movie crossword (difficult)

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Across
  1. 2. ___ 9000, from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
  2. 5. director of Wicked (2024) and Crazy Rich Asians (2018).
  3. 6. this adaptation of a short story by Stephen King featured Phillip Seymour Hoffman's son as the lead.
  4. 7. famous action movie often categorized as a Christmas movie, despite the holiday having little to do with the plot.
  5. 8. character in both Wicked and The Lego Batman Movie.
  6. 10. country where Call Me By Your Name (2017) was filmed.
  7. 12. _____ Egg: the "new money" community on Long Island in The Great Gatsby (2013).
  8. 13. anagram title of a Christopher Nolan film.
  9. 15. a cup from this coffee chain can be found in almost every scene in Fight Club (1999).
  10. 17. Character portrayed by the director, himself, in Do the Right Thing (1989)
  11. 20. type of whale that the boat in Jaws (1975) was named after.
  12. 21. upcoming movie releasing in 2026 featuring Robert de Niro, Ben Stiller, and Ariana Grande.
  13. 22. city in Pennsylvania that serves as the setting of Groundhog Day (1993).
  14. 24. what items were worth $250,000 in Charade?
  15. 26. 1990 movie with famous pottery scene featuring Whoopi Goldberg and Demi Moore.
  16. 27. what Mad Men actor plays Annie's (Kristen Wiig) boyfriend at the beginning of Bridesmaids (2011).
  17. 29. I'm not a ______, I'm just a woman. From Little Women (2019).
  18. 31. continent from which Cady moved from in Mean Girls (2004).
  19. 34. star and producer of Barbie (2023).
  20. 36. 1950s film starring Audrey Hepburn and set on Long Island.
  21. 39. character in both The Lord of the Rings and The Lego Batman Movie.
  22. 40. name of the character in Wicked (2024) and Wicked: For Good (2025) played by an SNL star.
  23. 41. a very-talented nepo baby that starred in Cabaret (1972) and New York, New York (1977).
  24. 43. acronym nickname of the a24 film that took home Best Picture at the 2023 Oscars.
  25. 44. director of Life of Pi (2012) and Brokeback Mountain (2005).
  26. 46. Ari Aster film he said he wanted to feel like Grand Theft Auto or Call of Duty.
  27. 47. ______ 5 to 7.
  28. 48. five dimensional shape depicted in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014).
  29. 49. the color of the slippers in the Wizard of Oz BOOK and Wicked (2024), unlike that of the Wizard of Oz 1939 film.
Down
  1. 1. this horror started from the same script as E.T., and shares the same director.
  2. 3. black and white oscar winning movie from the 2010s.
  3. 4. law school attended by Elle Woods.
  4. 9. ficitional place home to a lion, a witch, and a wardrobe.
  5. 11. Sensei, in One Battle After Another.
  6. 14. film studio responsible for Fire of Love, It Was Just an Accident, Leviticus, Arco, Longlegs, and Portrait of a Lady of Fire.
  7. 16. "What's in the ______?" From Se7en.
  8. 17. actor that improvised a chest thumping scene in Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
  9. 18. film studio responsible for Hamnet, Obsession, The Holdovers, Coraline, Atonement, and Phantom Thread.
  10. 19. e.g., the glwowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction, the ark of the covenant in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the military secrets in The 39 Steps, and the Maltese Falcon in The Maltese Falcon. It is also the name of the in-theater bar at AMC theaters.
  11. 23. exam that Elle Woods studies for in Legally Blonde (2001).
  12. 25. name of the tiger in Life of Pi (2012).
  13. 28. animated dragon character voiced by Eddie Murphy in a Disney film.
  14. 30. director of Misery (1990) and The Princess Bride (1987).
  15. 32. highest grossing movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, for short.
  16. 33. actor that plays both a U.S. Marshall and a psychiatric physician in Shutter Island (2010).
  17. 35. name of the 2023 biopic on the Von Erich family.
  18. 37. what the snow in The Wizard of Oz (1939) was made of, poisoning the actors.
  19. 38. voice actor for Woody in the Toy Story series.
  20. 42. Marty Mauser's biggest competitor in ping pong in Marty Supreme (2025).
  21. 45. number of dream levels the crew enters in Inception (2010).
  22. 49. not stirred, how does James Bond take his martini (unless he's Daniel Craig).