Even as new filmmaking centers help spread Hollywood’s wealth around the world, the boost to local economies comes at a personal cost to the specialists who must follow the work. As movie production migrates from place to place, friendships get left behind and raising a family can be difficult.
Director Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio revisit the anything-goes late ’80s and early ’90s with such debauchery that it should elicit abject horror but mostly plays as comedy.
“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” starring and directed by Ben Stiller, is a sweet, hopeful, good-hearted tale hampered by the fact that it can’t quite decide whether it’s a comedy or a drama. But there are at least nine good reasons to see it.
Universal Pictures has delayed the release of “Fast & Furious 7” for almost a year following the death of star Paul Walker, who will still be included in the movie.
Hollywood may soon be coming to a neighborhood near you with final state approval of a $20 million-a-year tax credit program to lure film productions to Nevada.
Underscoring deeply conflicted characters, who are on a mission to reconceive their unsatisfying circumstances, has become director David O. Russell’s sweet spot. From his raw 1996 film, “Flirting With Disaster,” to last year’s acclaimed “Silver Linings Playbook,” he effectively unravels the disarray.
In the hands of Emma Thompson, “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers is a spoonful of something, all right, but it sure ain’t sugar.
The takeaway from “Saving Mr. Banks”? That “Mary Poppins” author P.L. Travers was a miserable excuse for a human being. Here’s a look at 15 of her bitchiest moments in “Saving Mr. Banks”:
Writer-director David O. Russell’s “American Hustle,” set in 1978 and ever-so-loosely based on the Abscam corruption scandal, offers some of the year’s best characters thanks to Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Jeremy Renner.
There may be legal ramifications for Shia LaBeouf after he acknowledged borrowing from another artist’s work without giving proper credit.
Instead of going the traditional route to market “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” a film producer decided to spend the entire budget to help victims of Typhoon Haiyan.
It starts off strong, and it ends even stronger. And there’s the middle.
Academy Award-winning actress Joan Fontaine, who found stardom playing naive wives in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Suspicion” and “Rebecca” and also was featured in films by Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang and Nicholas Ray, died Sunday. She was 96.
