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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association board, the group that’s behind the Golden Globe Awards, has pledged to add at least 13 Black journalists, Variety reports. The group has 87 members, none of which are black. The commitment comes on the heels of the release of an open letter from over 100 Hollywood public relations firms urging their clients […]
Never one to shy away from airing his opinions on cinema (and nor should he be) Martin Scorsese has penned an essay for Harper’s Magazine in which he offered up a string of criticisms about streaming services. It wasn’t the entire intent of his piece, which was instead about his admiration for Italian film icon Federico Fellini, but […]
Leaked audio from the set of Mission: Impossible 7 showed that Tom Cruise is serious about COVID-19 safety protocols, but now he’s taking it a step further. A source on the set of the latest Mission indicated Cruise is so strict about the protocols that he’s purchased two state of the art robots to ensure the safety of cast and […]
It seems like the cinema industry still has a bright future. The Croods: A New Age landed the biggest debut of any film released during the pandemic, garnering $14.22 million at the domestic box office during the five-day Thanksgiving weekend, CNBC reports. From Friday to Sunday, the animated offering brought in an estimated $9.71 million. […]
In its sixth week in theaters, Tenet earned just $2.1 million domestically, pushing its U.S. total to $48.3 million. The Christopher Nolan-directed film has undoubtedly felt the absence of the New York market. While 48 states have reopened their indoor movie theaters in some form, New York has remained closed since March at the behest of Governor […]
As more and more movies have been pushed to 2021, Regal Cinemas’ parent company Cineworld could be closing all of its theaters in the U.S. and the UK Variety reports that the decision comes after the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die, had been delayed until next year due to coronavirus concerns. The closures are […]
Tenet’s fourth domestic weekend has yielded another $4.7 million at the box office, down 26 percent from last weekend’s $6.7 million. Currently, only 74 percent of all movie theaters in the U.S. are open with cinemas in Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco still closed. Deadline reports that while the film’s total domestic earnings […]
Refreshingly, the Weeknd has made it clear in a number of After Hours era interviews that he’s been taking COVID-19 quite seriously. Abel, of course, is one of a number of artists whose 2020 agenda was—for lack of a more apt description—wholly fucked up by the seriousness of the pandemic here in the U.S. While […]
A new research brief from Dr. Stacy L. Smith and the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative shows that 10.6 percent of the directors of the top movies of 2019 are women. Our newest study is out today with good news for female directors. There’s still need for improvement but 2019 was a 13-year high for women […]
In his profile for Time Businessperson of the Year, Disney CEO Bob Iger revisited previous remarks he made about Martin Scorsese in response to the 77-year-old filmmaker’s criticism of Marvel movies. “If Marty Scorsese wants to be in the business of taking artistic risk, all power to him,” Iger said. “It doesn’t mean that what we’re doing isn’t art.” While Iger was […]
