question of the day: Which film directors would you like to see move to TV (as Soderbergh says he’s doing)?
And what would you like see to him/her do with TV that he/she isn’t doing with movies?
Steven Soderbergh
Magic Mike (review)
A workplace bromantic comedy about men made by men from a male perspective for, it would seem, a male audience — the workplace just happens to be a (male) strip club.
Haywire (review)
There’s a lot of fight in Haywire, but very little punch — it starts to feel very grim and plodding…
Haywire (trailer)
Fassbender!
Contagion movie review
Ohmygod the germs, the germs! They’re everywhere!
celeb news of the week: Steven Soderbergh does some second-unit shooting on ‘The Hunger Games’ (but he hopes you won’t notice it)
Since when do big-name celebrity hotshots take on a job that is usually thankless and typically invisible? When they’re nice guys helping out a pal.
Contagion (trailer)
It’s like a zombie movie… but real!
question of the day: Should there be a retirement age for artists?
Who could possibly make such a decision about when to retire accept an artist herself? Is there any way to mandate a retirement age for artists except by audiences refusing to participate as audiences anymore (which still wouldn’t prevent an artist from making art, only from having it seen)?
U.K. box office: ‘New Moon’ shines
Twilight frenzy has gripped the U.K., too: 1. The Twilight Saga: New Moon: £11.7 million (NEW) 2. 2012: £3.5 million (2nd week; drops 46%) 3. A Christmas Carol: £2.2 million (3rd week; drops 11%) 4. Harry Brown: £.72 million (2nd week; drops 43%) 5. Up: £.64 million (actual numbers, not estimates) Bad timing for box … more…
North American box office: forecast is good for ‘Cloudy’
Clear skies ahead for the movie? The sun is shining upon it? What other tedious weather-related metaphor can I come up with? 1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: $30.3 million (NEW) 2. The Informant!: $10.5 million (NEW) 3. Tyler Perry’s I Can Do Bad All by Myself: $9.9 million (2nd week; drops 58%) 4. … more…
