Studios say the number is unrealistic − that it amounts to actors not assuming any financial risk for content that flops. But actors simply want to adapt existing payout models to changing technology.
In one of the earliest queer films, protagonist Paul Körner embraces his lover after a blackmailer harasses them.
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A silent German film from 1918 was one of cinema’s first dramatic presentations of queer love. Over a century later, and the story of love in a hostile social environment still resounds.
Tom Cruise is welcomed by fans during the red carpet event for ‘Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One’ in Seoul, South Korea, June 29, 2023.
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Publishers and studios routinely pay large sums to acquire ‘life story rights.’ Two law scholars explain why the phrase is misleading.
The words Robert Oppenheimer quoted from the Gita, seen written in dust on part of a deactivated nuclear missile at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
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Oppenheimer’s knowledge of Sanskrit literature was more than cursory. He used quotes and parables from Sanskrit texts as a guide to right actions in his life.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Movie tickets are nearly always the same price, whether the film is a flop or a sold-out blockbuster. Why? And how much more does a trip to the movies cost than 20 years ago?
In ‘Scream 6,’ interior private spaces like apartments offer only the illusion of safety.
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Horror filmmakers are wrestling with space in cities and what it means to share it.
There’s a difference between the fulfilling relationship mothers can have with their children and the patriarchal institution of motherhood.
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Spying was a concern from the dawn of the nuclear age, but charges that J. Robert Oppenheimer, who led the development of the first nuclear weapons, was a Soviet spy have been proved wrong.
The Jurassic Park franchise has spawned several movies, theme parks and spin-off products.
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Jurassic Park was a technological breakthrough for film because of its use of CGI. It also revived an interest in paleontology and raised ethical questions about DNA use.
Picketers carry signs outside Paramount in Times Square on July 17, 2023, in New York.
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Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
Actors Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh were among those who walked out of the premiere of ‘Oppenheimer.’
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If you haven’t seen Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic, then it’s likely you will have seen other films influenced by it.
‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ comes out in theatres on June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its originating ideas are taken from 19th-century racist archaeology. Will this iteration be different?
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The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
Here was Bergman, director of such sombre film classics as The Seventh Seal (1957). What could he possibly have in common with Ang Lee, director of 2003’s Hulk?