Next week, on August 27, 2011, Chicago will become the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. The show, which features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, will play its 6,138th performance on August 27, passing A Chorus Line for the fourth spot on the all-time […]
Washinton DC in Film: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington–How Different Countries Reacted
July 4, 2011 by
In Frank Capra’s political film, “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939), the best-known scene is the climactic filibuster that Jimmy Stewart’s Senator Jefferson Smith launches to show the country the truth about what’s going on behind the scenes of Washington’s politics.
Thor: Kenneth Branagh’s Comeback
April 25, 2011 by
Paramount will release the movie “Thor,” which had already opened in Australia, on May 6.
The comic books were the key source material for everyone involved in the production, but as the project underwent its transformation from the four-color page to the motion picture screen, other works of literature also became touchstones for the filmmakers, Team Thor and the actors
Superman: Tentpole Rebooted for 2012 with New Star
January 30, 2011 by
Superman will be flying again, this time with the handsome British actor Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel.
Hollywood: MGM–Studying the Evolution of a Studio
January 15, 2011 by
Assisted by a brilliant publicity machine, particularly during Howard Dietz's witty chairmanship, MGM was Hollywood's most quintessential studio for at least three decades, from the beginning of the sound era through the late 1950s and early 1960s. As such, Metro was more responsible any other studio for what is described now by scholars as Classic Hollywood Cinema and Mainstream Movie Entertainment.
