By Tales of Hollywood actors turning down profit participation in huge hits are rampant, as when Orson Welles rejected the initial $75,000 plus 10 percent of the gross offer on 1949’s The Third Man for a quick $100,000 dollars up front. Not bad for only ten days’ work. Plus, he needed
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“OLD STORIES CAN BE HARD TO GIVE UP” In 2023, director Zack Snyder released his vision of a Star War-esque sci-fi space opera in the form of Rebel Moon, with the first installment titled Rebel Moon: Part One – A Child of Fire. The film, which starred Sofia Boutella,
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The 1970s was not just a prime decade for science fiction movies but an era in which those movies carried even more urgent messages about the many problems facing humanity on Earth. Sure, the sci-fi outings of the 1950s and early ‘60s carried warnings about nuclear destruction and radiation too,
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This article contains spoilers for Dexter season 1. Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) is the undisputed superstar of his titular crime drama, Dexter (just released on Netflix this week), but the popular serial killer thriller from the 2000s wouldn’t have been the classic it is now deemed without the help
BP Movie Journal 6/20/24
The post BP Movie Journal 6/20/24 appeared first on Battleship Pretension. In BP Movie Journal 6/20/24, David discusses the movies he’s been watching, including Red Rock West, Firebrand, Ghostlight, Kinds of Kindness, Chestnut, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person and Thelma. Movies discuss in BP Movie Journal 6/20/24:Red Rock WestFirebrandGhostlightKinds
