Why Columbia Scrapped A Tom Hanks Prequel To A League Of Their Own
The writers behind A League of Their own wrote a script for a spin-off movie about Tom Hanks' booze-drenched manager, Jimmy Dugan.
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Preparation Was The Key To Sidney Lumet's Filmmaking Style
Where some young filmmakers might've tried to shoot for the moon on portfolio-boosting visuals, Lumet preached practicality.
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Akira Kurosawa's Early Career Was A Constant Struggle With The Censors
For the first several years of his career, Kurosawa had to fight censors at every turn to get his films made.
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A Half-Baked Script Wasn't Enough To Sell Arnold Schwarzenegger On The Rock
'He was very upset. He just walked out and then went to Nicolas Cage with the part.'
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Network's Dialogue Didn't Leave Any Room For Error
Otherwise writer Paddy Chayefsky would have been mad as hell (and he wouldn't take it anymore).
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David Leitch Had A Tightrope To Walk While Directing Deadpool 2
'...he so understood the heart and the emotion of the story.'
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A Real-Life Wall Street Scandal Changed The Fate Of Working Girl
Mike Nichols' Working Girl is one of the most emblematic films of the 1980s, but due to a real life Wall Street scandal, it almost didn't get made.
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Casts UFC Welterweight Champ Kamaru Usman In A Small Role
UFC Welterweight Champion Kamaru Usman has been announced as having a role in the upcoming follow-up to Black Panther, subtitled Wakanda Forever.
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Paul Dano's Riddler Comic Was Born On The Set Of The Batman
While The Batman villain Riddler was defeated in Matt Reeves' film, actor Paul Dano isn't done with the character just yet.
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Colin Farrell Was Not A Fan Of The Underwater Sequences In Thirteen Lives
Ron Howard's new film on the Thai cave rescue of 2018 is out now, but star Colin Farrell is coming clean on shooting the film's terrifying underwater scenes.
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Billy Wilder Didn't Believe In Rehearsing Scenes As A Director
One of the greatest directors in Hollywood history liked to fly by the seat of his pants.
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Buster Keaton's Most Well-Known Project Was Actually A Flop
1926's The General would lead directly to Keaton's devastating decline in the industry.
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Why James Cameron Doesn't Think He Could Pull Off His Own Aquaman Movie
Cameron doesn't think he could have made James Wan's Aquaman (with or without Vincent Chase).
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How The Mitchells Vs The Machines Formed Katie's Queer Identity
'This is a big first and it speaks to the barriers that are being broken.'
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DC League Of Super-Pets Director Jared Stern Built The Story Around Superman's Best Friend [Interview]
DC League of Super-Pets co-director Jared Stern chats about country music, evil guinea pigs, and Keanu Reeves as Bruce Wayne.
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How Steven Spielberg Talked Michael Bay Into Making Transformers
'...can we make this lifelike?'
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DC League Of Super-Pets Has A Tough Fight Ahead With $22 Million Projected Box Office Debut
Animated superhero comedy DC League of Super-Pets has nudged Nope from the top spot at the weekend box office, but has a long way to go.
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If Robert Englund Hadn't Put His Foot Down, Freddy Krueger's Signature Hat Might Be Different
Lots of things make Freddy Kreuger an iconic horror villain, but nothing quite beats his signature fedora -- which almost didn't make the cut.
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Why Geena Davis Gave Her Blessing To Amazon's A League Of Their Own
A League of Their Own is a beloved feminist classic, and star Geena Davis has recently come out to give the new Prime Video series her blessing.
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Citizen Kane Wasn't Always Seen As A Cinematic Classic
The film was rather controversial in its day.
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Elijah Wood's Lord Of The Rings Audition Was A Little Out Of The Ordinary
It was a self-tape to rule them all.
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A League Of Their Own Didn't Leave The Legacy Geena Davis Had Hoped For
Still, the fact that we're still talking about Penny Marshall's film shows that it still holds a special place in people's hearts.
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Tales From The Box Office: 15 Years Ago, The Simpsons Movie Embiggened A Cromulent Franchise
In 2007, The Simpsons made a splash at the summer box office (with a little help from Spider-Pig).
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Ari Aster Wanted Midsommar To Leave The Audience Laughing
Midsommar was at the forefront of the 2010s folk horror revival, but it isn't as frightening as Hereditary, nor is that its aim, to hear Aster tell it.
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Who Is Black Panther: Wakanda Forever's New Character? Namor Explained
From waging war on the surface world to seducing Sue Storm, Namor the Sub-Mariner has a colorful history in Marvel Comics.
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Ari Aster's First Cut Of Midsommar Dwarfed The Theatrical Runtime
If you thought Midsommar was long and depressing before, wait until you hear about director Ari Aster's nearly four hour original cut of the folk horror film.
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Paul Verhoeven Sunk A Film That Could Have Changed Arnold Schwarzenegger's Career
Paul Verhoeven and Arnold Scharzenegger almost had the opportunity to reunite on an even bigger and even crazier film, until it all came crashing down.
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