The prestigious Oscar award has evolved its meaning throughout the years. From recognizing the artistry of actors, directors, and crew members, it has continued to change the face of cinema by becoming the basis of what’s worthy to watch and what’s not.
In fact, there are many binge-watch-worthy films out there that have never won a single award, and yet fans love them so much that they watch these movies every chance they get. Indeed, you’ll be shocked to know that these popular crowd-favorite movies have never taken home a single Oscar!
Taxi Driver (1976)
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese’s gritty neo-noir psychological thriller movie, starring Robert De Niro as the unstable New York cabbie, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress for Jodie Foster, and Best Original Score. Unfortunately, it took home nothing.
Blade Runner (1982)
Harrison Ford...
In fact, there are many binge-watch-worthy films out there that have never won a single award, and yet fans love them so much that they watch these movies every chance they get. Indeed, you’ll be shocked to know that these popular crowd-favorite movies have never taken home a single Oscar!
Taxi Driver (1976)
Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese’s gritty neo-noir psychological thriller movie, starring Robert De Niro as the unstable New York cabbie, was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress for Jodie Foster, and Best Original Score. Unfortunately, it took home nothing.
Blade Runner (1982)
Harrison Ford...
- 3/8/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
The Shawshank Redemption is not a true story, but is based on a novella by Stephen King. The movie expands on the original source material and changes the fates of key characters. The prison scenes in The Shawshank Redemption were filmed in a real Ohio prison, adding to the believability of the story. Stephen King, the author of the original novella, praised the adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption and appreciated that it showcased his non-supernatural storytelling abilities.
Nearly 30 years after its release, the question of whether The Shawshank Redemption is a true story persists. The Shawshank Redemption follows banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a man sentenced to life in prison in 1947 despite insisting he is innocent. Eventually, he strikes up a friendship with lifelong prisoner Red (Morgan Freeman) while dealing with the prison's corrupt warden and guards. Despite the grim and sometimes brutal setting of the story, it is a...
Nearly 30 years after its release, the question of whether The Shawshank Redemption is a true story persists. The Shawshank Redemption follows banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a man sentenced to life in prison in 1947 despite insisting he is innocent. Eventually, he strikes up a friendship with lifelong prisoner Red (Morgan Freeman) while dealing with the prison's corrupt warden and guards. Despite the grim and sometimes brutal setting of the story, it is a...
- 1/31/2024
- by Colin McCormick, Ryan Izay
- ScreenRant.com
The Unlikely Rise of The Shawshank Redemption When The Shawshank Redemption debuted in theaters, it barely made a ripple in the box office ocean. Yet, this film, based on Stephen King’s novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, has become a beacon of cinematic excellence. It has been 26 years since #ShawshankRedemption came out in theaters and I’m still thankful to everyone who made our box office flop one of the most beloved movies of all time., reflects Morgan Freeman on the movie’s unexpected journey. Despite its initial failure and the fabulous acting by Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, the movie...
- 1/18/2024
- by Steve Delikson
- TVovermind.com
Indie producer Harry Cohn, brother Jack and their associate Joe Brandt created the CBC Film Sales Company in 1918. And on Jan. 10, 1924, the trio formed the Poverty Row studio, Columbia Pictures. According to Enclyclopedia.com, by the mid-20s “Cohn had gained reputation as one of the industry’s toughest businessmen.” That’s putting it mildly.
Though “B” movies and series such as The Three Stooges, “Blondie” and “The Lone Wolf” were the bread and butter of the studio, Cohn slowly attracted top talent and directors and turned such newcomers as Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, William Holden and Kim Novak into stars.
Frank Capra changed the fortunes of the studio. Signing with Columbia in 1928, he made 25 films for Columbia. His optimistic, common man movies attracted critics and audiences alike during the Depression. His 1934 screwball comedy “It Happened One Night,” penned by Robert Riskin and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, swept the Oscars winning five.
Though “B” movies and series such as The Three Stooges, “Blondie” and “The Lone Wolf” were the bread and butter of the studio, Cohn slowly attracted top talent and directors and turned such newcomers as Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, William Holden and Kim Novak into stars.
Frank Capra changed the fortunes of the studio. Signing with Columbia in 1928, he made 25 films for Columbia. His optimistic, common man movies attracted critics and audiences alike during the Depression. His 1934 screwball comedy “It Happened One Night,” penned by Robert Riskin and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, swept the Oscars winning five.
- 1/8/2024
- by Susan King
- Gold Derby
Morgan Freeman's intervention saved The Shawshank Redemption's ending from being ruined. The movie's ending, with Red and Andy reunited on a beach, is seen as an improvement over the original story. Red playing the harmonica during the final scene would have made it too lighthearted for the tone of the movie.
While The Shawshank Redemption’s ending is famously perfect, the moment could have been ruined if it wasn't for Morgan Freeman’s intervention. Based on Stephen King’s short story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is frequently singled out as one of the best screen adaptations of the author’s work. Despite King’s fearsome reputation as a horror scribe, The Shawshank Redemption is an atypically uplifting story about a pair of inmates who forge a deep friendship during their lengthy sentences in the eponymous prison. Red and Andy’s...
While The Shawshank Redemption’s ending is famously perfect, the moment could have been ruined if it wasn't for Morgan Freeman’s intervention. Based on Stephen King’s short story “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption,” director Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption is frequently singled out as one of the best screen adaptations of the author’s work. Despite King’s fearsome reputation as a horror scribe, The Shawshank Redemption is an atypically uplifting story about a pair of inmates who forge a deep friendship during their lengthy sentences in the eponymous prison. Red and Andy’s...
- 1/1/2024
- by Cathal Gunning
- ScreenRant.com
The The Langoliers episode of Wtf Happened to This Adaptation? was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian. Here is the text of Hatfield’s script:
Well, it’s time to let the King have his moment again. This is Stephen King’s second go around on the show and while Silver Bullet based on Cycle of the Werewolf is a minor cult classic, it’s not one of the bigger adaptations out of his overall catalogue. Today is going to an even deeper cut. While it seems that nearly everything has been adapted, there is a lot that has yet to be turned into a show, movie, or short film. Back in the 90s and early 2000s it felt like his made for TV miniseries were happening more frequently and had more hype to them,...
Well, it’s time to let the King have his moment again. This is Stephen King’s second go around on the show and while Silver Bullet based on Cycle of the Werewolf is a minor cult classic, it’s not one of the bigger adaptations out of his overall catalogue. Today is going to an even deeper cut. While it seems that nearly everything has been adapted, there is a lot that has yet to be turned into a show, movie, or short film. Back in the 90s and early 2000s it felt like his made for TV miniseries were happening more frequently and had more hype to them,...
- 12/21/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Pop singer Lola Dee, who recorded for the Columbia and Mercury labels in the 1950s and toured around the world with the likes of Bob Hope, Jimmy Durante and Johnnie Ray, has died. She was 95.
Dee died Thursday of natural causes at a nursing facility in Hinsdale, Illinois, her publicist and CD producer, Alan Eichler, announced.
After signing a five-year contract with Chicago-based Mercury Records, a recently formed company that had Frankie Laine, Vic Damone and Patti Page on its roster, the singer, then billed as Lola Ameche, teamed with the Al Trace Orchestra for 1951’s “Pretty Eyed Baby,” which reached No. 21 on the Billboard charts.
She and Trace followed that year with another hit, “Hitsity Hotsity,” and she recorded more than two dozen songs over the next three years, including swinging versions of “Dance Me Loose,” “Old Man Mose,” “Down Yonder,” “Take Two to Tango” and “Don’t Let...
Dee died Thursday of natural causes at a nursing facility in Hinsdale, Illinois, her publicist and CD producer, Alan Eichler, announced.
After signing a five-year contract with Chicago-based Mercury Records, a recently formed company that had Frankie Laine, Vic Damone and Patti Page on its roster, the singer, then billed as Lola Ameche, teamed with the Al Trace Orchestra for 1951’s “Pretty Eyed Baby,” which reached No. 21 on the Billboard charts.
She and Trace followed that year with another hit, “Hitsity Hotsity,” and she recorded more than two dozen songs over the next three years, including swinging versions of “Dance Me Loose,” “Old Man Mose,” “Down Yonder,” “Take Two to Tango” and “Don’t Let...
- 12/9/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In the previous episodes of Moon in the Day, we saw Han Min On, Joon Oh’s brother, attempt to kill Yeong Hwa by pushing her off a cliff, but Joon Oh managed to save Yeong Hwa. Joon Oh confronted Min Oh to find out why he tried to kill Yeong Hwa, but Min Oh couldn’t provide an explanation, which further raised Joon Oh’s suspicion. Joon Oh looked into the matter and found CCTV footage of Min Oh meeting Seok at a hotel. Joon Oh connected the dots and concluded that it was Seok who had influenced his brother to commit such a heinous crime. In the latest episodes of Moon in the Day, the mystery surrounding Seok’s connection with Yeong Hwa is finally unraveled.
Spoilers Ahead
Episode 11 Recap: Who Was Seok?
In Moon in the Day episode 11, Joon Oh finally realized Seok’s hand in wrecking...
Spoilers Ahead
Episode 11 Recap: Who Was Seok?
In Moon in the Day episode 11, Joon Oh finally realized Seok’s hand in wrecking...
- 12/9/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
In the previous episodes of Moon in the Day, we saw Kang Yeong Hwa and Han Joon Oh confront each other and make a great bond. Yeong Hwa realized that her dreams did have a meaning, and it was affecting her present life. In the latest episodes of Moon in the Day, we saw that the story has finally moved further, as Joon Oh’s brother now needed to make some tough decisions in his life to save Joon Oh. But how far he would go to protect his brother remains to be seen.
Spoilers Ahead
Who pushed Yeong Hwa down the cliff?
Moon in the Day Episode 9 showed Han Min Oh, the brother of Joon Oh, confronted by CEO Seok, the real antagonist of the story. Seok’s background and his connection with Yeong Hwa, or the lost soul of Do Ha, are still unclear, raising questions regarding his motivation.
Spoilers Ahead
Who pushed Yeong Hwa down the cliff?
Moon in the Day Episode 9 showed Han Min Oh, the brother of Joon Oh, confronted by CEO Seok, the real antagonist of the story. Seok’s background and his connection with Yeong Hwa, or the lost soul of Do Ha, are still unclear, raising questions regarding his motivation.
- 12/4/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
In the previous episode of Moon in the Day, we saw Han Joon Oh directly confront Yeong Hwa to see if she could remember the dreams she was having. Yeong Hwa could remember well that she had seen someone whose face resembles Joon Oh’s. In the concluding moments of episode 6, we saw that Yeong Hwa and Joon Oh met on a bridge, where Joon Oh finally revealed a shocking truth about their past lives. He revealed that in their past lives, 1500 years ago, Joon Oh, aka Do Ha, was married to Han Ri Ta, aka Yeong Hwa. Moon in the Day has just released two episodes where the story hasn’t yet proceeded, but we see that Goo Tae Joo’s untimely death affects Joon Oh and Yeong Hwa’s safety.
Spoilers Ahead
Episode 7 Recap: Why Did Do Ha Marry Han Ri Ta?
In episode 7, Joon Oh tries to...
Spoilers Ahead
Episode 7 Recap: Why Did Do Ha Marry Han Ri Ta?
In episode 7, Joon Oh tries to...
- 11/24/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
When Cailee Spaeny was 13 she reached a crossroads: she could carry on the way she was going or walk away from a normal life forever. Quitting high school to become an actor might not work out, she knew that, but Spaeny took the hard road; the exciting and risky one. And such was the choice the teenage Priscilla Presley made in 1963, leaving her family stationed in Germany to move in with Elvis at his home. Graceland, under the protective care of the singer’s father, Vernon. So, when Spaeny was cast in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, perhaps the two women, actor and subject, had more in common than they knew.
“We were the same age when we had this conviction, ‘Well, this is my life and I want this and I’m a teenager, but…,’ Spaeny says. “Like Priscilla’s family, my family made incredible sacrifices to support that decision.
“We were the same age when we had this conviction, ‘Well, this is my life and I want this and I’m a teenager, but…,’ Spaeny says. “Like Priscilla’s family, my family made incredible sacrifices to support that decision.
- 11/22/2023
- by Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
In the fifth episode of Moon in the Day season 1, we saw the old shaman’s disciple put a ghost-repelling paper on Joon Oh’s chest to get rid of the evil spirit. The paper initially didn’t work on Joon Oh, but later it made the spirit of Do Ha leave Joon Oh’s body for a while. Yeong Hwa confronted the spirit coming out of Joon Oh’s body, which further confused her. In this latest episode of Moon in the Day, Yeong Hwa and Joon Oh finally confront each other with the ultimate truth of their lives.
Spoilers Ahead
Did Joon Oh Survive?
Episode 6 picked up where Episode 5 left off. Seeing Joon Oh lying on the floor, unconscious, Han and his manager came to his aid. After a while, Joon Oh regained his senses. It seemed like the ghost-repelling paper did work on the lost soul of Do Ha,...
Spoilers Ahead
Did Joon Oh Survive?
Episode 6 picked up where Episode 5 left off. Seeing Joon Oh lying on the floor, unconscious, Han and his manager came to his aid. After a while, Joon Oh regained his senses. It seemed like the ghost-repelling paper did work on the lost soul of Do Ha,...
- 11/17/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
In the previous episode of Moon in the Day, we saw Kang Yeong Hwa being hired by Han Joon Oh to be his bodyguard. Yeong Hwa, who was a suspended firefighter, took the job temporarily, especially after she learned about Joon Oh’s terminal illness. In Moon in the Day Episode 5, we saw Yeong Hwa and Joon Oh grow closer to each other, prompting Yeong Hwa to remember bits of the dreams where she saw the warrior 1500 years ago. However, in this episode, she finally came to realize what the reason was behind those dreams.
Spoilers Ahead
Did Yeong Hwa Remember Those Dreams?
Episode 5 opened with Yeong Hwa staying at Joon Oh’s place. Yeong Hwa was contemplating her decision to stay there, but she believed that, as a firefighter, she had some responsibility to save someone’s life. She was sympathetic to Joon Oh, who was almost on the verge of a mental breakdown.
Spoilers Ahead
Did Yeong Hwa Remember Those Dreams?
Episode 5 opened with Yeong Hwa staying at Joon Oh’s place. Yeong Hwa was contemplating her decision to stay there, but she believed that, as a firefighter, she had some responsibility to save someone’s life. She was sympathetic to Joon Oh, who was almost on the verge of a mental breakdown.
- 11/16/2023
- by Poulami Nanda
- Film Fugitives
Film noir was a popular genre in Hollywood during the 1940s and '50s, known for its crime-centered plots and morally gray characters. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, and Barbara Stanwyck are among the iconic actors who became synonymous with film noir due to their influential and defining work in the genre. Among the other iconic film noir actors are Rita Hayworth, Ava Gardner, John Garfield, Robert Mitchum, Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Robert Ryan, and Sterling Hayden.
Film noir isn't defined simply by the elements of crime or the atmosphere, it's also defined by the actors who bring it to life, many of whom were staples in the genre throughout the 1940s and '50s. There are certain actors who spent so much of their careers playing the characters who catch the bad guys, or play the villains being tracked, they have become synonymous with the genre. In order to become familiar with the genre,...
Film noir isn't defined simply by the elements of crime or the atmosphere, it's also defined by the actors who bring it to life, many of whom were staples in the genre throughout the 1940s and '50s. There are certain actors who spent so much of their careers playing the characters who catch the bad guys, or play the villains being tracked, they have become synonymous with the genre. In order to become familiar with the genre,...
- 11/12/2023
- by Mary Kassel
- ScreenRant.com
Even though she was born Margarita Carmen Cansino of Hispanic and Roman descent, the iconic actress is mostly known by her stage name, Rita Hayworth. Even now, Hayworth remains one of the most famous faces in the film industry, both as an A-list star during Hollywood's Golden Age and as a charismatic sex symbol. She is also listed as one of the American Film Institute's Greatest Stars of All Time.
- 10/14/2023
- by Daniela Gama
- Collider.com
She was the first American actress to marry a prince, the first actress to dance with both Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, one of the first pin-up girls of the 1940s and the first celebrity to bring awareness to Alzheimer’s Disease. She was the “Love Goddess,” Rita Hayworth.
Hayworth was born on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn as Margarita Carmen Cansino, into a family of Spanish dancers. Although she later claimed she didn’t care for it, Hayworth started dancing at a young age to please her father. They performed together as the Dancing Cansinos from the time she was 12-years-old. She began landing small film roles in her teens under the name Rita Cansino, eventually earning a contract with Columbia Pictures. There she was “Americanized” by changing her last name to her Irish mother’s maiden name of Hayworth, dying her dark hair red and having electrolysis to raise her hairline.
Hayworth was born on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn as Margarita Carmen Cansino, into a family of Spanish dancers. Although she later claimed she didn’t care for it, Hayworth started dancing at a young age to please her father. They performed together as the Dancing Cansinos from the time she was 12-years-old. She began landing small film roles in her teens under the name Rita Cansino, eventually earning a contract with Columbia Pictures. There she was “Americanized” by changing her last name to her Irish mother’s maiden name of Hayworth, dying her dark hair red and having electrolysis to raise her hairline.
- 10/13/2023
- by Susan Pennington, Misty Holland and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
The Shawshank Redemption was primarily filmed in Mansfield, Ohio, using the Ohio State Reformatory as the prison location. Other filming locations in Ohio included the Bissman Building and the Shawshank Woodshop. The final beach scene was shot on the island of Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, standing in for the Mexican city of Zihuatanejo.
The Shawshank Redemption tells a story of loss and hope, with most of it filmed in the titular prison complex. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in what was among their career-best performances, the Frank Darabont film endures as one of the greatest movies of all time, as evidenced by its ranking at number one on IMDb’s top 250 movies. Based on Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King, the prison drama revolves around an innocent man framed for the murder of his wife. During his time in prison, he...
The Shawshank Redemption tells a story of loss and hope, with most of it filmed in the titular prison complex. Starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in what was among their career-best performances, the Frank Darabont film endures as one of the greatest movies of all time, as evidenced by its ranking at number one on IMDb’s top 250 movies. Based on Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King, the prison drama revolves around an innocent man framed for the murder of his wife. During his time in prison, he...
- 9/7/2023
- by Shaurya Thapa
- ScreenRant.com
The adaptation of novels is a complicated process that regularly leaves fans and general moviegoers frustrated and unsatisfied. While the appeal of a preexisting audience makes the concept of an adaptation seem like a smart and simple solution to creating a successful movie or television show, it doesn't always work out that way. The adaptation process is a transformation that inherently changes the source material, and sometimes that transformation breaks the bond between the audience and the material.
Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of all time. Many of King's books have been adapted into movies and television shows with a range of success. These can illuminate many of the issues with the nature of adaptations, specifically by looking at two of the movies that are arguably the most successful: The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining.
Related: One Creepshow Tale Cleverly Connects to the Stephen King Universe...
Stephen King is one of the most prolific authors of all time. Many of King's books have been adapted into movies and television shows with a range of success. These can illuminate many of the issues with the nature of adaptations, specifically by looking at two of the movies that are arguably the most successful: The Shawshank Redemption and The Shining.
Related: One Creepshow Tale Cleverly Connects to the Stephen King Universe...
- 8/27/2023
- by Margaret Lockyer
- Comic Book Resources
After taking over the reins of the "Mission: Impossible" franchise, director Chris McQuarrie quickly put his own stamp on the series. From 2015's "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" to 2023's "Dead Reckoning Part One," McQuarrie's take on the series has brought it back to its roots in creating heightened, suspenseful espionage scenarios. It's also made the movies even bigger.
The stunts of Ethan Hunt are one aspect in which the series has to consistently top itself. But for McQuarrie, it's also important that each movie embraces a different kind of spectacular filmmaking, something spontaneous and creative that goes beyond simple James Bond-esque globetrotting gunfights and car chases. Because of that impulse, he might have gone too far with a scene in 2018's "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," which is probably why it didn't make the final cut.
The scene in question would have involved the introduction of Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby), or the White Widow,...
The stunts of Ethan Hunt are one aspect in which the series has to consistently top itself. But for McQuarrie, it's also important that each movie embraces a different kind of spectacular filmmaking, something spontaneous and creative that goes beyond simple James Bond-esque globetrotting gunfights and car chases. Because of that impulse, he might have gone too far with a scene in 2018's "Mission: Impossible - Fallout," which is probably why it didn't make the final cut.
The scene in question would have involved the introduction of Alanna Mitsopolis (Vanessa Kirby), or the White Widow,...
- 8/12/2023
- by Anthony Crislip
- Slash Film
Where to Watch Powered by Stephen King thought The Shawshank Redemption's hole in the prison wall was too cartoonish, stretching the suspension of disbelief. However, the cartoonish hole serves a purpose in the movie's narrative, drawing attention to Andy's escape and conveying the impact of the twist. The round shape of the hole reflects Andy's personality and serves as a final gateway in his undying quest for freedom.
While many viewers and critics could not help but admire The Shawshank Redemption and its big twist, Stephen King had the weirdest complaint about it. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption unfolds as a rite of passage for a man who gets falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie's timeless take on themes of hope and redemption was heavily lauded by critics and audiences following its release.
While many viewers and critics could not help but admire The Shawshank Redemption and its big twist, Stephen King had the weirdest complaint about it. Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman, The Shawshank Redemption unfolds as a rite of passage for a man who gets falsely convicted of murdering his wife. Based on Stephen King's 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the movie's timeless take on themes of hope and redemption was heavily lauded by critics and audiences following its release.
- 8/6/2023
- by Dhruv Sharma
- ScreenRant.com
The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 on Netflix highlights Latino culture and history by ensuring that Haller's character is Mexican and featuring his family members in the series. Rita Hayworth, originally named Margarita Carmen Cansino, had to change her name and appearance to fit into Hollywood's limited representation of actors during the 1940s. Hayworth's success as a blonde bombshell in movies like Gilda was achieved by downplaying her Spanish roots, highlighting the long-lasting impact of racism on Hispanic and Latino representation in film.
The second part of The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 is now on Netflix and includes a brief discussion about Rita Hayworth's name that has a much longer, troubled story behind it. The television series was adapted from the Michael Connelly books, which led to a 2011 movie of the same name. Over a decade later, it was brought back with Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo leading the cast of The Lincoln Lawyer as Mickey Haller,...
The second part of The Lincoln Lawyer season 2 is now on Netflix and includes a brief discussion about Rita Hayworth's name that has a much longer, troubled story behind it. The television series was adapted from the Michael Connelly books, which led to a 2011 movie of the same name. Over a decade later, it was brought back with Mexican actor Manuel Garcia-Rulfo leading the cast of The Lincoln Lawyer as Mickey Haller,...
- 8/5/2023
- by Kayla Laguerre-Lewis
- ScreenRant.com
Russell Crowe is standing on a stage, playing an electric guitar. He’s singing “Folsom Prison Blues” by Johnny Cash, accompanied by a trumpetist, a drummer, someone at a keyboard, another guitarist, and even four backing singers. He starts rocking out to the instrumental section. The crowd, full of Czech film industry insiders, international critics, and fans, is undoubtedly entertained.
This is not yet another remake of “A Star Is Born,” but simply the kind of event you can expect to witness at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taking place every summer in the Czech city and welcoming talent from all over the world.
First established in 1946, Kviff went through a transformation in the early 1990s following the fall of communism. Karel Och, working at the festival since 2001 and its artistic director since 2011, thinks this shift explains how spectators themselves have changed.
“They didn’t really react at Q&a’s,...
This is not yet another remake of “A Star Is Born,” but simply the kind of event you can expect to witness at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, taking place every summer in the Czech city and welcoming talent from all over the world.
First established in 1946, Kviff went through a transformation in the early 1990s following the fall of communism. Karel Och, working at the festival since 2001 and its artistic director since 2011, thinks this shift explains how spectators themselves have changed.
“They didn’t really react at Q&a’s,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Manuela Lazic
- Indiewire
Margia Dean, who co-starred in the cult sci-fi classic The Quatermass Xperiment and appeared alongside the likes of Clint Eastwood, Vincent Price, Esther Williams and George Reeves in other movies, has died. She was 101.
Dean died June 23 in her apartment in Rancho Cucamonga, California, her niece Denyse Barr told The Hollywood Reporter.
From 1948-56, Dean worked in about 20 features for producer Robert L. Lippert, founder of the B-movie studio Lippert Pictures, thus earning the nickname “The Queen of Lippert.”
She acted for Sam Fuller in two of those films, the first two features he ever directed, in fact — I Shot Jesse James (1949), in which she portrayed a saloon singer, and the Price-starring The Baron of Arizona (1950).
Based on a popular BBC serial, Hammer Films’ The Quatermass Xperiment (1956), directed by Val Guest and starring Brian Donlevy, told the story of an astronaut (Richard Wordsworth) who crash-lands back on Earth and...
Dean died June 23 in her apartment in Rancho Cucamonga, California, her niece Denyse Barr told The Hollywood Reporter.
From 1948-56, Dean worked in about 20 features for producer Robert L. Lippert, founder of the B-movie studio Lippert Pictures, thus earning the nickname “The Queen of Lippert.”
She acted for Sam Fuller in two of those films, the first two features he ever directed, in fact — I Shot Jesse James (1949), in which she portrayed a saloon singer, and the Price-starring The Baron of Arizona (1950).
Based on a popular BBC serial, Hammer Films’ The Quatermass Xperiment (1956), directed by Val Guest and starring Brian Donlevy, told the story of an astronaut (Richard Wordsworth) who crash-lands back on Earth and...
- 7/6/2023
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When Is The Netflix Movie The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo Coming? Well, the news of “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” live-action adaptation has generated immense excitement since it was revealed that Taylor Jenkins Reid’s bestselling novel would be brought to life on the screen.
The anticipation grew even more when Netflix acquired the project and enlisted director Leslye Headland.
This historical fiction masterpiece follows the captivating life journey of Evelyn Hugo, a fictional 79-year-old Hollywood star, delving into the intricacies of her seven marriages.
The live-action adaptation has been a long time coming, with previous attempts to produce it as a Freeform TV series. However, the decision to turn it into a Netflix original undoubtedly promises a broader platform to convey the book’s unique perspective on love and romance.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo, a critically-acclaimed novel with a vast audience, was recognized as a...
The anticipation grew even more when Netflix acquired the project and enlisted director Leslye Headland.
This historical fiction masterpiece follows the captivating life journey of Evelyn Hugo, a fictional 79-year-old Hollywood star, delving into the intricacies of her seven marriages.
The live-action adaptation has been a long time coming, with previous attempts to produce it as a Freeform TV series. However, the decision to turn it into a Netflix original undoubtedly promises a broader platform to convey the book’s unique perspective on love and romance.
The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo, a critically-acclaimed novel with a vast audience, was recognized as a...
- 7/5/2023
- by Om Prakash Kaushal
- https://dailyresearchplot.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/new-sam
Hollywood icon, Gene Kelly, was a legendary triple-threat who is remembered for his classic musicals including Anchors Aweigh, An American in Paris, and his most famous, Singin' in the Rain. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kelly made his film debut with Judy Garland in the 1942 movie, For Me and My Gal and gained notoriety for his energetic steps and contagious charm in films like Out on the Town and Cover Girl with Rita Hayworth.
- 7/2/2023
- by Andrea Ciriaco
- Collider.com
Stephen King’s bibliography has spawned numerous movie and TV adaptations but there are a particular few that have received a personal seal of approval from the master of horror. The best-selling author needs no introduction as even audiences that haven’t read his work might have most probably witnessed acclaimed adaptations of his novels and short stories. This doesn’t just include horror favorites like The Shining and It but also realistic dramas like Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption. With more than 40 movie adaptations alone, he often ranks among the most adapted authors of all time.
Over the years, Stephen King revealed his thoughts on every adaptation of his literary work. A prominent case in point is his much-publicized disdain towards Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Based on the novel of the same name, The Shining garnered controversial critiques from King. The author hasn’t had many reservations...
Over the years, Stephen King revealed his thoughts on every adaptation of his literary work. A prominent case in point is his much-publicized disdain towards Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Based on the novel of the same name, The Shining garnered controversial critiques from King. The author hasn’t had many reservations...
- 7/1/2023
- by Shaurya Thapa
- ScreenRant.com
During the Golden Age of Hollywood, which bloomed in the late 1920s and dwindled in the late 1960s, film production and distribution were under the control of the studio system, and everyone, actors, filmmakers, and writers alike, was under strict contract. It is true that movie stars enjoyed worldwide recognition and partook in exclusive, prestigious events, but this glamorous façade came with a high emotional price and was often a front for terrible personal tragedies.
Marilyn Monroe spent her childhood in orphanages and foster homes, was groped and abused throughout her career, and died in circumstances still debated today. Judy Garland was forcibly put on a pill regiment at an early age and her marathonic schedule was ruthlessly controlled by her mother. Rita Hayworth was abused by her father, suffered mental cruelty from her fundamentalist husband, and succumbed to Alzheimer’s.
And then there was Gene Tierney. With her chiseled cheekbones,...
Marilyn Monroe spent her childhood in orphanages and foster homes, was groped and abused throughout her career, and died in circumstances still debated today. Judy Garland was forcibly put on a pill regiment at an early age and her marathonic schedule was ruthlessly controlled by her mother. Rita Hayworth was abused by her father, suffered mental cruelty from her fundamentalist husband, and succumbed to Alzheimer’s.
And then there was Gene Tierney. With her chiseled cheekbones,...
- 6/24/2023
- by Mona Bassil
- MovieWeb
Rouben Mamoulian is one of the best directors of Golden Age Hollywood, but his efforts often go underseen and underappreciated. One only has to watch his films to admire, and love, his skill as a director. Love Me Tonight (1932) sweeps and swoons with romantic energy; Queen Christina (1933) is a moody biopic that plays with shadows and sexuality; Becky Sharp (1935) is one of the first Technicolor features and is an array of delectable pastels to backdrop to colourful cohorts. And, of course, Mamoulian’s finest work – Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1931) an imaginative horror that looks deep into the monster lurking in man’s soul.
Mamoulian’s Blood and Sand (1941) is also undeniably exquisite art. Played on the gorgeous, yet volatile nitrate as part of BFI’s Film on Film Festival, there has never been a Mamoulian presentation quite like it in recent years.
Starring Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth, Blood and Sand revolves around Juan,...
Mamoulian’s Blood and Sand (1941) is also undeniably exquisite art. Played on the gorgeous, yet volatile nitrate as part of BFI’s Film on Film Festival, there has never been a Mamoulian presentation quite like it in recent years.
Starring Tyrone Power and Rita Hayworth, Blood and Sand revolves around Juan,...
- 6/16/2023
- by Sarah Cook
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
The year was 2001, in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, many studios struggled to find the proper way to market and release their films while still being sensitive to what had just happened. Many films were moved off their original release dates to give the studios, and audiences, more time to figure out the proper way forward. One film, however, was deemed a slam dunk: a feel good story about a man who loses his memory and is taken in by the people of a small town when they assume him to be a long lost son and World War II hero, set against the backdrop of the Hollywood Communist witch hunt of the 1950’s from a respected Oscar nominated filmmaker and starring a lead actor who was in the midst of a dramatic left turn in his career with back to back Golden Globe wins for Best Actor.
- 5/21/2023
- by Chris Bumbray
- JoBlo.com
The Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that from the get-go, you don't believe it could be the highest-rated IMDb film of all time. It's remarkable, of course, but the dynamics of film criticism don't lean towards these kinds of films, and you would think audiences could tilt the scale towards something more commercial or spectacle-like. Frank Darabont's journey into Shawshank, the iconic prison of the Stephen King universe, is a dramatic exploration of power dynamics in one of the most forsaken places on Earth. It explores how an arrival by an everyday man turns it into a place filled with hope and kindness, all within the standards of a prison where criminals live.
Inspired by Stephen King's novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film would be a box-office failure. Critics hailed it, but people did not. It wasn't until home video that it got more popular,...
Inspired by Stephen King's novella, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film would be a box-office failure. Critics hailed it, but people did not. It wasn't until home video that it got more popular,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Federico Furzan
- MovieWeb
In most versions of the classic 1831 Victor Hugo tale, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the female protagonist is Esmeralda, a French Romani girl who is so beautiful that every major male character in the story either wants to marry her or seduce her. (She’s also only 16 in the novel—a book from over 200 years ago). For all her kindness and compassion, Esmeralda is basically treated terribly throughout the story and finally ends up hanged for a crime she didn’t commit, just as she reunites with her long-lost birth mother.
Quasi, a satirical new take on the story from the Broken Lizard crew (Super Troopers), has a decidedly different view of its female lead. Directed by Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and written by him and the rest of the team—Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske—the film dispenses with the tragic Esmeralda in favor of...
Quasi, a satirical new take on the story from the Broken Lizard crew (Super Troopers), has a decidedly different view of its female lead. Directed by Broken Lizard’s Kevin Heffernan and written by him and the rest of the team—Steve Lemme, Jay Chandrasekhar, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske—the film dispenses with the tragic Esmeralda in favor of...
- 4/20/2023
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Demolition will soon begin on a resort once favored by Elvis Presley and other Hollywood royalty before it was heavily damaged by a hurricane three decades ago.
The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii”.
It’s also the site of other key scenes in the movie, including the last where Presley sings the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” and holds Blackman’s hand while they board a raft to cross a lagoon.
In its heyday, it was famed for being frequented by other Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Bing Crosby.
The 46-acre (19-hectare) grounds were also once home to Kauai’s last queen, Deborah Kapule, who died in 1853.
The resort...
The Coco Palms Resort on the island of Kauai will be torn down for a new 350-room hotel, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported.
The resort is best known in movie lore as the location where Presley and Joan Blackman’s characters married in the 1961 movie “Blue Hawaii”.
It’s also the site of other key scenes in the movie, including the last where Presley sings the “Hawaiian Wedding Song” and holds Blackman’s hand while they board a raft to cross a lagoon.
In its heyday, it was famed for being frequented by other Hollywood stars like Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth and Bing Crosby.
The 46-acre (19-hectare) grounds were also once home to Kauai’s last queen, Deborah Kapule, who died in 1853.
The resort...
- 4/16/2023
- by Brent Furdyk
- ET Canada
It was 1941. Though World War II was already under way, film production was in full swing at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank.
Humphrey Bogart was getting ready to shoot “The Maltese Falcon,” while the next year, “Casablanca” would film on Warners soundstages and at the nearby Van Nuys airport, subbing for Morocco. Bette Davis was making “Now Voyager” on the lot after location visits to Lake Arrowhead and Laguna Beach.
At the Warner Bros. Café, the studio’s commissary on the Burbank lot, James Cagney and Rita Hayworth lunched with director Raoul Walsh, while actor and future president Ronald Reagan dined with Olivia de Havilland — just a few of the major stars and filmmakers who could be seen taking a break from the hard work of filming.
These days, studio executives are big on Cobb salads and Kobe beef burgers. But back in the 1940s, the dense one-page menu featured...
Humphrey Bogart was getting ready to shoot “The Maltese Falcon,” while the next year, “Casablanca” would film on Warners soundstages and at the nearby Van Nuys airport, subbing for Morocco. Bette Davis was making “Now Voyager” on the lot after location visits to Lake Arrowhead and Laguna Beach.
At the Warner Bros. Café, the studio’s commissary on the Burbank lot, James Cagney and Rita Hayworth lunched with director Raoul Walsh, while actor and future president Ronald Reagan dined with Olivia de Havilland — just a few of the major stars and filmmakers who could be seen taking a break from the hard work of filming.
These days, studio executives are big on Cobb salads and Kobe beef burgers. But back in the 1940s, the dense one-page menu featured...
- 4/6/2023
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Over the course of four films, the “John Wick” franchise has established itself as the most gorgeous series in the history of action cinema, with vibrant colors and gliding camera moves that provide a counterpoint to the gritty, handheld camerawork of the “Bourne” movies. Cinematographer Dan Laustsen, who came on board for “John Wick: Chapter Two” and has shot every “Wick” film since, had a clear mandate from director Chad Stahelski upon their first meeting. “He said, ‘I want to shoot “John Wick” like a Bertolucci movie,'” Laustsen told IndieWire. “That was his briefing for me, and I thought, ‘That doesn’t sound bad at all.'”
“John Wick: Chapter Four” represents the peak of Laustsen and Stahelski’s collaboration, with set piece after set piece shot in long takes that showcase the elegant choreography of the action and a color palette that Stahelski acknowledges owes more than a...
“John Wick: Chapter Four” represents the peak of Laustsen and Stahelski’s collaboration, with set piece after set piece shot in long takes that showcase the elegant choreography of the action and a color palette that Stahelski acknowledges owes more than a...
- 4/5/2023
- by Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
The prisoners in the movie The Shawshank Redemption watch a classic Rita Hayworth film that has more significance than it seems. Written and directed by Frank Darabont, the iconic prison drama was adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, originally included in his collection Different Seasons. Rita Hayworth was one of the biggest stars of the 1940s. She doesn’t appear in The Shawshank Redemption, but she is central to the plot. Not only is one of Hayworth’s movies screened for the prisoners, but Andy Dufresne also uses a big poster of Hayworth to conceal the tunnel he’s digging out of his cell.
Although it bombed at the box office on its initial release, The Shawshank Redemption has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. It sits comfortably in the number-one spot on IMDb’s “Top 250” list. Since...
Although it bombed at the box office on its initial release, The Shawshank Redemption has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest movies ever made. It sits comfortably in the number-one spot on IMDb’s “Top 250” list. Since...
- 3/19/2023
- by Ben Sherlock
- ScreenRant.com
Bring up Golden Age Hollywood filmmaker Busby Berkeley, and most people conjure his staging of elaborate, kaleidoscopic dance numbers in such films as “Dames” and “Footlight Parade,” Ginger Rogers singing “We’re in the Money” at the height of the Depression in “Gold Diggers of 1933,” or his sinuous camera weaving through dancer’s legs in such hits as Oscar-nominated “42nd Street” (1933).
A three-time Oscar nominee (for Best Dance Direction), Berkeley’s musicals were credited with saving Warner Bros. from financial collapse before he became a key player in Arthur Freed’s unit at MGM, where he propelled the careers of numerous stars, including Rogers, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Gene Kelly. Behind the scenes, Berkeley’s life was darker and often tragic — beset by scandal and numerous brushes with the law.
Arguably, Berkeley’s Hollywood artist’s journey is the untold story that “Babylon” wasn’t — and it coincides...
A three-time Oscar nominee (for Best Dance Direction), Berkeley’s musicals were credited with saving Warner Bros. from financial collapse before he became a key player in Arthur Freed’s unit at MGM, where he propelled the careers of numerous stars, including Rogers, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Gene Kelly. Behind the scenes, Berkeley’s life was darker and often tragic — beset by scandal and numerous brushes with the law.
Arguably, Berkeley’s Hollywood artist’s journey is the untold story that “Babylon” wasn’t — and it coincides...
- 3/17/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
The Shawshank Redemption takes place almost entirely inside a prison, but both the place and its location might not be what it seems. While Stephen King is commonly known as the king of horror fiction, he has published quite a few exciting dramatic stories, such as The Body, which inspired the movie Stand By Me, and of course, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, a novella that was turned into a feature film starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, who together offer memorable buddy chemistry in a violent and hopeless scenario.
In the movie, a successful banker, Andy, is framed for a double murder and gets a life sentence in prison. As years go by, he begins a new life in prison, making enemies along the way, as well as unusual friends, such as Morgan Freeman's Red, never losing his good heart and strong sense of hope. The Shawshank Redemption gained...
In the movie, a successful banker, Andy, is framed for a double murder and gets a life sentence in prison. As years go by, he begins a new life in prison, making enemies along the way, as well as unusual friends, such as Morgan Freeman's Red, never losing his good heart and strong sense of hope. The Shawshank Redemption gained...
- 3/12/2023
- by Arthur Goyaz
- ScreenRant.com
We're approaching five decades of the NBC sketch comedy show "Saturday Night Live." The not-ready-for-primetime players actually were ready, with dozens of them going on to have huge TV and film careers. Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin, Adam Sandler, Martin Short, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy, Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon ... the list goes on and on and on. I mean, it's almost been fifty years of brilliant talent, even though not every season was perfect.
SNL is, of course, live, meaning that even though there are rehearsals, it can change at the last moment, with sketches, and even actors, being cut. The very first episode of the very first show on October 11, 1975, cut an actor who went on to heights of fame. That actor was Billy Crystal. You may know that he hosted for the first time in 1976 and was a cast member from...
SNL is, of course, live, meaning that even though there are rehearsals, it can change at the last moment, with sketches, and even actors, being cut. The very first episode of the very first show on October 11, 1975, cut an actor who went on to heights of fame. That actor was Billy Crystal. You may know that he hosted for the first time in 1976 and was a cast member from...
- 3/12/2023
- by Jenna Busch
- Slash Film
John Wayne built his career around Western and war movies, which makes it difficult for his fans to claim a favorite. True Grit, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Rio Bravo, and The Searchers are prominent favorites for good reason. However, Wayne’s The Sons of Katie Elder is a severely underrated project in his filmography.
‘The Sons of Katie Elder’ ramped up John Wayne’s collaboration with Henry Hathaway L-r: John Wayne as John Elder, Dean Martin as Tom Elder, Earl Holliman as Matt Elder, and Michael Anderson Jr. as Bud Elder | Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Wayne and director Henry Hathaway first collaborated in 1941’s The Shepherd of the Hills. Together, they made another five feature films, next working on 1957’s Legend of the Lost alongside Sophia Loren. Wayne and Hathaway followed up with North to Alaska in 1960, Circus World with Rita Hayworth in 1964, and 1969’s True Grit.
‘The Sons of Katie Elder’ ramped up John Wayne’s collaboration with Henry Hathaway L-r: John Wayne as John Elder, Dean Martin as Tom Elder, Earl Holliman as Matt Elder, and Michael Anderson Jr. as Bud Elder | Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Wayne and director Henry Hathaway first collaborated in 1941’s The Shepherd of the Hills. Together, they made another five feature films, next working on 1957’s Legend of the Lost alongside Sophia Loren. Wayne and Hathaway followed up with North to Alaska in 1960, Circus World with Rita Hayworth in 1964, and 1969’s True Grit.
- 3/6/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Movie star John Wayne developed a strong understanding of what audiences wanted to see from him in the roles that he chose. However, he also kept a finger on the pulse of the type of films that his peers starred in, and he certainly wasn’t afraid to speak his mind about them. Wayne didn’t care for a Gary Cooper movie that he called a “mockery of America’s highest award for valor.”
John Wayne prioritized movie morals John Wayne | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Wayne held the belief that the movie industry should be a “family business” of sorts. He detested the notion of a ratings system that allowed adult feature films with extreme violence and sexuality to hit silver screens to rely on human curiosity to make money.
The Oscar-winning actor refused to accept notable roles in movies such as High Noon and Blazing Saddles because of their morals.
John Wayne prioritized movie morals John Wayne | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Wayne held the belief that the movie industry should be a “family business” of sorts. He detested the notion of a ratings system that allowed adult feature films with extreme violence and sexuality to hit silver screens to rely on human curiosity to make money.
The Oscar-winning actor refused to accept notable roles in movies such as High Noon and Blazing Saddles because of their morals.
- 3/3/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Shawshank Redemption stars Morgan Freeman as a convict but leaves out the details of his crime, creating much speculation about who Red murdered and why he's in prison. Morgan Freeman's Shawshank character Red narrates the 1994 film, and mostly displays good behavior throughout. However, writer-director and frequent Stephen King collaborator Frank Darabont cut a relevant piece of information from Stephen King's 1982 source material, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, in order to make Red a more likable character.
In The Shawshank Redemption, Red initially takes a liking to Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a convicted killer with a reputation among inmates for being slightly pretentious. Red honors the former banker's request for a rock hammer but also schools him about the unofficial codes of conduct within Shawshank State Penitentiary. During their first conversation in The Shawshank Redemption, Andy claims his innocence. In response, Red laughs and snarkily states that every other inmate is innocent,...
In The Shawshank Redemption, Red initially takes a liking to Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), a convicted killer with a reputation among inmates for being slightly pretentious. Red honors the former banker's request for a rock hammer but also schools him about the unofficial codes of conduct within Shawshank State Penitentiary. During their first conversation in The Shawshank Redemption, Andy claims his innocence. In response, Red laughs and snarkily states that every other inmate is innocent,...
- 2/21/2023
- by Quinn Hough
- ScreenRant.com
Raquel Welch has passed away after a career lasting more than five decades. The iconic actress, who is best known for her roles in films of the 1960s and 1970s like One Million Years B.C., and the 1973 adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers is beloved the world over. Her career spans from an early gig as a TV weather woman before breaking out in Hollywood to her most recent role as part of the main cast of the short-lived 2017 UPtv series Date My Dad.
Per Deadline, the Fantastic Voyage star Welch has passed away at age 82. Her representatives at Media 4 Management confirmed the news. Tributes have already come pouring in from social media from Welch's viewers and contemporaries. Check out select tributes below:
Related: How Cary Grant Became The King of Classic Hollywood
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Per Deadline, the Fantastic Voyage star Welch has passed away at age 82. Her representatives at Media 4 Management confirmed the news. Tributes have already come pouring in from social media from Welch's viewers and contemporaries. Check out select tributes below:
Related: How Cary Grant Became The King of Classic Hollywood
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- 2/15/2023
- by Brennan Klein
- ScreenRant.com
Actor John Wayne was very particular regarding the movies he starred in and the ones he admired. He came from a generation when films targeted the whole family with certain political morals rather than having separate entertainment intended for different age groups. There were two classic 1959 movies that Wayne called “too disgusting even for discussion,” largely because of their sense of morals and values.
John Wayne believed that movies should be appropriate for families John Wayne | Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Wayne primarily starred in Western and war movies throughout his career. Audiences knew exactly the type of film they were paying for when it came to his projects before ever sitting in a theater chair. Wayne advanced what it meant to “fight dirty” in Hollywood, allowing his characters to actually fight back against the antagonists. However, these scenes still avoided violent realism, allowing them to remain...
John Wayne believed that movies should be appropriate for families John Wayne | Paramount Pictures/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
Wayne primarily starred in Western and war movies throughout his career. Audiences knew exactly the type of film they were paying for when it came to his projects before ever sitting in a theater chair. Wayne advanced what it meant to “fight dirty” in Hollywood, allowing his characters to actually fight back against the antagonists. However, these scenes still avoided violent realism, allowing them to remain...
- 2/12/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Since it was announced that Netflix would be adapting The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, a best-selling novel by Taylor Jenkins Reid for the small screen, fans have been hoping that Jessica Chastain will be cast as Celia St. James. Chastain, on her part, is enthusiastically onboard with the dream casting.
What is ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ about? Jessica Chastain arrives at ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ I Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Gc Images
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2017 novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has quickly become a fan favorite for its compelling narrative and unique premise. The historical novel, which spent 54 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback list, is about Old Hollywood starlet Evelyn Hugo, who sits down for a tell-all interview with struggling journalist Monique Grant. The actor reveals stunning details about her life and those around her as she opens up about...
What is ‘The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ about? Jessica Chastain arrives at ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ I Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/Gc Images
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2017 novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo has quickly become a fan favorite for its compelling narrative and unique premise. The historical novel, which spent 54 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller Paperback list, is about Old Hollywood starlet Evelyn Hugo, who sits down for a tell-all interview with struggling journalist Monique Grant. The actor reveals stunning details about her life and those around her as she opens up about...
- 2/9/2023
- by Produced by Digital Editors
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
The Lady from Shanghai
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1946 / B&w / 1.33: 1
Starring Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
Written by Orson Welles
Directed by Orson Welles
To those who know him, Michael O’Hara “… has got a lot of blarney in him.” That also applies to Orson Welles, the man who created that smooth-talking Irishman and plays him in The Lady from Shanghai, a labyrinthine guessing-game written and directed by Welles in 1946. Welles’s enigmatic co-stars include Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister, “the world’s greatest lawyer or the world’s greatest criminal”, and Rita Hayworth as Bannister’s wife, an unknowable beauty hiding behind a plutonium hairdo.
Hayworth is not the only one wearing a disguise—like any noir, everyone has two or more personas, but Welles’s film is no ordinary noir, and for better and for worse, The Lady from Shanghai is no ordinary movie. The film, both haphazard...
Blu-ray
Kino Lorber
1946 / B&w / 1.33: 1
Starring Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, Everett Sloane
Written by Orson Welles
Directed by Orson Welles
To those who know him, Michael O’Hara “… has got a lot of blarney in him.” That also applies to Orson Welles, the man who created that smooth-talking Irishman and plays him in The Lady from Shanghai, a labyrinthine guessing-game written and directed by Welles in 1946. Welles’s enigmatic co-stars include Everett Sloane as Arthur Bannister, “the world’s greatest lawyer or the world’s greatest criminal”, and Rita Hayworth as Bannister’s wife, an unknowable beauty hiding behind a plutonium hairdo.
Hayworth is not the only one wearing a disguise—like any noir, everyone has two or more personas, but Welles’s film is no ordinary noir, and for better and for worse, The Lady from Shanghai is no ordinary movie. The film, both haphazard...
- 2/4/2023
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
New Jeopardy! champion Troy Meyer has multiple celebrity connections, not the least of which is a compliment from Lady Gaga. In the January 20 episode of the syndicated game show, Meyer revealed that he got to meet Gaga in her dressing room after a concert. And according to Meyer, the pop star pointed at him and said, “You! You have great style!” “I was wearing, like, a cardigan and shorts,” the music executive from Tampa, Fl, told Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings. “But, like, she noticed it, and I’ve been coasting on it ever since!” .@ladygaga complimenting your outfit is a win no matter what Troy Meyer plays Tonight on an all-new #Jeopardy! pic.twitter.com/7yKqpGKVqc — Jeopardy! (@Jeopardy) January 20, 2023 That’s not Meyer’s only showbiz story: In the previous day’s Jeopardy! show, he revealed that his grandfather was a security guard for 1940s movie star Rita Hayworth, star...
- 1/21/2023
- TV Insider
The Shawshank Redemption's iconic ending reveal has made the decorations of Andy DuFresne's cell a memorable part of the film, with his poster girls being particularly well remembered because of their importance to the story. The Shawshank Redemption follows Andy Dufresne, a self-proclaimed innocent man, as he serves his two life sentences at the Shawshank State Prison. Andy, played by Tim Robbins, is a quiet and meek prisoner throughout most of the film. However, with these unassuming character traits, Andy builds goodwill with some of the guards and prisoners, allowing him to acquire several posters for his cell.
The climactic and euphoric ending shows Andy has been masterfully hatching his escape plan in the background. Andy's posters play a surprisingly integral role in his escape, especially the poster girls. Unbeknownst to Shawshank's security, Andy Dufresne was digging an escape tunnel throughout the movie that he hid by covering it with all his posters.
The climactic and euphoric ending shows Andy has been masterfully hatching his escape plan in the background. Andy's posters play a surprisingly integral role in his escape, especially the poster girls. Unbeknownst to Shawshank's security, Andy Dufresne was digging an escape tunnel throughout the movie that he hid by covering it with all his posters.
- 1/15/2023
- by Robert Pitman
- ScreenRant.com
While The Shawshank Redemption is considered the best Stephen King adaptation by many critics and viewers, the movie improved on the original short story with a critical change to the ending. Although Stephen King is a highly acclaimed and celebrated author, even the writer himself has conceded that he struggles with endings. The underrated adaptation of Doctor Sleep changed the end of King's source novel completely and was seen by many reviewers as an improvement. At the same time, King famously admitted that he thought the twist ending of 2007's The Mist was better than that of his original story.
Perhaps the most impressive case of a King adaptation improving on the original story comes in the form of 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, an adaptation of the novella "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption." The original story ends with the aging convict Red planning to break his parole to go and join Andy in Zihuatanejo,...
Perhaps the most impressive case of a King adaptation improving on the original story comes in the form of 1994's The Shawshank Redemption, an adaptation of the novella "Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption." The original story ends with the aging convict Red planning to break his parole to go and join Andy in Zihuatanejo,...
- 1/8/2023
- by Cathal Gunning
- ScreenRant.com
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Developer Half Mermaid’s Immortality is a lot of things: ambitious in scope, endlessly playable and eerily mysterious. The game has players sifting through live-action footage from three different films — plus the cast’s behind-the-scenes rehearsals and press junkets, among other surprises — on a playable version of an old Moviola editing bay. Each film is an erotic thriller from a different decade, and the lighting, tone and pace of each project carefully recreate details of each era of cinema. You’re essentially a time-traveling movie detective, with the ability to rewind or fast-forward and zero in on images to match cut to other sequences of footage.
The title, released on Steam in August, was also just released on Android and iOS phones via Netflix Games in mid-November, making it free for Netflix subscribers. It’s been nominated for a slew of end-of-year awards,...
Developer Half Mermaid’s Immortality is a lot of things: ambitious in scope, endlessly playable and eerily mysterious. The game has players sifting through live-action footage from three different films — plus the cast’s behind-the-scenes rehearsals and press junkets, among other surprises — on a playable version of an old Moviola editing bay. Each film is an erotic thriller from a different decade, and the lighting, tone and pace of each project carefully recreate details of each era of cinema. You’re essentially a time-traveling movie detective, with the ability to rewind or fast-forward and zero in on images to match cut to other sequences of footage.
The title, released on Steam in August, was also just released on Android and iOS phones via Netflix Games in mid-November, making it free for Netflix subscribers. It’s been nominated for a slew of end-of-year awards,...
- 11/30/2022
- by Jon Peltz
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
In 1982, Stephen King released a collection known in the film industry as a magic book. Different Seasons consists of four novellas each linked to a season of the year and contains the source material for some of Hollywood’s most successful films. The collection’s third novella, The Body is the inspiration for Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me and the first, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, was adapted into Frank Darabont’s film (with a shortened title) which still holds the highest ranking on IMDb. The only story that has yet to be adapted is the fourth novella, The Breathing Method, a Christmas Story about a horrifying miracle birth. Though aligned with summer, the second story in the collection, Apt Pupil, is easily the darkest. Subtitled Summer of Discontent, Apt Pupil tells the story of Todd Bowden, a teenager who blackmails his neighbor–a former Nazi hiding in...
- 11/30/2022
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
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