FormerBondFan
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Favourite James Bond Films: The Dark Knight Trilogy, Mission: Impossible and any upcoming action films starring Pierce Brosnan (no, it's not James Bond which is good because he'll need it to expand his reputation as an actor, especially in the action realm)
Favourite Films: Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Star Trek, The Dark Knight Trilogy, Harry Potter, Middle-Earth, The Matrix, Mission: Impossible
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Post by FormerBondFan on Nov 11, 2010 23:45:14 GMT -5
www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/italian-film-legend-dino-de-laurentiis-dies-91-22443 Italian Film Legend Dino De Laurentiis Dies at 91 By Dylan Stableford Published: November 11, 2010 @ 5:42 am
Legendary film producer Dino De Laurentiis has died in Los Angeles, according to several Italian media reports. He was 91.
He produced more than 500 films, and won two Oscars -- one in 1956 for Federico Fellini's "La Strada," another in 1957 for "Nights of Cabiria."
"Cinema has lost one of its greats," Walter Veltroni, former mayor of Rome and founder the Rome Film Festival, said in a statement to Agence France-Press on Thursday.
Born in Italy, he founded the Dino De Laurentiis Studios in 1947 after serving in the Italian army during World War II. There, De Laurentiis lured some of Hollywood's top actors to Italy to star in his films, such as Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda for “War and Peace" (1956).
De Laurentiis moved to the U.S. in the 1970s and produced several American films, including "Serpico" (1973), "Three Days of the Condor" (1975), "King Kong" (1976), David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” (1986) and "Hannibal" (2001).
De Laurentiis is also credited with launching Arnold Schwarzenegger's acting career in "Conan the Barbarian."
He's collected several awards for his decades of film work, including the Irving G.Thalberg Memorial Award at the 2001 Academy Awards and a lifetime achievement award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival.
He is survived by six children from two marriages. His granddaughter, Giada De Laurentiis, is a chef on the Food Network.
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Post by poirot on Nov 11, 2010 23:53:35 GMT -5
Dino was involved with a lot of fun movies, Death Wish being a personal favorite.
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Nov 12, 2010 11:45:31 GMT -5
Barbarella and Flash Gordon are two of my favourites.
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Post by Gambit on Nov 13, 2010 14:46:33 GMT -5
Flash Gordon is a classic.
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