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We’re all familiar with this kind of situation: A studio has a stinker on its hands, so it frontloads the critical response by showing the film, weeks before it opens, to quote whores, entertainment “journalists” who aren’t critics but get their subsequently rapturous reactions splashed across posters and TV ads anyway. You know, they’re the … more…
As it always does, the inevitable has come to pass. The Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is getting the Hollywood treatment. Never mind that the original film is a worldwide phenomenon that has earned more than $100 million worldwide, including more than $9 million in North America, which ranks it respectably as … more…
Steve Simels writes a regular column at Box Office Magazine, and over the holiday weekend he offered a possible new avenue for a Hollywood intent on borrowing from other mediums for its stories: fine art. And Simels had a particular painting in mind for adaptation: “genius-of-the-macabre artist Henry Fuseli’s incredible The Nightmare,” dating from 1785: … more…
It’s a weird sort of day in the United States today. It’s a Monday, but as a federal holiday, it’s still part of the weekend… and it still feels like the weekend, like we got an extra Sunday or something. (It’s really, really quiet in my neighborhood this morning.) But the Fourth of July holiday … more…
With Toy Story 3 about to land at British cinemas — it opens on July 23 (it has already earned more than $250 million in North America, which it did at a near-record-breaking pace) — art and design writer Jonathan Jones in the Guardian decrees that digital animation, especially as exemplified by the works of … more…
Wonder Woman has finally entered the 21st century. And at the same time, she also entered the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s. For the first time since she debuted in 1941, Wonder Woman’s look has been updated. Why an Amazonian princess from an ancient world would wear an American flag has always been a … more…
Larry King Live is dead. Long live Larry King Live… without Larry King? Larry King has announced that his long-running (25 years) talk show on CNN will end sometime this fall, because the 77-year-old wants to spend time with his kids going to their Little League games. Seriously. Most men of his age are going … more…
I’ve said more than once that even if Sturgeon’s Law holds true for TV — if 95 percent of what’s on the tube is crap (and that may be underestimating the amount of crap) — there’s still more non-crap than I can ever find the time to watch. Which is something I often take comfort … more…
Last week the Tom Cruise/Cameron Diaz action comedy Knight and Day opened on a Wednesday, ostensibly to avoid the Friday opening, two days later, of the Adam Sandler “family” comedy Grown Ups. It looks — to my eyes, having seen both films as well as examined the marketing of them — as if the two … more…
It suddenly occurred to me when I was writing about the trailer for Never Let Me Go the other day that I was surprised that we don’t see more movies like that one these days. See, 25 years ago, when I was 15, if someone had told me, “By the time you’re 40, geeks will … more…
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