Month: September 2022

Poet and author Ander Monson has seen the 1987 movie Predator, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger on the run from an alien in a Guatemalan jungle, 146 times. To explain why, he wrote Predator: A Memoir. Through a scene-by-scene exploration of the film, which he describes as “satire wrapped in gun pornography,” Monson reckons with his lifelong
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Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde are bringing their best to the cinema. The couple made a showstopping appearance at Don’t Worry Darling‘s Venice Film Festival premiere on Sept. 5. And the lovebirds looked golden—quite literally—as Olivia stunned in a bright yellow custom Gucci gown that featured a plunging neckline, diamond fringe details and a cape with
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This was yet another soft weekend at the international box office with no major fresh titles and as summer fully closes out in Europe and beyond. On the positive side, the UK’s National Cinema Day helped buoy that market with ticket prices slashed to £3 at 643 participating theaters on Saturday. There were 1.6M admissions
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Labor Day weekend saw blockbusters old and new buoyed by cheap tickets, as was a limited openings like Saloum with multiple sold out screenings at two theaters, including every showtime on Saturday. Over 3,000 theaters, including IFC Center and Alamo Drafthouse LA, where the French-Senegalese indie film began a qualifying run, offered $3 tickets for
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News Emmys 2022: Stranger Things Wins Best Music Supervision The series that took Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” to unexpected new heights picks up the win By Evan Minsker September 4, 2022 Facebook Twitter Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield in Stranger Things (courtesy of Netflix © 2022) Facebook Twitter Stranger Things has won the
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Most movie lovers are surely familiar with Robert Downey Jr., the man most famous for playing Marvel’s Tony Stark/Iron Man for over a decade. Of course, many cinephiles are probably also familiar with his famous filmmaker father, Robert Downey Sr., who passed away at the age of 85 last summer. (Shortly after, Downey Jr. paid
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There were too many times when my mother would catch me reading a book with a flashlight under my sheets, demanding I go to sleep already. I can’t say that romance was ever my go-to genre as I was (ironically) falling in love with reading as a kid. I loved fantasy, mystery, and historical fiction,
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News The Weeknd Loses Voice, Cancels L.A. Show Mid-Song “I don’t want to stop the show. But I can’t give you the concert that I want to give you right now,” the singer told the sold-out crowd at SoFi Stadium By Madison Bloom September 4, 2022 Facebook Twitter The Weeknd (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty Images).
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Film premieres and headlines spilling from a trio of festivals either in full swing (Venice), just starting (Telluride) or queued up (Toronto) have indie exhibitors and distributors the most hopeful since Covid hit that a stream of new films could fire up the arthouse market. Todd Field’s Cate Blanchett-starrer TÁR (debuted to a six-minute standing ovation
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News Emmys 2022: The Beatles: Get Back Wins Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series Peter Jackson’s limited series for Disney+ won five awards, including Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program By Matthew Ismael Ruiz September 4, 2022 Facebook Twitter The Beatles film Magical Mystery Tour in Maidstone, Kent, United Kingdom, September 23 1967 (Photo by Mark and
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SATURDAY AM UPDATE: “Estimates aren’t worth a whole lot this morning thanks to the brilliant idea of National Cinema Day,” cried one industry source to us this morning. They were speaking about the challenges for studio box office analysts to peg exactly what’s going to be No. 1 over the 4-day holiday weekend. Despite all
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News Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London: Here’s What Happened Featuring Paul McCartney, a Them Crooked Vultures reunion, Nandi Bushell, Hawkins’ son, and more By Nina Corcoran September 3, 2022 Facebook Twitter Taylor Hawkins, photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images Facebook Twitter Foo Fighters honored their late drummer Taylor Hawkins with an all-star tribute
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After ten years of marriage, Channing Tatum and Jenna Dewan decided to split in 2019 and both have since moved on to other relationships. As of late, Tatum has been dating Pussy Island director Zoë Kravitz. While things definitely seem to be heating up between the two, a new report suggests that Dewan and Tatum’s
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National Cinema Day is underway with 3,000+ participating theaters (30,00 screens) offering $3 tickets, discounted concessions and a four and a half-minute preshow sizzle reel with peeks of upcoming titles from A24, Amazon Studios, Disney, Focus Features, Lionsgate, Neon, Paramount, Sony and Sony Pictures Classics, United Artists Releasing, Universal and Warner Bros. Trailers include Avatar 2:
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Michelle Obama tweeted, “Congrats on an amazing career, @SerenaWilliams! How lucky were we to be able to watch a young girl from Compton grow up to become one of the greatest athletes of all time. I’m proud of you, my friend—and I can’t wait to see the lives you continue to transform with your talents.”
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News Them Crooked Vultures Reunite for First Time in 12 Years at Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert: Watch Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones played together to honor the late Foo Fighters drummer By Nina Corcoran September 3, 2022 Facebook Twitter Them Crooked Vultures performing at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert (YouTube/MTV) Facebook Twitter
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