Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, not to mention Rob Lowe, are sensational in Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh’s terrific film premieres in Cannes tonight and plays on HBO on Sunday night. It&#... Read More
Adapting any William Faulkner for movies is not easy — if it can be done at all. Legendary director Martin Ritt made a bad film in 1959 of Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” with Y... Read More
Exclusive: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Inside Llewyn Davis” got a 10 minute standing ovation last night in its Cannes premiere, the kind of reception that is real Cannes, and not the tepid dea... Read More
How do you follow up “The Hunger Games,” a movie that made — are you ready? — $408 million in the U.S. alone? LionsGate- Summit Pictures, which also gave us the “Twilight̶... Read More
Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara, as well as the casts of “Mandela” and “Fruitvale Station” helped Harvey Weinstein present his roster of 2013 coming releases. And as I suspected, The ... Read More
EXCLUSIVE: The so called conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy is coming to the big screen–and not from director Oliver Stone. About three years ago, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way produ... Read More
The Cannes press conference for The Great Gatsby was more interesting for what wasn’t said than what was going on: beefy bodyguards for Leonardo DiCaprio stood at the edge of the stage. One of them f... Read More
A year ago I told you about Hyatt Hotels heir Dan Pritzker and his devotion to a feature film he started shooting in 2008 but never released. It’s called “Bolden!” about obscure jazz perf... Read More
Now that “The Great Gatsby” is here, and it’s a hit, the question remains: is it too late or too early for the Academy Awards? “Gatsby” was supposed to be released last Christ... Read More
The Jay Z executive-produced soundtrack to “The Great Gatsby” is a hit. Currently, it’s blazing up the iTunes chart. Over on amazon.com, where sales skew older, customers have put two edi... Read More
