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Jaws actress Susan Backlinie has died at the age of 77. The actress and stuntwoman is best remembered for portraying the young woman goes for a late-night ocean swim only to be eaten by a shark in the opening scene of the 1975 thriller but she passed away on Saturday at her home in California, her agent Matthew Templeton has confirmed. He told The Daily Jaws: “It is with heartfelt regret to confirm our beloved Susan passed away this morning. We would like to thank everyone for their condolences at this time. Please respect the family’s privacy during this difficult time.” For her brief but mem...
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Hollywood is mourning the loss of one of the giants of American independent and cult cinema. Roger Corman reigned as the biggest name in little movies for much of the second half of the twentieth century. Through his various production companies, he directed and produced some of the most popular and influential cult, genre, and exploitation movies in history — and he also gave first jobs to some of the most successful filmmakers ever. Sadly, Corman passed away on May 9th. An post on his official Instagram account said Corman died “surrounded by his family.” He was 98 years old. “He is survived...
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Liam Neeson’s The Naked Gun has its leading lady: Pamela Anderson. It’s maybe an off-kilter pick, but it’s fitting for the franchise, a spoof of old cop movies and TV shows that began as the short-lived television series Police Squad! and then became the hit trilogy of films The Naked Gun. Leslie Nielsen played bumbling LA cop Frank Drebin in the show and the movies. According to The Hollywood Reporter, while “plot details [for the remake] are being locked away with other police files … it is known that Neeson is playing Drebin.” Anderson is the film’s main love interest. In the originalNaked ...
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The Breakfast Club, which premiered in Los Angeles on Feb. 7, 1985, may be the finest movie about American high school life ever made. Regarded as one of the seminal films of the ’80s, John Hughes‘ movie is a compendium of the anxieties, confusion and joys of teenage existence. It made Hughes a star, and he’d go on to write or direct other classics like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Home Alone, and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. It also helped launch the careers of Molly Ringwald, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy. The film’s most lasting effect was to create a tem...
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You’d be a fool to think Ghostbusters wasn’t going to succeed when it hit theaters in 1984. Stars Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray were Saturday Night Live veterans who found big screen success in films like The Blues Brothers and Stripes, while co-stars Harold Ramis (who wrote the film with Aykroyd) and Rick Moranis were veterans of Canadian sketch show SCTV. And the concept – man-child misfits go into business as paranormal exterminators and take New York City by storm – sounded great on paper. But Ghostbusters had even more cultural appeal than expected. The film was not only the biggest of 1984...
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An upcoming film based on the real events behind the opening night of the first ever Saturday Night Live now has its cast. Here is what we know so far about SNL 1975. What Is SNL 1975 About?SNL 1975 will cover the debut night of the long-running sketch comedy show. “Based on the screenwriters’ interviews with the show’s living cast, scribes and crew, the film is set to focus on the formative moment in October 1975 for the the NBC sketch show that is currently airing its 49th season,” The Hollywood Reporter said in a recent report. The late-night show debuted October 11, 1975 as NBC’s Saturday ...
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