For those of us who were born in the 80s or 90s, most likely remember the good old days of PC and console gaming. To play a game it was enough to buy a CD or a cartridge, or to simply rent it from your local Blockbuster. There were no DLCs, no microtransactions; just buy ...
Dustin Hoffman is perfectly cast in the romantic comedy Tootsie (1982), a blockbuster hit from 1982 with much going on within its cinematic walls and a progressive-leaning slant. Sydney Pollack directs and also has a supporting role in the film. In addition to Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri G...
To that end, his forays outside the bounds of horror look as much like working vacations as mere paycheck gigs. There are glimmers of liberated joy in the workmanlike marshaling of big-budget spectacle that defines his blockbuster assignments,Furious 7andAquaman. Neither plays to the directo...
“‘Mysterious Ways’ was a bass line in search of a song,” singer Bono wrote in the band’s 2006 autobiography,U2 by U2. “But it was never much more than a one-note groove for a long time.” However, as with so many of their previous songs, the Edge lifted the idea by messin...
Primarily located in the Southeast, BI-LO had hundreds of stores under its banner at its peak in the early 2000s but wound up announcing bankruptcy in 2018. After a substantial effort to restructure, the chain closed up its last locations in 2021. Blockbuster Pat Greenhouse/TheBoston Globe /...
half a can of spray starch and make sure that crease be, like, you could almost stand the pants up, like, you know, because there'd be so much starch. It was like a finesse game, like who had the most finesse as far as with their moves and their dancing and especially the look....
Gradually over time, as we grew our market, his thinking evolved but initially they ignored us and that was much to our advantage.” Popular on Variety Blockbuster would pursue other ventures. In 2000, it inked a 20-year-exclusive video-on-demand pact with Enron Broadband Services as the ...
A true blockbuster of a record,Falling Into Youreportedlyshifted a colossal 32 million copies, placing it in the same bracket asThe Beatles’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club BandandEagles’Hotel California. It spawned two No.1 hits: the slow-building theme to the Robert Redford/Michelle Pfeif...
When Family Video finally went out of business in 2022, it was thelast remaining brick-and-mortar media retail chainin the country. Located primarily in more rural towns and mid-sized cities, initially to avoid competition with Blockbuster, the company had managed to survive for so long becaus...
In 2017, Jeff Bezos began giving massive budget allocations to Amazon Studios to buy the rights to the blockbuster "Lord of the Rings" franchise. The effort was the start of a push to position Amazon Studios at the top of the original content pyramid with the likes of HBO and Netflix. ...