Napoleon Solo Sold for £1: The Year Ian Fleming Stopped Owning Ian Fleming
In June 1963, Ian Fleming signed away a spy franchise for a single pound. It has been retold ever since as a charming scrap of…
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The Untold Story of The Persuaders!: Cars, Glamour, Conflict and James Bond
Robert S. Baker had wanted to make a buddy picture for years. While producing The Saint, he tested the idea in “The Ex-King of Diamonds,”…
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The Camera Moves That Built Hitchcock’s Suspense Machine
Few filmmakers understood the psychology of the camera as well as Alfred Hitchcock. Hitchcock believed suspense was not created by plot twists alone, but by…
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The Blueprint, The Con, and Production Chaos: How Bruce Geller and His Team Built Mission: Impossible
In front of the camera, the Mission: Impossible team was a well-oiled machine: a group of elite specialists working in perfect harmony under a cool,…
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Shark POV: How ‘Jaws’ Improved On The POV Shot Used In ‘The Creature From The Black Lagoon’
Steven Spielberg borrowed the underwater POV shots from the 1950s Universal monster movie but eclipsed them with confident and beautiful cinematography–and masterful pacing. Chrissie Watkins,…
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‘Jaws’: The Monster Movie That Invented The Summer Blockbuster
How did a B-movie-type monster movie become a genre-defining blockbuster that changed modern film-making? On June 20, 1975, Jaws opened across North America and changed…
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James Bond Enters a New Era with Producers David Heyman and Amy Pascal
In a seismic shift for one of cinema’s most enduring franchises, Amazon MGM Studios has officially tapped David Heyman and Amy Pascal as the new…
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‘Die Hard’ Director John McTiernan Says The future of Filmmaking Is “Independent Financing”
In a recent interview with Forbes, John McTiernan, the director behind Die Hard, The Thomas Crown Affair and Predator, expressed dismay at the state of…
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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Reinventing The Epic Fantasy Genre?
Ever since the release of Oppenheimer, there has been much speculation about Christopher Nolan’s next film. The internet was abuzz at the possibility of Nolan…
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The Lost Jaws Prequel—Steven Spielberg’s Jaws 2 Described as “Saving Private Ryan, With Sharks”
Jaws 2 is the best of the sequels to the Steven Spielberg classic, but it is basically a retread of the first film and not…
