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SOUND BYTES
The month in dialogue and digits.
‘I SORT OF AM RETIRED NOW… I AM BLOODY 90.’
MICHAEL CAINE SAYS THE GREAT ESCAPER IS HIS FINAL FILM.
146 THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT WGA MEMBERS WERE ON STRIKE BEFORE REACHING A TENTATIVE DEAL WITH STUDIOS IN LATE SEPTEMBER.
‘The character is the star. You’re there, but you don’t feel the burden of it.’
CHRIS EVANS AGREES WITH QUENTIN TARANTINO: THE STARS OF MARVEL MOVIES ARE THE CHARACTERS.
25,000
THE NUMBER OF YEARS BEFORE STAR WARS THAT DAVID GOYER’S UNMADE ‘SCRIPTMENT’ FOR AN ORIGIN-OF-THE-JEDI STORY WAS SET.
‘I met a witch, who said she could help me get it made.’
ACTOR AND SUMMER OF SAM CO-WRITER
MICHAEL IMPERIOLI ADOPTED UNUSUAL METHODS TO GET THE MOVIE GREENLIT.
‘THEY CAN TAKE WHAT YOU DID, BATMAN OR WHATEVER, AND CULTURALLY MISAPPROPRIATE IT… I’M IN QUIET REVOLT AGAINST ALL THIS.’
TIM BURTON
WASN’T HAPPY TO SEE HIS CAPED CRUSADER POP UP IN THE FLASH.
DEAR JOHN
John Carpenter is directing again! Sort of. He’s helmed an ep of John Carpenter’s Suburban Screams, an unscripted horror anthology on Peacock in the States.
BAD THING
PRIME AND PUNISHMENT
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‘STOP YELLING AT ME! WE J UST STOPPED DOING IT BECAUSE IRON MAN DIED.’
GWYNETH PALTROW IS FED UP OF BEING ASKED ABOUT PEPPER POTTS.