My mother, Mary Ann Kalaha, always enjoys classics like "The Bells of St. Mary's," starring Bing Crosby and Ingrid Bergman. The hands-down favorite for me and my daughter, Carolyn, is "It's a Wonderful Life," the 1946 film starring James Stewart and Donna Reed.
Whatever happened to Fay Wray?: Molly Pope, playing "King Kong" star Fay Wray, flees in distress from the giant gorilla in "The Making of King Kong," opening in Sunset Park on Dec. 2. That delicate, satin-draped frame: Molly Pope plays actress Fay Wray in the interactive new play "The Making of King Kong." A new play turns a modern lens on the classic monster movie "King Kong," creating a bananas behind-the-scenes story for the 1933 flick about an enormous ape in New York City.
The Wolf Creek actor, 66, was charged in August with sexually assaulting a woman he had lived with in a share house at Randwick in Sydney's east. He will face a trial in the NSW District Court next year, after appearing at Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday.
Nov. 28, 1943, in The Star: Movies playing in Anniston, starting either today or later in the week, will appeal to all tastes. Best Foot Forward , a comedy starring Lucille Ball as a movie star who visits a young man at a military prep school, starts today at the Ritz and Calhoun and then plays at the Calhoun only for the next three days.
Oscar-winning original has faced backlash over ethnic representation; Spielberg says remake would cast Spanish-speaking Latino actors as film's Puerto Rican leads For his new adaptation of the classic Broadway and movie musical "West Side Story," Steven Spielberg has landed a key collaborator: Berkeley resident Rita Moreno. Rita Moreno attends the "Latin History For Morons" opening night celebration at The Public Theater on March 27, 2017 in New York City.
Stephen Hillenburg, a onetime marine biology teacher who created the enduringly popular "SpongeBob SquarePants," an Emmy Award-winning animated Nickelodeon program about a goofy underwater world that was the defining cartoon show of its generation, died Nov. 26 at his home near Los Angeles. He was 57. Long fascinated by art and cartoons, Hillenburg turned to animation and in 1999 launched "SpongeBob" on the Nickelodeon network.
Actor-filmmaker Kamal Haasan, who rarely gets his observations about cinema wrong, once gave a mantra to a writer acquaintance of mine, who aspires to make a film. He said, "Bear in mind that movies have to be magic first."
After spending years as a comedy talent, Jordan Peele made a big splash in the horror genre in early 2017 with Get Out , his debut as a film director. Peele's next directorial contribution to that realm, Us , arrives next March, but he also has his hands in some other spooky projects, including producing a new Candyman movie .
Oscar winning filmmaker Peter Jackson is returning to the big screen with adventure fantasy "Mortal Engines", a post-apolcalyptic tale of survival in his first feature film project since his award-winning adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien's novels. The New Zealand-born director, known for his "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" trilogies, produced and co-wrote the script for the film, based on the young adult book series by Philip Reeve.