Last year, promotion was already well underway for G.I. Joe: Retaliation when Paramount did something remarkable: They decided to delay the film's opening for a full nine months. Why? Because they wanted to give the sequel the 3D treatment. And just like that, a possible summer blockbuster film was all but forgotten - or was it?
There are movies you want to watch over and over. And then there are ones you watch just once. Sometimes it is because they, in a word, suck. While others are good, the way they end leaves you feeling unsatisfied. Here are a few of them.
“God cannot alter the past, but historians can,” Samuel Butler once dryly noted. Oh Sam, it is worse than alter: they also sensationalize it.
This year's South By Southwest featured some of the greatest musical performances in the history of the festival. In case you think I'm exaggerating, I'm here to say I'm not, I assure you.
While the term "frugal celebrity" may seem a contradiction in terms, some of them actually are penny-pinchers. They may don fancy clothes, spend thousands on cosmetics, or buy cars and homes that are out of reach for most of us, their spending compared to their net worth is remarkably small. Fame and fortune don't turn them all into big spenders. Here are some of Hollywood's most savvy celebs.
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Ghost stories and movie stars, entrepreneurs and gamblers, royalty and presidents, regardless the company, the regal Hotel del Coronado remains an elegant icon of a more genteel time.
Today’s tourism boards make sure that the architectural beauty is featured in every article or film about the San Diego region. However it sits on a shallow bite of land that was once merely decorated by sand and scrub brush. Two visionaries changed all that.
I'm almost finished with what I believe is without a doubt one of the best books explaining Scientology I've ever read. Why? Because it's a first person account, written by someone who would know the inner workings of this mysterious faith. I'm going to call it what I think it is: A cult.
This morning, I woke up, checked Twitter and saw "Veronica Mars" trending wildly. My first thought was that maybe, just maybe, a movie based on this awesome TV show was finally going to happen. As I excitedly slurped down a second cup of coffee, I soon learned that yes, plans were indeed in the works for the long-anticipated Veronica Mars film. But that's not all: Fans were being asked to help bankroll the project. Wait, what?!
In 1979 the comedy movie The In-Laws proved an enormous box office hit. Starring Peter Falk and Alan Arkin, it told the hilarious story of a square father of the bride (Arkin) who meets an oddball father of the groom (Falk) who turns out to be a CIA agent. The result is no boring comedy of manners but a madcap romp packed with moments like Arkin running down a street in New York pursued by thugs out to get Falk.
In April of 1957, a four-part story series entitled “The Last Days on Earth” appeared in the London Sunday Observer. Written by Nevil Shute (the pen name of author Nevil Shute Norway), it told of the end of the world thanks to nuclear war. That same year the series grew into a full-length novel entitled On the Beach. The innocuous-sounding title comes from the T.S.
