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...Except, of course, to disappear. Before filming his small part in 2008's He's Just Not That Into You, he hadn't acted in a movie for 2½ years. For Hollywoodland, the last movie in which he starred, his role as a faded former icon was a considerable change of pace. Tellingly, his name is not at all prominent on the Gone Baby Gone posters...
...That said, Hollywoodland is in many respects an enjoyable movie. It has a good sense of movie life at levels below the top - down there where people are still striving to make a living, and are still knocked out when they catch a glimpse of Rita Hayworth in a restaurant. The cars they drive, the houses they lived in, the flaky ambitions they harbor are realized with a nice, casual authenticity. (Brody's private eye is a good example; he thinks if he can sensationally crack this case he could become the town's go-to gumshoe, the first...
...reviews are in for Hollywoodland, the new film opening this weekend that covers the mysterious death of TV's Superman star and struggling B-movie actor George Reeves. While the critics have been mixed to positive, it's hard to argue with the degree of scrupulous detail in the picture, from the exacting duplication of Reeves' famous superhero costume down to the mid-century furniture and curtains featured in interior scenes...
...According to director Allen Coulter, it wasn't easy. Hollywoodland was produced by Focus Features, a division of GE's Universal Pictures, but rights to the original Superman TV show are held by a competing studio, Warner Bros. (a sister company of this magazine and website). "It was difficult dealing with Warner Bros., because they were extremely protective of their ownership rights," says Coulter, a first-time film director who previously helmed episodes of The Sopranos and Sex and the City...
...Hollywoodland was allowed to use a Superman costume, because the fictional figure is so iconic it's considered part of the public domain. But for the original 1950s' TV show The Adventures of Superman, Warners had more legal clout. The studio was highly restrictive regarding the new movie's use of the TV show's original theme and famous introduction ("Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive...") "They looked at the opening title of the TV series down to the second," says Coulter. "We had to re-shoot the entire title sequence." As a result, Hollywoodland...