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  • Condon prepared for bad Breaking Dawn reviews - 22 July 2011
    -Director Bill Condon is fully prepared to receive bad reviews for the latest installment in the Twilight franchise, because "horror movies don't tend" to be favoured by critics.-The moviemaker has taken the helm of the vampire series to direct the final two-part mov


  • Condon reaches out to Twilight fans - 4 May 2010
    -Director Bill Condon has written an open letter to fans of the Twilight movie series - insisting he is submerging himself in the vampire franchise to make sure the next film meets their expectations.- -The Dreamgirls moviemaker will take charge of the fourth and fin


  • Condon confirmed as Twilight finale director - 29 April 2010
    -Moviemaker and one-time Oscars producer Bill Condon has been confirmed as the director of the final Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn.- -Summit Entertainment bosses have handed over the film franchise to the Academy Award-winning writer and director of such films as Dre

Bill Condon - what members say


  • Gods And Monsters
  • Gods And Monsters review by from Oxford, England
    Rated - 5.0 stars Excellent movie 9 July 2004
    ...ith the movie adding layer upon layer in their relationship. Co-writer/director Bill Condon does a wonderful job at bringing together the various elements, and treating de...   Read customer review
  • Kinsey
  • Kinsey review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Kinsey 26 March 2007
    ...sexual history from his Father (John Lithgow; superb). On the slight downside; Bill Condon is a good director, but not much more and the film is well, but unremarkeably, ...   Read customer review
  • The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn - Part 1
  • The Twilight Saga - Breaking Dawn - Part 1 review by Georgesmother from
    Rated - 2.0 stars Oh dear - Bill Condon has let us down 18 March 2012
    ...e dialogue between Sam and Jacob is just dreadful. I am so disappointed that Bill Condon has also been responsible for Part Two and I expect a similarly bad production....   Read customer review

Bill Condon - filmography


  • Dreamgirls - Blu-ray (2006)
    Starring: Danny Glover,  Jennifer Hudson,  Jamie Foxx
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Double Oscar-winning musical drama following the meteoric rise of a 1960s all-girl vocal group. Based on the 1981 Broadway hit musical, the film follows full-figured belter, Effie White (Jennifer Hudson), and her school friends, Deena Jones (Beyonce Knowles) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose), ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 1,442 member
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  • Kinsey on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Julianne Nicholson,  Peter Sarsgaard,  Dylan Baker
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The life story of Alfred Kinsey, a man driven to uncover the most private secrets of the nation, and journey into the mystery of human behavior. In 1948, Kinsey irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male." Using the technique ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 15,552 members
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  • Gods And Monsters on DVD (1998)
    Starring: Ian McKellen,  Lolita Davidovich,  Lynn Redgrave
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This Oscar-winning film stars Sir Ian McKellen as James Whale, the director of the classic 1931 film 'Frankenstein'. Whale has slipped into a comfortable but monotonous retirement, living with his housekeeper Hanna (Lynn Redgrave) and lounging in the Los Angeles sun. His solitary existence is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 3,020 members
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  • Candyman 2 - Farewell To The Flesh on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Kelly Rowan,  Timothy Carhart,  Tony Todd
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In the 1890s, a young black man was lynched and tortured because of his affair with a white girl. He returned from the dead to wreak his vengeance in 'Candyman', and now looks set to do the same again, in true sequel fashion. In modern-day New Orleans, local schoolteacher Annie Tarrant (Kelly Rowan)..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 3,106 members
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  • FX2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Bryan Brown,  Rachel Ticotin,  Tom Mason
    Director: Richard Franklin
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Follow-on from the 1986 film 'FX - Murder by Illusion' in which Tyler (Bryan Brown) is now semi-retired. However, he is talked out of the quiet life after five years and into taking part in a police-sting operation by his girlfriend's ex-husband. When the latter is murdered, Tyler investigates, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,641 member
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  • Murder 101 on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Pierce Brosnan
    Director: Bill Condon
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as a crime writer whose theory on the perfect murder threatens to come back to haunt him. Charles Lattimore (Brosnan), a successful crime writer, arrives at the college of his ex-wife, Laura (Dey Young), to give a course on writing the perfect murder mystery novel. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 41 members
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  • Strange Behaviour on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Louise Fletcher,  Arthur Dignam,  Fiona Lewis
    Director: Michael Laughlin
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Dead Kids, aka Strange Behavior, is a creepy exercise from director Michael Laughlin--who conceived this as part one of an abortive Strange Trilogy which also included 1983's Strange Invaders. Although lensed in New Zealand, the film is set in a sleepy American town, in which a series of gory ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 45% from 96 members
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