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1 day ago · In 1908 one of the first storytelling movies, The Count of Monte Cristo, was completed in Hollywood after its filming had begun in Chicago. In 1911 a site on Sunset Boulevard was turned into Hollywood’s first studio, and soon about 20 companies were producing films in the area. In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel ...
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- What is Hollywood?Hollywood is a district within the city of Los Angeles, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. It is also called Tinseltown.
- Where is Hollywood?Hollywood is in Los Angeles, California. Lying northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beve...
- When was Hollywood founded?Hollywood was laid out as a subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, who was a prohibitionist from Kansas. However, real-estate magnate H.J. Whitley t...
- How did Hollywood get its name?Daeida Wilcox gave Hollywood its name. She was the wife of Harvey Wilcox, who owned the area and in 1887 submitted a subdivision map to the Los Ang...
- When was the Hollywood sign built?The iconic Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923. However, the sign did not read “Hollywood” but “Hollywoodland”; its purpose was advertisi...
1 day ago · The bulk of the film unfolds over the ensuing night. Roger first sneaks the 16-year-old Nick into a bar, where he sells his nephew on his rancid theory of seduction.
18 hours ago · The movie wasn't gonna happen in Yankee Stadium, and we already had a crew out there, and no one knew what to do about it, but George [Steinbrenner] wasn't gonna let it happen. It wasn't fair, and it came down to I didn't have no lawyer, no studio executive. Our movie was dead in the water. And somebody said, "Kevin, you need to talk to him."
2 days ago · Tenet is a 2020 science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, who also produced it with his wife Emma Thomas. A co-production between the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh.
1 day ago · District 9. District 9 is a 2009 science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp in his feature film debut, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham. It is a co-production of New Zealand, the United States, and South Africa. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and David James ...
4 days ago · A motion picture rating system was proposed in the Film and Video Act of 2007, and was passed on December 20, 2007 by the Thai military -appointed National Legislative Assembly, replacing laws which had been in place since 1930. The draft law was met with resistance from the film industry and independent filmmakers.
3 days ago · Trump Lawyers Send Cease and Desist Letter to ‘The Apprentice’ Producers to Block Release "The film is a fair and balanced portrait of the former president," the producers said of the film ...
