20th Century Studios Wolfgang Petersen’s 1985 sci-fi film “Enemy Mine” was beset with production problems and bogged down by massive marketing costs. The film’s original director, Richard Loncraine (1995’s “Richard III”), reportedly butted heads with producer Stephen Friedman and walked off the set after only a week of…
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Warner Bros. Decades before Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones made headlines by not kissing at the end of “Twisters,” another big screen non-kiss was the talk of Hollywood. In the 1993 film “The Pelican Brief,” two stars who were skyrocketing to fame shared plenty of screen time and…
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Casting, as it always is, was a ridiculously important part of the equation here. Originally, for the titular role, Burton had envisioned Rat Pack singer Sammy Davis Jr. That didn’t pan out. Instead, Warner Bros. and the up-and-coming filmmaker turned to “Mr. Mom” star Michael Keaton, who was very much on the rise at that…
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CBS Television Distribution Prior to “Gilligan’s Island,” actor Natalie Schafer had a massive career on stage and screen. She made her Broadway debut in the play “Trigger” in 1927 and would appear regularly on stage throughout the ’20s and ’30s. She made her feature film debut in 1941…
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Paramount Leonard Nimoy’s 1984 film “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock” is one of the most significant — and tragic — films in the “Star Trek” franchise. Recall that Spock (Nimoy) died at the end of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” and that his body…
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Sony Pictures Releasing In Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood,” Leonardo DiCaprio plays Rick Dalton, a largely mediocre TV actor who has coasted through his career on scant charm and a willingness to be beaten up on camera. Dalton typically played heavies and villains on…
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Netflix Back in 2022, Netflix struck gold with yet more real-life stories of human misery in “Worst Roommate Ever.” But this was no regular true crime docuseries. Compiling several tales of woe involving people and their incomprehensibly unhinged roomies, this show came produced by horror standard bearer Blumhouse…
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Paramount “Star Trek” is a workplace drama first and foremost, and it took place on board the well-organized U.S.S. Enterprise, a space vessel carefully divided into necessary departments, offices, and workstations. The main characters were, by necessity, deeply professional, and tended to keep their upper lips stiff as…
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Marvel Studios Joss Whedon’s large-scale action picture “Avengers: Age of Ultron” was released in theaters in the spring of 2015, and it featured a gaggle of Marvel superheroes teaming up to fight the eponymous evil super-robot. Ultron (voiced by James Spader) was an artificial intelligence accidentally created by…
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Universal Republic Records The Lonely Island (comprised of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone) made a name for themselves on “Saturday Night Live” by ushering in the SNL Digital Short era of the late night sketch comedy series. Once the breakout music video for “Lazy Sunday” became…
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