The Godfather Articles
Box Office: THE LION KING Surpasses THE GODFATHER, FORREST GUMP Inflation-Adjusted Grosses
Musafa, Simba, Disney's The Lion King Thanks to The Lion King 3D, the top ten movies on the North American box-office chart were up an impressive 33% compared to the previous weekend. That's the largest increase since the +72% registered when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 came out on the July 15-17 weekend, and the fourth highest weekend-to-weekend increase so far in [...]
THE GODFATHER, THE GODFATHER PART II, HIGH FIDELITY: Packard Campus Screenings
Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather This week at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation’s in Culpeper, Va.: John Cusack stars in Stephen Frears' comedy High Fidelity (2000), in which the owner of a Chicago record store recounts his top five breakups. Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974) will be screened on the [...]
A Tribute to Dick Smith: The Godfather of Special Makeup Effects
The Godfather: Dick Smith and Al Pacino (top); Smith, Marlon Brando, and Phil Rhodes (bottom) "A Tribute to Dick Smith: The Godfather of Special Makeup Effects" will be presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scienceson Wednesday, June 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Six-time Oscar-winning makeup artist Rick Baker will host the evening, which will be [...]