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Cyd Charisse and Gene Kelly in Singinʼ in the Rain (USA 1952) by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen

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The Retrospective of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival will celebrate the centenary of Technicolor. The Retrospective will present around 30 magnificent Technicolor films, some of which have been elaborately restored. They were made in the early years between the dawn of Technicolor and 1953 – and include six British films.

“The blazing red of Southern skies in Gone with the Wind or the ecstatic yellow of the raincoats in Singin’ in the Rain – in those days, the play of dramatically intensified colours was a sensation. The Technicolor process combined with cultural and economic trends to produce great cinematic works of art that still thrill audiences today,” says Berlinale Director Dieter Kosslick.

As of 1915, inventors Herbert T. Kalmus, Daniel Comstock and W. Burton Wescott developed the two-colour process Technicolor No.

Retrospective strand to celebrate 100th anniversary of Technicolor.

The Retrospective of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival (Feb 5-15) is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Color by Technicolor.

The strand will include around 30 Technicolor films, some of which have been restored, which were madebetween the dawn of Technicolor and 1953 – and include six British films.

Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said: “The blazing red of Southern skies in Gone with the Wind or the ecstatic yellow of the raincoats in Singin’ in the Rain – in those days, the play of dramatically intensified colours was a sensation. The Technicolor process combined with cultural and economic trends to produce great cinematic works of art that still thrill audiences today.”

As well as those mentioned by Kosslick, titles to be screened include Richard Boleslawski’s drama The Garden of Allah (1936), George Sidney’s adventure film The Three Musketeers (1948) and Victor Fleming’s hit musical The Wizard of Oz (1939).

Other features will include...

A slew of classic Disney movies are hitting for the first time on Blu-Ray, including one double-pack release, and you’re going to want to make sure to pick these up. You haven’t paid attention to some of these titles for a while, and it’s about time you got the chance to catch them on Blu-Ray. The best part is that there’s a great mix of releases hitting. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is all but lost in the cultural consciousness, and it deserves a return. The Academy Award-winning movie from the year I was born is filled with a lot of fun and adventure, and like most Disney films, holds up well for a whole new generation.

The rest of the group covers a great spectrum, including two animated “big” titles, and a 10th Anniversary release. There’s a lot to expose your family to here, so check out all the info below,...

TCM devotes Thursday nights in October to Vincent Price, the versatile actor whose career lasted more than five decades and extended far beyond the horror films for which he was best known.

The chronological lineup includes such classics as The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), The Three Musketeers (1948) and While the City Sleeps (1956).

And on Oct. 23 and Oct. 31, Price’s talents in the horror genre are on full display in 17 films, just in time for Halloween.

Thursday, Oct. 3

8 p.m. – The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)

10 p.m. – Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Midnight – The Keys of the Kingdom (1945)

2:30 a.m. – The Three Musketeers (1948)

5:15 a.m. – The Bribe (1949)

7 a.m. – The Long Night (1947)

Thursday, Oct. 10

8 p.m. – The Baron of Arizona (1950)

9:45 p.m. – His Kind of Woman (1951)

Midnight – The Las Vegas Story (1952)

1:30 a.m. – Dangerous Mission (1954)

3 a.m. – Son of Sinbad (1955)

4:45 a.m. – Serenade (1956)

Thursday,...

Lana Turner movies: Scandal and more scandal Lana Turner is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, Saturday, August 10, 2013. I’m a little — or rather, a lot — late in the game posting this article, but there are still three Lana Turner movies left. You can see Turner get herself embroiled in scandal right now, in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959), both the director and the star’s biggest box-office hit. More scandal follows in Mark Robson’s Peyton Place (1957), the movie that earned Lana Turner her one and only Academy Award nomination. And wrapping things up is George Sidney’s lively The Three Musketeers (1948), with Turner as the ruthless, heartless, remorseless — but quite elegant — Lady de Winter. Based on Fannie Hurst’s novel and a remake of John M. Stahl’s 1934 melodrama about mother love, class disparities, racism, and good cooking, Imitation of Life was shown on...

I remember her fondly as the villainess Lucretia in the outrageous Toho Sci-fi adventure Latitude Zero but Patricia Medina was an actress with a solid career and an impressive number of memorable credits who worked with Orson Welles (Mr. Arkadin) , Vincent Price (twice – Moss Rose and The Three Musketeers), Abbott and Costello (A&C In The Foreign Legion), Francis the Talking Mule (Francis), and the Three Stooges (Snow White And The Three Stooges). Voluptuous and exotic-looking with a deep sultry voice, the British-born Medina began her film career in 1937 and was married to actors Richard Greene and Joseph Cotton. Patricia Medina was 92

The La Times writes:

Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy “Francis” and Orson Welles‘ crime-thriller “Mr. Arkadin,” has died. She was 92.

Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died Saturday at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles,...

Batman and "The Dark Knight" aside, D.C. Comics haven't had much joy on the big screen, with last year's "Green Lantern" being only the latest in a series of misfires, although they're hopeful that next year's "Man of Steel" will revive Superman. We say revive, but actually the superpowered Kryptonian only last year wrapped up a popular ten-year run with the TV series "Smallville."

While that show was a long-running hit, they've again not had much success in moving it beyond the single character: Batman spin-off "Birds of Prey" lasted a single season, "Human Target" didn't quite make it, and last year's "Wonder Woman" never made it beyond a pilot. But that doesn't mean they're done trying, as the CW is getting ready to shoot a pilot for "Arrow," a TV series based on the popular hero and Justice League member Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, and just debuted...

Here at Tmp, we’re a bunch of movie nerds...Seems like a no-brainer, but as such, we tend to have unique items on our Christmas lists. So if you’ve got a movie buff that you need to shop for this Christmas, maybe our own individual wishlists will aid you in finding that perfect gift.

Carla

The reason it took so long for me to write something down on my wish list is not lack of wanting something, but it is because I want everything. However, since we are not writing a novel, I did manage to narrow it down to two things:

I love Anthony Hopkins! He is one of my favorite, if not the favorite, older Hollywood actors. The man is undoubtedly a living legend in the film world. What Hopkins fan would not want an autographed photo from Silence of the Lambs? As a bonus, this...

Actors Luke Evans, Kellan Lutz and Henry Cavill at Comic-Con

Getting into the superhuman shape required to play Greek gods and heroes was no easy feat for the men of Tarsem Singh’s upcoming Immortals. But listening to British actor Luke Evans, who plays Zeus, the grueling workouts were nothing compared to the temptation of the craft services table. “It was just full of bad stuff, which I thought was just evil, considering we had to keep in shape,” Evans said while promoting the film at San Diego Comic-Con. “They had plenty of candy on their craft table, we just had to stay away from it.”

Evans as Zeus

But it wasn’t a solo fight for Evans and Olympian co-stars Kellan Lutz (Poseidon) and newcomer Corey Sevier (Apollo), along with Henry Cavill and Stephen Dorff, who while playing mere mortals were still expected to get into godly shape. “We...

Hollywood needs a hit

Actually, Hollywood needs a bunch of hits.

Actually, Hollywood needs a bunch of big, fat, through-the-roof hits.

And with the summer – and the year – half over, the time to come up with them is running out.

The movie business finished 2010 with the second highest domestic box office on record: $10.2 billion. But this was a misleading, oh, let’s call it a “symptom.” That ten billion and change was like the midpoint in every episode of House where the brilliant diagnostician thinks he’s figured out what’s ailing this week’s guest star, his team begins treatment, and, just as the patient seems to be getting better and the regulars are congratulating each other on the save…the patient throws a conniption fit, thrashing around on the bed and spitting up blood.

Part of that ten billion-plus came from a nearly 20% hike in average tickets prices...

An awesome new trailer for the upcoming film, Immortals, due out on 11th November this year, has gone up over at RyanSeacrest.com, and it has plenty of epic new footage to add to the first trailer we saw back in April.

Tarsem Singh will be returning as director five years on from his film, The Fall, and after largely financing that film himself, the $115m. budget for Immortals is a substantial increase, and so far, it looks like the money has been put to great use.

Immortals has got a great cast with a mix of rising stars and established talent, including Henry Cavill (The Tudors, the upcoming Man of Steel), Luke Evans (Clash of the Titans, and the upcoming The Three Musketeers and The Hobbit), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire), John Hurt (Alien, V For Vendetta), and Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler, Iron Man 2). And it will give us...

Comic Con announcements are gearing up, and Relativity Films has a whole slate of films to bring to comic book fans this year. Check out the full list and panel times after the jump.

Shark Night 3D

Release: September 9, 2011

Plot: Arriving by boat at her family’s Louisiana lake island cabin, Sara (Sara Paxton)

and her friends quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of fun in the sun. But when star football player Malik (Sinqua Walls) stumbles from the salt-water lake with his arm torn off, the party mood quickly evaporates. Assuming the injury was caused by a freak wake-boarding accident, the group realizes they have to get Malik to a hospital on the other side of the lake, and fast. But as they set out in a tiny speedboat, the college friends discover the lake has been stocked with hundreds of massive, flesh-eating sharks! As they face onegrisly death after another,...

The second update but absolutely not the last. We have yet to hear from the major networks, Syfy, TNT or USA about their panels. More to the point, we have yet to hear from Comic-Con, at least as to the official schedule.

As you may know, they resold the returned 4-day passes on Friday, and those sold out within a couple of hours. It likely only took that long because only a certain number of people could be purchasing at one time. Returned one day tickets will go on sale shortly; if you’re interested in attempting to be amongst the lucky few who will achieve tickets, you must be following Comic-Con on Twitter for the latest updates

Information added to this update includes Locke & Key, Dexter, Shameless, Homeland, Archer, Wilfred, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Sons of Anarchy, Shark Night 3D, Haywire, The Raven, Immortals, Thanks to THR...

A trailer for Tarsem Singh's Immortals was recently screened at WonderCon which will hopefully surface online at some point in the near future. In this interview with Comingsoon.net, Luke Evans (The Three Musketeers) and Henry Cavill (Superman)share their thoughts on the script and working with the director Tarsem Singh! Meeting with Tarsem and signing on for the movie Henry Cavill: I received a script that was very much in its infancy and worked from there. My agent said, "You've got to meet this director. You've got to, got to, got to." I said, "Okay, fine. I'll do it." I went in and met with Tarsem and fell in love almost immediately. What a man. Infectious energy. He showed me all the concept art and walked me through his vision for the movie. He just blew me away. I walked out of that room really wanting to be a part of it.

A 'ballet who?' ballyhoo flares up over Portman's Oscar-winning Black Swan performance, just as the DVD comes out in the Us

The big story

Our journalistic colleagues in home news and business are used to juggling with conflicting sets of figures: crime statistics that arrive in the morning and are turned on their head by mid-afternoon; rival measures of inflation, house price indices and the like. We on the film desk don't feel quite so at home in these number-flinging fact fights, especially when half of the argument seems to be taking place in French. Our heads hurt. What's it to be? First of all we had Benjamin Millepied, Natalie Portman's choreographer partner for her Oscar-winning performance in the weird ballet film Black Swan, responding to accusations that she had taken undue credit for her dance double's work: "Honestly, 85% of that movie is Natalie." The double, according to Millepied,...

Around here, I’ve found if you want to grab people’s attention, open with a bit about Gale Harold. The bad boy of Queer As Folk has been cast in The CW pilot The Secret Circle. He’s a heterosexual love interest, and we don’t know if the pilot includes a gay character at all, but Kevin Williamson is running the show, so there’s always hope. And I’ll be happy just watching Harold onscreen next to Thomas Dekker.

That same casting article notes that Daneel Ackles (formerly Harris) has been cast as one of the lesbians in I Hate That I Love You. I find it hard to imagine that a show centered around introducing a lesbian couple could be devoid of gay men, so I nominate Daneel’s real life husband Jensen Ackles to play the hot gay friend.

It only took a week or...

British actress Juno Temple has signed on to Christopher Nolan's third Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises, according to Variety.

She has been under consideration for the role of a "street-smart Gotham girl" - see my earlier report for suggestions on who that might be.

The 21-year-old (pictured) was in Atonement, both St Trinian's films and is playing Queen Anne in Paul W.S. Anderson's upcoming The Three Musketeers.

Following news that Viggo Mortensen is not the baddie in Zack Snyder's new Superman movie, talk has turned to other names.

According to Latino Review, Edgar Ramirez (The Bourne Ultimatum, Vantage Point, upcoming Clash of the Titans 2) is under consideration, while Deadline is reporting that Michael Shannon (Vanilla Sky, Revolutionary Road) is a contender.

Meanwhile, Snyder tells MTV he would be interested in casting Joe Manganiello - the runner-up for the Superman role landed by Henry Cavill - in his 300 follow-up Xerxes.

FilmNation Entertainment and Likely Story have cast Hollywood’s latest leading-man, British actor Luke Evans (Tamara Drewe) to star in the action-thriller The Amateur American. Written and to be directed by Ross Katz, The Amateur American is scheduled to shoot in Europe in September.

Based on the novel of the same title by J. Saunders Elmore, The Amateur American is written and will be directed by DGA-wga Winner Katz, previously helmed HBO Films’ Taking Chance, who also produced such indie flicks as In the Bedroom and Lost In Translation. This thriller is about a young American living in Paris who accepts a job working for a shadowy employer and soon finds himself framed for murder and caught up in a deadly game of espionage, blackmail, and deceit.

FilmNation was pleased with Evans after watching his work in its recently realized The Raven, in which he starred alongside John Cusack. Evans...

FilmNation Entertainment is building the action-thriller The Amateur American around British actor Luke Evans. The pic, written and to be directed by Ross Katz, is scheduled to shoot in September.  It's another case of a financier speculating on an actor it thinks will turn into one of the next young stars, and also another in a growing trend of offshore thesps tapped to play Americans. That has become a regular occurrence in superhero movies from Batman to Superman and Spider-Man, among others. What has happened to the American action hero gene pool? FilmNation was sold on Evans after watching his work in its just-wrapped The Raven, in which he starred alongside John Cusack. Evans also played Apollo in Clash of the Titans, plays Zeus in the upcoming Immortals, and Aramis in The Three Musketeers.Writer-director Katz produced such indie films as In The Bedroom and Lost In Translation, and made...

Exclusive: CAA has signed HBO True Blood star Joe Manganiello and Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief star Logan Lerman. Both actors have followed their agent, Kami Putnam-Heist, who moved from Wme to CAA on January 3rd as scooped by Deadline. At the time, she brought only 127 Hours star James Franco with her. Manganiello is reputedly a possible candidate for the Zack Snyder-directed Superman film that Chris Nolan is producing. Lerman next stars in the Summit/Constantine film The Three Musketeers, and was also in James Mangold's 3:10 to Yuma.

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- ComingSoon.net has the first pic from Paul W.S. Anderson's 'The Three Musketeers,' starring Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans.

- According to the Toronto Star, the Len Wiseman-directed 'Total Recall' remake will have a $200 million budget (in Canadian Dollars?) and will begin filming at Pinewood Toronto, home of the largest sound stage in North America, this coming March.

- Paramount, one of the few studios in Hollywood that always seems to be pushing forward their marketing game, have now set their sights on a largely untapped, buzz-building demographic: the military.

- Mark Millar says a lot of things these days, not all of it proving true, but according to the comic creator, his next big screen property, 'Superior,' has "locked down [the] most high profile actor of 2010." But you'll have to wait until January...

Filed under: Movie News, Cinematical

- ComingSoon.net has the first pic from Paul W.S. Anderson's 'The Three Musketeers,' starring Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman, Ray Stevenson and Luke Evans.

- According to the Toronto Star, the Len Wiseman-directed 'Total Recall' remake will have a $200 million budget (in Canadian Dollars?) and will begin filming at Pinewood Toronto, home of the largest sound stage in North America, this coming March.

- Paramount, one of the few studios in Hollywood that always seems to be pushing forward their marketing game, have now set their sights on a largely untapped, buzz-building demographic: the military.

- Mark Millar says a lot of things these days, not all of it proving true, but according to the comic creator, his next big screen property, 'Superior,' has "locked down [the] most high profile actor of 2010." But you'll have to wait until January...

The Russian impresario had a profound effect on 1920s film-making, yet he never made a movie himself

Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes sparked a revolution in taste after the first world war, taking modernism out of the salon and into the music hall. The splendid exhibition Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes, currently showing at the V&A, covers the impresario's legacy in music, dance, fashion, painting, and literature; but less well documented is the spell he cast over British film. Michael Powell, who drew on 1920s memories of the Diaghilev milieu for The Red Shoes, was just one among a generation of cineastes who found inspiration in the same source.

Ballet sequences held a special appeal for the likes of Anthony Asquith and Thorold Dickinson, who cast the young Audrey Hepburn as a ballerina in Secret People; but their interest went beyond merely recording dance on film.

We’ve got new movie posters dribbling out our ears at the moment, including new one-sheets for Tron: Legacy, The Three Musketeers, Tree of Life, Man On A Ledge, and Arthur Christmas.

That’s five separate movies to take a look at, not to mention mock and/or praise as being worthy of our anticipation, so let’s not waste any more time and jump right in, shall we?

Tron: Legacy

Disney is still in the midst of its marketing bonanza for this winter’s 3D tentpole pic, Tron: Legacy and released yet another one-sheet for the film this week – in addition to the recent international posters (though the Tron throwback poster remains our favorite). This week, featured front and center is non-other than the pic’s antagonist, Clu 2.0 (a.k.a. CGI…

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More shots of Christoph Waltz and Orlando Bloom filming The Three Musketeers in Germany, Olga Kurylenko on the set of Terence Malick's next project and Panzer 88 monster and tank concept art.

A possible live-action "Pokemon" movie proof of concept trailer has emerged at Shogun Gamer.

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British-born actor Richard Stapley began his film career in Hollywood in the late 1940s. He starred as French nobleman Denis de Beaulieu, who becomes a pawn in Charles Laughton’s revenge plot in the 1951 horror thriller The Strange Door, with Boris Karloff as the menacing manservant Voltan.

Stapley was born in Westcliff, Essex, England, on June 20, 1923. He moved to Hollywood in the late 1940s, where he appeared in such films as The Challenge (1948), The Three Musketeers (1948) with Gene Kelly and Lana Turner, Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women (1949) with June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor, King of the Khyber Rifles (1953), and Jungle Man-Eater (1954), with Johnny Weissmuller as Jungle Jim.

He returned to England in the late 1950s, where he continued his career in films and television under the name Richard Wyler. He starred as Interpol Agent Anthony Smith in the television series Man from Interpol from 1960 to 1961. He also appeared in episodes of The Saint,...

Little Women and The Three Musketeers star Richard Stapley has died at a Palm Springs, California hospital. He was 86.

The British-born actor found success in Hollywood in a string of films in the 1940s and 1950s and became a TV star in his native England, under the name Richard Wyler.

One of his most famous TV roles was the lead in Man From Interpol.

Stapley also made his mark as a novelist when Naked Legacy was published in 2004.

Two of the top contenders for best picture at the Oscars -- "The Hurt Locker" and "Avatar" -- were also named two of the best-looking films of 2009 over the weekend.

The two movies were winners at the Art Directors Guild Awards on Saturday (Feb. 13). "Avatar" won for excellence in production design for a fantasy film, while "The Hurt Locker" took the honor for contemporary film. "Sherlock Holmes" was given the award for period film.

In the TV categories, "Mad Men" won for single-camera TV series, "Weeds" for half-hour single camera series, "Grey Gardens" for TV movie/miniseries and "Hell's Kitchen" for multi-camera, variety or unscripted show. The 2009 Grammy Awards won the honor for awards, music or game shows.

The night's final award, for commercials and music videos, went to an Absolut vodka ad, "In an Absolut World."

The guild also inducted three members into its Hall of Fame: Malcolm F. Brown ("The Twilight Zone,...

By Scott Essman

In the history of the modern American cinema, there are but few legacies of makeup artists. While the legendary Burman and Dawn names each include three generations of makeup artists, there is but one lasting family that features four working generations: the Westmores of Hollywood. With ties to virtually every studio in the annals cinema, the Westmores have created classic makeups in top contemporary film and TV shows back to the earliest years of silent film.

George Westmore, the patriarch of the Westmore clan at the turn of the century, worked as a wigmaker in his native England — where he was born in 1879 — and gave birth to sons Mont (born in 1902), twins Perc and Ern (born in 1904), Wally (born in 1906), and a daughter, Dorothy (born in 1907). The young family traveled to the U.S. to seek better opportunities and maintained a wig-making and beauty salon business which floated amongst various cities,...

Last week, we reported Evan Spiliotopoulos was set to write Wanted 2–the other comic book movie. Yeah, you read that right, the writer who wrote Pooh’s Heffalump Movie and The Nutty Professor is writing the sequel to last year’s just-above-average summer “blockbuster.” Mark Millar, graphic novel creator and producer of the sequel, tried to quiet concerns but the Spiliotopoulos’ repertoire speaks for itself.

Millar, opting to create a story with producers instead of writing another comic book, had a number of comments on his message board regarding the issue. He had this to say in response:

“Never listen to any commentators as they never know anything about who’s coming back, etc. It’s just speculation and 99% of the time these guys don’t have access to the people who know. ‘Wanted 2′ is being made in a very tight circle at the moment.”

Looks like he...