film history

I've decided to reboot this TL but with some twists. There will be 12 animation/live-action hybrids (including Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers) plus the Goofy Movie. So instead of just 62 films, there will be 75 titles total excluding Pixar. And with Pixar, I've decided to add the shorts to the...

A lot of AHC around box office bombs focus on how changes to the film or its production could have saved it, lets do something different. Instead we will keep the film as it is and change the world around it. Lets start off with an example 1980's Can't Stop the Music. The late 1970/80's...

I can say without a doubt, that Hollywood is one of the most iconic places in US Entertainment History. It produces every film from the US, and is the most popular places in the US. It was founded in the beginning of 20th Century, and was chosen for its great location and the early oil boom in...

Got this idea for this based on this question in which makes Gorgo the British Godzilla and a series after that. However, there were plans for a British kaiju movie for the late '70's starring the Loch Ness Monster herself, Nessie! For many Kaiju fans, it is one of the great WI questions if...

Here are some upcoming films to flag for watching: Exodus (2021) Doors (2021)

The challenge is to create an ATL film genre based on this prompt below: As an addition, you must also create films fitting the film genre based on the prompt's definition.

For those who don't know or too young to remember, exploitation films were films that attempted to churn a profit by using sensationalist, titillating content or riding on current trends. These films tended to be low-quality B-movies, suffering from terrible print quality and considered...

There are two parts to my question: 1) With no point of divergence before 1800, how far could the technology necessary to jumpstart a functional film industry have advanced without meaningfully speeding up technological advancement outside of anything directly pertaining to this topic? I assume...

IDEA: Imagine the fates of the series of Star Trek and Doctor Who are switched. One will continuously run non-stop for 4 decades, to be revived again in a film 7 years later, and complete revival in the 21st century, serving as the backbone for a network. The other series will run for 3...

Stanley Kubrick's "Napoleon" swept the 1972 Academy Awards winning Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costume Design, and Best Actress for Audrey Hepburn - who came out of retirement to do the film. Starring Jack Nicholson as Napoleon, Hepburn as Josephine, and Malcolm...

At the 64th Academy Awards, Beauty and the Beast became the first animated movie to be nominated for Best Picture. What if it claimed the Oscar?

After having played James Bond for seven years, in 1980 Roger Moore decided to make 1981's "For Your Eyes Only" his final film as 007. The studio offered him more money to stay on, but Moore declined in order to pursue other projects. But what if Moore had decided otherwise, and he continued...

In 2007, Tom Cruise was going through a rough period in his career. Paramount had ended their relationship with him the year before, his most recent movie Lions for Lambs bombed, and he'd endured numerous public controversies involving his personal life and political views. But in summer 2007...