Movie City News Archive for February, 2017
The Weekend Report
Get Out got in with an estimated $30.5 million debut. The session’s other two national openers had less fortuitous results. Animated Rock Dogs charted 11th with $3.6 million. Collide bumped into $1.5 million.
Read the full article »Bill Paxton Was 61
Bill Paxton Was 61
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The phone rang.
Read the full article »Isabelle Who…ppert? A Beginner’s Guide to the Oscar-Nominated ‘Elle’ Actress
“Isabelle Who…ppert? A Beginner’s Guide to the Oscar-Nominated Elle Actress”
Read the full article »“From the wry irony of the deceptively exuberant opening sequence (in which dozens of starry-eyed wannabes dazzle us with their dreams and then, as winter arrives in a city without seasons, promptly disappear into the ether), the entire film is engaged in a self-aware soft-shoe around the amorphous border between fantasy and reality.”
“From the wry irony of the deceptively exuberant opening sequence (in which dozens of starry-eyed wannabes dazzle us with their dreams and then, as winter arrives in a city without seasons, promptly disappear into the ether), the entire film is engaged in a self-aware soft-shoe around the amorphous border between fantasy and reality.”
Read the full article »Marisa Silver On The A Generation’s Turn From Plot To Personal Digression, Referencing 1928’sWeirdly Fascinating “Plotto: The Master Book Of All Plots”
Marisa Silver On The A Generation’s Turn From Plot To Personal Digression, Referencing 1928’s Weirdly Fascinating “Plotto: The Master Book Of All Plots”
Read the full article »Michael Cieply Douses Writer Hopes In Imminent Bargaining With AMPTP Water From A Single Unnamed Executive
Michael Cieply Douses Writer Hopes In Imminent Bargaining With AMPTP Water From A Single Unnamed Executive
Read the full article »Spirit Awards
Moonlight; Isabelle Huppert, Casey Affleck; Toni Erdmann; OJ: Made In America; Ben Foster, Molly Shannon, Supporting, Hell Or High Water; Moonlight, Screenplay, Editing, Cinematography; The Witch, Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay; Spa Night, Cassavetes For Under $500,000
Read the full article »Academy Rescinds 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi Sound Mixing Nomination For Lobbying By Telephone
Oscar Benghazi Scandal!! (Literally) Academy Rescinds 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers Of Benghazi Sound Mixing Nomination For Lobbying By Telephone
Read the full article »ACADEMY RESCINDS SOUND MIXING NOMINATION FOR GREG P. RUSSELL ON “13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI”
LOS ANGELES, CA – Upon recommendation by the Sound Branch Executive Committee, the Academy’s Board of Governors voted Thursday (2/23) to rescind the Sound Mixing nomination for Greg P. Russell from “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” for violation of Academy campaign regulations. The decision was prompted by the discovery that Russell had called…
Read the full article »“I watched them dreaming that I could do that: tell the story of my city and my people When I saw the work of the White Helmets, I knew that was the story of Syria I wanted to tell to tell the world.”
I get US visa but I haven’t traveled to U.S At all and I won’t travel to OSCAR due to intensity of work, our priority is helping our people. — Khaled Khatib (@995Khaled) February 25, 2017 “I watched them dreaming that I could do that: tell the story of my city and my people When…
Read the full article »“Since there are only three nominees in the category and Suicide Squad certainly has the most makeup, there is a real chance that a film with Harley Quinn as a tubercular Juggalo will win an Oscar. David Lynch has never gotten an Academy Award but Suicide Squad, a film that covered Jared Leto in mall tattoos and paid someone to stencil “Damaged” onto his forehead, is within spitting distance of a win.”
“Since there are only three nominees in the category and Suicide Squad certainly has the most makeup, there is a real chance that a film with Harley Quinn as a tubercular Juggalo will win an Oscar. David Lynch has never gotten an Academy Award but Suicide Squad, a film that covered Jared Leto in mall tattoos…
Read the full article »Michael Phillips And Jordan Peele
“When I first started writing Get Out, the movie was meant to confront the audience a little bit more, with the justified fear of being black in certain situations in this country. By the time I shot it, that awakening had been already begun. Everyone had already started talking about the murders of young black…
Read the full article »“As entertaining and satisfying as Zootopia may be scene-by-scene, it ultimately fails because it insists on having it both ways simultaneously—anthropomorphic and metaphoric.”
“As entertaining and satisfying as Zootopia may be scene-by-scene, it ultimately fails because it insists on having it both ways simultaneously—anthropomorphic and metaphoric.”
Read the full article »Abra Cadaver: Magician Found Dead At Hw’d’s Magic Castle
Abra Cadaver: Magician Found Dead At Hw’d’s Magic Castle
Read the full article »Take Marc Caro’s Annual Oscar Quiz
Marc Caro‘s Annual Oscar Quiz
Read the full article »Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Souza Runs Away With Four Razzies, With Hillary’s America Worst Movie, Worst Director, Worst Actress And Worst Actor For D’Souza
Convicted Felon Dinesh D’Souza Runs Away With Four Razzies, With Hillary’s America Worst Movie, Worst Director, Worst Actress And Worst Actor For D’Souza
Read the full article »Angelica Jade Bastién On Oscar’s History With Black Filmmakers
“The Academy Awards and its relationship with black artistry has been characterized by a profound absence and silence in regards to the fullness of the black experience.” Angelica Jade Bastién On Oscar’s History With Black Filmmakers
Read the full article »“Derogatory Information” Prevents Oscar-Nominated Syrian Cinematographer Of White Helmets From Entering America
“It is important that people understand that Syria has people who want the same things they want: Peace, jobs, family, and to live without the fear of bombs. This is what I hope the film does.” “Derogatory Information” Prevents Oscar-Nominated Syrian Cinematographer Of White Helmets From Entering America
Read the full article »“I wasn’t thinking of Judy as a clinically ill person, or This is an addict. I was worried something awful had happened to the delightful, brilliant woman I loved.”
“I wasn’t thinking of Judy as a clinically ill person, or This is an addict. I was worried something awful had happened to the delightful, brilliant woman I loved.”
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