Movie City News Archive for December, 2013
Zhang Yimou Apologizes To China And Could Pay $1.2 Million For Having Three Kids
Zhang Yimou Apologizes To China And Could Pay $1.2 Million For Having Three Kids
Read the full article »“Mark Cuban Won’t Back Down”
“Mark Cuban Won’t Back Down”
Read the full article »A Kiwi View On Filmmakers Who Follow The Tax Breaks
A Kiwi View On Filmmakers Who Follow The Tax Breaks
Read the full article »Kevin Smith Vs. The Misogynists
Kevin Smith Vs. The Misogynists
Read the full article »Composer Wojciech Kilar, 81, Scored The Pianist, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Composer Wojciech Kilar, 81, Scored The Pianist, Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Read the full article »Bordwell & Thompson List The Ten Best Films Of 1923
Bordwell & Thompson List The Ten Best Films Of 1923
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug got the hat trick as it edged ahead of Frozen to lead weekend box office with an estimated $29.8 million. The record-breaking holiday session saw a lot of new films opening Christmas day, but for the industry it appeared that Santa had stuffed a lot of coal in its stocking. The top opener was the freewheeling The Wolf of Wall Street , with a first-weekend gross of $18.4 million (all box office 3-day figures) that ranked fifth overall. The remake of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty was a couple of daydreams back with $13 million and the beleaguered 47 Ronin sliced off $9.9 million.
Read the full article »Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Banned Formally In Moscow
Two Countries, Two Furores The role of art “is to save the world, make it better, not to inflame the public with scandalous stories that have no cultural merit. Let’s hold tight to those principles and keep everybody safe.” Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer Banned Formally In Moscow
Read the full article »“There’s this thing that I see in certain critics who don’t care much for Scorsese’s work. I certainly see it in Edelstein’s review of Wolf, and having looked over Kael’s reviews of many Scorsese movies, it’s there too, with a strong class bias as well; that is, they think Scorsese is a little bit dumb. Yeah, sure, he’s a ‘ferociously’ ‘accomplished’ filmmaker, but he also kind of has to be some sort of unrefined mook, doesn’t he? (Scorsese’s own modesty concerning his intellectual attainments in interviews no doubt also contributes to this perception.)”
And – “There’s this thing that I see in certain critics who don’t care much for Scorsese’s work. I certainly see it in Edelstein’s review of Wolf, and having looked over Kael’s reviews of many Scorsese movies, it’s there too, with a strong class bias as well; that is, they think Scorsese is a little…
Read the full article »Times Has Scoop On Rash Of On-Screen Mustaches
Times Has Scoop On Rash Of On-Screen Mustaches
Read the full article »How Alt-Weeklies Lost Their Voice
How Alt-Weeklies Lost Their Voice
Read the full article »Times Tastes Disney’s Turkey Leg Biz
Times Tastes Disney’s Turkey Leg Biz
Read the full article »A Year In FrancoFrancoFranco
“Who knows what’s going to happen after this? I don’t know, so if this is the only life, than why am I not just doing everything that I want to do.” A Year In FrancoFrancoFranco
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
Frozen pulls out ahead of Hobbit: Smaug, not only for Friday, but for the total domestic runs of both films. Solid numbers continue for Anchorman 2, American Hustle, and The Wolf of Wall Street. In limited, August: Osage County looking at a 30k per-screen for the 3-day weekend and Lone Survivor should beat that, but on 3 fewer screens.
Read the full article »Barnes Will Have You Know The 2015 Doc Oscar Field Launches At Sundance
Barnes Will Have You Know The 2015 Doc Oscar Field Launches At Sundance
Read the full article »Remembering Seattle Critic Jeff Shannon
Remembering Seattle Critic Jeff Shannon
Read the full article »Now That They’re Releasing Fantastic Mr. Fox, Should Criterion Look For More Animation To Embellish?
Now That They’re Releasing Fantastic Mr. Fox, Should Criterion Look For More Animation To Embellish?
Read the full article »“Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving Facebook in droves—and the biggest deterrent is their parents.”
“Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving Facebook in droves—and the biggest deterrent is their parents.”
Read the full article »The Butler’s Danny Strong On Writing Reagan
The Butler‘s Danny Strong On Writing Reagan
Read the full article »Atop $6 Billion Each Year In Subscriber Fees, “ESPN has received about $260 million in Connecticut state tax breaks and credits over the past 12 years.”
Atop $6 Billion Each Year In Subscriber Fees, “ESPN has received about $260 million in Connecticut state tax breaks and credits over the past 12 years.”
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