Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter by clicking here.NEWSNon-Fiction.The Writers Guild of America went on strike Tuesday; this is the first major Hollywood strike since 2007. Michael Schulman of the New Yorker speaks with several screenwriters about the conditions they are advocating to change, highlighting the ways in which streaming has transformed their livelihoods.Olivier Assayas is cooking up a new project with his current muse Vincent Macaigne, titled Hors du temps, per the actor’s Instagram. Macaigne wonderfully held the center of Assayas’s limited-series rewiring of Irma Vep (2022), and brought a similarly melancholy pathos to Non-Fiction (2018).The Cannes Film Festival has announced that John C. Reilly will preside over the Un Certain Regard jury—a worthy recognition of his Mvp status in Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon (2022). Alongside...
- 5/3/2023
- MUBI
A New Yorker Festival panel with actor and comedian Billy Eichner and playwright and actor Harvey Fierstein, who both appear in Bros, turned into an onstage post-mortem about the gay rom-com’s disappointing opening.
Fierstein, who has a cameo role in the film, criticized Universal’s “history-lesson” marketing and the studio’s decision to open it wide given that the high-stakes release pattern meant that the pitch took a hectoring turn. It then had to cajole a broad cross-section of people to buy tickets, not an easy feat even before the climate grew even dicier for theatrical comedies coming out of Covid. The result: a 4.8 million weekend, about 40 below expectations.
In his signature rasp, Fierstein blasted “the whole idea of putting this movie out with this idea of, ‘The first ever gay movie! Starring a gay homo! And written by a big homo … but produced by heterosexuals! I mean, ‘Is...
Fierstein, who has a cameo role in the film, criticized Universal’s “history-lesson” marketing and the studio’s decision to open it wide given that the high-stakes release pattern meant that the pitch took a hectoring turn. It then had to cajole a broad cross-section of people to buy tickets, not an easy feat even before the climate grew even dicier for theatrical comedies coming out of Covid. The result: a 4.8 million weekend, about 40 below expectations.
In his signature rasp, Fierstein blasted “the whole idea of putting this movie out with this idea of, ‘The first ever gay movie! Starring a gay homo! And written by a big homo … but produced by heterosexuals! I mean, ‘Is...
- 10/8/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Cynics have tabbed them “The Doomsday Summits.” To believers, however, their mission is to re-energize the Oscars at a moment when award shows in general are in massive retreat.
“The show should represent an exciting battlefield where forces in our culture collide,” suggests a new book titled Oscar Wars: Gold, Sweat and Tears.
While the recent “collisions” have been studies in chaos, the ongoing meetings among the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leaders, Oscar show producers and ABC/Disney continue to search for the keys to a renaissance. Or at least to survival. Bill Kramer, the new Academy CEO, regards himself as a consensus builder, not a collision builder.
By studying the traumas of the past, what can they learn about re-shaping the present? Viewership has been plummeting in recent years and telecast revenues (guesses put them at 120 million) are key to the survival of the Academy — its...
“The show should represent an exciting battlefield where forces in our culture collide,” suggests a new book titled Oscar Wars: Gold, Sweat and Tears.
While the recent “collisions” have been studies in chaos, the ongoing meetings among the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences leaders, Oscar show producers and ABC/Disney continue to search for the keys to a renaissance. Or at least to survival. Bill Kramer, the new Academy CEO, regards himself as a consensus builder, not a collision builder.
By studying the traumas of the past, what can they learn about re-shaping the present? Viewership has been plummeting in recent years and telecast revenues (guesses put them at 120 million) are key to the survival of the Academy — its...
- 10/6/2022
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Peter Bart: Hollywood Stars Get High Marks Returning To Fall Film Festivals And Hustling Their Wares
While the Emmys drew mixed reviews, the film festivals closed to strong applause this week, not only for their movies (we’d forgotten some) but for their star turnout.
Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Taylor Swift and Julianne Moore were out there giving interviews and courting critics as in years gone by. Some had become strangers due to a mix of Covid-caused delays and their own rigid rules of self-protection.
Movie stars once made three or four films a year and were constantly before us, pitching their wares. I once congratulated Tom Hanks three times in a week and the Damon-Affleck team seemed equally ubiquitous. Now even Jennifer Lawrence wants the spotlight again and Harrison Ford has also abandoned invisibility.
Of course, the presence of stars at premieres also guarantees some flying shrapnel on social media. At the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, did Florence Pugh,...
Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Taylor Swift and Julianne Moore were out there giving interviews and courting critics as in years gone by. Some had become strangers due to a mix of Covid-caused delays and their own rigid rules of self-protection.
Movie stars once made three or four films a year and were constantly before us, pitching their wares. I once congratulated Tom Hanks three times in a week and the Damon-Affleck team seemed equally ubiquitous. Now even Jennifer Lawrence wants the spotlight again and Harrison Ford has also abandoned invisibility.
Of course, the presence of stars at premieres also guarantees some flying shrapnel on social media. At the Venice premiere of Don’t Worry Darling, did Florence Pugh,...
- 9/15/2022
- by Peter Bart
- Deadline Film + TV
Jeremy Strong has finally broken his silence on that infamous 2021 New Yorker profile.
In a new interview with Vanity Fair from the Telluride Film Festival, where Strong is promoting his role in director James Gray’s “Armaggedon Time,” the “Succession” star didn’t hold back when discussing his feelings on the newsmaking profile, telling Vf it amounted to a “pretty profound betrayal of trust” on the part of the publication and the article’s writer, Michael Schulman.
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In a new interview with Vanity Fair from the Telluride Film Festival, where Strong is promoting his role in director James Gray’s “Armaggedon Time,” the “Succession” star didn’t hold back when discussing his feelings on the newsmaking profile, telling Vf it amounted to a “pretty profound betrayal of trust” on the part of the publication and the article’s writer, Michael Schulman.
Continue reading Jeremy Strong Breaks His Silence On That Infamous New Yorker Profile: “A Pretty Profound Betrayal of Trust” at The Playlist.
- 9/4/2022
- by Chris Eggertsen
- The Playlist
Jeremy Strong has finally spoken up about being profiled in the New Yorker late last year, calling the article “a profound betrayal of trust.”
Michael Schulman’s “On Succession, Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke” quickly became one of the magazine’s top stories of the year upon its Dec. 7 publication. Reactions to the lengthy piece, which detailed his hard-earned career and intense relationship to acting, were polarizing: while many readers got a kick out of his eccentric, hyper-serious depiction, others lambasted the profile as a “classist” personal attack.
While many celebrity defenders stepped up to praise the actor – including Jessica Chastain, who criticized the piece as “incredibly one sided,” and Aaron Sorkin, who slammed it as “a distorted picture… that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process” — Strong has stayed mum on the controversy until now. In an interview with Vanity Fair about his new film “Armageddon Time,...
Michael Schulman’s “On Succession, Jeremy Strong Doesn’t Get the Joke” quickly became one of the magazine’s top stories of the year upon its Dec. 7 publication. Reactions to the lengthy piece, which detailed his hard-earned career and intense relationship to acting, were polarizing: while many readers got a kick out of his eccentric, hyper-serious depiction, others lambasted the profile as a “classist” personal attack.
While many celebrity defenders stepped up to praise the actor – including Jessica Chastain, who criticized the piece as “incredibly one sided,” and Aaron Sorkin, who slammed it as “a distorted picture… that asks us to roll our eyes at his acting process” — Strong has stayed mum on the controversy until now. In an interview with Vanity Fair about his new film “Armageddon Time,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Maya Rudolph, who won an Emmy for playing Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live, said she felt anxious watching Harris debate Vice President Mike Pence, knowing it would be fodder for this week’s show.
Then along came the fly.
“I don’t think it was until the fly landed on his head that I kind of took a breath and sort of had a smile on my face,” she said during a virtual appearance at the New Yorker Festival on Friday. Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne, her partner in Animal Pictures, discussed their longstanding ties and the projects they’re working on together. Both also detoured into other work over their careers
Even though she was an SNL cast member from 2000 to 2007, Rudolph said she “felt a lot of pressure” while watching the debate, but the material “kind of wrote itself.” She didn’t get into specifics about the way...
Then along came the fly.
“I don’t think it was until the fly landed on his head that I kind of took a breath and sort of had a smile on my face,” she said during a virtual appearance at the New Yorker Festival on Friday. Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne, her partner in Animal Pictures, discussed their longstanding ties and the projects they’re working on together. Both also detoured into other work over their careers
Even though she was an SNL cast member from 2000 to 2007, Rudolph said she “felt a lot of pressure” while watching the debate, but the material “kind of wrote itself.” She didn’t get into specifics about the way...
- 10/10/2020
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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