The Only Main Actors Still Alive From 1974’s The Towering Inferno

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In a flash and with a fierce blaze, “The Towering Inferno” stormed the box office, earning an impressive profit and standing out as a key film in the surge of disaster movies during the mid-1970s. Not only was it a marvel of cinematic technology back then, but it also garnered numerous Oscar nominations, just one fewer than Irwin Allen’s other disaster production, “The Poseidon Adventure.” This is undeniably a disaster movie that every film enthusiast should witness before they bid farewell to this world.

It Ends With Us’ Colleen Hoover Recalls Lessons She Learned From 50 Shades Of Grey Author When It Comes To Handling Negative Critics

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As a devoted fan, I can’t help but express my anticipation for Colleen Hoover’s masterpiece, “It Ends With Us,” which is creating quite the buzz on TikTok and beyond. The book has garnered both high acclaim and harsh criticism, but with its upcoming film adaptation slated for 2024, the conversation surrounding it is heating up once more. In light of this resurgence, Colleen Hoover is shedding some insights into how she navigates the storm of negative critiques. Interestingly, she’s also sharing lessons gleaned from E.L. James, the author of “50 Shades of Grey,” on handling such situations gracefully.

Ryan Reynolds Helped Kal Penn Get Cast Instead of a White Dude in Brownface

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23 years ago, Hollywood was in a significantly less diverse and inclusive phase when it came to racial representation in films. Actor Kal Penn serves as evidence of this fact. In an interview with Rolling Stone to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the beloved comedy “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle,” Penn opened up about the hurdles he faced as an actor of Indian descent in Hollywood, and how during his audition for his breakout role in “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder,” he was competing against a person wearing brownface.

Antoine Fuqua Laments Being Replaced Weeks Before American Gangster Began Filming

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In Hollywood, everyone is forced to get used to missed opportunities, especially when one has been deep in the trenches trying to get a project made. There are many stories of actors and directors who were marginally close to landing a film before something fell apart ahead of production and things unfortunately didn’t work out. Despite an impressive filmography, director Antoine Fuqua says that this very situation happened to him involving a project with Denzel Washington, and it’s still one that gets to the filmmaker 17 years later despite having made five movies with Washington.