Tag: hollywood
Elvish, Hobbit language, perhaps most detailed of fictional languages
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is out in theaters this weekend, and it will be a big screen celebration of the Elvish language. Tolkien spent years, some of them in World War I trenches, developing the language. It's perhaps the most elaborate fictional language ever....
Michigan film industry rises and falls as tax credits come and go
When Michigan's auto factories started to close, many wondered what to do with them. The state decided to try and turn them into movie studios, which worked for a time. Until the tax credits ran out. Now those new studios are empty former factories once more....
Paul Rudd takes dramatic turn with new Broadway role
Paul Rudd is starring in a new Broadway production that's more serious than his usual roles, which include the upcoming film This is 40. Rudd, though, says he's not looking to put his career on a certain path -- he's taking good roles as they come....
New movie presents new spin on Franklin Roosevelt's personal life
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is often remembered as the American President who stopped Adolf Hitler's march across Europe. In a new movie, Hyde Park on Hudson, film writer Richard Nelson tells the story of a pivotal weekend in Roosevelet's presidency -- and presents the man in a new light....
In upcoming film, Judd Apatow breaks from comedy roots, takes serious turn
Judd Apatow is widely known for his success in creating smash hit comedy movies. But his latest film, due out Dec. 21, This is 40, takes a decidedly serious turn. And Apatow says he likes this new leaf he's turned over....
Critics agree new Twilight movie unlike its predecessors
Twilight is on track to be the largest movie of the year, in terms of box officie receipts. It had a huge opening, raking in $140 million, making it the second biggest opening of the series, however. Critics, however, say this time the series is different....
'Lincoln,' 'Skyfall' bring history into movie theaters this weekend
Abraham Lincoln wasn't just Honest Abe, he had a wheeling and dealing political side. That's the take of the new movie, Lincoln, out this weekend. It'll be up against Skyfall, the 50th anniversary edition of the James Bond series....
New Zealand debuts Hobbit-themed currency as movie anticipation builds
The Hobbit will debut this winter, and in anticipation, New Zealand is turning itself into Middle Earth. Air New Zealand re-did its in-flight safety video and now the country is unveiling coins, legal currency, with hobbits pictured on them....
Stella Rimington: The real woman behind James Bond's M
When the British government first decided to reveal the person behind their MI5 spy agency, many were surprised to find that the person was a she, not a he. That woman was Stella Rimington, who's become the basis of James Bond's M -- and a fiction writer in her own right....
Jack Black discusses surprisingly different role in 2011's 'Bernie'
Jack Black is a well-known Hollywood clown. He's been in bunches of movie, playing a role of the laughable jokester. But that's not his only side. In 2011, he played a serious murderer in Bernie. And amidst all of that, he's part of the comedy rock duo Tenacious D....
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