The Oxford English Dictionary adds the Star Wars word lightsaber, but spells it wrong, all thanks to a difference in U.K. and U.S. spellings.
Tolkien is a biopic opening for Fox in theaters on May 10th, 2019. As part of the junket experience in London, England, Collider was invited to take part in an Oxford tour highlighting not only filming locations used in the movie, but where the genius who inspired the film and created The Lord of the Rings franchise spent the majority of his life. As highlighted in Tolkien, the man, the myth, the legend took his undergrad at Exeter College (which you can see in several of our photos), before moving on to study at Pembroke College and eventually teaching at …
Against the wishes of Mel Gibson and the film’s director, the first trailer for The Professor and the Madman has been released online. First, the details. The biographical film is based on the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester and chronicles the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, which was steered by Professor James Murray (Gibson) who enlisted the help of Dr. William Chester Minor (Sean Penn), who had been imprisoned for murder. As publication loomed, the committee behind the dictionary moved to strike the Minor’s involvement from the record, while Murray aimed to have Minor’… The post Mel Gibson and Sean Penn Create the Oxford Dictionary in ‘The Professor and the Madman’ Trailer appeared first on Collider.