John Hughes
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Rhythm & Hues Attorney: ‘It Was Just the Perfect Storm’
Bob Baradaran said the company was more interested in quality than profits
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YouTube Documentary ‘Life After Pi’ Chronicles Collapse of Rhythm & Hues (Video)
Two employees document the fallout of the Oscar-winning effects shop going bankrupt
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Rhythm & Hues Has Cut L.A. Staff By 71% Since Oscar Win (Exclusive)
The visual-effects company has trimmed 500 staffers since February
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Jon Cryer Nearing Deal to Star in Ricky Blitt’s Comedy ‘Hit By Lightning’ (Exclusive)
Chantal Chamandy is producing the indie movie, which starts filming this month in Canada
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John Hughes Tribute Video
From “Ferris” to “Breakfast Club,” to the tune of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley.”
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The Legacy of John Hughes: Lost Youth
There are certain elements that exist in every John Hughes movie: someone lives on the wrong side of the tracks (and there are actual tracks); money is a big part of people’s lives, whether they have it or they don’t; the music is perfect; and the beautiful agony of being a teenager is treated, for…
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John Hughes, R.I.P.
John Hughes was a stunningly talented director, a wildly funny writer, a great friend, a Republican in a town where being a Republican takes some courage. But most of all, he was a poet. He was to the postwar middle class white kid what John Keats was to the age of upheaval during the French…
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10 Things I Learned This Week
1 — Invoking the name of a major celebrity in a movie title is sure to make your indie project stand out. Certainly worked for Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jones with “Being John Malkovich." But “Avoiding Christian Bale” takes tenuous linkage to new heights. The Welsh comedy trades on the “fact” that rhyming slang for…
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