{"id":4791,"date":"2015-09-01T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-meryl-streeps-lifetime-channel-biopic-disneys-x-men-and-more\/4791\/"},"modified":"2015-09-01T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T06:00:00","slug":"today-in-movie-culture-meryl-streeps-lifetime-channel-biopic-disneys-x-men-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/today-in-movie-culture-meryl-streeps-lifetime-channel-biopic-disneys-x-men-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Movie Culture: Meryl Streep's Lifetime Channel Biopic, Disney's 'X-Men' and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Christopher Campbell<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wes Craven Tribute of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

More videos in memory of Wes Craven<\/strong> are coming in, like this supercut of screams from the horror-meister’s movies from Screen Crush<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Actress Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Christina Applegate<\/strong> portray Meryl Streep<\/strong> for a fake Lifetime Channel biopic from Funny or Die<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe one day if Disney<\/strong> and Marvel Studios<\/strong> ever get the rights to <\/strong>X-Men<\/strong> <\/em>movies, they can do an animated feature and it will look like these Disney-inspired drawings by Randy Bishop (via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Movie Takedown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Disney Animation<\/strong>, Honest Trailers roasts the short film Frozen Fever<\/em><\/strong> and boy does it burn:<\/p>\n

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Video Essay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The latest episode of Frame by Frame looks at two set pieces to show how the first two Terminator<\/em><\/strong> installments define action movies:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Anniversary Movie Poster of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can almost hear the painful screeching of nails on the chalkboard when you look at Scott Woolston’s new Jaws<\/em><\/strong> poster, which celebrates the film’s 40th anniversary (via Bloody Disgusting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Vintage Film of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Edwin S. Porter<\/strong> parodied his own famous silent film, The Great Train Robbery<\/em><\/strong>, with The Little Train Robbery<\/em><\/strong>, which debuted 110 years ago today. Watch it in full below.<\/p>\n

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Alternative Poster Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Big Eye Agency has created minimalist-design character posters for The Breakfast Club<\/em><\/strong>, including the one for Claire “The Princess” (Molly Ringwald<\/strong>) below. See the others at the Big Eye website<\/a> (via Paste<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em> of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a parody of the Batman: Arkham Origins<\/em><\/strong> commercial (see it here<\/a>) with Darth Vader<\/strong> instead of the Dark Knight (via Cinematic Montage Creators<\/a>):<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival premiere of George Clooney<\/strong>‘s Best Picture-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em><\/strong>. Watch the original trailer for the film below.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Send tips or follow us via Twitter:<\/p>\n

<\/span>and <\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Wes Craven Tribute of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

More videos in memory of Wes Craven<\/strong> are coming in, like this supercut of screams from the horror-meister’s movies from Screen Crush<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Actress Parody of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch Christina Applegate<\/strong> portray Meryl Streep<\/strong> for a fake Lifetime Channel biopic from Funny or Die<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Fan Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe one day if Disney<\/strong> and Marvel Studios<\/strong> ever get the rights to <\/strong>X-Men<\/strong> <\/em>movies, they can do an animated feature and it will look like these Disney-inspired drawings by Randy Bishop (via Geek Tyrant<\/a>):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Movie Takedown of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaking of Disney Animation<\/strong>, Honest Trailers roasts the short film Frozen Fever<\/em><\/strong> and boy does it burn:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Video Essay of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The latest episode of Frame by Frame looks at two set pieces to show how the first two Terminator<\/em><\/strong> installments define action movies:<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Anniversary Movie Poster of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

You can almost hear the painful screeching of nails on the chalkboard when you look at Scott Woolston’s new Jaws<\/em><\/strong> poster, which celebrates the film’s 40th anniversary (via Bloody Disgusting<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Vintage Film of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Edwin S. Porter<\/strong> parodied his own famous silent film, The Great Train Robbery<\/em><\/strong>, with The Little Train Robbery<\/em><\/strong>, which debuted 110 years ago today. Watch it in full below.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Alternative Poster Art of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Big Eye Agency has created minimalist-design character posters for The Breakfast Club<\/em><\/strong>, including the one for Claire “The Princess” (Molly Ringwald<\/strong>) below. See the others at the Big Eye website<\/a> (via Paste<\/a>).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Star Wars<\/em> of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Here’s a parody of the Batman: Arkham Origins<\/em><\/strong> commercial (see it here<\/a>) with Darth Vader<\/strong> instead of the Dark Knight (via Cinematic Montage Creators<\/a>):<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Classic Trailer of the Day:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival premiere of George Clooney<\/strong>‘s Best Picture-nominated Good Night, and Good Luck<\/em><\/strong>. Watch the original trailer for the film below.<\/p>\n

[embedded content]<\/p>\n

Send tips or follow us via Twitter:<\/p>\n

<\/span>and <\/span><\/p>\n

This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service – if this is your content and you’re reading it on someone else’s site, please read the FAQ at fivefilters.org\/content-only\/faq.php#publishers.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}