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  1. Aug 26, 2024 · By 1924 he was an assistant director on two-reel westerns and, more significantly, Fred Niblo’s Ben-Hur (1925). Between 1925 and 1928 Wyler directed more than two dozen silent westerns before graduating to the more prestigious genre of romantic comedy with Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928).

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  2. 4 days ago · The Eon series currently has twenty-five films, with the most recent, No Time to Die, released in September 2021. With a combined gross of $7.8 billion to date, it is the fifth-highest-grossing film series in nominal terms. [6]

  3. Aug 26, 2024 · Ultimately, it took in the then-gigantic box-office gross of $37 million and earned 12 Academy Award nominations, winning in 11 categories, including best picture, best director (Wyler’s third such award), best actor (Heston), and best supporting actor (Hugh Griffith).

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  4. Aug 26, 2024 · Wyler himself served as a major in the U.S. Army Air Corps in England during the war and made three documentaries about the bomber groups to which he was attached: The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), The Fighting Lady (1944), and Thunderbolt (1947; codirected with John Sturges).

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  5. Sep 6, 2024 · Even though he still lacked a leading man, Wyler took the assignment for many reasons: He was promised a base salary of $350,000 as well as 8 percent of the gross box office (or 3 percent of the net profits, whichever was greater), [36] and he wanted to work in Rome again (in Hollywood on the Tiber, where he had filmed Roman Holiday).

  6. Aug 18, 2024 · Wyler would actually go on to direct Cooper himself in The Westerner (1953), but he was no stranger to Westerns by this time. From 1925-1928, Swiss-German immigrant Wyler directed only Westerns -- all silent films .

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  8. Aug 25, 2024 · The Kingsman movies offer an alternative take on British espionage, and they can be watched by release order or by their chronological order of events.

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