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There are Hollywood classics, and then there are Hollywood Classics. Undoubtedly 1950’s Sunset Boulevard, director/writer Billy Wilder’s ultimate Hollywood story is in that rarefied air. It is of course the tale of washed up aging silent screen queen Norma Desmond, played to the hilt by another actress known for her silents Gloria Swanson, whose delusional dreams of a comeback end – and begin – with the murder of screenwriter Joe Gillis, who lies face down in her pool at her decaying mansion as the film opens, and Gillis cheekily narrates his own demise. That would be William Holden doing the honors and both he and Swanson were nominated for Oscars, along with Nancy Olson as Betty Schaefer, a script reader who falls for Gillis, and the inimitable Erich von Stroheim who plays Max, Desmond’s ex-husband and loyal butler. They were all among the 11 Oscar nominations the film received, winning 3 for Art Direction,...

This month marks the 75th anniversary of “Sunset Boulevard,” Billy Wilder‘s darkly hilarious, brutally honest, and ultimately surprisingly poignant poison-pen letter to the Hollywood film industry where he made his success. To mark the occasion, Paramount has meticulously restored the film for a new 4K release that premiered at Cannes this year and is now available via streaming and physical media.

That “Sunset Boulevard” and its story of the doomed relationship between struggling screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) and faded silent film queen Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) has endured for 75 years is not surprising to Nancy Olson, who starred in the movie as Gillis’ love interest and conscience Betty Schaefer. She was Oscar-nominated for her performance for Best Supporting Actress.

“We knew we were at another level of filmmaking,” Olson, 97, told IndieWire. “There was something being asked of us that was not ordinary, and you had to live up to it.

Tom Troupe, a veteran actor who appeared on stage and screens silver and small, has died at the age of 97 of natural causes in his Beverly Hills home, according to his publicist, Harlan Boll, and multiple media reports.

A prolific performer who appeared on Broadway and over 75 TV series, his career began in the mid-50s and ended in the late 2010s. Among his most well-known roles were parts in the original TV run of Star Trek and My Own Private Idaho with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.

Born on July 15, 1928, in Kansas City, Mo., Troupe began performing in local theater productions before moving to New York City in the late ’40s. At Herbert Berghof Studio, he studied under and received a scholarship from preeminently influential actress and teacher Uta Hagen.

After serving in the Korean War, for which he was awarded a Bronze Star, Troupe made his Broadway debut...

Easterseals Southern California is collaborating with IMDb and IMDbPro to highlight disability representation in honor of Disability Pride Month and the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in July. The partnership will last until the end of August.

“To see the disability community featured so prominently on IMDb, our longtime partner, is incredibly impactful,” Nancy Weintraub, chief advancement officer of Essc, said. “It helps us truly reflect the spirit of disability pride, recognizing the influence, voice and achievements of people with disabilities across industries, especially media.”

According to the CDC, 25% of U.S. residents or more than 70 million people across the country reported having a disability in 2022. The longtime partnership between IMDb and IMDbPro for their annual Easterseals Disability Film Challenge acknowledges professionals from the disability community who have also worked closely with IMDb. The collaboration features curated content in the IMDb Spotlight special section, including exclusive video interviews,...

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Mountainhead is a satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Jesse Armstrong. The HBO film revolves around four billionaire friends as they gather for a secluded weekend retreat at a mountain head villa while the whole world struggles because of major financial turmoil. Mountainhead stars Steve Carell, Jason Schwartzman, Cory Michael Smith, and Ramy Youssef. So, if you loved the biting dark comedy, pointed satire, and compelling but unlikable characters in Mountainhead, here are some similar movies you should check out next.

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In the Loop is a British satirical dark comedy film directed by Armando Iannucci, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, and Tony Roche. Based on the British series The Thick of It, the 2009 film revolves around the fallout that followed after...

Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on the hit comedy series M*A*S*H, died today at her home in New York City. She was 87.

Her death was announced by her representative Harlan Boll, who said a New York City police report indicates Swit died just after noon today of suspected natural causes.

Swit was a mainstay on the classic and beloved comedy series for its entire 11-year run, nominated for Emmy Awards every year from 1974-83, winning in 1980 and 1982.

Born Loretta Jane Szwed on November 4, 1937, in Passaic, New Jersey, studied drama in New York City with Gene Frankel, the noted theater director and acting teacher. Swit appeared in Off Broadway productions throughout the 1960s, and in 1967 toured with the national company of the comedy Any Wednesday.

Swit made her TV debut in 1969 on Hawaii Five-o, with subsequent credits including Mannix, Mission: Impossible, Gunsmoke, Bonanza and The Bold Ones,...

Nearly 75 years have passed since the release of arguably one of the greatest movies ever made, and a stone-cold classic of film noir — Sunset Boulevard. Directed by Billy Wilder, who would go on to helm other Oscar winners like Marilyn Monroe's Some Like it Hot and the Jack Lemmon rom-com The Apartment, the feature was a sensation from the moment of its release in 1950, earning 11 Academy Award nominations, three wins, and, eventually, was among the first films to be preserved in the National Film Registry. Yet, one thing the cinematic masterpiece has lacked is a proper restoration in 4K Ultra HD for modern viewers. That's about to change this summer with a new physical and digital release. Collider can exclusively share the official trailer made from restored footage of the Paramount classic.

Immediately, the trailer whisks viewers back to Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, which is looking crisper than ever.

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It’s a big time for Sunset Boulevard. Not only has the Broadway revival, starring Nicole Scherzinger, garnered acclaim, but the film it’s based on is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

To celebrate, Paramount announced a 4K Blu-ray of the film, marking the first time the film will be released in Uhd. The anniversary edition will drop on August 5 and is available to preorder today.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty is heating up one last time, and Summer 2025 is about to be The moment! The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 — the third and final chapter — is almost here. Set mostly at the dreamy, sun-soaked Cousins Beach, the series follows the coming-of-age of Isabelle “Belly” Conklin (Lola Tung), who’s spent every summer there with her mom Laurel (Jackie Chung), her brother Steven (Sean Kaufman), and their second family: Laurel’s bestie Susannah (Rachel Blanchard) and her two boys, Conrad (Chris Briney) and Jeremiah (Gavin Casalegno).

Belly’s heart? It’s always been tangled up in Conrad. Always. But there’s also Jeremiah — her first kiss, her what-could-have-been, her maybe. Season 3 isn’t just a stroll down memory lane. It’s about the feelings that never really left. About unfinished business. About growing up — and figuring out who really holds your heart. As time jumps forward and old sparks fly,...

William Holden was an Oscar-winning performer who starred in dozens of movies, remaining active until his untimely death in 1981. But how many of his titles remain classics? Let's take a look back at 15 of his greatest films, ranked worst to best.

Born on April 17, 1918, Holden made his film debut with a starring role in the boxing drama "Golden Boy" (1939) when he was just 21 years old. Though his career lagged for the next decade, he came roaring back with Billy Wilder's Hollywood noir "Sunset Boulevard" (1950), playing a struggling screenwriter who becomes involved with a fading, delusional silent film star (Gloria Swanson). The role brought him his first Oscar nomination as Best Actor.

He joined the winner's circle just three years later with a Best Actor victory for Wilder's "Stalag 17" (1953), which cast him as a cynical American Pow who's suspected of being a German informant during WWII.

It took...

When it comes to the biggest big screen stars of the 1960s and 1970s, even a short list would have to include Steve McQueen. He's rarely mentioned in the same acting league as contemporaries like Paul Newman and Robert Redford, but his early death in 1980 at just 50 years old is arguably the biggest reason for that. Still, even without later performances that would have surely continued to flex his acting muscles, his existing filmography shows an immense and interesting talent bristling with both energy and calm.

It's McQueen's control between the relaxed and the electric, along with his genuine and visible appreciation for life, that led to the actor being dubbed "the King of Cool." The persona served him well in roles that saw him playing underdogs and disrupters, men who refuse to abide by the established order and instead forge their own path, and it's part of what...

We know Gabriel Macht as the charming, cocky, and impeccably dressed Harvey Specter from Suits. Very few of us, however, know that he’s been going through the motions of Hollywood since he was a wee little kid. So, who is he really? Macht, as he describes himself, is a man of many. Confident yet self-doubting, focused yet lost in thought, present yet always dreaming.

Having said that, how much of this has translated into wealth? With a career spanning decades and a role that has shaped modern television, we take a closer look at the Suits star and how rich Gabriel Macht really is today.

Gabriel Macht in the Suits episode Faith | Credits: USA Network Growing up and early days in California

Born in the Bronx on January 22, 1972, to Suzanne Victoria Pulie, a museum curator mom and an actor dad in Stephen Macht, Gabriel Macht was surrounded by the arts from the jump.

Quick LinksDial M for Murder Was Grace Kelly’s First Movie Working With Alfred HitchcockGrace Kelly Famously Gave up Acting After Her Marriage to the Prince of MonacoGrace Kelly May Have Starred in More Iconic Hitchcock Films Had She Not Retired

Dial M for Murder (1954) was a typical Alfred Hitchcock film made mid-career for the suspense icon. It was based on a play of the same name produced just two years prior and starred Grace Kelly and Ray Milland. The plot follows a London playboy intent on planning the perfect murder of his rich and unfaithful wife, played by Kelly. It would be hailed by critics upon its release, with a few mixed reviews. But overall, it became a staple in the Hitchcock canon.

Kelly would go on to become a regular in other Hitchcock films before she gave up acting entirely in 1956. She went down as being one of...

The Surfer star Nicolas Cage reveals why he kept a dead rat prop in his pocket for two weeks while shooting the 2025 thriller movie. The latest film from cinema’s most prolific wild man stars him as a father returning to his childhood beach in Australia with his son, attempting to reconnect with his past, but being hounded by violent, territorial locals. Reviews of The Surfer have thus far been positive, with ScreenRant giving the thriller 3 stars.

One Surfer scene getting particular attention sees Cage disgustingly stuffing a dead rat into a man’s mouth during a fight, and according to Cage, pulling off that particular improvised moment required him to carry a dead rat prop around in his pocket for two weeks, raising questions among cast and crew. Cage also reveals the classic film that served as unlikely inspiration for his dead rat improv, describing a scene from Billy Wilder...

As one of the most narratively rich and visually impactful genres in cinema, war movies often resonate with viewers through impressive technical design, well-executed action and memorable characters. Moreover, the audience’s engagement through a war film’s complex characters oftentimes heightens the combat elements and the emotional facets. At the same time, the actors who bring these important characters to life do a wonderful job of capturing the narrative’s tone, where many of these stars can refer to similar military experiences.

As one of the most integral and deadly aspects of human history, war demonstrates the harsh realities of humanity and also reveals a sense of duty from the soldiers who aim to fight for a noble cause. In this instance, several Hollywood stars have joined the military, as well as served in war, and upon making the jump to acting, these performers have brought depth to a...

What's so great about Westerns? Well, for starters, the genre's approach toward morality might seem clear-cut at a glance, but the best Westerns languish in morally grey landscapes and constantly redefine codes of honor. Violence is often at the heart of these stories because, without this component, we would be painting a sanitized and inauthentic picture of a society on the cusp of change. This violence can manifest in different forms and reflect bitter truths about human history, or it can simply highlight universal human traumas from a specific point of view. Moreover, lawless spaces demand lawless men who are in tune with the West and its ethos, and sometimes, these men undergo a transformation. The rich history of Westerns extends beyond the moving image, with writers like Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx having reshaped the definitions of how Westerns can reveal the worst impulses in humanity.

Deciding which Westerns...

Joseph Wambaugh, the writer who mined his years as a Los Angeles Police Department patrolman for a series of bestselling crime books including The Onion Field, The New Centurions, The Blue Knight and The Glitter Dome, and whose literary works were adapted for feature films and television series, died today of esophageal cancer at his home in Rancho Mirage, California. He was 88.

His death was reported to The New York Times by a Wambaugh family friend.

In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown and Co. The story of rookie LAPD cops in the early 1960s became his first bestseller and, the following year, the first movie based on his work. The film adaptation starred George C. Scott and Stacy Keach.

The New Centurions novel was followed by a string of police novels, including 1972’s The Blue Knight (later...

Joseph Wambaugh, who turned his experiences from 14 years with the Los Angeles Police Department into such gritty books as The Onion Field, The New Centurions, The Blue Knight and The Glitter Dome — all adapted for the screen — died Friday. He was 88.

Wambaugh, who also co-created the acclaimed 1970s anthology series Police Story for NBC, died at his home in Rancho Mirage of esophageal cancer, longtime family friend Janene Gant told The New York Times.

Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping tale that followed three young LAPD officers during a five-year period that led to the 1965 Watts riots. Published by Little, Brown and Co. in 1971, it was a hit, remaining on The New York Times Best Seller List for 32 weeks.

In his review for the Times, Thomas Fleming wrote: “Do you like cops? Read The New Centurions.

Gene Hackman was a legend where I grew up. Granted, he was a legend practically everywhere, but in Pasadena, California, to theater kids and movie geeks, he was hope incarnate.

Pasadena is the home to the historic (and aptly titled) Pasadena Playhouse, a venerable theatrical institution and a college with a list of alumni that boggles the mind: David Niven, Tyrone Power, Martha Graham, Lee J. Cobb, Leonard Nimoy, Angela Bassett, Ernest Borgnine, Jean Arthur, William Holden, Ariana Grande, Dustin Hoffman — and of course Gene Hackman. But Hackman had something none of those other famous actors ever had: the lowest scores of any actor, by that point, in the Pasadena Playhouse’s history.

In fact, Hackman and his friend and contemporary Hoffman were voted “Least Likely to Succeed,” which is a pretty crappy category, if we’re being honest. It’s like dropping the Razzie for Worst Picture in the middle of the Oscars telecast.

Welcome to Reality Derby, our weekly deep dive into all things reality TV, hosted by Gold Derby senior editors Marcus James Dixon and Denton Davidson.

Joining us this week is boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, who was eliminated after performing as Fuzzy Peas on this week’s episode of The Masked Singer on Fox. (Our interview begins at the 0:58 mark in the video above.) De La Hoya tells us about his appearance on the singing competition, being nominated for a Grammy in 2001, and his greatest career achievement.

“I’m up against some tough characters,” De La Hoya says of Ant, Coral, and Paparazzo. “These guys can belt! These guys can sing. It was surprising actually, to me, because you think you’re doing well, you’re singing good — but I have to tell you one thing — the other characters are like true professionals. This season’s gonna be amazing.

Martin Scorsese's 1990 crime masterpiece "Goodfellas" is one of the finest gangster movies ever made and has the award shelf to prove it. Still, despite its impressive six Academy Award nominations, the most esteemed awards of the industry largely avoided the mob epic -- except for one particular golden statuette.

Joe Pesci held the fort at the 1991 Academy Awards ceremony with his Best Actor in a Supporting Role Oscar win for his amazing turn as the volatile Tommy DeVito, the wildest card in a movie full of wild cards. He became an Oscar-winning actor with his signature cool intact. However, unlike his character -- who, as his iconic "I'm funny how?" scene shows, is extremely verbose at most times -- the actor chose to keep his speech short and sweet, uttering only five words as he took the stage to receive the golden statuette. "It's my privilege. Thank you," Pesci said before exiting the stage.

In 1969 the master of the American western, Sam Peckinpah, directed a stellar cast in The Wild Bunch, a controversial film that breathed new life into the genre and broke ground in the realistic portrayal of screen violence. Receiving two Academy Award nominations, this bitter, brutal story of magnificent losers in a dying West remains one of the screen’s all-time classics. An explosive adventure drama about the last of the legendary lawless breed who lived to kill – and killed to live. The cast included William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien. Warren Oates and Ben Johnson.

Now comes a bunch of a different kind. the Thunderbolts* – an unconventional team of antiheroes – Yelena Belova, Bucky Barnes, Red Guardian, Ghost, Taskmaster and John Walker. The cast features Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Hannah John-Kamen and Julia Louis-Dreyfus and also includes newcomers to the MCU – Lewis Pullman...

"Hooray for Hollywood," the old song says. Since the inception of movies, Hollywood has had an interesting habit of making movies about itself. Until the 1950s, those movies almost exclusively celebrated moviemaking as a kind of idyllic profession, all fun and joy for those lucky enough to work in it. That changed in 1950 when director Billy Wilder issued a blistering denouncement of Hollywood with his film Sunset Boulevard.

Today, Sunset Boulevard lands on just about every list of the Greatest Movies Ever, usually somewhere in the top ten. That says something. More than 70 years and one Broadway musical adaptation later, Sunset Boulevard feels as probing and scathing as ever. Told with unforgettable dialog, strange meta-commentary on those who made the film, and acted with some of the greatest performances to ever hit the screen, it deserves its spot as one of the 10 Best Movies Ever.

Sunset Boulevard Carpet Bombs the...

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the acting champ when it comes to Academy Awards.

His performance for the Martin Scorsese film from 1980 has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actor winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 male leading actors.

Anthony Hopkins finished second for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Marlon Brando following in third for The Godfather (1972). Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actor winners is Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona (1928). George Arliss in Disraeli (1929), Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul (1930), Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine (1942), and Paul Muni for The Story of Louis Pasteur...

Robert De Niro won his second Oscar in 1981 for playing a boxing champ in Raging Bull. And now he has been chosen as the champ of all actors.

His performance for the Martin Scorsese film from 1980 has been voted the greatest Oscar Best Actor winner ever, according to a Gold Derby ballot cast by 21 of our film experts, critics, and editors, who ranked all 97 male leading actors.

Anthony Hopkins ranked second for The Silence of the Lambs (1991), with Marlon Brando following in third for The Godfather (1972). Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be Blood (2007), and Gregory Peck for To Kill a Mockingbird (1961) rounded out the top five.

At the bottom of the list of the Best Actor winners is Warner Baxter for In Old Arizona (1928). Just above that film performance in the rankings are George Arliss in Disraeli (1929), Lionel Barrymore for A Free Soul (1930), Paul Lukas for Watch on the Rhine...

Grigori Rasputin is one of the most enigmatic historical figures to ever exist. Often referred to as "the mad monk" and categorized as everything from a mystic, faith healer, hypnotist, deviant, and unhinged sociopath, Rasputin has not only remained a point of interest for fans of history, but an iconic villain in the manufactured world of cinema. Often portrayed as a cunning and evil mastermind who undermines the Russian Imperial family through coercion, Rasputin's mythical reputation has a lore that has been well-established. So much so that separating fact from fiction sometimes becomes difficult.

In 1996, Rasputin was once again resurrected in what could be easily described as Alan Rickman's most exceptional performance. Rickman plays the titular character in Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, a film made for HBO and directed by Uli Edel. The film chronicles the last few years of Rasputin's life as he gains favor with the...

The end of the year draws near, which means it’s time for the annual ritual of celebrating how far we’ve come and sharing good tidings for the future—all while battling the fear that we’re too inadequate to make a mark with our ruthlessly linear life. The...

On Dec. 25, 1950, Columbia unveiled the George Cukor-directed adaptation of Born Yesterday at its Los Angeles premiere. The film went on to nab five nominations at the 23rd Academy Awards, including for best picture, and won best actress for Judy Holliday’s turn as Billie Dawn. The Hollywood Reporter’s original review is below:

Born Yesterday comes to the screen as the bright, infectious and delightful entertainment that it was when the play first took Broadway by storm several years ago. And for this feat of transforming what has become a stock and road show wheelhorse into 104 minutes of rollicking celluloid fun, the impresarios of Gower Street can begin drinking champagne from the dainty slipper of Judy Holliday. She’s only wonderful and without her triumphant performance of Billie Dawn, the honey-haired chorus girl who topples the power of a money-mad tycoon, Born Yesterday would be dead tomorrow.

In its...

Throughout the 1970s, audiences couldn’t get enough of disaster movies. The decade began with the all-star blockbuster bomb-on-a-plane thrill ride Airport, based on Arthur Hailey’s best-seller. Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin, Maureen Stapleton, Van Heflin, Jean Seberg, and Jacqueline Bisset headlined Airport, which became the second-biggest box-office hit of the year and earned nine Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Hayes. Airport also established the template for subsequent movies: trapping all-star casts on a plane, a ship, or a high-rise.

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Producer-director-writer Irwin Allen took disaster movies to the next level — so much so he was dubbed “The Master of Disaster.” Allen, who enjoyed great success on the small screen in the 1960s with the series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, and Lost in Space, brought his disaster savvy to the...

Earl Holliman, the actor best known for playing Angie Dickinson’s boss on the 1970s NBC cop drama Police Woman, has died. He was 96.

Holliman died Monday in hospice care at his home in Studio City, his spouse, Craig Curtis, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Holliman won a best supporting actor Golden Globe for portraying Katharine Hepburn’s girl-crazy kid brother in The Rainmaker (1956) — he beat out Elvis Presley for the role — and then appeared in another Burt Lancaster film, as Wyatt Earp’s assistant in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957).

In the George Stevens epic Giant (1956), the Louisiana native played the son-in-law of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson’s characters, was the cook in Forbidden Planet (1956) and appeared as the brother of John Wayne, Dean Martin and Michael Anderson Jr. in Henry Hathaway’s The Sons of Katie Elder (1965).

Holliman also portrayed a man with amnesia in a deserted town...

“You know what’s going on from the news, but information in America is driven by money. It’s a business,” Alec Baldwin begins at the Turin Film Festival, where he is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award.

“That’s why there’s a void in information on the biggest issues in the world. Americans know little or nothing — on climate change, on Ukraine. That void is filled in part by the film industry, by documentaries and narrative films.”

Baldwin, star of the recently premiered Rust and guest of the Tff, does not mention Donald Trump, but he is critical about the situation in his country.

Asked by The Hollywood Reporter about his concerns and hopes after the Trump administration takes office, Baldwin darts around the T-word with a generalized answer on Monday.

“There are many challenges to face,” he says. “The environment, the problem of plastic, of permafrost:...

Among the most revered moviemakers of his generation, Paul Thomas Anderson is in post-production on his latest film, tentatively titled The Hombres of Baktan Cross. As fans eagerly await more details about the mysterious Leonardo DiCaprio project, they must watch Licorice Pizza for free on Tubi. It is one of PTA's most personal, freewheeling, and fun-filled movies, exploring his upbringing in the 1970s San Fernando Valley. It's also one of his highest-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes.

Set in Southern California in 1973, Licorice Pizza is a romantic coming-of-age dramedy with a playfully loose narrative and editing style that feels like a fun, throwback hangout movie. Apart from establishing a vivid time and place, the autobiographical flourishes that PTA adds to the story offer fans a glimpse of his childhood by transporting them to a groovy decade full of bell-bottom jeans, vinyl records, large Afro hairdos, and more.

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Ah, Casino Royale. Everyone loved that classic James Bond thriller starring... Woody Allen, Peter Sellers, and Orson Welles? That's right, 40 years before the 007 franchise was rebooted with Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, writer Ian Fleming's book was adapted into one of the goofiest, most ridiculous movies ever made. As the search for a new James Bond continues, let's look back on the undoubtedly weirdest moment in the history of the franchise.

1967's Casino Royale was a marquee affair, with a budget that was nearly 12 times as big as 1962's Dr. No. It attracted one of the best casts of the '60s David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen, Joanna Pettet, Orson Welles, Daliah Lavi, Deborah Kerr, William Holden, Charles Boyer, Jean-Paul Belmondo, George Raft, John Huston, Jacqueline Bisset, Peter O'Toole, and Ronnie Corbett. Casino Royale wasn't just bloated on-screen; it was overstuffed off-screen as well. The...

Dustin Pittman with Anne-Katrin Titze and Ed Bahlman holding up New York After Dark

In the first instalment of our conversation with photographer extraordinaire, Dustin Pittman, and music producer and 99 Records founder Ed Bahlman, we start out with Gloria Swanson at her apartment (star of Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard opposite William Holden), the early days with Danny Fields, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger (at Madison Square Garden), Patricia Field, Sex And The City, Susan Seidelman, Halston and the Halstonettes, Diana Vreeland, Liza Minnelli and US First Lady Betty Ford at Studio 54, the Vivienne Westwood, Malcolm McLaren connection to Mariann Marlowe and Frankie Savage’s Ian’s, staying with The Pretenders in London, Lucy Sante and her books, the shop 99, Max’s Kansas City, Ungaro’s, Régine’s, The Odeon, Lutèce or La Grenouille, and Dustin Pittman: New York...

Welcome to the dark side of the American dream.

The best film noir movies of all time are visions of a universally known truth not always spoken out loud: It can be really hard to live in America, and if you don’t have money, you have nothing. If Westerns are about “manifest destiny,” film noir is about what comes after. If you do finally get the swimming pool, you might end up face-down dead in it, like poor William Holden’s struggling screenwriter in “Sunset Boulevard.” Or you may have entered a miserable marriage to get your gilded palace. In film noir, you might have that gilded palace all to yourself if you’re willing to murder for it. Take a look at “Double Indemnity.” This genre is all about recognizing that some success in America might not be attainable through legal means, and so working outside the law becomes a tantalizing temptation,...

Some actors are linked forever to certain genres: Humphrey Bogart and film noir, Hugh Grant and romantic comedies, Clint Eastwood and Westerns. And yet, just because an actor might be tied indelibly to a certain genre doesn't necessitate that it's one of their personal favorites.

The aforementioned Clint Eastwood is a living legend to Cowboy enthusiasts everywhere, but the one movie he loves the most has nothing to do with the Wild West at all. Instead, it's a revolutionary noir comedy helmed by one of the most talented screenwriters of any generation, Billy Wilder. Moreover, the potential impact this seminal film had on Clint's career is worth exploring.

Related 10 Best Film Noir Movies, Ranked

The film noir genre massively influenced American cinema throughout the 1940s and '50s, spawning several iconic movies in the process.

So, What Is Clint Eastwood's Favorite Film? A Movie About the Greatest Star of Them...

Damien Thorn is the Antichrist, and the trilogy that tells his unholy tale remains popular almost fifty years later. Indeed, while putting together this movie ranked list and revisiting the original Omen franchise, we were surprised at how well the old movies held up. Omen fans will be happy that the series has been restarted in a pretty interesting way earlier this year, with The First Omen a surprisingly excellent prequel to the original trilogy (check out our interviews with the director and cast here), even if it takes one large liberty involving Damien’s birth that some fans may have an issue with. So, how do the Omen films rank against each other? Let’s take a look, but remember that the TV series Damien (which lasted for one season in 2016) is not included, as we’re sticking with feature films.

The Omen (2006)

There’s honestly no reason for this movie to exist.

Nicholas Pryor, the busy character actor who portrayed Tom Cruise’s father in Risky Business and Kathleen Robertson’s dad on Beverly Hills, 90210 during a career that spanned seven decades, has died. He was 89.

Pryor died Monday of cancer at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina, his wife, actress Christine Belford, told The Hollywood Reporter.

In a note to be delivered to THR after his death, he wrote: “Nicholas Pryor was enormously grateful to have been, for nearly 70 years, a working actor.”

From 1997-2002, Pryor played the former spy Victor Collins on the General Hospital spinoff Port Charles, culminating a long career in daytime soap operas that included stints on The Secret Storm, The Edge of Night, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, All My Children and Another World.

Pryor recurred on Fox’s Beverly Hills, 90210 as A. Milton Arnold, the chancellor of California University and father of Robertson’s Claire Arnold,...

Clint Eastwood's Hollywood career officially began in 1955 when he made a brief, uncredited appearance as a lab technician in Jack Arnold's "Revenge of the Creature." Nine years later, unhappy as a midlevel television star on the CBS Western series "Rawhide," he jetted off to Spain to make a different kind of Western with a very different kind of director named Sergio Leone. The result, "A Fistful of Dollars," changed the face of the genre forever, and set Eastwood down the path to becoming a filmmaker in his own right.

Eastwood's directing career got off to a curiously assured start with the wildly suspenseful thriller "Play Misty for Me," in which the tough, swaggering star of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and "Dirty Harry" played a victimized Bay Area disc jockey. No one expected this from Eastwood, and it's fair to say no one saw this hugely...

John Wayne is an iconic figure in Hollywood, known mainly for his roles in War and Western movies that defined his career. His acting spanned over five decades, making him one of the most influential actors of his time. He appeared in numerous films slated as some the best Westerns ever made, repeatedly working with various actors across multiple projects. His on-screen persona exuded rugged masculinity, integrity, and a deep connection to the American way of life, often complemented by his co-stars who contributed to the characters and narratives he portrayed. These frequent collaborators, each with unique strengths, played a significant role in shaping his career and contributing to the lasting legacy of John Wayne's Western films.

The actors who frequently appeared alongside Wayne were not just co-stars, but also trusted colleagues whose chemistry with Wayne often led to unforgettable moments. These partnerships developed over the years and across multiple films,...

Directed by none other than the brilliant Billy Wilder, Sunset Boulevard (1950) is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, starring Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a forgotten silent film star, and William Holden as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter. Practically perfect from start to finish, the classic film noir became a cinematic masterpiece, praised for its boldness to address the reality of a dark, pivotal time in American Hollywood. However, the movie was based on more than just Old Hollywood's gritty history, as it found inspiration from iconic figures as well as its pivotal location and transitional time period.

Kathryn Crosby, a singer and actor who was married to singer and actor Bing Crosby, has died. She was 90 years old. A spokesperson for the family said Kathryn died of natural causes at home in Hillsborough, California, on the night of Friday, September 20, per the Associated Press. Kathryn was born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on November 25, 1933, in West Columbia, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, and she got her start in Hollywood after a beauty competition got her a screen test with William Holden, according to Variety. She also wrote a showbiz column for her hometown newspaper, and she met Bing during a White Christmas set visit. Kathryn and Bing tied the knot in 1957 and remained married until his 1977 death. They had three children, including Dallas star Mary Crosby. Kathryn, who sometimes performed under the names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff, made her screen debut as an...

Kathryn Grant Crosby, the actress known for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Anatomy of a Murder, has died. She was 90.

The widow of Bing Crosby died of natural causes on Friday night at her Hillsborough, California home, according to a spokesperson for the Crosby family.

Born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov. 25, 1933 in West Columbia, Texas, she graduated from University of Texas at Austin before winning a beauty contest with the prize being a screen test in Hollywood with William Holden.

Beginning her onscreen career as Kathryn Grant in 1953, she appeared in such films as So This Is Love (1953), Rear Window (1954) and The Wild Party (1956).

While penning a column about Hollywood for her hometown newspaper, Kathryn met Bing during an interview on the set of his beloved 1954 holiday classic White Christmas. They wed in 1957, and she went on to become a registered nurse and teacher.

Bing Crosby performs with wife Kathryn Grant Crosby on Dec.

Kathryn Crosby, the actor, singer and widow of Bing Crosby, died Friday evening of natural causes at her home in Hillsborough, Calif. She was 90.

A representative for the Crosby family announced the news.

Crosby starred in more than 20 films over the course of her career, including “The Wild Party” (1956), “Operation Mad Ball” (1957), “The 7th Voyage of Sinbad” (1958) and “Anatomy of a Murder” (1959). She typically performed under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff.

Crosby appeared frequently on her husband Bing’s “Merrie Olde Christmas” specials and hosted “The Kathryn Crosby Show,” a 30-minute talk show based in San Francisco. Following the death of the famed singer and actor at the age of 74 in 1977, she performed in several stage productions such as the 1996 Broadway revival of “State Fair.” She also hosted the charitable Crosby National Golf Tournament in Bermuda Run, N.C., for many years.

Kathryn Crosby was born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff on Nov.

Kathryn Crosby, who starred in such films as Operation Mad Ball, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad and Anatomy of a Murder before she curtailed her acting career as the wife of Hollywood legend Bing Crosby, has died. She was 90.

Crosby died peacefully at her home in Hillsborough, California, surrounded by her family, according to a family spokesperson.

Billed under her stage name, Kathryn Grant, the Houston native made five features for famed film noir director Phil Karlson, including Tight Spot (1955), The Phenix City Story (1955) and The Brothers Rico (1957).

She also played the younger sister of Martha Hyer’s character in another film noir, the Blake Edwards-directed Mister Cory (1957), starring Tony Curtis, and portrayed a budding trapeze artist in The Big Circus (1959), starring Victor Mature.

Soon after wrapping production in Spain with her turn as the damsel in distress Princess Parisa in the Ray Harryhausen fantasy The 7th Voyage of Sinbad...

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Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were two of Hollywood's most sought-after leading men, with their charismatic and alluring presences dazzling audiences and establishing them as certified acting legends. In 1974, the powerhouse performers joined forces to headline the action-packed disaster extravaganza The Towering Inferno, which focuses on the valiant efforts of two courageous heroes as they attempt to save the lives of countless people trapped in a burning skyscraper.

Despite both actors having decorated resumes and the adoration of millions of fans, their attitudes and egos clashed during the production of the electrifying flick and soured the shooting experience, with an intense and bitter rivalry forming between Newman and McQueen as a result. Let's dive in and explore what led to the famous Tinseltown feud and the fiery...

One movie would have added another milestone in Winona Ryder's career in retrospect. The actor was offered the lead in a remake of Sabrina but she turned down that role.

Winona Ryder revealed she was offered to star in 1995's Sabrina but she declined it. In an interview with Esquire, she said she just wasn't into the prospect, despite her talent agency's protests. Directed by Sydney Pollack, Sabrina takes after the 1954 romantic comedy that starred cinema icons Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden. That film has since seen multiple adaptations including the 1995 remake. Ryder asserted she would have loved to work with Pollack, but she opted out knowing it was Audrey Hepburn's shoes she was going to fill; the role went to Julia Ormond. Ryder's decision might have been for the best in retrospect, since the Pollack version was ruthlessly compared to the original.

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This month marks the return of one of the most twisted beloved modern movie characters: Betelgeuse. Of course, we all know the bio-exorcist by his easier-to-spell name, Beetlejuice. After over three decades, Beetlejuice is back with the long-awaited and appropriately named sequel "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice." You already know that most (though not all) of the cast of the original 1988 Tim Burton horror-comedy is back, including Michael Keaton as the Juice himself. One big talking point Keaton has hit on in the pre-release marketing is that, in all the years of development, he pushed hard to ensure that his character was...not in a lot of the movie. It's not just false modesty -- Beetlejuice is only in 17 minutes of the movie bearing his name, but he makes a massive impact all the same. And Keaton's performance as Beetlejuice is just one of many that manages to be memorable and iconic without being overbearing.

Glen Powell is in a league of his own. Or rather, each leading man is to an extent.

Powell weighed in on a comparison between himself and fellow star Ryan Gosling after an unnamed Hollywood producer told The Wrap that Powell appeals to all genders at the box office. The producer seemingly overlooked Gosling’s diverse filmography, and marginalized both actors into gender binaries.

“Unlike an actor like Ryan Gosling whose appeal is mostly limited to female audiences, Glen appeals to both females and males,” the producer said, adding that a wide range of “audiences now go to movies to see” Powell who recently led “Twisters” and is set to star in the “Running Man” remake from Edgar Wright. The actor will also appear in college football comedy series “Chad Powers.”

Powell simply shrugged off the Gosling mention on Twitter.

“Gosling is a legend,” Powell tweeted. “I’m just Glen,...

There really hasn’t been a filmmaker quite like Blake Edwards. He could go from the silly-billy comedy of his “Pink Panther” comedies starring Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau to “Days of Wine and Roses,” a devastating drama dealing with alcoholism to the gender-bender musical comedy “Victor/Victoria” starring his wife Julie Andrews to the underrated Western “The Wild Rovers” with William Holden and Ryan O’Neal. Edwards even turned the diminutive British comedian Dudley Moore into a leading man thanks to his 1979 romantic comedy “10.” And let’s not forget the extraordinary collaboration he had with composer Henry Mancini who earned four Oscars including best song “Moon River” from 1961’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and the title tune from 1962’s “Days of Wine and Roses.”

Still, there was no love lost between Edwards and Hollywood.

In my 2003 Los Angeles Times interview with Edwards, who had personality to spare, said “I have been a...