in some alternative multiverse, where COVID-19 never took hold and upended Hollywood’s 2020 release calendar, right now we’d probably be debating whether Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is the frontrunner for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s Golden Globe for best motion picture, musical or comedy. After all,the fingersnapping 1961 film adaptation of the ground-breaking Broadway … Read more
Jodie Foster plays the attorney of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detained at Guantanamo Bay without charge . Kevin Macdonald has sensational nonfiction material in The Mauritanian, based on the bestselling memoir GuantánamoDiary by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who spent 14 years incarcerated at the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba without ever being charged with a … Read more
inclusion of the cast and crew into account when determining whether a film is Oscar eligible. Do you think they’re a good idea? LEE To tell you the truth, I don’t understand the rules. I’m not saying they shouldn’t be there, but is there a number? … I mean, so, if you have two Black … Read more
As Riz Ahmed’s drummer loses his hearing and learns how to live in the new world he discovers in Sound of Metal, sound editor and designer Nicolas Becker blended unique soundscapes to create an intense visceral experience As the hearing of punk-metal musician Ruben, played by Riz Ahmed, deteriorates in the Amazon drama Sound of … Read more
T wo of the earliest signs that Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite would take the golden brick road to its best picture Oscar last awards season came when it was anointed 2019’s best picture by both the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the National Society of Film Critics. (The rival New York Film Critics Circle … Read more
The Oscars’ April 25 date appears safe, butthe Grammys are on the move and the SAG Awards may be next, while Sundance is slimming down and Cannes is drawing up COVID-19 contingency plans BY TATIANA SIEGEL AND SCOTT ROXBOROUGH . With COVID-19 cases showing no sign of abating, organizers of Hollywood awards shows and global … Read more
The Warner Bros. business affairs department did not have a very relaxing holiday break. The group was working through the end of the year with the aim of placating big-name talent that was kept in the dark about the Dec. 3 reveal outlining plans for the entirety of the studio’s 2021 slate to be released … Read more
While shutdowns are saddling exhibition giants like AMC and Cinemark with rent expenses in addition to lost revenue, Marcus Theatres — he fourth-largest circuitin the U.S. — owns real estate behind the majority of its screens and could be a buyer A Movie Theater Chain Poised to Weather 2021’s Disruptions Movie theater chains are staring … Read more
former assistant to Endeavor’s Patrick Whitesell oversees film and TV development . He stands apart from the VC pack in that he happens to be Black and gay. So, how did Fudge, a 28-yearold L.A. native, go in just a few short years from Northwestern graduate to poster child for Lifestyles of the Millennial Rich … Read more