Movies
Toronto Review: “The Score,” with Songs by Johnny Flynn Scores with Naomi Ackie, Soon to Play Whitney Houston
First Toronto film: "The Score," written and directed by Malachiy Smyth, with songs by Johnny Flynn. And it's a score. A plus.
TIFF isn't offering...
Business
Watch Nicole Kidman’s Commercial for AMC Theaters Welcoming Moviegoers Back
AMC Theaters wants us back in their seats. So they're spending $25 million on a promo campaign to get us excited. And they've made...
Business
It’s Come to This: Latest Bruce Willis D Movie Sold to Fox’s Free Streaming Site Called Tubi
Bruce Willis is in the middle of a run of D movies, unprecedented in film history. Dozens and dozens of shlock films made for...
Business
“Shang Chi,” The Movie that “Just Mercy” was Sacrificed For, Shatters Labor Day Weekend Box Office Records
Civil rights or super hero?
It was back in the fall of 2019 that "Just Mercy," a terrific film headed for the Oscars, opened at...
Celebrity
RIP Jean Paul Belmondo, 88, Star of the French New Wave, Broke Through with “Breathless” and “Man in Rio”
Jean Paul Belmondo, the biggest thing to come out of France since fromage, has died at age 88. The famed actor has his breakthrough...
Business
Bang! “Shang Chi” Sets Labor Day Weekend Box Office Weekend, First Asian American Super Hero
"Shang Chi" has made $71 million for the three day weekend and set a record for Labor Day box office. It's first the Asian...
Business
Box Office: Marvel’s “Shang Chi,” Available Only in Theaters, Heading Toward Modest Holiday Weekend
Marvel is going to have a modest weekend, by their standards.
The new "Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings," is not performing...
Movies
Wes Anderson’s “The French Dispatch” Greeted with Scathing Reviews, Walk Outs at Telluride Screening
UPDATE: Since I wrote the story below, I've heard of numerous walk outs at at least one screening including executives who "really hated it."
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