Movie City News Archive for July, 2017
“Celebrity Accomplice” Liz Smith Still Wants Work At 94
“I don’t think my name could sell anything now. It used to mean — bylines used to mean something in journalism. Most people have forgotten about so-called powerful people like me; we served our time.” “Celebrity Accomplice” Liz Smith Still Wants Work At 94
Read the full article »Netflix Takes Additional $750 Million Line Of Credit
Netflix Takes Additional $750 Million Line Of Credit
Read the full article »J. Hoberman Puts Menashe In Context Of The History Of Yiddish Cinema
J. Hoberman Puts Menashe In Context Of The History Of Yiddish Cinema
Read the full article »Friday Box Office Estimates
S–t, yeah! The Emoji Movie, aka the worst-reviewed movie of the summer, will not only win the weekend, but it will likely win the weekend by a good amount. But the hold for Dunkirk isn’t poop at all. Newcomer Atomic Blonde is pushing the, “yes, you will see Charlize naked and kicking ass a lot” emoji, but is going to straddle the $20 million mark for the weekend anyway. And Girls Trip is also holding strong with a double-grapefruit emoji. Detroit arrives on 20 screens, looking at a per-screen near $20k, which suggests that the word-of-mouth release might be the right strategy.
Read the full article »Thr confederate
“‘Confederate’ also has drawn comparisons to two other prestige alt-history dramas, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ and ‘The Man in the High Castle.’ Yet they’re not the same, many argue. To understand why the former show is acceptable and ‘Confederate’ isn’t is to grasp the complicated concept of intersectionality, which is the interplay of multiple categories of…
Read the full article »Annapurna Trump
.@realDonaldTrump I invite you to see our movie DETROIT. It's time to change the conversation. pic.twitter.com/Ge2MbAUBjH — Megan Ellison (@meganeellison) July 29, 2017 Annapurna Incorporates Trump’s Friday Call For Increased Police Violence Against Suspects Into Instant Detroit Spot
Read the full article »Holy Moly: Mapping The Opening Car Chase Of Baby Driver
Holy Moly: Mapping The Opening Car Chase Of Baby Driver
Read the full article »Eddie Schmidt On How He Became A Documentarian
Eddie Schmidt On How He Became A Documentarian
Read the full article »“I don’t accept the argument that Valerian flopped because it wasn’t good.I’m not talking about its actual cinematic/narrative merits). While it bears aesthetic resemblance, at first glance, to similarly out-there (and wildly successful) visions like Avatar and the Guardians wing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Valerian actually belongs to what has become a nearly nonexistent subcategory of would-be blockbuster: a (1) wide release; (2) fantasy/sci-fi; (3) non-franchise/first of a franchise. Basically, films of the scale and ambition of a Star Wars or Marvel release without the brand power.”
“I don’t accept the argument that Valerian flopped because it wasn’t good. I’m not talking about its actual cinematic/narrative merits. While it bears aesthetic resemblance, at first glance, to similarly out-there (and wildly successful) visions like Avatar and the Guardians wing of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Valerian actually belongs to what has become a nearly nonexistent subcategory of would-be blockbuster: a (1)…
Read the full article »Ben Sachs Revisits George A. Romero’s Martin, A “Masterpiece Of Independent Filmmaking”
Ben Sachs Revisits George A. Romero’s Martin, A “Masterpiece Of Independent Filmmaking”
Read the full article »James Cameron Has Ideas For A Terminator Trilogy After Some Rights Revert To Him In 2019 And If David Ellison Is Up For It
“Can it still have relevance now where so much of our world is catching up to what was science fiction in the first two films? We live in a world of predator drones and surveillance and big data and emergent AI.” James Cameron Has Ideas For A Terminator Trilogy After Some Rights Revert To Him…
Read the full article »Ranking Stephen King Deaths
Ranking Stephen King Deaths
Read the full article »“Aiming a botnet at Netflix would be like shoveling dirt into Carlsbad Caverns. But Behrens conceived of a different type of DDoS, one that turned Netflix’s application programming interface against itself…”
“Aiming a botnet at Netflix would be like shoveling dirt into Carlsbad Caverns. But Behrens conceived of a different type of DDoS, one that turned Netflix’s application programming interface against itself…”
Read the full article »How Silent Screen Vamp Dagmar Godowsky Nearly Drove Her Ghostwriter Mad
How Silent Screen Vamp Dagmar Godowsky Nearly Drove Her Ghostwriter Mad
Read the full article »12 Courses With Isabelle Huppert
“The first dish is a promising broad-and-green-bean hummus, light and slightly acid, with a beetroot purée spiced with crushed hazelnuts, purple basil and sesame oil.” 12 Courses With Isabelle Huppert
Read the full article »The Village Voice’s Liberal Savior Owner Is Trying to Crush its Union
“The Village Voice’s Liberal Savior Owner Is Trying to Crush its Union”
Read the full article »NYTimes Styles Section To Be Edited By Choire Sicha
NYTimes Styles Section To Be Edited By Choire Sicha
Read the full article »Peter Howell Impatient For Shorter Movies
Peter Howell Impatient For Shorter Movies
Read the full article »Joe Leydon Peruses His 12 Favorite Bad-Ass Action Heroines
Joe Leydon Peruses His 12 Favorite Bad-Ass Action Heroines
Read the full article »Laurene Powell Jobs Nonprofit Buys Majority Stake In Atlantic Media
Laurene Powell Jobs Nonprofit Buys Majority Stake In Atlantic Media
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