Peter Stormare
Will and Jake Grimm earn their living by traveling from village to village and vanquishing strange supernatural beasts. At least that s what they trick their clients into thinking. Actually, Will and Jake are con artists who cleverly stage the ghostly attacks and then get paid to make them go away. The scam goes as planned until they arrive at a town that is bordered by an actual enchanted forest. Now The Grimm Brothers must learn to deal with real magic as they encounter many of the fantastic characters and thrilling situations found in their beloved fairy tales.
looks back at the highest grossing movie in America from every year since 1960. In tracing the evolution of blockbuster cinema, maybe we can answer a question Hollywood has been asking itself for more than a century: What do people want to see?
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Harry Potter movie franchise. As soon as the first J.K. Rowling novel ascended the
New York Times bestseller list, it was inevitable. The gods had handed Hollywood a rare gift: a literary phenomenon, huge among children, that was written nearly as visually as a movie script and that already had its sequels built in. Studios get a lot of criticism these days for leaning too heavily on recognizable intellectual property, but they’ve been building big-budget films out of popular novels since the silent era. The first