Tag: Splash
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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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Tom Holland and Chris Hemsworth Saved This Aquatic Adventure From Drowning
Ron Howard has made a number of great movies. Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, Splash, Night Shift, Parenthood, and The Paper are all masterpieces of their respective genres, and have emerged as time-honored classics that are worth revisiting for anyone interested in seeing why certain films resonate with a generation. He also has a few…
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Tom Hanks’ 10 Best Roles Ranked, from ‘Cast Away’ to ‘Saving Private Ryan’
Take a gander at the last 40 years of cinema, and you’ll find at least one universal truth: The people love Tom Hanks. The 66-year-old actor is known around Hollywood and the world as an affable everyman, with as much capacity for heady drama as a knack for quippy comedy. Hanks’ most famous roles range…
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Haf: China’s Cai Chengjie Takes on Sexual Assault in Feature Project ‘Splash’
Chinese director Cai Chengjie will follow up his Rotterdam prize-winning first feature with “Splash,” a new project that daringly takes on the topic of sexual assault. It has been selected as one of 20 narrative films to participate in this year’s Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum.The film will tell the story of 24 hours in…
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No ifs, no butts: how the film industry is digitally revising its history
Disney has hit a bum note by altering 80s comedy Splash. What other past movies have been sanitised without our knowledge?Hot on the heels of Cats’ digital dalliance with CGI nether regions comes another bum-related movie controversy: viewers have noticed some unsubtle changes to the mermaid romcom Splash as it appears on Disney+. There is…
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‘Splash’ Goes Viral After 36 Years for Bizarre VFX Used to Hide Nudity on Disney+
Only in the age of streaming could Ron Howard’s 1984 fantasy romance “Splash” find itself going viral. A rather bizarre edit of the movie on Disney+ is making the rounds on social media due to the fuzzy visual effects that have been added to the movie in order to hide the nudity on display. It…
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Disney+ Apparently Added Terrible CGI Hair To ‘Splash’ To Prevent A Butt From Being Shown
We know that Disney will go to great lengths to sanitize its history and library, especially when it comes to the launch of its streaming service. Don’t even bother trying to find “Song of the South” or some of the more culturally insensitive cartoons. But when it comes to the rest of the library, apparently…
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Bollywood Film ‘Chhapaak’ Makes Serious Splash
Bowing to rave reviews in India, “Chhapaak” (Splash) a Hindi-language film directed by Meghna Gulzar, an Indian director who was educated at NYU Tisch, is opening in North America on Friday.The daughter of Bollywood star Raakhee and Oscar-winning songwriter mono-monikered Gulzar, she directed music videos before breaking through with 2015’s “Talvar.” Her next film 2018’s…
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Why Hasn’t Tom Hanks Been Oscar Nominated Since 2001? History — and Cary Grant — Hold the Answer
Tom Hanks isn’t an unsung hero: At 63, he’s been a beloved, well-paid movie star since the ’80s, and has received five Oscar nominations and two wins. That said, he hasn’t been nominated in nearly two decades; although he’s been lauded for awards-worthy performances in “Captain Phillips” and “Sully,” the last nomination was for “Cast…