Tag: Django Unchained
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Lionsgate Promotes Adam Frank and Jill Anderson to Lead Transactional Home Entertainment Business
Lionsgate has promoted two executives, Adam Frank and Jill Anderson, to lead its transactional home entertainment business.The move comes amid a strong period for Lionsgate’s home entertainment business — which comprises electronic sell-through (download-to-own), video-on-demand and physical media — with an industry market share of 11.9% in the first six months of the year. It’s…
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Let Christoph Waltz Play More Good Guys, Please
Search the whole of planet Earth, and you’ll find no one who disputes the incontrovertible fact that Christoph Waltz makes an impeccable villain; Amazon certainly agrees, since Waltz leads Prime Video’s new thriller series The Consultant. One performance so magnificently bloodcurdling, it’s almost supernatural (Colonel Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds), was all it took to…
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18 Movies Quentin Tarantino Doesn’t Like, from ‘1917’ to ‘Atomic Blonde’
Love him or hate him, what Quentin Tarantino has achieved over his more than 30 years of filmmaking is inarguably impressive. Not only is the “Reservoir Dogs” writer/director a renowned auteur — nominated three times for the Best Director Oscar with two Best Original Screenplay wins for “Pulp Fiction” and “Django Unchained” — Tarantino is…
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From ‘Django’ to ‘Sholay’: The 10 Best Western Movies Made Outside America
The Western genre is arguably one of the most influential genres in Hollywood. It has spawned many legendary movies like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The genre has also given birth to icons like Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, and Robert Redford. Recently it has seen a resurgence…
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Emancipation Review: Will Smith’s Brutal Drama Brought Down by Poor Choices
Over a decade ago, Will Smith famously turned down the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained, stating that “I wanted to make that movie so badly, but I felt the only way was, it had to be a love story, not a vengeance story.” With Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, Smith gets a bit closer to…
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Quentin Tarantino Dismisses Kanye West’s Claim of Originating Idea for ‘Django Unchained’: ‘That Didn’t Happen’
Quentin Tarantino has dismissed Kanye West’s claim that he and Jamie Foxx “got the idea” for the concept of their 2012 film “Django Unchained” from him.West — who legally changed his name to Ye in 2021 — said he pitched a similar idea when initially brainstorming the music video for his 2005 song “Gold Digger,”…
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Kanye West Claims Jamie Foxx & Quentin Tarantino Stole His Idea For ‘Django Unchained’
Kanye West is dominating the news lately, but definitely not in good ways. His antisemitic remarks on social media, combined with various interviews where he seemingly continues to either double down on the comments and say other inflammatory things have led to boycotts and serious business consequences for the rapper. And recently, in a marathon…
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‘The English’ First Look: Emily Blunt & Chaske Spencer Star In New Western Limited Series On Amazon Prime Video
The Western genre waned in popularity in the 1980s, but 21st-century cinema still has the occasional film that harks to its heyday. Most of these are genre hybrids, like Tarantino’s “Django Unchained” or S. Craig Zahler‘s “Bone Tomahawk,” while others like “Meek’s Cutoff” or “Slow West” attend to the genre’s classic nuances.Read More: ‘The Fall…
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‘Day Shift’ First Look: Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg Slay L.A. Vampires Threatening Gentrification
Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg cleaning up the Lbc? We’d raise a gin and juice to that.Upcoming Netflix action-comedy “Day Shift” stars Foxx as Bud Jablonski, a father trying to navigate the rising cost of living in Los Angeles by taking on a job as a vampire exterminator. Dogg plays Bud’s friend Big John Elliott…
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The Controversial Spaghetti Western That Inspired Tarantino’s Django Unchained
“Django Unchained” opens with a pitiful sight: our hero Django (Jamie Foxx), with haunted eyes and his feet in shackles, is marched across a barren landscape by a pair of brutal slave traders. The desperation and cruelty of his plight is laid out in bloody lash marks across his bare back. In typical Quentin Tarantino fashion,…