Monday, November 18, 2024

Movies

“Endless Love” Author Scott Spencer Predicted Last Year that Movie Would Fail

I just caught up with a piece written by "Endless Love" author Scott Spencer in an issue last fall of The Paris Review. Spencer noted...

Tom Brokaw Plugs Angelina Jolie Movie in Commercial Posing as Feature During Olympics

I'm confused. How about you? NBC News veteran Tom Brokaw narrated a commercial tonight on the Olympics. It was for an NBC Universal feature...

“12 Years” Wins BAFTA Best Picture, But Upsets Divide Actors’ Categories

Do the British Academy Awards mean anything to the American academy voters? It's hard to say. Probably not. But on Sunday "12 Years a...

“Winter’s Tale” is the First Gigantic Box Office Flop of 2014 with $7.7 Mil Weekend

That didn't take long. "Winter's Tale," directed (and written and produced) by Akiva Goldsman, is the first big studio flop of 2014. On Friday night,...

Leonardo DiCaprio on Scorsese’s “Wolf”: “This is the Director’s Cut”

Last night Leonardo DiCaprio's mom was in the audience at the Ziegfeld Theater for a brief, but informative Q&A with the star of "Wolf...

“Endless Love,” A Great Novel Killed TWICE in One Lifetime by Hollywood

Poor "Endless Love." Scott Spencer's 1979 novel was superb. It was about obsession and class. Two years later it was turned into a terrible...

Panned “Winter’s Tale” with Colin Farrell Spent Over $70 Million in New York Alone

This is a first. Sort of by accident we know in advance some of the costs of a huge blockbuster failure of a movie....

Warren Beatty’s Untitled “Howard Hughes” Film Moving Forward At Last

EXCLUSIVE: Good news! Warren Beatty is finally moving forward with his untitled "Howard Hughes" movie. What we do know is that a production office...