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[Link] Bruce Willis’s ‘worst performance’ award from Razzies show revoked after diagnosis

Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com

The organizers of the Razzies parody awards show have rescinded Bruce Willis’s 2021 award in light of the actor’s recently disclosed aphasia diagnosis.

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[Link] Warner Bros sued over ‘abysmal’ Matrix Resurrections release

Read: 8/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

Warner Bros is being sued by co-financiers Village Roadshow over the hybrid release of the sci-fi sequel The Matrix Resurrections.

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[Link] ‘Fight Club’ Gets Back Its Anarchic Ending in China

Read: 7/2/2022 www.vice.com

The 1999 film by David Fincher originally ends with the Narrator (Edward Norton) killing his split personality Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt), and then watching all the buildings blow up, suggesting Tyler’s anarchist plan to destroy consumerist society is afoot.

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[Link] Sorry, Ridley Scott, we just don’t think it’s safe to go back into the cinema

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

His latest, House of Gucci, out now, has divided critics so sharply that seeing it has become a matter of urgency: is it “boring”, “audacious”, “so bad it’s bad” or “stylish”? Is anything better than Lady Gaga in the trailer, saying: “Father, son and house of Gucci”, a line tha

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[Link] Piracy Release Group EVO ‘Blames’ Movie Industry For Its Popularity

Read: 21/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

P2P release group EVO has built quite a reputation in recent years by being the first to release pirated copies of screeners and popular movies.

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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.

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[Link] Jet Li Abandoned ‘The Matrix’ Sequels Despite Nearly a Year of Involvement Because He Saw His Life’s Work Be ‘Copyrighted by the Americans’

Read: 17/11/2021 www.cheatsheet.com

Jet Li is mostly known to his fans for his involvement in high-action movies such as Lethal Weapon, The Forbidden Kingdom, and The Expendables, to name a few.

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[Link] Those Bullet Effects In Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI

Read: 15/11/2021 hackaday.com

Remember Terminator 2? Guns were nearly useless against the murderous T-1000, played by Robert Patrick. Bullets fired at the “liquid metal” robot resulted only in a chrome-looking bullet splash that momentarily staggered the killing machine.

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[Link] 'She was my friend': Alec Baldwin breaks silence on death of Halyna Hutchins for first time on camera

Read: 31/10/2021 www.abc.net.au

Actor Alec Baldwin has spoken publicly for the first time on camera about the accidental shooting on the set of a film that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, in a video released by TMZ.

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[Link] More Live Bullets Found on ‘Rust’ Set After Alec Baldwin Shooting, Police Say

Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Police have recovered three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, both dummy and live, from the Rust movie set, according to a press conference Wednesday. Among the evidence collected was the Colt .

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