In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.

A character may return to Times Square in New York City several times throughout a movie, but as it is extraordinarily expensive to close off Times Square, those scenes will likely be filmed all at once to reduce permit costs.

In 2005, he played an impostor, pretending to be an 80s movie star who wants to moderate a charity performance in Goldene Zeiten ( Golden Times ) by Peter Thorwardt.

As a side note, writer Paul Krassner published a story in the February 1981 issue of High Times, relating how Groucho prepared for the LSD-themed movie by taking a dose of the drug in Krassner's company, and had a moving, largely pleasant experience.

The New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as " an average gangster film ", singled out Falk's " amusingly vicious performance.

The film was voted as the eighth best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years, by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors, with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".

The New York Times called it a " gangster movie with delusions of grandeur.

The Big Lebowski was voted as the 10th best film set in Los Angeles in the last 25 years by a group of Los Angeles Times writers and editors with two criteria: " The movie had to communicate some inherent truth about the L. A. experience, and only one film per director was allowed on the list ".

New York Times critic Vincent Canby referred to the film as a " junk movie " as well as " spare, uncluttered, but really silly ".

In 1982 the Post criticized the Times for its negative review of the movie Inchon, which was also sponsored by the Unification Church.

" When Estelle Reiner died at age 94 in 2008, The New York Times referred to her as the woman " who delivered one of the most memorably funny lines in movie history ".

Mrs. Miniver is a fictional character created by Jan Struther in 1937 for a series of newspaper columns for The Times, later adapted into a movie of the same name.

Renata Adler of The New York Times said The Good, the Bad and the Ugly ( now widely considered one of the finest films in the history of cinema ,) was " the most expensive, pious and repellent movie in the history of its peculiar genre ".

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that film was " the best and funniest Clint Eastwood movie in quite a while ", and praised Eastwood's directing and the way he intricately juxtaposes the old West and the new.

" The New York Times described the public's negative perception of ECT as being caused mainly by one movie.

Tubeway Army's third single, the dark-themed and slow-paced " Down in the Park " ( 1979 ) also failed to chart but it would prove to be one of Numan's most enduring and oft-covered songs ; it was featured with other contemporary hits on the soundtrack for the movie Times Square, and a live version of the song can be seen in the movie Urgh!

In January 2005, when Rob Schneider insulted Los Angeles Times movie critic Patrick Goldstein, who panned his movie Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, by commenting that the critic was unqualified because he had never won the Pulitzer Prize, Ebert intervened by stating that, as a Pulitzer winner, he was qualified to review the film, and bluntly told Schneider, " Your movie sucks.

New York Times writer Gerald Jonas admits that the novel's plot summary reads like a " grade Z, made-for-television, science-fiction rip-off movie ," but then says that Card develops the elements well despite this " unpromising material.

New York Times ’ Bosley Crowther, mentioned above, made a similar assumption, writing that the movie was a " travesty on the antebellum South.

Writing in the New York Times, Carter B. Horsley said of the River House: " Erected in 1931 when its area still teemed with tenements, it was mocked in the famous and popular 1936 movie, ' Dead End ' that was Lillian Hellman's adaptation of Sidney Kingsley's play.

There is also a booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Wood, Chaplin ’ s 1940 New York Times defense of his movie, a reprint from critic Jean Narboni on the film ’ s final speech, and Al Hirschfeld ’ s original press book illustrations.

It can range from a casual item for comic effect, such as in an episode titled The Seance of the 1950s TV sitcom I Love Lucy, where Lucy dabbles in numerology, to a central element of the storyline, such as the movie π, in which the protagonist meets a numerologist searching for hidden numerical patterns in the Torah.

Dr. Richard David Kimble is a fictional character and the protagonist of the 1960s television series The Fugitive and the 1993 movie of the same name.

In the 2004 movie Catwoman, the feline protagonist orders “ White Russian, no ice, no vodka … hold the Kahlua ”, i. e. just milk or cream.

The protagonist meets a movie director, and it becomes clear that the people of Earth have planned to exploit the Martians for financial gain.

In the 2001 movie A Knight's Tale, the protagonist William Thatcher ( played by Heath Ledger ) poses as a noble and competes in his first jousting tournament at Rouen.

* The lobster-shack visited by the protagonist in the movie Mystic Pizza is Ford's Lobsters in Noank.

Additionally, Coney Island is the home territory of the protagonist gang The Warriors ( film ) in the movie with the same title.

To this end, it lures several Pokémon trainers, among them movie protagonist Ash Ketchum, to its island in order to clone their Pokémon.

The band is also referenced in the movie Pineapple Express when protagonist Dale Denton ( Seth Rogen ) says to his girlfriend Angie ( Amber Heard ) " You are gonna go to college next year.

In the movie Bereavement, the protagonist Allison is killed violently by an 11-year-old child named Martin, who stabs her in the stomach repeatedly.

* In the movie < big > π </ big >, the protagonist Max Cohen cures his headaches by performing a trepanation on his right temple.

This concept was somewhat misrepresented in the movie Legally Blonde, where the protagonist Elle argues before a jury.

In the Japanese horror movie Marebito ( 2004 ), the protagonist Masuoka refers to a girl he found chained up underground as his " little Kaspar Hauser ".

In 2008, Plum Pictures announced plans for a Hollywood version of the novel, the movie to be written by playwright and screenwriter Tristine Skyler and Julia Stiles to star as the novel's protagonist, with Rose McGowan as Doreen.

The characterisation of Chandrasekhar in the movie is essayed by Indian Movie veteran Mohanlal is also inspired from Hercule Poirot, the protagonist of the novel.

* In the movie Kung Fu Panda, Po, the protagonist, straps multiple rockets to a chair in an attempt to attend the Dragon Warrior ceremony.

A man with Anterograde memory loss named Jimmy G. is the subject of one chapter, sharing the name of a character in Memento, a movie where the main protagonist has the same defect.

is a fictional character and the protagonist of the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within.

The 1987 science fiction cult movie Cherry 2000 also portrayed a gynoid character which was described by the male protagonist as his " perfect partner ".

As Raymond Chandler's protagonist Philip Marlowe — immortalized by actor Humphrey Bogart in the movie adaptation ( 1946 ) of the novel The Big Sleep ( 1939 )— admits to his client, General Sternwood, he finds it rather tiresome, as an individualist, to fit into the extensive set of rules and regulations for police detectives:

* In the 1999 movie 10 Things I Hate About You, it is referenced that main male protagonist, Patrick Verona, spent a year in San Quentin.

The protagonist of the movie is Nik, who lives in the capital of Albania, Tirana, along with his mother and father.

"... Spiegel a decidedly flawed protagonist, as well as the wit, sophistication, and Old World charm that make him a titanic figure the likes of which the movie industry will not see again.

According to The Anime Encyclopedia by Jonathan Clements and Helen McCarthy: " The character is a cartoon version of Hitoshi Taira, the lazy protagonist of the 1962 live-action movie Japan's Irresponsible Age who was played by comedian Hitoshi Ueki.