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The concept behind the ’60s movie theater Smell-O-Vision system has been revamped for modern times, in the form of a device that will release scents to match the scenes playing on your home theater system. MovieScent, which goes on sale in September, will release a range of smells according to the movie or TV show you’re watching, or the video game you’re playing, based on audio cues interpreted by AI. The $180 unit ($150 until Sept. 30) will come with six initial scents: ocean, fresh cut grass, restaurant, forest and storm, plus a manual clean air option to act as a palette cleanser. Each bot...
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Beastie Boys members Adam “Ad Rock” Horovitz and Michael “Mike D” Diamond have reflected upon their unique experience opening for Madonna. It was 1985 and both acts were in the early stages of their respective careers. Madonna had released her self-titled debut album in 1983 and followed it with 1984’s Like a Virgin. Beastie Boys, meanwhile, had yet to release their first studio LP, but the trio had earned substantial buzz in the New York music scene. Like a Virgin had delivered Madonna’s first chart-topping hit, thanks to its hugely popular title track. “Material Girl” soon followed, further ...
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One of the most distinctive screen presences in the history of movies has died. Shelley Duvall, best known for a string of films she made with director Robert Altman in the 1970s, and her unforgettable performance in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining passed away this week. She was 75 years old. Her longtime partner, Dan Gilroy, told The Hollywood Reporterthat Duvall “died in her sleep of complications from diabetes at her home in Blanco, Texas.” Born in Fort Worth in 1949, Duvall was attending junior college when she met Altman while he was filming Brewster McCloud in Texas. Altman and his crew en...
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Sylvester Stallone says that the first time he watched a rough cut of First Blood, he and his manager almost threw up in the back of an alley, then tried to figure out how to buy the movie back so they could destroy the negative. Based on the 1972 novel by David Morrell, First Blood tells the story of John Rambo, a war veteran who is forced to fight for his life after being abused by a small-town police force. “It was so bad,” Stallone told Howard Stern about the initial First Blood edit. “We tried to buy it back and burn the negative. Originally it was three hours long, I stayed an hour and a...
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Making a sequel to the beloved 1980 movieThe Blues Brothers after costar John Belushi‘s death was already going to be a difficult challenge. Director John Landis says movie executives made it impossible by interfering with the script for 1998’s Blues Brothers 2000. “I was very pissed off by what Universal did to me on Blues Brothers 2000 and that was my first experience with the new corporate Hollywood,” the Animal House, Trading Places and Coming to America director told IFC in 2011. “Everything is by committee now, and they destroyed that movie, though the music is still good. This happens t...
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Ordering popcorn at the movie theater has gotten a lot more interesting – and much more expensive – in recent years. As movie studios and theaters scramble to generate more income in the face of declining box office revenue, they’ve turned to merchandising. The simple paper buckets of the past have been upstaged by highly detailed plastic and tin works of art featuring characters or props from Hollywood’s latest blockbusters. They can sell for anywhere from $10 to $25 dollars, creating an irresistible new revenue opportunity for the struggling industry. You can see a gallery of 2024’s best pop...
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Think you want to be a contestant on Wheel of Fortune? You might want to think twice. Give the wrong answer and millions of people might be laughing at what you said on national television. That’s what happened to a gentleman named Tavaris this week after his episode of Wheel of Fortune aired. During one puzzle he gave an response that will surely go down in history as one of the raunchiest incorrect guesses in the series’ long history. There’s an image of the puzzle above. It’s a phrase. The second and and third words are clearly “in” and “the.” So what could it be:? Take it away Tavaris… REA...
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