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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePredicting which movies will set the box office alight seems like an easy task, but there’s a reason studios get paid the big bucks to do so. However, every so often, an acclaimed film can come along that absolutely tanks after being unveiled for the public.Over the years, there have been a startling number of films that have struggled, or indeed failed, to recoup their budget, and have consequently earned the “box office flop” label.It’s hard to…
Author of the novel Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk recounts the history of revisions by others the work has undergone. STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/ AFP The new ending to the Chinese release of Fight Club in which the authorities win is actually closer to the original book, the author has said. Film fans in China noticed this week that a streaming version of David Fincher’s 1999 cult classic had been transformed to lose its anarchist finale. Instead of Edward Norton’s Narrator character blowing up buildings, a black screen and coda appears. “The police rapidly figured out the whole plan and arrested all…
When Brad Pitt Recalled Getting An Acting Break-Through Driving Strippers To Parties(Pic Credit: Movie Still) American actor Brad Pitt is one of the most respected actors in Hollywood. He rose to fame with David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) and Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean Eleven, released in 2001. However, his journey to popularity in the entertainment world wasn’t an easy one. Unlike many others, the 59-year-old actor had a slow start in Hollywood. He began his career by appearing in small films and television shows. Pitt played a wild and aggressive character in the 1995 film 12 Monkeys, for which he received…
Home Movie News Matt Reeves Teases Fight Club-Level Secrecy For Cloverfield 2 Exclusive: Cloverfield director Matt Reeves teases secrecy surrounding potential sequels of the creature feature to celebrate the 15 year anniversary. Matt Reeves teases potential Cloverfield sequels in the future and Fight Club rules for secrecy. It has been fifteen years since Cloverfield stunned and terrified audiences. The found footage style monster movie follows a group of friends on a seemingly normal night as they throw a farewell party for Rob thrown by his brother and brother’s girlfriend. However, everything changes when a massive earthquake causes a citywide power…
In a disused commercial unit – dwarfed by the 100ft red brick arches of Stockport Viaduct – and gleaming pale under the glare of a patchwork of fluorescent ceiling lamps, two lads are knocking lumps off each other. Pressed in against the ropes of a makeshift boxing ring, a small crowd – a mix of gawps and grimaces – gazes on intently. Aside from the fighters, the only other person in the ring is Remdizz: today’s charismatic host, referee, and the self-described “hood’s Dana White”. This is King of the Ring, a clandestine fight club that pops up monthly in rotating locations…
MELBOURNE, Australia — This country has a well-earned reputation as a land of extremes: fatally poisonous snakes, deadly insects, killer crocodiles, drenching rains and brutal heat.The Australian Open got a fair dose of that Tuesday — well, not so much the killer bugs or crocs or snakes, though the park next to the tennis center does have signs warning visitors to beware of snakes. The heat got so intense that play was halted for most of the afternoon. In the evening, a torrential rain fell, halting play once more.Keeping with the theme of extreme, somewhere in the midst of all…
The members of the DP World Tour, whose next event kicks off on Thursday at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship on Yas Links in the United Arab Emirates, owe a great deal to the European players who helped make the tour what it is today.That includes Tony Jacklin, the winner of the 1969 British Open, the 1970 United States Open and eight tournaments on the European Tour, now the DP World Tour.Jacklin, from England, also played a huge role in the Ryder Cup. A four-time captain from 1983 to 1989, he led Team Europe to two victories, including the first…
“We were on the limit all day long,” Vidaor said. “We backed off green speeds from high elevens [on the stimpmeter, a device that measures green speeds] and dropped the speed down to the mid tens. It’s an exposed golf course, and we need to be careful because there’s no shelter at all.” Vidaor and his team slowed the speeds by cutting the greens less often than usual, and watering them to allow the grass to grow overnight. Typically, tournament golf is played at a minimum speed of 11 to test players. The reduction of the speeds at Yas Links…
A new year on the DP World Tour brings new hope for players who have been around long enough to know how fickle and unforgiving the game can be from week to week — shot to shot — even for the best in the world.The Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship, which begins on Thursday at Yas Links in the United Arab Emirates, should be no different. Some in the field will be in midseason form, while others will struggle, searching for answers before another season slips away.Here are five players to watch.Sepp StrakaStraka, 29, recorded his first PGA Tour victory at…
TEMPE, Ariz. — Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, layered with modern beats, flowed from a loudspeaker as a group of young men, virtually all of them American-born Black baseball players, took batting practice at the annual Dream Series this past weekend.Tony Reagins, the Major League Baseball executive behind the event, turned to a visitor and said, “When was the last time you heard a Dr. King speech during B.P.?”Perhaps never, was the reply. The audio mix came from the phone of Jerry Manuel, a former manager of the Mets and the Chicago White Sox. Manuel is…