Movie City News Archive for June, 2015
Elizabeth Berkeley Embraces Showgirls In Front Of Thousands Gathered In A H’wd Cemetery
Elizabeth Berkeley Embraces Showgirls In Front Of 4,000 Fans Gathered In A H’wd Cemetery
Read the full article »Times-Favored Former Mogul Michael Eisner Applies Skills To Local-Market TV For Talk, Game And Court Shows; Brooks Barnes Offers No Update On “Bazooka Joe” Projects
Times-Favored Former Mega-Mogul Michael Eisner Applies Skills To Local-Market TV For Talk, Game And Court Shows; Brooks Barnes Offers No Update On “Bazooka Joe” Projects
Read the full article »Ben Kenigsberg Talks To Hot Doc Makers About Manipulations
“Is the problem that we have an unfettered capacity for credulity, for false belief?” Ben Kenigsberg Talks To Hot Doc Makers About Manipulations
Read the full article »Making Brokeback
“The day the Oscar ballots closed, I gathered everyone in the Focus conference room, and gave a speech. I said, ‘Look, we lost.’” Making Brokeback
Read the full article »One Hold Barred: Hulk Hogan Wants His Sex Tape Kept From Open Court In Gawker Trial
“Audible and visually recognizable reactions from the public likely will taint the jurors’ own perception.” One Hold Barred: Hulk Hogan Wants His Sex Tape Kept From Open Court In Gawker Trial
Read the full article »Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs On The Latest Member Invitates
“Every step we take, we are stepping toward the goal of normalization—I love that word. This is a continuum. The goal is the normalization in having artists and films rep society as a whole.” Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs On The Latest Member Invitates
Read the full article »Alex Pappademas On The Unsexing Of Mark Wahlberg
Alex Pappademas On The Unsexing Of Mark Wahlberg
Read the full article »Amy Schumer Tweets To Those Calling Her “Racist,” “Put Down Your Torches Before Reading This So You Don’t Catch On Fire”
Amy Schumer Tweets To Those Calling Her “Racist,” “Put Down Your Torches Before Reading This So You Don’t Catch On Fire” After – A Particularly Detailed Attempt At A Takedown At The Guardian
Read the full article »“Academy’s Invites In Animation/VFX Branches Are 95% Male”
“Academy’s Invites In Animation/VFX Branches Are 95% Male”
Read the full article »“Regnad Kcin” Was 74
The Firesign Theater’s “Regnad Kcin” Was 74
Read the full article »Listen To Peter Strickland’s Toby Jones-Starring Debut BBC Radio Play, “The Len Continuum” 45’00’ streaming
Listen To Peter Strickland’s Toby Jones-Starring Debut BBC Radio Play, “The Len Continuum” 45’00’ streaming
Read the full article »Charlotte Rampling On The Latest Turns In Her Long Career
“Quite often, I don’t quite know what I want to do, and then something will come up that could give me a channel into another world, into another way of performing, another way of doing. It’s a question of what you need to stimulate you–I need quite unusual things to stimulate me.” Charlotte Rampling On…
Read the full article »BBC Pulls Out The Big Guns In Analyzing This Year’s Strong Box Office?
“Why is 2015 proving such a blockbuster year for film? One obvious reason is inflation. Inflation is only part of the story, however.” BBC Pulls Out The Big Guns In Analyzing This Year’s Strong Box Office
Read the full article »20TH ANNUAL NANTUCKET FILM FESTIVAL WINNERS ANNOUNCED
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS INCLUDE ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL, HARRY & SNOWMAN and PINK BOY ANIMATED FEATURE SHAUN THE SHEEP THE MOVIE RUNNER UP AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER Nantucket, MA (June 28, 2015) – The 20th Anniversary Nantucket Film Festival (NFF) today announced the winners of the prestigious Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay…
Read the full article »Adam Nayman Asks What Canada’s All-Time Top Ten List Means
Adam Nayman Asks What Canada’s All-Time Top Ten List Means
Read the full article »From 1930, Jean Vigo’s Lecture, “Toward A Social Cinema”
From 1930, Jean Vigo’s Lecture, “Toward A Social Cinema”
Read the full article »Vienna As The True Star Of The Third Man
Vienna As The True Star Of The Third Man
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Jurassic World took the hat trick as top viewing choice for the frame with an estimated $54.2 million and set a new speed record for a movie grossing $500 million. It now ranks fifth among all time domestic box office champs (unadjusted). And still radiating joy in second position was Inside Out with $52.2 million. Neither of the session’s new wide releases performed up to expectations with Ted 2 napping third in the lineup with $32.9 million and Max, the Afghan vet pooch, grossing $12.2 million.
Read the full article »André Gregory And Wallace Shawn’s Criterion Top 10 May Be The Longest, Most Discursive Ever
André Gregory And Wallace Shawn’s Criterion Top 10 May Be The Longest, Most Discursive Ever
Read the full article »“Why A Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like Mad Max: Fury Road”
“Why A Post-Nuclear World Would Look Nothing Like Mad Max: Fury Road“
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