| | | | Universal proved over the weekend that audiences will turn out to watch people get eaten by a coked-up carnivore, as the studio's R-rated, Elizabeth Banks-directed Cocaine Bear opened to $23M.
How did Universal beat the odds and make this work? Multi-genre movies (this one being a horror comedy) are typically feathered fish, meaning they tend to be marketing nightmares for the studio.
Nevertheless, movie titles don't come much stickier than Cocaine Bear. The name was a gift, never mind the pitch – one which moviegoers couldn’t resist. >>>Why It Worked |
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‘Everything’ Is Awesome!! - That’s what awards voters said this weekend as Everything Everywhere All at Once won SAG’s Ensemble in a Motion Picture, a major Oscar Best Picture bellwether since actors are the largest contingent in the Academy. >>>Night’s Other Big Winners
All Is Not Quiet In Oscar Land - Everything Everywhere is now the unquestioned Oscar front-runner, but there's another dark-horse film that has not been eligible for any of the guild awards, but virtually swept the BAFTAs. >>>Notes On A Season
Presidential Address - SAG President Fran Drescher urged Hollywood to drop vaccine requirements and pressure states on social change. >>>Full Text
‘Reality?’ Check - HBO Films has closed a deal for U.S. rights to the Berlin Film Festival buzz competition title Reality. Directed by Tina Satter, the docudrama is a breakout turn for Sydney Sweeney as convicted classified document leaker Reality Winner. Sweeney stars in the hit HBO series Euphoria. >>>Emmy Aspirations
What About Love? - But something even more elemental than race was shut out of the nominations for Hollywood’s top award, the Best Picture Oscar. There was no love story. No grand romance. We never got closer than the obligatory romantic subplot in Top Gun: Maverick, or the shattered blue idyll in Avatar: The Way Of Water, or the off-screen predations of Tár. >>>Michael Cieply Column
In Brief - World Trailer Awards Winners include The Batman, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Wednesday & More... Scrublands: Luke Arnold, Bella Heathcote & Jay Ryan to lead Stan and Nine Network drama series |
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1923 star Michelle Randolph — a relative newcomer whose credits include The Resort and The Undertaker’s Wife — talks about shooting that heartbreaking scene with co-star Darren Mann. She also reveals who she likes spending time with now that production has wrapped and what fans always want to talk about if they ever meet her on the street. >>>The Interview |
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More News
🐱 Netflix is teaming with The Pokémon Company on a stop-motion animated series, Pokémon Concierge.
🏈 The NFL and its media arm, NFL Films, have just extended a distribution deal with Cinedigm for an annual film of the Super Bowl, along with select catalog releases from NFL Films.
🌪 Saturday Night Live viewers are divided over Woody Harrelson's monologue remarks calling out mandates related to Covid and the vaccine.
🏆 On the Adamant by Nicolas Philibert won the 73rd Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear as the best film of the festival’s International Competition. |
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Obituaries
🕯 Walter Mirisch, former president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Oscar-winning producer for In the Heat of the Night, died Friday in Los Angeles of natural causes. He was 101 and had been the longest-living Oscar winner. 🕯 Gordon Pinsent, one of Canada’s most iconic actors, who starred in dozens of projects over the decades including Away From Her, has died. He was 92. 🕯 Brett Radin, a talent manager with Knitting Factory Management, died Friday at his home in Los Angeles at 53. No cause of death was given by his family. 🕯 Hollywood & Media Deaths In 2023: Photo Gallery & Obituaries |
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On the Radar
Mon - BBC Studios Showcase; Woody Harrelson on 'Seth Meyers'
Tues - London TV Screenings begins; Endeavor, AMC Entertainment & Nexstar report earnings
Wed - The Mandalorian S3 premiere
Thu - Steven Spielberg and John Williams on 'Colbert'
Sat - Independent Spirit Awards
Sun - WGA Awards |
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