Movie City News Archive for May, 2015
Andrew Bujalski Gets Results With “Funky” Mixtape
Andrew Bujalski Gets Results With “Funky” Mixtape
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
The seventh wide opening of the summer, San Andreas, opens to the third best Friday of the 2015 season, behind only Pitch Perfect 2 (still #2 in its third weekend) and Avengers: Age of Ultron, which seems like a hundred years ago already (still #6 this weekend). But how it will hold this weekend and moving forward, that is the question. It has a very strong chance of significantly outperforming PP2 internationally, just as it is unlikely to ever pass PP2 domestically.
Also opening is Aloha, which will be the summer’s weakest wide opening (we’re letting The D Train have a pass, which never went wider than 1009 screens). Just to frustrate film critics, who have lined up against the film both on quality and on political correctness, the film will likely open better than We Bought A Zoo, Cameron Crowe’s last, much better-reviewed film. Maybe casting Emma Stone as Alison Ng paid off.
Read the full article »“Looking back, I can’t think of one funded show that was any good, while every day the world of commercial entertainment throws up work that is new, vibrant, creative and exciting without any need for government help.”
“Looking back, I can’t think of one funded show that was any good, while every day the world of commercial entertainment throws up work that is new, vibrant, creative and exciting without any need for government help.”
Read the full article »John Bailey On Vilmos Zsigmond And The Rose
John Bailey On Vilmos Zsigmond And The Rose
Read the full article »Daniel Clowes Has Thought Of Following The Ghost World Girls As Adults
Daniel Clowes Has Thought Of Following The Ghost World Girls As Adults
Read the full article »Ravi Somaiya Seances With Nikki Finke Over Her New Fictional Enterprise
“She is now barred from practicing journalism about the entertainment industry online for about a decade. Ms. Finke declined to discuss the settlement for fear of violating it. She declined to be photographed for this article, supplying the portrait instead.” Ravi Somaiya Seances For 1,100 Words With Nikki Finke Over Her New Fictional Enterprise
Read the full article »Gawker Employees Seek Union
Gawker Employees Seek Union
Read the full article »James B. Stewart On Netflix Lobbying At White House And On Capitol Hill
James B. Stewart On Netflix Lobbying At White House And On Capitol Hill
Read the full article »Olivier Assayas Criterion Top-10s Twenty-Two Pictures, Just Getting Started With The Leopard, Pickpocket, Andrei Rublev…
Olivier Assayas Criterion Top-10s Twenty-Two Pictures, Just Getting Started With The Leopard, Pickpocket, Andrei Rublev…
Read the full article »Alex Ross Perry On Cameron Crowe And Aloha
“I honestly don’t know why people aren’t more into Cameron Crowe, or at least wanting him to succeed. Maybe it’s some sort of grown-up version of instinctively disliking things that your parents either like or are likely to like.” Alex Ross Perry On Cameron Crowe And Aloha
Read the full article »Animator Don Hertzfeldt Says “Artists Shouldn’t Be Making Art On The Side, It Should Be Their Job”
Animator Don Hertzfeldt Says “Artists Shouldn’t Be Making Art On The Side, It Should Be Their Job”
Read the full article »A Poet Considers The Music Of A Title
A Poet Considers The Music Of A Title
Read the full article »Sydney’s Former Film Australia Studios To Be Sold For Residential Use
Sydney’s Former Film Australia Studios To Be Sold For Residential Use
Read the full article »Texas Slashes Production Incentives
Texas Slashes Production Incentives
Read the full article »Charlize Theron: Alpha Female
Charlize Theron: Alpha Female
Read the full article »A Note To All Media, Not Limited To Trades: “Your ‘Scoop’ Doesn’t Matter”
A Note To All Media, Not Limited To Trades: “Your ‘Scoop’ Doesn’t Matter”
Read the full article »Adrian Curry On The 34 Fine Movie Posters In “Scorsese Collects”
Adrian Curry On The 34 Fine Movie Posters In “Scorsese Collects”
Read the full article »Alan Rusbridger Looks Back On Twenty Years Of Running The Grauniad
Alan Rusbridger Looks Back On Twenty Years Of Running The Grauniad
Read the full article »Canuck Pics Assemble For Possible TIFF 2015 Opening Slot
Canuck Pics Assemble For Possible TIFF 2015 Opening Slot
Read the full article »Toronto Int’l Offers Designers Chance To Compete On 2015 T-Shirt Design For “Public Exposure”
Toronto Int’l Offers Designers Chance To Compete On 2015 T-Shirt Design For “Public Exposure”
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