Movie City News Archive for March, 2015
Screen Australia Gets Banker As New Boss
Screen Australia Gets Banker As New Boss
Read the full article »Stephen King Challenges Maine Governor To Retract Lies About His Taxes
Stephen King Challenges Maine Governor To Retract Lies About His Taxes
Read the full article »Netflix Digital-Only Down Under, With 7,000 Fewer Titles Than In U. S.
Netflix Digital-Only Down Under, With An Estimated 7,000 Fewer Titles Than In U. S.
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Estimates for DreamWorks Animation’s Home make it the best opening for the studio since moving to Fox for distribution, topping even last summer’s Oscar-winning Dragon sequel. Get Hard is the #3 opening of Will Ferrell’s live-action career, very similar to Blades of Glory. Radius/Weinstein throws It Follows into theatrical release without the threat of immediate VOD and it will become their #1 theatrical grosser ever, in just a few more days.
Read the full article »Hw’d Food Stylist Melissa McSorley’s Not Talking About That Pile Of Caviar In Danny Collins
Hw’d Food Stylist Melissa McSorley’s Not Talking About That Pile Of Caviar In Danny Collins
Read the full article »“Cinema is gone—everyone agrees. And yet cinema also abides, if only so that Jean-Luc Godard can go on delivering valedictions to what it used to be. Like the history of which it’s a part, the moving image has not finished its work, nor is it likely to anytime soon. I think it’s just gotten a little too much into itself. The future of the moving image, radical or otherwise, is now being decided by a bunch of 10-year-olds. My ideas won’t greatly affect what they like.”
“Cinema is gone—everyone agrees. And yet cinema also abides, if only so that Jean-Luc Godard can go on delivering valedictions to what it used to be. Like the history of which it’s a part, the moving image has not finished its work, nor is it likely to anytime soon. I think it’s just gotten a…
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
Home lands in the top third of DreamWorks Animation openings, right in the range of last summer’s How To Train Your Dragon 2, prompting a much-needed sigh of relief for DWA and Fox marketing. Get Hard opens to a number remarkably close to another Will Ferrell late-March opening, Blades of Fire, which also happens to be one of his Top Five career openers as a lead. And, finally, some life on the arthouse scene, as Radius’ decision to withdraw It Follows from the day-n-date VOD market will pay off with a $4m+ weekend that would not have happened with day-n-date. And Noah Baumbach’s While We Are Young is looking at a $40K+ per-screen on four.
Read the full article »While We’re Young DP Sam Levy On Removing What Seems Electronic In The Image And On Making The Final Film Print At Technicolor New York
While We’re Young DP Sam Levy On Removing What Seems Electronic In The Image And On Making The Final Film Print At Technicolor New York
Read the full article »Incoming Guardian Editor Katherine Viner On New Digital Journalism And “The Rise Of The Reader”
Incoming Guardian Editor Katherine Viner On New Digital Journalism And “The Rise Of The Reader”
Read the full article »“Robert Altman Wooed Me With A Capuccino,” Kathryn Altman Recounts
“Robert Altman Wooed Me With A Capuccino,” Kathryn Altman Recounts
Read the full article »What Opinion Does The Internet Hold Of Lena Dunham This Fine Day?
What Opinion Does The Internet Hold Of Lena Dunham This Fine Day?
Read the full article »Noah Baumbach On The Comedy Of Marriage
Noah Baumbach On Being Middle-Aged And – Noah Baumbach On The Comedy Of Marriage
Read the full article »Bilge Ebiri Visits With Errol Morris As Thin Blue Line; Vernon, Florida And Gates Of Heaven Go Criterion
Bilge Ebiri Visits With Errol Morris As Thin Blue Line; Vernon, Florida And Gates Of Heaven Go Criterion
Read the full article »Barney Hoskyns On Rocker-Screenwriter Nick Cave’s New Tour Diaries, “The Sick Bag Song”
Barney Hoskyns On Rocker-Screenwriter Nick Cave’s New Tour Diaries, “The Sick Bag Song”
Read the full article »Kumiko The Treasure Hunter Built Legend Upon Legend
Kumiko The Treasure Hunter Built Legend Upon Legend
Read the full article »The Return Of The Comic Genius Of Charles Grodin At The Age Of 79
The Return Of The Comic Genius Of Charles Grodin At The Age Of 79
Read the full article »Zara Co. Buys Chicago’s Esquire Theater Building For $176 Million
Zara Co. Buys Chicago’s Esquire Theater Building For $176 Million
Read the full article »“Get Hard knows how to screw around. But when it comes to anything more, it lacks the balls to —-,” Sez Wesley Morris
“Get Hard knows how to screw around. But when it comes to anything more, it lacks the balls to —-,” Sez Wesley Morris And – “There are ways to use homophobia in comic contexts which riff and evolve and wind up transcending it… Get Hard doesn’t dare get anywhere near this territory–it keeps pummelling you with…
Read the full article »Sex Starts In The Brain For Kim Cattrall
Sex Starts In The Brain For Kim Cattrall
Read the full article »Brilliant Opening Segment Of Wild Tales May Have Predicted Germanwings Crash All Too Well
Brilliant Opening Segment Of Wild Tales May Have Predicted Germanwings Crash All Too Well
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