Movie City News Archive for April, 2017
“This time, negotiators are locking horns over more routine employment matters, including the shoring up of a faltering healthcare plan. The talks have been tense but not openly hostile. A federal mediator has not stepped in. And production companies have done almost nothing to prepare for a strike, which seems to signal that they may ultimately be prepared to offer a deal palatable to the writers.”
“This time, negotiators are locking horns over more routine employment matters, including the shoring up of a faltering healthcare plan. The talks have been tense but not openly hostile. A federal mediator has not stepped in. And production companies have done almost nothing to prepare for a strike, which seems to signal that they may…
Read the full article »Anthony Lane On Jonathan Demme
“Demme was also blessed by a larger liberalism: the imaginative outreach, hard to discern in the rampant studio movies of today, which assumes that everybody is worth stopping for—that there will always be folks who repay the camera’s attention. What he radiated, before or behind the lens, was an unstinting curiosity, and a faith that…
Read the full article »Tallahassee Lawmakers Backpedal On Funds To Miami Art School That Fostered Moonlight And “Hamilton” Talent, From Defunding To Only A 23% Slash
Tallahassee Lawmakers Backpedal On Funds To Miami Art School That Fostered Moonlight And “Hamilton” Talent, From Defunding To Only A 23% Slash
Read the full article »Emily Yoshida Down On Portrayals Of Tech Addiction In “The Circle,” The Book And Box-Office Disappointment
Emily Yoshida Down On Portrayals Of Tech Addiction In “The Circle,” The Book And Box-Office Disappointment
Read the full article »K. Austin Collins On Films About The L. A. Riots, Twenty-Five Years on
K. Austin Collins On Films About The L. A. Riots, Twenty-Five Years On
Read the full article »Writer-Studio Talks Will Continue Sunday
Writer-Studio Talks Will Continue Sunday
Read the full article »Leading Brit Producers Ask That UK Film Tax Credit Rise To 40% For Local Independent Films In $2.6-$13 Million Range
Leading Brit Producers Ask That UK Film Tax Credit Rise To 40% For Local Independent Films In $2.6-$13 Million Range
Read the full article »Documentary filmmaking became Jonathan Demme’s oxygen
“Documentary Filmmaking Became Jonathan Demme’s Oxygen,” Writes Thom Powers
Read the full article »Luc Besson on Le Pen & The Great Illusion
THE GREAT ILLUSION Dear compatriots, friends, and brothers, My name is Luc B. I’m 57 years old, French, married, and father of five beautiful children. I don’t belong to a particular community, party or union. I don’t drink, I don’t smoke, and I’ve never done drugs. I do work, however, and have done since the…
Read the full article »Testimony From A Woman Who Escaped The Oncoming Conflagration Of The Fyre Festival
“Let’s just do it and be legends.” Testimony From A Woman Who Escaped The Oncoming Conflagration Of The Fyre Festival
Read the full article »Florida Lawmakers Move To Eradicate Miami School That Educated Makers Of Moonlight And “Hamilton”
Florida Lawmakers Move To Eradicate Miami School That Educated Makers Of Moonlight And “Hamilton”
Read the full article »Charley Boorman Has Tales To Tell
“It was 1969, I was only three, and as Dad stood at the back of the crowd, watching the bidding, he seemed to escape his body and floated up to the ceiling from where he watched for a while longer before slipping back into his body again. Only then did he realize one of the…
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
Here’s something you don’t see every week… a Telugu-Tamil-Hindi-Malayalam language film release coming in #2 on the charts. These narrow releases do solid business and are on the chart almost every weekend. But rarely are the major U.S. distributors pushing so softly that you see a title in the Top 3. The #3 for Friday was another crossover, as Lionsgate pushes out a film to their developing Spanish-language market starring popular Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez. The third newcomer is STX’s The Circle, which has Beauty & The Hanks, but marketing that spoke no one’s language.
Read the full article »Summer 2017: Here We Go (Wide)!
As for esthetics… who knows?
What I do know is that there are at least 14 movies that I am really, really looking forward to seeing. If most of those are worth the time, it’s a pretty great summer.
Read the full article » 16 Comments »It’s Logan’s Turn To Go Shiny And Chrome In Theaters
It’s Logan‘s Turn To Go Shiny And Chrome In Theaters
Read the full article »MPAA Dodd Out In September, Replaced By Charles Rivkin From Obama Admin
MPAA Dodd Out In September, Replaced By Charles Rivkin From Obama Admin
Read the full article »Peter Howell Checks Fact For Fiction At Hot Docs
Peter Howell Checks Fact For Fiction At Hot Docs
Read the full article »François Ozon On Nationalism, Avoiding Sex And Frantz
François Ozon On Nationalism, Avoiding Sex And Frantz
Read the full article »Shel Silverstein’s Sausalito Houseboat, A Converted Balloon Barge, Yours For $390,000
Shel Silverstein’s Sausalito Houseboat, A Converted Balloon Barge, Yours For $390,000
Read the full article »“Lost City Of Z”‘s David Grann Says Trump Should Read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”
“Lost City Of Z”‘s David Grann Says Trump Should Read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”
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