Red Tails
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'Red Tails" Tops The DVD Sales List
Red Tails wasn't the burst-out box office hit as was hoped for, but it's doing extremely well on the home media front.
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Weekend Box Office: 'Underworld: Awakening' Sucks Its Way To #1, While 'Red Tails' Shoots Into #2
If there was ever a weekend that better illustrated the divide between audience and critics, we certainly can't remember it. Following a financially successful franchise pattern thus far, "Underworld: Awakening" joined the other films in the series in opening to over $20 million. In th...
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The Doc Option: Instead of "Red Tails" Watch "Wings for This Man"
George Lucas is back with his first non-"Star Wars" or "Indiana Jones" production in nearly 20 years, and it's a World War II actioner about the African American pilots and crewmen known as the Tuskegee Airmen. If you're already familiar with the history of these heroic men, by all means go see the ...
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In Theaters: Go 'Haywire' With 'Miss Bala,' 'Red Tails' & 'Underworld: Awakening' Or Go Shakespeare With 'Coriolanus'
What a weekend for female-oriented action movies! It's almost like Steven Soderbergh requested "Haywire" be released the same weekend as "Underworld: Awakening," the latest entry in the dum-dum vampire franchise. You know, as a commentary on the female action hero. Regar...
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Review: 'Red Tails' Is A Hoary Mixture Of Jingoistic Clichés & Newfangled Technology
George Lucas has been pretty outspoken about how difficult his "Red Tails" was to get made – that he had to finance it himself, and when he showed it to studio heads they weren't much interested. And he's framed these stories around race, saying that the reason that "Red Tails" was summarily rejecte...
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Producer Rick McCallum Reveals 'Red Tails' Was Originally Conceived As A Trilogy
It was 1984. In a studio in England, a small film called "Dreamchild" was shooting under producer Rick McCallum, with a crew of only twenty people. While they only used one room of the studio space, the rest of the area was taken over by the potential blockbuster "Return To Oz," ...
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'Red Tails' Cast Talks The FX Heavy Shoot; Film Earned The Approval Of George H.W. Bush
"Red Tails" is not your average studio release. Distributed by Fox, it was wholly produced and financed by Lucasfilms, the first property under that label in years that wasn't "Star Wars"-related. But instead of a Rebel Alliance fighting an intergalactic war against The Dark ...
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The Saga Continues...Watch "Sh*t White Execs Said To George Lucas About 'Red Tails' Film"
Looks like these spoofs will NEVER end but, admittedly, this one will give you a chuckle! Sometimes you gotta laugh to keep from crying...Special thanks to S&A Film Challenge Winner Ka'ramuu Kush for this one.
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Nate Parker Says He Plays A Gang Member In Spike Lee's 'Red Hook Summer'
Despite a brief synopsis, we're still uncertain as to what to expect from Spike Lee's "Red Hook Summer." It looks and feels a lot different than Lee's previous offerings, but while it features "Do The Right Thing" protagonist Mookie in a small role, it will likely be ...
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Watch: 7 Minutes From The George Lucas Produced WWII Film 'Red Tails'; George Lucas Says Black Cinema Riding On Its Success
In the works for decades, the George Lucas-produced WWII film "Red Tails," about the famed Tuskegee Airmen, first started filming way back in 2009. And there is a lot riding on this movie, including no less the fate of financing for movies centered around or featuring black actors in the l...
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