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Monday, March 21, 2016 at 12:16PM The New Yorker Richard Brody discusses the films he saw at SXSW as part of the narrative jury
Tracking Board has the audience award winners from SXSW
Spotify is now streaming the entire Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice score by Hans Zimmer & Junkie XL
Fandor celebrates great female film editors in a new 5 minute video
Film School Rejects celebrates Mary Elizabeth Winstead's compelling humanity across multiple genres
Towleroad Sally Field on parents and gay kids
Vulture new Must Read column from Mark Harris on the Academy's diversification efforts
Deadline Teen Wolf star Dylan O'Brien has been severely injured on set of the new Maze Runner film. Production is shutting down for the near future...
Variety ...and director Wes Ball tweets and open letter to fans about the injury and Dylan's recovery
Guardian a biopic about Michael Jackson's chimp (no really) will be a stop motion animated feature
And So It Begins names 10 bad scenes in great movies: Carrie, Cape Fear, The Godfather Part II and more
Off Cinema
Boy Culture Madonna crosses $1B mark in touring, 3rd of all time now (after the Rolling Stones and U2) and #1 among solo artists
Gothamist Amy Schumer leaves massive tip for bartender at Hamilton on Broadway
EW You can now stream the full London Cast Recording of American Psycho (The Musical) starring Matt Smith free of charge. Benjamin Walker plays Patrick Bateman in the Broadway cast, which has yet to record a cast album since they're still in previews
Playbill Sunset Blvd, the Andrew Lloyd Webber musicalization of the 1950 classic is getting a semi staged revival starring Glenn Close in London. It starts on April 1st so if you're a London reader, please report back.
Release Date News
The Lobster which keeps getting shuffled around has a new US release date of May 13th via A24; Sundance hit and Oscar hopeful Manchester by the Sea is going with November 18th as a release date; One of the Zeéeeee's comeback projects Same Kind of Different as Me (starring Djimon Hounsou and Greg Kinnear) pushed back nearly a whole year, now opening in first quarter 2017.
Video To Go
I somehow missed this recent news about 81 year old Italian legend Sophia Loren. She just starred in a new commercial for Dolce & Gabbana commanding a hunky team of men. The commercial is scored by another Oscar winning octogenerian Italian legend Ennio Morricone. Here it is:
Reader Comments (9)
Everything Mark Harris writes is a MUST READ.
Co-sign with Pam.
Re 10 bad scenes in great movies: Everybody seems to hate that sped up sequence in Carrie, but it's never bothered me. It's a weird, little, disorienting joke in a movie full of them. The accident in Short Cuts, though, is pretty bad.
Love that Loren ad, although the wig is horrific!
Re Madonna's $1B grosses. I'm not a mathematician but if her tour earnings up to date are 1.24 billion and RHT has just grossed 100 million then it was the previous tour that put her over one billion mark, not the current one. Can't wait for the bluray anyway...
Mark Harris is usually a must read, but he's rehashing a topic that I was really ready to be over with by now.
And no, I wouldn't gush over Cheryl Boone Isaacs. I get the impression that she likes to puff her chest up when controversy arises, but she should've kiboshed those controversies long before they started. The Academy has been like they've always been for years, and just because there was outrage this year, NOW is when you act all upset about it? Same with the "Alone Yet Not Alone" controversy, and now the Chris Rock Asian jokes. She only rushed to action when commotions were made. To me, she's not proactive, she's way too reactive.
That Loren, Dolce & Gabbana ad is like if we could pick our dreams before you go to bed.
I love me some Stilinski.. but man, all those cocky stories about stealing cursed native artifacts on set was probably not a good idea- that set keeps reporting illnesses and injuries. Not that I believe in that kind of stuff (maybe it's just bad karma), but it sure can't be good jujube.
Sophia Loren is a goddess.
The kind of actress and star that really is a thing of the past lost in the middle of the 1960's(she became a star in the 1950's): sex symbol, comedienne, respected dramatic actress, worked with the best directors of her time, a magazine cover celebrity chased by photographers, academy award nominee and winner, incredibly beautiful face and hot body, singing and dancing...
Imagine someone that could be at the same time Pamela Anderson(sex symbol), Kim Kardashian(paparazzi) and Cate Blanchett(Oscar and awards, work with the best directors, industry and critics respect).
Unfortunately impossible nowadays.
There is a third italian oscar winner in the ad: it's Giuseppe Tornatore, director of "Nuovo Cinema Paradiso".
Seeing Sunset Boulevard in April, will report back!