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| This Coen Brothers' PG-13 adventure remake from 2010, starring Jeff Bridges, soon became the director duo's biggest hit, and the highest-grossing western since Wild Wild West (1999 | |
| The surprise hit comedy from 2009, was the fastest R-rated youth comedy to reach the $200 million mark (it took 30 days). | |
| This institute announced its list of the Top 100 American Films of All Time, with Orson Welles' classic Citizen Kane (1941) ranked # 1. | |
| The most expensive film of all time in 1997, also soon became the highest grossing and most successful film of all-time in Hollywood history, surpassing the record of Star Wars. | |
| The highest-grossing (domestic) movie of 1989 was director Tim Burton's neo-gothic and dark (...) , an adult version of a comic-book thriller. | |
| She became the first performer to acquire ten Academy Award acting nominations (1935-1962). This legendary actress, died in 1989 at the age of 81 in France, of breast cancer. | |
| This production company started when brothers Bob and Harvey Weinstein purchased and renovated a run-down movie theater, and turned it into a profitable college art house. | |
| He declined his nomination for his role in 'The Hustler' (1961), becoming the first actor to decline an Oscar nomination (received in 1962). | |
| In 1991 Pixar and Disney agreed to co-produce the first fully computer-generated feature film, released four years later. | |
| To maximize profits from weekend audiences, the industry decided to move major film openings from mid-week to this day in 1973. | |
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| Brian De Palma's satirical draft-dodger comedy from 1968, was the first film in the US to receive the new rating of X by the MPAA - for nudity and profanity. | |
| After making sixteen Paramount feature movies together from 1949 to 1956, this film duo broke up, after their last teaming in the comedy/musical Hollywood or Bust (1956). | |
| This Best Picture-winning film (1956) was notable for the dozens of credited cameo roles for its many stars. The term 'cameo appearance' was popularized by this film. | |
| Japan gave birth to the long-running series of (...) monster films with Ishiro Honda's Gojira (1954, Jp.). | |
| This company introduced the video laser disc (aka laserdisc/LD) the first optical disc storage media for the consumer market in 1978. | |
| Disney's 1991 film was the first animated film to be nominated for Best Picture by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. | |
| This 12 year-old actor was paid $8 million in 1992 to star in the second highest-grossing (domestic) film of the year, the largest paycheck for a child star. | |
| The first in a trilogy of films, was the first major Marvel superhero comic ever adapted for the screen in 2000, and also one of the most profitable film franchises (of comics). | |
| This movie from 2002 became the first musical to win Best Picture since Oliver! (1968) - 34 years earlier. | |
| She was nominated as Best Director for Lost in Translation, becoming the first American woman nominated for Best Director and only the third woman ever nominated for Best Director. | |
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