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First Ever Nielsen Chart of Streaming Shows People Watch Netflix for Reruns of Old Network, Cable Favorites

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First Ever Nielsen Chart of Streaming Shows People Watch Netflix for Reruns of Old Network, Cable Favorites

Nielsen has released its first ever chart for what’s popular on subscription based streaming television. And the top 10 reveals something interesting. Other than the #1 show, “The Umbrella Academy,” which is original, fans watch Netflix reruns of old network and cable favorites.

Numbers 2- 10 are all old shows: “Shameless” and “Dexter” came from Showtime, “Grey’s Anatomy” from ABC, “The Office” and “Parks and Recreation” from NBC, “NCIS” and “Criminal Minds” from CBS, “Supernatural” and “In the Dark” from the CW.

Where are all the great original shows produced for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc?

This list shows the number of episodes available and millions of minutes viewed:

The Umbrella Academy (20, 3,011)
Shameless (120, 1,125)
Grey’s Anatomy (361, 918)
The Office (192, 897)
Criminal Minds (277, 697)
NCIS (353, 524)
In the Dark (26, 418)
Dexter (96, 316)
Supernatural (321, 315)
Parks and Recreation (121, 304)

It makes you wonder how few people are watching all those other shows like “The Crown,” “Mrs. Maisel,” and so on. Is it no wonder the Emmy Awards have such low ratings?

Francis Ford Coppola Tries to Save Much Maligned “The Godfather Part III” with a New Directors Cut and Re-release

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Francis Ford Coppola Tries to Save Much Maligned “The Godfather Part III” with a New Directors Cut and Re-release

“The Godfather Part III” is not a great movie. Compared to its predecessors…well, I remember that screening and it wasn’t good. The movie was all over the place, a lot of the performances were uncontrolled, and a very novice Sofia Coppola, stepping in for Winona Ryder, was in over her head.

Now Francis Ford Coppola will try to save the legacy of this maligned film with a directors cut and a new title. Called “The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone,” the film will be given a limited theatrical release in December, marking the 30th anniversary of the film’s release. It will then go to digital home entertainment platforms.

“‘Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone’ is an acknowledgement of Mario’s and my preferred title and our original intentions for what became ‘The Godfather: Part III,’” Coppola said in a statement. “For this version of the finale, I created a new beginning and ending, and rearranged some scenes, shots, and music cues. With these changes and the restored footage and sound, to me, it is a more appropriate conclusion to ‘The Godfather’ and ‘The Godfather: Part II’ and I’m thankful to Jim Gianopulos and Paramount for allowing me to revisit it.”

Will it work? I don’t know. At the time of shooting, stars Al Pacino and Diane Keaton were not speaking to each other. They’d lived together for a few years and were a tight couple until Keaton discovered that Pacino was the father of a baby born to a woman who worked in his office. She was livid. You can feel the ice on screen. (Ironically, that child is the now almost 30 year old talented budding film director and producer Julie Pacino.)

Since “The Godfather” and its sequel are, I think, the best contemporary movies made and rank with “Citizen Kane,” I’m rooting for “Part III” to find its footing. December is now a month I’m looking forward to.

 

NY Film Festival Poster by John Waters Features Four Living Male Directors and One Woman– Agnes Varda– Who Is Dead

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NY Film Festival Poster by John Waters Features Four Living Male Directors and One Woman– Agnes Varda– Who Is Dead

Director John Waters designed the 2020 New York Film Festival poster, based on old rock and roll and R&B show posters and notices for boxing matches. It’s whimsical and fun, of course.

The poster features four living male directors and one only woman– Agnes Varda– who is dead. Next to her picture the poster reads: “We have women, too!” Well, not exactly. Agnes, who we adored, will not be attending, even virtually. Were there no living women that could be featured?

The four men are Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar, Barry Jenkins, and Jean Luc Godard, who is a robust 89 years old.

Trailer for James Bond “No Time to Die” Drops in Advance of November 20 Opening, Whether or Not Theaters Are Open

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Trailer for James Bond “No Time to Die” Drops in Advance of November 20 Opening, Whether or Not Theaters Are Open

The final trailer for the James Bond movie “No Time to Die” is here. The movie drops November 20th whether or not theaters are open in significant parts of the U.S. Since Donald Trump is promising a vaccine on November 1st, I guess everyone will be cured and all will be right with the world by the 20th of that month.

And I have some land to sell you in Kenosha.

But seriously folks. Let’s say nothing has changed by November 20th. No theaters open in New York, California, New Jersey, etc. Drive-ins are chilly by October 1st at the latest. People will really be joking about “no time to die.” I’m not sure how this will work.

But here’s the trailer, and it looks good. Interesting that they don’t use the Billie Eilish song in the trailer considering it’s been out since last February. But it wouldn’t get pulses racing unless they’ve remixed it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 17 Year Old Son, Cooper, and Rocker Alana Haim to Star in New Paul Thomas Anderson Film

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Philip Seymour Hoffman’s 17 Year Old Son, Cooper, and Rocker Alana Haim to Star in New Paul Thomas Anderson Film

The great Philip Seymour Hoffman starred in four memorable movies directed by Paul Thomas Anderson: “Boogie Nights,” “Magnolia,” “Punch Drunk Love,” and “The Master.” He should have won an Oscar for the last one.

Hoffman died tragically in 2014, leaving two kids. His son, Cooper, was 11 years old.

Now Cooper is 17 and will make his film debut in a new movie directed by PTA. It’s set in the 70s in the San Fernando Valley, and also feature Bradley Cooper and director Bennie Safdie in an acting role. Also making her acting debut is Alana Haim, one of the rockin’ Haim sisters of the group of the same name. Will Alana be Cooper’s love interest? She’s 11 years his senior, so maybe not.

Cooper’s mom is costume designer Mimi O’Donnell, who split with Phil months before he died.

I really miss Philip Seymour Hoffman. He was maybe the greatest actor of his generation. If he’d lived, he would have been winning awards everywhere, all the time. If you see him “The Talented Mr. Ripley” or “Savages,” or any of the PTA movies, he was simply outstanding. I’m rooting for Cooper, and hope he gets everything he wants out of acting without succumbing to Hollywood’s pitfalls.

And PS, maybe someone can get Phil a star on the Walk of Fame. He wouldn’t have cared, but he deserves the recognition. Think of the much, much lesser entities who already have one.

Poster Revealed for Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival,” Opening the San Sebastian Film Festival Without Woody

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Poster Revealed for Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival,” Opening the San Sebastian Film Festival Without Woody

Woody Allen’s “Rifkin’s Festival” is opening the San Sebastian Film Festival. Without Woody. (I don’t know whether it;s also Without Feathers.)

The comedy starring Gina Gershon, Christoph Waltz, and Wally Shawn was chosen in June to open San Sebastian with the hope the pandemic would be over.

But it’s not. And Woody, who’s over 80, can’t take chances. Also, the European Union won’t let Americans into Spain.

The poster for the movie– for San Sebastian at last– has been released and we have it here. Gina Gershon wrote on Instagram: “I never looked so svelte!”

It’s possible, I guess, that Waltz could go. He travels on a German passport. But really, no one wants to go anywhere at the moment.

Will we ever see “Rifkin” in the States? I sure hope so. This reporter is one of the few Americans who’s seen Woody’s terrific comedy, “A Rainy Day in New York.” It still has no distributor in America. Frankly, they should just put it on VOD and DVD and let Woody’s audience buy it. Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Selena Gomez and Cherry Jones give wonderful performances and the movie is genuinely funny.

Exclusive: New York Film Festival Turned Down by City for Use of on Campus Damrosch Park, Screenings Will Be at Drive-Ins

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Exclusive: New York Film Festival Turned Down by City for Use of on Campus Damrosch Park, Screenings Will Be at Drive-Ins

The pandemic has wrecked havoc on all film festivals. Venice is going on now, but it’s much smaller and there are no Americans present because of travel bans.

The Telluride Film Festival was cancelled, and the Toronto Film Festival will be in person for Canadians and virtual for us die hards in the States.

But the New York Film Festival is really having issues. Because theaters aren’t open in New York, they can’t use Alice Tully Hall or the Walter Reade Theater for screenings or premieres.

I’m told they asked to use Damrosch Park, which on the Lincoln Center campus, for outdoor screenings. But they were turned down. The city doesn’t want large gatherings, even outside. Damrosch Park was the Film Society’s one shot at getting a venue in Manhattan.

As it stands, their screenings– including premieres– will be held at drive ins in Queens and Brooklyn.

But even those will not be glamorous. There are no red carpets, parties, interviews, or any other trimmings. No big exclusive dinner for rich patrons.

The centerpiece film is “Nomadland” starring Frances McDormand. I can bet you now she won’t be at the drive-in. Maybe can zoom in on the big screen!

 

Billy Preston, the Fifth Beatle, Would Have Been 74 Today, Still Not in the Rock Hall of Fame, And His Estate Still Isn’t Settled

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Billy Preston, the Fifth Beatle, Would Have Been 74 Today, Still Not in the Rock Hall of Fame, And His Estate Still Isn’t Settled

Billy Preston — a beautiful soul, extraordinary musician, the “fifth Beatle” because he was the only artist ever to share a credit with the Fab Four– on “Get Back.” If you can find the “Let it Be” movie online, you’ll see Billy playing with the Beatles on the rooftop. Next year when the Peter Jackson documentary about “Let it Be” is released, Billy will be over it.

Billy would have turned 74 today. But he died on June 6, 2006 after several months in a coma following medical mishaps. His estate, believe it or not, is still not settled. He’s also still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame despite being a famed sideman and then a hit act on his own. There isn’t a day that goes by anywhere in this world when “Nothing from Nothing” or “Will it Go Round in Circles” isn’t played somewhere. Billy also famously co-wrote the smash hit, “You Are So Beautiful.”

Some other little Billy musical factoids: he gave Stephen Stills the title for “Love the One You’re With” and he invented the hook for the Rolling Stones’ “Miss You.” Yes, and he’s not in the Rock Hall.

Billy’s estate has been plagued by a 14 year court battle in which avaricious relatives who he thought he’d shaken off are still trying to get their hands on his money. One of them doesn’t even have a birth certificate proving her relation to him and no photos of their alleged childhood together. But it never ends. As I’ve written in the past, one of Billy’s half sisters– now deceased– filed a probate notice on him three days before he died. He was still very much alive. She must have been clairvoyant. That sister’s son in law, who was her lawyer, resigned from the bar for other reasons.

Will it go round in circles? Apparently.

Billy Preston was as vibrant a music star as you could hope to know. His wide grin was his heart on his sleeve. He never stopped smiling. Happy birthday, Billy!

Nothing from Nothing

Get Back

 

Exclusive: Donald Trump and Brother Robert Trump Didn’t Speak for Years Until First Presidential Campaign

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Exclusive: Donald Trump and Brother Robert Trump Didn’t Speak for Years Until First Presidential Campaign

Robert Trump and brother Donald Trump didn’t speak to each other for almost 20 years, a source tells me.

The President’s brother didn’t start the feud. But Donald, I’m told, didn’t speak to Robert starting around the year 2000 when Donald was going through multiple bankruptcies and asking for family money to bail him out.

“Robert refused,” says the source. “He felt they’d already helped Donald many times and enough was enough. It all about money.”

The result was little communication until 2016 when Donald announced his run for the presidency. At that point, the source says, Donald knew he’d have to have his siblings in line and called a truce.

But the roots of the two brothers’ disagreements dated back to when Robert was running their father’s real estate company. “Donald did everything to divide and conquer,” says the source. “He made life difficult for Robert, and made people in the office choose sides.”

Eventually, I’m told, Robert Trump just gave up. He cheated on first wife Blaine with his secretary, who he later married. They lived a much quieter life outside the spotlight of Manhattan in mansions in Garden City, Long Island, the horse country of Milbrook in upstate New York.

Robert had had open heart surgery when he was 49, I’m told, and never quite recovered. In June he fell and had a brain bleed, and a stroke. Last month when he fell ill again Robert went to the hospital in Manhattan but left before all his issues were resolved or dealt with, says a source. The couple returned to Milbrook. When he became ill again, “it was too late” by the time they returned to NY’s Cornell Weill hospital. It’s unlikely he was conscious for that brief pre-golf drive by from brother Donald.

And who put that crazy ad in the Sunday New York Times? I’m told it was his widow, Ann Marie Pallan. “She wanted her children recognized as Robert’s even though their own father is very much alive. I wonder how he felt about that,” says a source. Dr. Thomas Pallan is an interventional radiologist based in New York and Westchester. Ann Marie Pallan Trump completely omitted Robert’s adopted son, Christopher, whose mother, Blaine Trump, he was married to for 25 years.

Rock-Reggae Star Eddy Grant Sues Donald Trump Over Use of 1983 Hit “Electric Avenue” in Campaign Video

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Rock-Reggae Star Eddy Grant Sues Donald Trump Over Use of 1983 Hit “Electric Avenue” in Campaign Video

Donald Trump is not going to “rock onto Electric Avenue” if Eddy Grant has anything to say about it.

Grant sued Trump today for copyright infringement of his song and record after Trump used them in a campaign video without permission. And being Donald Trump he thumbed his nose at Grant by Tweeting about the singer’s objections the next day.

For intellectual property lawyer Brian Caplan, who’s a heavy hitter in this game, that was evidently too much. He writes in the complaint: “Despite Plaintiffs having sent Defendants a letter the very next day objecting to Defendants’ infringement and demanding the removal of the infringing video and that Defendants refrain from further infringing Plaintiffs’ copyrights, and despite numerous comments on Mr. Trump’s August 12, 2020 tweet linking to articles reporting on the infringement, Defendants have continued to willfully and wrongfully infringe Plaintiffs’ copyrights. As of the date of this filing, the infringing video is still available on Twitter.”

This is different than previous suits against Trump for using songs by rock stars at his rallies. This time, he went too far. The complaint alleges that the Trump campaign didn’t license any rights to the song for their video.

(Doesn’t Donald Trump realize that any recording artist whose work he wants hates him? I guess not.)


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