In what was supposed to be China’s response to the groundbreaking success of James Cameron’s epic Avatar, the never-before-seen 3D action-adventure fantasy Deep Empires remains a confusing but intriguing mystery. Cameron’s blockbuster film ran for fifteen years, with the Oscar-winning director beginning development on the visual spectacle in 1994. With …
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LOS ANGELES – When Amandla Bearden was hired as a guest attendant at the new Alamo Drafthouse cinema in downtown Los Angeles in July 2019, he was elated. âAnytime you get to see movies in any way it’s a lucky day,â says the aspiring actor, who graduated with a master’s …
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Even beyond the financial success of The Silence of the Lambs, its critical accolades helped make The X-Files possible. X files helped define network television in the 1990s as a daring, conceptual science fiction series that pushed the boundaries of what was possible. It darkened towards the end of its …
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A writing assignment for a specialty course at the University of Iowa turned into a novel that caught the attention of film producers and allowed 19 students to sign a film option with two Hollywood studios . UI professor Harry Stecopoulos says he’s thrilled with the development and, although he …
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When costume designer Ellen Mirojnick signed on for Bridgerton, she knew she was facing a challenge she had never encountered. “It was the most important thing I ever thought of,” she said, “and it was a lot of fun.” Chris Van Dusen’s Netflix series, based on a series of Julia …
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Christina McDowell was about to leave DC when she decided to write what may be the most delightful Washington novel in recent memory. âI was in town for the Women’s March, and on the plane back to Los Angeles, I got an email from my editor, who said, ‘What’s going …
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Kevin Spacey is expected to return to the theater in an Italian film directed by Franco Nero. Louis Nero, producer of Franco Nero’s upcoming low budget indie “L’uomo Che Disegnò Dio”, confirmed to Variety that Spacey is on board to make an appearance in the film. According to Louis Nero, …
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