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      Infamous Titanic floating door prop sells for $718,750

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 11:59


    The much-debated door from the 1997 film, which only had room to save Kate Winslet’s Rose but not Leonardo DiCaprio’s Jack, has sold at auction

    Ever since the release of Titanic in 1997, debate has raged over whether the piece of wood which keeps Kate Winslet’s Rose out of the icy waters could in fact have also accommodated her lover, Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio.

    One lucky theorist can now test their hypothesis, as the piece of prop balsa wood has sold at auction for $718,750 (£567,561).

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      Adam Sandler beats Margot Robbie to be named Hollywood’s top earner

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 March - 12:13

    Tom Cruise comes third in Forbes magazine’s list, while the only British actor to feature in the top 10 is Jason Statham

    Adam Sandler’s four film projects of 2023 propelled him to an annual salary of $73m (£57m), making him the highest-paid performer in Hollywood, according to Forbes magazine.

    The standup turned actor also embarked on a comedy tour, which supplemented earnings from starring and producing in Netflix’s Murder Mystery 2 , as well as his writing, producing and voice work on Leo, the streamer’s popular animation.

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      Why Killers of the Flower Moon should win the best picture Oscar

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 1 March - 08:00 · 1 minute

    Martin Scorsese has made the ultimate western, showing the racism, greed and corruption on which America was really founded. It’s a world-changing work

    Ever since he started making films, 60-odd years ago, Martin Scorsese has always wanted to make a western; instead, he may have killed the genre. And that’s no small thing for this most American of forms. Over the past century, westerns have cemented the founding myths of American identity; how white settlers subjugated and massacred the continent’s indigenous population and tamed the wild west, with God and guns (and cinema) on their side. So it takes guts to unpick that mythology with a true story of just how evil and racist white Americans really were – especially in a political climate where such histories are being actively suppressed in the US. We’ve had plenty of “revisionist” westerns in recent years; you could call this a destructionist western. It cuts to the dark heart of colonialist greed and capitalist corruption on which America was really founded. In terms of revolutionary cinema, nothing else in this year’s Oscar crop can compete.

    For the uninitiated, the setting is 1920s Oklahoma, where the discovery of oil on their land made the Osage Nation the richest people on the planet. The fact that they were required by law to have white guardians to help them manage their wealth is just the beginning of the injustice heaped upon them here. Robert De Niro ’s two-faced patriarch William “King” Hale, hatches a plan for his dim nephew Ernest ( Leonardo DiCaprio ) to marry Osage heiress Mollie ( Lily Gladstone ), then systematically bump off her family and seize her oil rights – aided by pretty much the entire white community. Blinded by love, and wealth, Mollie and her people take far too long to figure out what’s really going on.

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      ‘Sin is fun!’ Martin Scorsese on brutality, love – and his rebirth on TikTok

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 12 February - 05:00

    At 81, the great film director suddenly has a second career as a social media star. He talks about working with his daughter, the Oscar-nominated Killers of the Flower Moon and his journey from the mean streets of 1940s New York

    I have been talking to Martin Scorsese for two minutes and apparently the interview is already over. We’re discussing his most recent movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, which has been nominated for 10 Oscars, including a record 10th best director nomination for Scorsese. But he has been promoting the film since last April, he says. “For the most part, the reaction to the film is beyond encouraging. It’s very, very appreciated. However, I think I want to get back to making something as soon as possible. Like now. Right now. Today.”

    Then he makes to get up from his chair and walk off. “Yes, right now. I’m going to leave right now.”

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