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Red Cliff: John Woo's killer instincts are back in action
Red Cliff is grand, old-fashioned spectacle in the Cecil B. DeMille tradition. Details: Rated R. Opens Wednesday at the Embarcadero and the Kabuki.
This image of Obi Don Quixote comes from Damopaints' Flickr . It was apparently created by painting over a print he purchased in a charity shop.
Martin Scorsese to Receive Golden Globes' Cecil B. DeMille Award
For my money, Martin Scorsese is one of the most influential filmmakers working in Hollywood today, and his films are nothing short of inspirational, provocative labors of love and life.
Scorsese receiving Cecil B. DeMille award
Director Martin Scorsese is receiving the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the Golden Globes.
When you think of quality classic cinema, most will immediately picture films by Alfred Hitchcock, or Cecil B. DeMille.
Paramount vet 'Gino' Campagnola dies
Sergio "Gino" Campagnola, who served for more than 50 years with Paramount Pictures, died Tuesday in Los Angeles.
From Jolson to Mariah: The Ten Worst Musical Films Ever Made
Richard Barrios has lectured extensively on film, served as a commentator on numerous DVDs, and co-hosted a series on Turner Classic Movies.
No Pordenone drop-off speaks volumes about its silent strength
While some of the world's proudest film festivals tremble under the economic lash that has robbed them of sponsorship and public, there is one that hasn't skipped a beat: the timeless Pordenone Silent Film Festival, which celebrated its 28th year Oct.
Claudia Roth Pierpont: Ayn Randa s obsessive romanticism.
ABSTRACT: A CRITIC AT LARGE about Ayn Rand. 13 years after Rand's death, her books still sell more than 300,000 copies a year; "The Fountainhead," her slow-building blockbuster of 1943, was made an honorary Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
Hollywood CEOs: Steven Spielberg
As a kid, Steven Spielberg charged $0.25 admission for 8-mm adventure movies he made with friends.
Charles Laughton offers the definitive Nero in Cecil B. DeMille's insanely lavish treatise on the decline and fall of Western Civilization.
Winslet targeted to shine as Moon
The story of an Aberdeenshire writer who won over Hollywood in the 1920s is being scripted for a movie.
Moses gets an action-movie upgrade
Variety reports that 20th Century Fox is developing a new movie about Moses. While there have been numerous cartoons and TV movies about Moses over the last few decades, this will presumably be the first major live-action version of the story produced for the big screen since Cecil B. DeMille's second version of The Ten Commandments .
Here's what's happening in the world of entertainment today: Angelina Jolie is in talks to replace Charlize Theron in "The Tourist," according to The Hollywood Reporter .
"The Ten Commandments" to be remade as "300"!?
Variety is reporting that 20th Century Fox is remaking Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments ! Sorta.
That is the quote that caught my eye in this story about 20th Century Fox developing a film about the story of Moses from when he was an infant and almost died, to where the story of freeing the Hebrew slaves from enslavement by the Egyptians.
THIS! IS! SINAI! 20th Century Fox to Tell the Story of Moses in the Style of "300"
The 1956 Cecil B. DeMille classic "The Ten Commandments" is fantastic but it could have been so much better if it had used speed-ramping and buckets of blood.A Oh, and maybe a Jewish actor as Moses.A It now looks like we might get two out of three as 20th Century Fox has just made a pre-emptive acquisition of a pitch to tell the story of Moses in ...
Cecil B DeMille's The Ten Commandments, portrays Israel's slavery as similar to the slavery practiced in America that was abolished after the Civil War.
Which spiritual movie do you like best?
The results of the PARADE Spirituality Poll were released this weekend* . Among the questions asked was this one: "Which of the following movies involving spirituality do you like best?" Ghost? It's a Wonderful Life? The DaVinci Code? The Exorcist? The Omen? The Sixth Sense? The Ten Commandments? None of the above? The results in ascending order: ...
Celebrity Secrets From Yesteryear...on Cemetery Tours
There will be a full moon this weekend. What better time for a tour of the cemetery? This Saturday at 12 p.m., Karie Bible will host a historic walking tour of Hollywood Forever Cemetery--where industry legends like Cecil B. Demille and Janet Gaynor are buried.