Screenwriter, director and “American Psycho” author Bret Easton Ellis wonders whether “Black Panther” deserves its Oscar nomination for Best Picture, and thinks Oscar voters are supporting it for the sake of diversity, not because it’s especially good. Ellis often speaks about the film industry in a way that doesn’t endear him to the Hollywood…
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Sundance Dominated by Left-Wing Politics…
The Sundance Film Festival is always a barometer of the times to some degree, with often-topical indie films alternating with documentaries about the hot-button issues of the day. But there’s something particularly timely about this year’s Sundance, which has made a point of embracing diversity and in its first four days has showcased a slate…
Sundance ’19: Doc distributors round-up, part two
The 2019 Sundance Film Festival is almost upon us. Ahead of the annual mountainside event in Park City, Utah, Realscreen reached out to assorted distributors and sales agents that will be on the ground between Jan. 24 to Feb. 3 to find out what films they are bringing to the annual event and what types of projects…
‘Nobody Is Going to Believe You’
Over the past two decades, Bryan Singer’s films—The Usual Suspects, Valkyrie, Superman Returns, four of the X-Men movies—have earned more than $3 billion at the box office, putting him in the top tier of Hollywood directors. He’s known for taking risks in his storytelling: It was Singer’s idea, for instance, to open the original X-Men movie with a scene at Auschwitz, where…
LIST: OSCAR NOMS…
UPDATED with full list, more details: The 91st Oscar nominations were announced this morning in a presentation by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, with Alfonso Cuarón’s memory movie Roma from Oscar newcomer Netflix and Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite from perennial frontrunner Fox Searchlight leading the way 10 nominations apiece. Fox Searchlight (15 total noms) and Netflix also led…
At SUNDANCE, powerhouse documentaries will be everywhere…
For documentary filmmakers, there’s no place like the Sundance Film Festival. The mountainside festival which kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, has become known for launching nonfiction films to box office successes and awards, and this year is shaping up to be no different. The slate boasts a wide array of films about fallen…
Sofia Coppola to direct Bill Murray in Apple’s first film
News of the film, titled On the Rocks, comes ahead of the expected launch of the tech giant’s own streaming platform. Rashida Jones will star with Murray in the film, which tells of a young mother who reconnects with her playboy father. Apple is also working with Jennifer Aniston, Steven Spielberg and Reese Witherspoon on…
Massive Debt Among Media Giants Could Cripple Hollywood…
Randall Stephenson, AT&T’s chairman-CEO, summoned all of his folksy Oklahoma earnestness as he made an enthusiastic pitch to Wall Street analysts about the telephone company’s bold efforts to transform itself into a multimedia powerhouse. It was late November, less than six months after AT&T had wrapped up its $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. But before Stephenson could…
Jake Gyllenhaal Go Full Gyllen-Crazy Over Murderous Paintings in Velvet Buzzsaw Trailer
When Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, and Dan Gilroy, the writer and director of Nightcrawler, decided to make another movie together you just knew the outcome was going to be some more eccentric nightmare fuel. And now we know exactly what we’re dealing with in the trailer for Velvet Buzzsaw, which somehow seems even more insane than the trio’s first…
Before Social Media Killed Hollywood Nightlife
In the early 2000s, stars could still go to bars and let their hair down without becoming a Twitter Moment, as Pantera Sarah, one of the era’s top club promoters, reveals in her personal pictures of A-listers at now-defunct hotspots. She came from Wisconsin to Los Angeles in 1994 at age 20 and named herself…
