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Yes, LA, The Oscars must go on, noms here…
By Screenmancer Staff With all the fire events in Los Angeles, you wonder why the Oscars must go on? Because we love the movies, those emotional landscapes as real as our dreams for some… and made by the creatives who power the collective imagination of our culture. Here are the 97th Oscar Nominations with an…
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Is MEGALOPOLIS Coppola’s own Singularity?
By Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent “Imagine today’s Society as a branch of civilization about to reach a dead end.” You want to defend and explain Francis Ford Coppola’s MEGALOPOLIS just as much as narrator Laurence Fishburne , who tries to make the case during the movie that this oddball gorgeous landscape of mildly psychotic…
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WOLFS is Clooney and Pitt’s codependent caper movie
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent Not since Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction have we seen such talent able to steam-clean a crime scene? Actually George Clooney and Brad Pitt have their own unique high-profile fixer moment coming soon. You heard that right. And no, the verdict is not in on WOLFS, the new Clooney…
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Poor Things? Post-ingenue Oscars 2024 also rings in the Mangenue
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent There’s a reason Poor Things starring Best Oscar Actress nom Emma Stone with 11 Oscar nods charts so high among big movies, Oppenheimer with 13 nods, Barbie with eight, and Killers of the Flower Moon at 10 nominations. After #metoo and #timesup, we are officially in the Post-Ingenue Era…
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Hollywood: Two strikes & almost everybody is out of gaslight, except AI
With the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes since May 2, 2023 and just past 100 days, we asked ChatGPT what it thought about AI replacing actors and screenwriters.
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STUTZ is Jonah Hill’s free gift for your brain from his therapist Phil on Netflix
Phil Stutz nails the point with “you have to give somebody the feeling they can change right now… you’re giving out the signal to the world ‘I need you because I can’t do this by myself. Take action, no matter how frightened you are… this is such a great moment right now.”
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Nobody TOLDJA Nikki Finke would die at only 68
Nikki Finke pioneered, literally owned Live-Snarking, real-time Oscar coverage. Yet AMPAS pulled her credentials at one point? Nikki created her own Oscar mystique, even made all the more relatable with the snark, which was for the people, the fans, the masses, all of us.
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The Academy names show date and timelines for coming Award Season
NEWS: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and ABC today announced that the 95th Oscars® will take place on Sunday, March 12, 2023. The show will air live on ABC once again, and will be available in more than 200 territories worldwide via the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. And security will likely…
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Director Robert Clem on insider Gospel music for doc HOW THEY GOT OVER
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent After watching documentary HOW THEY GOT OVER, directed by Robert Clem, more than the music of the Soul Stirrers, Dixie Hummingbirds, Five Blind Boys of Mississippi, Sensational Nightingales, the Davis Sisters, and other featured artists stays with you. There’s Sister Rosetta Tharpe in all her glory, guitar on the…
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Tom Cruise’s chopper lands, now Lady Gaga drops a tune for his new movie
by Screenmancer How many surprises does Tom Cruise have on deck for the May 27th release of TOP GUN: MAVERICK? Okay, that was a rhetorical question. The answer is wow, a lot written down in his flight log for this week’s “Global Premiere” that included landing a franchise logo-emblazoned chopper he flew himself. Cruise piloted…
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Review: Todd Wolfe’s WE NEED TO TALK is not just for Gamers
by Robin Menken, Film Critic You don’t need to be a gamer to enjoy Todd Wolfe’s briskly funny WE NEED TO TALK. Set in the world of Youtube gaming, the charming cast keeps laughs rolling, while surrounded by cameos of famous Gamers. Hyper online video-game influencer ‘Great’ Scott (James Maslow) has one of the biggest…
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News: David Harbour will star in Cooper Raiff’s THE TRASHERS
NEWS: 30WEST just revealed that David Harbour (“Stranger Things,” Black Widow) will star in Cooper Raiff’s The Trashers. Raiff, whose sophomore debut Cha Cha Real Smooth starring Dakota Johnson was picked up by Apple TV+ after Sundance, will direct from a script by Adam R. Perlman (“Billions”), with rewrites by Raiff. The feature shoots this…
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Watch: Spielberg revisits a Joan Crawford moment to “fish movie” for TCM
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent If you missed last night’s TCM Classic Film Festival opener, where Steven Spielberg held court with Host Ben Mankiewicz, watch this clip we have from the event. It is a very private look into Hollywood’s highest-grossing director’s foray into filmmaking. “Walking a mile and a half to the theater”…
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HONEY BOY Director Alma Har’el gets green light for MOCKINGBIRD
by Screenmancer Staff Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) is set to direct her passion project, the feature adaptation of Walter Tevis’ seminal science fiction novel, MOCKINGBIRD, for Searchlight Pictures. Academy Award® winner J. Miles Dale (Nightmare Alley, The Shape of Water) and Robert Schwartz (Iron Will, Blizzard) are producing along with Har’el and her partner Christopher Leggett. Alejandro Laguette and Rafael…
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THE NORTHMAN is all that you heard, wow, plus LA premiere is here
by Quendrith Johnson, Los Angeles Correspondent You could say Alexander Skarsgård has gone to ‘rack and rune’ in THE NORTHMAN, but puns aside, this is the Viking epic Robert Eggers hinted at during production. Skarsgård literally breaks himself for this role, changes his body posture even, and just destroys his civilized inner self. Also starring…
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