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While economic conditions influence the content and themes of films, films significantly shape public perceptions of economics and economic policies. The disparity between the reach of films like The Big Short , which sold 8.2 million tickets in the United States alone, and Thomas Piketty 's Capital in the Twenty-First Century (2013), which ...
AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
John Carpenter is known best for crafting one of the greatest villains of all time with Michael Myers, but he also created a memorable hero in "Big Trouble in Little China.". For this late 1980s ...
Over the past few years, popular culture has become a veritable undead battleground, with armies of zombies and vampires fighting for the top spots in literature, film and television. A year ago ...
The Best Years of Our Lives: William Wyler: 1946 12: Apollo 13: Ron Howard: 1995 13: Hoosiers: David Anspaugh: 1986 14: The Bridge on the River Kwai: David Lean: 1957 15: The Miracle Worker: Arthur Penn: 1962 16: Norma Rae: Martin Ritt: 1979 17: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Miloš Forman: 1975 18: The Diary of Anne Frank: George Stevens ...
Overall, though, one thing is clear: In America, having an empty bank account is one of the most frightening things imaginable. %Gallery-188038% Bruce Watson is DailyFinance's Savings editor.
Three of the four highest-grossing films, including Avatar at the top, were written and directed by James Cameron.. With a worldwide box-office gross of over $2.9 billion, Avatar is proclaimed to be the "highest-grossing" film, but such claims usually refer to theatrical revenues only and do not take into account home video and television income, which can form a significant portion of a film ...
While German industrialist Oskar Schindler, whose heroic story was told in the movie 'Schindler's List,' employed bribes and influence to protect as many as 1,000 Jews who worked in his factory ...