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I recently had a chance to speak to Dan Fogelman, the writer and director of the new film Danny Collins, which stars Al Pacino, Bobby Cannavale, Christopher Plummer, Annette Bening, and Jennifer Garner. We spoke about movies, art versus commerce, and trying to become better each ...
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What's an upstart network -- or a rebranded version of an old network -- to do to attract new viewers to the channel? With hundreds of options out there, what's the best way to get people to sample your new ...
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Not too long ago, Warner Brothers Animation teamed up the classic Scooby-Doo characters with animated versions of WWE stars in Scooby-Doo! WrestleMania Mystery. The pairing must have been successful as the two entertainment giants have joined forces once again, but ...
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Unless you've lived under a rock or have lived a very sheltered life, you probably know that Walt Disney became the king of animated films when he first released Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937. A hit, the ...
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Step back in time to 1950-something, to the beginning of the Golden Age of Television, step into the theater which is now a TV studio, specifically Desilu Studios and enjoy the “filming” of two episodes of the classic TV comedy ...
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Now this is a Broadway musical in every sense of the word. And who would have ever thought that Disney’s flop musical movie from 1992 — starring an 18-year-old Christian Bale in only his fourth theatrical film — would have ...
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Way back in 1992, Whoopi Goldberg and Disney’s Touchstone Pictures had a huge comedy hit on their hands with Sister Act, the story of a Vegas lounge singer with big dreams and a terrible boyfriend. Said boyfriend is a mobster ...
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved the movies. Movie magic has the power to deliver practically anything one can imagine, but as we have come to expect more and more from that movie magic as blockbuster ...
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If you’ve been alive for the past 71 years, then you are certainly more than familiar with Irving Berlin’s most popular song, “White Christmas.” You may even be familiar with the Christmas movie perennial White Christmas, but you may not ...
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In 1940, Woody Guthrie released what is considered to be one of the first, if not the first, concept album, a collection of songs that has a narrative beginning, middle and end. In the years since, many artists from Frank ...
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