the disney dilemma
July 31, 2024
Where Disney’s Hollywood Empire Went Wrong How corporate missteps compelled the House of Mouse to prioritize business decisions over creative ones, damaging its crown jewels of Hollywood IP.
the industry
July 29, 2024
Is Shawn Levy the Future of Populist Cinema? With Deadpool & Wolverine , he became the first director to also write and produce his Marvel movie. Disney hopes he’ll save Star Wars , too.
This Wasn’t the Plan The sensational quality of Marvel’s SDCC surprises obscured certain less-rosy realities.
at the box office
July 4, 2024
Kids’ Movies Are Saving the Summer Box Office After a slow start to the season, Despicable Me 4 looks set to capitalize on the If-Garfield-Inside Out 2 family-film momentum.
negotiations
June 7, 2024
How Anti-‘Algorithm’ Richard Linklater’s Hit Man Ended Up at Netflix The Glen Powell–starring festival smash seemed destined for a big theatrical release. A rainmaking sales agent walks us through what happened.
Sean Baker’s Anora Is Scheduled to Hit Theaters This Fall Neon is planning a prime awards-season release for its fifth consecutive Palme d’Or winner.
at the box office
May 17, 2024
IF Looked Like a Surefire Bomb. Now It Might Win Opening Weekend.How a kids’ flick starring Deadpool is going to overcome indifferent buzz and bad reviews to win the box office this weekend.
‘do i have it or not?’
Mar. 22, 2024
First a Cop, Then a Bodybuilder, Now a Movie Star Love Lies Bleeding star Katy O’Brian on the long journey of self-discovery that brought her to an A24 romance opposite Kristen Stewart.
‘I’m Not Going to Sell a $60 Candle’ Neon changed the Oscars game with Parasite . Four years later, A24’s rival is still betting on international film.
Harmony Korine Is Leaving the ‘Limited Experience’ of Movie Theaters Behind The Aggro Dr1ft director’s new company wants to brand itself the next Supreme, with high-end merch, live performances, and film “experiences.”
backstories
Feb. 13, 2024
‘The Movie Just Couldn’t Withstand Another Brother’s Death’ The Iron Claw director Sean Durkin on the hardest decisions he made while telling the tragic (and true) story of wrestling’s Von Erich brothers.
at the box office
Jan. 29, 2024
The Secrets of Anyone But You ’s Unexpected Box-Office Success The Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell rom-com’s unlikely journey to blockbusterdom benefitted from a singular confluence of factors.
barbenheimer
Dec. 15, 2023
festival preview
Dec. 6, 2023
The Sundance Movies We’ll All Be Talking About Next Year A preview of what’s coming to Park City in January, from Kristen Stewart falling in love with a bodybuilder to Jesse Eisenberg starring as Bigfoot.
at the box office
Nov. 30, 2023
Inside Elemental ’s Slow-burn Journey from Summer Flop to Year-end Hit How one of the year’s most crushing box-office failures redeemed itself as an under-the-radar triumph (and Oscar frontrunner) after all.
the industry
Nov. 13, 2023
‘What Does Hollywood Want to Be?’ The strikes are over, but corporate entertainment’s identity crisis–cum–reckoning is far from resolved.
at the box office
Sept. 6, 2023
4 Lessons From a Box-Office Summer of Hopeful Highs and Panic-Inducing Lows This summer taught us a lot about the new normal in audience behavior, even beyond the Barbenheimer of it all.
‘historic first step’
Aug. 7, 2023
Overworked and Underpaid, VFX Workers Vote to Unionize at Marvel On Monday, a group of more than 50 on-set employees filed a petition for an election to be represented by IATSE.
at the box office
July 24, 2023
I Am Become Barbenheimer , Destroyer of Box Office Records Barbie and Oppenheimer ’s staggering returns seem to signal franchise fatigue — or at least that audiences want alternatives to the same old, same old.
a long talk
July 17, 2023
From Blowing Up Toasters to a Seven-Figure A24 Deal Meet Danny and Michael Philippou, a.k.a. RackaRacka, the excitable 30-year-old twin directors behind this summer’s biggest horror movie.
crack the whip
June 29, 2023
How Indiana Jones 5 Could Become a Top Gun: Maverick -level Hit Executives and industry insiders have three specific tips for Disney’s would-be summer blockbuster.
at the box office
June 23, 2023
The Summer of the R-rated Comedy Is Off to a Rocky Start at the Box Office Coming from the first of four R-rated studio comedies in theaters this summer, No Hard Feelings ’s tepid debut could have a chilling effect.
making a movie
June 23, 2023
‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts’ Four animators say unsustainable working conditions are behind the success of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse .
what green screen?
June 20, 2023
There’s an Art to Setting Chris Hemsworth on Fire Netflix tried to persuade stuntman turned director Sam Hargrave to use digital effects to set his movie star ablaze. He declined.
Stepping in to Finish Directing Fast X Wasn’t Stressful at All, No Sir Louis Leterrier recalls going pale when asked to take over for Justin Lin, afraid of becoming the “guy who destroyed the Fast and Furious franchise.”
summer preview 2023
May 15, 2023
Here Come Fast X , Tom Cruise, and a Summer of Big Movies But which will be the biggest? In a post-Maverick glow, anything is possible.
story behind the script
May 15, 2023
Air Exists Because One Underemployed Guy in His 20s Saw The Last Dance Alex Convery had zero TV or movie credits when he saw three key minutes of the 2020 Michael Jordan docuseries and thought, Man, this is a movie .
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 27, 2023
Nolan Says Oppenheimer Is About ‘the Most Important Person Who Ever Lived’ Christopher Nolan previewed footage from his latest at CinemaCon, featuring Matt Damon in a mustache and Robert Downey Jr. talking about spies.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 26, 2023
The New Indiana Jones 5 Footage Would Make Marion Ravenwood Proud A Dial of Destiny scene shown at CinemaCon provides a deliberate, dopamine-inducing echo of the Cairo chase sequence from Raiders of the Lost Ark.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 26, 2023
The Flash Gets Praise (and Backhanded Compliments) After First Screening“Audiences want nostalgia, and they want feel-good. Execution is less important,” said an executive from a competing studio.
cinemacon 2023
Apr. 25, 2023
This Barbie Gets Arrested and Goes to Jail in New CinemaCon Footage Greta Gerwig and the Barbie cast introduced new details and clips from the upcoming film.
anyone but you
Apr. 25, 2023
Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Flirt in Front of CinemaCon Day one of CinemaCon brought banter from the Anyone But You stars and bloodshed in the first footage from Kraven and Ridley Scott’s Napoleon.
at the box office
Apr. 18, 2023
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Is-a Going to-a Make a Billion Dollars-a 2023’s most lucrative domestic opening is already the biggest video-game adaptation of all time, and it’s only going to make even more money.
backstories
Apr. 14, 2023
‘This Was The Fast & the Furious — But One of the Cars Is a Bear’ Cocaine Bear director Elizabeth Banks breaks down the “scientific precision” of that mostly improvised ambulance chase.
exit interview
Mar. 29, 2023
‘We’re Going to Do the Biggest Stair Fall You’ve Ever Seen’ Chad Stahelski on hurling Keanu Reeves into the gnarliest pratfall imaginable, why Scott Adkins appears in a fat suit, and whether this is good-bye.
oscars 2023
Mar. 13, 2023
Everything Everywhere All at Once Didn’t Just Win the Oscars, It Dominated ThemInside the Academy Awards after-party, the industry took stock of the A24 movie’s historic trophy sweep.
anonymous in hollywood
Feb. 22, 2023
‘Honestly, I Equate It to Human Greed’ Three VFX workers break down why Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania looks the way it does.
the industry
Feb. 17, 2023
How Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey Trolled Its Way to Box-Office Success “There was a petition against us. There were death threats. People were trying to call the police on us at one point.”
sundance 2023
Jan. 31, 2023
Sundance’s Year of Existential Crisis Yielded Back-to-Back Megadeals Insiders call this year’s Sundance a return to form, with several all-night bidding wars and multiple eight-figure deals.
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Netflix Draws First Blood at Sundance With a Deal for Run Rabbit Run For some Hollywood watchers, whom Run Rabbit Run sold to and when carries unmistakable symbolic import.
sundance 2023
Jan. 20, 2023
Sundance’s Identity Crisis Might Be a Good Thing for Hollywood Insiders call it a crucial year for the festival. But with streamers’ tightening budgets and a looming writers strike, no one’s sure how it’ll go.
sundance 2023
Jan. 17, 2023
22 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at Sundance 2023 From Cat Person (starring Cousin Greg) to the new Nicole Holofcener to an Ottessa Moshfegh–Anne Hathaway collaboration and more.
the industry
Jan. 13, 2023
Inside the VFX Union Brewing in Hollywood Visual-effects technicians have never been more vital to movies and TV. Can studios like Marvel accept that?
out of the uncanny valley
Dec. 20, 2022
Why Does Avatar: The Way of Water Look Like That? A tour of the VFX tech that pushes the look of James Cameron’s Avatar sequel — shot at 48 fps, twice the industry standard — into a deeper ocean.
what’s next?
Dec. 9, 2022
season’s beatings
Dec. 6, 2022
Violent Night Was an Idea ‘Just Stupid Enough’ to ExistThe guys behind the R-rated holiday shoot-’em-up still sound incredulous — not only that it overperformed but that it reached the screen at all.
Hollywood Couldn’t Risk Making a Movie Like Bones and All Luca Guadagnino knew Hollywood didn’t have the requisite taste for flesh. So to finance his first American-set movie, he turned to an Italian backer.
at the box office
Nov. 14, 2022
Wakanda Forever Closes Out Marvel’s Phase 4 With a Record November OpeningIt provided a much-needed boost to reeling multiplexes that have been starved of big-budget event titles since summer.
No One in Hollywood Wanted to Make Barbarian The horror hit’s journey to No. 1 packed in the twists: “I had a movie, I lost the movie, I rescued the movie, then I lost the movie again.”
darling we’re worried
Sept. 23, 2022
Don’t Worry, Darling, It’s Judgment Day Will all the rubbernecking directed at 2022’s hottest movie mess translate into ticket sales?
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