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The United States has had a former actor, Ronald Reagan, and a former reality TV host, Donald Trump, as president. A lot of great actors have also played fictional presidents in films and on TV. In...
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There are two ways of tracking the financial success of a movie. The first is to compare what a movie cost to make with its ticket sales based on the value of the dollar the year it was released. The...
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The U.S. Department of Defense has worked with Hollywood for more than a century, supplying hard-to-procure assets for movie studios and offering story input on military-related script matters. While...
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The history of cinema offers no shortage of iconic oratoy, often delivered by world-famous actors. A fixture of sports biopics and courtroom dramas, among other genres, classic speeches also appear...
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One subset of the action movie genre is action movies with cars. “The Fast and the Furious” series (11 installments so far) is among the most successful movie franchises of all time. Some of...
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For more than 100 years, the U.S. Department of Defense has collaborated with Hollywood in creative film production, coordinating assets for movie studios and providing story input for all matters...
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Although Black filmmakers have been making critically acclaimed motion pictures since the early 20th century, only recently has the industry begun to honor their achievements. It was barely over 30...
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Few things have captured the American imagination like the open road and a cool car to drive on it. This love affair with high-performance motor vehicles has often been immortalized on TV or in film....
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The 95th Academy Awards nominations are in, and among the finalists are many critically acclaimed films that bombed at the box office. Writer and director Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood excess tale...
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When Hollywood loosened moral guidelines in the 1960s there came an immediate uptick in violent cinema, with “Bonnie & Clyde” being the most famous example. Yet Arthur Penn’s bloody crime...
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The 2023 Oscar nominations for Best Picture are in, and among the critically acclaimed films on the list, some have nevertheless failed to turn a profit. Among these are director Sarah Polley’s...
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Sometimes an actor becomes so associated with a particular role that it’s hard to imagine anyone else ever played the same part. Yet even some of the most iconic roles in Hollywood history were...
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After two years of Covid-related disruptions, the 65th Grammy Awards will be held on Feb. 5 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The awards are the most prestigious in the music industry and...
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Progress in diversity has come slowly in Hollywood. As an industry, movies have evolved from depicting Blacks as subhuman, childlike, or servile to offering films that speak to an authentic...
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The 2023 Oscar nominations for Best Picture are in, and the two highest grossing films of 2022 – “Top Gun: Maverick” and “Avatar: The Way of Water” – are among the finalists. “Top...
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