Movie City News Archive for June, 2019
New Frames In Greek Trailer For OUATIH-QT9
New Frames In Greek Trailer For OUAT … IH-QT9
Read the full article »someone tell hollywood that the inner lives of white supremacists aren’t that interesting https://t.co/3Boy3Mw8hC — b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »Australia’s mister movies
It wasn’t just that classic movies once aired in prime time — it was the fact that they were introduced by someone with a clear passion who was able to engage our enthusiasm in a way that turned each film into an important event. Vale Bill. https://t.co/Z0zpfQ0usG — Lee Zachariah (@leezachariah) June 21, 2019
Read the full article »Australia’s mystery movies
Bill Collins, known to generations of Australians as Mr Movies, has died at the age of 84 https://t.co/G6FtWKLyo9 — Ashleigh Wilson (@ashleighbwilson) June 21, 2019
Read the full article »“Lionsgate is neither abandoning Anna nor fully promoting it. The film is expected to open in 2,200 theaters nationwide, but Lionsgate is doing minimal publicity — opting to not host screenings for movie critics, press junkets or red carpet premieres. Nonetheless, previews for the movie have appeared on television and in theaters ahead of movies, including the latest John Wick sequel… The filmmaker has a track record for spotting star quality in models: Milla Jovovich became a Hollywood name after Besson cast her in The Fifth Element — the two would go on to have a short-lived marriage — and he has worked with Rie Rasmussen and Cara Delevingne.”
“Lionsgate is neither abandoning Anna nor fully promoting it. The film is expected to open in 2,200 theaters nationwide, but Lionsgate is doing minimal publicity — opting to not host screenings for movie critics, press junkets or red carpet premieres. Nonetheless, previews for the movie have appeared on television and in theaters ahead of movies,…
Read the full article »“Besson gets even the most basic period details wrong: ordinary Muscovites have IBM ThinkPads and WiFi, CIA situation rooms have flat-screen displays and everyone’s mobile phones are considerably smaller than they would have been. A USB drive becomes a major MacGuffin in the final act (USB drives weren’t in use until 1999). I wondered if all the tech was a stylistic choice – a way of suggesting Anna takes place in some alternate super-cool spyverse like the Bond movies; eventually I realized the answer was much more prosaic: nobody gave a shit.”
“Besson gets even the most basic period details wrong: ordinary Muscovites have IBM ThinkPads and WiFi, CIA situation rooms have flat-screen displays and everyone’s mobile phones are considerably smaller than they would have been. A USB drive becomes a major MacGuffin in the final act (USB drives weren’t in use until 1999). I wondered if…
Read the full article »Yesterday
I am only going to see "Yesterday" if it addresses what Kate Hudson's character in "Almost Famous" is called in a world without the Beatles. — Joe Reid (@joereid) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »No printer merger now
Well this is unexpected good news for publishers. The DOJ is suing to block the merger of the only two printers of catalogues, books, and magazines, Quad/Graphics attempted purchase of LSC. Nice job @makandelrahim! https://t.co/JVgDoNPdbm — Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime’s Good Omens
“Thousands Petition Netflix to Cancel Amazon Prime’s ‘Good Omens’”
Read the full article »“I don’t want to sound like an old idiot, because I try to keep up with what’s happening on YouTube, and it’s a lot of people talking to camera, very personality-driven,” Kumail Nanjani said. ” I grew up watching Ghostbusters and Gremlins and Indiana Jones. If I had grown up watching YouTube, I don’t know if I would like movies.”
“I don’t want to sound like an old idiot, because I try to keep up with what’s happening on YouTube, and it’s a lot of people talking to camera, very personality-driven,” Kumail Nanjani said. ” I grew up watching Ghostbusters and Gremlins and Indiana Jones. If I had grown up watching YouTube, I don’t know…
Read the full article »“In a world where everything is on demand, I think that’s what makes movies special: Exactly because it’s harder is why it’s a more significant leisure choice,” says Tom Rothman. “Guess what? You can’t see Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood on your phone right now! If you want to see Leo and Brad together on the screen — the biggest star pairing since Butch and Sundance! — you gotta get a babysitter.”
“In a world where everything is on demand, I think that’s what makes movies special: Exactly because it’s harder is why it’s a more significant leisure choice,” says Tom Rothman. “Guess what? You can’t see Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood on your phone right now! If you want to see Leo and Brad together on…
Read the full article »We had a screening of “Beale Street” in Washington, D.C., at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a fire broke out. So, irony of ironies, we had to go across the street to the Air and Space Museum, where there’s an Imax theater. To see Regina King as a black mom trying to save her family on that larger-than-life screen, in the Air and Space Museum — where, when you walk out, all you see are images of white men going into space — I thought, “O.K., this is what it was like when people sat in a movie chair and thought a train was coming toward them.” I can’t get that feeling on my flat screen at home, so we’ve got to figure something out.
“We had a screening of Beale Street in Washington, D.C., at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and a fire broke out,” Barry Jenkins said. “So, irony of ironies, we had to go across the street to the Air and Space Museum, where there’s an Imax theater. To see Regina King as…
Read the full article »There were 350 more movies released theatrically in the United States last year than there were when “Avatar” came out in 2009. The same thing’s happening on television. There just used to be fewer of everything — fewer movie stars, too — and when the numbers start to get up this high, you start to lose the trees for the forest.
“There were 350 more movies released theatrically in the United States last year than there were when Avatar came out in 2009,” Joe Russo said. “The same thing’s happening on television. There just used to be fewer of everything — fewer movie stars, too — and when the numbers start to get up this high,…
Read the full article »Blumen whiplash box office versus screaming
“Get Out,” was a box office hit for producer @jason_blum, but his Oscar-winning movie “Whiplash” was “a disaster theatrically.” He thinks “Whiplash” would have worked better on streaming services. https://t.co/JjolSHTTBG pic.twitter.com/L5gikMJGlP — New York Times Arts (@nytimesarts) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »With Stillman on the Paris
Would greatly lament the Paris cinema where both Metropolitan and @LandFMovie had great runs – @AmazonStudios @TedHope should buy it! https://t.co/s4zTjYlNHf — Whit Stillman (@WhitStillman) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »UK Porn Verification
Huge if true: "The United Kingdom will likely delay its controversial age-verification system for online pornography ‘indefinitely'"https://t.co/eaccoRNGsE — Eliza Sorensen (@Zemmiph0bia) June 20, 2019
Read the full article »Whitehead
RIP #PeterWhitehead, 1937–2019: William Fowler pays tribute to the underground legend – counter-cultural documentarian, novelist, pop-video director, falconer, metaphysician… ☞ https://t.co/1OmI00tmVh pic.twitter.com/22YxGkNxyh — Sight & Sound (@SightSoundmag) June 19, 2019
Read the full article »The DVD Wrapup: Slaughterhouse Rulez, Silver Lake, Dark Sense, Swing Kids, Cherry Grove, Karloff/Lugosi, Running Man, Between the Lines, Crypto … More
What begins as a darkish teen comedy, set in an elite British boarding school, makes an abrupt midcourse correction by adding monsters, a corrupt dean and fracking, of all things.
Read the full article »Save The paris
Please share your memories of the Paris Theater & tag @CityCinemasNYC to show them this venue matters to NYers (& to those who visit as well!). It should be a cultural landmark, not another %#^&%*@! flagship luxury store. — Dana Stevens (@thehighsign) June 19, 2019
Read the full article »Keanu Marvel
Hear me out: Multiple Man https://t.co/8eF0mb0e3i — TZE CHUN (@thetzechun) June 19, 2019
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