Wikipedia:WikiProject Film/Outreach/December 2009 Newsletter

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The WikiProject Films Newsletter
Volume IV, no. 12 - December 2009

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; Project news

Happy new year! This is the month to make your New Year's resolutions, and you can always have one or two related to Wikipedia! As 2009 has now ended with great progress for our project with many new FA/GAs, members, articles, and departments, we must now look forward to a new year full of great potential! Consider branching out to new areas such as joining in on more discussions, improving articles to higher levels, participating in drives and contests, and recruiting new members who may be interested in helping our project.
The Tag & Assess drive has completed another month. There are over 50,000 articles that need to be reviewed. We have already assessed over 6,600 articles! This will take a project-wide effort to complete, and it will be helpful if you complete even just one range. Some articles take a few seconds to complete, and you can always pick up where you left off if you want to work on other projects. With many awards available, you can review whatever ranges you feel comfortable with. Instructions can be found on the drive's page.
At the beginning of 2009, we had over 50,000 articles. Our project currently has over 62,700 film-related articles, with 59,000 that have been assessed by our assessment department! Remember to always add the {{tlx|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.
Based on views, the top five most popular articles from our project this month were: Avatar (2009 film) (with over 4.8 million views!), Inglourious Basterds, Iron Man 2, New Moon (2009 film), and Sherlock Holmes (2009 film). For a list of our project's top 1,000 most popular articles, see here. Consider improving one of these articles that is seen by thousands of people each month.
V for Vendetta is currently at FAR. Please help the article maintain its FA status by weighing in.
Spotlight Update: Multiple films and film-related articles have reached GA and FA status in December 2009.
{{classicon|GA}} Lemon Tree (12/5)
{{classicon|GA}} Lad, A Dog (12/8)
{{classicon|GA}} Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (12/22)
{{classicon|GA}} Howard the Duck (12/24)
{{classicon|GA}} The Phantom of the Opera (12/24)
{{classicon|GA}} Aladdin (12/24)
{{classicon|GA}} Mystery Train (12/30)
{{classicon|DFA}} Padmé Amidala (12/18)
{{classicon|DGA}} Ginger Snaps (12/11)
{{classicon|DGA}} Singapore Dreaming (12/14)
{{classicon|DGA}} Tears of the Black Tiger (12/16)

; Member news

New members to the project since the last issue include: {{ul|Laurinavicius}}, {{ul|Diegoboten}}, {{ul|Dhmaya}}, {{ul|MikeAllen}}, {{ul|JoseySmith}}, & {{ul|Sean}}.
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.

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; Coming to theaters

Opened last weekend (12/25):

Opening next weekend (1/8):

Other January releases:

The Book of Eli (1/15)
The Spy Next Door (1/15)
Creation (1/22)
Extraordinary Measures (1/22)
Legion (1/22)
Tooth Fairy (1/22)
Edge of Darkness (1/29)
When in Rome (1/29)

; Did you know...

... that the 1905 silent film Rescued by Rover was so popular that it had to be re-shot twice because the negatives wore out in order to meet the demand for prints?
... that Robert Hood Bowers{{`}} score for the lost silent film A Daughter of the Gods was called in 1921 the most memorable up to that time?
... that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, director John Huston was forced to leave In This Our Life to fulfill an assignment for the War Department, and Raoul Walsh was called in to complete the film?
... that the 1901 film Scrooge, or, Marley's Ghost is the oldest surviving film adaptation of Charles Dickens' 1843 novel A Christmas Carol?
... that the 1957 film Edge of the City, starring John Cassavetes and Sidney Poitier, won acclaim from critics and civil rights groups for its portrayal of an interracial friendship?
... that the Swedish film Hoppa högst was written by famous author Astrid Lindgren, who based the screenplay on a story from her book Kajsa Kavat?
... that, between 1973 and 1992, Barry Malkin edited both sequel films and both compilations of the Godfather Trilogy, but was not involved in the original 1972 film?
... that the 1951 film Marmayogi was the first Tamil film to receive an "Adult" rating?

; From the editors

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; Contributors to this issue

Nehrams2020 (Lead Editor, Distributor)

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