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7 Massive Misconceptions About Classic Movies You Probably Believe
13 May 2013 3:18 PM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Film makes up such a major part of popular culture, to the point where even those who have no major interest in the medium will still salivate over some upcoming releases. But with that comes the unfortunate misappropriation of facts by those not in the know. In some cases it’s easy to correct, but as we’ll come to show, some of them just become part of the popular consciousness.
In this list we take seven examples of such incorrect trivia and bust them right open for you. Some are plot holes, some are ignored facts and some are just plain simple mistakes, but all are major misconceptions that way too many people believe.
7. The Lord Of The Rings Wasn’t Planned As Three Films
So much furore was made last year when Peter Jackson announced at the last minute that he would be splitting his already stretched two Hobbit movies into a trilogy. »
- Alex Leadbeater
Giveaway: Win 100 Movies in the ‘Best of WB 100 Film Collection’
28 April 2013 9:42 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
We think that most of us can agree that moms are the best and they do a lot for us! Now it’s time to return the favor and celebrate this Mother’s Day by giving mom the movie night she deserves! Watching a classic flick together is the perfect opportunity to catch up and share stories with your family.
Thanks to Warner Bros., Sound On Sight is giving away the Best of WB 100 Film Collection valued at $597.92. This includes all 22 of Warner Bros. Library’s Best Picture™ winners on 55 discs presented in book style premium packaging. Plus two all-new documentaries: Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot and The Warner Bros. Lot Tour. The set is piled with hours of commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes and more on select films. It also includes a limited edition 27” x 40” poster, plus a postcard series of Warner Bros. movie posters designed by legendary Bill Gold. »
- Ricky
Reader Spotlight: Joey Moser
12 April 2013 11:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
We're getting to know the Film Experience community. Today we're talking to Joey from Pittsburgh. He's currently performing in Godspell on stage. If you're in Pittsburgh there's two more shows this weekend.
When did you start reading The Film Experience?
Around the time that Far From Heaven was released in theaters. I was realizing that Julianne Moore was my favorite actress, so your blog was mecca when I was in college. I love the site because it doesn't just celebrate movies, but it helped me realize that movies can be bad with something great in them (and vice versa).
What's your earliest movie memory?
Joey: The earliest memory I have is when my Dad took me to go see Beauty and the Beast. I remember playing around outside, and he asked if I wanted to go. I didn't actually answer his question, because I got so excited and just got »
- NATHANIEL R
'Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug' first look: Luke Evans, Evangeline Lilly
1 April 2013 6:49 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Peter Jackson has tackled a series of questions about his upcoming film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Oscar-winning director held a Hobbit live event over the weekend and has since released a clip where he answered a number of queries directly from fans.
Discussing his decision to split The Hobbit into three films, Jackson explained: "It is complicated to do a middle film [like The Desolation of Smaug]. The advantage is that we have multiple storylines.
"The first of the Hobbit movies is a fairly linear film - Gandalf leads the dwarves across Middle-earth at the beginning of this adventure. The great thing about the second movie - as it was with The Two Towers, actually - is that the story starts spreading into multiple storylines."
He continued: "We can follow different characters as the story intensifies and the stakes go up."
Jackson also addressed a complicated question from Stephen Colbert about the elves of Mirkwood, »
Peter Jackson answers 'Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' fan questions
1 April 2013 6:49 AM, PDT | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »
Peter Jackson has tackled a series of questions about his upcoming film The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.
The Oscar-winning director held a Hobbit live event over the weekend and has since released a clip where he answered a number of queries directly from fans.
Discussing his decision to split The Hobbit into three films, Jackson explained: "It is complicated to do a middle film [like The Desolation of Smaug]. The advantage is that we have multiple storylines.
"The first of the Hobbit movies is a fairly linear film - Gandalf leads the dwarves across Middle-earth at the beginning of this adventure. The great thing about the second movie - as it was with The Two Towers, actually - is that the story starts spreading into multiple storylines."
He continued: "We can follow different characters as the story intensifies and the stakes go up."
Jackson also addressed a complicated question from Stephen Colbert about the elves of Mirkwood, »
Selena Gomez Will Debut "Come and Get It" At The MTV Movie Awards
27 March 2013 7:51 AM, PDT | Celebsology | See recent Celebsology news »
I remember vividly the MTV Movie Awards 10 years ago: Justin Timberlake hosted the show with American Pie f*ckstick Seann William Scott, where The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers rightfully earned the golden popcorn-encrusted trophy for Best Movie amidst performances by Pink, 50 Cent, and t.A.T.u. (Lolz remember those girls Lolz). Fast forward a decade, and we're eyeing the first year in foreverdom that the top honor of the night won't go to a film with Twilight in the title (MTV got so tired of Twihards that they didn't even nominate the franchise's final flick in the category it's taken four years in a row), and the year's most honored performer is... wait for it... Selena Gomez.
Now, either I missed something huge or I'm just getting really old and out of touch with the pop culture map, but I'm pretty sure there's not a single »
- Terron R. Moore
What Your Favourite Lord Of The Rings Movie Says About You
6 March 2013 7:56 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
Clocking in at 558 minutes (683 if you’re an elitist with the special extended editions, and a whopping 726 minutes is you’re lucky enough to have the Blu-ray editions), the Lord of the Rings trilogy requires some pretty epic commitment. Yet despite being closer to retirement age by the time Return of the King reaches its lengthy end credits, Peter Jackson’s films are widely regarded amongst certain circles as some of the best of all time.
If you’ve been living under a rock, Lord of the Rings – based on J.R.R Tolkien’s novel from 1955 – tells the story of Frodo Baggins, a hobbit from The Shire who inherits a golden ring from his uncle; a ring that naturally turns out to the One Ring (or Ring of Power, depending who you ask), forged by the Dark Lord Sauron to rule Middle Earth. Simply put, what follows is an »
- Claire Fulton
Around-the-World Roundup: 'Hobbit' Journeys Past $1 Billion
5 March 2013 4:52 PM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Thanks to strong grosses in China, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey finally passed $1 billion worldwide this weekend. Otherwise, with most countries preparing for the upcoming debut of Oz The Great and Powerful, there wasn't much going on at the foreign box office this weekend. The Hobbit added $8.6 million in China for a new total of $37.6 million there. That helped push the international total past $700 million, making it just the 10th movie ever to reach that level (and the seventh movie in the past two years). Add in the $301.4 million at the domestic box office, and The Hobbit is now the 15th movie ever to reach $1 billion worldwide. The movie's worldwide gross is still well below that of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ($1.12 billion), though it is at least ahead of Fellowship of the Ring ($872 million) and The Two Towers ($926 million). By the end of its run, »
- Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' Joins The Billionaires Club
4 March 2013 9:30 AM, PST | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" has achieved an impressive accomplishment: the movie is the 15th ever to cross the $1 billion mark in the worldwide box office.
March is shaping up to be a great month for the first "The Hobbit" film, as it's also slated to come out in digital release on March 12 and on Blu-ray and DVD on March 19. "An Unexpected Journey" made $301 million in the United States after it was released on December 14, and went on to rake in an additional $700 million worldwide.
That's impressive, but par for the course for the "Lord of the Rings" movies. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" is actually the second film in director Peter Jackson's franchise to cross the $1 billion, with "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" having grossed $1.1 billion worldwide during its theatrical run.
"Fellowship of the Ring" made $869 million when it came out and "The Two Towers" made $923 million, »
- Terri Schwartz
Bad News For 'Hobbit' Fans
1 March 2013 5:19 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Fans of Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" will have to wait a little while longer to see how things turn out -- and not because Jackson added a fourth film to his three-part franchise. New Line and MGM announced on Thursday that "The Hobbit: There and Back Again," the final installment in "The Hobbit" trilogy, will arrive in theaters on Dec. 17, 2014, some five months after its original July 18, 2014 release date.
No reason was given for the move, but perhaps consistency was motivation: Jackson's three "Lord of the Rings" films ("The Fellowship of the Ring," "The Two Towers" and "The Return of the King") all opened between Dec. 17-19, while "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" hit theaters on Dec. 13, 2012. The new trilogy's second film, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," is set to debut on Dec. 14 of this year.
Events in "The Hobbit," J.R.R Tolkien's brief and beloved novel, »
- Christopher Rosen
9 Movies With Titles That Spoil Their Own Ending
28 February 2013 1:00 PM, PST | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
A fun joke to have told your friends around the time that "Titanic" came out was, "Spoiler alert: The boat hits the iceberg!" I'm sure many, many people used that joke during the mid to late '90s, and all of them reaped the many benefits which followed, from more friends to more respect to a deeper appreciation of themselves as people.
Hell, making that joke even started Barack Obama's political career!
Indeed, not every movie is enjoyed just for its surprise ending. Some movie endings, in fact, are even built right into the title.
Here are nine that ask you to enjoy the journey, not the destination.
"The Shawshank Redemption," (1994)
"The Shawshank Redemption" would have presumably been a much tougher studio sell had the title been "Tim Robbins is Wrongly Convicted of a Crime and Then Dies in Prison After a Few Decades of Friendship with Morgan Freeman, »
- Nick Blake
Star Trek: The Videogame Preview
28 February 2013 3:00 AM, PST | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Choose at random, if you will, a videogame based on a recent film. Nine times out of ten, you will have no doubt just chosen a truly terrible game. Whether it’s Iron Man 2, Dr Seuss: How The Grinch Stole Christmas or any one of the seven (7!) games spawned from Michael Bay’s Transformers franchise, you’re probably better off introducing your eyes and ears to a mechanical cheese grater than partaking in the ‘pleasures’ these virtual realities have to offer.
Still, every once in a while, a lone game rears its neck from the sordid pit of movie tie-in despair; shaking off the manacles of rushed production and gleaming with loving care and attention to detail. Think King Kong, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers or Goldeneye – but even then, the majority of these games are from previous console generations. With the ever more advanced technology we’re seeing, »
- Chris Wharfe
Oscar-nominated sound editors explain their key challenges (and the sounds you may not know they create)
22 February 2013 11:23 PM, PST | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
Leading up to Sunday’s Oscars, EW.com will take a closer look at four categories that moviegoers may mistakenly think of as “technical.” After tackling Film Editing, we turn to Sound Editing, with insights from the nominated supervising sound editors of Argo (Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn), Life of Pi (Eugene Gearty, who shares his nod with Philip Stockton), Django Unchained (Wylie Stateman), and Zero Dark Thirty (Paul N.J. Ottosson). Skyfall’s Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers complete the category. (Update: Read our Sound Mixing and Cinematography pieces.)
Early in his career, Zero Dark Thirty’s »
- Mandi Bierly
Clint Mansell: from Pop Will Eat Itself to Hollywood royalty
22 February 2013 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Park Chan-wook's Stoker is another showcase for the former grebo-rocker turned moody soundtrack specialist
Hollywood discovered Clint Mansell in 2010, the year he turned 47. Black Swan, director Darren Aronofsky's psychodrama of a ballerina driven to the brink of sanity, was every bit the outlier its title suggested, vaulting its $13m budget to take more than $300m worldwide. Key to the film's ratcheting tension was Mansell's score, which radically reworked Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. "Motörhead," wrote the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw, "could not have played the Swan Lake theme any louder than this." Mansell received a Grammy nomination for Best Film Score, only to lose out to The King's Speech.
Mansell and Aronofsky have shared a fruitful creative relationship since the latter's directorial debut, 1996's Pi, but Black Swan's startling numbers meant that suddenly, all sorts of offers were on the table. It was then that Clint Mansell decided to take a bit of time off. »
- Louis Pattison
Weta Digital’s Joe Letteri Talks The Hobbit and the Film’s Oscar-Nominated Visual Effects, Plus a New Featurette on Digitally Created Creatures & Landscapes
14 February 2013 6:07 PM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
With all of the focus landing on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey's use of high frame rate/48fps, the rest of the production's stunning achievements in visual effects have been unfairly shunted to the sidelines. Thankfully, four-time Oscar/BAFTA/Ves winner Joe Letteri recently spoke about the VFX behind the first film in Peter Jackson's new trilogy and we were invited to check out the presentation. As both the visual effects supervisor on the films and the current Director of Weta Digital, Letteri pulled back the curtain on the unbelievable amount of work, creativity and expertise that goes into making a film like The Hobbit. Hit the jump to watch a video featurette on the film's VFX, as well as a break down of Letteri's presentation with some incredibly cool behind-the-scenes information. Check out the featurette "VFX of The Hobbit: Fantastical Creatures & Lands of Epic Beauty & Darkness," followed by highlights from Letteri's presentation, »
- Dave Trumbore
Family Affair
8 February 2013 6:32 AM, PST | www.culturecatch.com | See recent CultureCatch news »
Dieter Roth. Björn Roth Hauser & Wirth Through April 13, 2013
Bruno Alfieri, one of the most outspoken writers on Jackson Pollock’s work, was not so impressed by an exhibition of Pollock's poured paintings. To Alfieri, the artwork seemed to be thrown together randomly, with little thought. In 1950, Time magazine's article "Chaos, Damn It!" quoted Alfieri on Pollock's work: There is "nothing but uncontrolled impulse. ... It is easy to detect the following things in all of his paintings: chaos; absolute lack of harmony; complete lack of structural organization; total absence of technique, however rudimentary; once again, chaos."” A cursory appraisal of the work of Dieter Roth, and his son Björn Roth, might initially elicit the same response.
This three-decade-long meditation on what Robert Rauschenberg called the "gap between art and life" is a collection of candy, clothes, and old workbenches (Grosse Tischruine [Large Table Ruin] [1978-1998]), as well as paintings, videos of the artist at work »
- bradleyrubenstein
Ocean’s Twelve - Nine Months = Three Days of the Condor: Play Vulture’s Movie Title Number Game
31 January 2013 6:00 AM, PST | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Have you ever wondered what you would get if you took the movie title The Two Towers and added it, math-equation-style, to The Three Stooges? Of course you haven't. What are you, some crazy person? (Incidentally, you'd get Five Easy Pieces.) But we here at Vulture are crazy pop-culture people, and so we've put together a movie title number game for you to enjoy. Some are relatively easy, some much more difficult. Have at it and let us know what other titles we should have added, subtracted, multiplied, divided, squared, or cubed. (And stay tuned for our Movie Title Color Wheel! Blue Hawaii + The Red Shoes = Purple Rain.) »
- Adam K. Raymond
Film Bitch Awards Best Picture Prizes (2000-2012)
28 January 2013 9:17 AM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Appropros of nothing other than to whet your appetite for more Film Bitch Awards announcements, this site's long running awards (I agonize over my snail's pace as much as any of you!) I thought I'd share all of Best Picture winners to date. [If you're just looking for Oscar stuff and clicked over, here's your current Best Picture race and Oscar related articles for the current competition. ] I'm mostly pleased with my choices in retrospect though I would make a couple of switcheroos. You'll notice that in the time I've been publishing my lists for the world I've only ever twice agreed with Oscar's final pic on Best Picture (2003, 2009) though I sort of count 2007 as agreement by virtue of coin-toss almostness. My motto with controlling disappointments with Oscar is to just be grateful if a couple of my favorites get nominated and be thrilled if something in my top ten wins the industry's top prize.
* I will eventually republish the now missing top ten articles - I have them on the hard drive.
Gold: »
- NATHANIEL R
DVD and Blu-ray Deals: Star Trek: Tng, Willy Wonka, Universal Monsters, Girls, Lawless, and Hundreds More
17 January 2013 11:00 AM, PST | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
If you’re not aware, Amazon changes a number of their DVD and Blu-ray deals on Sunday and some of their new additions this week are great. If you've been waiting to pick up the Universal Classic Monsters Blu-ray box set it's onsale for 50% off. In addition, they've got the Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Three-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo box set for 62% off and Hawaii Five-o: The Complete Original Series for 67% off. But that's just the tip of the iceberg as I've also listed hundreds of other deals. Remember, if you spend over $25 you get free shipping and many of the deals change based on inventory. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extended Version [DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet] $15.99 (30% off) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 Extended Version [Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet] $19.99 (30% off) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 [Blu-ray + Digital Copy + UltraViolet] $19.96 (50% off) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 [DVD + Digital Copy + UltraViolet] $14.96 (52% off) Downton Abbey Season 3 [Blu-ray] (Original U.K. Version) $36.39 (34% off) Universal Classic Monsters: The »
- Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub
Around-the-World Roundup: 'Pi' Leads, 'Hobbit' Passes $600M Overseas
15 January 2013 2:33 PM, PST | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »
Coming out of the holidays, Life of Pi held on to the top spot at the overseas box office, while The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey continued along the path towards $1 billion worldwide.Without adding any major new territories, Life of Pi grossed just under $35 million this weekend. It held first place in Russia ($4.46 million) and Australia ($4.1 million), and also continued to play well in the U.K. ($3.8 million), Germany ($3.25 million) and South Korea ($2.8 million). The Ang Lee movie has now racked up $358 million overseas for a worldwide total over $452 million. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey fell 55 percent to $26.2 million this weekend. To date, the movie has earned $609.3 million overseas, which is more than The Fellowship of the Ring ($556 million) and The Two Towers ($584 million); when it reaches China at the end of February it should get past $700 million overseas and $1 billion worldwide.Les Miserables earned $25.5 million from 22 markets this weekend, »
- Ray Subers <mail@boxofficemojo.com>
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