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...Eric Brevig and written by Michael Weiss, Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin, sticks pretty closely to the plot: Professor Trevor Anderson (Fraser) finds a runic inscription of an underground route inside a volcano and, with his nephew Sean (Josh Hutcherson) and an Icelandic guide (Anna Briem), locates an underworld Eden and all manner of exotic animals. And, just as in the Verne, they end up in Sicily...
...Russian ballerina Irina Baronova had already won critics' hearts, thanks to famed choreographer George Balanchine. He launched the young dancer's career when he cast her in a 1931 performance of the operetta Orpheus in the Underworld. Baronova went on to perform in ballets such as Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, but she is best known for touring the world with two other young Balanchine protégés. The trio, known as the "Baby Ballerinas," was hugely popular in the 1930s. Baronova...
...faithful to all the social minutiae and seductive enough to keep you watching. Rockwell mostly plays down the spiraling anxiety of his character (though it would be nice if some movie, any movie, had a devout Christian who was not a psycho killer). Beckinsale, the dark lady of the Underworld films, does her sharpest work yet as the town beauty who's spoiling from abuse and ill use. "I don't want to spend the rest of my life taking care of people," Annie says. "I want to take care of myself." After a decade or two of tangling with...
...meditate and say farewell to deceased loved ones. “It was sort of like going down to death and leaving something behind—the fears,” says Roy. “It’s gone, dead.” Returning from the proverbial underworld, participants partake of the “fruit of life”—apple slices—before ending the ritual with a dance to raise energy in a “Cone of Power.” Despite the ritual’s focus on death...
...trying different roles - as Khan did in Chak De India. Producers are also more willing to bet their money on innovative scripts, in part because of an interesting change to the way Indian films are financed. Traditionally, a big part of Bollywood's funding has come from the Mumbai underworld laundering its ill-gotten gains. To try to assure profits, underworld backers insisted on tried-and-tested formulas. But with liberalization of the economy, producers now have legitimate means of raising film finance; big production houses such as UTV and Adlabs have recently raised money by listing on the stock...