Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 9:00AM But seriously though...
Dear future Emmy winners:
— Stacy Lambe (@sllambe) August 2, 2017
Pls take note of @HollandTaylor in 1999. This is how you pose with an award. pic.twitter.com/gcazv8vCs7
After the jump more amusing tweets including but not limited to Marisa Tomei, Six Feet Under, and Atomic Blonde...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 at 4:44PM This article was originally published in Nathaniel's column at Towleroad. It is reprinted here in a slightly extended edition.
It’s a special ‘Sister’s Are Doin’ It For Themselves’ double review with two female-driven hits.
Have you caught Girls Trip yet? I was one week late to the party after its hit opening weekend. When we looked around the theater this weekend my best friend was all “it’s 80% women of color and 20% gay men!” Truth! And perfect as target audiences go for an urban female comedy called Girls Trip. The crowd was boisterous, laughing their asses off throughout but also visibly feeling the '90s hiphop soundtrack and audibly praising the “message” moments in the movie.
The night before I saw Atomic Blonde and though I didn’t see anyone dancing in their seats, I was dancing on the inside with its killer 1980s new wave soundtrack...
Sunday, July 30, 2017 at 8:36PM By Nathaniel R
What did you see this weekend?
| Weekend Box Office (July 28th-30th) |
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| W I D E | L I M I T E D |
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| 1. DUNKIRK $28.1 (cum. $102.8) PODCAST |
1. 🔺 A GHOST STORY $382k (cum. $941k) 329 screens |
| 2. 🔺 THE EMOJI MOVIE $25.6 | 2. 🔺 DETROIT $365k 20 screens |
| 3. GIRLS TRIP $20 (cum. $65.5) |
3. MAUDIE $350k (cum. $4.6) 228 screens REVIEW |
| 4. 🔺 ATOMIC BLONDE $18.5 |
4. 🔺 MUBARAKAN $300k 128 screens |
| 5. SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING $13.4 (cum. $278.3) REVIEW | 2ND OPINION | PODCAST |
5. 🔺WOLF WARRIOR 2 $190k 53 screens |
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| 6. WAR FOR PLANET OF APES $10.3 (cum. $118.6) REVIEWISH | PODCAST |
6. 🔺 LADY MACBETH $179k (cum. $467k) 104 screens |
| 7. DESPICABLE ME 3 $7.7 (cum. $230.4) | 7. 🔺 AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL $130K 4 screens REVIEW |
| 8. VALERIAN $6.8 (cum. $30.6) |
8. THE LITTLE HOURS $125k (cum. $1.2) 96 screens REVIEW |
| 9. BABY DRIVER $4 (cum. $92) REVIEW | 2ND OPINION | POSTERIZED | PODCAST |
9.🔺 THE MIDWIFE $78k (cum. $112k) 27 screens |
| 10. WONDER WOMAN $3.5 (cum. $395.4) REVIEW | TOP TEN | SPECIAL | 10. THE HERO $68K (cum. $3.8) 102 screens BEST ACTORS |
🔺 = new or added screens numbers from box office mojo |
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Dunkirk and Girls Trip, both enjoyed very strong second weekends (giving their audiences exactly what they promised... which is all too rare!) and managed to mostly fend off the new challengers which were the animated Emoji Movie and Charlize Theron kicking all kinds of spy ass as Atomic Blonde. It was a fairly unique weekend since all four titles were within 10 million of each other - they all have a reason to celebrate. The only people not celebrating? Whoever chose to take their families to Emoji Movie which is the worst reviewed movie of the year.
In limited release the doc sequel An Inconvenient Truth (reviewed), Kathryn Bigelow's race riot drama Detroit, the Hasidic drama Menashe (reviewed), and Brigsby Bear all barely dipped their toe into theaters but audiences expressed interest in all four. Expect expansions soon with Detroit going wide next weekend.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017 at 6:00PM 
by Nathaniel R
W Magazine is going all out with Charlize Theron at the moment. She's on the cover with a new interview, a gorgeous (what else) photoshoot, and there's also a retrospective of her other most compelling photos for the magazine in years pas -- who can forget that photoshoot with Michael Fassbender for Prometheus (*melts from the heat*).
Her new action flick Atomic Blonde has the unenviable task of following Mad Max Fury Road into theaters but thus far word is that it is a bonafide thrill machine as action flicks go. It opens on July 28th so expect Charlize to be everywhere for the next month including right here where we'll be sure to celebrate her career... albeit a little closer to the release.
For now let's revel in this catfighty, rather than catty, anecdote about that time she punched Teri Hatcher in the face in a fight scene in her debut 2 Days in the Valley (1996) when she was just 20 years old:
I hit her really bad....
And because it was Teri Hatcher, who was a star, and I was this bleached-blonde-Amazonian, catsuit-wearing nobody who was punching her in the face, I was like a wild animal. Back then I didn’t know how to hone in my energy and I was knocking over lights. I had no concept of a set. I connected right with Teri Hatcher’s face. I felt terrible about it. I had no money and sent her some cheap beer the next day. Sorry, Teri.
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 7:08PM Pajiba at what point exactly did Dev Patel get hot?
Variety Billy Brown, who previously sexed up Viola on How to Get Away with Murder, will costar with Taraji P Henson in the new thriller Proud Mary which has nothing to do with Tina Turner
/Film Van Helsing reboot gets a new writer
Coming Soon Charlize Theron's Coldest City gets a title change. It's now Atomic Blonde
NYT Whoa. I thought that little kid (Shailene Woodley's boy) on Big Little Lies looked familiar. Turns out he's that child theater critic who does all the popular Broadway Youtube reviews
Boy Culture interviews old Hollywood actor Carleton Carpenter who talks Debbie Reynolds, Cary Grant and being bisexual in Hollywood in a new memoir called "The Absolute Joy of Work"
The Playlist has ranked every best picture nominee of the 21st century. Weirdly they made a huge accounting error that kept Moulin Rouge! out of the #1 spot by a truly embarrassing margin
MNPP the King Arthur trailer is obsessed with crotches
Interview Evanna Lynch, Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, is interviewed about her post Potter career by another Potter alum
The New Yorker looks at Harry Belafonte's 1956 mega hit "Day-O" and the social power of song
i09 a new movie is begin described as "Underwater Armageddon." Kristen Stewart is in talks to headline
AV Club the law that allowed actors to have their ages hidden from IMDb is probably in danger of being overturned
Comics Alliance the proposed X-Men TV series has not announced a list of characters yet but Blink will be amoung them. Actress Jamie Chung has been cast in the role
Screen Crush is stating that Logan has a post-credits scene. If there is one it most definitely did not screen for critics as I waited until the lights came up. (I generally stay for credits... and did so before post-credit scenes were a regular thing)
Film School Rejects the use of primary color in La La Land
Video To Go
La La Land as directed by David Lynch (file under: the internet is fun) and a iphone rehearsal for La La Land's opening number filmed in a parking lot
