- Project news
- The current ongoing drive at WikiProject Film is the improvement of the
Stub-Class articles from the
Core article list. The aim is to improve these articles to Start-Class or better. The drive began with the 2011 update of the list, at which time 106 Stub-class articles remained—this is now down to 86.
- WP:FILM has several articles waiting to be
reviewed for Good Article status:
Rani Mukerji,
Night of the Blood Beast,
The Lion King,
Match Point,
2001: A Space Odyssey (film),
Taapsee Pannu,
Motifs in the James Bond film series,
Sjumandjaja,
The Dirty Picture,
Bipasha Basu,
The Deer Hunter and
Spencer Tracy. A significant number of these are on Asian cinema—you can help counter
systemic bias by reviewing these articles!
- WP:FILM also has a number of articles hoping to gain Featured
Article and
List status:
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (
FAC),
Jaws (film) (
FAC), and
List of accolades received by David Lynch (
FLC).
Night of the Living Dead is also currently undergoing a
review of its Featured Article status.
- The
Category:Film articles needing an image is quite large at 3,704 articles! You can help by even just adding one image a day to start working the list down. Information on finding and uploading images can be found on the
infobox template page
- The past few weeks have seen the yearly ceremonies for some of the world's more prestigious film awards taking place—the
65th British Academy Film Awards (12/2),
César Awards 2012 (24/2), and
84th Academy Awards (26/2).
- The ten most popular film-related articles this month were:
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011 film)
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War Horse (film)
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Red Tails
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
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The Dark Knight Rises
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Agneepath (2012 film)
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Underworld: Awakening
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The Artist (film)
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Internet Movie Database
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in January and February
- Member news
Film pages by quality
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Quality
|
Total
|
FA
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187
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FL
|
479
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A
|
1
|
GA
|
1,412
|
B
|
1,383
|
C
|
9,800
|
Start
|
69,335
|
Stub
|
96,144
|
List
|
12,991
|
Category
|
52,379
|
Disambig
|
360
|
File
|
106,575
|
Portal
|
19
|
Project
|
228
|
Redirect
|
11,214
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Template
|
9,319
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NA
|
8
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Assessed
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371,834
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Unassessed
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747
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Total
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372,581
|
WikiWork factors (
?)
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ω = 969,713
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Ω = 5.44
|
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- Current proposals and discussions
- Coming to theaters
Opened last weekend (24/2):
Opening this weekend (2/3):
Opening next weekend (9/3):
Other March releases:
- Did you know...
- ... that
Gangavataran was the first
sound film, and the last film, to be directed by
Dadasaheb Phalke?
- ... that
The Art of Woo, starring
Sook-Yin Lee and
Adam Beach, was funded by a grant from the Canadian Film Centre's Featured Film Project?
- ... that the film
10 Promises to My Dog is based on a novel that was inspired by
The Ten Commandments of Dog Ownership?
- ... that the tragic end of
Raj Kapoor's film
Aah (1953) was changed to a happy one after the film's release?
- ... that
Albert Kirchner, who made many
pornographic films, was the first filmmaker to direct a film about the life of
Christ?
- ... that Spanish character actor
José Manuel Martín starred in one of the earliest
Spaghetti Westerns,
Savage Guns (1961), and went on to become one of the most prolific villains of the genre?
- ... that
Am Abend, a 1910
German film, was one of the earliest
pornographic films?
- ... that English filmmaker
Greta Schiller directed the 1976 short film Greta's Girls which is one of the first documentaries that focuses on
lesbians?
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