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Gone With the Wind, released in 1939, is considered the most profitable film of all time. The Guinness World Records estimates its global adjusted gross box office at $3.

This year the variety of national holidays is enriched with one more date to celebrate. The first ever National Cinema Day was launched by NATO’s new non-profit Cinema Foundation (an arm of the National Association of Theater Owners) to welcome moviegoers to celebrate a day at the movies with discounted admissions, and from now on might become an annual event held on September 3.

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After two decades of experimentation and acclaim in the late 70s and 80s – from Eraserhead to Blue Velvet – David Lynch decided to explore television. It was mostly thanks to a new friend, well-known screenwriter Mark Frost (Hill Street Blues), who became his coffee partner, almost daily, at the traditional diner Du-Pars, down on the Valley side of Laurel Canyon.

These days, only hardcore cinephiles would probably recognize the name of Nell Shipman. But for a few short years in the early 1920s, the Canadian-born actress was one of the few female pioneers, along with Grace Cunard, Ida May Park and Lois Weber, able to work in Hollywood as screenwriter, director and producer.

In the pressbook for Born to Be Bad that was sent to exhibitors and theater owners to help them publicize the film, the headline on the first page read “Heartless, Glamorous Huntress of Men, Their Hearts, Their Wealth: Trapped in Her Own Pitfalls, Victim of Greed and Rashness. ” The taglines for the film’s posters were equally bodice-ripping – “Baby-faced Savage in a jungle of intrigue!” and “Man-Bait! Trouble never came in a more desirable package!” featuring a photo of Joan Fontaine posing provocatively in a slinky red strapless gown.

Director John Ford once said to a reporter, “Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals.  Directing is not a mystery, it’s not an art.

Anne Celeste Heche, the 53-year-old Emmy Award-nominee actress, has died from injuries sustained in an automobile accident.   On Friday, August 12th, the doctors established that she was brain dead, but still on life support in anticipation of organ donations.

A few days ago, Golden Globe nominee John Leguizamo called out the casting of Golden Globe winner James Franco as Fidel Castro in Alina of Cuba: la hija rebelde. The film is a portrayal of Alina Fernández Revuelta, the illegitimate daughter of the leftist leader with socialite Natalia Revuelta.