Chile’s Quijote Movies, behind Un Sure Regard winner “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo” and Madre Content material – co-run by much-courted rising filmmaker Francisca Alegría, director of Sundance title “The Cow Who Sang a Tune Into the Future” and FilmNation/Prime Video’s upcoming sequence “The Home of the Spirits” – can be becoming a member of forces … Read more
Friday Industries has acquired a big stake in Mbrella Movies, the Thai manufacturing firm that makes a speciality of worldwide co-productions and manufacturing companies all through Southeast Asia. The deal consists of each a capital injection and line of credit score designed to gas the prodco’s growth. The acquisition positions Friday Industries to faucet into … Read more
From the very first day Disneyland opened its gates in 1955, attractions based on movies were among the park’s biggest draws. Rides like the Mad Tea Party and Peter Pan’s Flight dazzled visitors, immersing them in worlds they had only previously experienced staring up at a big screen in a darkened theater. Both of those rides continue to operate at … Read more
Sonequa Martin-Green is set to star alongside Donnie Wahlberg in the upcoming Blue Bloods offshoot, Boston Blue. Closer reveals other key film and television roles fans may know her from ahead of her new role! Sonequa Martin-Green Played Sasha in ‘The Walking Dead’ Sonequa is perhaps most famously known for her portrayal of Sasha Williams … Read more
There are a lot of ways to measure a movie’s success. A movie can be a “hit” at the box office if it sells a lot of tickets and earn more money than it cost to make. Or it might be called a “critical hit,” if it earns an overwhelming majority of positive reviews on … Read more
If you can believe it, there was a time when a movie would come out, end up being a massive success critically and commercially, and then that would be it. In this day and age of sequels, prequels, and franchises built on just about anything, it’s honestly pretty difficult to find a popular movie that … Read more
With zombie-centric horror back in the news (is it ever not in the news??) we’re all back to debating the pros and cons of certain types of undead monsters and the various infections, incantations, or pathogenic spores that can resurrect them. Whether you’re a fast zombie fan or a slow zombie defender, we can all … Read more
There’s nothing the internet loves more than turning a large group of subjective opinions into something that looks like a consensus. Take a bunch of reviews, assign each a numerical value, average it out, and boom — suddenly art is now math. Of course, not even the most widely beloved movie in history is widely beloved … Read more
In the 1998 movie Sliding Doors, a woman played by Gwyneth Paltrow narrowly makes it onto a train — and, in an alternate storyline that plays out parallel to the first, misses the train. The whole film goes back and forth between the two Paltrows (the one who caught that subway, and the one who didn’t) … Read more
Hollywood makes so many comic-book movies. Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, independents … sometimes it seems like that’s all they make anymore. That’s not true, of course, but it feels true. Comic-book movies are everywhere, ever present, as ubiquitous in multiplexes as ugly carpets and that delicious artificial butter that comes out of that metal spout next to the napkins and the straws. Superhero fatigue is ubiquitous … Read more