Indiana Jones 1930’s Serial by RogerRmjet
The Pitch: What if Raiders of the Lost Ark was a 1930’s serial?
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Raiders of the Toy Box by Probot Productions
The Pitch: The classic truck chase from Raiders of the Lost Ark recreated with action figures.

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Lobster Johnson created this custom Heath Ledger-version Joker Munny.
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At the 2008 VES Awards, Michael Bay retold the story of how he predicted the failure of Raiders of the Lost Ark while working at LucasFilm. Bay went on to tell a little story involving Indiana Jones 4. Watch the video below.
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Yes, legendary Catcher in the Rye author J.D. Salinger is still alive, and no, he hasn’t seen a super exclsuive screening of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull…
Our friends at FilmDrunk have discovered something interesting in a letter written in 1981 by Salinger, which is now up for sale on eBay. Salinger [...]

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Have you ever seen the movie How Green Was My Valley? Me neither.
Have you even heard of the movie? Didn’t think so.
Yet John Ford’s film somehow won 5 Oscars including Best Picture. But what’s more shocking: It beat out such classic films as Citizen Kane and The Maltese Falcon for the top honor. (Note: [...]