Movie City News Archive for May, 2018
Roseanne
I'm looking fwd to Roseanne's NYT columns. — bertolt blecht (@benschwartzy) May 29, 2018
Read the full article »“Let’s measure how we feel about this until more time passes. We have a lot of work to do in trying to understand this. We are all over it and will spend a lot of time digging into why things happened the way they did in various markets. We have a year-and-a-half before Episode IX comes out.”
“Let’s measure how we feel about this until more time passes. We have a lot of work to do in trying to understand this. We are all over it and will spend a lot of time digging into why things happened the way they did in various markets. We have a year-and-a-half before Episode IX comes…
Read the full article »Communicating A Quiet Place
“Knowing the last thing anyone behind a desk at Paramount or any other studio wants to receive is a 120-page script with blocks after blocks of description, we appropriated the sparest writing style possible, cribbing off our heroes like Walter Hill and David Giler’s draft of Alien. We drew pictures into the script. We would literally Photoshop…
Read the full article »Sciorra Sorvino
This thread is so important. I feel the same way, there was no jubilation although I was heartened that he was starting the process of standing trial. — Mira Sorvino (@MiraSorvino) May 27, 2018
Read the full article »4-Day Estimates
102 Getting Shade. Book Club and Life of the Party hold well. And the Gospel According to Andre is the limited per-screen king.
Read the full article » 30 Comments »A Look Behind Chicago’s Millennium Park Summer Movie Series (Attended By As Many As 20,000 Filmgoers), In Cooperation With A Dozen Of That City’s Fifty Or So Annual Film Fests
A Look Behind Chicago’s Millennium Park Summer Movie Series (Attended By As Many As 20,000 Filmgoers), In Cooperation With A Dozen Of That City’s Fifty Or So Annual Film Fests
Read the full article »Veteran Iranian Actor Nasser Malakmoti Was 88
“I entered cinema with empty hands and lack of knowledge and unsupported, but with love. People ignored our mistakes, and it would be a pity if we do not appreciate them.” Veteran Iranian Actor Nasser Malakmoti Was 88
Read the full article »B’wd Actress Geeta Kapoor Was 67
B’wd Actress Geeta Kapoor Was 67
Read the full article »Thumbsuckers Begin In Earnest For Solo’s Erratic Flight
“Han is an upbeat antihero, but because of the setting and the dark visual palette, it’s hard to find much of what transpires that fun or funny. Howard has worked in different genres, from Westerns to biopics, but there’s a surprising lack of looseness here, either because he hopped onto the production so late in…
Read the full article »From 1984, The Paris Review’s “Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84”
From 1984, The Paris Review’s “Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84”
Read the full article »Vancouver Filmmaker Arvi Liimatainen Was 68
Vancouver Filmmaker Arvi Liimatainen Was 68
Read the full article »The Weekend Report
Solo debuted at the top of the weekend with an estimated $83.1 million for the three-day portion of the Memorial Day holiday. (All figures reflect three-day box office). It was the sole new national opener but more than the Force contributed to the absence of a competitive counter-programmer. The long weekend was an overall improvement from 2017, but posted a double-digit decline from last weekend’s Deadpool 2 opening.
Read the full article »Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Matt Lauer Among Men Eager For Their #MeAgain Moment
Charlie Rose, Garrison Keillor, Matt Lauer Among Men Eager For Their #MeAgain Moment
Read the full article »Europe Plans $466 Million Cultural Budget, A Twenty-Seven-Percent Increase
Europe Plans $466 Million Cultural Budget, A Twenty-Seven-Percent Increase
Read the full article »“Harvey Weinstein wore a light blue sweater and a black dinner jacket; his mouth alternated between a grimace and a smirk. Entering the precinct, Weinstein was a spectacle of smugness, as if trying to project the posture of an intellectual dissident. In his hands were three books, two of which have been identified. They were corny totems suggesting, respectively, artistic revolution and false persecution: ‘Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution,’ and Richard Schickel’s biography of Elia Kazan, the Hollywood director who famously ‘named names’ to the House Un-American Activities Committee, in 1952.”
“Harvey Weinstein wore a light blue sweater and a black dinner jacket; his mouth alternated between a grimace and a smirk. Entering the precinct, Weinstein was a spectacle of smugness, as if trying to project the posture of an intellectual dissident. In his hands were three books, two of which have been identified. They were…
Read the full article »“First Reformed understands, in rare and terrifying way, the mental toll of feeling like either an exile or a dangerous apostate within one’s faith community, alienated both from a caring God and from the platitudes that seem to satisfy others in the pews — of becoming convinced that if you’re not frightened then you’re purposely shutting yourself off from reality. It knows the special existential terror of trying to pray without being sure that God is listening, in a world where the nonexistence of God seems just as plausible as the alternative.”
“First Reformed understands, in rare and terrifying way, the mental toll of feeling like either an exile or a dangerous apostate within one’s faith community, alienated both from a caring God and from the platitudes that seem to satisfy others in the pews — of becoming convinced that if you’re not frightened then you’re purposely shutting yourself off from…
Read the full article »“Solo writers Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan on spoilers, sequels and why [SPOILER IN HEADLINE]
“Solo writers Lawrence and Jonathan Kasdan on spoilers, sequels and why [SPOILER IN HEADLINE]
Read the full article »The Secrets Of The Texas Theatre (And Historical Byways Of The Projectionist’s Trade)
The Secrets Of The Texas Theatre (And Historical Byways Of The Projectionist’s Trade)
Read the full article »“For the first time in decades, Hugh Grant is enthusiastically embodying his characters. Maybe this is because he suddenly produced five children in the space of seven years (and is now due to marry the mother of three of them), and realised he had to stop dicking around and earn some money. Or maybe it’s because his once merely handsome face is now more interesting, so he’s getting better parts (a privilege, it has to be said, not afforded to women). Probably it’s a bit of both.”
“For the first time in decades, Hugh Grant is enthusiastically embodying his characters. Maybe this is because he suddenly produced five children in the space of seven years (and is now due to marry the mother of three of them), and realised he had to stop dicking around and earn some money. Or maybe it’s…
Read the full article »“Jeffrey Tambor Has Been Canceled — But Not When Trans Women Spoke Up; It was only when cisgender actress Jessica Walter complained that people recognized Jeffrey Tambor’s terrible behavior,” Writes Robyn Kanner
“Jeffrey Tambor Has Been Canceled — But Not When Trans Women Spoke Up; It was only when cisgender actress Jessica Walter complained that people recognized Jeffrey Tambor’s terrible behavior,” Writes Robyn Kanner
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