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“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” asked US Army chief counsel Joseph N Welch famously to Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1954 as anti-Communist fever continued to grip the nation. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” the lawyer added, shaming the opportunistic politician and turning the tide on the Second Red Scare.
In an America watching one historic norm after another collapse in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial,...
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” asked US Army chief counsel Joseph N Welch famously to Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1954 as anti-Communist fever continued to grip the nation. “At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” the lawyer added, shaming the opportunistic politician and turning the tide on the Second Red Scare.
In an America watching one historic norm after another collapse in Donald Trump’s ongoing hush money trial,...
- 5/10/2024
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
On the East Coast, all eyes are on Donald Trump and his criminal trial over alleged hush-money payments made to porn actress Stormy Daniels and others.
And on the West Coast, another hearing is happening. Yet it, too, involves a beautiful, blond woman and a charismatic showman with a penchant for pulling the wool over people’s eyes.
But this tribunal is unfolding within the insular walls of the Magic Castle — the legendary private club for magicians set inside a foreboding Victorian mansion, formerly a private residence, perched upon a Hollywood hilltop and established in 1963.
The defendant is Murray the Magician, aka Murray Sawchuck, a veteran stage illusionist and comedian who for years has held a residency at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. (The Tropicana shuttered April 2 and is expected to be demolished later this year — but Murray will be touring the world with his act until he installs himself...
And on the West Coast, another hearing is happening. Yet it, too, involves a beautiful, blond woman and a charismatic showman with a penchant for pulling the wool over people’s eyes.
But this tribunal is unfolding within the insular walls of the Magic Castle — the legendary private club for magicians set inside a foreboding Victorian mansion, formerly a private residence, perched upon a Hollywood hilltop and established in 1963.
The defendant is Murray the Magician, aka Murray Sawchuck, a veteran stage illusionist and comedian who for years has held a residency at the Tropicana in Las Vegas. (The Tropicana shuttered April 2 and is expected to be demolished later this year — but Murray will be touring the world with his act until he installs himself...
- 4/19/2024
- by Seth Abramovitch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hugh Jackman has had an illustrious career in Hollywood. From playing the adamantium-clawed superhero Wolverine to the great American showman P.T. Barnum, the star has repeatedly proven his acting mettle. Moreover, The Greatest Showman actor’s co-stars often sing his praises.
However, there was a time when the Aussie hunk left one of his co-stars quivering in fear when he went off-script and did something extreme. While filming 2013’s Prisoners, Jackman pulled off an ad-lib that left his co-actor Paul Dano completely shaken.
Image via Prisoners – Official Trailer 1 | Warner Bros Pictures – YouTube
Paul Dano’s Harrowing Experience While Filming With Hugh Jackman
Director Denis Villeneuve, who has been enjoying the box office success of his Dune: Part Two, also made 2013’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, and more. Although the film isn’t as popular as some of Villeneuve’s other works like the Dune series and Blade Runner 2049,...
However, there was a time when the Aussie hunk left one of his co-stars quivering in fear when he went off-script and did something extreme. While filming 2013’s Prisoners, Jackman pulled off an ad-lib that left his co-actor Paul Dano completely shaken.
Image via Prisoners – Official Trailer 1 | Warner Bros Pictures – YouTube
Paul Dano’s Harrowing Experience While Filming With Hugh Jackman
Director Denis Villeneuve, who has been enjoying the box office success of his Dune: Part Two, also made 2013’s Prisoners starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Maria Bello, and more. Although the film isn’t as popular as some of Villeneuve’s other works like the Dune series and Blade Runner 2049,...
- 4/6/2024
- by Disha Kandpal
- FandomWire
A team of top film, television and stage songwriters have joined forces to create a musical satire inspired by the recent, ill-fated Willy Wonka knockoff fiasco in Glasgow, Scotland that became a social media phenomenon.
Produced by Kraft-Engel Productions, WillyFest – A Musical Parody is to premiere in late 2024.
The creative team behind the parody musical is comprised of Emmy-nominated Riki Lindhome Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner First Date, ABC’s Once Upon a Time) and TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft.
“From Broadway to street corner pop-ups, audiences have become obsessed with immersive experiences that enable them to be a part of the story,” said a statement from songwriters Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner. “But it takes a special...
Produced by Kraft-Engel Productions, WillyFest – A Musical Parody is to premiere in late 2024.
The creative team behind the parody musical is comprised of Emmy-nominated Riki Lindhome Emmy winners Tova Litvin and Doug Rockwell Broadway songwriters Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner First Date, ABC’s Once Upon a Time) and TikTok songwriter Daniel Mertzlufft.
“From Broadway to street corner pop-ups, audiences have become obsessed with immersive experiences that enable them to be a part of the story,” said a statement from songwriters Alan Zachary & Michael Weiner. “But it takes a special...
- 3/14/2024
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
A new musical is hoping to turn a disastrous Willy Wonka experience into a golden ticket.
Willy Fest: A Musical Parody will take inspiration from a Scottish event that went viral last month for all the wrong reasons. The event was billed as an “immersive experience” that would put Willy Wonka fans into a “magical realm.” Its organizers used lush AI-generated photos to attract customers, who upon arriving, found themselves in a drab wearhouse customers compared to a meth lab.
Willy Fest is planned as a live event for late 2024, and hails from producer Richard Kraft, known for ABC’s The Little Mermaid Live, who will produce via his Kraft-Engel Productions. He has assembled a team of writers and musicians to bring the project to fruition.
“While it is quite common for there to be writers’ rooms in television, taking that approach with theatrical songwriters is fairly unique and likely...
Willy Fest: A Musical Parody will take inspiration from a Scottish event that went viral last month for all the wrong reasons. The event was billed as an “immersive experience” that would put Willy Wonka fans into a “magical realm.” Its organizers used lush AI-generated photos to attract customers, who upon arriving, found themselves in a drab wearhouse customers compared to a meth lab.
Willy Fest is planned as a live event for late 2024, and hails from producer Richard Kraft, known for ABC’s The Little Mermaid Live, who will produce via his Kraft-Engel Productions. He has assembled a team of writers and musicians to bring the project to fruition.
“While it is quite common for there to be writers’ rooms in television, taking that approach with theatrical songwriters is fairly unique and likely...
- 3/14/2024
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: Paramount Pictures has stepped up for a $25 million commitment for North American theatrical rights to Better Man, a fantastical original musical directed by Michael Gracey, helmer of the blockbuster musical The Greatest Showman. The film is about the unlikely rise of celebrated singer-songwriter Robbie Williams.
The deal marks the year’s biggest North American deal for an independent film in years, and Paramount is going to give it a full theatrical release, eyeing later this year. Studio is coming off the success of Mean Girls, which led the box office last month and grossed $92 million worldwide so far. It also is aggressively rolling out globally Bob Marley: One Love, a film that bows February 14, as Paramount leans into films in the musical space.
Rolling out Better Man late in the year gives the studio plenty of time to address a challenge in the U.S. and Canada for the conundrum that is Robbie Williams.
The deal marks the year’s biggest North American deal for an independent film in years, and Paramount is going to give it a full theatrical release, eyeing later this year. Studio is coming off the success of Mean Girls, which led the box office last month and grossed $92 million worldwide so far. It also is aggressively rolling out globally Bob Marley: One Love, a film that bows February 14, as Paramount leans into films in the musical space.
Rolling out Better Man late in the year gives the studio plenty of time to address a challenge in the U.S. and Canada for the conundrum that is Robbie Williams.
- 2/6/2024
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
More than half a century after Gene Wilder charmed and terrified children in equal measure in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," it's Timothée Chalamet's turn to cook up sweet and improbable treats in "Wonka," a musical prequel from "Paddington"/"Paddington 2" director Paul King. Musicals are always a risky bet at the box office, but by downplaying the singing and dancing and focusing trailers around its quirky leading man, "Wonka" has achieved a good (if not necessarily grand) opening.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, "Wonka" is on track to gross $38 million or more at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, following an opening day gross of $14.4 million. The film has a relatively conservative budget of $125 million, so it needs at least $300 million worldwide by the end of its run to comfortably break even and start turning a profit. That's easily doable, especially looking at King's track record.
Per The Hollywood Reporter, "Wonka" is on track to gross $38 million or more at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, following an opening day gross of $14.4 million. The film has a relatively conservative budget of $125 million, so it needs at least $300 million worldwide by the end of its run to comfortably break even and start turning a profit. That's easily doable, especially looking at King's track record.
- 12/16/2023
- by Hannah Shaw-Williams
- Slash Film
Christmas box office isn’t what it used to be. Before the year’s end, we’ll see eight new wide releases but none are likely to reach the heights of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ($805 million domestic) or 2022 “Avatar: The Way of Water” ($685 million).
The musical “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.), Sony’s romance “Anyone but You,” Universal’s animated “Migration,” and Amazon MGM’s “The Boys in the Boat” could rise to decent levels. “Migration” is projected to be the next highest grosser, with “Anyone” a sleeper. There’s also A24’s “The Iron Claw” and Neon’s “Ferrari.”
However, Warner Bros. has two films on which theaters pin their highest hopes: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” — and most of all, “Wonka.” It’s the third Warners feature based on the Willy Wonka character, but with previous iterations separated by decades it’s never been a franchise.
It’s...
The musical “The Color Purple” (Warner Bros.), Sony’s romance “Anyone but You,” Universal’s animated “Migration,” and Amazon MGM’s “The Boys in the Boat” could rise to decent levels. “Migration” is projected to be the next highest grosser, with “Anyone” a sleeper. There’s also A24’s “The Iron Claw” and Neon’s “Ferrari.”
However, Warner Bros. has two films on which theaters pin their highest hopes: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” — and most of all, “Wonka.” It’s the third Warners feature based on the Willy Wonka character, but with previous iterations separated by decades it’s never been a franchise.
It’s...
- 12/14/2023
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Indiewire
Every fan of “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) loves the scene where Gene Wilder, as the mystical candy maker, takes his guests on a psychedelic tunnel ride, zooming through the bowels of the Chocolate Factory as he chants a little verse, getting angrier and more hysterical by the second. Wilder’s Wonka was a sweetheart, but he had a hidden maniacal side. And in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” Tim Burton’s majestically wacked 2005 remake, Johnny Depp, then at the apex of his movie stardom, went full Depp, playing Wonka like some louche vampiristic cross between Anna Wintour and Michael Jackson.
But in “Wonka,” the fun, rousing, impeccably staged, jaw-droppingly old-fashioned musical prequel to the legendary Roald Dahl tale, Timothée Chalamet plays the title character as the beaming soul of effervescent goodness. His chocolate passion is there (he’s all but defined by it), but the kinks are gone...
But in “Wonka,” the fun, rousing, impeccably staged, jaw-droppingly old-fashioned musical prequel to the legendary Roald Dahl tale, Timothée Chalamet plays the title character as the beaming soul of effervescent goodness. His chocolate passion is there (he’s all but defined by it), but the kinks are gone...
- 12/4/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
When Amy Carlson’s mummified body was found in April 2021, it looked like a blue skeleton. It was also in a sleeping bag wrapped in Christmas lights. Her followers in the Love Has Won cult were apparently still waiting for the Galactics, a group of dead luminaries led by Robin Williams, to come pick her up in their spaceship. Somehow, this never happened. Instead, the cops came.
On planet Earth this could all easily pass for insanity. But the Love Has Won crew thought Earth was for suckers, as we learn in the riveting,...
On planet Earth this could all easily pass for insanity. But the Love Has Won crew thought Earth was for suckers, as we learn in the riveting,...
- 12/2/2023
- by Chris Vognar
- Rollingstone.com
BayView Entertainment have released the documentary Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story on Digital platforms including Amazon Prime Video.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will be available to view on AVOD from 1st January 2024.
“I think one of the main reasons why I’m such a hardcore follower of Viral Marketing is because it’s a gimmick that manages to involve audiences in the film they’re anticipating, and the internet has introduced many methods of interaction with audiences to films they’re looking forward to, and I think it’s a wonderful throwback to William Castle, whose own showmanship was such a form of P.T. Barnum marketing that he’s sorely missed in a world of spoon fed horror films and lethargic monster pictures.
Castle involved you in his movies, he convinced you that his films were horrifying and would perhaps scare you so much that you’d need a death certificate,...
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will be available to view on AVOD from 1st January 2024.
“I think one of the main reasons why I’m such a hardcore follower of Viral Marketing is because it’s a gimmick that manages to involve audiences in the film they’re anticipating, and the internet has introduced many methods of interaction with audiences to films they’re looking forward to, and I think it’s a wonderful throwback to William Castle, whose own showmanship was such a form of P.T. Barnum marketing that he’s sorely missed in a world of spoon fed horror films and lethargic monster pictures.
Castle involved you in his movies, he convinced you that his films were horrifying and would perhaps scare you so much that you’d need a death certificate,...
- 12/1/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
BayView Entertainment will be releasing the documentary Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story on Est/VOD/SVOD Digital platforms such as Tubi, Hoopla, Flix Fling, Plex and Amazon Prime Video on 28th November 2023.
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will also be available to view on AVOD from 1st January 2024.
“I think one of the main reasons why I’m such a hardcore follower of Viral Marketing is because it’s a gimmick that manages to involve audiences in the film they’re anticipating, and the internet has introduced many methods of interaction with audiences to films they’re looking forward to, and I think it’s a wonderful throwback to William Castle, whose own showmanship was such a form of P.T. Barnum marketing that he’s sorely missed in a world of spoon fed horror films and lethargic monster pictures.
Castle involved you in his movies, he convinced you...
Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story will also be available to view on AVOD from 1st January 2024.
“I think one of the main reasons why I’m such a hardcore follower of Viral Marketing is because it’s a gimmick that manages to involve audiences in the film they’re anticipating, and the internet has introduced many methods of interaction with audiences to films they’re looking forward to, and I think it’s a wonderful throwback to William Castle, whose own showmanship was such a form of P.T. Barnum marketing that he’s sorely missed in a world of spoon fed horror films and lethargic monster pictures.
Castle involved you in his movies, he convinced you...
- 11/23/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
(Clockwise from top left:) Smile (Paramount), Scream (Paramount), The Blair Witch Project (screenshot), A Quiet Place (Paramount), The Ring (screenshot), 10 Cloverfield Lane (Michele K. Short )Graphic: AVClub
October means Halloween and Halloween means horror films. All the streamers are currently doubling down on diabolically evil content but Paramount+, always...
October means Halloween and Halloween means horror films. All the streamers are currently doubling down on diabolically evil content but Paramount+, always...
- 10/27/2023
- by The A.V. Club
- avclub.com
Natasha Liu Bordizzo is one of the most talented and beautiful actresses working in the film industry. The Australian actress made her debut with Netflix’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny in 2016. She followed it up with a small role in The Greatest Showman in which she starred alongside Hugh Zachman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, and Zendaya. Since then she has starred in multiple brilliant projects and she has even joined the Star Wars universe through projects like The Book of Boba Fett and Ahsoka. So, if you love Brodizzo’s performances here are the 10 best movies and TV shows starring Natasha Liu Bordizoo you might want to add to your watchlist.
10. The Voyeurs (Prime Video) Credit – Amazon Studios
Synopsis: Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite – inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the street.
10. The Voyeurs (Prime Video) Credit – Amazon Studios
Synopsis: Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite – inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the street.
- 10/23/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Whether it’s because of the circus he co-founded or the famous line attributed to him (“There’s a sucker born every minute”), P.T. Barnum’s name is legendary. When a movie was made about the performer-turned-politician in 2017, Hugh Jackman was brought in to play the irascible figure in The Greatest Showman. While the fact that the movie was a musical appealed to Jackman, he told us at the of the release, he was also drawn in by the real-life character’s undeniable enthusiasm. (Click on the media bar below to hear Hugh Jackman) https://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Hugh_Jacman_PT_BArnum_.mp3
The Greatest Showman is currently streaming on Disney+ and available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and most digital platforms.
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The Greatest Showman is currently streaming on Disney+ and available on DVD, Blu-Ray, and most digital platforms.
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- 10/9/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Hugh Jackman has starred in a variety of movies since his breakthrough role in X-Men. Out of all of his movies, however, there was one he confided the studio saw as a big risk.
Hugh Jackman on 1 of his riskiest movies Hugh Jackman | Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Jackman showcased his talent for music in the 2017 movie The Greatest Showman. The film was a bit of a passion project for the actor, and was based on the life of showman P.T. Barnum. Speaking to Today, Jackman shared that he got the idea to do the film after hosting the Academy Awards one night.
“The producer said, ‘You’ve done movies for Wolverine. You’ve done musicals on Broadway and the West End. You should put the two together,” Jackman said.
But right from the beginning, the Oscar-nominated actor knew it would be difficult for the feature to make it to the big screen.
Hugh Jackman on 1 of his riskiest movies Hugh Jackman | Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images
Jackman showcased his talent for music in the 2017 movie The Greatest Showman. The film was a bit of a passion project for the actor, and was based on the life of showman P.T. Barnum. Speaking to Today, Jackman shared that he got the idea to do the film after hosting the Academy Awards one night.
“The producer said, ‘You’ve done movies for Wolverine. You’ve done musicals on Broadway and the West End. You should put the two together,” Jackman said.
But right from the beginning, the Oscar-nominated actor knew it would be difficult for the feature to make it to the big screen.
- 10/1/2023
- by Antonio Stallings
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Writer/Director Macon Blair (I Don’t Feel At Home in This World Anymore) introduces a very different Toxie in his Troma remake, The Toxic Avenger. Here, it’s the downtrodden Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage) who’s dunked into the toxic sludge that transforms him into a monstrous crusader against an evil corporation headed by greedy CEO Bob Garbinger (Kevin Bacon). Blair packs the contemporary update with reverent nods to the original but with a new approach that makes it accessible to those unfamiliar with the Troma classic.
Bloody Disgusting spoke with Macon Blair after The Toxic Avenger premiere at Fantastic Fest, where he shared what inspired his remake and the casting behind the new Toxie.
Like many, Blair connected with the 1984 film not just for its cartoonish violence but also for its relatable DIY filmmaking.
“It’s not like I’ve gone my whole life like ‘One day I will make The Toxic Avenger,...
Bloody Disgusting spoke with Macon Blair after The Toxic Avenger premiere at Fantastic Fest, where he shared what inspired his remake and the casting behind the new Toxie.
Like many, Blair connected with the 1984 film not just for its cartoonish violence but also for its relatable DIY filmmaking.
“It’s not like I’ve gone my whole life like ‘One day I will make The Toxic Avenger,...
- 9/26/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hugh Jackman is the picture of tall, dark, and handsome. The charismatic Australian is a gifted singer, dancer, and actor. He’s starred in numerous films — his most memorable characters include Marvel’s hot-tempered Wolverine, vampire hunter Van Helsing, and circus great P.T. Barnum. He’s also lit up the stage in several award-winning productions on Broadway. In fact, the most embarrassing moment of Jackman’s impressive career happened during a production of Beauty and the Beast.
Hugh Jackman recalls peeing on stage as his most embarrassing moment
We’ve all heard the old saying “The show must go on.” Live performances are incredibly difficult, and any on stage faux pas needs to be glossed over as if it never happened. Anyone who has ever danced in a recital will certainly recall that if you trip, fall, or miss a step, you just keep on going. The audience will never even notice,...
Hugh Jackman recalls peeing on stage as his most embarrassing moment
We’ve all heard the old saying “The show must go on.” Live performances are incredibly difficult, and any on stage faux pas needs to be glossed over as if it never happened. Anyone who has ever danced in a recital will certainly recall that if you trip, fall, or miss a step, you just keep on going. The audience will never even notice,...
- 8/27/2023
- by Suse Forrest
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When did the “Mission: Impossible” films become action movies? I’m not sure when that happened, but I do know this much: For a series like the one in question, it’s live by the action, die by the action. For a few days there, people were chattering about all the great action in “Dead Reckoning Part One,” talking up the Fiat car chase or that train-dangling-from-a-cliff climax as if we’d never seen a sequence like that one before. But all I could think was, “Don’t we have the ‘Fast and Furious’ franchise for that?”
For 27 years, the “Mission: Impossible” films have been dotted with great action. That’s part of what these movies are. In a funny way, though, it can’t be the essence of what they are. Because then, no matter how spectacular Tom Cruise’s latest P.T. Barnum feat of star-in-the-air stunt work is...
For 27 years, the “Mission: Impossible” films have been dotted with great action. That’s part of what these movies are. In a funny way, though, it can’t be the essence of what they are. Because then, no matter how spectacular Tom Cruise’s latest P.T. Barnum feat of star-in-the-air stunt work is...
- 8/6/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
You've seen A24 films about somewhat literal man-eating aliens ("Under the Skin"), people being turned into walruses ("Tusk"), farting corpses ("Swiss Army Man"), talking shells ("Marcel the Shell with Shoes On"), and the multiverse ("Everything Everywhere All at Once"). Now, the studio is trying its hand at a musical for the first time with "Dicks: The Musical," a film that, contrary to my expectations the first time I saw that title, is not about singing penises. I mean, A24 only just made a film featuring a giant penis monster, so it wasn't out of the question.
Backing up -- "Dicks: The Musical" comes from relative newcomers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who both wrote the film -- which is based on their original two-person stage musical "F***ing Identical Twins" -- and star as a pair of obnoxious business bros who find out they're literal twins and conspire to get their divorced parents back together.
Backing up -- "Dicks: The Musical" comes from relative newcomers Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp, who both wrote the film -- which is based on their original two-person stage musical "F***ing Identical Twins" -- and star as a pair of obnoxious business bros who find out they're literal twins and conspire to get their divorced parents back together.
- 8/3/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Clockwise from left: Beyond The Sea (Lionsgate), Blonde (Netflix), The Conqueror (Rko Radio Pictures), Gotti (Vertical Entertainment)Photo: The A.V. Club
Ever since Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in a blaze of color-tinted flames in George Méliès 1900 drama Joan Of Arc, biographical films, or biopics, have dramatized the lives of real-life people.
Ever since Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in a blaze of color-tinted flames in George Méliès 1900 drama Joan Of Arc, biographical films, or biopics, have dramatized the lives of real-life people.
- 7/19/2023
- by Robert DeSalvo
- avclub.com
Some actors spend months preparing for a role, fully embodying their character so that the lines between themselves and the fictional persona on the screen become blurred. It’s safe to say that this wasn’t the approach Hugh Jackman took when he first stepped into the part of Wolverine in Fox’s X-Men franchise. In fact, Jackman was apparently so unprepared for the role of the buff mutant that he had never even lifted weights.
Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine in 2000’s ‘X-Men’ Actor Hugh Jackman who stars in the new ‘X-Men 2’ film poses for photographers at a photo call April 23, 2003 in Berlin, Germany. | Kurt Vinion/Getty Images
X-Men hit theaters in 2000 and opened up a successful blockbuster franchise. It also served as a launching pad for ongoing roles for many actors including Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, and Anna Paquin. A quick look at Australian actor Hugh Jackman...
Hugh Jackman first played Wolverine in 2000’s ‘X-Men’ Actor Hugh Jackman who stars in the new ‘X-Men 2’ film poses for photographers at a photo call April 23, 2003 in Berlin, Germany. | Kurt Vinion/Getty Images
X-Men hit theaters in 2000 and opened up a successful blockbuster franchise. It also served as a launching pad for ongoing roles for many actors including Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart, and Anna Paquin. A quick look at Australian actor Hugh Jackman...
- 2/13/2023
- by Michelle Cason
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Michelle Williams is well-known as a star of intense dramas like Blue Valentine and Manchester by the Sea. Talented and private, Williams immerses herself in her roles and does whatever she needs to do in order to bring her characters to life. That makes Williams’ occasional “lighter” roles that much more special — and for many, her turn in the beloved musical The Greatest Showman is one of her all-time greatest roles. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Williams reminisced about the 2017 film, revealing why she would definitely be on board to make a sequel.
What role did Michelle Williams have in ‘The Greatest Showman’? Michelle Williams attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards in 2023 I Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
The Greatest Showman is a musical drama that tells the story of the famed entrepreneur and showman P.T. Barnum. The film details what happens when Barnum decides that his family, including...
What role did Michelle Williams have in ‘The Greatest Showman’? Michelle Williams attends the 28th Annual Critics Choice Awards in 2023 I Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
The Greatest Showman is a musical drama that tells the story of the famed entrepreneur and showman P.T. Barnum. The film details what happens when Barnum decides that his family, including...
- 1/30/2023
- by Christina Nunn
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Michelle Williams, who played Charity Hallett-Barnum, the wife of Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum in 2017 musical The Greatest Showman, is hoping for a sequel, citing the musical numbers that have been popular for those of all ages.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Michelle Williams said, “Those songs come on the radio and I’m singing them. I hear it in the grocery store and I want to dance to it.” Of course, Williams is referring to tracks like “The Greatest Show” and the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated “This Is Me”. Adding to this, Williams called for a sequel, saying, “The Greatest Showman sequel, part two, come on!…That movie makes you feel good. People love it. Kids love it. Grown-ups love it. I love it. More please.”
You heard her! More songs! More dance! More hyping of a man who had no problem owning slaves, abusing animals and exploiting those with disabilities!
In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Michelle Williams said, “Those songs come on the radio and I’m singing them. I hear it in the grocery store and I want to dance to it.” Of course, Williams is referring to tracks like “The Greatest Show” and the Golden Globe-winning, Oscar-nominated “This Is Me”. Adding to this, Williams called for a sequel, saying, “The Greatest Showman sequel, part two, come on!…That movie makes you feel good. People love it. Kids love it. Grown-ups love it. I love it. More please.”
You heard her! More songs! More dance! More hyping of a man who had no problem owning slaves, abusing animals and exploiting those with disabilities!
- 1/10/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
(Welcome to Did They Get It Right?, a series where we take a look at an Oscars category from yesteryear and examine whether the Academy's winner stands the test of time.)
Without question, the biggest living Oscars bridesmaid on the acting side is Glenn Close. She made her film debut 40 years ago this year with "The World According to Garp," which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nom right out of the gate. Over the course of her career, she has been nominated for eight Academy Awards and has never emerged victorious. She ties Peter O'Toole as the most nominated actor who hasn't won, and since O'Toole is no longer with us, Close very well could take that mantle for herself if she keeps working, getting nominated, and not winning.
Every time a new Glenn Close project gets announced, the Oscar buzz immediately starts, with all of us wondering, "Will this finally be her year?...
Without question, the biggest living Oscars bridesmaid on the acting side is Glenn Close. She made her film debut 40 years ago this year with "The World According to Garp," which earned her a Best Supporting Actress nom right out of the gate. Over the course of her career, she has been nominated for eight Academy Awards and has never emerged victorious. She ties Peter O'Toole as the most nominated actor who hasn't won, and since O'Toole is no longer with us, Close very well could take that mantle for herself if she keeps working, getting nominated, and not winning.
Every time a new Glenn Close project gets announced, the Oscar buzz immediately starts, with all of us wondering, "Will this finally be her year?...
- 12/28/2022
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
Hugh Jackman became a movie star with Wolverine in the first “X-Men” movie more than 20 years ago, slashing his way to blockbuster visibility with a role that continues to dominate his career. Part of that is because even fans of Jackman’s musical talents closely associate him with a scowling mutant, and rather than dispelling that perception, he simply invented another persona alongside it as a song-and-dance man. He’s played Peter Allen in “The Boy From Oz,” P.T. Barnum in “The Greatest Showman” and, most recently, Professor Harold Hill in the hit new Broadway production of “The Music Man,” but he’s never played Hugh Jackman.
“When I was getting into this business, the playbook for being a movie star was being mysterious,” the 53-year-old actor said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Don’t let anybody in. Leave them wanting more. Don’t reveal things. Project a certain image.
“When I was getting into this business, the playbook for being a movie star was being mysterious,” the 53-year-old actor said in a recent interview with IndieWire. “Don’t let anybody in. Leave them wanting more. Don’t reveal things. Project a certain image.
- 11/23/2022
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Celebrated cartoonist and screenwriter Daniel Clowes discusses his favorite formative films with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Baxter (1989)
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Ghost World (2001) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Art School Confidential (2006)
Help! (1965) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) – John Landis’s trailer commentary,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Mudhoney (1965) – John Badham’s trailer commentary
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)
Common Law Cabin (1967)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Seven Minutes (1971)
Black Snake (1973)
An American Werewolf In London (1981) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
Lady In A Cage (1964) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Wild One (1953)
Hush…...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Baxter (1989)
Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary
Ghost World (2001) – Josh Olson’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
Art School Confidential (2006)
Help! (1965) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s review
The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming! (1966) – John Landis’s trailer commentary,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) – Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
Gone With The Wind (1939)
Mudhoney (1965) – John Badham’s trailer commentary
Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (1968)
Common Law Cabin (1967)
Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls (1970) – Michael Lehmann’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review
The Seven Minutes (1971)
Black Snake (1973)
An American Werewolf In London (1981) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews
Lady In A Cage (1964) – Darren Bousman’s trailer commentary, Charlie Largent’s Blu-ray review
The Wild One (1953)
Hush…...
- 11/15/2022
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
“Wendell & Wild” has a gently insane macabre kick. It’s the new stop-motion fairy tale from director Henry Selick, who in the 30 years since “The Nightmare Before Christmas” has made just four features — “Coraline,” “Monkeybone,” “James and the Giant Peach” and now this one. Selick’s movies have the logic of dollhouse dreams, the handmade elegance of slapstick surrealist puppet shows, and the rollicking Guignol spirit of monster comedies for 10-year-olds.
Selick co-wrote “Wendell & Wild” with Jordan Peele, who is one of its voice-actor costars, and the movie is a casually unfolding parade of unabashed horror-camp nuttiness, starting with the amusement park in its early scenes, a carnival of the damned where black-and-white Picasso cutouts crash on roller-coasters and the whole damn fairground turns out to be perched on the belly of Buffalo Belzer (voiced by Ving Rhames), a kind of George Clinton meets P.T. Barnum meets the devil figure whose two sons,...
Selick co-wrote “Wendell & Wild” with Jordan Peele, who is one of its voice-actor costars, and the movie is a casually unfolding parade of unabashed horror-camp nuttiness, starting with the amusement park in its early scenes, a carnival of the damned where black-and-white Picasso cutouts crash on roller-coasters and the whole damn fairground turns out to be perched on the belly of Buffalo Belzer (voiced by Ving Rhames), a kind of George Clinton meets P.T. Barnum meets the devil figure whose two sons,...
- 10/22/2022
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
After a season of rapid growth, Baby Colin Robinson officially dropped the “Baby” from his name in What We Do in the Shadows‘ Season 4 finale.
Tuesday’s episode begins with Colin as a sullen teen listening to death metal… although he still cries in Laszlo’s lap after a game with other boys doesn’t go his way. “It’s like he’s half kid, half adult,” Guillermo explains as he attempts to teach Colin how to play baseball, but the kid just wants to hammer holes in the wall. A wistful Laszlo is left to sing “Sunrise, Sunset” from...
Tuesday’s episode begins with Colin as a sullen teen listening to death metal… although he still cries in Laszlo’s lap after a game with other boys doesn’t go his way. “It’s like he’s half kid, half adult,” Guillermo explains as he attempts to teach Colin how to play baseball, but the kid just wants to hammer holes in the wall. A wistful Laszlo is left to sing “Sunrise, Sunset” from...
- 9/7/2022
- by Dave Nemetz
- TVLine.com
Most fans know BoJack Horseman for its wacky animal cast, quippy puns, and moving exploration of mental illness. But as creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg once told Variety, BoJack Horseman is also a series centered on “showbiz satire.” A crucial element of the critically beloved hit is how its storylines critique the entertainment industry’s seedy underbelly.
BoJack Horseman season 2 used its Bill Cosby-like arc to remind audiences how often Hollywood sweeps sexual assault allegations under the rug. Sarah Lynn (Kristen Schaal) embodied the role of the ill-fated child star – tragically depicting how the pressures, unrealistic demands, and ambition of stardom can lead to substance abuse and death. BoJack (Will Arnett) illustrated how easily creative executives turn a blind eye toward a star’s untreated trauma if they’re a cash-horse for a network.
On the surface, Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) seems to be one of the only well-adjusted characters in L.
BoJack Horseman season 2 used its Bill Cosby-like arc to remind audiences how often Hollywood sweeps sexual assault allegations under the rug. Sarah Lynn (Kristen Schaal) embodied the role of the ill-fated child star – tragically depicting how the pressures, unrealistic demands, and ambition of stardom can lead to substance abuse and death. BoJack (Will Arnett) illustrated how easily creative executives turn a blind eye toward a star’s untreated trauma if they’re a cash-horse for a network.
On the surface, Mr. Peanutbutter (Paul F. Tompkins) seems to be one of the only well-adjusted characters in L.
- 9/4/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Billy Zane knows how to pick a villain. The actor has consistently provoked reactions of seething disgust for decades, ever since he first jumped on the screen in "Back to the Future" as one of Biff's henchmen. Of course, he is best known as the epitome of entitlement and toxicity in James Cameron's epic "Titanic," where he most famously abused the "women and children first" code of conduct by kidnapping a little girl he immediately abandons when she isn't a convenience.
Since then, Zane has played villains in "MacGruber," "Kingdom Hearts," and even in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" where Zane plays the greatest showman himself, P.T. Barnum. As a reminder, that show was insane, and totally perfect.
Now, Zane has found his latest role, and it sounds like another Zane winner. Variety reports Billy Zane is set to star in the action thriller heist film "Takeover."
What Is Takeover About?...
Since then, Zane has played villains in "MacGruber," "Kingdom Hearts," and even in "DC's Legends of Tomorrow" where Zane plays the greatest showman himself, P.T. Barnum. As a reminder, that show was insane, and totally perfect.
Now, Zane has found his latest role, and it sounds like another Zane winner. Variety reports Billy Zane is set to star in the action thriller heist film "Takeover."
What Is Takeover About?...
- 8/26/2022
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
In an age of sequels and adaptations, 2017’s “The Greatest Showman” was a bona fide original blockbuster, complete with a beloved original soundtrack. While critical reviews were mixed, the P.T. Barnum musical starring Hugh Jackman was a massive success. The movie grossed over 400 million at the worldwide box office, and the film’s soundtrack was the best selling album of 2018, winning a Grammy in the process. The film also scored an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song for “This Is Me,” though it ultimately lost to “Remember Me” from “Coco.”
The film has lived on through its popular soundtrack, but several of the film’s stars still think about continuing the story on the big screen.
“I would make another one of those in a heartbeat,” Michelle Williams said in a recent interview with Variety. “That movie brought so much joy to so many people and to make people that happy,...
The film has lived on through its popular soundtrack, but several of the film’s stars still think about continuing the story on the big screen.
“I would make another one of those in a heartbeat,” Michelle Williams said in a recent interview with Variety. “That movie brought so much joy to so many people and to make people that happy,...
- 5/15/2022
- by Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Ladies and gents, this is the moment you've waited for. Michelle Williams, the "Dawson's Creek" alum turned film star of "Brokeback Mountain," "Blue Valentine," and, most notably, "Venom: Let There Be Carnage" fame, has made it clear she would love to make a sequel to her hit musical, "The Greatest Showman."
Even if you've never seen it, there was no way to miss the hullabaloo around "The Greatest Showman" when it hit theaters near the very end of 2017. The movie follows notorious huckster and showman P.T. Barnum (played by the notoriously charming and likable Hugh Jackman) as he rises to fame after creating...
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Even if you've never seen it, there was no way to miss the hullabaloo around "The Greatest Showman" when it hit theaters near the very end of 2017. The movie follows notorious huckster and showman P.T. Barnum (played by the notoriously charming and likable Hugh Jackman) as he rises to fame after creating...
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- 5/12/2022
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Michelle Williams harbors a deep desire to lace up her dancing shoes again.
The actress is best known for her intense performances in searing dramas like “Blue Valentine” and “Manchester by the Sea,” but she particularly loved her change-of-pace work in the ebullient musical “The Greatest Showman.”
“I would make another one of those in a heartbeat,” Williams told Variety during an interview for a recent cover story. “I wish they’d make a sequel.”
“The Greatest Showman” became a theatrical blockbuster when it opened in 2017, grossing 434.9 million globally thanks in part to its mega-selling album. It was a soundtrack filled with infectious anthems such as “This Is Me,” “The Greatest Show” and “Rewrite the Stars.” Williams, who played the wife of Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum in the heavily fictionalized look at the circus baron, sang such songs as “Tightrope” and “A Million Dreams.” And she wasn’t immune to the album’s ubiquity.
The actress is best known for her intense performances in searing dramas like “Blue Valentine” and “Manchester by the Sea,” but she particularly loved her change-of-pace work in the ebullient musical “The Greatest Showman.”
“I would make another one of those in a heartbeat,” Williams told Variety during an interview for a recent cover story. “I wish they’d make a sequel.”
“The Greatest Showman” became a theatrical blockbuster when it opened in 2017, grossing 434.9 million globally thanks in part to its mega-selling album. It was a soundtrack filled with infectious anthems such as “This Is Me,” “The Greatest Show” and “Rewrite the Stars.” Williams, who played the wife of Hugh Jackman’s P.T. Barnum in the heavily fictionalized look at the circus baron, sang such songs as “Tightrope” and “A Million Dreams.” And she wasn’t immune to the album’s ubiquity.
- 5/12/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone knows that rule No. 1 in movies — especially, but not exclusively, horror movies — is that nobody should ever go down to a basement. Not long into Quentin Dupieux’s snappy little entertainment Incredible But True, premiering as a Berlinale Special Gala at the Berlin Film Festival, a couple inspecting a house for sale is invited to descend to what the ferrety agent promises is the jewel of the property. “Oh no,” says Marie (Léa Drucker), “we’re not basement people.”
And that’s the last sensible thing she’ll say — because, of course, she and her dependable husband Alain (Alain Chabat) do what the agent tells them. Down to the basement they go. There is a trapdoor, a ladder underneath it disappears into darkness. Down again. They could never have predicted that what they discover at the bottom of that ladder will obsess Marie to the point of madness.
Alain,...
And that’s the last sensible thing she’ll say — because, of course, she and her dependable husband Alain (Alain Chabat) do what the agent tells them. Down to the basement they go. There is a trapdoor, a ladder underneath it disappears into darkness. Down again. They could never have predicted that what they discover at the bottom of that ladder will obsess Marie to the point of madness.
Alain,...
- 2/11/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
After an hour of documenting his view on the world from the seat of his wheelchair in “I Didn’t See You There,” filmmaker Reid Davenport decides he’s had enough of himself. “I hope this is my last personal film,” he says to his mother, having spent the last nine years documenting the struggles and often literal barriers faced by people with disabilities in a series of short films, and encouraging others in his position to do so via his Through My Lens initiative. For most viewers, however, his debut feature will play as an entry point to his work, not a culmination of it. Composed entirely of hand-shot footage from his particular vantage point, it’s an evocative first-hand perspective on the challenges of living as a wheelchair-user in an America that still treats disability as an afterthought — but an elusive reflection of an artist who never really introduces himself to us.
- 1/26/2022
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Elvis Presley had been dead for six months when the plastic-surgeon’s knife plunged into Dennis Wise. There Wise lay, on a table in an Orlando hospital, surrounded by photos of the King. He knew what was coming, but the reality of it didn’t really hit him until the doctor, who seemed like a nice enough guy, started carving into his face. “All of a sudden, it started hurting real bad,” Wise recalls. “He said, ‘Give me something!’ and a nurse came over and plunged this needle into me.
- 1/2/2022
- by David Browne
- Rollingstone.com
There was a time, in the middle of the 20th century, when the orchestra conductor was a shamanistic figure in American life. And during that era, no shaman was more magical — a higher priest of high culture — than Leonard Bernstein. To understand the pedestal he strode upon, you’d have to go back to the period when classical music was still at the center of things. You’d have to go back to the era before Bradley Cooper, coming off “A Star Is Born,” couldn’t get the backing for a Bernstein biopic that would play in movie theaters. (He’s making it for Netflix instead.) Within that now vanishing world, the figure of the orchestra conductor loomed like some elevated rock-star version of Merlin crossed with P.T. Barnum, a mystic who would lead us all to the mountaintop of classical ecstasy.
He was almost like a one-man preview of...
He was almost like a one-man preview of...
- 8/14/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In “Jungle Cruise,” a Disney adventure that demonstrates how basing a movie on a theme-park ride may now be a more natural occurence than adapting it from a novel, Emily Blunt plays Dr. Lily Houghton, a London researcher-explorer who’s as fearless, in her demure way, as Indiana Jones, and Dwayne Johnson is Frank Wolff, the friendly huckster of a river-boat captain who ferries her down the Amazon at the height of World War I.
He wears a hat just like the one Humphrey Bogart wore in “The African Queen,” and she wears pants — which, of course, were an early adaptation of Katharine Hepburn’s. For anyone old enough, or old-movie-centered enough, to care (which is maybe five percent of this movie’s prospective audience), the banter between these two could be said to evoke Bogart and Hepburn — or, at least, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in “Romancing the Stone.
He wears a hat just like the one Humphrey Bogart wore in “The African Queen,” and she wears pants — which, of course, were an early adaptation of Katharine Hepburn’s. For anyone old enough, or old-movie-centered enough, to care (which is maybe five percent of this movie’s prospective audience), the banter between these two could be said to evoke Bogart and Hepburn — or, at least, Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in “Romancing the Stone.
- 7/27/2021
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Years in the making! The glory of MGM on parade! Enough studio resources to film twenty pictures were expended on this paean to showman Florenz Ziegfeld. It’s really Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s Technicolor valentine to itself, showing off the studio’s enormous stable of musical talent, along with various of its comic performers. Arthur Freed and Louis B. Mayer’s notion of ‘something for everyone’ results in weird stack of grandiose musical numbers and mostly weak comedy. The biggest draw is the incredible color cinematography that peeks through in three or four jaw-droppingly elaborate musical spectacles. The picture is a workout to find the artistic limits of the Technicolor system.
Ziegfeld Follies
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...
Ziegfeld Follies
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1945 / Color / 1:37 Academy / 117 110 min. / Street Date June 15, 2021 / 21.99
Starring: (alphabetically): Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, Lucille Bremer, Fanny Brice, Judy Garland, Kathryn Grayson, Lena Horne, Gene Kelly, Victor Moore, Red Skelton, Esther Williams. Also...
- 7/20/2021
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Exclusive: The Greatest Showman director Michael Gracey is set to direct Better Man, a fantastical coming of age story about the unlikely rise of celebrated singer/songwriter Robbie Williams. The package is going out shortly to the Berlin buying crowd, for a film that Gracey wrote along with first-time screenwriters Oliver Cole and Simon Gleeson. The film tells the story of Williams’ ascent, exploring the experiences that made him who he is, and the demons he battled both on and off the stage as he became a huge star on the back of hits like Angels.
Jules Daly for Big Red Films (The Tomorrow War) Craig McMahon for McMahon International (Three Thousand Years Of Longing) and Gracey are producing. Production is slated to begin this summer.
Williams first became famous at 16 as a singer in the boy band sensation Take That, but really hit stride as a solo artist. It happened fast,...
Jules Daly for Big Red Films (The Tomorrow War) Craig McMahon for McMahon International (Three Thousand Years Of Longing) and Gracey are producing. Production is slated to begin this summer.
Williams first became famous at 16 as a singer in the boy band sensation Take That, but really hit stride as a solo artist. It happened fast,...
- 2/23/2021
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
If there’s any aspect of Donald Trump’s power that the mainstream media consistently underestimates (in part because it sounds so trivializing to say it out loud), it’s the power he derives from being the entertainer-in-chief. He’s the first American president who’s at once a shock-jock comedian, a boardroom P.T. Barnum still coasting on his “Apprentice” aura, and a loudmouth professional wrestler who uses smears and lies instead of elbow drops and piledrivers. All of which is to say that President Trump, regardless of whether you think he’s a great leader or the biggest danger this country has ever faced, is always a creature of showbiz. To deny that is to underestimate him.
In the first presidential debate between Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, which was held at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Trump played the role...
In the first presidential debate between Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, which was held at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Trump played the role...
- 9/30/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
The actor/comedian/writer/director joins us to talk about some of the objectively bad movies he loves.
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Explorers (1985)
Chinatown (1974)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Oath (2018)
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Tango and Cash (1989)
The Thing (1982)
Runaway Train (1985)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Conrack (1974)
Volcano (1997)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
Earthquake (1974)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Road House (1989)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
West Side Story (1961)
Chicago (2002)
The Producers (1967)
Outbreak (1995)
Volunteers (1985)
Splash (1984)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philadelphia (1993)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Con Air (1997)
Bad Boys (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Mandy (2018)
Out For Justice (1991)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Goodfellas (1990)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Above The Law (1988)
Under Siege (1992)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
The Asian Connection (2016)
Contract To Kill (2016)
The Perfect Weapon (2016)
Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
The Glimmer Man (1996)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Contagion (2011)
Other Notable Items
The...
Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode
Explorers (1985)
Chinatown (1974)
Suicide Squad (2016)
The Oath (2018)
The Last Movie Star (2018)
Tango and Cash (1989)
The Thing (1982)
Runaway Train (1985)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Conrack (1974)
Volcano (1997)
Dante’s Peak (1997)
Earthquake (1974)
It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Independence Day (1996)
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Road House (1989)
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
The Greatest Showman (2017)
West Side Story (1961)
Chicago (2002)
The Producers (1967)
Outbreak (1995)
Volunteers (1985)
Splash (1984)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Philadelphia (1993)
Bachelor Party (1984)
Con Air (1997)
Bad Boys (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Mandy (2018)
Out For Justice (1991)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
Goodfellas (1990)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Hard To Kill (1991)
Above The Law (1988)
Under Siege (1992)
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory (1995)
The Asian Connection (2016)
Contract To Kill (2016)
The Perfect Weapon (2016)
Sniper: Special Ops (2016)
The Glimmer Man (1996)
The Andromeda Strain (1971)
Contagion (2011)
Other Notable Items
The...
- 9/15/2020
- by Kris Millsap
- Trailers from Hell
While Disney Plus still has a lot of catching up to do on its rivals, it can easily boast one of the strongest collections of corporate-owned content on the streaming market. One of the biggest films of the last few years, and a beloved Hugh Jackman project to boot, is finding a lot of love today on the service. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it’s the well-established favorite The Greatest Showman, which arrived on D+ on August 14th on the back of significant anticipation and is currently the ninth most-watched film on the platform.
The arrival of The Greatest Showman on the Disney streamer is notable for it being the first time that the movie has been made available as part of an existing subscription, rather than as a rental or purchase. For those that aren’t aware, Showman focuses on Jackman’s P.T. Barnum and his American Museum in the 19th century.
The arrival of The Greatest Showman on the Disney streamer is notable for it being the first time that the movie has been made available as part of an existing subscription, rather than as a rental or purchase. For those that aren’t aware, Showman focuses on Jackman’s P.T. Barnum and his American Museum in the 19th century.
- 8/31/2020
- by Jessica James
- We Got This Covered
The Quarantine Stream: ‘The Greatest Showman’ is Irresponsible Nonsense Filled With Damn Great Songs
(Welcome to The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic.) The Movie: The Greatest Showman Where You Can Stream It: Disney+ The Pitch: What if the life story of infamous American entrepreneur and entertainer P.T. Barnum got ruthlessly sanitized, stripped of everything that […]
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- 8/17/2020
- by Jacob Hall
- Slash Film
Ever since the ’50s, when the motion-picture industry felt existentially threatened by the rise of television (much as forces within it today feel existentially threatened by the rise of streaming), the movies have found ways to entice people into theaters with added benefits. 3D was the original P.T. Barnum attraction, and the return of 3D in the mid-2000s — it rose up from the dead as improbably as the beast in a “Creature From the Black Lagoon” sequel — was a sign of the tremors of economic anxiety that were starting to rumble through the industry.
Apart from “Avatar,” the 3D revival was always an annoying scam — a transparent way to jack up ticket prices, since what you were getting, in movie after movie (from “Journey to the Center of the Earth” to “Kung Fu Panda 2” to “Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert”), was a sea...
Apart from “Avatar,” the 3D revival was always an annoying scam — a transparent way to jack up ticket prices, since what you were getting, in movie after movie (from “Journey to the Center of the Earth” to “Kung Fu Panda 2” to “Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert”), was a sea...
- 8/9/2020
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Mike Gribble, co-founder of Spike & Mike’s Festival of Animation, was just 42 years old when he died of pancreatic cancer in 1994 — an awful case of a larger-than-life film-world figure dying before his work was done. That probably would have been the perfect time for Kat Alioshin’s short, oh-so-adulatory “Animation Outlaws,” which plays more like a pop-art tribute video than a well-rounded documentary about Gribble and marginally less eccentric accomplice Craig Decker (aka “Spike”).
As it is, the film arrives long after the world of animation has been permanently reconfigured, thanks to a rebellious CG venture known as “Toy Story” and a little innovation called the internet. Today, it could be difficult to convince college kids — who grew up on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and for whom anime has moved mainstream — that there was a time just a few decades back when Disney was practically the only game in town.
As it is, the film arrives long after the world of animation has been permanently reconfigured, thanks to a rebellious CG venture known as “Toy Story” and a little innovation called the internet. Today, it could be difficult to convince college kids — who grew up on Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, and for whom anime has moved mainstream — that there was a time just a few decades back when Disney was practically the only game in town.
- 7/16/2020
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Lindsay Anderson’s third ‘Mick Travis’ movie is a crazy comedy eager to overstep lines of cinematic decorum. Britain in 1982 is a country at war with itself, torn by elitist snobbery and working-class revolt. Union grievances cripple the functioning of a major public hospital, on a day when the Queen is set to visit. A huge comic cast grapples with satire that reaches beyond cynicism to express total dysfunction. And the comedy has a wicked sting in its tail: Graham Crowden’s mad-as-a-hatter scientist has diverted National Health funds into grisly experiments with human body parts. The ‘visionary’ maniac spills more blood than Peter Cushing and Sam Peckinpah, put together.
Britannia Hospital
Region B Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1982 / Color / 1:85 widescreen/ 117 (111) min. / Street Date June 29, 2020 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Vivian Pickles, Graham Crowden, Jill Bennett,
Marsha A. Hunt, Joan Plowright, Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill.
Cinematography: Mike Fash...
Britannia Hospital
Region B Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1982 / Color / 1:85 widescreen/ 117 (111) min. / Street Date June 29, 2020 / available from Powerhouse Films UK / £15.99
Starring: Leonard Rossiter, Vivian Pickles, Graham Crowden, Jill Bennett,
Marsha A. Hunt, Joan Plowright, Malcolm McDowell, Mark Hamill.
Cinematography: Mike Fash...
- 7/7/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Without a doubt, La La Land reignited Hollywood’s hunger for a modern musical, acting as proof that not only is the genre still economically feasible, but the films it produces also stand a chance of being both critical and commercial hits – in the right hands, of course.
The Greatest Showman, while not quite as successful as La La Land, was still a big winner, earning lots of love from audiences thanks to its terrific soundtrack and enjoyable rags-to-riches story of P.T. Barnum, the man credited as the founding father of show business. Logan actor Hugh Jackman took the lead, with Baywatch‘s Zac Efron starring opposite him. Meanwhile, Zendaya and Michelle Williams also featured, among others. And now, almost three years after its release, it’s finally coming to one of the major streaming services.
Yes, The Greatest Showman is headed to Disney Plus this summer. On August 14th,...
The Greatest Showman, while not quite as successful as La La Land, was still a big winner, earning lots of love from audiences thanks to its terrific soundtrack and enjoyable rags-to-riches story of P.T. Barnum, the man credited as the founding father of show business. Logan actor Hugh Jackman took the lead, with Baywatch‘s Zac Efron starring opposite him. Meanwhile, Zendaya and Michelle Williams also featured, among others. And now, almost three years after its release, it’s finally coming to one of the major streaming services.
Yes, The Greatest Showman is headed to Disney Plus this summer. On August 14th,...
- 6/29/2020
- by Matt Joseph
- We Got This Covered
P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) comes alive with the oddities in Twentieth Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman.
This summer, set a date with Disney+ for “Summer Movie Nights” featuring a sizzling lineup of brand new original and newly announced family favorite movies coming to the service.
Beginning Friday, July 3 with the Disney+ premiere of “Hamilton,” the filmed version of the original Broadway production, families and fans can come together to watch blockbuster hits and original movies premiering every week.
Some of the movies debuting during Disney+ Summer Movie Nights include:
Friday, July 3
“Hamilton” – An unforgettable cinematic stage performance, the filmed version of the original Broadway production of “Hamilton” combines the best elements of live theater, film and streaming to bring the cultural phenomenon to homes around the world for a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
“The Mighty Ducks” – Emilio Estevez portrays a hotshot trial attorney who gets a unique community service assignment:...
This summer, set a date with Disney+ for “Summer Movie Nights” featuring a sizzling lineup of brand new original and newly announced family favorite movies coming to the service.
Beginning Friday, July 3 with the Disney+ premiere of “Hamilton,” the filmed version of the original Broadway production, families and fans can come together to watch blockbuster hits and original movies premiering every week.
Some of the movies debuting during Disney+ Summer Movie Nights include:
Friday, July 3
“Hamilton” – An unforgettable cinematic stage performance, the filmed version of the original Broadway production of “Hamilton” combines the best elements of live theater, film and streaming to bring the cultural phenomenon to homes around the world for a thrilling, once-in-a-lifetime experience.
“The Mighty Ducks” – Emilio Estevez portrays a hotshot trial attorney who gets a unique community service assignment:...
- 6/29/2020
- by Michelle Hannett
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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