Project news

• The Tag & Assess drive has started! There are over 50,000 articles that need to be reviewed. We have already had a great start, with over 3,000 articles reviewed in the first few weeks! With many awards available, you can review whatever ranges you feel comfortable with. Instructions can be found on the drive's page.
• Due to real life issues limiting his time to contribute to the project, lead coordinator Erik has stepped down from his position. In his place, the other coordinators appointed Nehrams2020 to the lead. The coordinators plan to find another member to fill the new vacant coordinator position.
• Our project currently has over 62,500 film-related articles, with 58,000 that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{Film|class=}} template to a film article's talk page so the project can get a better idea of what work still needs to be done. Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class.
• Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were: Paranormal Activity (film), Twilight, 2009 in film, Internet Movie Database, and Star Trek. For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see here. Consider improving one of these articles that is seen by thousands of people each month.
• Our articles continue to gain popularity, whether viewed on Wikipedia, or in new forms of media. The video service Vudu has announced that it will use summaries of Wikipedia film articles and will also link to them. Articles that you work on will help viewers decide what films to watch.
• Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in November. One article was also delisted from FA-status.
  • Tropic Thunder (11/3)
  • Not One Less (11/8)
  • Stargate: Continuum (11/13)
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (11/19)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (11/25)
  • Hong Kong action cinema (11/25)

Member news

• New members to the project since the last issue include: Horkana, Telsar, FDJoshua22, & Robd81.
• Please add your name to the member list if you have not already.

Film articles		Importance
		None	Total
Quality
	FA	77	77
	FL	34	34
	A	2	2
	GA	280	280
	B	354	354
	C	144	144
	Start	10495	10495
	Stub	42067	42067
	List	4774	4774
	Assessed	58227	58227
	Unassessed	4347	4347
	Total	62574	62574

Coming to theaters

Opening last weekend (11/30):

• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (11/28)

Opened this weekend (12/5):

• Armored
• Brothers

Opening next weekend (12/12):

• Invictus
• The Lovely Bones (limited)
• The Princess and the Frog

Other December releases:

• Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (12/23)
• Avatar (12/18)
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (12/25)
• Sherlock Holmes (12/25)
• The White Ribbon (12/30) (limited)

Did you know...

• ... that in 1950s giant monster films, atomic energy aroused Godzilla, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and Them!?
• ... that Zac Efron turned down the lead in Footloose to star in the romantic ghost story The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud?
• ... that The Fall of a Nation, the sequel to the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, is considered to be the first film sequel?
• ... that the U.S. Department of Defense requested to be removed from the credits of Inchon due to the film's ties to Sun Myung Moon and the Unification Church?
• ... that Chloë Moretz, Mary Mouser, and Ariel Winter all auditioned for the role as the vampire in Let Me In, portrayed by Lina Leandersson in the original Swedish film?
• ... that director Aram Avakian was fired from working on the 1962 film for refusing to make a sentimental dog story?
• ... that the Soviet documentary Salt for Svanetia was originally planned to be a fictional feature film?
• ... that the documentary film Collision spotlights several days of debate between prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens and conservative theologian Douglas Wilson?
• ... that the 1925 silent film The Air Mail was filmed in the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada?
• ... that the first integrated prom in Charleston is the subject of the 2009 documentary film Prom Night in Mississippi?

From the editors

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