Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/May 2011 Newsletter

Project news

• The recently created WP:GLAM project for the Museum of Modern Art the is looking for a WP:FILM Ambassador. If you are interested, leave your name at the members' page.
• Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were: Thor, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Fast Five, X-Men: First Class, and The Hangover Part II. 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.
• Summer Wars, which recently became a GA, is currently at peer review. Stop by and leave some comments to help improve the article to FA.
• Kung Fu Panda is currently at GAR awaiting some fixes to prevent its delisting. If you went and enjoyed the sequel in May, come help out with improving the quality of the original!
• Our project currently has just under 84,500 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:
  • File:Cabiria 1914 poster restored.jpg (5/22)
  • Summer Wars (5/10)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (5/26)

Member news

• New members to the project since the last issue include: Michitaro, Bullmoosebell, Secret of success, Zuaaa, Eddyghazaley, & Mlpkr.
• Remember that any editor can give the WikiProject Film 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	198
FL	509
FM	63
A	1
GA	1,504
B	1,856
C	12,837
Start	79,716
Stub	94,777
List	13,541
Category	68,721
Disambig	397
File	127,081
Portal	19
Project	247
Redirect	13,316
Template	10,079
NA	4
Assessed	424,866
Unassessed	141
Total	425,007
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,027,262			Ω = 5.38

Current proposals and discussions

Coming to theaters

Opened last weekend (5/27):

• The Hangover Part II
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• The Tree of Life (limited)

Opening this weekend (6/3):

• X-Men: First Class
• Beginners (limited)

Opening next weekend (6/10):

• Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer
• Super 8

Other June releases:

• Green Lantern (6/17)
• Mr. Popper's Penguins (6/17)
• The Art of Getting By (6/17) (limited)
• Bad Teacher (6/24)
• Cars 2 (6/24)
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon (6/29)

Did you know...

• ... that the film Ronald Reagan called "the worst picture I ever made" inspired Jerry Parr to join the Secret Service, and that Parr saved President Reagan's life during the 1981 assassination attempt?
• ... that Nude Nuns with Big Guns is a nunsploitation thriller film that is the subject of a copyright lawsuit against torrent users involving 5,865 IP addresses?
• ... that the first time Ronald Colman and Ginger Rogers starred together in a film was in Lewis Milestone's 1940 comedy romance drama Lucky Partners?
• ... that Teresa de Jesús, an eight-hour television/DVD mini-series about St. Teresa of Ávila, won the 1985 Spanish TP de Oro for Best National Series?
• ... that the 1948 comedy No Minor Vices was one of the only four films made by Dana Andrews for director Lewis Milestone?
• ... that the creation of the documentary film America's Most Hated Family in Crisis was prompted by an email?
• ... that Lewis Milestone began directing the 1926 silent film Fine Manners but left the project after quarreling with actress Gloria Swanson, leaving first-time director Richard Rosson to finish the film?
• ... that filming for the now-on-hold Arnold Schwarzenegger movie project Cry Macho originally began in 1991 with Jaws star Roy Scheider in the lead role?
• ... that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's has been called "perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time"?

From the editors

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