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Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Eloise and Nanny are on their way to Hollywood where Eloise is given the chance to star in a real movie! She is certain her glamorous dreams are coming true, but stardom is a lot of work. Can she pull off her secret plan and go back to being just plain fabulous Eloise?
Publisher
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
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is famous for its realism, but how much of this epic drama is truly accurate? Was there a real Private Ryan? Uncover the real story behind this Hollywood blockbuster with tests conducted with weapons experts and insights from war historians.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
After a surfing mishap, MacKenzie and her boyfriend Brady are transported into a 1960s beach movie where they accidentally interfere with the plot and must try to figure out a way to get back home.
6) Faith ba$ed
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When two friends come to realization that every low budget Christian movie makes millions of dollars, they set out to make one of their own.
8) 8 1/2
Series
Criterion collection volume 140
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
Italiano
Description
Fellini's autobiographical film about a famous film director who loses his inspiration in the midst of making a film.
Publisher
Virgil Films & Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Few films have left an impression like John Sturges's classic The Great Escape. The documentary is the ultimate tribute to the film that takes us back to the time at which it was made, revealing some little known facts about the timeless classic starring the King of Cool, Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, and many more. It is the definitive look at the making of the 1963 classic.
Publisher
Strike Back Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The definitive behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Jay & Silent Bob Reboot. Packed with dozens of cast interviews and exclusive footage of daily life on set in New Orleans, this film chronicles the emotional reunion of the View Askewniverse cast, post-Kevin Smith's heart attack.
Publisher
On Screen Films
Pub. Date
[2012?]
Language
Español
Description
"Idealistic filmmaker Sebastian ... and his cynical producer Costa ... arrive in Bolivia to make a revisionist film about Christopher Columbus' conquest of the Americas. But as filming commences, the local citizens begin to riot in protest against a multi-national corporation that is taking control of their water supply. With the film shoot in jeopardy, both men find their convictions shaken. Inspired by the real-life Water Wars in Bolivia in the...
12) Scream 3
Series
Publisher
Dimension Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
When people start dropping like flies around the production of the movie Stab 3 (the latest movie sequel based on events occurring in Scream), Sidney and other Greensboro survivors are once again drawn into mayhem.
13) 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
p2022, c2021.
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.
15) The boy friend
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The story of an assistant manager/gofer who is given a big chance after the leading actress hurts her ankle.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In Citizen Kane, following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. In RKO-281, Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
A rollicking, inventive adaptation of the notoriously unfilmable British comic novel The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman, written by Laurence Sterne. Shandy's warped tales reveal far more than any conventional autobiography.
18) The offer
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
This epic ten-episode limited event series tells the extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of Oscar®-winning producer Albert S. Ruddy's journey of bringing Francis Ford Coppola's cinematic masterpiece The Godfather to the big screen. This critically acclaimed series contains over 2.5 hours of special features, including featurettes, deleted scenes, and more!
19) Saving Mr. Banks
Series
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
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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