Labor Day is done, the summer box office season is now closed, and the numbers are abysmal. The final revenue total for the box office from May 5 to Labor Day stands at $3.83 billion, making this summer the first since 2006 to finish below $4 billion. Compared to last summer, that total is 14.6 percent lower, tying summer 2014 for the biggest year-to-year drop for the season. Also Read: Summer 2017 Movie Winners and Losers, From 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' to 'The House' (Photos) As for annual totals, after a strong start to the year that included the most profitable March ever, the...
- 9/5/2017
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
A Complete Guide to Every Song Written By Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello During Their Partnership
Though his music can be heard in all corners of the globe, Paul McCartney’s songwriting process is impressively homegrown. When he teamed with Elvis Costello for sessions that would ultimately yield his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt, the pair met at McCartney’s personal studio: a converted corn mill dubbed Hog Hill Mill, a short drive from his farm in rural southern England. Armed with nothing more high-tech than a pencil, paper and acoustic guitar, two of the world’s most influential composers climbed the steps to a small office tucked above the studio and pulled tunes out of thin air.
- 3/28/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
By the late-1980s, Paul McCartney may have been the only artist on the planet uninterested in sounding like the Beatles. But then his new collaborator, fellow British superstar Elvis Costello, reunited him with an old friend: his iconic violin-shaped Hofner bass. The instrument had last seen action during the band’s final live performance on the roof of their London offices almost two decades before, and a faded setlist from their last tour remained affixed to the side with yellowed scotch tape. “He was a big Beatles fan and said, ‘Hey, do you still use your Hofner?’” McCartney tells People exclusively.
- 3/24/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
An expanded reissue of Paul McCartney‘s 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt is due out March 24, but fans were treated to a sneak peek Wednesday with a previously unreleased acoustic demo.
“Twenty Fine Fingers”—a breakneck rockabilly tune that harkens back to rock pioneer Buddy Holly—features McCartney duetting with fellow Liverpudlian Elvis Costello, who served as cowriter on the project. Four of their collaborations, “My Brave Face,” “Don’t Be Careless Love,” “That Day Is Done” and “You Want Her Too,” appeared on the completed album, while “The Lovers That Never Were,” “So Like Candy” and “Playboy to a...
“Twenty Fine Fingers”—a breakneck rockabilly tune that harkens back to rock pioneer Buddy Holly—features McCartney duetting with fellow Liverpudlian Elvis Costello, who served as cowriter on the project. Four of their collaborations, “My Brave Face,” “Don’t Be Careless Love,” “That Day Is Done” and “You Want Her Too,” appeared on the completed album, while “The Lovers That Never Were,” “So Like Candy” and “Playboy to a...
- 2/1/2017
- by Jordan Runtagh
- PEOPLE.com
The immensely popular trio provides an extremely pleasant eighty minutes of musical nostalgia – with plenty of full performances but also the full variety of their music through the years. Interviews with the principals give us the back story, light but not superficial, while film clips show their political activism through the years.
50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary
DVD
Mvd Visual
2014 / B&W + Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 78 min. / Street Date December 9, 2016 / 19.95
Starring Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey, Mary Allin Travers.
Film Editor Pat Murphy
Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith
Directed by Jim Brown
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When we watch movies about music groups we can be looking for historical and personal insights, or we could just want happy nostalgia, to hear the music and see our favorites as they appeared through the years. Many of us instantly recognize groups from the 1960s when we hear them,...
50 Years with Peter Paul and Mary
DVD
Mvd Visual
2014 / B&W + Color / 1:33 flat full frame / 78 min. / Street Date December 9, 2016 / 19.95
Starring Peter Yarrow, Noel (Paul) Stookey, Mary Allin Travers.
Film Editor Pat Murphy
Produced by Jim Brown, Heather A. Smith
Directed by Jim Brown
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
When we watch movies about music groups we can be looking for historical and personal insights, or we could just want happy nostalgia, to hear the music and see our favorites as they appeared through the years. Many of us instantly recognize groups from the 1960s when we hear them,...
- 12/27/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Comedy is a tricky thing to talk about critically. There are methods to break down jokes or gags into their component parts and explain why each is objectively funny. But unless you are writing a doctoral thesis, there is no faster way to suck all the fun right out of humor. Comedy's power comes from the involuntary nature and immediacy of the response it can elicit. Everything about it is subjective and that's the way it should be. Discussing an entire season of a show all at once is also a difficult task. We've talked about it several times but for something like the broad absurdist comedy of "Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp", which essentially plays as a four hour movie, binging might actually be a benefit. Seeds planted in early episodes can be paid off later without losing the intent of the joke resulting in even funnier punchlines.
- 8/3/2015
- by Michael Hindle
- Rope of Silicon
La Jaula De Oro (The Golden Cage), a road movie from Mexican director Diego Quemada-Diez about teenage Guatemalan immigrants trying to make it to the U.S., won the Golden Eye for best film at the 9th Zurich international film festival. The jury, headed by Swiss-born director Marc Forster (World War Z) and including Oscar-winning actress Melissa Leo (Prisoners), directors Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly) and Thomas Imbach (Day is Done) and producers Stacey Sher (Django Unchained) and Guneet Monga (Lunchbox) also gave a special mention to actor Michael B. Jordon for his starring role playing Oscar
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- 10/6/2013
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rob Lowe can hang ten, braw! And at 49 years young, the actor continues to crave adventure. On Monday, Rob hit the beaches in Oahu, Hawaii, but instead of catching some R&R under the sun, the Parks and Recreation star caught some tasty waves. Looking legit in his black surfing gear, the actor apparently rode the tides like a pro. Video: Rob Lowe takes flight via jetpack Rob also shared his action-packed vacation with his fans on Twitter. "North Shore surf Sunday. At Pipeline," he tweeted with a pic of his buff bod at shore. After an exhausting run in the water, the hunky actor then took a photo of a scenic sunset with the caption "Day is done....
- 5/9/2013
- E! Online
Kill us with cutenesss, why don't you, Nick Lachey? The proud papa wasn't just content with showing off a new pic of his now 7-month-old son Camden during his appearance today on Live! With Kelly and& Michael. No, he brought along home movie highlights of himself, wife Vanessa Lachey and their bundle of joy to play while he performed "Another Day Is Done"—which is as heartwarming as it sounds—off of his latest album, A Father's Lullaby. They could have at least gone with the disclaimer, "Warning: What you are about to see is adorable and could quite possibly make you misty-eyed." "It's like flying by," Lachey said, marveling with Ripa...
- 4/17/2013
- E! Online
Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Day Is Done Trailer Thomas Imbach seems to be one of those kinds of filmmakers who would eschew the kind of populist documentary filmmaking that...
- 12/3/2011
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
Thomas Imbach's Day Is Done, which screened in the Forum at this year's Berlinale in February and won the Zurich Film Award 2011 earlier this month, opens in Berlin on Thursday. The site's flaunting some pretty winning quotes, with Screen Daily noting that the documentary essay features "images of ravishing though unconventional urban beauty," while Der Tagesspiegel writes that an "evocative maelstrom of great power emerges in the course of nearly two hours."
But you won't have to be in Berlin to watch work by this independent Swiss filmmaker. For a full year, we'll be showing a selection of Films by Thomas Imbach.
Well Done (1994) is an absurdist comedy about the all but uncontrollable flow of data and money through Switzerland. Augusteb "loved it." In Ghetto (1997), we follow a group of teens through an anarchic class room, a basement disco and into the night. "Allow the film 15 minutes to start sinking into you,...
But you won't have to be in Berlin to watch work by this independent Swiss filmmaker. For a full year, we'll be showing a selection of Films by Thomas Imbach.
Well Done (1994) is an absurdist comedy about the all but uncontrollable flow of data and money through Switzerland. Augusteb "loved it." In Ghetto (1997), we follow a group of teens through an anarchic class room, a basement disco and into the night. "Allow the film 15 minutes to start sinking into you,...
- 11/28/2011
- MUBI
Berlinale 2011 poster
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
Patang (The Kite), a feature film written and directed by Prashant Bhargava, will be screened as part of the 41st Forum in Berlinale 2011. The film, a co-production between India and USA, is a drama set in the backdrop of India’s largest kite festival in Ahmedabad.
Forum will present a total of 39 films in the main programme and 6 films as special screenings, 24 of which are world premieres and 12 international premieres. It is considered to be the most experimental section of the Berlinale which presents original, provocative and disturbing cinema.
In addition, 8 films will be shown from the creative period of the Japanese director Shibuya Minoru. The 61st Berlinale will take place from February 10-20, 2011.
The complete Programme of Forum:
Main Programme
Amnesty by Bujar Alimani, Albania/Greece/France
Auf der Suche (Looking for Simon) by Jan Krüger, Germany/France
Ausente (Absent) by Marco Berger, Argentina
The Ballad of...
- 1/18/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
The Berlin International Film Festival (German: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), one of the world’s leading film festivals and most reputable media events has just announced their complete lineup for the Forum program this year, and it looks incredible once again.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
With 274,000 tickets sold and 487,000 admissions, it is considered the largest publicly-attended film festival worldwide. Up to 400 films are shown in several sections, representing a comprehensive array of the cinematic world. Around twenty films compete for the awards called the Golden and Silver Bears. Basically it is the place to be if you work in the business. The European Film Market (Efm), a film trade fair held simultaneously to the Berlinale, is a major industry meeting for the international film circuit once a year. The trade fair serves distributors, film buyers, producers, financiers and co-production agents. The festival has established a cosmopolitan character integrating art, glamour, commerce and a global media attention.
- 1/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
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