HOLLYWOOD – John Travolta is one of the most popular stars of all time but what do we really know about him? I’ve got FACTS they’re multiplying! And I’m losing control: 1. It’s hard to choose a stand out role in this fine actor’s long career: Tony Manero, Danny Zuko, Vincent Vega, Chili Palmer, Battlefield … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT JOHN TRAVOLTA”
HOLLYWOOD – Everyone knows Terrence Malick is a genius, but no one knows why. The Studio Exec FACT Squad have spent the weekend listening to whispering voice-overs and cavorting around wheat fields during the magic hour. The Terrence Malick FACTS are as follows: 1. Between the release of Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT TERRENCE MALICK”
HOLLYWOOD – AMC’s The Walking Dead returns for part two of its sixth season on Sunday with the show’s central group of survivors in danger from the zombie onslaught. With The Walking Dead returning, everyone is very excited but what do we really know about The Walking Dead? We sent the Studio Exec undead FACT Squad … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE WALKING DEAD”
HOLLYWOOD – Who knows who Helen Mirren actually is? No one that’s who. Here comes another storm of fact blizzards, freezing the wavering of doubt and making snowmen of the falsehood and gossip buckets of Hollywood. Dame Helen Mirren, fact off! While making the revolutionary film O Lucky Man with Malcolm McDowell, Dame Mirren accidentally hit … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT HELEN MIRREN”
UTAH – Sundance is American Independent cinema’s annual gathering, taking place in the high altitude resort of Park City and promoted by Robert Redford. But how much do we really know about this most secretive of cinematic happenings. The Studio Exec FACT squad – under the direction of Steven Soderbergh – were dropped by helicopter … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SUNDANCE”
HOLLYWOOD – With the release of the new trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s 8th film The Hateful Eight hitting the internet, what do we really know about this so called ‘Western’? The Studio Exec sent the FACT Squad into the snowy mountains to discover all they could about the new Quentin Tarantino film The Hateful Eight. … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT THE HATEFUL EIGHT”
HOLLYWOOD – We all know that Amy Schumer is a talented comic and actor and BFF of Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence, but what else do we need to know? The Studio Exec FACT Squad took a small Fantastic Voyage style submarine to find out what is really “Inside Amy Schumer”: Amy Schumer was born … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT AMY SCHUMER”
HOLLYWOOD – Although not strictly speaking a politics blog, Donald Trump is not strictly speaking a politician. In fact he isn’t strictly speaking anything we have a word for. So we sent the Studio Exec FACT squad to Trump towers to find out all we could about Donald Trump. Donald Trump first made his money … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT DONALD TRUMP”
HOLLYWOOD – Everybody knows who Steven Spielberg is, but do we really know WHO Steven Spielberg is? The answer is of course ‘Yes, he’s Steven Spielberg’ and here are five more FACTS that the Studio Exec FACT squad have attained: 1. If you talk about a television program while Steven Spielberg is in the room he … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT STEVEN SPIELBERG”
HOLLYWOOD – With the release of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie “The Hateful Eight” many pig ignorant film-goers are going ‘Spaghetti Westerns? What? How? Why and Where?’ Stop, shut up, sit down and let Studio Exec blow knowledge holes in your poncho of stupid with our six fact shooter. The Six Shooter of Fact 1. Although called … Continue reading “6 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT SPAGHETTI WESTERNS”
HOLLYWOOD – Paul Rudd will soon be appearing in ANT-MAN, but what do we really know about the man? Now, 5 FACTuals about Paul Rudd, actor and nice guy. 1. Paul Rudd made his name as the inventor of the popular tabletop game Jenga, which he developed with Steve Carrell, but then he gave away the … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT PAUL RUDD”
HOLLYWOOD – Stanley Kubrick still continues to have a massive influence on the world of Cinema today, but what do we really know about the director who brought us the Monolith, wrote Singing in the Rain and always directed films with his Eyes Wide Shut? The Studio Exec FACT squad was sent to the archives … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT STANLEY KUBRICK”
HOLLYWOOD – With the news that there will be a stand alone Star Wars Anthology movie for Han Solo directed by Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the Studio Exec FACT Squad jumped into their Millennium Falcon and ‘punched it’. So here are the five FACTS you need to know but didn’t about the man who … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT HAN SOLO”
HOLLYWOOD – He is one of the most exciting actors around, appearing in Slow West, Assassin’s Creed and a new version of Macbeth, but what do we really know about Michael Fassbender? The Michael Fassbender FACT squad parachuted behind enemy lines last night, to get FACTS! Here they are: 1. Michael Fassbender has a large … Continue reading “5 FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT MICHAEL FASSBENDER”
