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The onslaught of “live action” Disney adaptations of their animated films is a confounding one in many ways. They seem to be committed to remaking only their most popular films, which people already love and which have endured for generations in some cases. This may guarantee foot traffic on opening weekend, but it also risks tarnishing or diluting the brand. Most baffling of all, though, is the inconsistent fidelity of these adaptations. Some of the films are seemingly beat-for-beat remakes with added songs or backstory (Beauty and the Beast). Others are shaggier, stranger reimaginings that maintain the basic premise and arc of the original while feeling free to play more like a new arrangement than an actual reprise (Jungle Book).

Then there are the pointless, jaw-droopingly ill-conceived adaptations that seem neither remake nor reimagining. These strange beasts seem not only to disregard their animated progenitors, but to actively despise them,...

It's never easy for me to put together my end of the year Top 10 favorite movie list. There are so many films that I enjoyed watching that were released through the year! But I nailed down a list that I'm happy with.

I know not everyone will agree with my list. After all, it’s my list based on my tastes, and everyone has their own tastes. When it comes to any favorite movie list, there are no right or wrong answers. It's just a person's opinion.

But, if for some reason you feel the need to lash out at me, I guess that's what the comment section is for. Or you can always just share your ten favorite films of the year and we can talk about how awesome movies are!

So, let’s just jump right into the list!

Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse

This was my number one favorite movie of the year.

Academic institutions are often said to be the making of us. Whether it is the rough and tumble of Grange Hill, the magic of Hogwarts, the threat of Oates Military Academy in Bill & Ted or to ponder on the Theory of everything with the promise of an Oxford Summer School, school life is ripe for the dramatic narrative. Many writers and directors have plundered the chaos and camaraderie of their school days for inspiration and, as most of us have our own early years’ education to compare, they will remain a popular choice for filmmakers.

To register our interest in this subject we aim to take a tour of some of the finest cinematic campuses. Though we’ll be holding our fists airward in solidarity with the American high schools of Ferris Bueller, The Breakfast Club, Ridgemont High and so on, we aim to take a look at those closer to home.

She’s already witnessed The Great War and basked in the relaxed ambiance of Themyscira, but for her next adventure, Diana Prince is headed for uncharted territory: the 1980s.

Welcome to Wonder Woman 1984, the Warner Bros. sequel that’s currently filming across parts of Washington D.C. with Chris Pine in tow. Yes, against all odds, Steve Trevor lives, though writer-director Patty Jenkins has yet to offer an explanation for his shocking return and, frankly, that’s okay, as the filmmaker is likely fighting to keep spoilers at bay – even if fans have already come up with all sorts of theories of their own.

And while they continue to work out how exactly Pine’s character might be amongst the living again, we’ve got a brand new shot to share with you today, and this one’s of Gal Gadot in full costume as the titular hero. The...

She’s witnessed The Great War and basked in the relaxed ambiance of Themyscira, but for her latest adventure, Diana Prince is headed for uncharted territory: the 1980s.

Welcome to Wonder Woman 1984, the Warner Bros. sequel that’s currently lensing across parts of Washington D.C. with Chris Pine in tow. Yes, against all odds, Steve Trevor lives, though writer-director Patty Jenkins is yet to offer an explanation for his surprise return and, frankly, that’s okay, as the filmmaker is likely fighting to keep spoilers at bay.

We do, however, have a second photo to pore over, and this one features Diana Prince herself, who’s pictured staring into a dozen small televisions, presumably trying to make sense of this radical new era. It certainly makes for a big change from the grueling trench warfare of World War I. Also, see if you can spot J.R. Ewing from Dallas hiding in plain sight.

“‘Eleven’ is a tribute to those brave men and women who endured so much” say co-directors.

Evolutionary Films has taken UK distribution and international sales rights to First World War drama Eleven.

Roy Rivett from fledgling UK production outfit Shaking The Tree Productions produced the project. Rock Salt wrote the screenplay and directed, Sean Cronin was co-director.

Sean Cronin, Jamie Lee-Hill and Julian Gamm star in the film, which depicts the final hours of the war, when peace had already been agreed but power-hungry military commanders were still needlessly sending soldiers to their deaths.

The film is in post-production and...

Where Were You in ’42? If you were little Johnnie Boorman in 1940, you might have been squatting in a dank bomb shelter with your Mum and sisters, waiting out an air raid alert. Writer-director Boorman’s personal memory is what for some kids was a glorious time when working-class Brits endured adverse conditions: it’s warm & fuzzy affectionate and frequently hilarious, with a keen eye toward slightly bawdy family humor.

Hope and Glory

Blu-ray

Olive Films

1987 / Color / 1:66 widescreen / 113 min. / Street Date April 24, 2018 / available through the Olive Films website / 29.95

Starring: Sebastian Rice Edwards, Geraldine Muir, Sarah Miles, David Hayman, Sammi Davis, Derrick O’Connor, Susan Wooldridge, Jean-Marc Barr, Ian Bannen, Annie Leon, Jill Baker, Amelda Brown, Katrine Boorman.

Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot

Film Editor: Ian Crafford

Production design: Anthony Pratt

Original Music: Peter Martin

Written, Produced and Directed by John Boorman

John Boorman has directed arty war movies, arty gangster movies and arty art movies,...

One of J.R.R. Tolkien's books that many thought would never see the light of day has finally been finished and will be released later this year! Read on for more details about The Fall of Gondolin...

When most people think about Middle-earth, their first thought goes to one of the three things, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit trilogy, and the video games by Warner Bros. Interactive. While those may be the most recognized, they actually scratch the surface to the rich world J.R.R. Tolkien developed, long ago. In fact, there was a whole set of prequels in the works, before Tolkien passed, that never saw the light of day. That is, until his son, Christopher, took it upon himself to finish what his father started.

The last book Christopher helped finish was last year with Beren and Lúthien, the story of a mortal and...

"She's a hard worker. As good as any man." Music Box Films has released the official Us trailer for the Us release of Xavier Beauvois' new French film The Guardians, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. This indie drama is set during World War I, otherwise known as "The Great War" at the time, and it's about the few local women who are left behind to work on a family farm. Everything gets disrupted when the sons return on leave, and "Francine becomes the center of a familial disturbance." Oh boy. Romance always messing things up. The cast is lead by Nathalie Baye and Iris Bry, and also includes Laura Smet, Cyril Descours, Gilbert Bonneau, Olivier Rabourdin, Nicolas Giraud, Mathilde Viseux-Ely, and Xavier Maly. This looks like a very moving, meaningful film about the power of "love, loss, and resilience." Here's the official Us trailer (+ poster) for Xavier Beauvois' The Guardians,...

Tony Sokol Jan 12, 2019

True Detective Season 3 is coming to HBO in January. Here's everything you need to know!

For a long time, it seemed that True Detective Season 3 was in doubt. A rough second season nearly killed off a franchise that seemed poised for greatness after debuting to much fanfare in 2014. You can't keep a good detective out of the game for long, though. Come January, True Detective returns to HBO with new detectives, a new case, and a fresh location.

read more: Watchmen HBO Series: Everything You Need to Know

Nic Pizzolatto, who also serves as showrunner, is the sole writer of the third season with the exception of Episode 4, which he co-wrote with David Milch (Deadwood), who signed on to help Pizzolatto prepare the third season. Director Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room), was slated to direct three episodes, but according to a report from Variety, left the project after completing two of them.

Clint Eastwood Western persona co-creator dead at 87: Luciano Vincenzoni (photo: Clint Eastwood in ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ugly’) Screenwriter Luciano Vincenzoni, whose nearly five-decade career included collaborations with Mario Monicelli, Pietro Germi, and Sergio Leone, died of cancer on Sunday, September 22, 2013, in Rome. Vincenzoni (born on March 7, 1926, in Treviso, near Venice) was 87. In the late ’50s, Luciano Vincenzoni co-wrote Mario Monicelli’s The Great War / La Grande guerra (1959), a humorous (if overlong) World War I comedy-drama starring Vittorio Gassman and Alberto Sordi as reluctant conscripts that earned a Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award nomination and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (tied with Roberto Rossellini’s Il Generale della Rovere). Vincenzoni was also partly responsible for the screenplay of two well-regarded Pietro Germi movies: the omnibus comedy of manners The Birds, the Bees and the Italians / Signore & signori (1966), featuring Virna Lisi and Franco Fabrizi,...

War Horse is one of the next movies from Steven Spielberg who, believe it or not, hasn.t made anything since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. I say it.s one of the next because he.s making up for his absence by releasing two different movies this year, and almost at the same time. Both the animated movie Tintin and War Horse are being released at virtually the same time, over Christmas. As its title suggests, War Horse is the story of a young man and his horse, sent to the brutal trenches of The Great War. The film.s first trailer has arrived, and if you.re a fan of real horse movies, it.s just about everything you could hope for. Watch: The world needs a good horse movie. I.m not talking about the kinds of horse movies you.re probably used...

They shall beat their swords into plowshares

and their spears into pruning hooks;

One nation shall not raise the sword against another,

neither shall they learn war any more.

Isaiah 2:4

War is a nation’s ultimate commitment of blood and treasure. As such, the stories a people tells about its wars – and don’t tell – and the ways it remembers its wars – or chooses to forget them – tells us much about the kind of people they consider themselves to be at different times in their history, as well as the kind of people they really were…and are.

For most of the 20th century, the war film was a Hollywood staple. From one era to the next, war movies documented the nation’s conflicts, reflected the national consciousness on particular combats as well as on thinking going far beyond any one, particular war. They’ve been propagandistic and revisionist,...

The portrayal of the working class in cinema has usually gone along with good intention rather than ‘entertainment’. There seems to be compulsion for films portraying its plight to be grim, this being particularly true of the cinema which wears its political inclinations on its sleeve – like the early Soviet films (Eisenstein’s Strike – 1924), the films of Italian Neo-realism (De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves – 1948, Visconti’s Rocco and his Brothers – 1960) or American humanism such as John Ford’s The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Barring a few exceptions like the films of Aki Kaurismaki (Ariel, 1988) the general purport is that the lives of the working class, not being exciting in themselves, must be examined out of a sense of duty because art cannot shun its social obligations. A filmmaker to consistently get ‘entertainment’ out of working class situations was Chaplin but the humor in the films tend to depend more on his...

James Franco’s performance in 127 Hours was rightly praised, but what of his earlier, less prominent roles? Ti takes a look back…

James Franco has just been nominated for Best Actor for his role as Aron Ralston in 127 Hours, a film for which he is receiving high praise. Not just that, but he's co-hosting the Academy Awards ceremony (alongside Anne Hathaway) and is rapidly becoming Hollywood's leading man of choice, thanks to his comedic and dramatic acting chops.

He will soon be seen in Your Highness ("Handle your shit, Fabius, please.") and Rise Of The Apes, all while finishing a PhD in English Literature at Yale.

Clearly, his star wattage is at its zenith, but it wasn't always so.

Fresh off his success as Harry Osborn in the Spider-man movies, Franco was cast as the lead in a number of films, many of which failed spectacularly at the box office...

Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter's Golden Globe-winning series Boardwalk Empire is a fascinating look at the birth of Us gangster mythology

Atlantic City, 16 January 1920, and the world is about to change. The great war has ended, prohibition is about to be passed, women are fighting for the right to vote and in this small seaside enclave a battle is brewing for control not just of the city's finances but, more importantly, for its hearts and minds.

While the teeming boardwalk along the beachfront offers all manner of entertainment from showgirls to astrologers, freak shows to drinking dens, inside City Hall, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, the city treasurer, is juggling a desire for power with a belief in trying to do the right thing even as his former protege Jimmy Darmody returns from the battlefields of Europe determined to make his mark, legally or otherwise. This is a place where the...

We at Mubi think that celebrating the films of 2010 should be a celebration of film viewing in 2010. Since all film and video is "old" one way or another, we present Out of a Past, a small (re-) collection of some of our favorite of 2010's retrospective viewings.

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Bouteille cassée (Father Piet Verstegen M. Afr., 1952)

One morning, TO1..., comrade Möller's phone rang and a young woman with a refreshingly spunky voice said something like, Hi!, I'm that student your friend told you about—the one who's working on a documentary about the White Fathers retirement home. Today I'll have a look at the order's film collection—do you have time to come along? I could need your advise and the monk who takes care of it as well. Of course he had time—and finally the opportunity to see some of the works discussed in a hefty tome he'd bought almost...

The king of Italian comedy leapt to his death last month. At least he avoided seeing Berlusconi survive the no-confidence vote

I don't know what awed us more: the way he chose to end his life or the corpus of films he left behind. I was in Turin, attending the Torino film festival, when the news struck us like lightning. The wires read: November 29, at 10pm, Mario Monicelli, 95, threw himself out of the window of his hospital room in Rome. Monicelli, the king of Italian comedy, the last of the greats, director of more than 60 films, many of them classics of the silver screen. Comedy in the noblest meaning of the term: Monicelli used laughter to denounce moral hypocrisy, social injustice, and historical untruths.

It's hard not to think of Primo Levi or Gilles Deleuze, who chose to end their lives in the same dramatic, violent and flamboyant manner. Monicelli...

Post-war Italian cinema legend Mario Monicelli has died after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome.

The 95-year-old director has been described as the "father of Italian comedy," directing evergreen films such as Amici Mei (My Dear Friends) and I Soliti Ignoti (Persons Unknown). Monicelli has been honored with several awards and nominated for Oscars four times.

He started his career as a director in 1949 and won the Golden Lion for his film The Great War at the Venice Film Festival in 1959.

He was reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer and was receiving treatment at Rome's San Giovanni Hospital, where he was admitted just a few days ago.

Post-war Italian cinema legend Mario Monicelli has died after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome.

The 95-year-old director has been described as the "father of Italian comedy," directing evergreen films such as Amici Mei (My Dear Friends) and I Soliti Ignoti (Persons Unknown). Monicelli has been honored with several awards and nominated for Oscars four times.

He started his career as a director in 1949 and won the Golden Lion for his film The Great War at the Venice Film Festival in 1959.

He was reportedly diagnosed with prostate cancer and was receiving treatment at Rome's San Giovanni Hospital, where he was admitted just a few days ago.

They just keep on coming this week. After Leslie Nielsen and Irvin Kershner’s deaths, another sad bit of news to relate with the passing of Italian film-making legend Mario Monicelli, who threw himself out of his hospital window today. The director, aged 95, was ravaged by prostate cancer and clearly had had enough.

Monicelli was famous for his Commedia all’Italiana (Italian comedies) and was nominated for an Oscar four times. According to reports via Italian news agency Ansa, the director was admitted to a hospital in the capital city Rome last week. Monicelli’s death was announced on Italian television earlier today. It is a rather shocking end for a legendary film talent, even if he’s little known outside of his country.

The Guardian quoted him from a 2007 Vanity Fair article where he said:

“Death doesn’t frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow,...

Italian film director and screenwriter who established a new school of social-realist comedy

The Italian film director Mario Monicelli has died aged 95, after jumping out of a hospital window in Rome. Monicelli directed more than 60 films, most of which he co-wrote. He was best known for I Soliti Ignoti (Big Deal On Madonna Street, 1958), which was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. It was remade by Louis Malle as Crackers (1984) and turned into a Broadway musical, Big Deal, by Bob Fosse in 1986. Monicelli's original is one of the most internationally admired Italian comedies of the past 60 years.

Born in Viareggio, Tuscany, Monicelli was the son of a journalist, Tomaso Monicelli, who founded one of the earliest Italian film magazines. Tomaso killed himself in 1946. Mario studied at the universities of Milan and Pisa and took an early interest in films. With the future publisher Alberto Mondadori, he collaborated...

Ninety-five-year-old film-maker, who was suffering from terminal prostate cancer, leapt from hospital window, reports say

The four-time Oscar-nominated film-maker Mario Monicelli has died at the age of 95 after leaping to his death from a hospital window, according to reports.

Known as one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ("Italian-style comedy") for movies such as 1975's My Friends (Amici Miei) and 1958's Big Deal on Madonna Street (also known as Persons Unknown, or I Soliti Ignoti), Monicelli had been suffering with terminal prostate cancer. He was admitted to the San Giovanni hospital in Rome just a few days ago, according to Italy's Ansa news agency.

Born in 1915 in Viareggio in Tuscany, Monicelli directed 70 films, making his debut in 1935. His other movies include The Great War (La Grande Guerra) from 1959, which won him the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, as well as an Oscar nomination. Big Deal on Madonna Street...

Italian director Mario Monicelli has died after reportedly jumping from a hospital window on Monday, November 29. The 95-year-old moviemaker allegedly committed suicide at the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was being treated for a prostate tumor, according to the Ansa news agency.

Monicelli's career began in the 1930s, when he produced numerous screenplays and worked as an assistant director. He made his directorial debut in 1949 with "Toto Cerca Casa" and went on to become a critically acclaimed moviemaker, most notably for 1959's "La Grande Guerra", which landed him the Leone d'Oro honour at the Venice Film Festival, and an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film.

Monicelli picked up a string of other awards throughout his career; he was handed the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on three separate occasions and was honored with the Golden Lion trophy...

Italian director Mario Monicelli has died after reportedly jumping from a hospital window on Monday.

The 95-year-old moviemaker allegedly committed suicide at the San Giovanni hospital in Rome, where he was being treated for a prostate tumour, according to the Ansa news agency.

Monicelli's career began in the 1930s, when he produced numerous screenplays and worked as an assistant director.

He made his directorial debut in 1949 with Toto Cerca Casa and went on to become a critically acclaimed moviemaker, most notably for 1959's La Grande Guerra, which landed him the Leone d'Oro honour at the Venice Film Festival, and an Academy Award nomination for the Best Foreign Film.

Monicelli picked up a string of other awards throughout his career; he was handed the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in Germany on three separate occasions and was honoured with the Golden Lion trophy for his career at the 1991 Venice Film Festival in Italy.

In recent years Monicelli scaled back his workload, but at the age of 91 he directed 2006's The Roses of the Desert.

After learning of his death, Rome's former Mayor Walter Veltroni paid tribute to the director, saying, "We feel profoundly and humanly hurt by his death, which we know is a loss that weighs and will continue to weigh heavily on us."...

Well, they say these things come in threes. After hearing about the passing of both Leslie Nielsen and Irvin Kershner earlier today, we now have another filmmaker's death to report. You may not recognize his name, but Mario Monicelli held a prominent position in Italy's film industry after WWII. He was a director who was considered one of the fathers of Italian comedy, most notably from the 1940s to the 1960s. At age 95, Monicelli died, sadly, not from old age, but from suicide when he jumped from the fifth floor of a hospital. The director was reportedly suffering from pancreatic cancer and his condition was believed to be terminal. Walter Veltroni, former Rome mayor, has stated, "We feel profoundly and humanly hurt by his death, which we know is a loss that weighs and will continue to weigh heavily on us." While I'll admit that I'm not familiar with Monicelli's work,...

Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Vittorio Gassman, Big Deal on Madonna Street (top); Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, The Great War (middle); Anna Magnani, Totò, The Passionate Thief (bottom) Mario Monicelli, the (co)writer-director of Italian cinema classics such as I soliti ignoti / Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958), La grande guerra / The Great War (1959), and I compagni / The Organizer (1963), leapt to his death from a fifth-story hospital window in Rome. Monicelli, who had been suffering from prostate cancer, was 95. Though not nearly as internationally known as, say, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, or Franco Zeffirelli, Monicelli was perhaps the best portraitist of Italian sociopolitical mores during the second half of the 20th century. For instance, one of Monicelli's earliest efforts (co-directed with Steno aka Stefano Vanzina), Vita da cani / A Dog's Life (1950), chronicled the travails of a provincial theater troupe in post-World War II Italy. Aldo [...]...

Italian director Mario Monicelli, 95, jumped to his death from a Rome hospital window on Monday, according to a Reuters report citing Italian media.

Monicelli directed such classics as "I Soliti Ignoti," ("Big Deal on Madonna Street"), "The Great War," "For Love and Gold," and the "My Friends" series with Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret. He made about 70 films and wrote nearly all the screenplays himself.

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Mario Monicelli, 95, who directed some of postwar Italy's most famous films and launched the careers of some of the country's greatest actors, jumped to his death from a Rome hospital window on Monday, Italian media said. Monicelli directed such classics as "I Soliti Ignoti," (Big Deal on Madonna Street), "The Great War," "For Love and Gold," and the "My Friends" series with Ugo Tognazzi and Philippe Noiret. The reports said he jumped from the fourth floor of Rome's San Giovanni hospital, where he was being treated for terminal prostate cancer. Read more...

According to reports, Brit actress Carey Mulligan ("An Education") will play the lead 'Daisy' in director Baz Luhrmann's upcoming adaptation of author F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby", opposite Leonardo DiCaprio ("Inception") as 'Gatsby' and Toby Maguire ("Spider-Man") as 'Carraway'.

"The Great Gatsby" was first published April 10, 1925, set on Long Island's North Shore and in New York City during the summer of 1922.

As a critique of the 'American Dream', the novel takes place following the First World War with American society enjoying unprecedented levels of prosperity during the 'roaring' 1920s as the economy soared. At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers.

"...'Nick Carraway' is a young bachelor from a Midwestern family, who graduates from Yale in 1915. After fighting in The Great War he settles in New York City to learn the bond business.

As happens every year around this time, the cable spectrum has been heavily laced with programming throughout the week commemorating Veterans Day. HBO trundled out its full epic and brutal miniseries The Pacific for a one-day re-run broken up by the debut of the James Gandolfini-hosted documentary War Torn 1861-2010, a disturbing look at the psychological scars America’s soldiers have suffered in every conflict since The Civil War; The History Channel ran an all-day marathon of Ww II in HD, sprinkling its commercial breaks for the week with commemorative spots; AMC ran a day of war movies like The Enemy Below (1957) and A Few Good Men (1992) under the umbrella, “Vets Best” ; and so on.

The bulk of memorializing programming focused on World War II – unsurprising, in that it remains, to this day, America’s greatest, defining, and least morally problematic war. Even 65 years later, despite a half-century of...

When I was a kid, I devoured the kitschy fun of producer Dino De Laurentiis' films such as the 1976 "King Kong" remake. His name got branded in my feeble mind. When you see his "Dino De Laurentiis Presents" before a trailer, you know that film would be fun!

So the death of the Oscar-winning Italian film producer saddened me. The Italian media was reporting that Laurentiis, who gave the world nearly 500 films including "La Strada," "Serpico," and "Three Days of the Condor" died in Los Angeles. He was 91.

Here's a lengthy but absolutely wonderful snap shot of Laurentiis' life written by John Gallagher from film reference:

One of the most colorful, prolific, and successful producers in the contemporary motion picture business, Dino De Laurentiis has proven his entrepreneurial skills time and again, growing from an independent Italian producer into an international conglomerate. His product, from low-budget neorealist works to multimillion dollar spectacles,...

Italian movie tycoon whose list of credits featured as many disasters as hits

The Italian-born film producer Dino De Laurentiis, who has died aged 91, will perhaps go down in movie history as the last "transatlantic" tycoon. Over a career spanning more than 60 years, producing films on both sides of the ocean, he had as many flops as hits. But De Laurentiis almost always succeeded in staying afloat.

In Rome, he produced Federico Fellini's Oscar-winning La Strada (1954) and the grandiose spectacular War and Peace (1956), but also made The Bible: In the Beginning (1966) and Waterloo (1970), which never recovered their costs. Relocating to the Us, he enjoyed success with Serpico (1973), Death Wish (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Conan the Barbarian (1982), but had financial disasters including Year of the Dragon (1985) and a failed food emporium, which he opened in New York. De Laurentiis was also a starmaker, both in Italy, where...

Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch lived up to its name when footage from the film was projected to the assembled Comic Conners a few months ago and it needed to be pretty fantastic to match the fever pitch the first images and subsequent trailer caused when they were released.

Expectations were primed and as you’ll see from the new trailer below there is no way one could anticipate what Snyder had in store for us. Burlesque bombshells spitting bullets alongside towering robots under the iron sky of The Great War – it’s all kinds of awesome.

Here’s the new trailer or go to Apple for HD version.

Plot: Chen Zhen (Donnie Yen) returns from service in The Great War to discover that the Japanese occupation of China is growing. Wanting to fight these invaders, and unite his country, Chen Zhen goes underground, and adopts a masked persona- pitting himself against a blood-thirsty Japanese general, whose father Chen Zhen previously killed in order to avenge his master. Review: One of the great things about Tiff is that in addition to the heavier, Oscar worthy titles premiering at the...

It's impossible to watch a TV show about mobsters in the Jazz age and beyond without making comparisons to the established iconography of the genre. It was clear from the opening scene in "Boardwalk Empire" that Martin Scorsese was well aware of this and chose to insert some mini-homages along the way rather than risk looking too derivative. Some of them worked: the opening scene with the mist and the tension on the captain's face evoked the same cold strained feel of the famous woods scene in Miller's Crossing. However, he took it a little too far in the penultimate sequence that moved back and forth between New Jersey and Chicago, with operatic crescendos and a bit too much in-your-face Godfatherness.

As with most premieres, the opening episode of "Boardwalk Empire" spent much of its time introducing us to the key characters and establishing our baseline understanding of the relationships among them.

The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Fred Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…

(Please support Fred by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)

It’s not the tightest of flicks, but when it comes to the sordid history of films adapted from sketches on Saturday Night Live, MacGruber (Universal, Not Rated, Blu-Ray-$39.98 Srp) scores in the upper percentile, alongside the likes of Wayne’s World and Stuart Saves His Family. Wil Forte’s MacGyver parody does the right thing by playing the elements around his bombastic action hero with seriousness.

In America, 1920 was a time of change. Women got the vote, broadcast radio began, and young people ruled the world. The Great War was over, Wall Street was about to boom, and everything was for sale.

From Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos, and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese, the new HBO drama Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City, at the dawn of Prohibition, and showcases the time period when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States and certain individuals learned how to profit from that.

During a recent interview, the series’ lead actor Steve Buscemi talked about playing the town’s treasurer Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City, getting the opportunity to be a romantic lead, and how this is one of the best roles of his career. Check out what he had to say after the jump:

Question: What...

Boardwalk Empire is one of my most anticipated new TV series, and it's coming to HBO. The show was created by Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese and it explores Atlantic City in the roaring '20s during the prohibition. It will detail the life and exploits of Nucky Thompson who is based on the real life person Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the "boss" of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City from 1911 to 1941. The amazing cast includes Steve Buscemi, Gretchen Mol, Michael Shannon, Michael Pitt, Michael K. Williams and Dabney Coleman.

There's no doubt this series is going to win a ton of awards, it just looks incredible! HBO has released a great 14 minute behind the scenes featurette for the series that you should enjoy. Check it out below, and tell us what you think!

Official Synopsis:

“Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,...

HBO has just release a brand new behind-the-scenes video for its highly-anticipated drama Boardwalk Empire, which will debut on Sunday, September 19 at 9 Pm Et. Click on this brand new 14-minute featurette to go behind-the-scenes of Martin Scorsese's upcoming TV series:

Making Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos, and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO's Boardwalk Empire TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale, even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote, broadcast radio is introduced, and young people rule the world.

On the beach in southern New Jersey sits Atlantic City, a spectacular resort known as "The World's Playground,...

HBO has released a thirteen and a half minute behind the scenes featurette for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire. The new series focuses on Steve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as "a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role." Watch the featurette after the jump, and see why this is quickly becoming my most anticipated television series of the near future. Making Boardwalk Empire: Trailer #4: Trailer #3: Trailer #2: Official Synopsis: “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States.

HBO has released another great promo trailer for the highly anticipated TV series from director Martin Scorsese Boardwalk Empire. titled Countdown to Prohibition. This show looks absolutely amazing, and I can't wait until we finally get to start watching it. Everyone cast in this series looks like they are going to do an incredible job. There's no doubt this show is going to pull in all kinds of awards.

The series, written by The Sopranos scribe Terence Winter, uses the book by Nelson Johnson "Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City" as a jumping off point to explore Atlantic City in the roaring '20s. The series will detail the life and exploits of Nucky Thompson who is based on the real life person Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the "boss" of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City from 1911 to 1941. The amazing cast includes Steve Buscemi,...

HBO has released a fourth trailer for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire titled "Countdown to Prohibition". The new trailer focuses on Steve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as "a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role." Watch the trailer after the jump, and see why this is quickly becoming my most anticipated television series of the near future. Trailer #4: Trailer #3: Trailer #2: Official Synopsis: “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. America in 1920. The Great War is over,...

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Shout Factory has settled into a pleasantly clockwork schedule of releasing new sets, but I still greet Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume Xviii (Shout Factory, Not Rated, DVD-$59.97 Srp) with delight, because it means more episodes have made it out. This go round, we get Lost Continent, Crash Of The Moons, The Beast Of Yucca Flats, and Jack Frost. Bonus materials include new intros from Kevin Murphy & Frank Conniff,...

Hey gang! HBO has just released the premiere date for their highly anticipated TV series Boardwalk Empire. The series was created by Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter, and it takes place in the Prohibition gangster era.

The series will premiere on Sunday September 19th at 9pm. Here is the last trailer that was released. This show looks absolutely incredible, and I can't wait to see it!

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“Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States.

America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale, even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote,...

HBO has finally announced a premiere date for my most anticipated television show of the near future -- Boardwalk Empire, the Prohibition-era gangster television series created by Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese - Sunday September 19th at 9pm. The previously released trailer: Official Synopsis: “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale, even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote, broadcast radio is introduced, and young people rule the world. On the beach in southern New Jersey sits Atlantic City, a spectacular resort known as “The World’s Playground,...

From Terence Winter, the Emmy Award winning writer of 'The Sopranos' and Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese comes a new HBO Original Series.

Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era. The show is adapted from Nelson Johnson's book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Emmy award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The Sopranos. The show is being executive produced by Martin Scrosese, and he directed the first episode.

The series will detail the life and exploits of Nucky Thompson who is based on the real life person Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, the "boss" of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City from 1911 to 1941. The amazing cast includes Steve Buscemi, Gretchen Mol, Michael Shannon, Michael Pitt, Michael K. Williams and Dabney Coleman.

The series premieres September 2010 in the Us.

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HBO has released another fantastic trailer for the upcoming Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter created prohibition-era gangster series Boardwalk Empire.

The trailer focuses on the character Enoch "Nucky" Thomspon who is being played by Steve Buscemi. Thompson is the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City. He is described as a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role.

Check the new trailer below and see for yourself how great of a series this is going to end up being.

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Official Synopsis:

“Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States.

America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about...

HBO has released a brand new TV spot for Martin Scorsese's new TV series Boardwalk Empire, which will debut sometime this fall on HBO. Click below to take a look at the latest video from the series which features new footage.

Season 1 TV Spot

Boardwalk Empire on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of The Sopranos, and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO's Boardwalk Empire TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale, even the World Series. It is a time of change when women are getting the vote, broadcast radio is introduced, and young people rule the world.

On the beach in southern New Jersey sits Atlantic City, a spectacular resort known as "The World's Playground,...

HBO has released a new trailer for the Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese created Prohibition-era gangster television series Boardwalk Empire. The new trailer focuses on Steve Buscemi, who plays the undisputed ruler of Atlantic City and town Treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, who is described as "a political fixer and backroom dealer who is equal parts politician and gangster and equally comfortable in either role." Watch the trailer after the jump, and see why this is quickly becoming my most anticipated television series of the near future. Official Synopsis: “Boardwalk Empire” on HBO is from Terence Winter, Emmy Award-winning writer of “The Sopranos,” and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese. HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire” TV series is set in Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition, when the sale of alcohol became illegal throughout the United States. America in 1920. The Great War is over, Wall Street is about to boom and everything is for sale,...