Studio brass wowed theater owners this week with Maverick: Top Gun, Avatar: The Way of Water and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse among other tentpoles. But they were also clear at the just-wrapped CinemaCon that a reviving box office requires a wide breadth of content.
“If we narrow what we bring to theaters, our audience will get smaller,” said Jim Orr, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Universal Pictures. “We need an industry that creates and impacts culture every single weekend [with] personal stories, original ideas,” he said — a sentiment that echoed across the four-day confab in Las Vegas.
Universal, short on superheroes, got plenty of traction with Jurassic World Dominion, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Halloween Ends and films like She Said and Nope. Its specialty distributor, Focus Features, promised to win back elusive older demos with Downton Abbey: A New Era, and showcased a slate including Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,...
“If we narrow what we bring to theaters, our audience will get smaller,” said Jim Orr, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Universal Pictures. “We need an industry that creates and impacts culture every single weekend [with] personal stories, original ideas,” he said — a sentiment that echoed across the four-day confab in Las Vegas.
Universal, short on superheroes, got plenty of traction with Jurassic World Dominion, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Halloween Ends and films like She Said and Nope. Its specialty distributor, Focus Features, promised to win back elusive older demos with Downton Abbey: A New Era, and showcased a slate including Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The documentary “Flint” has more twists and turns than a Hollywood whodunit, and that’s not good for a real-life tragedy. While the villains are many, and they switch order of importance depending on the stage of the crisis, the victims never change: Flint residents, and most sadly the kids, suffer the consequences. This is especially egregious considering that all they did was drink the water.
“There’s nothing more fundamental to your life than water, and for that to be what can naturally hurt you, cripple you or kill you, that’s something that you can never get over,” says attorney Trachelle Young. Isn’t clean water what celebrities like Jay-Z, Bono and Alicia Keys have fought for in other, less developed countries? For it to happen in the United States, in Flint, Michigan, is yet another example of how this nation needs to get its own house in order.
“There’s nothing more fundamental to your life than water, and for that to be what can naturally hurt you, cripple you or kill you, that’s something that you can never get over,” says attorney Trachelle Young. Isn’t clean water what celebrities like Jay-Z, Bono and Alicia Keys have fought for in other, less developed countries? For it to happen in the United States, in Flint, Michigan, is yet another example of how this nation needs to get its own house in order.
- 4/29/2022
- by Ronda Racha Penrice
- The Wrap
Anthony Baxter (You’ve Been Trumped) has teamed with Imaginary Forces and Montrose Pictures on Flint, a feature documentary about the ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mi. The filmmaker unveiled the project during a special screening this morning of 20 minute of footage at the Traverse City Film Festival, which sits less than 200 miles from Flint. Scottish director Baxter has gathered hundreds of hours of footage after being alerted by local residents to the water crisis…...
- 7/28/2017
- Deadline
Filmmaker Anthony Baxter revisits Donald Trump's Scottish golf course, and tracks his election campaign in his latest documentary.
Following hot on the heels of Michael Moore’s TrumpLand film, that premiered the week before last, British filmmaker Anthony Baxter has effectively finished of his Donald Trump movie trilogy with You’ve Been Trumped Too. Inevitably threatened by lawyers acting for the American presidential candidate, the film made it into distribution courtesy of a last minute crowdfunding campaign. It premiered widely on Facebook yesterday.
It’s a piece of work that accepts many won’t have caught up with You’ve Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, Baxter’s earlier documentaries that in turn focused on Donald Trump building a golf course against the wishes of residents and environmentalists, and then a broader look at the golf industry, centred around a face to face interview with Trump himself.
Baxter, as he admits,...
Following hot on the heels of Michael Moore’s TrumpLand film, that premiered the week before last, British filmmaker Anthony Baxter has effectively finished of his Donald Trump movie trilogy with You’ve Been Trumped Too. Inevitably threatened by lawyers acting for the American presidential candidate, the film made it into distribution courtesy of a last minute crowdfunding campaign. It premiered widely on Facebook yesterday.
It’s a piece of work that accepts many won’t have caught up with You’ve Been Trumped and A Dangerous Game, Baxter’s earlier documentaries that in turn focused on Donald Trump building a golf course against the wishes of residents and environmentalists, and then a broader look at the golf industry, centred around a face to face interview with Trump himself.
Baxter, as he admits,...
- 11/3/2016
- Den of Geek
MaryAnn’s quick take…
A British filmmaker documents the arrogance and disdain with which Donald Trump wields the power of his money… a warning for Americans come Election Day. I’m “biast” (pro): cannot abide Donald Trump
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Remember back in June, when Donald Trump flew into Scotland on the day after the Brexit vote to promote his golf resort and congratulated the Scots on voting to leave the EU? (Scotland overwhelming voted Remain.) That golf course, Turnberry on the western Scottish coast, isn’t Trump’s only tiny-ball project in the country: He’s also got Trump International Golf Links on the east coast, north of Aberdeen. Both resorts have been a financial disaster for the guy who keeps insisting he’s such a fantastic businessman, the best businessman — so far, he’s lost almost £26 million on both resorts,...
A British filmmaker documents the arrogance and disdain with which Donald Trump wields the power of his money… a warning for Americans come Election Day. I’m “biast” (pro): cannot abide Donald Trump
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
Remember back in June, when Donald Trump flew into Scotland on the day after the Brexit vote to promote his golf resort and congratulated the Scots on voting to leave the EU? (Scotland overwhelming voted Remain.) That golf course, Turnberry on the western Scottish coast, isn’t Trump’s only tiny-ball project in the country: He’s also got Trump International Golf Links on the east coast, north of Aberdeen. Both resorts have been a financial disaster for the guy who keeps insisting he’s such a fantastic businessman, the best businessman — so far, he’s lost almost £26 million on both resorts,...
- 10/31/2016
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
In 2011, a British filmmaker named Anthony Baxter made a documentary about the luxury golf course that Donald J. Trump was constructing on a beach in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. More specifically, Baxter made a documentary about the locals who were getting hugely fucked by the luxury golf course that Donald J. Trump was constructing on a beach in Balmedie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
The film was called “You’ve Been Trumped,” and while its title was intended to address the untold millions of people who’ve been victimized by America’s handsiest “billionaire,” it was angled more directly at one victim in particular: Michael Forbes. The most outspoken and inconvenient of the landowners who refused to sell their property to the real estate tycoon who helicoptered onto their backyard (“the little people,” as Donald Trump Jr. refers to them), Forbes quickly became a thorn in Trump’s side, a pea beneath his gold-encrusted mattress.
The film was called “You’ve Been Trumped,” and while its title was intended to address the untold millions of people who’ve been victimized by America’s handsiest “billionaire,” it was angled more directly at one victim in particular: Michael Forbes. The most outspoken and inconvenient of the landowners who refused to sell their property to the real estate tycoon who helicoptered onto their backyard (“the little people,” as Donald Trump Jr. refers to them), Forbes quickly became a thorn in Trump’s side, a pea beneath his gold-encrusted mattress.
- 10/26/2016
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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