A confronting film about an obese, illiterate black teenager who’s
raped and impregnated by her father has ignited a fierce debate in the
US.
Its critics accuse writer-director Lee Daniels’ film of whipping up fear and loathing towards black Americans, and have questioned why Opray Winfrey and Tyler Perry jumped on its bandwagon.
Its proponents hail Precious as an inspirational tale about the power of kindness and caring.
The controversy virtually guaranteed the film would have a sizable opening in the US, but no one predi..
Kyie Boltin reports back from the inaugural Croatian Film festival.
It wasn’t all pristine beaches and Karlovaÿko beer at the inaugural Croatian Film Festival, which took place earlier this month.
More than a third of all Australians who identify as having a Croatian ancestry live in Victoria, the new home of the Croatian Film Festival. The Croatian film industry is a small and the inaugural Australian festival programmed many of the country’s ..
Movie piracy is undoubtedly a problem but the US majors are over-stating its impact, according to numerous bloggers.
No sooner had a top Hollywood executive blamed piracy for a sharp drop in the production of movies than he was howled down by a cacophony of bloggers.
Sony Pictures Entertainment chief executive Michael Lynton blamed online theft for the fact that the Hollywood majors produced just 162 films in 2008 – more than 40 fewer than in 2006, and the lowest in a decade.
Maybe so, but as many bl..
Wes Anderson has copped flak from his Fantastic Mr Fox crew for directing the film in absentia.
Movie sets are fractious places. Most participants have an ego, a few have gross points and everyone has an opinion. Disagreements are famously common, but whatever goes on behind the scenes, however loud it may get, it’s an acknowledged rule that when the press turn up everyone smiles, professes respect for their co-workers and pitches that release date.
Somehow, on the set of Wes Anders..
Lloyd Kaufman’s distinctive brand of gross, tasteless schlock keeps on coming.
If you accused Lloyd Kaufman of making cheap, cheesy and vulgar films, he’d probably laugh — all the way to the bank. The founder of Troma Entertainment has been churning out low-rent exploitation movies since 1974. While countless US independent producers and distributors have fallen by the wayside, Kaufman has survived and prospered.
Troma claims it’s the longest-running indep..
A tweet of beauty is a joy forever, or so say marketers who don't think Jane Campion is doing enough to capture online attention to her new film.
What came first: The movie or its online marketing? There are increasingly times when the answer to such an obvious question is anything but straightforward. As the movie business grows ever more concerned about audiences, even as an increasing amount of titles struggle to carve out a profitable audience, the sway of marketing grows stronger. Apparently it’s the not the film you have, it&rsq..
Alejandro Amenábar’s latest film is an unlikely hit on home turf.
A sword-and-sandals epic about the Romans and Christians in ancient Egypt, directed by a Spanish filmmaker of Chilean origin, hardly sounds like a recipe for box-office success.
Yet Alejandro Amenábar’s Agora has achieved two remarkable feats in Spain: By ringing up €7 million ($A11.4 million) in its first four days, the English-language drama starring Rachel Weisz and Max Mingh..
Diwali, the festival of lights is upon us. Together with the ritual of firecrackers, oil lamps and clean houses to welcome the goddess of wealth and good fortune Lakshmi, the annual big screen Diwali-Bollywood battle is also set to burn. This year, Bollywood fans choose between Akshay Kumar’s star turn in the action-thriller Blue, Salman Khan’s romance vehicle Main Aur Mrs Khanna and t..
The Star Wars creator has put his foot in his mouth, again.
A few years ago George Lucas caused hoots of derision around the world when he made a series of dumb statements: the age of the blockbuster was over; “the secret to the future” would be a large number of small, web-distributed movies; and the movie-going habit was doomed.
The Star Wars creator has just had another bout of foot-in-mouth disease, stating last week that he doesn’t ..
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