Red Tails
- Director: Anthony Hemingway
- Cast: Bryan Cranston, David Oyelowo, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Daniela Ruah, Terrence Howard, Andre Royo
- Language: English, Français
- Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 2012
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Tagline: High-Octane Action and Daring Dogfights!
Synopsis: The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.
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Weekend Box Office: 'Underworld: Awakening' Sucks Its Way To #1, While 'Red Tails' Shoots Into #2
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In Theaters: Go 'Haywire' With 'Miss Bala,' 'Red Tails' & 'Underworld: Awakening' Or Go Shakespeare With 'Coriolanus'
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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 Playlist Reviews
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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