Movie City News Archive for May, 2019
Emily Lu Aldrich
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran publicist and awards strategist Emily Lu Aldrich has founded the new venture Accolade Publicity and Consulting https://t.co/fLeYXH3TY1 — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 24, 2019
Read the full article »Bezos Billions
"I have a disproportionate amount of money to share," she said, just months after finalizing her divorce from the world's richest man. https://t.co/wFEY9VrtXK — CNN (@CNN) May 28, 2019
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Netflix the Only Hollywood Studio to Speak Out in Attack Against Abortion Rights (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/Z3VcWXznZj via @variety — Kara Calavera (@KaraCalavera) May 28, 2019
Read the full article »Erotic thrillers
“Who do I have to fuck and kill to get a good erotic thriller? One of the first publicity stills from ‘What/If,’ the Netflix series starring Renée Zellweger, had the actress in a white dress, legs crossed, smiling enigmatically, her surroundings moody. It was a transparent reference to Basic Instinct, the vulvular Verhoeven from 1992…
Read the full article »“Somehow I became respectable. I don’t know how—the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have been sentenced to life in prison. I did an art piece called Twelve Assholes and a Dirty Foot, which is composed of close-ups from porn films, yet a museum now has it in their permanent collection and nobody got mad. What the hell has happened?”
“Somehow I became respectable. I don’t know how—the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have been sentenced to life in prison. I did an art piece called ‘Twelve Assholes and a Dirty Foot,’ which is composed of close-ups from porn films, yet…
Read the full article »Visiting Drive-Ins That Will Still Be Open At Least One Summer Longer
Visiting Some Of The 350 Drive-Ins That Will Still Be Open At Least One Summer Longer
Read the full article »“73% of Netflix users say they won’t subscribe to Disney+”
“73% of Netflix users say they won’t subscribe to Disney+”
Read the full article »“The elephant in the room is that Will Smith is black—and casting a black man as a slave, in a Disney movie, no less, is fraught, almost impossibly so. I mean, The Toy-fraught. The tangle of implications this casting raises drowns out nearly every other consideration. When Genie’s eventually freed, his shackles fall off his arms, he shrinks, he loses his blue pigment in favor of Smith’s natural complexion. For Smith to not “hear” the problem implicit in his casting as a slave is astonishing, especially given his famous rejection of Django Unchained. Smith is an extremely powerful player in Hollywood. He is broadly beloved. History will ultimately unpack what to make of these moments where his choices are appalling. I think it’s interesting that Genie loses his powers when he becomes black. Interesting in the same way as how blonde hair is magical in Tangled, but not brunette.”
“The elephant in the room is that Will Smith is black—and casting a black man as a slave, in a Disney movie, is fraught, almost impossibly so. I mean, The Toy-fraught. The tangle of implications drowns out nearly every other consideration. When Genie’s eventually freed, his shackles fall off his arms, he shrinks, he loses…
Read the full article »Alien 4
Ridley Scott will direct a third #Alien prequel, which is currently in the script phase https://t.co/y4wpVnM9oK pic.twitter.com/YIpEGjbOSu — Variety (@Variety) May 27, 2019
Read the full article »Kind Hearts Violence
Perhaps some scholar has worked on it and I’ve just not found the reference, but I think it’s never been written about before. It involves a hammer. And some trained swans. pic.twitter.com/iJT4rvrkAK — Matthew Sweet (@DrMatthewSweet) May 27, 2019
Read the full article »Booksmart
Related, I'm confident Booksm*rt was made for far less than that. I'm just so sick of the conversation framing these movies as flops. — Erin Donovan (@goodyerin) May 27, 2019
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“Somehow I became respectable,” John Waters writes. “I don’t know how, the last film I directed got some terrible reviews and was rated NC-17. Six people in my personal phone book have been sentenced to life in prison … What the hell has happened?” https://t.co/Tw3k7ZVWxC — The Paris Review (@parisreview) May 27, 2019
Read the full article »Deadline Weighs Malick, Finds Malick Wanting
“As riveting as Malick’s E.E. Cummings visual cinematic movies are, so too are their commercial prospects risky. For the most part, his movies don’t make money.” Deadline Weighs Malick, Finds Malick Wanting
Read the full article »Derrickson on Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is the ID of American entertainment: raw, overpowering, compulsively engagingbase, amoral, unrelenting and unstoppable — N O S ⋊ Ɔ I ᴚ ᴚ Ǝ ᗡ ⊥ ⊥ O Ɔ S (@scottderrickson) May 24, 2019
Read the full article »Geoffrey Rush’s defamation case against Rupert Murdoch’s Nationwide News resulted in the largest payout to a single person in Australia’s histor
Geoffrey Rush’s Defamation Case Against Rupert Murdoch’s Nationwide News Ends With Largest Payout to an Individual in Australia’s History
Read the full article »“Nollywood Is Ready to Go Global Thanks to Netflix”
“Nollywood Is Ready to Go Global Thanks to Netflix”
Read the full article »Sir Elton On His Life Story Onscreen
“I kept a diary the whole time, and it’s inadvertently hilarious. I wrote everything down in this matter-of-fact way, which ends up making it seem even more preposterous: “Woke up, watched ‘Grandstand.’ Wrote ‘Candle in the Wind.’ Went to London, bought Rolls-Royce. Ringo Starr came for dinner.” Sir Elton On His Life Story Onscreen
Read the full article »Emily Lu Aldrich
EXCLUSIVE: Veteran publicist and awards strategist Emily Lu Aldrich has founded the new venture Accolade Publicity and Consulting https://t.co/fLeYXH3TY1 — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 24, 2019
Read the full article »“Emma Thompson Gets a Shock at 60”
“We were sitting in a suite at a swanky Beverly Hills hotel that was all genteel charcoals and dove grays. Against it, Thompson was a kinetic pop. Her platinum plume of hair was in a state of floppy disarray suggestive of multiple rakings by harried fingers, and she had on her famous Stella McCartney sneakers…
Read the full article »Stan Lee’s Former Business Manager Awaiting Extradition to Los Angeles
Stan Lee’s Former Business Manager Awaiting Extradition to Los Angeles
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