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Celebrity Birthdays: How Fan Culture Turned Simple Dates Into Full Events
A birthday hashtag is now a campaign, a charity drive, and a business line — and the machinery behind it explains a lot about modern fame.
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Why the Best International Film Oscar Requires a Country, Not Just a Film
The Best International Feature Film Oscar is credited to a country, not a person. The rules behind the one-film-per-country system explain why.
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Movie Reshoots — Why Movies Get Reshot: How Reshoots and Additional Photography Actually Work
Reshoots are not always a bad sign. Here is how pick-ups, reshoots, and additional photography actually work after a film wraps.
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Sound Editing Oscar: How the Oscar Sound Editing and Sound Mixing Branches Split One Craft Into Two Races
The Oscars once honored sound in two races: one for building the sounds, one for balancing them. Here is the difference between the two crafts.
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Film Score Process: How Film Composers Score a Movie, From Temp Track to Final Mix
Film composers work from a temp track to a spotting session to a short writing window and a final recording. Here is how a movie score gets made, step by step.
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Hollywood Walk of Fame: How Stars Get Their Star
A Walk of Fame star takes a nomination, a selection committee, city sign-off, and a large fee. Here is how stars get their star on Hollywood Boulevard.