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Everyone loves a good, especially if the person has lived an exciting life. The big problem is that some people don’t. So, to tell a compelling story on the big screen, filmmakers feel the need to tweak the truth slightly for dramatic effect. Maybe a tiny white lie here and there. When overdone, the film goes from a record of history to a completely made-up story. It turns out biopics have been lying to us for a long time. Who can you believe?

Braveheart (1995)

A great story of an ordinary man who stood up to the sprawling empire of Britain and who inspired the people around him to take up arms to protect their land. Except this movie has been listed as one of the most historically inaccurate of all modern film. Historians have stated that the William Wallace presented in the movie never existed. The real Willam Wallace...

Exclusive: We’ve seen efforts to share risk and upside in success, and many times they come and go. Artists Equity, hatched by pals Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and backed by a long-term financial commitment from RedBird Capital billionaire Gerry Cardinale, has a real chance to reshape the tenuous pay landscape in a talent-friendly way. Since Deadline first broke their plans, Affleck and Damon have used their personal relationships and the hard-knock lessons from over 30 years of their Oscar careers to create a sound equity participation formula for those involved in their projects. It’s a formula they believe provides more transparency in profit sharing than is available from the studios and streamers that will release the films Artists Equity bankrolls.

Housed in Los Angeles offices with a staff that has swelled past 70 employees working on film, TV, a full-scale ad agency and a lean-in on documentaries, Artists Equity is growing quickly.

There are several moments in “Uprising” — a spirited but overstretched Korean epic set during the years following the 1589 rebellion of Jeong Yeo-rip — where it feels gleefully obvious that the film was written by Park Chan-wook, whose mordant sense of humor and operatic approach to violence stick out from this story like an artfully framed sword lodged into a dead soldier’s neck.

Alas, those moments are severely outnumbered by the ones in which it’s just as obvious that the film was directed by someone else.

While former art director and frequent Park collaborator Kim Sang-man brings a rousing bloodlust to this fast-paced saga of revolt and betrayal, the unwieldy war story he’s forced to wrestle into submission can’t help but feel a bit shapeless without the precise sculpting of Park’s camera. “Uprising” is too watchable and well-staged to suggest that Kim was set up to fail,...

“Every man dies, not every man truly lives”, declared Braveheart’s William Wallace. But let’s be honest—how many of us can say we’ve truly lived unless we’ve had Mel Gibson by our side, lending a hand in the dead of night?

Gibson, a name that sends a tingle down the spine of movie buffs and historians of 80s and 90s cinema alike, isn’t just known for his legendary roles on-screen. He started with humble beginnings on the stage before gracing our TV screens in The Sullivans and Cop Shop.

Mel Gibson in The Continental (2023) | Credit: Peacock

And as luck would have it, even when he’s not wielding a sword or tearing through a post-apocalyptic landscape, he’s a road warrior in real life. In an old viral video, Gibson is seen lending a helping hand to a stranded citizen, showing that his off-screen heroism is just as compelling.

Steven Spielberg has made some of the greatest films that will forever stand the test of time. The director has made films in every genre and has shown that he is a master at evoking awe and emotion in everything he does. In the 90s, Spielberg made two drastically different films based on World War II, considered among his best works.

Tom Hanks led the ensemble cast of Saving Private Ryan | Paramount Pictures

While 1993 Schindler’s List, focused on a German industrialist saving a thousand Polish Jews, 1998’s Saving Private Ryan dealt with a group of soldiers trying to locate the titular Ryan in Normandy. Tom Hanks played the lead role in the latter but several actors like Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford were considered before the Forrest Gump star.

Despite Mel Gibson’s Suggestions, Steven Spielberg Didn’t Cast Him in Saving Private Ryan

Mel Gibson as William Wallace...

From sharing repugnance towards Wbd’s handling of Turner Classic Movies to blasting Joaquin Phoenix’s portrayal of Napoleon, Brian Cox has never bothered filtering his opinions. Recently, while sharing his distaste for Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, the Succession star stressed that Phoenix was terrible in the role, claiming he’d done a better job as France’s first emperor.

However, his criticisms weren’t limited to Scott’s historical epic, as the actor also took shots at one of Mel Gibson’s most acclaimed works to date, which scored five Oscar wins, including Best Picture.

Mel Gibson’s Performance Is the Lone Saving Grace of Braveheart per Brian Cox

Brian Cox | Credit: Succession (via HBO)

While there are many reasons to love Braveheart, ranging from its grand scale to Mel Gibson‘s best impeccable performance, historically, the film wasn’t quite accurate. From Gibson’s dodgy Scottish accent to its simplistic politics,...

Mel Gibson is the Oscar-winning actor and director who has had his fair share of highs and lows, due in large part to several self-inflicted scandals. Let’s look back at 12 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born in 1956, Gibson and his family moved from New York to Australia, where he first came to prominence as an actor thanks to George Miller‘s original “Mad Max” trilogy, plus leading roles in Peter Weir‘s “Gallipoli” and “The Year of Living Dangerously.” He had equal success in the US, starring in everything from action films (the “Lethal Weapon” franchise) to romantic comedies (“What Women Want”).

He first hit the Oscar jackpot with the 1995 historical epic “Braveheart,” in which he also starred as Scottish warrior William Wallace. That film brought his wins in Best Picture and Best Director. He had similar directorial success with the controversial box-office bonanza “The Passion of the Christ...

A 73m x 7m submarine was always going to be a left-field substitute for A-lister Zendaya after Luca Guadagnino’s hotly anticipated tennis movie Challengers was pulled from the Venice Film Festival’s prestigious opening-night slot. And although the gargantuan Cappellini is a formidable presence in Edoardo De Angelis’s 1940-set war drama, Comandante seems woefully out of its depth as a curtain-raiser to a festival still reckoning with the effects of the SAG-AFTRA strike.

Held together by a very strong performance by Pierfrancesco Favino as sub commander Salvatore Todaro, De Angelis’ film takes a long time to set sail, beginning with a strange prologue in which we see Todaro plunging into the sea. This is his first brush with death, and it leaves him severely disabled, being forced to wear a back brace and prescribed serious doses of morphine. “I like you disabled,” says his wife, Rina...

Propstore, one of the world’s leading film and TV memorabilia companies, just kick-started a new memorabilia auction this week that was loaded with horror props. On Wednesday, June 28, over 500 rare and iconic pieces from Film and TV fetched in excess of $9.7 million.

The most high-priced auction item? The original clown doll from 1982’s Poltergeist!

Notable sales from yesterday, Day One of Propstore’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction, included (sale prices inclusive of buyer’s premium)…

Screen-Matched Evil Clown Doll from Poltergeist (1982) sold for $656,250 Norris (Charles Hallahan) Spider Head-Thing from Thing, The (1982) sold for $587,500 Robert Blalack’s Praxis Optical Printer Used to Composite Every VFX Shot from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope (1977) sold for $337,500 Rick Deckard’s (Harrison Ford) Screen-Matched and Photo-Matched Costume from Voight-Kampff and Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) Fight Scenes from Blade Runner (1982) sold for $287,500 Screen-Matched Jumanji Game Board from Jumanji (1995) sold for $262,500 Light-Up Full-Size...

As Braveheart’s William Wallace once put it, “Every man dies, not every man truly lives.” And has a man truly lived until Mel Gibson has bailed him out of a jam on the side of the road in the pitch black of night? In a viral video, the star is seen as a true road warrior, helping a citizen air up his tire in an act that has garnered praise for Gibson. While the video has been around for well over a year, new exposure has helped shed a new light on Mel Gibson – no, really, he needs you to shine a light on the pressure gauge for him.

The video, which is embedded below, finds the stranded man askingMel Gibson, “Why are you alone?” The Academy Award-winning actor shrugs his shoulders and responds, “Why are you?” The fella in distress replies, “I am alone because I am not famous,...

A generation may see Brian Cox only as Logan Roy, the patriarch of "Succession," but there's a lot more to the Scottish actor than HBO's hit black comedy. Cox is established not just in television but on stage and in film, where he's worked with directors such as Wes Anderson, David Fincher, Michael Mann, Spike Lee, and Spike Jonze.

Cox's venerable reign at the top of Hollywood's B-list -- on his way to the A-list -- has been truly workmanlike, encompassing some 240-plus acting credits (via IMDb). In 2001, Cox won an Emmy for his performance as Hermann Göring in the TV movie "Nuremberg." Two years later, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him Commander of the British Empire, and then, in 2007, the UK Film Council recognized Cox as among the top 10 most powerful British actors in Hollywood (via PBS).

With "Succession" now concluding its fourth and final season, Cox will have a...

War is a living nightmare, wreaking its destruction on innocent lives and civilizations. It casts deep wounds that shape our history, present circumstances, and potential prospects for the future.

War has been a central theme in all of human history since its inception. It inspires both captivation and terror, with stories of bravery, resilience, and courage, as well as violence and death. It is the peak of danger – where any semblance of safety or security ceases to exist for those who fight. All that remains are humanity’s yearning for survival against insurmountable odds.

Hollywood has no shortage of war films meant to both awe and educate. Some promote the best humanity can offer as people come together for a common cause. Others reveal the horrific truth behind conflict’s brutality and man’s capacity for harm on an unimaginable scale.

Here is the ultimate fan selection of the top...

When Sight and Sound magazine does their decennial list of the greatest films of all time, I find that more interesting than the actual list itself is exploring all of the ballots submitted by the various critics and filmmakers invited to participate. Because we already know the consensus, seeing what individuals include as one-off outliers says so much about what they look for when they go to the movies. Without question, the most interesting top ten ballot from 2022 was from Indian blockbuster auteur S.S. Rajamouli. Not a single one of his choices ended up on the final directors' poll list, and this isn't a case of his list being filled with Indian films that many people haven't seen. In fact, only one Indian film, K.V. Reddy's 1957 epic "Mayabazar," made his list.

Instead, his list was very Western and very populist. It features Steven Spielberg's action-adventure masterpiece "Raiders of the Lost Ark,...

Harrison Ford is one of the biggest movie stars of all time. He went from the "cool big brother" in roles like Han Solo and Indiana Jones, then graduated to "America's Dad" in the Jack Ryan movies and "Air Force One." What kid in the '80s didn't want to be Ford, and what kid in the '90s didn't want to be raised (and rescued from terrorists) by him? As an '80s and '90s kid, I'm well-versed in Ford's filmography, having seen almost all of his movies. Yes, even the obscure ones like "The Frisco Kid." Okay, I've missed a lot of his 2000s and 2010s run, but let's be honest, Ford's choices have been pretty inexplicable ("Cowboys & Aliens?"; "Extreme Measures?"; "Morning Glory?"). No, I prefer prime Ford.

Rather than be smothered by Captain Solo and Dr. Jones, Ford used his most famous roles to craft...

To win a Best Picture Oscar, a film has to have something about it.

Only 90 films in history have been given this award. They’re not voted on by the eccentric members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who pick the Golden Globes, or by specialist groups of critics, but by the 6,000 members of the Academy. That is to say, the choice is made by distinguished figures from within the industry.

Sometimes, though, they do still make some baffling choices.

By the time the Oscars roll around at the end of the awards process, a herd mentality tends to have set in.

When everybody has already voted at all the other awards shows for, say, The King’s Speech or The Shape of Water, the Academy members follow suit. It’s rare for a Best Picture winner ever to be a complete surprise.

Nonetheless, a few questionable films have stolen glory that rightfully belonged elsewhere.

To win a Best Picture Oscar, a film has to have something about it.

Only 90 films in history have been given this award. They’re not voted on by the eccentric members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, who pick the Golden Globes, or by specialist groups of critics, but by the 6,000 members of the Academy. That is to say, the choice is made by distinguished figures from within the industry.

Sometimes, though, they do still make some baffling choices.

By the time the Oscars roll around at the end of the awards process, a herd mentality tends to have set in.

When everybody has already voted at all the other awards shows for, say, The King’s Speech or The Shape of Water, the Academy members follow suit. It’s rare for a Best Picture winner ever to be a complete surprise.

Nonetheless, a few questionable films have stolen glory that rightfully belonged elsewhere.

Mel Gibson is a household name in Hollywood, known for his successful career as both an actor and director. With a filmography spanning over four decades, it’s no wonder that he has a long list of movie credits. In this article, we’ll be discussing the 20 best Mel Gibson movies of all time. From his portrayal of William Wallace in Braveheart to his return to acting in Edge of Darkness, these are the films that have solidified Gibson’s place in Hollywood history.

With so many great movies to choose from, it was tough to narrow it down to just 20. These are no doubt the best Mel Gibson movies that showcase his talent and versatility as an actor and filmmaker. So, without further ado, let’s dive into our list of the best Mel Gibson movies of all time.

20 Best Mel Gibson Movies 1. “Braveheart” (1995)

“Braveheart” is certainly one of...

When "Silent Hill 2" was released in 2001, the game changed the landscape of the survival horror genre in unprecedented ways. The second installment in the "Silent Hill" video game series accentuated the nightmarish terror of the original, transporting players into a liminal space where the most grotesque fears came alive. Among the many monsters that lurk around the shapeshifting town of Silent Hill is Pyramid Head, a faceless, hulking humanoid who still scares the bejesus out of players when revealed. Over the years, Pyramid Head achieved iconic status as a video game antagonist and began to represent the franchise as a whole. Although Pyramid Head was exclusively designed by Masahiro Ito to represent James Sunderland's repressed guilt in the second game, the growing popularity of the monster gradually distanced it from its original purpose.

Ito, who had served as art director and monster designer for "Silent Hill 2," was personally involved...

Performing his best blend of Knute Rockne and William Wallace, prolific Welsh actor and BBC stalwart Michael Sheen launched into a locker-room speech for the ages Thursday night on the UK’s Sky network.

Tasked by the host of the sports comedy show “A League of Their Own” with pumping up the Wales national soccer team ahead of November’s World Cup, Sheen wasn’t addressing the Gareth Bale-led squad to their faces.

But he might as well have been.

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“I have to get in the right head space now,” Sheen said before launching into the rousing speech. “Ok.”

Sheen, spreading his arms with his palms open and fingers spread, then delivers a monologue to end all monologues, which you can watch and read below.

Volume up and watch this.

Mel Gibson's "Braveheart," a loose biography of the 13th century Scottish revolutionary William Wallace, was released in 1995 to much critical laud, with many critics and fans alike praising its dynamic, bloodied look at Scottish history. Actual historians, meanwhile, had a collective aneurysm over how inaccurate screenwriter Randall Wallace's view of history was. Screenwriter Wallace (no relation to William) took many of his cues from a 1488 poem called "The Wallace," written by Blind Harry. "The Wallace" was already an exaggeration of history, and subsequent poems and tales about William Wallace tended to expand the myth rather than seek accuracy. The inaccuracies and historical fudging committed by "Braveheart" is a matter of public record, and Wallace has said that the Blind Harry poem "spoke to [his] heart" more than it was accurate.

Indeed, the screenplay has more to do with classic Hollywood biopic structure than it does with any kind of classical,...

First off I need to apologize for the tardiness of this entry. I was infected with the swine pandemic and was unable to do anything but utter “Bbbbraaaiiinsssss…” feebly from my bed. Now I’m up and about again, so here we go.

One of the first things to do when making your movie is figure out who your main character is going to be. Now, you may pick your plot first and then figure what kind of protagonist you want or you may pick your characters and write about what they do – it all depends on your style of writing. In either case, understanding your protagonist(s) is very important since these are the people whom the plot revolves around, who we will come to know and love and who we will follow for the next 120 minutes. They will be our tour guides through your movie so you have...