Tag: La La Land
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Oscars: With PGA Victory, ‘Green Book’ Becomes Best Picture Frontrunner
Save for a pair of recent back-to-back discrepancies in “The Big Short” and “La La Land,” the Producers Guild’s Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Theatrical Motion Pictures has been a fairly reliable barometer for the annual Oscar season outcome. At least, ever since both the PGA and film Academy expanded their top categories, sharing the…
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Exclusive: ‘First Man’ Composer Justin Hurwitz on Grief, the Moon Landing, and the Theremin
How do you combine overwhelming grief and wild ambition to result in a phenomenally melodic film score? Just ask Justin Hurwitz, the composer behind the Neil Armstrong drama First Man. This isn’t Hurwitz’s first collaboration with director Damien Chazelle, as the two were college roommates at Harvard and have been working together ever since. And…
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David Oyelowo: ‘We don’t give black and brown actors the chance to fail’
A new BBC documentary explores race and Hollywood in the wake of Moonlight’s Oscar win. The actor, along with other film-makers, asks whether that moment actually made a difference“There’s a mistake. Moonlight. You guys won best picture. This is not a joke. Come up here.” The fiasco of the 2017 Oscars, when retro musical La…
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‘First Man’ IMAX Featurette Reveals Why This Movie is Best on the Giant Screen
This weekend brings First Man to theaters, the latest film from Whiplash and La La Land director Damien Chazelle. However, this time around the director trades in jazz for the wonder of space as he tells the story of Neil Armstrong’s journey from the Earth to the moon. And he does it all with the…
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‘First Man’ Launches With $1.1 Million at Thursday Box Office
Universal Pictures’ “First Man” grossed $1.1 million in previews on Thursday from 2,850 theaters, of which $370,000 came from IMAX screens.The studio is projecting an opening weekend of $15-18 million, with independent trackers pushing their expectations up to $20 million. In comparison, Tom Hanks’ “Bridge of Spies” took in $600,000 before it grossed $15.4 million…
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‘First Man’: Shooting the Moon in IMAX to Heighten Neil Armstrong’s Death-Defying Journey
The challenge for Damien Chazelle in dramatizing the historic moon landing was taking us where we had never been before — inside Neil Armstrong’s (Ryan Gosling) mind as he walked along the alien surface in a state of serenity. The decision, therefore, to shoot the climactic sequence in IMAX was a no brainer, since the…
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First ‘Aladdin’ Poster Teases Disney’s Live-Action Remake
Today, Will Smith shared the first Aladdin poster for Disney’s live-action remake, where Smith will take over the iconic role of Genie. As Smith wrote for the poster’s caption: “Lemme Out!! Can’t wait for y’all to see me Blue!” 10,000 years is a long time. The upcoming feature will be directed by Guy Ritchie, and…
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Damien Chazelle: ‘I liked doing something that was the polar opposite of La La Land’
The Oscar-winning director on his new movie about the 1969 moon landing, that infamous best film mix-up, and finding time for a honeymoonDamien Chazelle, 33, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, to a Canadian mother (a history teacher) and a French father (a computer science professor). He released his first feature film, the jazz musical…
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‘First Man’ Expected to Launch to $20 Million Box Office Opening
A week after WB fires the first big salvo at the awards season box office with “A Star Is Born,” Universal will enter the fray with the Apollo 11 biopic “First Man,” directed by “La La Land” filmmaker Damien Chazelle and starring Ryan Gosling as famed astronaut Neil Armstrong.Early tracking for the film dropped on…
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Codeblack Buys Gugu Mbatha-Raw’s ‘Fast Color,’ Sets March Release
Codeblack Film has acquired Julia Hart’s supernatural drama “Fast Color” starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw. It will release on March 29 in partnership with AMC Independent.The film, which premiered in March at SXSW, is produced and written by Oscar nominee Jordan Horowitz (“La La Land”) and Hart under their Original Headquarters label. Mickey Liddell and Pete Shilaimon…