Powers Boothe (1948-2017)

Powers Boothe with his daughter Parisse (both acted in DEADWOOD) at a 2006 Emmy partyThe Emmy winning character actor Powers Boothe, best known for screen villains on TV (Deadwood, Nashville) and in movies (Sin City, Tombstone) died yesterday morning in his sleep from natural causes. After Shakespearean work on stage after college, his screen career began with "bad Shakespeare" as part of the Richard III play within the Oscar nominated comedy The Goodbye Girl (1977) in which he mostly lays like a corpse on a table while Dreyfus overacts the hunchback around him. The on camera career stretched for nearly another 40 years ending with the recurring baddie role as one of HYDRA's top leaders  "Gideon Malick" on  the third season of Marvel's AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015/2016).  

The native Texan was 68 years old and is survived by his wife of 48 years (they married in college before his acting career began) and their two children. After the jump a quick survey of key roles... 

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Today's 5: Gigi, Bulworth, and much Cannes mania

Here are you five mood boosting anniversaries from showbiz history. Do these things today and report back on how they made you feel!

May 15th

2015 At the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival Son of Saul, Embrace of the Serpent, and The Lobster, all have their world premieres. All three go on to successful awards runs and arthouse releases.

In their honor: Embrace your singular point of view, however strange it seems at first. So many of the greatest movies over the years did this...

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Mother's Day Weekend Box Office

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY y'all. Are you taking your mom to the movies? Does your mom even go to movies? (My mom does not unless I'm visiting her so it happens about once a year).

In its second week Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 dipped below 50% but that's par for the course for blockbusters which are super frontloaded now. It still handily took the weekend making more than the two new wide releases combined (Snatched and King Arthur). In limited release the top new films were Lowriders (starring Demian Bichir and Eva Longoria) with a good per screen average and the sniper drama The Wall which risked a nearly wide opening to uncertain results. We'll see how word of mouth goes. 

Weekend Box Office (Date)
W I D E	L I M I T E D
1. GUARDIANS VOL. 2 $63 (cum. $246.1) REVIEW	1. 🔺 LOWRIDERS $2.4 NEW (295 screens)
2.🔺 SNATCHED $17.5 NEW REVIEW	2. BAAHUBALI 2 $1.5 (374 screens) (cum. $18.9)
3.🔺 KING ARTHUR $14.7 NEW REVIEW	3. 🔺 THE WALL $891k NEW (541 screens)
4. FATE OF FURIOUS $5.3 (cum. $215) FRANCHISE RANK	4. NORMAN $409k (153 screens) (cum. $1.6)
5. BOSS BABY $4.6 (cum. $162.3) REVIEW	5. THEIR FINEST $290k (258 screens | cum. $2.9)
6. BEAUTY & THE BEAST $3.8 (cum. $493.1) REVIEW | SCORE	6. SLEIGHT $285k (364 screens) (cum. $3.6)
7. HOW TO BE A LATIN LOVER  $3.7 (cum. $26.1)	7. THE DINNER $245k (429 screens) (cum. $1.1)
8. THE CIRCLE $1.7 (cum. $18.9) REVIEW	8. 🔺  A QUIET PASSION $199k (116 screens | cum. $766k)
9. GIFTED $1.3 (cum. $21.4)	9. 🔺 THE LOVERS $140k (23 screens) (cum. $229k) REVIEW
10. SMURFS: LOST VILLAGE $1.1 (cum. $42.1)	10. COLOSSAL $115k (160 screens) (cum. $2.7) REVIEW
11. GOING IN STYLE $1.0 (cum. $42.3)	11.🔺 PARIS CAN WAIT $101k NEW (4 screens)
12. BORN IN CHINA $820k (cum. $12.3)	12. 🔺 CHUCK $79k (39 screens) (cum. $121k) REVIEW
🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo

The Lovers and Chuck, two Tribeca debuts which went immediately to theaters last weekend after the festival, charted after adding theaters this weekend. Check out the reviews in case you missed 'em linked in the chart above.

What did you see this weekend? 

Thoughts I Had... whilst staring at "mother!" teaser poster

Oh my my my. The first poster for Darren Aronofsky's secretive October release mother! has arrived and it's after the jump in all its disturbing detail along with the thoughts I had as they came to me without self-censorship...

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Review: Amy & Goldie get "Snatched"

This review was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad

You bring stuff into the movie theater with you. I’m not talking about snacks though that’s a frugal and smart thing to do given concession prices and the inherent tastiness of things you aren’t supposed to be eating. My point is this: we come into each movie with our own baggage, nothing existing in a vacuum.

Angry internet types like to call this “bias” when they disagree with anything but it’s just human nature. We all have our predilections. I share this because I walked into Snatched, Amy Schumer’s latest with Goldie Hawn in her first movie in 15 years (!!!) wanting to love it...

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