Last week, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) were invited to meet with executive members of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which include notable names like Disney’s Bob Iger, in the hopes to bring the now nearing 120-day strike to a close. Unfortunately, though some of the items in AMPTP’s proposal … Read more
It’s been a quiet year for Pixar, relatively speaking. The animation juggernaut’s biggest film this year, Elemental, released a couple months ago in theatres to fairly good reviews (albeit on the lower end for a Pixar film, going by Rotten Tomatoes) and a less than stellar opening weekend at the box office. It would’ve marked … Read more
The Writer’s Guild of America have been on strike for more than one hundred days, making it one of the longest in the industry’s history. Per Variety, representatives from the guild met with film studio heads last week to negotiate offers for the first time since May, and the WGA are slated to respond later … Read more
With Greta Gerwig’s Barbie having crossed a billion dollars at the box office, and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer making its way to becoming the director’s most commercially successful film outside of his Dark Knight trilogy, it’s easy to forget that there’s another juggernaut currently playing in theatres this summer: Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One. The … Read more
Art is timeless. Whether you’re looking at one of the frenetic drawings of the great neo-expressionist, Basquiat, being mesmerized by Mona Lisa’s eyes, listening to the compositions of Chopin, or watching Marlon Brando brilliantly mumble his way through a monologue—art doesn’t get ‘old.’ Sure, some things (in film and television particularly) don’t hold up as well … Read more
When Tom Cruise isn’t nearly dying in a Mission Impossible, or Vin Diesel isn’t milking out another Fast & Furious, or Chris Pratt isn’t fighting off a terribly CGI’d velociraptor in another Jurassic World, Disney are the ones topping the global box office charts—and have been for over a decade. Whether it be through some … Read more
On January 16th, 1960, the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) began striking against the Alliance of Television Film Producers (ATFP, now known as AMPTP). A few months later, the Screen Actor’s Guild (SAG, prior to their merger with AFTRA in 2012) would follow suite in a strike of their own. As outlined by Megan Mccluskey … Read more
“Movies are a way for an actor to be immortal” was a phrase said by my film studies teacher in college. Whether it’s a phrase he’d taken from someone else or made up himself I’m not sure, but it stuck with me. I find myself being reminded of it whenever my wife and I spend … Read more
Fifteen years ago I stepped out of a stuffy movie theatre with my dad on a muggy summer’s afternoon after spending 91 minutes seeing Mark Wahlberg play a science teacher that fought trees – the former point being the more absurd part – in M. Night Shyamalan’s horror-thriller, The Happening. As we walked towards our … Read more
We’re very excited for The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The trailers we’ve seen have promised lots of references to the games and Nintendo’s history as a whole. We’re just a month away from release, so we can’t help but wonder: what next? Whilst it will all depend on how well The Super Mario Bros. Movie performs, we … Read more