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11 Sep

Malignant’s “Where Is My Mind” Song Has a Famous Hollywood Legacy

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This Malignant article contains spoilers. Like Gabriel (Ray Chase) inside Madison’s head (Annabelle Wallis), once you hear Safari Riot and Grayson Sanders’ energetic cover of Pixies song “Where Is My Mind,” it’ll be very difficult to get that earworm out of your brain. It’s a tune that accompanies some of Malignant‘s most outrageous scene, like a missing woman suddenly falling through Madison’s ceiling in the second act. And director James Wan chose wisely. After all, “Where Is My Mind” is a song that has a history of ushering in stunning moments in Hollywood movies. If Stephen King fans jumped at…
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18 May

Dear Evan Hansen: Internet Reacts to Hollywood Treatment

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Universal Pictures just released the first trailer for its movie adaptation of Tony-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen, and the internet is having a field day over the casting of 27-year-old Ben Platt in the title role of teenager Evan Hansen. Platt, who won a Tony for his performance in the stage musical that features music and lyrics from La La Land‘s Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, played the role on stage for two years on and off, from the original “readings” of the work-in-progress musical back in 2014 through the D.C. workshop run in 2015 to Dear Evan Hansen‘s Off-Broadway and then…
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25 Mar

Why Turner Classic Movies is Reframing Problematic Hollywood Favorites

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s is a movie Alicia Malone fell head over heels in love with during childhood. Seeing it more times than she can remember in her native Australia, the future author and Turner Classic Movies host still recalls failed attempts to launch a high school film club with Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly as the star attraction. “I thought for sure people were going to get excited about classic movies if they watched Breakfast at Tiffany’s because it has so much life to it!” Malone says today. How could they not fall for Hepburn’s iconic performance, which Malone still describes…
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22 Dec

Home Alone’s Devin Ratray on Becoming Hollywood’s Ultimate Big Brother Bully, Buzz

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There are Christmas films and then there’s Home Alone. Released back in 1990, no one really knew what to expect from this low-budget family comedy about a boy forced to defend his house from a pair of bungling burglars after being accidentally left behind from a family holiday. Yet Home Alone is one of those rare examples of all the stars aligning in Hollywood to create something special. It’s a truly unique Christmas film, both feel-good and immensely funny, rivalled only in that respect by Will Ferrell’s Elf. There are countless reasons why it remains a festive classic; John Hughes’s…
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17 Nov

Quentin Tarantino Dives Back into Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Novelization and Two-Book Deal

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Quentin Tarantino loves movies. He says he won’t be making them soon, but that doesn’t diminish his appreciation for the art of motion pictures. The Pulp Fiction director signed a two-book deal with Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, to do a deep dive into what he loves most about Hollywood, according to Deadline: 1960s and ‘70s cinema. Tarantino will write a Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood novelization and give an overview of his favorite period in film with Cinema Speculation. Tarantino also loves books. He got grounded for shoplifting Elmore Leonard’s novel The Switch when he was 15,…
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07 Aug

Ben Affleck to Direct Film About Hollywood Making Chinatown

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Ben Affleck is returning to 1970s Hollywood for his next directorial effort. As the filmmaker who won a Best Picture Oscar for Argo in 2013, a movie that briefly crossed paths with Tinseltown at the height of Star Wars fever in the late ‘70s, Affleck already knows well the setting of The Big Goodbye, which is being developed at Paramount Pictures. And with the new movie focused on Paramount’s struggles in making the legendary Chinatown, this means Affleck is helming a movie where Jack Nicholson, Roman Polanski, and Faye Dunaway are all characters. Also set to write the screenplay, Affleck…
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07 Aug

Federal Judge Paves Way for Hollywood Studios to Own Movie Theaters Again

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There once was a time when movie studios were more like fiefdoms, and movie theaters as much a part of their realm as the actors signing exclusive contracts in the hopes of stardom. It was called the Golden Age of Hollywood. Via vertical integration of movie production, distribution, and exhibition, studios had airtight control of what content was available at what theaters in what markets throughout the country. The studios could also force theaters they did not own to blindly buy blocks of movie content at unlimited sizes. Now after 70 years and the advent of internet streaming, those days…
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04 Aug

Haunted Hollywood Host David Del Valle Scares Up More Movie Madness

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“The police don’t believe in monsters,” we learned in Ed Woods’ 1955 B-movie horror favorite Bride of the Monster. But Full Moon Features does, and they know where to find them. On Friday, July 31, the channel and app dropped seven cult classics to their new 20-film series Haunted Hollywood. Every Friday for 13 weeks, they will add a new scary flick. Some of these films are frightening in their content, others for the stories behind the film. For some of these movies, the most horrifying thing is they ever got made in the first place.  Real life and Hollywood…
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16 Jun

Jurassic World: Dominion is First Major Hollywood Movie to Resume Production

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Something has survived, and it looks like it is the Jurassic World: Dominion film production. The anticipated third film in Colin Trevorrow’s new Jurassic Park trilogy was among the many countless film and television productions to be placed on indefinite pause this spring due to the coronavirus pandemic. Yet it is now also the first major blockbuster or studio movie to be heading back to work sometime in early-mid July in the United Kingdom’s Pinewood Studios. The news was broken via Deadline, which reports cameras are currently expected to roll during the week of July 6 on the film that…
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05 May

Netflix’s Hollywood: The Real History of Rock Hudson

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This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. It’s a beautiful fantasy. On Oscar night 1948, the same evening that in real-life Walt Disney’s troubling Song of the South received an honorary Oscar for James Baskett’s performance, Rock Hudson came out of the closet in front of the entire world. Standing on the red carpet with his hand in Archie Coleman’s, a black man who was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay Oscar, Rock announces his love to the world and says he is not afraid. But like many sparkling things in Ryan Murphy shows, it’s…
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03 May

Netflix’s Hollywood – Episode 7 Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This article contains major Hollywood spoilers. You can find our easter egg guide for the previous episode here. Don’t you just love a happy ending? Ryan Murphy clearly did with regards to Hollywood, and while we had mixed ideas of our own about that conclusion, there is no denying how gratifying it is to see representation shared with those whom society marginalized for years and centuries. There is a real sugar rush of “what if” good cheer about the series’ version of Oscar night 1948. Here are some of the facts the series changed, and some other shout-outs it enjoyed…
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03 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 6 – Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find our easter egg guide for the previous episode here. The sixth and penultimate hour of Hollywood attempts to ask some difficult questions about what would happen if a major Hollywood studio attempted to make a film with an African American lead and an interracial romance. The latter aspect is key in understanding the events that occurred. While there were several black stars in Tinseltown by this time, most notably Lena Horne, who Camille Washington is very loosely based on, they were either in supporting roles, usually as a glorified musical act, or…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 4 – Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find our easter egg guide for the previous episode here. A lighter episode for inside baseball winks and nudges, the fourth hour of Hollywood still crucially introduces us to the concept of Avis being friends with Eleanor Roosevelt, as well as the prospect of turning “Peg” into “Meg.” So like Ace’s blood pressure, let’s get cracking. Hollywood Episode 4 -As far as I’m aware, there is no Gene Tierney movie in which she plays a fake nun who seduces William Holden, nor is there a movie where Humphrey Bogart plays Indian-slaughterer William Henry…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Ending Explained

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This article contains major Hollywood spoilers. You can find our spoiler-free review here. It certainly is a Hollywood ending. On the corner of Hollywood Boulevard, a gas station that should be consigned to obscurity and whispered reveries is now going to be immortalized as the opening scene of a big Hollywood movie. In the year 1948, nearly 60 years before Brokeback Mountain, most of the cast and crew behind Ace Pictures’ Meg are reunited for the first glossy romance about two gay men. And in it, Rock Hudson (Jack Piercing) wears a spiffy white uniform while promising to take a…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 5 – Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find the easter egg guide for the previous episode here. In what might be the most glamorous episode of Hollywood yet, George Hurrell’s decadent photo sessions get name checked, and (probably) Mickey Cohen’s mob gets involved. Let’s get cracking at those eggs! Hollywood Episode 5 -The episode begins with Avis and company lamenting how terrible Walt Disney’s Song of the South is. And they’re not wrong, although one of its stars, Hattie McDaniel, is about to get a pretty glamorous treatment beginning in this episode… -As production of Meg gets underway, we hear…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood and The Real History of Vivien Leigh

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This article contains mild Hollywood spoilers. On Netflix’s new series Hollywood, the Stallions of the Gas Station, circa 1947, fill up a dinner party being thrown by legendary filmmaker George Cukor. In between bites, and biting remarks by the ever-incisive Tallulah Bankhead, we are treated to Vivien Leigh, played by Katie McGuinness, giving an impromptu reading of her captivating and iconic Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). At the after party, all of the celebrities entertain illicit passion for a predetermined price. Like his character on American Horror Story, Dylan McDermott’s fictional Ernie is renowned for a certain…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 3 – History, Easter Egg Guide, and References

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This article contains Hollywood spoilers. You can find our easter egg guide for the previous episode here. If you wanted a star-gazing episode from Ryan Murphy (or perhaps a different four-letter word to do with stars), then this is it. In one episode we get Vivien Leigh, Tallulah Bankhead, Alfred Hitchcock, Noel Coward, and some juicy gossip about Errol Flynn. So get ready to go to a George Cukor party! Hollywood Episode 3 -The third episode begins to the sound of Ella Fitzgerald’s “I’m Beginning to See the Light.” -Ernie reveals to the boys that they’re going to a George…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood: The History of the Real People in the Series

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This article contains spoilers for all seven episodes of Hollywood. “When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” That line from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, the last masterpiece from one of Golden Age Hollywood’s most revered directors, John Ford has become pretty legendary itself. Yet it seems Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan decided to do Ford one better in their version of Hollywood: write the fantasy. Running across seven episodes on Netflix, Hollywood is far more a golden hued fairy tale than even Quentin Tarantino’s vision of 1969 Tinseltown in Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, and yet…
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02 May

Netflix’s Hollywood Episode 2 Easter Egg and Reference Guide

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This episode includes Hollywood spoilers. You can find our easter egg guide for the first episode here. Ah, the episode of Hollywood introduces us to Anna May Wong and the 1940s studio caste system. There’s a lot to unpack in this hour, which may give you nightmares about how a studio cafeteria is apparently not that different from a high school… except, you know, with racism. Hollywood Episode 2 -When Ernie bails Jack out of prison, Jack laments he cannot have a record. “Yeah you can,” Ernie answers, “Ever heard of Frank Sinatra?” Ol’ Blue Eyes was arrested in 1938…
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