{ "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "fetchedAt": "2026-10-06T10:03:47.422Z", "terms": "https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Policy:Terms_of_Use#7._Licensing_of_Content", "descriptions": [ { "wikidataId": "Q40083273", "text": "A Minecraft Movie is a 2025 adventure comedy film based on the 2011 video game Minecraft developed and published by Mojang Studios. Directed by Jared Hess, from a screenplay by Chris Bowman, Hubbel Palmer, Neil Widener, Gavin James, and Chris Galletta, based on a story by Allison Schroeder, Bowman, and Palmer, the film stars Jason Momoa (who also serves as one of the producers), Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge. It follows four misfits from the fictional town of Chuglass, Idaho, who are pulled through a portal into a cubic world, and must embark on a quest back to the real world with the help of an expert named Steve.\nPlans for a Minecraft film adaptation originated in 2014, when game creator Markus Persson revealed that Mojang Studios was in talks with Warner Bros. to develop the project. Throughout development, the film shifted between several directors, producers, and story drafts. By 2022, Legendary Entertainment became involved, and Hess was hired as director with Momoa in talks to star. Further casting took place from May 2023 to January 2024. Principal photography began later that month in New Zealand and concluded in April 2024. Mark Mothersbaugh composed the score, and Sony Pictures Imageworks, Wētā FX, and Digital Domain provided the film's visual effects.\nA Minecraft Movie premiered in London on March 30, 2025, and was released in the United States and Sweden on April 4, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office success, grossing around $961 million and becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the third-highest-grossing video game film of all time. Additionally, it became a Generation Z phenomenon when it spawned a trend known as the \"Chicken Jockey\" trend. A sequel, A Minecraft Movie Squared, is scheduled for release on July 23, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Minecraft Movie", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Minecraft_Movie", "revision": 1378124578, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378124578", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Minecraft%20Movie&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124380480", "text": "Jurassic World Rebirth is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. The sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth installment in the Jurassic World film series, as well as the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film features Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, and Ed Skrein. In Jurassic World Rebirth, the world's de-extinct dinosaurs live around the equator, which provides the last viable climate for them to survive. A team travels to a former island research facility where three specific gigantic species of dinosaurs reside, with the goal of extracting samples that are vital for a heart disease treatment. The team also rescues a shipwrecked family, and both groups struggle to survive after becoming stranded on the island.\nWork on the film began shortly after the release of Jurassic World Dominion (2022), when executive producer Steven Spielberg recruited Koepp to help him develop a new installment in the series. Koepp previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park film (1993) and wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Development of Rebirth was first reported in January 2024. Edwards was hired as director a month later, and casting commenced shortly thereafter. Principal photography took place in Thailand, Malta, and the United Kingdom from June to September 2024, with a budget of $180–254 million.\nJurassic World Rebirth premiered on June 17, 2025, at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, and was released in the United States and Canada by Universal Pictures on July 2. The film received mixed reviews from critics, though some deemed it an improvement over previous entries. It became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2025, grossing over $872 million worldwide – the first feature in the franchise since Jurassic Park III to not reach $1 billion. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Visual Effects, making it the first film in the Jurassic Park franchise since The Lost World to receive an Oscar nomination in any category. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jurassic World Rebirth", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World_Rebirth", "revision": 1378454771, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378454771", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurassic%20World%20Rebirth&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1079", "text": "Breaking Bad is an American neo-Western crime drama television series created by Vince Gilligan for AMC. Set and filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series follows Walter White (Bryan Cranston), an overqualified high school chemistry teacher who, after being diagnosed with stage-three lung cancer, begins producing and selling methamphetamine with former student Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) to secure his family's financial future. The series also stars Anna Gunn, Dean Norris, Betsy Brandt, RJ Mitte, Giancarlo Esposito, Bob Odenkirk, and Jonathan Banks.\nBreaking Bad premiered on AMC on January 20, 2008, and concluded on September 29, 2013, after five seasons and 62 episodes. Its first season received generally positive reviews, while later seasons, especially the fifth and final season, received widespread critical acclaim for the performances, writing, direction, cinematography, and character development. The series had modest viewership during its first three seasons, before viewership increased after it became available on Netflix prior to the fourth season. Viewership rose further during the second half of the final season in 2013, and the series finale became one of the most watched cable television episodes of its era.\nSince its conclusion, Breaking Bad has been widely regarded by critics as one of the greatest television series of all time. It received numerous accolades, including 16 Primetime Emmy Awards, 2 Golden Globe Awards, 2 Peabody Awards, and a British Academy Television Award. Cranston won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series four times, Paul won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series three times, and Gunn won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series twice. The series has continued to appear in retrospective rankings of the best television programs.\nThe series gave rise to the larger Breaking Bad franchise. Better Call Saul, a spin-off series centered on Odenkirk's character Saul Goodman, debuted on AMC on February 8, 2015, and concluded on August 15, 2022. El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, a sequel film starring Paul, was released on Netflix and in selected theaters on October 11, 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Breaking Bad", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking_Bad", "revision": 1377757519, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377757519", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breaking%20Bad&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23572", "text": "Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss for HBO. It is the first adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of high fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin, and the first in what would become the Game of Thrones franchise. The show premiered on HBO in the United States on April 17, 2011, and concluded on May 19, 2019, with 73 episodes broadcast over eight seasons.\nSet on the fictional continents of Westeros and Essos, Game of Thrones has a large ensemble cast and follows several story arcs throughout the course of the show. The first major arc concerns the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros through a web of political conflicts among the noble families, either vying to claim the throne or fighting for independence. The second major arc focuses on the last descendant of the realm's deposed ruling dynasty, who has been exiled to Essos and is plotting to return and reclaim the throne. The third follows the Night's Watch, a military order defending the realm against threats from beyond the Seven Kingdoms' northern border.\nGame of Thrones attracted a record viewership on HBO and has a broad, active, and international fan base. Many critics and publications have named the show one of the greatest television series of all time. Critics have praised the series for its acting, complex characters, story, scope, and production values, although its frequent use of nudity and violence (including sexual violence) generated controversy. The final season received significant criticism for its reduced length and creative decisions, with many considering it a disappointing conclusion. The series received 59 Primetime Emmy Awards, the most by a drama series, including Outstanding Drama Series in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2019. Its other awards and nominations include three Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation, a Peabody Award, and five nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama.\n\nTwo prequel series, House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, premiered on HBO in 2022 and 2026, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Game of Thrones", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_Thrones", "revision": 1375092323, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375092323", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Game%20of%20Thrones&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q44578", "text": "Titanic is a 1997 American epic historical romance film written and directed by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictional aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912. Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet star as members of different social classes who fall in love during the ship's ill-fated maiden voyage. The ensemble cast includes Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Frances Fisher, Bernard Hill, Jonathan Hyde, Danny Nucci, David Warner and Bill Paxton.\nCameron's inspiration came from his fascination with shipwrecks. He felt a love story interspersed with human loss would be essential to convey the emotional impact of the disaster. Production began on September 1, 1995, when Cameron shot footage of the Titanic wreck. The modern scenes were shot on board the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology research vessel Akademik Mstislav Keldysh, which Cameron had used as a base when filming the wreck. Scale models, computer-generated imagery (CGI), and a reconstruction of the Titanic built at Baja Studios were used to recreate the sinking. Titanic was initially in development at 20th Century Fox, but delays and a mounting budget resulted in Fox partnering with Paramount Pictures for financial help. It was the most expensive film ever made at the time, with a production budget of $200 million. Filming took place from July 1996 to March 1997.\nTitanic premiered at the Tokyo International Film Festival on November 1, 1997, and was released in the United States on December 19. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and by 20th Century Fox in other territories. It was praised for its visual effects, performances (particularly those of DiCaprio, Winslet, and Gloria Stuart), production values, direction, score, cinematography, story, and emotional depth. Among other awards, the film received fourteen nominations at the 70th Academy Awards and won eleven, including Best Picture and Best Director. In doing so, it tied both All About Eve (1950) for the record for the most Academy Award nominations, and Ben-Hur (1959) for the most Academy Awards won by a film, making Titanic the most successful individual film in Academy Award history.\nWith an initial worldwide gross of over $1.84 billion, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1997, Titanic was the first film to reach the billion-dollar mark, and was the highest-grossing film of all time until Cameron's next film, Avatar (2009), surpassed it in 2010. Income from the initial theatrical release, retail video, and soundtrack sales and US broadcast rights exceeded $3.2 billion. Re-releases pushed the worldwide theatrical total to $2.264 billion, making Titanic the second film to gross more than $2 billion worldwide after Avatar; as of 2026, it is the fifth-highest-grossing film. In 2017, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Titanic (1997 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanic_(1997_film)", "revision": 1376333772, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376333772", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titanic%20(1997%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47703", "text": "The Godfather is a 1972 American epic gangster film directed by Francis Ford Coppola, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mario Puzo based on Puzo's best-selling 1969 novel. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton. It is the first installment in The Godfather trilogy, which chronicles the Corleone family under patriarch Vito Corleone (Brando) and the transformation of his youngest son, Michael Corleone (Pacino), from reluctant family outsider to ruthless Mafia boss.\nParamount Pictures obtained the rights to the novel for $80,000, before it gained popularity. Studio executives had trouble finding a director; the first few candidates turned down the position before Coppola signed on to direct the film, but disagreement followed over casting several characters, in particular Vito (Marlon Brando) and Michael (Al Pacino). Filming took place primarily in locations around New York City and Sicily, and it was completed ahead of schedule. The score was composed principally by Nino Rota, with additional pieces by Carmine Coppola.\nThe Godfather premiered at the Loew's State Theatre on March 14, 1972, and was widely released in the United States on March 24, 1972. It was the highest-grossing film of 1972, and was for a time the highest-grossing film ever made, earning between $250 and $291 million at the box office. The film was acclaimed by critics and audiences, who praised its performances—particularly those of Brando and Pacino—direction, screenplay, story, cinematography, editing, score, and portrayal of the Mafia. The Godfather launched the successful careers of Coppola, Pacino, and other relative newcomers in the cast and crew. At the 45th Academy Awards, the film won Best Picture, Brando won Best Actor, and Puzo and Coppola won for Best Adapted Screenplay. In addition, the seven other Oscar nominations included Pacino, Caan, and Duvall, all for Best Supporting Actor, and Coppola for Best Director.\nThe Godfather is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, as well as a landmark of the gangster genre. It was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1990, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and is ranked the second-greatest film in American cinema (behind Citizen Kane) by the American Film Institute. It was followed by the sequels The Godfather Part II (1974) and The Godfather Part III (1990).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Godfather", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather", "revision": 1375938458, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375938458", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Godfather&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24871", "text": "Avatar is a 2009 epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. It features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sigourney Weaver. It is the first installment in the Avatar film series. It is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon, in order to mine the valuable mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining colony threatens the existence of a local tribe of Na'vi, a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The title of the film refers to an \"avatar\", which is a genetically engineered Na'vi body remotely operated from the brain of a human, and which is used to interact with the Na'vi.\nDevelopment of Avatar began in 1994, when Cameron wrote an 80-page treatment for the film. Filming was due to take place after the completion of Cameron's 1997 film Titanic, for a planned release in 1999; however, according to Cameron, the necessary technology was not yet available to achieve his vision of the film. Work on the fictional constructed language of the Na'vi began in 2005, and Cameron began developing the screenplay and fictional universe in early 2006. Avatar was budgeted at $237 million, due to the groundbreaking array of new visual effects Cameron achieved in cooperation with Weta Digital. Some estimates put the cost at between $280 million and $310 million for production, and at $150 million for promotion. The film made extensive use of 3D computer graphics and new motion capture filming techniques, and reunited Cameron with his Titanic co-producer Jon Landau.\nAvatar premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square theater in London on December 10, 2009, and was released in the United States on December 18 by 20th Century Fox. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised its groundbreaking visual effects, though the plot received criticism for being derivative. The film broke several box office records, including becoming the highest-grossing film at the time of its release and Cameron's highest-grossing film, surpassing his previous film, Titanic, as well as 20th Century Fox's highest-grossing film. It also became the first film to gross more than $2 billion, and was the best-selling video title of 2010 in the United States. Adjusted for inflation, Avatar grossed around $4 billion, making it the second-highest-grossing film, behind Gone with the Wind (1939).\nAvatar received nine nominations at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning three awards, and received numerous other accolades. The success of the film led to an increase in popularity of 3D films, and to electronics manufacturers releasing 3D televisions. Avatar was followed by the sequels Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025), with two more sequels in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avatar (2009 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar_(2009_film)", "revision": 1378456299, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378456299", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avatar%20(2009%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q83495", "text": "The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction–action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. The first installment in the Matrix film series, it stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano. The film follows a disillusioned computer hacker Neo (Reeves) who discovers that the life he knows is an elaborate deception created by intelligent machines. He is recruited by underground insurgents Morpheus (Fishburne) and Trinity (Moss), to join the rebellion against the machines.\nFollowing the success of the Wachowskis' 1996 film Bound, Warner Bros. gave the directing duo the go-ahead to make The Matrix. The film's action scenes were influenced by anime and martial arts films, particularly fight choreography and wire fu techniques from Hong Kong action cinema. Other influences include Plato's cave, 1990's Telnet hacker communities, and William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. The Matrix popularized terms such as the red pill, as well as a novel visual effect known as \"bullet time\" in which a character's heightened perception is represented by allowing the action within a shot to progress in slow motion while the camera appears to move through the scene at normal speed.\nThe Matrix was released in theaters in the United States on March 31, 1999, to widespread critical acclaim. Critics praised its innovative visual effects, action sequences, cinematography, and entertainment value. The film was a box office success, grossing over $460 million on a $63 million budget. It became the highest-grossing Warner Bros. film of 1999 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of that year. The Matrix received Academy Awards for Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing. It was also the recipient of numerous other accolades, including Best Sound and Best Special Visual Effects at the 53rd British Academy Film Awards. The Wachowskis were awarded Best Director and Best Science Fiction Film at the 26th Saturn Awards.\nThe Matrix is considered to be among the greatest science fiction films of all time. In 2012, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant\". The film's success led to two sequels by the Wachowskis, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both released in 2003. The Matrix franchise was further expanded through the production of comic books, video games, and an animated anthology film, The Animatrix. The franchise has also inspired books and theories expanding on some of the religious and philosophical ideas alluded to in the films. A fourth film, The Matrix Resurrections, was directed by Lana Wachowski and was released in 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Matrix", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix", "revision": 1378003195, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378003195", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Matrix&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q128518", "text": "Gladiator is a 2000 epic action adventure drama film directed by Ridley Scott and written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and William Nicholson from a story by Franzoni. It stars Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, and Richard Harris. Crowe portrays Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman general who is betrayed when Commodus, the ambitious son of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, murders his father and seizes the throne. Reduced to a slave, Maximus becomes a gladiator and rises through the ranks of the arena, determined to avenge the murders of his family and the emperor.\nThe screenplay, initially written by Franzoni, was inspired by the 1958 Daniel P. Mannix novel Those About to Die. The script was acquired by DreamWorks Pictures, and Scott signed on to direct the film. Principal photography began in January 1999 and wrapped in May of that year. Production was complicated by the script being rewritten multiple times and by the death of Oliver Reed before production was finished.\nGladiator had its world premiere in Los Angeles, California, on May 1, 2000. The film was released in the United States on May 5, 2000 by DreamWorks Distribution LLC, and internationally on May 12, 2000, by Universal Pictures through United International Pictures. The film grossed $466 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2000, and won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Crowe. A sequel, Gladiator II, was released in 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gladiator (2000 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator_(2000_film)", "revision": 1377695632, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377695632", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gladiator%20(2000%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q104123", "text": "Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino from a story he conceived with Roger Avary. It tells four intertwining tales of crime and violence in Los Angeles. The film stars John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Ving Rhames, and Uma Thurman. The title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-twentieth century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue.\nTarantino wrote Pulp Fiction in 1992 and 1993, incorporating scenes that Avary originally wrote for True Romance (1993). Its plot occurs out of chronological order. The film features self-referential elements, monologues, casual conversations with eclectic dialogue, and an ironic combination of humor and violence. TriStar Pictures turned down the script as \"too demented\". Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein was enthralled, however, and the film became the first that Miramax Films fully financed.\nPulp Fiction premiered at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival where it won the Palme d'Or, and was a major critical and commercial success. It received seven nominations at the 67th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Original Screenplay; Travolta, Jackson, and Thurman were nominated for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Supporting Actress respectively. As a result of the film's success, Travolta's career was reinvigorated. The film's development, marketing, distribution, and profitability had a sweeping effect on independent cinema.\nPulp Fiction is regarded as Tarantino's magnum opus, with particular praise for its screenwriting. The self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a touchstone of postmodern film. It is considered a cultural watershed, influencing films and other media that adopted elements of its style. The cast was also widely praised, with Travolta, Thurman, and Jackson earning high acclaim. In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named it the best film since 1983 and it has appeared on many critics' lists of the greatest films. In 2013, Pulp Fiction was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pulp Fiction", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulp_Fiction", "revision": 1377035763, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377035763", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pulp%20Fiction&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132689", "text": "Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.\nWarner Bros. story editor Irene Diamond convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942. Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write the script. However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942. Howard Koch was assigned to the screenplay until the Epsteins returned a month later. Principal photography began on May 25, 1942, ending on August 3; the film was shot entirely at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, with the exception of one sequence at Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles.\nAlthough Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to stand out among the many pictures produced by Hollywood yearly. Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier. It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid, if unspectacular, success in its initial run.\nExceeding expectations, Casablanca went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Curtiz was selected as Best Director and the Epsteins and Koch were honored for Best Adapted Screenplay. Its reputation has gradually grown, to the point that its lead characters, memorable lines, and pervasive theme song have all become iconic, and it consistently ranks near the top of lists of the greatest films in history. In the inaugural class of 1989, the United States Library of Congress selected the film as one of the first for preservation in the National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film's copyright was renewed in 1970; it will enter the public domain in the US and countries with the rule of the shorter term on January 1, 2038.\nRoger Ebert wrote: \"If there is ever a time when they decide that some movies should be spelled with an upper-case M, Casablanca should be voted first on the list of Movies.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Casablanca (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)", "revision": 1376409742, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376409742", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casablanca%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q163872", "text": "The Dark Knight is a 2008 superhero film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan. Based on the DC Comics superhero Batman, it is the sequel to Batman Begins (2005), and the second installment in The Dark Knight trilogy. The plot follows the vigilante Batman, police lieutenant James Gordon, and district attorney Harvey Dent, who form an alliance to dismantle organized crime in Gotham City. Their efforts are derailed by the Joker, an anarchistic mastermind who seeks to test how far Batman will go to save the city from chaos. The cast includes Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman.\nWarner Bros. Pictures prioritized a sequel following the successful reinvention of the Batman film series with Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan and Batman Begins co-writer David S. Goyer developed the story elements, making Dent the central protagonist caught up in the battle between Batman and the Joker. In writing the screenplay, the Nolans were influenced by 1980s Batman comics and crime drama films, and sought to continue Batman Begins' heightened sense of realism. From April to November 2007, filming took place with a $185 million budget in Chicago and Hong Kong, and on sets in England. The Dark Knight was the first major motion picture to be filmed with high-resolution IMAX cameras. Nolan avoided using computer-generated imagery unless necessary, insisting on practical stunts such as flipping an 18-wheel truck and blowing up a factory.\nThe Dark Knight was marketed with an innovative interactive viral campaign that initially focused on countering criticism of Ledger's casting by those who believed he was a poor choice to portray the Joker. Ledger died from an accidental prescription drug overdose in January 2008, leading to widespread interest from the press and public regarding his performance. When it was released in July, The Dark Knight received acclaim for its mature tone and themes, visual style, and performances—particularly that of Ledger, who received many posthumous awards including Academy, BAFTA, and Golden Globe awards for Best Supporting Actor. This made The Dark Knight the first comic-book film to receive major acting awards. It broke several box-office records and became the highest-grossing 2008 film, the fourth-highest-grossing film to that time, and the highest-grossing superhero film of the time.\nSince its release, The Dark Knight has been assessed as one of the greatest superhero films ever, one of the best movies of the 2000s, and one of the best films ever made. It is considered the \"blueprint\" for many modern superhero films, particularly for its rejection of a typical comic-book movie style in favor of a crime film that features comic-book characters. Many filmmakers attempted to replicate its success by adopting a similarly gritty, realistic tone, though with uneven results. The Dark Knight has been analyzed for its themes of terrorism and the limitations of morality and ethics. The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2020. A sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, concluded The Dark Knight trilogy in 2012.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Dark Knight", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight", "revision": 1378298127, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378298127", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Dark%20Knight&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q172241", "text": "The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont, based on the 1982 Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. The film tells the story of banker Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), who is sentenced to life in Shawshank State Penitentiary for the murders of his wife and her lover, despite his claims of innocence. Over the following two decades, he befriends a fellow prisoner, contraband smuggler Ellis \"Red\" Redding (Morgan Freeman), and becomes instrumental in a money laundering operation led by the prison warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). William Sadler, Clancy Brown, Gil Bellows, and James Whitmore appear in supporting roles.\nDarabont purchased the film rights to King's story in 1987, but development did not begin until five years later, when he wrote the script over eight weeks. Two weeks after submitting his script to Castle Rock Entertainment, Darabont secured a $25 million budget to produce The Shawshank Redemption, which started pre-production in January 1993. While the film is set in Maine, principal photography took place from June to August 1993 almost entirely in Mansfield, Ohio, with the Ohio State Reformatory serving as the eponymous penitentiary. The project attracted many stars for the role of Andy, including Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, and Kevin Costner. Thomas Newman provided the film's score.\nThe Shawshank Redemption premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 1994, and was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on September 23. While the film received critical acclaim upon its release—particularly for its story and the performances of Robbins and Freeman—it was a box-office disappointment, earning only $16 million during its initial theatrical run. Its failure was attributed at the time to many factors, including competition from the films Pulp Fiction and Forrest Gump, the general unpopularity of prison films, its lack of female characters, and even the title, which was considered confusing for audiences. It went on to receive multiple award nominations, including seven nominations at the 67th Academy Awards, and a theatrical re-release that, combined with international takings, increased the film's box-office gross to $73.3 million.\nOver 320,000 VHS rental copies were shipped throughout the United States, and on the strength of its award nominations and word of mouth, it became the top video rental of 1995. The broadcast rights were acquired following the purchase of Castle Rock Entertainment by Turner Broadcasting System, and it was shown regularly on the TNT network starting in 1997, further increasing its popularity. Decades after release, the film is still broadcast regularly and is popular in several countries, with audience members and celebrities citing it as a source of inspiration or naming it a favorite in various surveys, leading to its recognition as one of the most beloved films among audiences. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Shawshank Redemption", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shawshank_Redemption", "revision": 1378072928, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378072928", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Shawshank%20Redemption&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q91540", "text": "Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985, it follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett \"Doc\" Brown (Lloyd), where he inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love – threatening his own existence – and is forced to reconcile them and somehow get back to the future.\nGale and Zemeckis conceived the idea for Back to the Future in 1980. They were desperate for a successful film after numerous collaborative failures, but the project was rejected more than forty times by various studios because it was not considered raunchy enough to compete with the successful comedies of the era. A development deal was secured with Universal Pictures following Zemeckis's success directing Romancing the Stone (1984). Fox was the first choice to portray Marty but was unavailable; Eric Stoltz was cast instead. Shortly after principal photography began in November 1984, Zemeckis determined Stoltz was not right for the part and made the concessions necessary to hire Fox, including re-filming scenes already shot with Stoltz and adding $4 million to the budget. Back to the Future was filmed in and around California and on sets at Universal Studios, and concluded the following April.\nAfter highly successful test screenings, the release date was brought forward to July 3, 1985, giving the film more time in theaters during the busiest period of the theatrical year. The change resulted in a rushed post-production schedule and some incomplete special effects. Nevertheless, Back to the Future was a critical and commercial success, earning $381.1 million to become the highest-grossing film of 1985 worldwide. Critics praised the story, humor, and the cast, particularly Fox, Lloyd, Thompson, and Glover. It received multiple award nominations and won an Academy Award, three Saturn Awards, and a Hugo Award. Its theme song, \"The Power of Love\" by Huey Lewis and the News, was also a success.\nBack to the Future has since grown in esteem and is now considered by critics and audiences to be one of the greatest science fiction films and among the best films ever made. In 2007, the United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. The film was followed by two sequels, Back to the Future Part II (1989) and Back to the Future Part III (1990). Spurred by the film's dedicated fan following and effect on popular culture, Universal Studios launched a multimedia franchise, which now includes video games, theme park rides, an animated television series, and a stage musical. Its enduring popularity has prompted numerous books about its production, documentaries, and commercials.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Back to the Future", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future", "revision": 1375031399, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375031399", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back%20to%20the%20Future&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190050", "text": "Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a \"fight club\" with a soap salesman, Tyler Durden (Pitt) and becomes embroiled with an impoverished but beguiling woman, Marla Singer (Bonham Carter).\nPalahniuk's novel was optioned by Fox 2000 Pictures producer Laura Ziskin, who hired Uhls to write the film adaptation. Fincher was selected because of his enthusiasm for the story. He developed the script with Uhls and sought screenwriting advice from the cast and others in the film industry. It was filmed in and around Los Angeles from July to December 1998. He and the cast compared the film to Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and The Graduate (1967), with a theme of conflict between Generation X and the value system of advertising.\nStudio executives did not like the film and restructured Fincher's intended marketing campaign to try to reduce anticipated losses. Fight Club premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival on September 10, 1999, and was released in the United States on October 15, 1999, by 20th Century Fox. The film failed to meet the studio's expectations at the box office and polarized critics. It was ranked as one of the most controversial and talked-about films of the 1990s. However, Fight Club later found commercial success with its home video release, establishing it as a cult classic and causing media to revisit the film. In 2009, on its tenth anniversary, The New York Times dubbed it the \"defining cult movie of our time\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fight Club", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club", "revision": 1377996366, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377996366", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fight%20Club&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133654", "text": "The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel. It stars Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee who is hunting a serial killer known as \"Buffalo Bill\" (Ted Levine), who skins his female victims. To catch him, she seeks the advice of the imprisoned Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial murderer. The film also features performances by Scott Glenn, Anthony Heald, and Kasi Lemmons.\nReleased by Orion Pictures on February 14, 1991, the film grossed $272.7 million worldwide on a $19 million budget and became the fifth-highest-grossing film of the year. It premiered at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival, where Demme won the Silver Bear for Best Director. At the 64th Academy Awards, it became the third—and most recent—film to win the \"Big Five\" categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It remains the only horror film to have won Best Picture.\nThe Silence of the Lambs is regularly cited by critics, film directors, and audiences as one of the greatest and most influential films. In 2017, Empire ranked it 48th on its list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. The American Film Institute ranked it the sixty-fifth greatest film in American cinema and the fifth-greatest thriller, while Starling and Lecter were included among the greatest film heroines and villains. The film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically\" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2011.\nThe film has drawn criticism for its portrayal of gender identity, particularly regarding the character of Buffalo Bill, which some critics argue perpetuates harmful stereotypes. Demme defended the film's intentions, arguing that it merely tells the personal story of \"a tormented man\".\nThe film was followed by the sequel Hannibal (2001), the prequels Red Dragon (2002) and Hannibal Rising (2007), a play and two television series.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Silence of the Lambs (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silence_of_the_Lambs_(film)", "revision": 1377375461, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377375461", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Silence%20of%20the%20Lambs%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q483941", "text": "Schindler's List is a 1993 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian. It is based on the historical novel Schindler's Ark (1982) by Thomas Keneally. The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish–Jewish refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth, and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.\nIdeas for a film about the Schindlerjuden (Schindler Jews) were proposed as early as 1963. Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindlerjuden, made it his life's mission to tell Schindler's story. Spielberg became interested when executive Sidney Sheinberg sent him a book review of the novel. Universal Pictures bought the rights to the novel, but Spielberg, unsure if he was ready to make a film about the Holocaust, tried to pass the project to several directors before deciding to direct it himself. Principal photography took place in Kraków, Poland, over 72 days in 1993. Spielberg shot the film in black and white and approached the film as a documentary. Cinematographer Janusz Kamiński wanted to create a sense of timelessness. John Williams composed the score, and violinist Itzhak Perlman performed the main theme.\nSchindler's List premiered on November 30, 1993, in Washington, D.C., and was released on December 15, 1993, in the United States. The film received widespread critical acclaim. It was a box office success, earning $322.2 million worldwide on a $22 million budget. Schindler's List earned multiple accolades, including seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture), seven BAFTAs and three Golden Globes. It is often listed as one of the greatest films ever made. The film was deemed \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\" by the Library of Congress in 2004 and selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Schindler's List 8th on its list of the 100 greatest American films.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Schindler's List", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schindler's_List", "revision": 1378106268, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378106268", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schindler's%20List&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q162255", "text": "The Terminator is a 1984 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote it with producer Gale Anne Hurd. It stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as the titular character, a cyborg assassin sent back in time from the post-apocalyptic 2029 to 1984 to assassinate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), whose future son will one day save the world from Skynet, a hostile artificial intelligence. Soldier Kyle Reese (Michael Biehn) travels back in time to protect Sarah.\nCameron devised the premise of the film from a fever dream he experienced during the release of his first film, Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), and developed the concept in collaboration with his friend William Wisher Jr. He sold the rights to the project to fellow New World Pictures alumna Hurd on the condition that she would produce the film only if he were to direct it; Hurd eventually secured a distribution deal with Orion Pictures, while executive producers John Daly and Derek Gibson of Hemdale Film Corporation were instrumental in setting up the film's financing and production.\nOriginally approached by Orion for the role of Reese, Schwarzenegger agreed to play the titular character after befriending Cameron. Filming, which took place mostly at night on location in Los Angeles, was delayed because of Schwarzenegger's commitments to Conan the Destroyer (1984), during which Cameron found time to work on the scripts for Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) and Aliens (1986). The film's special effects, which included miniatures and stop-motion animation, were created by a team of artists led by Stan Winston and Gene Warren Jr.\nDefying low pre-release expectations, The Terminator topped the United States box office for two weeks, eventually grossing $78.3 million against a modest $6.4 million budget. It is credited with launching Cameron's film career and solidifying Schwarzenegger's status as a leading man. The success led to a franchise consisting of several sequels, a television series, comic books, novels and video games. In 2008, The Terminator was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Terminator", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminator", "revision": 1378094823, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378094823", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Terminator&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102438", "text": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (also known as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States, India and the Philippines) is a 2001 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus and written by Steve Kloves, based on the 1997 novel by J. K. Rowling. It is the first instalment in the Harry Potter film series, and stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint as Ron Weasley, and Emma Watson as Hermione Granger. The film follows Harry's first year at Hogwarts as he discovers that he is a famous wizard and begins his formal wizarding education.\nWarner Bros. Pictures bought the film rights to the book in 1999 for a reported £1 million ($1.65 million). Production began in the United Kingdom in 2000, with Columbus being chosen to helm the film from a short list of directors that included Steven Spielberg and Rob Reiner. Rowling insisted that the entire cast be British and Irish, with the three leads chosen in August 2000 following open casting calls. Filming took place at Leavesden Film Studios and historic buildings around the United Kingdom from September 2000 to March 2001.\nHarry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London on 4 November 2001 and was released on 16 November in the United Kingdom and the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures. It became a critical and commercial success, grossing $974 million at the box office during its initial run and over $1 billion with subsequent re-releases, against a $125 million budget. It became the highest-grossing film of 2001 and the second-highest-grossing film at the time. The film was nominated for several awards, including Academy Awards for Best Original Score, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. It was followed by seven sequels, beginning with Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets in 2002 and ending with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Philosopher's_Stone_(film)", "revision": 1377849794, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377849794", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Philosopher's%20Stone%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q167726", "text": "Jurassic Park is a 1993 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Michael Crichton and David Koepp, based on Crichton's 1990 novel. Starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Richard Attenborough, the film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar where industrialist John Hammond (Attenborough) and a team of genetic scientists have created a wildlife park of de-extinct dinosaurs. After a catastrophic shutdown of the park's power facilities and security precautions, a small group of visitors struggle to survive and escape the island.\nBefore Crichton's novel was published, four studios put in bids for its film rights. With the backing of Universal Pictures, Spielberg acquired the rights for US$1.5 million. Crichton was hired for an additional $500,000 to adapt the novel for the screen. Koepp wrote the final draft, which left out much of the novel's exposition and violence, and featured numerous changes to the characters. Filming took place in California and Hawaii from August to November 1992. Post-production lasted until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as he filmed Schindler's List. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic, and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs built by Stan Winston's team. To showcase the film's sound design, which included a mixture of various animal noises for the dinosaur sounds, Spielberg invested in the creation of DTS, a company specializing in digital surround sound formats. The film was backed by an extensive $65 million marketing campaign, which included licensing deals with over 100 companies.\nJurassic Park premiered on June 9, 1993, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., and was released two days later throughout the United States. It was a blockbuster hit and went on to gross over $914 million worldwide in its original theatrical run, surpassing Spielberg's own E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) to become the highest-grossing film of all time until the release of Titanic (1997). The film received critical acclaim, with praise to its special effects, sound design, action sequences, John Williams's score, and Spielberg's direction. Among its numerous accolades, the film won three Oscars (Best Sound Effects Editing, Best Sound, and Best Visual Effects) at the 66th Academy Awards. Following its 20th anniversary re-release in 2013, Jurassic Park became the oldest film in history to surpass $1 billion in ticket sales and the 17th overall.\nSince its release, many film critics and industry professionals have regarded Jurassic Park as one of the greatest films ever made. Its groundbreaking use of computer-generated imagery is widely seen as a turning point that shaped the visual effects techniques used in modern cinema. In 2018, the Library of Congress selected Jurassic Park for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film spawned a multimedia franchise that includes six sequels, video games, theme park attractions, comic books, and various merchandise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jurassic Park", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park", "revision": 1378104290, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378104290", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurassic%20Park&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q5890", "text": "V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. It was McTeigue's directorial debut. It is based on the 1988–89 DC Vertigo Comics limited series graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, and Tony Weare. The cast includes Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt. The film, which is set in a future where a fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom, centres on V (Weaving), a masked vigilante who attempts to ignite a revolution, and Evey Hammond (Portman), a young woman caught up in V's plot.\nProduced by Silver Pictures, Virtual Studios and Anarchos Productions, Inc., V for Vendetta was originally scheduled for release by Warner Bros. Pictures on 4 November 2005—a day before the 400th Guy Fawkes Night—but was delayed; it instead opened in the United States on 17 March 2006. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $134.7 million against a budget of $50–54 million. Alan Moore, who was dissatisfied with the film adaptations of his other works From Hell (2001) and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003), declined to watch the film and asked not to be credited or paid royalties.\nSome political groups have seen V for Vendetta as an allegory of oppression by government; anarchists have used it to promote their beliefs. The film is credited for popularizing the use of the Guy Fawkes mask by anti-establishment political groups and activists.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "V for Vendetta (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)", "revision": 1375736043, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375736043", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=V%20for%20Vendetta%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q13417189", "text": "Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction drama film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother, Jonathan Nolan. It features an ensemble cast led by Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where Earth is suffering from catastrophic blight and famine, the film follows a group of astronauts who travel through space in search of a new home for humanity.\nThe film began development in 2006 from a treatment by producer Lynda Obst and theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, and was originally set to be directed by Steven Spielberg. Thorne served as an executive producer and scientific consultant on the film, and wrote the tie-in book The Science of Interstellar. It was Obst's final film as producer before her death. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot it on 35 mm film in the Panavision anamorphic format and IMAX 70 mm. Filming began in late 2013 and took place in Alberta, Klaustur, and Los Angeles. Interstellar uses extensive practical and miniature effects, and the company DNEG created additional visual effects.\nInterstellar premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2014, and was released in theaters in the United States on November 5, and in the United Kingdom on November 7, with Paramount Pictures distributing in the United States and Warner Bros. Pictures distributing in international markets. In the United States, it was first released on film stock, expanding to venues using digital projectors. It was a commercial success, grossing $681 million worldwide during its initial theatrical run, and $774.7 million worldwide with subsequent releases, making it the 10th-highest-grossing film of 2014. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Among its various accolades, Interstellar was nominated for five awards at the 87th Academy Awards, winning for Best Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Interstellar (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)", "revision": 1378083947, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378083947", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interstellar%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q25188", "text": "Inception is a 2010 science fiction heist film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as a professional thief who steals information by infiltrating his targets' subconscious. He is offered a chance to have his criminal history erased as payment for implanting an idea into a target's subconscious. The ensemble cast includes Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Elliot Page, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Dileep Rao, and Michael Caine.\nAfter the completion of Insomnia in 2002, Nolan presented to Warner Bros. a written 80-page treatment for a horror film envisioning \"dream stealers\", based on lucid dreaming. Deciding he needed more experience before tackling a production of this magnitude and complexity, Nolan shelved the project and instead worked on Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), and The Dark Knight (2008). The treatment was revised over six months and was purchased by Warner Bros. in February 2009. Inception was filmed in six countries, beginning in Tokyo on June 19 and ending in Canada on November 22. Its official budget was US$160 million, split between Warner Bros. and Legendary. Nolan's reputation and success with The Dark Knight helped secure the film's $100 million in advertising expenditure.\nInception's premiere was held in London on July 8, 2010; it was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters beginning on July 16, 2010. Inception grossed $839 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2010. Considered one of the best films of the 2010s, Inception, among its numerous accolades, won four Oscars (Best Cinematography, Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, Best Visual Effects) and was nominated for four more (Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score) at the 83rd Academy Awards. In 2025, the Library of Congress selected Inception for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Inception", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception", "revision": 1378107481, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378107481", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inception&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q2875", "text": "Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. It was produced by David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures and directed by Victor Fleming. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the film tells the story of Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), the strong-willed daughter of a Georgia plantation owner, following her romantic pursuit of Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), who is married to his cousin Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), and her subsequent marriage to Rhett Butler (Clark Gable).\nThe production was troubled. The start of filming was delayed for two years until January 1939 because Selznick was determined to secure Gable for the role of Rhett, and filming concluded in July. The role of Scarlett was challenging to cast, and 1,400 unknown women were interviewed for the part. Sidney Howard's initial screenplay underwent many revisions by several writers to reduce it to a suitable length. The original director, George Cukor, was fired shortly after filming began and was replaced by Fleming, who in turn was briefly replaced by Sam Wood while taking some time off due to exhaustion. Post-production concluded in November 1939, just a month before its premiere.\nGone With the Wind received generally positive reviews upon its release on December 15, 1939. While the casting was widely praised, the long running time received criticism. At the 12th Academy Awards, Gone with the Wind received ten Academy Awards (eight competitive, two honorary) from thirteen nominations, including wins for Best Picture, Best Director (Fleming), Best Adapted Screenplay (posthumously awarded to Sidney Howard), Best Actress (Leigh), and Best Supporting Actress (Hattie McDaniel, becoming the first African-American to win an Academy Award). It set records for the total number of wins and nominations at the time.\nGone with the Wind was immensely popular when first released. It became the highest-earning film made up to that point and held the record for over a quarter of a century. When adjusted for monetary inflation, it remains the highest-grossing film in history. It was re-released periodically throughout the 20th century and became ingrained in popular culture. Although the film has been criticized as historical negationism, glorifying slavery and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy myth, it has been credited with triggering changes in how African-Americans were depicted cinematically. Gone with the Wind is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time, and in 1989, became one of the twenty-five inaugural films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gone with the Wind (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(film)", "revision": 1378190980, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378190980", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gone%20with%20the%20Wind%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q127367", "text": "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is a 2001 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Jackson. It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's 1954 The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings. The film is the first instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Sean Bean, Ian Holm, and Andy Serkis.\nSet in Middle-earth, the story tells of the Dark Lord Sauron, who seeks the One Ring, which contains part of his might, to return to power. The Ring has found its way to the young hobbit Frodo Baggins. The fate of Middle-earth hangs in the balance as Frodo and eight companions (who form the eponymous Fellowship of the Ring) begin their perilous journey to Mount Doom in the land of Mordor, the only place where the Ring can be destroyed. The Fellowship of the Ring was financed and distributed by American studio New Line Cinema, but filmed and edited entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand, concurrently with the other two parts of the trilogy.\nIt premiered on 10 December 2001 at the Odeon Leicester Square in London and was released on 19 December in the United States and on 20 December in New Zealand. The film was acclaimed by critics and audiences, who considered it a landmark in filmmaking and an achievement in the fantasy film genre, with praise for the visual effects, performances, direction, screenplay, musical score, and faithfulness to the source material. It grossed $868 million worldwide during its original theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2001 and the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release. Following subsequent reissues, it has grossed $897 million. Like its successors, The Fellowship of the Ring is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. The film received numerous accolades; at the 74th Academy Awards, it was nominated for thirteen awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Cinematography, Best Makeup, Best Original Score, and Best Visual Effects.\nIn 2007, the American Film Institute named it one of the 100 greatest American films in history, being both the most recent film and the only film released in the 21st century to make it to the list. In 2021, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". Two sequels, The Two Towers and The Return of the King, followed in 2002 and 2003, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings%3A_The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring", "revision": 1378107844, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378107844", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%3A%20The%20Fellowship%20of%20the%20Ring&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q17738", "text": "Star Wars (later retitled as Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is a 1977 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by Twentieth Century-Fox, it is the first film in the Star Wars franchise and the fourth chronological chapter of the \"Skywalker Saga\". Set in a fictional galaxy ruled by the tyrannical Galactic Empire, the film follows a resistance movement called the Rebel Alliance that aims to destroy the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star. When the rebel leader Princess Leia is captured by the Galactic Empire, Luke Skywalker acquires stolen architectural plans for the Death Star and sets out to rescue her while learning the ways of a metaphysical power known as \"the Force\" from the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi. The film stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Peter Cushing, Alec Guinness, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, and James Earl Jones.\nLucas had the idea for a science fiction film in the vein of Flash Gordon around the time he completed his first film, THX 1138 (1971), and he began working on a treatment after completing American Graffiti (1973). After numerous rewrites, principal photography began in March 1976 in locations including Tunisia and Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England. Lucas formed the visual effects company Industrial Light & Magic to help create the film's visual effects. Star Wars suffered production difficulties: the cast and crew believed the film would be a failure, and it went $3 million over budget due to delays.\nFew were confident in the film's box office prospects. It was released in a small number of theaters in the United States on May 25, 1977, and quickly became a surprise blockbuster, leading to it being expanded to a much wider release. Star Wars opened to critical acclaim, with particular praise for its special effects. It grossed $410 million worldwide during its initial run, surpassing Jaws (1975) to become the highest-grossing film until the release of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982); subsequent releases have brought its total gross to $775 million. When adjusted for inflation, Star Wars is the second-highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada (behind Gone with the Wind) and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time. It received six Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards, and thirteen Saturn Awards, among others. The film has been reissued many times with Lucas' support, including the 1981 reissue giving the film the subtitle Episode IV – A New Hope, and the 1997 \"Special Edition\". The reissues have contained many changes, including new scenes, visual effects, and dialogue.\nOften regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films of all time, Star Wars quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, launching an industry of tie-in products, including novels, comics, video games, amusement park attractions and merchandise such as toys, games, and clothing. It became one of the first 25 films selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1989, and its soundtrack was added to the U.S. National Recording Registry in 2004. The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) followed Star Wars, rounding out the original Star Wars trilogy. A prequel trilogy and a sequel trilogy have since been released, in addition to various spin-off films and television series.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(film)", "revision": 1378404872, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378404872", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q41483", "text": "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Italian: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, lit. 'The good, the ugly, the bad') is a 1966 Italian epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood as \"the Good\", Lee Van Cleef as \"the Bad\", and Eli Wallach as \"the Ugly\". Its screenplay was written by Age & Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, and Leone, based on a story by Vincenzoni and Leone. Director of photography Tonino Delli Colli was responsible for the film's sweeping Techniscope cinematography, and Ennio Morricone composed the film's score.\nThe film is known for Leone's distinctive visual style, characterized by the juxtaposition of expansive wide shots and extreme close-ups, as well as a highly stylised treatment of violence, tension, and gunfights. Although an Italian production, it was filmed primarily in Spain, particularly in the Tabernas Desert in Almería, the Arlanza River valley near Hortigüela, and at the purpose-built Sad Hill Cemetery near Santo Domingo de Silos. Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, the story follows three gunslingers who form shifting alliances and betrayals in their search for a buried cache of Confederate gold amid the chaos of the conflict. The film marked Leone's third collaboration with Eastwood and his second with Van Cleef.\nReleased in Italy on December 23, 1966, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was subsequently distributed internationally and promoted in the United States as the third and final installment of the Dollars Trilogy, following A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965), although the three films are connected thematically rather than through a continuous narrative. Building on the growing international popularity of Leone and Eastwood, the film achieved major commercial success, grossing over $38 million worldwide against a production budget of approximately $1.2 million and becoming one of the most financially successful European Westerns of its time.\nInitial critical reception in some markets was mixed, reflecting the broader skepticism then directed toward the spaghetti Western genre, which was often criticized for its stylisation, violence, and moral ambiguity in contrast to traditional Hollywood Westerns. Over time, however, the film underwent extensive critical re-evaluation and developed a strong cult following, aided by television screenings, home media releases, and later restoration efforts. It has since been widely recognized for its operatic scale, visual composition, editing, and the iconic score by Morricone. Frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential Western films of all time, it has had a lasting impact on filmmakers and has been referenced and parodied across popular culture, including in films, television, comic books, and video games.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good%2C_the_Bad_and_the_Ugly", "revision": 1377677796, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377677796", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Good%2C%20the%20Bad%20and%20the%20Ugly&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182218", "text": "Marvel's The Avengers (titled Marvel Avengers Assemble in the United Kingdom and Ireland and commonly referred to as simply The Avengers) is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner as the Avengers, alongside Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Nick Fury and the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. recruit Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Thor, Natasha Romanoff, and Clint Barton to form a team capable of stopping Thor's brother Loki from subjugating Earth.\nThe film's development began when Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch in April 2005. After the success of the film Iron Man in May 2008, Marvel announced that The Avengers would be released in July 2011 and would bring together Stark (Downey), Rogers (Evans), Thor (Hemsworth), and Banner (portrayed by Edward Norton in the 2008 film The Incredible Hulk) from Marvel's previous films. After the signing of Johansson as Romanoff in March 2009, Renner as Barton in June 2010, and Ruffalo to replace Norton as Banner in July 2010, the film was pushed back for a 2012 release. Whedon was hired in April 2010 and rewrote the original screenplay by Zak Penn. Production began in April 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, in August and New York City in September. The film has more than 2,200 visual effects shots.\nThe Avengers premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on April 11, 2012, and was released in the United States on May 4, as the final film in Phase One of the MCU. The film received praise for Whedon's direction and screenplay, visual effects, action sequences, acting, and musical score. It grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, setting numerous box office records and becoming the third-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release and the highest-grossing film of 2012. It was the first Marvel production to generate $1 billion in ticket sales. In 2017, The Avengers was featured as one of the 100 greatest films of all time in an Empire magazine poll. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 85th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. Three sequels have been released: Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and Avengers: Endgame (2019).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Avengers (2012 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avengers_(2012_film)", "revision": 1377931446, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377931446", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Avengers%20(2012%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102244", "text": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is a 2002 fantasy film directed by Chris Columbus from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 1998 novel Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling. Produced by David Heyman, it is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) and the second instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger respectively. The film follows Harry's second year at Hogwarts, where the Heir of Salazar Slytherin opens the Chamber of Secrets, unleashing a monster that petrifies the school's students.\nThe film was released in the United Kingdom and the United States on 15 November 2002, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It became a critical and commercial success, grossing $878 million worldwide and becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2002. The film was nominated for several awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. It was followed by Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Chamber_of_Secrets_(film)", "revision": 1378282008, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378282008", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Chamber%20of%20Secrets%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131074", "text": "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay he wrote with Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens. It is based on 1955's The Return of the King, the third volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2002's The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the film is the final instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It has an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Karl Urban, John Noble, Andy Serkis, Ian Holm, and Sean Bean. Continuing the plot of the previous film, Frodo and Sam follow Gollum towards Mount Doom to destroy the One Ring, unaware of Gollum's intentions to betray the duo to take the Ring for himself, while Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli and their allies join forces against Sauron and his legions from Mordor.\nThe Return of the King was financed and distributed by American studio New Line Cinema, but filmed and edited entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand, concurrently with the other two parts of the trilogy. It premiered on 1 December 2003 at the Embassy Theatre in Wellington and was then released on 17 December 2003 in the United States and 18 December 2003 in New Zealand. The film was acclaimed by critics and audiences, who considered it a landmark in filmmaking and the fantasy film genre, and a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, with praise for the visual effects, performances, action sequences, direction, screenplay, musical score, costume design, emotional depth, scope, and story. It grossed $1.1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2003, the second-highest-grossing film of all time during its run, Jackson's highest-grossing film, and the highest-grossing film ever released by New Line Cinema.\nLike the previous films in the trilogy, The Return of the King is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. The film received numerous accolades; at the 76th Academy Awards, it won all 11 awards for which it was nominated, including Best Picture, the first fantasy film to do so and tying with 1959's Ben-Hur and 1997's Titanic as the movie with the most Academy Award wins. It also became the second film series whose entries have all won Best Visual Effects, after the original Star Wars trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings%3A_The_Return_of_the_King", "revision": 1373939676, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373939676", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%3A%20The%20Return%20of%20the%20King&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q162729", "text": "Braveheart is a 1995 American epic historical war drama film directed and produced by Mel Gibson, who portrays Scottish warrior William Wallace in the First War of Scottish Independence. The film also stars Sophie Marceau, Patrick McGoohan, Catherine McCormack and Angus Macfadyen. The story is inspired by Blind Harry's 15th century epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace and was adapted for the screen by Randall Wallace.\nDevelopment on the film initially started at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) when producer Alan Ladd Jr. picked up the project from Wallace, but when MGM was going through new management, Ladd left the studio and took the project with him. Despite initially declining, Gibson eventually decided to direct the film and to star as Wallace. The film, which was produced by Gibson's Icon Productions and The Ladd Company, was distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and by 20th Century Fox in other countries.\nReleased on May 24, 1995, Braveheart was a critical and commercial success, receiving praise for its battle scenes, production design, musical score, and acting performances, though it received some criticism for its historical inaccuracies. The film received numerous accolades; at the 68th Academy Awards, it was nominated for ten awards, winning five, including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson. A legacy sequel, Robert the Bruce, was released in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Braveheart", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braveheart", "revision": 1377925652, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377925652", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Braveheart&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q170564", "text": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, and Robert Patrick, it is the sequel to The Terminator (1984) and is the second installment in the Terminator franchise. In the film, the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet sends a Terminator—a highly advanced killing machine—back in time to 1995 to kill the future leader of the human resistance, John Connor, when he is a child. The resistance sends back a less advanced, reprogrammed Terminator to protect Connor and ensure the future of humanity.\nThe Terminator was a significant success, enhancing Schwarzenegger's and Cameron's careers, but work on a sequel stalled because of animosity between the pair and Hemdale Film Corporation, which partially owned the film's rights. In 1990, Schwarzenegger and Cameron persuaded Carolco Pictures to purchase the rights from The Terminator producer Gale Anne Hurd and Hemdale, which was financially struggling. A release date was set for the following year, leaving Cameron and Wisher seven weeks to write the script. Principal photography lasted from October 1990 to March 1991, taking place in and around Los Angeles on an estimated $94–$102 million budget, making it the most expensive film ever made at the time. The state-of-the-art visual effects by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), which include the first use of a computer-generated imagery (CGI) main character in a blockbuster film, resulted in a schedule overrun. Theatrical prints were not delivered to theaters until the night before the picture's release on July 3, 1991.\nTerminator 2 was a critical and commercial success, grossing $519–$520.9 million at the box office to become the highest-grossing film of 1991 worldwide and the third-highest-grossing film of its time. The film won several accolades, including four Academy Awards and two BAFTAs. Terminator 2 merchandise includes video games, comic books, novels, and T2-3D: Battle Across Time, a live-action attraction.\nTerminator 2 is considered one of the best science fiction, action, and sequel films ever made. It is also seen as a major influence on visual effects in films, helping usher in the transition from practical effects to reliance on computer-generated imagery. The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2023. Although Cameron intended for Terminator 2 to be the end of the franchise, it was followed by several additional films—Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), Terminator Salvation (2009), Terminator Genisys (2015), and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)—as well as a television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (2008–2009).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Terminator 2: Judgment Day", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2%3A_Judgment_Day", "revision": 1378421136, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378421136", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminator%202%3A%20Judgment%20Day&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q165713", "text": "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace is a 1999 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas in his first directorial effort since the original Star Wars, released in 1977. Produced by Lucasfilm Ltd. and distributed by 20th Century Fox, it is the fourth film in the Star Wars film series, the first film of the prequel trilogy and the first chronological chapter of the \"Skywalker Saga.\" The film stars Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Ahmed Best, Ian McDiarmid, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Pernilla August, and Frank Oz. It is set 32 years before the original trilogy, during the era of the Galactic Republic.\nThe film follows Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi as they try to protect Padmé Amidala of Naboo in her mission to resolve an interstellar trade dispute. They also confront the mysterious return of the Sith with the Force-sensitive young slave Anakin Skywalker joining their efforts. \nFollowing the release of Return of the Jedi (1983), talks of a follow-up were proposed, but Lucas was not motivated to return to the franchise. During the hiatus, the backstories he created for the characters, particularly Anakin's, sparked interest in him to develop a prequel trilogy during the 1990s. After he determined that computer-generated imagery (CGI) had advanced to the level he wanted for the prequel trilogy's visual effects, Lucas began writing The Phantom Menace in 1993, and production began in 1994. Filming started in June 1997—at locations at Leavesden Film Studios, at the Royal Palace of Caserta in Italy and the Tunisian desert—and ended in September.\nThe Phantom Menace was released in theaters on May 19, 1999, almost 16 years after the premiere of Return of the Jedi. The film's premiere was extensively covered by media and was widely anticipated because of the large cultural following the Star Wars saga had cultivated. Upon its release, The Phantom Menace received mixed reviews from critics. While the visual effects and action sequences were praised, criticism was largely focused on its exposition and characters—particularly Jar Jar Binks.\nThe film was a box-office success and broke numerous records. It grossed $924 million worldwide during its initial theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1999, the second-highest-grossing film of all-time, and the third-highest in North America (behind Titanic and Star Wars), as well as the highest-grossing Star Wars film at the time (not factoring in inflation). The film has been re-released several times, including a 2012 3D reissue which brought its overall worldwide gross to over $1 billion. Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) followed The Phantom Menace, rounding out the Star Wars prequel trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_Episode_I_%E2%80%93_The_Phantom_Menace", "revision": 1378401755, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378401755", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%3A%20Episode%20I%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Phantom%20Menace&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q46717", "text": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a 2003 American swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski. Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures via the Walt Disney Pictures label, the film is based on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction at Disney theme parks and is the first film in the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Starring Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, and Keira Knightley, it follows pirate Jack Sparrow (Depp) and blacksmith Will Turner (Bloom), as they attempt to rescue the kidnapped Elizabeth Swann (Knightley). The trio encounters Captain Hector Barbossa (Rush) and the Black Pearl crew who are afflicted by a supernatural curse.\nExecutives at Walt Disney Studios drafted a rough treatment for the film in 2000. A script was developed by Jay Wolpert in 2001, and was rewritten by Stuart Beattie in early 2002. Around that time, the producer Jerry Bruckheimer became involved in the project. He brought in screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who had drafted a premise for the film in the 1990s. Elliott and Rossio added the curse to the script to align the film's story with the theme park ride. Verbinski eventually signed on as the director. Filming took place from October 2002 to March 2003 in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and on sets in Los Angeles, California.\nPirates of the Caribbean had its world premiere at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, on June 28, 2003. It was theatrically released in the United States on July 9. Despite low expectations, the film was a massive box-office success: it grossed $654.3 million worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2003. It received generally positive reviews from critics, and Depp won a Screen Actors Guild Award. He was also nominated for his performance at the Academy Awards, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes. Pirates of the Caribbean was also nominated for additional Academy Awards and BAFTAs. The film was followed by four sequels: Dead Man's Chest (2006), At World's End (2007), On Stranger Tides (2011), and Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%3A_The_Curse_of_the_Black_Pearl", "revision": 1377503892, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377503892", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%3A%20The%20Curse%20of%20the%20Black%20Pearl&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102225", "text": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is a 2005 epic fantasy film directed by Mike Newell from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 2000 novel Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and the fourth instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively. The film follows Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts, as he is chosen by the Goblet of Fire to compete in the Triwizard Tournament.\nPrincipal photography began in early 2004, and the film premiered worldwide on 18 November 2005. Five days following release, it had earned over US$102 million at the North American box office, the third-highest first-weekend tally for a Harry Potter film behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2. Goblet of Fire grossed $895 million worldwide in its initial release, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2005 and is the sixth highest-grossing film in the series.\nThe film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and won the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design. Goblet of Fire was the second film in the series to be released in IMAX. The film received positive reviews. It was followed by Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in 2007.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Goblet_of_Fire_(film)", "revision": 1378464764, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378464764", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Goblet%20of%20Fire%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102448", "text": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban is a 2004 epic fantasy film directed by Alfonso Cuarón from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 1999 novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and the third instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively. The film follows Harry's third year at Hogwarts and his quest to uncover the truth about his past, including the connection recently escaped Azkaban prisoner Sirius Black has to Harry and his deceased parents.\nWith this film, the Harry Potter series switched to a longer eighteen-month production cycle. Cuarón was selected as director from a list that included Callie Khouri and Kenneth Branagh. The cast of previous films returned for Prisoner, with the additions of Gary Oldman, David Thewlis, Timothy Spall, and Emma Thompson, among others. It was the first appearance of Michael Gambon as Professor Albus Dumbledore, due to Richard Harris's death in 2002. Principal photography began in February 2003 at Leavesden Film Studios. It was the first in the series to extensively use real-life locations, with sets built in Scotland and scenes shot in London. Filming wrapped in November 2003.\nThe film was released on 31 May 2004 in the United Kingdom, and on 4 June 2004 in North America by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was the first Harry Potter film to use IMAX Technology and was released in IMAX theaters. Prisoner of Azkaban grossed a total of $808 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2004, behind Shrek 2. The film received widespread acclaim from critics, with particular praise for the cinematography and Cuarón's direction; it has been credited with shifting the tone of the franchise. It was nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Music Score and Best Visual Effects, at the 77th Academy Awards in 2004. It was followed by Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in 2005.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban_(film)", "revision": 1377843969, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377843969", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Prisoner%20of%20Azkaban%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q103474", "text": "2001: A Space Odyssey is a 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, who co-wrote the screenplay with Arthur C. Clarke. Its plot was inspired by several short stories optioned from Clarke, primarily \"The Sentinel\" (1951) and \"Encounter in the Dawn\" (1953). The film stars Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, and Douglas Rain, and follows a voyage by astronauts, scientists, and the sentient supercomputer HAL 9000 to Jupiter to investigate an alien monolith.\nThe film is noted for its scientifically accurate depiction of spaceflight, pioneering special effects, and ambiguous themes. Kubrick avoided conventional cinematic and narrative techniques; dialogue is used sparingly, and long sequences are accompanied only by music. Shunning the convention that major film productions should feature original music, 2001: A Space Odyssey takes numerous works of classical music for its soundtrack, including pieces by Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss II, Aram Khachaturian, and György Ligeti.\n2001: A Space Odyssey premiered at Uptown Theater on 2 April 1968 before being released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on 3 April 1968 in the United States and 1 May 1968 in the United Kingdom. Polarising critics after its release, 2001: A Space Odyssey has since been subject to a variety of interpretations, ranging from the darkly apocalyptic to an optimistic reappraisal of the hopes of humanity. Critics noted its exploration of themes such as human evolution, technology, artificial intelligence, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning Kubrick the award for his direction of the visual effects, the only Academy Award the director would receive.\nThe film is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1991, it was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 2022, 2001: A Space Odyssey placed in the top ten of Sight & Sound's decennial critics' poll, and topped their directors' poll. A sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact, was released in 1984 without Kubrick's involvement.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "2001: A Space Odyssey", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%3A_A_Space_Odyssey", "revision": 1377736200, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377736200", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2001%3A%20A%20Space%20Odyssey&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125076", "text": "Slumdog Millionaire is a 2008 British drama film directed by Danny Boyle, written by Simon Beaufoy, and produced by Christian Colson, with Loveleen Tandan credited as co-director. It was loosely based on the novel Q & A (2005) by Indian author Vikas Swarup. Starring Dev Patel in his film debut as Jamal, and filmed in India, it narrates the story of 18-year-old Jamal Malik from the Juhu slums of Mumbai.\nAs a contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, a Hindi-language Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Jamal surprises everyone by answering every question correctly so far, winning ₹1 crore (US$210,000, equivalent to around $330,000 in 2026), and he is one question away from winning the grand prize of ₹2 crore (US$420,000, equivalent to around $660,000 in 2026). Accused of cheating, he recounts his life story to the police, illustrating how he was able to answer each question.\nAfter its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival and later screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival and the London Film Festival, Slumdog Millionaire had a nationwide release in United Kingdom on 9 January 2009, in India on 23 January 2009, and in the United States on 25 January 2009. A sleeper hit, Slumdog Millionaire was widely acclaimed, praised for its plot, soundtrack, cinematography, editing, direction, and performances. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2009 and won 8—the most of any 2008 film—including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It won seven BAFTA Awards including Best Film, five Critics' Choice Awards and four Golden Globes. However, reception in India and among Indian diaspora was mixed, and the film was the subject of controversy over its depiction of poverty in India and other issues. The Hindustan Times called it \"an assault on Indian self-esteem\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Slumdog Millionaire", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slumdog_Millionaire", "revision": 1378166513, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378166513", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slumdog%20Millionaire&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q161687", "text": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is a 2009 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is based on the 2005 novel Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) and the sixth instalment in the Harry Potter film series. It stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger respectively. The film follows Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts as he finds a mysterious textbook, falls in love, and attempts to retrieve a memory that holds the key to Lord Voldemort's downfall.\nFilming began on 24 September 2007, leading to the film's worldwide cinematic release on 15 July 2009. With an estimated budget of $250 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made and the most expensive film in the Harry Potter film series.\nHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released in 2D cinemas and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom and United States on 15 July 2009, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was widely acclaimed by critics, with praise for the visual effects, character development, performances, darker tone, and faithfulness to the source material. The film was a major box office success, grossing $941 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2009. It also grossed $394 million worldwide during its opening, which made it the highest worldwide five-day opening at the time. The film was nominated for many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and Best Special Visual Effects. It was followed by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 in 2010.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Half-Blood_Prince_(film)", "revision": 1378459679, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378459679", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Half-Blood%20Prince%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102235", "text": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a 2007 fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Michael Goldenberg. It is based on the 2003 novel Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling. It is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) and the fifth instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, alongside Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger respectively. Its story follows Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as the Ministry of Magic is in denial of Lord Voldemort's return.\nFilming took place in England and Scotland for exterior locations and Leavesden Film Studios in Watford for interior locations from February to November 2006, with a one-month break in June. Post-production on the film continued for several months afterwards to add in visual effects. The film's budget was reportedly between £75 and 100 million ($150–200 million).\nHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released in 2D cinemas and IMAX formats in the United States on 11 July 2007 and in the United Kingdom on 12 July, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was nominated for many awards, including the BAFTA Award for Best Production Design and Special Visual Effects. With a worldwide five-day opening of $333 million and a total gross of $942 million, it was the second-highest-grossing film of 2007, and was noted as a case of Hollywood accounting, as Warner Bros. claimed that it lost $167 million despite the total gross. A sequel, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was released in 2009.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Order_of_the_Phoenix_(film)", "revision": 1377516802, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377516802", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Order%20of%20the%20Phoenix%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q164963", "text": "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a 2002 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair, and Jackson, based on 1954's The Two Towers, the second volume of the novel The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2001's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the film is the second instalment in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. It features an ensemble cast including Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Liv Tyler, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin, Cate Blanchett, John Rhys-Davies, Bernard Hill, Christopher Lee, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Hugo Weaving, Miranda Otto, David Wenham, Brad Dourif, Karl Urban, and Andy Serkis. Continuing the plot of the previous film, it intercuts three storylines: Frodo and Sam continue their journey toward Mordor to destroy the One Ring, now allied with Gollum, the ring's untrustworthy former bearer. Merry and Pippin escape their orc captors, meet Treebeard the Ent, and help to plan an attack on Isengard, the fortress of Sauron's vassal, the treacherous wizard Saruman. Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli come to the war-torn nation of Rohan and are reunited with the resurrected Gandalf, before joining king Théoden to fight Saruman's army at the Battle of Helm's Deep.\nThe Two Towers was financed and distributed by American studio New Line Cinema, but filmed and edited entirely in Jackson's native New Zealand, concurrently with the other two parts of the trilogy. It premiered on 5 December 2002 at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City and was released in the United States on 18 December and in New Zealand on 19 December. The film was acclaimed by critics and audiences, who considered it a landmark in filmmaking and an achievement in the fantasy film genre, with praise for the visual effects (Gollum), performances, action sequences, direction, and musical score. It grossed $923 million worldwide during its original theatrical run, making it the highest-grossing film of 2002 and, at the time of its release, the third-highest-grossing film of all time behind Titanic and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Following subsequent re-releases, it has grossed $944 million.\nLike the other films in the trilogy, The Two Towers is widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made as well as one of the greatest sequels in cinema history. The film received numerous accolades; at the 75th Academy Awards, it was nominated for six awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects. The final instalment of the trilogy, The Return of the King, was released in 2003.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings%3A_The_Two_Towers", "revision": 1376684579, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376684579", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lord%20of%20the%20Rings%3A%20The%20Two%20Towers&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42051", "text": "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith is a 2005 American epic space opera film written and directed by George Lucas. The sequel to Attack of the Clones (2002), it is the sixth film in the Star Wars film series, the third installment in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, and the third chronological chapter of the \"Skywalker Saga\". The film stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Frank Oz.\nThe film is set three years after the onset of the Clone Wars and depicts the rise of Darth Sidious and the Galactic Empire as well as Anakin Skywalker turning to the dark side of the Force, which has wide-ranging consequences in the galaxy that lead to the extermination of the Jedi.\nLucas began writing the script before production of Attack of the Clones ended, saying he wanted the end of the trilogy to be similar to a romantic tragedy, thus leading into Darth Vader's state at the beginning of the next film. Production of Revenge of the Sith started in June 2003, and filming took place in Australia, Thailand, Switzerland, China, Italy, and the United Kingdom.\nRevenge of the Sith premiered on May 16, 2005, at the Cannes Film Festival, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 19. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise for the mature themes, darker tone, emotional depth, soundtrack and action sequences, although some criticism was reserved towards Lucas's screenplay; most considered it the best installment of the prequel trilogy. It broke several box-office records during its opening week and earned $850 million worldwide during its initial run, making it the second-highest-grossing film in the Star Wars franchise at the time. It was the highest-grossing film in the U.S. and the second-highest-grossing film worldwide in 2005. It also holds the record for the highest opening-day gross on a Thursday, at $50 million. It was the last Star Wars film distributed by 20th Century Fox, although the company (and, by extension, the film) was acquired by Disney several years after it acquired Lucasfilm. It also serves as Lucas' most recent directorial credit.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_Episode_III_%E2%80%93_Revenge_of_the_Sith", "revision": 1378114730, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378114730", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%3A%20Episode%20III%20%E2%80%93%20Revenge%20of%20the%20Sith&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q184768", "text": "The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American epic gangster film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, loosely based on the 1969 novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo, who co-wrote the screenplay with Coppola. It is both a sequel and a prequel to the 1972 film The Godfather, presenting two parallel dramas: one picks up the 1958 story of Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), the new Don of the Corleone family, protecting the family business in the aftermath of an attempt on his life; the other covers the journey of his father, Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro), from his Sicilian childhood to the founding of his family enterprise in New York City. The ensemble cast also features Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Morgana King, John Cazale, Marianna Hill and Lee Strasberg.\nFollowing the first film's success, Paramount Pictures began developing a follow-up, with many of the cast and crew returning. Coppola, who was given more creative control, had wanted to make both a sequel and a prequel to The Godfather that would tell the story of Vito's rise and Michael's fall. Principal photography began in October 1973 and wrapped up in June 1974. The Godfather Part II premiered in New York City on December 12, 1974, and was released in the United States on December 20, 1974. It grossed $48 million in the United States and Canada and up to $93 million worldwide on a $13 million budget. The film was nominated for eleven Academy Awards and became the first sequel to win Best Picture. Its six Oscar wins also included Best Director for Coppola, Best Supporting Actor for De Niro, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Coppola and Puzo. Pacino won Best Actor at the BAFTAs and was nominated at the Oscars.\nThe Godfather Part II is considered to be one of the greatest films of all time, as well as a rare example of a sequel that rivals its predecessor. Like its predecessor, Part II remains a highly influential film, especially in the gangster genre. In 1997, the American Film Institute ranked it as the 32nd-greatest film in American film history and it retained this position 10 years later. It was selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 1993, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". \nPauline Kael wrote: \"The Godfather was the greatest gangster picture ever made, and had metaphorical overtones that took it far beyond the gangster genre. In Part II, the wider themes are no longer merely implied. The second film shows the consequences of the actions in the first; it's all one movie, in two great big pieces, and it comes together in your head while you watch.\"\nThe Godfather Part III, the final installment in the trilogy, was released in 1990.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Godfather Part II", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_II", "revision": 1377822173, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377822173", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Godfather%20Part%20II&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106316", "text": "Dead Poets Society is a 1989 American coming-of-age film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. It stars Robin Williams and is set in 1959 at a fictional boarding school called Welton Academy, and focuses around a select group of boys, who over time take several pieces of advice from their English teacher, John Keating (Williams).\nSchulman wrote the script for Dead Poets Society in 1985 based on his own experiences at the Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville, Tennessee. Jeff Kanew was originally hired as director, but was eventually replaced by Weir. Weir met with Jeffrey Katzenberg, the CEO of Disney in 1988, who suggested Weir read Schulman's script. Weir was interested and later flew back to Los Angeles to begin casting. Shooting began on November 14, 1988, around several locations in Delaware, and wrapped on January 15, 1989.\nDead Poets Society was released on June 2, 1989, initially as a limited theatrical release, before receiving a wide release in the United States on June 9. A novel based on the film was also released the same year. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with some criticizing how the study of literature was portrayed, and others praising Williams' performance. It grossed $235,860,116 at the box office, against its $16.4 million production budget, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1989. The film also received many accolades, including the BAFTA Award for Best Film at the 43rd British Academy Film Awards, with producters Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and Weir collecting the award.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dead Poets Society", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Poets_Society", "revision": 1377847718, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377847718", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dead%20Poets%20Society&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q164103", "text": "A Beautiful Mind is a 2001 American biographical drama film about the mathematician John Nash who won a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Nash's character was played by actor Russell Crowe. The film was directed by Ron Howard and based on a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, who adapted the 1998 biography by Sylvia Nasar. In addition to Crowe, the film's cast features Ed Harris, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany, Adam Goldberg, Judd Hirsch, Josh Lucas, Anthony Rapp, and Christopher Plummer in supporting roles. The story follows Nash's life and career as he struggles with the impact schizophrenia had on him. \nA Beautiful Mind premiered in Beverly Hills on December 13, 2001 before being released theatrically in the United States on December 21, 2001, by Universal Pictures and internationally by DreamWorks Pictures (through United International Pictures). It received generally positive reviews and went on to gross $316.8 million worldwide against a $58 million budget, and won four Academy Awards, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress (Connelly). It was also nominated for Best Actor (Crowe), Best Film Editing, Best Makeup, and Best Original Score.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Beautiful Mind", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Beautiful_Mind", "revision": 1376017126, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376017126", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Beautiful%20Mind&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q165817", "text": "Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set in 1944 in Normandy, France, during World War II, it follows a group of soldiers, led by Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks), on a mission to locate Private James Francis Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home safely after his three brothers have been killed in action. The film also stars Edward Burns and Tom Sizemore.\nInspired by the books of Stephen E. Ambrose and accounts of multiple soldiers in a single family, such as the Sullivan brothers and the Niland brothers, being killed in action, Rodat drafted the script, and Paramount Pictures hired him to finish writing it. The project came to the attention of Hanks and Spielberg, whose involvement, due to their previous successes, secured the project's development. Spielberg wanted to make Saving Private Ryan as authentic as possible and hired Frank Darabont and Scott Frank to do uncredited rewrites based on research and interviews with veterans. The main cast went through a week-long boot camp to help them understand the soldier's experience. Filming took place from June to September 1997, on a $65–70 million budget, almost entirely on location in England and Ireland. The opening Omaha Beach battle was the most demanding scene, costing $12 million to film over a four-week period, and using 1,500 background actors.\nReleased on July 24, 1998, Saving Private Ryan became one of the year's most successful films, earning critical acclaim for its graphic portrayal of combat. WWII veterans described the combat scenes as the most realistic portrayal of their own experiences they had seen; some said they had been unable to watch it due to their traumatic memories. The film earned $481.8 million, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1998, and went on to win many accolades, including Golden Globe, Academy, BAFTA, and Saturn awards.\nConsidered one of the greatest war films ever made, Saving Private Ryan's battle-scene filming techniques inspired many subsequent war, action, and superhero films, and numerous directors have cited Saving Private Ryan as an influence on them. The picture is credited with having helped to renew interest in WWII at the turn of the century, inspiring other films, television shows, and video games set during the war. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Saving Private Ryan", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_Private_Ryan", "revision": 1376742843, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376742843", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saving%20Private%20Ryan&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q54274", "text": "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is a 2007 American swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio. The direct sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006), it is the third installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, and follows an urgent quest to locate and save Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp), trapped on a sea of sand in Davy Jones' Locker, and convene the Brethren Court in a war against the East India Trading Company. In an uneasy alliance, Will Turner (Orlando Bloom), Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley), Hector Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), and the Black Pearl crew rescue Jack and prepare to fight Lord Cutler Beckett, who controls Davy Jones and the Flying Dutchman.\nTwo sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were conceived in 2004, with Elliott and Rossio developing a story arc that would span both films. The film was shot in two shoots during 2005 and 2006, the former of which was released as Dead Man's Chest. This also marks the final film of the series to be directed by Verbinski. With a production budget of US$300 million, it was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.\nAt World's End premiered at the Disneyland Resort on May 19, 2007, then theatrically released in the United States on May 25. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was the highest-grossing film of 2007, bringing in over $963 million. It was nominated at the 80th Academy Awards for Best Makeup and Best Visual Effects, and won Favorite Movie Actor for Depp at the 2008 Kids' Choice Awards. A standalone sequel, On Stranger Tides, was released in 2011. Dead Men Tell No Tales, released in 2017, followed as a direct continuation of At World's End.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%3A_At_World's_End", "revision": 1370754626, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370754626", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%3A%20At%20World's%20End&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q160618", "text": "Brokeback Mountain is a 2005 American romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee and produced by Diana Ossana and James Schamus. Adapted from the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx, the screenplay was written by Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film stars Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Anne Hathaway, and Michelle Williams. Its plot depicts the complex romantic relationship between two American cowboys, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, in the American West from 1963 to 1983.\nLee became attached to the project in 2001 after previous attempts to adapt Proulx's story into a film did not materialize. Focus Features and River Road Entertainment would jointly produce and distribute the film. After Ledger and Gyllenhaal's casting was announced in 2003, filming commenced in various locations in Alberta in 2004. Brokeback Mountain premiered at the 2005 Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, and was released to theaters on December 9 that year.\nThe neo-Western film received widespread critical acclaim, with high praise for the performances of Ledger and Gyllenhaal. It emerged as a commercial success at the box-office, grossing over $178 million worldwide against its $14 million budget, and won various accolades. At the 78th Academy Awards, Brokeback Mountain was nominated for Best Picture and won for Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Original Score. It garnered seven nominations at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Motion Picture — Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Song. At the 59th British Academy Film Awards, Brokeback Mountain had nine nominations, winning Best Film, Best Direction, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Gyllenhaal). It was the film that topped the best of the year lists.\nBrokeback Mountain was subject to controversies; its loss to Crash (2004) for the Academy Award for Best Picture, subsequent censorship, and criticism from conservative media outlets received significant attention. The sexuality of the main characters has been subject to discussion. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". It was listed on the ballot for the American Film Institute's list of AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies (10th Anniversary Edition). Since then, it has been ranked by several publications, film critics and scholars as one of the best films of the 2000s, the 21st century and of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Brokeback Mountain", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokeback_Mountain", "revision": 1378303121, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378303121", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brokeback%20Mountain&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q166262", "text": "Batman Begins is a 2005 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with David S. Goyer, the film stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman, with Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes, Gary Oldman, Cillian Murphy, Tom Wilkinson, Rutger Hauer, Ken Watanabe, and Morgan Freeman in supporting roles. The film reboots the Batman film series, telling the origin story of Bruce Wayne (Bale) from the death of his parents to his journey to become Batman and his fight to stop Ra's al Ghul (Neeson) and the Scarecrow (Murphy) from plunging Gotham City into chaos.\nAfter Batman & Robin (1997) was panned by critics and underperformed at the box office, Warner Bros. Pictures cancelled future Batman films, including Joel Schumacher's planned Batman Unchained. Between 1998 and 2003, several filmmakers collaborated with Warner Bros. in attempting to reboot the franchise. After the studio rejected a Batman origin story reboot Joss Whedon pitched in December 2002, Warner Bros. hired Nolan in January 2003 to direct a new film. Nolan and Goyer began development on the film in early 2003. Aiming for a darker, more realistic tone compared to the previous films, a primary goal for their vision was to engage the audience's emotional investment in both the Batman and Bruce Wayne identities of the lead character. The film, which was principally shot in the United Kingdom, Iceland and Chicago, relied heavily on traditional stunts and miniature effects, with computer-generated imagery being used in a minimal capacity compared to other action films. Comic book storylines such as The Man Who Falls, Batman: Year One, and Batman: The Long Halloween served as inspiration.\nExpectations for Batman Begins ranged from moderate to low, which originated from the poor reception of Batman & Robin that was credited with stalling the Batman film series in 1997. After premiering in Tokyo on May 31, 2005, the film was released in the United States on June 15. The film received positive reviews and ended up grossing over $375.6 million worldwide against a $150 million budget, becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 2005, and was the second highest grossing Batman film at the time of its release, behind Tim Burton's Batman (1989). Receiving a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, the film elevated Bale to leading man status while it made Nolan a high-profile director.\nSince its release, Batman Begins has often been cited as one of the most influential films of the 2000s. The film helped popularize the term reboot in Hollywood, inspiring studios and filmmakers to revive franchises with realistic and serious tones. It was followed by the sequels The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012), which rounded out The Dark Knight trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Batman Begins", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Begins", "revision": 1378433214, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378433214", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman%20Begins&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24815", "text": "Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a composite character based on American media barons William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer, and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick, as well as aspects of the screenwriters' own lives.\nAfter the Broadway success of Welles's Mercury Theatre and the controversial 1938 radio broadcast \"The War of the Worlds\" on The Mercury Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was given freedom to develop his own story, to use his own cast and crew, and to have final cut privilege. Following two abortive attempts to get a project off the ground, he wrote the screenplay for Citizen Kane with Herman J. Mankiewicz. Principal photography took place in 1940, the same year that its innovative trailer was shown, and the film was released in 1941.\nUpon its release, Hearst prohibited any mention of the film in his newspapers. Although it was a critical success, Citizen Kane failed to recoup its costs at the box office. The film faded from view after its release, but returned to public attention when it was praised by French critics such as André Bazin and re-released in 1956. In 1958, the film was voted number nine on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo.\nCitizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. For 50 years (five decennial polls: 1962, 1972, 1982, 1992 and 2002), it stood at number one in the British Film Institute's Sight and Sound decennial poll, and it topped the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Movies list in 1998, as well as its 2007 update. The Library of Congress selected Citizen Kane as an inductee of the 1989 inaugural group of 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories and it won for Best Writing (Original Screenplay) by Mankiewicz and Welles. Citizen Kane is praised for Gregg Toland's cinematography, Robert Wise's editing, Bernard Herrmann's score and its narrative structure, all of which have been considered innovative and precedent-setting.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Citizen Kane", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane", "revision": 1378162332, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378162332", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Citizen%20Kane&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q181795", "text": "The Empire Strikes Back (also known as Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back) is a 1980 American epic space opera film directed by Irvin Kershner from a screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas. The sequel to Star Wars (1977), it is the second film in the Star Wars film series and the fifth chronological chapter of the \"Skywalker Saga\". Set three years after the events of Star Wars, the film recounts the battle between the malevolent Galactic Empire, led by the Emperor, and the Rebel Alliance, led by Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia. As the Empire goes on the offensive, Luke trains to master the Force so he can confront the Emperor's powerful disciple, Darth Vader. The ensemble cast includes Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz.\nFollowing the success of Star Wars, Lucas hired Brackett to write the sequel. After she died in 1978, he outlined the entire Star Wars saga and wrote the next draft himself, before hiring Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) writer Kasdan to enhance his work. To avoid the stress he faced directing Star Wars, Lucas handed the responsibility to Kershner and focused on expanding his special effects company Industrial Light & Magic instead. Filmed from March to September 1979 in Finse, Norway, and at Elstree Studios in England, The Empire Strikes Back faced production difficulties, including actor injuries, illnesses, fires, and problems securing additional financing as costs rose. Initially budgeted at $8 million, costs had risen to $30.5 million by the project's conclusion.\nReleased by Twentieth Century-Fox on May 21, 1980, the highly anticipated sequel became the highest-grossing film that year, earning approximately $401.5 million worldwide. Unlike its lighthearted predecessor, Empire met with mixed reviews from critics, and fans were conflicted about its darker and more mature themes. The film was nominated for various awards and won two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and a BAFTA, among others. Subsequent releases have raised the film's worldwide gross to $549–$550 million and, adjusted for inflation, it is the 13th-highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada.\nSince its release, The Empire Strikes Back has been critically reassessed and is now often regarded as the best film in the Star Wars series and among the greatest films ever made. It has had a significant influence on filmmaking and popular culture and is often considered an example of a sequel superior to its predecessor. The climax, in which Darth Vader reveals he is Luke's father, is often ranked as one of the greatest plot twists in cinema. The film spawned a variety of merchandise and adaptations, including video games and a radio play. The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2010. Return of the Jedi (1983) followed Empire, concluding the original Star Wars trilogy. Prequel and sequel trilogies have since been released.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Empire Strikes Back", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Empire_Strikes_Back", "revision": 1378437434, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378437434", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Empire%20Strikes%20Back&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182692", "text": "Apocalypse Now is a 1979 American epic war film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The screenplay, written by Coppola and John Milius, with narration by Michael Herr, is loosely inspired by Joseph Conrad's 1899 novella Heart of Darkness, with the setting changed from the late 19th-century Congo to the Vietnam War. \nThe film follows a river journey from South Vietnam into Cambodia undertaken by Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), who is on a secret mission to assassinate Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), a renegade Special Forces officer who is accused of murder and presumed insane. The cast also features Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper, G. D. Spradlin and Harrison Ford.\nMilius became interested in adapting Heart of Darkness for a Vietnam War setting in the late 1960s, and initially began developing the film with Coppola as producer and George Lucas as director. After Lucas became unavailable, Coppola took over directorial control, and was influenced by Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) in his approach to the material. Initially set to be a five-month shoot in the Philippines starting in March 1976, a series of problems lengthened it to over a year. These problems included expensive sets being destroyed by severe weather, Brando arriving on set overweight and completely unprepared, and Sheen having a breakdown and suffering a near-fatal heart attack on location. After photography was finally finished in May 1977, the release was postponed several times while Coppola edited over a million feet of film. Many of these difficulties are chronicled in the documentary Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991).\nApocalypse Now was honored with the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered unfinished. When it was finally released on August 15, 1979, by United Artists, it performed well at the box office, grossing $80 million in the United States and Canada and $150 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed; while Vittorio Storaro's cinematography was widely acclaimed, several critics found Coppola's handling of the story's major themes anticlimactic and intellectually disappointing. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best Cinematography and Best Sound.\nApocalypse Now has been assessed as Coppola's magnum opus and retrospectively considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the U.S. Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\". Coppola later released Apocalypse Now Redux, an extended re-edit of the film that contains multiple new scenes, in 2001. Another re-edit, Apocalypse Now Final Cut, was released in 2019 and is Coppola's preferred version of the film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Apocalypse Now", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now", "revision": 1377498447, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377498447", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apocalypse%20Now&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q184843", "text": "Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, former cop Rick Deckard (Ford) is recalled to hunt them down.\nBlade Runner initially underperformed in North American theaters and polarized critics; some praised its thematic complexity and visuals, while others critiqued its slow pacing and lack of action. The film's soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, was nominated in 1982 for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe as best original score. Blade Runner later became a cult film, and has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest science fiction films. Hailed for its production design depicting a high-tech but decaying future, the film is often regarded as both a leading example of neo-noir cinema and a foundational work of the cyberpunk genre. It has influenced many science fiction films, video games, anime, and television series. It also brought the work of Dick to Hollywood's attention and led to several film adaptations of his works. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.\nSeven different versions of Blade Runner exist as a result of controversial changes requested by studio executives. A director's cut was released in 1992 after a strong response to test screenings of a workprint. This, in conjunction with the film's popularity as a video rental, made it one of the earliest films to be released on DVD. In 2007, Warner Bros. released The Final Cut, a 25th-anniversary digitally remastered version; this is the only version over which Scott retained artistic control.\nThe film is the first of the franchise of the same name. A sequel, titled Blade Runner 2049, was released in 2017 alongside a trilogy of short films covering the thirty-year span between the two films' settings. The anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus was released in 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Blade Runner", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner", "revision": 1377838562, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377838562", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blade%20Runner&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q161087", "text": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is a 2006 American swashbuckler film directed by Gore Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), it is the second installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. It is set a year after the first film and follows Captain Jack Sparrow who owes a debt to Davy Jones (Bill Nighy), the ghastly captain of the Flying Dutchman, and being marked for death and pursued by the Kraken. Meanwhile, the wedding of Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) and Elizabeth Swann (Keira Knightley) is interrupted by Lord Cutler Beckett (Tom Hollander), who wants Turner to acquire Jack's magic compass in a bid to find the Dead Man's Chest.\nTwo sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl were conceived in 2004, with Elliott and Rossio developing a story arc that would span both films. Filming took place from February to September 2005 in Palos Verdes, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, and The Bahamas, as well as on sets constructed at Walt Disney Studios. It was shot back-to-back with the third film of the series, At World's End (2007). With a production budget of $225 million, it was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.\nDead Man's Chest premiered at the Disneyland Resort on June 24, 2006, and was released in the United States on July 7, to mixed reviews from critics. The film broke several records at the time, including the opening-weekend record in the United States with $136 million and the fastest film to gross over $1 billion at the worldwide box office (63 days), and became the highest-grossing film of 2006, the third highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release, and the highest-grossing film in the series. It was also the highest-grossing film released by Disney until it was surpassed by Toy Story 3 in 2010. The film received four nominations at the 79th Academy Awards (winning Best Visual Effects). The sequel, At World's End, was released in 2007.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Man's_Chest", "revision": 1372328589, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372328589", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%3A%20Dead%20Man's%20Chest&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q484442", "text": "Spider-Man is a 2002 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Koepp. Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, it is the first film in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), and stars Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, and Rosemary Harris. The plot follows the timid teenager Peter Parker (Maguire), who gains superhuman abilities after being bitten by a genetically engineered spider. He adopts the masked persona \"Spider-Man\" and begins to fight crime in New York City, facing the malevolent Green Goblin (Dafoe) in the process.\nDevelopment of a live-action Spider-Man film began in 1975, but stalled for nearly 25 years due to licensing and financial issues. Columbia Pictures finally licensed the project for a worldwide release in 1999. Koepp was hired to create a working screenplay, which was eventually rewritten by Scott Rosenberg and refined by Alvin Sargent. Various directors were considered before Raimi was hired in 2000. Filming took place in Los Angeles and New York City from January to June 2001. Danny Elfman composed the musical score, while Sony Pictures Imageworks handled the visual effects.\nSpider-Man premiered at both the Fox Westwood Village Theater and the Bruin Theater in Los Angeles on April 29, 2002, and was released in the United States on May 3, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, becoming the first film to reach $100 million in a single weekend, as well as the most successful film based on a comic book at the time. With a box office gross of $826 million against its $139 million budget, it was the highest-grossing superhero film, the sixth-highest-grossing film overall at the time, and third highest-grossing film of 2002. It garnered nominations for Best Sound and Best Visual Effects at the 75th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades.\nIt was followed by two sequels, both directed by Raimi: Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man 3 (2007). Maguire and Dafoe later reprised their roles in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which explores the concept of the multiverse and links the Raimi trilogy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man (2002 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_(2002_film)", "revision": 1378423928, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378423928", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%20(2002%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q181803", "text": "Return of the Jedi (also known as Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi) is a 1983 American epic space opera film directed by Richard Marquand from a screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. The sequel to The Empire Strikes Back (1980), it is the third installment in the original Star Wars trilogy and the sixth chronological film in the \"Skywalker Saga\". The film follows the ongoing struggle between the malevolent Galactic Empire and the freedom fighters of the Rebel Alliance. As the Rebels attempt to destroy the Empire's second Death Star, Luke Skywalker tries to bring his father, Darth Vader, back from the dark side of the Force. The film stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, David Prowse, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, and Frank Oz.\nSteven Spielberg, David Lynch, and David Cronenberg were considered to direct the film before Marquand signed on as director. The production team relied on Lucas' storyboards during pre-production. While writing the shooting script, Lucas, Kasdan, Marquand, and producer Howard Kazanjian spent two weeks in conference discussing ideas to construct it. Kazanjian's schedule pushed shooting to begin a few weeks early to allow Industrial Light & Magic more time to work on the film's effects in post-production. Filming took place in England, California, and Arizona from January to May 1982 (1982-05).\nReturn of the Jedi was released in theaters by 20th Century-Fox on May 25, 1983. It grossed $374 million worldwide during its initial theatrical run, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1983. It received mixed reviews, with critics conflicted on the performances of the actors, the special effects and the action sequences, though John Williams' score was consistently praised. Later reviews have been more positive, although most critics consider the film to be the weakest of the original trilogy. Several re-releases and revisions to the film have followed over the decades, which have brought its total gross to $482 million. The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2021. A prequel trilogy, released between 1999 and 2005, and a sequel trilogy, released between 2015 and 2019, followed.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Return of the Jedi", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Jedi", "revision": 1377710179, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377710179", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return%20of%20the%20Jedi&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182153", "text": "Cars is a 2006 American animated sports comedy film directed by John Lasseter, who co-wrote it with Joe Ranft, Dan Fogelman, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin and Jorgen Klubien. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film stars Paul Newman and Owen Wilson, with an ensemble voice cast consisting of Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin, Michael Wallis, George Carlin, Paul Dooley, Jenifer Lewis, Guido Quaroni, Michael Keaton, Katherine Helmond, John Ratzenberger, and Richard Petty.\nSet in a world populated entirely by anthropomorphic vehicles, the film follows a young self-obsessed racecar named Lightning McQueen (Wilson) who, on the way to the most important race of his life for the Piston Cup, becomes stranded in a forgotten town along U.S. Route 66 called Radiator Springs, where he learns about friendship and begins to reevaluate his priorities.\nDevelopment for Cars started in 1998 following discussions between Lasseter and Klubien after production of A Bug's Life had wrapped. Klubien began to develop a new script titled The Yellow Car, which was about an electric car living in a gas-guzzling world. Shortly after, production was resumed with major script changes. The film was inspired by Lasseter's experiences on a cross-country road trip. Randy Newman composed the film's score, while artists such as Sheryl Crow, Rascal Flatts, John Mayer, and Brad Paisley contributed to the film's soundtrack. Cars ultimately served as the final film independently produced by Pixar after its purchase by Disney in January 2006.\nCars premiered on May 26, 2006, at Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9 to generally positive reviews and commercial success, grossing $480 million worldwide against a budget of $120 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2006. It received two nominations at the 79th Academy Awards, including Best Animated Feature, but lost to Happy Feet (but won both the Annie Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film). The film was dedicated to Ranft, who died in a car crash during the film's production.\nThe success of Cars launched a multimedia franchise that includes two sequels: Cars 2 (2011) and Cars 3 (2017), as well as two spin-off films produced by Disneytoon Studios: Planes (2013) and Planes: Fire and Rescue (2014).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Cars (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cars_(film)", "revision": 1378458033, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378458033", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cars%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q103569", "text": "Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Dan O'Bannon, based on a story by O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. It follows a commercial starship crew who investigate a derelict space vessel and are hunted by a deadly extraterrestrial creature. The film stars Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, and Yaphet Kotto. It was produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, and Walter Hill through their company Brandywine Productions and was distributed by 20th Century-Fox. Giler and Hill revised and made additions to the script; Shusett was the executive producer. The alien creatures and environments were designed by the Swiss artist H. R. Giger, while the concept artists Ron Cobb and Chris Foss designed the other sets.\nAlien premiered on May 24, 1979 at the fourth Seattle International Film Festival. It received a wide release on June 22 and was released on September 6 in the United Kingdom. It initially received mixed reviews, but won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, three Saturn Awards (Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Cartwright), and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Alien grossed $78.9 million in the United States and £7.8 million in the United Kingdom during its first theatrical run. Its worldwide gross has been estimated at between $109 million and $188 million.\nIn subsequent years, Alien was critically reassessed and described as one of the greatest and most influential science fiction and horror films of all time. In 2002, Alien was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. In 2008, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre, and as the 33rd-greatest film of all time by Empire. The success of Alien spawned a media franchise of films, books, video games, and toys, and propelled Weaver's acting career. The story of her character's encounters with the alien creatures became the thematic and narrative core of the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). A crossover with the Predator franchise produced the Alien vs. Predator films, while a two-film prequel series was directed by Scott before Alien: Romulus (2024), a standalone sequel, was released. A television prequel written by Noah Hawley and produced by Scott, Alien: Earth, was released on FX on Hulu on August 12, 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Alien (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_(film)", "revision": 1377327497, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377327497", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alien%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131390", "text": "300 is a 2006 epic historical fantasy action film directed by Zack Snyder, who co-wrote the screenplay with Kurt Johnstad and Michael B. Gordon. Based on the 1998 Dark Horse Comics limited series of the same name by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley, the film, like its source material, is a retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae in the Greco-Persian Wars. The plot revolves around King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), who leads 300 Spartans into battle against the Persian \"God-King\" Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his invading army of more than 300,000 soldiers. As the battle rages, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey) attempts to rally support in Sparta for her husband. The film also features Michael Fassbender in his film debut.\nThe story is framed by a voice-over narrative by the Spartan soldier Dilios (David Wenham). As an unreliable narrator, Dilios introduces various historical inaccuracies and other fantastical elements, placing 300 within the genre of historical fantasy. 300 was filmed mostly with a superimposition chroma key technique to replicate the imagery of the original comics.\nAn unfinished cut of 300 premiered at the Austin Butt-Numb-A-Thon on December 9, 2006. The completed film then premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 14, 2007, before being released in both conventional and IMAX screens in the United States on March 9, and on home media on July 31. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its visuals, action sequences, and style but received criticism from historians, who criticized its historical inaccuracies, most notably its depiction of the Persians, which some characterized as Persophobic. Grossing over $468.8 million, the film's opening was the 24th-largest in box office history at the time, and became the tenth highest-grossing film of 2007. The film earned a leading ten nominations at the 34th Saturn Awards, winning two for Best Action, Adventure, or Thriller Film and Best Director (for Snyder). A sequel, titled Rise of an Empire, based on Miller's previously unpublished graphic novel prequel Xerxes, was released on March 7, 2014.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "300 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_(film)", "revision": 1376286580, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376286580", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=300%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q161678", "text": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 is a 2010 epic fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. The first of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling, it is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) and the seventh instalment in the Harry Potter film series. The film stars Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, with Rupert Grint and Emma Watson reprising roles as Harry's best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, respectively. The film follows Harry as he has been asked by Albus Dumbledore to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's secret to immortality – the Horcruxes.\nFilming began on 19 February 2009 and was completed on 12 June 2010. The film was released in 2D cinemas and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom and in the United States on 19 November 2010, by Warner Bros. Pictures. In the film's worldwide opening weekend, Part 1 grossed $330 million, the third-highest in the series, and the highest opening of 2010, as well as the eighth-highest of all time. With a worldwide gross of $991 million, Part 1 became the third-highest-grossing film of 2010, the tenth highest-grossing film ever at the time and the third-highest-grossing Harry Potter film in terms of worldwide totals.\nThe film received positive reviews, and was nominated for many awards, including the Academy Award for Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects. The film was followed by the concluding entry, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_1", "revision": 1378462941, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378462941", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Deathly%20Hallows%20%E2%80%93%20Part%201&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105031", "text": "Home Alone is a 1990 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The first film in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCallister, an eight-year-old boy who defends his suburban Chicago home from a home invasion by a pair of robbers after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris. The cast also features Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara.\nHughes conceived Home Alone while on vacation, with Warner Bros. being originally intended to finance and distribute the film. Warner Bros. shut down the production after it exceeded its assigned budget, but it quickly resumed under 20th Century Fox following meetings with Hughes; Columbus and Culkin were hired soon afterwards. Filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois.\nHome Alone had a sneak preview across 1,000 theaters on November 10, 1990, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 16. It received mixed-to-positive reviews and grossed $476.7 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1990. It made Culkin a child star and was the highest-grossing live-action comedy for two decades. It was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Home Alone has since been considered one of the best Christmas films. In 2023, Home Alone was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". Five sequels have been released: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Home Alone 3 (1997), Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House (2002), Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012), and Home Sweet Home Alone (2021).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Home Alone", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone", "revision": 1377731106, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377731106", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home%20Alone&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q181069", "text": "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones is a 2002 American epic space opera film directed by George Lucas from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jonathan Hales. The sequel to The Phantom Menace (1999), it is the fifth entry in the Star Wars film series and second chronological chapter of the \"Skywalker Saga\". The film stars Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Hayden Christensen, Ian McDiarmid, Samuel L. Jackson, Christopher Lee, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, and Frank Oz.\nThe story is set ten years after The Phantom Menace, as thousands of planetary systems slowly secede from the Galactic Republic and join the newly formed Confederacy of Independent Systems, led by former Jedi Master Count Dooku. With the galaxy on the brink of civil war, Obi-Wan Kenobi investigates a mysterious assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, which leads him to uncover a clone army in service of the Republic and the truth behind the Separatist movement. Meanwhile, his apprentice Anakin Skywalker is assigned to protect Amidala and develops a secret romance with her. Soon, the trio witness the onset of a new threat to the galaxy: the Clone Wars.\nDevelopment of Attack of the Clones began in March 2000, some months after the release of The Phantom Menace. By June 2000, Lucas and Hales completed a draft of the script, and principal photography took place from June to September 2000. The film crew primarily shot at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, with additional footage filmed in Tunisia, Italy and Spain. It was one of the first motion pictures shot completely on a high-definition digital 24-frame system.\nAttack of the Clones was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States on May 16, 2002. It received mixed reviews from critics; the film's increased focus on action was praised, while the characters and dialogue were regarded more critically. It performed well at the box office, making $653.8 million worldwide. Yet, it became the first Star Wars film to get outgrossed in its year of release, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2002 worldwide. Revenge of the Sith (2005) followed Attack of the Clones, concluding the Star Wars prequel trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_Episode_II_%E2%80%93_Attack_of_the_Clones", "revision": 1378043669, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378043669", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%3A%20Episode%20II%20%E2%80%93%20Attack%20of%20the%20Clones&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14171368", "text": "Avengers: Age of Ultron is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to The Avengers (2012) and the 11th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by Joss Whedon, the film features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Bettany, Cobie Smulders, Anthony Mackie, Hayley Atwell, Idris Elba, Linda Cardellini, Stellan Skarsgård, James Spader, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, the Avengers fight Ultron (Spader)—an artificial intelligence created by Tony Stark (Downey) and Bruce Banner (Ruffalo)—who plans to bring about world peace by causing human extinction.\nA sequel was announced in May 2012 after the successful release of The Avengers, with Whedon set to return as writer and director in August. He updated Ultron's origin for the film to involve the MCU's Avengers team and introduced the characters Pietro (Taylor-Johnson) and Wanda Maximoff (Olsen), to whom Marvel shared the rights with 20th Century Fox. Casting began in June 2013 with Downey re-signing. Second unit filming began in February 2014 in South Africa, with principal photography taking place between March and August, primarily at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England. Additional footage was filmed in Italy, South Korea, Bangladesh, the state of New York, and around England. With an estimated net production budget of $365 million, the film is one of the most expensive ever made.\nAvengers: Age of Ultron premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on April 13, 2015, and was released in the United States on May 1, as part of Phase Two of the MCU. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $1.4 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time during its run. Two sequels have been released: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avengers: Age of Ultron", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers%3A_Age_of_Ultron", "revision": 1370066511, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370066511", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avengers%3A%20Age%20of%20Ultron&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190086", "text": "Some Like It Hot is a 1959 American crime comedy film produced, co-written and directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, with George Raft, Pat O'Brien, Joe E. Brown, Joan Shawlee and Nehemiah Persoff in supporting roles. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on a screenplay by Robert Thoeren and Michael Logan from the 1935 French film Fanfare of Love. Set in the Prohibition era, the film is about two musicians (Curtis and Lemmon) who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder.\nSome Like It Hot opened to critical and commercial success and is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made. The film received six Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning for Best Costume Design. In 1989, the Library of Congress selected it as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Some Like It Hot", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Like_It_Hot", "revision": 1378426800, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378426800", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Some%20Like%20It%20Hot&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q109116", "text": "The Great Dictator is a 1940 American political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. Having been the only major Hollywood filmmaker to continue to make silent films well into the period of sound films, Chaplin made this his first true sound film.\nChaplin's film advanced a stirring condemnation of the German and Italian dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, as well as fascism, antisemitism, and Nazism. At the time of its first release, the United States was still at peace with Nazi Germany and neutral during what were the early days of World War II. Chaplin plays both leading roles: a ruthless fascist dictator and a persecuted Jewish barber.\nThe Great Dictator was popular with audiences, becoming Chaplin's most commercially successful film. Modern critics have praised it as a historically significant film, one of the greatest comedy films ever made and an important work of satire. In 1997, it was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The Great Dictator was nominated for five Academy Awards—Outstanding Production, Best Actor, Best Writing (Original Screenplay), Best Supporting Actor for Jack Oakie, and Best Music (Original Score).\nIn his 1964 autobiography, Chaplin stated that he could not have made the film had he known about the true extent of the Holocaust at that time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Great Dictator", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Dictator", "revision": 1375988310, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375988310", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Great%20Dictator&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q232009", "text": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 is a 2011 epic fantasy film directed by David Yates from a screenplay by Steve Kloves. It is the second of two cinematic parts based on the 2007 novel by J. K. Rowling, and the eighth and final instalment of the Harry Potter film series. The film follows Harry as he continues his quest to find and destroy Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes in order to destroy him once and for all.\nThe film stars an ensemble cast comprising Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter, and Rupert Grint and Emma Watson as Harry's best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, alongside Helena Bonham Carter, Robbie Coltrane, Warwick Davis, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, John Hurt, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman, Alan Rickman, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, and Julie Walters. Principal photography began on 19 February 2009, and was completed on 12 June 2010, with reshoots taking place in December 2010.\nHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United Kingdom and United States on 15 July 2011, and is the only Harry Potter film to be released in 3D. The film was praised as a satisfying conclusion to the saga, and for the visual effects, performances, action sequences, direction, musical score, and cinematography. It grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film ever during its run, and the highest-grossing film in the Harry Potter series. The National Board of Review named Deathly Hallows – Part 2 one of the top-ten films of 2011. It was nominated for three awards at the 84th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Potter_and_the_Deathly_Hallows_%E2%80%93_Part_2", "revision": 1378461934, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378461934", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Deathly%20Hallows%20%E2%80%93%20Part%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q61448040", "text": "Parasite (Korean: 기생충) is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, who co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. It stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon, and Lee Jung-eun. The film follows a poor family who infiltrate the home and life of a wealthy family.\nThe script is based on a play Bong wrote in 2013. He later adapted it into a 15-page film draft, which was split into three different drafts by Han. Bong said he was inspired by the Korean film The Housemaid (1960) and the 1930s Christine and Léa Papin incident. Filming ran from May to September 2018 and included cinematographer Hong Kyung-pyo, editor Yang Jin-mo, and composer Jung Jae-il. Parasite premiered on 21 May 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival, where it became the first Korean film to win the Palme d'Or. It was praised for its direction, screenplay, performances, editing, and production design. It was released in South Korea by CJ Entertainment on 30 May, grossing $258 million worldwide on an $11.4 million budget.\nAmong its numerous accolades, Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards, becoming the first non-English-language film to do so. It won an additional three Oscars, for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It is the first South Korean film to receive any Academy Award recognition, and one of only four films overall to win both the Palme d'Or and the Academy Award for Best Picture, the first such achievement in over 60 years. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language and the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, and became the first non-English-language film to win the Actor Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. \nSince its release, Parasite has been regarded as Bong's magnum opus and was ranked in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll as the 90th best film of all time. In 2025, The New York Times ranked it as the best movie of the 21st century so far in a list based on a vote by readers, actors, and directors. As of February 2025, an HBO limited television series based on the film is in early development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Parasite (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)", "revision": 1377908085, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377908085", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parasite%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108839994", "text": "Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who led the development of the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside an ensemble supporting cast that includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.\nOppenheimer was announced in September 2021. It was Nolan's first film not distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures since Memento (2000), due to his conflicts regarding the studio's simultaneous theatrical and HBO Max release schedule. Murphy was the first cast member to join, with the rest joining between November 2021 and April 2022. Pre-production began by January 2022, and filming took place from February to May. The cinematographer, Hoyte van Hoytema, used a combination of IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large-format film, including, for the first time, selected scenes in IMAX black-and-white film photography. As with many of his previous films, Nolan used extensive practical effects and claimed minimal use of compositing; despite these claims, the final film contained several hundred VFX shots made by a mostly uncredited VFX crew of around 160.\nOppenheimer premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 21 by Universal Pictures. Its concurrent release with Warner Bros.'s Barbie was the catalyst of the \"Barbenheimer\" phenomenon, encouraging audiences to see both films as a double feature. Oppenheimer received widespread critical acclaim and grossed over $983 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2023. It was the highest-grossing biographical film of all time until being overtaken by Michael in 2026.\nThe recipient of many accolades, Oppenheimer was nominated for thirteen awards at the 96th Academy Awards and won seven, including Best Picture, Best Director (Nolan), Best Actor (Murphy), and Best Supporting Actor (Downey). It also won five Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama) and seven British Academy Film Awards (including Best Film), and was named one of the top 10 films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Oppenheimer (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)", "revision": 1378337573, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378337573", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oppenheimer%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19355", "text": "Life Is Beautiful (Italian: La vita è bella, pronounced [la ˈviːta ˌɛ bˈbɛlla]) is a 1997 Italian period comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni plays Guido Orefice, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, who employs his imagination to shield his son from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. The film was partially inspired by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during World War II.\nThe film was an overwhelming critical and commercial success. Despite some criticisms of using the subject matter for comedic purposes, it received widespread acclaim, with critics praising its story, performances and direction, and the union of drama and comedy. The movie grossed over $230 million worldwide, including $57.6 million in the United States, is the second-highest-grossing foreign-language film in the U.S. (after Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) and one of the highest-grossing non-English-language movies of all time. The National Board of Review included it in the top five best foreign films of 1998.\nThe movie won the Grand Prix at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, nine David di Donatello Awards (including Best Film), five Nastro d'Argento Awards in Italy, two European Film Awards, and three Academy Awards, including Best International Feature Film and Best Actor for Benigni, the first for a male non-English-language performance.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Life Is Beautiful", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Is_Beautiful", "revision": 1377834312, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377834312", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Life%20Is%20Beautiful&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q153723", "text": "Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars an ensemble cast including Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Daniel Brühl, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent. The film tells an alternate history story of two converging plots to assassinate Nazi Germany's leadership at a Paris cinema—one through a British operation largely carried out by a team of Jewish American soldiers led by First Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Pitt), and another by French Jewish cinema proprietor Shosanna Dreyfus (Laurent) who seeks to avenge her murdered family. Both are pitted against Hans Landa (Waltz), an SS colonel with a fearsome reputation.\nThe title (but not the story) was inspired by Italian director Enzo G. Castellari's 1978 Euro War film The Inglorious Bastards, but deliberately misspelled as \"a Basquiat-esque touch\". Tarantino wrote the script in 1998, but struggled with the ending and chose instead to direct the two-part film Kill Bill. After directing Death Proof in 2007, Tarantino returned to work on Inglourious Basterds. A co-production between the United States and Germany, the film began principal photography in October 2008 and was filmed in Germany and France with a $70 million production budget.\nInglourious Basterds premiered on May 20, 2009, at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, and received a wide release in theaters in Germany on August 20, and in the United States on August 21. The Weinstein Company distributed the film in the United States, while Universal Pictures handled international distribution. It was a commercial success, grossing $321.5 million worldwide, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing film to that point, until it was surpassed by Django Unchained (2012). The film received critical acclaim, with Waltz's performance as Hans Landa being singled out for praise, but some criticized the historical liberties taken. It also won multiple awards and nominations, among them eight Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay). For his role as Landa, Waltz won the Cannes Film Festival's Best Actor Award, as well as the Academy Award, Actor Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Inglourious Basterds", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inglourious_Basterds", "revision": 1378447215, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378447215", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Inglourious%20Basterds&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q172975", "text": "The Departed is a 2006 neo-noir crime thriller film, directed by Martin Scorsese and written by William Monahan. A remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, it is also loosely based on real-life people, including the Winter Hill Gang, corrupt FBI agent John Connolly and Irish-American crime boss Whitey Bulger. The film is set primarily in South Boston; Irish Mob boss Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) plants Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) as a spy within the Massachusetts State Police; simultaneously, the police assign undercover state trooper Billy Costigan (Leonardo DiCaprio) to infiltrate Costello's mob crew. The ensemble cast also features Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Alec Baldwin, Anthony Anderson and James Badge Dale.\nThe Departed premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre on September 26, 2006, and was released on October 6 by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States. A critical and commercial success, the film grossed $291.5 million on a $90 million budget, and received acclaim for its direction, performances (particularly of DiCaprio, Nicholson and Wahlberg), screenplay and editing. At the 79th Academy Awards, The Departed won Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese (his only ever personal Oscar win), Best Adapted Screenplay for Monahan, and Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker. It also received six nominations each at the 64th Golden Globe Awards (winning one) and the 60th British Academy Film Awards, and two nominations at the 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Departed", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Departed", "revision": 1378209026, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378209026", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Departed&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q174284", "text": "Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman. Set in 1936, the film stars Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, a globetrotting archaeologist vying with Nazi German forces to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant which is said to make an army invincible. Teaming up with his tough former romantic interest Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), Jones races to stop a rival archaeologist, René Belloq (Paul Freeman), from guiding the Nazis to the Ark and its power.\nLucas conceived Raiders of the Lost Ark in the early 1970s. Seeking to modernize the serial films of the early 20th century, he developed the idea further with Kaufman, who suggested the Ark as the film's goal. Lucas eventually focused on developing his 1977 film Star Wars. Development on Raiders of the Lost Ark resumed that year when he shared the idea with Spielberg, who joined the project several months later. While the pair had ideas for set pieces and stunts for the film, they hired Kasdan to fill in the narrative gaps between them. Principal photography began in June 1980 on a $20 million budget, and concluded that September. Filming took place on sets at Elstree Studios, England, and on location mainly in La Rochelle, France, Tunisia, and Hawaii.\nPre-release polling showed little audience interest in the film leading up to its release date on June 12, 1981, especially compared to Superman II. However, Raiders of the Lost Ark became the highest-grossing film of the year, earning approximately $354 million worldwide, and played in some theaters for over a year. It was also a critical success, receiving praise for its set pieces, humor, and action sequences. The film was nominated for several awards, and won five Academy Awards, seven Saturn Awards, and one BAFTA, among other accolades.\nRaiders of the Lost Ark is considered by critics to be one of the greatest films ever made and has had a lasting influence on popular culture, spawning a host of imitators across several media and inspiring other filmmakers. The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1999. Raiders of the Lost Ark is the first entry in what became the Indiana Jones franchise, which includes four more films—Temple of Doom (1984), Last Crusade (1989), Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008), and Dial of Destiny (2023)—a television series, video games, comic books, novels, theme park attractions, and toys.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Raiders of the Lost Ark", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiders_of_the_Lost_Ark", "revision": 1377859182, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377859182", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raiders%20of%20the%20Lost%20Ark&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q25139", "text": "American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy and psychological drama film directed by Sam Mendes in his feature-film directorial debut, and written by Alan Ball. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who experiences a midlife crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter’s teenage best friend, played by Mena Suvari. Annette Bening stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, Peter Gallagher, and Allison Janney co-star. \nAmerican Beauty was released by DreamWorks Pictures in North America on September 15, 1999, and was widely released on October 1, receiving widespread critical and popular acclaim. It was the second-best-reviewed American film of the year behind Being John Malkovich and grossed over $350 million worldwide against its $15-million budget, becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 1999. DreamWorks launched a major campaign to increase American Beauty's chances of Oscar success following its controversial Best Picture snub for Saving Private Ryan (1998) the previous year.\nAt the 72nd Academy Awards, the film won five Oscars, including Best Picture, along with Best Director for Mendes, Best Actor for Spacey, Best Original Screenplay for Ball, and Best Cinematography for Conrad L. Hall. The film was nominated for and won many other awards and honors, mainly for directing, writing, and acting.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "American Beauty (1999 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Beauty_(1999_film)", "revision": 1377482279, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377482279", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American%20Beauty%20(1999%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47221", "text": "Taxi Driver is a 1976 American neo-noir, psychological drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul Schrader. Set in New York City in a time of urban decay following the Vietnam War, it stars Robert De Niro as taxi driver Travis Bickle, whose mental state deteriorates as he works nights in the city, eventually having a mental breakdown and becoming a vigilante. The film also features Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Leonard Harris and Albert Brooks (in his first feature film role).\nFilming began in summer 1975, with actors taking pay cuts to ensure that the project could be completed on its low budget of $1.9 million ($11.4 million in 2025). For the score, Bernard Herrmann composed what would be his final score. The music was finished mere hours before his death, and the film is dedicated to him.\nTheatrically released by Columbia Pictures on February 8, 1976, the film was critically and commercially successful despite generating controversy for both its graphic violence in the film's climax, and for the casting of 12-year-old Foster as a child prostitute. The film received numerous accolades, including the Palme d'Or at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival and four nominations at the 49th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (for De Niro) and Best Supporting Actress (for Foster).\nAlthough Taxi Driver generated further controversy for inspiring John Hinckley Jr.'s attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the film has remained popular. It is considered one of the greatest films ever made, and one of the most culturally significant and inspirational of its time. In 2022, Sight & Sound named it the 29th-best film ever in its decennial critics' poll, and the 12th-greatest film of all time on its directors' poll, tied with Barry Lyndon. In 1994, the film was designated as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically\" significant by the U.S. Library of Congress and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Taxi Driver", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_Driver", "revision": 1378373252, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378373252", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Taxi%20Driver&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q183081", "text": "No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American neo-Western crime thriller film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, based on Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel. Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and Josh Brolin, the film is set in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas, United States. The film revisits the themes of fate, conscience, and circumstance that the Coen brothers had explored in the films Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), and Fargo (1996). It follows three main characters: Llewelyn Moss (Brolin), a Vietnam War veteran and welder who stumbles upon a large sum of money in the desert, Anton Chigurh (Bardem), a hitman who is sent to recover the money, and Ed Tom Bell (Jones), a sheriff investigating the crime. The film also stars Kelly Macdonald as Moss's wife, Carla Jean, and Woody Harrelson as Carson Wells, a bounty hunter seeking Moss and the return of the money.\nNo Country for Old Men premiered in competition at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival on May 19. The film became a commercial success, grossing $171 million worldwide against a budget of $25 million. Critics praised the Coens' direction and screenplay and Bardem's performance, and the film was heavily awarded, winning four Academy Awards (including Best Picture), three BAFTAs, and two Golden Globes. The American Film Institute listed it as an AFI Movie of the Year, and the National Board of Review selected it as the best of 2007. To date, it is the last Western film to ever win the Academy Award for Best Picture (the others being Cimarron in 1931, Dances With Wolves in 1990, and Unforgiven in 1992).\nNo Country for Old Men was considered one of the best films of 2007, and many regard it as the Coen brothers' magnum opus. It has since been widely recognized as one of the greatest films of the 2000s and 21st century. The Guardian's John Patterson wrote: \"the Coens' technical abilities, and their feel for a landscape-based Western classicism reminiscent of Anthony Mann and Sam Peckinpah, are matched by few living directors\", and Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said that it is \"a new career peak for the Coen brothers\" and \"as entertaining as hell\". In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "No Country for Old Men", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men", "revision": 1377583632, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377583632", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No%20Country%20for%20Old%20Men&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q228186", "text": "Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 epic biographical drama film directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel through the latter's British company Horizon Pictures and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It is based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom (also known as Revolt in the Desert). Lawrence of Arabia introduces Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, with Alec Guinness playing Prince Faisal. It also stars Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains, Jose Ferrer and Arthur Kennedy. The screenplay was written by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson.\nLawrence of Arabia depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Ottoman provinces of Hejaz and Syria during the First World War, in particular his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus and his involvement in the Arab National Council. Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the violence inherent in war, his identity, and his divided allegiance between Britain and his new-found comrades within the Arabian desert tribes.\nIn 1963, Lawrence of Arabia was nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards, winning seven, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and the BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. The dramatic score by Maurice Jarre and the Super Panavision 70 cinematography by Freddie Young also won praise from critics.\nLawrence of Arabia is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. In 1991, it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Although primarily a British production, it was eligible due to Columbia Pictures involvement in financing and making the production, as well as helping get the film released. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Lawrence of Arabia fifth on their list of the greatest American films; in 2007, they placed it seventh on an updated list. The British Film Institute named Lawrence of Arabia the third-greatest British film in 1999. In 2004, it was voted the best British film in The Sunday Telegraph's poll of Britain's leading filmmakers.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Lawrence of Arabia (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_of_Arabia_(film)", "revision": 1377736639, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377736639", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lawrence%20of%20Arabia%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q275120", "text": "Captain America: The First Avenger is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the fifth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Joe Johnston, written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving, Hayley Atwell, Sebastian Stan, Dominic Cooper, Toby Jones, Neal McDonough, Derek Luke, and Stanley Tucci. During World War II, Rogers, a frail man, is transformed into the super-soldier Captain America and must stop the Red Skull (Weaving) from using the Tesseract as an energy source for world domination.\nThe film began as a concept in 1997 and was scheduled for distribution by Artisan Entertainment. However, a lawsuit disrupted the project and was not settled until September 2003. In 2005, Marvel Studios received a loan from Merrill Lynch, and planned to finance and release the film through Paramount Pictures. Directors Jon Favreau and Louis Leterrier were interested in directing the project before Johnston was approached in 2008. The principal characters were cast between March and June 2010. Production began in June, and filming took place in London, Manchester, Caerwent, Liverpool, and Los Angeles. Several different techniques were used by the visual effects company Lola to create the physical appearance of the character before he becomes Captain America.\nCaptain America: The First Avenger premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on July 19, 2011, and was released in the United States on July 22, as part of Phase One of the MCU. The film was commercially successful, grossing over $370 million worldwide, and received positive reviews from critics, who praised Evans' performance, the film's depiction of its 1940s time period, and Johnston's direction. Two direct sequels have been released: Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) and Captain America: Civil War (2016).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Captain America: The First Avenger", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3A_The_First_Avenger", "revision": 1378334721, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378334721", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captain%20America%3A%20The%20First%20Avenger&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q4941", "text": "Skyfall is a 2012 spy film and the twenty-third in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The film is the third to star Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent James Bond and features Javier Bardem as villain Raoul Silva, with Judi Dench returning as M. The film was directed by Sam Mendes and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and John Logan. In the film, Bond investigates a series of targeted data leaks and co-ordinated attacks on MI6 led by Silva. It sees the return of two recurring characters, Miss Moneypenny (played by Naomie Harris) and Q (played by Ben Whishaw), after an absence of two films. Ralph Fiennes, Bérénice Marlohe, and Albert Finney are among the supporting cast.\nMendes was approached to direct after the release of Quantum of Solace in 2008. Development of the film was suspended throughout 2010 after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which caused screenwriter Peter Morgan to leave the project. Production resumed in December 2010 after Purvis, Wade, and Logan were hired and a November 2012 release date was announced in January 2011. Principal photography began that November after the film's title was revealed and lasted until March 2012, with filming locations including London, Shanghai, Istanbul, and Scotland.\nSkyfall premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on 23 October 2012, and was released theatrically in conventional and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom three days later and in the United States on 9 November, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond film Dr. No (1962). Skyfall received positive reviews, with praise for Mendes's direction, cast performances, action sequences, cinematography, and musical score. The film was nominated for five awards at the 85th Academy Awards, winning two, and received numerous other accolades. Skyfall grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide becoming the fourteenth film to pass the billion-dollar mark, the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release, the highest-grossing James Bond film of all time, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2012. The next film in the series, Spectre, was released in 2015.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Skyfall", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall", "revision": 1377039646, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377039646", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skyfall&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105598", "text": "Die Hard is a 1988 American action film directed by John McTiernan and written by Jeb Stuart and Steven E. de Souza, based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp. It stars Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia, with Reginald VelJohnson, William Atherton, Paul Gleason, and Hart Bochner in supporting roles. Die Hard follows a New York City police detective, John McClane (Willis), who becomes entangled in a terrorist takeover of a Los Angeles skyscraper while visiting his estranged wife during a Christmas Eve party.\nStuart was hired by 20th Century Fox to adapt Thorp's novel in 1987. His first draft was greenlit immediately, as the studio was eager for a summer blockbuster the following year. The role of McClane was turned down by a host of the decade's most popular actors, including Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. Known mainly for work on television, Willis was paid $5 million for his involvement, placing him among Hollywood's highest-paid actors. The deal was seen as a poor investment by industry professionals and attracted significant controversy towards the film prior to its release. Filming took place between November 1987 and March 1988, on a $25–35 million budget and almost entirely on location in and around Fox Plaza in Los Angeles.\nExpectations for Die Hard were low; some marketing materials omitted Willis's image, ostensibly because the publicity team determined that the setting was as important as McClane. Upon its release in July 1988, initial reviews were mixed: criticism focused on its violence, plot, and Willis's performance, while McTiernan's direction and Rickman's charismatic portrayal of the villain Hans Gruber were praised. Defying predictions, Die Hard grossed approximately $140 million, becoming the year's tenth-highest-grossing film and the highest-grossing action film. Receiving four nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, it elevated Willis to leading-man status and made Rickman a celebrity.\nDie Hard has been critically re-evaluated and is now considered one of the greatest action films of all time. It is considered to have revitalized the action genre, largely due to its depiction of McClane as a vulnerable and fallible protagonist, in contrast to the muscle-bound and invincible heroes of other films of the period. Retrospective commentators also identified and analyzed its themes of vengeance, masculinity, gender roles, and American anxieties over foreign influences. Due to its Christmas setting, Die Hard is often named one of the best Christmas films of all time, although its status as a Christmas film is disputed.\nThe film produced a host of imitators; the term \"Die Hard\" became a shorthand for plots featuring overwhelming odds in a restricted environment, such as \"Die Hard on a bus\" in relation to Speed (1994). It created a franchise comprising the sequels Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), and A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), in addition to video games, comics, and other merchandise. Deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress, Die Hard was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Die Hard", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Hard", "revision": 1370659250, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370659250", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Die%20Hard&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q150804", "text": "The Pianist is a 2002 epic biographical historical drama film co-produced and directed by Roman Polanski, with a script by Ronald Harwood, and starring Adrien Brody. It is based on the autobiographical book The Pianist (1946), a memoir by the Polish-Jewish pianist, composer and Holocaust survivor Władysław Szpilman. The film was a co-production by France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Poland.\nThe Pianist premiered at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2002, where it won the Palme d'Or, and went into wide release that September; the film received widespread critical acclaim, with critics lauding Polanski's direction, Brody's performance and Harwood's screenplay.\nAt the 75th Academy Awards, the film won for Best Director (Polanski), Best Adapted Screenplay (Harwood), and Best Actor (Brody), and was nominated for four others, including Best Picture. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film and BAFTA Award for Best Direction in 2003, and seven French Césars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Brody. Since its release, the film has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest films of the 21st century. In 2016, it appeared in BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Pianist (2002 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pianist_(2002_film)", "revision": 1378309219, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378309219", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Pianist%20(2002%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q160060", "text": "The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. Colin Firth plays the future King George VI who, to cope with a stammer, sees Lionel Logue, an Australian speech and language therapist played by Geoffrey Rush. The men become friends as they work together, and after his brother abdicates the throne, the new king relies on Logue to help him make his first wartime radio broadcast upon Britain's declaration of war on Germany in 1939.\nSeidler read about George VI's life after learning to manage a stuttering condition he developed during his youth. He started writing about the relationship between the therapist and his royal patient as early as the 1980s, but at the request of the King's widow, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, postponed work until she died in 2002. He later rewrote his screenplay for the stage to focus on the essential relationship between the two protagonists. Nine weeks before filming began, the filmmakers learned of the existence of notes written by Logue that were being used by his grandson Mark and Peter Conradi as the basis of a book, and were granted permission to incorporate material from the notes and book into the script.\nPrincipal photography took place in London and around Britain from November 2009 to January 2010. Hard light was used to give the story a greater resonance and wider-than-normal lenses were employed to recreate the Duke of York's feelings of constriction. A third technique Hooper employed was the off-centre framing of characters.\nThe King's Speech was a major box office and critical success. It was widely praised by film critics for its visual style, screenplay, directing, score, and acting. Other commentators discussed the film's representation of historical detail, especially the reversal of Winston Churchill's opposition to abdication. The film received many awards and nominations, particularly for Colin Firth's performance. At the 83rd Academy Awards, The King's Speech received 12 Oscar nominations, more than any other film in that year, and subsequently won four, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Firth. Censors initially gave it adult ratings due to profanity, though these were later revised downward after criticism by the makers and distributors in the UK and some instances of swearing were muted in the US. On a budget of £8 million, it earned over £250 million internationally.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The King's Speech", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King's_Speech", "revision": 1374842918, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374842918", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20King's%20Speech&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q163038", "text": "Psycho is a 1960 American horror thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The screenplay, written by Joseph Stefano, is based on the 1959 novel by Robert Bloch. The film stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, and Martin Balsam. The plot centers on an encounter between on-the-run embezzler Marion Crane (Leigh), shy motel proprietor Norman Bates (Perkins), and his disturbed mother. A private investigator (Balsam), Marion's lover Sam Loomis (Gavin), and her sister Lila (Miles) investigate Marion's disappearance.\nPsycho was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film, North by Northwest (1959), as it was filmed on a small budget in black-and-white by the crew of his television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Initially the film divided critics due to its controversial subject matter, but audience interest and outstanding box-office returns prompted a major critical re-evaluation. Psycho was a massive commercial success; with a budget of US$806,947 (equivalent to $8.8 million in 2025), the film earned $50 million (equivalent to $544 million in 2025) at the box office worldwide, not including the revenue from rentals. Psycho was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director for Hitchcock and Best Supporting Actress for Leigh.\nPsycho is now considered one of Hitchcock's best films and is arguably his most famous and influential work. It has been hailed as a major work of cinematic art by international film critics and scholars who praise its slick direction, tense atmosphere, impressive camerawork, memorable score, and iconic performances. Additionally the shower scene has become one of the best-known scenes in all of cinema. It is regarded as \"the most heavily analyzed film in the long career of the most investigated director in the history of American film\" and is often ranked among the greatest films of all time. It set a new level of acceptability for violence, deviant behavior, and sexuality in American films, and it has been considered to be one of the earliest examples of the slasher film genre. After Hitchcock's death in 1980, Universal Pictures produced follow-ups: three sequels, a remake, a made-for-television spin-off, and a television series. \nIn 1992, the Library of Congress deemed the film \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Psycho (1960 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(1960_film)", "revision": 1378439410, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378439410", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Psycho%20(1960%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q171669", "text": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a 1975 American psychological comedy-drama film directed by Miloš Forman, based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Ken Kesey. The film stars Jack Nicholson as a new patient at a mental institution and Louise Fletcher as the abusive head nurse. Will Sampson, Danny DeVito, Sydney Lassick, William Redfield, Christopher Lloyd, and Brad Dourif play supporting roles, with the latter two making their feature-film debuts and Sampson having never acted before.\nOriginally announced in 1962 with Kirk Douglas starring, the film took 13 years to develop. Filming finally began in January 1975 and lasted three months, on location in Salem, Oregon, and the surrounding area, and in Depoe Bay on the north Oregon coast. The producers shot the film in the Oregon State Hospital, an actual psychiatric hospital, which is also the novel's setting. The hospital is still in operation, though the original buildings in the film have been demolished. The film was released on November 19, 1975.\nOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest received critical acclaim and is considered by critics and audiences to be one of the greatest films ever made. It is the second of three films to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay) following It Happened One Night (1934) and preceding 1991's The Silence of the Lambs. It won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 1993, the film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. Additionally, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was ranked number 33 on the American Film Institute's updated 100 Years... 100 Movies list in 2007.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo's_Nest_(film)", "revision": 1378417742, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378417742", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One%20Flew%20Over%20the%20Cuckoo's%20Nest%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q180098", "text": "Ben-Hur () is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited to Karl Tunberg, but includes contributions from Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal, and Christopher Fry. The cast also features Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Hugh Griffith, Martha Scott, Cathy O'Donnell and Sam Jaffe.\nBen-Hur had the largest budget ($15.175 million), as well as the largest sets built, of any film produced at the time. Costume designer Elizabeth Haffenden oversaw a staff of 100 wardrobe fabricators to make the costumes, and a workshop employing 200 artists and workmen provided the hundreds of friezes and statues needed in the film. Filming commenced on May 18, 1958, and wrapped on January 7, 1959, with shooting lasting for 12 to 14 hours a day and six days a week. Pre-production began in Italy at Cinecittà around October 1957, and post-production took six months. Under cinematographer Robert L. Surtees, executives at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made the decision to produce the film in a widescreen format. Over 200 camels and 2,500 horses were used in the shooting of the film, with some 10,000 extras. The sea battle was filmed using miniatures in a huge tank on the back lot at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California. The nine-minute chariot race has become one of cinema's most famous action sequences, and the score, composed and conducted by Miklós Rózsa, was at the time the longest ever composed for a film, and was highly influential on cinema for over 15 years.\nFollowing a $14.7 million marketing effort, Ben-Hur premiered at Loew's State Theatre in New York City on November 18, 1959. It was the fastest-grossing as well as the highest-grossing film of 1959, becoming the second highest-grossing film in history at the time, after Gone with the Wind. It won a record eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Wyler), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Heston), Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Griffith), and Best Cinematography – Color (Surtees); it also won Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for Stephen Boyd. In 1998, the American Film Institute named it the 72nd best American film and the second best American epic film in the AFI's 10 Top 10. In 2004, the National Film Preservation Board selected Ben-Hur for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ben-Hur (1959 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben-Hur_(1959_film)", "revision": 1376142456, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376142456", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ben-Hur%20(1959%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q217020", "text": "Thor is a 2011 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the fourth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was directed by Kenneth Branagh, written by the writing team of Ashley Edward Miller and Zack Stentz along with Don Payne, and stars Chris Hemsworth as the title character alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Kat Dennings, Clark Gregg, Colm Feore, Ray Stevenson, Idris Elba, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. After reigniting a dormant war, Thor is banished from Asgard to Earth, stripped of his powers and his hammer Mjölnir. As his brother Loki (Hiddleston) plots to take the Asgardian throne, Thor must prove himself worthy.\nSam Raimi first developed the concept of a film adaptation based on Thor in 1991, but soon abandoned the project, leaving it in \"development hell\" for several years. During this time, the rights were picked up by various film studios until Marvel signed Mark Protosevich to develop the project in 2006, and planned to finance and release it through Paramount. Matthew Vaughn was assigned to direct the film for a tentative 2010 release. However, after Vaughn was released from his holding deal in 2008, Branagh was approached and the film's release was rescheduled to 2011. The main characters were cast in 2009, and principal photography took place in California and New Mexico from January to May 2010. The film was converted to 3D in post-production.\nThor premiered in Sydney on April 17, 2011, and was released in the United States on May 6, as part of Phase One of the MCU. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a financial success, earning $449.3 million worldwide. Three sequels have been released: Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor: Ragnarok (2017), and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thor (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_(film)", "revision": 1376436675, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376436675", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thor%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q484048", "text": "Amélie is a 2001 French-language romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of Amélie Poulain, played by Audrey Tautou, a shy and quirky waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better while dealing with her own isolation. The film features an ensemble cast of supporting roles, including Mathieu Kassovitz, Rufus, Lorella Cravotta, Serge Merlin, Jamel Debbouze, Claire Maurier, Clotilde Mollet, Isabelle Nanty, Dominique Pinon, Artus de Penguern, Yolande Moreau, Urbain Cancelier, and Maurice Bénichou.\nAmélie was released theatrically in France on 25 April 2001 by UGC-Fox Distribution and in Germany on 16 August 2001 by Prokino Filmverleih. The film received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for Tautou's performance, the cinematography, visuals, production design, sound design, editing, musical score, writing and Jeunet's direction. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards, four César Awards, including Best Film and Best Director, and two British Academy Film Awards, including Best Original Screenplay. It was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay. The film was a major commercial success, grossing $174.2 million worldwide against a budget of $10 million, and is one of the biggest international successes for a French film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Amélie", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie", "revision": 1377018644, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377018644", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Am%C3%A9lie&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q3023357", "text": "12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, a Black American, who was kidnapped from Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of David Wilson's version of Northup's story was co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon.\nIn the film, Chiwetel Ejiofor stars as Solomon Northup. Supporting roles are portrayed by Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Garret Dillahunt, Paul Giamatti, Scoot McNairy, Lupita Nyong'o, Adepero Oduye, Sarah Paulson, Brad Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, and Alfre Woodard. Principal photography took place in New Orleans, Louisiana, from June 27 to August 13, 2012. The locations used were four historic antebellum plantations: Felicity, Bocage, Destrehan, and Magnolia. Of the four, Magnolia is nearest to the actual plantation where Northup was held.\n12 Years a Slave received widespread critical acclaim and was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets and critics. It earned over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million. The film received nine Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first Black producer to ever receive the award and the first Black director of a Best Picture winner. The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Actor for Ejiofor. Since its release, the film has been cited as among the best of the 2010s, the 21st century, and of all time, with it being named the 44th greatest film since 2000 in a BBC poll of 177 critics in 2016 and the 51st best film of the 21st century in a New York Times poll of over 500 filmmakers in 2025.\nIn 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\", making it the ninth film designated in its first year of eligibility and the 49th Best Picture Academy Award winner to be inducted.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "12 Years a Slave (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Years_a_Slave_(film)", "revision": 1376410923, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376410923", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=12%20Years%20a%20Slave%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q46551", "text": "The Prestige is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan Nolan, based on the 1995 novel by Christopher Priest. Set in Victorian London, the film stars Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale as stage magicians who compete to create a superior teleportation illusion.\nThe supporting cast includes Michael Caine, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Andy Serkis, and David Bowie as inventor Nikola Tesla. The film reunited Nolan with Bale and Caine following Batman Begins (2005) and with several regular collaborators, including cinematographer Wally Pfister, production designer Nathan Crowley, editor Lee Smith, and composer David Julyan. Principal photography took place in early 2006, with locations including Los Angeles and Colorado.\nThe Prestige premiered at the El Capitan Theatre on October 17, 2006, and was released in the United States on October 20, 2006, by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution through its Touchstone Pictures label, with Warner Bros. Pictures handling international distribution. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for its performances, production design, and narrative structure. It was a box office success, earning $109 million worldwide on the budget of $40 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Prestige", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prestige", "revision": 1377447653, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377447653", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Prestige&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208263", "text": "The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and based on the 1996 novel by Stephen King. It stars Tom Hanks as a death row correctional officer during the Great Depression who witnesses supernatural events following the arrival of an enigmatic convict (Michael Clarke Duncan) at his facility.\nThe Green Mile was released by Warner Bros. in the United States on December 10, 1999, to positive reviews from critics, who praised Darabont's direction and writing, emotional weight, and performances (particularly for Hanks and Duncan), although its length received some criticism. It was a commercial success, grossing $286.8 million from its $60 million budget, and was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor for Duncan, Best Sound, and Best Adapted Screenplay.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Green Mile (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Mile_(film)", "revision": 1377255828, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377255828", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Green%20Mile%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q2579784", "text": "Gravity is a 2013 science fiction thriller film directed by Alfonso Cuarón, who also co-wrote, co-edited, and produced the film. It stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney as American astronauts who attempt to return to Earth after the destruction of their Space Shuttle in orbit.\nCuarón wrote the screenplay with his son Jonás and attempted to develop the film at Universal Pictures. Later, the distribution rights were acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures. David Heyman, who previously worked with Cuarón on Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), produced the film with him. Gravity was produced entirely in the United Kingdom, where British visual effects company Framestore spent more than three years creating most of the film's visual effects, which involve over 80 of its 91 minutes.\nGravity opened the 70th Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2013, and had its North American premiere three days later at the Telluride Film Festival. Upon its release, Gravity was met with widespread critical acclaim, with high praise for its direction, visuals, cinematography, acting, and score. Considered one of the best films of 2013, it appeared on numerous critics' year-end lists, and was selected by the American Film Institute in their annual Movies of the Year list. The film became the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year with a worldwide gross of over $723 million, against a production budget of around $100 million.\nGravity received a leading 10 nominations at the 86th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actress (for Bullock), and won a leading seven awards, including Best Director (for Cuarón). At the 67th British Academy Film Awards, the film received a leading 11 nominations, including Best Film and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Bullock), and won a leading 6 awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Director (for Cuarón). It also received 4 nominations at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (for Bullock), with Cuarón winning Best Director.\nAt the 19th Critics' Choice Awards, the film received 10 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actress (for Bullock), and won a leading seven awards, including Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie, Best Director (for Cuarón) and Best Actress in an Action Movie (for Bullock). Bullock also received a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role, while the film won the 2013 Ray Bradbury Award, and the 2014 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. Since its release, it has been cited as among the best films of the 2010s and the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gravity (2013 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_(2013_film)", "revision": 1375034552, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375034552", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gravity%20(2013%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q2345", "text": "12 Angry Men is a 1957 American legal drama film directed by Sidney Lumet in his feature directorial debut, adapted by Reginald Rose from his 1954 teleplay. A critique of the American jury system during the McCarthy era, the film tells the story of a jury of twelve men as they deliberate the conviction or acquittal of a teenager charged with murder on the basis of reasonable doubt; disagreement and conflict among the jurors forces them to question their morals and values. It stars an ensemble cast, featuring Henry Fonda (who also produced the film with Rose), Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley, E. G. Marshall, and Jack Warden.\nAn independent production distributed by United Artists, 12 Angry Men received acclaim from critics, despite a lukewarm box-office performance. At the 30th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay. It is regarded by many as one of the greatest films ever made.\nIn 2007, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\". Additionally, it was selected as the second-best courtroom drama ever (after 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird) by the American Film Institute for their AFI's 10 Top 10 list.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "12 Angry Men", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Angry_Men", "revision": 1373937572, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373937572", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=12%20Angry%20Men&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q202326", "text": "The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American epic gangster film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from the screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo. The film stars Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Joe Mantegna, Bridget Fonda, George Hamilton and Sofia Coppola. It is the sequel to The Godfather Part II (1974) and the final installment of The Godfather trilogy. The film concludes the fictional story of Michael Corleone, the patriarch of the Corleone family, who attempts to legitimize his criminal empire. It also includes fictionalized accounts of two real-life events: the 1978 death of Pope John Paul I and the Papal banking scandal of 1981–1982, both linked to Michael Corleone's business affairs.\nAlthough Coppola initially refused to return for a third film, he eventually signed to direct and write Part III. In his audio commentary for Part II, Coppola stated that only a dire financial situation, caused by the failure of his 1982 musical fantasy One from the Heart, compelled him to take up Paramount's long-standing offer to make a third installment. Coppola and Puzo wanted the title to be The Death of Michael Corleone, for they felt that the first two films had told the complete Corleone saga, so Part III would serve as the epilogue, but Paramount Pictures thought that that title was unacceptable.\nWinona Ryder was initially cast in the role of Michael Corleone's daughter Mary, but eventually left production due to other commitments and nervous exhaustion. The role was ultimately given to Coppola's daughter Sofia, a decision that garnered much criticism and accusations of nepotism. Principal photography took place from late 1989 to early 1990, with filming locations in both Italy and the United States.\nThe Godfather Part III premiered in Beverly Hills on December 20, 1990, and was widely released in the United States on December 25. The film received mostly positive reviews, although it was considered inferior to the previous films and a disappointing conclusion to the trilogy. Critics praised Pacino's and Garcia's performances, as well as Coppola's direction, cinematography, editing, and production design, but criticized the plot and Sofia Coppola's performance. It grossed $136.8 million worldwide, and garnered seven nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor (Garcia). It also received seven nominations at the 48th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Pacino).\nIn December 2020, a recut version of the film, titled The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, was released to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the original version. Coppola called this version closer to his original vision for the film, and it received warmer reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Godfather Part III", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather_Part_III", "revision": 1375938608, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375938608", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Godfather%20Part%20III&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208108", "text": "Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks with Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Nathalie Baye, Amy Adams and James Brolin in supporting roles. The screenplay by Jeff Nathanson is based on the semi-autobiographical book by Frank Abagnale Jr., who claims that prior to his 19th birthday, he successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor. However, the truth of his story has since been heavily disputed.\nA movie version of Abagnale's book was contemplated soon after it was published in 1980 but began in earnest in 1997 when Spielberg's DreamWorks bought the film rights. David Fincher, Gore Verbinski, Lasse Hallström, Miloš Forman and Cameron Crowe were all considered to direct the film before Spielberg decided to direct it himself. Filming took place from February to May 2002.\nThe film opened on December 25, 2002, to major critical and commercial success, grossing $352 million worldwide. At the 75th Academy Awards, Christopher Walken and John Williams were nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Catch Me If You Can", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_Me_If_You_Can", "revision": 1378163040, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378163040", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Catch%20Me%20If%20You%20Can&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q102754", "text": "Dr. No is a 1962 spy film and the first film in the James Bond series, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Co-starring Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman and Jack Lord, it was directed by Terence Young and adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather from the 1958 novel by Ian Fleming. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli of Eon Productions, a partnership that continued until 1975. In the film, James Bond is sent to Jamaica to investigate the disappearance of a fellow British agent. The trail leads him to the underground base of Dr. No, who is plotting to disrupt an early American space launch from Cape Canaveral with a radio beam weapon.\nAlthough it was the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was the sixth of Fleming's series, beginning with Casino Royale. The film makes a few references to threads from earlier books, and later books in the series as well, such as the criminal organisation SPECTRE, which was not introduced until the 1961 novel Thunderball. Produced on a low budget, Dr. No was released by United Artists on 5 October 1962 and was a financial success. While the film received a mixed critical reaction upon release, it has gained a reputation over time as one of the series' best instalments. Dr. No also launched a genre of secret agent films that flourished in the 1960s. The film spawned a comic book adaptation and soundtrack album as part of its promotion and marketing.\nMany aspects of a typical James Bond film were established in Dr. No. The film begins with an introduction to the character through the view of a gun barrel and a highly stylised main title sequence, both of which were created by Maurice Binder. It also introduced the iconic theme music written by the film's score composer Monty Norman. Production designer Ken Adam established an elaborate visual style that is one of the hallmarks of the film series. Dr. No was followed by From Russia with Love in 1963.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dr. No (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._No_(film)", "revision": 1376875961, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376875961", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20No%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23780734", "text": "Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character T'Challa / Black Panther. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 18th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Ryan Coogler from a screenplay he wrote with Joe Robert Cole, and stars Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa / Black Panther alongside Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, and Andy Serkis. In the film, T'Challa is crowned king of the African nation Wakanda following his father's death, but he is soon challenged for the throne by Killmonger (Jordan), who plans to abandon Wakanda's isolationist policies and use the country's resources to begin a global revolution.\nWesley Snipes planned to make a Black Panther film in 1992, but the project did not come to fruition. In September 2005, Marvel Studios listed a Black Panther film as one of ten films based on Marvel characters intended to be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Mark Bailey was hired to write a script in January 2011. Black Panther was officially announced in October 2014, and Boseman made his first appearance as the character in the MCU film Captain America: Civil War (2016). Cole and Coogler had joined by then, with additional casting revealed throughout 2016. Black Panther was the first Marvel Studios film with a Black director and a predominantly Black cast. Principal photography took place from January to April 2017 at EUE/Screen Gems Studios in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and on location in Busan, South Korea.\nBlack Panther premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on January 29, 2018, and was released in the United States on February 16 as part of Phase Three of the MCU. Critics praised its direction, writing, acting (particularly that of Boseman, Jordan, and Wright), costume design, production values, and soundtrack, but some criticized the visual effects. Many critics considered it to be one of the best MCU films, and it was noted for its cultural significance. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Black Panther one of the top-ten films of 2018. It grossed over $1.3 billion worldwide and broke numerous box office records, becoming the highest-grossing film directed by a Black filmmaker, the ninth-highest-grossing film at the time of its release, the third-highest-grossing film in the U.S. and Canada that year, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2018.\nBlack Panther was nominated for seven awards at the 91st Academy Awards, winning three, and received numerous other accolades. It was the first superhero film to receive a Best Picture nomination, and the first MCU film to win an Academy Award. A sequel, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, was released in November 2022, with Wright taking over as the lead following Boseman's death in 2020. A third film is scheduled for release in December 2028. An animated series, Eyes of Wakanda, was released in August 2025 on Disney+.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Black Panther (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_(film)", "revision": 1377122632, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377122632", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Panther%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42759035", "text": "Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller film directed by Todd Phillips from a screenplay he co-wrote with Scott Silver. Based on DC Comics characters, it stars Joaquin Phoenix and provides an alternative origin story for the Joker. The film follows Arthur Fleck, a mentally ill party clown and aspiring stand-up comedian whose descent into moral nihilism inspires a violent countercultural revolution against the wealthy in a decaying Gotham City. Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, and Frances Conroy appear in supporting roles.\nPhillips conceived Joker in 2016 and wrote the script with Silver throughout 2017. The two were inspired by 1970s character studies and the films of Martin Scorsese, particularly Taxi Driver (1976) and The King of Comedy (1982); Scorsese was initially attached to the project as a producer. The film loosely adapts plot elements from Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) and The Dark Knight Returns (1986), but Phillips and Silver otherwise did not look to specific comics for inspiration, nor did they wish for it to be connected to any prior Batman film continuity. Phoenix became attached in February 2018 and was cast that July, while the majority of the cast signed on by August. Principal photography took place in New York City, Jersey City and Newark, from September to December 2018. Joker is the first live-action theatrical Batman film to receive an R rating from the Motion Picture Association.\nJoker premiered at the 76th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2019 where it won the Golden Lion, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 4 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, though Phoenix's performance received widespread acclaim. It was a major box office success, setting records for an October release and going on to gross over $1 billion worldwide, becoming the first R-rated film to do so. It held the record for highest-grossing R-rated film until being surpassed by Deadpool & Wolverine in 2024. The film was nominated for eleven awards at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning two (Best Actor for Phoenix and Best Original Score) and received numerous other accolades. A sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, was released in 2024, to a critical and commercial failure.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Joker (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joker_(2019_film)", "revision": 1376694510, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376694510", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joker%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q6074", "text": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also known as Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens, is a 2015 American epic space opera film produced, co-written, and directed by J. J. Abrams. The sequel to Return of the Jedi (1983), it is the first installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy and chronologically the seventh film of the \"Skywalker Saga\". Set thirty years after Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens follows Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, and Han Solo's search for Luke Skywalker and their fight in the Resistance, led by General Leia Organa and veterans of the Rebel Alliance, against Kylo Ren and the First Order, a successor to the Galactic Empire. The film stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Max von Sydow.\nWork on a seventh entry in the \"Skywalker Saga\" commenced after the Walt Disney Company's acquisition of Lucasfilm in 2012. The film is the first Star Wars film to not extensively involve franchise creator George Lucas, who only served as a creative consultant in the early stages of production. The Force Awakens was produced by Abrams, his longtime collaborator Bryan Burk, and Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan, co-writer of the original trilogy films The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi, rewrote an initial script by Michael Arndt. John Williams, composer for the previous episodic films, returned to compose the score. Principal photography began in April 2014 and concluded the following November. Filming took place on sets at Pinewood Studios in England, and on location mainly in Abu Dhabi, Iceland, and Ireland. On a net budget of $536 million, it is the most expensive film ever made.\nThe Force Awakens premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on December 14, 2015, and was released in the United States on December 18, making it the first live action Star Wars film to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It received positive reviews and grossed $2.07 billion worldwide, breaking numerous box office records. It finished its theatrical run as highest-grossing film of 2015, the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, and the third-highest-grossing film worldwide. Among its accolades, it received five nominations at the 88th Academy Awards. The film was followed by The Last Jedi (2017) and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), rounding out the Star Wars sequel trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars: The Force Awakens", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Force_Awakens", "revision": 1375852263, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375852263", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Force%20Awakens&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q186341", "text": "The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd and Scatman Crothers. The film presents the descent into insanity of a recovering alcoholic and aspiring novelist who takes a job as winter caretaker for a mountain resort hotel with his wife and clairvoyant son.\nProduction took place almost exclusively in England at EMI Elstree Studios, with sets based on real locations. Kubrick often worked with a small crew, which allowed him to do many takes, sometimes to the exhaustion of the actors and staff. The then-new Steadicam mount was used to shoot several scenes, giving the film an innovative and immersive look and feel.\nThe film was released in the United States on May 23, 1980, by Warner Bros., and in the United Kingdom on October 2 by Columbia-EMI-Warner Distributors. There were several versions for theatrical releases, each of which was cut shorter than the preceding cut; about 27 minutes was cut in total. Reactions to the film at the time of its release were mixed; King criticized the film due to its deviations from the novel, which led King to produce in 1997 a three-part miniseries adaptation as more faithful to his novel. The film received two controversial nominations at the 1st Golden Raspberry Awards in 1981—Worst Director and Worst Actress—the latter of which was later rescinded in 2022 due to Kubrick's alleged treatment of Duvall on set.\nThe Shining has since been critically reappraised and is often cited as one of the greatest horror films ever made. In 2018, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" A sequel titled Doctor Sleep, based on King's 2013 novel of the same name, was adapted to film and released in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Shining (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shining_(film)", "revision": 1378004264, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378004264", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Shining%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q186587", "text": "Troy is a 2004 epic historical action film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and written by David Benioff. Produced by units in Malta, Mexico, and Britain's Shepperton Studios, the film features an ensemble cast led by Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Sean Bean, Brian Cox, Brendan Gleeson, Rose Byrne, and Peter O'Toole. It is loosely based on Homer's Iliad in its narration of the entire story of the decade-long Trojan War—condensed into little more than a couple of weeks, rather than just the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in the ninth year. Achilles leads his Myrmidons along with the rest of the Greek army invading the historic city of Troy, defended by Hector's Trojan army. The end of the film (the sack of Troy) is not taken from the Iliad, but rather from Homer's Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses, as the Iliad concludes with Hector's death and funeral.\nTroy premiered at Cannes on May 13, 2004 before being released by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 14. The film made over $497 million worldwide, making it the 60th highest-grossing film at the time of its release and Petersen's highest-grossing film. However, it received mixed reviews, with critics praising its entertainment value and the performances of Pitt and Bana while criticizing its story, which was deemed unfaithful to the Iliad. It received a nomination for Best Costume Design at the 77th Academy Awards and was the eighth highest-grossing film of 2004. A director's cut version, with thirty extra minutes of newly added footage, was released on DVD on September 18, 2007.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Troy (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_(film)", "revision": 1378433857, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378433857", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Troy%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q270470", "text": "Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play of the same name, the film was directed by Hamilton Luske, Clyde Geronimi, and Wilfred Jackson. Featuring the voices of Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Bill Thompson, Heather Angel, Paul Collins, Tommy Luske, Candy Candido, Tom Conway, Roland Dupree and Don Barclay, the film's plot follows Wendy Darling and her two brothers, who meet the eternally-young Peter Pan and travel with him to the island of Never Land to stay young, where they also have to face Peter's archenemy, Captain Hook.\nIn 1935, Walt Disney began considering plans to adapt Barrie's play into an animated feature. He purchased the film rights from Paramount Pictures in 1938, and began preliminary development in the next year. However, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Disney shelved the project when his studio was contracted by the United States government to produce training and war propaganda films. The project sat idle in development for the rest of the decade until it experienced a turnaround in 1949. To assist the animators, live-action reference footage was shot with actors on soundstages. It also marked the last Disney film in which all nine members of Disney's Nine Old Men worked together as directing animators.\nPeter Pan was released on February 5, 1953, becoming the final Disney animated feature released through RKO before Disney founded his own distribution company. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival, Upon its release, the film earned generally positive reviews from film critics and was a box office success. Its representation of the Native Americans received retrospective criticism.\nA sequel, titled Return to Never Land, was released in 2002, and a series of direct-to-DVD prequels focusing on Tinker Bell began in 2008. A television series featuring the characters, Jake and the Never Land Pirates, was released in 2015. A live-action adaptation of the film was released on Disney+ in 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Peter Pan (1953 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Pan_(1953_film)", "revision": 1377870674, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377870674", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Peter%20Pan%20(1953%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q282456", "text": "Big Buck Bunny (code-named Project Peach) is a 2008 animated comedy short film featuring animals of the forest, made by the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. Like the foundation's previous film, Elephants Dream, the film was made using Blender, a free and open-source software application for 3D computer modeling and animation developed by the same foundation. Unlike that earlier project, the tone and visuals departed from a cryptic story and dark visuals to one of comedy, cartoons, and light-heartedness.\nIt was released as an open-source film under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Big Buck Bunny", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Buck_Bunny", "revision": 1377899000, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377899000", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Buck%20Bunny&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q925587", "text": "Sintel (code-named Project Durian during production) is a 2010 animated fantasy short film and the third Blender \"open movie\". It was produced by Ton Roosendaal, chairman of the Blender Foundation, written by Esther Wouda, directed by Colin Levy, at the time an artist at Pixar and art direction by David Revoy, who is known for Pepper&Carrot, a free and open source webcomic series. It was made at the Blender Institute, part of the Blender Foundation. The plot follows the character, Sintel, who is tracking down her pet Scales, a dragon. Just like the other Blender \"open movies,\" the film was made using Blender, a free and open source software application for animation, created and supported by the Blender Foundation.\nThe name comes from the Dutch word sintel, which can mean 'cinder', or 'ember'.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sintel", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sintel", "revision": 1347930640, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347930640", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sintel&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q825197", "text": "Elephants Dream (code-named Project Orange during production and originally titled Machina) is a 2006 Dutch animated experimental science fantasy short film produced by Blender Foundation using, almost exclusively, free and open-source software. The film is English-language and includes subtitles in over 30 languages.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Elephants Dream", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephants_Dream", "revision": 1371892253, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371892253", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elephants%20Dream&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q62770443", "text": "Spring is a 2019 animated fantasy short film written and directed by Andreas Goralczyk and produced by Ton Roosendaal and Francesco Siddi. It is the Blender Institute's 12th \"open movie\", and was made utilizing the open-source software, Blender. The film is about a young shepherd and her dog confronting ancient spirits in order to bring about the change of seasons. The film was funded by the Blender Foundation, with donations from the Blender community. The film and any material made in the studio was released under a Creative Commons License.\nOn April 4, 2019, the film was first released on YouTube. As of November 2024, it had over 10 million views.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spring (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_(2019_film)", "revision": 1368967092, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368967092", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spring%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134773", "text": "Forrest Gump is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis. An adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom, the film's screenplay was written by Eric Roth. It stars Tom Hanks in the title role, alongside Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field in lead roles. The film follows the life of an Alabama man named Forrest Gump (Hanks) and his experiences in the 20th-century United States.\nPrincipal photography took place between August and December 1993, mainly in the tri-states Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Extensive visual effects were used to incorporate Hanks into archived footage and to develop other scenes. The soundtrack features songs reflecting the different periods seen in the film. Various interpretations have been made of the protagonist and the film's political symbolism.\nForrest Gump was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on July 6, 1994, and received widespread critical acclaim for Zemeckis's direction, the performances (particularly those of Hanks and Sinise), story, writing, emotional weight, visual effects, music, character development and screenplay. The film was a major success at the box office: it became the top-grossing film in the United States released that year and earned over US$678 million worldwide against a $55 million budget during its theatrical run, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 1994, behind The Lion King. The soundtrack sold over 12 million copies. Forrest Gump is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, and won six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Hanks, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing. It received many award nominations, including Golden Globes, British Academy Film Awards, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.\nIn 2011, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Forrest Gump", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forrest_Gump", "revision": 1377355264, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377355264", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Forrest%20Gump&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23781155", "text": "Avengers: Endgame is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the direct sequel to Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the film features an ensemble cast that includes Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Benedict Wong, Jon Favreau, Bradley Cooper, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Josh Brolin. In the film, the surviving members of the Avengers and their allies attempt to reverse Thanos's actions in Infinity War, which erased half of all life in the universe.\nThe film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2, but Marvel Studios later removed this title. The Russo brothers joined as directors in April 2015, with Markus and McFeely signing on to write the script a month later. It is a conclusion to the story of the MCU up to that point, ending several main characters' story arcs. The plot revisits moments from earlier films, bringing back actors and settings from throughout the franchise. Filming began in August 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, shooting back-to-back with Infinity War, and ended in January 2018. Additional filming took place in the Metro and downtown Atlanta areas, New York state, Scotland, and England. The official title was announced in December 2018. With an estimated budget range of $356–400 million, Endgame is one of the most expensive films ever produced.\nAvengers: Endgame premiered at the Los Angeles Convention Center on April 22, 2019, and was released in the United States on April 26 as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its direction, acting, musical score, action scenes, visual effects, and emotional weight, with critics lauding its culmination of the 22-film story. It grossed $2.79 billion worldwide during its initial theatrical run, surpassing Infinity War's entire theatrical run in eleven days, setting several box-office records and becoming the highest-grossing film of all time between 2019 and 2021, overtaking and later surpassed by Avatar (2009). Endgame was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 92nd Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. An extended version, subtitled Encore, was released in theaters in September 2026 in anticipation of the film's two sequels, Avengers: Doomsday and Avengers: Secret Wars, which are respectively scheduled for release in December 2026 and 2027. The box office from Encore helped the film once again become the highest-grossing film of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avengers: Endgame", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers%3A_Endgame", "revision": 1378733045, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378733045", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avengers%3A%20Endgame&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23780914", "text": "Avengers: Infinity War is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to The Avengers (2012) and Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), and the 19th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, the film features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Tom Holland, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Sebastian Stan, Danai Gurira, Letitia Wright, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldaña, Josh Brolin, and Chris Pratt. In the film, the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy attempt to stop Thanos from collecting the six powerful Infinity Stones as part of his quest to kill half of all life in the universe.\nThe film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers: Infinity War – Part 1. The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015, and a month later, Markus and McFeely signed on to write the script for the film, which draws inspiration from Jim Starlin's 1991 comic book The Infinity Gauntlet and Jonathan Hickman's 2013 comic book Infinity. In 2016, Marvel shortened the title to Avengers: Infinity War. Filming began in January 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with a large cast consisting mostly of actors reprising their roles from previous MCU films, including Brolin as Thanos. The production lasted until July 2017, shooting back-to-back with a direct sequel, Avengers: Endgame (2019). Additional filming took place in Scotland, the Downtown Atlanta area, and New York City. With an estimated budget of $325–400 million, the film is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nAvengers: Infinity War premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on April 23, 2018, and was released in the United States on April 27 as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Brolin's performance and the Russo brothers' direction, as well as the visual effects, action sequences, dark tone, and musical score. It was a major box-office success, becoming the fourth film and the first superhero film to gross over $2 billion worldwide, breaking numerous box office records, and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2018 and the fourth-highest-grossing film at the time of its release both worldwide and in the United States and Canada. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 91st Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. The sequel, Avengers: Endgame, was released in April 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avengers: Infinity War", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avengers%3A_Infinity_War", "revision": 1377930402, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377930402", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avengers%3A%20Infinity%20War&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q192724", "text": "Iron Man is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Favreau and written by the teams of Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby and Art Marcum & Matt Holloway, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leslie Bibb, and Shaun Toub. In the film, world-famous industrialist and master engineer Stark builds a mechanized suit of armor to escape from captivity by a terrorist group, and then uses the suit to become the superhero Iron Man.\nA film featuring Iron Man was in development at Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and New Line Cinema at various times since 1990 before Marvel Studios reacquired the rights in 2005. Marvel put the project in production as its first self-financed film, with Paramount Pictures distributing. Favreau signed on as director in April 2006 and faced opposition from Marvel when trying to cast Downey in the title role; the actor was signed in September. Filming took place from March to June 2007, primarily in California to differentiate the film from numerous other superhero stories that are set in New York City. During filming, the actors were free to create their own dialogue because pre-production was focused on the story and action. Rubber and metal versions of the armor, created by Stan Winston's company, were mixed with computer-generated imagery to create the title character.\nIron Man premiered in Sydney, Australia, on April 14, 2008, and was released in the United States on May 2 as the first film in Phase One of the MCU. It was a commercial success, grossing over $585 million and becoming the eighth-highest grossing film of 2008. It also received positive reviews from critics, who praised Downey's performance and Favreau's balance of character development and special effects. Iron Man was nominated for Best Sound Editing and Best Visual Effects at the 81st Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades, and was named one of the ten best films of the year by the American Film Institute. In 2022, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". Two sequels have been released: Iron Man 2 (2010) and Iron Man 3 (2013).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Iron Man (2008 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_(2008_film)", "revision": 1378574243, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378574243", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iron%20Man%20(2008%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1392744", "text": "The Wolf of Wall Street is a 2013 American epic biographical dark comedy crime film co-produced and directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Terence Winter, and based on Jordan Belfort's 2007 memoir. It loosely recounts Belfort's career as a stockbroker in New York City and how his firm, Stratton Oakmont, engaged in rampant corruption and fraud on Wall Street, leading to his downfall. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Belfort; Jonah Hill as his business partner and friend Donnie Azoff; Margot Robbie as his second wife, Naomi Lapaglia; Matthew McConaughey as his mentor and former boss Mark Hanna; and Kyle Chandler as FBI special agent Patrick Denham portraying Gregory Coleman. It is DiCaprio's fifth collaboration with Scorsese.\nDiCaprio and Warner Bros. acquired the rights to Belfort's memoir in 2007, but production was halted due to content restrictions. It was later produced by the independent Red Granite Pictures. The film was shot in New York in late 2012, using mostly 35mm film stock.\nThe film premiered in New York City on December 17, 2013, and was released in the United States on December 25, by Paramount Pictures, with Universal Pictures releasing in Europe and the United Kingdom. It was the first major American film to be released exclusively through digital distribution. It was a major commercial success, grossing $407 million worldwide during its theatrical run, becoming Scorsese's highest-grossing film. However, the film initially sparked controversy for its moral ambiguity and lack of sympathy for victims, as well as graphic sexual content, extreme profanity (with at least 500 uses of the expletive \"fuck\"), depiction of hard drug use, and use of animals during production. The film was initially rated NC-17 by the Motion Picture Association of America, but it was shortly appealed for an R rating after Scorsese made slight changes to the film. It set a Guinness World Record for the most instances of profanity in a film. The film's financing became implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad corruption scandal; the U.S. Department of Justice and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission investigated Red Granite Pictures, and producer Riza Aziz was arrested in 2019. He was discharged in May 2020 on a 1,000,000 Malaysian ringgit (US$240,000) bail.\nThe film received positive reviews from critics and appeared on several \"best of the year\" lists. It was nominated for several awards, including five at the 86th Academy Awards ceremony: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor (for DiCaprio) and Best Supporting Actor (for Hill). DiCaprio won Best Actor – Musical or Comedy at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, where the film was also nominated for Best Picture – Musical or Comedy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Wolf of Wall Street (2013 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_film)", "revision": 1378251713, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378251713", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Wolf%20of%20Wall%20Street%20(2013%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20856802", "text": "La La Land is a 2016 American musical romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. The supporting cast includes John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Wittrock, and J. K. Simmons.\nHaving been fond of musicals during his time as a drummer, Chazelle first conceptualized the film alongside Justin Hurwitz while attending Harvard University together. After moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Chazelle penned the script but did not find a studio willing to finance the production without changes to his design. After the success of his film Whiplash (2014), the project was picked up by Summit Entertainment. Miles Teller and Emma Watson were originally in talks to star, but after both dropped out, Gosling and Stone were cast. Filming took place in Los Angeles between August and September 2015, with the film's score composed by Hurwitz, who also wrote the film's songs with lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul and the dance choreography by Mandy Moore.\nLa La Land premiered at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States on December 9, by Lionsgate. The film emerged as a major commercial success, grossing $447 million worldwide during its initial run, and received widespread acclaim from critics, particularly for Chazelle's direction and screenplay, the performances of Gosling and Stone, the score, musical numbers, cinematography, visual style, costumes and production design. It went on to receive numerous accolades, including winning a record seven awards at the 74th Golden Globe Awards and received eleven nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, winning five, including Best Film. The film also received a record-tying fourteen nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, winning in six categories including Best Director and Best Actress (Stone). Its loss in the Best Picture category (to Moonlight) made it the most-nominated film at the Oscars to lose Best Picture, until Sinners' loss (to One Battle After Another) in 2026. At age 32, Chazelle became the youngest winner of Best Director. It has since been regarded as one of the best films of the 2010s and the 21st century, and as one of the best musical films of all time. As of February 2023, a stage musical adaptation is in the works.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "La La Land", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_La_Land", "revision": 1377518544, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377518544", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20La%20Land&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23010088", "text": "Spider-Man: Homecoming is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the second Spider-Man film reboot and the 16th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Watts from a screenplay by the writing teams of Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley, Watts and Christopher Ford, and Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, the film stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Gwyneth Paltrow, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, and Robert Downey Jr. In the film, Peter tries to balance high school life with being the hero Spider-Man while facing the Vulture (Keaton).\nIn February 2015, Marvel Studios and Sony reached a deal to share the film rights for Spider-Man, integrating the character into the established MCU. The following June, Holland was cast as Spider-Man, and Watts was hired to direct. Soon after, Daley and Goldstein joined the project. In April 2016, the film's title was revealed, along with additional cast members, including Downey Jr. in his MCU role of Tony Stark / Iron Man. Principal photography began in June 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, and also took place in Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, and Berlin. The film's additional screenwriters were revealed during filming, which wrapped in October 2016. The filmmakers made efforts to differentiate the film from previous Spider-Man films.\nSpider-Man: Homecoming premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 28, 2017, and was released in the United States on July 7, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film grossed $880.9 million worldwide, becoming the second-most-successful Spider-Man film and the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2017. It received positive reviews for its light tone, its focus on Peter's high school life, and its acting, particularly of Holland and Keaton. Two direct sequels have been released: Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019) and Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). A new trilogy of films from Sony and Marvel Studios then began with Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man: Homecoming", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%3A_Homecoming", "revision": 1378216895, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378216895", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%3A%20Homecoming&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q180214", "text": "Black Swan is a 2010 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, and Andres Heinz, and based on a story by Heinz. Starring Natalie Portman, Vincent Cassel, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, and Winona Ryder, the film follows a production of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by the company of New York City Ballet, led by Artistic Director Thomas Leroy (Cassel). The production requires a ballerina to play the innocent and fragile White Swan, for which the committed dancer Nina Sayers (Portman) is a perfect fit, as well as the dark and sensual Black Swan, which are qualities better embodied by the new rival Lily (Kunis). Nina is overwhelmed by immense pressure when she finds herself competing for the role, causing her to lose her tenuous grip on reality and descend into madness.\nAronofsky conceived the premise by connecting his viewings of a production of Swan Lake with an unrealized screenplay about understudies and the notion of being haunted by a double, similar to the folklore surrounding doppelgängers. Aronofsky cites Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double as another inspiration for the film. Aronofsky also considered Black Swan a companion piece to his film The Wrestler (2008), with both films revolving around demanding performances for different kinds of art. He and Portman first discussed the project in 2000, and after a brief attachment to Universal Pictures, Black Swan was produced in New York City in late 2009 by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Portman and Kunis trained in ballet for several months prior to filming.\nBlack Swan premiered at the 67th Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2010, and had a limited release in the United States starting on December 3, before opening in wide release on December 17. Upon release, the film received widespread acclaim from critics, with praise toward Aronofsky's direction and the performances of Portman, Kunis, and Hershey. It also emerged as a major commercial success at the box office, grossing $332.1 million worldwide on a $13 million budget. The film received five nominations at the 83rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Aronofsky, with Portman winning Best Actress; it also received four nominations at the 68th Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director for Aronofsky, with Portman winning Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama. In 2021, Portman's performance was included in The New Yorker's list of the best film performances of the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Black Swan (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_(film)", "revision": 1378296684, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378296684", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Swan%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q183555", "text": "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a 2011 American swashbuckler film and the fourth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, following At World's End (2007). The film was directed by Rob Marshall, and written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, loosely based on the 1987 novel On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. Johnny Depp, Kevin R. McNally and Geoffrey Rush reprise their roles from the previous films, with Penélope Cruz and Ian McShane joining the cast. The story follows the eccentric pirate Captain Jack Sparrow on a quest for the Fountain of Youth after crossing paths with Angelica, a mysterious woman from his past, and being forced aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge, the ship of the legendary pirate Blackbeard.\nOn Stranger Tides was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. During the back-to-back production of Dead Man's Chest (2006) and At World's End, writers Elliott and Rossio first learned of Powers' novel and considered it a good starting point for a new film in the series. Pre-production started after the end of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, with Depp collaborating with the writers on the story design. Gore Verbinski did not return as director from previous films reportedly due to his commitment with Rango (2011). Principal photography lasted for 106 days between June and November 2010, with locations in Hawaii, the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico and California. Filming employed 3D cameras, and ten companies were involved with the film's visual effects. Following inflated production costs which ballooned the net budget to $379 million, the film was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.\nOn Stranger Tides premiered at the Disneyland Resort on May 7, 2011, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 20. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $1 billion worldwide, breaking several box office records and becoming the third highest-grossing film of 2011. A fifth film, Dead Men Tell No Tales, was released in 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%3A_On_Stranger_Tides", "revision": 1374103933, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374103933", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%3A%20On%20Stranger%20Tides&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q185888", "text": "The Social Network is a 2010 American biographical drama film directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. Based on the 2009 book The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich, the film portrays the founding of the social networking website Facebook. It stars Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with Andrew Garfield as co-founder Eduardo Saverin, Justin Timberlake as Sean Parker, Armie Hammer as Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, and Max Minghella as Divya Narendra. Neither Zuckerberg nor any other Facebook staff were involved with the project, although Saverin was a consultant for Mezrich's book.\nProduction began when Sorkin signed on to write the screenplay. Principal photography began in October 2009 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and lasted until November. Additional scenes were shot in California, in the cities of Los Angeles and Pasadena. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails composed the film's award-winning score, which was released on September 28, 2010.\nThe film premiered at the New York Film Festival on September 24, 2010, and was released theatrically in the United States on October 1, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. A major commercial success, the film grossed $225 million on a $40 million budget and was widely acclaimed by critics. It was named one of the best films of the year by 447 critics, and named the best by 110 critics, the most of any film that year. It was also chosen by the National Board of Review as the best film of 2010. At the 83rd Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Eisenberg, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Film Editing. It also received awards for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Original Score at the 68th Golden Globe Awards.\nThe Social Network has maintained a strong reputation since its initial release, and is commonly ranked by critics as one of the best films of the 2010s and 21st century. The Writers Guild of America ranked Sorkin's screenplay the third greatest of the 21st century. The factual accuracy is, however, largely contested. In 2024, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". A standalone sequel titled The Social Reckoning, with Sorkin returning to write and direct but recasting Eisenberg with Jeremy Strong as Zuckerberg, is scheduled for release on October 9, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Social Network", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Network", "revision": 1378762308, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378762308", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Social%20Network&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q188845", "text": "Rain Man is a 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass. It tells the story of abrasive and selfish wheeler-dealer Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise), who discovers that his estranged father Sanford has died and bequeathed his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware. Morrow created the character of Raymond after meeting real-life savant Kim Peek; his characterization was based on both Peek and Bill Sackter, a good friend of Morrow who was the subject of Bill, an earlier film that Morrow wrote.\nRain Man competed at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the highest prize: the Golden Bear. The film was released theatrically by MGM/UA Communications Co. under the United Artists label in the United States on December 16, 1988, to critical and commercial success. Praise was given to Levinson's direction, the performances (particularly Cruise and Hoffman), the screenplay, the musical score, the cinematography and the film's portrayal of autism. The film grossed US$354–$429 million on a $25 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1988, and received a leading eight nominations at the 61st Academy Awards, winning four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (for Hoffman) and Best Original Screenplay.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rain Man", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_Man", "revision": 1376151692, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376151692", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rain%20Man&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q80379", "text": "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 epic fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The film is the first installment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). The story is set in Middle-earth sixty years before the main events of The Lord of the Rings and portions of the film are adapted from the appendices to Tolkien's The Return of the King. An Unexpected Journey tells the tale of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is convinced by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield (Richard Armitage), on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug. The ensemble cast also includes Ken Stott, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, James Nesbitt, Elijah Wood, and Andy Serkis. It features Sylvester McCoy, Barry Humphries, and Manu Bennett.\nAn Unexpected Journey premiered in Wellington on 28 November 2012, then released on 12 December in New Zealand and on 14 December in the United States, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was almost nine years after the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $1.017 billion at the box office, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2012. The film received numerous accolades; at the 85th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Production Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Visual Effects.\nTwo sequels, The Desolation of Smaug and The Battle of the Five Armies followed in 2013 and 2014, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit%3A_An_Unexpected_Journey", "revision": 1376854437, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376854437", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hobbit%3A%20An%20Unexpected%20Journey&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q205028", "text": "Iron Man 2 is a 2010 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures, it is the sequel to Iron Man (2008) and the third film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Jon Favreau and written by Justin Theroux, the film stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Stark rejects government demands to share his Iron Man suit technology, which is slowly killing him. Russian scientist Ivan Vanko (Rourke) creates his own version and plots revenge against the Stark family.\nDevelopment on a sequel to Iron Man began in May 2008 after the success of the first film. In July, Theroux was hired to write the script and Favreau was signed to return as director. Downey, Paltrow, and Jackson were set to reprise their roles from Iron Man, while Cheadle was brought in to replace Terrence Howard in the role of James Rhodes. In early 2009, Rourke, Rockwell, and Johansson filled out the supporting cast. Filming took place from April to July 2009, mostly in California as with the first film. A key sequence was filmed in Monaco. Unlike its predecessor, which mixed digital and practical effects, the sequel primarily relied on computer-generated imagery to create the Iron Man suits.\nIron Man 2 premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on April 26, 2010, and was released in the United States on May 7 as part of Phase One of the MCU. Critics praised Downey's performance but deemed the sequel to be inferior to the first film. It grossed over $623 million, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2010, and was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 83rd Academy Awards among other accolades. A sequel, Iron Man 3, was released in 2013.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Iron Man 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_2", "revision": 1378691655, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378691655", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iron%20Man%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q160071", "text": "Twilight is a 2008 American romantic fantasy film directed by Catherine Hardwicke from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the 2005 novel of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. It is the first installment in The Twilight Saga film series. The film stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, a teenage girl, and Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, a vampire. It focuses on the development of Bella and Edward's relationship and the subsequent efforts of Edward and his family to keep Bella safe from another coven of vampires.\nThe project was in development for approximately three years at Paramount Pictures' MTV Films, during which time a film adaptation that differed significantly from the novel was written. Summit Entertainment acquired the rights to the novel after the project's stagnant development. Rosenberg wrote a new adaptation of the novel shortly before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike and sought to be faithful to the novel's storyline. Principal photography began in March 2008 and took 44 days, being completed in May; the film was shot in the state of Oregon.\nTwilight premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California, on November 17, 2008, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 21, by Summit Entertainment. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film grossed $412 million worldwide. It was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 21, 2009, and became the most purchased DVD of the year. The soundtrack was released on November 4, 2008.\nThe film was followed by four sequels: New Moon (2009), Eclipse (2010), Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011), and Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Twilight (2008 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_(2008_film)", "revision": 1376294693, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376294693", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Twilight%20(2008%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q571032", "text": "Django Unchained ( JANG-goh) is a 2012 American revisionist Western film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. Produced by Tarantino's A Band Apart and Columbia Pictures, it stars Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kerry Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson with Walton Goggins, Dennis Christopher, James Remar, Michael Parks, and Don Johnson in supporting roles. The film, set in the Antebellum South and Old West, follows the story of an enslaved man who trains under a German bounty hunter with the ultimate goal of reuniting with his wife.\nThe film is a highly stylized, revisionist tribute to spaghetti Westerns, with its title referring particularly to the 1966 Italian film Django by Sergio Corbucci. Development of Django Unchained began in 2007, when Tarantino was writing a book on Corbucci. By April 2011, Tarantino sent his final draft of the script to the Weinstein Company (TWC). Casting began in the summer of 2011, with Michael K. Williams and Will Smith being considered for the role of the title character before Foxx was cast. Principal photography took place from November 2011 to March 2012 in California, Wyoming, and Louisiana, on a $100 million budget.\nDjango Unchained premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York City on December 11, 2012, and was theatrically released by TWC on December 25, in the United States, with Columbia Pictures (through Sony Pictures Releasing International) handling international distribution. It was a commercial success, grossing $449 million worldwide, becoming Tarantino's highest-grossing film, as well as the highest-grossing Western film of all time.\nThe film received acclaim from critics, who praised the performances (especially Waltz, DiCaprio, and Jackson) and Tarantino's direction and screenplay, though the film's extensive graphic violence and frequent use of racial slurs were sources of controversy. It was named one of the top ten films of the year by the American Film Institute and by the National Board of Review, and received numerous accolades, gathering five nominations at the 85th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Supporting Actor (Waltz) and Best Original Screenplay (Tarantino). It also received five nominations—with two wins—at both the 70th Golden Globe Awards and the 66th British Academy Film Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Django Unchained", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_Unchained", "revision": 1377817589, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377817589", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Django%20Unchained&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q13255497", "text": "Birdman, stylized as BiRDMAN or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance), is a 2014 American satirical surrealist black comedy-drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film stars Michael Keaton as a faded Hollywood actor, best known for playing a superhero named Birdman, and follows the struggles he faces while trying to make a comeback by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story \"What We Talk About When We Talk About Love\". The film's supporting cast includes Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts.\nWith a brief exception, Birdman is presented as though it was filmed in one continuous take, an idea Iñárritu had from the film's conception. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki believed that the recording time necessary for the long take approach could not have been made with older technology. The film was shot in New York City during the spring of 2013 with a budget of $16.5 million, jointly financed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Regency Enterprises, and Worldview Entertainment.\nBirdman premiered at the 71st Venice International Film Festival on August 27, 2014, receiving a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 17, followed by a wide release on November 14. Grossing more than $103 million worldwide, the film received critical acclaim, with praise for its screenplay, direction, cinematography, and the performances of the cast (particularly Keaton, Norton, and Stone). At the 87th Academy Awards it won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography from a total of nine nominations, tying it with The Grand Budapest Hotel for the most nominated and awarded film at that year's ceremony. It also won Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture at the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for Keaton and Best Screenplay at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Birdman (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birdman_(film)", "revision": 1377517736, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377517736", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Birdman%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42047", "text": "Goodfellas (stylized as GoodFellas) is a 1990 American biographical gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.\nScorsese initially titled the film Wise Guy and postponed making it; he and Pileggi later changed the title to Goodfellas. To prepare for their roles in the film, De Niro, Pesci and Liotta often spoke with Pileggi, who shared research material remaining from writing the book. According to Pesci, improvisation and ad-libbing came from rehearsals wherein Scorsese gave the actors freedom to do whatever they wanted. The director made transcripts of these sessions, took the lines that he liked most and put them into a revised script, from which the cast worked during principal photography.\nGoodfellas premiered at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on September 9, 1990, where Scorsese was awarded with the Silver Lion award for Best Director, and was released in the United States on September 18 by Warner Bros.. When released, the film grossed $47 million against a budget of $25 million and received widespread acclaim. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Pesci winning Best Supporting Actor. The film also won five BAFTAs, including Best Film and Best Director, and was named the year's best film by various critics' groups.\nWidely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre, the critical consensus on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes calls it \"arguably the high point of Martin Scorsese's career\". In 2000, it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. Its content and style have been emulated in numerous other media.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Goodfellas", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodfellas", "revision": 1378302364, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378302364", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goodfellas&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q171861", "text": "The Artist is a 2011 French-Belgian comedy-drama film in the style of a black-and-white silent film or part-talkie. It was written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, produced by Thomas Langmann and stars Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo. The story takes place in Hollywood, between 1927 and 1932, and focuses on the relationship between a rising young actress and an older silent film star as silent cinema falls out of fashion and is replaced by the \"talkies\".\nThe Artist received widespread critical acclaim and won many accolades. Dujardin won Best Actor at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where the film premiered. The film was nominated for six Golden Globes, the most of any 2011 film, and won three: Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Original Score, and Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Dujardin. In January 2012, it was nominated for twelve BAFTAs, the most of any film from 2011, and won seven, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor for Dujardin, and Best Original Screenplay for Hazanavicius.\nIt was nominated for ten Academy Awards and won five, including Best Picture, Best Director for Hazanavicius, and Best Actor for Dujardin, making him the first French actor ever to win in this category. It was also the first non-American/non-British film to ever win Best Picture, the first mainly silent film to win since 1927's Wings won at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929, the first film presented in the 4:3 aspect ratio to win since 1953's From Here to Eternity, the first black-and-white film to win since 1993's Schindler's List, though the latter contained limited colour sequences; and the first 100% black-and-white film to win since 1960's The Apartment.\nIn France it was nominated for ten César Awards, winning six, including Best Film, Best Director for Hazanavicius, and Best Actress for Bejo. The Artist has received more awards than any other French film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Artist (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Artist_(film)", "revision": 1375977629, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375977629", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Artist%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q184605", "text": "2012 is a 2009 American disaster film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Harald Kloser, and starring John Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Thandiwe Newton, Danny Glover, and Woody Harrelson. Based on the 2012 phenomenon, its plot follows numerous characters, including novelist Jackson Curtis (Cusack) and geologist Adrian Helmsley (Ejiofor), as they struggle to survive an eschatological sequence of events including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and megatsunamis.\nFilming began in Vancouver in August 2008 and wrapped two months later. An extensive marketing campaign was launched for the film, which included the creation of a website from its main characters' point of view, and a viral marketing website on which filmgoers could register for a lottery number to save them from the ensuing disaster.\n2012 was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on November 13, 2009. Despite mixed reviews, the film was a commercial success, grossing $791.2 million worldwide against a production budget of $200 million, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2009. The film was nominated for Best Action, Adventure, or Thriller Film and Best Special Effects at the 36th Saturn Awards, and for Best Visual Effects at the 15th Critics' Choice Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "2012 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)", "revision": 1375485420, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375485420", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2012%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189540", "text": "Seven Samurai (Japanese: 七人の侍, Hepburn: Shichinin no Samurai) is a 1954 Japanese epic jidaigeki film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay co-written with Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni. Starring Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Keiko Tsushima and Yukiko Shimazaki, it tells the story of a village of peasants who hire seven samurai to help defend their village from bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Influential in world cinema, Seven Samurai is considered to be one of the greatest films ever made.\nKurosawa and Hashimoto researched the Edo period for stories to adapt and came across an account of samurai defending peasants from bandits. Together with Oguni, the screenwriters spent over six weeks writing the script and creating detailed plans for each of the film's characters. Produced by Toho, the film spent three months in pre-production casting and location scouting. Filming began on May 27, 1953 and took place on set at Toho Studios, and on location in Shizuoka and Kanagawa Prefectures. Mid-way through production, the film ran out of money. Toho eventually funded Samurai to a total of ¥210 million, making it the most expensive Japanese film made at the time. For the film's final battle, Kurosawa innovated the use of a multi-camera setup and telephoto lenses to adjust audience perception. Filming wrapped in 1954 after 148 working days.\nSeven Samurai was released in Japan on April 26, 1954, with a runtime of 207 minutes. The film was recut before entering the Venice Film Festival. At Venice, Kurosawa won the Silver Lion for direction, and the film was distributed in the United States by Columbia Pictures in November 1956, where it was recut again. The film grossed ¥290 million in ticket sales in Japan making it the highest-grossing film of that year, though due to its large production cost, it was not highly profitable. In the United States, the film grossed $145,800 in 1956 and 1957. The film received a mixed critical response in Japan, but a generally positive response in the US. Reviewers praised the story and acting but criticized the film's length and attitude towards the peasants. American reviews compared the film to Western movies. Samurai was nominated for two Academy Awards and three BAFTAs, but won none.\nIn the decades since its release, scholars and reviewers have praised the film as a masterpiece. Seven Samurai has been influential among Western filmmakers, with its story and approach to action remade and reiterated numerous times, most notably in the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven. Seven Samurai also influenced other media, including anime and video games. Scholarly analysis of the film has looked at it through a humanistic and formalistic lens. Discussions focus on the morality and heroism of the samurai, showing their relationship to class and the environment. In addition to allegorical readings, scholars have also looked at the film's cinematography, use of music, and Seven Samurai's place within the jidaigeki genre.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Seven Samurai", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai", "revision": 1373811111, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373811111", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20Samurai&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190908", "text": "Seven (often stylized as Se7en) is a 1995 American crime thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, with Gwyneth Paltrow and John C. McGinley in supporting roles. Set in an unnamed, crime-ridden city, the narrative follows disenchanted, nearly retired Detective Lieutenant William Somerset (Freeman) and his newly transferred partner David Mills (Pitt) as they try to stop a serial killer from committing a series of murders based on the seven deadly sins.\nWalker, an aspiring writer, based Seven on his experiences of moving from a suburban setting to New York City during a period of rising crime and drug addiction in the late 1980s. An Italian film company optioned his script, but following financial difficulties, the rights were sold to New Line Cinema. Studio executives were opposed to the script's bleak conclusion, insisting on a more mainstream and optimistic outcome. Fincher, determined to re-establish himself after a career setback with his directorial debut Alien 3 (1992), was mistakenly sent Walker's original script and, convinced of its merit, committed to directing the project if the original ending remained intact. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles between December 1994 and March 1995, on a $33–34 million budget.\nSeven garnered middling test audience results and was not predicted to perform well due to its violent and mature content. However, it grossed $327 million worldwide, becoming a sleeper hit and the seventh highest-grossing film of the year. Contemporaneous reviews were generally positive, praising the performances of the central cast and the ending. Seven revitalized Fincher's career and helped Pitt move from roles based on his appearance to more serious, dramatic roles.\nIn the years since its release, the critical reception has been more positive. The film has inspired a number of television series and films with its aesthetic, music, and premise. Its title sequence, which depicts the killer preparing for his actions in the film, is considered an important design innovation that sparked a renewed interest in title design, while the film's twist ending has been named as one of the most shocking and unforgettable in cinematic history.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Seven (1995 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_(1995_film)", "revision": 1378723405, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378723405", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Seven%20(1995%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q212965", "text": "The Hunger Games is a 2012 American dystopian film directed by Gary Ross, who co-wrote the screenplay with Suzanne Collins and Billy Ray, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Collins. It is the first installment in The Hunger Games film series. The film stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, Lenny Kravitz, Stanley Tucci, and Donald Sutherland. In the film, Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Hutcherson) are forced to compete in the Hunger Games, an elaborate televised fight to the death consisting of adolescent contestants.\nDevelopment of a film adaptation of Collins's original novel began in March 2009 when Lionsgate entered into a co-production agreement with Color Force, which had acquired the rights a few weeks earlier. As the novel is written in Katniss's first-person point of view, its screenplay develops ancillary characters and locations for the film. Ross was confirmed as director in November 2010 and the rest of the main cast was rounded out by May 2011. Principal photography began that month and ended that September, with filming primarily taking place in North Carolina.\nThe Hunger Games premiered at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles on March 12, 2012, and was released in the United States on March 23, by Lionsgate. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its themes and messages, Jennifer Lawrence's performance, and faithfulness to the source material, although there was some criticism for its use of shaky cam and editing. It grossed $695.2 million, setting the then-records for both the opening day and opening weekend gross for a non-sequel, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2012.\nAmong its accolades, the song \"Safe & Sound\" from the soundtrack, performed by Taylor Swift and The Civil Wars, won a Grammy Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song. For her performance, Lawrence won the Saturn Award for Best Actress, the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress in an Action Movie, the Empire Award for Best Actress, and was also nominated for the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress. The sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, was released in 2013.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hunger Games (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunger_Games_(film)", "revision": 1377997293, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377997293", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hunger%20Games%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q214801", "text": "The Truman Show is a 1998 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir, and written and co-produced by Andrew Niccol. It stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, a man who is unaware that he is living on a colossal soundstage, and that his life is the subject of a reality television show. The film's supporting cast includes Laura Linney, Ed Harris, Noah Emmerich, Natascha McElhone, Holland Taylor, and Paul Giamatti.\nNiccol's original spec script was more of a science-fiction thriller, with the story set in New York City. Producer Scott Rudin purchased the script and set up production at Paramount Pictures. Brian De Palma was to direct before Weir signed on as director, making the film for $60 million—$20 million less than the original estimate. Niccol rewrote the script while the crew was waiting for Carrey to sign. The majority of filming took place at Seaside, Florida, a master-planned community located in the Florida Panhandle.\nThe Truman Show held its world premiere in Los Angeles on June 1, 1998, and was released in North America on June 5. The film was a financial success, grossing $264 million worldwide, receiving critical acclaim, and earned numerous nominations at the 71st Academy Awards, 56th Golden Globe Awards, 52nd British Academy Film Awards, and 25th Saturn Awards. The Truman Show has been analyzed as an exploration of simulated reality, existentialism, surveillance, metaphilosophy, privacy, and reality television, and as a genre-blending work that features elements of romantic comedy, psychological drama, science fiction, metafiction and social satire. The Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry in 2025 as \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Truman Show", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truman_Show", "revision": 1378575188, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378575188", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Truman%20Show&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q152780", "text": "Life of Pi is a 2012 adventure-drama film directed and produced by Ang Lee and written by David Magee. Based on Yann Martel's 2001 novel, it stars Suraj Sharma in his film debut, Irrfan Khan, Tabu, Rafe Spall, Gérard Depardieu and Adil Hussain in lead roles. The storyline revolves around Pi Patel, a 16-year old Indian boy, and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, who are both stranded on a lifeboat for 227 days after a shipwreck.\nThe film began development shortly after the release of the book and would see directors M. Night Shyamalan, Alfonso Cuarón and Jean-Pierre Jeunet involved at various stages before the hiring of Lee. Filming was split between India, Taiwan and Montreal in 2011, with Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H) handling the visual effects work.\nLife of Pi had its worldwide premiere as the opening film of the 50th New York Film Festival at both the Walter Reade Theater and Alice Tully Hall in New York City on September 28, 2012, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 21 by 20th Century Fox. The film became a commercial success, having grossed over $609 million worldwide, making it Lee's highest-grossing film. It received positive reviews from critics and received numerous accolades, including nominations for three Golden Globe Awards: Best Picture – Drama, Best Director, Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, winning the latter. At the 85th Academy Awards, it was nominated for eleven awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, and won four, including Best Director for Lee.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Life of Pi (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Pi_(film)", "revision": 1377595159, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377595159", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Life%20of%20Pi%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q484675", "text": "Léon (released in the United States and Australia as The Professional originally and then as Léon: The Professional) is a 1994 French English-language action-thriller film written and directed by Luc Besson. It stars Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman in her feature film debut. The plot centers on Léon (Reno), an Italian-American professional hitman who reluctantly takes in twelve-year-old Mathilda Lando (Portman) after her family is murdered by corrupt Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Norman Stansfield (Oldman). Léon and Mathilda form an unusual relationship as she becomes his protégée and learns the hitman's trade. The film was released in France by Gaumont Buena Vista International on 14 September 1994 and received mostly positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Léon: The Professional", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on%3A_The_Professional", "revision": 1377343083, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377343083", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=L%C3%A9on%3A%20The%20Professional&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q842306", "text": "Saludos Amigos (Spanish for \"Greetings, Friends\") is a 1942 American live-action/animated anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Set in Latin America, the featurette is made up of four different segments; Donald Duck stars in two of them and Goofy stars in one. It also features the first appearance of José Carioca, the malandro Brazilian parrot. Saludos Amigos premiered in Rio de Janeiro on August 24, 1942. It was released in the United States on February 19, 1943.\nThe film was a success, helping launch the international popularity of Donald Duck and leading Disney to produce The Three Caballeros (1944), another government-funded film aimed at Latin American goodwill.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Saludos Amigos", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saludos_Amigos", "revision": 1375143594, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375143594", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saludos%20Amigos&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18002795", "text": "The Revenant is a 2015 American epic Western action drama film directed by Alejandro G.Iñárritu. The screenplay by Mark L. Smith and Iñárritu is based in part on Michael Punke's 2002 novel The Revenant, which describes frontiersman Hugh Glass's experiences in 1823. The film is a remake of the film Man in the Wilderness (1971). The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Glass, alongside Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson and Will Poulter.\nIn August 2001, Akiva Goldsman purchased Punke's manuscript. Iñárritu signed on to direct The Revenant in August 2011. In April 2014, after several delays due to other projects, Iñárritu confirmed that he was beginning work on it and that DiCaprio had been cast in the lead role. Principal photography began in October 2014. Location and crew concerns delayed production from May to August 2015.\nThe Revenant premiered at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on December 16, 2015. It had a limited release on December 25 and a wide release on January 8, 2016 by 20th Century Fox. It was a commercial success, grossing $533 million worldwide and becoming Iñárritu's highest-grossing film. It received critical acclaim, with praise for DiCaprio's performance, Iñárritu's direction and Emmanuel Lubezki's cinematography.\nIt won three Golden Globe Awards and five BAFTA Awards, including Best Film at both ceremonies. At the 88th Academy Awards, the film received 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor (Hardy). It won the Academy Awards for Best Director (Iñárritu, his second consecutive in that category), Best Actor (DiCaprio, his first after 5 previous nominations), and Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki, his third consecutive in that category). DiCaprio also won the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award, and the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Revenant (2015 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revenant_(2015_film)", "revision": 1378284226, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378284226", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Revenant%20(2015%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18406872", "text": "Doctor Strange is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Doctor Strange. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 14th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Scott Derrickson from a screenplay he wrote with Jon Spaihts and C. Robert Cargill, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. In the film, Strange is an arrogant neurosurgeon who, following a career-ending car crash, discovers the mystic arts and trains to be a sorcerer.\nVarious incarnations of a Doctor Strange film adaptation had been in development since the mid-1980s, until Paramount Pictures acquired the film rights in April 2005 on behalf of Marvel Studios. Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer were brought on board in June 2010 to write a screenplay. In June 2014, Derrickson was hired to direct, with Spaihts re-writing the script. Cumberbatch was chosen for the eponymous role in December 2014, necessitating a schedule change to work around his other commitments. This gave Derrickson time to work on the script himself, for which he brought Cargill on to help. Principal photography on the film began in November 2015 in Nepal, before moving to England and wrapping up in New York City in April 2016.\nDoctor Strange had its world premiere in Hong Kong on October 13, 2016, and was released in the United States on November 4, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. It received positive reviews and grossed $677.8 million worldwide. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. A sequel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, was released in May 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Doctor Strange (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_(2016_film)", "revision": 1376838289, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376838289", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doctor%20Strange%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47075", "text": "Scarface is a 1983 American epic crime drama film directed by Brian De Palma from a screenplay by Oliver Stone. It is loosely based on the 1930 novel by Armitage Trail and a remake of the 1932 film of the same name directed by Howard Hawks. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Al Pacino, who stars as Cuban refugee Tony Montana. In the film, Montana arrives in Miami during the Mariel boatlift and becomes a powerful drug lord.\nPacino worked with producer Martin Bregman to develop the project. Bregman and Sidney Lumet both conceived the idea of setting the story during the boatlift. Lumet was initially hired to direct the film but left, feeling that it was too violent and wanted it to be more of a political film. De Palma replaced Lumet as director and Bregman hired Stone to write the script. Stone, who had been struggling with his own cocaine addiction at the time, wrote the script in Paris. Several actresses were considered for playing Elvira Hancock before Michelle Pfeiffer — then almost Glenn Close — was chosen for the role; Pacino and De Palma had argued against her casting, but Bregman fought for her inclusion. The film was initially going to be entirely shot in Miami, but the Cuban community denied requests to film there, feeling that the script portrayed them in a bad light. Filming took place from November 1982 to May 1983 in Los Angeles and two weeks in Miami. The film's soundtrack and score was composed by Giorgio Moroder.\nScarface premiered in New York City on December 1, 1983, and was released on December 9 by Universal Pictures. The film was a commercial success, grossing $66 million. Initial critical response was negative due to its extreme violence and depiction of stereotypes. However, in the years that followed, some critics have reappraised it, and it is now considered one of the best gangster films. Screenwriters and directors such as Martin Scorsese have praised the film, and it has been referenced extensively in pop culture, especially in hip-hop culture, as well as comic books, television programs and video games. The film is regarded as a cult classic.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Scarface (1983 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarface_(1983_film)", "revision": 1377912567, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377912567", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scarface%20(1983%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q174385", "text": "Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American Gothic dark fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay written by Linda Woolverton and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. A live-action remake of Walt Disney's original 1951 animated feature of the same name, the film stars Mia Wasikowska in the live-action role, Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas, Helena Bonham Carter, and Crispin Glover, and features the voices of Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen, Timothy Spall, Christopher Lee, Paul Whitehouse, Barbara Windsor and Michael Gough. A live-action adaptation and remake of Lewis Carroll's works, the film follows Alice Kingsleigh, a nineteen-year-old who falls down a rabbit hole by going back to Wonderland, and alongside the Mad Hatter helps restore the White Queen to her throne by fighting against the Red Queen and the Jabberwock, a evil dragon who endangers Wonderland's residents.\nAlice in Wonderland began development in December 2007, when Burton was asked to direct two 3D films for Disney, including the remake of Frankenweenie. Production began in September 2008 concluding within three months, and was shot in the United Kingdom and the United States. It was followed by an extensive post-production and visual effects process where filming included live-action and motion-capture sequences. Burton's frequent collaborator, Danny Elfman, composed an original theme for the film, which premiered in London at the Odeon Leicester Square on February 25, 2010. It was released in the United Kingdom and the United States through the Disney Digital 3-D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D formats as well as in standard theaters on March 5.\nThe film generated over $1.025 billion in ticket sales and became the fifth highest-grossing film during its theatrical run, and it is also the second-highest-grossing film of 2010. Amongst Disney's live-action adaptations, the film is tied for third-most-expensive, alongside Mulan and the fourth-highest-grossing readaptation to date. It received three nominations at the 68th Golden Globe Awards including for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. At the 83rd Academy Awards, it won Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design, and was nominated for Best Visual Effects. The film received numerous other accolades.\nWhile not the first film in its genre, Alice in Wonderland is credited with starting a trend of live-action fairy tale and fantasy films being green-lit, particularly from Walt Disney Studios. A follow-up film, titled Alice Through the Looking Glass, was released on May 27, 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)", "revision": 1377997714, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377997714", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alice%20in%20Wonderland%20(2010%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q181086", "text": "A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is based on Anthony Burgess's 1962 novel. The film employs disturbing and violent themes to comment on psychiatry, juvenile delinquency, youth gangs, and broader social, political, and economic issues in a dystopian near-future Britain.\nAlex (Malcolm McDowell), the central character, is a charismatic, anti-social delinquent whose interests include classical music (especially that of Beethoven), committing rape, theft, and \"ultra-violence\". He leads a small gang of thugs, Pete (Michael Tarn), Georgie (James Marcus), and Dim (Warren Clarke), whom he calls his droogs (from the Russian word друг, which is \"friend\", \"buddy\"). The film chronicles the horrific crime spree of his gang, his capture, and attempted rehabilitation via an experimental psychological conditioning technique (the \"Ludovico Technique\") promoted by the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp). Alex narrates most of the film in Nadsat, a fractured adolescent slang composed of Slavic languages (especially Russian), English, and Cockney rhyming slang.\nThe film premiered in New York City on 19 December 1971 and was released in the United Kingdom on 13 January 1972. The film was met with polarised reviews from critics and was controversial due to its depictions of graphic violence. After it was cited as having inspired copycat acts of violence, the film was withdrawn from British cinemas at Kubrick's behest, and it was also banned in several other countries. In the years following, the film underwent a critical re-evaluation and earned a cult following. It received several awards and nominations, with four nominations at the 44th Academy Awards, including Best Picture.\nIn the British Film Institute's 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the world's greatest films, A Clockwork Orange was ranked 75th in the directors' poll and 235th in the critics' poll. In 2020, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Clockwork Orange (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(film)", "revision": 1378504127, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378504127", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Clockwork%20Orange%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182944", "text": "Shakespeare in Love is a 1998 romantic comedy period film directed by John Madden, and written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. It stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth, Ben Affleck, and Judi Dench. The film depicts a fictional love affair involving playwright William Shakespeare (Fiennes) and Viola de Lesseps (Paltrow) during the writing of Romeo and Juliet. Several characters are based on historical figures, and many of the characters, lines, and plot devices allude to Shakespeare's plays.\nShakespeare in Love was released on 11 December 1998 in the United States by Miramax Films, and 29 January 1999 in the United Kingdom, by Universal Pictures. The film received acclaim from critics, grossed $289 million against a $25 million budget, and was the ninth-highest-grossing film of 1998. It received numerous accolades, including winning three Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for Paltrow), two Screen Actors Guild Awards (Outstanding Cast and Best Actress for Paltrow), and four British Academy Film Awards (including Best Film). It won a leading seven Oscars out of thirteen nominations at the 71st Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actress for Paltrow, Best Supporting Actress for Dench, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Art Direction, and Best Costume Design.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Shakespeare in Love", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_in_Love", "revision": 1369929863, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369929863", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shakespeare%20in%20Love&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q188652", "text": "Rocky is a 1976 American sports drama film directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone. It is the first installment in the Rocky film series and also stars Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, and Burgess Meredith. In the film, Rocky Balboa (Stallone), a poor small-time club fighter and loanshark debt collector from Philadelphia, gets an unlikely once in a lifetime shot at the world heavyweight championship held by Apollo Creed (Weathers).\nRocky entered development in March 1975, after Stallone wrote the screenplay in three days. It entered a complicated production process after Stallone refused to allow the film to be made without him in the lead role; United Artists eventually agreed to cast Stallone after he rejected a six figure deal for the film rights. Principal photography began in January 1976, with filming primarily held in Philadelphia; several locations featured in the film, such as the Rocky Steps, are now considered cultural landmarks. With an estimated production budget of about $1 million, Rocky popularized the rags to riches and American Dream themes of sports dramas which preceded the film.\nRocky had its premiere at the Paramount Theatre in New York City on November 20, 1976, and was released in the United States on December 3. Rocky became the highest-grossing film of 1976, earning approximately $225 million worldwide. The film received critical acclaim for Stallone's writing, as well as the film's performances, direction, musical score, cinematography and editing; among other accolades, it received ten Academy Award nominations and won three, including Best Picture. It has been ranked by numerous publications as one of the greatest films of all time, as well as one of the most iconic sports films ever.\nRocky and its theme song have become a pop-cultural phenomenon and an important part of 1970s American popular culture. In 2006, the Library of Congress selected Rocky for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\". The first sequel in the series, Rocky II, was released in 1979.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rocky", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky", "revision": 1376939881, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376939881", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rocky&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189505", "text": "Jaws is a 1975 American thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on the 1974 novel by Peter Benchley. It stars Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, who with the help of a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss) and a professional shark hunter (Robert Shaw) hunts a man-eating great white shark that attacks beachgoers at a New England resort town. Murray Hamilton plays the town's mayor, and Lorraine Gary portrays Brody's wife. The screenplay is credited to Benchley, who wrote the first drafts, and actor-writer Carl Gottlieb, who rewrote the script during principal photography.\nShot mostly on location at Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts from May to October 1974, Jaws was the first major motion picture to be shot on the ocean and consequently had a troubled production, going over budget and schedule. As the art department's mechanical sharks often malfunctioned, Spielberg decided mostly to suggest the shark's presence, employing an ominous and minimalist theme created by composer John Williams to indicate its impending appearances. Spielberg and others have compared this suggestive approach to that of director Alfred Hitchcock. Universal Pictures released the film to over 450 screens, an exceptionally wide release for a major studio picture at the time, accompanied by an extensive marketing campaign with heavy emphasis on television spots and tie-in merchandise.\nRegarded as a turning point in motion picture history, Jaws was the prototypical summer blockbuster and won several awards for its music and editing. It was the highest-grossing film in history until the release of Star Wars two years later; both films were pivotal in establishing the modern Hollywood business model, which pursues high box-office returns from action and adventure films with simple high-concept premises, released during the summer in thousands of theaters and advertised heavily. Jaws was followed by three sequels, none of which involved Spielberg or Benchley, as well as many imitative thrillers. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jaws (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaws_(film)", "revision": 1378536652, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378536652", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jaws%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190525", "text": "Memento is a 2000 American neo-noir psychological thriller film written for the screen and directed by Christopher Nolan, based on the 2001 short story \"Memento Mori\" by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. The film stars Guy Pearce as a man who has anterograde amnesia, resulting in the inability to form new long-term memories. He uses an elaborate system of photos, notes, and tattoos in an attempt to uncover the perpetrator who killed his wife and caused him to sustain the condition. Carrie-Anne Moss and Joe Pantoliano appear in supporting roles.\nThe film's non-linear narrative is presented as two different sequences of scenes interspersed during the film: a series in black-and-white that is shown chronologically, and a series of color sequences shown in reverse order (simulating for the audience the mental state of the protagonist). The two sequences meet at the end of the film, producing one complete and cohesive narrative.\nMemento premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2000, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 16, 2001. It was acclaimed by critics, who praised its nonlinear structure and themes of memory, perception, grief, and self-deception. It was a commercial success, earning $40 million against a $9 million budget and gained a cult following. Memento received many accolades, including the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival, and Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing. In 2017, the United States Library of Congress deemed the film \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Memento (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_(film)", "revision": 1377877547, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377877547", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Memento%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190956", "text": "Amadeus is a 1984 American epic drama film directed by Miloš Forman. Peter Shaffer adapted it from his 1979 stage play, inspired by Alexander Pushkin's 1830 play Mozart and Salieri. Shaffer described it as a \"fantasia on [a real-life] theme\", as it imagines an orchestral rivalry between two 18th-century Vienna composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham). Salieri struggles to reconcile his professional admiration for Mozart with his jealous hatred, and resolves to ruin Mozart's career as his form of vengeance against God.\nAmadeus received its world premiere in Los Angeles on September 6, 1984. It was released by Orion Pictures thirteen days later to widespread critical acclaim and box office success, grossing over $90 million. It was nominated for 53 awards and won 40, including 8 Academy Awards (including Best Picture), four BAFTA Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama). Abraham and Hulce were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, with Abraham winning. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 53rd on its 100 Years... 100 Movies list. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Amadeus (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadeus_(film)", "revision": 1378523789, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378523789", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Amadeus%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q63026", "text": "The English Patient is a 1996 epic romantic war drama film directed by Anthony Minghella from his own script based on the 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje, and produced by Saul Zaentz. The film stars Ralph Fiennes and Kristin Scott Thomas alongside Juliette Binoche, Willem Dafoe, Naveen Andrews and Colin Firth in supporting roles.\nThe protagonist of the title, a man burned beyond recognition who speaks with an English accent, recalls his history in a series of flashbacks, revealing to the audience his true identity and the love affair in which he was involved before the war. The film ends with an onscreen statement that it is a fictionalized account of László Almásy (died 1951) and other historical figures and events. The English Patient was released by Miramax Films on November 15, 1996. The film received widespread critical acclaim and emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office.\nThe film received twelve nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, winning nine, including Best Picture, Best Director for Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress for Binoche. It was also the first to receive a Best Editing Oscar for a digitally edited film. Ralph Fiennes, playing the titular character, and Kristin Scott Thomas were Oscar-nominated for their performances. The film also won six BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globes. The British Film Institute ranked The English Patient the 55th-greatest British film of the 20th century. The American Film Institute ranked it the 56th-greatest love story of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The English Patient (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_English_Patient_(film)", "revision": 1378296976, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378296976", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20English%20Patient%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105702", "text": "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (known simply and more commonly as Dr. Strangelove) is a 1964 political satire black comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Stanley Kubrick. It is loosely based on the thriller novel Red Alert (1958) by Peter George, who wrote the screenplay with Kubrick and Terry Southern. Financed and released by Columbia Pictures, the film was a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom.\nDr. Strangelove parodies Cold War fears of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union and stars Peter Sellers (portraying three different characters), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn, Slim Pickens, and Tracy Reed. The story concerns a paranoid brigadier general of the United States Air Force who orders a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. It follows the President of the United States (Sellers), his scientific advisor Dr. Strangelove (Sellers), a Royal Air Force exchange officer (Sellers), and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Scott) as they attempt to stop the crew of a B-52 from bombing the Soviet Union and starting a nuclear war.\nThe film is widely considered one of the best comedy films and one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. In 1998, the American Film Institute ranked it 26th in its list of the best American films (in the 2007 edition, the film ranked 39th), and in 2000, it was listed as number three on its list of the funniest American films. In 1989, the United States Library of Congress included Dr. Strangelove as one of the first 25 films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film received four Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Actor for Sellers. The film was also nominated for seven BAFTA Film Awards, winning Best Film From Any Source, Best British Film, and Best Art Direction (Black and White), and it also won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dr. Strangelove", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Strangelove", "revision": 1376803040, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376803040", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dr.%20Strangelove&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q109331", "text": "Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay by Bob Gale; both conceived the story. It is a sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future and the second installment in the Back to the Future franchise. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Thomas F. Wilson, with Elisabeth Shue (replacing Claudia Wells) and Jeffrey Weissman (replacing Crispin Glover) in supporting roles.\nThe film follows Marty McFly (Fox) and his friend Doctor Emmett \"Doc\" Brown (Lloyd) as they travel from 1985 to 2015 to prevent the former's son from tarnishing their family's future. When their arch-nemesis Biff Tannen (Wilson) steals the DeLorean time machine and uses it to alter history for his benefit, the duo must return to 1955 to set things right.\nThe film was produced on a $40 million budget and was filmed back-to-back with its sequel Part III. Filming began in February 1989, after two years were spent building the sets and writing the scripts. Back to the Future Part II was also a ground-breaking project for visual effects studio Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). In addition to digital compositing, ILM used the VistaGlide motion control camera system, which allowed an actor to portray multiple characters simultaneously on-screen without sacrificing camera movement.\nBack to the Future Part II was released by Universal Pictures on November 22, 1989. Though the film received mostly positive reviews, it was deemed inferior to its predecessor by critics at the time of release. The film grossed $333 million worldwide in its initial run, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 1989. Part III followed on May 25, 1990, concluding the trilogy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Back to the Future Part II", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_II", "revision": 1377611537, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377611537", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back%20to%20the%20Future%20Part%20II&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q5887360", "text": "Guardians of the Galaxy (retroactively referred to as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1) is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Guardians of the Galaxy. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by James Gunn, who wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman, it features an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper as the titular Guardians, along with Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio del Toro. In the film, Peter Quill (Pratt) and a group of extraterrestrial criminals go on the run after stealing a powerful artifact.\nPerlman began working on the screenplay in 2009. Producer Kevin Feige first publicly mentioned Guardians of the Galaxy as a potential film in 2010 and Marvel Studios announced it was in active development at the July 2012 San Diego Comic-Con. Gunn was hired to write and direct the film that September. In February 2013, Pratt was hired to play Peter Quill / Star-Lord, and the supporting cast members were subsequently confirmed. Principal photography began in July 2013 at Shepperton Studios in England, with filming continuing in London before wrapping in October 2013. In addition to an original score by Tyler Bates, the soundtrack includes several popular songs from the 1960s and 1970s chosen by Gunn. Post-production was completed on July 7, 2014.\nGuardians of the Galaxy premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on July 21, 2014, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 1 as part of Phase Two of the MCU. It was a critical and commercial success, grossing $773.3 million worldwide and became the third-highest-grossing film of 2014. It was praised for its screenplay, direction, acting, humor, soundtrack, visual effects and action sequences. It was nominated for two awards at the 87th Academy Awards, and received numerous other accolades. Two sequels have been released: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Guardians of the Galaxy (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_(film)", "revision": 1378663421, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378663421", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guardians%20of%20the%20Galaxy%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18547944", "text": "The Martian is a 2015 science fiction survival film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Drew Goddard. Based on Andy Weir's 2011 novel, and distributed by 20th Century Fox, the film stars Matt Damon, alongside an ensemble cast featuring Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels, Kristen Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Sebastian Stan, and Mackenzie Davis. The film depicts an astronaut's struggle to survive on Mars after being left behind and NASA's efforts to return him to Earth.\nProducer Simon Kinberg began developing the film after Fox optioned the novel in March 2013. Goddard, who adapted the novel into a screenplay, was initially attached to direct, but production was only approved after Scott replaced Goddard as director and Damon was cast as the main character. Filming began in November 2014 and lasted about 70 days, on a $108 million budget. Twenty sets were built on one of the largest sound stages in the world in Budapest, Hungary. Wadi Rum in Jordan was also used for exterior filming.\nThe Martian premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2015, and was released in the United Kingdom on September 30, and in the United States on October 2, in 2D, 3D, RealD 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX formats. The film opened to critical acclaim, and grossed $630.6 million worldwide, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2015, as well as Scott's highest-grossing film to date. Named by the National Board of Review and by the American Film Institute one of the top-ten films of 2015, The Martian received numerous accolades, including seven nominations at the 88th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Martian (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martian_(film)", "revision": 1376258378, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376258378", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Martian%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q184255", "text": "Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by Paul Haggis. It is based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd, and also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman. The film follows Margaret \"Maggie\" Fitzgerald (Swank), an underdog amateur boxer who is helped by an underappreciated boxing trainer (Eastwood) to achieve her dream of becoming a professional.\nMillion Dollar Baby premiered in New York City on December 5, 2004, and was theatrically released on December 15, 2004, by Warner Bros. Pictures domestically, with Lakeshore Entertainment's international unit handling international sales. It received critical acclaim and was also a commercial success, grossing $217 million worldwide against a $30 million budget. The film garnered seven nominations at the 77th Academy Awards and won four: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (for Swank), and Best Supporting Actor (for Freeman). The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Million Dollar Baby one of the top-ten films of 2004. It has since been cited as one of the best films of the 2000s, the 21st century and of all-time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Million Dollar Baby", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Dollar_Baby", "revision": 1378331246, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378331246", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Million%20Dollar%20Baby&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q188718", "text": "The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai, written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are fictional; they use the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943 as historical setting. It stars William Holden, Alec Guinness, and Jack Hawkins, with Sessue Hayakawa, James Donald, Ann Sears, and Geoffrey Horne in supporting roles.\nThe film was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who was replaced by Michael Wilson. Both writers had to work in secret since they were on the Hollywood blacklist and had fled to the UK to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award.\nThe Bridge on the River Kwai is considered as one of the greatest films of the 1950s. It was the highest-grossing film of 1957 and received positive reviews from critics. The film won seven Academy Awards (including Best Picture) at the 30th Academy Awards. In 1997, the film was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress. It has been included on the American Film Institute's list of best American films ever made. In 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Bridge on the River Kwai the 11th greatest British film of the 20th century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Bridge on the River Kwai", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_on_the_River_Kwai", "revision": 1378576177, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378576177", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Bridge%20on%20the%20River%20Kwai&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189330", "text": "The Dark Knight Rises is a 2012 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Batman. Directed by Christopher Nolan, who co-wrote the screenplay with his brother Jonathan, and the story with David S. Goyer, it is the final installment in Nolan's The Dark Knight trilogy, and the sequel to The Dark Knight (2008). The film stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Morgan Freeman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Michael Caine. Set eight years after the events of The Dark Knight, it follows a retired Wayne being forced to resume his role as Batman to save Gotham City from nuclear destruction at the hands of the terrorist Bane (Hardy).\nChristopher Nolan was hesitant about returning to the series for a third film, but agreed after developing a story with his brother and Goyer that he felt would conclude the series on a satisfactory note. Nolan drew inspiration from Bane's comic book debut in the 1993 \"Knightfall\" storyline, the 1986 series The Dark Knight Returns, and the 1999 storyline \"No Man's Land\". Filming took place from May to November 2011 in locations including Jodhpur, London, Nottingham, Glasgow, Los Angeles, New York City, Newark, and Pittsburgh. Nolan used IMAX 70 mm film cameras for much of the filming, including the first six minutes of the film, to optimize the quality of the picture. A vehicle variation of the Batplane and Batcopter termed the \"Bat\", an underground prison set, and a new Batcave set were created specially for the film. As with The Dark Knight, viral marketing campaigns began early during production. When filming concluded, Warner Bros. refocused its campaign, developing promotional websites, releasing the first six minutes of the film, screening theatrical trailers, and sending out information regarding the film's plot.\nThe Dark Knight Rises premiered in New York City on July 16, 2012, and was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on July 20. The film received positive reviews from critics, who deemed it a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. It received a nomination for Special Visual Effects at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, and numerous other accolades, in addition to being named one of the top-ten films of 2012 by the American Film Institute. It also grossed $1.085 billion worldwide, making it the second film in the Batman film series to earn $1 billion, and the highest-grossing Batman film to date. It became Nolan's second-highest-grossing film, after The Odyssey (2026), as well as the seventh-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release and the third-highest-grossing film of 2012.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Dark Knight Rises", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Rises", "revision": 1378290833, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378290833", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Dark%20Knight%20Rises&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q60072", "text": "The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman. It is based on the 1959 stage musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and a book by Lindsay and Crouse, itself based on the 1949 memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. The film stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker. Set in Salzburg, Austria, it is a fictional retelling of Maria von Trapp's experiences as governess to seven children, her eventual marriage with their father Captain Georg von Trapp, and their escape during the Anschluss in 1938.\nFilming took place from March to September 1964 in Los Angeles and Salzburg. The Sound of Music was released by 20th Century-Fox in the United States on March 2, 1965, at first as a limited roadshow theatrical release. It initially received mixed reviews from film critics. However, the film was a major commercial success, becoming the number-one box office film after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965. By November 1966, The Sound of Music had become the highest-grossing film in history, surpassing Gone with the Wind, and it held that distinction for five years. The film was popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in 29 countries. The Sound of Music had an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases. It sold 283 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286 million.\nThe Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film also received Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical. Since its original release, the film is widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time. In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the 55th greatest American film of all time, and the fourth-greatest film musical. In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Sound of Music (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sound_of_Music_(film)", "revision": 1378802622, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378802622", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Sound%20of%20Music%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105387", "text": "Independence Day is a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, and starring an ensemble cast that consists of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, Adam Baldwin, Vivica A. Fox, James Rebhorn, and Harvey Fierstein. The film focuses on disparate groups of people who converge in the Nevada desert in the aftermath of a worldwide attack by a powerful extraterrestrial race. With the other people of the world, they launch a counterattack on July 4—Independence Day in the United States.\nWhile promoting Stargate in Europe, Emmerich conceived the film while answering a question about his belief in the existence of alien life. Devlin and Emmerich decided to incorporate a large-scale attack having noticed that aliens in most invasion films travel long distances in outer space only to remain hidden when reaching Earth. Shooting began on July 28, 1995, in New York City, and the film was completed on October 8, 1995.\nConsidered a significant turning point in the history of the Hollywood blockbuster, Independence Day was at the forefront of the large-scale disaster film and sci-fi resurgence of the mid-late 1990s. It was released worldwide on July 3, 1996, by 20th Century Fox, but began showing on July 2 (the same day the film's story begins) in original release as a result of a high level of anticipation among moviegoers. The film received positive reviews. It grossed over $817.4 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1996 and the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, behind Jurassic Park (1993). The film won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.\nThe sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence, was released 20 years later on June 24, 2016, as part of a planned series of films.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Independence Day (1996 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(1996_film)", "revision": 1378218591, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378218591", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Independence%20Day%20(1996%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q202508", "text": "The Mummy is a 1999 American action-adventure film written and directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Brendan Fraser, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah, and Arnold Vosloo. A loose remake of the 1932 film The Mummy, Sommers' The Mummy follows the adventurer and treasure hunter Rick O'Connell (Fraser) as he travels to Hamunaptra, the City of the Dead, with librarian Evelyn Carnahan (Weisz) and her older brother Jonathan (Hannah), where they accidentally awaken Imhotep (Vosloo), a cursed high priest with supernatural powers.\nDevelopment took years, with multiple screenplays and directors attached. Sommers successfully pitched his version of a more adventurous and romantic take on the source material. Filming took place in Morocco and the United Kingdom; the crew endured dehydration, sandstorms and snakes shooting on location in the Sahara Desert. Industrial Light & Magic provided many of the visual effects, blending live-action footage and computer-generated imagery to create Imhotep, while Jerry Goldsmith composed the orchestral score.\nThe Mummy was theatrically released on May 7, 1999 by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed critical reviews but grossed $422.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $80 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1999. The film started a new franchise, with two direct sequels, The Mummy Returns in 2001 and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor in 2008, and various spinoffs such as an animated series, which ran from 2001 to 2003, and the prequel The Scorpion King in 2002, which led to sequels of its own. In 2017, an attempt was made to start another Universal Monsters franchise with The Mummy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Mummy (1999 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(1999_film)", "revision": 1377199763, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377199763", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mummy%20(1999%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q209538", "text": "Iron Man 3 is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Iron Man, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Iron Man (2008) and Iron Man 2 (2010), and the seventh film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Shane Black from a screenplay he co-wrote with Drew Pearce, and stars Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark / Iron Man alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stéphanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, William Sadler, Miguel Ferrer, Jon Favreau, and Ben Kingsley. In the film, Stark grapples with the consequences of the events of The Avengers (2012) during a national terrorism campaign on the United States led by the mysterious Mandarin.\nAfter the release of Iron Man 2 in May 2010, director Jon Favreau chose not to direct the third film. Black was hired to write and direct the sequel in February 2011, working with Pearce to make the script more character-centric, focus on thriller elements, and use concepts from Warren Ellis's \"Extremis\" comic book story arc. The film's supporting cast, including Kingsley, Pearce, and Hall, were brought on throughout April and May 2012. Filming took place from May 23 to December 17, 2012, primarily at EUE/Screen Gems Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina. Additional filming took place around North Carolina as well as in Florida, Los Angeles, and China; an extended version of the film specifically for Chinese audiences was created. Seventeen companies provided the film's visual effects.\nIron Man 3 premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on April 14, 2013, and was released in the United States on May 3, as the first film in Phase Two of the MCU. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its action sequences, Black's direction, and Downey's performance, though there was criticism for the portrayal of the Mandarin. The film was a box office success, grossing over $1.215 billion worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2013 and the sixteenth film to gross over $1 billion. It finished its theatrical run as the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time, while its opening weekend was the sixth-highest of all time. The film received Best Visual Effects nominations at the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Iron Man 3", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Man_3", "revision": 1378698115, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378698115", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iron%20Man%203&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q210364", "text": "Shutter Island is a 2010 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Martin Scorsese. The screenplay was adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from the 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. It follows Deputy U.S. Marshal Edward \"Teddy\" Daniels and his partner Chuck, who come to the fictional Shutter Island in Boston Harbor to investigate its criminal psychiatric facility after one of its patients goes missing; Daniels has his own ulterior motives for taking the case. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, with Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow and Michelle Williams in supporting roles.\nDevelopment began when Phoenix Pictures acquired the film rights to the novel directly from Lehane after Columbia Pictures had allowed their rights to lapse in 2003. Phoenix hired Laeta Kalogridis to work on a screenplay for a year, and in 2007, announced that both Scorsese and DiCaprio had joined the project. Production began on March 6, 2008, at various locations in Massachusetts; filming ended on July 2, 2008.\nPartnering with Paramount Pictures, the film's wide release was on February 19, 2010, and received generally positive reviews from critics. It was ranked by the National Board of Review in their top ten films of 2010, and grossed $295 million worldwide. The film is also noted for its soundtrack, which prominently featured classical music by composers such as Gustav Mahler, Krzysztof Penderecki, György Ligeti, John Cage, Ingram Marshall and Max Richter. In 2025, the film was voted for the \"Readers' Choice\" edition of The New York Times' list of \"The 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century\", finishing at number 169.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Shutter Island (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutter_Island_(film)", "revision": 1377287181, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377287181", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shutter%20Island%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q151904", "text": "Casino Royale is a 2006 spy thriller film, the twenty-first in the James Bond series by Eon Productions, the third screen adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1953 novel of the same name, and the first to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. \nThe second entry in the film series to be directed by Martin Campbell, Casino Royale's screenplay was written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis; the film co-stars Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Judi Dench and Jeffrey Wright. In the film, Bond is on a mission to bankrupt the terrorism financier Le Chiffre (Mikkelsen) in a high-stakes poker game at the Casino Royale in Montenegro.\nIt is also the first Bond film not to be part of the franchise's original loose continuity. Following Die Another Day (2002), Eon decided to reboot the franchise, attempting to provide a realistic and darker exploration of a less experienced and more vulnerable Bond. Casting involved a widespread search for a new actor to succeed Pierce Brosnan as Bond; the choice of Craig, announced in October 2005, initially proved controversial. Principal photography took place in the Bahamas, Italy, the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, with interior sets built at Pinewood Studios and Barrandov Studios, from January to July 2006. The film features primarily practical stuntwork as opposed to the computer-generated placements seen in other Bond films.\nCasino Royale premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 14 November 2006, and was theatrically released first in the United Kingdom on 16 November, and in the United States a day later, by Sony Pictures Releasing under the Columbia Pictures banner, the first Bond film to do so. The film received critical acclaim, with praise for Craig's reinvention of the character and the departure from the tropes of previous Bond films. It grossed over $606 million worldwide, becoming the fourth highest-grossing film of 2006 and the highest-grossing James Bond film until the release of Skyfall (2012). A sequel, Quantum of Solace, was released in 2008.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Casino Royale (2006 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(2006_film)", "revision": 1378644694, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378644694", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Casino%20Royale%20(2006%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q152350", "text": "Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 Soviet silent epic film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by Sergei Eisenstein, it presents a dramatization of the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin rebelled against their officers. \nThe film is a prime example of the Soviet montage theory of editing, such as in the \"Odessa Steps\" scene, which became widely influential and often recreated. In 1958, the film was voted on Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo. Battleship Potemkin is widely considered one of the greatest films ever made. In the most recent Sight and Sound critics' poll in 2022, it was voted the fifty-fourth-greatest film of all time, and it had been placed in the top 10 in many previous editions.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Battleship Potemkin", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin", "revision": 1375577692, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375577692", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Battleship%20Potemkin&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1765358", "text": "Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and the ninth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp, Hayley Atwell, Toby Jones, Jenny Agutter, Robert Redford, and Samuel L. Jackson. In the film, Rogers, Natasha Romanoff (Johansson), and Sam Wilson (Mackie) uncover a conspiracy within the spy agency S.H.I.E.L.D. while facing the Winter Soldier (Stan), a mysterious assassin.\nMarkus and McFeely began writing the sequel around the release of The First Avenger in July 2011. The script draws from the Winter Soldier story arc in the comic books written by Ed Brubaker, as well as conspiracy fiction from the 1970s such as the film Three Days of the Condor (1975). The Winter Soldier explores S.H.I.E.L.D. in a similar way to how the first film explored the U.S. military, after Rogers was shown working for S.H.I.E.L.D. in the MCU crossover film The Avengers (2012). The Russo brothers signed on to direct in June 2012 and casting began the following month. They wanted the film to be a political thriller that focused on topical ideas such as drone warfare, targeted killing, and global surveillance. Filming began in April 2013 in Los Angeles, California, before moving to Washington, D.C., and Cleveland, Ohio. Though the directors prioritized practical effects and intense stunt work to differentiate from previous Captain America portrayals, visual effects were created by six companies for 2,500 shots including the climactic Helicarrier sequence.\nCaptain America: The Winter Soldier premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on March 13, 2014, and was released in the United States on April 4, as part of Phase Two of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances, action sequences, storyline, and themes. It grossed $714 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2014, and received several accolades including a nomination for best visual effects at the 87th Academy Awards. A sequel titled Captain America: Civil War, also directed by the Russos, was released in 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Captain America: The Winter Soldier", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3A_The_Winter_Soldier", "revision": 1378112609, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378112609", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captain%20America%3A%20The%20Winter%20Soldier&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18407657", "text": "Captain America: Civil War is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and the 13th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Anthony and Joe Russo from a screenplay by the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans as Steve Rogers / Captain America alongside an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Renner, Chadwick Boseman, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Paul Rudd, Emily VanCamp, Marisa Tomei, Tom Holland, Frank Grillo, Martin Freeman, William Hurt, and Daniel Brühl. In Captain America: Civil War, disagreement over international oversight of the Avengers fractures the team into two opposing factions—one led by Steve Rogers and the other by Tony Stark (Downey).\nDevelopment of Civil War began in late 2013 when Markus and McFeely began writing the screenplay, which borrows concepts from the 2006 comic book storyline \"Civil War\" while also focusing on story and character elements from the previous Captain America films to conclude the trilogy. Following positive reactions to The Winter Soldier, the Russo brothers were brought back to direct in early 2014. The film's title and premise were revealed in October 2014, along with Downey's involvement as Stark; additional cast members joined in the following months. Principal photography began in April 2015 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia. It continued in the Metro Atlanta area before concluding in Germany in August 2015, with the film being the first to use IMAX's digital 2D cameras (for the film's central airport fight sequence). Visual effects were provided by nearly 20 different studios.\nCaptain America: Civil War held its world premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on April 12, 2016, and was released in the United States on May 6, as the first film in Phase Three of the MCU. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $1.1 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2016, and received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances (particularly Evans and Downey), action sequences, and themes. A fourth film, Captain America: Brave New World (2025), is a continuation of Marvel Studios' Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), following Mackie's Sam Wilson as Captain America.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Captain America: Civil War", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3A_Civil_War", "revision": 1378327661, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378327661", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captain%20America%3A%20Civil%20War&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20502242", "text": "Wonder Woman is a 2017 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Wonder Woman. Directed by Patty Jenkins from a screenplay by Allan Heinberg, and based on a story by Heinberg, Zack Snyder, and Jason Fuchs, it is the fourth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Gal Gadot stars as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman alongside Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, and Elena Anaya. The film follows Diana, an Amazon princess, as she leaves her home island of Themyscira after the American spy Steve Trevor informs her about World War I. Believing it to be orchestrated by Ares, the god of war, she sets out to stop the conflict.\nDevelopment of a live-action Wonder Woman film began in 1996, with Ivan Reitman initially set to produce and possibly direct. The project remained in development hell for many years, with writers and directors like Jon Cohen, Todd Alcott, and Joss Whedon attached at various points. Warner Bros. officially announced the film in 2010, and Patty Jenkins was hired as the director in 2015. The film drew inspiration from William Moulton Marston's 1940s Wonder Woman stories, George Pérez's 1980s comics, and the New 52 version of the character. Principal photography began on November 21, 2015, in the United Kingdom, France, and Italy, and concluded on May 9, 2016. Additional filming occurred in November 2016.\nWonder Woman premiered at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood on May 26, 2017, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on June 2. The film received positive reviews, with praise for Jenkins' direction, performances, visuals, story, action sequences, and cultural significance, though some criticism was directed at the climax. It grossed over $824 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2017 and the highest-grossing film by a solo female director until it was surpassed by Barbie (2023). The American Film Institute included Wonder Woman in its top ten films of 2017, and the film won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2018. A sequel, Wonder Woman 1984, was released in December 2020, with Patty Jenkins returning as director and Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen reprising their roles. Plans for a third film were cancelled after DC Films was restructured into DC Studios in 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wonder Woman (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_(2017_film)", "revision": 1376631113, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376631113", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonder%20Woman%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q22665878", "text": "Thor: Ragnarok is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Thor (2011) and Thor: The Dark World (2013), and is the 17th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Taika Waititi from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and the writing team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Tom Hiddleston, Cate Blanchett, Idris Elba, Jeff Goldblum, Tessa Thompson, Karl Urban, Mark Ruffalo, and Anthony Hopkins. In the film, Thor must escape the alien planet Sakaar in time to save Asgard from Hela (Blanchett) and the impending Ragnarök.\nA third Thor film was confirmed in January 2014, when Kyle and Yost began work on the screenplay. The involvement of Hemsworth and Hiddleston was announced that October, and the film's title was revealed to be Thor: Ragnarok later that month. Waititi joined the film as director a year later, after Thor: The Dark World director Alan Taylor chose not to return. Ruffalo joined the cast reprising the role of Bruce Banner / Hulk from previous MCU films, which allowed elements of the 2006 comic storyline \"Planet Hulk\" to be adapted for Ragnarok. The rest of the cast, including Blanchett as Hela, was confirmed in May 2016, with Pearson's involvement revealed at the start of filming that July. Principal photography took place in Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, with the film also having exclusive use of Village Roadshow Studios in Oxenford, concluding in October 2016.\nThor: Ragnarok premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on October 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on November 3, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film received praise for its acting and Waititi's direction, as well as the action sequences, visual effects, musical score, and humor, with many critics considering it to be the best installment of the Thor franchise. It grossed $855 million, becoming the highest-grossing film of the series and the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2017. A sequel, Thor: Love and Thunder, was released in July 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thor: Ragnarok", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%3A_Ragnarok", "revision": 1378323874, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378323874", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thor%3A%20Ragnarok&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q48673898", "text": "Green Book is a 2018 American comedy-drama film directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the biographical film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African-American pianist Don Shirley and Italian-American bouncer and later actor Frank \"Tony Lip\" Vallelonga, who served as Shirley's driver and bodyguard. Written by Farrelly alongside Lip's son Nick Vallelonga and Brian Hayes Currie, the film is based on interviews with Lip and Shirley, as well as letters Lip wrote to his wife. It is named after The Negro Motorist Green Book, a guide book for African-American travelers founded by Victor Hugo Green in 1936 and published until 1966.\nGreen Book had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2018, where it won the People's Choice Award. It was then theatrically released in the United States on November 16, 2018, by Universal Pictures, and grossed $321 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances of Mortensen and Ali, although it also drew some criticism for its racial dynamics and its depiction of Shirley.\nGreen Book received many awards and nominations. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor (for Ali), making it the fifth film to win Best Picture without being nominated for Best Director (after Wings, Grand Hotel, Driving Miss Daisy and Argo). It also won the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, and the National Board of Review award for the best film of 2018, and was chosen as one of the top 10 films of the year by the American Film Institute. Ali also won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Green Book (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Book_(film)", "revision": 1376164160, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376164160", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Green%20Book%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q39571", "text": "My Neighbor Totoro is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten. It stars the voices of Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto and Hitoshi Takagi, and focuses on two young sisters who, after moving with their father to the countryside, experience interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar Japan.\nThe film explores themes such as animism, Shinto symbology, environmentalism, childhood and the joys of rural living. My Neighbor Totoro received worldwide critical acclaim, and grossed over $41 million worldwide at the box office; the film also grossed significantly more from home video sales and merchandise.\nMy Neighbor Totoro received numerous awards, including the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize, the Mainichi Film Award, and Kinema Junpo Award for Best Film in 1988. It also received the Special Award at the Blue Ribbon Awards in the same year. The film is widely regarded as one of the greatest animated films of all time, ranking 41st in Empire magazine's \"The 100 Best Films of World Cinema\" in 2010 and the number-one animated film on the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll of all-time greatest films. The film and its titular character have become cultural icons, and made multiple cameo appearances in other films. Totoro also serves as the mascot for Studio Ghibli and is recognized as one of the most popular characters in Japanese animation.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "My Neighbor Totoro", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Neighbor_Totoro", "revision": 1378141102, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378141102", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My%20Neighbor%20Totoro&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q179215", "text": "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is a 1984 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a script by Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, based on a story by George Lucas. It is the second installment in the Indiana Jones film series and a prequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film stars Harrison Ford, who reprises his role as the titular character. Kate Capshaw, Amrish Puri, Roshan Seth, Philip Stone and Ke Huy Quan (in his film debut) star in supporting roles. In the film, set in 1935, Indiana Jones finds himself stranded in British India, where he is tasked with recovering a village's mystical stone and rescuing its children from a Thuggee cult practicing child slavery, black magic and ritual human sacrifice in honor of the goddess Kali, portrayed as a demon.\nNot wishing to feature the Nazis as the villains again, executive producer and story writer George Lucas decided to regard this film as a prequel. Three plot devices were rejected before Lucas wrote a film treatment that resembled the final storyline. As Lawrence Kasdan, Lucas's collaborator on Raiders of the Lost Ark, turned down the offer to write the script, Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who had previously worked with Lucas on American Graffiti (1973), were hired as his replacements.\nIndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was released by Paramount Pictures on May 23, 1984, to financial success, grossing $333.1 million worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing film of 1984. Initial critical reviews were mixed, with criticism aimed at the strong violence, darker story elements, and Capshaw's performance, as well as controversy over the film's portrayal of India. Critical opinion has improved since 1984, citing the film's intensity and imagination. In response to some of the more violent sequences in the film, and with similar complaints about the Spielberg-produced Gremlins (which released two weeks later), Spielberg suggested that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) alter its rating system, which it did within two months of the film's release, creating a new PG-13 rating. Temple of Doom was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Score and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. A third film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, followed in 1989.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Temple_of_Doom", "revision": 1375981942, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375981942", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indiana%20Jones%20and%20the%20Temple%20of%20Doom&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190145", "text": "Spider-Man 2 is a 2004 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent from a story conceived by Michael Chabon and the writing team of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man, it is the second film in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), and the sequel to Spider-Man (2002). Tobey Maguire stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Alfred Molina, Rosemary Harris, and Donna Murphy. The plot follows Peter Parker as he tries to manage his job, academics, personal life, and life as Spider-Man while also attempting to stop the scientist Dr. Otto Octavius from re-creating a dangerous experiment.\nPrincipal photography began in April 2003 in New York City and also took place in Los Angeles. Reshoots took place later that year and concluded in February 2004. Danny Elfman returned to compose the score. Spider-Man 2 premiered at the Fox Westwood Village Theater in Los Angeles on June 25, 2004, and was released in both conventional and IMAX theaters on June 30. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its emotional weight and visual effects, the performances of Maguire and Molina, and Raimi's direction. The film grossed $797 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2004. It was selected by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2004.\nSpider-Man 2 won Best Visual Effects at the 77th Academy Awards, and was also nominated for Best Sound Mixing and Best Sound Editing. It received five Saturn Awards, including Best Fantasy Film and Best Director. Its success led to the production of Spider-Man 3 (2007). Maguire and Molina reprised their roles from Spider-Man 2 in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which uses the concept of the multiverse to connect earlier Spider-Man films to the MCU.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_2", "revision": 1378424106, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378424106", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193835", "text": "Good Will Hunting is a 1997 American drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It stars Damon, Affleck, Robin Williams, Stellan Skarsgård, and Minnie Driver, with Casey Affleck and Cole Hauser in supporting roles. Set in Boston, the film follows Will Hunting (Damon), a troubled but self-taught genius working as a janitor at MIT, whose talent is discovered by professor Gerald Lambeau (Skarsgård). To avoid jail, Will agrees to study under Lambeau while attending therapy with psychologist Sean Maguire (Williams), which forces him to confront his past and his relationships, including with Harvard student Skylar (Driver).\nReleased by Miramax Films, Good Will Hunting premiered on December 2, 1997, and opened in the United States on December 5. Produced on a budget of about $10–16 million, it became a commercial success, grossing $225.9 million worldwide.\nThe film received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for Williams' performance and Affleck and Damon's screenplay. At the 70th Academy Awards, it received nine nominations and won Best Supporting Actor (Williams) and Best Original Screenplay (Affleck and Damon). The soundtrack features a score by Danny Elfman and songs by singer-songwriter Elliott Smith, including the Oscar-nominated \"Miss Misery\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Good Will Hunting", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Will_Hunting", "revision": 1375988685, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375988685", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Good%20Will%20Hunting&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q72962", "text": "Reservoir Dogs is a 1992 American heist film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino in his feature-length directorial debut. It stars Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Chris Penn, Steve Buscemi, Lawrence Tierney, Michael Madsen, Tarantino, and Edward Bunker as diamond thieves whose heist of a jewelry store goes terribly wrong. Kirk Baltz, Randy Brooks, and Steven Wright also play supporting roles. The film incorporates many motifs that have become Tarantino's hallmarks: violent crime, pop culture references, profanity, and nonlinear storytelling.\nThe film is regarded as a classic independent film and a cult film. Although controversial at first for its depictions of violence and heavy use of profanity, Reservoir Dogs was generally well received, and the cast was praised by many critics. Despite not being heavily promoted during its theatrical run, the film became a modest success in the United States after grossing $2.9 million against its scant budget. It achieved higher popularity after the success of Tarantino's next film, Pulp Fiction (1994). A soundtrack was released featuring songs used in the film, which are mostly from the 1970s. It was named \"Greatest Independent Film of All Time\" by the British film magazine Empire, which in 2008 also named it the 97th-greatest film ever made.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Reservoir Dogs", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_Dogs", "revision": 1378752243, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378752243", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Reservoir%20Dogs&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q104814", "text": "Aliens is a 1986 science fiction-action film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise. Set in the far future, it stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human colony on the moon where her crew first encountered the alien creatures, Ripley agrees to return to the site with a unit of Colonial Marines to investigate. Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, and Carrie Henn are featured in supporting roles.\nDespite the success of Alien, its sequel took years to develop due to lawsuits, a lack of enthusiasm from 20th Century Fox, and repeated management changes. Although relatively inexperienced, Cameron was hired to write a story for Aliens in 1983 on the strength of his scripts for The Terminator (1984) and Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985). The project stalled again until new Fox executive Lawrence Gordon pursued a sequel. On an approximately $18.5 million budget, Aliens began principal photography in September 1985 and concluded in January 1986. The film's development was tumultuous and rife with conflicts between Cameron and the British crew at Pinewood Studios. The difficult shoot affected the composer, James Horner, who was given little time to record the music.\nAliens was released on July 18, 1986, to critical acclaim. Reviewers praised its action, but some criticized the intensity of certain scenes. Weaver's performance garnered consistent praise along with those of Bill Paxton and Jenette Goldstein. The film received several awards and nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Weaver at a time when the science-fiction genre was generally overlooked. It earned $131.1–183.3 million during its theatrical run, making it one of the highest-grossing films of 1986 worldwide.\nAliens is now considered among the greatest films of the 1980s, and among the best science fiction, action, and sequel films ever made, often deemed equal to or better than Alien. It is credited with expanding the franchise's scope with additions to the series' backstory and factions such as the Colonial Marines. It inspired a variety of merchandise, including video games, comic books and toys. It was followed by two sequels: Alien 3 (1992) and Alien Resurrection (1997), an interquel film, Alien: Romulus (2024), and a TV series, Alien: Earth (2025).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Aliens (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_(film)", "revision": 1378183941, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378183941", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aliens%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201293", "text": "Roman Holiday is a 1953 American romantic comedy film directed and produced by William Wyler. It stars Audrey Hepburn as a princess out to see Rome on her own and Gregory Peck as a reporter. Hepburn won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance; the film also won the Academy Award for Best Story and the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.\nThe script was written by Dalton Trumbo and John Dighton, though with Trumbo on the Hollywood blacklist, he did not receive a credit, and Ian McLellan Hunter fronted for him. Trumbo's name was reinstated when the film was released on DVD in 2003, and on December 19, 2011, full credit for Trumbo's work was restored. Blacklisted director Bernard Vorhaus worked on the film as an assistant director under a pseudonym.\nThe film was shot at the Cinecittà studios and on location around Rome during the \"Hollywood on the Tiber\" era. The film opened the 14th Venice International Film Festival within the official program. In 1999, Roman Holiday was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film has been considered one of the most romantic films in cinema history.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Roman Holiday", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Holiday", "revision": 1378357642, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378357642", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roman%20Holiday&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q204191", "text": "It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film directed and produced by Frank Capra. It is based on the short story and booklet \"The Greatest Gift\", self-published by Philip Van Doren Stern in 1943, which itself is loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novella A Christmas Carol.\nThe film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams to help others in his community and whose intended suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody. Clarence shows George all the lives he touched and what the world would be like if he had not existed.\nAlthough it was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, It's a Wonderful Life initially received mixed reviews and was unsuccessful at the box office. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was $6.3 million, about twice the production cost, a figure it did not come close to achieving on its initial release. Because of the film's disappointing sales, Capra was seen by some studios as having lost his ability to produce popular, financially successful films. Its copyright in the U.S. expired in 1974 following a lack of renewal and it entered the public domain, allowing it to be broadcast without licensing or royalty fees, at which point it became a Christmas classic.\nIt's a Wonderful Life is now considered to be one of the greatest films of all time and among the best Christmas films. It has been recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made. It was no. 11 on the American Film Institute's 1998 greatest movie list, no. 20 on its 2007 greatest movie list, no. 8 on its list of greatest love stories, and no. 1 on its list of the most inspirational American films of all time. In 1990, It's a Wonderful Life became one of 25 films selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being deemed as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". Capra revealed that it was his favorite among the films he directed and that he screened it for his family every Christmas season. It was one of Stewart's favorite films. A modern remake of the film, written and directed by Kenya Barris, is in development at Paramount Pictures as of January 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "It's a Wonderful Life", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Wonderful_Life", "revision": 1378220859, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378220859", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It's%20a%20Wonderful%20Life&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q160560", "text": "The Da Vinci Code is a 2006 mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard, written by Akiva Goldsman, and based on Dan Brown's 2003 novel of the same name. The first in the Robert Langdon film series, the film stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Jean Reno, and Paul Bettany.\nIn the film, Robert Langdon, a professor of religious symbology from Harvard University, is the prime suspect in the grisly and unusual murder of Louvre curator Jacques Saunière. On the body, the police find a disconcerting cipher and start an investigation. Langdon escapes with the assistance of police cryptologist Sophie Neveu, and they begin a quest for the legendary Holy Grail. Sir Leigh Teabing, a noted British Grail historian, tells them that the actual Holy Grail is explicitly encoded in Leonardo da Vinci's wall painting The Last Supper. Also searching for the Grail is a secret cabal within Opus Dei, an actual prelature of the Holy See, who wish to keep the true Grail a secret to prevent the destruction of Christianity.\nThe film, like the book, was considered controversial. It was met with especially harsh criticism by the Catholic Church for the accusation that it is behind a two-thousand-year-old cover-up concerning what the Holy Grail really is and the concept that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene were married, producing a daughter, as well as its treatment of the organizations Priory of Sion and Opus Dei. Many members urged the laity to boycott the film. In the book, Brown states that the Priory of Sion and \"all descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate\".\nThe Da Vinci Code premiered as the opening film of the 59th Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2006, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 19. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, grossing $224 million in its worldwide opening weekend and an initial total of $760 million worldwide against a $125 million production budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2006, as well as Howard's highest-grossing film to date. It was followed by two sequels, both directed by Howard: Angels & Demons (2009) and Inferno (2016).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Da Vinci Code (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code_(film)", "revision": 1377064019, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377064019", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Da%20Vinci%20Code%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q719915", "text": "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2012's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the film is the second instalment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. \nThe film follows Bilbo Baggins as he continues to accompany Thorin Oakenshield and his fellow dwarves on a quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug. Pursuing them are the vengeful orcs Azog the Defiler and his son Bolg, while Gandalf the Grey investigates the return of a long-forgotten evil force in the ruins of Dol Guldur. The ensemble cast includes Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Evangeline Lilly, Lee Pace, Luke Evans, Ken Stott, James Nesbitt, and Orlando Bloom.\nThe films were shot simultaneously in 3D at a projection rate of 48 frames per second, with principal photography taking place around New Zealand and at Pinewood Studios. Additional filming took place throughout May 2013.\nThe Desolation of Smaug premiered in Los Angeles on 2 December 2013, and was released on 12 December in New Zealand and on 13 December in the United States. Produced by Warner Bros Pictures through its subsidiary New Line Cinema, the film received mostly positive reviews and grossed $959 million at the worldwide box office, making it the fourth highest-grossing film of 2013. The film received numerous accolades; at the 86th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.\nThe final instalment of the trilogy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, was released in 2014.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit%3A_The_Desolation_of_Smaug", "revision": 1372136756, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372136756", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hobbit%3A%20The%20Desolation%20of%20Smaug&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q736731", "text": "The Three Caballeros is a 1944 American musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The live-action/animated film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944, and was released in the United States on February 3, 1945. It was later released in the United Kingdom in March 1945.\nThe film celebrates the tenth anniversary of Donald Duck and follows his journey through Latin America, combining live-action with traditional animation. It is the second of the six package films released by Walt Disney Productions during the 1940s, following Saludos Amigos (1942), and is one of the earliest feature films to blend live-action and animation.\nThe narrative is presented through a series of self-contained segments, linked by the framing device of Donald receiving birthday gifts from his Latin American friends. Featured performers include Aurora Miranda (sister of Carmen Miranda), Dora Luz, and Carmen Molina.\nThe film was developed as part of the studio's contribution to the U.S. Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America during World War II. Donald is joined by returning character José Carioca from Brazil and a new companion, the pistol-toting rooster Panchito Pistoles from Mexico.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Three Caballeros", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Caballeros", "revision": 1378647959, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378647959", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Three%20Caballeros&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q3604746", "text": "Avatar: The Way of Water is a 2022 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron and written by Cameron, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. It is the second installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar (2009). Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña and Stephen Lang reprise their roles from the first film, with Sigourney Weaver returning in an additional role and Kate Winslet joining the cast. The plot follows Jake Sully, a human-Na'vi hybrid, and his family on the habitable moon Pandora. Hunted by RDA forces, they flee to an oceanic region to seek refuge with the Metkayina clan.\nFollowing the success of Avatar in 2009, two sequels were announced, with the first aiming for a 2014 release. However, the addition of two more sequels—for a total of five films—and the need to develop new technology to film motion-capture scenes underwater, led to significant delays. The filming process, which occurred simultaneously with the third film in the franchise, Avatar: Fire and Ash, began in Manhattan Beach, California, on August 15, 2017. Production moved to Wellington, New Zealand the following month, and was completed three years later, in September 2020. With an estimated budget of $350–460 million, Avatar: The Way of Water is one of the most expensive films ever made. It was produced by Cameron's company Lightstorm Entertainment.\nAfter repeated delays in release, Avatar: The Way of Water premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square theater in London on December 6, 2022, and was released in the United States on December 16, by 20th Century Studios. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the visual effects and technical achievements but criticized the runtime. It was a major box office success, breaking multiple records. It grossed $2.334 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2022 and the third-highest-grossing film at the time of its release. Among its many accolades, it was named one of the top-ten films of 2022 by The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. It was also nominated for four awards at the 95th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won for Best Visual Effects. The sequel, Avatar: Fire and Ash 'was released in December 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avatar: The Way of Water", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar%3A_The_Way_of_Water", "revision": 1378278472, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378278472", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avatar%3A%20The%20Way%20of%20Water&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q13619743", "text": "Minions is a 2015 American animated comedy film directed by Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda and written by Brian Lynch. Produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, it is a prequel to Despicable Me (2010), the first installment in the Minions film series, and the third overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. The film features the voices of Coffin (as the Minions), Sandra Bullock, Jon Hamm, Michael Keaton, Allison Janney, Steve Coogan, Jennifer Saunders, and Geoffrey Rush as the narrator. In the film, the Minions search for their replaceable evil boss after, one-by-one, accidentally killing all their past leaders throughout history.\nMinions premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on June 11, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 10, by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $1.16 billion, finishing its theatrical run as the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2015, the second-highest-grossing animated film and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time. A sequel, Minions: The Rise of Gru, was released in 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Minions (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions_(film)", "revision": 1378059019, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378059019", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minions%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18602670", "text": "Spectre is a 2015 spy thriller film and the twenty-fourth instalment in the James Bond film series produced by Eon Productions. The sequel to Skyfall (2012), it is the fourth film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. The film was directed by Sam Mendes and written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Jez Butterworth from a story conceived by Logan, Purvis, and Wade. The film co-stars Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, and Ralph Fiennes. It was the last Bond film to be co-distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. In the film, Bond battles SPECTRE, an international crime organisation led by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Waltz).\nDespite initially stating he would not direct Spectre, Mendes confirmed his return in 2014 after Nicolas Winding Refn declined to direct; Mendes became the first to direct successive James Bond films since John Glen. The inclusion of Spectre and its associated characters marked the end of the Thunderball controversy, in which Kevin McClory and Fleming were embroiled in lengthy legal disputes over the film rights to the novel; Spectre is the first film to feature these elements since Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Following the Sony Pictures hack, it was revealed Sony and Eon clashed regarding finance, stunts, and filming locations; Spectre is estimated to have a final budget of $245–300 million. Principal photography began in December 2014 and lasted until July 2015, with filming locations including Austria, the United Kingdom, Italy, Morocco, and Mexico.\nSpectre premiered at the Royal Albert Hall on 26 October 2015 and was theatrically released in conventional and IMAX formats in the United Kingdom that day, and in the United States on 6 November. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, cast performances (particularly Craig's and Bautista's), and the musical score, but criticised the pacing and formulaic narrative decisions. It grossed $880 million worldwide, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the second-highest grossing James Bond film after Skyfall, unadjusted for inflation (fourth when adjusted). The film's theme song, \"Writing's on the Wall\", won an Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song. The next and most recent film in the series, No Time to Die, was released in 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spectre (2015 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(2015_film)", "revision": 1378639370, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378639370", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectre%20(2015%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q26698156", "text": "The Shape of Water is a 2017 period romantic dark fantasy film directed and produced by Guillermo del Toro, who co-wrote the screenplay with Vanessa Taylor. It stars Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Doug Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Octavia Spencer. Set in 1962 Baltimore, Maryland, and inspired by Creature from the Black Lagoon, the film follows a mute cleaner at a high-security government laboratory who falls in love with a captured humanoid amphibian creature and decides to help him escape from death at the hands of an evil colonel. Filming took place on location in Ontario, Canada, from August to November 2016.\nThe Shape of Water was screened as part of the main competition in the 74th Venice International Film Festival, where it premiered on August 31, 2017, and was awarded the Golden Lion. It was also screened at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival. It began a limited release in two theaters in New York City on December 1, 2017, before expanding wide on December 22, and grossed $195 million worldwide.\nThe Shape of Water was widely acclaimed by critics, who lauded its acting, screenplay, direction, visuals, production design, cinematography, and musical score. The American Film Institute selected it as one of the top ten films of 2017. The film was nominated for a leading thirteen awards at the 90th Academy Awards, winning four, including Best Picture and Best Director, and received numerous other accolades; it was the second fantasy film to win Best Picture, after The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). A novelization by del Toro and Daniel Kraus was published on March 6, 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Shape of Water", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shape_of_Water", "revision": 1374824718, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374824718", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Shape%20of%20Water&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27985819", "text": "Spider-Man: Far From Home is a 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and the 23rd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Zendaya, Cobie Smulders, Jon Favreau, J. B. Smoove, Jacob Batalon, Martin Starr, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, and Jake Gyllenhaal. In the film, Peter is recruited by Nick Fury (Jackson) and Mysterio (Gyllenhaal) to help stop the Elementals while he is on a school trip to Europe.\nDiscussions for a sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming began by October 2016, and the project was confirmed later that year. Holland, Watts, and the writers were all set to return by the end of 2017. In 2018, Jackson and Gyllenhaal joined the cast as Fury and Mysterio, respectively. Holland revealed the sequel's title ahead of filming, which began that July and took place in England, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the New York metropolitan area. Production wrapped in October 2018. The marketing campaign is one of the most expensive for a film ever and attempted to avoid revealing spoilers for Avengers: Endgame prior to its April 2019 release.\nSpider-Man: Far From Home premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 26, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 2, as the final film in Phase Three of the MCU. The film received positive reviews with praise for its humor, action sequences, visuals, and the performances of Holland and Gyllenhaal. It grossed $1.133 billion worldwide, making it the first Spider-Man film to pass the billion-dollar mark, the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2019, and became Sony Pictures' highest-grossing film and the 24th-highest-grossing film of all time. A sequel, Spider-Man: No Way Home, was released in December 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man: Far From Home", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%3A_Far_From_Home", "revision": 1373356248, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373356248", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%3A%20Far%20From%20Home&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q55436290", "text": "Barbie is a 2023 fantasy comedy film directed by Greta Gerwig from a screenplay she wrote with her husband, Noah Baumbach. Based on the fashion dolls by Mattel, it is the first live-action Barbie film after numerous animated films and specials. Starring Margot Robbie as the title character and Ryan Gosling as Ken, the film follows them on a journey of self-discovery through Barbieland and the real world following an existential crisis. The supporting cast includes America Ferrera, Michael Cera, Kate McKinnon, Issa Rae, Rhea Perlman, and Will Ferrell.\nA live-action Barbie film was announced in September 2009 by Universal Pictures with Laurence Mark producing. Development began in April 2014, when Sony Pictures acquired the film rights. Following multiple writer and director changes and the casting of Amy Schumer and later Anne Hathaway as Barbie, the rights were transferred to Warner Bros. Pictures in October 2018. Robbie was cast in 2019, and Gerwig was announced as director and co-writer with Baumbach in 2020. The rest of the cast was announced in early 2022. Principal photography occurred primarily at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, England, and at the Venice Beach Skatepark in Los Angeles from March to July 2022.\nBarbie premiered at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on July 9, 2023, and was released in the United States on July 21. Its concurrent release with Universal Pictures' Oppenheimer was the catalyst of the \"Barbenheimer\" phenomenon, encouraging audiences to see both films as a double feature. The film grossed $1.448 billion and achieved several milestones, becoming Warner Bros.' highest-grossing film, the highest-grossing film of 2023 and the 14th highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release.\n\nNamed one of the top ten films of 2023 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, Barbie received widespread critical acclaim and other accolades, including eight Academy Award nominations (among them Best Picture), winning Best Original Song for \"What Was I Made For?\"; the song also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song while the film received the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Cinematic and Box Office Achievement.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Barbie (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbie_(film)", "revision": 1378159405, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378159405", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barbie%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q60834962", "text": "Dune (titled on-screen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic space opera film co-produced and directed by Denis Villeneuve, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jon Spaihts and Eric Roth. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel by Frank Herbert and the first installment in Villeneuve's Dune film trilogy. The cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem. Set in the distant future, the film follows Paul Atreides (Chalamet) as his family, the aristocratic House Atreides, is thrust into a war for the inhospitable desert planet Arrakis.\nThe film is the third adaptation of Dune, following David Lynch's 1984 film and John Harrison's 2000 television miniseries. After an unsuccessful attempt by Paramount Pictures to produce a new adaptation, Legendary Pictures acquired the Dune film and television rights in 2016, with Villeneuve signing on as director in February 2017. Production contracts were secured only for the first film, relying on its success before a sequel would be produced. Principal photography took place from March to July 2019 in Hungary, Jordan, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, and other locations.\nDune was scheduled for a late 2020 release, but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film premiered at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2021, before its international release on September 15, 2021; it was then released in United States theaters and via streaming on HBO Max on October 22, 2021. Dune grossed $411 million on a $165 million budget and received positive reviews from critics and audiences. It won six awards at the 94th Academy Awards and was nominated in four other categories, in addition to receiving numerous other accolades.\nA sequel, Dune: Part Two, was released on March 1, 2024, covering the novel's second half, and another sequel, Dune: Part Three, based on Herbert's 1969 novel Dune Messiah, is scheduled to be released on December 18, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dune (2021 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(2021_film)", "revision": 1375449975, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375449975", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dune%20(2021%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q68934496", "text": "Spider-Man: No Way Home is a 2021 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the sequel to Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019), and the 27th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jon Watts, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jacob Batalon, Jon Favreau, Jamie Foxx, Willem Dafoe, Alfred Molina, Benedict Wong, Tony Revolori, Marisa Tomei, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire. In the film, Peter asks Dr. Stephen Strange (Cumberbatch) to use magic to make his identity as Spider-Man a secret again after it was revealed to the world at the end of Far From Home. When the spell goes wrong due to Peter's actions, the multiverse is broken open and several visitors from alternate realities are brought into Peter's universe.\nA third MCU Spider-Man film was planned during the production of Homecoming in 2017. Negotiations between Sony and Marvel Studios to alter their deal—in which they produce the Spider-Man films together—ended with Marvel Studios leaving the project in August 2019, but a negative fan reaction led to a new deal between the companies a month later. Watts, McKenna, Sommers, and Holland were set to return, and filming took place from October 2020 to March 2021 in New York City and Atlanta. No Way Home serves as a crossover between the MCU and the previous Spider-Man films directed by Sam Raimi and Marc Webb. Several actors reprise their roles from those films, including previous Spider-Man actors Maguire and Garfield. The pair's involvement was the subject of wide speculation and numerous leaks despite Sony, Marvel, and the cast's efforts to conceal their involvement until the film's release.\nSpider-Man: No Way Home premiered at the Fox Village Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, on December 13, 2021, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 17, as part of Phase Four of the MCU. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $1.921 billion worldwide, surpassing its predecessor as the highest-grossing film released by Sony Pictures at the time. It became the highest-grossing film of 2021, the sixth-highest-grossing film at the time of its release, the highest-grossing Spider-Man film at the time, and set several other box office records, including those for films released during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 94th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. An extended version, subtitled The More Fun Stuff Version, was theatrically released in September 2022. An additional planned film trilogy with Holland began with Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which was released in July 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man: No Way Home", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%3A_No_Way_Home", "revision": 1375741680, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375741680", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%3A%20No%20Way%20Home&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q11621", "text": "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (or simply E.T.) is a 1982 American science fantasy film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Melissa Mathison. It tells the story of Elliott, a boy who befriends an extraterrestrial that he names E.T. who has been stranded on Earth. Along with his friends and family, Elliott must find a way to help E.T. find his way home. The film stars Dee Wallace, Henry Thomas, Peter Coyote, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore.\nThe film's concept was based on an imaginary friend that Spielberg created after his parents' divorce. In 1980, Spielberg met Mathison and developed a new story from the unrealized project Night Skies. In less than two months, Mathison wrote the first draft of the script, titled E.T. and Me, which went through two rewrites. The project was rejected by Columbia Pictures, who doubted its commercial potential. Universal Pictures eventually purchased the script for $1 million. Filming took place from September to December 1981 on a budget of $10.5 million. Unlike most films, E.T. was shot in rough chronological order to facilitate convincing emotional performances from the young cast. The animatronics for the film were designed by Carlo Rambaldi.\nE.T. premiered as the closing film of the Cannes Film Festival on May 26, 1982, and was released in the United States on June 11. The film was a smash hit at the box office, surpassing Star Wars (1977) to become the highest-grossing film of all time, a record it held for eleven years until Spielberg's own Jurassic Park surpassed it in 1993. E.T. received universal acclaim from critics, and is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. It received nine nominations at the 55th Academy Awards, winning Best Original Score, Best Visual Effects, Best Sound, and Best Sound Editing in addition to being nominated for Best Picture and Best Director. It also won five Saturn Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. The film was re-released in 1985 and again in 2002 to celebrate its 20th anniversary, with altered shots, visual effects, and additional scenes. It was also re-released in IMAX on August 12, 2022, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. In 1994, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, who deemed it \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial", "revision": 1377610020, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377610020", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=E.T.%20the%20Extra-Terrestrial&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20456", "text": "Dances With Wolves is a 1990 American epic revisionist Western film directed and produced by Kevin Costner in his feature directorial debut. Starring Costner with an ensemble cast including Mary McDonnell, Graham Greene and Rodney Grant, the film is a film adaptation of the 1988 novel Dances With Wolves by Michael Blake (who also wrote the screenplay). It tells the story of Union army Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Costner), who travels to the American frontier to find a military post and who meets a group of Lakota.\nCostner purchased the rights of the novel, with an eye on directing it, after encouraging Blake in early 1986 to turn a Western screenplay into a novel to improve its chances of being produced. The film was produced with an initial budget of $15 million, but was eventually produced with a budget of $22 million. The project was turned down by several studios due to the Western genre no longer being popular, as well as the length of the script. After the project languished at both Nelson Entertainment and Island Pictures, Costner and Jim Wilson sold the foreign rights in several countries and obtained enough money to go into pre-production. The two then made a deal with Orion Pictures. Much of the dialogue is spoken in Lakota with English subtitles. Filming occurred from July to November 1989 in South Dakota and Wyoming, and it was translated by Doris Leader Charge, of the Lakota Studies department at Sinte Gleska University.\nDances With Wolves premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. on October 19, and was released in the United States on November 9. The film received positive reviews from critics and audiences, who praised Costner's directing, the performances, screenplay, score, cinematography, and production values. It was a commercial success, grossing $424.2 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1990 and the highest-grossing film for Orion Pictures, as well as the highest-grossing independent film to that date. The film received twelve nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards and won seven awards: Best Picture, Best Director for Costner, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Sound Mixing. The film also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. It is one of only four Westerns to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, the other three being Cimarron (1931), Unforgiven (1992), and No Country for Old Men (2007).\nIt is credited as a leading influence for the revitalization of the Western genre of filmmaking in Hollywood. In 2007, Dances With Wolves was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dances With Wolves", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dances_With_Wolves", "revision": 1373255522, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255522", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dances%20With%20Wolves&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q181540", "text": "Quantum of Solace is a 2008 spy film and the twenty-second in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. Directed by Marc Forster and written by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, it is the sequel to Casino Royale (2006), and stars Daniel Craig in his second appearance as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. \nThe film co-stars Olga Kurylenko, Mathieu Amalric, Giancarlo Giannini, Jeffrey Wright, and Judi Dench. In the film, Bond teams with Camille Montes (Kurylenko) to stop Dominic Greene (Amalric) from monopolising the Bolivian freshwater supply.\nA second Bond film starring Craig was planned before production began on Casino Royale in October 2005. In July 2006, Roger Michell was announced to direct with a planned release for May 2008, but left the project that October after delays with the screenplay. Purvis, Wade, and Haggis completed the screenplay by June 2007, after which Forster was announced as Michell's replacement. Craig and Forster also contributed uncredited rewrites to the film's screenplay. Principal photography began in August 2007 and lasted until May 2008, with filming locations including Mexico, Panama, Chile, Italy, Austria, and Wales, while interior sets were built and filmed at Pinewood Studios. The film's title is borrowed from a 1959 short story by Ian Fleming. In contrast to its predecessor, Quantum of Solace is notable for citing inspiration from early Bond film sets designed by Ken Adam, while it features a departure from tropes associated with Bond villains.\nQuantum of Solace premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square on 29 October 2008 and was theatrically released first in the United Kingdom two days later and in the United States on 14 November. The film received mixed reviews, with praise for Craig's performance and the action sequences but was deemed inferior to its predecessor. It grossed over $589 million worldwide, becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2008 and the fifth highest-grossing James Bond film, unadjusted for inflation. The next film in the series, Skyfall, was released in 2012.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Quantum of Solace", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_of_Solace", "revision": 1376709609, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376709609", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Quantum%20of%20Solace&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q183066", "text": "The Hurt Locker is a 2008 American war film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Brian Geraghty, Christian Camargo, Ralph Fiennes, David Morse, and Guy Pearce. It follows an Iraq War bomb disposal team who are targeted by insurgents and shows their psychological reactions to the stress of combat. Boal drew on his experience during embedded access to write the screenplay.\nThe Hurt Locker premiered at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival and was released in the United States on June 26, 2009, by Summit Entertainment. It received acclaim from critics, who praised the acting and cinematography. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won six, including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, and became the first film directed by a woman to win Best Picture. It grossed $50 million worldwide.\nThe Hurt Locker is considered one of the most influential war films of the 2000s and the 21st century. In 2020, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".\nNotwithstanding its popular appeal, the film has been criticised by Iraq War veterans as \"absurd\" and \"nonsensical\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hurt Locker", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hurt_Locker", "revision": 1378514595, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378514595", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hurt%20Locker&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190588", "text": "Love Actually is a 2003 Christmas romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The film features an ensemble cast, composed predominantly of British actors, many of whom had worked with Curtis in previous projects. An international co-production of the United Kingdom, United States and France, it was mostly filmed on location in London. The film delves into different aspects of love as shown through 10 separate stories involving a variety of individuals, many of whom are interlinked as the plot progresses. The story begins five weeks before Christmas and is played out in a weekly countdown until the holiday, followed by an epilogue that takes place in the New Year.\nThe film, Curtis's first as director, was released in the US on 14 November 2003 and a week later in the UK during its theatrical run. Love Actually was a box-office success, grossing $252.6 million worldwide on a budget of $40–45 million. The film received mixed reviews and a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. It later developed a cult following, and is often a staple film shown during the Christmas period in both the United Kingdom and United States. A made-for-television short sequel, Red Nose Day Actually, aired in two different versions on BBC One and NBC in 2017, as part of the fundraising event Red Nose Day 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Love Actually", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Actually", "revision": 1376188385, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376188385", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Love%20Actually&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107270", "text": "Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whiskey. He befriends another disillusioned American, Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a recent college graduate who has been married for two years. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. It does not use mainstream narrative conventions and is atypical in its depiction of romance.\nCoppola started writing the film after spending time in Tokyo and becoming fond of the city. She began forming a story about two characters experiencing a \"romantic melancholy\" in the Park Hyatt Tokyo, where she stayed while promoting her first feature film, the 1999 drama The Virgin Suicides. Coppola envisioned Murray playing the role of Bob from the beginning and tried to recruit him for months. While Murray eventually agreed to play the part, he did not sign a contract. Coppola spent a quarter of the film's $4 million budget without knowing if he would arrive.\nPrincipal photography began on September 29, 2002, and lasted 27 days. Coppola kept a flexible schedule during filming with a small crew and minimal equipment. The screenplay was short and Coppola allowed significant improvisation during filming. The director of photography, Lance Acord, used available light where possible, and many Japanese places of business and public areas were used as locations. After 10 weeks of editing, Coppola sold distribution rights for the United States and Canada to Focus Features, and the company promoted the film through word of mouth.\nLost in Translation premiered on August 29, 2003, at the Telluride Film Festival, and was distributed to American theatres on September 12, 2003. At the 76th Academy Awards, Lost in Translation won Coppola Best Original Screenplay, and the film was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Murray). Other accolades won include three BAFTAs and three Golden Globes. It has since been named one of the greatest films of the 2000s and 21st century. The film received acclaim for its writing, direction, and performances, and grossed $119 million worldwide.\nLost in Translation drew criticism for its depiction of Japanese people; critics and scholars in both the United States and Japan accused the film of racism, Orientalism and anti-Asian stereotyping. This backlash led to organized political pushback as an Asian American movement during the 2003–2004 film awards season, which included a nationwide boycott and petition campaign launched by an Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) organization against major motion picture industry groups at the 76th Academy Awards. The retrospective prompted a critical re-evaluation of the film's legacy, renewing media coverage and public debate regarding its controversial themes.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Lost in Translation", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Translation", "revision": 1374809431, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374809431", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lost%20in%20Translation&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q622769", "text": "Man of Steel is a 2013 superhero film based on the DC Comics character Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and written by David S. Goyer, who developed the story with producer Christopher Nolan, it is the first film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), and a reboot of the Superman film series, depicting the character's origin story. Henry Cavill stars as Superman, alongside Amy Adams, Michael Shannon, Kevin Costner, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, and Russell Crowe. In the film, Clark Kent learns that he is a superpowered alien from the planet Krypton and assumes the role of mankind's protector as Superman, making the choice to face General Zod and stop him from destroying humanity.\nDevelopment began in 2008 when Warner Bros. Pictures took pitches from comic book writers, screenwriters, and directors, opting to reboot the franchise. In 2009, a court ruling resulted in Jerry Siegel's family recapturing the rights to Superman's origins and Siegel's copyright. The decision stated that Warner Bros. did not owe the families additional royalties from previous films, but if they did not begin production on a Superman film by 2011, then the Shuster and Siegel estates would be able to sue for lost revenue on an unproduced film. Nolan pitched Goyer's idea after a story discussion on The Dark Knight Rises, and Snyder was hired as the film's director in October 2010. Principal photography began in August 2011 in West Chicago, Illinois, before moving to Vancouver and Plano, Illinois.\nMan of Steel premiered in the Alice Tully Hall in New York City on June 10, 2013, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on June 14. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a commercial success, grossing $670 million worldwide on a budget of $225–258 million, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2013. Critics praised its visuals, music, casting, performances, and action sequences, but criticized its dark tone and some plot elements, as well as the portrayal of Superman. A sequel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, was released in 2016. A further reboot, Superman, the first film in the DC Universe (DCU), was released in 2025, and stars David Corenswet as the title character.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Man of Steel (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Steel_(film)", "revision": 1377610700, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377610700", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Man%20of%20Steel%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q5901134", "text": "Ant-Man is a 2015 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics Ant-Man characters Scott Lang and Hank Pym. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 12th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Peyton Reed from a screenplay by the writing teams of Edgar Wright & Joe Cornish and Adam McKay & Paul Rudd. It stars Rudd as Scott Lang / Ant-Man alongside Evangeline Lilly, Corey Stoll, Bobby Cannavale, Michael Peña, Tip \"T.I.\" Harris, Anthony Mackie, Wood Harris, Judy Greer, Abby Ryder Fortson, David Dastmalchian, and Michael Douglas as Hank Pym. In the film, Lang must help defend Pym's Ant-Man shrinking technology and plot a heist with worldwide ramifications.\nDevelopment of Ant-Man began in April 2006 with the hiring of Wright to direct and co-write with Cornish. By April 2011, Wright and Cornish had completed three drafts of the script and Wright shot test footage for the film in July 2012. Pre-production began in October 2013 after being put on hold so that Wright could complete The World's End. Casting began in December 2013, with the hiring of Rudd to play Lang. In May 2014, Wright left the project citing creative differences, though he still received screenplay and story credits with Cornish. The following month, Reed was brought in to replace Wright, while McKay was hired to contribute to the script with Rudd. Filming took place between August and December 2014 in San Francisco and Metro Atlanta.\nAnt-Man held its world premiere at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 29, 2015, and was released in the United States on July 17, as the final film in Phase Two of the MCU. It grossed more than $519 million worldwide and received positive reviews from critics, who generally welcomed the film's smaller stakes than other MCU films, as well as its cast (particularly Rudd, Peña, Lilly, and Douglas), humor, and visual effects. Two sequels have been released: Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ant-Man (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_(film)", "revision": 1378216811, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378216811", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ant-Man%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47300912", "text": "Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, who produced it with David Heyman and Shannon McIntosh. Produced by Columbia Pictures in association with Bona Film Group, Heyday Films, and Visiona Romantica, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is a co-production between the United States, United Kingdom, and China. \nIt features an ensemble cast led by Leonardo DiCaprio as Rick Dalton, an aging Western hero; Brad Pitt as his stunt double Cliff Booth; and Margot Robbie as actress Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski. Set in 1969 Los Angeles, the period film follows a fading actor (DiCaprio) and his stunt double (Pitt) as they navigate the rapidly changing film industry. The threat of the Tate murders is looming.\nAnnounced in July 2017, this is Tarantino's first film made without producers Bob and Harvey Weinstein. Tarantino ended his partnership with the brothers following the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. \nAfter a bidding war, the film was distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, which met Tarantino's demands, including final cut privilege. Pitt, DiCaprio, Robbie, Zoë Bell, Kurt Russell and others joined the cast between January and June 2018. Principal photography lasted from June to November around Los Angeles. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is the final film to feature Luke Perry, who died on March 4, 2019; it is dedicated to his memory.\nOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 21, 2019. There it was shown as a 35 mm film print. The film was released theatrically in the United States on July 26, and in the United Kingdom on August 14. It grossed over $409 million worldwide and received acclaim from critics, although historical inaccuracies and the portrayals of some artists were criticized. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as one of the Top-10 films of 2019, and it won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was nominated for 10 awards at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning two (Best Supporting Actor for Pitt and Best Production Design), and received numerous other accolades. It has since been considered as one of the greatest films of the 2010s and 21st century. The Writers Guild of America ranked the film's screenplay the 22nd-greatest of the 21st century. Tarantino has stated that Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his favorite film that he has made.\nA novelization, written by Tarantino in his debut as an author, was published in 2021. A sequel to the film, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, written by Tarantino and directed by David Fincher, with Brad Pitt in the lead role, is in production and is scheduled to be released in 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Hollywood", "revision": 1377682610, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377682610", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20in%20Hollywood&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19089", "text": "GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film, the seventeenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Martin Campbell, it was the first in the series not to use any story elements from the works of novelist Ian Fleming. GoldenEye was also the first James Bond film not produced by Albert R. Broccoli, following his stepping down from Eon Productions and replacement by his daughter, Barbara Broccoli (along with Michael G. Wilson, although Broccoli was still involved as a consultant producer; it was his final film project before his death in 1996). The story was conceived and written by Michael France, with later collaboration by other writers. In the film, Bond fights to prevent rogue ex-MI6 agent Alec Trevelyan (Sean Bean) from using a satellite weapon against London to cause a global financial collapse.\nGoldenEye was released after a six-year hiatus in the series caused by legal disputes, during which Timothy Dalton's contract for the role of James Bond expired and he decided to leave the role, being replaced by Brosnan. M was also recast, actress Judi Dench becoming the first woman to portray the character, replacing Robert Brown. The role of Miss Moneypenny was also recast, Caroline Bliss being replaced by Samantha Bond. Desmond Llewelyn was the only actor to reprise his previous role, as Q. It was the first Bond film made after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, which provided a background for the plot. Principal photography for GoldenEye took place from January to June 1995 in the UK, Russia, Monte Carlo, and Puerto Rico; it was the inaugural film production to be shot at Leavesden Studios. The first Bond film to use computer-generated imagery (CGI), GoldenEye was also the final film in the career of special effects supervisor Derek Meddings, and was dedicated to his memory.\nThe film accumulated a worldwide gross of over US$356 million, to become the fourth-highest grossing film of 1995. It received positive reviews from critics, with Brosnan viewed as a worthy successor to Sean Connery's portrayal as Bond. It also received award nominations for Best Special Visual Effects and Best Sound from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts. It was followed by Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "GoldenEye", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldenEye", "revision": 1376728295, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376728295", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=GoldenEye&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q171453", "text": "Transformers is a 2007 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's toy line of the same name. Directed by Michael Bay from a screenplay by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, it is the first installment in the Transformers film series. The film stars Shia LaBeouf as Sam Witwicky, a teenager who gets caught up in a war between the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, two factions of shape-shifting alien robots. The Autobots and Decepticons both seek a powerful artifact called the AllSpark, to win the war that has devastated their home planet of Cybertron. Tyrese Gibson, Josh Duhamel, Anthony Anderson, Megan Fox, Rachael Taylor, John Turturro, and Jon Voight also star, while Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving voice Optimus Prime and Megatron, respectively.\nDon Murphy was initially interested in developing a G.I. Joe film, but then decided to develop a Transformers film after the United States went to war against Iraq in 2003. Murphy and Tom DeSanto developed the project in 2003, and DeSanto wrote a treatment. Steven Spielberg came on board as executive producer the following year, hiring Orci and Kurtzman to write the screenplay. The U.S. Armed Forces and General Motors loaned vehicles and aircraft during filming, which saved money for the production and added realism to the battle scenes. Hasbro's promotional campaign for the film included deals with various companies; advertising included a viral marketing campaign, coordinated releases of prequel comic books, toys, and books, as well as product placement deals with companies such as General Motors, Burger King, and eBay.\nTransformers premiered on June 10, 2007, at the N Seoul Tower in Seoul, South Korea, and was released on July 3 in the United States, by Paramount Pictures. The film was a commercial success, grossing $709.7 million worldwide against a production budget of $145–200 million and becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2007. It won four awards from the Visual Effects Society and was nominated for Best Visual Effects, Best Sound Editing, and Best Sound Mixing at the 80th Academy Awards. It was followed by a sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Transformers (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers_(film)", "revision": 1378719816, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378719816", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformers%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182212", "text": "Spider-Man 3 is a 2007 American superhero film directed by Sam Raimi, who co-wrote it with his brother Ivan and Alvin Sargent. Based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man, it is the final film in Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and the sequel to Spider-Man 2 (2004). Tobey Maguire stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church, Topher Grace, Bryce Dallas Howard, James Cromwell, Rosemary Harris, and J. K. Simmons. Set a year after the events of Spider-Man 2, the film follows Peter as he prepares for his future with his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson, while facing the Sandman, Venom, and his vengeful friend Harry Osborn.\nAfter the successful release of Spider-Man 2 in 2004, development immediately began on Spider-Man 3, with the aim of a 2007 release. During preproduction, Raimi wanted two villains, Harry and Sandman. At the request of producer Avi Arad, he added Venom to the list, and the producers also requested the addition of Gwen Stacy. Principal photography for the film began in January 2006 and took place in Los Angeles and Cleveland before moving to New York City from May until July 2006. Additional pick-up shots were made after August, and the film wrapped in October 2006. During post-production, Sony Pictures Imageworks created over 900 visual effects shots. Christopher Young was hired to compose the score of Spider-Man 3 after Danny Elfman, who had scored the two previous films, declined to return due to creative differences and conflicts with Raimi. With an estimated production budget of $258–350 million, Spider-Man 3 was the most expensive film ever made at the time of its release.\nSpider-Man 3 premiered on April 16, 2007, in Tokyo, and was released in the United States in both conventional and IMAX theaters on May 4. The film grossed $895.9 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of the trilogy, the third-highest-grossing film of 2007 and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of its release. It was also the highest-grossing Spider-Man film until it was surpassed by Spider-Man: Far From Home in 2019. Unlike the previous films in the trilogy, Spider-Man 3 received mixed reviews from critics. A sequel, Spider-Man 4, was set to be released in 2011, but was cancelled. A reboot, The Amazing Spider-Man, was released in 2012 with a new cast and crew. Maguire and Church later reprised their roles in Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which explores the concept of the multiverse and links the Raimi trilogy to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man 3", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man_3", "revision": 1378722505, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378722505", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%203&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q183063", "text": "The Sixth Sense is a 1999 American psychological thriller film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The film stars Bruce Willis, Toni Collete, Olivia Williams, and Haley Joel Osment. It follows a child psychologist (Willis) who counsels a deeply troubled child (Osment) claiming to possess clairvoyant abilities.\nReleased by Buena Vista Pictures through its Hollywood Pictures banner on August 6, 1999, The Sixth Sense received critical acclaim and was nominated for six Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actor for Osment, and Best Supporting Actress for Collette. The film established Shyamalan as a preeminent filmmaker of thrillers and introduced the cinema public to his traits, most notably his affinity for twist endings.\nThe film was a commercial success, grossing over $672 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1999 and Shyamalan's highest-grossing film to date.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Sixth Sense", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sixth_Sense", "revision": 1375968705, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375968705", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Sixth%20Sense&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q185658", "text": "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a 1989 American action-adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by Jeffrey Boam, based on a story by George Lucas and Menno Meyjes. It is the third installment in the Indiana Jones film series and the narrative sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Harrison Ford reprises his role as the titular character, while Sean Connery co-stars as his father. Other cast members featured include Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, Julian Glover, River Phoenix and John Rhys-Davies. In the film, set in 1938, Indiana Jones searches for his father, a Holy Grail scholar, who has been kidnapped and held hostage by the Nazis while on a journey to find the Holy Grail.\nAfter the criticism that Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) received, Spielberg chose to make a more lighthearted film for the next installment, as well as bringing back several elements from Raiders of the Lost Ark. During the five years between Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, he and executive producer Lucas reviewed several scripts before accepting Jeffrey Boam's. Filming locations included Spain, Italy, West Germany, Jordan, the United Kingdom, and the United States.\nIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade was released in the United States on May 24, 1989, by Paramount Pictures. The film received positive reviews and was a financial success, earning $474.2 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing film of 1989. It also won the Academy Award for Best Sound Effects Editing and was nominated for Best Original Score and Best Sound at the 62nd Academy Awards. Although Spielberg and Lucas originally intended for The Last Crusade to be the end of the series, a sequel, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, followed in May 2008, while a fifth and final film, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was released in June 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Last_Crusade", "revision": 1374795386, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374795386", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indiana%20Jones%20and%20the%20Last%20Crusade&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200299", "text": "All About Eve is a 1950 American drama film written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It is based on the 1946 short story (and subsequent 1949 radio drama) \"The Wisdom of Eve\" by Mary Orr, although Orr does not receive a screen credit.\nThe film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star, and Anne Baxter as Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who maneuvers herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. The film co-stars George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, and Hugh Marlowe, and features Thelma Ritter, Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates, Walter Hampden, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles.\nAll About Eve held its world premiere in New York City on October 13, 1950. Highly praised by critics at the time of its release, it received a record 14 nominations at the 23rd Academy Awards, becoming the only film in Oscar history to receive four female acting nominations (Davis and Baxter as Best Actress, Holm and Ritter as Best Supporting Actress). It went on to win six awards, including Best Picture, as well as Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, Mankiewicz's second consecutive wins in both categories.\nWidely considered as among the greatest films of all time, in 1990, All About Eve became one of 25 films selected that year for preservation in the United States Library of Congress's National Film Registry, deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film was ranked No. 16 on AFI's 1998 list of the 100 best American films.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "All About Eve", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Eve", "revision": 1375947084, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375947084", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All%20About%20Eve&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q202211", "text": "Gandhi is a 1982 biographical film directed and produced by Richard Attenborough and written by John Briley. It is based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi (portrayed by Ben Kingsley), a major leader in the Indian independence movement against the British Empire during the 20th century. It covers Gandhi's life from a defining moment in 1893, as he is thrown off a train in the Colony of Natal for being in a whites-only compartment and concludes with his assassination and funeral in 1948. Although a practising Hindu, Gandhi's embracing of other faiths, particularly Christianity and Islam, is also depicted. Over 300,000 extras appeared in the film, believed to be the most in any film made.\nGandhi was released by Columbia Pictures in India on 30 November 1982, in the United Kingdom on 3 December, and in the United States on 8 December. It was praised for its portrayal of the life of Gandhi, the Indian independence movement, and the deleterious results of British colonisation on India.\nIt was considered to have maintained a reasonable level of historical accuracy, although many separate events were amalgamated, such as historical meetings with individual people being combined into single fictionalized scenes for narrative pacing. Several events were exaggerated or invented, such as being beaten by police while burning registration certificates. The chronology of Gandhi's early activism was altered, and certain historical figures (such as Christian missionary and independence activist C.F. Andrews and founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah) were considered to have been portrayed inaccurately. The film was praised for conveying Gandhi's core principles of nonviolence and human dignity effectively, providing an accessible introduction to his life and message.\nIts production values, costume design, and Kingsley's performance received worldwide critical acclaim. It became a commercial success, grossing $127.8 million on a $22 million budget. It received a leading eleven nominations at the 55th Academy Awards, winning eight, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor (for Kingsley). The British Film Institute ranked it as the 34th greatest British film of the 20th century. The American Film Institute ranked the film 29th on its list of most inspiring movies.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gandhi (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandhi_(film)", "revision": 1376813261, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376813261", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gandhi%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q213411", "text": "Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and co-produced by Robert Zemeckis, written by William Broyles Jr. and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on a deserted island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Filming took place from January to March 1999, and April to May 2000.\nCast Away was released on December 22, 2000, by 20th Century Fox in the United States and Canada and by DreamWorks Pictures through United International Pictures in other territories. It grossed $429.6 million worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2000. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the screenplay and Hanks's performance. Hanks won Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama at the 58th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the 73rd Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Cast Away", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cast_Away", "revision": 1377015357, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377015357", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cast%20Away&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q220741", "text": "City of God (Portuguese: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian epic crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund. The screenplay, written by Bráulio Mantovani, is adapted from the 1997 novel of the same name by Paulo Lins, though the plot is also loosely based on real events. The film portrays the rise of organized crime in the Cidade de Deus suburb of Rio de Janeiro between the late 1960s and early 1980s, culminating in a war between drug dealer Li'l Zé and vigilante-turned-criminal Knockout Ned. Its tagline is, \"If you run, the beast catches you; if you stay, the beast eats you.\"\nThe film features a cast including Alexandre Rodrigues, Leandro Firmino, Jonathan and Phellipe Haagensen, Douglas Silva, Daniel Zettel, Seu Jorge, and the film debut of Alice Braga. Most of the actors were actual residents of favelas such as Vidigal and Cidade de Deus itself.\nCity of God received widespread critical acclaim and earned four nominations at the 76th Academy Awards: Best Cinematography (César Charlone), Best Director (Meirelles), Best Film Editing (Daniel Rezende), and Best Adapted Screenplay (Mantovani). At the previous 75th Academy Awards, it was Brazil's submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film but was not selected as a finalist. In 2015, the Brazilian Film Critics Association (Abraccine) ranked City of God 8th on its list of the 100 greatest Brazilian films.\nFollowing the success of City of God, Meirelles and Lund created the City of Men TV series and its 2007 film adaptation. Both projects share some actors (notably leads Silva and Darlan Cunha) and the same setting as City of God.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "City of God (2002 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_God_(2002_film)", "revision": 1376047727, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376047727", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City%20of%20God%20(2002%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q151599", "text": "Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang, based on von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name (which was written as a treatment). It stars Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, and Brigitte Helm. Erich Pommer produced it in the Babelsberg Studio for Universum Film A.G. (UFA). Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre. Filming took place over 17 months in 1925–1926 at a cost of more than five million Reichsmarks, or the equivalent of about €21 million.\nMade in Germany during the Weimar period, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and follows the attempts of Freder, the wealthy son of the city master, and Maria, a saintly figure to the workers, to overcome the vast gulf separating the classes in their city and bring the workers together with Joh Fredersen, the city master. The film's message is encompassed in the final intertitle: \"The Mediator Between the Head and the Hands Must Be the Heart\".\nMetropolis met a mixed reception upon release. Critics found it visually beautiful and powerful – the film's art direction by Otto Hunte, Erich Kettelhut, and Karl Vollbrecht draws influence from opera, Bauhaus, Cubist, and Futurist design, along with touches of the Gothic in the scenes in the catacombs, the cathedral and Rotwang's house – and lauded its complex special effects, but accused its story of being naïve. H. G. Wells described the film as \"silly\", and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction calls the story \"trite\" and its politics \"ludicrously simplistic\". Its alleged communist message was also criticized.\nThe film's long running time also came in for criticism. It was cut substantially after its German premiere. Many attempts have been made since the 1970s to restore the film. In 1984, Italian music producer Giorgio Moroder released a truncated version with a soundtrack by rock artists including Freddie Mercury, Loverboy, Bonnie Tyler, and Adam Ant. In 2001, a new reconstruction of Metropolis was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. In 2008, a damaged print of Lang's original cut of the film was found in a museum in Argentina. Footage from this print and a second one archived in New Zealand was restored and re-integrated into the film, bringing it to within five minutes of its original running time. This version was shown on large screens in Berlin and Frankfurt simultaneously on 12 February 2010.\nMetropolis is now widely regarded as being one of the greatest and most influential films ever made, ranking 67th in Sight and Sound's 2022 critics' poll, and receiving general critical acclaim. In 2001, the film was inscribed on UNESCO's Memory of the World International Register, the first film thus distinguished.\nOn 1 January 2023, the film's American reserved copyright expired, and the film entered the public domain in the U.S.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Metropolis (1927 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)", "revision": 1377918408, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377918408", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Metropolis%20(1927%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q154581", "text": "Gangs of New York is a 2002 epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Jay Cocks, Steven Zaillian, and Kenneth Lonergan, based on Herbert Asbury's 1928 book The Gangs of New York. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Cameron Diaz, along with Jim Broadbent, John C. Reilly, Henry Thomas and Brendan Gleeson in supporting roles. The film also marks the start of a collaboration between DiCaprio and Scorsese.\nThe film is set from 1846 to 1863 when a long-running Catholic–Protestant feud erupts into violence, just as an Irish immigrant group is protesting the threat of conscription during the Civil War. Scorsese spent 20 years developing the project until Miramax Films acquired it in 1999. Principal photography took place in Cinecittà Studios in Rome, and Long Island City, New York City.\nGangs of New York was completed by 2001 but its release was delayed due to the September 11 attacks. The film was theatrically released in the United States on December 20, 2002, and grossed $193.8 million worldwide. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics, and Day-Lewis's performance was highly acclaimed. It received 10 nominations at the 75th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Scorsese, and Best Actor for Day-Lewis, but did not win in any category.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gangs of New York", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_of_New_York", "revision": 1377835261, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377835261", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gangs%20of%20New%20York&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1201853", "text": "Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Thor (2011) and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Alan Taylor from a screenplay by Christopher Yost and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander, Rene Russo, and Anthony Hopkins. In the film, Thor and Loki (Hiddleston) team up to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves.\nDevelopment of a sequel to Thor began in April 2011 when producer Kevin Feige announced plans for it to follow the MCU crossover film The Avengers (2012). In July, Thor director Kenneth Branagh withdrew from the sequel. Taylor was hired to replace him as director in January 2012. The supporting cast filled out that August with the hiring of Eccleston and Akinnuoye-Agbaje as the film's villains. Filming took place from September to December 2012, primarily in Surrey, England, as well as in Iceland and London. Taylor wanted the film to be more grounded than Thor, inspired by his work on Game of Thrones (2011–2019). He hired Carter Burwell to compose the score, but Marvel replaced Burwell with Brian Tyler.\nThor: The Dark World premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on October 22, 2013, and was released in the United States on November 8, as part of Phase Two of the MCU. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $644 million worldwide and becoming the tenth highest-grossing film of 2013. It received praise for the performances of Hemsworth and Hiddleston, visual effects, and action sequences, but was criticized for its generic villain and lack of depth. Retrospectively, Taylor expressed dissatisfaction with the film and said Marvel substantially altered it from his original vision during post-production. Two sequels have been released: Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and Thor: Love and Thunder (2022).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thor: The Dark World", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%3A_The_Dark_World", "revision": 1373392162, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373392162", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thor%3A%20The%20Dark%20World&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q186323", "text": "Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (known commonly as Borat, and stylized as BORДT) is a 2006 mockumentary black comedy film co-written by and starring Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat Sagdiyev, a fictional Kazakh journalist traveling through the United States. Much of the film features unscripted vignettes of Borat interviewing and interacting with real-life Americans who believe he is a foreigner with little or no understanding of the local customs. Borat is the second of five films built around Baron Cohen's characters from Da Ali G Show and Ali G Indahouse.\nBorat was released on 2 November 2006 by 20th Century Fox. The film received critical acclaim and made $262 million worldwide. Baron Cohen won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, while the film was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. Borat also received Academy Award and WGA Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. Controversy surrounded the film prior to its release, and after the film's release, some participants spoke against, and even sued, its creators. It was denounced by the Kazakh government and was banned in almost all Arab countries except for Lebanon, though it later was embraced by the Kazakh government in tourism campaigns. Borat has since been regarded as one of the greatest comedy films of the 2000s and 21st century.\nA sequel, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, followed in 2020.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Borat", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borat", "revision": 1377819817, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377819817", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Borat&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193695", "text": "The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, it was primarily directed by Victor Fleming, who left production to take over the troubled Gone with the Wind. The screenplay is credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, but includes contributions from other writers. The film stars Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Jack Haley, Bert Lahr, Billie Burke, and Margaret Hamilton. The music was composed by Harold Arlen and adapted by Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Edgar \"Yip\" Harburg.\nThe film is celebrated for its use of three-strip Technicolor, fantasy storytelling, musical score, and memorable characters. It was a critical success and was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning Best Original Song for \"Over the Rainbow\" and Best Original Score for Stothart; an Academy Juvenile Award was presented to Judy Garland. It was on a preliminary list of submissions from the studios for an Academy Award for Cinematography (Color) but was not nominated. While it was sufficiently popular at the box office, it failed to make a profit until its 1949 re-release, earning only $3 million on a $2.7 million budget, making it MGM's most expensive production at the time.\nThe 1956 television broadcast premiere of the film on CBS reintroduced it to the public. According to the U.S. Library of Congress, it is the most seen film in cinematic history. In the inaugural class of 1989, it was selected by the Library of Congress as one of the first 25 films for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". It is also one of the few films on UNESCO's Memory of the World international register. It was ranked second in Variety's inaugural 100 Greatest Movies of All Time list published in 2022. It was among the top ten in the 2005 British Film Institute (BFI) list of 50 Films to be Seen by the Age of 14 and is on the BFI's updated list of 50 Films to be Seen by the Age of 15 released in May 2020. It has become the source of many quotes referenced in contemporary popular culture. It frequently ranks on critics' lists of the greatest films in history and is the most commercially successful adaptation of Baum's work.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Wizard of Oz", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Oz", "revision": 1378466147, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378466147", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Wizard%20of%20Oz&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108297", "text": "Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas in the title role, a slave and gladiator who leads a rebellion against Rome during the events of the Third Servile War. Adapted by Dalton Trumbo from Howard Fast's 1951 novel of the same title, the film also stars Laurence Olivier as Roman general and politician Marcus Licinius Crassus, Charles Laughton as rival senator Sempronius Gracchus, Peter Ustinov as gladiatorial school owner Lentulus Batiatus, and John Gavin as Julius Caesar. Jean Simmons played Spartacus' wife Varinia, a fictional character, and Tony Curtis played the fictional slave Antoninus.\nDouglas, whose company Bryna Productions was producing the film, removed original director Anthony Mann after three weeks of shooting. Kubrick, with whom Douglas had made Paths of Glory (1957), took over as director. It was the only film directed by Kubrick where he did not have complete artistic control. Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo was blacklisted at the time as one of the Hollywood Ten. Douglas publicly announced that Trumbo was the screenwriter of Spartacus, and President John F. Kennedy crossed American Legion picket lines to view the film, helping to end blacklisting; Howard Fast's book had also been blacklisted and he had to self-publish the original edition.\nThe film won four Academy Awards (Best Supporting Actor for Ustinov, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) from six nominations. It also received six nominations at the Golden Globes, including Woody Strode’s only career Golden Globe nomination (for Best Supporting Actor), ultimately winning one (Best Motion Picture – Drama). At the time of the film’s release, it was the highest grossing film in Universal Studios' history, which it remained until it was surpassed by Airport (1970). In 2017, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spartacus (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus_(film)", "revision": 1375536891, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375536891", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spartacus%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132351", "text": "The Usual Suspects is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite.\nThe plot follows the interrogation of Roger \"Verbal\" Kint, a small-time con man, who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. Through flashback and narration, Kint tells an interrogator a convoluted story of events that led him and his criminal companions to the boat, and of a mysterious crime lord—known as Keyser Söze—who controlled them. The film was shot on a $6 million budget and began as a title taken from a column in Spy magazine called \"The Usual Suspects\", after one of Claude Rains' most memorable lines in the classic film Casablanca, and Singer thought that it would make a good title for a film.\nThe film was shown out of competition at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, and then initially released in a few theaters. It received favorable reviews and was eventually given a wider release. Praise went towards the mystery elements, screenplay, plot twist, and Spacey's performance. McQuarrie won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and Spacey won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance. In 2016, the Writers Guild of America ranked the film as having the 35th-greatest screenplay of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Usual Suspects", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Usual_Suspects", "revision": 1378219237, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378219237", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Usual%20Suspects&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207698", "text": "Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 historical drama film directed and produced by Ridley Scott and written by William Monahan. It features an ensemble cast including Edward Norton, Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas, and Liam Neeson.\nThe film is a portrayal of the events leading to the Third Crusade, focusing mainly on Balian of Ibelin who fights to defend the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem from the Ayyubid Sultan Saladin.\nFilming took place in Ouarzazate, Morocco, and in Spain, at the Loarre Castle (Huesca), Segovia, Ávila, Palma del Río, and Seville's Casa de Pilatos and Alcázar. The film was released on 6 May 2005 by 20th Century Fox and received mixed reviews upon theatrical release. A director's cut was released on 23 December 2005 and received a more positive feedback. It grossed $218 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Kingdom of Heaven (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Heaven_(film)", "revision": 1377517166, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377517166", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingdom%20of%20Heaven%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208269", "text": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a 2004 American science fiction romantic comedy-drama film directed by Michel Gondry and written by Charlie Kaufman from a story by Gondry, Kaufman, and Pierre Bismuth. It stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as a couple who undergo memory erasure after they break up. Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Tom Wilkinson appear in supporting roles. The title of the film is a quotation from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. It uses elements of psychological drama and science fiction and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and love.\nEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind premiered in Los Angeles on March 9, 2004, and was released in theaters in the United States by Focus Features on March 19, to widespread acclaim from critics, who praised the script and direction. The film was a box office success, grossing $72.9 million on a $20 million budget, and was named by the American Film Institute one of the Top 10 Films of 2004. At the 77th Academy Awards, Bismuth, Gondry and Kaufman won Best Original Screenplay, and Winslet received a nomination for Best Actress.\nThe film has been named by several publications as one of the greatest of the 21st century and gained a cult following. It inspired music projects such as Jay Electronica's 2007 piece \"Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)\", Jhené Aiko's 2014 track \"Spotless Mind\" and Ariana Grande's 2024 album Eternal Sunshine.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind", "revision": 1375098420, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375098420", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eternal%20Sunshine%20of%20the%20Spotless%20Mind&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q221202", "text": "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 American Christmas comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The sequel to Home Alone (1990) and the second installment in the Home Alone franchise, the film stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, Tim Curry, Brenda Fricker and Catherine O'Hara. The story follows Kevin McCallister as he is separated from his family on their flight to Miami, Florida and ends up in New York City. While initially enjoying his newfound experiences, Kevin soon encounters the Wet Bandits again after their escape from prison.\nHughes finished writing the film by February 1991, after signing a six-picture deal with 20th Century Fox. Culkin's return was confirmed in May and the rest of the cast was finalized soon after. Principal photography took place between December 1991 and May 1992 on location in Illinois and New York, including at Rockefeller Center and the original World Trade Center.\nHome Alone 2 was theatrically released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on November 20, 1992 to mixed reviews from critics. It grossed over $359 million worldwide, and became the third-highest-grossing film of 1992. Home Alone 2 is the only Home Alone sequel to feature the majority of the cast from the first film. Home Alone 3 (1997) featured a new cast and characters, and the television film Home Alone 4 (2002) recast returning characters from the first two films to new actors.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone_2%3A_Lost_in_New_York", "revision": 1378779574, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378779574", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home%20Alone%202%3A%20Lost%20in%20New%20York&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q229808", "text": "The Amazing Spider-Man is a 2012 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Directed by Marc Webb and written by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent, and Steve Kloves from a story by Vanderbilt, it is a reboot of the Spider-Man film series. It stars Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Denis Leary, Campbell Scott, Irrfan Khan, Martin Sheen, and Sally Field. The plot of the film follows the teenager Peter Parker (Garfield) who gains spider-like abilities and fights crime as Spider-Man, while also attempting to live an ordinary life.\nDevelopment of the film began in 2010 following the cancellation of Spider-Man 4, which would have been the fourth film in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man series starring Tobey Maguire. Columbia Pictures opted to reboot the franchise with the same production team, with Vanderbilt staying on to write, and Sargent and Kloves assisting with the script. Using the RED Epic camera, principal photography occurred in Los Angeles and New York City between December 2010 and May 2011. 3ality Technica provided 3D image processing, while Sony Pictures Imageworks handled CGI effects. It was the last film written by Sargent before his death in 2019.\nSony Pictures Entertainment promoted the film with a viral marketing campaign and tie-ins including a video game by Beenox and Activision. The Amazing Spider-Man premiered in Tokyo on June 13, 2012, and was released in 2D, 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX formats in the United States on July 3 by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $758.7 million worldwide, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2012. A sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, was released in 2014. In 2021, Garfield and Ifans reprised their roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: No Way Home, which explored the concept of the multiverse and linked the Spider-Man series directed by Jon Watts to the films directed by Webb and Raimi.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Amazing Spider-Man (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_(film)", "revision": 1378215367, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378215367", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q155476", "text": "The Fast and the Furious is a 2001 action film directed by Rob Cohen, and written by Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist, and David Ayer, based on the 1998 Vibe magazine article \"Racer X\" by Ken Li. The first installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, it stars Paul Walker, Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Rick Yune, Chad Lindberg, Johnny Strong, and Ted Levine. In the film, undercover cop Brian O'Conner (Walker) infiltrates a street racing crew to investigate a series of hijackings and finds himself developing a complex friendship with the group's leader, Dominic Toretto (Diesel). \nThe Fast and the Furious entered development in late 1998, its concept inspired by Li's 1998 Vibe article about the illegal street racing scene of New York City at the time. Thompson and Bergquist wrote the original screenplay that year, with Ayer hired soon after. Various actors were considered for the roles of O'Conner and Toretto, with Walker cast in 1998 and then Diesel in early 1999, with the pair attending actual street races in preparation for the film. A co-production between the United States and Germany, principal photography began in July 2000 and finished that October, with filming locations including Los Angeles and Southern California. Record producer BT was hired to compose the score.\nThe Fast and the Furious premiered at the Mann Village Theatre in Los Angeles on June 18, 2001, and was released in the United States on June 22, by Universal Pictures. Critics praised the action sequences and the performances but criticized its story; the film is considered Diesel's, Walker's, and Rodriguez's breakthrough roles. The Fast and the Furious grossed $212 million worldwide on a $38 million budget. The film's success spawned a franchise consisting of 9 sequels, a spin-off film, a TV series, and several video games. It was followed by 2 Fast 2 Furious in 2003.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Fast and the Furious (2001 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious_(2001_film)", "revision": 1376543382, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376543382", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Fast%20and%20the%20Furious%20(2001%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q486239", "text": "Saw is a 2004 American horror film directed by James Wan in his feature directorial debut, and written by Leigh Whannell, from a story by Wan and Whannell. It stars Whannell alongside Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, and Ken Leung. The film tells a nonlinear narrative revolving around the mystery of the Jigsaw Killer, who tests his victims' will to live by putting them through deadly \"games\" where they must inflict great physical pain upon themselves to survive. The frame story follows Jigsaw's latest victims (Whannell and Elwes), who awaken in a large, dilapidated bathroom, with one being ordered to kill the other to save his own family.\nThe film was originally written in 2001, but after failed attempts to get the script produced in Wan and Whannell's home country of Australia, they were urged to travel to Los Angeles. In order to help attract producers, they shot a low-budget short film of the same name from a scene out of the script. This proved successful in 2003 as producers were immediately attached and also formed a horror genre production label, Twisted Pictures. The film was given a small production budget and was shot in 18 days.\nSaw was first screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2004. Due to positive audience reception, Lions Gate Films picked up the distribution rights for the film. Originally planned for a straight-to-video release, they decided to instead release the film in theaters in North America on October 29, 2004. The film received mixed reviews from critics. After topping the opening weekend box office, the film would go on to gross $104 million worldwide to become one of the most profitable horror films since Scream (1996). The success of Saw launched a media franchise, including several sequels, video games, theme park rides, and merchandising. The first sequel, titled Saw II, was released the following year in October 2005.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Saw (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saw_(film)", "revision": 1373947560, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373947560", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saw%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q919649", "text": "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is a 2014 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro. It is based on the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. The sequel to 2013's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the film is the final instalment in The Hobbit trilogy, acting as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). The film's story concludes the adventure of the titular hobbit Bilbo Baggins and Thorin Oakenshield's company of dwarves, who take possession of the treasure within the Lonely Mountain as factions of dwarves, elves and men clash over it, while the orc Azog the Defiler and his forces make their move upon them.\nThe film stars Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly, Luke Evans, Lee Pace, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner, Dean O'Gorman, Billy Connolly, Graham McTavish, James Nesbitt, Stephen Fry, and Ryan Gage. The ensemble cast also features Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, and Orlando Bloom.\nThe Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies premiered in London on 1 December 2014, and was released on 11 December in New Zealand and on 17 December in the United States, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $962.2 million worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2014. It received numerous accolades, including being nominated for Best Sound Editing at the 87th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hobbit%3A_The_Battle_of_the_Five_Armies", "revision": 1377359063, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377359063", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hobbit%3A%20The%20Battle%20of%20the%20Five%20Armies&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20001199", "text": "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and the 15th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by James Gunn, the film stars an ensemble cast featuring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sylvester Stallone, and Kurt Russell. In the film, the Guardians travel throughout the cosmos as they help Peter Quill (Pratt) learn more about his mysterious parentage.\nThe film was officially announced at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con before the theatrical release of the first film, along with Gunn's return as writer and director from the first film, with the title of the sequel revealed a year later in June 2015. Principal photography began in February 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with many crew changes from the first film due to other commitments. Filming concluded in June 2016. Gunn chose to set the sequel shortly after the first film to explore the characters' new roles as the Guardians, and to follow the storyline of Quill's father established throughout that previous film. Russell was confirmed as Quill's father in July 2016, portraying Ego, a departure from Quill's comic father.\nGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 premiered in Tokyo on April 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on May 5, 2017, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. It grossed more than $869 million worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2017, while also outgrossing its predecessor. The film received praise for its visuals, direction, soundtrack, action sequences, humor, and performances, though some critics deemed it inferior to the original. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards. A sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, was released on May 5, 2023, preceded by the Disney+ special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special in November 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_of_the_Galaxy_Vol._2", "revision": 1378479415, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378479415", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guardians%20of%20the%20Galaxy%20Vol.%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131547207", "text": "The Odyssey is a 2026 epic action fantasy film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. An adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek epic poem the Odyssey, it stars an ensemble cast including Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron. In the film, Odysseus (Damon), the Greek king of Ithaca, undergoes a long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War and encounters mythical beings as he attempts to reunite with his wife, Penelope (Hathaway).\nNolan began writing the script in March 2024 and secured the project with Universal Pictures by October. The Odyssey was announced in December. Casting took place from late 2024 through early 2025, and Damon was confirmed for the lead role in February 2025. Nolan studied several translations of the Odyssey before deciding upon a realistic interpretation of Greek mythology, drawing inspiration from the epic historical films Andrei Rublev (1966) and Ran (1985), as well as the films of special effects artist Ray Harryhausen. Filming took place on location from February to August 2025 in Morocco, Greece, Italy, Scotland, Iceland, Western Sahara, and Malta, as well as at the Universal Studios Lot in Los Angeles. With an estimated budget of US$250 million, it is among the most expensive films of Nolan's career, and the first feature film to be shot entirely on IMAX's 70 mm film cameras.\nThe Odyssey premiered at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London on July 6, 2026, ahead of a theatrical release by Universal Pictures on July 17 in the United States and the United Kingdom. It was made available in IMAX and multiple premium large formats. The film received acclaim for its direction, performances, and set pieces, though some criticized Nolan's deviations from the source material. It has grossed US$1.770 billion worldwide, becoming Nolan's highest-grossing film, the second-highest-grossing film of 2026, the highest-grossing R-rated film ever, the highest-grossing film distributed by Universal, and the eleventh-highest grossing film of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Odyssey (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Odyssey_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378823849, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378823849", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Odyssey%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14320", "text": "The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich. Based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, the film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, in which a series of extreme weather events usher in climate change and lead to a new ice age. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.\nOriginally slated for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on May 28. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $552 million worldwide against a production budget of $125 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2004.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Day After Tomorrow", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow", "revision": 1377613771, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377613771", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Day%20After%20Tomorrow&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q172837", "text": "Bicycle Thieves (Italian: Ladri di biciclette), also known as The Bicycle Thief, is a 1948 Italian neorealist drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It follows the story of a poor father searching in post-World War II Rome for his stolen bicycle, without which he will lose the job which was to be the salvation of his young family.\nAdapted for the screen by Cesare Zavattini from the 1946 novel by Luigi Bartolini, and starring Lamberto Maggiorani as the desperate father and Enzo Staiola as his plucky young son, Bicycle Thieves received an Academy Honorary Award (most outstanding foreign language film) in 1950, and in 1952 was deemed the greatest film of all time by Sight & Sound magazine's poll of filmmakers and critics; fifty years later another poll organized by the same magazine ranked it sixth among the greatest-ever films. In the 2012 version of the list the film ranked 33rd among critics and 10th among directors.\nThe film was also cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the most influential films in cinema history, and is considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was voted number 3 on the prestigious Brussels 12 list at the 1958 World Expo, and number 4 in Empire magazine's \"The 100 Best Films of World Cinema\" in 2010. It was also included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that \"have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bicycle Thieves", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves", "revision": 1375256871, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375256871", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bicycle%20Thieves&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q188035", "text": "Apocalypto () is a 2006 epic historical action-adventure film produced and directed by Mel Gibson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Farhad Safinia. The film features a cast of Indigenous and Mexican actors consisting of Rudy Youngblood, Raoul Trujillo, Mayra Sérbulo, Dalia Hernández, Gerardo Taracena, Jonathan Brewer, Rodolfo Palacios, Bernardo Ruiz Juarez, Ammel Rodrigo Mendoza, Ricardo Diaz Mendoza, and Israel Contreras. Set in either Yucatán or Guatemala during the year 1502, Apocalypto portrays the hero's journey of a young man named Jaguar Paw, a late Mesoamerican hunter and his fellow tribesmen who are captured by an invading force. After a raid on their village, they are brought on a perilous journey to a Maya city for human sacrifice at a time when the Maya civilization is in decline.\nPrincipal photography took place in Mexico from November 21, 2005 to July 2006. All dialogue is in a modern approximation of the ancient language of the setting, and the Indigenous Yucatec Mayan language is spoken with subtitles, which sometimes refer to the language as Mayan.\nApocalypto was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution in North America and Icon Film Distribution in the United Kingdom and Australia. The film was released on December 8, 2006 and was a box office success, grossing over $120 million worldwide, and received generally positive reviews, with critics praising Gibson's direction, Dean Semler's cinematography, and the performances of the cast, though the portrayal of Maya civilization and perceived historical inaccuracies were criticized.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Apocalypto", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypto", "revision": 1378133786, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378133786", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apocalypto&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189600", "text": "The Matrix Reloaded is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the second installment in the Matrix film series and the sequel to The Matrix (1999). The film stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Gloria Foster, who reprise their roles from the previous film, with Jada Pinkett Smith joining the cast. In the film, Neo, Morpheus, and Trinity attempt to reach the Source of the Matrix to end the war as Zion prepares for an invasion from the machines.\nThe film premiered on May 7, 2003, in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, and had its worldwide release by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 15, 2003, including a screening out of competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. The video game Enter the Matrix and The Animatrix, a collection of short animations, supported and expanded the film's story.\nThe film received generally positive reviews, though most critics found it inferior to the first film. It grossed $741.8 million worldwide, breaking Terminator 2: Judgment Day's record for becoming the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time, until Deadpool surpassed it in 2016. In addition to being the highest-grossing film in the franchise, it was the third-highest-grossing film of 2003, behind The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King and Finding Nemo. A direct sequel titled The Matrix Revolutions was released six months later on November 5, 2003.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Matrix Reloaded", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Reloaded", "revision": 1377224594, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377224594", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Matrix%20Reloaded&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q190643", "text": "Platoon is a 1986 American epic anti-war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, and Charlie Sheen, with supporting roles by Forest Whitaker, Francesco Quinn, John C. McGinley, Richard Edson, Kevin Dillon, Keith David, Reggie Johnson, Johnny Depp, Mark Moses, Chris Pedersen and Tony Todd. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). The film, based on Stone's experience from the war, follows a new U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in South Vietnam while his platoon sergeant (Berenger) and his squad leader (Dafoe) argue over the morality in the platoon and of the war itself.\nStone wrote the screenplay based upon his experiences as a U.S. infantryman in South Vietnam, to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne's The Green Berets. Although he had written scripts for films such as Midnight Express and Scarface, Stone struggled to get the film developed until Hemdale Film Corporation acquired the project along with Salvador. Filming took place in the Philippines in February 1986 and lasted 54 days. Platoon was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War.\nPlatoon was released by Orion Pictures on December 19, 1986. Upon its release, Platoon received critical acclaim for Stone's directing and screenplay, cinematography, the battle sequences' realism, and the performances of Sheen, Dafoe, and Berenger. The film was a box office success upon its release, grossing over $138 million domestically against its $6 million budget, becoming the third highest-grossing domestic film of 1986. The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards at the 59th Academy Awards, and won four: Best Picture, Best Director for Stone, Best Sound, and Best Film Editing.\nPlatoon is considered by many critics to be one of the greatest films ever made, particularly within the war genre. In 1998, the American Film Institute placed Platoon at #83 in their \"AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies\" poll. In 2019, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Platoon (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platoon_(film)", "revision": 1377327763, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377327763", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Platoon%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q273978", "text": "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a 2000 wuxia film directed by Ang Lee and written for the screen by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. It is based on the Chinese novel of the same name, serialized between 1941 and 1942 by Wang Dulu, the fourth part of his Crane-Iron Series. It stars Chow Yun-fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen and Cheng Pei-pei in the leading roles. Set in 18th-century Imperial China, the plot follows two master warriors, Li Mu Bai (Chow) and Yu Shu Lien (Yeoh), who are faced with their greatest challenge when the treasured Green Destiny sword is stolen by the mysterious thief Jen Yu (Zhang).\nThe three producers credited with launching the project include Bill Kong, L.K. Hsu and Ang Lee. They represent two local companies, Edko Films Ltd (Hong Kong) and Zoom Hunt International Production Co Ltd (Taiwan). A multinational venture, the film was made with a budget of US$17 million, and was produced by Edko Films and Zoom Hunt Productions in collaboration with China Film Co-productions Corporation and Asian Union Film & Entertainment for Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia in association with Good Machine International. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on 18 May 2000, and was theatrically released in the United States on 8 December. With dialogue in Standard Chinese, subtitled for various markets, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a surprise international success, grossing $213.5 million worldwide. It grossed US$128 million in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing foreign produced film in American history. The film was the first non-English language film to break the $100 million mark in the United States.\nUniversally acclaimed by critics, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon won over 40 awards and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards in 2001, including Best Picture, and won Best Foreign Language Film, Best Art Direction, Best Original Score, and Best Cinematography, receiving the most nominations ever for a non-English-language film at the time; the record was later tied by Roma, and broken by Emilia Pérez. The film also won four BAFTAs and two Golden Globe Awards, each of them for Best Foreign Film. For retrospective years, Crouching Tiger is often cited as one of the finest wuxia films ever made and has been widely regarded as one of the greatest films of the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crouching_Tiger%2C_Hidden_Dragon", "revision": 1378217686, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378217686", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crouching%20Tiger%2C%20Hidden%20Dragon&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200396", "text": "Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 period mystery action film starring Robert Downey Jr. as the character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey, and Dan Lin. The screenplay written by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham, and Simon Kinberg was developed from a story by Wigram and Johnson. In addition to Downey as Holmes, Jude Law portrays Dr. John Watson. The film, set in 1890, follows eccentric detective Holmes and his companion Watson investigating the crimes of Lord Blackwood, a mysticist who has seemingly risen from the dead. Rachel McAdams stars as Holmes's former adversary Irene Adler and Mark Strong portrays villain Lord Henry Blackwood.\nSherlock Holmes was wide released in theatres by Warner Bros. Pictures on 25—26 December 2009. It received mostly positive reviews from film critics, and grossed $525 million worldwide, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2009. Downey won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. The film was also nominated for two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and Best Art Direction. A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, was released in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_(2009_film)", "revision": 1373699297, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373699297", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherlock%20Holmes%20(2009%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200804", "text": "Predator is a 1987 American science fiction action horror film directed by John McTiernan and written by brothers Jim and John Thomas. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the leader of a paramilitary rescue team on a mission to save hostages in a Central American rainforest, who encounters a deadly Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a skilled and technologically advanced extraterrestrial that stalks and hunts down his team. The film also features Elpidia Carrillo, Carl Weathers, Richard Chaves, Sonny Landham, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura and Shane Black.\nPredator was written in 1984 with a working title of Hunter. Filming ran from March to June 1986 with creature effects devised by Stan Winston and a budget of around $15 million. 20th Century Fox released the film on June 12, 1987, in the United States of America, and it grossed $98 million worldwide. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film has since been considered a classic of action and science fiction genres and one of the best films of the 1980s, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.\nThe success of Predator inspired a media franchise of films, novels, comic books, video games, and toys. It spawned six additional films: Predator 2 (1990), Predators (2010), The Predator (2018), Prey (2022), Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) and Predator: Badlands (2025).\nThe Predator franchise had a crossover with the Alien franchise which produced the Alien vs. Predator film series: Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). The character Dutch made his return in the video games Alien vs. Predator (1994) and Predator: Hunting Grounds (2020), with Schwarzenegger reprising his role in the latter.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Predator (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_(film)", "revision": 1378613409, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378613409", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Predator%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q202548", "text": "Vertigo is a 1958 American psychological thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Boileau-Narcejac, with a screenplay by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as a former San Francisco police detective who has retired after an incident in the line of duty caused him to develop an extreme fear of heights, accompanied by vertigo. He is hired as a private investigator to report on the strange behavior of an acquaintance's wife (Kim Novak).\nThe film was shot on location in San Francisco, as well as in Mission San Juan Bautista, Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Cypress Point on 17-Mile Drive, and at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. The film stock of the VistaVision camera negative was Eastman 25 ASA tungsten-balanced 5248 with processing and prints by Technicolor. It was the first film to use the dolly zoom, an in-camera effect that distorts perspective to create disorientation, to convey Scottie's acrophobia; the technique is often referred to as \"the Vertigo effect\" in reference to its use in the film. In 1996, the film underwent a major restoration to create a new 70 mm print and DTS soundtrack.\nVertigo received mixed reviews on release, but it has since come to be considered Hitchcock's magnum opus and one of the greatest films of all time. In 1989, it was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film appears repeatedly in polls of the best films by the American Film Institute, including a 2007 ranking as the ninth-greatest American film ever. Attracting significant scholarly attention, it replaced Citizen Kane as the greatest film ever made in the 2012 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll, and came in second place in the 2022 edition of the poll.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Vertigo (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(film)", "revision": 1374878817, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374878817", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vertigo%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q218235", "text": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 2005 musical fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by John August, based on the 1964 children's novel of the same name by Roald Dahl. The film stars Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka and Freddie Highmore as Charlie Bucket, alongside David Kelly, Helena Bonham Carter, Noah Taylor, Missi Pyle, James Fox, Deep Roy, and Christopher Lee. The storyline follows Charlie as he wins a contest along with four other children and is led by Wonka on a tour of his chocolate factory.\nDevelopment for a second adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory began in 1991, which resulted in Warner Bros. Pictures providing the Dahl estate with total artistic control. Prior to Burton's involvement, multiple directors and actors were either in discussion with or considered by the studio to play Wonka. Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp and Danny Elfman aboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory represents the first musical film directed by Burton and the first time since 1993's The Nightmare Before Christmas that Elfman contributed to a film score using written songs and his vocals.\nFilming took place from June to December 2004 at Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom. Inspired by the book's emphasis on texture, Burton primarily used built sets and practical effects rather than computer-generated environments. Wonka's Chocolate Room was constructed on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, complete with a faux chocolate waterfall and river. Squirrels were trained from birth for Veruca Salt's elimination from the tour. Actor Deep Roy performed each Oompa-Loompa individually rather than one performance duplicated digitally. Burton shot the film simultaneously alongside the stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride, which he also directed.\nWilly Wonka-themed chocolate bars were sold, and a Golden Ticket contest was launched as part of the film's marketing campaign. Early plans to promote the film with a Broadway theatre musical were not realized. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory premiered on July 10, 2005, and was released in the United States on July 15 to positive critical reviews, which commended it for its visual appeal and dark tone. It was a box office success, grossing US$475 million and becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film worldwide in 2005. The film received a nomination for Best Costume Design at the 78th Academy Awards, while Depp was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Musical or Comedy. It is Tim Burton's second-highest-grossing film to date.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_and_the_Chocolate_Factory_(film)", "revision": 1376028922, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376028922", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charlie%20and%20the%20Chocolate%20Factory%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q219421", "text": "The Mask is a 1994 superhero slapstick comedy film loosely based on the 1991 comic book series by John Arcudi and Doug Mahnke. Directed by Chuck Russell and written by Mike Werb, the film stars Jim Carrey in the title role, along with Peter Riegert, Peter Greene, Amy Yasbeck, Richard Jeni, and Cameron Diaz. The plot follows Stanley Ipkiss (Carrey), a hapless and timid bank teller who discovers an enchanted mask that transforms him into a green-faced wisecracking trickster with the ability to cartoonishly alter himself and his surroundings at will. It is the first film in the Mask franchise.\nPrincipal photography began in Los Angeles on August 30, 1993, and concluded in October. The film marked the acting debut of Diaz, who had been a model with no prior acting experience, while Carrey, who was starring on the sketch comedy series In Living Color and had just completed filming on Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), was virtually unknown at the time. Their casting led to disputes with New Line Cinema executives, who expressed concern that the film would be unsuccessful without well-established actors, but the studio ultimately relented after Russell reassured them that Carrey and Diaz were the right choices.\nThe Mask was theatrically released in the United States on July 29, 1994, to positive reviews from critics. The film was a commercial success, grossing $351.8 million against a production budget of $18–23 million, and became the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1994. It also contributed to the resurgence of swing music in the 1990s. \nCarrey received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 52nd Golden Globe Awards, while the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects at the 67th Academy Awards. A standalone sequel, Son of the Mask, was released in 2005 without Carrey's involvement.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Mask (1994 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mask_(1994_film)", "revision": 1378326601, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378326601", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mask%20(1994%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q230552", "text": "Back to the Future Part III is a 1990 American science fiction Western film directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Thomas F. Wilson, and Lea Thompson. It is the sequel to Back to the Future Part II (1989) and the third installment of the Back to the Future trilogy. \nThe story continues immediately after the previous film; while stranded in 1955 during his time travel adventures, Marty McFly (Fox) discovers that his friend Dr. Emmett \"Doc\" Brown (Lloyd) is trapped in 1885 and was killed by Biff's great-grandfather Buford \"Mad Dog\" Tannen (Wilson). Marty travels to 1885 with the intent of rescuing Doc and then returning to 1985, but matters are complicated when Doc falls in love with Clara Clayton (Steenburgen). It was filmed in California and Arizona, and was produced on a $40 million budget back-to-back with Part II. \nBack to the Future Part III was released in the United States on May 25, 1990, six months after the previous installment, and grossed $245 million worldwide during its initial run, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1990. The film received a positive response from critics, who noted it as an improvement over Part II.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Back to the Future Part III", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_III", "revision": 1378594873, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378594873", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back%20to%20the%20Future%20Part%20III&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q4254026", "text": "The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (internationally titled as The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro) is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. The sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man (2012), it was directed by Marc Webb and written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, and Jeff Pinkner from a story by Kurtzman, Orci, Pinkner and James Vanderbilt. Andrew Garfield stars as Peter Parker / Spider-Man, alongside Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti and Sally Field. In the film, Peter tries to protect his girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, as he investigates his parents' death while also encountering the supervillain Electro and his childhood friend Harry Osborn.\nDevelopment of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 began after the success of The Amazing Spider-Man. DeHaan, Giamatti, Felicity Jones, and Chris Cooper were cast between December 2012 and February 2013. Filming took place in New York City from February to June 2013. The film was released in 2D, 3D, RealD 3D, and IMAX 3D on May 2, 2014 in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label, with two international premieres being held between March 31 and April 10 of that year. The film grossed $717 million worldwide, making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2014.\nThe Amazing Spider-Man film series was originally intended to continue with at least two more sequels, as well as several spin-off films featuring other characters. In February 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios initiated a deal to share the Spider-Man film rights and reboot the character within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), cancelling future projects in the Amazing Spider-Man series. Tom Holland succeeded Garfield as Peter Parker / Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War (2016) before leading a new series of Spider-Man films set in the MCU, beginning with Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). Both Garfield and Foxx reprised their roles in Holland's third film, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), which linked the Amazing Spider-Man films to the MCU using the concept of the multiverse.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Amazing Spider-Man 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Spider-Man_2", "revision": 1377693560, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377693560", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Amazing%20Spider-Man%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18199330", "text": "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a 2016 fantasy film directed by David Yates and written by J. K. Rowling in her debut as a screenwriter. It is the first instalment in the Fantastic Beasts film series and the ninth overall in the Wizarding World franchise, serving as a spin-off of and prequel to the Harry Potter film series. Newt Scamander's guide book of the same name—written by Rowling under the pen name in 2001 for the charity Comic Relief—inspired the film. It features an ensemble cast including Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Ezra Miller, Samantha Morton, Jon Voight, Carmen Ejogo, Ron Perlman and Colin Farrell.\nA new Wizarding World film series was first announced in September 2013, two years after the final Harry Potter film—Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2—was released. The following month, it was also announced that producer David Heyman and writer Steve Kloves, who were both Potter film franchise veterans, will return in the new film series. In August 2014, Warner Bros. announced that Yates would direct at least one film of the planned trilogy, after rumors in which Alfonso Cuarón would direct, of which he refuted three months earlier. Filming took place from August 2015 to January 2016, at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, and also on location in England.\nFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them premiered at Alice Tully Hall in New York City on 10 November 2016, and was released in theatres in the United States and in the United Kingdom on 18 November, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and emerged a commercial success, grossing $814 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2016. It received five nominations at the 70th British Academy Film Awards, including Best British Film, and won for Best Production Design. The film was also nominated for two awards at the 89th Academy Awards and won for Best Costume Design, becoming the first Wizarding World film to win an Academy Award. Two sequels—Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) and Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022)—have been released.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Beasts_and_Where_to_Find_Them_(film)", "revision": 1376452868, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376452868", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fantastic%20Beasts%20and%20Where%20to%20Find%20Them%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18604504", "text": "Suicide Squad is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics anti-hero team the Suicide Squad. It is the third installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Written and directed by David Ayer, it stars an ensemble cast including Will Smith, Jared Leto, Margot Robbie, Joel Kinnaman, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Jay Hernandez, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ike Barinholtz, Scott Eastwood, and Cara Delevingne. In the film, a secret government agency led by Amanda Waller recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions and save the world from a powerful threat in exchange for reduced sentences.\nBy February 2009, a Suicide Squad film was in development at Warner Bros. Ayer signed on to write and direct in September 2014, and by October the casting process had begun. Principal photography began in Toronto on April 13, 2015, with additional filming in Chicago, and ended in August that year.\nSuicide Squad premiered in New York City on August 1, 2016, and was released in the United States on August 5 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was a box office success, grossing $749 million on a budget of $175 million, becoming the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2016, but received mostly negative reviews from critics. Ayer himself disowned the film after its release, claiming that extensive studio interference had ruined his vision. It won an Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling at the 89th Academy Awards, making it the only DCEU film to have won an Academy Award, and received numerous other accolades. It was followed by a spin-off film, Birds of Prey (2020), and a sequel, The Suicide Squad (2021).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Suicide Squad (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_Squad_(2016_film)", "revision": 1378251921, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378251921", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suicide%20Squad%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20382729", "text": "Arrival is a 2016 American science fiction drama film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Eric Heisserer, based on the 1998 novella \"Story of Your Life\" by Ted Chiang. The film stars Amy Adams as Louise Banks, a linguist engaged by the United States Army to discover how to communicate with extraterrestrials who have arrived on Earth, before tensions lead to war. Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, and Michael Stuhlbarg appear in supporting roles.\nArrival had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, 2016, and was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 11, 2016. It grossed $213 million worldwide and received widespread acclaim with praise directed towards Adams's performance, Villeneuve's direction, and the exploration of communication with extraterrestrial intelligence. Considered one of the best films of 2016, Arrival appeared on numerous critics' year-end lists and was selected by the American Film Institute as one of ten \"Movies of the Year\".\nIt received eight nominations at the 89th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Cinematography, and Best Adapted Screenplay, winning Best Sound Editing. For her performance, Adams received nominations for a BAFTA, SAG, Critics' Choice; at the 74th Golden Globe Awards, Adams was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and Jóhann Jóhannsson was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. The film was awarded the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 2017. The score by Jóhannsson was nominated for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media at the 60th Grammy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Arrival (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)", "revision": 1377517038, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377517038", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arrival%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q29054009", "text": "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is a 2003 science fiction action film, the third installment in the Terminator franchise and a sequel to Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). It was directed by Jonathan Mostow and stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Nick Stahl, Claire Danes, and Kristanna Loken. In its plot, the malevolent artificial intelligence Skynet sends a T-X (Loken)—a highly advanced Terminator—back in time to ensure the rise of machines by killing top members of the future human resistance as John Connor's (Stahl) location is unknown. The resistance sends back a reprogrammed T-850 (Schwarzenegger) to protect John and his future wife, Kate Brewster (Danes).\nWhile Terminator creator James Cameron was interested in directing the third film, he ultimately had no involvement with Terminator 3. Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar, who had produced Terminator 2: Judgment Day through their company Carolco Pictures, obtained the rights for the franchise through both Carolco's liquidation auction and negotiations with producer Gale Ann Hurd. In 1999, Tedi Sarafian was hired to write the first draft of the script. Mostow joined the project as director in 2001, and he brought on John Brancato and Michael Ferris to rewrite Sarafian's script. The $187 million budget included a $5 million salary for Mostow and a record $30 million salary for Schwarzenegger. Filming took place in California from April to September 2002. Industrial Light & Magic and Stan Winston created the special effects, as they did for the previous film.\nTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, on June 30, 2003, and was released on July 2, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures in North America. The film was rolled out overseas throughout the next few months, with Columbia Pictures overseeing the bulk of the international distribution. It received generally positive reviews and earned $433.4 million worldwide, finishing its theatrical run as the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2003. The film was also used to mark Schwarzenegger's formal entry into politics, having been speculated to be a vehicle for his 2003 gubernatorial run. A sequel, Terminator Salvation, was released in 2009.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_3%3A_Rise_of_the_Machines", "revision": 1377745930, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377745930", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminator%203%3A%20Rise%20of%20the%20Machines&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q175038", "text": "12 Monkeys is a 1995 science fiction thriller film directed by Terry Gilliam from a screenplay by David Peoples and Janet Peoples, based on Chris Marker's 1962 short film La Jetée. It stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, and Christopher Plummer. Set in a post-apocalyptic future devastated by disease, the film follows a convict who is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. It’s an international co-production between the United Kingdom, France, Japan, the United States and Germany.\nThe film was theatrically released in the United States on December 29, 1995, by Universal Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $168.8 million worldwide against a $29 million budget. At the 68th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Supporting Actor (for Pitt) and Best Costume Design. It garnered seven nominations at the 22nd Saturn Awards, winning three: Best Science Fiction Film, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Costumes. Pitt also won Best Supporting Actor at the 53rd Golden Globe Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "12 Monkeys", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Monkeys", "revision": 1378684328, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378684328", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=12%20Monkeys&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q182373", "text": "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is a 2008 American action adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg, and written by David Koepp. It is the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones film series and a sequel to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Set in 1957, it pits Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) against Soviet KGB agents led by Irina Spalko (Cate Blanchett) searching for a telepathic crystal skull located in Peru.\nJones is aided by his former lover, Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen), and their son, Mutt Williams (Shia LaBeouf). The supporting cast includes Ray Winstone, John Hurt, and Jim Broadbent.\nJeb Stuart, Jeffrey Boam, Frank Darabont, Lucas, and Nathanson wrote drafts before Koepp's script satisfied the producers. The filmmakers intended to pay tribute to the science fiction B movies in the 1950s. Shooting began on June 18, 2007, at various locations in New Mexico, New Haven, Connecticut, Hawaii, and Fresno, California, as well as on sound stages in Los Angeles. To maintain aesthetic continuity with the previous films, the crew relied on traditional stunt work instead of computer-generated stunt doubles, and cinematographer Janusz Kamiński studied Douglas Slocombe's style from the previous films.\nIndiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull had its premiere at the 61st Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2008, and was released in the United States on May 22, by Paramount Pictures. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a financial success, grossing $786.6 million and becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2008. A sequel, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, was released in 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_the_Kingdom_of_the_Crystal_Skull", "revision": 1369593787, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369593787", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Indiana%20Jones%20and%20the%20Kingdom%20of%20the%20Crystal%20Skull&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q192686", "text": "Prometheus is a 2012 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Jon Spaihts and Damon Lindelof. It is the fifth installment of the Alien film series and features an ensemble cast including Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Idris Elba, Logan Marshall-Green, and Charlize Theron. Set in the late 21st century, the film centers on the crew of the spaceship Prometheus as it follows a star map discovered among the artifacts of several ancient Earth cultures. Seeking the origins of humanity, the crew arrives on a distant world and discovers a threat that could cause human extinction.\nScott and director James Cameron developed ideas for a film that would serve as a prequel to Scott's science-fiction horror film Alien (1979). In 2002, the development of Alien vs. Predator (2004) took precedence, and the project remained dormant until 2009 when Scott again showed interest. Spaihts wrote a script for a prequel to the events of the Alien films, but Scott opted for a different direction to avoid repeating cues from those films. In late 2010, Lindelof joined the project to rewrite Spaihts' script, and he and Scott developed a story that precedes the story of Alien but is not directly connected to the original series. According to Scott, although the film shares \"strands of Alien's DNA,\" and takes place in the same universe, Prometheus explores its own mythology and ideas.\nPrometheus entered production in April 2010, with extensive design phases during which the technology and creatures that the film required were developed. Principal photography began in March 2011, with an estimated $120–130 million budget. The film was shot using 3D cameras throughout, almost entirely on practical sets, and on location in England, Iceland, Scotland, Jordan, and Spain. It was promoted with a marketing campaign that included viral activities on the web. Three videos featuring the film's leading actors in character, which expanded on elements of the fictional universe, were released and met with a generally positive reception and awards.\nPrometheus was released on June 1, 2012, in the United Kingdom and on June 8, 2012, in North America. The film earned generally positive reviews, receiving praise for the designs, production values, and cast performances. The film grossed over $403 million worldwide. A sequel, Alien: Covenant, was released in May 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Prometheus (2012 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)", "revision": 1378704870, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378704870", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prometheus%20(2012%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q59653", "text": "Argo is a 2012 American historical political espionage drama thriller film directed by, produced by, and starring Ben Affleck. The screenplay, written by Chris Terrio, was adapted from the 1999 memoir The Master of Disguise by U.S. C.I.A. operative Tony Mendez and the 2007 Wired article \"The Great Escape: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran\" written by Joshuah Bearman. The film deals with the \"Canadian Caper\", in which Mendez led the rescue of six U.S. diplomats from Tehran, Iran, under the guise of filming a science-fiction film during the 1979–81 Iran hostage crisis. The film, which also has Bryan Cranston, Alan Arkin, and John Goodman in supporting roles, was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on October 12, 2012. It was produced by Affleck, Grant Heslov and George Clooney.\nArgo became a box office success, grossing $232 million worldwide, and receiving widespread critical acclaim for the acting, Affleck's direction, Terrio's screenplay, the editing, and Desplat's score. Commentators and participants in the actual operation criticized flaws in historical accuracy. The film received seven nominations at the 85th Academy Awards and won three, for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Film Editing.\nThe film also earned five Golden Globe Award nominations; it won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director, and Alan Arkin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. It won Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 19th Screen Actors Guild Awards and Arkin was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role. It also won: Best Film, Best Editing and Best Director at the 66th British Academy Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards for Best Screenplay and 37th Hochi Film Award for Best International Picture.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Argo (2012 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argo_(2012_film)", "revision": 1375410050, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375410050", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Argo%20(2012%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q76479", "text": "A Fistful of Dollars (Italian: Per un pugno di dollari, \"For a Fistful of Dollars\") is a 1964 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, alongside Gian Maria Volonté, Marianne Koch, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp, José Calvo, Antonio Prieto and Joseph Egger. The film, an international co-production between Italy, West Germany and Spain, was filmed on a low budget (reported to be US$200,000), and Eastwood was paid $15,000 for his role.\nReleased in Italy in 1964 and in the United States in 1967, the film initiated the popularity of the spaghetti Western genre. It is considered a landmark in cinema and one of the greatest and most influential films of all time. It was followed by For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, both also starring Eastwood. Collectively, these three films became known as the Dollars Trilogy, or the Man with No Name Trilogy, after the United Artists publicity campaign referred to Eastwood's characters in all three films as the \"Man with No Name\". All three films were released in sequence in the United States in 1967, making Eastwood a national celebrity.\nThe film has been identified as an unofficial remake of the Akira Kurosawa film Yojimbo (1961), which resulted in a successful lawsuit by Toho, Yojimbo's production company. Kurosawa wrote to Leone directly, saying, \"Signor Leone, I have just had the chance to see your film. It is a very fine film, but it is my film. Since Japan is a signatory of the Berne Convention on the international copyright, you must pay me.\" He and Toho received 15 percent of the film's revenue. Kurosawa earned more money from this settlement than from Yojimbo.\nFew spaghetti Westerns had been released in the United States at the time, so many of the European cast and crew adopted American-sounding stage names. These included Leone (\"Bob Robertson\"), Gian Maria Volonté (\"Johnny Wels\") and the composer, Ennio Morricone (\"Dan Savio\"). A Fistful of Dollars was shot in Spain, mostly near Hoyo de Manzanares close to Madrid, but also (like its two sequels) in the Tabernas Desert and in the Cabo de Gata-Níjar Natural Park, both in the Province of Almería.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Fistful of Dollars", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fistful_of_Dollars", "revision": 1373944627, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373944627", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Fistful%20of%20Dollars&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106440", "text": "Goldfinger is a 1964 spy film and the third instalment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the 1959 novel by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman, Gert Fröbe and Shirley Eaton. Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman. The film was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton.\nThe plot has Bond investigating the gold magnate Auric Goldfinger, who plans to irradiate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox with a dirty bomb. Goldfinger was the first Bond film to take over $100 million, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Principal photography took place from January to July 1964 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States.\nGoldfinger was heralded as the film in the franchise where James Bond \"comes into focus\". Many elements introduced in it appeared in many of the later Bond films, such as the extensive use of technology and gadgets by Bond, an extensive pre-credits sequence that stood largely alone from the main plot, multiple foreign locales and tongue-in-cheek humour. The film's release led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys, which became the biggest-selling toy of 1964, and an image of the gold-painted Eaton on the cover of Life.\nGoldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Academy Award (for Best Sound Editing) and opened to largely favourable critical reception. The film was a financial success, recouping its budget in two weeks and grossing over $120 million worldwide. In 1999, it was ranked 70th on the BFI Top 100 British films list. Goldfinger was followed by Thunderball in 1965.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Goldfinger (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfinger_(film)", "revision": 1377005426, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377005426", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Goldfinger%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116852", "text": "Batman is a 1989 superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Sam Hamm and Warren Skaaren. Based on the DC Comics character, it is the first installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series. The film stars Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, and Jack Palance. The film's score was composed by Danny Elfman, and songs were written by Prince. The film takes place early in the war on crime of the title character (Keaton) and depicts his conflict with his archenemy the Joker (Nicholson).\nAfter Burton was hired as director in 1986, Steve Englehart and Julie Hickson wrote film treatments before Hamm wrote the first screenplay. Batman was not greenlit until after the success of Burton's Beetlejuice (1988). The tone and themes of the film were partly influenced by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland's The Killing Joke and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. The film primarily adapts and then diverges from the \"Red Hood\" origin story for the Joker, having Batman inadvertently cause gangster Jack Napier to fall into Axis Chemical acid, triggering his transformation into the psychotic Joker. Additionally, Batman co-creator Bob Kane worked as a consultant for the film.\nNumerous leading men were considered for the role of Batman before Keaton was cast. Keaton's casting was controversial since, by 1988, he had become typecast as a comedic actor and many observers had doubt he could portray a serious role. Nicholson accepted the role of the Joker under strict conditions that dictated top billing, a portion of the film's earnings (including associated merchandise), and his own shooting schedule. Filming took place at Pinewood Studios from October 1988 to January 1989. The budget escalated from $30 million to $48 million, while the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike forced Hamm to drop out. Skaaren did rewrites, with additional uncredited drafts done by Charles McKeown and Jonathan Gems.\nBatman was both critically and financially successful, earning over $400 million in box office totals. Critics and audiences particularly praised Nicholson and Keaton's performances, Burton's direction, the production design, and composer Elfman's score. It was the sixth-highest-grossing film in history at the time of its release. The film received several Saturn Award nominations and a Golden Globe nomination for Nicholson's performance, and won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.\nThe film was followed by three sequels: Batman Returns (1992), with both Burton and Keaton returning; Batman Forever (1995), with Joel Schumacher directing and Val Kilmer in the lead role; and Batman & Robin (1997), which featured George Clooney in the role. Keaton would later reprise the role of Batman in the DC Extended Universe film The Flash (2023). The film also led to the development of Batman: The Animated Series (1992–1995), which in turn began the DC Animated Universe of spin-off media, and has influenced Hollywood's modern marketing and development techniques of the superhero film genre. Two sequel novels were written by John Jackson Miller, Batman: Resurrection (2024) and Batman: Revolution (2025).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Batman (1989 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(1989_film)", "revision": 1375638728, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375638728", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman%20(1989%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200873", "text": "The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a 1997 American science fiction action film directed by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp. It is the second film in the Jurassic Park franchise and the original Jurassic Park trilogy, and is loosely based on Michael Crichton's 1995 novel The Lost World. Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards reprise their roles from the original film with Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn and Arliss Howard joining the cast.\nFour years after the original film, John Hammond (Attenborough) loses control of his company InGen to his nephew, Peter Ludlow (Howard). On the verge of bankruptcy, Ludlow intends to exploit dinosaurs from InGen's second island, Isla Sorna with plans for a new dinosaur theme park in San Diego. Hammond sends a team, led by the eccentric chaos theorist and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Goldblum), to the island to document the dinosaurs and encourage non-interference, although the two groups eventually come into conflict.\nAfter the original novel's release and the first film's success, fans pressured Crichton for a sequel. Following the book's publication in 1995, production began on a film sequel. Filming took place from September to December 1996, primarily in California with a shoot in Kauai, Hawaii, where the first film was shot. The Lost World's plot and imagery is substantially darker than Jurassic Park. It makes more extensive use of CGI to depict the dinosaurs, along with life-sized animatronics.\nAmong the most anticipated films of the year, The Lost World was accompanied by a $250 million marketing campaign, which included video games, comic books, and toys. Released on May 23, 1997 by Universal Pictures, the film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the action set pieces and visual effects but criticized the character development and the film, ever since its original 1997 release, has been compared unfavorably with many other Spielberg-directed films (including the 1993 original film) with a small number of critics even believing it to be Spielberg's worst film effort as a director. Spielberg also expressed disappointment with the film, stating he had become increasingly disenchanted with it during production. It grossed $618.6 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1997 (behind Titanic) and was nominated for numerous awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects but lost the award to Titanic. A sequel, Jurassic Park III, was released in 2001. Goldblum later reprised his role as Malcolm in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lost World: Jurassic Park", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_World%3A_Jurassic_Park", "revision": 1378784398, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378784398", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lost%20World%3A%20Jurassic%20Park&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201924", "text": "The Aviator is a 2004 epic biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by John Logan. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn, and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast includes John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Alan Alda and Jude Law.\nThe film depicts the life of Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer and director of the film Hell's Angels (1930). The film portrays his life from 1927 to 1947, when Hughes became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD).\nFilmed in Montreal, The Aviator was released in the United States on December 25, 2004, to positive reviews. It grossed $214 million on a budget of $110 million, thus emerging as a moderate commercial success at the box office.\nThe Aviator received a leading 11 nominations at the 77th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (for Scorsese), Best Actor (for DiCaprio), and Best Supporting Actor (for Alda), and won a leading 5 awards, including Best Supporting Actress (for Blanchett). At the 58th British Academy Film Awards, it received a leading 14 nominations, including Best Director, Best Actor in a Leading Role (for DiCaprio) and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (for Alda), and won a leading 4 awards, including Best Film and Best Actress in a Supporting Role (for Blanchett). It received 6 nominations at the 62nd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Director and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (for Blanchett), and won a leading 3 awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (for DiCaprio). The film also received 3 nominations at the 11th Screen Actors Guild Awards, including Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role (for DiCaprio), winning Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (for Blanchett).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Aviator (2004 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aviator_(2004_film)", "revision": 1377257109, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377257109", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Aviator%20(2004%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207130", "text": "The Last Samurai is a 2003 American epic period action drama film directed and produced by Edward Zwick, who also co-wrote the screenplay with John Logan and Marshall Herskovitz from a story devised by Logan. The film stars Tom Cruise, who also produced, along with Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada, and Koyuki Kato in supporting roles.\nThe film's plot was inspired by the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, led by Saigō Takamori, and the Westernization of Japan by foreign powers.\nCruise portrays Nathan Algren, an American captain of the 7th Cavalry Regiment, whose personal and emotional conflicts bring him into contact with samurai warriors in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 19th century Japan. The character of Algren is very loosely based on Eugène Collache and Jules Brunet, both French Imperial Guard officers who fought alongside Enomoto Takeaki in the earlier Boshin War.\nThe Last Samurai premiered in Tokyo on November 20, 2003 before being released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 5, 2003. The film grossed a total of $456.8 million at the box office and became the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2003. It received mixed-to-positive reviews, with praise for the acting, visuals, cinematography and Hans Zimmer's score, but criticism for some of its portrayals. It was nominated for several awards, including four Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and two National Board of Review Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Last Samurai", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Samurai", "revision": 1378187075, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378187075", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Last%20Samurai&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207536", "text": "The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 American science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis. It is the third installment in The Matrix film series, shot back-to-back with The Matrix Reloaded (2003). It stars Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving and Jada Pinkett Smith. The film follows Neo and his allies as they fight to end the war between humanity and the machines permanently while opposing the rogue Agent Smith. \nThe Matrix Revolutions was released worldwide on November 5, 2003, by Warner Bros. Pictures, and was the first live-action feature film to be released in both regular and IMAX theaters simultaneously. Like its predecessor, the video game Enter the Matrix and The Animatrix, a collection of short animations, supported and expanded the film's story. It grossed $427.3 million, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2003, but marked a decline from both its predecessors and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the visual effects but criticized the lack of new ideas and characterization, as well as the final battle. \nAlthough The Matrix Revolutions was the final installment in the original trilogy of the series, the storyline of the films was continued in the now-closed video game The Matrix Online (2005). A fourth film, The Matrix Resurrections, was released in 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Matrix Revolutions", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Revolutions", "revision": 1377223946, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377223946", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Matrix%20Revolutions&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q229633", "text": "3 Idiots is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, edited and directed by Rajkumar Hirani, co-written by Abhijat Joshi and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The film stars Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan and Sharman Joshi in the title roles, while Kareena Kapoor, Boman Irani, Mona Singh and Omi Vaidya play supporting roles. Narrated through two parallel timelines, one in the present and the other set ten years earlier, the story follows the friendship of three students at an Indian engineering college and is a satire about the intrinsic paternalism under the Indian education system.\nAdapted loosely from Chetan Bhagat's novel Five Point Someone, It is produced by Chopra under the banner Vinod Chopra Films.\nUpon its release, 3 Idiots received widespread critical acclaim with praise directed towards its direction, themes, humour, story, screenplay, soundtrack and performances of the cast. The film became a major box office success and one of the few Indian films at the time to become successful in East Asian markets such as China and Japan, eventually bringing its worldwide gross to ₹460 crore (US$90 million) — it was the highest-grossing Indian film ever at the time until 2013, when Dhoom 3 surpassed it.\nAt the 57th National Film Awards, 3 Idiots won three awards, including Best Popular Film Providing Wholesome Entertainment. Additionally, it won a leading 6 awards at the 55th Filmfare Awards (tying with Dev.D), including Best Film, Best Director (Hirani) and Best Supporting Actor (Irani). Overseas, it won the Grand Prize at Japan's Videoyasan Awards, while it was nominated for Best Outstanding Foreign Language Film at the Japan Academy Awards and Best Foreign Film at China's Beijing International Film Festival.\nConsidered to be among the greatest Indian films ever made, the film also had a social impact on attitudes toward education in India, as well as in other Asian countries such as China and South Korea and a huge cult following for its relevance and humour. It was remade in Tamil as Nanban (2012), which also received critical praise and commercial success. A Mexican remake, 3 Idiotas, was also released in 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "3 Idiots", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Idiots", "revision": 1378293280, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378293280", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3%20Idiots&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q233464", "text": "Annie Hall is a 1977 American satirical romantic comedy-drama film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay written by Allen and Marshall Brickman, and produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe. The film stars Allen as Alvy Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.\nPrincipal photography for the film began on May 19, 1976, on the South Fork of Long Island, and continued periodically for the next ten months. Allen has described the result, which marked his first collaboration with cinematographer Gordon Willis, as \"a major turning point\", in that, unlike the farces and comedies that were his work to that point, it introduced a new level of seriousness. Academics have noted the contrast in the settings of New York City and Los Angeles, the stereotype of gender differences in sexuality, the presentation of Jewish identity, and the elements of psychoanalysis and modernism.\nAnnie Hall was screened at the Los Angeles Film Festival on March 27, 1977, before its official release in the United States on April 20, 1977. The film received widespread critical acclaim, and was nominated for the Big Five Academy Awards, winning four: the Academy Award for Best Picture, two for Allen (Best Director and, with Brickman, Best Original Screenplay), and Best Actress for Keaton. The film additionally won four BAFTA Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction (for Allen), Best Screenplay (for both Allen and Brickman) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Keaton), in addition to the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical (for Keaton). The film's box office receipts in the United States and Canada of $38,251,425 are fourth-best of Allen's works when not adjusted for inflation.\nRegarded among the greatest films ever made, it ranks 31st on AFI's list of the 100 greatest films in American cinema, 4th on their list of the greatest comedy films and 28th on Bravo's \"100 Funniest Movies\". Film critic Roger Ebert called it \"just about everyone's favorite Woody Allen movie\". The film's screenplay was also named the funniest ever written by the Writers Guild of America in its list of the \"101 Funniest Screenplays\". In 1992, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant\". It is also regarded by critics as a landmark \"transitional\" film in Allen's career, moving his work from more \"accessible\" and surreal parody towards more \"naturalistic\" comic filmmaking.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Annie Hall", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Hall", "revision": 1377611002, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377611002", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annie%20Hall&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q853718", "text": "Fun and Fancy Free, formerly known as Fun & Fancy Free, is a 1947 American animated musical fantasy anthology film produced by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released on September 27, 1947, by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a compilation of two stories: Bongo, narrated by Dinah Shore and loosely based on the short story \"Little Bear Bongo\" by Sinclair Lewis; and Mickey and the Beanstalk, narrated by Edgar Bergen and based on the \"Jack and the Beanstalk\" fairy tale. Though the film is primarily animated, it also uses live-action segments starring Bergen to join its two stories.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fun and Fancy Free", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun_and_Fancy_Free", "revision": 1378167534, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378167534", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fun%20and%20Fancy%20Free&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14772351", "text": "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a 2016 American superhero film based on the DC Comics characters Batman and Superman. Directed by Zack Snyder and written by Chris Terrio and David S. Goyer, it is a follow-up to Man of Steel (2013) and the second film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film stars Ben Affleck as Batman and Henry Cavill as Superman, alongside a cast including Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, and Gal Gadot. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is the first live-action film to feature Batman and Superman together, as well as the first live-action cinematic portrayal of Wonder Woman. In the film, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor manipulates Batman into a preemptive battle with Superman, whom Luthor is obsessed with destroying.\nThe film was announced at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con after the release of Man of Steel. Snyder stated that the film would take inspiration from the Batman comic book series The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller, but clarified that it would follow an original premise. The incarnation of Batman in the film is different from the character's previous portrayal by Christian Bale in The Dark Knight trilogy, serving as a cinematic reboot of the character. The film is also inspired by narrative elements from the Superman comic book series The Death of Superman. Pre-production began at East Los Angeles College in October 2013, and principal photography started in May 2014 in Detroit. Additional filming also took place in Illinois and New Mexico, concluding in December.\nBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice premiered at the Auditorio Nacional in Mexico City on March 19, 2016, and was released in the United States on March 25, by Warner Bros. Pictures. It grossed $874 million worldwide against a budget of $250–325 million, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2016, while also having the biggest opening weekend for a superhero film at the time of its release. It received mixed reviews from critics. A director's cut, dubbed the \"Ultimate Edition\", features 31 minutes of additional footage and was released to home media formats later in 2016. A follow-up, titled Justice League, was released on November 17, 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_v_Superman%3A_Dawn_of_Justice", "revision": 1378782786, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378782786", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman%20v%20Superman%3A%20Dawn%20of%20Justice&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q15079318", "text": "The Theory of Everything is a 2014 biographical drama film produced by Working Title Films and directed by James Marsh. Set at the University of Cambridge, it details three decades of the life of the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking. It was adapted by Anthony McCarten from the 2007 memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Hawking, which deals with her relationship with her ex-husband Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neurone disease – also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) – and his success in the field of physics. The film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, Harry Lloyd, and David Thewlis featured in supporting roles. The film had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2014. It had its UK premiere on 1 January 2015. \nThe film received positive reviews, with praise for the musical score by Jóhann Jóhannsson, the cinematography by Benoît Delhomme, and the performances of Jones and Redmayne. It was also a global box office success, grossing US$123 million against a US$15 million production budget. The film gained numerous awards and nominations, including five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actress (Jones), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score (Jóhannsson) and won Best Actor for Redmayne. The film received 10 British Academy Film Awards (BAFTA) nominations, and won Outstanding British Film, Best Leading Actor for Redmayne, and Best Adapted Screenplay for McCarten. It received four Golden Globe Award nominations, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne, and Best Original Score for Jóhannsson. It also received three Screen Actors Guild Awards nominations, and won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role for Redmayne.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Theory of Everything (2014 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Everything_(2014_film)", "revision": 1375542382, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375542382", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Theory%20of%20Everything%20(2014%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q51416", "text": "Men in Black (abbreviated as MIB) is a 1997 American science fiction action comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld and written by Ed Solomon, based on the Marvel Comics series The Men in Black by Lowell Cunningham. Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith respectively star as Agent K and Agent J, who investigate a series of seemingly unrelated criminal incidents related to the extraterrestrials who live in secret on Earth. Linda Fiorentino, Vincent D'Onofrio and Rip Torn appear in supporting roles.\nDevelopment for the film began in 1992, after producers Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald optioned the rights to the comic book series. Solomon was soon hired to write the screenplay; Sonnenfeld was the preferred directorial choice, which resulted in delays due to his commitments to other film projects and a failure to secure any alternative directors. Principal photography began in March 1996 and lasted until that June, primarily taking place in New York City. The film's visual effects were created by Industrial Light & Magic and its soundtrack contains the theme song of the same title, performed by Smith, as well as the score, composed by Danny Elfman.\nMen in Black premiered at Pacific's Cinerama Dome in Hollywood on June 25, 1997 and was theatrically released in the United States on July 2 by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. It received critical acclaim for its screenplay, humor and action sequences, as well as Jones's and Smith's performances and chemistry. The film was a box-office success, grossing more than $589.4 million worldwide and becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 1997 as well as the ninth-highest-grossing film of the decade. It won for Best Makeup and was additionally nominated for Best Art Direction and Best Original Score at the 70th Academy Awards, among numerous other accolades. A sequel was released in 2002, a third film was released in 2012 and a stand-alone sequel with Jones and Smith absent was released in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Men in Black (1997 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_(1997_film)", "revision": 1378126429, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378126429", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Men%20in%20Black%20(1997%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189889", "text": "Chicago is a 2002 musical black comedy crime film based on the 1975 stage musical, which in turn originated in the 1926 play. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Richard Gere. Chicago centers on Roxie Hart (Zellweger) and Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones), two murderers who find themselves in jail together awaiting trial in 1920s Chicago. Roxie, a housewife, and Velma, a vaudevillian, fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows. The film marks the feature directorial debut of Rob Marshall, who also choreographed the film, and was adapted by screenwriter Bill Condon, with music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.\nChicago received critical acclaim, with particular praise for the performances of the cast. The film went on to win six Academy Awards in 2003, including Best Picture, making it the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! in 1968. For her performance, Zeta-Jones won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, the British Academy Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress. Zellweger won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, and Gere won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.Chicago was the tenth-highest-grossing film of the year domestically in the United States.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Chicago (2002 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(2002_film)", "revision": 1378359712, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378359712", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chicago%20(2002%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q191040", "text": "Mr. & Mrs. Smith is a 2005 American action comedy film directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg. The film stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as a bored upper middle class married couple, who are surprised to learn that they are assassins belonging to competing agencies, leading to them trying to kill each other in order to protect themselves. Incidentally, the filming marked the beginning of Pitt and Jolie's real-life romantic relationship, leading to marriage and children, from 2005 to 2016.\nMr. & Mrs. Smith was released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on June 10, 2005, and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Pitt and Jolie's performances and chemistry but criticized the screenplay. Nevertheless, the film was a commercial success, grossing $487.3 million worldwide and becoming the seventh highest-grossing film of 2005. In 2024, a television series of the same name loosely inspired by the film premiered on Amazon Prime Video, starring Donald Glover and Maya Erskine as two strangers paired up as spies and posing as a married couple; producer Arnon Milchan is the only cast or crew member returning from the original film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._%26_Mrs._Smith_(2005_film)", "revision": 1377744369, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377744369", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mr.%20%26%20Mrs.%20Smith%20(2005%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q74958", "text": "Blood Diamond is a 2006 American war drama film directed and co-produced by Edward Zwick and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly and Djimon Hounsou. The title refers to blood diamonds, which are diamonds mined in war zones and sold to finance conflicts, thereby profiting warlords and diamond companies around the world.\nSet during the Sierra Leone Civil War, the film depicts a country torn apart by the struggle between government loyalists and insurgent forces. It also portrays many of the atrocities of that war, including the rebels' amputation of civilians' hands to discourage them from voting in upcoming elections. The film's ending, in which a conference is held concerning blood diamonds, refers to a historic meeting that took place in Kimberley, South Africa, in 2000. It led to development of the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, which sought to certify the origin of rough diamonds to curb the trade in conflict diamonds; the certification scheme has been mostly abandoned as ineffective.\nBlood Diamond was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 8, 2006. The film received positive reviews, with praise directed toward the performances of DiCaprio and Hounsou. The film grossed $171.7 million worldwide against a $100 million budget and received five Oscar nominations, including Best Actor for DiCaprio and Best Supporting Actor for Hounsou. DiCaprio received a nomination for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (also nominated that year in the same category for The Departed). In addition, DiCaprio and Hounsou were nominated for Outstanding Male Actor in a Leading Role and Outstanding Male Actor in a Supporting Role at the 13th Screen Actors Guild Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Blood Diamond", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Diamond", "revision": 1377532344, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377532344", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blood%20Diamond&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q104137", "text": "Unforgiven is a 1992 American revisionist Western film produced and directed by Clint Eastwood from a screenplay by David Webb Peoples. It stars Eastwood as William Munny, an aging outlaw and killer who takes on one more job years after he turned to farming. The film co-stars Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and Richard Harris.\nUnforgiven premiered at the Mann Bruin Theater on August 3, 1992, before being released by Warner Bros. on August 7, 1992. It grossed over $159 million on a budget of $14.4 million and received widespread critical acclaim, with praise for the acting (particularly from Eastwood and Hackman), directing, editing, themes, and cinematography. The film won four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director for Eastwood, Best Supporting Actor for Hackman, and Best Film Editing for Joel Cox. Eastwood was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance, but lost to Al Pacino for Scent of a Woman. The film was the third Western to win Best Picture, following Cimarron (1931) and Dances With Wolves (1990). Eastwood dedicated the film to directors and mentors Sergio Leone and Don Siegel.\nIn 2004, Unforgiven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Unforgiven", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgiven", "revision": 1375170789, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375170789", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unforgiven&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106182", "text": "X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the superhero team from Marvel Comics created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by David Hayter and a story by Singer and Tom DeSanto, it features an ensemble cast consisting of Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park, and Anna Paquin. The film depicts a world where an unknown proportion of people are mutants, possessing superhuman powers that make them distrusted by normal humans. It focuses on the mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups with radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutant-kind: Charles Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants led by Magneto.\nDevelopment of X-Men began as far back as 1984 with Orion Pictures, with James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow in discussions at one point. 20th Century Fox bought the film rights in 1994, and various scripts and film treatments were commissioned from Andrew Kevin Walker, John Logan, Joss Whedon, and Michael Chabon. Singer signed to direct in 1996, with further rewrites by Ed Solomon, Singer, Tom DeSanto, Christopher McQuarrie, and Hayter. X-Men marked the American debut of Jackman, a last-second choice for Wolverine, cast three weeks into filming. Filming took place from September 22, 1999, to March 3, 2000, primarily in Toronto.\nX-Men premiered at Ellis Island on July 12, 2000, and was released in the United States on July 14. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $296.3 million worldwide, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2000. Its success led to a two-decade long series of films, with the first sequel, X2, released on May 2, 2003. Following the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney in 2019 –in which Marvel regained the film rights– several actors have reprised their roles in Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) films, including Stewart in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Jackman in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), and Stewart, McKellen, Marsden, and Romijn in Avengers: Doomsday (2026). An untitled X-Men film in the MCU is in development, scheduled for release in 2028.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "X-Men (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men_(film)", "revision": 1377759779, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377759779", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-Men%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106428", "text": "Apollo 13 is a 1995 American docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronaut Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger. \nThe film tells the story of astronauts Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise aboard the ill-fated Apollo 13 for the United States' fifth crewed mission to the Moon, which was intended to be the third to land. En route, an on-board explosion deprives their spacecraft of much of its oxygen supply and electrical power, which forces NASA's flight controllers to abandon the Moon landing and improvise scientific and mechanical solutions to get the three astronauts to Earth safely. Howard went to great lengths to create a technically accurate movie, employing NASA's assistance in astronaut and flight-controller training for his cast and obtaining permission to film scenes aboard a reduced-gravity aircraft for realistic depiction of the weightlessness experienced by the astronauts in space.\nReleased in theaters by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 30, 1995, Apollo 13 received critical acclaim and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture (winning for Best Film Editing and Best Sound). The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, as well as two British Academy Film Awards. In total, the film grossed over $355 million worldwide during its theatrical releases, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 1995.\nIt is listed in The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made (2004). In 2023, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Apollo 13 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13_(film)", "revision": 1377419988, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377419988", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo%2013%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106506", "text": "The Fifth Element (French: Le Cinquième Élément) is a 1997 English-language French science fiction-action film conceived and directed by Luc Besson, and co-written by Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. It stars Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, and Chris Tucker. Primarily set in the 23rd century, the plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Willis), a taxi driver and former special forces major, after a young woman named Leeloo (Jovovich) falls into his cab. Dallas joins forces with her to recover four mystical stones essential for the defence of Earth against the impending attack of a malevolent cosmic entity.\nBesson started writing the story that was developed as The Fifth Element when he was 16 years old; he was 38 when the film opened in cinemas. Besson wanted to shoot the film in France, but suitable facilities could not be found. Filming took place in London and Mauritania, instead. He hired comic artists Jean \"Moebius\" Giraud and Jean-Claude Mézières, whose books inspired parts of the film, for production design. Costume design was by Jean Paul Gaultier.\nThe Fifth Element received mainly positive reviews, although some critics were highly negative. The film won in categories at the British Academy Film Awards, the César Awards, the Cannes Film Festival, and the Lumière Awards, but also received nominations at the Golden Raspberry and Stinkers Bad Movie Awards. The Fifth Element was a strong financial success, earning more than US$263 million at the box office on a $90-million budget, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 1997. At the time of its release, it was the most expensive European film ever made, and it remained the highest-grossing French film at the international box office until the release of The Intouchables in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Fifth Element", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifth_Element", "revision": 1375685030, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375685030", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Fifth%20Element&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106571", "text": "From Russia with Love is a 1963 spy film directed by Terence Young and the second in the James Bond series. It was produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.\nThe picture was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood, based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel From Russia, with Love. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Istanbul, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.\nFollowing the success of Dr. No, United Artists approved a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and behind schedule, but was hurriedly finished by its release date.\nFrom Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success. It grossed $78 million worldwide, far more than its $2 million budget and more than its predecessor Dr. No, thereby becoming a blockbuster in 1960s cinema. In 2004, Total Film magazine named it the ninth-greatest British film of all time; it was the only Bond film to appear on the list. It was also the first film in the series to win a BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.\nFrom Russia with Love was followed by Goldfinger in 1964.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "From Russia with Love (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Russia_with_Love_(film)", "revision": 1378506133, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378506133", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=From%20Russia%20with%20Love%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q109135", "text": "Trainspotting is a 1996 British independent black comedy drama film directed by Danny Boyle, with Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle and Kelly Macdonald in her film debut. It is written in English and Scots. Based on the 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh and inspired by the stage production of the same name, the film was released in the United Kingdom on 23 February 1996.\nThe film follows a group of heroin addicts in an economically depressed area of Edinburgh, led by a mentally ill and violent psychopathic narcissist who allows their life of crime, and their passage through life. Themes in the film are drug addiction, and urban poverty and squalor in Edinburgh.\nTrainspotting was released to critical acclaim, and is regarded by many critics as one of the best films of the 1990s. The film was ranked tenth by the British Film Institute (BFI) in its list of Top 100 British films of the 20th century. In 2004, the film was voted the best Scottish film of all time in a general public poll. A 2017 poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine ranked it the tenth best British film ever. A sequel, T2 Trainspotting, was released in January 2017 and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing through its TriStar Pictures label.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Trainspotting (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trainspotting_(film)", "revision": 1376948531, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376948531", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trainspotting%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q206124", "text": "Midnight in Paris is a 2011 fantasy comedy film written and directed by Woody Allen. Set in Paris, the film follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), a screenwriter and aspiring novelist, who is forced to confront the shortcomings of his relationship with his materialistic fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and their divergent goals, which become increasingly exaggerated as he travels back in time to the 1920s each night at midnight.\nProduced by the Spanish group Mediapro and Allen's US-based Gravier Productions, the film stars Wilson, McAdams, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Carla Bruni, Tom Hiddleston, Corey Stoll, Alison Pill, Kurt Fuller, Mimi Kennedy, Lea Seydoux, Marion Cotillard, and Michael Sheen. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the United States on May 20, 2011. The film opened to critical acclaim. In 2012, it won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay. It was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Midnight in Paris", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_in_Paris", "revision": 1363495029, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363495029", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midnight%20in%20Paris&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208572", "text": "American History X is a 1998 American crime drama film directed by Tony Kaye in his feature directorial debut, and written by David McKenna. Starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Fairuza Balk, Stacy Keach, Elliott Gould, Avery Brooks, and Beverly D'Angelo, the film follows Derek (Norton), and Danny Vinyard (Furlong), two European-American, skinhead brothers from Los Angeles who are involved in the White supremacist movement. After Derek serves three years in prison for killing two gang members, he is released on parole as a changed man, and tries to prevent Danny from being indoctrinated further.\nMcKenna wrote the script based on his own childhood and experiences of growing up in San Diego. He sold the script to New Line Cinema, which was impressed by the writing. Steve Tisch and Lawrence Turman served as executive producers on the film. Principal photography began in Los Angeles on March 17, 1997, and concluded on May 21. Prior to the film's release, Kaye and New Line Cinema were in disagreements over the final cut of the film, which Norton had played a pivotal role in editing. The final version was 40 minutes longer than Kaye's 95-minute cut, which resulted in him publicly disowning the film through dozens of trade paper advertisements, thus negatively affecting his directing career.\nAmerican History X was theatrically released in limited screenings in the United States on October 30, 1998, before expanding to wide release on November 20. The film received critical acclaim, with Norton's performance earning widespread praise. It was a modest success at the box office, grossing $23.8 million against its $20 million production budget. Norton won the Satellite Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama at the 3rd Satellite Awards, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 71st Academy Awards, and the Saturn Award for Best Actor at the 25th Saturn Awards.\nA follow-up, African History Y, with Kaye returning as director, as well as co-writer and co-producer, and starring Djimon Hounsou, was in development as of 2020.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "American History X", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_History_X", "revision": 1377119543, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377119543", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American%20History%20X&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q209170", "text": "Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers. The screenplay is by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on P. L. Travers's book series Mary Poppins. The film, which combines live-action and animation, stars Julie Andrews, in her feature film debut, as Mary Poppins, who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family's dynamic. Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, and Glynis Johns are featured in supporting roles. The film was shot entirely at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, using painted London background scenes.\nMary Poppins was released on August 27, 1964, to universal critical acclaim and commercial success, earning $44 million in theatrical rentals in its original run. It became the highest-grossing film of 1964 in the United States, and at the time of its release became Disney's highest-grossing film. During its theatrical lifetime, it grossed over $103 million worldwide. It received a total of thirteen Academy Award nominations—a record for any film released by Walt Disney Studios and Walt Disney Cartoons—including Best Picture, and won five: Best Actress for Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song for \"Chim Chim Cher-ee\". In 2013, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"\nA biographical drama based on the making of the film, Saving Mr. Banks, was released in 2013. A sequel to the original film, Mary Poppins Returns, was released in 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mary Poppins (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Poppins_(film)", "revision": 1378617419, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378617419", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mary%20Poppins%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q212775", "text": "The Last Emperor (Italian: L'ultimo imperatore) is a 1987 epic biographical drama film about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China. It is directed by Bernardo Bertolucci from a screenplay he co-wrote with Mark Peploe, which was adapted from Puyi's 1964 autobiography, and independently produced by Jeremy Thomas.\nThe film depicts Puyi's life from his ascent to the throne as an infant to his imprisonment and political rehabilitation by the Chinese Communist Party. It stars John Lone in the eponymous role, with Peter O'Toole, Joan Chen, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun, Vivian Wu, Lisa Lu, and Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed the film score with David Byrne and Cong Su). It was the first Western feature film authorised by the People's Republic of China to film in the Forbidden City in Beijing.\nThe Last Emperor premiered at the 1987 Tokyo International Film Festival, and was released in the United States by Columbia Pictures on November 18. It earned widespread positive reviews from critics and was also a commercial success. At the 60th Academy Awards, it won all nine Oscars it was nominated for, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It also won several other accolades, including three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, nine David di Donatello Awards, and a Grammy Award for its musical score. The film was converted into 3D and shown in the Cannes Classics section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Last Emperor", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Emperor", "revision": 1375010439, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375010439", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Last%20Emperor&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q217189", "text": "The Seventh Seal (Swedish: Det sjunde inseglet) is a 1957 Swedish historical fantasy film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. It stars Max von Sydow as Antonius Block, a medieval knight returning to Sweden during the Black Death after the Crusades, who challenges the personification of Death (Bengt Ekerot) to a game of chess in an attempt to delay his fate. The cast also features Gunnar Björnstrand, Nils Poppe, Bibi Andersson, Inga Gill, Maud Hansson, and Gunnel Lindblom.\nBergman developed the screenplay from his one-act play Trämålning (Wood Painting), which had been written for the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The film's title is derived from the seventh seal described in the Book of Revelation, a biblical passage quoted both in the opening narration and near the conclusion of the film, while the silence that follows the opening of the seal reflects one of the film's central themes: \"the silence of God\". Produced by Svensk Filmindustri, The Seventh Seal was photographed by Gunnar Fischer and marked the beginning of Max von Sydow's long collaboration with Bergman. Filmed primarily at Filmstaden Studios in Solna and on location in southern Sweden, the production combined medieval allegory with existential themes influenced by Bergman's reflections on faith, mortality, and the human condition. The film's final \"Dance of Death\" sequence, silhouetted against the horizon, became one of the most recognizable images in the history of cinema.\nThe Seventh Seal premiered in Sweden on 16 February 1957 and received international recognition after winning the Special Jury Prize at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. It established Bergman as one of the leading directors of world cinema and has since been widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. Its imagery and themes have had a lasting influence on popular culture, inspiring numerous homages, parodies, and critical analyses.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Seventh Seal", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal", "revision": 1378336346, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378336346", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Seventh%20Seal&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q318766", "text": "The Terminal is a 2004 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Stanley Tucci. The film is about an Eastern European man who is stuck in New York's John F. Kennedy Airport terminal when he is denied entry to the United States, but is unable to return to his native country because of a military coup.\nThe film is partially inspired by the true story of Mehran Karimi Nasseri who lived in Terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, France, from 1988 to 2006.\nAfter finishing Catch Me If You Can (2002), Spielberg decided to direct The Terminal because he wanted to make a film \"that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world\". As no suitable airport was willing to provide their facilities, an entire working set was built inside a large hangar at the LA/Palmdale Regional Airport, with the customs hall, offices and most of the film's exterior shots filmed at the Montreal–Mirabel International Airport.\nThe film was released in North America by DreamWorks Pictures on June 18, 2004, to generally positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing $219 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Terminal", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal", "revision": 1378698105, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378698105", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Terminal&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q426828", "text": "Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly in his directorial debut, and produced by Flower Films. It stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary McDonnell, Katharine Ross, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle, Beth Grant, James Duval, Holmes Osborne, and Seth Rogen in his film debut. Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko (J. Gyllenhaal), a troubled teenager who inadvertently escapes a bizarre accident by sleepwalking. He has visions of Frank, a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in 28 days.\nDevelopment began in late 1997 when Kelly had graduated from film school and started writing scripts. He took an early idea of a jet engine falling onto a house with no one knowing its origin and built the story around it. Kelly insisted on directing the film himself and struggled to secure backing from producers until 2000, when Pandora Cinema and Barrymore's Flower Films agreed to produce it on a $4.5 million budget. Filming took 28 days in the summer of 2000, mostly in California. The soundtrack features a version of the Tears for Fears song, \"Mad World\" covered by American musicians Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, which went to number one on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks and was the Christmas number 1 in 2003.\nDonnie Darko premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2001, followed by a limited theatrical release on October 26. Because the film's advertising featured a crashing plane and the September 11 attacks had occurred a month and a half before, it was scarcely advertised. This affected its box office performance and it grossed just $517,375 in its initial run. However, the film gained a cult following, and after reissues, it went on to gross $7.5 million worldwide, and earned more than $10 million in US home video sales. It was listed No. 2 in Empire's \"50 Greatest Independent Films of All Time\", and No. 53 in Empire's \"500 Greatest Movies of All Time\". Kelly released Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut in 2004. The film was adapted into a stage production in 2007 and a sequel, S. Darko, followed in 2009 without Kelly's involvement. In 2021, he announced that work on a new sequel is in progress.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Donnie Darko", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko", "revision": 1376073681, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376073681", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Donnie%20Darko&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q10350033", "text": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (released in some territories as Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar's Revenge) is a 2017 American swashbuckler film directed by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg, and written by Jeff Nathanson. It is the fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, following On Stranger Tides (2011), and features an ensemble cast including Johnny Depp, Javier Bardem, Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites, Kaya Scodelario, and Kevin McNally. The film follows a search for the Trident of Poseidon by a down-on-his-luck Captain Jack Sparrow pursued by Captain Armando Salazar and a crew of deadly ghosts who have escaped from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea and take revenge on Sparrow.\nDevelopment of the film started shortly before the previous film was released in May 2011, with Terry Rossio writing the initial script, and Depp being involved in the writing process. In early 2013, Nathanson was hired to write a new script, while Rønning and Sandberg became involved in the project shortly afterward. The filmmakers cited the series' first installment, The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003), as inspiration for the script and tone of the film. Initially planned for a 2015 release, the film was delayed to 2016 and then to 2017, due to script and budget issues. Principal photography started in Queensland, Australia in February 2015, after the Australian government offered Disney $20 million in tax incentives, and ended that July. With an estimated production budget of $230–320 million, it is among the most expensive films ever made.\nDead Men Tell No Tales premiered at the Shanghai Disney Resort on May 11, 2017, and was released in the United States on May 26. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $796 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_of_the_Caribbean%3A_Dead_Men_Tell_No_Tales", "revision": 1375944891, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375944891", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pirates%20of%20the%20Caribbean%3A%20Dead%20Men%20Tell%20No%20Tales&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14918344", "text": "The Imitation Game is a 2014 American biographical thriller film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore, based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The film's title quotes the name of the game cryptanalyst Alan Turing proposed for answering the question \"Can machines think?\", in his 1950 seminal paper \"Computing Machinery and Intelligence\". The film stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing, who devised new methods for decrypting German intelligence messages for the British government during World War II. Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance, and Mark Strong appear in supporting roles.\nFollowing its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 29, 2014, The Imitation Game was released theatrically in the United States by The Weinstein Company on November 14. It grossed over $233 million worldwide on a $14 million production budget, making it the highest-grossing independent film of 2014. The film received critical acclaim but faced significant criticism for its historical inaccuracies, including depicting several events that had never taken place in real life. It received eight nominations at the 87th Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning for Best Adapted Screenplay. It also received five nominations at the Golden Globes, three at the SAG Awards and nine at the BAFTAs. Cumberbatch and Knightley's highly acclaimed performances were nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress respectively at each award.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Imitation Game", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imitation_Game", "revision": 1378159779, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378159779", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Imitation%20Game&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21935651", "text": "Dunkirk is a 2017 war film produced, written, and directed by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of people on the land, sea, and air. It features an ensemble cast including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles in his feature film debut, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy.\nThe film portrays the evacuation with little dialogue, as Nolan sought instead to create suspense through cinematography and music. Filming began in May 2016 in Dunkirk and wrapped that September in Los Angeles, when post-production began. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot the film on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large-format film stock. Dunkirk has extensive practical effects. It employed thousands of extras as well as historic boats from the evacuation, and period aeroplanes.\nDistributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Dunkirk premiered at Odeon Leicester Square in London, a few days before its release in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2017. It grossed over $530 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing World War II film until it was surpassed by Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023). Dunkirk received praise for its screenplay, direction, editing, score, sound design and cinematography; some critics called it Nolan's best work, and one of the greatest war films as well as one of the greatest movies of the 2010s. It received various accolades, including eight nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. It went on to win for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dunkirk (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_(2017_film)", "revision": 1378494656, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378494656", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dunkirk%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q22957393", "text": "Ant-Man and the Wasp is a 2018 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the characters Scott Lang / Ant-Man and Hope Pym / Wasp. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Ant-Man (2015) and the 20th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Peyton Reed and written by the writing teams of Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari. It stars Rudd as Lang and Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, alongside Michael Peña, Walton Goggins, Hannah John-Kamen, David Dastmalchian, Tip \"T.I.\" Harris, Judy Greer, Bobby Cannavale, Randall Park, Abby Ryder Fortson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, and Michael Douglas. In the film, the titular pair work with Hank Pym (Douglas) to retrieve Janet van Dyne (Pfeiffer) from the Quantum Realm.\nTalks for a sequel to Ant-Man began shortly after that film was released. Ant-Man and the Wasp was officially announced in October 2015, with Rudd and Lilly returning to reprise their roles. A month later, Ant-Man director Reed was officially set to return. He had joined the first film later in its production and was excited to develop this one from the beginning. He also looked forward to introducing Hope van Dyne as the Wasp in this film, and insisted on treating Lang and her as equals. Filming took place from August to November 2017, at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, as well as Metro Atlanta; San Francisco; Savannah, Georgia; and Hawaii.\nAnt-Man and the Wasp had its world premiere in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 25, 2018, and was released in the United States on July 6, 2018, as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film was a critical and commercial success, receiving praise for its performances (particularly those of Rudd and Lilly), humor, and levity, and grossing over $622 million worldwide. A sequel, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, was released in February 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ant-Man and the Wasp", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_and_the_Wasp", "revision": 1373393411, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373393411", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ant-Man%20and%20the%20Wasp&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q22998395", "text": "Aquaman is a 2018 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character Arthur Curry / Aquaman. Produced by DC Films, Warner Bros. Pictures, and The Safran Company, it is the sixth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film was directed by James Wan and written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick and Will Beall. Jason Momoa stars as Aquaman, who sets out to lead the underwater kingdom of Atlantis and stop his evil half-brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson) from uniting the seven underwater kingdoms to destroy the surface world. Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Dolph Lundgren, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, and Nicole Kidman also star in supporting roles.\nDevelopment began in 2004 but did not gain traction until Man of Steel was released in 2013. In August 2014, Beall and Kurt Johnstad were hired to write competing scripts. Wan signed on as director in April 2015, and in July 2016, the film moved forward with Beall's screenplay. The main cast was confirmed through 2016 and early 2017. Principal photography began in Australia in May 2017, taking place at Village Roadshow Studios on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, with additional production teams in Canada, Italy, and Morocco. Filming concluded the following October. Several vendors provided visual effects and animation, ranging from high-detail hair simulations to the creation of CGI animals and locations.\nAquaman premiered in London on November 26, 2018, and was released in the United States on December 21. The film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and grossed $1.152 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing DCEU film, the highest-grossing film based on a DC Comics character, the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2018, and (at the time of its release) the 20th highest-grossing film of all time. A sequel, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, was released on December 22, 2023, while a non-canonical animated miniseries, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, is set after the events of this film and was released in October 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Aquaman (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaman_(film)", "revision": 1375707631, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375707631", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aquaman%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23006268", "text": "Venom is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Eddie Brock / Venom. The first film in Sony's Spider-Man Universe (SSU), it was directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg, and Kelly Marcel. Tom Hardy stars as Eddie Brock and Venom, alongside Michelle Williams, Riz Ahmed, Scott Haze, and Reid Scott. In the film, Eddie, a struggling journalist, gains superpowers after becoming the host of Venom, an alien symbiote whose species plans to invade Earth.\nFollowing Venom's appearance in Spider-Man 3 (2007), Sony Pictures attempted to develop a spin-off film based on the Venom character, which was stalled due to issues with the company's ongoing Spider-Man franchise. In March 2016, work began on a new version that would start a new shared universe featuring the non-Spider-Man Marvel characters that the studio possessed film rights to. Sony also originally intended for the Venom film to share the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), but ultimately distanced the film from Spider-Man. Sony's Columbia Pictures produced the film in association with Marvel Entertainment. In March 2017, Rosenberg and Pinkner were set to write, with Fleischer and Hardy added in May; Marcel subsequently joined to rewrite the script. Filming took place from October 2017 to January 2018 in Atlanta, New York City, and San Francisco. The film was primarily inspired by the comic book miniseries Venom: Lethal Protector (1993) and the story arc \"Planet of the Symbiotes\" (1995). Ludwig Göransson was hired to compose the film's score, marking his second Marvel film after Black Panther (2018).\nVenom premiered at the Regency Village Theater on October 1, 2018, and was released in the United States on October 5. Despite generally negative reviews from critics, Hardy's performance and his character's relationship with Venom were praised, and the film became the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2018, earning $856.1 million worldwide and setting several box office records for an October release. Two sequels have been released: Let There Be Carnage (2021) and The Last Dance (2024).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Venom (2018 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom_(2018_film)", "revision": 1376843286, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376843286", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Venom%20(2018%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23781129", "text": "Captain Marvel is a 2019 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Carol Danvers / Captain Marvel. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck from a screenplay they co-wrote with Geneva Robertson-Dworet. It stars Brie Larson as Carol Danvers, alongside Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Gemma Chan, Annette Bening, Clark Gregg, and Jude Law. Set in 1995, the story follows Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel after Earth is caught in a galactic conflict.\nDevelopment began by May 2013. The film was officially announced in October 2014 as Marvel Studios' first female-led project. Nicole Perlman and Meg LeFauve were hired to write it the following April after submitting separate takes on the character, and borrowed elements from Roy Thomas's 1971 \"Kree–Skrull War\" comic book storyline. Larson was announced as Danvers at the 2016 San Diego Comic-Con, with Boden and Fleck hired to direct in April 2017. Robertson-Dworet was soon hired to re-write the script, and the rest of the cast were added by the start of filming. Location shooting began in January 2018, with principal photography starting that March in California and concluding in Louisiana in July 2018. Several actors reprise their roles from previous MCU films, including Jackson and Gregg. They were both digitally de-aged in post-production to reflect the film's 1990s setting.\nCaptain Marvel premiered in London on February 27, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 8 as part of Phase Three of the MCU. The film grossed over $1.1 billion worldwide, making it the first female-led superhero film to pass the billion-dollar mark. It became the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2019 and was the 23rd-highest-grossing film of all time during its theatrical run. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the performances—particularly Larson's. Audience responses were also positive, although the audience reception section on Rotten Tomatoes was subject to review bombing. A sequel, The Marvels, was released on November 10, 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Captain Marvel (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Marvel_(film)", "revision": 1376996996, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376996996", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captain%20Marvel%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q61117344", "text": "The Batman is a 2022 American superhero film directed by Matt Reeves from a screenplay he wrote with Peter Craig. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is a reboot of the Batman film franchise. Robert Pattinson stars as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, and Colin Farrell. The film sees Batman, in his second year fighting crime in Gotham City, uncover corruption with ties to his own family while pursuing the Riddler (Dano), a mysterious serial killer and terrorist targeting the city's elite. Warner Bros. Pictures distributed the film, which Reeves and Dylan Clark produced for DC Films.\nA Batman film for the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise was announced in October 2014, with Ben Affleck starring as the titular character. He signed on to also direct, produce, and co-write The Batman by 2016, but had reservations about the project and stepped down in January 2017. Reeves took over the following month and reworked the story, removing the DCEU connections to focus on a younger version of the character earlier in his vigilante career compared to Affleck's portrayal. Reeves worked on the script with Craig and Mattson Tomlin, and sought to explore Batman's detective aspects more than previous films, drawing inspiration from the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the New Hollywood era, and comics such as \"Year One\" (1987), The Long Halloween (1996–97), and Ego (2000).\nFollowing Affleck's departure as the star in January 2019, Pattinson was cast in May, and additional actors joined later that year. Filming took place from January 2020 to March 2021 and was halted for several months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The production occurred throughout the United Kingdom, with location shooting in England and Scotland, as well as on soundstages at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden. Cinematographer Greig Fraser shot the film with Industrial Light & Magic's StageCraft virtual production technology, while Michael Giacchino composed the musical score. The film has over 1,500 visual effects shots and is one of the longest superhero films ever made. The Batman used an extensive viral marketing campaign during and after production.\nAfter facing multiple delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Batman was theatrically released in the United States on March 4, 2022, three days after premiering at Lincoln Center in New York City. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Reeves's approach, the performances of Pattinson and Kravitz, and the cinematography and score, although the tone, runtime, and third act received some criticism. Batman's depiction and characterization prompted critical analysis from several commentators, as did themes exploring class conflict and inequality. It was a commercial success, grossing over $772 million worldwide against a $185–200 million budget, making it the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2022 and Warner Bros.'s highest-grossing pandemic release. Its financial performance set several pandemic-era box office records, particularly for IMAX screenings. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and received numerous other accolades. The Batman is intended to start a trilogy and a shared universe called the \"Batman Epic Crime Saga\". A sequel, The Batman: Part II, is scheduled for release on February 18, 2028, while a spin-off television series starring Farrell, The Penguin, debuted on HBO in late 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Batman (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Batman_(film)", "revision": 1378813723, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378813723", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Batman%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q34414", "text": "Rear Window is a 1954 American mystery thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes, based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story \"It Had to Be Murder\". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival in competition for the Golden Lion.\nRear Window is shot almost entirely from within one room and from the point-of-view outside the window. The film was made with a budget of $1 million ($12 million in 2025), and grossed $27 million during its initial release ($324 million in 2025).\nRear Window is considered by many filmgoers, critics, and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best films, as well as one of the greatest films ever made. It received four Academy Award nominations, and was ranked number 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and number 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition, and in 1997 was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rear Window", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear_Window", "revision": 1375750805, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375750805", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rear%20Window&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q168154", "text": "Once Upon a Time in the West (Italian: C'era una volta il West) is a 1968 epic spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sergio Donati. It stars Claudia Cardinale, Henry Fonda, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson, Gabriele Ferzetti, Woody Strode, Jack Elam, Lionel Stander, Paolo Stoppa, Frank Wolff, and Keenan Wynn. The widescreen cinematography was by Tonino Delli Colli and the film score was composed and conducted by Ennio Morricone.\nAfter directing The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Leone decided to retire from Westerns and aimed to produce his film based on the novel The Hoods, which eventually became Once Upon a Time in America. However, Leone accepted an offer from Paramount Pictures providing Henry Fonda and a budget to produce another Western. He recruited Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci to devise the plot, researching other Westerns in the process. After Clint Eastwood turned down an offer to play the protagonist, Bronson was offered the role. During production, Leone recruited Donati to rewrite the script due to concerns over time limitations. The film is the first installment in Leone's Once Upon a Time trilogy, followed by Duck, You Sucker! and Once Upon a Time in America, though the films do not share any characters.\nThe original version by the director was 165 minutes when it was first released on December 21, 1968. This version was shown in European cinemas, and was a box-office success. For the U.S. release on May 28, 1969, it was edited down to 140 minutes by Paramount and was a financial flop.\nIn 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film is regarded as one of the greatest Westerns and one of the greatest films in history.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Once Upon a Time in the West", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_the_West", "revision": 1377276667, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377276667", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20in%20the%20West&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q172271", "text": "Maleficent is a 2014 American fantasy film starring Angelina Jolie as the title character in a live-action retelling of her villainous role in Walt Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty, itself an adaptation of the 1697 fairy tale. The film was directed by Robert Stromberg and written by Linda Woolverton. It also stars Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple, and Lesley Manville.\nMaleficent was originally developed as an animated project in 2003, before it was changed to a live-action feature in 2006, following Disney's acquisition of Pixar. Tim Burton was originally attached to direct the film, but was replaced by Stromberg in his directorial debut. Jolie signed on to play the title role in January 2012 and also served as the film's executive producer. The rest of the main cast joined between March and May 2012. Principal photography took place at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, England, from June to October 2012.\nMaleficent premiered in El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on May 28, 2014, and was released in the United States theatrically on May 30 by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing over $758 million worldwide and becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2014. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Costume Design at the 87th Academy Awards. A sequel, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, was released in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Maleficent (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleficent_(film)", "revision": 1373105210, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373105210", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maleficent%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q183239", "text": "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy drama film directed by David Fincher and adapted by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord from F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1922 short story. The film stars Brad Pitt as a man who ages in reverse and Cate Blanchett as his love interest throughout his life. The film also stars Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas, and Tilda Swinton.\nProducer Ray Stark bought the film rights to do the short story in the mid-1980s with Universal Pictures backing the film, but struggled to get the project off the ground until he sold the rights to producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall in the 1990s. Although it was moved to Paramount Pictures in the 1990s, the film did not enter production until after Fincher and Pitt signed on along with the rest of the cast in 2005. Principal photography began in November 2006 and wrapped up in September 2007. Digital Domain worked on the visual effects of the film, particularly in the process of the metamorphosis of Pitt's character.\nThe Curious Case of Benjamin Button was released in the United States on December 25, 2008, by Paramount Pictures, with Warner Bros. Pictures releasing in other territories. It received positive reviews, with praise for the performances of the cast. The film was a box office success, grossing $336 million against its $150–167 million budget. The film received a leading 13 Academy Award nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Fincher, Best Actor for Pitt, and Best Supporting Actress for Taraji P. Henson, and won three, for Best Art Direction, Best Makeup, and Best Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Curious_Case_of_Benjamin_Button_(film)", "revision": 1375979177, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375979177", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Curious%20Case%20of%20Benjamin%20Button%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q192115", "text": "Sin City (also known as Frank Miller's Sin City) is a 2005 American neo-noir crime anthology film directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller based on Miller's comic book series of the same name. The film stars an ensemble cast led by Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Michael Clarke Duncan and Elijah Wood, and featuring Alexis Bledel, Powers Boothe, Rosario Dawson, Devon Aoki, Carla Gugino, Josh Hartnett, Rutger Hauer, Jaime King, Michael Madsen, Nick Stahl, and Makenzie Vega among others.\nMuch of the film is based on the first, third, and fourth books in Miller's original comic series. The Hard Goodbye is about an ex-convict who embarks on a rampage in search of his one-time sweetheart's killer. The Big Fat Kill follows a private investigator who gets caught in a street war between a group of prostitutes and a group of mercenaries, the police, and the mob. That Yellow Bastard focuses on an aging police officer who protects a young woman from a grotesquely disfigured serial killer. The intro and outro of the film are based on the short story \"The Customer is Always Right\", which is collected in Booze, Broads & Bullets, the sixth book in the comic series.\nSin City premiered at the Mann National Theater on March 28, 2005 and was released by Miramax Films on April 1, 2005. The film was a critical and commercial success, gathering particular recognition for the film's unique color processing which rendered most of the film in black and white while retaining or adding color for selected objects, while grossing $158.7 million against a $40 million budget. The film was screened at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival in competition and won the Technical Grand Prize for the film's \"visual shaping\". A sequel also directed by Miller and Rodriguez was released in 2014, Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, but failed to match the success of its predecessor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sin City (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sin_City_(film)", "revision": 1376278789, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376278789", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sin%20City%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q271830", "text": "The Third Man is a 1949 film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard. Set in post-World War II Allied-occupied Vienna, the film centres on American writer Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that he has died. Martins stays in Vienna to investigate Lime's death, becoming infatuated with Lime's girlfriend Anna Schmidt (Valli).\nThe use of black-and-white German expressionist-influenced cinematography by Robert Krasker, with its harsh lighting and Dutch angles, is a major feature of The Third Man. Combined with the use of ruined locations in Vienna, the style evokes exhaustion and cynicism at the start of the Cold War.\nGreene wrote a novella as a treatment for the screenplay. Composer Anton Karas' title composition \"The Third Man Theme\" aka \"Harry Lime Theme\", topped the international music charts in 1950, bringing international fame to the previously unknown performer. The Third Man is considered one of the greatest films of all time, celebrated for its acting, musical score, and atmospheric cinematography.\nIn 1999, the British Film Institute voted The Third Man the greatest British film of all time. In 2011, a poll for Time Out ranked it the second-best British film ever.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Third Man", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man", "revision": 1373966807, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373966807", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Third%20Man&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q274167", "text": "The Exorcist is a 1973 American supernatural horror film directed by William Friedkin and produced by William Peter Blatty, who adapted his own 1971 novel. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Jason Miller, and Linda Blair, and follows the demonic possession of a young girl and the attempt to rescue her through an exorcism by two Catholic priests.\nBlatty and Friedkin had difficulty casting the film. Their choice of relative unknowns Burstyn, Blair, and Miller, instead of major stars, drew opposition from executives at Warner Bros. Principal photography was also difficult. Many cast and crew were injured, some died, and unusual accidents delayed shooting. Production took twice as long as scheduled and cost almost three times the initial budget; the many mishaps have led to a belief that the film was cursed.\nThe Exorcist was theatrically released in the United States on December 26, 1973, by Warner Bros. Reviews were mixed, but audiences waited in long lines during cold weather; the sold-out shows were even more profitable for Warner Bros., who had booked it into those theaters under four-wall distribution rental agreements, a first for any major studio. Some viewers suffered adverse physical reactions, fainting or vomiting to shocking scenes such as a realistic cerebral angiography. Many children were allowed to see the film, leading to charges that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA, now the MPA) had accommodated the studio by giving the film an R rating instead of an X rating to ensure the troubled production its commercial success. Several cities attempted to ban it outright or prevent children from attending. At the end of its original theatrical run, the film grossed $193 million, and has a lifetime gross of $441 million with subsequent re-releases.\n\nThe cultural conversation around the film helped it become the first horror film to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, as well as nine others. Blatty won Best Adapted Screenplay, while the sound engineers took Best Sound. It has had several sequels and was the highest-grossing R-rated horror film (unadjusted for inflation) until 2017's It. The Exorcist significantly influenced pop culture, and it has been included on lists of the greatest films ever made. In 2010, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Exorcist", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist", "revision": 1378074754, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378074754", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Exorcist&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201674", "text": "The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian-American steelworkers (inspired by Cimino's real-life Belarusian-American friend) whose lives are upended by fighting in the Vietnam War. The soldiers are played by Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage, with John Cazale (in his final role), Meryl Streep, and George Dzundza in supporting roles. The story takes place in Clairton, Pennsylvania (a working-class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh) and in Vietnam.\nThe film is based in part on an unproduced screenplay called The Man Who Came to Play by Louis A. Garfinkle and Quinn K. Redeker about Las Vegas and Russian roulette. Producer Michael Deeley, who bought the script, hired Cimino, who, with Deric Washburn, rewrote the script, taking the Russian roulette element and placing it in the Vietnam War. The film went over budget and over schedule, costing $15 million. Its production company EMI Films released it in other territories, while Universal Pictures handled its distribution in the United States and Canada.\nThe Deer Hunter received acclaim from critics and audiences, with praise for Cimino's direction, the performances of its cast, its screenplay, realistic themes and tones, and cinematography. It was also successful at the box office, grossing $49 million. At the 51st Academy Awards, it was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five: Best Picture, Best Director (for Cimino), Best Supporting Actor (for Walken), Best Sound, and Best Film Editing. It is Meryl Streep's first Academy Award nomination (for Best Supporting Actress).\nThe Deer Hunter has been included on lists of the best films ever made, including being named the 53rd-greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute in 2007 in their 10th Anniversary Edition of the AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list. In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Deer Hunter", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter", "revision": 1378572713, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378572713", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Deer%20Hunter&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q206388", "text": "Once Upon a Time in America (Italian: C'era una volta in America) is a 1984 epic crime film based on Harry Grey's semi-autobiographical 1952 novel The Hoods. Directed by Sergio Leone from a screenplay he co-wrote with Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Enrico Medioli, Franco Arcalli and Franco Ferrini, the film stars Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern, Joe Pesci, Burt Young, Tuesday Weld and Treat Williams. The film is an Italian–American venture produced by The Ladd Company, Embassy International Pictures, PSO Enterprises and Rafran Cinematografica, and distributed by Warner Bros. It chronicles the lives of best friends David \"Noodles\" Aaronson and Maximilian \"Max\" Bercovicz as they lead a group of Jewish ghetto youths who rise to prominence as Jewish gangsters in New York City's world of organized crime. The film explores themes of childhood friendships, love, lust, greed, betrayal, loss and broken relationships, together with the rise of mobsters in American society.\nIt is the final film in the 'once upon a time' trilogy and also the last film directed by Leone before his death five years later, and the first feature film that he had directed in 13 years. It is the third installment of Leone's Once Upon a Time Trilogy, which includes Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck, You Sucker! (1971). The cinematography is by Tonino Delli Colli, and the film score by Ennio Morricone. Leone originally envisaged two three-hour films, then a single 269-minute (4 hours and 29 minutes) version, but was convinced by distributors to shorten it to 229 minutes (3 hours and 49 minutes). The American distributors, The Ladd Company, further shortened it to 139 minutes (2 hours and 19 minutes), and rearranged the scenes into chronological order, without Leone's involvement.\nThe U.S. edit was a critical and commercial flop in the United States, and critics who had seen both versions harshly condemned the changes made. While sometimes considered one of Leone's most overlooked films, the original European cut of Once Upon a Time in America has remained a critical favorite and frequently appears in lists of the greatest films of all time, especially in the gangster genre.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Once Upon a Time in America", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_America", "revision": 1374821071, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374821071", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Once%20Upon%20a%20Time%20in%20America&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q206576", "text": "Hugo is a 2011 American adventure drama film directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, and adapted for the screen by John Logan. Based on Brian Selznick's 2007 book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, it tells the story of a boy who lives alone in the Gare Montparnasse railway station in Paris in the 1930s, only to become embroiled in a mystery surrounding his late father's automaton and the pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès.\nHugo is Scorsese's first film shot in 3D, about which the filmmaker remarked, \"I found 3D to be really interesting, because the actors were more upfront emotionally. Their slightest move, their slightest intention is picked up much more precisely.\" The film was released in the United States on November 23, 2011.\nDespite receiving considerable acclaim from critics, Hugo was a box-office bomb, grossing only $185 million against its estimated $150 million budget. The film received 11 Academy Award nominations (including Best Picture), more than any other film that year, winning a leading five awards: Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing, and Best Visual Effects. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, including Best Director, and winning two, and was nominated for three Golden Globes, including Scorsese's third win for Best Director.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hugo (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film)", "revision": 1376476296, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376476296", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hugo%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q243439", "text": "Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 war film directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick from a screenplay he co-wrote with Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 autobiographical novel The Short-Timers. It stars Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Baldwin, Dorian Harewood, and Arliss Howard.\nThe storyline follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina. The first half of the film focuses primarily on privates J. T. Davis and Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed \"Joker\" and \"Pyle\" respectively, who struggle under their abusive drill instructor, Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. The second half portrays the experiences of Joker and other Marines in the Vietnamese cities of Da Nang and Huế during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War. The film's title refers to the full metal jacket bullet used by military servicemen.\nFull Metal Jacket was theatrically released in the United States on June 26, 1987, by Warner Bros., and in the United Kingdom on September 11, 1987. It was the last of Kubrick's films to be released during his lifetime. The film grossed $120 million against a budget of $16.5–30 million and received positive reviews from critics. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, and was also nominated for two BAFTA Awards, while Ermey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his performance. In 2001, the American Film Institute placed the film at number 95 in its poll titled \"AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Full Metal Jacket", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Metal_Jacket", "revision": 1377085279, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377085279", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Full%20Metal%20Jacket&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135465", "text": "Rashomon (Japanese: 羅生門, Hepburn: Rashōmon) is a 1950 Japanese jidaigeki (period drama) psychological thriller film directed by Akira Kurosawa from a screenplay he co-wrote with Shinobu Hashimoto. Starring Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, and Takashi Shimura, it follows various people who describe how a samurai was murdered in a forest. The plot and characters are based upon Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story \"In a Grove\", with the title and framing story taken from Akutagawa's \"Rashōmon\". Every element is largely identical, from the murdered samurai speaking through a Shinto psychic to the bandit in the forest, the monk, the assault of the wife, and the dishonest retelling of the events in which everyone shows their ideal self by lying.\nProduction began in 1948 at Kurosawa's regular production firm Toho but was canceled as it was viewed as a financial risk. Two years later, Sōjirō Motoki pitched Rashomon to Daiei Film upon the completion of Kurosawa's Scandal. Daiei initially turned it down but eventually agreed to produce and distribute the film. Principal photography lasted from July 7 to August 17, 1950, taking place primarily in Kyoto on an estimated ¥15–20 million budget. When creating the film's visual style, Kurosawa and cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa experimented with various methods such as pointing the camera at the sun, which was considered taboo. Post-production took only one week.\nRashomon premiered at the Imperial Theatre on August 25, 1950, and was distributed throughout Japan the following day, to moderate commercial success, becoming Daiei's fourth highest-grossing film of 1950. Japanese critics praised the experimental direction and cinematography but criticized its adapting of Akutagawa's story and complexity. Upon winning the Golden Lion at the 12th Venice International Film Festival, Rashomon became the first Japanese film to attain significant international reception, garnering critical acclaim and earning roughly $800,000 abroad. It later won Best Foreign Language Film at the 24th Academy Awards, and was nominated for Best Film at the 6th British Academy Film Awards.\nRashomon is now considered one of the greatest films ever made and among the most influential movies from the 20th century. It pioneered the Rashomon effect, a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, alternative, and contradictory versions of the same incident. In 1999, critic Andrew Johnston asserted that \"the film's title has become synonymous with its chief narrative conceit\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rashomon", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon", "revision": 1376899431, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376899431", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rashomon&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q152857", "text": "Downfall (German: Der Untergang) is a 2004 German historical war drama film written and produced by Bernd Eichinger and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. It depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (portrayed by Bruno Ganz), during the Battle of Berlin in World War II, when Nazi Germany is on the verge of total defeat at the hands of the Allies. The cast includes Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes, Juliane Köhler, Heino Ferch, Christian Berkel, Alexander Held, Matthias Habich, and Thomas Kretschmann. The film is a German-Austrian-Italian co-production.\nPrincipal photography took place from September to November 2003, on location in Berlin, Munich, and Saint Petersburg, Russia. As the film is set in and around the Führerbunker, Hirschbiegel used eyewitness accounts, survivors' memoirs, and other historical sources during production to reconstruct the look and atmosphere of 1940s Berlin. The screenplay was based on the books Inside Hitler's Bunker by historian Joachim Fest and Until the Final Hour by Traudl Junge, one of Hitler's secretaries, among other accounts of the period.\nThe film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival on 14 September 2004. It was controversial with audiences for showing a human side of Hitler and members of the Third Reich. It later received a wide theatrical release in Germany under its production company Constantin Film. The film grossed over US$92 million. Downfall was a critical and commercial success, with international acclaim for the cast's performances (especially Ganz's portrayal of Hitler), Hirschbiegel's direction, and Eichinger's screenplay. It was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 77th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Downfall (2004 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downfall_(2004_film)", "revision": 1378199907, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378199907", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downfall%20(2004%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q153677", "text": "For a Few Dollars More (Italian: Per qualche dollaro in più) is a 1965 spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone. It stars Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef as bounty hunters, and Gian Maria Volonté as the primary villain. Klaus Kinski plays a supporting role as a secondary villain. The film was an international co-production between Italy, West Germany, and Spain. The film was released in the United States in 1967 and was marketed in the United States as the second installment in the Dollars Trilogy, preceded by A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and followed by The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "For a Few Dollars More", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_a_Few_Dollars_More", "revision": 1377400724, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377400724", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=For%20a%20Few%20Dollars%20More&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q466611", "text": "The Incredible Hulk is a 2008 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character the Hulk. Produced by Marvel Studios and Valhalla Motion Pictures, and distributed by Universal Pictures, it is the second film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). It was directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay by Zak Penn, and stars Edward Norton as Bruce Banner alongside Liv Tyler, Tim Roth, William Hurt, Tim Blake Nelson, Ty Burrell, and Christina Cabot. In the film, Banner becomes the monstrous Hulk as an unwitting pawn in a military scheme to reinvigorate the \"super soldier\" program through gamma radiation. He goes on the run from the military while attempting to cure himself of the Hulk.\nAfter the mixed reception to Universal's 2003 film Hulk, Marvel Studios reacquired the rights to the character, though Universal retained distribution rights. Leterrier was hired to direct, and Penn wrote a script that was closer to the comics and the 1978–1982 television series. In April 2007, Norton was hired to portray Banner and to rewrite Penn's screenplay. His script positioned the film as a reboot of the series, distancing it from the 2003 film to give the new version its own identity. Norton was ultimately not credited for his writing. Filming took place from July to November 2007, primarily in Toronto, with additional filming in New York City and Rio de Janeiro. Over 700 visual effects shots were created in post-production using a combination of motion capture and computer-generated imagery. Norton and Marvel Studios had various disagreements during production, including over the final edit.\nThe Incredible Hulk premiered at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, on June 8, 2008, and was released in the United States on June 13 as part of Phase One of the MCU. It was deemed a moderate success, grossing $265 million and receiving slightly better reviews than the 2003 film. A sequel was discussed but never materialized, in part due to rights issues with Universal. Mark Ruffalo took over the role of Banner for subsequent MCU appearances, starting with the crossover film The Avengers in 2012.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Incredible Hulk (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Hulk_(film)", "revision": 1377507355, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377507355", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Incredible%20Hulk%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q3512046", "text": "Jurassic World is a 2015 American science fiction action film directed by Colin Trevorrow, who co-wrote the screenplay with Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and Derek Connolly from a story by Jaffa and Silver. It is the first installment in the Jurassic World series and the fourth installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise, following Jurassic Park III (2001). It stars an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Irrfan Khan; BD Wong reprised his role from the original Jurassic Park film. Set twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, the film takes place on the same fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. A successful theme park of cloned dinosaurs, dubbed Jurassic World, has operated on the island for years, bringing John Hammond's dream to fruition. The park plunges into chaos when a transgenic dinosaur escapes from its enclosure and goes on a rampage.\nUniversal Pictures intended to begin production of a fourth Jurassic Park film in 2004 for a mid-2005 release, but the project lingered in development hell while the script underwent several revisions. Following a suggestion from executive producer Steven Spielberg, writers Jaffa and Silver explored the idea of a functional dinosaur park. Once Trevorrow was hired as director in 2013 he followed the same idea while developing a new script with Connolly. Filming lasted from April to August 2014 in Louisiana and Hawaii. Like the previous films, the dinosaurs were created by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic using CGI and by Legacy Effects using life-sized animatronics. Production was completed in May 2015.\nJurassic World premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on May 29, 2015, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 12, by Universal Pictures. It received generally favorable reviews, with some critics considering it to be the best Jurassic Park sequel. On release, it set several box office records, including for the largest opening weekend, both domestically and worldwide, and ultimately grossed $1.6 billion worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2015, the third highest-grossing film of all time, the highest-grossing in the Jurassic Park series and the highest-grossing film released by Universal until it was surpassed by The Odyssey in 2026. Three sequels have been released: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), Jurassic World Dominion (2022), and Jurassic World Rebirth (2025).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jurassic World", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_World", "revision": 1378079475, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378079475", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurassic%20World&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18154496", "text": "Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. The film follows The Boston Globe's \"Spotlight\" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Although the plot was original, it is based on a series of stories by the Spotlight team that earned The Globe the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The film features an ensemble cast including Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, John Slattery, Stanley Tucci, Brian d'Arcy James, Liev Schreiber, and Billy Crudup.\nSpotlight was shown in the Out of Competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival and the Special Presentations section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released on November 6, 2015, by Open Road Films and grossed $98 million worldwide. It received widespread critical praise, with critics lauding the performances of the cast, historical accuracy, and screenplay; it won numerous guilds' and critics' association awards, and was named one of the best films of 2015 by various publications. Spotlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture, along with Best Original Screenplay, from six total nominations, making it the first Best Picture winner since The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) to win only one other Oscar. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spotlight (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)", "revision": 1372731505, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372731505", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spotlight%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27894574", "text": "Bohemian Rhapsody is a 2018 musical biographical drama film that focuses on the life of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of the British rock band Queen, from the formation of the band in 1970 to their 1985 Live Aid performance at the original Wembley Stadium. The film was directed by Bryan Singer from a screenplay by Anthony McCarten, based on a story by McCarten and Peter Morgan. It stars Rami Malek as Mercury, with Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joe Mazzello, Aidan Gillen, Allen Leech, Tom Hollander, and Mike Myers in supporting roles. Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor also served as consultants.\nThe film was announced in late 2010, with Sacha Baron Cohen set to play Mercury. After he left the project in mid-2013 following creative differences with producers, the project languished until Malek was cast and Singer was hired as director in November 2016. Singer served as director through most of principal photography, which began in London in September 2017, but was fired in December of the same year due to frequent absences and clashes with the cast and crew. Dexter Fletcher, who was originally set to direct when the project was early in development, was hired to complete the film; Singer retained sole director credit as per Directors Guild of America guidelines, while Fletcher received an executive producer credit. Filming concluded in January 2018.\nBohemian Rhapsody premiered at the Wembley Arena on October 23, 2018, and was released by 20th Century Fox in the United Kingdom the next day and in the United States on 2 November, to mixed reviews from critics. While the musical sequences and Malek's performance were particularly praised, Singer's direction, the film's portrayal of Mercury and other personnel, and its use of creative licence were criticized. However, it became a major box office success, grossing over $911 million worldwide on a production budget of $50–55 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2018 worldwide and setting, at the time of its release, the all-time box office records for the biographical and drama genres. Since then, the film has slipped to the third highest-grossing biographical film. \nBohemian Rhapsody received numerous accolades, including a leading four wins at the 91st Academy Awards for Best Actor (Malek), Best Film Editing, Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing; it was also nominated for Best Picture. The film also won Best Motion Picture – Drama at the 76th Golden Globe Awards, and was nominated for the Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture and BAFTA Award for Best British Film, while Malek won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and BAFTA for Best Actor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bohemian Rhapsody (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Rhapsody_(film)", "revision": 1378722682, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378722682", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bohemian%20Rhapsody%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q30931", "text": "Die Another Day is a 2002 spy film and the twentieth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It was directed by Lee Tamahori, produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and written by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The fourth and final film starring Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, it was also the last with Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny. Halle Berry co-stars as Bond girl and NSA agent Jinx. In the film, Bond attempts to locate a traitor in British intelligence who betrayed him and a British billionaire who is later revealed to be connected to a North Korean operative who Bond seemingly killed. It is an original story, although it takes influence from Bond creator Ian Fleming's novels Moonraker (1955) and The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), as well as Kingsley Amis's novel, Colonel Sun. \nDie Another Day was released on 20 November 2002 internationally by 20th Century Fox and in the United States two days later by MGM Distribution Co. under the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer label. The film also marked the James Bond franchise's 40th anniversary, and includes references to each of the preceding films. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised Tamahori's direction, but criticised the reliance on CGI, product placement, plot and villain. Nevertheless, the film was a box-office success, grossing $432 million worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2002.\nThe next film in the series, Casino Royale, was released in November 2006, which also served as a reboot of the franchise with Daniel Craig replacing Brosnan as Bond.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Die Another Day", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Another_Day", "revision": 1377440885, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377440885", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Die%20Another%20Day&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q595", "text": "The Intouchables (French: Intouchables, pronounced [ɛ̃tuʃablə]), also known as Untouchable in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia, and 1+1 in Eastern Europe, is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. It stars François Cluzet and Omar Sy. The plot of the film is inspired by the true story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo and his French-Algerian carer Abdel Sellou, discovered by the directors in À la vie, à la mort, a documentary film.\nNine weeks after its release in France on 2 November 2011, it became the second highest-grossing French film in France, after the 2008 film Welcome to the Sticks. The film was voted the cultural event of 2011 in France with 52% of votes in a poll by Fnac. Until it was eclipsed in 2014 by Lucy, it was the most-viewed French film in the world with 51.5 million tickets sold.\nThe film received positive reviews and several award nominations. In France, the film won the César Award for Best Actor for Sy and garnered seven further nominations for the César Awards, including the César Award for Best Actor for Cluzet. Five percent of the film's profits were donated to Simon de Cyrène, an association that helps paralyzed people.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Intouchables", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intouchables", "revision": 1378018675, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378018675", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Intouchables&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q12018", "text": "8½ (Italian: Otto e mezzo [ˈɔtto e ˈmɛddzo]) is a 1963 Italian avant-garde comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The metafictional narrative centers on famous Italian film director Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) who suffers from writer's block as he attempts to direct an epic science fiction film. Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Barbara Steele, and Eddra Gale portray the various women in Guido's life. An international co-production between France and Italy, the film was shot in black and white by cinematographer Gianni Di Venanzo and features a score by Nino Rota, with costume and set designs by Piero Gherardi.\n8½ was critically acclaimed and won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Costume Design (black-and-white). It is acknowledged as an avant-garde film and a highly influential classic. It was ranked 10th on the British Film Institute's The Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time 2012 critics' poll and 4th by directors. It is included in the Vatican's compilation of 45 important films made before 1995, the 100th anniversary of cinema. The film ranked 7th in BBC's 2018 list of The 100 Greatest Foreign Language Films voted by 209 film critics from 43 countries around the world.\nIt was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that \"have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978\". It is considered to be one of the greatest and most influential films of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "8½", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%C2%BD", "revision": 1374390481, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374390481", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=8%C2%BD&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19069", "text": "The Magnificent Seven is a 1960 American action Western film directed by John Sturges. The screenplay, credited to William Roberts, is a remake – in an Old West-style – of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai (itself initially released in the United States as The Magnificent Seven). The ensemble cast includes Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Horst Buchholz, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, Brad Dexter and James Coburn as a group of seven gunfighters hired to protect a small village in Mexico from a group of marauding bandits led by the ruthless chief Calvera (Eli Wallach).\nThe film was released by United Artists on October 12, 1960, becoming both a critical and commercial success and has been appraised as one of the greatest films of the Western genre. It spawned three sequels, a television series that aired from 1998 to 2000, and a 2016 film remake. Elmer Bernstein's film score was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score and is listed on the American Film Institute's list of the top 25 American film scores.\nIn 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Magnificent Seven", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnificent_Seven", "revision": 1375494804, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375494804", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Magnificent%20Seven&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q169082", "text": "10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American teen romantic comedy directed by Gil Junger (in his directorial debut) from a screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith. Loosely inspired by and based on William Shakespeare's comedy The Taming of the Shrew, it stars Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, Larry Miller, Andrew Keegan, David Krumholtz, Susan May Pratt, and Gabrielle Union. \nIn the film, high-school student Cameron James (Gordon-Levitt) is unable to date sophomore Bianca Stratford (Oleynik) until her asocial feminist senior sister Kat (Stiles) dates, leading to Cameron recruiting bad boy classmate Patrick Verona (Ledger) to date Kat.\nDevelopment on 10 Things I Hate About You began once Lutz and Smith completed the screenplay in November 1997, with Junger attached to direct soon after. He sought to cast lesser profile actors for the film's lead roles; Stiles joined after several actors declined the role, while Ledger was cast three-and-a-half week prior to the start of principal photography, which took place between June and August 1998 in Tacoma and Seattle.\n10 Things I Hate About You was theatrically released in the United States on 31 March 1999, by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for its screenplay and Stiles', Ledger's and Gordon-Levitt's performances: the film became their breakthrough roles. It grossed $53.5 million worldwide. 10 Things I Hate About You gained praise in later years for its themes and characters, becoming considered a cult classic and as one of the best teen romantic comedies of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "10 Things I Hate About You", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Things_I_Hate_About_You", "revision": 1376886470, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376886470", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=10%20Things%20I%20Hate%20About%20You&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q188000", "text": "Crash is a 2004 American crime drama film directed by Paul Haggis, who co-wrote the screenplay and produced the film with Robert Moresco. A self-described \"passion piece\" for Haggis, the film features racial and social tensions in Los Angeles and was inspired by a real-life incident in which Haggis's Porsche was carjacked in 1991 outside a video store on Wilshire Boulevard. The film features an ensemble cast, including Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris \"Ludacris\" Bridges, Thandiwe Newton, Michael Peña, Larenz Tate and Ryan Phillippe.\nCrash premiered at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2004, before it was released in theaters on May 6, 2005, by Lions Gate Films. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised the direction and performances (particularly Dillon's) but criticized the portrayal of race relations as simplistic and unsubtle. The film was a success at the box office, earning $98.4 million worldwide against its $6.5 million budget.\nThe film earned several accolades and nominations. Dillon received nominations for Best Supporting Actor from the Academy Awards, BAFTA, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild. Additionally, the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. The film received six Academy Award nominations and won three: Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing, at the 78th Academy Awards. It was also nominated for nine BAFTA Awards and won two, for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress for Newton.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Crash (2004 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_(2004_film)", "revision": 1375195383, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375195383", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Crash%20(2004%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q192934", "text": "Angels & Demons is a 2009 American mystery thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Akiva Goldsman and David Koepp. It is based on Dan Brown's 2000 novel of the same title. A sequel to the 2006 film The Da Vinci Code, also directed by Howard, it is the second installment in the Robert Langdon film series; however, the novel version was published before The Da Vinci Code novel.\nFilming took place primarily between June and October 2008 in Rome, Italy, and the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California. Tom Hanks reprises his role as Professor Robert Langdon, while Ayelet Zurer stars as Dr. Vittoria Vetra, a CERN scientist joining Langdon in the quest to recover a missing vial of antimatter from a mysterious Illuminati terrorist. Producer Brian Grazer, composer Hans Zimmer and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman also return, with Koepp coming on board to help the latter.\nAngels and Demons premiered in Rome on May 4, 2009, and was released on May 15, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. It grossed $485.9 million worldwide against a $150 million production budget, becoming the ninth highest-grossing film of 2009, and received mixed reviews from critics, who considered it an improvement over its predecessor. A sequel, titled Inferno, concluded the series in 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Angels & Demons (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_%26_Demons_(film)", "revision": 1371610965, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371610965", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angels%20%26%20Demons%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193066", "text": "Breakfast at Tiffany's is a 1961 American romantic comedy film directed by Blake Edwards from a screenplay by George Axelrod and based on the 1958 novella by Truman Capote. It stars Audrey Hepburn, George Peppard, Patricia Neal, Buddy Ebsen, Martin Balsam, and Mickey Rooney. In the film, Holly Golightly, a naïve, eccentric socialite, meets a struggling writer who moves into her apartment building.\nDevelopment for the film began soon after the publication of Capote's novel, with several actors, including Marilyn Monroe, Shirley MacLaine, Kim Novak, Steve McQueen, Jack Lemmon, and Robert Wagner, considered for the lead roles prior to Hepburn and Peppard being cast. The screenplay, which deviates from Capote's novella (wherein both lead characters are gay), was originally completed by Axelrod and director John Frankenheimer, who was replaced by Edwards well into pre-production. Principal photography began on October 2, 1960, with filming taking place in New York City and at the Studios at Paramount in Hollywood, California. The film's music was composed by Henry Mancini and the lyrics for the theme song, \"Moon River\" were written by Johnny Mercer.\nBreakfast at Tiffany's was released in the United States on October 5, 1961, by Paramount Pictures. It grossed $14 million worldwide and received critical acclaim for its music and Hepburn's style and performance, being nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Hepburn, and winning two (Music Score of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture for Mancini and Best Song for Mancini and Mercer). The film also received numerous other accolades, although Rooney's portrayal of the character I. Y. Yunioshi garnered significant subsequent controversy for being perceived as racist. In 2012, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Breakfast at Tiffany's (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast_at_Tiffany's_(film)", "revision": 1378303865, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378303865", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breakfast%20at%20Tiffany's%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193570", "text": "Sunset Boulevard is a 1950 American black comedy film noir directed by Billy Wilder and co-written by Wilder, Charles Brackett, and D. M. Marshman Jr. It is named after a major street that runs through Hollywood and western Los Angeles.\nThe film stars William Holden as Joe Gillis, a struggling screenwriter, and Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, a former silent film star who draws him into her deranged fantasy world, where she dreams of making a triumphant return to the screen. Erich von Stroheim plays Max von Mayerling, her devoted butler, and Nancy Olson, Jack Webb, Lloyd Gough, and Fred Clark appear in supporting roles. Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by silent film stars Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, and Anna Q. Nilsson.\nPraised by many critics when first released, Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Academy Awards, including nominations in all four acting categories, and won three. It is often ranked among the greatest movies ever made. As it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the US Library of Congress in 1989, Sunset Boulevard was included in the first group of films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked number 12 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of the 20th century; in 2007, it was ranked 16th on their updated 10th Anniversary list.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sunset Boulevard (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_Boulevard_(film)", "revision": 1377185679, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377185679", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunset%20Boulevard%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193577", "text": "Kramer vs. Kramer is a 1979 American legal drama film written and directed by Robert Benton, based on Avery Corman's 1977 novel. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry and Jane Alexander. It tells the story of a couple's divorce, its effect on their young son, and the subsequent evolution of their relationship and views on parenting. Kramer vs. Kramer explores the psychology and fallout of divorce, and touches on emerging and prevailing social issues such as gender roles, fathers' rights, work-life balance, and single parents.\nKramer vs. Kramer was theatrically released December 19, 1979, by Columbia Pictures. The film emerged as a major commercial success at the box office, grossing more than $173 million on an $8 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing film of 1979 in the United States and Canada. It received widespread critical acclaim upon release, with high praise for its direction, story, screenplay and performances of the cast, with major praise directed towards Hoffman and Streep's performances.\nKramer vs. Kramer received a leading nine nominations at the 52nd Academy Awards, including Best Supporting Actor (for Henry) and Best Supporting Actress (for Alexander and Streep), and won a leading five awards – Best Picture, Best Director (for Benton), Best Actor (for Hoffman), Best Supporting Actress (for Streep) and Best Adapted Screenplay. At the 37th Golden Globe Awards, the film received a leading eight nominations, including Best Director (for Benton), Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture (for Henry) and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (for Alexander), and won a leading four awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (for Hoffman) and Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture (for Streep). It also received six nominations at the 34th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, Best Direction (for Benton), Best Actor in a Leading Role (for Hoffman) and Best Actress in a Leading Role (for Streep).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Kramer vs. Kramer", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kramer_vs._Kramer", "revision": 1378290384, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378290384", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kramer%20vs.%20Kramer&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q244963", "text": "First Blood is a 1982 American action thriller film starring Sylvester Stallone as Vietnam War veteran John Rambo. The film was directed by Ted Kotcheff and co-written by Michael Kozoll, William Sackheim, and Stallone based on the 1972 novel First Blood by David Morrell. It is the first installment in the Rambo film series. The story follows Rambo, who, after entering a small town and clashing with the police, attempts to fight in order to survive a manhunt using his expertise in survival and combat skills obtained from fighting in Vietnam. The film costars Richard Crenna as Rambo's mentor Colonel Sam Trautman and Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle.\nFirst Blood was released in the United States on October 22, 1982. Initial reviews were mixed, but the film was a box-office success, grossing $125.2 million and becoming the 13th-highest-grossing film at the domestic box office for the year and the seventh-highest-grossing film worldwide. In 1985, it also became the first Hollywood blockbuster to be released in China, holding the record for the largest number of tickets sold for an American film until 2018. Since its release, it has been reappraised by critics, with many highlighting the roles of Stallone, Dennehy and Crenna, and recognizing it as an influential film in the action genre.\nThe film's success spawned the Rambo franchise, consisting of four sequels co-written by and starring Stallone, an animated television series, a comic books series, a novelization series and several video games. It was followed by Rambo: First Blood Part II, released in 1985. A prequel, John Rambo is scheduled to be released in 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "First Blood", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Blood", "revision": 1378627569, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378627569", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First%20Blood&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q272599", "text": "All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 American pre-Code epic anti-war film based on the 1929 novel of the same name by German novelist Erich Maria Remarque. Directed by Lewis Milestone, it stars Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Slim Summerville, and William Bakewell.\nThe film opened to wide acclaim in the United States. Considered a realistic and harrowing account of warfare in World War I, it made the American Film Institute's first 100 Years...100 Movies list in 1997. A decade later, after the same organization polled over 1,501 workers in the creative community, All Quiet on the Western Front was ranked the seventh-best American epic film.\nIn 1990, it was selected and preserved by the United States Library of Congress' National Film Registry, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". The film was the first to win the Academy Awards for both Outstanding Production and Best Director, and it is the first Best Picture-winner based on a finished novel. As a film published in 1930, it entered the public domain on January 1, 2026, following expiry of the copyright on the novel in 2024.\nA sequel to the film, The Road Back (1937), portrays troops from 2nd Company returning home after the end of World War I.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Quiet_on_the_Western_Front_(1930_film)", "revision": 1376534975, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376534975", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All%20Quiet%20on%20the%20Western%20Front%20(1930%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q272608", "text": "Mulholland Drive is a 2001 mystery film written and directed by David Lynch. Its narrative is characterized by surrealist and neo-noir elements, and follows an aspiring actress (Naomi Watts) newly arrived in Los Angeles, where she befriends a car crash victim (Laura Harring) who is suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director (Justin Theroux) must deal with interference from the criminal underworld while casting his latest film.\nThe film was originally conceived as a television pilot for ABC, with footage shot and edited in 1999 as an open-ended mystery. After viewing Lynch's cut, however, ABC executives cancelled the proposed series. Lynch then secured funding from French production company StudioCanal to repurpose the footage into a film, for which he wrote an ending and filmed new material. The resulting film, edited and produced by Lynch's frequent collaborator (and briefly wife) Mary Sweeney, has left the story's events open to interpretation. Lynch's refusal to offer an explanation left audiences, critics, and even the film's own cast to speculate on its meaning. The film considerably boosted Watts's Hollywood profile and marked the last feature film role of veteran Hollywood star Ann Miller.\nMulholland Drive received widespread critical acclaim, earning Lynch the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director. It was also a moderate commercial success, grossing $20.1 million on a budget of $15 million. It is frequently cited as one of the greatest films of the 2000s, the 21st century and among the best films of all time. \nThe 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time critics' poll ranked it at No. 8, while the director's poll ranked it at No. 22. The BBC and IndieWire named it the best film of the 21st century, and the LA Film Critics Association listed it as the best film of the 2000s. In 2025, The New York Times ranked it at No. 2 on their list of the 100 Best Movies of the 21st Century, while The Ringer named Watts's performance as the greatest of the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mulholland Drive (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulholland_Drive_(film)", "revision": 1375912640, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375912640", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mulholland%20Drive%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105624", "text": "The Bourne Identity is a 2002 American action-thriller film directed by Doug Liman and written by Tony Gilroy and William Blake Herron. Based on Robert Ludlum's 1980 novel of the same name, it is the first installment in the Bourne franchise, and stars Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Chris Cooper, Clive Owen, Brian Cox, and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje. In the film, Jason Bourne (Damon) has psychogenic amnesia and is forced to fight to unlock his identity and his mysterious connection to the CIA.\nAttempts to develop a feature film adaptation of Ludlum's novel first began in 1981 but stalled after being passed to different distributors, with Warner Bros. producing a television film adaptation in 1988. Liman revived the feature film project in 1996 and worked with Ludlum and David Self on its screenplay after Gilroy initially declined: Gilroy made several changes to the script upon joining, with additional contributions from Herron. After Damon and Potente were cast, principal photography began in October 2000 and lasted until February 2001, with filming taking place in Paris, Prague, Imperia, Rome, Mykonos, and Zürich. Production was troubled: the creators frequently clashed with studio executives over delays, costs, last-minute changes, and unexpected reshoots.\nOriginally set for release in September 2001, it was theatrically released in the United States on June 14, 2002, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics, with many considering it one of the most influential action films of all time, and grossed $214 million worldwide on a budget of $60 million. It was followed by the sequels The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Jason Bourne (2016).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Bourne Identity (2002 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Identity_(2002_film)", "revision": 1377509819, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377509819", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Bourne%20Identity%20(2002%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107226", "text": "The Bourne Ultimatum is a 2007 American action-thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's character Jason Bourne, a CIA assassin and psychogenic amnesiac portrayed by Matt Damon. Julia Stiles, David Strathairn, Scott Glenn, Paddy Considine, Édgar Ramírez, Albert Finney, and Joan Allen also star. The film was directed by Paul Greengrass and written by Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, and George Nolfi. Loosely based on the novel of the same name, the story takes place both during and after the events of The Bourne Supremacy (2004), and follows Bourne as he continues searching for information about his past before joining Treadstone, while also being pursued by a similar program, Blackbriar.\nFollowing the release of Supremacy, Greengrass agreed to return to direct the third installment. Gilroy, the writer of the previous two films, wanted to explore Bourne seeking redemption for his murders, an aspect that he felt was missing from the previous film. Principal photography began in New York City on October 2, 2006. The visual effects were produced by Double Negative.\nThe Bourne Ultimatum premiered at ArcLight Hollywood on July 25, 2007, before being theatrically released on August 3 in the United States, by Universal Pictures. It received critical acclaim, grossed $444 million worldwide, and won three Academy Awards. A fourth film, The Bourne Legacy, was released in 2012, without the involvement of Damon or Greengrass. A sequel to Ultimatum, titled simply Jason Bourne, was released in 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Bourne Ultimatum (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bourne_Ultimatum_(film)", "revision": 1371531004, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371531004", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Bourne%20Ultimatum%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q110138", "text": "Top Gun is a 1986 American action drama film film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, with distribution by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps Jr., and was inspired by an article titled \"Top Guns\", written by Ehud Yonay and published in California magazine three years earlier. It stars Tom Cruise as Lieutenant Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell, a young naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. He and his radar intercept officer, Lieutenant (junior grade) Nick \"Goose\" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), are given the chance to train at the United States Navy's Fighter Weapons School (Top Gun) at Naval Air Station Miramar in San Diego, California. Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer, and Tom Skerritt also appear in supporting roles.\nTop Gun was released in the United States on May 16, 1986. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its visual effects, soundtrack, and dogfight sequences, but criticism for its plot, characters, and reliance on style over substance. Despite this, four weeks after its release, the number of theaters showing it increased by 45 percent, and it overcame initial critical resistance to become a huge commercial hit, grossing over $360 million worldwide against a production budget of $15 million. Top Gun was the highest-grossing film of 1986.\nThe film maintained its popularity over the years and earned an IMAX 3D re-release in 2013, while the retrospective critical reception became more positive, with the film also emerging as a cult classic. Additionally, the soundtrack to the film has since become one of the most popular film soundtracks to date, reaching 9× Platinum certification. The film won both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe for \"Take My Breath Away\" performed by Berlin.\nIn 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". A sequel, Top Gun: Maverick, in which Cruise and Kilmer reprised their roles, was released 36 years later on May 27, 2022, to widespread critical acclaim and commercial success.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Top Gun", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun", "revision": 1376799898, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376799898", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top%20Gun&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116928", "text": "The Twilight Saga: New Moon is a 2009 American romantic fantasy film directed by Chris Weitz from a screenplay by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the 2006 novel New Moon by Stephenie Meyer. It is the sequel to Twilight (2008) and the second installment in The Twilight Saga film series. The film stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner, reprising their roles as Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, and Jacob Black, respectively. In the film, Bella gets closer with Jacob, who is a werewolf, after Edward leaves her, but when the vampire decides to take a drastic move, she must make a decision between the two.\nSummit Entertainment announced it had greenlit the film on November 22, 2008, following the early success of Twilight. Principal photography began on March 23, 2009, in Vancouver, Canada, and ended in Montepulciano, Italy on May 29.\nThe Twilight Saga: New Moon premiered at the Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California on November 16, 2009, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 20, by Summit Entertainment. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and grossed $712 million worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2009. It set domestic box office records as the biggest midnight opening in the United States and Canada, grossing $26.3 million, which was superseded by its sequel, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. This led to the highest single-day domestic gross on an opening day, with $72.7 million, until it was beaten by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011). The film also became the widest independent release, playing in 4,024 theaters, until it was surpassed by The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. New Moon was released on DVD and Blu-ray on March 20, 2010. As of July 2012, the film has grossed $184.9 million in North American DVD sales, selling more than 8.8 million units, four million of which were sold within its first weekend, beating Twilight's 3.8 million units sold in its first two days.\nThe film was followed by three more sequels, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2, in 2010, 2011, and 2012, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Twilight Saga: New Moon", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Twilight_Saga%3A_New_Moon", "revision": 1375310760, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375310760", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Twilight%20Saga%3A%20New%20Moon&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208266", "text": "Out of Africa is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book Shadows on the Grass and other sources.\nThe book was adapted into a screenplay by Kurt Luedtke, and this screenplay was filmed in 1984. Streep played Karen Blixen, Redford played Denys Finch Hatton, and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film include Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole, Malick Bowens as Farah, Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief, Michael Gough as Lord Delamere, Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model and actress Iman as Mariammo. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also a commercial success and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director for Pollack.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Out of Africa (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_Africa_(film)", "revision": 1360803304, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360803304", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Out%20of%20Africa%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q211372", "text": "On the Waterfront is a 1954 American crime drama film, directed by Elia Kazan and written by Budd Schulberg. It stars Marlon Brando, and features Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb, Rod Steiger, Pat Henning and Eva Marie Saint in her film debut. The musical score was composed by Leonard Bernstein, his only original film score. The black-and-white film was inspired by \"Crime on the Waterfront\" by Malcolm Johnson, a series of articles published in November–December 1948 in the New York Sun which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, but the screenplay by Budd Schulberg is directly based on his own original story. The film focuses on union violence and corruption among longshoremen, while detailing widespread corruption, extortion, and racketeering on the waterfronts of Hoboken, New Jersey.\nOn the Waterfront was a critical and commercial success and is considered one of the greatest films ever made and is said to revolve around the subject matter of alienation at the lowest social level. It received twelve Academy Award nominations and won eight, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Brando, Best Supporting Actress for Saint, and Best Director for Kazan. In 1998, it was ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth-greatest American movie of all time; in AFI's 2007 list, it was ranked 19th. It is Bernstein's only original film score not adapted from a stage production with songs.\nIn 1989, On the Waterfront was one of the first 25 films to be deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "On the Waterfront", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Waterfront", "revision": 1375508217, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375508217", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=On%20the%20Waterfront&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q212145", "text": "The World Is Not Enough is a 1999 spy film, the nineteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and the third to star Pierce Brosnan as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Michael Apted, from an original story and screenplay by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade, and Bruce Feirstein. It was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. The title is the translation of the motto on the Bond family coat of arms, first seen in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.\nThe film's plot revolves around the murder of billionaire businessman Sir Robert King by the terrorist Renard, and Bond's subsequent assignment to protect King's daughter Elektra, who was previously held for ransom by Renard. During his assignment, Bond unravels a scheme to increase petroleum prices by triggering a nuclear meltdown in the waters of Istanbul.\nFilming locations included Spain, France, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and the UK, with interiors shot at Pinewood Studios. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, with the plot and Denise Richards' casting frequently targeted for criticism, The World Is Not Enough earned over $361 million worldwide, becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 1999, as well as the highest-grossing James Bond film at the time. It was also the first Eon-produced Bond film officially released by the mainline Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer label instead of United Artists, the franchise's original owner and distributor.\nThe World Is Not Enough was followed by Die Another Day in 2002.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The World Is Not Enough", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Is_Not_Enough", "revision": 1376707651, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376707651", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20World%20Is%20Not%20Enough&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q212689", "text": "I Am Legend is a 2007 American post-apocalyptic action horror thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman and Mark Protosevich and starring Will Smith as U.S. Army virologist Robert Neville. Loosely based on the 1954 novel of the same name by Richard Matheson, the film is set in New York City after a virus, which was originally created to cure cancer, has wiped out most of mankind, leaving Neville as the last human in New York City, other than nocturnal mutants. Immune to the virus, Neville works to develop a cure while defending himself against the hostile mutants. It is the third feature-film adaptation of Matheson's novel following 1964's The Last Man on Earth and 1971's The Omega Man.\nWarner Bros. Pictures began developing I Am Legend in 1994, and various actors and directors were attached to the project, though production was delayed due to budgetary concerns related to the script. Production began in 2006 in New York City, filming mainly on location in the city, including a $5 million scene at the Brooklyn Bridge.\nI Am Legend was released on December 14, 2007, in the United States and Canada. It opened to the largest-ever box office (not adjusted for inflation) for a non-Christmas film released in the U.S. in December, and was the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2007, earning $256 million domestically and $329 million internationally for a total of $585 million. The film received generally positive reviews, with Smith's performance being singled out for praise, while criticism focused on its divergences from the novel, particularly the ending. In 2022, a sequel was revealed to be in development, with Smith set to reprise his role as Neville and co-produce the film with Michael B. Jordan, who will also have a starring role.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "I Am Legend (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(film)", "revision": 1378615432, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378615432", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%20Am%20Legend%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q213208", "text": "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift is a 2006 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is a standalone sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), and the third installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. It is set between Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and Furious 7 (2015). It stars Lucas Black and Bow Wow. In the film, the car enthusiast Sean Boswell (Black) is sent to live in Tokyo with his estranged father and finds solace exploring the city's drifting community.\nA third Fast & Furious film was confirmed in June 2005, when Lin was selected as director. Morgan was hired after an open call soon after, thus marking the first film in the franchise's longtime association with Lin, Morgan, actor Sung Kang, and composer Brian Tyler. Principal photography began in August 2005 and lasted until that November, with filming locations including Los Angeles and Tokyo, making Tokyo Drift the first film in the franchise to feature an international filming location.\nThe film premiered at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on June 4, 2006, and was released in the United States on June 16, by Universal Pictures. It grossed $159 million worldwide, making it the lowest-grossing film in the franchise. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its driving sequences but criticism for its screenplay and acting performances. In subsequent years, Tokyo Drift has garnered a more favorable view, with some critics considering it one of the best of the franchise. The next installment, Fast & Furious, was released in 2009.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fast_and_the_Furious%3A_Tokyo_Drift", "revision": 1378661372, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378661372", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Fast%20and%20the%20Furious%3A%20Tokyo%20Drift&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q222720", "text": "Fargo is a 1996 black comedy crime film written, directed, produced and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. It stars Frances McDormand, William H. Macy, Steve Buscemi, Harve Presnell, and Peter Stormare. The film follows a pregnant police chief (McDormand), who investigates after a car salesman (Macy) hires two dimwitted criminals (Buscemi and Stormare) to kidnap his wife to extort a ransom from her wealthy father.\nFilmed in the United States in early 1995, Fargo premiered at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. Joel Coen won the festival's Prix De La Mise En Scène (Best Director Award). The film was a critical and commercial success, earning particular acclaim for the Coens' screenplay and direction and the performances of McDormand, Macy and Buscemi. Fargo received seven Oscar nominations at the 69th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Macy, winning two: Best Actress for McDormand and Best Original Screenplay for the Coens.\nIn 1998, the American Film Institute named Fargo one of the 100 greatest American films, the most recent film on that list; but it was omitted from its 2007 list. In 2006, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". An FX television series based on the film, Fargo, premiered in 2014.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fargo (1996 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fargo_(1996_film)", "revision": 1376925150, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376925150", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fargo%20(1996%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q222939", "text": "Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston from a screenplay by Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor, and Jim Strain, based on the 1981 children's picture book by Chris Van Allsburg. The film is the first installment in the Jumanji film series and stars Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, David Alan Grier, Bonnie Hunt, Jonathan Hyde, and Bebe Neuwirth. The story centers on a supernatural board game that unleashes jungle-based hazards on its players with every turn they take. The film was produced by Interscope Communications and Golden Mean Productions, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing through its TriStar Pictures label.\nJumanji premiered on December 10, 1995, in Culver City, California, and went into general release on December 15. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $263 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $65 million. It was the tenth highest-grossing film of 1995.\nThe film spawned an animated television series that aired from 1996 to 1999, and was followed by a spin-off film, Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and two sequels, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), with a third and final sequel, Jumanji: Open World, set to be released in 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jumanji (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumanji_(film)", "revision": 1378151105, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378151105", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jumanji%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q232774", "text": "Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) and the third installment in the Transformers film series. Like its predecessor, the film was directed by Michael Bay, and written by Ehren Kruger. Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn, and Julie White reprise their roles from the previous films, with Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, and Frances McDormand joining the cast. In the film, Optimus Prime and Sam Witwicky must lead the Autobots against Megatron and the Decepticons as they battle to possess powerful technology abandoned on the Moon in order to restore Cybertron.\nDevelopment of a third Transformers film began in May 2007. The film employed both regular 35 mm film cameras and specially developed 3D cameras, with filming locations in Chicago, Florida, Indiana, Milwaukee, Moscow, and Washington, D.C. The visual effects involved more complex robots than the previous films, which took longer to render. The release date was moved from July 1 to June 29, in order to monitor an early response to footage.\nEarly screenings took place on June 28, 2011, one night before worldwide release by Paramount Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $1.124 billion worldwide, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film in history at the time, and the second highest-grossing film of 2011. Like the first film, it was nominated for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects at the Academy Awards. It was followed by Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Transformers: Dark of the Moon", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A_Dark_of_the_Moon", "revision": 1378753754, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378753754", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformers%3A%20Dark%20of%20the%20Moon&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q243643", "text": "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows is a 2011 period mystery action film and the sequel to the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes. The film is directed by Guy Ritchie and produced by Dan Lin, Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, and Susan Downey.\nThe film's screenplay was written by Kieran Mulroney and Michele Mulroney. Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law reprise their roles as Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively, alongside Noomi Rapace as Madame Simza \"Sim\" Heron, Jared Harris as Professor Moriarty, Stephen Fry as Mycroft Holmes, Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade, William Houston as Constable Clark, and Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler. Although the film follows an original premise, it incorporates more closely elements of Conan Doyle's short stories, including \"The Final Problem\" and \"The Adventure of the Empty House\". In the film, Holmes and Watson travel across Europe with a Romani fortune-teller to foil an intricate plot by the cunning Professor Moriarty to instigate a major European conflict.\nThough the film received predominantly mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences and the performances of Downey, Law, and Harris, and \ncriticism over the poor use of its supporting cast, particularly McAdams, it was commercially successful, with a worldwide gross of over $543 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes%3A_A_Game_of_Shadows", "revision": 1366044100, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366044100", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherlock%20Holmes%3A%20A%20Game%20of%20Shadows&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q153882", "text": "The Lives of Others (German: Das Leben der Anderen, pronounced [das ˈleːbn deːɐ̯ ˈʔandəʁən] ) is a 2006 German drama film written and directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, marking his feature film directorial debut. The story centres around the covert audio surveillance of East Berlin residents by a senior operative of the Stasi, the secret police of the former East Germany (German Democratic Republic). It stars Ulrich Mühe as Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler, Ulrich Tukur as his superior Anton Grubitz, Sebastian Koch as the playwright Georg Dreyman, and Martina Gedeck as Dreyman's lover, a prominent actress named Christa-Maria Sieland.\nThe film was released by Buena Vista International in Germany on 23 March 2006 and by Sony Pictures Classics in North America on 7 February 2007. At the same time, the screenplay was published by Suhrkamp Verlag.\nThe Lives of Others won the 2007 Academy Award for Best International Feature Film. The film had earlier won seven Deutscher Filmpreis awards—including those for best film, best director, best screenplay, best actor, and best supporting actor—after setting a new record with 11 nominations. It also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and European Film Award for Best Film, while it was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The Lives of Others cost US$2 million and grossed more than US$77 million worldwide.\nReleased 17 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, marking the end of the German Democratic Republic, it was the first notable drama film about the subject after a series of comedies such as Good Bye, Lenin! and Sonnenallee. This approach was widely applauded in Germany, and the film was complimented for its accurate tone despite some criticism that Wiesler's character was depicted unrealistically and with undue sympathy. The film's authenticity was considered praiseworthy, given that the director grew up outside of East Germany and was 16 when the Berlin Wall fell.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lives of Others", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others", "revision": 1375759107, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375759107", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lives%20of%20Others&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q487181", "text": "Requiem for a Dream is a 2000 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Aronofsky and Hubert Selby Jr., based on Selby's 1978 novel. It stars Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Christopher McDonald and Marlon Wayans. The film depicts four characters affected by drug addiction and how it alters their physical and emotional states. Their addictions cause them to become imprisoned in a world of delusion and desperation. As the film progresses, each character deteriorates, and their delusions are shattered by the harsh reality of their situations, resulting in catastrophe.\nSelby's novel was optioned by Aronofsky and producer Eric Watson. Selby had always intended to adapt the novel into a film, and he had written a script years prior. Aronofsky was enthusiastic about the story and developed the script with Selby, despite struggles to obtain funding. He and the cast said the film was about addiction in general, and not just drugs, and how chasing a dream can fuel an addiction with a theme of loneliness and avoidance of reality in different ways. Principal photography took place in Brooklyn, New York, from April to June 1999. The music was composed by Clint Mansell and Jay Rabinowitz was the editor.\nRequiem for a Dream premiered at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, selected as an out-of-competition entry, followed by the United States theatrical release on October 6, 2000, by Artisan Entertainment. It grossed $7 million on a $4 million budget and received positive reviews. Burstyn was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Requiem for a Dream", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requiem_for_a_Dream", "revision": 1375503973, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375503973", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Requiem%20for%20a%20Dream&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q488655", "text": "Groundhog Day is a 1993 American fantasy romantic comedy film directed by Harold Ramis, who co-wrote the screenplay with Danny Rubin. Starring Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, and Chris Elliott, it tells the story of a cynical television weatherman covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, who becomes trapped in a time loop, forcing him to relive February 2 repeatedly. The film also features Stephen Tobolowsky, Brian Doyle-Murray, Marita Geraghty, Angela Paton, Rick Ducommun, Rick Overton, and Robin Duke in supporting roles.\nRubin conceived Groundhog Day in the early 1990s. He wrote it as a spec script to gain meetings with producers for other work. It eventually came to the attention of Ramis, who worked with Rubin to make his idea less dark in tone and more palatable to a general audience by enhancing the comedy. Murray clashed with Ramis over the script; he wanted to focus on the philosophical elements, whereas Ramis concentrated on the comedic aspects. Principal photography took place from March to June 1992, almost entirely in Woodstock, Illinois. Filming was difficult, in part because of bitterly cold weather but also because of the ongoing conflict between Ramis and Murray.\nGroundhog Day premiered at the Fox Village Theatre on February 4, 1993 and was released by Columbia Pictures on February 12. Earning over $105 million, it became one of the year's highest-grossing films. It also received generally positive reviews. Critics praised the melding of sentimental and cynical moments, and the philosophical message beneath the comedy. It was nominated for multiple awards and won a BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film marked the end of Murray and Ramis's longtime collaborative partnership, which had produced films like Caddyshack (1980) and Ghostbusters (1984). After filming ended, the pair did not speak to each other until shortly before Ramis's death in 2014. The film was a showcase for Murray; he had previously been seen primarily as a comic actor, and his performance led to more serious roles in critically acclaimed films.\nIn the years since its release, the film has grown in esteem; it is often considered among the greatest films of the 1990s and one of the greatest comedy films. It has also had a significant effect on popular culture: the term Groundhog Day, meaning a monotonous, unpleasant, and repetitive situation, has become part of the English lexicon. Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish scholars have analyzed the film as a religious allegory. Groundhog Day is also credited with having ushered in mainstream acceptance of comedy films with fantasy-genre elements, and popularizing time loop narratives. In 2006, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry. Groundhog Day was adapted into a 2016 musical, and inspired a 2019 video game sequel, Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Groundhog Day (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundhog_Day_(film)", "revision": 1378820308, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378820308", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Groundhog%20Day%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q321561", "text": "Scent of a Woman is a 1992 American drama film produced and directed by Martin Brest that tells the story of a preparatory school student who takes a short-term job near Thanksgiving as a companion and assistant to a retired Army lieutenant colonel who is blind, depressed and irritable. The film was adapted by Bo Goldman from the Italian novel Il buio e il miele (Italian: Darkness and Honey) by Giovanni Arpino. This was previously adapted by Dino Risi for his 1974 Italian film Profumo di donna.\nThe American film stars Al Pacino and Chris O'Donnell, with James Rebhorn, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gabrielle Anwar and Bradley Whitford in supporting roles. The film was shot primarily around New York State, and on location at Princeton University in New Jersey. Scenes were shot at the Emma Willard School, an all-girls school in Troy, New York; as well as at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Fieldston School in New York City.\nThe film had a limited theatrical release on December 23, 1992 by Universal Pictures, expanding nationwide on January 8, 1993. It received generally positive responses from critics and was a box-office success. Pacino won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance and the film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published. The film won three Golden Globe Awards, for Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Motion Picture – Drama.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Scent of a Woman (1992 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scent_of_a_Woman_(1992_film)", "revision": 1374260587, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374260587", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scent%20of%20a%20Woman%20(1992%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q337078", "text": "The Big Lebowski () is a 1998 neo-noir crime comedy film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Joel and Ethan Coen, and starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, Steve Buscemi, and John Turturro. It follows the life of Jeffrey \"The Dude\" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker and avid bowler who is assaulted as a result of mistaken identity, and becomes embroiled in a kidnapping and ransom scheme focused on a millionaire who shares his name.\nThe film is loosely inspired by the work of Raymond Chandler. Joel Coen said, \"We wanted to do a Chandler kind of story—how it moves episodically and deals with the characters trying to unravel a mystery, as well as having a hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant.\" The score is by Carter Burwell, a longtime collaborator of the Coen brothers.\nThe Big Lebowski was produced by Working Title Films and distributed by Gramercy Pictures in the United States and Canada and by PolyGram Filmed Entertainment internationally. It received mixed reviews at the time of its release. Reviews have since become largely positive and the film, noted for its eccentric characters, comedic dream sequences, idiosyncratic dialogue, and eclectic soundtrack, has garnered a cult following. In 2014, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Big Lebowski", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski", "revision": 1372689346, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689346", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Big%20Lebowski&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1757288", "text": "Mad Max: Fury Road is a 2015 Australian post-apocalyptic action film co-written, co-produced and directed by George Miller, who collaborated with Brendan McCarthy and Nico Lathouris on the screenplay. The fourth instalment in the Mad Max franchise, it was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Kennedy Miller Mitchell, and distributed by Roadshow Entertainment in Australia and by Warner Bros. Pictures internationally. The film stars Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, with Nicholas Hoult, Hugh Keays-Byrne (in his final film role), Josh Helman, Nathan Jones, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Riley Keough, Zoë Kravitz, Abbey Lee, and Courtney Eaton. Set in a post-apocalyptic desert wasteland where petrol and water are scarce commodities, it follows Max Rockatansky (Hardy), who joins forces with Imperator Furiosa (Theron) against warlord Immortan Joe (Keays-Byrne) and his army, leading to a lengthy road battle.\nMiller came up with the idea for Mad Max: Fury Road in 1987, but the film spent many years in development hell before pre-production began in 1998. Attempts to shoot the film in the 2000s were delayed numerous times due to the September 11 attacks, the Iraq War, and controversies surrounding star Mel Gibson, leading Miller to recast Gibson's role of Max Rockatansky. Miller decided to pursue the film again in 2007 after the release of his animated comedy film Happy Feet. In 2009, Miller announced that filming would begin in early 2011. Hardy was cast as Max in June 2010, with production planned to begin that November. Principal photography was delayed several more times before it actually began in July 2012. The film wrapped in December 2012, although additional footage was shot in November 2013.\nMad Max: Fury Road premiered in Los Angeles on 7 May 2015, and was released in Australia on 14 May. The film grossed $380.4 million at the worldwide box office, making it the highest-grossing Mad Max film. It was nominated for ten awards at the 88th Academy Awards, winning six awards, and received numerous other accolades, including Best Film from the National Board of Review, eight AACTA Awards from twelve nominations including Best Film and Best Direction and was also named one of the top ten films of 2015 by the American Film Institute. It has also been called one of the greatest action films of all time.\nA prequel comic book series was published by Vertigo from May to August 2015. A prequel film, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, was released on 24 May 2024, with Miller returning as writer and director.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mad Max: Fury Road", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max%3A_Fury_Road", "revision": 1378712128, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378712128", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mad%20Max%3A%20Fury%20Road&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q15624215", "text": "Lucy is a 2014 English-language French science fiction action film written and directed by Luc Besson for his company EuropaCorp, and produced by his wife, Virginie Besson-Silla. It was shot in Taipei, Paris, and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson, Morgan Freeman, Choi Min-sik, and Amr Waked. Johansson portrays Lucy, a woman who gains psychokinetic abilities when a nootropic, psychedelic drug is absorbed into her bloodstream.\nThe film was released on 25 July 2014 and became a massive box office success, grossing over $469 million worldwide, more than eleven times the budget of $40 million. It received generally positive, but also polarized, critical reviews. Although praise was given for its themes, visuals, and Johansson's performance, many critics found the plot nonsensical, especially its focus on the ten-percent-of-the-brain myth and resulting abilities.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Lucy (2014 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_(2014_film)", "revision": 1375851146, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375851146", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lucy%20(2014%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q15648198", "text": "Whiplash is a 2014 American drama film written and directed by Damien Chazelle, and starring Miles Teller, J. K. Simmons, and Paul Reiser. It focuses on an ambitious music student and aspiring jazz drummer (Teller), who is pushed to his limit by his abusive instructor (Simmons).\nThe film was produced by Bold Films, Blumhouse Productions, and Right of Way Films. Sony Pictures acquired distribution rights for most of the world, releasing the film under Sony Pictures Classics in North America, Germany, and Australia, and Stage 6 Films in the UK, Scandinavia, Benelux, Eastern Europe (excluding the CIS), Greece, South Africa, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Latin America.\nChazelle completed the script in 2013, drawing upon his experiences in a \"very competitive\" jazz band in high school. Soon after, Right of Way and Blumhouse helped Chazelle turn fifteen pages of the screenplay into an 18-minute short film, Whiplash (2013). The short film received acclaim after debuting at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, which attracted investors to produce the complete version of the script. Filming took place in September 2013 throughout Los Angeles over twenty days. The film explores concepts of perfectionism, dedication, and success, and deconstructs the concept of ambition.\nWhiplash premiered in competition at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival on January 16, as the festival's opening film, where it won the Audience Award Dramatic and the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic. It opened in limited release domestically in the United States and Canada on October 10, 2014, gradually expanding to over 500 screens and finally closing on March 26, 2015. Whiplash received acclaim for its screenplay, direction, editing, sound mixing and Simmons’s performance. It grossed $50 million on a $3.3 million budget during its original theatrical run. Its accolades include Academy Awards for Best Film Editing and Best Sound Mixing, and it was nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Simmons won the Academy, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Critics' Choice, and Screen Actors Guild awards for Best Supporting Actor. Whiplash has since been assessed as one of the best films of the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Whiplash (2014 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiplash_(2014_film)", "revision": 1376896449, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376896449", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whiplash%20(2014%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q16857406", "text": "The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action/photorealistically animated remake of Walt Disney's animated 1967 film (itself loosely based on Rudyard Kipling's story collection of the same name) and the fourth adaptation by Disney thereof. It was directed by Jon Favreau and written by Justin Marks. Neel Sethi plays Mowgli, the orphaned human boy who, guided by his animal guardians, sets out on a journey of self-discovery while evading the threatening Shere Khan. The film includes voice and motion capture performances from Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong'o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Christopher Walken.\nFavreau, Marks, and producer Brigham Taylor developed the film's story as a balance between Disney's animated feature film adaptation and Rudyard Kipling's original works, borrowing elements from both into the film. Principal photography commenced in 2014, with filming taking place entirely in Los Angeles. The film required extensive use of computer-generated imagery to portray the other animals and settings.\nThe Jungle Book premiered at El Capitan Theatre on April 4, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 15. The film was a critical and commercial success, with the Rotten Tomatoes critical consensus describing it \"as lovely to behold as it is engrossing to watch\", and grossed $966.6 million worldwide, making it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2016. Amongst Disney's live-action remakes, the film is the eighth-most-expensive and fifth-highest-grossing readaptation to date. The film won accolades for achievements in visual effects at the 89th Academy Awards, 22nd Critics' Choice Awards, and 70th British Academy Film Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Jungle Book (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle_Book_(2016_film)", "revision": 1377736314, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377736314", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Jungle%20Book%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18486021", "text": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, or simply The Last Jedi, is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015), and the eighth episode of the nine-part \"Skywalker saga\". The film's cast includes Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels, Gwendoline Christie, Kelly Marie Tran, Laura Dern, and Benicio del Toro. The Last Jedi follows Rey as she seeks the aid of Luke Skywalker in hopes of turning the tide for the Resistance in the fight against Kylo Ren and the First Order while General Leia Organa, Finn, and Poe Dameron attempt to escape a First Order attack on the dwindling Resistance fleet. The film is dedicated to Fisher, who died in December 2016.\nThe Last Jedi is part of a new trilogy of films announced after Disney's acquisition of Lucasfilm in October 2012. It was produced by Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Ram Bergman and executive produced by The Force Awakens director J. J. Abrams. John Williams, composer for the previous episodic films, returned to compose the score. A number of scenes were filmed at Skellig Michael in Ireland during pre-production in September 2015, but principal photography began at Pinewood Studios in England in February 2016 and wrapped that July.\nThe Last Jedi premiered in Los Angeles on December 9, 2017, and was released in the United States on December 15. It grossed $1.334 billion worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2017 and the ninth-highest-grossing film of all time by the time its theatrical run was over. It is also the second-highest-grossing Star Wars film and turned a net profit of $417 million. The film was critically acclaimed and received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, including Best Original Score and Best Visual Effects, as well as two nominations at the 71st British Academy Film Awards. A sequel, The Rise of Skywalker, concluded the sequel trilogy in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Wars: The Last Jedi", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Last_Jedi", "revision": 1378307833, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378307833", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Last%20Jedi&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q25136757", "text": "Call Me by Your Name is a 2017 romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino. Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also co-produced, is based on the 2007 novel by André Aciman. The film is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic \"Desire\" trilogy, after I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015). Set in northern Italy in 1983, Call Me by Your Name chronicles the romantic relationship between 17-year-old Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father Samuel (Michael Stuhlbarg), an archaeology professor. The film also stars Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, and Victoire Du Bois.\nDevelopment began in 2007 when producers Peter Spears and Howard Rosenman optioned the rights to Aciman's novel. Ivory was chosen to co-direct with Guadagnino, but stepped down in 2016. Guadagnino joined the project as a location scout and eventually became sole director and co-producer. Call Me by Your Name was financed by several international companies, and its principal photography took place mainly in the city and comune of Crema, Lombardy, in May and June 2016. Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom used 35 mm film, as opposed to employing digital cinematography. The filmmakers spent weeks decorating Villa Albergoni, one of the main shooting locations. Guadagnino curated the film's soundtrack, which features three original songs by American singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens.\nSony Pictures Classics acquired worldwide distribution rights to Call Me by Your Name before its premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival on January 22, 2017. The film began a limited release in the United States on November 24, 2017, and went on general release on January 19, 2018. It received widespread critical acclaim, particularly for Ivory's screenplay, Guadagnino's direction, Mukdeeprom's cinematography, and the performances of Chalamet, Hammer, and Stuhlbarg. The film garnered a number of accolades, including many for its screenplay, direction, acting, and music. It received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor for 22-year-old Chalamet (the third-youngest nominee in the category), and won Best Adapted Screenplay, making Ivory the oldest winner of a competitive Academy Award in any category. The screenplay also won at the 23rd Critics' Choice Awards, 71st British Academy Film Awards, and the 70th Writers Guild of America Awards. Call Me by Your Name is now considered one of the best films of the 21st century.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Call Me by Your Name (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_Me_by_Your_Name_(film)", "revision": 1378620368, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378620368", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Call%20Me%20by%20Your%20Name%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27188178", "text": "Aladdin is a 2019 American musical fantasy film and a live-action adaptation of Disney's 1992 animated film, itself based on the Middle-Eastern folk tale. Directed by Guy Ritchie and written by Ritchie and John August, the film stars Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad, and Billy Magnussen. The story follows an Arabian street urchin named Aladdin, who discovers a magic lamp containing a genie, with whose help he disguises himself as a wealthy prince and tries to impress the Sultan of Agrabah to win the heart of his free-spirited daughter, Princess Jasmine, as the Sultan's evil vizier and sorcerer, Jafar, plots to steal the magic lamp.\nIn October 2016, Disney announced Ritchie would direct a live-action remake of Aladdin. Smith was the first member of the cast to join, signing on to portray Genie in July 2017, and Massoud and Scott were confirmed for the other two lead roles later that month. Principal photography began that September at Longcross Studios in Surrey, England, and ended in January 2018. Filming also took place in the Wadi Rum Desert in Jordan. Additional filming and pick-ups took place in August 2018.\nAladdin premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on May 8, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 24. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed over $1 billion worldwide, making it the ninth highest-grossing film of 2019. Amongst Disney's live-action remakes, the film is the eighth-most-expensive and third-highest-grossing to date.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Aladdin (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aladdin_(2019_film)", "revision": 1378561030, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378561030", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aladdin%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q29906232", "text": "Sonic the Hedgehog is a 2020 action-adventure comedy film based on the Sonic video game series. It is the first installment in the Sonic the Hedgehog film series, it was directed by Jeff Fowler (in his feature film directorial debut), written by Pat Casey and Josh Miller, and stars James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Tika Sumpter, Natasha Rothwell, Adam Pally, Neal McDonough, and Jim Carrey. Schwartz voices Sonic, a blue hedgehog who can run at supersonic speeds, who teams up with the town sheriff Tom Wachowski (Marsden) to stop the mad scientist Dr. Robotnik (Carrey) from taking over the world.\nDevelopment for a Sonic film began in the 1990s but did not leave the planning stage until Sony Pictures acquired the film rights in 2013. Fowler was hired in 2016. After Sony put the project in turnaround, Paramount Pictures acquired it in 2017. Most of the cast signed on by August 2018. Principal photography took place between September and October that year in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, with a release date set for November 8, 2019. Following negative reaction to the film's first trailer, wherein Sonic appeared to look like a real hedgehog, Paramount delayed the film by three months to redesign Sonic to more resemble his look in the video games.\nSonic the Hedgehog premiered at the Paramount Pictures studio lot on January 25, 2020. It was theatrically released in the United States on February 14 and in Japan on June 26, and received mixed reviews. It set the record for the biggest opening weekend for a video game film in the United States and Canada and grossed $320 million worldwide, becoming the sixth highest-grossing film of 2020 and the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in North America. It was followed by Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022), Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) and a television miniseries, Knuckles (2024).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sonic the Hedgehog (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(film)", "revision": 1378501221, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378501221", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sonic%20the%20Hedgehog%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q50861", "text": "Live Free or Die Hard (released as Die Hard 4.0 outside North America) is a 2007 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman. It is the sequel to Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) and the fourth installment in the Die Hard film series. It is based on the 1997 article \"A Farewell to Arms\" written for Wired magazine by John Carlin. The film's name references New Hampshire's state motto, \"Live Free or Die\".\nIn the film, NYPD Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) attempts to stop a cyber-terrorist, Thomas Gabriel (Timothy Olyphant) who hacks into government and commercial computers across the United States with the goal of starting a \"fire sale\" cyber attack that would disable key elements of the nation's infrastructure. Justin Long, Cliff Curtis, Maggie Q, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Kevin Smith also star.\nLive Free or Die Hard was released in the United States on June 27, 2007 by 20th Century Fox. The film grossed $383 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing installment in the Die Hard series. It received positive reviews from critics. It is the only Die Hard film to be theatrically released with a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, although an unrated edition would later be made available on home media. A fifth film, A Good Day to Die Hard, was released in 2013.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Live Free or Die Hard", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Free_or_Die_Hard", "revision": 1377057587, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377057587", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live%20Free%20or%20Die%20Hard&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24953", "text": "Monty Python's Life of Brian is a 1979 British black comedy film starring and written by the comedy group Monty Python (Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin). Directed by Jones, the film incorporates surrealism and satire which parodies the biblical history of the birth and death of Jesus Christ. The film tells the story of Brian Cohen (played by Chapman), a young Judaean man who is born on the same day as—and next door to—Jesus, and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah.\nFollowing the withdrawal of funding by EMI Films just days before production was scheduled to begin, musician and former Beatle George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brien arranged financing for Life of Brian through the formation of their HandMade Films company.\nThe film's themes of religious satire were controversial at the time of its release, drawing accusations of blasphemy and protests from some religious groups. In the United Kingdom, the film was given an AA (14) rating by the British Board of Film Classification, though 11 local councils outright banned the film, while a further 28 raised the rating from AA to X across their jurisdictions. (This certificate would later be amended, from AA to 15 in 1988, and from 15 to 12A in 2019.) Some countries, including Ireland and Norway, banned its showing; and, in a few of these, such as Italy, bans lasted over a decade. The filmmakers used the notoriety to promote the film, with posters in Sweden reading, \"So funny it was banned in Norway!\"\nThe film was a box office success. It was the fourth highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom in 1979 and the highest-grossing of any British film in the United States that year. It has remained popular and has been named as the greatest comedy film of all time by several magazines and television networks. In a 2006 Channel 4 poll, Life of Brian was ranked first on their list of the 50 Greatest Comedy Films.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Monty Python's Life of Brian", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian", "revision": 1378067444, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378067444", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Monty%20Python's%20Life%20of%20Brian&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27411", "text": "Scream is a 1996 American slasher film directed by Wes Craven and written by Kevin Williamson. It stars David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, and Drew Barrymore. Set in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California, the plot follows high school student Sidney Prescott (Campbell) and her friends as they become the targets of a costumed serial killer on the anniversary of her mother's murder.\nWilliamson, who was struggling to get his projects off the ground, was inspired by reports of the Gainesville Ripper murders to write a screenplay that satirized the clichés of the slasher genre popularized by films such as Halloween (1978), Friday the 13th (1980), and Craven's own A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). Developed under the title Scary Movie, the script became the subject of an intense bidding war among multiple studios before Miramax Films purchased the rights for its Dimension Films label. Although Craven initially declined the project several times, he agreed to direct after reading the script, hoping to re-establish himself following a series of career setbacks. The involvement of the well-known Barrymore and Cox helped secure additional studio support. Principal photography took place in California from April to June 1996 on a budget of $15 million. Craven also trimmed the film's violence following a dispute with the Motion Picture Association of America over securing an R rating.\nReleased on December 20, Scream was not expected to perform well because of concerns about releasing a slasher film during the Christmas season. However, strong word of mouth helped it gross approximately $173 million worldwide, making it an unexpected success and one of the year's highest-grossing films. Contemporary reviews were positive, with praise directed toward the film's self-aware humor and effectiveness as a slasher film, although some felt its meta approach was overly irreverent.\nIn the years since its release, Scream has been regarded as a cultural touchstone and one of the most influential horror films of the 1990s. It has been credited with revitalizing the slasher genre and popularizing a self-aware, metatextual approach to horror that influenced numerous later works. Its opening sequence, in which Barrymore's character is unexpectedly killed, became particularly noted for its tension and subversion of audience expectations. The film's success launched a franchise, which includes the sequels Scream 2 (1997), Scream 3 (2000), Scream 4 (2011), Scream (2022), Scream VI (2023), and Scream 7 (2026), as well as an anthology television series.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Scream (1996 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_(1996_film)", "revision": 1378704480, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378704480", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scream%20(1996%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18407", "text": "La Dolce Vita (Italian: [la ˈdoltʃe ˈviːta]; Italian for 'the sweet life' or 'the good life') is a 1960 satirical comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini and written by Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, and Brunello Rondi. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as Marcello Rubini, a tabloid journalist who, over seven days and nights, journeys through the \"sweet life\" of Rome in a fruitless search for love and happiness. The screenplay can be divided into a prologue, seven major episodes interrupted by an intermezzo, and an epilogue, according to the most common interpretation.\nReleased in Italy on 5 February 1960, La Dolce Vita was both a critical success and worldwide commercial hit, despite censorship in some regions. It won the Palme d'Or at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Costumes. It was nominated for three more Oscars, including Best Director for Federico Fellini, and Best Original Screenplay. Its success proved a watershed moment for Italian cinema and European cinema-at-large, and it has come to be regarded as a masterpiece of Italian cinema, as well as one of the greatest films ever made.\nThe character of Paparazzo, the news photographer (portrayed by Walter Santesso) is the origin of the word paparazzi, used in many languages to describe intrusive photographers. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage's 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that \"have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "La Dolce Vita", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Dolce_Vita", "revision": 1375981952, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375981952", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20Dolce%20Vita&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q191074", "text": "Babel is a 2006 psychological drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. The multi-narrative drama features an ensemble cast and portrays interwoven stories taking place in Morocco, Japan, Mexico, and the United States. An international co-production among companies based in Japan, Mexico, the United States and France, the film completes Arriaga and Iñárritu's Death Trilogy, following Amores perros (2000) and 21 Grams (2003).\nBabel was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where González Iñárritu won the Best Director Award. The film was later screened at the Toronto International Film Festival. It opened in selected cities in the United States on 27 October 2006, and went into wide release on 10 November 2006. Babel received positive reviews and was a financial success, grossing $135 million worldwide. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and received seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, and two nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Adriana Barraza and Rinko Kikuchi). It won the award for Best Original Score (Gustavo Santaolalla).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Babel (2006 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel_(2006_film)", "revision": 1378783447, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378783447", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Babel%20(2006%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107761", "text": "You Only Live Twice is a 1967 spy film and the sixth film in the James Bond series, and the fifth film in the series if the non-Eon Productions Casino Royale (1967 film) is excluded. The film's screenplay was written by Roald Dahl, and was loosely based on Ian Fleming's 1964 novel You Only Live Twice. It is the first of three Bond films to be directed by Lewis Gilbert, and is the first Bond film to discard most of Fleming's plot, using only a few characters and locations from the book as the background for an entirely new story.\nYou Only Live Twice stars Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, who is dispatched to Japan after American and Soviet spacecraft vanish mysteriously, each nation blaming the other amidst the Cold War. Bond travels to a remote island to find the perpetrators, and comes face-to-face with Ernst Stavro Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE, an organisation that is working for the government of an unnamed Asian power, implied to be China, to provoke war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Although the character Blofeld played a role in previous films, You Only Live Twice is the first film to show his face.\nDuring the filming in Japan, it was announced that Sean Connery would leave the role of Bond, but after one film's absence, he returned in 1971's Diamonds Are Forever and later in 1983's non-Eon Bond film Never Say Never Again. You Only Live Twice received positive reviews and grossed over $111 million (equivalent to $1.1 billion in 2025) in worldwide box office. However, it was the first Bond film to see a decline in box-office revenue, primarily owing to the oversaturation of the spy film genre from Bond imitators, including a competing Bond film, Casino Royale, from Columbia Pictures (1967). The series continued with On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969, the first official Bond film without Connery in the lead role.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "You Only Live Twice (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Live_Twice_(film)", "revision": 1378434635, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378434635", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=You%20Only%20Live%20Twice%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201215", "text": "My Fair Lady is a 1964 American musical comedy drama film adapted from Lerner and Loewe's 1956 stage musical based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 stage play Pygmalion. With a screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner and directed by George Cukor, the film depicts a poor Cockney flower-seller named Eliza Doolittle who overhears phonetics scholar Henry Higgins casually wager that he could teach her to speak English so well she could pass for a duchess in Edwardian-era London, or (better yet, from Eliza's viewpoint) secure employment in a flower store. It stars Audrey Hepburn as Doolittle, replacing Julie Andrews from the stage musical, and Rex Harrison as Higgins, reprising his role from the stage, with Stanley Holloway, Gladys Cooper and Wilfrid Hyde-White in supporting roles. \nA critical and commercial success, it became the second-highest-grossing film of 1964, after Mary Poppins, and won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. The American Film Institute included the film as #91 in its 1998 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies, as #12 in its 2002 AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions, and as #8 in its 2006 AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals. In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\"", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "My Fair Lady (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady_(film)", "revision": 1378298451, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378298451", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=My%20Fair%20Lady%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201687", "text": "Milk is a 2008 American biographical drama film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film stars Sean Penn as Milk, alongside Emile Hirsch, Josh Brolin, Diego Luna, and James Franco.\nAttempts to put Milk's life to film followed a 1984 documentary of his life and the aftermath of his assassination, titled The Times of Harvey Milk, which was loosely based upon Randy Shilts's 1982 biography, The Mayor of Castro Street (the film won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for 1984, and was awarded Special Jury Prize at the first Sundance Film Festival, among other awards). Various scripts were considered in the early 1990s, but projects fell through for different reasons, until 2007. Much of Milk was filmed on Castro Street and other locations in San Francisco, including Milk's former storefront, Castro Camera.\nThe film was released to critical acclaim and grossed $54.6 million worldwide. It earned numerous accolades from film critics and guilds for Penn's and Brolin's performances, Van Sant's directing and Black's screenplay, it received eight Oscar nominations at the 81st Academy Awards, including Best Picture and went on to win two: Best Actor for Penn and Best Original Screenplay for Black.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Milk (2008 American film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_(2008_American_film)", "revision": 1375180039, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375180039", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Milk%20(2008%20American%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207916", "text": "Tomorrow Never Dies is a 1997 spy film, the eighteenth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions and the second to star Pierce Brosnan as fictional MI6 agent James Bond. Directed by Roger Spottiswoode from a screenplay by Bruce Feirstein, it follows Bond as he seeks to stop Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce), a powerful media tycoon with a God complex, from engineering a third world war.\nThe film was produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It was the first Bond film made after the death of producer Albert R. Broccoli (to whom it pays tribute in the end credits) and the last released under the United Artists label. Filming locations included France, Thailand, Germany, Mexico and the United Kingdom.\nTomorrow Never Dies performed well at the box office, grossing over $339 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 1997 and earning a Golden Globe nomination. Despite mixed reviews upon release, retrospectives on the film highlight its prescience at predicting the prevalence and dangers of fake news. While its performance at the U.S. box office surpassed that of its predecessor GoldenEye, it was the only one of Brosnan's Bond films not to open at No. 1 at the box office, as it opened the same day as Titanic, and finished at No. 2 that week. It was followed by The World Is Not Enough in 1999.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Tomorrow Never Dies", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Dies", "revision": 1376706391, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376706391", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tomorrow%20Never%20Dies&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207954", "text": "Pretty Woman is a 1990 American romantic comedy film directed by Garry Marshall and written by J. F. Lawton. The film stars Richard Gere and Julia Roberts and features Héctor Elizondo, Ralph Bellamy (in his final performance), Laura San Giacomo, and Jason Alexander in supporting roles.\nThe film's story centers on Hollywood escort Vivian Ward and wealthy corporate raider Edward Lewis. Vivian is hired to be Edward's escort for several business and social functions, and their relationship develops during her week-long stay with him. The film's title Pretty Woman is based on the 1964 song \"Oh, Pretty Woman\" by Roy Orbison.\nThe original screenplay was titled 3000 and was written by then-struggling screenwriter J. F. Lawton. Originally intended to be a dark cautionary tale about class and prostitution in Los Angeles, the film was reconceived as a romantic comedy with a large budget. Pretty Woman received mixed reviews from critics upon release, but widespread praise was directed towards Roberts' performance and her chemistry with Gere. It had the highest number of ticket sales in the US ever for a romantic comedy, with Box Office Mojo listing it as the number-one romantic comedy by the highest estimated domestic tickets sold at 42,176,400, slightly ahead of My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002) at 41,419,500 tickets. The film grossed US$463.4 million worldwide and at the time of its release, was the fifth-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide, behind only E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial ($701 million at the time), Star Wars ($530 million at the time), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade ($474 million at the time), and Jaws ($470 million at the time). It was also the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time (surpassing Rain Man) until it was surpassed by Terminator 2: Judgment Day in 1991, but remained the highest-grossing R-rated film released by Walt Disney Studios (surpassing Cocktail), holding the record for 34 years until Marvel Studios' Deadpool & Wolverine surpassed it in 2024.\nPretty Woman catapulted Roberts to superstardom, earning her the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical, in addition to her first nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The film also received nominations for the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pretty Woman", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Woman", "revision": 1375017481, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375017481", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pretty%20Woman&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q213081", "text": "Star Trek is a 2009 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams, and written by Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. It is the 11th film in the Star Trek franchise, and is also a reboot that features the main characters of the original Star Trek television series portrayed by a new cast, as the first in the rebooted film series. The film follows James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) aboard the USS Enterprise as they combat Nero (Eric Bana), a Romulan from their future who threatens the United Federation of Planets. The story takes place in an alternate reality that features both an alternate birth location for James T. Kirk and further alterations in history stemming from the time travel of both Nero and the original series Spock (Leonard Nimoy). The alternate reality was created in an attempt to free the film and the franchise from established continuity constraints while simultaneously preserving original story elements.\nThe idea for a prequel film which would follow the Star Trek characters during their time in Starfleet Academy was first discussed by the series creator, Gene Roddenberry, in 1968. The concept resurfaced in the late 1980s, when it was postulated by Harve Bennett as a possible plotline for what would become Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but it was rejected in favor of other projects by Roddenberry. Following the critical and commercial failure of Star Trek: Nemesis and the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the franchise's executive producer, Rick Berman, and the screenwriter Erik Jendresen wrote an unproduced film titled Star Trek: The Beginning, which would take place after Enterprise. After the separation of Viacom and CBS Corporation in 2005, former Paramount Pictures president Gail Berman convinced CBS to allow Paramount to produce a new film in the franchise. Orci and Kurtzman were soon approached to write the film, and Abrams was approached to direct it. Kurtzman and Orci used inspiration from novels and graduate school dissertations, as well as the series itself. Principal photography occurred between November 2007 and March 2008, in locations around California and Utah. Abrams wanted to avoid using greenscreen, and preferred sets and locations instead. Heavy secrecy surrounded the production of the film, which was under the fake working title Corporate Headquarters. Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) used digital ships for the film, as opposed to miniatures used in most of the previous films in the franchise. Production for the film concluded by the end of 2008.\nStar Trek was heavily promoted in the months preceding its release; pre-release screenings for the film premiered in select cities around the world, including Austin, Sydney, and Calgary. It was released in the United States on May 8, 2009, to critical acclaim. The film was a financial success, grossing over $385 million worldwide against its $150 million production budget. It was nominated for several awards, including four at the 82nd Academy Awards, winning Best Makeup—the only Academy Award a Star Trek film has won. It was followed by the sequels Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) and Star Trek Beyond (2016).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Trek (2009 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_(2009_film)", "revision": 1378050816, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378050816", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20(2009%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q219776", "text": "X2 (also marketed with the subtitle X-Men United, and known internationally as X-Men 2) is a 2003 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and David Hayter, from a story by Singer, Hayter and Zak Penn, it is the second installment in the X-Men film series and the sequel to X-Men (2000). It stars an ensemble cast including Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Rebecca Romijn, Brian Cox, Alan Cumming, Bruce Davison, Shawn Ashmore, Aaron Stanford, Kelly Hu, and Anna Paquin. The plot concerns the genocidal Colonel William Stryker leading an assault on Professor Xavier's school to build his own version of Xavier's mutant-tracking computer, Cerebro, to destroy every mutant on Earth and to save the human race from them, forcing the X-Men to team up with the Brotherhood of Mutants to stop Stryker and save the mutant race.\nDevelopment on the sequel began shortly after the first film was released on July 14, 2000, by 20th Century Fox. David Hayter and Zak Penn wrote separate scripts, combining what they felt to be the best elements of both scripts into one screenplay. Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris were eventually hired to rewrite the work, and changed the characterizations of Beast, Angel, and Lady Deathstrike. Sentinels and the Danger Room were set to appear before being deleted because of budget concerns from Fox. The film's premise was influenced by comic storyline \"Return to Weapon X\" and the graphic novel God Loves, Man Kills. Filming began in June 2002 and ended that November, mostly taking place at Vancouver Film Studios, the largest North American production facility outside of Los Angeles. Production designer Guy Hendrix Dyas adapted similar designs by John Myhre from the previous film.\nX2 was released in the United States on May 2, 2003, by 20th Century Fox, and received positive reviews for its storyline, musical score, action sequences, and performances. The film grossed $407 million worldwide, making it the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2003, and received eight Saturn Awards nominations. A sequel, X-Men: The Last Stand, was released on May 26, 2006.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "X2 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X2_(film)", "revision": 1375783755, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375783755", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X2%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q152456", "text": "Munich is a 2005 historical drama film produced and directed by Steven Spielberg, co-written by Tony Kushner and Eric Roth. It is based on the 1984 book Vengeance by George Jonas, an account of Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre during the 1972 Summer Olympics.\nMunich was released by Universal Pictures in the United States and Canada and internationally by DreamWorks Pictures on December 23, 2005, and received five Oscar nominations: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Editing, and Best Score. The film made $131 million worldwide but just $47 million in the United States, making it one of Spielberg's lowest-grossing films domestically. In 2017, the film was named the 16th \"Best Film of the 21st Century So Far\" by The New York Times.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Munich (2005 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_(2005_film)", "revision": 1377902719, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377902719", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Munich%20(2005%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q323827", "text": "Doctor Zhivago () is a 1965 epic historical romance film directed by David Lean with a screenplay by Robert Bolt, based on the 1957 novel by Boris Pasternak. The story is set in Russia during World War I and the Russian Civil War. The film stars Omar Sharif in the title role as Yuri Zhivago, a married physician and poet whose life is altered by the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil war, and Julie Christie as his lover Lara Antipova. Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Siobhán McKenna, and Rita Tushingham play supporting roles.\nAlthough immensely popular in the West, Pasternak's book was banned in the Soviet Union for decades. As the film could not be made there, it was instead filmed mostly in Spain. It was an international co-production between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Italian producer Carlo Ponti.\nContemporary critics were critical of its length at over three hours and claimed that it trivialized history, but acknowledged the intensity of the love story and the film's treatment of human themes. At the 38th Academy Awards, Doctor Zhivago was nominated for ten Oscars (including Best Picture) and won five: Best Adapted Screenplay, Original Score, Cinematography, Art Direction, and Costume Design. It also won five awards at the 23rd Golden Globe Awards including Best Motion Picture.\nAs of 2022, it is the ninth highest-grossing film worldwide after adjusting for inflation. In 1998, it was ranked 39th by the American Film Institute on their 100 Years... 100 Movies list, and by the British Film Institute in 1999 as the 27th greatest British film ever.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Doctor Zhivago (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Zhivago_(film)", "revision": 1378221963, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378221963", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doctor%20Zhivago%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q379873", "text": "Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman. The film, which combines live-action and animation, is loosely based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye and Joanna Cassidy, with Charles Fleischer providing the voice of the title character. Set in an alternative history Hollywood in 1947, where humans and cartoon characters (referred to as \"toons\") co-exist, Who Framed Roger Rabbit follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator with a grudge against toons, who must help exonerate Roger, a toon who has been framed for murder.\nWalt Disney Studios purchased the film rights to the novel shortly after its publication in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct and Canadian-British animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget rapidly expanded and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected.\nWho Framed Roger Rabbit was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner in the United States on June 22, 1988. The film received critical acclaim for its visuals, humor, writing, performances and groundbreaking combination of live-action and animation. It grossed $351.5 million worldwide, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 1988, behind Rain Man. It brought a renewed interest in the golden age of American animation, spearheading the renaissance age of American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for Williams' animation direction.\nIn 2016, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Framed_Roger_Rabbit", "revision": 1378324941, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378324941", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Who%20Framed%20Roger%20Rabbit&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q401976", "text": "Fast Five (also known as Fast & Furious 5) is a 2011 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast & Furious (2009) and the fifth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. The film stars Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto and Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, alongside Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Gal Gadot, Ludacris, Matt Schulze, Sung Kang and Dwayne Johnson. In the film, Dom and Brian, along with Dom's sister Mia plan a heist to steal $100 million from corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes while being pursued for arrest by U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs.\nWhile developing Fast Five, Universal Pictures deliberately departed from the street racing theme prevalent in previous films in the series, to transform the franchise into a heist action series involving cars. By doing so, they hoped to attract wider audiences that might otherwise be put off by a heavy emphasis on cars and car culture. Fast Five is considered the transitional film in the series, featuring only one car race and giving more attention to action set pieces such as brawls, gunfights, and the central heist. The production mounted a comprehensive marketing campaign, with the film being advertised through social media, virtual games, cinema chains, automobile manufacturers, and at NASCAR races. \nLin, Diesel, and Walker's returns were finalized in February 2010. Principal photography began that July and lasted until that October, with filming locations including Atlanta, Puerto Rico, and Rio de Janeiro. Brian Tyler, the composer of the previous two installments, returned to compose the score. The film is notable for primarily featuring practical stunt work as opposed to computer-generated imagery.\nFast Five premiered at the Cinépolis Lagoon in Rio de Janeiro on April 15, 2011, and was released in the United States on April 29 by Universal. The film received positive reviews, with praise for Lin's direction, the action sequences, and the cast's performances; it is widely considered the best film in the franchise. Fast Five grossed $630 million worldwide, becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2011, the then-highest-grossing film in the franchise, and set several records related to Universal's highest-grossing opening weekend in several international markets. It was followed by Fast & Furious 6 in 2013.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fast Five", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Five", "revision": 1378081841, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378081841", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fast%20Five&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q475693", "text": "Oldboy (Korean: 올드보이) is a 2003 South Korean action thriller film directed and co-written by Park Chan-wook. A loose adaptation of the Japanese manga Old Boy by Garon Tsuchiya and Nobuaki Minegishi, the film follows Oh Dae-su (Choi Min-sik), who is imprisoned for 15 years without knowing the identity of his captor or his captor's motives. When he is released, Dae-su finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence as he seeks revenge against his captor and falls in love with a young sushi chef, Mi-do (Kang Hye-jung).\nOldboy attained critical acclaim and accolades worldwide, including winning the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, where it garnered high praise from Quentin Tarantino, the president of the jury. In the United States, film critic Roger Ebert stated that Oldboy is a \"powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare\". The film's action sequences, particularly the single shot corridor fight sequence, also received commendation for their impressive execution.\nThe film's success led to two adaptations: an unauthorized Hindi remake in 2006 and an official American adaptation in 2013. As part of Park Chan-wook's The Vengeance Trilogy, it serves as the second installment, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and preceding Lady Vengeance (2005).\nThe film is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time and has been included in numerous \"best-of\" lists by many publications. In 2008, Oldboy was placed 64th on an Empire list of the top 500 movies of all time. In 2020, The Guardian ranked it number three among the classics of modern South Korean cinema.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Oldboy (2003 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldboy_(2003_film)", "revision": 1377240057, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377240057", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oldboy%20(2003%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q644987", "text": "Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film directed by Roman Polanski and written by Robert Towne. It stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, with supporting performances from John Huston, John Hillerman, Perry Lopez, Burt Young, Joe Mantell, Bruce Glover, James Hong and Diane Ladd. The film's story is inspired by the California water wars which were a series of disputes over Southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century that resulted in Los Angeles securing water rights in the Owens Valley. Produced by Robert Evans and distributed by Paramount Pictures, Chinatown was Polanski's final film made in the United States.\nReleased on June 20, 1974, the film received critical acclaim, with praise for the narrative and screenwriting, Nicholson and Dunaway's performances, cinematography, and Polanski's direction. Chinatown led the 47th Academy Awards with 11 nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director (Polanski), Best Actor (Nicholson), and Best Actress (Dunaway), with Towne winning for Best Original Screenplay. At the 32nd Golden Globe Awards, the film won 4 awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama (Nicholson). It also received 11 nominations at the 28th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, and won 3 awards: Best Direction (Polanski), Best Screenplay (Towne, who was also recognized at the same event for his screenplay for The Last Detail) and Best Actor in a Leading Role (Nicholson).\nIn 2008, the American Film Institute ranked Chinatown #2 on its list of the top ten mystery films. In 1991, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.\" It is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.\nA sequel, The Two Jakes, was released in 1990, again starring Nicholson, who also directed, with Robert Towne returning to write the screenplay. The film failed to match the acclaim of its predecessor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Chinatown (1974 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)", "revision": 1377354923, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377354923", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chinatown%20(1974%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q788822", "text": "Her is a 2013 American science fiction romantic drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Spike Jonze. It follows Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix), a man who develops a relationship with Samantha (Scarlett Johansson), an artificially intelligent operating system personified through a female voice. The film also stars Amy Adams, Rooney Mara, Olivia Wilde, and Chris Pratt. The film is dedicated to the memory of James Gandolfini, Harris Savides, Maurice Sendak, and Adam Yauch, who all died before the film's release.\nThe events of the movie take place in an unspecified near future, in a world where progress makes life comfortable, but leaves space for a profound loneliness. Jonze conceived the idea in the early 2000s after reading an article about a website that allowed for instant messaging with an artificial intelligence program. After making I'm Here (2010), a short film sharing similar themes, Jonze returned to the idea. He wrote the first draft of the script in five months, marking his solo screenwriting debut. Principal photography took place in Los Angeles and Shanghai in mid-2012. The voice of Samantha was recast in post-production, with Samantha Morton being replaced with Johansson. Additional scenes were filmed in August 2013 following the casting change.\nHer premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 12, 2013. Following a limited six-theater release that December, Warner Bros. Pictures wide released Her in over 1,700 theaters in the United States and Canada on January 10, 2014. Her received critical acclaim, particularly for the performances of Phoenix and Johansson, and Jonze's writing and direction. It grossed over $48 million worldwide on a production budget of $23 million.\nThe film received numerous awards and nominations, primarily for Jonze's screenplay. At the 86th Academy Awards, Her received five nominations, including Best Picture, and won for Best Original Screenplay. Jonze also won awards for his screenplay at the Golden Globes, the WGA Awards, the Critics' Choice Awards, and the Saturn Awards. In a 2016 BBC poll of 177 critics around the world, Her was voted the 84th-greatest film since 2000. Since its release, Her has developed a cult following. It is now considered to be one of the best films of the 21st century and one of the best science fiction films of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Her (2013 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_(2013_film)", "revision": 1377865177, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377865177", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Her%20(2013%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q869741", "text": "Melody Time is a 1948 American musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney. It was released to theaters by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. The live-action and animated film is made up of seven segments set to popular music and folk music, similar to Make Mine Music (1946) as well as Fantasia (1940). Melody Time received mixed-to-positive reviews.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Melody Time", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melody_Time", "revision": 1375927973, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375927973", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Melody%20Time&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q1102220", "text": "Jurassic Park III is a 2001 American science fiction action film directed by Joe Johnston and written by Peter Buchman, Alexander Payne, and Jim Taylor. It is the third film in the Jurassic Park franchise and the final film in the original Jurassic Park trilogy, following The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). It is also the first film in the franchise not to be directed by Steven Spielberg, as well as the first not to be based on a novel by Michael Crichton, however, the film features characters and ideas created by Crichton. The film stars Sam Neill, William H. Macy, Téa Leoni, and Michael Jeter, with a brief appearance by Laura Dern. Neill and Dern reprise their roles from the first film as Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler. The film's plot involves a divorced couple who, via subterfuge, enlist the help of Grant to find their son, who has gone missing on Isla Sorna.\nAfter the release of Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993), Johnston expressed interest in directing a sequel. Universal Pictures announced the third film in June 1998, and Johnston was announced as director the following year. A draft written by Buchman was rejected five weeks ahead of filming in favor of a simpler story idea suggested by David Koepp, the writer of the previous two films. Payne and Taylor were hired to rewrite the earlier script by Buchman, who made further revisions to their draft. Filming lasted five months, beginning in Hawaii in August 2000, before moving to California, with a $93 million budget. A final draft of the script was never completed during production, a circumstance Johnston considered quitting over. Jurassic Park III features a combination of computer-generated and animatronic dinosaurs. A Spinosaurus replaces the Tyrannosaurus from the previous two films as the main and lead dinosaur.\nJurassic Park III premiered on July 16, 2001, and was theatrically released on July 18. Despite receiving mixed reviews from critics, the film was a box-office success, grossing $368.8 million worldwide and becoming the eighth highest-grossing film of 2001, however, it is the lowest-grossing film in the franchise. A sequel titled Jurassic World followed in 2015.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jurassic Park III", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_III", "revision": 1378078511, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378078511", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jurassic%20Park%20III&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q3521099", "text": "The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. The film's seventeen-actor ensemble cast is led by Ralph Fiennes as Monsieur Gustave H., famed concierge of a twentieth-century mountainside resort in the fictional country of Zubrowka. After being framed for the murder of a wealthy dowager (Tilda Swinton), he and his recently befriended protégé Zero (Tony Revolori) embark on a quest for fortune and a priceless Renaissance painting amidst the backdrop of an encroaching fascist regime. Anderson's American Empirical Pictures produced the film in association with Studio Babelsberg, Fox Searchlight Pictures, and Indian Paintbrush's Scott Rudin and Steven Rales. Fox Searchlight supervised the commercial distribution, and The Grand Budapest Hotel's funding came from Indian Paintbrush and German government-funded tax rebates.\nAnderson and longtime collaborator Hugo Guinness conceived The Grand Budapest Hotel as a fragmented tale following a character inspired by a mutual friend. They initially struggled in brainstorming, but the experience sightseeing in Europe and researching the literature of Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig shaped their vision for the film. The Grand Budapest Hotel draws visually from Europe-set mid-century Hollywood films and the United States Library of Congress's photochrom print collection of alpine resorts. Filming took place in eastern Germany from January to March 2013. Alexandre Desplat composed the film's Russian folk-inspired soundtrack, expanding on his earlier work with Anderson. The film explores themes of fascism, nostalgia, friendship, and loyalty. Further discourse analyzes color as a storytelling device.\nThe Grand Budapest Hotel premiered in competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival on February 6, 2014. It was released in theaters in March to widespread critical acclaim, and became Anderson's highest-grossing film by amassing $174.6 million worldwide at the box office. The film was nominated for nine awards at the 87th Academy Awards including Best Picture, winning four, and received numerous other accolades. Since its release, The Grand Budapest Hotel has been assessed as one of the greatest films of the twenty-first century. In 2025, the film was selected by the United States Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Grand Budapest Hotel", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Budapest_Hotel", "revision": 1377707320, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377707320", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Grand%20Budapest%20Hotel&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14650496", "text": "Furious 7 (also known as Fast & Furious 7) is a 2015 action film directed by James Wan and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast & Furious 6 (2013), a follow-up to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), and the seventh installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (in his final film role), Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham. In the film, Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner, and their team are recruited by covert ops leader Mr. Nobody to prevent terrorist Mose Jakande from obtaining a hacking program known as God's Eye, all while being hunted by Deckard Shaw, the brother of Owen Shaw.\nPlans for a seventh installment were first announced in February 2012 when Johnson stated that production on the film would begin after the completion of Fast & Furious 6. In April 2013, Wan, predominantly known for horror films, was announced to direct the film. Casting revealed the returns of Diesel and Walker that same month. Principal photography began that September in Atlanta, but was indefinitely suspended in November after Walker died in a car crash; filming resumed in late March 2014 and ended in July, with Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody standing-in to complete his remaining scenes, causing delay to its 2015 release date, with other filming locations including Los Angeles, Colorado, Abu Dhabi and Tokyo. Brian Tyler, who had composed the score for Fast Five (2011), returned to compose the seventh installment.\nFurious 7 premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2015, and was released in the United States on April 3, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics for the performances, action sequences, direction and emotional tribute to Walker, with many considering it to be the best film in the franchise. It was a box-office success, grossing $1.515 billion worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of release. It also set a record for the second-highest opening weekend of its time. It was the highest-grossing film of 2015 internationally and became the highest-grossing film of the franchise in the first twelve days of its theatrical release. A sequel titled The Fate of the Furious was released on April 14, 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Furious 7", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furious_7", "revision": 1374588607, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374588607", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Furious%207&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21534241", "text": "No Time to Die is a 2021 spy thriller film and the twenty-fifth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. The sequel to Spectre (2015), it is the fifth and final film to star Daniel Craig as the fictional British MI6 agent James Bond. In the film, Bond has retired from active service in MI6 and is recruited by the CIA to extract a kidnapped scientist carrying deadly DNA-targeting nanobots, leading him to uncover a plot by the bioterrorist Lyutsifer Safin to kill millions of people. The film was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay he co-wrote with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and Phoebe Waller-Bridge, based on a story conceived by Purvis, Wade, and Fukunaga. In addition to Craig, Léa Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes, and Rory Kinnear reprise their roles from previous films, with Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch, Billy Magnussen, Ana de Armas, David Dencik, and Dali Benssalah appearing in new roles.\nDevelopment on the film began in 2016. Danny Boyle was originally attached to direct and co-write the screenplay with John Hodge. Both left in August 2018 due to creative differences, and Fukunaga was announced as Boyle's replacement a month later. Most of the cast had signed on by April 2019, and principal photography took place from April to October 2019. No Time to Die is the only James Bond film starring Daniel Craig that was not co-produced by Columbia Pictures, due to the expiration of a deal between Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Sony. It is also the only James Bond film to be distributed by United Artists Releasing, a joint venture between MGM and Annapurna Pictures, as well as the last film in the franchise to be released by MGM before the studio's acquisition by Amazon in 2022. Billie Eilish performed the theme song, \"No Time to Die\", and Hans Zimmer composed the score, with Steve Mazzaro serving as the score producer.\nAfter being delayed by Boyle's departure and later by the COVID-19 pandemic, No Time to Die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 28 September 2021, and was released in the United Kingdom on 30 September and in the United States on 8 October. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It grossed over $774 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2021, the third-highest-grossing Bond film, and the third-highest-grossing film (and third-highest Bond film) of all time in the UK. No Time to Die was nominated for three awards at the 94th Academy Awards, winning Best Original Song, and received numerous other accolades. \nOn 20 February 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that it had gained full creative control of the James Bond franchise from Danjaq and Eon Productions, making this the final film in the series to be produced under the stewardship of Albert R. Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson or Barbara Broccoli.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "No Time to Die", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_to_Die", "revision": 1378101812, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378101812", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No%20Time%20to%20Die&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21500755", "text": "Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on a story by Fancher. A sequel to Blade Runner (1982), the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Ford and Edward James Olmos reprise their roles from the previous film as Rick Deckard and Gaff, respectively. Gosling plays K, a \"blade runner\" who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society and the course of civilization.\nIdeas for a Blade Runner sequel were first proposed in the 1990s, but licensing issues stalled their development. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson obtained the film rights from Bud Yorkin. Ridley Scott stepped down as the film's initial director and worked as an executive producer, while Villeneuve was later appointed to direct. Blade Runner 2049 was financed through a partnership between Alcon Entertainment and Sony Pictures, as well as a Hungarian government-funded tax rebate. Warner Bros., which had distributed its predecessor, released the film on behalf of Alcon in North America, while Sony handled distribution in international markets. Principal photography took place mostly at two soundstages in Budapest over four months from July to November 2016.\nBlade Runner 2049 premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on October 3, 2017, and was released in the United States on October 6. The film received acclaim from critics, who praised multiple aspects including cast performances, directing, cinematography, and faithfulness to the previous film. However, it was a box office disappointment, grossing $277.9 million worldwide against a production budget of $150–185 million and failing to reach its estimated break-even point of $400 million. Among its numerous accolades, Blade Runner 2049 received Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects out of five nominations, and eight British Academy Film Awards nominations, winning for Best Cinematography and Best Special Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Blade Runner 2049", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_2049", "revision": 1377821678, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377821678", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Blade%20Runner%202049&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24053263", "text": "Logan is a 2017 American superhero film starring Hugh Jackman as the titular character. Based on the Marvel Comics character Wolverine, the film was directed by James Mangold, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Green and Scott Frank from a story by Mangold. It is the tenth installment in the X-Men film series, and the third Wolverine solo film following X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). A spin-off/sequel to X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). The film takes inspiration from the \"Old Man Logan\" comics storyline by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven and follows an aged Wolverine and an extremely ill Charles Xavier who must defend a young mutant named Laura from the Reavers led by Donald Pierce and Zander Rice. The film also stars Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Boyd Holbrook, and Stephen Merchant, with Dafne Keen making her film debut as Laura.\nDiscussion for the film began following the release of The Wolverine in 2013, with Mangold in negotiations to write the treatment for the film and Lauren Shuler Donner returning to produce. After updates followed that December to May 2016, principal photography began that May, and ended that August, mainly in Louisiana, New Mexico, and Mississippi. The film was designed to look like it takes place in the near future, with slight updates to technology and the social environment, with heavy influences from the Western genre, akin to a Neo-Western. \nLogan premiered at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 3. It was praised by critics for its action scenes, emotional depth, performances, and Mangold's direction, becoming the best-reviewed film in the X-Men franchise. The National Board of Review named Logan one of the top-ten films of 2017, and the film was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards, becoming the first live-action superhero film to be nominated for screenwriting. Grossing $619.2 million worldwide, it became the third-highest-grossing R-rated film at its release. The Marvel Studios film Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) continues some storylines from Logan, with Jackman appearing as an alternate Logan and Keen reprising her role as Laura.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Logan (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_(film)", "revision": 1376453047, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376453047", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logan%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27044293", "text": "The Lion King is a 2019 American musical drama film that is a photorealistically animated remake of the traditionally animated 1994 film. Directed by Jon Favreau, written by Jeff Nathanson, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Fairview Entertainment, the film stars the voices of Donald Glover, Seth Rogen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Alfre Woodard, Billy Eichner, John Kani, John Oliver, Florence Kasumba, Eric André, Keegan-Michael Key, JD McCrary, Shahadi Wright Joseph, with Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, and James Earl Jones (reprising his voice role as Mufasa for the final time). The story follows a young lion prince named Simba, who is exiled from his kingdom after his father Mufasa is murdered by his uncle Scar to seize the throne. As he grows up, Simba must decide whether to return home to confront Scar and reclaim his place as king.\nPlans for a remake of 1994's The Lion King were confirmed in September 2016 following box office successes for Disney remakes such as The Jungle Book (2016). Favreau was inspired by certain roles of characters in the Broadway adaptation and developed upon elements of the original film's story. Much of the main cast signed on in early 2017, and principal photography began in mid-2017 on a blue screen stage in Los Angeles. The virtual reality tools utilized in The Jungle Book's cinematography were used to a greater degree during the filming of The Lion King. Composers Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and lyricist Tim Rice returned to compose the score alongside Knowles-Carter, who assisted John in the reworking of the soundtrack and wrote a new song for the film, \"Spirit\", which she also performed. With a production budget of $250–260 million, the film is one of the most expensive films ever made, as well as one of the most expensive Disney remakes.\nThe Lion King premiered in Hollywood, Los Angeles on July 9, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 19, in the Dolby Cinema, RealD 3D, and IMAX formats. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with many criticizing the lack of originality and for being nearly identical to the original. However, it grossed over $1.6 billion worldwide during its theatrical run, and broke several box-office records, including becoming the highest-grossing animated film of all time from August 2019 to September 2024, the seventh-highest-grossing film at the time of its release, and the second-highest-grossing film of 2019. The film received nominations for Best Animated Feature Film and Original Song categories at the 77th Golden Globe Awards and 25th Critics' Choice Awards. It was also nominated at 73rd British Academy Film Awards and 92nd Academy Awards, both for visual effects. A follow-up, Mufasa: The Lion King, a film which serves as both a prequel and a sequel, was directed by Barry Jenkins and released on December 20, 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Lion King (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_King_(2019_film)", "revision": 1373769784, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373769784", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Lion%20King%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q64211112", "text": "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Doctor Strange. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Doctor Strange (2016) and the 28th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Sam Raimi, written by Michael Waldron, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Stephen Strange, alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Wong, Xochitl Gomez, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Rachel McAdams. In the film, Strange must protect America Chavez (Gomez), a teenager capable of traveling the multiverse, from the Scarlet Witch (Olsen).\nDoctor Strange director and co-writer Scott Derrickson had plans for a sequel by October 2016. He signed to return as director in December 2018, when Cumberbatch was confirmed to return. The film's title was announced in July 2019 along with Olsen's involvement, while Jade Halley Bartlett was hired to write the film that October. Derrickson stepped down as director in January 2020, citing creative differences. Waldron and Raimi joined the following month and started over, adding elements of the horror genre that Raimi had worked with previously and making Wanda the villain of the film, continuing her story from the Disney+ miniseries WandaVision (2021). Filming began in November 2020 in London but was put on hold in January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Production resumed by March 2021 and concluded in mid-April in Somerset. Shooting also occurred in Surrey and Los Angeles. With a production budget of $350.6 million, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nDoctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on May 2, 2022, and was released in the United States on May 6, as part of Phase Four of the MCU. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $955.8 million worldwide, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2022.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Strange_in_the_Multiverse_of_Madness", "revision": 1372271664, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372271664", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Doctor%20Strange%20in%20the%20Multiverse%20of%20Madness&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q62721520", "text": "1917 is a 2019 British war film directed and produced by Sam Mendes, who co-wrote it with Krysty Wilson-Cairns. It is partially inspired by stories told to Mendes by his paternal grandfather Alfred about his service during World War I. The film takes place after the German retreat to the Hindenburg Line during Operation Alberich, and follows two British soldiers in their mission to deliver an important message to call off a doomed offensive attack. The two main roles are played by George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman. Mark Strong, Andrew Scott, Richard Madden, Claire Duburcq, Colin Firth, Adrian Scarborough, and Benedict Cumberbatch also star in supporting roles.\nThe project was announced in June 2018, with MacKay and Chapman signing on in October and the rest of the cast joining the following March. Filming took place from April to June 2019 in the UK, with cinematographer Roger Deakins and editor Lee Smith using long takes to have the entire film appear as two continuous shots.\n1917 premiered in the UK on 4 December 2019 and was released theatrically in the United States on 25 December by Universal Pictures and in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2020 by Entertainment One. It was a critical and box office success, grossing over $446 million worldwide. The film received numerous accolades including ten nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, for which it won three, for Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "1917 (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_(2019_film)", "revision": 1378665104, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378665104", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=1917%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q51668", "text": "The Passion of the Christ is a 2004 American epic biblical drama film co-produced and directed by Mel Gibson from a screenplay he wrote with Benedict Fitzgerald. It is the first installment of The Passion of the Christ film series. The film stars Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as his mother Mary, and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene. It depicts the arrest, trial and crucifixion of Jesus, largely according to the canonical gospels as well as additional accounts such as the purported mystical visions by Anne Catherine Emmerich and the Friday of Sorrows.\nThe film primarily covers the final twelve hours before Jesus Christ's death, known as \"the Passion\". It begins with the Agony in the Garden of Olives (i.e., Gethsemane), continues with the betrayal of Judas Iscariot, the Flagellation of Christ, the suffering of Mary as prophesied by Simeon, the crucifixion and death of Jesus, and ends with a brief depiction of his resurrection. The narrative is interspersed with moments in Jesus's life, such as the Last Supper and the Sermon on the Mount, and moments of Jesus' early life. The film was mostly shot in Italy. The dialogue is entirely in reconstructed Aramaic, Hebrew, and Latin. Although Gibson was initially against it, the film is subtitled.\nThe Passion of the Christ was released theatrically by Newmarket Films on February 25, 2004. Critical reception was polarized; some critics called the film a religious and holy experience, praising the performances, Mel Gibson’s direction, production values, and John Debney's score, others criticized its graphic depiction of violence, arguing that the brutality was excessive, while some found it antisemitic, prompting widespread debate and controversy. \nThe film grossed $622.3 million worldwide against a $30 million budget, and became the fifth highest-grossing film of 2004 internationally at the end of its theatrical run. It is the highest-grossing Christian film of all time (inflation unadjusted), as well as the highest-grossing independent film of all time and the fifth highest-grossing biographical film. It was the highest-grossing R-rated film in the US, at $370.8 million, a record which remained unbroken for 20 years. It received multiple awards and nominations including three nominations at the 77th Academy Awards in 2005, for Best Makeup, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score. \nTwo sequels, The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One and Part Two, are due to be released in 2027 and 2028, with a new cast.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Passion of the Christ", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ", "revision": 1375568931, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375568931", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Passion%20of%20the%20Christ&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42198", "text": "Heat is a 1995 American epic crime drama film written and directed by Michael Mann and starring Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Tom Sizemore, Diane Venora, Amy Brenneman, Ashley Judd, Mykelti Williamson, Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Jon Voight, and Val Kilmer. In the film, LAPD detective Vincent Hanna (Pacino) attempts to apprehend career thief Neil McCauley (De Niro), leading to strain on their professional lives and personal relationships.\nMann wrote the original script for Heat in 1979, basing it on Chicago police officer Chuck Adamson's pursuit of criminal Neil McCauley, after whom De Niro's character is named. The script was first used for a television pilot developed by Mann, which became the 1989 television film L.A. Takedown after the pilot did not receive a series order. In 1994, Mann revisited the script to turn it into a feature film, co-producing the project with Art Linson. The film marks De Niro and Pacino's first on-screen appearance together after co-starring but not sharing a scene in The Godfather Part II (1974): the film's promotion centered heavily on the actors' involvement.\nHeat was theatrically released in the United States by Warner Bros. on December 15, 1995. It grossed $187.4 million worldwide and received critical acclaim, with praise for Mann's direction as well as the performances from both Pacino and De Niro. Heat is considered to be one of the best and most influential crime films of all time, inspiring several other works. A sequel novel, Heat 2, was written by Mann and Meg Gardiner and released in 2022, with a film adaptation to be written and directed by Mann and starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Heat (1995 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_(1995_film)", "revision": 1378289496, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378289496", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heat%20(1995%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q45602", "text": "Modern Times is a 1936 American part-talkie satirical slapstick comedy film produced, scored, co-edited, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. In Chaplin's last performance as the iconic Little Tramp, his character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world. The film also stars Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford and Chester Conklin.\nModern Times has won many awards and honors, and is widely considered one of the greatest films ever. It was one of the first 25 films selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Modern Times (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Times_(film)", "revision": 1376122518, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376122518", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Modern%20Times%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q191543", "text": "Terminator Salvation is a 2009 American military science fiction action film. It is the fourth installment of the Terminator franchise, serving as a sequel to Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). It is directed by McG and written by John Brancato and Michael Ferris. It is the only Terminator film to date not to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger, though his likeness briefly appears digitally. Instead, it stars Christian Bale and Sam Worthington with Anton Yelchin, Moon Bloodgood, Bryce Dallas Howard, Common, Michael Ironside, and Helena Bonham Carter in supporting roles. In a departure from the previous installments, Salvation is a post-apocalyptic film set in the year 2018. It focuses on the war between Skynet's machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world's militaries have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet. Bale portrays John Connor, a Resistance fighter and central character, while Worthington portrays cyborg Marcus Wright. Yelchin plays a young Kyle Reese, a character first introduced in The Terminator (1984), and the film depicts the origins of the T-800 Terminator.\nAfter troubled pre-production, with the Halcyon Company acquiring the rights from Andrew G. Vajna and Mario Kassar, and with several writers working on the screenplay, filming began in May 2008 in New Mexico, and ran for 77 days.\nTerminator Salvation was released on May 21, 2009, by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States, and by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label internationally. It received mixed-to-negative reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing over $371 million on a $200 million budget. While originally intended to be the first installment of a second Terminator trilogy, these plans were canceled following the Halcyon Company filing for bankruptcy after the film's release. The franchise rights were sold in 2012 to Annapurna Pictures, resulting in Terminator Genisys, a reboot of the series, being released in 2015 with Schwarzenegger reprising his role.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Terminator Salvation", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_Salvation", "revision": 1377498320, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377498320", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminator%20Salvation&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q193573", "text": "Moulin Rouge! (, French: [mulɛ̃ ʁuʒ]) is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It follows a British poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine. \nThe film uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris and is the final part of Luhrmann's Red Curtain Trilogy, following Strictly Ballroom (1992) and Romeo + Juliet (1996). A co-production of Australia and the United States, it features an ensemble cast starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor, with Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo, Jacek Koman, and Caroline O'Connor in supporting roles.\nMoulin Rouge! premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d'Or and was released in theaters on 25 May 2001 in Australia and on 1 June 2001 in North America. The film was praised for Luhrmann's direction, the performances of the cast, its soundtrack, costume design, and production values. It was also a commercial success, grossing $179 million on a $50 million budget. At the 74th Academy Awards, the film received eight nominations, including Best Picture, and won two (Best Production Design and Best Costume Design). Later critical reception for Moulin Rouge! remained positive and has been considered by many to be one of the best films of all time, with it ranking 53rd in the BBC's 2016 poll of the 100 greatest films of the 21st century. A stage musical adaptation premiered in 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Moulin Rouge!", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moulin_Rouge!", "revision": 1378149037, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378149037", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moulin%20Rouge!&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q269912", "text": "Into the Wild is a 2007 American biographical adventure drama film written, co-produced, and directed by Sean Penn. It is an adaptation of the 1996 non-fiction book written by Jon Krakauer and tells the story of Christopher McCandless (\"Alexander Supertramp\"), a man who hiked across North America into the Alaskan wilderness in the early 1990s. The film stars Emile Hirsch as McCandless, Hal Holbrook, and Catherine Keener.\nThe film premiered during the 2007 Rome Film Fest and opened outside Fairbanks, Alaska, on September 21, 2007 by Paramount Vantage. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $56.8 million against a $20 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Into the Wild (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_Wild_(film)", "revision": 1375409265, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375409265", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Into%20the%20Wild%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107724", "text": "Thunderball is a 1965 spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original screenplay by Jack Whittingham devised from a story conceived by Kevin McClory, Whittingham, and Fleming. It was the third and final Bond film to be directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins.\nThe film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world ransom to the tune of £100 million in diamonds under threat of destroying an unspecified metropolis in either the United Kingdom or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eyepatch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. The film's complex production comprised four different units, and about a quarter of the film comprises underwater scenes. Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have a running time of over two hours.\nAlthough planned by Bond film series producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman as the first entry in the franchise, Thunderball was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Fleming collaborators McClory and Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had written for a cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Broccoli and Saltzman, fearing a rival McClory film, allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's plot and characters, and for McClory to receive sole producer credit on this film; Broccoli and Saltzman instead served as executive producers.\nThe film was exceptionally successful: its worldwide box-office receipts of $141.2 million (equivalent to $1.4426×109 in 2025) exceeded not only that of each of its predecessors but that of every one of the next five Bond films that followed it. After adjusting its earnings to 2011 prices, it has made around $1 billion worldwide, making it the second-highest earning Bond film after Skyfall. In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects and BAFTA nominated production designer Ken Adam for an award. Some critics and viewers praised the film and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others found the aquatic action repetitious. The movie was followed by 1967's You Only Live Twice. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the Thunderball novel under the title Never Say Never Again, with Connery as Bond for the last time and McClory as executive producer.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thunderball (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderball_(film)", "revision": 1376714526, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376714526", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunderball%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107914", "text": "Diamonds Are Forever is a 1971 spy film and the seventh film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth and final Eon film to star Sean Connery, who returned to the role as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, having declined to reprise the role in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).\nThe film is based on Ian Fleming's 1956 novel and is the second of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton. The story has Bond impersonating a diamond smuggler to infiltrate a smuggling ring and uncovering a plot by his old enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld to use the diamonds to build a space-based laser weapon. Bond sets out to stop the smuggling but discovers he must defeat Blofeld before he destroys Washington, D.C., in his plan to blackmail the world with nuclear supremacy.\nAfter George Lazenby left the series, the producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli tested other actors, but the studio United Artists wanted Connery back, paying a then-record US$1.25 million salary for him to return. The producers were inspired by Goldfinger; as with that film, Hamilton was hired to direct, and Shirley Bassey performed the title song. Locations included Las Vegas, California, and Amsterdam. Diamonds Are Forever was a commercial success and received positive reviews upon release. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound.\nDiamonds Are Forever was followed by Live and Let Die in 1973, with Roger Moore succeeding Connery as Bond.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Diamonds Are Forever (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamonds_Are_Forever_(film)", "revision": 1378056877, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378056877", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diamonds%20Are%20Forever%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108745", "text": "Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles.\nBased on his fascination with spirituality, Aykroyd conceived Ghostbusters as a project starring himself and John Belushi, in which they would venture through time and space battling supernatural threats. Following Belushi's death in 1982, and with Aykroyd's concept deemed financially impractical, Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. It was the first comedy film to employ expensive special effects, and Columbia Pictures, concerned about its relatively high $25–30 million budget, had little faith in its box office potential. Filming took place from October 1983 to January 1984, in New York City and Los Angeles. Due to competition for special effects studios among various films in development at the time, Richard Edlund used part of the budget to found Boss Film Studios, which employed a combination of practical effects, miniatures, and puppets to deliver the ghoulish visuals.\nGhostbusters was released on June 8, 1984, by Columbia Pictures, to critical acclaim and became a cultural phenomenon. It was praised for its blend of comedy, action, and horror, and Murray's performance was often singled out for praise. It earned at least $282 million worldwide during its initial theatrical run and was the second-highest-grossing film of 1984 in the United States and Canada, and the then-highest-grossing comedy ever. It was the number-one film in US theaters for seven consecutive weeks and one of only four films to gross more than $100 million that year. Further theatrical releases have increased the worldwide total gross to around $370 million, making it one of the most successful comedy films of the 1980s. In 2015, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry. Its theme song, \"Ghostbusters\" by Ray Parker Jr., was also a number-one hit.\nWith its effect on popular culture, and a dedicated fan following, the success of Ghostbusters launched a multi-billion dollar multimedia franchise. This included the popular animated television series The Real Ghostbusters (1986), its follow-up Extreme Ghostbusters (1997), video games, board games, comic books, clothing, music, and haunted attractions. Ghostbusters was followed in 1989 by Ghostbusters II, which fared less well financially and critically, and attempts to develop a second sequel paused in 2014 following Ramis's death. After a 2016 reboot received mixed reviews and underperformed financially, a second sequel to the 1984 film, Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), was released, followed by Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ghostbusters", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostbusters", "revision": 1378216867, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378216867", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghostbusters&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q110043", "text": "The Birds is a 1963 American natural horror film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, released by Universal Pictures and starring Rod Taylor, Jessica Tandy, Suzanne Pleshette, and introducing Tippi Hedren in her film debut. Loosely based on the 1952 short story of the same name by Daphne du Maurier, it focuses on a series of sudden and unexplained violent bird attacks on the people of Bodega Bay, California, over the course of a few days. The screenplay is by Evan Hunter, who was told by Hitchcock to develop new characters and a more elaborate plot while keeping du Maurier's title and concept of unexplained bird attacks.\nWhile it initially received mixed reviews when originally released, its reputation improved over time and it has since been considered to be one of the greatest horror films of all time. At the 36th Academy Awards, Ub Iwerks was nominated for Best Special Effects for his work on the film. The award, however, went to the only other nominee, Emil Kosa Jr., for Cleopatra. Hedren won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for her role in the film. In 2016, it was deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\" by the United States Library of Congress, and selected for preservation in its National Film Registry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Birds (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_(film)", "revision": 1370842422, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370842422", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Birds%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q114819", "text": "Dune is a 1984 American epic space opera film written and directed by David Lynch, and based on the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert. It was filmed at the Churubusco Studios in Mexico City. The soundtrack was composed by the rock band Toto, with a contribution from Brian Eno. Its large ensemble cast includes Kyle MacLachlan (in his film debut), Patrick Stewart, Brad Dourif, Dean Stockwell, Virginia Madsen, José Ferrer, Sean Young, Silvana Mangano, Sting, Linda Hunt, and Max von Sydow.\nThe setting is the distant future, chronicling the conflict between rival noble families as they battle for control of the extremely harsh desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. The planet is the only source of the drug melange (spice), which allows prescience and is vital to space travel, making it the most essential and valuable commodity in the universe. Paul Atreides is the scion and heir of a powerful noble family, whose appointment to the control of Arrakis brings them into conflict with its former overlords, House Harkonnen. Paul is also possibly the Kwisatz Haderach, a messianic figure expected by the Bene Gesserit sisterhood.\nAfter the novel's initial success, attempts to adapt Dune as a film began in 1971. A lengthy process of development followed throughout the 1970s, during which Arthur P. Jacobs, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Ridley Scott unsuccessfully tried to bring their visions to the screen. In 1981, executive producer Dino De Laurentiis hired Lynch as director.\nThe film was a box office failure, grossing $30.9 million against a $40–42 million budget. At least four versions have been released worldwide. Lynch largely disowned the finished film and had his name removed or changed to pseudonyms in the credits on certain versions. Despite receiving mainly negative reviews upon release, the film has developed a cult following, but opinion varies between fans of the novel and fans of Lynch's films.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dune (1984 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(1984_film)", "revision": 1377050018, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377050018", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dune%20(1984%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q205447", "text": "Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 American heist comedy film directed by Steven Soderbergh from a screenplay by Ted Griffin. The first installment in the Ocean's film trilogy, it is a remake of the 1960 Rat Pack film. The film features an ensemble cast including George Clooney, Matt Damon, Andy García, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Casey Affleck, Don Cheadle, Scott Caan, Elliott Gould, Bernie Mac and Carl Reiner. The story follows friends Danny Ocean (Clooney) and Rusty Ryan (Pitt), who plan a heist of $160 million from casino owner Terry Benedict (García), the lover of Ocean's ex-wife Tess (Roberts).\nOcean's Eleven was theatrically released in the United States on December 7, 2001, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a major box-office hit, grossing $450.7 million worldwide and becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2001. Soderbergh directed two sequels, Ocean's Twelve in 2004 and Ocean's Thirteen in 2007. Ocean's 8, a spin-off with an all-female lead cast, was released in 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ocean's Eleven", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean's_Eleven", "revision": 1378420773, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378420773", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ocean's%20Eleven&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207588", "text": "From Here to Eternity is a 1953 American romantic war drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and written by Daniel Taradash, based on the 1951 novel by James Jones. It deals with the tribulations of three United States Army soldiers, played by Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, and Frank Sinatra, stationed in Hawaii in the months leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed portray the women in their lives. The supporting cast features Ernest Borgnine, Philip Ober, Jack Warden, Mickey Shaughnessy, Claude Akins, and George Reeves.\nThe film is famed for its torrid seaside scene of two of its main characters lying in the sand at the water's edge kissing in an adulterous tryst, a groundbreaking display in its time. Jones's book title originates from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 poem \"Gentlemen-Rankers\", about British gentlemen who had disgraced themselves or suffered financial ruin and had to enlist in \"the ranks\" and were \"damned from here to eternity\". \nThe film was released by Columbia Pictures on August 5, 1953, becoming a major critical and commercial success. It won 8 Academy Awards out of 13 nominations, including Best Picture, Director (Fred Zinnemann), Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor (Frank Sinatra), and Supporting Actress (Donna Reed). In 2002, From Here to Eternity was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "From Here to Eternity", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_to_Eternity", "revision": 1372292597, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372292597", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=From%20Here%20to%20Eternity&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207921", "text": "Chariots of Fire is a 1981 historical sports drama film directed by Hugh Hudson, written by Colin Welland and produced by David Puttnam. It is based on the true story of two British athletes in the 1924 Olympics: Eric Liddell, a devout Scottish Christian who runs for the glory of God, and Harold Abrahams, an English Jew who runs to overcome prejudice. Ian Charleson and Ben Cross star as Liddell and Abrahams respectively, alongside Nicholas Farrell, Nigel Havers, Daniel Gerroll, Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Lindsay Anderson, Cheryl Campbell, Alice Krige, Brad Davis and Dennis Christopher in supporting roles. Kenneth Branagh and Stephen Fry make their debuts in minor roles.\nChariots of Fire was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won four, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay and Best Original Score for Vangelis's electronic theme tune. At the 35th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated in 11 categories and won in three, including Best Film. It is ranked 19th in the British Film Institute's list of Top 100 British films. The film won the People's Choice Award at the 6th Toronto International Film Festival.\nThe film's title was inspired by the line \"Bring me my Chariot of fire!\" from the William Blake poem adapted into the British hymn and unofficial English anthem \"Jerusalem\"; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Chariots of Fire", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_Fire", "revision": 1378531138, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378531138", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chariots%20of%20Fire&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q220780", "text": "Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, which adapts Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story. Robert De Niro stars as LaMotta, a former middleweight boxing champion whose turbulent personal life is beset by rage and jealousy. Scorsese dedicated the film to Armenian-American NYU film professor Haig P. Manoogian. The supporting cast includes Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role.\nScorsese was initially reluctant to develop the project, although he eventually came to relate with LaMotta's story. Schrader rewrote Martin's first screenplay, and Scorsese and De Niro together made uncredited contributions thereafter. Pesci was a relatively unknown actor prior to the film, as was Moriarty, whom Pesci recommended. During principal photography, each of the boxing scenes was choreographed for a specific visual style, and De Niro gained approximately 60 pounds (27 kg) to portray LaMotta in his later years. Scorsese was exacting in the process of editing and mixing the film, expecting it to be his last major feature.\nRaging Bull premiered in New York City on November 14, 1980, and was released in theaters by United Artists on December 19. The film had a lukewarm box office of $23.4 million against its $18 million budget, and received mixed reviews from critics. While De Niro's performance and the editing were widely acclaimed, its violent content received criticism. Raging Bull received a leading eight nominations at the 53rd Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won two: Best Actor for De Niro and Best Editing for Thelma Schoonmaker.\nIn the decades since its release, Raging Bull has come to be considered one of the greatest films ever made. In 1990, it became the first film to be selected in its first year of eligibility for preservation in the US National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". In 2007 the American Film Institute ranked Raging Bull as the fourth-greatest American movie of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Raging Bull", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raging_Bull", "revision": 1376793927, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376793927", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Raging%20Bull&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q221103", "text": "Halloween is a 1978 American slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter, who co-wrote it with producer Debra Hill. It stars Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis (in her film debut), P. J. Soles, and Nancy Loomis. The film follows escaped mental patient Michael Myers, who was committed to a mental institution for murdering his teenage sister on Halloween in the fictional Illinois town of Haddonfield; 15 years later, he returns to Haddonfield, where he stalks teenage babysitter Laurie Strode (Curtis) and her friends while his psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis (Pleasence) pursues him.\nThe film was shot in Southern California, produced by Compass International Pictures, and Falcon International Productions. The film was released by Compass International and Aquarius Releasing in October and grossed $70 million (equivalent to $346 million in 2025) on a budget of $300,000 (equivalent to $1,480,900 in 2025), becoming one of the most profitable independent films of all time. Primarily praised for Carpenter's direction and score, many critics credit the film as pioneering the slasher genre, alongside other films such as Psycho (1960), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Black Christmas (both 1974).\nHalloween is considered one of the greatest horror films ever made and was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2006 as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". It spawned a film franchise comprising thirteen films, with some sequels narratively diverging entirely from previous installments, as well as a novelization, video game, board game, and comic book series.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Halloween (1978 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_(1978_film)", "revision": 1377139374, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377139374", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Halloween%20(1978%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q221249", "text": "Tootsie is a 1982 American satirical romantic comedy film directed by Sydney Pollack from a screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal and a story by Gelbart and Don McGuire. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr, Dabney Coleman, and Charles Durning. In the film, Michael Dorsey (Hoffman), a talented actor with a reputation for being professionally difficult, runs into romantic trouble after adopting a female persona to land a job.\nTootsie was partly inspired by a play McGuire wrote in the early 1970s, and was first made into a screenplay in 1979 by Dick Richards, Bob Kaufman, and Robert Evans. Richards, who was selected as director, introduced the project to Hoffman, who obtained complete creative control after signing on: revisions to the screenplay and the replacement as director of Richards and his successor, Hal Ashby, by Pollack delayed the production, which began in November 1981. Principal photography took place across New York and in New Jersey, including in Manhattan, Hurley, and Fort Lee. The film's theme song, \"It Might Be You\", performed by Stephen Bishop, peaked at No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100.\nTootsie was theatrically released in the U.S. on December 17, 1982, by Columbia Pictures to a critical and commercial success. The film grossed $241 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 1982, and received critical acclaim for its humor, Hoffman's and Lange's performances, dialogue and social commentary. It was also nominated for ten awards at the 55th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won Best Supporting Actress for Lange. In 1998, the film was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Tootsie", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie", "revision": 1378498853, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378498853", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tootsie&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q222867", "text": "2 Fast 2 Furious is a 2003 American action film directed by John Singleton from a screenplay by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, based on a story by Brandt, Haas, and Gary Scott Thompson. It is the sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and the second installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, and stars Paul Walker as Brian O'Conner, alongside Tyrese Gibson, Eva Mendes, Cole Hauser, Chris \"Ludacris\" Bridges, and James Remar. In the film, O'Conner and Roman Pearce (Gibson) transport \"dirty money\" for shady Miami-based import-export dealer Carter Verone (Hauser), while secretly working with undercover agent Monica Fuentes (Mendes) to bring Verone down.\nA second Fast & Furious film was planned after the box office success of its predecessor in 2001, and was confirmed with the returns of Walker and producer Neal H. Moritz. Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen, the co-star and director of the first film, were unable to return; Gibson and Singleton joined the cast in their absence in 2002. To canonically account for Diesel's departure, the short film The Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) was produced and released. Principal photography for 2 Fast 2 Furious commenced in September 2002 and lasted until that December, with filming locations including Miami and the surrounding areas in southern Florida.\n2 Fast 2 Furious premiered at Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on June 3, 2003, and was released in the United States on June 6, by Universal Pictures. The film grossed $236 million worldwide and received generally negative reviews from critics, although its reception has improved over time. A third film with an unrelated story, titled The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, was released in 2006, and a sequel, Fast & Furious, was released in 2009.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "2 Fast 2 Furious", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Fast_2_Furious", "revision": 1376491654, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376491654", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2%20Fast%202%20Furious&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q223139", "text": "North by Northwest is a 1959 American spy thriller film produced and directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason. The original screenplay written by Ernest Lehman was intended to be the basis for \"the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures\".\nNorth by Northwest is a tale of mistaken identity: an innocent man (Grant) is pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization that aims to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle microfilm containing government secrets out of the country. It is one of several Hitchcock films featuring a musical score by Bernard Herrmann and an opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass. The film was the first to feature extended use of kinetic typography in its opening credits.\nThe film was released on July 1, 1959, to critical and commercial success. It topped the box office in the United States for seven consecutive weeks. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards and earned Hitchcock the Silver Shell for Best Director at the San Sebastián Film Festival.\nNorth by Northwest is listed among the canonical Hitchcock films of the 1950s and is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made. In 1995, the Library of Congress selected North by Northwest for preservation in the National Film Registry, having being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "North by Northwest", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_by_Northwest", "revision": 1377899769, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377899769", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North%20by%20Northwest&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q238211", "text": "City Lights is a 1931 American synchronized sound romantic comedy-drama film written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects. The story follows the misadventures of Chaplin's Tramp as he falls in love with a blind woman (Virginia Cherrill) and develops a turbulent friendship with an alcoholic millionaire (Harry Myers).\nAlthough talking pictures (or films with recorded dialogue) were on the rise when Chaplin started developing the script in 1928, he decided to continue working without dialogue only incorporating sound with the use of a synchronized musical score with sound effects. Filming started on December 27, 1928 and ended in September 1930. City Lights marked the first time Chaplin composed the film score to one of his productions and it was written in six weeks with Arthur Johnston. The main theme, used as a leitmotif for the blind flower girl, is the song \"La Violetera\" (\"Who'll Buy my Violets\") from Spanish composer José Padilla. Chaplin lost a lawsuit to Padilla for not crediting him.\nCity Lights was immediately successful upon release on March 7, 1931, with positive reviews and worldwide rentals of more than $4 million. Today, many critics consider it not only the highest accomplishment of Chaplin's career, but one of the greatest films of all time. Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance believes \"City Lights is not only Charles Chaplin's masterpiece; it is an act of defiance\" as it premiered four years into the era of sound films which began with the premiere of The Jazz Singer (1927). In 1949, the critic James Agee called the film's final scene \"the greatest single piece of acting ever committed to celluloid\". In 1991, the Library of Congress selected City Lights for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked it 11th on its list of the best American films ever made. As a published work from 1931, City Lights will enter the American public domain on January 1, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "City Lights", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Lights", "revision": 1378801393, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378801393", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=City%20Lights&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q244315", "text": "There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It has often been considered as one of the greatest films of the 21st century and of all time.\nDevelopment on There Will Be Blood began after writer Eric Schlosser purchased the film rights to Sinclair's novel in 2004. It was acquired by Ghoulardi Film Company, Paramount Vantage and Miramax Films after Anderson completed the first draft of the film's screenplay. Day-Lewis immediately joined the project while Dano, who initially signed on for a smaller role, took on a starring role after replacing Kel O'Neill during filming. Principal photography began in June 2006 and lasted until that September, with filming locations including Los Angeles and Marfa, Texas. The film's music was composed by Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood.\nThere Will Be Blood premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin on September 29, 2007. It was first theatrically released in New York City and Los Angeles on December 26 and in selected international markets on January 25, 2008. It grossed $76.2 million worldwide and received acclaim from critics, with praise for the cinematography, Anderson's direction and screenplay, music, and performances of Day-Lewis and Dano. The National Board of Review, the American Film Institute and the National Society of Film Critics named There Will Be Blood one of the top-ten films of 2007. The film was nominated for eight awards at the 80th Academy Awards, winning two (Best Actor for Day-Lewis and Best Cinematography for Elswit) and received numerous other accolades. It topped various lists of the best films of the 2000s and was Anderson's best-reviewed film until 2025's One Battle After Another.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "There Will Be Blood", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood", "revision": 1376809569, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376809569", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=There%20Will%20Be%20Blood&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q151895", "text": "Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (German: Nosferatu – Eine Symphonie des Grauens) is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings a plague to their town.\nNosferatu was produced by Prana Film and is an unofficial and unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Various names and other details were changed from the novel, including Count Dracula being renamed Count Orlok. Although those changes are often represented as a defense against copyright infringement accusations, the original German intertitles acknowledged Dracula as the source. Film historian David Kalat states in his commentary track that since the film was \"a low-budget film made by Germans for German audiences... setting it in Germany with German-named characters makes the story more tangible and immediate for German-speaking viewers\".\nEven with several details altered, Stoker's widow Florence sued over the adaptation's copyright violation, and a court ruling ordered all copies of the film to be destroyed. However, several prints of Nosferatu survived, and the film came to be regarded as an influential masterpiece of cinema and the horror genre. Critic and historian Kim Newman declared it as a film that set the template for the genre of horror film. The film entered the public domain worldwide in 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Nosferatu", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu", "revision": 1378703944, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378703944", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nosferatu&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q380996", "text": "Fast & Furious (also known as Fast & Furious 4) is a 2009 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the fourth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, serving as a direct sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003) and takes place before the events of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006). The film stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Jordana Brewster. In the film, Dominic Toretto and FBI agent Brian O'Conner are forced to work together to avenge the murder of Toretto's lover Letty Ortiz and apprehend drug lord Arturo Braga.\nA fourth film was announced in July 2007, with the returns of Diesel, Walker, Rodriguez, and Brewster confirmed shortly after that. To account for the cast seeing absences from either of the previous two installments, the film was developed to place Tokyo Drift, as occurring beyond the events of Fast & Furious, while the short film Los Bandoleros (2009) was produced and released. Principal photography began in early February 2008 and wrapped up in August 2008, with filming locations including Los Angeles and the Dominican Republic. Lin, Morgan, and composer Brian Tyler returned in their roles from Tokyo Drift. Fast & Furious is the first theatrical release to feature 4DX and D-BOX motion. It was also the first film in the franchise to be produced by Diesel.\nFast & Furious premiered at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles on March 12, 2009, and was released in the United States on April 3 by Universal Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who criticized its script but praised the action sequences. It grossed $360 million worldwide, exceeding expectations to become the then-highest-grossing film in the franchise. It was followed by Fast Five in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fast & Furious (2009 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_%26_Furious_(2009_film)", "revision": 1378721731, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378721731", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fast%20%26%20Furious%20(2009%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q471716", "text": "Barry Lyndon is a 1975 epic historical drama film written, directed, and produced by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel The Luck of Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray. Narrated by Michael Hordern, and starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter, and Hardy Krüger, the film recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Irish rogue and gold digger who marries a rich widow in order to attempt to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position.\nKubrick began production on Barry Lyndon after his 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. He had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost his financing because of the commercial failure of the similar 1970 Dino De Laurentiis–produced Waterloo. Kubrick eventually directed Barry Lyndon, set partially during the Seven Years' War, utilising his research from the Napoleon project. Filming began in December 1973 and lasted roughly eight months, taking place in England, Ireland, and Germany.\nThe film's cinematography has been described as ground-breaking. Especially notable are the long double shots, usually ended with a slow backwards zoom, the scenes shot entirely in candlelight, and the settings based on William Hogarth paintings. The exteriors were filmed on location in England, Ireland, and Germany, with the interiors shot mainly in London. The production had problems related to logistics, weather, and politics (Kubrick feared that he might be an IRA hostage target).\nBarry Lyndon won four Oscars at the 48th Academy Awards: Best Scoring: Original Song Score and Adaptation or Scoring: Adaptation, Best Costume Design, Best Art Direction, and Best Cinematography, while Kubrick himself was nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Although some critics took issue with the film's slow pace and restrained emotion, its reputation, like that of many of Kubrick's works, has grown over time, and it is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time. In the 2022 Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll, Barry Lyndon placed 12th in the directors' poll and 45th in the critics' poll.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Barry Lyndon", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Lyndon", "revision": 1378217391, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378217391", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Barry%20Lyndon&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q892735", "text": "The Great Gatsby is a 2013 historical romantic drama film based on the 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The film was co-written and directed by Baz Luhrmann and stars an ensemble cast consisting of Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Amitabh Bachchan, Isla Fisher, Jason Clarke, and Elizabeth Debicki. Filming took place from September to December 2011 in Australia, with a $105 million net production budget. The film follows the life and times of millionaire Jay Gatsby (DiCaprio) and his neighbor Nick Carraway (Maguire), who recounts his interactions with Gatsby amid the riotous parties of the Jazz Age on Long Island in New York.\nA polarizing film among critics, The Great Gatsby received both praise and criticism for its visual style, direction, performances, soundtrack, and interpretation of the source material. Audiences responded more positively, and Fitzgerald's granddaughter praised the film, stating \"Scott would have been proud.\" As of 2023, it is Luhrmann's highest-grossing film, grossing over $353 million worldwide. At the 86th Academy Awards, the film won in both of its nominated categories: Best Production Design and Best Costume Design.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Great Gatsby (2013 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby_(2013_film)", "revision": 1378354094, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378354094", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Great%20Gatsby%20(2013%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q4985891", "text": "X-Men: Days of Future Past is a 2014 superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. It is the seventh installment in the X-Men film series and serves as a sequel to both X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) and X-Men: First Class (2011), as well as a follow-up to The Wolverine (2013). Directed by Bryan Singer and written by Simon Kinberg, the film features an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, Anna Paquin, Elliot Page, Peter Dinklage, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart. The story, inspired by the 1981 Uncanny X-Men storyline \"Days of Future Past\" by Chris Claremont and John Byrne, focuses on two time periods, with Logan traveling back in time to 1973 to change history and prevent an event that results in unspeakable destruction for both humans and mutants.\nMatthew Vaughn had directed X-Men: First Class and was set to return in Days of Future Past but instead left for Kingsman: The Secret Service and the 2015 version of Fantastic Four. Singer, who had directed the first two X-Men films and produced First Class, returned as director, and brought along most of the crew from those productions. With a budget of $205 million, the film's principal photography began in Montreal, Quebec, in April 2013, and concluded in August, with additional filming and pick-ups taking place in November 2013 and February 2014. Twelve companies handled the visual effects.\nX-Men: Days of Future Past premiered in New York City on May 10, 2014, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 23, by 20th Century Fox. The film received positive reviews from critics, who deemed it one of the finest in the series. It grossed $746 million, making it the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2014, and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects. A sequel, X-Men: Apocalypse was released in 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "X-Men: Days of Future Past", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%3A_Days_of_Future_Past", "revision": 1378501384, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378501384", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X-Men%3A%20Days%20of%20Future%20Past&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14920425", "text": "Gone Girl is a 2014 American psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn, based on her 2012 novel. It stars Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris, Tyler Perry, and Carrie Coon in her film debut. Affleck plays Nick Dunne, a writing teacher who becomes the prime suspect following the disappearance of his wife, Amy (Pike), in Missouri.\nGone Girl premiered as the opening film at the 52nd New York Film Festival on September 26, 2014, and was theatrically released in the US on October 3, 2014, by 20th Century Fox. It received positive reviews and grossed $370 million worldwide. It became Fincher's highest-grossing film and is considered a postmodern mystery. Pike was nominated for awards including Best Actress from the Academy Awards, BAFTA Awards, Critics' Choice Awards, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Gone Girl (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_Girl_(film)", "revision": 1377649117, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377649117", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gone%20Girl%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18225084", "text": "The Hateful Eight is a 2015 American Western mystery thriller film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demián Bichir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern as eight dubious strangers who seek refuge from a blizzard in a stagecoach stopover a decade after the American Civil War.\nTarantino announced the film in November 2013. He conceived it as a novel and sequel to his 2012 film Django Unchained before deciding to make it a standalone film. After the script leaked in January 2014, he decided to abandon the production and publish it as a novel instead. In April 2014, Tarantino directed a live reading of the script at the United Artists Theater in Los Angeles, before reconsidering a new draft and resuming the project. Filming began in January 2015 near Telluride, Colorado. Italian composer Ennio Morricone composed the original score, his first complete Western score in 34 years (and the last before his death in 2020), his first for a high-profile Hollywood production since 2000, and the only original score for a Tarantino film.\nDistributed by the Weinstein Company in the United States, The Hateful Eight was released on December 25, 2015, in a limited roadshow release on 70 mm film, before expanding wide theatrically five days later. The film was praised for its direction, screenplay, score, cinematography, and performances, though its editing, length, the depiction of race relations and the violent treatment of Leigh's character divided opinions. It grossed over $161 million worldwide. For his work on the score, Morricone won his only Academy Award for Best Original Score after five previous nominations. The film also earned Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress (Leigh) and Best Cinematography (Robert Richardson).\nIn 2019, a re-edited version of the film was released as a four-episode miniseries on Netflix with the subtitle Extended Version. The Hateful Eight was Tarantino's final collaboration with Bob and Harvey Weinstein before allegations of sexual abuse were made against the latter in 2017, which led to Tarantino severing all ties with the brothers.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Hateful Eight", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hateful_Eight", "revision": 1378494345, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378494345", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Hateful%20Eight&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19946102", "text": "Beauty and the Beast is a 2017 American musical romantic fantasy film and a live-action adaptation of Disney Animation's 1991 film, itself based on the French fairy tale. Directed by Bill Condon and written by Stephen Chbosky and Evan Spiliotopoulos, the film stars Emma Watson as Belle and Dan Stevens as the Beast, with Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson in supporting roles.\nThe film was first announced in April 2014, with Condon attached to direct. The cast members signed on between January and April 2015, and filming took place primarily at Shepperton Studios in England from May to August of that year. The estimated production budget was around $255 million.\nBeauty and the Beast had its world premiere at Spencer House in London on February 23, 2017, followed by its American premiere at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood on March 2. It was released theatrically in the United States on March 17. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its cast, songs, and visual detail. It grossed $1.27 billion, becoming the second-highest-grossing film of 2017 and the tenth-highest-grossing film of all time. Amongst Disney's live-action adaptation remakes, it is the second-highest-grossing film to date. The film received several accolades, including nominations for Best Production Design and Best Costume Design at the 90th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty_and_the_Beast_(2017_film)", "revision": 1373927910, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373927910", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beauty%20and%20the%20Beast%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21010856", "text": "Hacksaw Ridge is a 2016 epic biographical war film directed by Mel Gibson, and starring Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss, an American combat medic in World War II who, as a Seventh-day Adventist, refused to use a weapon of any kind; Doss became the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Medal of Honor, for his service during the Battle of Okinawa. The film was written by Andrew Knight and Robert Schenkkan, based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector. The supporting cast includes Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths, and Vince Vaughn. Filming took place in Australia from September to December 2015.\nFollowing its premiere at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2016, Hacksaw Ridge was released in the United States on November 4 by Summit Entertainment (through Lionsgate Films). It grossed over $180 million worldwide, and received critical acclaim, with Gibson's direction and Garfield's performance earning particular praise. It was widely viewed as a return to form for Gibson, whose career had been in decline following several controversies. Hacksaw Ridge was chosen by both the National Board of Review and American Film Institute as one of their top ten films of 2016, and received numerous awards and nominations. At the 89th Academy Awards, the film received six nominations, including Best Picture, winning for Best Sound Mixing and Best Film Editing. It also received three Golden Globe nominations and twelve nominations at the Australian Academy Awards, winning nine of them including Best Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hacksaw Ridge", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacksaw_Ridge", "revision": 1377246807, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377246807", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hacksaw%20Ridge&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23894626", "text": "Black Widow is a 2021 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Cate Shortland from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and stars Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow alongside Florence Pugh, David Harbour, O-T Fagbenle, Olga Kurylenko, William Hurt, Ray Winstone, and Rachel Weisz. Mostly set during the events of Captain America: Civil War (2016), the film sees Romanoff on the run and forced to confront her past as a Russian spy before she became an Avenger.\nLionsgate Films began developing a Black Widow film in April 2004, with David Hayter attached to write and direct. The project did not move forward and the character's film rights had reverted to Marvel Studios by June 2006. Johansson was cast in the role for several MCU films beginning with Iron Man 2 (2010), and began discussing a solo film with Marvel. Work began in late 2017 and Shortland was hired in July 2018. Jac Schaeffer and Ned Benson contributed to the script before Pearson joined. The film was written to be a prequel that expands on Romanoff's history and helps end her MCU story following the character's death in Avengers: Endgame (2019). Shortland put an emphasis on the fight sequences and said this was the most violent MCU film so far. Filming took place from May to October 2019 in Norway, England, Budapest, Morocco, and Macon, Georgia.\nBlack Widow premiered at events around the world on June 29, 2021, and was released in the United States on July 9, simultaneously in theaters and through Disney+ with Premier Access. It is the first film in Phase Four of the MCU, and was delayed three times from an original May 2020 release date due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Black Widow broke several pandemic box office records and grossed over $379 million worldwide. The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for the action sequences and for the performances of Johansson and Pugh. In July 2021, Johansson filed a lawsuit against Disney over the simultaneous release, which was settled two months later.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Black Widow (2021 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Widow_(2021_film)", "revision": 1375964873, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375964873", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Widow%20(2021%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q60997779", "text": "Minions: The Rise of Gru is a 2022 American animated comedy film directed by Kyle Balda, and written by Matthew Fogel from a story by Fogel and Brian Lynch. Produced by Universal Pictures and Illumination, it is the second installment in the Minions prequel series and the fifth overall installment in the Despicable Me franchise. It features Steve Carell reprising his role as Gru and Pierre Coffin as the Minions, along with Russell Brand, Will Arnett, Steve Coogan and Julie Andrews. New cast members include Taraji P. Henson, Michelle Yeoh and Alan Arkin in his final film role. Following up after the events of Minions (2015), an eleven-year-old Gru plans to become a supervillain with the help of his Minions, which leads to a showdown with a malevolent team, the Vicious 6.\nAfter being delayed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Minions: The Rise of Gru had its world premiere at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 13, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on July 1 by Universal. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise earned for its score, animation, humor, voice performances (particularly Carell's), and aesthetic, while also considering it an improvement to its predecessor, however some criticized its plot. It was also a commercial success, grossing $940 million worldwide and becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2022. A third installment in the Minions series, Minions & Monsters, was released on July 1, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Minions: The Rise of Gru", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minions%3A_The_Rise_of_Gru", "revision": 1377571111, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377571111", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Minions%3A%20The%20Rise%20of%20Gru&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q83808444", "text": "Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American independent absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang. The film incorporates media from several genres, including surreal comedy, science fiction, fantasy, martial arts films, and immigrant narrative. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. The film also stars Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, James Hong, and Jamie Lee Curtis.\nKwan and Scheinert began work on the project in 2010, and began writing the film's script in 2016. Production was announced in 2018, and principal photography ran from January to March 2020. The works of Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai, as well as the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and the video game Everything, served as inspiration for several scenes. Also inspired by contemporary scholars such as philosopher Mary-Jane Rubenstein, the film explores philosophical themes such as existentialism, nihilism, surrealism, and absurdism, as well as themes such as neurodivergence, depression, generational trauma, and Asian American identity. Its soundtrack features compositions by Son Lux, and collaborations with Mitski, David Byrne, André 3000, John Hampson, and Randy Newman.\nEverything Everywhere All at Once premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 25, before a wide release by A24 on April 8. It grossed $143 million against a $14–25 million budget. The film garnered widespread acclaim from critics and received numerous accolades. At the 95th Academy Awards, it won seven out of the eleven awards it was nominated for: Best Picture, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Quan), Best Supporting Actress (Curtis), Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Kwan and Scheinert, and Best Editing. The film also won two Golden Globe Awards, five Critics' Choice Awards (including Best Picture), a BAFTA Award, and a record four SAG Awards (including Best Ensemble).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Everything Everywhere All at Once", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_Everywhere_All_at_Once", "revision": 1377592937, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377592937", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Everything%20Everywhere%20All%20at%20Once&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q49003", "text": "Ghost is a 1990 American supernatural romantic drama film directed by Jerry Zucker, written by Bruce Joel Rubin, and starring Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, and Tony Goldwyn. The film's plot follows Sam Wheat (Swayze), a banker who is murdered and returns as a ghost, unable to interact with the living world. With the help of psychic con artist Oda Mae Brown (Goldberg), Sam attempts to uncover those responsible for his murder and communicate with his girlfriend, Molly Jensen (Moore), who is unaware of his presence.\nGhost was theatrically released on July 13, 1990 by Paramount Pictures to commercial success. It grossed $505 million against a budget of $22–23 million, was the highest-grossing film of 1990, and at the time of its release was the third-highest-grossing film of all time. The film was a sleeper hit, which unexpectedly outperformed several blockbuster action films released during that summer. Its success extended to the home video market, and it was the most rented film of 1991 in the United States. The film initially received mixed reviews from critics, with praise going towards the score and performances of the cast.\nGhost earned five nominations at the 63rd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Original Score, Best Film Editing, and winning Best Supporting Actress for Goldberg and Best Original Screenplay for Rubin.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ghost (1990 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(1990_film)", "revision": 1378760713, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378760713", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghost%20(1990%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27204", "text": "Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film, the eighth film in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, the first to star Roger Moore as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond, and the third in the series directed by Guy Hamilton. It was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli and written by Tom Mankiewicz.\nIt is based on Ian Fleming's 1954 novel. The storyline involves a drug lord in Harlem, New York City, known as Mr. Big, who plans to distribute two tons of heroin for free to put rival drug lords out of business and then become a monopoly supplier. Mr. Big is revealed to be the alter ego of Dr. Kananga, a corrupt Caribbean dictator who rules San Monique, a fictional island where opium poppies are secretly farmed. Bond is investigating the deaths of three British agents, leading him to Kananga, and he is soon trapped in a world of gangsters and voodoo as he fights to put a stop to Kananga's scheme.\nReleased during the height of the blaxploitation era in American cinema, Live and Let Die depicts many of the genre's archetypes and clichés, including derogatory racial epithets (\"honky\"), black gangsters, and pimpmobiles. It departs from the former plots of the Bond films about megalomaniacal supervillains, and instead focuses on drug trafficking, a common theme of blaxploitation films of the period. It is set in African American cultural centres such as Harlem and New Orleans, as well as Caribbean islands. It was also the first Bond film featuring an African American Bond girl romantically involved with 007: Rosie Carver, portrayed by Gloria Hendry.\nIt was a box-office success and received generally positive reviews from critics. Its title song, written by Paul and Linda McCartney and performed by their band Wings, was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.\nLive and Let Die was followed by The Man with the Golden Gun the following year in 1974.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Live and Let Die (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_and_Let_Die_(film)", "revision": 1374124008, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374124008", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Live%20and%20Let%20Die%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q171711", "text": "Star Trek Into Darkness is a 2013 American science fiction action film directed by J. J. Abrams, and written by Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, and Damon Lindelof. It is the 12th installment in the Star Trek franchise and the sequel to the 2009 film Star Trek, as the second in a rebooted film series. It features Chris Pine reprising his role as Captain James T. Kirk, with Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldaña, John Cho, Anton Yelchin, Bruce Greenwood, and Leonard Nimoy reprising their roles from the previous film. Benedict Cumberbatch, Alice Eve, and Peter Weller are also in the film's principal cast. It was Nimoy's last film appearance before his death in 2015. Set in the 23rd century, the film follows Kirk and the crew of USS Enterprise as they are sent to the Klingon homeworld seeking the terrorist John Harrison.\nAfter the release of Star Trek, Abrams, Burk, Lindelof, Kurtzman, and Orci agreed to produce its sequel. Filming began in January 2012. Into Darkness's visual effects were created by Lucasfilm's Industrial Light & Magic. The film was converted to 3D during its post-production stage.\nIt premiered at Event Cinemas in Sydney, Australia, on April 23, 2013, and was released in IMAX theaters in the U.S. on May 15, 2013, with release in standard-format theaters the next day. Into Darkness was a financial success and received positive reviews from critics. Its gross earnings of over $467 million worldwide have made it the highest-grossing entry in the Star Trek franchise. It was nominated for Best Visual Effects at the 86th Academy Awards. It was followed by Star Trek Beyond in 2016.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Star Trek Into Darkness", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_Into_Darkness", "revision": 1376026718, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376026718", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Star%20Trek%20Into%20Darkness&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q189054", "text": "Batman Returns is a 1992 American superhero film directed by Tim Burton and written by Daniel Waters. Based on the DC Comics character Batman, it is the sequel to Batman (1989), also directed by Burton, and the second film in the Batman film series (1989–1997). The cast includes Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken, Michael Gough, Pat Hingle, and Michael Murphy. Set during Christmas in Gotham City, the film follows Batman (Keaton) as he confronts corrupt businessman Max Shreck (Walken) and deformed crime boss Oswald Cobblepot / the Penguin (DeVito), whose bid for power threatens the city. Their schemes are further complicated by Shreck's former secretary Selina Kyle (Pfeiffer), who seeks revenge against him as Catwoman.\nBurton was initially uninterested in directing a sequel to Batman, feeling creatively constrained by Warner Bros.' expectations. He agreed to return only after being granted greater creative control, which included replacing writer Sam Hamm with Daniel Waters and reuniting with many of his previous collaborators. Waters's script emphasized characterization over plot, and Wesley Strick was later hired for an uncredited rewrite that added, among other elements, a master plan for the Penguin. Filming took place from September 1991 to February 1992 on a budget of $50–80 million, primarily on sets and soundstages at Warner Bros. Studios and the Universal Studios Lot in California. The special effects relied mainly on practical techniques and makeup, supplemented with animatronics, limited computer-generated imagery (CGI), and dozens of live penguins.\nThe marketing campaign was extensive, featuring brand tie-ins and merchandise. Released on June 19, 1992, Batman Returns broke several box-office records and grossed $266.8 million worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 1992, but fell short of Batman in overall success and longevity. The darker tone, along with violent and sexual content, was cited as alienating family audiences and prompted backlash against marketing partners for promoting the film to children. Critical reception was polarized, though most reviewers praised the principal cast.\nFollowing the mixed reception, Burton was replaced for its more family-friendly sequel, Batman Forever (1995). Keaton also declined to return. In the years since its release, Batman Returns has been reappraised as one of the strongest Batman films and a pivotal early example of auteur-driven superhero cinema that helped shape the genre's darker, more ambitious direction. It is also recognized as an alternative Christmas film for its winter setting, festive imagery, and themes of loneliness and isolation. Its story was revisited in the comic series Batman '89 (2021), and Keaton reprised his version of Batman in The Flash (2023).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Batman Returns", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Returns", "revision": 1372803251, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372803251", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Batman%20Returns&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q191100", "text": "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers (2007) and the second in the Transformers film series. Like its predecessor, the film was directed by Michael Bay and written by Ehren Kruger, Roberto Orci, and Alex Kurtzman. Set two years after the events of Transformers, the story recounts the battle between the Autobots, led by Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen), and the Decepticons, led by Megatron (voiced by Hugo Weaving). The Autobots and Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) ally again to face an ancient Decepticon named the Fallen (voiced by Tony Todd), who pursues revenge on Earth.\nDevelopment on a sequel to Transformers began by May 2007. With deadlines jeopardized by possible strikes by the Directors Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild, Bay managed to finish the production on time with the help of previsualization and a scriptment. Shooting took place between May and September 2008, with locations in Egypt, Jordan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California, as well as air bases in New Mexico and Arizona.\nIt debuted on June 8, 2009, at Roppongi Hills in Tokyo, Japan and was released on June 24 by Paramount Pictures in the United States. Despite receiving generally negative reviews from critics, and winning three Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture, the film surpassed its predecessor's box office gross worldwide with $836.5 million, making it the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2009. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing at the 82nd Academy Awards. With over 11 million home media sales in 2009, it was also the top-selling film of the year in the United States. It was followed by Transformers: Dark of the Moon in 2011.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A_Revenge_of_the_Fallen", "revision": 1378753737, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378753737", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformers%3A%20Revenge%20of%20the%20Fallen&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108006", "text": "Speed is a 1994 American action thriller film directed by Jan de Bont in his feature directorial debut, and written by Graham Yost. Keanu Reeves, Dennis Hopper, and Sandra Bullock star in the film, with Joe Morton and Jeff Daniels in supporting roles. The plot centers on a city bus rigged by Howard Payne (Hopper), an ex-cop turned vengeful extortionist, to explode if its speed drops below 50 miles per hour (80 km/h). Reeves plays LAPD officer Jack Traven, who is tasked with preventing the disaster, with Bullock portraying a passenger who becomes unexpectedly involved in the mission.\nInspired largely by Runaway Train (1985) and the Japanese language action thriller film The Bullet Train (1975), Speed premiered on June 7, 1994, and was released on June 10, 1994, by 20th Century Fox. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed roughly $350 million worldwide against a $30–37 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1994. At the 67th Academy Awards, Speed won Best Sound. The film also won Best Sound and Best Editing at the 48th British Academy Film Awards.\nA sequel, Speed 2: Cruise Control, was released on June 13, 1997, but achieved the opposite of its predecessor, performing poorly and being widely lambasted by critics for Reeves's absence and the film's change in setting.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Speed (1994 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_(1994_film)", "revision": 1377370298, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377370298", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Speed%20(1994%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116845", "text": "Silver Linings Playbook is a 2012 American romantic drama film written and directed by David O. Russell. The film is based on Matthew Quick's 2008 novel The Silver Linings Playbook. It stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence, with Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver, Anupam Kher, and Chris Tucker in supporting roles.\nThe film is set in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Cooper plays Patrizio \"Pat\" Solitano Jr., a man with bipolar disorder who is released from a psychiatric hospital and moves in with his parents (De Niro and Weaver). Pat is determined to restore the love of his estranged wife. He meets a young widow, Tiffany Maxwell (Lawrence), who offers to help him if he enters a dance competition with her. The two become closer as they train, and Pat, his father, and Tiffany examine their relationships with each other as they cope with their situations.\nSilver Linings Playbook premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2012, and was released in the United States by The Weinstein Company on November 16, 2012. The film opened to critical acclaim, with praise for Russell's direction and screenplay, and the performances of Cooper and Lawrence. It grossed $236.4 million worldwide. A recipient of several accolades, it received eight nominations at the 85th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Supporting Actress and with Lawrence winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Silver Linings Playbook", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Linings_Playbook", "revision": 1376906337, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376906337", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silver%20Linings%20Playbook&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200437", "text": "Stalker (Russian: Сталкер, IPA: [ˈstaɫkʲɪr]) is a 1979 Soviet post-apocalyptic drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screenplay written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, loosely based on their 1972 novel Roadside Picnic. The film tells the story of an expedition led by a figure known as the \"Stalker\" (Alexander Kaidanovsky), who guides his two clients—a melancholic writer (Anatoly Solonitsyn) and a professor (Nikolai Grinko)—through a hazardous wasteland to a mysterious restricted site known simply as the \"Zone\", where supposedly exists a room which grants a person's innermost desires. The film combines elements of science fiction and fantasy with dramatic, philosophical, and psychological themes.\nThe film was shot over a year on film stock that was later discovered to be unusable and had to be almost entirely reshot with a new cinematographer, Alexander Knyazhinsky. Stalker was released by Goskino in May 1979. Upon release, the film garnered praise in the Soviet and Warsaw Pact press, but only mixed reviews in the West. In later years it was recognised as one of the greatest films of all time. In the decennial critics' and directors' polls published by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight and Sound in 2022, Stalker placed 43rd and 14th, respectively. The film sold over 4 million tickets, mostly in the Soviet Union, against a budget of 1 million roubles.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Stalker (1979 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalker_(1979_film)", "revision": 1377659048, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377659048", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stalker%20(1979%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q200572", "text": "I, Robot (sometimes stylized as i,Robot) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas, from a screenplay by Jeff Vintar and Akiva Goldsman. It stars Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Bruce Greenwood, James Cromwell, Chi McBride, and Alan Tudyk. The film is named after Isaac Asimov's 1950 short-story collection and incorporates Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and several characters, though it is not a direct adaptation.\nThe film is set in Chicago in 2035. Highly intelligent robots fill public service positions throughout the world, operating under the Three Laws of Robotics to keep humans safe. Detective Del Spooner (Smith) investigates the alleged suicide of U.S. Robotics founder Alfred Lanning (Cromwell) and believes that a human-like robot called Sonny (Tudyk) murdered him.\nI, Robot was released by 20th Century Fox in the United States on July 16, 2004. Produced with a budget of $105–120 million, the film grossed $353.1 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the visual effects and acting, but criticism of the plot. At the 77th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "I, Robot (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%2C_Robot_(film)", "revision": 1375782011, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375782011", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I%2C%20Robot%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q201819", "text": "District 9 is a 2009 science fiction action film directed and co-written by Neill Blomkamp. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James, and was adapted from Blomkamp's 2005 short film Alive in Joburg. The film is partially presented in a mockumentary format by featuring fictional interviews, news footage, and video from surveillance cameras. It begins in an alternate 1982, when an alien spaceship appears over Johannesburg, South Africa. When a population of diseased and malnourished insectile and crustaceous aliens are discovered on the ship, the South African government confines the asylum seekers to an internment camp called District 9. The title and premise of District 9 were predominantly inspired by events in Cape Town's District Six, while apartheid still existed. The film explores themes of humanity, racism, xenophobia, social segregation, and medical torture.\nDistrict 9 premiered on 23 July 2009 at San Diego Comic-Con, and was released in New Zealand on 13 August, the United States on 14 August and South Africa on 28 August, by TriStar Pictures. It received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, earning $211 million on a budget of $30 million. It garnered numerous award nominations, including Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Visual Effects, and Best Film Editing.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "District 9", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9", "revision": 1376476215, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376476215", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=District%209&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q204374", "text": "The Help is a 2011 period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor, and based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast, including Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Allison Janney, Cicely Tyson, and Sissy Spacek. \nThe film and novel center the lived experiences of underpaid, skilled Black domestic servants, in particular Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, in 1960s Mississippi and how their lives intersect with that of a young white woman, aspiring journalist Eugenia \"Skeeter\" Phelan. \nSkeeter, having been hired as a replacement home maintenance and cleaning advice columnist - with no knowledge on the subject asks a friend if she can get tips for the column from her maid, Aibileen. Shortly after she overpromises to a potential employer, an editor in New York, a meaningful story from the perspective of female Black domestic workers in 1960s United States, who were referred to as \"the help\", hence the eponymous title of the journalistic exposé, the novel, and the film.\" \nA heartbroken Aibileen eventually agrees to interviews, so long as measures are taken for safety due to the heinous punishments meted out for activities approaching this nature in the South. She also agrees to try to convince others to speak, focusing on her best friend Minny. At this pivotal moment in 1963, when the Civil Rights Movement in Jackson, MS, is at a fever pitch, one event that ignites others to join Aibileen and Minny is the assassination of Civil Rights Activist Medgar Evers. \nIn her bid to become a legitimate journalist and writer, Skeeter lends her literary knowledge and voice to those she recognizes as oppressed, mistreated, underappreciated by white society, and yet also loved by some; she collaborates with these women to write a book from the point of view of the maids, their stories expose the racism and discrimination they face as they work for white families, the love they give to the children they care for, and the meaningfulness of respect and kindness even if given under hidden circumstances.\nDreamWorks Pictures acquired the screen rights to Stockett's novel in March 2010 and quickly commissioned the film with Chris Columbus, Michael Barnathan, and Brunson Green as producers. The film's casting began later that month, with principal photography following four months after in Mississippi. The film is an international co-production between companies based in the United States, India, and the United Arab Emirates.\nThe Help premiered at the Jackson suburb of Madison, Mississippi, on July 30, 2011, and at Beverly Hills on August 9, 2011, and went into general theatrical release in North America on August 10, 2011, with distribution by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Touchstone Pictures label. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $221.8 million worldwide and receiving generally positive reviews from critics. The Help received four Academy Award nominations including Best Picture, Best Actress for Davis, and Best Supporting Actress for both Chastain and Spencer, with Spencer winning the award. The film also won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Help (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Help_(film)", "revision": 1378139415, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378139415", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Help%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q206374", "text": "The Expendables is a 2010 American action film directed by and starring Sylvester Stallone, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Callaham. The first installment in The Expendables franchise, the film co-stars an ensemble cast of mostly action film actors, including Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Steve Austin, Mickey Rourke, and Bruce Willis. The film is about a team of elite mercenaries tasked with a mission to overthrow a Latin American dictator whom they soon discover to be a mere puppet controlled by a corrupt ex-CIA agent. It pays tribute to the blockbuster action films of the late 1980s and early 1990s.\nThe Expendables was released in the United States on August 13, 2010 by Lionsgate. It received mixed reviews from critics, with some praise for the action sequences, and grossed $274 million. It was followed by three sequels: The Expendables 2 (2012), The Expendables 3 (2014), and Expend4bles (2023).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Expendables (2010 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Expendables_(2010_film)", "revision": 1374242019, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374242019", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Expendables%20(2010%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q207659", "text": "Space Jam is a 1996 American sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod. The film, which combines live action and animation, stars basketball player Michael Jordan as himself; the live-action cast also includes Wayne Knight and Theresa Randle, while Billy West and Danny DeVito headline the voice cast. The film follows Jordan as he is brought out of retirement by the Looney Tunes characters to help them win a basketball match against invading aliens intent on enslaving them as amusement park attractions.\nSpace Jam premiered in Los Angeles on November 10, 1996, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 15, by Warner Bros. under its Family Entertainment label. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who were divided over its premise of combining Jordan and his profession with the Looney Tunes characters, while the technical achievements of its intertwining of live-action and animation were praised. It was a commercial success, grossing $250.2 million worldwide against an $80 million budget, becoming the highest-grossing basketball film at the time, and the tenth highest-grossing film of 1996. A sequel, Space Jam: A New Legacy, was released in 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Space Jam", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Jam", "revision": 1378079304, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378079304", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Space%20Jam&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q208632", "text": "It Happened One Night is a 1934 American screwball comedy film produced and directed by Frank Capra. Claudette Colbert stars as a pampered socialite who tries to get out from under her father's thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter, played by Clark Gable.\nThe screenplay by Robert Riskin is based on the August 1933 short story \"Night Bus\" by Samuel Hopkins Adams, which provided the shooting title. It is considered a \"pre-Code\" production, as it was released just four months before the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America began rigidly enforcing the Hays Code.\nIt was the first of only three films to win the \"Big Five\" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay.\nIn 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress, being deemed \"culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant\". In 2013, the film underwent an extensive restoration by Sony Pictures.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "It Happened One Night", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Happened_One_Night", "revision": 1377330977, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377330977", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%20Happened%20One%20Night&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q29580929", "text": "Avatar: Fire and Ash is a 2025 American epic science fiction film directed by James Cameron from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Produced by Lightstorm Entertainment, it is the third installment in the Avatar film series and the sequel to Avatar: The Way of Water (2022). The film features Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Kate Winslet reprising their roles from previous films. The story follows the human-turned-Na'vi Jake Sully and his family on the habitable moon Pandora, as they face the combined threat of the human RDA forces and the Mangkwan, a ruthless Na'vi clan.\nFollowing the box office success of Avatar (2009), Cameron announced two sequels, with Avatar 3 aiming for a December 2015 release. However, the addition of two further sequels and the development of new performance capture technology required to film scenes underwater led to significant delays to allow the crew more time to work on writing, pre-production, and visual effects. Avatar: Fire and Ash started shooting simultaneously with The Way of Water in New Zealand on September 25, 2017, and filming wrapped in late December 2020. With an estimated production budget of at least $350 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nAvatar: Fire and Ash had its world premiere at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, on December 1, 2025, and was released in the United States on December 19 by 20th Century Studios. It received mixed to positive reviews from critics, who praised its visual effects, action sequences and spectacle, but criticized its runtime and script. The film grossed $1.490 billion worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the lowest-grossing film of the Avatar series. It won awards for its visual effects at the 98th Academy Awards and 79th British Academy Film Awards, and was named one of the top ten films of 2025 by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review. Two sequels, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5, are scheduled for release in 2029 and 2031, respectively.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Avatar: Fire and Ash", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar%3A_Fire_and_Ash", "revision": 1378278453, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378278453", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Avatar%3A%20Fire%20and%20Ash&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q113244935", "text": "Spider-Man: Brand New Day is a 2026 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man. Produced by Columbia Pictures, Marvel Studios, and Pascal Pictures, and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, it is the 38th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the fourth film in the MCU Spider-Man film series following Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021). The film was directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, written by Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers, and stars Tom Holland as Peter Parker / Spider-Man alongside Zendaya, Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, Jon Bernthal, Florence Pugh, Tramell Tillman, Marisa Tomei, and Mark Ruffalo. In the film, Parker is on his own and dedicated to protecting New York City as the hero Spider-Man. His personal struggles and overworking cause his superpowers to evolve while he faces a new telepathic threat.\nSony was developing a fourth MCU Spider-Man film by August 2019, and producer Amy Pascal revealed in November 2021 that it was intended to be the first in a new trilogy starring Holland. Work on the story began that December, with Holland more involved in development than he was for the previous films. McKenna and Sommers returned as writers by February 2023, Cretton was hired to direct by October 2024, and the title—derived from the 2008 comic book storyline \"Brand New Day\" that reset Spider-Man's status quo—was announced in March 2025. The producers wanted Holland's Parker to be a \"proper Spider-Man\" for the first time, on his own and fighting street-level crime. Cretton rewrote the script with Justin Kuritzkes. Ahead of filming, Bernthal and Ruffalo were revealed to be reprising their MCU roles of Frank Castle / Punisher and Bruce Banner / Hulk. Filming took place from August to December 2025, with location filming in Glasgow, Scotland, and throughout England. Soundstage work occurred at Pinewood Studios in England.\nSpider-Man: Brand New Day premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on July 27, 2026, and was released in the United States on July 31 as part of Phase Six of the MCU. It received largely positive reviews from critics, with praise for Holland's performance, the action sequences, and the more mature, character-driven story compared to the previous MCU Spider-Man films. The film has grossed $2.506 billion worldwide and set multiple box office records. It became the highest-grossing Spider-Man film, the highest-grossing film of 2026, the highest-grossing film in the United States and Canada, and the third-highest grossing film of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spider-Man: Brand New Day", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man%3A_Brand_New_Day", "revision": 1378813460, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378813460", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spider-Man%3A%20Brand%20New%20Day&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116547790", "text": "Superman is a 2025 American superhero film written and directed by James Gunn. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, it is the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series. David Corenswet stars as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman, alongside Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Edi Gathegi, Anthony Carrigan, Nathan Fillion, and Isabela Merced. In the film, Superman faces unintended consequences after he intervenes in an international conflict orchestrated by billionaire Lex Luthor (Hoult). Superman must win back public support with the help of his reporter and superhero colleagues. The film was produced by Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios.\nDevelopment on a sequel to the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) film Man of Steel (2013) began by October 2014, with Henry Cavill set to return as Superman. Plans changed after the troubled production of Justice League (2017), and the Man of Steel sequel was no longer moving forward by May 2020. Gunn began work on a new Superman film around August 2022. In October, he became co-CEO of DC Studios with Safran, and they began work on a new DC Universe. Gunn was publicly revealed to be writing the film in December. The title Superman: Legacy was announced the next month; Gunn was confirmed to direct in March 2023; and Corenswet and Brosnahan (Lois Lane) were cast that June. The subtitle was dropped by the end of February 2024, when filming began in Svalbard, Norway. Production primarily took place at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, with location filming around Georgia and Ohio. Filming wrapped in July. Some of the film's major comic influences include All-Star Superman (2005–2008) by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely and also Superman: Birthright (2003–2004) by Mark Waid, Leinil Francis Yu and Gerry Alanguilan.\nSuperman premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater on July 7, 2025, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on July 11. It is the first film in the DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. The film grossed $618.7 million worldwide, making it the tenth highest-grossing film of 2025, and received mostly positive reviews. Critics found it to be fun, colorful, and earnest, although some felt it was overstuffed, while the performances of Corenswet, Brosnahan, and Hoult were praised. A follow-up film, Man of Tomorrow, is scheduled for release in 2027, in addition to two spin-off television series featuring supporting characters from the film: The People v. Gorilla Grodd starring Skyler Gisondo as Jimmy Olsen and another for Gathegi's Michael Holt / Mister Terrific.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Superman (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378353199, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378353199", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Superman%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q117085614", "text": "One Battle After Another is a 2025 American action-comedy thriller film written, directed, and produced by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film's ensemble cast includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti, in her film debut. The film follows a drug using washed-up former revolutionary who is thrust back into the conflict when an amoral tenacious counterterrorist agent resurfaces after sixteen years to bring them to justice to cover his past sins.\nAnderson had wanted to adapt Vineland since the early 2000s, and eventually incorporated his own stories into the narrative while writing the screenplay. Principal photography took place in California from January to June 2024 using VistaVision, becoming one of the first films to use the format since the 1960s. Following its premiere on September 8, 2025, One Battle After Another was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on September 26. With a budget of $130–175 million, it is the most expensive film of Anderson's career and the highest-grossing at over $213 million worldwide.\nOne Battle After Another received acclaim and numerous accolades. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for 13 awards and won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Penn), Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and the inaugural Best Casting award. It also received one win from a record seven nominations at the 32nd Actor Awards; three wins at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards, including Best Picture; four wins at the 83rd Golden Globes, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy; and six wins at the 79th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film. The film was listed by the American Film Institute as one of the top ten films of 2025 and won five awards from the National Board of Review, including Best Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "One Battle After Another", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Battle_After_Another", "revision": 1378575239, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378575239", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=One%20Battle%20After%20Another&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q112322116", "text": "Captain America: Brave New World is a 2025 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Sam Wilson / Captain America. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the fourth installment in the Captain America film series, a continuation of the television miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier (2021), and the 35th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Julius Onah from a screenplay by Rob Edwards and the writing teams of Malcolm Spellman & Dalan Musson and Onah & Peter Glanz. It stars Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson / Captain America alongside Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Carl Lumbly, Xosha Roquemore, Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford. In the film, Wilson investigates a conspiracy involving U.S. president Thaddeus Ross (Ford).\nCaptain America: Civil War (2016) ended the Captain America trilogy starring Chris Evans as Steve Rogers, and Wilson becomes the new Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Series writers Spellman and Musson were writing a new Captain America film by April 2021, and Mackie signed on that August. Onah joined in July 2022, when the title Captain America: New World Order was announced. Additional cast members joined later that year. Nelson and Tyler returned from the second MCU film, The Incredible Hulk (2008), while Ford replaced William Hurt as Ross following Hurt's death in March 2022; Ross becomes the superpowered Red Hulk in the film. Filming took place from March to June 2023 at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, with additional filming in Washington, D.C. The subtitle was changed to Brave New World during filming. Matthew Orton joined in December 2023 to write for reshoots, which took place between May and November 2024, and added Esposito to the film. The involvement of Edwards and Glanz was revealed that December.\nCaptain America: Brave New World premiered on February 11, 2025, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on February 14 as part of Phase Five of the MCU. It grossed $415 million worldwide. The film received mixed reviews from critics for its story, connections to other MCU projects, and its visual effects. The performances, particularly those of Mackie and Ford, received praise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Captain America: Brave New World", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_America%3A_Brave_New_World", "revision": 1377938271, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377938271", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Captain%20America%3A%20Brave%20New%20World&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105105219", "text": "The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a 2025 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Fantastic Four. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 37th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) and the second reboot of the Fantastic Four film series. The film was directed by Matt Shakman from a screenplay by Josh Friedman, Eric Pearson, and the team of Jeff Kaplan and Ian Springer. It features an ensemble cast including Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Joseph Quinn as the titular team, alongside Julia Garner, Sarah Niles, Mark Gatiss, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ralph Ineson. The film is set in the 1960s of a retro-futuristic world which the Fantastic Four must protect from the planet-devouring cosmic being Galactus (Ineson).\n20th Century Fox began work on a new Fantastic Four film following the failure of Fantastic Four (2015). After the studio was acquired by Disney in March 2019, control of the franchise was transferred to Marvel Studios, and a new film was announced that July. Jon Watts was set to direct in December 2020, but stepped down in April 2022. Shakman replaced him that September when Kaplan and Springer were working on the script. Casting began by early 2023, and Friedman joined in March to rewrite the script. The film is differentiated from previous Fantastic Four films by avoiding the team's origin story. Pearson joined to polish the script by mid-February 2024, when the main cast and the title The Fantastic Four were announced. The subtitle was added in July, when filming began. It took place until November 2024 at Pinewood Studios in England, and on location in England and Spain.\nThe Fantastic Four: First Steps premiered at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles on July 21, 2025, and was released in the United States on July 25, as the first film in Phase Six of the MCU. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $521.9 million worldwide, making it the highest-grossing Fantastic Four film. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Fantastic Four: First Steps", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fantastic_Four%3A_First_Steps", "revision": 1378730309, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378730309", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Fantastic%20Four%3A%20First%20Steps&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136163067", "text": "Obsession is a 2025 American supernatural horror film written, directed, and edited by Curry Barker. It follows the shop clerk Bear (Michael Johnston), whose friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) falls dangerously in love with him after he makes a wish. Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter appear in supporting roles.\nBarker uploaded his short horror film The Chair to YouTube in 2023. When producer James Harris approached him to adapt it into a feature film, Barker pitched Obsession. It was partly inspired by The Simpsons episode \"Treehouse of Horror II\". The film was shot in Los Angeles in October 2024 on a $750,000 budget. It is Barker's second feature-length film, after Milk & Serial (2024), and first to be released in theaters.\nObsession premiered on September 5, 2025, at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Focus Features acquired the distribution rights for $14–15 million, the highest price commanded by a genre film in TIFF history, and Jason Blum joined as an executive producer under Blumhouse Productions. The film was theatrically released in the US on May 15, 2026, and received positive reviews. It grossed $520 million worldwide and set multiple box-office records as the tenth highest-grossing film of 2026 and fifth highest-grossing horror film of all time, unadjusted for inflation.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Obsession (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsession_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378788755, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378788755", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Obsession%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116701124", "text": "Conclave is a 2024 political thriller film directed by Edward Berger and written by Peter Straughan, based on the 2016 novel by Robert Harris. The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci, John Lithgow, Sergio Castellitto, and Isabella Rossellini. In the film, Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Fiennes) organizes a conclave to elect the next pope and finds himself investigating secrets and scandals about the major candidates.\nAfter premiering at the 51st Telluride Film Festival on 30 August 2024, Conclave was released in theaters in the United States by Focus Features on 25 October 2024 and in the United Kingdom by Black Bear UK on 29 November 2024. The film received positive reviews from critics, who praised the performances, directing, screenplay, and cinematography. The film has grossed $128 million worldwide on a $20 million production budget. The film experienced a resurgence in popularity following the death of Pope Francis in April 2025 and the subsequent conclave in May that resulted in the election of Pope Leo XIV, who reportedly saw the film.\nConclave was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. Among other accolades, it won four awards at the 78th British Academy Film Awards (tying The Brutalist for most of the ceremony), including Best Film, and also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture. At the 97th Academy Awards, it received eight nominations, including Best Picture, and won Best Adapted Screenplay.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Conclave (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conclave_(film)", "revision": 1377928647, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377928647", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conclave%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q61876374", "text": "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is a 2025 American action spy film directed by Christopher McQuarrie from a screenplay he co-wrote with Erik Jendresen. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (2023) and the eighth installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The ensemble cast includes Tom Cruise (in his final portrayal of Ethan Hunt), Hayley Atwell, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, Henry Czerny and Angela Bassett. In the film, Hunt and his IMF team continue their mission to prevent the Entity, a rogue artificial intelligence, from destroying all of humanity.\nIn January 2019, Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with McQuarrie co-writing and directing. Plans for the eighth film changed in February 2021, with returning and new cast and crew members announced soon after, including Lorne Balfe, who composed the score for two other films in the series; Balfe was later replaced by Max Aruj and Alfie Godfrey. Principal photography began in March 2022, but was suspended in July 2023 due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. Production resumed in March 2024 and concluded in November, with filming locations including England, Malta, Norway and South Africa. The subtitle was changed from Dead Reckoning Part Two in November 2024. With an estimated production budget of $300–400 million, The Final Reckoning is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nThe Final Reckoning had its world premiere in Tokyo on May 5, 2025, was screened out of competition at the 78th Cannes Film Festival on May 14, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 23 by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised McQuarrie's direction, Cruise's performance, the supporting cast and the action sequences, although the runtime and the pacing of the second act were criticized. It grossed $598.8 million worldwide and was considered a box office disappointment due to its budget, though it performed slightly better overseas and was recorded as the largest opening weekend of the franchise at $79 million. It was the final film co-produced by Paramount and Skydance before they merged in August 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%3A_Impossible_%E2%80%93_The_Final_Reckoning", "revision": 1378787035, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378787035", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission%3A%20Impossible%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Final%20Reckoning&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q112322474", "text": "Thunderbolts*  is a 2025 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the team Thunderbolts. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 36th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Jake Schreier from a screenplay by Eric Pearson and Joanna Calo, and stars an ensemble cast featuring Florence Pugh, Sebastian Stan, Wyatt Russell, Olga Kurylenko, Lewis Pullman, Geraldine Viswanathan, Chris Bauer, Wendell Pierce, David Harbour, Hannah John-Kamen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In the film, a group of antiheroes are caught in a trap and forced to work together on a mission that uncovers their traumatic pasts.\nMarvel Studios first teased the formation of an MCU Thunderbolts team in 2021. The film was revealed to be in development in June 2022, when Schreier and Pearson were attached. The main cast was revealed in September, with additional casting through early 2023. Lee Sung Jin joined to rewrite the script by March 2023, one of several creatives who returned to work with Schreier from the Netflix series Beef (2023–present). Production was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, causing some cast changes in early 2024. Calo joined by then for further rewrites. Filming took place from February to June 2024 at Trilith Studios and Atlanta Metro Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, and on location in Utah and Kuala Lumpur.\nThunderbolts* premiered on April 22, 2025, at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London, England, and was released in the United States on May 2 as the final film of Phase Five of the MCU. The meaning of the title's asterisk was the subject of commentary during marketing and was explained by the reveal at the end of the film that the Thunderbolts team is rebranded as the \"New Avengers\"; the title is changed to The New Avengers during the end credits and in some post-release marketing. The film received positive reviews from critics—with praise for its approach to mental health and the performances of Pugh and Pullman—and several accolades. It underperformed at the box office, grossing $382.4 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thunderbolts*", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolts*", "revision": 1376997159, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376997159", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thunderbolts*&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125473145", "text": "Sinners is a 2025 American horror film produced, written, and directed by Ryan Coogler. Set in 1932 in the Mississippi Delta, it stars Michael B. Jordan in dual roles as criminal twin brothers who return to their hometown in the Jim Crow South, where they are confronted by a supernatural evil. The film co-stars Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton (in his film debut), Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Benson Miller, and Delroy Lindo.\nCoogler began developing Sinners through his production company Proximity Media, with Jordan cast in the lead role. The project was announced in January 2024, and after a bidding war, Warner Bros. Pictures acquired distribution rights the following month. Additional roles were cast in April. Principal photography took place from April to July 2024. Longtime Coogler collaborator Ludwig Göransson composed the film's score and served as an executive producer.\nSinners premiered on April 3, 2025, at AMC Lincoln Square in New York City, and was theatrically released in United States on April 18, 2025. It received critical acclaim and was a commercial success, grossing over $371 million worldwide against a budget of $90 million. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute listed it among the top ten films of 2025. Sinners garnered many accolades, including a record-breaking 16 nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, winning four: Best Actor (Jordan), Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography (making Autumn Durald Arkapaw the first woman to win the award), and Best Original Score. \nIt also received 13 BAFTA Awards nominations, winning three, including Best Original Screenplay; four Critics' Choice Awards; two Golden Globe Awards; two Actor Awards (including Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture); and a historic 18 nominations and 13 wins at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, including the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sinners (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378651466, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378651466", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sinners%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27660145", "text": "Disney's Snow White, or simply Snow White, is a 2025 American musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Pictures. It is a live-action remake of Walt Disney's 1937 animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, itself based on the 1812 fairy tale. Directed by Marc Webb and written by Erin Cressida Wilson, the film stars Rachel Zegler as Snow White, with Andrew Burnap and Gal Gadot in supporting roles. The reimagined story follows the princess Snow White, who escapes assassination by her stepmother, the Evil Queen, and joins with seven magical beings of the forest and a rogue bandit named Jonathan to reclaim her kingdom.\nPlans for a Snow White remake were confirmed in October 2016, with Wilson attached as a writer. Webb entered talks to direct in May 2019 and was announced as director in September. Principal photography took place in the United Kingdom from March to July 2022, with additional reshoots taking place in London. The film was initially set to be released in March 2024, but faced delays due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. \nBefore its release, the film generated significant controversy regarding its color-blind casting, changes to the story, and the reimagining of the Seven Dwarfs. Additional controversy stemmed from Zegler's public critiques of the original film and Donald Trump, as well as her and Gadot's opposing views on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, leading to calls for boycotts on both political sides.\nSnow White premiered at the Alcázar of Segovia in Spain on March 12, 2025, and was released in the United States on March 21, to mixed reviews from critics. One of Disney's most expensive films and its most expensive live-action remake, it was considered by analysts to be a box-office bomb, as it grossed $205.7 million worldwide against a production budget of $336.5 million, losing the studio $170 million. The film later debuted at the top of the viewership charts in the United States upon its release on Disney+.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Snow White (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)", "revision": 1376416605, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376416605", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snow%20White%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107105860", "text": "Project Hail Mary is a 2026 science fiction film produced and directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and written by Drew Goddard, based on the 2021 novel by Andy Weir. It stars Ryan Gosling, who also produced the film, as Ryland Grace, and Sandra Hüller, James Ortiz, and Lionel Boyce play supporting roles. The story follows Ryland Grace, a middle school teacher who awakens aboard an interstellar spacecraft with no memory of how he got there.\nPre-production began in 2020, before Weir's novel was published. Filming took place throughout 2024 in the United Kingdom, both on location and on sets. Scenes aboard the spacecraft Hail Mary were filmed on a practical set that was constructed for the film.\nProject Hail Mary premiered in London on March 9, 2026, and was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on March 20, with Sony Pictures Releasing International releasing in other territories. It received positive reviews and was a commercial success, grossing over $684 million worldwide and becoming the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Project Hail Mary (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hail_Mary_(film)", "revision": 1378620934, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378620934", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Project%20Hail%20Mary%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q114246242", "text": "F1 (marketed as F1 the Movie) is a 2025 American sports drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski from a screenplay by Ehren Kruger, and a story by Kosinski and Kruger. The film stars Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, and Javier Bardem. The plot follows a Formula One (F1) racing driver who returns after a 30-year absence to save his former teammate's underdog team from collapse.\nDevelopment of the film began in December 2021 with Pitt, Kosinski, Kruger, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer attached to the project; the latter three had previously collaborated on Top Gun: Maverick (2022). Supporting cast members were revealed in early 2023, before the start of principal photography at Silverstone that July. Filming also took place during Grand Prix weekends of the 2023 and 2024 World Championships, with the collaboration of the FIA, the governing body of F1. Racing sequences were adapted from the real-life races, with F1 teams and drivers appearing throughout, including Lewis Hamilton, who was also a producer. Hans Zimmer composed the film's score, while numerous artists contributed to its soundtrack.\nF1 premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on June 16, 2025, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures and Apple Original Films on June 27. The film grossed over $634 million worldwide against a $200–300 million budget, becoming the ninth-highest-grossing film of 2025, the highest-grossing auto racing film of all time, the highest-grossing film by Apple, and the highest-grossing film of Pitt's career. In addition to receiving positive reviews from critics, the film secured four Academy Awards nominations, including Best Picture (winning Best Sound), while the National Board of Review named it as one of the top ten films of the year.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "F1 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1_(film)", "revision": 1377989995, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377989995", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F1%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116677364", "text": "Michael is a 2026 biographical film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by John Logan. It follows the early life of the American singer Michael Jackson, from his time with the Jackson 5 in the 1960s to the Bad World Tour in the late 1980s. Jackson is portrayed by his nephew Jaafar Jackson and as a child by Juliano Valdi, both in their film debuts. The supporting cast includes Nia Long, KeiLyn Durrel Jones, Laura Harrier, Jessica Sula, Mike Myers, Miles Teller, and Colman Domingo.\nDevelopment began in November 2019, when it was reported that Graham King had secured the rights to produce a film about Jackson, with Logan attached to write. Lionsgate announced the film in February 2022. In January 2023, Fuqua was announced as the director, and Jaafar was cast as Michael. Further casting took place from January to April 2024. \nAfter delays caused by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, principal photography took place between January and May 2024. After a clause was discovered in a legal settlement, references to the 1993 child sexual abuse allegations against Michael were removed, the third act was revised, and reshoots took place in June 2025, bringing the production budget to $155–200 million.\nMichael premiered at the Uber Eats Music Hall in Berlin on April 10, 2026, and was released on April 22 in the UK by Universal Pictures and on April 24 in the US by Lionsgate. It received generally negative reviews from critics, who praised Jaafar's performance but criticized the story as \"sanitized\". It grossed $1.029 billion worldwide, making it the highest-grossing biographical film, the first biographical film to reach $1 billion, the highest-grossing Lionsgate film and the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2026. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Michael (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378290409, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378290409", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Michael%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q123928072", "text": "Emilia Pérez (Latin American Spanish: [eˈmilja ˈpeɾes]) is a 2024 Spanish-language French musical crime film written and directed by Jacques Audiard. It is based on Audiard's opera libretto of the same name, which he loosely adapted from a chapter of the 2018 novel Écoute by French writer Boris Razon. The film follows a Mexican cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) who aims to disappear and transition into a woman with the help of a lawyer (Zoe Saldaña). Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Mark Ivanir, and Édgar Ramírez also appear in starring roles.\nEmilia Pérez had its world premiere on 18 May 2024 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize and the Best Actress award for its female ensemble. It was theatrically released by Pathé in France on 21 August 2024. The film received generally positive reviews from critics in the United States and Europe, who praised the direction, music, performances and themes, but received backlash on multiple fronts. In Mexico, the film was panned by both audiences and critics, who criticized its cultural misrepresentation, songwriting, use of stereotypes, and Spanish dialogue. LGBTQ commentators were also critical of its depiction of transgender people.\nDespite the polarized response, Emilia Pérez earned numerous accolades. At the 97th Academy Awards, the film led with 13 nominations and won two: Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña and Best Original Song for \"El Mal\". At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, the film won four awards, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language, from 10 nominations. It also received 11 nominations at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, including Best Film, winning two.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Emilia Pérez", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_P%C3%A9rez", "revision": 1377311789, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377311789", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emilia%20P%C3%A9rez&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125392328", "text": "28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle, and written by Alex Garland. The third film in the 28 Days Later film series, it stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. The film tells the story of a boy living in a post-apocalyptic world who undertakes a hazardous journey with his ill mother in an effort to obtain medical treatment for her.\n28 Years Later marks the returns of Boyle, Garland and cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to the film series. Cillian Murphy, who starred in the first film, served as executive producer. The film was shot back-to-back with its sequel, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, which was directed by Nia DaCosta and released in January 2026.\n28 Years Later was released in the United Kingdom and the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on 20 June 2025. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $151 million worldwide against a budget of $60 million, becoming the highest-grossing film in the franchise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "28 Years Later", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later", "revision": 1378228805, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378228805", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=28%20Years%20Later&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q101112656", "text": "The Brutalist is a 2024 epic period drama film directed and produced by Brady Corbet, who co-wrote the screenplay with Mona Fastvold. It stars Adrien Brody as a Jewish-Hungarian architect and severely traumatized Holocaust survivor who emigrates to the United States, where he struggles to recover and get his life back on track. The cast also features Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Emma Laird, Isaach de Bankolé, and Alessandro Nivola. The film was shot using the VistaVision format which had been originally developed in the 1950s, and was the first film shot in the format since One-Eyed Jacks in 1961.\nA co-production of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Hungary, The Brutalist premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on September 1, 2024, where Corbet was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction. It was released in the United States by A24 on December 20, 2024; in Hungary by UIP-DunaFilm on January 23, 2025; and in the United Kingdom by Focus Features through Universal Pictures International on January 24, 2025.\nThe film received critical acclaim and grossed $50.4 million against a $9.6 million budget. Among multiple accolades, the film earned ten nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, winning for Best Cinematography, Best Original Score, and Best Actor for Brody. At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, it won three awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama. It was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Brutalist", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brutalist", "revision": 1377322303, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377322303", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Brutalist&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125131076", "text": "Backrooms is a 2026 American psychological horror film directed and co-scored by Kane Parsons (in his feature directorial debut), and written by Will Soodik. It is based on Parsons's web series which was inspired by the \"Backrooms\" creepypasta. In the film, Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a furniture store owner, and his therapist Mary (Renate Reinsve) discover a dimension of seemingly endless liminal spaces accessed through the store's basement. Mark Duplass, Finn Bennett, and Lukita Maxwell also star.\nAfter uploading the web series in January 2022, Parsons was approached by several studios, including A24, about potentially adapting his series into a feature film. In February 2023, it was officially announced that work had begun on a film adaptation of the Backrooms based on Parsons's videos, with him also directing. Roberto Patino was initially set to write the screenplay, but was replaced by Will Soodik. Principal photography took place in Vancouver from July to August 2025.\nBackrooms premiered at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica on May 7, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States by A24 on May 29. It received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $402.5 million worldwide, becoming A24's highest-grossing film to date and making Parsons the youngest filmmaker to reach number one at both the United States and global box offices. Backrooms is the second-highest-grossing horror film of 2026, and the fifth-highest-grossing independent film of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Backrooms (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backrooms_(film)", "revision": 1378297170, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378297170", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Backrooms%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q118904382", "text": "How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film. It stars Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gabriel Howell, Julian Dennison, Bronwyn James, Harry Trevaldwyn, Peter Serafinowicz, and Nick Frost, with Gerard Butler reprising his role as Stoick the Vast.\nThe film is set on the rugged Isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations. Hiccup (Thames), the inventive yet overlooked son of Chief Stoick the Vast (Butler), befriends Toothless, a feared Night Fury dragon. Their unlikely bond reveals the true nature of dragons, challenging the very foundations of Viking society.\nPlans for a live-action remake of How to Train Your Dragon were announced in February 2023, with DeBlois returning to write and direct. Veteran composer John Powell also returned to score the remake. Thames and Parker joined the cast in May 2023, with additional casting announced in January 2024. Filming began later that month in Belfast, Northern Ireland and wrapped in May. It is DreamWorks Animation's first live-action film since it was spun off from the original live action studio in 2004.\nHow to Train Your Dragon premiered at CinemaCon on April 2, 2025, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 13. It received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $636.4 million worldwide, becoming the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the second-highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid of all time. It earned a nomination for Best Special Visual Effects at the 79th British Academy Film Awards. A sequel, titled How to Train Your Dragon 2 and based on the 2014 animated film, is scheduled to be released on June 11, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377905610, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377905610", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=How%20to%20Train%20Your%20Dragon%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q84713105", "text": "Ballerina (also marketed as From the World of John Wick: Ballerina) is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Len Wiseman and written by Shay Hatten. It is a spin-off installment within the John Wick film series, taking place between the events of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019) and Chapter 4 (2023). It stars Ana de Armas as ballerina and assassin Eve MaCarro, who takes on an army of killers as she avenges the death of her father. The supporting cast includes Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick (in his final screen appearance), Norman Reedus, Ian McShane, and Keanu Reeves.\nDevelopment on a fifth John Wick film began in 2017, after Hatten, who also contributed to the third and fourth films, wrote a spec script intended for a spin-off. Wiseman was appointed director in October 2019, with Chad Stahelski, the franchise's regular director, returning as a producer. Casting for Ballerina began in April 2022 and was rounded out by that December, with de Armas, Byrne and Reedus joining the cast and Huston, Reddick, McShane and Reeves returning. Composer and John Wick regular Tyler Bates along with Joel J. Richard also returned to score Ballerina. Principal photography began in November 2022 and lasted until January 2023, mainly in Prague and Budapest. Reshoots followed in February 2024.\nBallerina was theatrically released in the United States by Lionsgate on June 6, 2025, a year after it was originally scheduled to. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $140.2 million worldwide on a $90 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ballerina (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballerina_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377035673, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377035673", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ballerina%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116361132", "text": "Nosferatu is a 2024 American Gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers. It is a remake of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), which was in turn inspired by Bram Stoker's novel Dracula (1897); the film combines elements of both. It stars Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, and Willem Dafoe.\nDevelopment began in 2015, when Eggers planned to make it his second film; he described it as a passion project, but eventually opted to delay its production. Skarsgård and Depp were cast in lead roles in September 2022. Filming took place primarily at Barrandov Studios in Prague between February and May 2023.\nNosferatu had its world premiere in Berlin on December 2, 2024, and was theatrically released in the United States by Focus Features on December 25. The film received positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, grossing $182 million worldwide on a $50 million budget, becoming Eggers' highest-grossing film. At the 97th Academy Awards, the film earned nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, and Best Makeup and Hairstyling.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Nosferatu (2024 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu_(2024_film)", "revision": 1378767768, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378767768", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nosferatu%20(2024%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124393045", "text": "Frankenstein is a 2025 American Gothic science fiction horror film produced, written, and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley. The film stars Oscar Isaac as Victor Frankenstein and Jacob Elordi as the Creature, with Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz in supporting roles. The story follows the life of Frankenstein, an egotistical scientist whose experiment in creating new life results in dangerous consequences.\nDel Toro had long imagined a faithful Frankenstein film as a \"dream project\". This was initially in development for Universal Pictures, with del Toro casting frequent collaborator Doug Jones as the Creature, and Bernie Wrightson being considered for the monster's design. However, Universal suspended the project in relation to its planned Dark Universe franchise. Netflix revived the project in 2023, with Elordi instead portraying the Creature. Filming took place from March to September 2024. Although Wrightson died in 2017, his illustrated compilation Bernie Wrightson's Frankenstein was a key inspiration for the film's look.\nFrankenstein premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025. It had a limited theatrical release in the United States from October 17 and was globally released on November 7 on Netflix. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute named it as one of the top ten films of 2025. It received five nominations at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture – Drama, and nine nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Elordi), and won for Best Costume Design, Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Production Design.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Frankenstein (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377940174, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377940174", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frankenstein%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126086662", "text": "Train Dreams is a 2025 American period drama film directed by Clint Bentley, who co-wrote the screenplay with Greg Kwedar, based on the 2011 novella by Denis Johnson. The film stars Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Nathaniel Arcand, Clifton Collins Jr., John Diehl, Paul Schneider, Kerry Condon, and William H. Macy, with narration from Will Patton.\nTrain Dreams had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2025, and was released in select theaters in the United States on November 7, 2025, before its streaming debut by Netflix on November 21, 2025. The film received critical acclaim, with praise going to Bentley's direction and Edgerton's performance. Among its accolades, the film was named as one of the top ten films of 2025 by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute. For his performance, Edgerton was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. It received four nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Train Dreams (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_Dreams_(film)", "revision": 1375028534, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375028534", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Train%20Dreams%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130284179", "text": "Sentimental Value (Norwegian: Affeksjonsverdi) is a 2025 drama film directed by Joachim Trier, who co-wrote it with Eskil Vogt. It follows sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) in their reunion with their estranged father Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), who is preparing to make his next film with young American actress Rachel (Elle Fanning). \nThe film premiered in the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May, where it received widespread critical acclaim and won the Grand Prix. It was theatrically released in Norway on 12 September by Nordisk Film.\nAt the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and won Best Supporting Actor for Skarsgård. At the 98th Academy Awards, it received nine nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Reinsve), Best Supporting Actor (Skarsgård) and two Best Supporting Actress nominations (Fanning and Lilleaas), and became the first Norwegian film to win Best International Feature Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sentimental Value", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentimental_Value", "revision": 1375073596, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375073596", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sentimental%20Value&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q59395971", "text": "Lilo & Stitch is a 2025 American science fiction comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Pictures and Rideback. Directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, it is a live-action animated remake of Disney's 2002 traditionally animated film Lilo & Stitch. The film stars Sydney Elizebeth Agudong, Billy Magnussen, Hannah Waddingham, Courtney B. Vance, Zach Galifianakis, and Maia Kealoha in her film debut, with original Lilo & Stitch writer-director Chris Sanders reprising his voice role as Stitch.\nDevelopment on a live-action remake of Lilo & Stitch began in October 2018, with writer Mike Van Waes and producers Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich attached. By November 2020, Jon M. Chu was in talks to direct, while Van Waes left the project despite still being credited. Fleischer Camp and Chris Kekaniokalani Bright were announced as the film's new director and writer respectively in July 2022, with casting taking place between November 2022 and June 2023. Principal photography ran from April to July 2023, filming during the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike until suspending production due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and then in February and March 2024 after both strikes ended. Dan Romer composed the score, and Industrial Light & Magic provided the film's visual effects with the assistance of several other effects houses.\nLilo & Stitch premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on May 17, 2025, and was released in the United States on May 23, by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and grossed $1.038 billion worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2025 and the highest-grossing live-action/animated hybrid in history, being the first of its kind to gross over $1 billion. A sequel, with Sanders writing and directing, is in development for release on May 26, 2028.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Lilo & Stitch (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilo_%26_Stitch_(2025_film)", "revision": 1376202490, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376202490", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lilo%20%26%20Stitch%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q112977213", "text": "Mickey 17 is a 2025 science fiction black comedy film written, produced, and directed by Bong Joon Ho, based on the 2022 novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton. The film stars Robert Pattinson in the title role, alongside Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Patsy Ferran, Cameron Britton, Daniel Henshall, Stephen Park, Anamaria Vartolomei, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo. Set in the year 2054, the plot follows a man who joins a space colony voyage as an \"Expendable\", a disposable worker who is cloned every time he dies.\nMickey 17 had its world premiere at Leicester Square in London on February 13, 2025, and was released theatrically by Warner Bros. Pictures in South Korea on February 28, and in the United States on March 7. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $133.3 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mickey 17", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_17", "revision": 1377620045, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377620045", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mickey%2017&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q122741016", "text": "Hamnet is a 2025 historical drama film directed by Chloé Zhao, who co-wrote the screenplay with Maggie O'Farrell, based on the 2020 novel by O'Farrell. The film dramatises the family life of William Shakespeare and his wife Agnes Hathaway as they cope with the death of their 11-year-old son Hamnet. It stars Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal as Agnes and William, alongside Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, and Jacobi Jupe in supporting roles.\nHamnet had its world premiere at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2025 and received a limited theatrical release by Focus Features in the United States and Canada on 26 November. It received a wide theatrical release on 5 December and was released by Universal Pictures in the United Kingdom on 9 January 2026. Critical reception was positive, with Buckley's performance receiving particular praise. The film received numerous accolades, including winning the Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama for Buckley at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, and eight nominations at the 98th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director for Zhao, with Buckley winning the Academy Award for Best Actress.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hamnet (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamnet_(film)", "revision": 1377840590, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377840590", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hamnet%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126487478", "text": "Weapons is a 2025 American supernatural mystery horror film directed, written, produced, and co-scored by Zach Cregger. It stars an ensemble cast including Josh Brolin, Julia Garner, Alden Ehrenreich, Austin Abrams, Cary Christopher, Toby Huss, Benedict Wong, and Amy Madigan. Its plot follows the case of seventeen children from the same classroom who mysteriously run away on the same night at the same time.\nAfter the critical and commercial success of his film Barbarian (2022), Cregger began working on the spec script for Weapons. It prompted a bidding war between several studios, with New Line Cinema emerging as the victor. Initially intended to film from May to July 2023, several actors dropped out due to conflicts caused by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. Casting resumed in February 2024 and ended in May of that year. Filming began in Atlanta and concluded in July.\nWeapons was released in theaters in North America on August 8, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received critical acclaim, and was a box-office success, grossing $270 million against a $38 million budget. Madigan's performance was singled out for praise, winning the Academy Award and the Actor Award (SAG Award) for Best Supporting Actress, and was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the same category. \nA prequel, titled Gladys, is scheduled to be released on September 8, 2028.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Weapons (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378348378, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378348378", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weapons%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q637290", "text": "Cobra is a 1986 American action film directed by George P. Cosmatos and written by Sylvester Stallone, who stars in the title role. The film, loosely based on the 1974 novel A Running Duck by Paula Gosling (later published as Fair Game and filmed under that title in 1995), co-stars Reni Santoni, Brigitte Nielsen and Andrew Robinson. Cobra follows Los Angeles police Lt. Marion \"Cobra\" Cobretti, who investigates a string of violent crimes and also protects Ingrid Knudsen, a witness targeted by the perpetrators.\nCobra is the final film which featured the collaboration between Stallone and Nielsen after Rocky IV (1985) until Creed II (2018), and the only film the pair are both featured in while married to one another in real life, before their divorce a year later. The script was largely inspired by Stallone's original script for Beverly Hills Cop (1984).\nCobra was released to generally negative reviews with criticism on its excessive violence and overuse of genre tropes, but it was a box office success and has since been considered a cult classic.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Cobra (1986 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_(1986_film)", "revision": 1374976171, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374976171", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cobra%20(1986%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116921951", "text": "Supergirl is a 2026 American superhero film based on the DC Comics superheroine Kara Zor-El / Supergirl. Directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Ana Nogueira, it is the second film in the DC Universe (DCU). Milly Alcock stars in the title role, alongside Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, Emily Beecham, David Corenswet, and Jason Momoa. In the film, Kara embarks on a journey across the galaxy to hunt down an adversary who has harmed her pet dog Krypto. The film is produced by Peter Safran and James Gunn of DC Studios.\nA film featuring Supergirl entered development as part of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) franchise in August 2018, and the character was introduced in the 2023 film The Flash, portrayed by Sasha Calle. Plans for the standalone project were altered when Gunn and Safran became co-CEOs of DC Studios in October 2022, and they began work on the DCU as a reboot of the DCEU. A new Supergirl film was announced in January 2023 as an adaptation of the 2021–22 comic book miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely. Nogueira was hired by November 2023; Alcock was cast in January 2024 to debut in the first DCU film, Superman (2025); and Gillespie joined that May. Filming took place from January to May 2025 at Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden and London in England, and in Scotland.\nSupergirl premiered at the Plaza at 300 Ashland in Brooklyn on June 22, 2026, and was theatrically released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on June 26. It is part of the DCU's Chapter One: Gods and Monsters. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, grossing $126.4 million against a production budget of $170–186 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Supergirl (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergirl_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378818538, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378818538", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Supergirl%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126683577", "text": "Disclosure Day is a 2026 American science fiction thriller film directed and produced by Steven Spielberg from a screenplay by David Koepp, based on a story by Spielberg. The film stars an ensemble cast, including Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor, Colin Firth, Eve Hewson, and Colman Domingo. In the film, a television meteorologist (Blunt) and a cybersecurity analyst (O'Connor) go on a mission to disclose the existence of extraterrestrial life to the world, while trying to evade the trail of a government contractor (Firth), who tries to prevent them from getting the secret out.\nIn April 2024, it was reported that Spielberg's next project would be a UFO film, with Koepp writing the screenplay. Within the next few months, Universal Pictures was announced as distributor and Blunt was cast in the lead role. Filming took place from February to May 2025 in New York and New Jersey. John Williams composed the film's score, marking his thirtieth collaboration with Spielberg.\nDisclosure Day premiered at Le Grand Rex in Paris on June 2, 2026, and was released theatrically in the United States on June 12. It received positive reviews and has grossed $241 million worldwide on a $115 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Disclosure Day", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disclosure_Day", "revision": 1378638776, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378638776", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Disclosure%20Day&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125971387", "text": "Bugonia is a 2025 dark comedy film directed by Yorgos Lanthimos and written by Will Tracy. An English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan, the film follows two young men who kidnap a powerful CEO, suspecting that she is secretly an alien who wants to destroy Earth. The film stars Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aidan Delbis, Stavros Halkias, and Alicia Silverstone. \nBugonia is a co-production of the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Korea, and the United States. Development began in 2020, with Jang attached to direct, Will Tracy adapting the screenplay, and Ari Aster boarding as producer. Jang stepped down as director, citing health concerns, but remained an executive producer. By February 2024, Lanthimos was hired, while Stone joined as an actress and producer. Plemons joined that May, and the film was soon acquired by Focus Features for distribution at the Cannes Film Festival. Principal photography began in July in High Wycombe, England, and Atlanta, Georgia, and during which time the rest of the cast was announced. Additional filming took place in May 2025 in Milos, Greece. With an estimated budget of $45–55 million, Bugonia is Lanthimos's most expensive film.\nBugonia premiered in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by Focus Features on October 24. It received generally positive reviews, particularly for Stone and Plemons. Both received nominations for their performances at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards and the 32nd Actor Awards. At the 98th Academy Awards, it received four nominations including Best Picture and Best Actress for Stone.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bugonia (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugonia_(film)", "revision": 1377820550, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377820550", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bugonia%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q114817050", "text": "Wicked: For Good (also known as Wicked: Part Two) is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed by Jon M. Chu and written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. The sequel to Wicked (2024), it adapts the second act of the 2003 stage musical by Stephen Schwartz and Holzman, which was loosely based on Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its 1939 film adaptation. Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Michelle Yeoh, and Jeff Goldblum reprise their roles from the first film. Set in the Land of Oz both before and during a retelling of the events of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the film follows Elphaba and Glinda in their new respective identities as the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good.\nUniversal Pictures and Marc Platt, who both produced the stage musical, announced the film adaptation in 2012. After a long development and multiple delays, partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Chu was hired to direct, with Erivo and Grande cast in 2021. The adaptation was split into two parts to avoid omitting plot points and further develop the characters. Principal photography on both films began in December 2022 in England, was interrupted in July 2023 by the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, and resumed and concluded in January 2024.\nWicked: For Good premiered at the Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo on November 4, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 21. It grossed $540 million on a $150 million budget, becoming the second-highest-grossing Oz film and musical film adaptation, both behind the first film. Both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute listed it among the top-ten films of 2025, and it received several accolades, including nominations for five Golden Globe Awards and two British Academy Film Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wicked: For Good", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked%3A_For_Good", "revision": 1378622470, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378622470", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wicked%3A%20For%20Good&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q118175825", "text": "A Complete Unknown is a 2024 American biographical film about the early career of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, directed by James Mangold, written by Mangold and Jay Cocks, and loosely based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric! by Elijah Wald. A Complete Unknown examines the period of 1961–1965, beginning with Dylan's start as an American folk singer, and ending with his controversial use of electric instruments at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. Dylan is portrayed by Timothée Chalamet, who also produced the film. Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, Dan Fogler, Norbert Leo Butz, Eriko Hatsune, Big Bill Morganfield, Will Harrison, and Scoot McNairy appear in supporting roles.\nA Complete Unknown premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on December 10, 2024, and was released in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on December 25. It grossed $140.5 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews. It was named one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review. The National Board of Review also awarded Fanning Best Supporting Actress.\nThe film earned eight nominations at the 97th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor (Chalamet), Best Supporting Actor (Norton), and Best Supporting Actress (Barbaro). It received three nominations at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards (including Best Motion Picture – Drama), four at the 31st Screen Actors Guild Awards (winning Best Actor for Chalamet), and six at the British Academy Film Awards (including Best Film).", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Complete Unknown", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Complete_Unknown", "revision": 1377873967, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377873967", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Complete%20Unknown&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134611972", "text": "The Devil Wears Prada 2 is a 2026 American comedy drama film directed by David Frankel and written by Aline Brosh McKenna. A sequel to the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, it sees Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, and Stanley Tucci reprising their roles, joined by Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, and Kenneth Branagh. Set two decades after the events of the first film, it follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she helps Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigate a new media landscape and corporate threats to the survival of Runway magazine.\nDespite the success of The Devil Wears Prada, Streep and Hathaway were initially hesitant about the prospects of a sequel. Development on the film began in July 2024, with all four leading actors – Streep, Hathaway, Blunt, and Tucci – signing on to reprise their roles, and Frankel and McKenna returning to direct and write, respectively. Additional castings for new characters were revealed between then and November 2025. Principal photography took place from June to October 2025 in Manhattan and Milan, with additional filming in Newark, New Jersey.\nThe Devil Wears Prada 2 premiered on April 20, 2026, in New York, and was released in theaters in the United States by 20th Century Studios on May 1. It received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $693.2 million on a $100 million production budget, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Devil Wears Prada 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_Wears_Prada_2", "revision": 1378219439, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378219439", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Devil%20Wears%20Prada%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q120237363", "text": "Tron: Ares is a 2025 American science fiction action film. It is the third installment in the Tron series following Tron: Legacy (2010). Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, the film was directed by Joachim Rønning, and stars Jared Leto, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, Jodie Turner-Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Arturo Castro, and Gillian Anderson, with Jeff Bridges reprising his role as Kevin Flynn from the first two films. The story is about artificial intelligence originating from the Grid entering the real world, namely a highly advanced program called Ares. \nDevelopment of a sequel to Tron: Legacy began in October 2010 by franchise creator Steven Lisberger. In March 2017, Walt Disney Pictures shifted plans toward a reboot with Leto playing a new character. Garth Davis was set as director in August 2020 when Wigutow was working on the script, but stepped down in January 2023. Rønning replaced him a month later. Production was expected to begin in August 2023 but was delayed by the 2023 Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Filming ultimately began in January 2024 in Vancouver and finished in May. By August, industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails had been announced to be composing the score. The band's members, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, served as executive producers on the film, alongside Legacy director Joseph Kosinski.\nTron: Ares premiered in Los Angeles on October 6, 2025, before a general release followed on October 10, and received mixed reviews from critics. It was considered a box-office disappointment, grossing $142 million worldwide on a production budget of $180–220 million, although it found commercial success with its home media release.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Tron: Ares", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron%3A_Ares", "revision": 1376211021, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376211021", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tron%3A%20Ares&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q117830073", "text": "Mortal Kombat II is a 2026 American martial arts dark high fantasy film based on the video-game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. It is the sequel to Mortal Kombat (2021) and is the fourth installment in the Mortal Kombat film series. Directed by Simon McQuoid and written by Jeremy Slater, it stars returning cast members Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Ludi Lin, Mehcad Brooks, Lewis Tan, Max Huang, Damon Herriman, Chin Han, Tadanobu Asano, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada, with Karl Urban, Adeline Rudolph, Martyn Ford, and Tati Gabrielle joining the cast. The film follows Johnny Cage, a martial arts actor who is recruited by the thunder god Raiden and Sonya Blade to join his fellow Earthrealm fighters in an interdimensional tournament against the Outworld warriors and stop the tyrannical emperor Shao Kahn, with the help of Edenian princess Kitana.\nFollowing the release of Mortal Kombat in April 2021, producer Todd Garner, writer Greg Russo, and director McQuoid began conversations about the future of the franchise, including standalone films focused on Johnny Cage and Bi-Han / Sub-Zero, and a sequel to the 2021 film. By 2022, New Line Cinema green-lit the sequel, with Slater penning the screenplay and McQuoid returning to direct. Filming began in June 2023 in Australia, was paused in mid-July due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, resumed in mid-November, and concluded in late January 2024. \nMortal Kombat II premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on April 27, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 8, 2026, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film grossed $129 million worldwide on an $80 million production budget and, while it was rated better than its predecessor, received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mortal Kombat II (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal_Kombat_II_(film)", "revision": 1378336722, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378336722", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mortal%20Kombat%20II%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124262351", "text": "I'm Still Here (Portuguese: Ainda Estou Aqui ; Brazilian Portuguese: [aˈĩdɐ isˈtow aˈki]) is a 2024 political biographical drama film directed by Walter Salles from a screenplay by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's 2015 memoir of the same name. It stars Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro as Eunice Paiva, a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband, the dissident politician Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello), during the military dictatorship in Brazil. \nThe film had its world premiere at the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 1 September 2024, where it won the Best Screenplay award and received critical acclaim with widespread praise for Torres' performance. It was named one of the Top 5 International Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review. At the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, Torres won the Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama award while the film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, a category in which it was also nominated at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards and the BAFTA. At the 97th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture and Best Actress (Torres), and won Best International Feature Film, becoming the first-ever Brazilian-produced film to win an Academy Award.\nSoon after its release in Brazilian theaters on 7 November 2024 by Sony Pictures Releasing International, the film was the target of an unsuccessful boycott by the Brazilian far-right, which denies that the military regime was a dictatorship. Grossing $36 million with a budget of around $9M, it became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "I'm Still Here (2024 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I'm_Still_Here_(2024_film)", "revision": 1374799546, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374799546", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=I'm%20Still%20Here%20(2024%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q129423731", "text": "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It is the direct sequel to 28 Years Later (2025) and the fourth instalment in the 28 Days Later film series. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. The film follows Spike as he is adopted into \"Sir Lord\" Jimmy Crystal's satanic cult while Dr Ian Kelson makes an unexpected connection with Samson, an Alpha Infected.\nIn April 2024, DaCosta was reportedly in negotiations to direct a sequel to 28 Years Later, which would be the second part of a planned trilogy, with Danny Boyle, Garland, Andrew Macdonald, Peter Rice, and Bernie Bellew attached as producers; Cillian Murphy remains executive producer. The film was shot back-to-back with its predecessor.\nThe Bone Temple was released by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2026, as part of a double bill with 28 Years Later. It received a separate release the following day and was released in the United States on 16 January. The film received critical acclaim, becoming the best-reviewed film in the series, but underperformed at the box office, grossing $58.5 million worldwide against a $63 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_Years_Later%3A_The_Bone_Temple", "revision": 1378551101, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378551101", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=28%20Years%20Later%3A%20The%20Bone%20Temple&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126396314", "text": "Predator: Badlands is a 2025 American science fiction action film directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison from a story by Trachtenberg and Aison. It is the seventh installment in the Predator franchise. The film stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in leading roles. The story follows Dek, a young exiled Yautja, who crash-lands on a hostile planet and must prove himself worthy of the hunt by killing an apex predator, leading him to form an alliance with Thia, a Weyland-Yutani Corporation android.\nFollowing the success of Prey (2022), Trachtenberg returned to direct two additional films in the franchise. Badlands was announced to be releasing in 2025 after another Predator film, which would later turn out to be Predator: Killer of Killers (2025).\nPredator: Badlands premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre on November 3, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 7, by 20th Century Studios. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed over $184 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Predator: Badlands", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator%3A_Badlands", "revision": 1377790001, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377790001", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Predator%3A%20Badlands&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130118681", "text": "Marty Supreme is a 2025 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Josh Safdie, who co-wrote it with Ronald Bronstein. Set in the 1950s, it stars Timothée Chalamet as table tennis player Marty Mauser (loosely based on Marty Reisman) and follows his quest to become world champion. Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A'zion, Kevin O'Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher appear in supporting roles.\nSafdie and Bronstein began developing the film in 2018 after Safdie was given a copy of Reisman's 1974 memoir, The Money Player: The Confessions of America's Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler. Safdie met with Chalamet in 2018 and offered him the lead role. Following a multi-year development period, the project was officially announced in July 2024. It marks Safdie's first solo directorial effort since The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008), having directed together with his brother Benny their following five films. Cinematographer Darius Khondji shot on 35 mm film stock and Safdie's regular collaborator Daniel Lopatin composed the score. Production design was led by Jack Fisk.\nMarty Supreme premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 6, 2025, and was released in the United States on December 25 by A24. It received critical acclaim and was a box-office success, grossing $192 million worldwide and becoming one of A24's highest-grossing films, as well as the year’s highest grossing independent film. The National Board of Review and the American Film Institute each named it one of their top ten films of 2025. It was also nominated for several awards, including nine at the 98th Academy Awards and eleven at the 79th British Academy Film Awards. Chalamet won Best Actor at the Golden Globes and Critics' Choice for his performance.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Marty Supreme", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Supreme", "revision": 1378333940, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378333940", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marty%20Supreme&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133866932", "text": "It Was Just an Accident (Persian: یک تصادف ساده, romanized: Yek tasādof-e sāde; French: Un simple accident) is a 2025 political thriller film written and directed by Jafar Panahi. The film is a co-production between Iran, France, and Luxembourg. The film follows a group of former Iranian political prisoners who face the question of whether to exact revenge on a man they believe may be their tormentor. Panahi, who is critical of the Iranian government and has been imprisoned several times, made the film without official filming permission from the Iranian authorities.\nThe film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 78th Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2025, where it won the Palme d'Or, and received critical acclaim. At the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it became the first Iranian film to be nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, Best Director and Best Screenplay, and was also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best International Feature Film (France) and Best Original Screenplay.\nIt Was Just an Accident was theatrically released in France on 1 October 2025 by Memento Distribution.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "It Was Just an Accident", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Was_Just_an_Accident", "revision": 1377791069, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377791069", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%20Was%20Just%20an%20Accident&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q65146722", "text": "Now You See Me: Now You Don't is a 2025 American heist film directed by Ruben Fleischer from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie, the writing duo of Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese, and Seth Grahame-Smith, based on a story by Eric Warren Singer and Lesslie. The film is the sequel to Now You See Me 2 (2016) and the third installment in the Now You See Me film series. The cast includes Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, and Morgan Freeman returning from previous films, joined by new cast members Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, Ariana Greenblatt, and Rosamund Pike.\nNow You See Me: Now You Don't premiered at the Harbour Club in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on November 11, 2025, and was released in the United States on November 14, 2025, by Lionsgate. The film grossed $246 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Now You See Me: Now You Don't", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_You_See_Me%3A_Now_You_Don't", "revision": 1378340019, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378340019", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Now%20You%20See%20Me%3A%20Now%20You%20Don't&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q118212751", "text": "Final Destination Bloodlines is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, and written by Guy Busick and Lori Evans Taylor. It is the sixth installment in the Final Destination film series, and stars Kaitlyn Santa Juana as a college student who inherits visions of a 1969 premonition that averted a deadly skyscraper failure from her dying grandmother, who warns her granddaughter that Death is coming for their family. Teo Briones, Richard Harmon, Owen Patrick Joyner, Anna Lore, Brec Bassinger, and Tony Todd appear in supporting roles.\nAfter the commercial success of the previous film, a sixth film entered development, described as a re-imagining of the franchise. In March 2020, series producer Craig Perry said the film would be set \"in the world of first responders\". In January 2022, the film was scheduled for release on the streaming service HBO Max, with Lipovsky and Stein directing and Busick joining Taylor as co-writer. In March 2024, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that the film would instead receive a theatrical release. Filming took place in Vancouver from March to May 2024, following delays caused by the SAG-AFTRA strike.\nFinal Destination Bloodlines was released in the United States on May 16, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $317.9 million, becoming both the best-reviewed and highest-grossing installment in the series. A sequel is scheduled for release in May 2028.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Final Destination Bloodlines", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Destination_Bloodlines", "revision": 1378430570, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378430570", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Final%20Destination%20Bloodlines&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q123690368", "text": "A Real Pain is a 2024 comedy-drama film produced, written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. An international co-production between Poland and the United States, the film stars Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as mismatched cousins who reunite for a Jewish heritage tour through Poland in honor of their late grandmother, but tensions between them surface amidst the backdrop of their family history. Its supporting cast includes Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Liza Sadovy, and Daniel Oreskes.\nPrincipal photography took place primarily in Poland from May to June 2023. A Real Pain premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, and was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2024, and in Poland on November 8 by Searchlight Pictures. The film grossed $24.9 million worldwide.\nA Real Pain was critically acclaimed and received several accolades, including two nominations at the 97th Academy Awards and 78th British Academy Film Awards, and four at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards; Culkin won the Oscar, BAFTA, SAG, Golden Globe and Critics' Choice for Best Supporting Actor, while Eisenberg won the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay. It was named as one of the top ten films of 2024 by the American Film Institute and the National Board of Review.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Real Pain", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Real_Pain", "revision": 1374018474, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374018474", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Real%20Pain&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124246549", "text": "Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu (titled The Mandalorian and Grogu on-screen) is a 2026 American science fiction film directed by Jon Favreau, who co-wrote the film with Dave Filoni and Noah Kloor. Produced by Lucasfilm and Fairview Entertainment, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is part of the Star Wars franchise and serves as a continuation of the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian (2019–2023). Pedro Pascal stars as Din Djarin / The Mandalorian—who was also portrayed on set by Brendan Wayne and Lateef Crowder—alongside Jeremy Allen White, Jonny Coyne, Martin Scorsese, and Sigourney Weaver with supporting roles done by Stephen McKinley Henderson, Hemky Madera, Shirley Henderson, and Steve Blum. In the film, which is set following the fall of the Galactic Empire, Djarin and his apprentice Grogu are enlisted by the New Republic to rescue Rotta the Hutt (White) in exchange for information on a target.\nFavreau and Filoni wrote a fourth season of The Mandalorian by February 2023, but production was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes. During this time, Lucasfilm re-evaluated their plans for the franchise and decided to prioritize a Mandalorian film over the fourth season. The Mandalorian and Grogu was announced in January 2024 with Favreau directing and co-writing with Filoni and Kloor, and Pascal reprising his role from the series. Filming began in California by August 2024 and was completed by that December, with large segments of the it filmed in IMAX. Further casting was revealed around and after filming, including the return of various characters from The Mandalorian and other Star Wars media. The Mandalorian composer Ludwig Göransson returned to score the film.\nStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu premiered on May 14, 2026, at TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, and was released in the United States on May 22. It grossed $345.8 million worldwide, which did not meet Disney's expectations, becoming the lowest-grossing live-action Star Wars film. The film received mixed reviews, with critics praising the score, action sequences, and Pascal's performance while criticizing the plot, script, and visuals.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Mandalorian and Grogu", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian_and_Grogu", "revision": 1378654281, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378654281", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mandalorian%20and%20Grogu&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125933907", "text": "Companion is a 2025 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Drew Hancock, in his directorial debut. It was produced by Zach Cregger, Roy Lee, Raphael Margules, and J. D. Lifshitz. Sophie Thatcher and Jack Quaid star as a couple on a weekend getaway with friends at a remote cabin, which unravels into chaos after a revelation that one of the guests is a companion robot.\nCompanion was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on January 31, 2025. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $37 million on a budget of $10 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Companion (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(film)", "revision": 1378524501, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378524501", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Companion%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130393881", "text": "Wuthering Heights (stylized with quotation marks) is a 2026 romantic period drama film produced, written and directed by Emerald Fennell. Loosely based on the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, the film is a reinterpretation intended by Fennell to \"recreate the feeling of a teenage girl reading this book for the first time\". Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi respectively star as Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, alongside Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, Martin Clunes, and Ewan Mitchell in supporting roles. \nWuthering Heights premiered at the Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on January 28, 2026, and was released in the United Kingdom and United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on February 13. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $242 million worldwide against a production budget of $80 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wuthering Heights (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuthering_Heights_(2026_film)", "revision": 1377687991, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377687991", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wuthering%20Heights%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q114802043", "text": "The Conjuring: Last Rites is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film is the ninth installment in The Conjuring film series, and is based on the real-life investigations of the Smurl haunting case. It stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, who reprise their roles as paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, along with Mia Tomlinson and Ben Hardy.\nThe Conjuring: Last Rites was released in the United States on September 5, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $499.3 million, becoming the highest-grossing film in the series. A prequel, The Conjuring: First Communion, is set to be released on September 10, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Conjuring: Last Rites", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conjuring%3A_Last_Rites", "revision": 1377905806, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377905806", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Conjuring%3A%20Last%20Rites&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q115931717", "text": "Wake Up Dead Man (marketed as Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery) is a 2025 American mystery film written and directed by Rian Johnson. It is the third film in the Knives Out series. The film stars Daniel Craig, who reprises his role as master detective Benoit Blanc as he investigates the death of a Catholic priest against the backdrop of a missing inheritance. The ensemble cast also includes Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Josh Brolin, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Cailee Spaeny, Daryl McCormack, and Thomas Haden Church.\nThe film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2025, and was released in select theaters on November 26, 2025, before streaming on Netflix on December 12, 2025. Like its predecessors, it received positive reviews, with particular praise for the performances of Craig, O'Connor, and Close.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wake Up Dead Man", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake_Up_Dead_Man", "revision": 1378783140, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378783140", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wake%20Up%20Dead%20Man&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116258185", "text": "M3GAN 2.0 is a 2025 American science fiction action film written and directed by Gerard Johnstone from a story he co-wrote with Akela Cooper. A sequel to the 2022 film M3GAN and the second installment in the M3GAN franchise, the film stars Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ivanna Sakhno, and Jemaine Clement, with Amie Donald physically portraying M3GAN while Jenna Davis voices the character. Jason Blum and James Wan return as producers under their respective Blumhouse Productions and Atomic Monster companies. It follows M3GAN being rebuilt to combat a humanoid military robot built using M3GAN's technology that is attempting an AI takeover.\nM3GAN 2.0 premiered in New York on June 24, 2025, and was released in North America by Universal Pictures on June 27. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $39.1 million against a budget of $15–25 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "M3GAN 2.0", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M3GAN_2.0", "revision": 1374013507, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374013507", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=M3GAN%202.0&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q118996994", "text": "Moana is a 2026 American musical adventure film and a live-action adaptation of Disney Animation's 2016 film. As the overall third installment and the first live-action film in the Moana franchise, the film was directed by Thomas Kail and written by Jared Bush and Dana Ledoux Miller. It was produced by Dwayne Johnson, Hiram Garcia, Dany Garcia, Beau Flynn, and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda. The film stars Johnson (reprising his role as Maui from the animated films), Rena Owen, John Tui, Frankie Adams, Jemaine Clement (reprising his role as Tamatoa from the animated films) and Catherine Laga'aia in her film debut as the title character.\nDevelopment of a live-action Moana film was announced by Johnson in April 2023, with Kail hired as director in the following May. Laga'aia was announced in the title role in June 2024, along with the main supporting cast. Principal photography occurred in Atlanta and Hawaii between July and November 2024. With a production budget of $250 million, Moana is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nMoana was released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in the United States on July 10, 2026. The film has grossed $323.6 million worldwide, and received mixed to negative reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Moana (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moana_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378750825, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378750825", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moana%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124758309", "text": "Scream 7 is a 2026 American slasher film directed by Kevin Williamson and written by Williamson and Guy Busick. It is the sequel to Scream VI (2023) and the seventh installment in the Scream film series. The film stars Neve Campbell, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Mason Gooding, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, and Courteney Cox reprising their roles from the previous films, with Isabel May, Anna Camp, Michelle Randolph, Jimmy Tatro, Mckenna Grace, Asa Germann, Celeste O'Connor, Sam Rechner, Mark Consuelos, Tim Simons, and Joel McHale also starring. The film follows Sidney Prescott, whose daughter Tatum is targeted by a new Ghostface killer.\nFollowing the exit of Scream (2022) and Scream VI directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett in August 2023, Christopher Landon was hired to direct the seventh Scream film. However, the film went through a creative retooling after Spyglass Media Group fired star Melissa Barrera in late 2023, with Jenna Ortega and Landon departing soon after. In March 2024, Campbell confirmed her return to the franchise after being absent from Scream VI, with Williamson hired to direct Scream 7 after serving as writer and producer of the early films in the series. Filming began in January 2025 and concluded that March.\nScream 7 premiered at the Paramount Pictures studio lot on February 25, 2026, and was released in the United States on February 27, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics but became the highest-grossing film of the series and the second highest-grossing slasher film in unadjusted dollars, grossing $214 million worldwide against a production budget of $45 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Scream 7", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scream_7", "revision": 1378038798, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378038798", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scream%207&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125908027", "text": "The Naked Gun is a 2025 American action comedy parody film directed by Akiva Schaffer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. The film is the fourth installment in The Naked Gun film series and the sequel to Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult (1994). It stars Liam Neeson in the main role, with Pamela Anderson, Paul Walter Hauser, Kevin Durand and Danny Huston in supporting roles. Its plot follows the son of Lt. Frank Drebin who must succeed in his father's footsteps to prevent the closure of Police Squad.\nA fourth Naked Gun film was announced in 2009, as a direct-to-TV sequel starring Leslie Nielsen, reprising his role as Drebin, with Alan Spencer being attached to write. However, the project was cancelled due to financial reasons, with Spencer subsequently departing and Nielsen dying in 2010. After several years of development, including the film being redeveloped as a reboot starring Ed Helms in 2013, it was announced in January 2021 that Seth MacFarlane had been hired to develop the project, and he expressed interest in casting Neeson. Although MacFarlane was hired to direct, Schaffer replaced him after the film was greenlit in October 2022, and Neeson was cast. Anderson was cast in April 2024, and further casting took place the following month, when filming began in Atlanta, Georgia. Filming wrapped that June, with a $42 million budget.\nThe Naked Gun premiered at the SVA Theater in Manhattan on July 28, 2025, and was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 1, 2025. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $102 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Naked Gun (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Gun_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378529064, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378529064", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Naked%20Gun%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131630491", "text": "The Housemaid is a 2025 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Paul Feig and written by Rebecca Sonnenshine. It is based on the 2022 novel by Freida McFadden, and stars Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried. In the film, Millie Calloway, a young woman with a troubled past, becomes the live-in maid for a wealthy family whose household hides dark secrets.\nThe Housemaid premiered at the Axa Equitable Center in New York City on December 2, 2025, and was released in the United States by Lionsgate on December 19. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $400.5 million on a budget of $35 million. A sequel is in development, with Feig and Sweeney set to return and scheduled for release on December 17, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Housemaid (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Housemaid_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378105618, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378105618", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Housemaid%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q112040381", "text": "Masters of the Universe (also known as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe in some territories) is a 2026 American science fantasy film based on the media franchise by Mattel. It is the second live-action film adaptation, the 1987 film was the first. It was directed by Travis Knight and written by Chris Butler, Aaron Nee, Adam Nee, and David Callaham. Nicholas Galitzine stars as Prince Adam / He-Man, alongside Camila Mendes, Idris Elba, Jared Leto, Alison Brie, James Purefoy, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Charlotte Riley, Kristen Wiig, and Morena Baccarin. Its plot follows Prince Adam (Galitzine) as he returns to his home planet, Eternia, to take his destiny as He-Man, and save his home from the evil forces of Skeletor (Leto).\nThe production was announced in 2009 by Sony Pictures Entertainment with Escape Artists producing. Following multiple writer, director and casting changes, the rights were transferred to Netflix in 2022 and then bought by Amazon MGM Studios in 2024. Principal photography occurred in London, United Kingdom, from January to June 2025.\nMasters of the Universe was premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, on May 18, 2026, and was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on June 5, 2026, and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International. The film received mixed reviews from critics and underperformed at the box office, grossing $114 million worldwide against a $200 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Masters of the Universe (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_of_the_Universe_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378723829, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378723829", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Masters%20of%20the%20Universe%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126390903", "text": "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is a 2024 British stop-motion animated comedy film directed by Nick Park and Merlin Crossingham and written by Park and Mark Burton. The sixth installment in the Wallace & Gromit series and the second to be feature-length, the story features the return of Feathers McGraw from The Wrong Trousers (1993), who hijacks Wallace's latest invention, a robotic garden gnome named Norbot, as part of a plot for revenge. Produced by Aardman Animations, Ben Whitehead portrays Wallace in his first feature-length appearance following the death of the original actor, Peter Sallis, in 2017. The remaining voice cast consists of Peter Kay, Lauren Patel and Reece Shearsmith.\nOwing to difficulties with working with DreamWorks Animation during the production of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Park was hesitant to direct another Wallace & Gromit feature film for several years. Announced in January 2022, Vengeance Most Fowl was conceived as another 30-minute short before expanding into a feature. The score was composed by Lorne Balfe and Julian Nott.\nWallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl premiered at the American Film Institute on 27 October 2024. It was broadcast on BBC One and BBC iPlayer on 25 December in the UK and released on Netflix internationally on 3 January 2025. After twenty-eight days, it became the BBC's most watched scripted show since 2002. The film received acclaim, holding a 100% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. It was nominated in the Animated Feature categories at the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Annie Awards. At the BAFTAs, it won the inaugural award for Children's & Family Film, as well as the award for Animated Film, and was nominated for Outstanding British Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%26_Gromit%3A_Vengeance_Most_Fowl", "revision": 1378466922, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378466922", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wallace%20%26%20Gromit%3A%20Vengeance%20Most%20Fowl&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q121076570", "text": "Paddington in Peru is a 2024 live-action animated adventure comedy film directed by Dougal Wilson and written by Mark Burton, Jon Foster, and James Lamont. It is the sequel to Paddington 2 (2017) and the third installment in the Paddington film series, which is based on the Paddington stories by Michael Bond. The film, a British-French-American co-production, stars Hugh Bonneville, Emily Mortimer, Julie Walters, Olivia Colman, Antonio Banderas and Ben Whishaw as the voice of Paddington. The film follows Paddington and the Brown family as they return to Paddington's home country of Peru, where they travel through the jungle to find Aunt Lucy.\nThe film entered development in February 2021, and the title Paddington in Peru was announced in June 2022. It is the feature film debut of Wilson. Principal photography took place between July and October 2023, in the United Kingdom, Colombia and Peru.\nPaddington in Peru was released in cinemas in the United Kingdom by StudioCanal on 8 November 2024, in France on 5 February 2025 and in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on 14 February 2025. It grossed $211 million and received positive reviews from critics. A fourth film is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Paddington in Peru", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paddington_in_Peru", "revision": 1374359120, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374359120", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paddington%20in%20Peru&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130590402", "text": "The Drama is a 2026 American romantic dark comedy film written and directed by Kristoffer Borgli. It stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a happily engaged couple whose relationship is tested by an unexpected revelation the week before their wedding.\nThe Drama premiered on March 17, 2026, in Los Angeles and was released in the United States by A24 on April 3. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $132 million worldwide on a $28 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Drama (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Drama_(film)", "revision": 1378371937, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378371937", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Drama%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131976228", "text": "Mr Nobody Against Putin is a 2025 documentary film directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin. It follows Talankin in his job at a school in Karabash, a poor mining town near the Ural Mountains. While recording his students, Talankin also documents the Putin administration's moves to control public perception during the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. \nThe film had its world premiere at the World Cinema Documentary section of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on 25 January, where it won the Special Jury Award. It was selected as the Danish Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, and went on to win Best Documentary at the 79th British Academy Film Awards and Best Documentary Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards. Reception was generally positive, but there were concerns – especially by Ukrainian viewers – about the way the film portrayed opposition to Putin within Russia. The film was also criticized for its use of covert footage, particularly of children, obtained without informed consent.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mr Nobody Against Putin", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Nobody_Against_Putin", "revision": 1374034903, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374034903", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mr%20Nobody%20Against%20Putin&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132200341", "text": "Send Help is a 2026 black comedy survival horror filmdirected and produced by Sam Raimi and written by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift. The film stars Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien as an employee and her boss, respectively, who become stranded on a desert island after a plane crash and attempt to survive while tension rises between them.\nSend Help premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California on January 21, 2026, and was released in the United States by 20th Century Studios on January 30. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $94 million against a $40 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Send Help", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Send_Help", "revision": 1378454669, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378454669", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Send%20Help&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124359261", "text": "The Room Next Door (Spanish: La habitación de al lado) is a 2024 Spanish drama film written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar, in his English-language feature debut, based on the 2020 novel What Are You Going Through by Sigrid Nunez. Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star with John Turturro and Alessandro Nivola in supporting roles. The plot follows the relationship between two close friends (Swinton and Moore) as the former faces the prospect of ending her life due to terminal illness.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2024, where it won the Golden Lion, a first for a Spanish film. It was released theatrically in Spain on 18 October 2024 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It won three Goyas (Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Original Score) at the 39th Goya Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Room Next Door", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Room_Next_Door", "revision": 1374021588, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374021588", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Room%20Next%20Door&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124246470", "text": "Karate Kid: Legends is a 2025 American martial arts drama film starring Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio, while introducing Ben Wang as the main lead. It is the sixth film in The Karate Kid franchise, serving as a follow-up to The Karate Kid (2010) and the television series Cobra Kai (2018–2025). Both Chan and Macchio reprise their roles from the franchise. The story follows Li (Wang), a kung fu prodigy who, after moving to New York and confronting a local karate champion, receives help from his former master Mr. Han (Chan) and karate sensei Daniel LaRusso (Macchio). It is the first film in the series not to be produced by Jerry Weintraub, who died in 2015.\nThe film was confirmed to be in development in September 2022, with Jonathan Entwistle set to direct and Rob Lieber set to write the screenplay in November 2023. Casting took place from November 2023 to April 2024. Principal photography took place from April to June 2024.\nKarate Kid: Legends premiered at the Cinépolis Mitikah in Mexico City, Mexico on May 7, 2025, and was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing on May 30. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $117 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Karate Kid: Legends", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate_Kid%3A_Legends", "revision": 1374012087, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374012087", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karate%20Kid%3A%20Legends&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124735657", "text": "The Bride! is a 2026 American gothic romance film directed and written by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley (in a dual role), Christian Bale, Peter Sarsgaard, Annette Bening, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Penélope Cruz. The film draws inspiration from the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, which was based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein.\nThe Bride! had its world premiere at the Empire Leicester Square in London, on February 26, 2026. It was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 6. The film received mixed reviews and was a box office bomb, grossing $24 million worldwide on a budget of $90 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Bride!", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride!", "revision": 1377687005, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377687005", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Bride!&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125563776", "text": "The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Persian: دانه‌ی انجیر معابد, romanized: Dāne-ye anjīr-e ma'ābed) is a 2024 political drama film written, co-produced and directed by Mohammad Rasoulof. Its plot centers on Iman, an investigating judge in the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, who grapples with paranoia as nationwide political protests, caused by the death of a young woman, intensify and his gun mysteriously disappears, making him distrust his wife and daughters. It stars Soheila Golestani, Missagh Zareh, Mahsa Rostami and Setareh Maleki. The fictional narrative is combined with real images of the 2022–2023 protests in Iran that were violently suppressed by Iranian authorities.\nThe Seed of the Sacred Fig had its world premiere in the main competition of the 77th Cannes Film Festival on 24 May 2024, where it won the Special Jury Prize. Ahead of its premiere, Rasoulof was sentenced to eight years in prison by Iranian authorities. After successfully fleeing to Germany, Rasoulof and other cast and crew members attended the Cannes' red carpet premiere.\nThe film received critical acclaim and was theatrically released in France on 18 September 2024, and in Germany on 26 December 2024. It was named the Best International Film of 2024 by the National Board of Review. It was nominated for Best Motion Picture – Non-English Language at the 82nd Golden Globe Awards, as well as for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 78th British Academy Film Awards. At the 97th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best International Feature Film as the German entry.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Seed of the Sacred Fig", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seed_of_the_Sacred_Fig", "revision": 1374601270, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374601270", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Seed%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Fig&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132531438", "text": "The Secret Agent (Portuguese: O Agente Secreto) is a 2025 historical political thriller film written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. It follows Armando (Wagner Moura), a former professor caught in the political turmoil in the midst of the Brazilian military dictatorship, attempting to flee persecution. The supporting cast includes Carlos Francisco, Tânia Maria, Robério Diógenes, Gabriel Leone, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Alice Carvalho, and Udo Kier in his final film role.\nThe film had its world premiere at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May, where it received widespread acclaim and became the festival's most awarded film, winning the Best Actor award for Moura, the Best Director award for Mendonça Filho, the Art House Cinema Award and the FIPRESCI Prize. At the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it became the first Brazilian film nominated for Best Motion Picture – Drama, winning Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama (Wagner Moura) and Best Foreign Language Film. At the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actor for Moura, Best Casting and Best International Feature Film. It won four Grande Otelo Awards (Best Film, Cinematography, Art Direction, and Visual Effects).\nIt was theatrically released in Brazil and Germany on 6 November 2025 by Vitrine Filmes and Port-au-Prince Films, respectively, and was released in France on 17 December by Ad Vitam.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Secret Agent (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Agent_(2025_film)", "revision": 1376762191, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376762191", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Secret%20Agent%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108131599", "text": "Plane is a 2023 American action thriller film directed by Jean-François Richet from a screenplay by Charles Cumming and J. P. Davis. Starring Gerard Butler and Mike Colter, it follows a commercial pilot allying with a suspected murderer to save his passengers from a hostile territory after an emergency landing.\nThe film was announced in 2016, acquired by Lionsgate in 2019, sold to Solstice Studios in 2020, and re-acquired by Lionsgate in 2021. It was shot in Puerto Rico.\nPlane was released in the United States on January 13, 2023 by Lionsgate. It received generally favorable reviews from critics and grossed $74.5 million worldwide on a $25 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Plane (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(film)", "revision": 1377532263, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377532263", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Plane%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q111464581", "text": "Wolf Man is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Leigh Whannell. A reboot of The Wolf Man franchise, the film stars Christopher Abbott, Julia Garner, and Sam Jaeger. The plot follows a family man seeking to protect his wife and daughter from a werewolf, only to become infected and slowly transform into the creature himself. Jason Blum produced alongside his Blumhouse Productions banner.\nThe film was announced in 2014 as part of the Dark Universe, a shared cinematic universe centered on the Universal Monsters. After the failure of The Mummy (2017), Universal shifted its focus to standalone films. The success of Whannell's The Invisible Man (2020) rekindled Universal's interest in the Monsters franchise. They accepted a pitch by Ryan Gosling, who was also set to star, for a new Wolf Man film with Derek Cianfrance to direct. However, Cianfrance left the project in 2023 and Gosling dropped out of the role, while Whannell took over as director with a new cast. Principal photography took place in New Zealand in early 2024.\nWolf Man was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on January 17, 2025. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $36.8 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wolf Man (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Man_(2025_film)", "revision": 1374076532, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374076532", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wolf%20Man%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124393313", "text": "Nuremberg is a 2025 American psychological thriller historical drama film written, co-produced, and directed by James Vanderbilt. Based on the 2013 book The Nazi and the Psychiatrist by Jack El-Hai, the film follows U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley (Rami Malek) seeking to investigate the personalities and monitor the mental status of Hermann Göring (Russell Crowe) and other high-ranking Nazis in preparation for and during the Nuremberg trials. Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Mark O'Brien, Colin Hanks, Wrenn Schmidt, Lydia Peckham, Richard E. Grant, and Michael Shannon have supporting roles in the film.\nThe film had its world premiere in the Gala Presentations section of the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025. It was released theatrically in the United States by Sony Pictures Classics on November 7, 2025. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for Crowe's performance.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Nuremberg (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378185035, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378185035", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuremberg%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124440294", "text": "No Other Land (Arabic: لا أرض أخرى, romanized: Lā arḍ ukhrá) is a 2024 documentary film directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, in their directorial debut. A Palestinian-Israeli collective of activists, the four conceived and produced the film in what they describe as an act of resistance on the path to justice in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The film was recorded between 2019 and 2023 and shows the destruction of Masafer Yatta, a Palestinian community in the occupied West Bank, which had been resisting forced displacement after an Israeli \"firing zone\" was declared on their land.\nA co-production between Palestine and Norway, the film was selected for the Panorama section at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere on 16 February 2024, winning the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film and the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "No Other Land", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Other_Land", "revision": 1375298616, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375298616", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=No%20Other%20Land&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125726790", "text": "Materialists is a 2025 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Celine Song and starring Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. The film follows a matchmaker, her ex-boyfriend, and a wealthy financier amid New York City's competitive dating scene. It is Song's second feature film, following Past Lives (2023), and was produced by Killer Films and 2AM. Materialists was released in the United States on June 13, 2025, by A24. The film received generally positive reviews and grossed $108 million on a $20 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Materialists (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialists_(film)", "revision": 1374021024, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374021024", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Materialists%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124804916", "text": "The End of Oak Street is a 2026 American science fiction survival film written, co-produced, and directed by David Robert Mitchell. It stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery as a family whose suburban neighborhood has been transported from 1982 into the age of dinosaurs.\nThe End of Oak Street premiered at the Steven J. Ross Theater on August 9, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 14 by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics and has grossed $122 million worldwide against a production budget of $80–92 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The End of Oak Street", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Oak_Street", "revision": 1378758647, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378758647", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20End%20of%20Oak%20Street&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124829697", "text": "Jay Kelly is a 2025 comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach from a script he wrote with Emily Mortimer. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, and Billy Crudup. It follows a famous actor (Clooney) as he travels through Europe with his team and manager (Sandler), and reflects on his life choices, relationships, and legacy.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 28, 2025. It was then released in select theaters on November 14, 2025, followed by a global release on Netflix on December 5. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for Clooney and Sandler's performances. Both Clooney and Sandler received acting nominations at the 83rd Golden Globe Awards for their performances in the film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jay Kelly", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Kelly", "revision": 1377896081, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377896081", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jay%20Kelly&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124841936", "text": "The Monkey is a 2025 American supernatural comedy horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. Based on Stephen King's 1980 short story, the film stars Theo James in a dual role as twin brothers whose lives are turned upside down by a cursed toy monkey that causes random horrific deaths around them. Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Colin O'Brien, Rohan Campbell, Sarah Levy, Adam Scott, and Elijah Wood also star.\nThe Monkey was theatrically released in the United States by Neon on February 21, 2025. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and has grossed $68.9 million worldwide against a budget of $10–11 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Monkey (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey_(film)", "revision": 1374015766, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374015766", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Monkey%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124848369", "text": "The Accountant 2 (stylized as The Accountant2) is a 2025 American action thriller film directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Bill Dubuque. It is the sequel to The Accountant (2016). Ben Affleck, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson and J. K. Simmons reprise their roles from the previous film, with Daniella Pineda joining the cast.\nFilming for The Accountant 2 took place from March to August 2024. It premiered at the South by Southwest Festival on March 8, 2025, and was theatrically released on April 25, 2025, in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and internationally by the original film's domestic distributor Warner Bros. Pictures. The film has grossed over $103 million worldwide on a budget of $80 million and received generally positive reviews from critics, with some considering it an improvement over its predecessor. A sequel is also in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Accountant 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Accountant_2", "revision": 1377035654, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377035654", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Accountant%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125495342", "text": "A Working Man is a 2025 action thriller film produced and directed by David Ayer, who co-wrote the screenplay with Sylvester Stallone, based on the 2014 novel Levon's Trade by Chuck Dixon. It stars Jason Statham, Michael Peña and David Harbour. In the film, soldier-turned-construction worker Levon Cade hunts down the human traffickers who kidnapped his employer Joe Garcia's daughter Jenny.\nA Working Man was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and in the United Kingdom by Warner Bros. Pictures on March 28, 2025. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $89 million worldwide against a $40 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Working Man", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Working_Man", "revision": 1374019437, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374019437", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Working%20Man&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126405648", "text": "The Sheep Detectives is a 2026 mystery comedy-drama film directed by Kyle Balda and written by Craig Mazin, based on the 2005 novel Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann. The film features an ensemble cast including Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Braun, Nicholas Galitzine, Molly Gordon, Hong Chau, and Emma Thompson, with the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Chris O'Dowd, Regina Hall, Patrick Stewart, Bella Ramsey, and Brett Goldstein (in a dual role). The film follows a flock of sheep who try to solve the murder of their shepherd as they figure out which person their shepherd knew was responsible for it.\nThree Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie was first written by Mazin in 2016, and after a long period of dormancy, active development began in 2024 with casting announcements made from March through June. Balda was confirmed to direct in June. Framestore provided the animation for the animals in the film, while its score was composed by Christophe Beck. \nThe film was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International on 8 May 2026. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $132 million on a $75 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Sheep Detectives", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_Detectives", "revision": 1378723010, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378723010", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Sheep%20Detectives&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131450198", "text": "Scary Movie (also known as Scary Movie 6) is a 2026 American parody film directed by Michael Tiddes and written by Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Craig Wayans, and Rick Alvarez. It is the sixth installment in the Scary Movie film series and has been referred to as the spiritual sequel to the first two films. It stars Marlon, Shawn, Anna Faris, and Regina Hall. The plot follows Cindy Campbell and her friends Ray Wilkins and siblings Shorty and Brenda Meeks reunited when the same masked killer from the original film Scary Movie resurfaces.\nA sixth Scary Movie film was announced in 2024 and later that same year, it was revealed to have the involvement of the Wayans family for the first time since their departure from the franchise following the release of Scary Movie 2 (2001) due to creative conflicts with the original producers.\nScary Movie premiered on June 3, 2026, at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles, and was released theatrically in the United States by Paramount Pictures on June 5, 2026. Like its predecessors, it received generally negative reviews from critics, but was a commercial success, grossing $231.9 million against a $30 million budget, becoming the second-highest grossing film in the series after the first installment.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Scary Movie (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Movie_(2026_film)", "revision": 1377533863, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377533863", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scary%20Movie%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135038882", "text": "The Voice of Hind Rajab (Arabic: صوت هند رجب, romanized: Ṣawt Hind Rajab) is a 2025 docudrama film written and directed by Kaouther Ben Hania. It follows the Red Crescent response during the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl, by the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. It stars Saja Kilani, Motaz Malhees, Amer Hlehel, and Clara Khoury. The film is a co-production between Tunisia and France.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2025, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and six other parallel prizes. It was theatrically released in Tunisia on 10 September, and was released in France on 26 November by Jour2Fête.\nAt the 98th Academy Awards, it was nominated for Best International Feature Film as the Tunisian entry. At the 83rd Golden Globe Awards, it was also nominated for Best Non-English Language Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Voice of Hind Rajab", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Voice_of_Hind_Rajab", "revision": 1375524146, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375524146", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Voice%20of%20Hind%20Rajab&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116971739", "text": "Back in Action is a 2025 American action comedy film directed by Seth Gordon from a script he co-wrote with Brendan O'Brien. It stars Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz as two CIA operatives who are pulled back into espionage after 15 years living incognito with their two children, when their secret cover is blown. Andrew Scott, Jamie Demetriou, Kyle Chandler, and Glenn Close also star in supporting roles. \nThe film was released by Netflix on January 17, 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Back in Action (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_Action_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377475106, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377475106", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Back%20in%20Action%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124435493", "text": "Black Phone 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson who co-wrote it with C. Robert Cargill. It serves as a sequel to The Black Phone (2021). It is the second feature film in the Black Phone film series. The film stars Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, and Ethan Hawke reprising their roles from the first film, with Demián Bichir also joining the cast. The story sees siblings Finney and Gwen, along with their friend Ernesto, head to a winter youth camp to uncover a mystery regarding the first victims of the Grabber, whose ghostly presence now haunts the camp.\nBlack Phone 2 premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 20, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on October 17. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $132.7 million worldwide on a budget of $30 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Black Phone 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Phone_2", "revision": 1375866131, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375866131", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Phone%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125187519", "text": "Dracula (or Dracula: A Love Tale in select countries) is a 2025 English-language French Gothic romantic fantasy film, written and directed by Luc Besson, based on the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It stars Caleb Landry Jones as Dracula, alongside Christoph Waltz and Zoë Bleu. It was theatrically released in France on 30 July 2025, by SND and had a wide theatrical release in North America on 6 February 2026. The film received mixed critical reviews and positive reviews from audiences, and has currently grossed $42.5 million worldwide on a budget of $52 million. The film received financial support from the CNC.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Dracula (2025 French film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula_(2025_French_film)", "revision": 1377670000, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377670000", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dracula%20(2025%20French%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126897811", "text": "Freakier Friday is a 2025 American fantasy comedy film directed by Nisha Ganatra and written by Jordan Weiss. Produced by Walt Disney Pictures, it is the sequel to Freaky Friday (2003) and is the fifth film in the Freaky Friday franchise. It stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Lindsay Lohan, Julia Butters, Sophia Hammons, Manny Jacinto, and Mark Harmon. In the film, Anna (Lohan) and Tess Coleman (Curtis) swap bodies with Anna's daughter Harper (Butters) and stepdaughter Lily (Hammons) respectively.\nThe film was announced in 2023. Curtis and Lohan reprised their lead roles from the 2003 film, and were heavily involved in the production. The film includes numerous references to its predecessor as well as other comedies such as Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986). Filming took place in Los Angeles in summer 2024. While Disney initially planned a direct-to-streaming release, the film was upgraded to a theatrical release at Curtis and Lohan's request.\nFreakier Friday premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on July 22, 2025, and was released theatrically by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on August 8. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $153 million against a budget of $42–$45 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Freakier Friday", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakier_Friday", "revision": 1378454547, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378454547", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freakier%20Friday&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137652478", "text": "Fjord is a 2026 legal thriller family drama film written, directed and co-produced by Cristian Mungiu. A co-production of Romania, France, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, it stars Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve as a conservative Romanian-Norwegian couple facing scrutiny after moving to the wife's progressive remote Norwegian hometown. It is loosely inspired by the true story of the Bodnariu family (renamed Gheorghiu in the film) whose children were forcefully taken from them by the authorities in Norway.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on 18 May, where it received a 12-minute standing ovation and won the Palme d'Or, the François Chalais Prize, the FIPRESCI Prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and the Prix de la Citoyenneté. It received critical acclaim, with particular praise for its performances and screenplay, and was released theatrically in Romania on 13 June.\nIt was also selected as the Romanian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fjord (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord_(film)", "revision": 1378676428, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378676428", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fjord%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q106392679", "text": "Coyote vs. Acme is a 2026 American comedy film directed by Dave Green and written by Samy Burch, who developed the story with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. Loosely based on the 1990 The New Yorker magazine article \"Coyote v. Acme\" by Ian Frazier (itself using elements from the Looney Tunes cartoons), it follows Wile E. Coyote as he enlists a billboard attorney to sue the Acme Corporation for repeatedly selling him faulty products. The live-action animated film stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, Tone Bell, Luis Guzmán, Martha Kelly, P. J. Byrne, Kenneth Choi, and John Cena, with Eric Bauza leading the voice cast.\nDevelopment began in August 2018 with Chris McKay as producer and Jon and Josh Silberman writing the screenplay. Green was hired to direct in December 2019, and Burch, Slater, and Gunn joined the following year. Cena, Forte, and Condor were cast in early 2022. Live-action filming took place in New Mexico from March to May 2022. The film was produced by Warner Animation Group, Keylight Pictures, and Gunn's production company Troll Court Entertainment.\nWarner Bros. Discovery initially shelved Coyote vs. Acme in November 2023 to obtain a tax write-off but later reversed its decision and allowed the filmmakers to seek other distributors following public backlash. After several unsuccessful negotiations with various distributors, Ketchup Entertainment acquired the rights for $50 million in March 2025, after previously doing so for Warner Bros. Animation's Looney Tunes film The Day the Earth Blew Up (2024).\nCoyote vs. Acme screened at San Diego Comic-Con on July 25, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 28, 2026. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $111 million worldwide on a budget of $70–72 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Coyote vs. Acme", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_vs._Acme", "revision": 1378750798, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378750798", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coyote%20vs.%20Acme&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107584295", "text": "Havoc is a 2025 action thriller film written and directed by Gareth Evans. The film stars Tom Hardy, Jessie Mei Li, Justin Cornwell, Quelin Sepulveda, Luis Guzmán, Yeo Yann Yann, Timothy Olyphant, and Forest Whitaker. It is a co-production between the United States and the United Kingdom. The film was released by Netflix on April 25, 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Havoc (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havoc_(2025_film)", "revision": 1374004413, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374004413", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Havoc%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q119549900", "text": "Juror #2 is a 2024 American legal thriller film co-produced and directed by Clint Eastwood (in his final film as director before retirement) and written by Jonathan Abrams. The film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J. K. Simmons, and Kiefer Sutherland. In the film, a man serving on the jury of a high-profile murder trial realizes that he may be responsible for the victim's death.\nJuror #2 had its world premiere at AFI Fest on October 27, 2024, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on November 1, 2024. The film received positive reviews from critics and was named one of the Top 10 Films of 2024 by the National Board of Review.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Juror No. 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juror_No._2", "revision": 1374015572, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374015572", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Juror%20No.%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124216482", "text": "Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is a 2025 American supernatural horror film based on the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's created by Scott Cawthon and the sequel to the 2023 film adaptation. The film was directed by Emma Tammi and written by Cawthon. Josh Hutcherson, Elizabeth Lail, Piper Rubio, and Matthew Lillard reprise their roles from the previous film, with Mckenna Grace, Wayne Knight, and Skeet Ulrich joining the cast. Set a year and a half after the previous film, it follows Abby Schmidt (Rubio) as she is manipulated by the Marionette, an animatronic from the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, who plots revenge against adults.\nCawthon stated in August 2018 that there could be a second Five Nights at Freddy's film based on the events of the series' second game if the first film were successful. Hutcherson revealed the development of a sequel in January 2024, with Blumhouse Productions confirming it three months later. Principal photography began in November 2024 and concluded in February 2025 in New Orleans and surrounding communities.\nFive Nights at Freddy's 2 premiered at the TCL Chinese Theater on December 2, 2025, and was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on December 5. The film received negative reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing $240 million worldwide against a budget between $36–51 million.A sequel is in development and scheduled to be filming in 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Nights_at_Freddy's_2_(film)", "revision": 1378825380, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378825380", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Five%20Nights%20at%20Freddy's%202%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124706420", "text": "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is a 2025 romantic comedy film directed by Michael Morris from a screenplay by Helen Fielding, Dan Mazer and Abi Morgan. It is the fourth in the Bridget Jones film series, and is based on the 2013 novel by Fielding. Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth reprise their roles from the previous films, with Chiwetel Ejiofor and Leo Woodall joining the cast.\nIn the film, Bridget Jones, now a widowed single mother, navigates the challenges of parenthood, work, and modern dating with the support of her friends, family, and former partner, Daniel Cleaver. As she re-enters the dating world, she finds herself pursued by a younger man while also forming an unexpected connection with her son's science teacher.\nBridget Jones: Mad About the Boy was released in cinemas in France on 12 February 2025 by StudioCanal and in the United Kingdom on 13 February by Universal Pictures. In the United States, the film was released on Peacock on 13 February. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $140 million against a budget of $50 million. It was nominated for Outstanding Television Movie at the 77th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards and won Best Movie Made for Television at the 31st Critics' Choice Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridget_Jones%3A_Mad_About_the_Boy", "revision": 1374021776, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374021776", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bridget%20Jones%3A%20Mad%20About%20the%20Boy&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124566659", "text": "Mercy is a 2026 American science fiction thriller film written by Marco van Belle, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. The plot involves a detective (Pratt), who is accused of murdering his wife, and must prove his innocence to an artificial intelligence judge (Ferguson). The film also stars Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, and Kylie Rogers.\nMercy was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International on January 23, 2026. The film grossed $54.7 million worldwide against a $60 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mercy (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_(2026_film)", "revision": 1374019338, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374019338", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mercy%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q126511469", "text": "The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill.\nSet in a dystopian 1970s style America, the film follows fifty boys in an annually televised competitive walking contest, meant to inspire viewers. Each boy must maintain a pace of 3 mph of nonstop walking for days, and failure to do so after three warnings results in death. The boy who lasts the longest wins a large cash prize and the fulfilment of one wish of his choice.\nThe Long Walk was released in the United States by Lionsgate on September 12, 2025. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed $63 million on a budget of $20 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Long Walk (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_Walk_(2025_film)", "revision": 1378729295, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378729295", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Long%20Walk%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q14513321", "text": "Warcraft (alternatively known as Warcraft: The Beginning) is a 2016 American action fantasy film based on the video game series of the same name. Directed by Duncan Jones, who co-wrote with Charles Leavitt, it stars Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, and Daniel Wu. The film follows Anduin Lothar of Stormwind and Durotan of the Frostwolf clan as heroes set on opposite sides of a growing war, as the warlock Gul'dan leads the Horde to invade Azeroth using a magic portal. Together, a few human heroes and dissenting orcs must attempt to stop the true evil behind this war and restore peace.\nThe film was first announced in 2006 as a project partnership between Legendary Pictures and the game's developer, Blizzard Entertainment. Warcraft premiered in Paris on May 24, 2016, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 10, 2016. The film grossed $439 million worldwide against a production budget of $160 million, becoming the highest-grossing film based on a video game at the time. However, it failed to reach its break-even point of $450–500 million after global marketing and distribution. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, though fans of the Warcraft franchise were kinder to it.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Warcraft (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_(film)", "revision": 1372298296, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372298296", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Warcraft%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18811634", "text": "Silence is a 2016 epic historical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese from a screenplay by Jay Cocks and Scorsese. It is based on the 1966 novel by Japanese author Shūsaku Endō, marking the third film adaptation of the novel. The film stars Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Tadanobu Asano, Ciarán Hinds and Liam Neeson. The plot follows two 17th-century Jesuit priests who travel from Portugal to Edo period Japan via Macau to locate their missing mentor and spread Catholic Christianity. It is the third of Scorsese's films about religious figures struggling with challenges of faith, following The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and Kundun (1997).\nThe pre-production phase of the filmmaking for Silence went through a cycle of over two decades of setbacks and reassessments. After filming of The Wolf of Wall Street concluded in January 2013, Scorsese committed to following it up with Silence. On April 19, 2013, Scorsese indicated that he would begin production on Silence in 2014. Irwin Winkler was then announced as a producer, as were Randall Emmett and George Furla, who would provide financing through their company Emmett/Furla Films. Soon thereafter, planning was made for the film to be shot in Taiwan.\nA long-time passion project for Scorsese, which he had developed for over 25 years, Silence premiered in Rome on November 29, 2016, and was released in the United States on December 23, 2016. Though it received critical acclaim, being selected as one of the top ten films of the year by both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute and being nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, it was a box office bomb, grossing $24 million against its $50 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Silence (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silence_(2016_film)", "revision": 1372995115, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372995115", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Silence%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19866947", "text": "Rings is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by F. Javier Gutiérrez and written by David Loucka, Jacob Aaron Estes and Akiva Goldsman. It is the third installment in The Ring series and served as a direct sequel to the 2002 film, ignoring the events of The Ring Two (2005). It is based on elements of the novel Spiral by Kōji Suzuki. It stars Matilda Lutz as a young woman who finds herself on the receiving end of a terrifying curse that threatens to take her life in seven days. Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Aimee Teegarden, Bonnie Morgan and Vincent D'Onofrio also star in supporting roles.\nParamount Pictures had initially planned a third film, originally titled The Ring 3D, in early 2014, directed by Gutiérrez and written by Loucka and Estes. Later, Goldsman had been hired to co-write the script, while the film had been retitled to Rings. Principal photography began in March 2015, in Atlanta, and wrapped on May that same year. Reshoots took place in July 2016.\nRings was released in the United States on February 3, 2017, by Paramount Pictures. It received generally negative reviews from critics but was a box-office success, grossing $83 million worldwide on a budget of $25 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rings (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_(2017_film)", "revision": 1378623125, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378623125", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rings%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20501835", "text": "Justice League is a 2017 American superhero film based on the DC Comics superhero team. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Films, RatPac-Dune Entertainment, Atlas Entertainment, and Cruel and Unusual Films, and distributed by Warner Bros., it is the fifth installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). Directed by Zack Snyder, and written by Chris Terrio and Joss Whedon, the film features an ensemble cast including Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Amy Adams, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, and J. K. Simmons. In the film, following the events of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Batman and Wonder Woman recruit the Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg after the death of Superman to save the world from the catastrophic threat of Steppenwolf and his army of Parademons.\nWarner Bros. began to develop a live-action Justice League film in 2007 with George Miller set to direct, but the project was canceled due to production delays and budgetary concerns. Principal photography took place from April to October 2016. After Snyder stepped down from the film following the death of his daughter, Whedon was hired to oversee the remainder of post-production, including writing and directing additional scenes, as well as reshooting a large portion of the film, which changed many aspects of it; Snyder ultimately retained sole credit as director. With an estimated production budget of $300 million, Justice League is one of the most expensive films ever made.\nJustice League premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles on November 13, 2017, and was released in the United States four days later. The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics, and grossed $661.3 million worldwide against an assumed break-even point of $750 million, becoming a box-office bomb. A director's cut, titled Zack Snyder's Justice League, was released on HBO Max in 2021, following a fan campaign that advocated for Snyder's vision for the film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Justice League (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_(film)", "revision": 1377831847, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377831847", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Justice%20League%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q22575835", "text": "Ghost in the Shell is a 2017 cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler, and Ehren Kruger. It is the first live-action film adaptation based on the Japanese Ghost in the Shell franchise envisioned by Masamune Shirow, and stars Scarlett Johansson, Takeshi Kitano, Michael Pitt, Pilou Asbæk, Chin Han, and Juliette Binoche. Set in an ultramodern near future when the line between humans and robots is blurring, the plot follows Major Mira Killian, a cyborg supersoldier who attempts to stop a mysterious terrorist and investigate her past.\nFilming for Ghost in the Shell took place in New Zealand at Stone Street Studios from February to June 2016, with additional filming in Hong Kong that June. The film premiered in Tokyo on March 16, 2017, and was released in the United States on March 31, 2017, in IMAX, 3D, IMAX 3D, and 4DX. It grossed $169.8 million worldwide against a production budget of $110 million.\nGhost in the Shell received mixed reviews, with praise for its cast performances, visual style, action sequences, cinematography and musical score, but criticism for its plot and lack of character development. The casting of non-Asian actors (particularly Johansson in the lead role) drew accusations of racism and whitewashing in the United States, although Mamoru Oshii, the director of the original anime film, stated that there was no basis for this accusation.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ghost in the Shell (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell_(2017_film)", "revision": 1374945679, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374945679", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghost%20in%20the%20Shell%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23016495", "text": "Baywatch is a 2017 American action comedy film directed by Seth Gordon, with a screenplay by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon, from a story by Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant. It is based on the television series of the same name created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Gregory J. Bonann and takes place within the same fictional universe. The film stars Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron. \nThe story follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team, who must take down a drug lord in an effort to save their beach.\nPrincipal photography began on February 22, 2016, in Florida and Savannah, Georgia. The film premiered in Miami on May 13, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 25, 2017 by Paramount Pictures. It was a commercial success, grossing $177.9 million worldwide on a $65–69 million budget, but attracted negative reviews from critics. Baywatch received five nominations at the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Efron.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Baywatch (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baywatch_(film)", "revision": 1375462778, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375462778", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Baywatch%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q25136484", "text": "It (titled onscreen as It Chapter One) is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti and written by Chase Palmer, Cary Joji Fukunaga, and Gary Dauberman. It is the first of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel of the same name by Stephen King, as well as the second adaptation following Tommy Lee Wallace's 1990 miniseries. Starring Jaeden Lieberher and Bill Skarsgård, the film was produced by New Line Cinema, KatzSmith Productions, Lin Pictures, and Vertigo Entertainment. Set in the fictional town of Derry, Maine, the film tells the story of The Losers' Club, a group of seven outcast children who are terrorized by the eponymous being which emerges from the sewer in the form of Pennywise the Dancing Clown (Skarsgård), and face their own personal demons as the monster torments them.\nDevelopment began in March 2009 by Warner Bros., with David Kajganich planned to direct, before being replaced by Fukunaga in June 2012. Fukunaga dropped out in May 2015 and was replaced by Muschietti in June. He drew inspiration from 1980s films including The Howling (1981), The Thing (1982), The Goonies (1985), Stand by Me (1986) and Near Dark (1987), and cited the influence of Steven Spielberg. The film was moved to New Line Cinema division in May 2014. Principal photography began in Toronto on June 27, 2016, and ended on September 21, 2016. It was filmed on locations in the Greater Toronto Area, including Port Hope, Oshawa, and Riverdale. Benjamin Wallfisch was hired in March 2017 to compose the musical score.\nIt premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre, Los Angeles, on September 5, 2017, and was released in the United States on September 8, in 2D and IMAX formats. A critical and commercial success, the film set box office records and grossed over $704 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing R-rated film at the time of its release, and grossed over $719 million through subsequent re-releases. Unadjusted for inflation, it became the highest-grossing horror film of all time. The film received generally positive reviews, with critics praising the performances, direction, cinematography and musical score, and was called one of the best Stephen King adaptations. It received numerous awards and nominations, including a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie. It appeared on several critics' end-of-year lists. The second film, It Chapter Two, was released in 2019, covering the remainder of the book. A prequel television series, It: Welcome to Derry, premiered on HBO in 2025, with Skarsgård returning as Pennywise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "It (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_(2017_film)", "revision": 1378734235, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378734235", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q29021224", "text": "Bad Boys for Life is a 2020 American buddy cop action comedy film that is the sequel to Bad Boys II (2003) and the third installment in the Bad Boys franchise. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their starring roles in the film, which is directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah and produced by Smith, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Doug Belgrad, from a screenplay written by Chris Bremner, Peter Craig, and Joe Carnahan, and a story by Craig and Carnahan. Theresa Randle and Joe Pantoliano also reprise previous roles and are joined by Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Paola Núñez, Charles Melton, Kate del Castillo, and Nicky Jam. In the film, Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett investigate a string of murders tied to Lowrey's troubled past.\nA third Bad Boys film was contemplated following the release of the second film in 2003, with Michael Bay stating he would be interested in returning to direct, but budgetary constraints led to stalled efforts. Over the years, a variety of writers and directors were attached as the film went through multiple attempts to enter production. The project was eventually finalized and green-lit in October 2018, and filming began the following year, lasting from January to June 2019. Principal photography took place in Atlanta, Miami, and Mexico City.\nBad Boys for Life was theatrically released in the United States on January 17, 2020, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was generally well received by critics and grossed $426.5 million worldwide, becoming the third-highest-grossing January release of all time. It was also the highest-grossing film of the year domestically in the United States, the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2020 and the highest-grossing film in the franchise. A sequel, Bad Boys: Ride or Die, was released on June 7, 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bad Boys for Life", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boys_for_Life", "revision": 1373619406, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373619406", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bad%20Boys%20for%20Life&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q54854465", "text": "Rambo: Last Blood is a 2019 American vigilante action film written by and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. Directed by Adrian Grünberg, it is the sequel to Rambo (2008) and the fifth installment in the Rambo film series. The story follows Rambo traveling to Mexico to save his adopted niece, who has been kidnapped by a Mexican cartel and forced into prostitution. Paz Vega, Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Adriana Barraza, Yvette Monreal, Genie Kim aka Yenah Han, Joaquín Cosío, and Óscar Jaenada star in supporting roles.\nPlans for a fifth film were announced on and off again since 2008, with different iterations developed and canceled. The film was finally announced in May 2018, with Grünberg attached to direct. Principal photography began in October 2018 in Bulgaria and Spain and ended in December 2018, with additional photography in May 2019. Brian Tyler returned to score the film.\nRambo: Last Blood was theatrically released on September 20, 2019, to negative reviews from critics, who criticized its script, graphic violence, and perceived racist and xenophobic attitudes towards Mexico, though the action sequences and Stallone's performance were praised. The film grossed $91.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $50 million and print and advertisement costs of $30 million. A prequel film, John Rambo, is currently in production.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Rambo: Last Blood", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambo%3A_Last_Blood", "revision": 1373990970, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373990970", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rambo%3A%20Last%20Blood&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q58879016", "text": "Zombieland: Double Tap is a 2019 American post-apocalyptic zombie comedy film directed by Ruben Fleischer and written by Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, and David Callaham. The sequel to Zombieland (2009), it stars an ensemble cast including Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin, Emma Stone (all reprising their roles), Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Luke Wilson, and Thomas Middleditch. In the sequel, Tallahassee (Harrelson), Columbus (Eisenberg), and Wichita (Stone) face evolved zombies and encounter other survivors as they travel from the White House to Graceland to search for Little Rock (Breslin).\nA sequel to the original film began development in November 2009, with the returns of Reese, Wernick, Fleischer and the main cast planned. It soon faced several delays, and the writers instead wrote a Zombieland television pilot in 2013 featuring a new cast, which ultimately failed in being ordered for a series release. Development for the sequel film was revived in February 2016, the screenplay was completed in March 2017, and the film was confirmed in July 2018. The rest of the cast was rounded out under a year later, and principal photography began in January 2019 and concluded that March, with filming primarily taking place in Atlanta.\nZombieland: Double Tap premiered in Los Angeles on October 10, 2019, was theatrically released in the United States on October 18, by Sony Pictures Releasing. It received mostly positive reviews from critics, who found it to be a worthwhile successor to the original and praised the cast performances (particularly those of Stone and Deutch). The film grossed $125 million worldwide, surpassing its predecessor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Zombieland: Double Tap", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombieland%3A_Double_Tap", "revision": 1373347040, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373347040", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zombieland%3A%20Double%20Tap&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q60737563", "text": "Fantasy Island, also known as Blumhouse's Fantasy Island, is a 2020 American supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Jeff Wadlow. Serving both as a horror reimagining and an indirect prequel to ABC's 1977 television series of the same name, it stars Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Hansen, Portia Doubleday, and Michael Rooker and follows a group of people who, while visiting the eponymous island, discover that their dream-like fantasies brought to life begin to turn into horrific living nightmares and they must try to survive.\nFantasy Island was released theatrically in the United States on February 14, 2020, by Sony Pictures Releasing, and was largely panned by critics, but was a financial success, grossing $49 million worldwide against its $7 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fantasy Island (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_Island_(film)", "revision": 1376997347, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376997347", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fantasy%20Island%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q64590532", "text": "Spiral (also subtitled From the Book of Saw) is a 2021 American horror thriller film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger. It serves as a spin-off and the ninth installment of the Saw film series, following Jigsaw (2017). The film stars Chris Rock, Max Minghella, Marisol Nichols, and Samuel L. Jackson, and follows police efforts to stop a Jigsaw copycat killer. The original creators of the series, James Wan and Leigh Whannell, as well as Rock and series veteran Kevin Greutert, serve as executive producers.\nTalks of another Saw installment began after the release of the previous film, with Rock wanting to branch out into the horror genre. The project was officially announced in May 2019, with Rock polishing a script by Stolberg and Goldfinger. The rest of the cast joined in July, with filming taking place in Toronto through that month and August.\nScheduled to be released in May 2020, Spiral was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 14, 2021, by Lionsgate Films. The film grossed a total of $40.6 million against a budget of $20 million, becoming the lowest grossing installment in the franchise, and received mixed reviews from critics. A tenth installment, Saw X, was released in September 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spiral (2021 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_(2021_film)", "revision": 1378722616, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378722616", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spiral%20(2021%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q65768604", "text": "Thor: Love and Thunder is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Thor. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Thor: Ragnarok (2017) and the 29th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Taika Waititi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor alongside Christian Bale, Tessa Thompson, Jaimie Alexander, Waititi, Russell Crowe, and Natalie Portman. In the film, Thor tries to find inner peace, but must return to action and recruit Valkyrie (Thompson), Korg (Waititi), and Jane Foster (Portman)—who is now the Mighty Thor—to stop Gorr the God Butcher (Bale) from eliminating all gods.\nHemsworth and Waititi had discussed plans for a sequel to Ragnarok by January 2018. Love and Thunder was announced in July 2019, with Hemsworth, Waititi, and Thompson all set to return, as well as Portman who did not appear in Ragnarok. Waititi wanted to differentiate Love and Thunder from Ragnarok, seeking to make a romance film and 1980s-inspired adventure. He adapted elements from Jason Aaron's run on Thor comic books during the 2010s, which similarly debuted Gorr and saw Foster take on the mantle and powers of Thor whilst under treatment for cancer. Robinson joined to contribute to the script in February 2020, and further casting was revealed later that year including the appearance of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Production was expected to begin in late 2020 but was delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Filming ultimately began in January 2021 in Sydney, Australia with Barry Idoine as the director of photography, and concluded at the beginning of June.\nThor: Love and Thunder premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on June 23, 2022, and was released in the United States on July 8, as part of Phase Four of the MCU. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances of Hemsworth, Bale and Portman, but criticized its visual effects and tonal inconsistencies. The film grossed $760.9 million worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2022, as well as the second-highest-grossing film in the Thor franchise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Thor: Love and Thunder", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor%3A_Love_and_Thunder", "revision": 1373636966, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373636966", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thor%3A%20Love%20and%20Thunder&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q80322391", "text": "The Matrix Resurrections is a 2021 American science fiction action film co-produced and directed by Lana Wachowski, who co-wrote the screenplay with David Mitchell and Aleksandar Hemon. It is the fourth installment in The Matrix film series and the sequel to The Matrix Revolutions (2003). The film stars an ensemble cast including Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Jessica Henwick, Jonathan Groff, Neil Patrick Harris, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lambert Wilson, Christina Ricci, Freema Agyeman, and Jada Pinkett Smith. Set sixty years after Revolutions, the film follows Neo, who lives a seemingly ordinary life as a video game developer having trouble with distinguishing fantasy from reality. A group of rebels, with the help of a programmed version of Morpheus, free Neo from a new version of the Matrix and fight a new enemy that holds Trinity captive.\nFollowing the release of Revolutions, the Wachowskis denied the possibility of another Matrix film. Warner Bros. constantly expressed interest in reviving the franchise, hiring Zak Penn to write a new screenplay after the Wachowskis refused every offer to create more sequels. In late 2019, a fourth Matrix film was finally announced, with Lana Wachowski returning as director without Lilly, and Reeves and Moss reprising their roles. Filming started in February 2020, but was halted the next month by the COVID-19 pandemic. Wachowski considered abandoning the film, but was encouraged by the cast to finish it. Filming resumed in August and concluded three months later.\nThe Matrix Resurrections premiered at the Castro Theater in San Francisco on December 16, 2021, and was released theatrically and via the HBO Max streaming service by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 22. The film received positive reviews from critics, but underperformed at the box office, grossing only $160.2 million worldwide against a $190 million production budget. It received a nomination for Best Special Visual Effects at the 75th British Academy Film Awards. A sequel is currently in development, with Drew Goddard attached to write and direct.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Matrix Resurrections", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_Resurrections", "revision": 1378049202, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378049202", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Matrix%20Resurrections&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q97189755", "text": "Songbird is a 2020 American dystopian science fiction thriller film based on the COVID-19 pandemic. It was directed by Adam Mason, who wrote the screenplay with Simon Boyes. Produced by Michael Bay, Adam Goodman, Andrew Sugerman and Eben Davidson, the film features an ensemble cast of KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser and Demi Moore, depicting their struggle living under a highly strict and brutal quarantine by the highly authoritarian government in the midst of a mutating virus outbreak.\nThe film was released on December 11, 2020. It received generally negative reviews.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Songbird (2020 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songbird_(2020_film)", "revision": 1372756173, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372756173", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Songbird%20(2020%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q103931967", "text": "The Fallout is a 2021 American drama film written and directed by Megan Park in her feature film directorial debut. It stars Jenna Ortega as Vada Cavell, a high school student who navigates significant emotional trauma following a school shooting. It also stars Maddie Ziegler, Niles Fitch, Will Ropp, Julie Bowen, John Ortiz, Lumi Pollack and Shailene Woodley in supporting roles. The score is composed by American musician and actor Finneas O'Connell.\nThe Fallout premiered at South by Southwest on March 17, 2021, and was released on January 27, 2022, on HBO Max by New Line Cinema (via Warner Bros. Pictures). It received positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Fallout (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fallout_(film)", "revision": 1374004547, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374004547", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Fallout%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q104184744", "text": "Belle (Japanese: 竜とそばかすの姫, Hepburn: Ryū to Sobakasu no Hime; literally The Dragon and the Freckled Princess) is a 2021 Japanese animated musical science fantasy drama film written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda and produced by Studio Chizu. The story is inspired by the 1756 French fairytale Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont as well as the 1991 Disney animated film.\nBelle had an acclaimed premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. The film was additionally dubbed into foreign languages (English, Chinese, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Greek, German and Polish). It was released theatrically in Japan on July 16, 2021. Belle was the third-highest-grossing Japanese film of 2021, accounting for ¥6.53 billion in box-office rankings as of December 12, 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Belle (2021 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_(2021_film)", "revision": 1374311249, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374311249", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belle%20(2021%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q104528612", "text": "Jackass Forever (stylized as jackass fore♥er) is a 2022 American reality slapstick comedy film directed by Jeff Tremaine, who produced it with Spike Jonze and Johnny Knoxville, and released by Paramount Pictures. It is the fourth main installment in the Jackass film series, following Jackass 3D (2010). \nThe film stars original Jackass members Knoxville, Steve-O, Dave England, Wee Man, Danger Ehren, Chris Pontius, Preston Lacy, as well as newcomers Sean \"Poopies\" McInerney, Zach Holmes, Jasper Dolphin, Eric Manaka, Rachel Wolfson, the Jackass film crew, and celebrity guests. This is the first Jackass film not to feature Ryan Dunn following his death in 2011 and the first without Bam Margera being a primary cast member as he was fired during production, appearing in only one skit. \nJackass Forever premiered at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, California, on February 1, 2022, and was theatrically released on February 4. The film was well received by critics, with many considering it the best film of the franchise. It was also a commercial success, grossing over $80 million worldwide against a budget of $10 million.\nUnused footage from the film was compiled separately, titled Jackass 4.5, and released on Netflix on May 20, 2022. A sequel, Jackass: Best and Last, was released on June 26, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jackass Forever", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass_Forever", "revision": 1378438303, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378438303", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackass%20Forever&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105393862", "text": "Titane (French: [titan] , lit. 'Titanium') is a 2021 body horror psychological drama film written and directed by Julia Ducournau. The French-Belgian co-production stars Agathe Rousselle in her feature film debut as Alexia, a woman who, after being injured in a car crash as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head. In adulthood, Alexia becomes a murderous car model with an erotic fascination with automobiles, leading to a bizarre sexual encounter that sets off an increasingly outlandish series of events. Vincent Lindon, Garance Marillier and Laïs Salameh also star.\nThe film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on 13 July 2021, where Ducournau became the second female director to win the Palme d'Or, the festival's top award, as well as the first female filmmaker to win solo. It received critical acclaim and was selected as the French entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but did not make the shortlist. At the 47th César Awards, it was nominated for four awards, including Best Director for Ducournau and Most Promising Actress for Rousselle. At the 75th British Academy Film Awards, Ducournau received a nomination for Best Director. At the 11th Magritte Awards, Titane received five nominations and won two awards, including Best Foreign Film.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Titane", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titane", "revision": 1377444877, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377444877", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titane&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105806948", "text": "Napoleon is a 2023 epic historical war film directed and co-produced by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by David Scarpa. Based on the life of Napoleon and primarily depicting his rise to power, as well as his relationship with his wife, Joséphine, it stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine.\nIn October 2020, Scott announced Napoleon as his next project. Following delays and recastings due to the COVID-19 pandemic, filming began in February 2022 in England, lasting several months. In addition to writer David Scarpa, frequent Scott collaborators included cinematographer Dariusz Wolski and editor Claire Simpson.\nNapoleon premiered at Salle Pleyel in Paris on November 14, 2023, and was released in the United States and United Kingdom on November 22 by Columbia Pictures (via Sony Pictures Releasing) before streaming on Apple TV+ on March 1, 2024. The film grossed $222.4 million worldwide, becoming a box office disappointment though it performed slightly better overseas, and received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the battle sequences and performances but criticized its tone, pacing, and historical inaccuracies. At the 96th Academy Awards, the film received nominations for Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, and Best Visual Effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Napoleon (2023 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_(2023_film)", "revision": 1377917744, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377917744", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Napoleon%20(2023%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105883400", "text": "The Whale is a 2022 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Samuel D. Hunter, based on his 2012 play. The film stars Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton. The plot follows a morbidly obese, reclusive English teacher who tries to restore his relationship with his teenage daughter, whom he had abandoned eight years earlier. The film was shot from March 8 to April 7, 2021, in Newburgh, New York.\nThe Whale premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 4, 2022 and received a polarized response. Although critics lauded the acting, particularly Fraser, Chau and Sink, the film's portrayal of obesity-related struggles drew criticism. Notwithstanding, it was received with acclaim in the awards season. At the 95th Academy Awards ceremony, The Whale won the Oscars for Best Actor (Fraser) and Best Makeup and Hairstyling, while Chau received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. At the 76th British Academy Film Awards, the film was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Make Up & Hair, Best Supporting Actress (Chau) and Best Actor for Fraser's performance, who also received a nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama at the 80th Golden Globe Awards.\nIt had a limited theatrical release in the U.S. on December 9, before a wide release on December 21 by A24, grossing $57.6 million against a budget of $3 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Whale (2022 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whale_(2022_film)", "revision": 1378020853, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378020853", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Whale%20(2022%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q105998710", "text": "The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan (French: Les Trois Mousquetaires : D'Artagnan, titled The Three Musketeers – Part I: D'Artagnan in the United States) is a 2023 epic action-adventure film and the first of a two-part epic saga directed by Martin Bourboulon, based on Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel. The film stars François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva Green and Louis Garrel.\nIt was released theatrically in France by Pathé Distribution on 5 April 2023. The second part, The Three Musketeers: Milady, was released on 13 December 2023. The films were co-produced by France, Germany, Spain and Belgium on a combined production budget of €72 million (US$78 million), around €36 million for each film, the second most expensive French production of 2023, and filmed back to back for 150 days from 16 August 2021 to 3 June 2022.\nThe film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office hit in France, becoming the third highest-grossing French film of 2023, the fifth highest-grossing French film internationally and the eighth highest-grossing film of 2023 in France, with over 3.4 million tickets sold in the country and over 1.6 million tickets sold outside France. It received six nominations at the 49th César Awards.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Musketeers%3A_D'Artagnan", "revision": 1363755609, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363755609", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Three%20Musketeers%3A%20D'Artagnan&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q108329738", "text": "Prey is a 2022 American science fiction action horror film directed by Dan Trachtenberg from a screenplay by Patrick Aison, based on a story by Aison and Trachtenberg. It is the fifth installment in the Predator franchise and a prequel to Predator (1987), set in the Northern Great Plains in 1719. It stars Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegro, Michelle Thrush, Stormee Kipp, Julian Black Antelope, and Bennett Taylor. The story revolves around a young Comanche woman, Naru, who is striving to prove herself as a hunter. She finds herself having to protect her people from a vicious, humanoid alien that hunts humans for sport.\nDevelopment of the film began during the production of The Predator (2018), when producer John Davis was approached by Trachtenberg and Aison, with a concept that they had been developing since 2016. In late 2020, the film's title was revealed. Principal photography took place around Calgary during the summer of 2021, with most of the film being filmed in English, with some sequences being shot in Comanche and French as well. A full Comanche language dub was provided for the film, with the cast reprising their roles, thus making it the first feature film to do so.\nPrey premiered at San Diego Comic-Con on July 21, 2022, and was released by 20th Century Studios as a Hulu original film in the United States on August 5. The film received positive reviews from critics and high viewership, leading Trachtenberg to direct two additional Predator films, Predator: Killer of Killers and Predator: Badlands, both released in 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Prey (2022 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2022_film)", "revision": 1367453123, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367453123", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prey%20(2022%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q110938009", "text": "Arthur the King is a 2024 American adventure film directed by Simon Cellan Jones, written by Michael Brandt, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Simu Liu, and Juliet Rylance. It is based on the true story told in the 2016 memoir Arthur - The Dog Who Crossed the Jungle to Find a Home by Mikael Lindnord. Inspired by events that actually took place during an adventure race in Ecuador, the film follows the captain of an adventure racing team who befriends a wounded stray dog named Arthur. The dog accompanies the team on a grueling 435-mile (700-km) endurance race, with the film adaptation relocating the story to the Dominican Republic.\nThe film was announced in 2019 as a Paramount Players release, but moved to Lionsgate in June 2020. Filming began in the Dominican Republic in January 2021, and the film was theatrically released on March 15, 2024. It received mixed-to-positive reviews from critics and grossed $40 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Arthur the King", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_the_King", "revision": 1373998030, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373998030", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arthur%20the%20King&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q113470320", "text": "Fall is a 2022 survival psychological thriller film directed by Scott Mann and written by Mann and Jonathan Frank. Starring Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Mason Gooding and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the film follows two best friends who climb a 2,000-foot-tall (610 m) television broadcasting tower, before becoming stranded at the top.\nIt was theatrically released in the United States on August 12, 2022, by Lionsgate Films. The film was a box office success, grossing $21 million worldwide against a $3 million budget, and received generally positive reviews from critics; Currey's and Gardner's performances were particularly praised, with criticism for its visual effects and screenplay. A sequel, Fall 2: Deadpoint, was released on September 2, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fall (2022 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_(2022_film)", "revision": 1378629666, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378629666", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fall%20(2022%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q116971304", "text": "The Gorge is a 2025 American science fiction romantic action horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Zach Dean. The film stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sigourney Weaver. Its plot follows two elite snipers who are ordered to guard a deep gorge without knowing what lies inside. The Gorge was released by Apple TV+ on February 14, 2025. It received a mixed reception from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Gorge (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gorge_(film)", "revision": 1375450759, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375450759", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Gorge%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131935663", "text": "A Talent for Murder is a 2026 thriller film directed by Anton Corbijn and adapted by Joanna Murray-Smith from her 2014 play Switzerland. It stars Helen Mirren, Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Cooke.\nThe film is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States on October 23, 2026, by Bleecker Street and LD Entertainment.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Talent for Murder (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Talent_for_Murder_(2026_film)", "revision": 1376058669, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376058669", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Talent%20for%20Murder%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133852597", "text": "The Whisper Man is a 2026 American crime thriller film directed by James Ashcroft and written by Ben Jacoby and Chase Palmer. It is based on the novel of the same name by Alex North and stars Robert De Niro, Michelle Monaghan, and Adam Scott. \nThe film's plot follows recently widowed novelist Tom Kennedy and his young son Jake, who move to the town of Garretton as police investigate a child abduction apparently connected to an infamous serial killer known as the Whisper Man. When Jake is abducted, Tom is drawn into the investigation alongside his estranged father, the detective who originally captured the killer.\nThe film was released on August 28, 2026, by Netflix and received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Whisper Man", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whisper_Man", "revision": 1377776320, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377776320", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Whisper%20Man&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135458343", "text": "War of the Worlds is a 2025 American screenlife science fiction film based on the 1898 novel by H. G. Wells. The film was directed by Rich Lee with a screenplay by Kenneth A. Golde and Marc Hyman. It stars Ice Cube, Eva Longoria, Clark Gregg, Andrea Savage, Henry Hunter Hall, Iman Benson, Devon Bostick, and Michael O'Neill.\nWar of the Worlds was released by Universal Pictures on Amazon Prime Video on July 30, 2025. The film received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics and is considered one of the worst films of all time, with particular criticism aimed at Ice Cube's performance and its extensive product placement. At the 46th Golden Raspberry Awards, it won five of the six categories it was nominated for, including Worst Picture, Worst Director, and Worst Actor.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "War of the Worlds (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Worlds_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377472811, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377472811", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War%20of%20the%20Worlds%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135906914", "text": "The Weight is a 2026 historical drama film directed by Padraic McKinley in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Matthew Booi and Shelby Gaines. A co-production of Germany and the United States, it stars Ethan Hawke, Russell Crowe, Julia Jones, Austin Amelio, Avi Nash, and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen.\nThe film had its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on January 26, and had its international premiere out of the competition of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival on February 17. It was theatrically released in the United States by Vertical on September 18.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Weight (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weight_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378294362, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378294362", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Weight%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q138857118", "text": "Hot Spot is a 2026 science fiction thriller film directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. It stars Andrzej Konopka, Noomi Rapace, and Reika Kirishima.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hot Spot (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Spot_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378514130, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378514130", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hot%20Spot%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q141052811", "text": "Beware Boiúna is a 2026 monster horror film directed by Mike P. Nelson from a screenplay by Alan B. McElroy, based on a story by Tony Giglio and McElroy. The film stars Kiana Madeira, Jessica Rothe, and Logan Marshall-Green. It follows a medical mission deep in the Amazon rainforest that encounters a colossal mythical serpent.\nBeware Boiúna had its premiere at the Fantastic Fest on September 17, 2026, and was theatrically released in the United States by Lionsgate Films on October 2, 2026. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Beware Boiúna", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beware_Boi%C3%BAna", "revision": 1378752370, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378752370", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Beware%20Boi%C3%BAna&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q12049257", "text": "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a 2016 action horror film written and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The direct sequel to Resident Evil: Retribution (2012), it is the sixth installment in the Resident Evil film series and the final installment in the original series, which is based on the video game series of the same name. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James, Ruby Rose, Rola, and William Levy. In the film, Alice and her friends are betrayed by Albert Wesker, who gathers the entire forces of the Umbrella Corporation into one final strike against the apocalypse survivors.\nA sixth film in the series was announced to be in development by Sony Pictures in 2013, and Anderson later expressed his desire for it to \"come full circle\", bringing back characters, themes and the environment of the Hive from the first film. It was filmed in 2D and post-converted to stereoscopic 3D, and principal photography commenced on September 18, 2015 in South Africa.\nResident Evil: The Final Chapter was released on December 23, 2016, in Japan and on January 27, 2017, in the United States in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D. The film received mixed reviews and became the highest-grossing film in the franchise, earning over $314 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. A reboot, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, was released November 24, 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil%3A_The_Final_Chapter", "revision": 1377993263, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377993263", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resident%20Evil%3A%20The%20Final%20Chapter&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19363956", "text": "Unlocked is a 2017 action thriller film directed by Michael Apted, written by Peter O'Brien, and starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Michael Douglas, John Malkovich and Toni Collette. It was Apted's final film before his death in 2021. It was released in the United Kingdom on May 5, 2017, by Lionsgate.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Unlocked (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlocked_(2017_film)", "revision": 1372020924, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372020924", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unlocked%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19571121", "text": "Brimstone is a 2016 psychological Western film written and directed by Martin Koolhoven. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Emilia Jones, Kit Harington, and Carice van Houten. It is a Dutch-American as well as French, German, Belgian and Swedish international production.\nThe film was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2016, where it caused controversy. It premiered in the Netherlands on 12 January 2017, where it was very well received, as in the rest of Europe and was released on 10 March in the United States, where it received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Brimstone (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brimstone_(2016_film)", "revision": 1372165897, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372165897", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brimstone%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19587336", "text": "The Great Wall (simplified Chinese: 长城; traditional Chinese: 長城) is a 2016 monster film directed by Zhang Yimou, with a screenplay by Carlo Bernard, Doug Miro and Tony Gilroy, from a story by Max Brooks, Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz. An American and Chinese co-production starring Matt Damon, Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe, and Andy Lau, the plot centers on two European mercenary warriors (Damon and Pascal) imprisoned by imperial Chinese forces within the Great Wall of China after arriving in search of gunpowder, eventually joining forces with the Chinese to help combat an alien threat. The Great Wall is Zhang's first English-language film.\nPrincipal photography for the film began on March 30, 2015, in Qingdao, China, and it premiered in Beijing on December 6, 2016. It was released by China Film Group in China on December 16, 2016, the United States on February 17, 2017, by Universal Pictures, and in Japan on April 14, 2017, by Toho-Towa. The film, which received mixed reviews from critics, grossed $334.9 million worldwide and was considered a box-office bomb for losing up to $75 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Great Wall (2016 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wall_(2016_film)", "revision": 1372398886, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372398886", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Great%20Wall%20(2016%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q23759268", "text": "The Mummy is a 2017 American action-adventure film co-produced and directed by Alex Kurtzman from a screenplay written by David Koepp, Christopher McQuarrie, and Dylan Kussman based on a story by Kurtzman, Jon Spaihts, and Jenny Lumet. A reboot of the Mummy franchise, it stars Tom Cruise as U.S. Army Sergeant Nick Morton, a soldier of fortune who accidentally unearths the ancient tomb of entrapped Egyptian princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Courtney B. Vance, and Russell Crowe also star.\nThe Mummy premiered at the State Theatre in Sydney, Australia on May 22, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9, 2017. It received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $410 million worldwide, losing $60–95 million due to high production and marketing costs. Intended to kick-start the Dark Universe, a shared universe based on the classic Universal Monsters film series, the film's poor reception led to the cancellation of the shared universe.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Mummy (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mummy_(2017_film)", "revision": 1365059765, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365059765", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mummy%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24301388", "text": "A Wrinkle in Time is a 2018 American science fantasy adventure film directed by Ava DuVernay and written by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based on the 1962 novel. The film follows a young girl and her adoptive younger brother who, with the help of three astral travelers, sets off on a quest to find their missing father. The film stars Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael Peña, Zach Galifianakis, and Chris Pine.\nIt is Disney's second film adaptation of L'Engle's novel, following the 2003 television film. Development began in late 2010, with Stockwell writing the first draft of the script, and Lee joining to rewrite it four years later. DuVernay signed on to direct in early 2016. Principal photography began on November 2, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. Near the end of filming, production moved to New Zealand, where photography ended on February 25, 2017. With an estimated production budget of $103 million, the film became the first $100-million-budget live-action film to be directed by an African-American woman. Ramin Djawadi composed and conducted the film's score.\nA Wrinkle in Time premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on February 26, 2018, and was released in the United States by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures on March 9. The film received mixed reviews from critics and was a box-office bomb, with a reported loss of $130.6 million at the box office.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Wrinkle in Time (2018 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Wrinkle_in_Time_(2018_film)", "revision": 1378690606, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378690606", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Wrinkle%20in%20Time%20(2018%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27958394", "text": "Wonder is a 2017 American coming-of-age family comedy drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky, who co-wrote the screenplay with Steven Conrad and Jack Thorne. It is based on the 2012 novel by R. J. Palacio and stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, Jacob Tremblay, Mandy Patinkin, and Daveed Diggs.\nThe film follows a boy named August \"Auggie\" Pullman with Treacher Collins syndrome as he tries to fit in. The film was released in the United States on November 17, 2017, by Lionsgate. It received positive reviews from critics and grossed $315 million worldwide on a $20 million production budget. At the 90th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Makeup and Hairstyling.\nA spin-off and prequel film, White Bird, was released in October 2024, with Bryce Gheisar reprising his role.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wonder (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_(film)", "revision": 1378780291, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378780291", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonder%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q31202708", "text": "Top Gun: Maverick is a 2022 American action drama film directed by Joseph Kosinski and written by Ehren Kruger, Eric Warren Singer, and Christopher McQuarrie, from a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks. It is the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, with Tom Cruise reprising his starring role as the naval aviator Pete \"Maverick\" Mitchell. The ensemble cast also features Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Lewis Pullman, Ed Harris, and Val Kilmer (in his final film role). The story involves Maverick confronting his past while training a group of younger Top Gun graduates, including the son of his deceased best friend, for a dangerous mission.\nDevelopment of a Top Gun sequel was announced in 2010 by Paramount Pictures. Cruise, along with co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Tony Scott, were asked to return. Craig wrote a draft of the screenplay in 2012, but the project stalled when Scott died later that year. Top Gun: Maverick was later dedicated to Scott's memory. Production resumed in 2017, after Kosinski was hired to direct. Principal photography, which involved the use of IMAX-certified 6K full-frame cameras, took place from May 2018 to April 2019 in California, Washington, and Maryland. The film's complex action sequences—and later the COVID-19 pandemic—delayed its release, which was initially scheduled for July 12, 2019. During the pandemic, several streaming companies attempted to purchase the streaming rights to the film from Paramount, but all offers were declined on the orders of Cruise, who insisted that it should be released exclusively in theaters.\nTop Gun: Maverick premiered at CinemaCon on April 28, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 27 by Paramount Pictures. The film was widely praised by critics, with many deeming it superior to its predecessor. It was named one of the top ten films of 2022 by the National Board of Review and by the American Film Institute and nominated for six awards at the 95th Academy Awards (including Best Picture), winning Best Sound. Top Gun: Maverick grossed $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the second-highest-grossing film of 2022 and the highest-grossing film of Cruise's career. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Top Gun: Maverick", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gun%3A_Maverick", "revision": 1377815198, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377815198", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Top%20Gun%3A%20Maverick&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q55081822", "text": "Ford v Ferrari (titled Le Mans '66 in some European countries) is a 2019 American biographical sports drama film directed by James Mangold and written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, and Jason Keller. It stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale, with Jon Bernthal, Caitríona Balfe, Tracy Letts, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Remo Girone, and Ray McKinnon in supporting roles. The plot follows a determined team of American and English engineers and designers, led by automotive designer Carroll Shelby and his English driver, Ken Miles, who are hired by Henry Ford II and Lee Iacocca to build a race car to defeat the perennially dominant Italian racing team Scuderia Ferrari at the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans race in France.\nFord v Ferrari had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on November 15, 2019, by 20th Century Fox to critical and commercial success; critics praised the performances (particularly Bale and Damon), Mangold's direction, the editing, the sound design and the racing sequences, and it was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the ten best films of the year. At the 92nd Academy Awards, the film received four nominations, including Best Picture, and won Best Film Editing and Best Sound Editing. Bale also received nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Drama and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ford v Ferrari", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_v_Ferrari", "revision": 1377323657, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377323657", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ford%20v%20Ferrari&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q56033171", "text": "Bloodshot is a 2020 superhero film starring Vin Diesel. Based on the Valiant Comics character Bloodshot, it follows a soldier who was killed in action, only to be brought back to life with superpowers by an organization that wants to use him as a weapon. The film was directed by David S. F. Wilson and written by Jeff Wadlow and Eric Heisserer.Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, Lamorne Morris, and Guy Pearce appear in supporting roles.\nIt is intended to be the first installment in a series of films set within a Valiant Comics shared cinematic universe. Bloodshot premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles on March 10, 2020, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 13, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The weekend of its release coincided with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when societal restrictions and regulations led to mass theater closures around the world. The film grossed $37.3 million worldwide, but due to the theater closures, Sony made the film available on video on demand less than two weeks after it was released theatrically. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, with criticism for Diesel's performance, but praise for the action sequences and the visual effects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Bloodshot (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodshot_(film)", "revision": 1375918454, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375918454", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bloodshot%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q110732481", "text": "Freelance is a 2023 American action comedy film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Jacob Lentz in his feature writing debut. It stars John Cena, Alison Brie, Juan Pablo Raba, and Christian Slater. The film was released by Relativity Media on October 27, 2023, grossing $10.2 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Freelance (2023 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelance_(2023_film)", "revision": 1377489357, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377489357", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Freelance%20(2023%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q111538862", "text": "Civil War is a 2024 dystopian war-thriller film written and directed by Alex Garland, and starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. Set during a second American civil war fought between a despotic federal government and secessionist movements, the plot follows a group of war journalists traveling from New York City to Washington, D.C., to interview the president of the United States before rebels take the capital city. Principal photography began in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2022, with production moving to London later in the year.\nCivil War premiered at South by Southwest on March 14, 2024, and was released in the United States by A24 and in the United Kingdom by Entertainment Film Distributors on April 12, 2024. With a budget of $50 million, Civil War was A24's most expensive film at the time. The film grossed $127 million, and received generally positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Civil War (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_War_(film)", "revision": 1378487864, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378487864", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Civil%20War%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130375767", "text": "War Machine is a 2026 military science fiction action film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Patrick Hughes. It stars Alan Ritchson, Dennis Quaid, Stephan James, Jai Courtney, Esai Morales, Keiynan Lonsdale, and Daniel Webber. In the film, a staff sergeant encounters an otherworldly killing machine while on a grueling training exercise.\nThe film was given a very limited theatrical release in Australia starting on February 12, 2026, before releasing on Netflix on March 6, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics, praising it as a fun, old-school, throwback action movie despite its familiar, formulaic storyline. A sequel is in development. It is the 9th most watched Netflix film of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "War Machine (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Machine_(2026_film)", "revision": 1377728051, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377728051", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War%20Machine%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132256832", "text": "The Dog Stars is a 2026 post-apocalyptic action thriller film directed and produced by Ridley Scott, from a screenplay by Mark L. Smith, based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller. The film stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, and Guy Pearce, and follows the survivors of a global flu pandemic in rural Colorado.\nThe Dog Stars premiered at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square on August 20, 2026, and was released in the United States by 20th Century Studios on August 28. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box-office bomb, grossing $39 million against a production budget of $70–110 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Dog Stars (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_Stars_(film)", "revision": 1377897058, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377897058", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Dog%20Stars%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133341572", "text": "Wild Horse Nine is a 2026 black comedy political thriller film written and directed by Martin McDonagh. A co-production of the United Kingdom, United States, and Chile, it stars John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, and Parker Posey. It is a fictional dark comedy/satire and is not a true story, although it is set against a real historical backdrop.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on 3 September 2026, where Malkovich won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It will be released theatrically in the United Kingdom and the United States by Searchlight Pictures on 6 November. The film received positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wild Horse Nine", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Horse_Nine", "revision": 1378793868, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378793868", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wild%20Horse%20Nine&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134545992", "text": "Hershey is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by Mark Waters and written by Sharon Paul and Timothy Michael Hayes.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hershey (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_(film)", "revision": 1375998856, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375998856", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hershey%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135472084", "text": "Primitive War is a 2025 Australian science fiction horror film directed by Luke Sparke and based on the 2017 novel of the same name by Ethan Pettus. Starring Ryan Kwanten, Tricia Helfer, Nick Wechsler and Jeremy Piven, the film is set in a Vietnam jungle valley during 1968 and follows a reconnaissance unit who carries out a rescue mission for a US Army Special Forces platoon and are attacked by de-extinct dinosaurs.\nA sequel is in development, planned for a 2027 release. On August 4, 2026 Ethan Pettus announced he had terminated his contract for the sequel and would no longer be involved in any future projects.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Primitive War", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_War", "revision": 1371173661, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371173661", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Primitive%20War&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18324869", "text": "Everybody Wants Some!! is a 2016 American comedy film written and directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Glen Powell, Ryan Guzman, Tyler Hoechlin, Will Brittain, and Wyatt Russell, it follows the lives of Texan college baseball players in 1980. The script was first completed in 2005, but Linklater struggled to secure funding until Annapurna Pictures got involved. Principal photography took place in and around Austin, Texas between October and December 2014.\nEverybody Wants Some!! had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 11, 2016, and was theatrically released in the United States on March 30, 2016, by Paramount Pictures. The film received positive reviews from critics, with many accrediting the film's acclaim to Linklater's direction and the performances of Jenner, Deutch and Powell.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Everybody Wants Some!! 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Featuring the ensemble cast included Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, Jung Ho-yeon, Taylor Russell, Cameron Britton, Alicia Vikander, and Michael Fassbender, the film centers on a village police chief and his rookie deputy who must defend his local community from a mysterious creature after wildfires sever all communications, while a local hunting party finds itself being hunted deep in the mountains.\nHope had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2026, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It was released theatrically by Plus M Entertainment in South Korea on July 15. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hope (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378746536, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378746536", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hope%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q117815027", "text": "Iron Lung is a 2026 American independent science fiction horror film starring writer, editor, and director Mark Fischbach (better known by his online alias Markiplier) in his feature-length directorial debut. It is based on the 2022 video game by David Szymanski. It also stars Caroline Kaplan, Troy Baker, Elsie Lovelock, Elle LaMont, Mick Lauer, Seán McLoughlin (Jacksepticeye), Isaac McKee and Alanah Pearce. The plot follows a convict (Markiplier) who is forced to pilot a submarine through an ocean of blood on a desolate moon following an apocalyptic event known as the \"Quiet Rapture\" that caused all the stars and habitable planets along with their human inhabitants to disappear without warning.\nDevelopment on an Iron Lung film adaptation began in April 2023, when Markiplier announced he would be adapting the game into film. Markiplier, who had previously played Iron Lung on his YouTube channel, stated it would be self-written, self-financed, and star himself alongside Kaplan. Szymanski had been involved with it since pre-production, assisting with its story and being on set during filming. Iron Lung was self-released by Markiplier in North America on January 30, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was a box-office success, grossing $51 million worldwide.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Iron Lung (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Lung_(film)", "revision": 1377060554, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377060554", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iron%20Lung%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q123172835", "text": "In the Grey is a 2026 American action thriller film written, produced, and directed by Guy Ritchie. The film follows a lawyer and her team of fixers as they try to recover a one-billion-dollar debt from a criminal organization. Produced by Black Bear Pictures, the film stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill, Eiza Gonzalez, Kristofer Hivju, Fisher Stevens, Rosamund Pike, and Carlos Bardem.\nIn the Grey was released in North America on May 15, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "In the Grey", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Grey", "revision": 1378176349, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378176349", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=In%20the%20Grey&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124359083", "text": "Animals is an upcoming American crime thriller film directed by Ben Affleck and written by Affleck, Connor O. McIntyre and Billy Ray. It stars Affleck, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson, Adriana Paz with Luis Gerardo Méndez, and Steven Yeun.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Animals (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_(2026_film)", "revision": 1376126852, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376126852", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Animals%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q124743667", "text": "Mayday is a 2026 American action comedy film written and directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, and produced by Apple Original Films, Skydance Media, and Maximum Effort. It stars Ryan Reynolds, Kenneth Branagh, Marcin Dorociński, Maria Bakalova, and David Morse.\nThe film was released on Apple TV on September 4, 2026, and received positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mayday (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayday_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378504606, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378504606", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mayday%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125020375", "text": "Sisu: Road to Revenge (Finnish: Sisu 2; stylized as SI2U) is a 2025 action film written and directed by Jalmari Helander. It is the sequel to Sisu (2022). Jorma Tommila reprises his role as Aatami Korpi. In the sequel, Korpi dismantles his old family house in now-Soviet Karelia, loads it on a truck, and transports it to rebuild somewhere safe in their honor. To avenge their losses to Korpi, the Soviet Union enlists Yeandor Draganov (Stephen Lang), a former Red Army officer who killed Korpi's family, to hunt him down. The film is produced by Petri Jokiranta and Mike Goodridge for Subzero Film Entertainment and Good Chaos respectively with Eric Charles' overseeing for Sony's Stage 6 Films. Unlike the previous film, which was set in Lapland, filming took place in Estonia.\nSisu: Road to Revenge premiered at the Fantastic Fest on September 21, 2025. It was released in Finland on October 22, by SF Film Finland, and in the United States on November 21, by Sony Pictures Releasing through Stage 6 Films and Screen Gems. Like its predecessor, the film has received a positive reception from critics despite its significantly weaker box office success.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sisu: Road to Revenge", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisu%3A_Road_to_Revenge", "revision": 1374018946, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374018946", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sisu%3A%20Road%20to%20Revenge&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125757803", "text": "Sacrifice is a 2025 action adventure comedy drama film directed by Romain Gavras, who co-wrote it with Will Arbery. It stars an ensemble cast that features Chris Evans, Anya Taylor-Joy, Vincent Cassel, Sam Richardson, John Malkovich, and Salma Hayek.\nThe film had its world premiere in the Special Presentations section of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival on September 6, 2025. It is scheduled to be released on Netflix in the United States and France on October 16, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sacrifice (2025 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice_(2025_film)", "revision": 1377558080, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377558080", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sacrifice%20(2025%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125808089", "text": "Late Fame is a 2025 American drama film directed by Kent Jones, written by Samy Burch and based on the posthumously published novella by Arthur Schnitzler. It stars Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee and Edmund Donovan.\nThe film had its world premiere in the Orizzonti section of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on August 30, 2025. It was released on August 7, 2026, by Magnolia Pictures.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Late Fame", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Fame", "revision": 1378080222, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378080222", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Late%20Fame&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q125878994", "text": "Mutiny is a 2026 action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a billionaire's head of security who uncovers a conspiracy aboard a cargo ship he is a stowaway upon. It is directed by Jean-François Richet and written by Lindsay Michel and J. P. Davis. The film also stars Annabelle Wallis, Roland Møller, and Adrian Lester.\nProduced by MadRiver Pictures and Punch Palace Productions, the film was released by Lionsgate in the United States and Sky Cinema in the United Kingdom on August 21, 2026. It received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mutiny (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutiny_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378080022, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378080022", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mutiny%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q129165193", "text": "The Last House is a 2026 American science fiction horror film written by Matthew Robinson, and directed by Louis Leterrier. It stars Greta Lee and Wagner Moura. The film follows a family that finds themselves inexplicably sealed in their home, with the whole world being affected by a mysterious disaster, forcing them to learn to survive. \nThe Last House was released on Netflix on August 7, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Last House", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_House", "revision": 1378716210, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378716210", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Last%20House&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q129677718", "text": "Digger is a 2026 American satirical black comedy film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Tom Cruise, who also produced the film, stars as Digger Rockwell, an aging oil magnate whose drilling sets off an ecological disaster. The supporting cast includes Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, Sandra Hüller, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Jesse Plemons.\nIñárritu conceived the idea for Digger after working on The Revenant (2015). He wrote the screenplay with Sabina Berman, Alexander Dinelaris Jr., and Nicolás Giacobone, from a story by Iñárritu, Berman, and Jez Butterworth. Filming took place from November 2024 to May 2025 in the United Kingdom.\nDigger premiered in London on September 22, 2026, and was released theatrically in Mexico by Warner Bros. Pictures on October 1, 2026, and in the United Kingdom and United States the following day. It is the final film release by Warner Bros. before the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance, which is expected to close on October 6. The film received polarized reviews from critics, and has grossed $20 million on a budget of $125–180 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Digger (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378815477, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378815477", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Digger%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q130240838", "text": "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice is a 2026 American action comedy crime film written and directed by BenDavid Grabinski and produced by Andrew Lazar and starring Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza González, Keith David, and Jimmy Tatro. It premiered at the South by Southwest Film & TV Festival on March 14, 2026, before releasing worldwide on Disney+ and Hulu on March 27.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_%26_Nick_%26_Nick_%26_Alice", "revision": 1377636446, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377636446", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mike%20%26%20Nick%20%26%20Nick%20%26%20Alice&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131451703", "text": "Onslaught is a 2026 American action horror film directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett, starring Adria Arjona, Dan Stevens, Eric Wareheim, Reginald VelJohnson, Michael Biehn, Alex Pereira, Drew Starkey, and Rebecca Hall. Set in the same continuity as The Guest, the film follows an army sniper as she struggles to protect her young daughter from an army of genetically engineered super soldiers who escaped from a secret military facility.\nOnslaught was released in the United States by A24 on September 4, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $3.1 million against a $15 million budget, making it a box office disappointment.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Onslaught (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onslaught_(film)", "revision": 1378656717, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378656717", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onslaught%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131523413", "text": "Verity is a 2026 American erotic psychological thriller film directed by Michael Showalter, written by Nick Antosca, and based on Colleen Hoover's novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett.\nVerity had its world premiere at the Curzon Mayfair Cinema in London on September 24, 2026, and was released by Amazon MGM Studios in the United States and Canada on October 2, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $62 million on a budget of $40 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Verity (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verity_(film)", "revision": 1378731892, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378731892", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Verity%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131872896", "text": "Matchbox: The Movie is a 2026 American action comedy film directed by Sam Hargrave and written by David Coggeshall, based on the toy brand Matchbox by Mattel. It stars John Cena, Jessica Biel, Sam Richardson, Arturo Castro, and Teyonah Parris.\nMatchbox: The Movie is set to be released in the United States on Apple TV on October 9, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Matchbox: The Movie", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox%3A_The_Movie", "revision": 1378817154, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378817154", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matchbox%3A%20The%20Movie&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q132731331", "text": "Evil Dead Burn is a 2026 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Sébastien Vaniček, who co-wrote it with Florent Bernard, and produced by Rob Tapert and series creator Sam Raimi. It serves as a sequel to Evil Dead Rise (2023) and is the sixth installment in the Evil Dead film series. The film stars Souheila Yacoub as a young woman who seeks solace with her in-laws following the death of her husband. As the family comes together in a secluded house, the gathering becomes a \"family reunion from hell\" when members gradually turn into Deadites. It also stars Tandi Wright, Hunter Doohan, Luciane Buchanan, Erroll Shand, and Maude Davey in supporting roles.\nA sixth Evil Dead film was announced in February 2024, with Vaniček hired to direct a script he co-wrote with Florent Bernard. Raimi and Tapert served as producers, with Ghost House Pictures producing the project. In December 2024, Vaniček revealed the title to be Evil Dead Burn along with a release scheduled tentatively for 2026. Casting began in May 2025, while filming began in July and concluded in October that same year in New Zealand.\nEvil Dead Burn was theatrically released in the United States on July 10, by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States and Canada, and internationally by Sony Pictures Releasing International. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, and has grossed $72.3 million worldwide on a budget of $20 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Evil Dead Burn", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_Dead_Burn", "revision": 1378826905, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378826905", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Evil%20Dead%20Burn&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133448995", "text": "Shelter is a 2026 action thriller film starring Jason Statham as a former British government assassin living in isolation off the coast of Scotland who is forced back into violent confrontation with his past while protecting a young girl from the agency determined to eliminate him. It is directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Ward Parry. The film also stars Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, and Daniel Mays.\nShelter premiered at the Cineworld Leicester Square in London on January 20, 2026, and was released in the United Kingdom and United States by Black Bear Pictures on January 30, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $54.6 million against a $50 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Shelter (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_(2026_film)", "revision": 1374030427, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374030427", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shelter%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133809675", "text": "Runner is a 2026 American action comedy film directed by Scott Waugh and written by Miles Hubley and Tommy White. Starring Alan Ritchson and Owen Wilson, the film follows a former soldier and a medical courier who must deliver a rare organ to a terminally ill girl while being pursued by the cartel.\nThe film was theatrically released on September 11, 2026 by Angel Studios. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences and Ritchson and Wilson's performances, but criticism towards the story.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Runner (2026 American film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runner_(2026_American_film)", "revision": 1378603751, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378603751", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Runner%20(2026%20American%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134540620", "text": "Sunny Dancer is a 2026 British coming-of-age comedy film from George Jaques and starring Bella Ramsey, Daniel Quinn-Toye, Ruby Stokes, Earl Cave, Jasmine Elcock, Conrad Khan, Jessica Gunning, James Norton and Neil Patrick Harris.\nThe film had its world premiere as the opening night film of the Generation 14plus section of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival on 13 February 2026, where it was nominated for the Crystal Bear. The film received positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Sunny Dancer", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_Dancer", "revision": 1378384977, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378384977", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunny%20Dancer&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134644415", "text": "Solo Mio is a 2026 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Chuck Kinnane and Dan Kinnane, written by Patrick Kinnane, John Kinnane and Kevin James. The film stars James as Matt Taylor, who travels to Rome for his wedding only to be left at the altar by his fiancée. Their honeymoon package was prepaid so he decides to take it by himself, and encounters new friends in other married couples on the same honeymoon package (played by Kim Coates, Jonathan Roumie, Alyson Hannigan, and Julee Cerda) and an intriguing cafe owner played by Nicole Grimaudo. Andrea Bocelli plays a supporting role in his first appearance in a fictional feature-length film. The film was shot on location in Rome and Tuscany.\nIt was released by Angel Studios on February 6, 2026. It received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $26.4 million against a production budget of $4 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Solo Mio", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Mio", "revision": 1375991244, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375991244", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Solo%20Mio&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134876629", "text": "Whalefall is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed and produced by Brian Duffield, based on the 2023 novel by Daniel Kraus, who co-wrote the script with Duffield. The film follows a scuba diver (Austin Abrams) who, while searching for the remains of his father (Josh Brolin), is swallowed alive by a sperm whale and attempts to escape. Elisabeth Shue also stars in a supporting role.\nWhalefall is scheduled to be released theatrically in the United States by 20th Century Studios on October 16, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Whalefall (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whalefall_(film)", "revision": 1378816061, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378816061", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Whalefall%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135196186", "text": "Ramayana: Part 1 is an upcoming Indian Hindi-language epic mythological film directed by Nitesh Tiwari, who co-wrote the screenplay with Shridhar Raghavan. Produced by Namit Malhotra and Yash, the film is based on the ancient Sanskrit epic Ramayana by Valmiki, which chronicles the life and trials of Prince Rama of Ayodhya. Conceived as the first installment of a planned two-part film series, it features an ensemble cast including Ranbir Kapoor, Ravi Dubey (in his film debut), Sai Pallavi, Sunny Deol, Yash (in his Hindi film debut), Anupam Kher, Kajal Aggarwal, Rakul Preet Singh, Vivek Oberoi, Kunal Kapoor, Adinath Kothare, Arun Govil, Indira Krishnan and Lara Dutta.\nThe project was announced in May 2017 as a live-action adaptation of Valmiki's Ramayana, initially conceived as a trilogy by producers. Following several years of development and script refinement, the project was restructured as a two-part film series under Tiwari's sole direction. For the film's score, Hans Zimmer and A. R. Rahman jointly came on board, marking Zimmer's full-fledged debut in the Indian film industry after briefly working on a song for the original soundtrack of Fateh. Filming began in April 2024 at Film City, Mumbai, and continued until July 2025. With an estimated budget of ₹4,000 crore (US$420 million), it is set to be the most expensive Indian film ever made.\nRamayana: Part 1 is scheduled for release worldwide on 6 November 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ramayana: Part 1", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana%3A_Part_1", "revision": 1378409612, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378409612", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ramayana%3A%20Part%201&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136002124", "text": "Young Washington is a 2026 American historical war drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Jon Erwin. It is based on the early life of the Founding Father and first president of the United States, George Washington, and focuses on his experiences and command in the French and Indian War between 1753 and 1755. William Franklyn-Miller stars as Washington, with Mary-Louise Parker, Kelsey Grammer, Andy Serkis and Ben Kingsley in supporting roles.\nThe film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 13, 2026, and was released in the United States by Angel Studios on July 3, 2026. It received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $47 million against a production budget of $20 million. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Young Washington", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Washington", "revision": 1377325102, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377325102", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Young%20Washington&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136311783", "text": "Insidious: Out of the Further is a 2026 American supernatural horror film that serves as a sequel to Insidious: The Red Door (2023) and is the sixth installment in the Insidious franchise. In the film, a young woman who can interact with and bring spirits to the mortal world is soon haunted by malevolent forces. It stars Amelia Eve, Brandon Perea and Maisie Richardson-Sellers, with Lin Shaye reprising her role from the previous films. It is written and directed by Jacob Chase.\nInsidious: Out of the Further premiered on August 18, 2026 at AMC The Grove 14 in Los Angeles, California, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 21, 2026, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $169.5 million worldwide with a budget of $18 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Insidious: Out of the Further", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insidious%3A_Out_of_the_Further", "revision": 1378757826, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378757826", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Insidious%3A%20Out%20of%20the%20Further&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136388712", "text": "Fall 2: Deadpoint (titled simply Fall 2 in the United Kingdom) is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed by Peter and Michael Spierig from a screenplay by Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank. The sequel to Fall (2022), it stars Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, Tom Brittney, and Virginia Gardner.\nThe film was released in the United States by Lionsgate on September 2, 2026. Unlike its predecessor, the film received mixed reviews from critics, but was a box office success, grossing $24 million on a $3 million budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Fall 2: Deadpoint", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_2%3A_Deadpoint", "revision": 1378736368, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378736368", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fall%202%3A%20Deadpoint&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136428321", "text": "Wicker is a 2026 romantic fantasy comedy film written and directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, based on the short story \"The Wicker Husband\" by Ursula Wills-Jones. The cast is led by Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki, Marli Siu, Nabhaan Rizwan, Richard E. Grant, and Peter Dinklage.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wicker (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicker_(film)", "revision": 1378226854, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378226854", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wicker%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18350210", "text": "London Has Fallen is a 2016 political action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi and written by Creighton Rothenberger, Katrin Benedikt, Chad St. John, and Christian Gudegast. It is the sequel to Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and second installment in the Has Fallen film series, and stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Alon Moni Aboutboul, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Jackie Earle Haley, Melissa Leo, Radha Mitchell, Sean O'Bryan, and Waleed Zuaiter in supporting roles. \nIn the film, Secret Service agent Mike Banning must protect United States President Benjamin Asher from terrorists who orchestrated a threat against the G7 during the British Prime Minister's funeral in London.\nFilming began in London on October 24, 2014. The film was released in the United States by Focus Features under their recently revived Gramercy Pictures label on March 4, 2016. It grossed $205.9 million worldwide and received negative reviews.\nA third film, titled Angel Has Fallen, was released on August 23, 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "London Has Fallen", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Has_Fallen", "revision": 1376642590, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376642590", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=London%20Has%20Fallen&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19938437", "text": "War for the Planet of the Apes is a 2017 American science fiction action film directed by Matt Reeves, who co-wrote it with Mark Bomback. The sequel to Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), it is the third installment in the Planet of the Apes reboot film series and the ninth film overall. It stars Andy Serkis alongside Woody Harrelson and Steve Zahn. The film concludes the story of Caesar as he sets out to avenge those he has lost in the war between apes and humans.\nDevelopment for War for the Planet of the Apes began in January 2014, after 20th Century Fox viewed Reeves's cut of its predecessor; his return was soon confirmed, along with Bomback's. A conditional 2016 release date was announced in May 2015, which led to a closer and faster pre-production relationship between writer and director. The film bears similarities to Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973), with emphasis on the effect of psychosocial development and interaction of apes and humans. Casting began in August 2015 and finished that October, with principal photography commencing soon thereafter and concluding in March 2016, with filming locations including Lower Mainland and the Kananaskis Range.\nWar for the Planet of the Apes premiered on July 10, 2017, at the SVA Theatre in New York City, and was theatrically released worldwide by 20th Century Fox on July 14. A critical and commercial success, it grossed over $490 million, and received nominations for Best Visual Effects and Best Special Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards and 71st British Academy Film Awards, respectively. A standalone sequel, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, was released in 2024.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "War for the Planet of the Apes", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_for_the_Planet_of_the_Apes", "revision": 1377457426, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377457426", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War%20for%20the%20Planet%20of%20the%20Apes&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24251026", "text": "Transformers: The Last Knight is a 2017 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers toy line. It is the sequel to Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) and the fifth installment in the Transformers film series. The film was directed by Michael Bay and written by Art Marcum, Matt Holloway, and Ken Nolan. Mark Wahlberg reprises his role from the fourth film, while Josh Duhamel, John Turturro and Glenn Morshower reprise their roles from the first three films. Stanley Tucci returns as a different character after also appearing in the fourth film, and Laura Haddock, Isabela Moner, Jerrod Carmichael, Santiago Cabrera, and Anthony Hopkins all join the cast. In the film, inventor Cade Yeager (Wahlberg) is gifted a Talisman by a dying Transformer knight. He is soon recruited by an eccentric British professor (Hopkins) to save the world from the impending threat of a Cybertronian sorceress, as well as Cybertron's ancient enemy, Unicron himself.\nTransformers: The Last Knight premiered on June 18, 2017, at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London and was released in the United States on June 21, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and grossed $605 million against a production budget between $217–260 million. Despite its high gross, the film became a box office disappointment, resulting in an estimated $100 million loss for Paramount on its theatrical release. It was followed by a standalone prequel, Bumblebee, in 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Transformers: The Last Knight", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A_The_Last_Knight", "revision": 1377975727, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377975727", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformers%3A%20The%20Last%20Knight&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q55605492", "text": "Finch is a 2021 American post-apocalyptic survival film directed by Miguel Sapochnik and written by Craig Luck and Ivor Powell. The film stars Tom Hanks and Caleb Landry Jones. The story follows an aging man named Finch, a survivor in a nearly uninhabitable Earth, who builds and teaches a robot to take care of his dog when he dies.\nThe film was announced as BIOS in October 2017. Filming took place throughout New Mexico and in Toronto from February to May 2019. The film was scheduled to be released in theaters in the United States by Universal Pictures on October 2, 2020, but was delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was retitled Finch, sold to Apple TV+ (under Apple Original Films), and was released on November 5, 2021. The film received lukewarm reviews from critics, with praise given to Hanks' performance, the visuals, and overall charm, but criticism for its lack of originality and innovation within the post-apocalypse genre.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Finch (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finch_(film)", "revision": 1365741659, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365741659", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Finch%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131313219", "text": "The Dink is an 2026 American sports comedy film about the sport of pickleball, directed by Josh Greenbaum, written by Sean Clements, and produced by Ben Stiller and Jake Johnson. The cast includes Johnson, Mary Steenburgen, Stiller, and Ed Harris, as well as former professional tennis stars Andy Roddick and John McEnroe. The Dink was released in the United States on July 24, 2026, on Apple TV.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Dink", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dink", "revision": 1375703968, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375703968", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Dink&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131901398", "text": "Practical Magic 2 is a 2026 American romantic fantasy film directed by Susanne Bier from a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman, Georgia Pritchett, and Kelly Marcel, based on the 2021 novel The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman. The sequel to Practical Magic (1998), the film stars Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Dianne Wiest, and Stockard Channing reprising their roles from the previous film, alongside new cast members Joey King, Lee Pace, Maisie Williams, and Xolo Maridueña. \nPractical Magic 2 was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States on September 10, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Practical Magic 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practical_Magic_2", "revision": 1378804633, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378804633", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Practical%20Magic%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133273688", "text": "Primetime is a 2026 American psychological thriller film directed by Lance Oppenheim from a screenplay by Ajon Singh. It dramatizes the production of the reality television series To Catch a Predator (2004–2007); Robert Pattinson portrays its host Chris Hansen, an NBC journalist who works with the vigilante group Perverted-Justice to catch child predators in sting operations. Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers appear in supporting roles.\nOppenheim, who had previously directed documentaries, conceived Primetime as his first narrative feature film after his wife hired Hansen to record a Cameo video for him in 2024. Singh based the script on Luke Dittrich's 2007 Esquire article \"Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die\", which details the botched To Catch a Predator sting operation that culminated in the 2006 suicide of Bill Conradt, and sought to make a stylized retelling rather than a biographical film. Principal photography took place from February to March 2025; the cinematographer David Bolen used 12 camera formats, seeking to replicate To Catch a Predator sting operations and digital recordings.\nPrimetime premiered at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on September 5, 2026, and was released theatrically by A24 in the United States on September 25. It has grossed $34.4 million against a $14.5 million budget and received positive reviews. However, Hansen himself was not consulted during the production and criticized the film as \"detached from reality\".", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Primetime (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primetime_(film)", "revision": 1378827457, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378827457", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Primetime%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133286528", "text": "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother is a 2026 American action thriller film written and directed by Bassam Tariq which stars Mahershala Ali, John Cho, Giancarlo Esposito, Abubakr Ali, Tramell Tillman, Tiffany Boone, and Laith Nakli. Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother had its world premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival, and was released in the United States by Amazon MGM Studios on September 25, 2026, with a worldwide release slated for October 2026. It received widespread praise from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Mother_Your_Mother_Your_Mother", "revision": 1378606539, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378606539", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Your%20Mother%20Your%20Mother%20Your%20Mother&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133505340", "text": "Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a 2026 supernatural horror film written and directed by Lee Cronin. A reimagining of The Mummy franchise based around the Nasmaranian, an ancient Egyptian demon that possesses victims with exorcism themes, the film stars Jack Reynor, Laia Costa, May Calamawy, and Verónica Falcón. The film follows a family who is reunited with their long-missing, partially-mummified daughter, slowly realizing that she is possessed. James Wan and Jason Blum produced the film through their respective production banners Atomic Monster and Blumhouse Productions, alongside Wicked/Good. The film is a co-production between Ireland and the United States.\nLee Cronin's The Mummy premiered at the American Legion Post 43 in Los Angeles on April 9, 2026 and was released on April 17 by Warner Bros. Pictures in the United States. The film received mixed reviews from critics and has grossed $90.6 million worldwide on a $22 million production budget.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Lee Cronin's The Mummy", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Cronin's_The_Mummy", "revision": 1377688247, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377688247", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lee%20Cronin's%20The%20Mummy&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133864224", "text": "By Any Means is a 2026 American historical crime thriller film directed by Elegance Bratton and written by Sascha Penn. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Mark Wahlberg, Nicole Beharie, Josh Lucas, David Strathairn, and Giancarlo Esposito. A young Black FBI agent teams up with notorious New York City mafia hitman, Greg Scarpa, to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi in 1966.\nBy Any Means premiered on September 1, 2026 at the Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles, and theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on September 4, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "By Any Means (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Any_Means_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378321709, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378321709", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=By%20Any%20Means%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134107888", "text": "The Runner is a 2026 British action thriller film directed by Kevin Macdonald from a screenplay by Mark Gibson starring Gal Gadot, Damian Lewis, and Alfred Enoch. Prosecuting attorney Maia Martin is cryptically commanded by an unknown caller to race through London to prevent a star witness from testifying, in order to save her abducted son. \nThe film was released on Amazon Prime Video on 2 September 2026. It was panned by critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Runner (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Runner_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378826243, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378826243", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Runner%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134114137", "text": "Pendulum is an upcoming American horror mystery thriller film written and directed by Mark Heyman, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Phoebe Dynevor, Jacki Weaver and Norman Reedus, and produced by Darren Aronofsky.\nThe film is scheduled to be released in the United States on January 1, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Pendulum (2027 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendulum_(2027_film)", "revision": 1366839240, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366839240", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pendulum%20(2027%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134285034", "text": "Colony (Korean: 군체) is a 2026 South Korean action horror film directed and written by Yeon Sang-ho with Choi Gyu-seok as co-writer. It stars Jun Ji-hyun, Koo Kyo-hwan, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Shin-rok, Shin Hyun-been, and Go Soo. The film explores the harrowing struggle of isolated survivors trapped in a building, quarantined amidst an unknown outbreak, as they fight for survival against the unpredictably evolving infected.\nThe film had its world premiere at the Midnight Screenings section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, 2026. Distributed by Showbox, it was released theatrically in South Korea on May 21.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Colony (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378052114, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378052114", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Colony%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134548431", "text": "La bola negra, also known as The Black Ball, is a 2026 drama film directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, from a screenplay they co-wrote with Alberto Conejero. A queer epic inspired by the unfinished work of the same name by Federico García Lorca and Conejero's play La piedra oscura, the triptych film stars Guitarricadelafuente, Miguel Bernardeau, Carlos González, Milo Quifes, Lola Dueñas, Penélope Cruz, and Glenn Close.\nA Movistar Plus+ original produced alongside Suma Content, El Deseo and Le Pacte, the film premiered in the main competition of the 79th Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2026, earning Calvo and Ambrossi the Best Director Award. The festival run continued with screenings in Toronto and San Sebastián ahead of the 25 September 2026 theatrical release in Spain by Elastica. The French release by Le Pacte is set for 16 December 2026.\nIt was selected as the Spanish entry for Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards. It received widespread critical acclaim.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "La bola negra", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_bola_negra", "revision": 1378706626, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378706626", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=La%20bola%20negra&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134708172", "text": "Paper Tiger is a 2026 crime-drama film written and directed by James Gray. A co-production between the United States, Brazil, and Italy, it stars Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, and Miles Teller, and follows a suburban American family who become entangled with the Russian mob.\nThe film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 16, where it competed for the Palme d'Or. It is scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the United States by Neon on November 13, followed by a nationwide expansion a week later. It received generally positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Paper Tiger (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_Tiger_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378230948, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378230948", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paper%20Tiger%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134888419", "text": "The Florist is an upcoming American action thriller film directed by Babak Najafi, written by Eran Creevy and Scott Windhauser, and starring Jean Reno, Dennis Quaid and Sky Katz.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Florist", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Florist", "revision": 1376751495, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376751495", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Florist&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135285630", "text": "Spa Weekend is a 2026 American comedy film written and directed by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore. It stars Leslie Mann, Isla Fisher, Michelle Buteau, Anna Faris, and Adam Demos, telling the story of four friends who reconnect with one another for a spa weekend.\nThe film was released on August 21, 2026, and received negative reviews from critics, grossing $12 million against a $20 million budget becoming a box-office bomb.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Spa Weekend", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spa_Weekend", "revision": 1376387491, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376387491", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spa%20Weekend&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135494084", "text": "Misty Green is a 2026 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Chris Rock. Starring Rosalind Eleazar, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, and Rock, it follows a fading Award-winning actress who revisits her past and plans to make a comeback while reconnecting with her former talent agent.\nThe film had its world premiere at the 2026 Toronto International Film Festival on September 12, it will be theatrically released in the United States by A24 on October 9.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Misty Green", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misty_Green", "revision": 1378038299, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378038299", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Misty%20Green&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136565785", "text": "Resident Evil is a 2026 American horror film directed by Zach Cregger and written by Cregger and Shay Hatten, based on the Resident Evil video game franchise by Capcom. It is the eighth live-action film of the Resident Evil film series, and serves as a reboot. The film stars Austin Abrams as Bryan Hodukavich, a medical courier who must fight through an outbreak of infected monsters in Raccoon City. Zach Cherry, Kali Reis, and Paul Walter Hauser feature in supporting roles.\nConstantin Film began planning a reboot of the Resident Evil film series in early 2022, following the failure of the previous reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) and the cancellation of the Netflix television series. Cregger was hired in January 2025, and Sony Interactive Entertainment's PlayStation Productions joined the production. Four studios, including Warner Bros. Pictures and Netflix, bid for the film rights, with Sony Pictures winning in March. Filming began in October 2025 in Prague, Czech Republic.\nResident Evil premiered in Los Angeles on September 15. It was theatrically released in the United States on September 18, 2026, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing $246.4 million at the box office. It also became the highest-rated film based on a video game on review aggregators Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Resident Evil (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378822676, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378822676", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Resident%20Evil%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q139374441", "text": "Busboys is a 2026 American comedy film directed by Jonah Feingold and written and produced by David Spade and Theo Von, who also star in the film. The film follows two friends who become busboys in hopes that becoming waiters will help increase their social status and cash flow.\nThe film was released on April 17, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Busboys (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busboys_(film)", "revision": 1378690250, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378690250", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Busboys%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q140479326", "text": "The Rescue is an upcoming American contemporary Western thriller film directed by Potsy Ponciroli and starring Brandon Sklenar.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Rescue (2027 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescue_(2027_film)", "revision": 1377704821, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377704821", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Rescue%20(2027%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q17501972", "text": "Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a 2019 American monster film directed and co-written by Michael Dougherty. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a sequel to Godzilla (2014), the third film in Legendary's Monsterverse franchise, and the 35th film in the Godzilla franchise. The film stars Kyle Chandler, Vera Farmiga, Millie Bobby Brown, Bradley Whitford, Sally Hawkins, Charles Dance, Thomas Middleditch, Aisha Hinds, O'Shea Jackson Jr., David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, and Zhang Ziyi. In the film, eco-terrorists release King Ghidorah, who awakens other \"Titans\" across the world, forcing Godzilla and Mothra to surface and engage Ghidorah and Rodan in a decisive battle.\nThe sequel was greenlit during the opening weekend of Godzilla, with Gareth Edwards expected to return to direct a trilogy. In May 2016, Edwards left the project. In October 2016, Dougherty and Shields were hired to rewrite the script. In January 2017, Dougherty was announced as the director. Principal photography began in June 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia, and wrapped in September 2017. The film is dedicated to executive producer Yoshimitsu Banno (director of Godzilla vs. Hedorah) and original Godzilla suit performer Haruo Nakajima, both of whom died in 2017.\nGodzilla: King of the Monsters was theatrically released on May 31, 2019, to mixed reviews from critics, with praise for its visual effects, action sequences, cinematography, and musical score but with criticism to the plot, pacing, tone and characters. The film was a box office disappointment, grossing $387.3 million worldwide against a production budget of $170–200 million and marketing costs of $100–150 million, marking it the lowest-grossing film in the Monsterverse though it performed slightly better internationally.\nA sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong, was released on March 24, 2021.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla%3A_King_of_the_Monsters_(2019_film)", "revision": 1374341932, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374341932", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Godzilla%3A%20King%20of%20the%20Monsters%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21130624", "text": "Underworld: Blood Wars is a 2016 action horror film directed by Anna Foerster from a screenplay by Cory Goodman, based on a story by Kyle Ward and Goodman. It is the sequel to Underworld: Awakening (2012) and the fifth and final installment in the Underworld film series. The film stars Kate Beckinsale, Theo James, Lara Pulver, James Faulkner, and Charles Dance.\nPrincipal photography began in October 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.\nUnderworld: Blood Wars was released in select countries on November 24, 2016, and was released in the United States on January 6, 2017. The film was panned by critics and grossed $81.1 million worldwide against a production budget of $35 million, making it the lowest-grossing film in the franchise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Underworld: Blood Wars", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underworld%3A_Blood_Wars", "revision": 1373991055, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373991055", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Underworld%3A%20Blood%20Wars&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21203766", "text": "Kong: Skull Island is a 2017 American monster film directed by Jordan Vogt-Roberts and written by Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein and Derek Connolly. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is a reboot of the King Kong franchise, the second film in the Legendary's Monsterverse franchise, and the eighth film in the King Kong franchise. The film stars Tom Hiddleston, Samuel L. Jackson, John Goodman, Brie Larson, Jing Tian, Toby Kebbell, John Ortiz, Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Shea Whigham, Thomas Mann, Eugene Cordero, Marc Evan Jackson, Terry Notary, and John C. Reilly. Set in 1973, the film follows a team of scientists and Vietnam War soldiers to an uncharted island in the Pacific Ocean named Skull Island where they encounter monsters, including the mighty Kong.\nThe film was announced in July 2014 at San Diego Comic-Con, and Vogt-Roberts was announced as the director in September 2014. The project began at Universal Pictures as an origin story but was moved to Warner Bros. to develop a shared cinematic universe featuring Godzilla and Kong. Principal photography began in October 2015 in Hawaii and various locations around Vietnam and ended in March 2016.\nKong: Skull Island was theatrically released on March 10, 2017 to generally positive reviews from critics. It was a box office success, grossing $570 million against a $185 million budget, and received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards.\nA sequel, Godzilla vs. Kong, was released in 2021, and an animated series, Skull Island, was released in 2023.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Kong: Skull Island", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kong%3A_Skull_Island", "revision": 1377503112, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377503112", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kong%3A%20Skull%20Island&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21648810", "text": "Power Rangers (or Saban's Power Rangers) is a 2017 American superhero film based on Saban Entertainment's Power Rangers franchise, itself based on the Japanese Super Sentai franchise. It is the third installment in the Power Rangers film series, and is a reboot that loosely adapts \"Day of the Dumpster\", the pilot episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The film was directed by Dean Israelite and written by John Gatins, and stars Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott, RJ Cyler, Becky G, Ludi Lin, Bill Hader, Bryan Cranston, and Elizabeth Banks. The film follows a group of teenagers who gain newfound powers, and must use them to protect Earth from an ancient reawakened threat. Franchise creator Haim Saban returned to produce the film under his investment firm.\nPower Rangers premiered in Berlin, Germany on March 17, 2017, and was released in the United States a week later by Lionsgate Films. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and underperformed at the box office, with the total gross of $142.5 million worldwide against its budget of $100‒105 million. The film was intended to launch a film series with multiple sequels, but all plans were cancelled due to its commercial failure, leading Saban to sell the franchise rights to Hasbro. Another reboot was in development, but due to Hasbro ending its partnership with Netflix in 2024, plans for a reboot were scrapped. In 2025, Hasbro announced that another reboot was in development as a television series with Walt Disney Studios. Those plans were scrapped in 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Power Rangers (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Rangers_(film)", "revision": 1375795421, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375795421", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Power%20Rangers%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q133163344", "text": "The Incomer is a 2026 British comedy film written and directed by Louis Paxton and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Gayle Rankin, Grant O'Rourke, Emun Elliott, Michelle Gomez, and John Hannah. The film had its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival's NEXT section in 2026, where it won the NEXT Innovator Award.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Incomer", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incomer", "revision": 1377241421, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377241421", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Incomer&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134114136", "text": "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is a 2026 American crime thriller film written and directed by Noah Segan. It stars John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price, Tatiana Maslany, and Steve Buscemi.\nThe film had its world premiere at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival on January 27, and its international premiere out of competition of the 76th Berlin International Film Festival on February 20. It is scheduled for a limited theatrical release in Los Angeles and New York City on October 16, followed by a nationwide expansion a week later by Sony Pictures Classics. The film received positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Only Living Pickpocket in New York", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Only_Living_Pickpocket_in_New_York", "revision": 1376817005, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376817005", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Only%20Living%20Pickpocket%20in%20New%20York&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q134588273", "text": "Other Mommy is an upcoming American supernatural psychological horror film directed by Rob Savage and written by Nathan Elston. The film is based on the 2024 novel Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman. It stars Jessica Chastain as a mother who must do everything to protect her daughter (played by Arabella Olivia Clark) from a supernatural entity that resembles her. Jay Duplass, Dichen Lachman, Arian Moayed, and Karen Allen comprise the supporting cast. James Wan serves as a producer through his Blumhouse–Atomic Monster banner, in association with Spin a Black Yarn.\nOther Mommy is scheduled to be released in the United States by Universal Pictures on October 9, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Other Mommy", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Mommy", "revision": 1378374907, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378374907", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Other%20Mommy&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135103999", "text": "The Uprising (briefly marketed in the US as The Uprising: The Rise of Robin Hood) is a 2026 action period drama film written, produced and directed by Paul Greengrass. It stars Andrew Garfield, Jamie Bell, Stephen Dillane, Tom Hollander, Cosmo Jarvis, Thomasin McKenzie, Jonny Lee Miller, Woody Norman and Katherine Waterston. It dramatises the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England, with Bell and Jarvis portraying the revolt's main leaders, John Ball and Wat Tyler, respectively.\nAlthough the film never uses the name of the English folkloric outlaw Robin Hood, its brief epilogue, set one year after the majority of the story, depicts Garfield's character, Ploughman, as the Robin Hood-like leader of a band of green-clothed, forest-dwelling, bow-wielding outlaws. Shortly before the film's US release date, its US distributor, Focus Features, abruptly began to market it as a Robin Hood origin story, without the approval of the UK distributor Entertainment Film Distributors, which led to backlash and confusion about the film's subject.\nThe film was released theatrically in the US on 10 September 2026 and is scheduled to be released in the UK on 9 October. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its performances, action sequences, and contemporary social relevance, but criticised its bleak tone and aesthetics, Greengrass's signature handheld shaky camera style, and the Robin Hood-inspired epilogue.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Uprising (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uprising_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378817198, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378817198", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Uprising%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136296183", "text": "Terrestrial is 2026 thriller / dark comedy film directed by Steve Pink and written by Samuel Johnson and Connor Diedrich.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Terrestrial (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_(film)", "revision": 1378788181, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378788181", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terrestrial%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136387857", "text": "The Social Reckoning is a 2026 American legal thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Aaron Sorkin. A standalone sequel to The Social Network (2010), it dramatizes the 2021 Facebook leak by the whistleblower Frances Haugen and Jeff Horwitz. It stars Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Jeremy Strong, Bill Burr, Betty Gilpin, and Billy Magnussen.\nSorkin had expressed interest in writing a follow-up to The Social Network should it involve its director, David Fincher. The Social Reckoning entered development in June 2025 with Sorkin attached as both writer and director. Casting was also underway that month. Principal photography began in October 2025 in Vancouver, Canada and wrapped in December.\nThe Social Reckoning is scheduled for release by Sony Pictures Releasing in the United States on October 9, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Social Reckoning", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Social_Reckoning", "revision": 1378657921, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378657921", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Social%20Reckoning&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136706560", "text": "Behemoth! is a 2026 American drama film written and directed by Tony Gilroy. It stars Pedro Pascal, Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor, and Will Arnett.\nThe film premiered at the 64th New York Film Festival on October 2, 2026, and received positive reviews from critics for Pascal's performance, Gilroy's direction, and the musical score but received criticism for its writing and structure. It is scheduled to be released in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on December 4, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Behemoth!", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behemoth!", "revision": 1378663926, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378663926", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Behemoth!&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q136773033", "text": "Ice Cream Man is a 2026 American Black Comedy slasher film co-written, produced, and directed by Eli Roth. It stars Ari Millen, Charlie Zeltzer, Shiloh O'Reilly, Kiori Mirza Waldman, Sarah Abbott, and Benjamin Byron Davis. In the film, a suburban town descends into madness after its children consume sweet treats that turn them into homicidal maniacs.\nIce Cream Man was theatrically released in the United States on August 7, 2026, by Iconic Events Releasing. The film received negative reviews from critics, who criticized its tone, humor, intense gore, and felt that it lacked substance. It also was a major box office disappointment.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ice Cream Man (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Cream_Man_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378466768, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378466768", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ice%20Cream%20Man%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137374693", "text": "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a 2026 American documentary film directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 27, 2026, which was followed by a theatrical release in the United States on March 27, 2026, by Focus Features. It received mostly positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AI_Doc%3A_Or_How_I_Became_an_Apocaloptimist", "revision": 1376131416, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376131416", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20AI%20Doc%3A%20Or%20How%20I%20Became%20an%20Apocaloptimist&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137534351", "text": "Just Play Dead is a 2026 thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and written by Dan Gordon. It stars Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green, and María Pedraza.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Just Play Dead", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Play_Dead", "revision": 1378818709, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378818709", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Just%20Play%20Dead&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137722359", "text": "Elsinore is a 2026 biographical drama film directed by Simon Stone and written by Stephen Beresford, about Scottish actor Ian Charleson (1949–1990). It focuses on his performances as Hamlet at the National Theatre in the final months of his life, and the odds he faced in preparing for and performing the role while seriously ill from AIDS. It stars Andrew Scott as Charleson, alongside Olivia Colman as Margaret Johnson, Charleson's doctor.\nThe film had its world premiere at the 53rd Telluride Film Festival on 4 September 2026, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States by Focus Features on 20 November 2026.\nFrom its initial film festival showings, Elsinore has received positive reviews from critics, while Scott's performance has received widespread acclaim.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Elsinore (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsinore_(film)", "revision": 1378741876, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378741876", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elsinore%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137926888", "text": "The Devil's Mouth is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed by Jeff Wadlow. The film stars Kathryn Newton, Lana Condor, Gavin Casalegno, and Nico Hiraga. In the film, a group of friends exploring an underwater cave system fight for survival against a ravenous bull shark. The Devil's Mouth was released on July 29, 2026, on Amazon Prime Video.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Devil's Mouth", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil's_Mouth", "revision": 1375344451, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375344451", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Devil's%20Mouth&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q138035676", "text": "Jackass: Best and Last is a 2026 American reality slapstick comedy film directed by Jeff Tremaine and produced by Tremaine, Spike Jonze, Johnny Knoxville, and Shanna Zablow Newton. It is the fifth and final main installment in the Jackass film series, following Jackass Forever (2022). \nThe film stars original Jackass members Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England, and Danger Ehren, along with Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper, and Rachel Wolfson, who all became new members in the previous Jackass film. Jasper's father Dark Shark, who made recurring guest appearances in Jackass Forever and Jackass 4.5 (2022), is also a main cast member in this movie.\nIt was released theatrically in the United States on June 26, 2026, by Paramount Pictures. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, and has grossed $27.8 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Jackass: Best and Last", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass%3A_Best_and_Last", "revision": 1378499344, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378499344", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackass%3A%20Best%20and%20Last&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q139042812", "text": "Club Kid is a 2026 American comedy-drama film written, directed, and starring Jordan Firstman, in his feature directorial debut. It also stars Cara Delevingne, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Colleen Camp, Vicki Pepperdine, Nigil Whyte, Eldar Isgandarov, Saturn Risin9, Miss Benny, Alaska Riley, Diego Calva, and Reggie Absolom.\nThe film had its world premiere at the Un Certain Regard section of the 2026 Cannes Film Festival on May 15, where it was nominated for the Caméra d'Or and the Queer Palm. It is scheduled for a limited theatrical release in the United States by A24 on November 6, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Club Kid (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Kid_(film)", "revision": 1378520376, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378520376", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Club%20Kid%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q139525788", "text": "Clean Hands is a 2026 American biographical crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Jake Allyn. It stars Zach Braff, Esther McGregor, Holt McCallany, Abigail Spencer, and Lucas Till.\nThe film premiered at the Tribeca Festival on June 7, 2026. On September 17, 2026, the main premiere was held at the Maryland Theatre in Hagerstown, Maryland, the city in which the film is set. A wider release in the United States is scheduled for October 16, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Clean Hands (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Hands_(2026_film)", "revision": 1376838042, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376838042", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clean%20Hands%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q140469762", "text": "The Gentleman Thief is a 2026 American action thriller film directed by Ives, written by Chris Sivertson, and starring John Travolta, Lukas Haas, Rebecca De Mornay, Danny Pardo, Sam Asghari, Quavo, and DJ Khaled. It is a sequel to High Rollers (2025).\nThe film was released on July 28, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Gentleman Thief (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gentleman_Thief_(film)", "revision": 1376093685, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376093685", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Gentleman%20Thief%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q18722273", "text": "The Angry Birds Movie 2 is a 2019 animated comedy film based on the Angry Birds video game series and the second installment in the film series following The Angry Birds Movie (2016). Directed by Thurop Van Orman and written by Peter Ackerman, Eyal Podell and Jonathon E. Stewart, the film stars Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Bill Hader, Danny McBride, and Peter Dinklage reprising their roles from the first film, with Leslie Jones, Rachel Bloom, Awkwafina, Sterling K. Brown, and Eugenio Derbez joining the cast. In the film, the birds are forced to team up with the pigs to stop Eagle Island's leader from destroying both of their islands.\nThe film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation and Rovio Entertainment. Heitor Pereira returned to compose the film's score, with artists such as Kesha and Luke Combs contributing tracks for the soundtrack. The film also features classical pop songs from the 1960s to 2000s, like its predecessor.\nThe Angry Birds Movie 2 was theatrically released in Finland on August 7, 2019, and in the United States on August 14, by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film received mostly positive reviews from critics, who many deemed it to be an improvement over the first, and grossed $153 million on a $65 million budget. A sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 3, is set to be released on December 23, 2026, by Paramount Pictures.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Angry Birds Movie 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Angry_Birds_Movie_2", "revision": 1377844979, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377844979", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Angry%20Birds%20Movie%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q19742713", "text": "Guardians (Russian: Защитники, romanized: Zashchitniki) is a 2017 Russian superhero film directed by Russian-Armenian filmmaker Sarik Andreasyan and starring Sebastien Sisak, Anton Pampushnyy, Sanzhar Madiyev, Alina Lanina, Valeriya Shkirando and Stanislav Shirin.\nThe film tells the story of a team of Soviet superheroes created during the Cold War. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the USSR. Each of the protagonists' superpowers reflect the strengths and traditions of the people of the USSR.\nGuardians was met with strongly negative critical reception in Russian media, with many considering it to be one of the worst films ever made. It debuted atop the Russian box office; however, its gross quickly dropped, and Guardians is believed to be a box office bomb, narrowly recovered due to international viewership.\nThe film was released in the United States with an English dub by Shout! Factory on 5 December 2017.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Guardians (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardians_(2017_film)", "revision": 1378238673, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378238673", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guardians%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q20649318", "text": "The Girl with All the Gifts is a 2016 British post-apocalyptic adventure film directed by Colm McCarthy and written by Mike Carey. The film is based on the book of the same name by Carey. Starring Gemma Arterton, Paddy Considine, Glenn Close, and Sennia Nanua, the film depicts a dystopian future following a breakdown of society after most of humanity is wiped out by a fungal infection. The plot focuses on the struggle of a scientist, a teacher, and two soldiers who embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Girl with All the Gifts (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_with_All_the_Gifts_(film)", "revision": 1376098483, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376098483", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Girl%20with%20All%20the%20Gifts%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21511509", "text": "Annabelle: Creation is a 2017 American supernatural horror film directed by David F. Sandberg, written by Gary Dauberman and produced by Peter Safran and James Wan. It is a prequel to 2014's Annabelle and the fourth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. The film stars Stephanie Sigman, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Anthony LaPaglia, and Miranda Otto, and depicts the possessed Annabelle doll's origin.\nIn October 2015, it was confirmed that an Annabelle sequel was in development; it was later revealed that the film would be a prequel rather than a sequel. Lights Out director David F. Sandberg replaced John R. Leonetti as director, with Dauberman returning to write the script and Safran and Wan returning to produce. Principal photography began on June 27, 2016, in Los Angeles, California, and concluded on August 15, 2016.\nAnnabelle: Creation premiered at the LA Film Festival on June 19, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 11, 2017. The film grossed $307 million worldwide and received generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel, Annabelle Comes Home, was released on June 26, 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Annabelle: Creation", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle%3A_Creation", "revision": 1376452663, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376452663", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annabelle%3A%20Creation&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21527866", "text": "Midnight Sun is a 2018 American romantic drama film based on the 2006 Japanese film A Song to the Sun. The film was directed by Scott Speer and written by Eric Kirsten, and stars Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle.\nThe story is about a teenaged girl with xeroderma pigmentosum (XP), a medical condition which prevents her from going out into sunlight. When she meets a boy, she struggles to decide whether to tell him about her condition or pretend to live a normal life.\nPrincipal photography began on October 12, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The film was released in the United States on March 23, 2018.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Midnight Sun (2018 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Sun_(2018_film)", "revision": 1373992649, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373992649", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Midnight%20Sun%20(2018%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q21528105", "text": "The Babysitter is a 2017 American teen black comedy slasher film directed by McG and written by Brian Duffield. It stars Samara Weaving, Judah Lewis, Hana Mae Lee, Robbie Amell and Bella Thorne. The film follows a lonely 12-year-old boy (Lewis) who discovers that his babysitter (Weaving) is part of a satanic cult that wants to kill him. The film was released by Netflix on October 13, 2017, and received mostly positive reviews from critics. A sequel, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, was released on September 10, 2020.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Babysitter (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babysitter_(2017_film)", "revision": 1371863017, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371863017", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Babysitter%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q24515019", "text": "Attraction (Russian: Притяжение, romanized: Prityazhenie) is a 2017 Russian science fiction action film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. The plot focuses upon an extraterrestrial spaceship crash-landing in the Chertanovo district of Moscow after an attack by Russian Air Forces. The Russian government immediately implements martial law, as local civilians grow increasingly angry at the unwelcome guest due to false propaganda. The film stars Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, and Oleg Menshikov.\nThe project became the fourth Russian film transferred to the IMAX 3D format. The premiere of the film in Russia was in January 2017 by Walt Disney Studios Sony Pictures Releasing (WDSSPR). Attraction became a box office hit, grossing more than 1 billion rubles and becoming the highest-grossing Russian sci-fi movie. The film received mixed reviews from western critics.\nA sequel to the film, Invasion, premiered on New Year's Day 2020.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Attraction (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attraction_(2017_film)", "revision": 1359457181, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359457181", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attraction%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q25339940", "text": "Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan. It is the third film by Taylor Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Gil Birmingham, Jon Bernthal, and Graham Greene also star.\nTaylor Sheridan has said that he wrote the film to raise awareness of the issue of the high number of Indigenous women who are raped and murdered, both on and off reservations.\nWind River premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was released in the United States on August 4, 2017. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $45 million against an $11 million budget. It was theatrically released by the Weinstein Company (TWC), but in October 2017, following the reporting of numerous sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein, the film's distribution rights for home media were acquired by Lionsgate.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wind River (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_River_(film)", "revision": 1376946920, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376946920", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wind%20River%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q27964403", "text": "Home Again is a 2017 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Hallie Meyers-Shyer. It stars Reese Witherspoon, Nat Wolff, Jon Rudnitsky, Pico Alexander, Michael Sheen, and Candice Bergen.\nThe plot follows a 40-year-old single mother who allows three young aspiring filmmakers to live with her in her Los Angeles home, after meeting them while out celebrating her birthday. \nThe film was released on September 8, 2017 by Open Road Films, grossed $37 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Home Again (2017 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Again_(2017_film)", "revision": 1377417882, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377417882", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Home%20Again%20(2017%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q28975643", "text": "Daddy's Home 2 (titled on screen as Daddy's Home Two) is a 2017 American Christmas buddy comedy film directed by Sean Anders and written by Anders and John Morris. A sequel to Daddy's Home (2015), it stars Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, John Cena, with John Lithgow and Mel Gibson. The plot follows now-reformed fathers Brad and Dusty (Ferrell and Wahlberg), now co-parenting Dusty's kids, who have to deal with their own fathers (Lithgow and Gibson) visiting for the holidays.\nUnlike its predecessor, Red Granite Pictures was not involved in the film's production. Principal photography on the film began in Massachusetts in March 2017 and it was released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on November 10, 2017. Although the film received generally negative reviews from critics, it grossed over $180 million worldwide against a production budget of $69–70 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Daddy's Home 2", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy's_Home_2", "revision": 1369055927, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369055927", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Daddy's%20Home%202&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q33408623", "text": "Wonder Woman 1984 (also stylized as WW84) is a 2020 American superhero film based on the DC character Wonder Woman. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, Atlas Entertainment, and The Stone Quarry, and distributed by Warner Bros., it is the sequel to Wonder Woman (2017) and the ninth film in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film was directed by Patty Jenkins from a screenplay she co-wrote with Geoff Johns and David Callaham, based on a story by Jenkins and Johns. It stars Gal Gadot as Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, alongside Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, and Connie Nielsen. Set in 1984 during the Cold War, the film follows Diana and her past love Steve Trevor as they face off against Maxwell Lord and Cheetah.\nDiscussion of a sequel began shortly after the release of the first film in June 2017 and the decision to proceed was confirmed the following month. Principal photography began on June 13, 2018, with filming taking place at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in England, as well as the District of Columbia and Northern Virginia in the U.S., London and Duxford in England, Tenerife and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands and Almería. Production wrapped on December 22, 2018, after a six-month shoot, with additional filming in July 2019.\nFollowing multiple delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Wonder Woman 1984 eventually premiered on December 15, 2020, via the DC FanDome virtual platform, and was released in the United States by Warner Bros. Pictures on December 25, 2020. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $169 million worldwide, failing to break even against its $200 million budget. Its underperformance at the box office was attributed to factors such as most theaters being closed during the pandemic and the film's simultaneous release on HBO Max, where it became the top streaming film of 2020. Plans for a third film were canceled after DC Films was restructured into DC Studios in 2022. A new series, Paradise Lost, (set in the DCU) focusing on the Amazons of Themyscira, is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Wonder Woman 1984", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman_1984", "revision": 1377456761, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377456761", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wonder%20Woman%201984&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q39072454", "text": "Terminator: Dark Fate is a 2019 science fiction action film directed by Tim Miller. It is the sixth installment in the Terminator franchise and a sequel to The Terminator (1984) and Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), ignoring the events of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator Salvation (2009). The film was written by David S. Goyer, Justin Rhodes, and Billy Ray. The film stars Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising their roles as Sarah Connor and the Terminator respectively and also features Mackenzie Davis, Natalia Reyes and Gabriel Luna.\nThe film is set 25 years after the events of Terminator 2, when a malevolent artificial intelligence known as Legion from an alternate future sends a highly advanced Terminator, the Rev-9, back in time to 2020 with instructions to kill Dani Ramos, whose fate is to become the leader of the Human Resistance in the future. The Resistance also sends Grace, an augmented soldier, back in time to defend Dani, who is also joined by Sarah Connor and Skynet's T-800 Terminator. Principal photography took place from June to November 2018 in Hungary, Spain, and the United States.\nTerminator: Dark Fate was released theatrically in the United States on November 1, 2019, by Paramount Pictures in the United States and Canada and by 20th Century Fox (through Buena Vista International) in other countries. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $261 million on a budget of $185–196 million, becoming a box-office failure.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Terminator: Dark Fate", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator%3A_Dark_Fate", "revision": 1377152665, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377152665", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Terminator%3A%20Dark%20Fate&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42048874", "text": "The Kid Who Would Be King is a 2019 urban fantasy action-adventure film written and directed by Joe Cornish. A British/American venture, the film stars Louis Ashbourne Serkis, Tom Taylor, Dean Chaumoo, Rhianna Doris, Angus Imrie, Rebecca Ferguson, and Patrick Stewart. The plot follows a young boy who finds King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur and must use it to stop an ancient enchantress from enslaving the world with help from his classmates (and former bullies) from school.\nIt was distributed and created by 20th Century Fox in association with Working Title Films. The film was released in the United States on 25 January 2019, and in the United Kingdom on 15 February 2019.\nDespite receiving positive reviews, the movie was a box-office bomb, with estimated losses for the studio ranging as high as $50 million. It was also the second to last film to be released by 20th Century Fox (after Alita: Battle Angel) before The Walt Disney Company took over of the studio as part of their acquisition of 21st Century Fox on 20 March 2019.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Kid Who Would Be King", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kid_Who_Would_Be_King", "revision": 1373185071, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373185071", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Kid%20Who%20Would%20Be%20King&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q42726338", "text": "It Chapter Two is a 2019 American supernatural horror film directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Gary Dauberman. It is the sequel to It (2017) and the second of a two-part adaptation of the 1986 novel It by Stephen King. The film stars James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone, Andy Bean, and Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Set 27 years after the events of the first film, the story centers on the Losers Club and their relationships as they reunite to destroy It once and for all.\nTalks for an It sequel began in February 2016. By September 2017, New Line Cinema announced that the film would be released in September 2019, with Dauberman writing the script and Muschietti to direct. On a $79 million budget, filming took place from June to November 2018 at Pinewood Toronto Studios, Oshawa, Toronto, and Port Hope.\nIt Chapter Two premiered at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles on August 26, 2019, and was released in the United States on September 6. The film received mixed reviews from critics with praise for its performances (particularly Skarsgård and Hader) but criticism for its runtime with many deeming it inferior to the first film. The film grossed $473.1 million worldwide. A prequel television series, titled It: Welcome to Derry, premiered on HBO on October 26, 2025, with Skarsgård reprising his role as Pennywise.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "It Chapter Two", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Chapter_Two", "revision": 1377397485, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377397485", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=It%20Chapter%20Two&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47484136", "text": "Angel Has Fallen is a 2019 political action thriller film directed by Ric Roman Waugh. It is the third installment in the Has Fallen film series, following Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016). The film stars Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Jada Pinkett Smith, Lance Reddick, Tim Blake Nelson, Piper Perabo, Nick Nolte, and Danny Huston. The plot again follows United States Secret Service agent Mike Banning as he races against time to clear his name after being framed for a drone attack on President of the United States Allan Trumbull.\nThe film was officially announced in October 2016, and Roman Waugh was hired in July 2017. New members of the cast were added in early 2018, and filming began in February of that year around Bulgaria and the United Kingdom.\nThe film was released in the United States and United Kingdom on August 23, 2019, by Lionsgate. It received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $146 million worldwide. Plans for future sequels and TV spin-offs are in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Angel Has Fallen", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Has_Fallen", "revision": 1376822172, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376822172", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Angel%20Has%20Fallen&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q47492499", "text": "Pokémon Detective Pikachu is a 2019 urban fantasy mystery film and the first live-action film based on the Pokémon franchise. It is loosely based on the 2016 video game Detective Pikachu. Directed by Rob Letterman, who co-wrote it with Dan Hernandez, Benji Samit, and Derek Connolly, the film stars Ryan Reynolds as the voice and motion capture of Pikachu, with Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Suki Waterhouse, Omar Chaparro, Chris Geere, Ken Watanabe and Bill Nighy in live-action roles. The plot follows Detective Pikachu and his partner Tim Goodman as they attempt to solve the mysterious disappearance of Tim's father, Harry. Filming took place from January to May 2018 in Colorado, England, and Scotland.\nDetective Pikachu was released in Japan on May 3, 2019, and in the United States on May 10, by Warner Bros. Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $433 million against a $150 million budget, becoming the fifth-highest grossing video game film adaptation of all time.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Detective Pikachu (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_Pikachu_(film)", "revision": 1375458569, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375458569", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Detective%20Pikachu%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q55815471", "text": "After is a 2019 American romantic drama film directed by Jenny Gage, who co-wrote the screenplay with Susan McMartin, Tamara Chestna, and Tom Betterton, based on the 2014 novel of the same name by Anna Todd. It is the first installment in the After film series. The film stars Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Josephine Langford and follows a young woman who begins to romance a mysterious student during her first months of college. The cast includes Selma Blair, Inanna Sarkis, Shane Paul McGhie, Pia Mia, Khadijha Red Thunder, Dylan Arnold, Samuel Larsen, Jennifer Beals and Peter Gallagher in supporting roles.\nAfter premiered at The Grove in Los Angeles on April 8, 2019, and was released in the United States on April 12, by Aviron Pictures. Despite negative reviews from critics, who criticized its screenplay and narrative glamorizing abusive relationships, it was a commercial success, grossing over $69 million worldwide against its $14 million budget.\nA sequel, After We Collided, was released in 2020.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "After (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_(2019_film)", "revision": 1374629931, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374629931", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=After%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q58814567", "text": "Togo is a 2019 American historical adventure film directed by Ericson Core and produced by Walt Disney Pictures. The film centers on Leonhard Seppala and his titular sled dog in the 1925 serum run to Nome to transport diphtheria antitoxin serum through harsh conditions during an epidemic of diphtheria. The film stars Willem Dafoe, Julianne Nicholson, Christopher Heyerdahl, Michael Gaston, Michael McElhatton, Jamie McShane, Michael Greyeyes, Thorbjørn Harr, Shaun Benson, and Nikolai Nikolaeff. It was released on Disney+ on December 20, 2019. The movie received generally positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Togo (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Togo_(film)", "revision": 1366151926, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366151926", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Togo%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q61450772", "text": "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is a 2020 American animated adventure comedy film written and directed by Tim Hill. Based on the television series SpongeBob SquarePants, it stars the series' regular voice cast and includes new characters (both live-action and animated) performed by Awkwafina, Snoop Dogg, Tiffany Haddish, Keanu Reeves, Danny Trejo, and Reggie Watts. The film follows SpongeBob on a journey to Atlantic City to rescue his kidnapped pet snail, Gary. The film is dedicated to the series creator, Stephen Hillenburg, who died in 2018, and also served as an executive producer on the project. It is the third theatrical film based on the series.\nDevelopment for a third SpongeBob film began in April 2015, two months after the release of the second film. By January 2016, Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger had been hired to write the film, and by April 2018, Hill had been hired as director. It is the first film in the franchise to be fully animated in stylized computer-generated imagery (as opposed to being entirely animated in 2D like the first film, or the mixing of 2D and CGI animation in the second film). Hans Zimmer composed the film's score. Animation was provided by Mikros Image.\nOriginally slated for a worldwide theatrical release by Paramount Pictures, plans were changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released theatrically in Canada on August 14, 2020, and digitally on Netflix in other territories on November 5, 2020. It was released as a premium video-on-demand offering and a Paramount+ launch title in the United States on March 4, 2021. Sponge on the Run received positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for Favorite Animated Movie at the 2022 Kids' Choice Awards. A fourth film, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, was released in 2025.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_SpongeBob_Movie%3A_Sponge_on_the_Run", "revision": 1378638812, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378638812", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20SpongeBob%20Movie%3A%20Sponge%20on%20the%20Run&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q62082323", "text": "The Kill Team is a 2019 American war drama film written and directed by Dan Krauss. It is a fictionalized adaptation of the Maywand District murders, which were also explored by Krauss's 2013 documentary of the same name. It stars Alexander Skarsgård, Nat Wolff, Rob Morrow, Adam Long, Jonathan Whitesell, Brian Marc, Osy Ikhile, and Anna Francolini. The film follows a young U.S. Army recruit (Wolff) who becomes conflicted with his morals when his platoon, under his superior, Sergeant Deeks (Skarsgård), participates in murdering civilians in Afghanistan.\nIt had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 27, 2019, and was released theatrically and streaming on October 25, 2019, by A24.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Kill Team (2019 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kill_Team_(2019_film)", "revision": 1371053652, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371053652", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Kill%20Team%20(2019%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q107174193", "text": "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts is a 2023 American science fiction action film based on Hasbro's Transformers franchise. It is the seventh installment in the Transformers film series, and a sequel to Bumblebee (2018). The film was directed by Steven Caple Jr. and written by Joby Harold, Darnell Metayer, Josh Peters, Erich Hoeber, and Jon Hoeber, and stars Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback, alongside the voices of Ron Perlman, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Pete Davidson, Liza Koshy, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Colman Domingo, Cristo Fernández, Tongayi Chirisa, and returning franchise regulars Peter Cullen, John DiMaggio, and David Sobolov. Set in 1994, the film follows ex-military electronics expert Noah Diaz and artifact researcher Elena Wallace as they help the Autobots and the Maximals protect an artifact known as the Transwarp Key from the villainous Terrorcons.\nA sequel was being fast-tracked by the studio after the critical and commercial success of Bumblebee after being announced in January 2019. Two additional films were in development the following year with one of them being based on the Beast Wars series in 2020. Caple Jr. was hired as director that November later that year. The film was officially announced months later in 2021 during a virtual presentation as both a Bumblebee sequel and a Beast Wars film in one. Principal photography took place from June to October 2021, with filming locations including Los Angeles, Peru, Montreal, and New York City.\nTransformers: Rise of the Beasts premiered at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore on May 27, 2023, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 9, 2023, by Paramount Pictures. The film received mixed reviews from critics with many deeming it as inferior to the preceding Bumblebee film. It grossed a total of $441.7 million worldwide against a budget of $195–200 million, becoming a box-office disappointment. This was the last Transformers film to feature Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime before his death in 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Transformers: Rise of the Beasts", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformers%3A_Rise_of_the_Beasts", "revision": 1378722040, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378722040", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transformers%3A%20Rise%20of%20the%20Beasts&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q131900904", "text": "Heart of the Beast is a 2026 American survival thriller film directed by David Ayer and written by Cameron Alexander. The film stars Brad Pitt as a retired Special Forces veteran navigating a grueling 58-mile trek to safety with his traumatized combat German Shepherd after their seaplane crashes in the Alaskan wilderness.\nHeart of the Beast premiered at the FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin, Tennessee on September 16, 2026, and released nationwide in the United States on September 25, 2026, by Paramount Pictures. The film received generally positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Heart of the Beast", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_the_Beast", "revision": 1378732633, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378732633", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Heart%20of%20the%20Beast&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q137356276", "text": "Idiots is a 2026 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Macon Blair. The film stars Dave Franco (who also produces the film), O'Shea Jackson Jr., Mason Thames, Kiernan Shipka, Nicholas Braun, and Peter Dinklage.\nThe film premiered under its original title, The Shitheads, at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, and was released in the United States on August 28, 2026, by Independent Film Company. The film has received mostly positive reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Idiots (2026 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiots_(2026_film)", "revision": 1378671023, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378671023", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idiots%20(2026%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q139596561", "text": "Unabomber is a 2026 American crime drama film directed by Janus Metz Pedersen and written by Sam Chalsen and Nelson Greaves based on the domestic terrorist, Ted Kaczynski. The film stars Russell Crowe, Jacob Tremblay, Annabelle Wallis, and Shailene Woodley.\nProduced by 2.0 Entertainment and MRC Film, Unabomber was released in the United States by Netflix on September 25, 2026. The film received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Unabomber (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabomber_(film)", "revision": 1377981095, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377981095", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Unabomber%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q53911403", "text": "A Quiet Place Part II is a 2020 American post-apocalyptic horror film written, directed, and co-produced by John Krasinski. It is the sequel to A Quiet Place (2018), following the family from the film as they continue to navigate a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by blind aliens with an acute sense of hearing. Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe, and Krasinski reprise their roles from the first film, while Cillian Murphy and Djimon Hounsou join the cast.\nParamount Pictures began developing a sequel in April 2018, following the box-office success of A Quiet Place. By August, Krasinski was working on the screenplay, and in February 2019, he was confirmed as returning to direct. Krasinski's starting idea was making Simmonds the lead, as he considered her character the conduit for the themes from the first film that he wanted to expand on in the sequel. Production took place in Western New York from June to September 2019. Krasinski was credited with writing the sequel, based on characters created by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods. The sequel was produced on a budget of around $55–61 million, over three times the original's $17 million.\nThe film had its world premiere in New York City on March 8, 2020. After over a year of postponements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was theatrically released in the United States on May 28, 2021. It became available to stream on Paramount+ 45 days after its theatrical debut. The film set several box office records, including the biggest opening weekend during the course of the pandemic, and grossed $297.5 million worldwide. It received positive reviews from critics, who praised the story and the addition of Murphy's character Emmett. A Quiet Place Part III, the third and final film following the original film's family, is scheduled to be released on July 30, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "A Quiet Place Part II", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_Part_II", "revision": 1374467186, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374467186", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=A%20Quiet%20Place%20Part%20II&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q54021143", "text": "The Mitchells vs. the Machines is a 2021 animated science fiction comedy film directed by Mike Rianda, who co-wrote the screenplay with co-director Jeff Rowe. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation in association with Lord Miller Productions and One Cool Films, the film stars the voices of Danny McBride, Abbi Jacobson, Maya Rudolph, Rianda, Eric André, and Olivia Colman, with Fred Armisen, Beck Bennett, John Legend, Chrissy Teigen, Lo Mutuc, Blake Griffin, Conan O'Brien, and Doug the Pug in supporting roles. The story follows the dysfunctional Mitchell family, who must save Earth from a global uprising of robots.\nRianda conceived the film after completing work on the animated series Gravity Falls in 2015. The project was announced in May 2018. To achieve a \"hand-painted watercolor\" style, technology was reused from the previous Sony Pictures Animation film, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018). Lord and Miller's frequent collaborator Mark Mothersbaugh composed the score.\nThe Mitchells vs. the Machines was planned for theatrical release by Sony Pictures Releasing under the title Connected in 2020. Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on theaters, Sony sold the distribution rights to Netflix outside of China. Netflix retitled it to Rianda and Rowe's original title, and gave it a limited release in the United States on April 23, 2021, before its streaming release a week later on April 30. \nThe film received acclaim for its animation, voice acting, action sequences, themes, humor, and visual effects. It was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 33rd Producers Guild of America Awards, the 75th British Academy Film Awards, and the 94th Academy Awards, and won the category at the 27th Critics Choice Awards. It swept all the categories it was nominated for at the 49th Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature, making it the second film by Sony Pictures Animation to do so after Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse in 2019. A sequel is in development.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "The Mitchells vs. the Machines", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mitchells_vs._the_Machines", "revision": 1377324630, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377324630", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The%20Mitchells%20vs.%20the%20Machines&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q54860489", "text": "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is a 2022 American superhero film based on Marvel Comics featuring the character Shuri / Black Panther. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the sequel to Black Panther (2018) and the 30th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole, the film stars Letitia Wright as Shuri / Black Panther, alongside Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Winston Duke, Florence Kasumba, Dominique Thorne, Michaela Coel, Mabel Cadena, Tenoch Huerta Mejía, Martin Freeman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Angela Bassett. In the film, the leaders of Wakanda fight to protect their nation in the wake of King T'Challa's death.\nIdeas for a sequel began after the release of Black Panther in February 2018. Coogler negotiated to return as director in the following months, and Marvel Studios officially confirmed the sequel's development in mid-2019. Plans for the film changed in August 2020 when Black Panther star and T'Challa actor Chadwick Boseman died from colon cancer, with Marvel choosing not to recast his role. The return of other main cast members from the first film was confirmed that November, and the sequel's title was revealed to be Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in May 2021. Filming began in late June in Atlanta, taking place at both Trilith Studios and Tyler Perry Studios, before moving to Massachusetts in August, but was halted in November to allow Wright to recover from an injury sustained during filming. It resumed by mid-January 2022 and wrapped in late March in Puerto Rico.\nBlack Panther: Wakanda Forever premiered at the El Capitan Theatre and the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on October 26, 2022, and was released in the United States on November 11, as the final film in Phase Four of the MCU. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $859.2 million worldwide, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2022. Wakanda Forever and Bassett's performance received numerous awards and nominations, including five Academy Awards (winning Costume Design), one British Academy Film Award, six Critics' Choice Movie Awards (winning two), two Golden Globe Awards (winning one), and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. A spin-off miniseries focusing on Thorne's Riri Williams, Ironheart, premiered in June 2025. A sequel is scheduled for release in December 2028.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther%3A_Wakanda_Forever", "revision": 1375770697, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375770697", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black%20Panther%3A%20Wakanda%20Forever&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q55973412", "text": "Annabelle Comes Home is a 2019 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Gary Dauberman, in his directorial debut, from a story by Dauberman and James Wan, who also served as producer with Peter Safran. It serves as a sequel to 2014's Annabelle and 2017's Annabelle: Creation, and as the sixth installment in The Conjuring Universe franchise. The film stars Mckenna Grace, Madison Iseman, and Katie Sarife, along with Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson, who reprise their roles as Ed and Lorraine Warren.\nIn early April 2018, Warner Bros. Pictures announced that a then-untitled film in The Conjuring Universe franchise would be released on July 3, 2019. Later that month, it was announced that the film would be another installment in the Annabelle series, with Dauberman signed on to write and direct the film in his directorial debut, based on a story treatment written by Dauberman and Wan. Principal photography had begun by mid-October and was finished in December 2018 in Los Angeles.\nAnnabelle Comes Home was theatrically released in the United States on June 26, 2019, by Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema. It grossed $231.3 million worldwide and received mixed reviews from critics.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Annabelle Comes Home", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annabelle_Comes_Home", "revision": 1376452660, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376452660", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Annabelle%20Comes%20Home&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q59600666", "text": "Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky, written by Brian and Mark Gunn, and produced by James Gunn and Kenneth Huang, starring Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn, Matt Jones, and Meredith Hagner. It is a dark re-telling of the Superman origin story, in which Brandon Breyer, a young boy of extraterrestrial origin reared on Earth who discovers he has superpowers, uses them to abuse and murder, rather than to save lives. The film was financed by The H Collective, who produced with Troll Court Entertainment.\nBrightburn was announced as \"Untitled James Gunn Horror Project\" in December 2017. Gunn produced the film, while his brother Brian and cousin Mark penned the screenplay, which adapts the concept of Superman for explicit horror. Principal photography began in March 2018 and wrapped in May of that same year.\nBrightburn was released in the United States on May 24, 2019, by Screen Gems and Stage 6 Films. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its visual effects, acting performances, cinematography, humor, and score, but felt that it did not deliver on the full potential of its premise. The film grossed $33.2 million against a production budget of $6–12 million.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Brightburn", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brightburn", "revision": 1378338871, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378338871", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brightburn&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q64027609", "text": "Snake Eyes (also known as Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins) is a 2021 American superhero film based on Hasbro's G.I. Joe toy line character Snake Eyes. The film serves as an origin story for the character, while also being a reboot and the third installment in the G.I. Joe film series. It is directed by Robert Schwentke from a screenplay by Evan Spiliotopoulos, Joe Shrapnel, and Anna Waterhouse. The film stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes, a man who is invited to join a ninja clan while searching for his father's murderer to enact vengeance. Andrew Koji, Úrsula Corberó, Samara Weaving, and Iko Uwais also star in supporting roles.\nThe project was first announced in May 2018, with Golding being cast in the title role in August 2019, while the rest of the cast joined in subsequent months. After initial filming took place in Vancouver and Japan from October 2019 to February 2020, reshoots took place in March 2021.\nSnake Eyes was released by Paramount Pictures in the United States on July 23, 2021. The film received generally mixed reviews from critics and only grossed $40 million worldwide against an $88–110 million budget, making it a box-office bomb.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Snake Eyes (2021 film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_Eyes_(2021_film)", "revision": 1378370093, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378370093", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Snake%20Eyes%20(2021%20film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q65973230", "text": "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania is a 2022 American animated monster horror comedy film directed by Derek Drymon and Jennifer Kluska, in their directorial debuts, and written by Amos Vernon, Nunzio Randazzo, and Genndy Tartakovsky. Produced by Sony Pictures Animation, it is the fourth installment in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and stars the voices of Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kathryn Hahn, Jim Gaffigan, Steve Buscemi, Molly Shannon, David Spade, Keegan-Michael Key, Brian Hull, Fran Drescher, Brad Abrell, Asher Blinkoff, Tyler \"Ninja\" Blevins and Zoe Berri. The film follows Dracula and his son-in-law Johnny as they travel to South America to locate a crystal that can reverse a transformation spell before its effects become permanent.\nOriginally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on October 1, 2021, the film's release was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sony Pictures sold distribution rights to Amazon Studios for $100 million. The film was released on Amazon Prime Video on January 14, 2022, and received mixed reviews from critics. Originally intended to be the final film in the franchise, a fifth film, titled The Haunting of Hotel Transylvania, is scheduled to be released on October 8, 2027.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Hotel Transylvania: Transformania", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Transylvania%3A_Transformania", "revision": 1376809887, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376809887", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hotel%20Transylvania%3A%20Transformania&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q73897733", "text": "Greenland is a 2020 American disaster film starring Gerard Butler as the father of a family who must fight for survival as a planet-destroying comet races to Earth. It is directed by Ric Roman Waugh and written by Chris Sparling. The film also stars Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, David Denman, Hope Davis, King Bach, Merrin Dungey, and Holt McCallany.\nOriginally scheduled to be theatrically released in the United States, Greenland was delayed several times due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The film was released domestically by STXfilms, through video on demand on December 18, 2020, and then to streaming on HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video. It was also released theatrically in other territories, beginning with Belgium on July 29, 2020. The film received generally positive reviews. The film grossed $52.3 million worldwide with a production budget of $35 million.\nA sequel, Greenland 2: Migration, was released on January 9, 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Greenland (film)", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_(film)", "revision": 1377642709, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1377642709", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Greenland%20(film)&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } }, { "wikidataId": "Q135472680", "text": "Ghost in the Cell is a 2026 Indonesian comedy horror film written and directed by Joko Anwar. The film stars Endy Arfian, Abimana Aryasatya, Yoga Pratama, and Aming. The film was produced by Tia Hasibuan under the banner of Come and See Pictures and premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on 13 February 2026, before being screened in Indonesian cinemas on 16 April 2026.", "source": { "provider": "wikipedia", "articleTitle": "Ghost in the Cell", "articleUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Cell", "revision": 1376180696, "revisionUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376180696", "historyUrl": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ghost%20in%20the%20Cell&action=history", "license": "CC-BY-SA-4.0", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/", "changes": "Selected introductory paragraphs; formatting simplified." } } ], "factsOnlyIds": [ "Q100999451", "Q115715270", "Q113471777", "Q130739674", "Q136737176", "Q140534750" ] }