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  • Gladiator

    Ridley Scott's Supernatural Pitch For Gladiator 2 Was Rejected By Studios

    By Witney Seibold August 30th, 2024

    Ridley Scott was game to make Gladiator II a supernatural epic, but studio executives didn't go for his ideas.

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  • Napoleon, Joaquin Phoenix

    Ridley Scott's Napoleon Director's Cut Is Here - Here's What It Includes

    By Jeremy Mathai August 29th, 2024

    Ridley Scott's director's cut of Napoleon has arrived and it features a whole lot of brand-new (and, by the sound of it, rather important) footage.

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  • Troy

    Brad Pitt Suffered A Painfully Ironic Injury While Shooting 2004's Troy

    By Witney Seibold August 26th, 2024

    Troy was a physically demanding production for Brad Pitt, but one of his injuries was laughably ironic.

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  • Lincoln and Ben Burtt

    Star Wars Sound Designer Ben Burtt Got Rare Presidential Access For Steven Spielberg's Lincoln

    By Witney Seibold August 25th, 2024

    Legendary Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt exploited his fame to his advantage while working on Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln.

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  • Josh Hartnett in Oppenheimer

    Matt Damon Gave Key Advice To Oppenheimer Co-Star Josh Harnett At The Worst Time Possible

    By Danielle Ryan August 25th, 2024

    Josh Hartnett's Oppenheimer costar Matt Damon had some useful acting advice to offer, but his timing was completely off.

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  • The 13th Warrior Antonio Banderas

    25 Years Ago, A Forgotten Historical Epic Became A Box Office Bomb For The Ages

    By Ryan Scott August 24th, 2024

    The 13th Warrior is one of the biggest box office bombs of all time. Or at least, that's how history remembers it. The truth is a bit more complicated.

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  • Grave of the Fireflies

    Studio Ghibli's Saddest Movie Is Coming To Netflix To Make You Cry

    By Rafael Motamayor August 20th, 2024

    The saddest and most harrowing animated movie Studio Ghibli has ever made is coming to Netflix to traumatize an entirely new generation.

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  • Casablanca Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill

    Casablanca's Release Was Rushed Out In Order To Capitalize On Real History

    By Devin Meenan August 18th, 2024

    Casablanca is a movie about World War 2, made during World War 2, and its release was moved up after Casablanca hit the headlines for another reason.

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  • Monty Python the Holy Grail

    The Only Major Actors Still Alive From Monty Python And The Holy Grail

    By Joe Roberts August 17th, 2024

    Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a comedy classic. Here's what the major actors who are still alive are up to today.

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  • Barry Keoghan in Eternals

    The Gladiator 2 Character Barry Keoghan Almost Played

    By Rafael Motamayor August 10th, 2024

    Barry Keoghan, whose credits include Saltburn, Dunkirk, and many more, nearly joined the cast of Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2. Here's who he would have played.

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  • Gladiator cast

    Gladiator 2 Won't Feature One Of The Best Characters From The Ridley Scott Original

    By Sandy Schaefer August 4th, 2024

    A pivotal Gladiator cast member was meant to return for Ridley Scott's Gladiator II, but it didn't work out.

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  • Gladiator II Pedro Pascal Paul Mescal

    The Real Reason Composer Hans Zimmer Isn't Returning For Gladiator 2

    By Jeremy Smith July 25th, 2024

    Hans Zimmer's Gladiator score is an all-time great, so much so he didn't see much reason to return for Gladiator II.

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  • Richard Harris and Russell Crowe in Gladiator 2

    Russell Crowe Has Mixed Feelings About Ridley Scott's Gladiator II

    By Hannah Shaw-Williams July 20th, 2024

    The existence of Gladiator II has Russell Crowe forlornly remember a time in his life when he still had tendons.

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  • Gladiator II Pedro Pascal horse

    The Gladiator II Trailer's Most Ridiculous Moment Is Historically Accurate

    By Ryan Scott July 9th, 2024

    The Gladiator II trailer features staged naval battles in the Roman Colosseum, an outlandish spectacle but a historically accurate one too.

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  • Gladiator II, Paul Mescal

    The Gladiator II Trailer's Song Choice Continues An Annoying Hollywood Trend

    By Sandy Schaefer July 9th, 2024

    The Gladiator II trailer features 'No Church in the Wild,' a great song that it doesn't know how to use.

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  • Paul Mescal Gladiator 2

    The Gladiator II Trailer Delivers Epic Action (And Paul Mescal Fighting A Rhino)

    By Joe Roberts July 9th, 2024

    The Gladiator II trailer returns to the Colosseum, with Paul Mescal leading the charge in Ridley Scott's star-studded epic sequel.

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  • Horizon an American Saga Kevin Costner

    Director Kevin Costner's Western Horizon Poised To Bomb At The Box Office

    By Ryan Scott June 20th, 2024

    Kevin Costner's costly Western film Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 is projected to open weakly at the box office.

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  • Golden Kamuy Sugimoto Asirpa live-action

    Netflix Viewers Zeroed In On A New Live-Action Anime Adaptation

    By Devin Meenan June 17th, 2024

    Live-action anime adaptation Golden Kamuy tells a story of murder and a hunt for treasure that captured the attention of Netflix viewers.

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  • Tora! Tora! Tora!

    Fox's Attempt To Recruit Akira Kurosawa Ended In Tragedy

    By Witney Seibold June 15th, 2024

    Akira Kurosawa was no director-for-hire, as Fox learned when the studio recruited him to co-direct the WWII film Tora! Tora! Tora!

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  • 300 Butler

    Warner Bros. Gave Gerard Butler His 300 Role Under One Condition

    By Witney Seibold June 9th, 2024

    Before Gerard Butler could star in 300 for Warner Bros., a studio exec gave him an ultimatum to be a better role model.

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  • Young Woman and the Sea Daisy Ridley

    Daisy Ridley's New Movie Is In Theaters – But Disney Won't Reveal Its Box Office Numbers

    By Ryan Scott June 3rd, 2024

    Here's why Disney is not revealing the box office numbers for Daisy Ridley's based-on-a-true-story sports drama Young Woman and the Sea.

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  • The Longest Day

    A Fox Exec Shut Down A Xenophobic John Wayne On The Set Of The Longest Day

    By Witney Seibold June 3rd, 2024

    Fox's Darryl Zanuck made a fool of John Wayne in front of the French crew on The Longest Day for his xenophobic comments.

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  • Hello, Dolly!

    These Sound Of Music Copycats Were Some Of The Biggest Flops In Movie History

    By Witney Seibold June 3rd, 2024

    In the wake of the huge success of The Sound of Music, Hollywood briefly thought the big budget musical was once again a viable moneymaker. But they were wrong.

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  • Shogun poster Inglourious Basterds Shoshana Melanie Laurent

    Shogun Has An Unexpected Similarity To Director Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds

    By Devin Meenan May 25th, 2024

    Like Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, Shogun treats its clash of languages as an opportunity rather than an obstacle.

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  • Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law surprised

    Every Guy Ritchie Movie, Ranked

    By Lyvie Scott May 21st, 2024

    From Sherlock Holmes to The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and from a stolen diamond to a genie in a bottle, here are Guy Ritchie's 10 best movies, ranked.

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  • Schindler's List

    Jurassic Park Overlapped With Schindler's List In A Brutal Way For Steven Spielberg

    By Chris Evangelista May 19th, 2024

    Director Steven Spielberg felt like he had whiplash working on Jurassic Park and Schindler's List at the same time.

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  • The Sound of Music

    A Fired Fox Exec Returned From Exile To Save The Sound Of Music

    By Sandy Schaefer May 17th, 2024

    The classic Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer musical The Sound of Music might've never happened had there not been a change in studio power at Fox.

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