How A Failed Experiment From Network Execs Taught The Twilight Zone Its Limits
What works in 30 minutes doesn't always work in 60.
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James Cameron Was The Only Audience Alita: Battle Angel Set Out To Impress
'I wasn't making a movie for Fox. I was making it for Jim.'
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Mike Flanagan Went To The Mat To Keep One Of His Favorite Haunting Of Hill House Moments Intact
Mike Flanagan loves a good monologue, but one monologue was especially worth fighting for.
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Elijah Wood Saw No Man Of God As More Than Just Another Ted Bundy Movie
'That sort of pressure was exciting.'
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Macaulay Culkin Actually Got Bitten By Joe Pesci During Home Alone And Has The Scar To Prove It
Don't mess with the Wet Bandits.
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Seven's Groundbreaking Credits Sequence All Started As A Joke
The credits set the tone perfectly, but they were a happy accident.
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Being John Malkovich's Classic Status Wasn't Something Charlie Kaufman Or Spike Jonze Expected
No one expected that brilliant screenplay to actually get made.
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Pixar Snuck Some Stephen King Into Their Latest Take On Cars
Come play with us, Lightning McQueen.
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Getting Harvey Keitel For Reservoir Dogs Wasn't Much Work For Quentin Tarantino
'I read the script, I love it, I'd even love to produce it to get it going. Give me a call back.'
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Paul Thomas Anderson Thinks Critics Just Don't Understand Adam Sandler
Believe it or not, the filmmaker behind Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood loves Adam Sandler's comedies.
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It Took Three False Starts Before Cary Grant Would Get To Work With Audrey Hepburn
The two legends eventually united for Charade.
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John Huston, John Malkovich, And A Dog Made Michael Madsen Into An Actor
'I thought he was just trying to get rid of me.'
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Quentin Tarantino Came To Blows With An Actor On The Set Of Reservoir Dogs
Tarantino's successful career was almost jeopardized during the production of his first film.
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Viggo Mortensen's Eastern Promises Tattoos Took Some Serious Research
Navigating the world of Russian mafia tattoos is no easy feat.
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Russian Anarchists And Winston Churchill Had Censors Worried About The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alfred Hitchcock drew from reality for his grand climax, and it bit him in the butt.
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Playing Hardball With His Untouchables Casting Paid Off For Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner wasn't a movie star yet, but he knew he would become one.
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Steven Spielberg Had To Step In To Sell John Lithgow On Harry And The Hendersons
If Spielberg tells you to star in the Bigfoot movie, you star in the Bigfoot movie.
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Robin Williams Wasn't Sure He Could Make Awakenings Work With Robert De Niro
Any artist would be stressed about sharing the screen with one of the greatest actors of all time.
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Mike Flanagan Initially Thought The Haunting Of Hill House Would Be Impossible To Adapt
'My first response was that you couldn't do it.'
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Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt Reveals All That Is Possible With Cinema
Contempt is Godard's masterpiece in that, over the next 100 minutes, it surpasses the audience's expectations by completely subverting them.
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How Ti West's X Pulled Off Shooting Scenes With Two Mia Goths
Those who have seen X probably are aware that there was a double dose of Goth.
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Robin Williams' 'Triptych Of Evil' Showed Just How Dark The Actor Could Go
Robin Williams took on three roles back-to-back that showed a darker side to his acting abilities, and they're also among his best performances.
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Barbarian Ending Explained: Be My Baby
There are some wild twists and turns here that make for a quite a trip.
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How Martin Scorsese And Robert De Niro Rescued Joe Pesci's Acting Career
Joe Pesci actually quit acting entirely to run a restaurant.
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Stanley Kubrick Turned An Eight-Minute Scene In The Shining Into A 60-Take Slog
Stanley Kubrick: a filmmaker who no one would immediately describe as fun.
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U.S. Marshals Ending Explained: Silly Twists Within Silly Twists
Remember US Marshals? Of course you remember US Marshals.
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