While shooting a movie in 1981, Warren Beatty lectured his extras on the capitalist exploitation of labour, attempting to inspire them. A magazine called it the 4th dumbest decision in movie history because the extras went on strike, demanding higher wages! What film was Beatty making?
"Warren Beatty Henry Warren Beatty (""né"" Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for fourteen Academy Awards – four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for ""Reds"" (1981). Beatty is the only person to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for ""Heaven Can Wait"" (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with ""Reds"". Eight of the films he has produced have"
"to direct the film, but changed his mind. ""It never occurred to me to direct the movie,"" Beatty admitted, ""but finally, like most of the movies that I direct, when the time comes to do it, I just do it because it's easier than going through what I'd have to go through to get somebody else to do it."" Beatty's reputation for directorial profligacy—notably with the critically acclaimed ""Reds"" (1981), did not sit well with Disney. As a result, Beatty and Disney reached a contracted agreement whereby any budget overruns on ""Dick Tracy"" would be deducted from Beatty's fee as"
"gather samples of their blood to smear on actors for ""Heaven's Gate"", and also allegedly had a horse blown up with dynamite while shooting a battle sequence, the shot of which made it into the film. This film played a large part in renewed scrutiny of animal cruelty in films, and led to renewed official on-set jurisdiction to monitor the treatment of animals by the AHA in 1980. After the release of the film ""Reds"" (1981), the star and director of the picture, Warren Beatty apologized for his Spanish film crew's use of tripwires on horses while filming a battle"
"early misgivings by studio head Jack Warner, who put up the production money. Before filming began, Warner had asked an associate, ""What does Warren Beatty think he's doing? How did he ever get us into this thing? This gangster stuff went out with Cagney."" The film was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, and seven Golden Globe Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor. After ""Bonnie and Clyde"", Beatty acted with Elizabeth Taylor in ""The Only Game in Town"" (1970), directed by George Stevens; ""McCabe & Mrs. Miller"" (1971), directed by Robert Altman; ""Dollars"" (1971),"
"the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. It was with the RADA that he made his English stage debut. Beatty's film credits include: ""San Demetrio London"" (1943), ""Another Shore"" (1948), ""Against the Wind"" (1948),""Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N."" (1951), ""The Square Ring"" (1953), ""The Amorous Prawn"" (1962), """" (1968), ""Where Eagles Dare"" (1968), ""The Pink Panther Strikes Again"" (1976), ""Superman III"" (1983), ""Minder on the Orient Express"" (1985) and """" (1987). Beatty appeared in two ""critically acclaimed war propaganda films"" in 1942 – ""49th Parallel"" and "" One of Our Aircraft Is Missing"". He appeared in British television shows such as ""Dial"
"Clint Eastwood and Woody Allen. Eastwood expressed interest if Allen signed, but Allen declined. The film was one of six relatively low budgeted films rushed into production by Paramount Pictures in 1981 prior to an impending director strike, with budgets between $4-8 million. Paramount were interested to see what the results would be like on films with a shortened pre-production process. The other films were ""Some Kind of Hero"", ""Jekyll and Hyde...Together Again"", ""I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can"", ""White Dog"" and ""An Officer and a Gentleman"". A seventh film, ""Young Lust"", was ""picked up"" from another production company."
"1981, more than two years after the start of filming. Paramount stated that the final cost of the film was $32 million, which would be the rough equivalent of around $80 million today. The film introduced the song ""Goodbye for Now"", written by Stephen Sondheim. The song was later recorded by Barbra Streisand for ""The Movie Album"" (2003). Released on December 4, 1981, ""Reds"" opened to critical acclaim upon its release. Despite its political subject matter and limited promotion by Beatty, the film became the thirteenth highest grossing picture of 1981, grossing $40,000,000 in the United States. Beatty later remarked"
"told ""Premiere"" magazine that initially she had waited for Beatty to call her for the film. When Beatty did not reciprocate, the singer decided to involve herself voluntarily. She pursued the part of Mahoney, but offered to work for minimum wages to avoid favoritism. ""Dick Tracy"" was the ninth-highest-grossing film in the US in 1990, and number twelve globally. The film also received positive reviews from critics. Roger Ebert from the ""Chicago Sun-Times"" praised the matte paintings, art direction and prosthetic makeup design, stating: """"Dick Tracy"" is one of the most original and visionary fantasies I've seen on a screen""."
"$5 million plus fifteen percent of the box office gross, a deal which Universal refused to accept. Hill and Beatty left the film, which Paramount began developing as a lower-budget project with Richard Benjamin directing. Cash and Epps continued to rewrite the script, but Universal was unsatisfied. The film rights eventually reverted to Tribune Media Services in 1985. However, Beatty decided to option the ""Dick Tracy"" rights himself, along with the Cash/Epps script. When Jeffrey Katzenberg moved from Paramount to the Walt Disney Studios, ""Dick Tracy"" resurfaced with Beatty as director, producer and leading man. He considered hiring Martin Scorsese"
"various locations. Due to union work rules, Storaro's Italian crew had to be doubled by a local standby crew, who were not needed much but drew full pay for the entire shoot. It was also necessary to stop production for several days so Beatty and Hoffman could rehearse their songs. In April 1986, a month after principal photography wrapped, Vincent fired McElwaine. His replacement as head of production was David Puttnam, producer of ""Chariots of Fire"" and a longtime critic of Hollywood budgetary excesses. Among those films he had specifically criticized in the latter category was ""Reds,"" singling out Beatty"
"project, which was nonetheless difficult to secure because of the controversial Communist subject matter and high price tag. Beatty succeeded in interesting both Warner Bros. and Paramount, before the head of Gulf+Western (Paramount's parent company), Charles Bluhdorn, agreed to finance the project. Bluhdorn soon had second thoughts, and attempted to dissuade Beatty with the promise of underwriting a $25 million alternative to ""Reds"" of Beatty's choice, but Beatty remained committed. Beatty originally had no intention of acting in the film or even directing it, because he had learned on projects such as ""Bonnie and Clyde"" and ""Heaven Can Wait"" that"
"of the strikeand the financial state of the companyseveral animators left the studio, and Disney's relationship with other members of staff was permanently strained as a result. The strike temporarily interrupted the studio's next production, ""Dumbo"" (1941), which Disney produced in a simple and inexpensive manner; the film received a positive reaction from audiences and critics alike. Shortly after the release of ""Dumbo"" in October 1941, the U.S. entered World War II. Disney formed the Walt Disney Training Films Unit within the company to produce instruction films for the military such as ""Four Methods of Flush Riveting"" and ""Aircraft Production"
"was cast by Richard Donner to portray Lex Luthor's inept henchman Otis in ""Superman: The Movie"" (1978), as he would in the 1980 sequel, where we see his character being left behind in prison. He received a second nomination for Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special for the television series ""Friendly Fire"" (1979). In 1979, he was seen in ""Wise Blood"", directed by John Huston, and ""1941"", directed by Steven Spielberg. In 1980, Beatty appeared in Ronald Neame's 1980 American film ""Hopscotch"" (1980) with Walter Matthau. In 1981, Beatty appeared in the comedy/science fiction"
"Her partner Elinor Jones claimed they did not believe Godard was right for the project in the first place. Godard's retort: « Je vous parle de cinéma, vous me parlez de météo. Au revoir. » (""I'm talking cinema and you're talking weather. Goodbye."") After the 1968 Academy Awards, Godard sent Benton and Newman a cable that read, ""Now, let's make it all over again!"" Soon after the failed negotiations for production, Warren Beatty was visiting Paris and learned through Truffaut of the project and its perambulations. On returning to Hollywood, Beatty requested the script and bought the rights. A meeting"
"In 2008, Beatty convinced cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and film critic Leonard Maltin to make ""The Dick Tracy TV Special"" for Turner Classic Movies, which featured Beatty as Tracy having a retrospective interview with Maltin. Maltin explicitly asks the fictional Tracy if Warren Beatty is planning on making a sequel to the 1990 film and he responds that he's heard about that but Maltin needs to ask Beatty himself. By March 2009, Tribune was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and lawyers for the company began to declare their ownership of television and film rights to ""Dick Tracy"". ""Mr. Beatty's conduct and wrongful"
"and January 1981. The original shooting budget was a reported $1 million, but the shoot's duration through the holidays extended the budget an additional $400,000. The film's shooting schedule reportedly consisted of six-day weeks and was described as grueling. Star Linda Blair recalled the daily shoots lasting from 5 am to 11 pm, as well as spending Thanksgiving with the cast and crew on a double-decker bus rented by the producers. According to DeSimone, Peter Barton actually hurt himself on set and most of his limping was due to being in real physical pain. The majority of the movie was"
"in part their own money. The brothers were directors of British Lion, which was sold to Barclay Securities. They proposed to sell 45 of the 60 acres of Shepperton studio for housing development. The union protested and said if any of the previous directors of Shepperton, such as the Boultings, tried to make films anywhere they would be blackbanned. Production on the film began in March but was halted due to uncertainty about the banning. John Boulting blamed ""a little cabal of Communists who are ideologically motivated. They are dedicated in my view not to the improvement of our industry"
"to make films we believe are international, to get the money to bring exports back to this country."" In February 1981, Barry Spikings announced a slate of films worth £70 million, including ""Honky Tonk Freeway"", ""Memoirs of a Survivor"", ""Comrades"" and ""The Knight"" (a Walter Hill film). The latter was not made. In March 1981 Spikings admitted AFC has not ""gotten off to a flying start"" and would be wound up, with Universal taking over distribution of EMI Films. He argued that ""production and distribution are not linked"" and pointed to the five Oscars that EMI films had earned. In"
"at awards time. It picked up seven Academy Award nominations and won in three of the categories: Best Original Song, Best Makeup and Best Art Direction. A sequel was planned, but a controversy over the film rights ensued between Beatty and Tribune Media Services. The lawsuit was resolved in Beatty's favor in October 2013. However, no plans for a sequel or follow-up have been publicly disclosed. Beatty created ""The Dick Tracy TV Special"" in 2008, which featured him reprising the character to be interviewed by film critic Leonard Maltin. The film is set in the 1930s. At an illegal card"
"two first-time producers and a first-time director. Canton and Richter contacted veteran producer Sidney Beckerman at MGM/UA, with whom Canton had worked before. Beckerman liked the treatment and introduced Richter and Canton to studio chief David Begelman. Within 24 hours, they had a development deal with the studio. It took Mac Rauch a year and a half to write the final screenplay; during this time, the Lepers from the treatment became Lizards and then Lectroids—from Planet 10. Much of the film's detailed character histories were taken from Mac Rauch's unfinished ""Banzai"" scripts. The 1981 Writers Guild of America strike forced"
"papers stated the strike was caused by Communist agitation! The after effects of the Studio’s economic downturn and the strike included a major exodus of talent from Disney. In 1943 David Hilberman, Zack Schwartz and Steve Bosustow, set up a new studio, which became UPA. Notable early films to which he contributed included his most political films: Point Rationing of Foods which was shown nationwide as part of the war effort, then for FDR's 1944 re-election campaign: ""Hell Bent for Election"" and ""Brotherhood of Man"". The pamphlet on which Brotherhood was based, was written by two eminent anthropologists, Ruth Benedict"
"in-betweeners, cel painters, and other less-well paid employees, who in 1941 began industrial action in pursuit of better working conditions. As a top animator, Babbitt was one of relatively few well-paid artists to join the strike, and he became one of the strike leaders. One morning, as Disney drove through picketing workers on his way to the studio, Babbitt heckled him through a bullhorn. Disney exited his car to confront him, and a fistfight was only prevented by the intervention of others. For his part in the strike, Babbitt earned Walt Disney's enmity. Disney was forced to re-hire Babbitt after"
"were later called in when two reels of footage (about 20 minutes' worth) were stolen. With various problems during filming, Burton called it ""Torture. The worst period of my life!"" Hamm was not allowed to perform rewrites during the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike. Warren Skaaren, who had also worked on Burton's ""Beetlejuice"", did rewrites. Jonathan Gems and Charles McKeown rewrote the script during filming. Only Skaaren received screenplay credit with Hamm. Hamm criticized the rewrites, but blamed the changes on Warner Bros. Burton explained, ""I don't understand why that became such a problem. We started out with a"
"they find it misanthropic. I think whats happened is American comedy lately is either immensely middle class or very 'gaggy' with a lot of mugging... I couldn't make a 'gag' comedy."" The film was a box office disaster. It was called ""the unquestioned commercial disaster of the summer"". The film was nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Original Song for the song ""You're Crazy, But I Like You."" Honky Tonk Freeway Honky Tonk Freeway is a 1981 British comedy film directed by John Schlesinger. The film, conceived and co-produced by Don Boyd, was one of the most expensive"
"better, more honest, more tolerant member of society"". Controversy erupted in June 1965 when Queen Elizabeth II appointed all four Beatles Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) after Prime Minister Harold Wilson nominated them for the award. In protest – the honour was at that time primarily bestowed upon military veterans and civic leaders – some conservative MBE recipients returned their own insignia. Released in July, the Beatles' second film, ""Help!"", was again directed by Lester. Described as ""mainly a relentless spoof of Bond"", it inspired a mixed response among both reviewers and the band. McCartney said:"
"Beatty who liked the script but was reluctant to play a character driven by his erotic compulsions. Toback then considered Robert De Niro but ultimately decided the role should be played by a younger actor. The film was at Paramount. Then in 1984 Beatty bought it and set up the production at Fox. Toback says the film was ""not even remotely"" based on Beatty. ""The guy in the script chases after people. Warren always has people chasing after him."" It was Toback's fourth film as director. He says his first three ""were all dark movies that ended unhappily. Now I'm"
"personalities of the time: Don Wilson, Ralph Edwards and Skinnay Ennis. In 1945, writer Monte Brice went through older RKO scripts to find a new idea for Brown and Carney's next - and last - movie and decided on a remake of Wheeler and Woolsey's 1935 film ""The Nitwits"", which became ""Genius at Work"". ""Genius at Work"" also starred Bela Lugosi, as well as Lionel Atwill in his last film appearance. This film would become Brown and Carney's eighth and final film together as a team as the studio dropped the two comedians' contracts in 1946. On occasion Brown and"
"it failed at the box office, MGM might go bankrupt. The film, like many epics, was difficult to make. When Heston was asked which scene he enjoyed doing most, he said ""I didn't enjoy any of it. It was hard work."" Part of the reason for that was the financial stress placed on making the film a success. With a cast of fifteen thousand extras, a leading star, and being shot on 70mm film with stereophonic tracks, it was the most expensive film ever made at that time. The nine-minute chariot race, for example, took six months to film. ""Ben-Hur"""
"regional releases that seemed to confirm its misgivings about the film's lack of commercial appeal, despite the fact the film was doing excellent sustained business in select urban theatres. In fact, while Jack Warner was selling the studio to Seven Arts Productions, he would have had the film dumped but for the fact that Israel, of which Warner was a major supporter, had scored a triumphant victory in the Six-Day War, and he was in too defiant a mood to sell any of his studio's films. Meanwhile, Warren Beatty, ""Bonnie and Clyde""s producer and star, complained to Warner Bros. that"
"was nominated for ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor; it later won two of the awards for Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design. The film also received eight Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Motion Picture and Best Actor, winning for Best Motion Picture. Beatty's next film, ""Love Affair"" (1994), directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, received mixed reviews and was unimpressive commercially. In 1998, he wrote, produced, directed and starred in the political satire ""Bulworth"", which was critically acclaimed and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film also received three Golden"
"the box office. ""Bugsy"" received very positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a rating of 85%, based on 59 reviews, with the site's critical consensus reading, ""Stylishly scattered, ""Bugsy"" offers cinematic homage to the infamous underworld legend, chiefly through a magnetic performance from Warren Beatty in the title role."" Film critic Roger Ebert gave the film four of four stars, saying """"Bugsy"" moves with a lightness that belies its strength. It is a movie that vibrates with optimism and passion, with the exuberance of the con-man on his game."" ""Bugsy"" won Academy Awards for Best Art"
"Reds (film) Reds is a 1981 American epic historical drama film co-written, produced, and directed by Warren Beatty. The picture centers on the life and career of John Reed, the journalist and writer who chronicled the Russian Revolution in his book ""Ten Days That Shook the World"". Beatty stars in the lead role alongside Diane Keaton as Louise Bryant and Jack Nicholson as Eugene O'Neill. The supporting cast includes Edward Herrmann, Jerzy Kosinski, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman, Ramon Bieri, Nicolas Coster, and M. Emmet Walsh. The film also features, as ""witnesses,"" interviews with the 98-year-old radical educator and"
"Globe Award nominations, for Best Motion Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay. Beatty has appeared briefly in numerous documentaries, including """" (1991) and """" (2005). Following the poor box office performance of ""Town & Country"" (2001), in which Beatty starred, he did not appear in or direct another film for 15 years. In May 2005, Beatty sued Tribune Media, claiming he still maintained the rights to ""Dick Tracy"". On March 25, 2011, U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson ruled in Beatty's favor. In 2010, Beatty directed and reprised his role as Dick Tracy in a 30-minute comedy film titled ""Dick Tracy"