STACK #196 Feb 2021

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GLOBAL BOX OFFICE TOP 10

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CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON Director Ang Lee's influential martial arts masterpiece brought subtitles and wuxia to the masses, made stars out ChowYun Fat and Michelle Yeoh, and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards including Best Picture (winning Best Foreign Language Film).

Shot in the opal-mining town of Coober Pedy, SA (the perfect location for a barren alien world), this scary sci-fi flick cemented Vin Diesel’s status as an action movie icon and spawned two sequels – The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) and Riddick (2013).

1 Mission: Impossible II 2 Gladiator 3 Cast Away 4 What Women Want 5 Dinosaur 6 How the Grinch Stole Christmas 7 Meet the Parents 8 The Perfect Storm 9 X-Men 10 What Lies Beneath

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A crime caper involving a stolen diamond, shady boxing promotion, gangsters, guns and geezers, Guy Ritchie's second feature ranks alongside Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels as one of his best. And the ensemble cast – including Brad Pitt, Jason Statham and Benicio del Toro – is a knockout! SNATCH

John Cusack is perfectly cast as a record store owner prone to failed relationships and list-making in this cracking adaptation of Nick Hornby's novel. He's upstaged, though, by Jack Black in his breakout role as the boisterous Barry. A TV series adaptation premiered in 2020.

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BEST PICTURE Gladiator BEST DIRECTOR Steven Soderbergh ( Traffic ) BEST ACTOR Russell Crowe ( Gladiator ) BEST ACTRESS Julia Roberts ( Erin Brockovich ) BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe) BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Traffic (Stephen Gaghan)

computer-animated film ever made at the time, with a budget of $127.5 million. Julia Roberts was the highest paid actress in Hollywood, breaking the $20 million salary barrier for her role in Ellen Brockovich .

Bringing Out the Dead was the last major studio film to be released on the LaserDisc format in the US. British director Guy Ritchie married Madonna

Battlefield Earth swept the Razzie Awards, winning seven including Worst Picture and Worst Actor (John Travolta). Judy Garland's ruby slippers from The Wizard

The Matrix became the biggest selling DVD release of all time, with over three million units sold in the US. Disney’s Dinosaur was the most expensive

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