Tag: Saving Private Ryan
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Classic Films Steven Spielberg Almost Directed, From Oldboy to Harry Potter
Does any director have a better filmography than Steven Spielberg? It’s all a matter of opinion, but when you see a list that includes Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Saving Private Ryan, and Catch Me If You Can — and you’re not even a quarter of the way through…
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Every Main Character In Band Of Brothers Ranked Worst To Best
The true stories of heroism in World War II have inspired some of the greatest films of all time. Throughout film history, war films have examined various aspects of combat. While films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “The Thin Red Line” explored the plight of soldiers in the heat of combat, “Bridge On The River Kwai”…
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Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ Could Be the Oscar Frontrunner for Best Picture
Steven Spielberg brought his semi-autobiographical film, “The Fabelmans,” to the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10, his first feature ever to debut at TIFF. To say that Spielberg is performing at the top of his game is no hyperbole. This dramatic opus, which pulls at the heartstrings, could bring Spielberg his third directing statuette…
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Steven Spielberg Had Some Convenient Help Casting The Titular Role For War Horse
Steven Spielberg had already made at least two World War II classics in “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan” by the time he had made “War Horse” in 2011. Throughout those movies, Spielberg seems to have stated very clearly the horrors and the evil prevalent about that conflict. He looked at the plight of persecuted…
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Steven Spielberg Says He Won’t Direct Another Musical After ‘West Side Story’ at PGA Awards Breakfast
Ahead of tonight’s Producers Guild of America awards ceremony, the annual breakfast with the nominees for the Darryl F. Zanuck Award at the Skirball Cultural Center.The theme of the panel, moderated by PGA president Lisa Fisher, was Steven Spielberg, nominated as one of the producers for his musical “West Side Story.”During the conversation, the two-time…
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‘West Side Story’ Finds Its Rhythm on Location in New Jersey
Kristie Macosko Krieger, one of the producers for Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story,” says there was no way they could have pulled off shooting the 20th Century Studios remake without the aesthetic backdrop and financial incentives that the state of New Jersey provided. “We looked all around, and Paterson, N.J. gave a grit and an…
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Tom Hanks Picks ‘Cloud Atlas’ as One of His Top 3 Tom Hanks Films: ‘Making It Was Magical’
“Cloud Atlas” got its start as an infamous box office flop and one of 2012’s most polarizing critical releases, but it has since garnered a passionate cult following and many fans consider it to be the Wachowski siblings’ unsung masterpiece. The sprawling science-fiction epic is based on David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name…
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The Impressive Story Of How Saving Private Ryan’s D-Day Sequence Was Shot
“Saving Private Ryan” earned Steven Spielberg his second Academy Award for best director, and deservedly so. It’s one of the greatest war movies of all time. Even those who weren’t enamored of the overall film back in 1998 had to concede that its depiction of the D-Day landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy during World War II was…
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Film News Roundup: ‘Armstrong’ Doc Set for Release on 50th Anniversary of Moon Landing
In today’s film news roundup, a Neil Armstrong documentary and “The Invisible Man” get release dates, “Forrest Gump” and “Saving Private Ryan” get re-released and Patrick Fugit gets cast.Release DatesGravitas Ventures has bought worldwide rights to the Neil Armstrong documentary “Armstrong” and will open the film on July 12 in theaters and on demand, Variety…
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Evan Rachel Wood to Star in Hiroshima-Inspired ‘One Thousand Paper Cranes’ (Exclusive)
Evan Rachel Wood will star alongside Jim Sturgess and Shinobu Terajima in “One Thousand Paper Cranes,” the story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr, who wrote the worldwide bestselling children’s book “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.” Independent has boarded sales ahead of Cannes, where the project will be at the Marche.…