Movie City News Archive for February, 2015
David Oyelowo At The Movies
“When you go to see a movie, there is a spiritual exchange between the audience and what you’re watching. There is something metaphysical going on, where through the eyes, through what that person is exuding, you go, “I understand who they are. I have a sense of what they’re feeling when they’re not even talking.”…
Read the full article »Study Says Diverse Casts Increase Ratings, Box Office
Study Says Diverse Casts Increase Ratings, Box Office
Read the full article »“The irony here is that I wouldn’t even want to make “Power Rangers: The Movie’ for real. Like if I had to make a ‘Power Rangers’ movie, this is it. It’s 14 minutes long and it’s violent and this is what I have in me. If they offered me the $200 million version, the PG-13 version, I literally wouldn’t do it. It’s just not interesting to me.”
“The irony here is that I wouldn’t even want to make “Power Rangers: The Movie’ for real. Like if I had to make a ‘Power Rangers’ movie, this is it. It’s 14 minutes long and it’s violent and this is what I have in me. If they offered me the $200 million version, the PG-13…
Read the full article »Radicals In Iraq Continue Burning Thousands Of Books
Radicals In Iraq Continue To Burn Thousands Of Books
Read the full article »Film Critic Elizabeth Weitzman Moves On After 15 Year At The New York Daily News
Film Critic Elizabeth Weitzman Moves On After 15 Years At The New York Daily News
Read the full article »“Jamie Lee Curtis Consults Sigourney Weaver About Her Next Tattoo”
“Jamie Lee Curtis Consults Sigourney Weaver About Her Next Tattoo”
Read the full article »Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern Says Lack Of Working Class Actors Is Changing What Kinds Of Films Can Be Made In Blighty
Screenwriter Jimmy McGovern Says Lack Of Working Class Actors Is Changing What Kinds Of Films Can Be Made In Blighty
Read the full article »Larry David Deals With Ordering A Seltzer At A Sheepshead Bay Diner
Larry David Deals With Ordering A Seltzer At A Sheepshead Bay Diner
Read the full article »“It’s hard to imagine that the space where the Beverly Center is now located was once home to a bustling children’s amusement park that served as the inspiration behind Disneyland.”
“It’s hard to imagine that the space where the Beverly Center is now located was once home to a bustling children’s amusement park that served as the inspiration behind Disneyland.”
Read the full article »How Apple Designer Jony Ive Is “De-Warhol-ing” The Corporation’s Price Structure
How Apple Designer Jony Ive Is “De-Warhol-ing” The Corporation’s Price Structure
Read the full article »Godzilla Hotel To Open In Japan
Godzilla Hotel To Open In Japan
Read the full article »There’s A Hunger Games-Inspired Motivational Video Morgan Stanley Would Rather You Not Watch
There’s A Hunger Games-Inspired Motivational Video Morgan Stanley Would Rather You Not Watch
Read the full article »Previewing A NYC Retro Of Veteran Bay Area Filmmaker John Korty
Previewing A NYC Retro Of Veteran Bay Area Filmmaker John Korty
Read the full article »Ben Sachs Updates The Case Of Bankrobbing Comic Filmmaker Joe Gibbons
Ben Sachs Updates The Case Of Bankrobbing Comic Filmmaker Joe Gibbons
Read the full article »Patrick Swayze At The Door: 22,000 NYPD Members Being Shown Road House As Lesson In How To Be Nice
Patrick Swayze Hits The Street 22,000 NYPD Members Being Shown Road House At $35 Million “Retraining” Weekend As Lesson In How To Be Nice
Read the full article »Sony Hack Delays SAG-AFTRA Residuals For Months
Sony Hack Delays SAG-AFTRA Residuals For Months
Read the full article »“Searchlight is the gold ring of distributors for indie filmmakers because the company has not only learned over the years how to score in the awards derby, but it also plays a canny box office game. “
“Searchlight is the gold ring of distributors for indie filmmakers because the company has not only learned over the years how to score in the awards derby, but it also plays a canny box office game.”
Read the full article »Lionsgate Makes “Significant” Investment In Telltale Games, Developer Of “Walking Dead” Videogame
Lionsgate Makes “Significant” Investment In Telltale Games, Developer Of “Walking Dead” Videogame
Read the full article »Dan Kois: Boyhood Fan
“This one’s an epochal Oscar travesty. This one hurts. By nominating Boyhood, the academy gave itself the chance to recognize a movie that is not just good but revolutionary—a film that reconsiders, in surprising and rewarding ways, the medium’s relationship with time, with storytelling, and with its audience. It’s both a singular work—no one but Richard Linklater could…
Read the full article »“The Oscars haven’t abandoned movies with mass-audience appeal. It’s theatrical audiences that, with rare exceptions, who have abandoned anything but big-budget spectacle. “
“The Oscars haven’t abandoned movies with mass-audience appeal. It’s theatrical audiences that, with rare exceptions, who have abandoned anything but big-budget spectacle. “ Sam Adams Pooh-Poohs The Universally-Derided Cieply-Barnes-Grey Lady Screed Favoring The Banishment Of “Elitist” Films From Oscar
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