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Steven Spielberg made a 9/11 movie without calling it a 9/11 movie. Released in the summer of 2005, War of the Worlds was overshadowed by its tent-pole release date and the personal drama surrounding star Tom Cruise (this was around the time of the couch thing on Oprah). The film was still a hit grossing $603 million worldwide, but it was also a film that was at turns deeply disturbing and further toyed with the audience in its controversial third act when Ray Ferrier (Cruise) and his daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) run into the unstable Harlan Ogilvy (…
The Criterion Collection has announced which titles they will be releasing on DVD and Bluray in July. Among the titles is Noah Baumbach's Oscar-nominated feature Marriage Story and the 1953 adaptation of H.G. Wells' sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds directed by Byron Haskin. As is often the case, the Criterion team announced their July releases in their latest newsletter. For the July collection, Criterion notes in the newsletter this set of releases "have us pondering the extremes of life and love," to which I say, "Boy, you're not kidding around here, huh?" In …
The entertainment landscape is not exactly hurting for adaptations of H.G. Wells' alien invasion novel War of the Worlds. We've got em', from the 1938 radio drama that basically pranked the world into a panic, to Steven Spielberg's underrated 2005 take that saw Tom Cruise sprinting through the apocalypse. It's a great story, and every era of human life has been linked with our general existential fear about our place in the universe. But the basic bones of Wells' tale have also mostly been kept the same through every adaptation: Extraterrestrial life arrives on Earth in …
MTV'S The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2 winners were this season’s underdogs as the United Kingdom team pulled out a win that few expected.
On this season of The Challenge, Leroy Garret joins Cara Maria Sorbello's alliance in a desperate bid to make it through War of the Worlds 2.
Rafe Spall and Eleanor Tomlinson star in the trailer for a new miniseries adaptation of H.G. Well's classic science fiction tale War of the Worlds.
The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2 show fans a sneak peek for this season, but it brings up some serious concerns about Wes Bergmann's health.
MTV's popular reality show, The Challenge: War of the Worlds 2, reveals that its cast will be split between American and British contestants.
HBO has released a new trailer for its upcoming adaptation of His Dark Materials, an adaptation of Sir Philip Pullman’s well-loved trilogy of fantasy novels. The epic tale is a fantasy adventure dealing with parallel worlds and what looks like a classic war between good and evil, and yet, it's likely not so simple. As Vinnie Mancuso wrote regarding the last trailer, "His Dark Materials takes place in a Victorian-inspired alternate reality in which humans live side by side with the living embodiments of their souls, known as daemons. The story follows a young woman named …