Tag: Amsterdam
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The True Story That Inspired ‘Amsterdam’
Most American history is ambiguous. Compare Howard Zinn’s The People’s History of the United States to any high school history textbook circulating in American public schools. Like the Banana Wars or the invention of the telephone, history depends on perspective and who’s telling it. The new film Amsterdam, starring Christian Bale, John David Washington, Margot…
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Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen Will Star in David O. Russell’s ‘Super Toys’
Keke Palmer and Sacha Baron Cohen have boarded “Super Toys,” the next film from “American Hustle” and “Amsterdam” director David O. Russell, sources have confirmed to IndieWire.News of the film comes ahead of the European Film Market, which runs from February 16-22. FilmNation Entertainment will handle international sales of the feature during the market, a…
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How to Watch Amsterdam
From time to time great ensemble casts are built for a silver screen release, and the list of names alone is enough to drag audiences to their theater seats. Recently we have seen strong cast lists assembled in the likes of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood and Spotlight. These films tend to have the…
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Taylor Swift Would Switch Places with Guillermo Del Toro for a Day: ‘Imagine Having that Imagination’
To Taylor Swift, Guillermo del Toro is the real “Mastermind.”The multi-hyphenate Grammy darling raved about the “Shape of Water” Oscar-winning filmmaker during The Hollywood Reporter’s 2022 Women in Entertainment Power 100 Q&a, revealing she would want to trade places with del Toro for a day.“Imagine having that imagination, that visual vocabulary and that astonishing body…
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Box Office: ‘Smile’ Beats ‘Lyle Lyle Crocodile’ as David O. Russell’s ‘Amsterdam’ Flops
David O. Russell’s star-studded period drama “Amsterdam” collapsed in its box office debut, earning an anemic 6.5 million from 3,005 North American theaters. The movie, which cost 80 million to produce, couldn’t overcome bad reviews and minimal buzz and is shaping up to be one of the biggest misfires of the year.This weekend’s other newcomer…
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Box Office: ‘Smile’ Outpacing ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ for No. 1 as ‘Amsterdam’ Bombs
There’s one key question gripping the world this weekend: will the box office be smiling, or will it be Lyling?Sony’s “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” had hopes to challenge for the top slot at the box office this weekend, though it seems that the family comedy won’t be able to outpace the second weekend of Paramount’s smash…
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‘Amsterdam’ Review: Three Amigos Try to Save America in David O. Russell’s Ungainly Period Dramedy
“A lot of this really happened,” teases the opening card of David O. Russell’s unruly ensemble comedy “Amsterdam,” a loony early-’30s social satire that goes cartwheeling through a little-remembered episode in American history when fascists tried to overthrow the U.S. government. Russell clearly sees parallels between this alarming chapter of the nation’s past and our…
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‘Amsterdam’ Review: David O. Russell’s Star-Studded Plea for Kindness Rings Hollow
A star-studded new historical comedy that’s amusing at best, noxious at worst, and frantically self-insistent upon its own negligible entertainment value at all times as it strains to find the beauty in the mad tapestry of life? That’s right: David O. Russell is back. And while the volatile director’s recent work has been damning enough…
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Oscars 2023: Best Actor Predictions
We keep updating these predictions through the awards season, so keep checking IndieWire for all our 2023 Oscar picks. Nominations voting is from January 12 to January 17, 2023, with official Oscar nominations announced on January 24, 2023. The final voting is March 2 through 7, 2023. And finally, the 94th Oscars telecast will be…
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NBC Postpones Release of ‘New Amsterdam’ Episode About Fictional New York Pandemic
NBC medical drama “New Amsterdam” has decided to postpone airing an upcoming episode that would’ve focused on a fictional deadly flu pandemic in New York City.Deadline reported that the series, created by David Schulner, had already shot an episode titled “Pandemic,” (later renamed “Our Doors Are Always Open”). Schulner supported the network’s decision and provided…