Francis Ford Coppola directing, Mario Puzo writing the script and Robert Evans as a producer, how can a film with this team fail? This is the same team behind the Godfather 1 and 2, two of the best movies of all time. The Cotton Club was going to be the next big thing for them, right? […]
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Content is King: Ted Turner’s acquisition of MGM Studios
Ted Turner was a name in business circles in the 1980s. He started CNN and owned the Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks. Turner tried to acquire CBS, but ultimately failed in the endeavor. He then looked for a bigger acquisition. In March 1986, Turner’s company Turner Broadcasting agreed to buy the prestigious but fledgling Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer […]
Ishtar- The lessons we can learn from the 80s movie flop
Ishtar was written and directed by Elaine May and Starred Academy Award-winning duo Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman as Rogers and Clarke, two untalented lounge singers who travel to Morocco hoping to find a gig. The film had an ultimate budget cost of $55 million but only earned $14 million at the North American box […]
The reasons why Song of the South is not streaming on your Disney +
Song of the South is a live action/animated movie Disney released in 1946. The film was a box office success grossing $3.3 million at the box office. Disney made a profit of $226,000 ($2.83 million in current day). Song of the South won two Oscars for the movie, one for best original Song “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” (yes […]
Heaven’s Gate: UA and Michael Cimino’s demise
Reading time: 4 minutes, 22 seconds Michael Cimino was coming off a fantastic Oscar win for Deer Hunter in 1978, and his next project was supposed to Hollywood’s next big thing. The movie ended up being one of Hollywood’s biggest flops. It ended up destroying Cimino’s career, today we look at Heaven’s Gate. After the […]
Sony & the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Reading time: 3 minutes and 9 seconds With, Spider-Man: Far from home grossing over $ 1.082 Billion and becoming the latest Marvel movie to gross one billion. It’s time to discuss a significant movie decision from the late ’90s, that changed the movie industry today as we know it. The Marvel cinematic universe (MCU) is […]
The Killer Movie (literally)
Reading Time: 4 Minutes, 1 second The film the Conqueror was released in 1956. The film was directed by Dick Powell, starred John Wayne as Genghis Khan, and co-starred Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, John Hoyt, and Pedro Armendariz. Last and certainly not least, Howard Hughes financed and produced the film. For 1956 standards, this was […]
E.T. : M&M’s vs.Reese’s Pieces
Reading Time: 3 minutes, 5 seconds E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was a colossal movie blockbuster success in 1982. It surpassed Star Wars as the highest grossing film of all time. The movie still sits 7 on the inflation-adjusted all-time highest grossing film list. According to a Rotten Tomatoes survey, it ranks as the greatest science […]
Chernobyl Miniseries: Cheat sheet
Reading time: 5 minutes 6 seconds I started watching the HBO miniseries Chernobyl this Monday and halfway through the first episode, I realized that I the History connoisseur didn’t really understand the whole story of what happened there. It got me to wondering if I don’t know, how many other people don’t know? The first […]
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True or False: a review of the movie the Front Runner
Remember in elementary school where we had to take a test where the only answers were either true or false? In Hollywood movies about real events or people, Hollywood tends to touch up or embellish the facts to make the movie flow better or brighten it up. In this series we are going to look […]
