Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/April 2009 Newsletter

Project News

• The
  Christian films task force
  is the latest task force to be created under WikiProject Films! Visit the task force's main page and talk page for information and discussion!
• Multiple
  Good Article nominations of film-related articles are underway! Please take a moment to review any of the following: I, Robot, Saruman, Let the Right One In, Apollo 13, The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie, Contact, Great Moments in Aviation, and Radioland Murders
  .
• Multiple
  peer reviews of film-related articles are also underway! Please take a moment to review any of the following: Max Payne, Cinema of Sri Lanka, Brave Story,The Last Castle, Fletch, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
  .
• Our project now has 55,000 film-related articles, with 52,700 that have been assessed by our
  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.
• Spotlight Update
  : Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA/FL status in April 2009.
  • Changeling (4/26)
  • Clint Eastwood filmography (4/4)
  • List of awards and nominations received by WALL-E
    (4/11)
  • List of awards and nominations received by Ratatouille
    (4/11)
  • Gene Kelly filmography (4/11)
  • The Tic Code (4/6)
  • The French Democracy (4/12)
  • Che (film) (4/13)
  • Sweet Smell of Success (4/15)
  • 12 Monkeys (4/24)
  • Mars Attacks! (4/26)
  • The Quick and the Dead (1995 film) (4/28)
  • Paranoid Park (4/30)
• Currently there are three film articles at FAR: Kung Fu Hustle, Ran, and The Boondock Saints. Help these articles to maintain their featured status by assisting with the issues raised.
• One article was delisted as a Good Article. With a little work in addressing the reviewer's issues, the article can be returned to Good Article status.
  • Santosh Subramaniam (4/5)

Member News

• New members to the project since the last issue include:
  Townlake, and Varunn pandya
  .
• Members who received the
  WikiProject Films Award this month: Grandpafootsoldier
  for dedicated work in adding numerous images with correct fair use rationales to articles.
• Remember that any editor can give the
  WikiProject Films Award
  to another WP:Films member. If you do present this award, please make mention of it here or tell one of the newsletter editors who will then include it in the next issue.
• Please add your name to the
  member list
  if you have not already.

Film pages by quality
Quality
	Total
FA	186
FL	472
A	1
GA	1,408
B	1,358
C	9,558
Start	68,521
Stub	95,934
List	12,928
Category	51,306
Disambig	352
File	105,923
Portal	19
Project	228
Redirect	10,926
Template	9,333
NA	1
Assessed	368,454
Unassessed	26
Total	368,480
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 963,453			Ω = 5.44

Coming to theaters

Opening this weekend (5/1):

• Battle for Terra
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Opening next weekend (5/8):

• Star Trek (film)
• Next Day Air

Other May releases:

• Angels & Demons (5/15)
• Terminator Salvation (5/21)
• Dance Flick (5/22)
• Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (5/22)
• Drag Me to Hell (5/29)
• Up (5/29)

Did You Know?

... that in

... that concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006?

... that Will Kane was Gary Cooper's second Academy Award-winning role?

... that Otto Preminger completed the film That Lady in Ermine after Ernst Lubitsch died, insisting the original director get sole screen credit out of "respect and admiration for the departed master"?

... that director

... that the 2008 nature documentary film The Meerkats was narrated by Paul Newman and is believed to be one of his last film credits?

... that ChristianCinema.com gives filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website?

... that

... that the documentary Dolce e selvaggio includes both genuine and fake scenes of human death?

... that one critic wrote that Jivin' in Be-Bop includes "one of the worst ballets ever put on film"?

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