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Collective Diverse City - A celebration of black Sheffield artists – some of the fashion designers, painters, graphic designers, street artists, singers, musicians, DJs, producers etc. - plus the movers and shakers of the local creative world.
Held at 'The City of Makers Gallery hosted by the Alt Seen Eye' shop.
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Strand Theater (soda fountain), S. Federal Avenue, Mason City, Iowa
1980.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-1).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Motion picture theaters--1980.
United States--Iowa--Mason City.
Format: Slides--1980.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01042
Call Number: LC-MA05- 1042
.... Freestanding box office / ticket booth .... Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
British postcard by Box Office, no. BOPC 3035. Photo: Deborah Feingold. Caption: March 12th, 1987.
Michael J. Fox (1961) is a Canadian-born actor, best known for his roles as Alex P. Keaton in the TV series Family Ties (1982-1989) and as Marty McFly in the Back to the Future trilogy. He also played Mike Flaherty in the television series Spin City.
Michael J. Fox is the stage name of Michael Andrew Fox, who was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1961. His parents are Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. They moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, after his father, a sergeant in the Canadian Army Signal Corps, retired. During these years Michael developed his desire to act. Fox uses 'J.' as the second initial, in homage to actor Michael J. Pollard. He did not choose Michael A. Fox, as this could possibly be associated with arrogance (a fox). His first role was at the age of twelve in the popular drama series The Beachcombers (1973) about the adventures of a professional lumber salvager and his friends in British Columbia. At 15 he successfully auditioned for the role of a 10-year-old in a series called Leo and Me (1978). At 18 he moved to Los Angeles and he was surviving on boxes of macaroni and cheese. until he was able to get his green card. His first role in a film was in Letters From Frank (Edward Parone, 1979) starring Art Carney. Things started breaking for Fox in 1980, when he won a regular role on the weekly series Palmerstown, U.S.A. (1980-1981) and a supporting part in the theatrical film Midnight Madness (Michael Nankin, David Wechter, 1980). At 5'4" (163 cm), the baby-faced Fox was able to play adolescents and teenagers well into his twenties; during the early stages of his career, however, his height lost him as many roles as he won. In 1982, Fox rose to fame in the television long-running sitcom Family Ties (1982-1989), in which he played Alex P. Keaton, the conservative, college-educated son of a hippie-era couple. He was only chosen after Matthew Broderick, who was originally considered for the role, refused to have a long-term television obligation. Before the series ran its course, Fox had won three Emmys, one of them for an unforgettable "one-man show" in which his character soliloquized over the suicide of a close friend. In 1982, he made a splash in the cinemas with Class of 1984 (Mark L. Lester, 1982), a mix between Dangerous Minds and A Clockwork Orange, starring Perry King. He also starred in the feature films High School U.S.A. (Rod Amateau, 1983), Teen Wolf (Rod Daniel, 1985) and Poison Ivy (Larry Elikann, 1985). His real breakthrough came with his role as the time-travelling teen Marty McFly in the Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985), in which he starred with Christopher Lloyd. The role of Marty McFly was initially intended for Eric Stoltz because Fox was shooting Family Ties. But during the shoot, filmmakers found Stolz unsuitable for the role and asked Fox for the role. Back to the Future (1985) was an enormous hit which spawned two sequels, Back to the Future Part II (Robert Zemeckis, 1989) and Back to the Future Part III (Robert Zemeckis, 1990). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "Not all of Fox's subsequent movie projects were so successful -- although several of them, notably The Secret of My Success (Herbert Ross, 1987) and Casualties of War (Brian De Palma, 1989), were commendable efforts that expanded Fox's range. In later years, the actor seemed to be having difficulty finding the vehicle that would put him back on top, although he continued to keep busy."
In the fall of 1996, Michael J. Fox returned to television in the ABC sitcom Spin City (1996-2001), of which he was also a co-producer. He starred in the series as Michael Flaherty, the Deputy Mayor of New York City. That same year, he could also be seen in the films Mars Attacks! (Tim Burton, 1996) with Jack Nicholson and The Frighteners (Peter Jackson, 1996). In 1998, Fox revealed that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. When filming Doc Hollywood (Michael Caton-Jones, 1991), he had noticed his finger twitching. He was unable to control it. He then saw a doctor and was diagnosed with Parkinson's. Due to his Parkinson's disease, he often hid his left hand in his pocket during his run on Spin City. In 1999, he lent his talents to another wee character, voicing the title role of Stuart Little (Rob Minkoff, 1999), the film adaptation of E.B. White's beloved children's book about a walking, talking mouse. In 2000, he decided to retire as an actor and was succeeded in Spin City by Charlie Sheen. Since then, Fox has been a fundraiser for stem cell research. He believes that this technique can help cure neurological diseases in the future. As a result of his illness, he had to give up acting in films and series and was mainly a voice actor in animated films, including Stuart Little 2 (Rob Minkoff, 2002). In 2006, he did have a guest role in several episodes of the series Boston Legal, which earned him an Emmy nomination. In 2011 and 2017, he starred 'as himself' in the series Curb Your Enthusiasm. Thanks to the new medication, he was able to act again. In 2013 he starred in the comedy television series, The Michael J. Fox Show, based on his own life. He also appeared in the popular TV series The Good Wife (2010-2016) starring Julianne Margulies. Fox wrote four autobiographical books about his experiences with early onset Parkinson's disease: 'Lucky Man: A Memoir' (2002), 'Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist' (2009), 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned' (2010), and 'No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality' (2020). In them, he candidly recounts his life before and after the diagnosis and how the initially difficult time turned into a very important period in his life. Michael J. Fox married Tracy Pollan, whom he met on the set of Family Ties, in 1988. Together they have four children.
Sources: Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Wikipedia (Dutch) and IMDb.
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British postcard by Box Office, no. BO 1115. Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi in The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980). Caption: It's alright - We are on a mission from God.
Dan Aykroyd (1952) is a Canadian film actor and comedian who co-wrote Saturday Night Live, for which he won an Emmy Award. A true lover of the blues, he was a host of the radio show 'House of Blues' under the alias Elwood Blues. He would later use this name in the film The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980), in which he starred alongside John Belushi. He also starred in such comedies as Trading Places (John Landis, 1983) opposite Eddy Murphy, Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) with Bill Murray, and My Stepmother Is an Alien (Richard Benjamin, 1988) with Kim Basinger. In 1989, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the drama Driving Miss Daisy (Bruce Beresford, 1989).
John Belushi (1949) was hired in 1973 as a writer for the National Lampoon's Radio Hour which became the National Lampoon Show in 1975. John's big break came that same year when he joined the ground-breaking TV variety series Saturday Night Live (1975) which made him a star. His unpredictable, aggressively physical style of humour flowered on SNL. Director John Landis cast him in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) as the notorious, beer-swilling "Bluto" and he stole the movie. John and Dan Aykroyd appeared in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and in John Landis' The Blues Brothers (1980). John's love for blues and soul music inspired the "Blues Brothers". He and Aykroyd first appeared as Joliet Jake and Elwood Blues, a pair of white soul men dressed in black suits, skinny ties, fedora hats and Rayban sunglasses, as a warm-up act before the telecasts of Saturday Night Live (1975). Building on the success of their acts and the release of their album "A Briefcase Full of Blues", John and Dan Aykroyd starred in the movie, which gave John a chance to act with his favourite musical heroes including Ray Charles, James Brown and Aretha Franklin. In 1982, Belushi was found dead of a drug overdose in his hotel room at the age of 33.
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Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada.
Tuesday, September 27, 2016.
German postcard by Krüger, nr. 902/232. Photo: Gérard Decaux.
French starlet Silvia Sorente (1941) appeared as a sensual leading lady in a dozen French, Spanish and Italian B-films of the 1960’s.
Silvia Sorente was born in 1941 in Paris, France. In her films she is sometimes credited as Sylvia Sor(r)ent(e) or Jane Fleming. She made her first film appearances in French films like the actioner Hold-up à Saint-Trop' (1960, Louis Félix) and the rather sordid drama L'Eternite Pour Nous/Sin on the Beach (1961, Jose Benazeraf). According to the IMDb reviewer “the main raison d'etre of this minor films is to show off the magnificent body of Sylvia Sorrente, which it does to great effect in teasing states of semi-undress and wetness. The film reflects the zeitgeist of the early 60's before outright nudity, panting and grappling took charge.” More interesting is her next film, Taras Bulba, il cosacco/Plains of Battle (1963, Ferdinando Baldi). This Italian production had the same title, plot and release date as its famous Hollywood treatment Taras Bulba (1962), but no stars nor budget. However, in the opinion of the IMDb reviewer, it is a superior film to the Hollywood version. She then appeared as the dancer-informant Lolita in the Euro-western El Llanero/The Jaguar (1963, Jess Franco) starring Jose Suarez and Roberto Camardiel. This was cult director Franco’s only foray into the genre of the Western. It tells the story of the civil war in Venezuela in the 1860’s. On his blog I’m in a Jess Franco State of Mind Robert Monell calls it “a beautifully composed (by Emilio Foriscot) period adventure/melodrama which looks and plays like a classical US western with its Fordian images of silhouetted riders seen on distance ridges, while also providing a glimpse of the coming Sergio Leone Euro-western style”. And according to Robert Firsching (All Movie Guide) “Sylvia Sorente's steamy performance is the highlight of this entertaining curio”.
Silvia Sorente created a stir by going topless in the Italian haunted house production Danza Macabra/Castle of Blood (1964, Antonio Margheriti). Danza Macabra is an early horror film from genre director Antonio Margheriti (aka Anthony M. Dawson) in which a cast including horror icon Barbara Steele is terrorized in a haunted castle. According to Robert Girsching it is “one of the best Italian horror films of the decade” and “one of the handful of definitive Italian gothics”. Later Margheriti would remake the film in widescreen color as Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno/Web of the Spider (1971). In the British sex comedy Mission to Paradise/Bikini Paradise (1965, Gregg G. Tallas) two military officers are shipwrecked on an island. The island is populated by beautiful young and nearly naked girls who want to use them for marriage and mating purposes. Silvia is of course one of the virgins. Shen then worked in France and appeared in Ne nous fachons pas/Let's Not Get Angry (1966, Georges Lautner). Lino Ventura stars in this crime comedy as a former gangster who comes out of retirement to help a petty thief. Silvia played Ventura’s girlfriend.
Silvia Sorrente played a small part in The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966, Terence Young). This spy adventure provides a look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original story, set in Iran, was written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming who died shortly before he was to pen the screenplay. The film was originally made for tv and starred Senta Berger and Yul Brynner. Funded in part by a grant from Xerox, it was the last of four television films commissioned by the United Nations, to publicise its missions and roles in world peace and diplomacy. The film was narrated by Grace Kelly (as Princess Grace of Monaco) and also contains several cameos from stars like Angie Dickinson, Rita Hayworth and Marcello Mastroianni. The stars worked for a salary of $1 to support the anti-drug message. In 1967 a theatrical version was released into American theaters. One of her last films was the espionage thriller Le vicomte règle ses comptes/The Viscount s (1967, Maurice Cloche). She starred opposite Hollywood star Kerwin Mathews, who plays a smooth-talking insurance investigator who looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two famous gangs involved in a drug war. The story was based on one of the popular OSS 117 spy books by Jean Bruce. When The Viscount was shown in the US in May 1967 Silvia’s name was dubbed into Jane Fleming. The American distributors felt that her alliterative name was not appealing enough to American audiences, while alliterative names used to be so popular (Brigitte Bardot, Claudia Cardinale, Diana Dors, Marilyn Monroe …..). And then her career stopped. Where did Silvia Sorente stay? Sadly I could not find more webinformation about her.
Sources: Robert Monell (I’m in a Jess Franco State of Mind), Robert Firsching (All Movie Guide), Answers.com, Boxoffice, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
If Transformers The Movie is Freaking Awesome movie, Transformers : Revenge of The Fallen will be SUPER Freaking Awesome movie. 2hrs plus jaw dropping action scenes, lot of robots plus hot Megan Fox... hehehehe.... 5 stars out of 5 (Because I like action movie... nyehnyehnyeh).
The window of what was the ticket booth at the now derelict cinema in Pissouri, Cyprus. The Cinema itself looks like someone's house.
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Berkley Theater, forecourt and marquee detail, Robins, Berkley, Michigan
1976.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Motion picture theaters--1970-1980.
United States--Michigan--Berkley.
Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01229
Call Number: LC-MA05- 1229
Margolies, John,, photographer.
Washington Theater, Royal Oak, Michigan
1976.
1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Notes:
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Movie theaters; Main Street.
Purchase; John Margolies 2008 (DLC/PP-2008:109-2).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation.
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Subjects:
Motion picture theaters--1970-1980.
United States--Michigan--Royal Oak.
Format: Slides--1970-1980.--Color
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Margolies, John John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (DLC) 2010650110
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.01172
Call Number: LC-MA05- 1172
Since: 1954
Address: 16th Street & Cleveland Place, Denver, Colorado
CinemaTreasures.org ID: 7171
Film playing: RIVER OF NO RETURN (1954)
This beautiful theatre in Streamline Moderne Art Deco designed by Carl G. Moeller, only had it's doors open for just over 25 years when it was demolished around 1980 to become a different kind of centre... downtown Denver's 16th Street Mall.
This postcard was released to advertise it's opening, as you can read on the Marquee.
The back of the card reads: "The first large deluxe movie theatre to be built since 1946, the Centre boasts the West's largest CinemaScope screen, plush loge seating throughout the auditorium, the world's finest Stereophonic sound system, automatically controlled air-conditioning, interior lighting to brighten your everyday mood. When in Denver, make the Centre Theatre a habit."
If you look closely at the posters you might recognise Marlyn Monroe. Combine that with the CinemaScope logo (the cinema was operated by the Fox Intermountain Theatres chain) and it's no surprise the Centre opened with the World Premiere of RIVER OF NO RETURN with a red carpet full of "Hollywood stars in person" attending.
The auditorium seated 1,247 patrons who could gaze at the huge 60 feet wide CinemaScope screen.
©Published by Ad-Press Photos, Inc., Denver, Colorado 76208.
The Miller Theater was designed in the Art Moderne style by Roy Benjamin and opened in 1940. The theater closed in the 1980s and was restored and reopened as the home of the Augusta Symphony in 2018. Found in the Augusta Downtown Historic District which is on the National Register of Historic Places #04000515.
The Ritz Theatre is located on the town square across from the Anderson County Court House. It opened in 1945 and closed as a movie theatre in 1969. It was reopened again in 1972 and housed the Red Speeks Country Music Show which was a local radio show. It was closed again in 1987.
In 2000 it was cleaned up, remodeled and reopened featuring movies and live performances. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D5200 and combined with Photomatix to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
I had just enough time to grab a couple of shots of the AMC 16 theater exterior before my friend insisted we leave and head home. This is located in beautiful downtown Burbank, near the shopping mall and all the shops and restaurants. The Batman statue would be to my left.
This is the lobby to the Pacific Theaters at the Americana. This also has had a lot of people in line, going to see a movie at one of 18 screens there. But, like film production, exhibition is also suffering. Yes, people can watch DVDs, Blu-Rays, or streaming services as Netflix, or just watch regular TV. But it doesn't help this type of business.
Ironically, during the Great Depression, theaters did extremely well. Operation was cheap, and admission averaged anywhere from five cents to twenty-five cents. And for another ten cents one could buy a bag of popcorn. For people out of work and nothing else to do, ten cents for a movie and another ten cents for popcorn was just the thing. And one could stay inside and watch double features, selected short subjects, newsreels, and cartoons. But because this current crisis also affects production and exhibition, rendering close contact a problem, even theaters can't thrive during this period. Only home video, and only for product that already exists.
Stand in line
Get your tickets
I hope you will attend
It'll only cost you
Fifty cents to see
What life has done to
Those like you and me...
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Fantastic little box office at the Arena Theater in Point Arena...
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My birthday gift to my boyfriend was tickets to see Crosby, Stills & Nash yesterday at the Long Center. I am still not back down on this planet. Story tellers, musicians, lovers, historians, jesters, geniuses, all tied up in a bow made from pure melody.* I am so lucky/blessed to live in Austin and see these magnificent concerts.
Long Center
701 W. Riverside Drive
Austin, TX 78704
General Email: info@thelongcenter.org
Administrative Offices:
Monday–Friday, 9am–5pm
(512) 457-5100; fax (512) 457-5110
Box Office:
Monday–Friday, 10am–6pm
(512) 474-5664 (LONG); Fax (512) 457-5165; TTY (800) 735-2989
boxoffice@thelongcenter.org
British postcard by Box Office, no. BO 034.
Attractive American actor and producer Brad Pitt (1963) has received multiple awards and nominations including an Academy Award as a producer under his own company Plan B Entertainment. Pitt wildly varies his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Troy (2004) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011).
William Bradley ‘Brad’ Pitt was born in 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. His parents were William Alvin Pitt, who ran a trucking company, and Jane Etta (née Hillhouse), a school counsellor. He has a younger brother, Douglas (Doug) Pitt, and a younger sister, Julie Neal Pitt. Following his graduation from high school, Brad enrolled in the University of Missouri in 1982, majoring in journalism. Two weeks before earning his degree, Pitt left the university and moved to Los Angeles, where he took acting lessons and worked odd jobs. Pitt's acting career began with uncredited parts in such films as Less Than Zero (Marek Kanievska, 1987). His television debut came in May 1987 with a two-episode role on the soap opera Another World. In November of the same year, Pitt had a guest appearance on the sitcom Growing Pains. He appeared in four episodes of the legendary prime-time soap opera Dallas (1987-1988). In 1989 he made his film debut with a featured role in the slasher Cutting Class (Rospo Pallenberg, 1989) with Donovan Leitch. He first gained recognition as a sexy hitchhiker in the road movie Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991), who romances and cons Thelma (Geena Davis). Biograpy.com: “Pitt's combination of charming bad boy charisma and sensual playfulness—particularly in a fiery love scene with Geena Davis—made him a genuine sex symbol (and wore out the rewind button on many a VCR).“ His first leading roles in big-budget productions came with the dramas A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford, 1992) and Legends of the Fall (1994), for which Pitt received his first Golden Globe Award nomination, in the Best Actor category. He starred opposite Tom Cruise and Antonio Banderas as the vampire Louis de Pointe du Lac in the romantic horror film Interview with the Vampire (Neil Jordan, 1994), based on the novel by Anne Rice. Pitt also garnered attention for a brief appearance in the cult hit True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) as a stoner named Floyd, providing comic relief to the action film written by Quentin Tarantino. Pitt gave critically acclaimed performances as an emotionally tortured detective in the gory horror-thriller Se7en (David Fincher, 1995) and as frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in the psychological Science Fiction film 12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995), the latter earning him a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and an Academy Award nomination. Seven earned $327 million at the international box office. Pitt also starred in the legal drama Sleepers (Barry Levinson, 1996), and in an unglamorous, disturbing role in the cult film Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) about a bloody diversion for young professional males.
Brad Pitt was cast as an Irish Gypsy boxer with a barely intelligible accent in the British gangster film Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000). He then played Rusty Ryan in the heist film Ocean's Eleven (Steven Soderbergh, 2001) with George Clooney. Well-received by critics, Ocean's Eleven was highly successful at the box office, earning $450 million worldwide. It had two sequels, Ocean's Twelve (Steven Soderbergh, 2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (Steven Soderbergh, 2007). Ocean's Twelve earned $362 million worldwide, and the third sequel earned $311 million at the international box office. Pitt and Clooney's dynamic was described by CNN's Paul Clinton as "the best male chemistry since Paul Newman and Robert Redford." Another commercial success was Troy (Wolfgang Petersen, 2004), based on the Iliad. For his part as Achilles, he spent six months sword training and it helped establish his appeal as an action star. Troy was the first film produced by Plan B Entertainment, a film production company he had founded two years earlier with Jennifer Aniston and Brad Grey, CEO of Paramount Pictures. He then had a hit with the stylish action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Doug Liman, 2005), opposite Angela Jolie. Mr. & Mrs. Smith earned $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005. Pitt starred opposite Cate Blanchett in Alejandro González Iñárritu's multi-narrative drama Babel (2006). Pitt's performance was critically well-received. Babel received seven Academy and Golden Globe award nominations, winning the Best Drama Golden Globe, and earning a nomination for the Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe. Pitt then appeared in the black comedy Burn After Reading (Joel and Ethan Coen, 2008), his first collaboration with the Coen brothers. The film received a positive reception from critics, with The Guardian calling it "a tightly wound, slickly plotted spy comedy", noting that Pitt's performance was one of the funniest. Pitt received his second and third Academy Award nominations for his leading performances in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher, 2008) and Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011). In Benjamin Button Pitt played the title character, who is born as a 70-year-old man and ages in reverse. The film received thirteen Academy Award nominations in total and grossed $329 million at the box office worldwide. Pitt's next leading role came in the war film Inglourious Basterds, (Quentin Tarantino, 2009) which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Pitt played Lieutenant Aldo Raine, an American resistance fighter battling Nazis in German-occupied France. The film was a box office hit, taking $311 million worldwide, and garnered generally favourable reviews.
Brad Pitt had another commercial success with World War Z (Marc Forster, 2013), a thriller about a zombie apocalypse. Pitt produced the film which grossed $540 million against a production budget of $190 million. He also produced The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) and 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen, 2013), both of which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and also the experimental drama The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2009), a historical drama based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup. His productions Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011) and the comedy-drama The Big Short (Adam McKay, 2015), garnered Best Picture nominations too. Moneyball received six Academy Award nominations including Best Actor for Pitt. Not only his work, his personal life is also the subject of wide publicity. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pitt was involved in successive relationships with several of his co-stars, including Robin Givens, Jill Schoelen and Juliette Lewis. In addition, Pitt had a much-publicized romance and engagement to his Seven co-star Gwyneth Paltrow, whom he dated from 1994 to 1997. From 2000 till 2005, he was married to actress Jennifer Aniston. During their divorce, he fell in love with actress Angelina Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The entertainment media dubbed the couple "Brangelina" and they married in 2014. They have six children together, three of whom were adopted internationally. In 2015, Pitt starred opposite Jolie, in her third directorial effort, By the Sea, a romantic drama about a marriage in crisis, based on her screenplay. In September 2016, Jolie filed in real life for divorce from Pitt. In the World War II romantic thriller Allied (Robert Zemeckis, 2016), Pitt and Marion Cotillard played an intelligence officer and resistance fighter, respectively, who fell in love during a mission to kill a German official.
Sources: Biography.com, Wikipedia, and IMDb.
The old TRAIL Movie Theatre in Downtown ~ Saint Joseph, Missouri USA ~ Copyright ©2012 Bob Travaglione ~ www.JoeTown.Us ~ www.FoToEdge.com Note the great Vitrolite Tiles, Neon and Glass Bricks! It is a Classic Streamline Theatre Designed Building.
Some collections may vary little bit but this is the list of 1st day collection and gross collections
Baahubali – upto 73 Cr appx (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi & 10 screen of Malayalam )
Lingaa 39 Cr (Tamil & Telugu)
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In the Savannah Historic District, National Register of Historic Places #66000277, and also a National Historic Landmark.