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Box Office Blues – America Has Changed. Hollywood Must Adapt or Die.
The usual suspects chimed in with the usual excuses when The Fall Guy opened "soft." I thought the movie would have done better. I predicted it would top the box office, even Dune, which has made nearly $300 million domestically so far. Universal took a chance with a non-branded film to open the summer, says Brook Barnes at the New York Times: It was the first time in 19 years that Hollywood’s summer season — a four-month period that typically accounts for 40 percent of annual ticket sales — did not start with a superhero or a sequel. Last year, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol....
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First Look at Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis
Thanks to Alex Billington at First Showing for this first look at Francis Ford Coppola's epic new film, Megalopolis showing at the Cannes Film Festival. It looks amazing. My goodness. Starring Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Nathalie Emmanuel, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace Vanderwaal, Kathryn Hunter and Dustin Hoffman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLw8cpdgbmo
2025 Oscar Predictions – Do Early Calls Do Harm or Not?
The game of Oscar predicting is fun. Except when it's not. Take it from an old-timer who built Oscarwatch.com in 1999 and watched an entire Oscar-watching industry explode. The early days of the internet were like the Gold Rush. Building a business in such a wide-open new world was an exciting time. You could be anything, say anything, or disrupt...
Best Actress Watch: Kate Winslet in Trailer for Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEbhoqgpqPE "Lee, the directorial feature from award-winning Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, portrays a pivotal decade in the life of American war correspondent and photographer, Lee Miller (Kate Winslet). Miller’s singular talent and unbridled tenacity resulted in some of the 20th century's most indelible images of war, including an iconic photo of Miller herself, posing defiantly in Hitler's private bathtub....
Good As Gold April Recap: ‘Challengers’ Serves a Deuce, Dev Patel’s Directorial Debut, and Standout Female Performances Highlight the Month
Luca Guadagnino has emerged as a director renowned for his exploration of sensuality and emotionally charged themes. Films such as I Am Love, A Bigger Splash, Call Me By Your Name, and Bones and All showcase his penchant for provocative, character-driven narratives. His latest endeavor, Challengers, continues this trend, offering audiences a deep dive into the emotional complexities of his...
Tony Award Nomination Predictions! Why Not!
Last year was the first time that I predicted the Tony Award nominations, and I did...all right. In March of last year, I saw eventual Best Musical winner, Kimberly Akimbo, as well as revivals contenders Parade and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I haven't made it back to Broadway since that, so we are flying blind this time,...
Yes, Jerry Seinfeld is Right Again
A giant elephant is standing in the middle of the room. Someone says, wow, look at that elephant. And the entire entertainment media and Twitter go into damage control mode to say that there isn't a giant elephant standing in the middle of the room. Yes, Jerry Seinfeld is right. He is simply stating out loud what everyone knows but...
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Reviews: Conversations About ‘The Idea Of You,’ ‘Unfrosted,’ ‘Hacks,’ and ‘The Fall Guy’
We had a lot of content to keep us busy last weekend, and we're recapping all of it on this week's Water Cooler Podcast. First up, we've all seen Anne Hathaway and Nicholas Galitzine's The Idea of You, now streaming on Amazon Prime. Described as "Harry Styles fan fiction," the film offers Hathaway as a 40-something mother who embarks on...
NATAS Announces Melody Thomas Scott, Edward J. Scott & Lidia Bastianich To Receive Lifetime Achievement Honors at 51st Daytime Emmy® Awards
The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) has announced that Daytime Emmy® Award nominated and multi-award-winning actress Melody Thomas Scott, Daytime Emmy® winning producer Edward J. Scott and public television host and cookbook author Lidia Bastianich will be the Lifetime Achievement Honorees at the 51st Annual Daytime Emmy® Awards. The honors will be presented in person on June...
Showrunners Robert Carlock and Sam Means Reveal the Movie That Inspired ‘Mulligan,’ How They Feel About ’30 Rock’ Memes Trending on X
Awards Daily talks with Mulligan showrunners Robert Carlock and Sam Means about their animated apocalyptic comedy that's survived both COVID and writers' and acting strikes. It's fitting that production on the animated series Mulligan, which follows what happens after an alien apocalypse, would start during our own little apocalypse in real life and then drop on Netflix during the WGA strike...
VFX Supervisor Aaron Raff Reveals How Visual Effects Played into the Landscape of ‘A Murder at the End of the World’
Awards Daily talks to A Murder at the End of the World VFX Supervisor Aaron Raff about adding visual effects to cold and desert environments and removing the humanness from AI assistant, Ray. Spoiler alert: In real life, there isn't a sprawling futuristic hotel like Andy Ronson's (Clive Owen) in Iceland. That bit of TV magic was created by A...
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Oscars 2024 – Closing It Out with One Last Podcast
We got together for one last podcast to close out the season. This time it's me, Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams,...
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