Nothing is certain until it's over. And that's especially true for the Oscar race. While it's hard to imagine anything dive-bombing Christoph Waltz and Mo'Nique's Oscar chances, Sandra Bullock is not a lock to beat Meryl Streep--although Bullock's Santa Barbara tribute probably wowed the local Academy members on hand. Many ...
Christopher Nolan is a brilliant filmmaker and an honorable man. And this idea, which WB sent out via Finke & Flem today, that he will "godfather" the next Superman movie - perhaps WBs biggest failure to launch in the last two decades - is certainly desperate and probably stupid ...
When the Moviefone staff started trying to name the worst romantic comedies of all time, the discussion quickly got heated. Is 'The Sweetest Thing' a crass, tasteless mess or an underrated gem? What's worse, 'Swept Away' or 'Who's That Girl?' ... Read more Filed under: Top ...
The long road "Crazy Heart" took from book to movie winded through Chuck Barris and the post-modernist writer Donald Barthelme.
The type of introspective, intimate domestic American nonfiction that has sprouted up so much in art-house theaters in the wake of the success of Capturing the Friedmans has come to typify documentary filmmaking of the past decade. Itself somewhat of an acolyte of the far more sensitive Crumb, which at ...
These days, keeping up with Twitter, email, Facebook, Linkedin (I abandoned myspace long ago) is almost more than a single person can sustain, much less reading something of any length or, God Forbid, thinking or doing any work. Adding to the general noise is Google Buzz, which actually looks pretty ...
11 years ago, Glenn Kenny (then of Premiere) was attending Sun-/Slamdance and shared a bus ride with a dejected-looking British pair. "The couple were feeling a little down," he wrote recently, "as they had a film... in its way as formally daring as 'Blair Witch' was, but it didn't matter, ...
Now that we know the Super Bowl broadcast had the biggest TV ratings ever, we can move on to more pressing concerns like -- who got the most money's worth out of their movie ads on the telecast? Studios spend b-i-i-i-i-g bucks going after the biggest audience ever available to ...
Out of the small group of actors whose politics are nails-on-chalkboard jabbery to me, Tim Robbins is right up there with Sean Penn for sheer self-regard. But there's a key difference between the two (besides, grudgingly conceded, that Penn's a better actor). The parts Penn takes almost never tell you ...
Talk to anyone in Hollywood and they'll tell you that the process of getting an original movie sold or made these days is about as easy as getting Sarah Palin to keep mum at a Tea Party convention. Which is why it's eye-catching that David Guggenheim, an Us magazine editor ...
Jose here.There's a rumor circling the web and European media stating that Penélope Cruz has been cast in Lars von Trier's new film Melancholia.If this is true then the Oscar winning actress will be battling some heavy personal issues while Lars destroys our planet.The film will center on the impending ...
I know there's still the Berlinale to experience next week, but I just booked my MO-X airport shuttle from St. Louis to Columbia and am very excited to be attending my third True/False Fest in a row. This year's the 7th iteration and they have a stellar new website ...
Alexa from Pop Elegantiarum here with another film curio. Since Mia Farrow turns 65 today, I thought I'd feature one of my prized pop culture possessions: the debut issue of People magazine, featuring on its cover a resplendent Mia as Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.Since witnessing her ...
New Yorker Films' catalog of more than 400 foreign and independent titles, including works by Jean-Luc Godard, Bernardo Bertolucci, Federico Fellini and Akira Kurosawa, has a new owner.
As I discussed in a previous post, the indie world is now defining itself, both in methods and semantics. This morning, indieWIRE broke the news that Jose Lopez is reopening New Yorker Films, sans Dan Talbott. This is the hot model for 2010… the House Indie. I ...
The San Francisco Chronicle's Mick LaSalle has a problem: he thinks end credits are boring, and that we should return to the pre-'60s era, when "most movies ended symphonically, with a big finish and the words, 'The End' flashed on the screen." From overwhelming emotion to a disorienting return to ...
Many of the big players will be spending much less than what they did a decade ago, on marketing their hopefuls.
I’m pleased to announce the publication of Leonard Maltin’s The 151 Best Movies You’ve Never Seen. As those of you know who watch my weekly show Secret’s Out on ReelzChannel, there’s nothing I enjoy more than steering movie lovers to good films they may have missed. HarperStudio gave me an ...
Wow. Intriguing. "It's a bird, it's a plane ... it's Warner Bros. asking Christopher Nolan to pretty please resurrect their Superman franchise and do something cool with it! According to Deadline Hollywood, Nolan has been asked to come in and sort of "mentor" the next Superman movie, and it ...
I don't feel like these early reviews are being tastelessly cruel enough.
At first glance of the "news" that Snooki from The Jersey Shore has found a boyfriend at long last, I paused. Not just because it's kind of gross, but because the name of the boyfriend is reportedly Emilio Antonio. For a split second I was like "she's dating Emile de ...
