Hayley Atwell says working in 40 degrees below zero temperatures in the Arctic was just part of the job for “Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning,” but nothing prepared her for the moment a polar bear wandered onto the set. “We were so far north that the Northern Lights were below us,” Atwell said. The set […]
Unpacking British Shows’ Enduring Appeal to American Audiences
Bridgerton was the most-watched streaming original in the U.S. for 2024. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2022 How does a British four-episode limited series not based on any pre-existing intellectual property, with no aliens, magical sorcerers or action sequences become one of Netflix’s most popular shows ever? March’s Adolescence—which follows a family after their young son […]
‘Schoenberg in Hollywood’ Lands in L.A.
At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll Austrian auto-didact, music theorist, pedagogue, writer and emancipator of dissonance, composer Arnold Schoenberg was a lot of things, but cuddly wasn’t one of them. “Uncompromising and pretty curmudgeonly, Schoenberg had a genius for getting people to hate […]
Robert Benton, prolific filmmaker known for
Robert Benton, the Oscar-winning filmmaker who helped reset the rules in Hollywood as the co-creator of “Bonnie and Clyde,” and later received mainstream validation as the writer-director of “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Places in the Heart,” has died at age 92. Benton’s son, John Benton, said that he died Sunday at his home in Manhattan […]
French actor Gérard Depardieu convicted, sentenced for sexually assaulting 2 women on film set
Paris — French cinema icon Gérard Depardieu was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting two women on a film set in Paris in 2021 and handed an 18-month suspended sentence. The 76-year-old actor had denied the charges that he forcefully groped a set decorator and an assistant producer on the set of “Les Volets Verts” (“The Green […]
Trump’s Proposed 100% Tariff on Foreign Movies Pushes Hollywood to the Edge
The idea of a purely American-made movie is a myth. Neil Soni/Unsplash When President Donald Trump fired off a Truth Social post over the weekend announcing his desire to impose a 100 percent tariff on all foreign-made movies, some Hollywood executives and media members rolled their eyes while others panicked. Both reactions are appropriate. The […]