Movie City News Archive for November, 2014
Friday Box Office Estimates
Mockingjay continues to rule the roost and is now looking to catch up to the domestic gross of the first Hunger Games, but not the second (which it is still behind by 24%). It’s now past $400m worldwide. newcomer/spinoff The Penguins of Madagascar is looking soft, due for a Saturday uptick, but not close to Big Hero Six opening numbers, even if you adjust expectations because of the Wednesday launch. Interstellar had an uptick this weekend, even as it dropped more than 10% of its screens. And newcomer/sequel Horrible Bosses 2 is no Horrible Bosses… but how different they really are at the box office won’t be known until the end of next weekend, once we’ve digested Thanksgiving.
Read the full article »In First Interview Since Hitler Remarks, Lars Von Trier Claims He’s Quit Drugs And Alcohol And Thinks Only “Shitty Films” Are In The Offing
“There is no creative expression of artistic value that has ever been produced by ex-drunkards and ex-drug addicts. All the artists I have respected the most have also wallowed in all sorts of mind-expanding drugs.” In First Interview Since Hitler Remarks, Lars Von Trier Claims He’s Quit Drugs And Alcohol; Sez “Shitty Films” Are In…
Read the full article »Alice Hines On How Mike Nichols’ Working Girl Holds Up
Alice Hines On How Mike Nichols’ Working Girl Holds Up
Read the full article »Maclean’s Magazine Says After CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi, Canada Will Change How It Treats Sexual Assault
Maclean’s Magazine Says After CBC’s Jian Ghomeshi, Canada Will Change How It Treats Sexual Assault
Read the full article »Matt Singer Offers His Five Surefire Steps To An Award-worthy Biopic
Matt Singer Offers His Five Surefire Steps To An Award-worthy Biopic
Read the full article »NPR Takes A Gander At The Foot Technology Of Mae West’s Shoes
NPR Takes A Gander At The Foot Technology Of Mae West’s Shoes
Read the full article »“What Exodus could learn from Noah, Lincoln and Jeffrey Katzenberg”
“What Exodus could learn from Noah, Lincoln and Jeffrey Katzenberg”
Read the full article »Restoring Alan Turing’s Estate
Restoring Alan Turing’s Estate
Read the full article »It’s Ten Years For The 20,000-Film Chicago Film Archives
It’s Ten Years For The 20,000-Film Chicago Film Archives
Read the full article »Jordan Hoffman Circles Regal’s Union Square 14 And The Tease For SW:TFA
“When he intoned: ‘There has been an awakening,’ I began to weep like Malakili the Rancor Keeper. It was a fast 88 seconds.” Jordan Hoffman Circles Regal’s Union Square 14 And The Tease For SW:TFA
Read the full article »Ryan Gilbey On 50 Years Of The Mockumentary
Ryan Gilbey On 50 Years Of The Mockumentary
Read the full article »A. O. Scott Considers Whether Art Is Failing Us In Hard Times
A. O. Scott Assembles Voices Considers Whether Art Is Failing Us In Hard Times
Read the full article »Next Wave Of Brutal Fiscal Contraction At BBC: $630 Million By 2017
Next Wave Of Brutal Fiscal Contraction At BBC: $630 Million By 2017
Read the full article »TV Writer Ken Levine On The Cosby Work Ethic
“To have a star just arbitrarily toss out draft after draft and force his staff to write around the clock for seven months is unfair and highly disrespectful.” TV Writer Ken Levine On The Cosby Work Ethic
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Monte Hellman, Les Blank, Dirty Movies, Lines of Wellington, Drunk History and more
Traditionally, the one sure way to kill a genre film’s commercial appeal is for a critic to label it “existential” or “experimental” or compare it to the films of Antonioni. No matter how much a Western or road picture was embraced by intellectuals, if it didn’t draw a crowd to the drive-in or local bijou, no amount of arthouse revenues could save it or advance the career of the artiste. Monte Hellman broke into the movie business in 1959 with a string of genre films made under the Corman banner: Beast From Haunted Cave, The Terror and a pair of back-to-back collaborations with Jack Nicholson, Back Door to Hell and Flight to Fury and The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind. Five years would pass before Universal attempted to tap into the counterculture market with his “existential road movie,” Two-Lane Blacktop. Forty years later, this unqualified financial disaster would enter the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, where The Shooting and Ride in the Whirlwind someday may find themselves as well.
Read the full article »How The Nagra Recorder Changed Film Sound
How The Nagra Recorder Changed Film Sound
Read the full article »On The Floor Of The AFM In Search Of Future Schlock
On The Floor Of The AFM In Search Of Future Schlock
Read the full article »20 Weeks To Oscar: First Major Event
Guild nominations are rarely outside of the well-established box. It takes a series of those events in coordination to change the game. Critics awards… lovely. But enjoy them for what they are, because they may not match nominations, much less winners.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Godard’s Goodbye To Language Gets 3D Playdates In Santa Monica, Chicago, Seattle
Godard’s Goodbye To Language Gets 3D Playdates In Santa Monica, Chicago, Seattle
Read the full article »Scott Foundas Has A Brief Audience With Ridley Scott About Exodus, Nonstop Work And Tony Scott
“I miss a friend. I’d go to him even when he was doing his recovery, and I’d say, ‘-— the chemo, have a vodka martini,’ and he and I would go out.” Scott Foundas Has A Brief Audience To Cover-Story Ridley Scott About Exodus, Nonstop Work, Why Movies Have To Have Stars For Finance, And…
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