Tag: Bill Murray
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‘What Remains of Us’ — Everything We Know About Kit Harington’s Horror Film
As one of the most successful movie genres, horror can be so lucrative for actors that many beloved names have tried their hand at the devil’s favorite style. From Carrie Fisher in Scream 3 to Bill Murray in Zombieland, plenty of unlikely actors have appeared in the genre, with that trend not set to change…
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What Netflix’s ‘Live to 100’ Gets Right (& Wrong) About Immortality
About 50 floors up, in Tokyo’s Park Hyatt’s New York Bar — the very bar where Scarlett Johansson’s and Bill Murray’s characters first meet in Lost in Translation — is where I found myself one August night. The Park Hyatt, one of the best hotels in the city, was out of my price range as…
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Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m Not Going to Think About’ Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray’s Age Gap in ‘Lost in Translation’
Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” is a film that greatly benefitted from being released before online discourse consumed pop culture. The arthouse classic, which offers a nuanced depiction of a fleeting connection between two lonely travelers (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), could have easily been consumed by debates about the ethics of age…
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Sofia Coppola Got ‘Scolded’ at ‘Lost in Translation’ Premiere by Spike Jonze’s Friend Michel Gondry, Who ‘Apologized’; She’s Never Watched ‘Her’
Fresh off the world premiere of her last directorial effort, “Priscilla,” at the Venice Film Festival (where star Cailee Spaeny won best actress), Sofia Coppola joined Rolling Stone to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her beloved “Lost in Translation.”Coppola, whose script for “Lost in Translation” won the Oscar for original screenplay, partly used the…
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An Original Ghostbusters Storyboard Shows Paul Reubens As A Different Form Of Gozer
“Ghostbusters” famously went through many iterations behind the scenes before it became a blockbuster hit in 1984. John Candy could have played Louis Tully, John Belushi was originally envisioned as Peter Venkman, and Eddie Murphy would have joined the team as Winston Zeddemore. But as we all know, Rick Moranis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson…
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‘Lost in Translation’: The True Story Behind Bill Murray’s Whiskey Ad
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) is one of the central characters in Lost in Translation, a man who was once a great actor and who perhaps still could have been if he didn’t trade his chance to perform in a play, for a million dollar commercial deal with Suntory Whiskey in Japan. Yes, Bob is plagued…
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Chevy Chase Had The Opportunity To Be Indiana Jones, Forrest Gump, And Santa Claus
How do you solve a problem like Chevy Chase? Throughout his lengthy career, the actor has had a long, troubled history of acting like a jerk to nearly everyone he’s worked with, from the infamous backstage fight he had with Bill Murray upon leaving Saturday Night Live to his much-publicized feud with showrunner Dan Harmon…
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Tom Hanks Made a ‘Splash,’ Thanks to This Bill Murray Bomb
It can be downright dizzying to look back at your life and think about the countless decisions you have made that may have altered the course of your future. As they say, hindsight is 20/20, but that doesn’t erase the fact that those choices have made you who you are today. This “sliding doors” scenario…
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This Is the Best Cameo in Any Comedy
Even though cameos happen across all genres, they’re especially popular now in superhero movies, where studios try to shock audiences by having a hero we didn’t expect to pop up in a movie about someone else. This, however, is mostly just used to set up a spin-off, rather than having a real impact on the…
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Has Wes Anderson Become a Victim of His Own Aesthetic?
I’ve always been shy when it comes to writing about Wes Anderson, because he’s a filmmaker I rarely connect with. When I watch one of his movies, I can’t help but see his talent, but I feel like I’m experiencing something that was made on a different planet from the one I live on. I…