‘Civil War’ Has The Edge Over ‘Abigail’ With $11M+ Second Weekend – Saturday AM Update
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024
SATURDAY AM: A24’s Civil War is winning the box office skirmish against three wide entries with a second weekend of $11M+ after a $3.25M Friday. That’s a -57% second frame ease which isn’t as steep as many would expect for this divided movie. A24’s trick: They know how to generate the chime-in factor and sources […]
John Sloss And Apple Non-Fiction Chief Molly Thompson Discuss Documentary Business & The Time HBO Killed Todd Phillips’ ‘Frat House’ — Sands
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024
In the late 1990s Joker writer-director Todd Phillips, then applying his trade as an underground documentary filmmaker shot a non-fiction project titled Frat House, which nabbed the Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at Sundance before being promptly acquired by HBO Films. “The premise of the documentary is that he pledged fraternities at colleges,” John Sloss, […]
‘Baby Reindeer’ Actress Jessica Gunning Says Stalker Character Martha Was “Never A Villain”
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024
The female star of Baby Reindeer says she felt a sense of responsibility for her co-star Richard Gadd, who wrote the Netflix drama about a stalker and her victim, based on his own real-life experience of being targeted. In the series which has topped the Netflix charts on both sides of the Atlantic since its […]
Sid Sriram, The First South Indian Artist To Perform At Coachella, Discusses The “Beautiful Blur” Of Playing The Fest & Being Discovered By A. R. Rahman
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024
EXCLUSIVE: Thirteen years ago, a young Sidharth Sriram promised himself that the first time he would attend Coachella would be the first time he performed. Last weekend, that dream came true. Sriram, who has sung more than 250 songs on Indian productions, is now 33 and has in the past few days become the first […]
Hilary Swank Says ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ Would Be “Great Role For Trans Actor Today”
Posted on Saturday April 20, 2024
Hilary Swank has reflected on her role in Boys Don’t Cry two decades ago, saying changing awareness means she wouldn’t take the part today. Swank won her first Oscar for the role of real-life transgender man Brandon Teena, murdered in a hate crime, in the movie which was released in 2000. She told The Times […]
