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Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
In 1923, legendary director Cecil B. DeMille constructed a replica of ancient Egypt in the California desert for his epic movie The Ten Commandments. When filming was completed, he mysteriously ordered the entire set buried. Now an archaeologist couple and an Iraq War veteran have uncovered the secret DeMille could not keep hidden... and unleashed a horror that cannot be stopped.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers' reflects back on her...
Publisher
DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark and refuses to break from character. When a scene goes...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Movie night turns deadly when a deranged projectionist casts one unlucky couple in his twisted film. By luring them through a gauntlet of increasingly deadly traps, the sadistic director is determined to make a movie that is truly to die for.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Word Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
While on the set filming, Bob the Tomato decides to respond to a fan's letter about 'waiting.' Meanwhile, everyone's patience is tested by spitting camels, a confused nurse, and a distracted film crew. Children learn that God always keeps His promises, even if they have to wait a while.
7) Big fat liar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
A high school student has to prove that a sleazy Hollywood producer stole his English class paper and turned it into a smash hit movie. With the help of his best friend, he travels to Los Angeles to squeeze the truth out of this big fat liar through a series of hilarious pranks and outrageous stunts.
8) The deal
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Go behind the scenes, and experience the journey from the earliest versions of the script to the blockbuster debut of the films that changed the face of cinema. Explore the creation of the Star Wars films, the development of the classic characters, and the birth of the lightsaber, through documentaries, featurettes, interviews, rare footage, theatrical trailers, stills collections, poster art, and more.
10) X
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In 1979 some young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast members find themselves in a fight for their lives.
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
12) The errand boy
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
A lowly studio mail clerk gets a chance at the big time by acting as an on-set spy for a Hollywood producer. He does this poorly.
13) Dark reel
Publisher
North American Motion Pictures
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
A movie fan wins a walk on role in a blood drenched horror film and discovers that he has stepped into an actual murder scene where the killer is still on the loose. Now Detective Shields must try to unravel the mystery before the ghost of Scarlett May can strike again.
15) Hail, Caesar!
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio executive who is presented with plenty of problems to fix, including pregnant leading ladies, kidnapping of actors and a job offer from Lockheed.
16) Dead of winter
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A struggling New York actress journeys to an isolated Victorian mansion for a screen test, but finds she must pay a ghoulish price for the part, in this suspense thriller.
17) Full frontal
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
Publisher
Walt Disney Enterprises
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Slip down the corridors of the 60-year history of the magical, magnificent Fantasia and its sequel Fantasia 2000. Hear Walt Disney talk about the tricks of the trade and the story of the animation process, highlighted with extensive scenes from both features. Experience "The Fantasia that never was," segments that were never produced. Enjoy interviews with film historians and filmmakers of Fantasia 2000, witness production progression demonstrations...
19) Burden of dreams
Series
Criterion collection volume 287
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Goes behind the scenes in the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, the story of one man's attempt to build an opera house deep in the Amazon jungle. Filmmaker Les Blank captured the production, made perilous by Herzog's determination not to use models or special effects
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
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