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5 Lesser-Known Film Adaptations of Famous Books

Sure, you're familiar with some version of these books that were committed to film. But you might not have known about these...

Michael J. Fox stars as Marty McFly in Back to the Future (1985).

25 Facts About Back to the Future

'Back to the Future' may be a classic movie today, but the script was originally rejected more than 40 times. Here are some other things you might not know about Marty, Doc, and Doc's pet chimpanzee

R2-D2 and C-3PO Briefly Appear in Raiders of the Lost Ark

The 'Indiana Jones' series is full of Easter eggs from the 'Star Wars' saga—check out just a few of our favorites.

8 Films You Might Not Know Started as Stage Productions

Plenty of the Great White Way’s most notable productions have been reincarnated for the silver screen—think Rent, The Producers, and Chicago—but Off-Broadway and Broadway’s best have also spawned plenty of big screen versions that most people don’t realiz

The Closing Moment of Every Best Picture Winner

They're presented in reverse order, so you can quiz yourself as you go along.

11 Movies that Shaped the Digital Revolution

Hollywood is changing: Paramount Pictures no longer produces films on celluloid and Old Guard directors like Martin Scorsese are shooting their movies with digital cameras. Here’s a list of important films that helped propel Tinseltown’s controversial shi

11 Famous Movies Almost Named Something Else

It's often the first thing you know about a film, so when it comes to crafting the next blockbuster, movie makers are eager to get the name just right. That means if the first—or second—suggestion isn't a winner, it's back to the drawing board to find som

10 Proven Ways to Become a Movie Star

Did all movie stars start out as waiters and auditioning for any roles they could get? Hardly. These shortcuts to stardom worked for classic stars like Carole Lombard, John Wayne, and others.

The Warriors (1979) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p]

21 Street Gangs Featured in ‘The Warriors’

Can you dig it?

12 Guardians of the Galaxy Mashups

20 Mockbusters You Might Confuse for the Real Movie

Sometimes smaller studios try to cash in on a major movie by releasing their own low-budget version.

Why Were the Oscars Created?

"I found that the best way to handle [filmmakers] was to hang medals all over them."

7 Weird and Wonderful “Let It Go” Remixes

This Frozen number has taken the internet by storm.

9 Oscar Nominated Films We've Lost

It’s no surprise that the Academy Film Archive is also in on the hunt with its “Oscar’s Most Wanted” search, because a few of its own honorees are currently still missing.

Real Oscar Stories: Philomena

Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction—or, to be more accurate, the truth is all you need for a great movie. Such is the case with Best Picture nominee Philomena, starring Dame Judi Dench and Steve Coogan.

Real Oscar Stories: American Hustle

Thanks to an opening title screen that says, “Some of this actually happened,” we begin to wonder right from the get-go just how much of American Hustle occurred in real life.

7 Special Oscar Categories and Awards

While Oscar categories such as Best Actor in a Leading Role and Best Director are well-known, there are a few special categories and awards that are a little more obscure.

8 Theories About the Toy Story Franchise

You may have noticed that Andy's evil neighbor Sid returns briefly as the garbageman in 'Toy Story 3.'

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Dawn Barkan, Head Animal Trainer on Inside Llewyn Davis

If they gave out animal Oscars, Barkan's cats would surely take home the trophy.

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Expert Q&A: How Close Does Pompeii Reflect Reality?

Volcano expert Dr. Rosaly Lopes-Gautier sounds off on Hollywood’s latest disaster movie

5 Strange Movie Terms—Explained!

Here are five storytelling terms to store away for movie trivia night.

Namit Malhotra, the Man Who Helped Make 'Gravity' 3-D

Though lauded for its groundbreaking use of 3-D, the lost-in-space blockbuster 'Gravity' was actually filmed in two dimensions. It was up to the conversion experts at Prime Focus World—in collaboration with the VFX masters at Framestore—to change all that

11 Times “Fake Shemps” Replaced Real Actors

A Shemp refers to the stand-in required to replace an absent actor onscreen. Here are 11 cases when real actors were replaced by Fake Shemps, with directors crossing their fingers that no one would notice.

25 Movies With Similar Plots Released the Same Year

Though Hollywood studios develop films separately, sometimes movies that are eerily similar will be released in the same calendar year.

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