Top Gun' helmet - "A flight helmet made for Tom Cruise when he was making the movie 'Top Gun' is up for auction in Los Angeles and is expected to sell for more than $65,000."
• You Won’t Look Like Sharon Stone at 59 - The New York Times.
• YouTube - since 2005. American online video-sharing platform. YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users.

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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.