- Project news
- We are looking for new editors for the newsletter for future issues. If you are interested in helping shape the newsletter to focus on new areas or submit individual stories, we can use your help! The newsletter can be edited by all members of the project, and we are always seeking new volunteers. Instructions will be provided on how to develop the newsletter each month. Any interest and/or questions can be submitted on the talk page of the Outreach department or contact Nehrams2020.
- Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were: Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Harry Potter (film series), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Captain America: The First Avenger, and The Dark Knight Rises. Each of these had more than a million views for the month. For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see here. Consider helping to improve one of these articles that is seen by thousands to millions of people each month.
- Interested in reviewing an article or two? There is an open peer review for Money No Enough and an FAC for Scream.
- Sister project WP:HORROR has requested a review of the status of the project. Consider joining the discussion for the project's future outlook.
- Wikipedia:Notability (films) was recently revised per this discussion.
- Our project currently has just over 89,900 film-related articles, with only a handful of unassessed articles, thanks to the assessment department! Remember to always add the
{{WikiProject 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. If you believe that an article should be assessed at a certain class, feel free to follow the assessment scale and assess the article yourself (it's not too difficult to determine the basic classes such as stubs, categories, or lists). Below is a table showing a breakdown of our articles by class.
- Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA, FL, and FA status in July 2011.
- Member news
| Film pages by quality
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| Quality
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| Total
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 FA
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186
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| FL
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473
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 A
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1
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 GA
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1,409
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| B
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1,369
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| C
|
9,608
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| Start
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68,658
|
| Stub
|
95,980
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| List
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12,936
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| Category
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51,540
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| Disambig
|
352
|
| File
|
105,918
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| Portal
|
19
|
| Project
|
228
|
| Redirect
|
11,126
|
| Template
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9,335
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| NA
|
1
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| Assessed
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369,139
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| Unassessed
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1,005
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| Total
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370,144
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| WikiWork factors (?)
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ω = 964,526
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Ω = 5.44
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- Coming to theaters
Opened last weekend (7/29):
Opening this weekend (8/5):
Opening next weekend (8/12):
Other August releases:
- Did you know...
- ... that the Austin Powers films won 20 awards, including one for Beautiful Stranger sung by Madonna?
- ... that the 1995 novel Angel Angel is being adapted into the film Long Time Gone starring Meg Ryan?
- ... that Keechaka Vadham was the first silent film made in South India?
- ... that The Warring States is a 2011 film based on the rivalry between two ancient military tacticians, Sun Bin and Pang Juan?
- ... that Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment beat Leonardo DiCaprio's production company in a bidding war for the rights to produce World War Z, an upcoming post-apocalyptic horror film?
- ... that the 1987 baseball film Long Gone, starring William Petersen, has been described as "three parts Bull Durham, two parts Slap Shot, add a dose of Bingo Long and a pinch of The Longest Yard"?
- ... that the East India Film Company, formed in 1932, was a pioneer in the production of films in Bengali, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu?
- ... that I Am a Camera is a 1955 British film that received an X certificate from the BBFC, but only after dialogue suggesting foot fetishism was removed?
- From the editors
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