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Fair Pay in London’s Indies
This campaign is only the premiere, for what I expect to be a long-running blockbuster.
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15 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Making Movie Posters
They want to see a photo of Nic Cage’s head, and they want to see it BIG.
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Pure Movies has changed. And this is why.
Reissuing press releases wholesale adds little to any serious or illuminating discussion on film and, in the end, that’s what all of us are here for. So, today I’m proud to present the new Pure Movies.
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Angelyne Narrowly Escapes Death
My film nearly became famous as the night that Angelyne was crushed before a live audience.
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Daniel Radcliffe Does Allen Ginsberg
Don’t kill your darlings, the movie seems to say, but rather save them, love them, embrace them.
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Leave to Remain
Becoming a responsible adult for Leave to Remain.
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I blame Gollum
Has film technology finally succeeded in making the fake look so real that we now believe that everything we see onscreen is a big fat fraud?
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Put the Blame on Mame – or Gilda?
by Dr. Melvyn Stokes, author, lecturer and former president of SERCIA, the European film organisation.
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Avatar: environmental politics and worldwide success
In mid-December 2009, James Cameron’s militant environmental Science Fiction epic Avatar was released in over 15,000 cinemas around the world.[1] Cameron’s eagerly anticipated successor to his record-breaking 1997 film Titanic had originally been scheduled to appear in cinemas in May 2009. However, due to production delays, its release was shifted from the preferred pre-summer slot… View Article
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The moon is red: the legacy of Cold War Hollywood
On 5 March 1946, at a small college in Fulton, Missouri, Sir Winston Churchill used a phrase that immediately entered the international lexicon when he declared that “an iron curtain has descended across the continent,” specifically central and eastern Europe. That was all Hollywood had to hear. The end of World War II required new… View Article
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