Author James Dickey wrote the original screenplay for the film Deliverance (1972), but director John Boorman then rewrote it almost entirely, being unhappy with the treatment. During the filming of the film, the day Boorman was going to film the heroes’ departure in a canoe, James Dickey decided to let the director know how bad he thought …
Tom Hanks is probably the most loved and respected actor in Hollywood. Enmities will not easily be found against him. The only notable dispute he is known to have concerned Henry Winkler, the Fonzie from Happy Days . (Henry Winkler and Tom Hanks in an episode of Happy Days) The two men were at odds for decades. At …
Cinema remained artisanal and daredevil until very late. In the 1950s, actors were easily allowed to take incredible risks. An example, Under the Greatest Show On Earth, the blockbuster by Cecil B. DeMille which revealed Charlton Heston in 1952. In one of the film’s most spectacular sequences, the train carrying the circus staff and animals is hit by …
When he worked with Brad Pitt on the film Seven Years in Tibet , director Jean-Jacques Annaud discovered that the star didn’t like having his hair touched. He is informed by those around him that no one should touch his hair without first discussing it with him. In his autobiography Une vie pour le cinéma , released in 2018, …
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The last moments of actor Philippe Seymour Hoffman, recorded by the surveillance video of the café-restaurant at the bottom of his building. These images are visible in shows like “The last 24 hours of Philippe Seymour Hoffman” or “Hollywood autopsy”. The footage shows Hoffman accompanied by two individuals, likely his dealers, drinking and talking like friends. …
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It happened to John Rhys-Davies, who played Gimli in Lord of the Rings. For his role, he had to wear special makeup made from prosthetics glued to the skin. However, his skin was too sensitive for that. As soon as makeup was applied to him, he had an allergic reaction. He had irritations, blisters. Every possible product was …
There is nothing more dishonest than Hollywood accounting, they say. The questionable accounting practices of Hollywood studios are well known and date back to the beginnings of cinema. Since the making, financing and distribution of a film is a nebulous business, studios quickly realized that it was possible to create superb smokescreens in the books to …
At zero points. I have a theory. We’re going to get there! Let’s be clear, it doesn’t matter: the films are cool , in their genre, probably include the best action scenes your girlfriend has been through in a long time… Chad Stahelski knows that what we want is It’s seeing a Belarusian badass kicking ass for his dog to kéké music and doesn’t …
Jim Carey appeared on Gayle King’s CBS show. How did you feel when you saw the incident? “It made me nauseous. I was disgusted to see that Will Smith was given a standing ovation moments later when he received the Oscar for Best Actor. I had the feeling that Hollywood had no courage, no morality. I felt like …
Robert Pattinson agreed to play in Twilight a little too quickly . He had not anticipated the ordeal it would be for him. He found the books completely stupid and hoped the films would move away from them. Once he was stuck in the role and the machine was rolling, he waited for it to end. But with each …
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