Tag: Little Women
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Korea Box Office: ‘Honest Candidate’ Wins Weekend as ‘Parasite’ Returns to Chart
Opening on Wednesday (Feb. 12), comedy “Honest Candidate” topped the South Korean box office, ahead of “Little Women” and Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite” which returned to the charts eight months after its original release.“Candidate” earned $6.52 million from 909,000 admissions over five days. Directed by Chang You-jeong (“Finding Mr. Destiny”), “Candidate” is the story of a…
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Paramount’s ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ speeds to $100m at global box office
Little Women approaching $200m worldwide.Paramount returned to winning ways as Sonic The Hedgehog delivered a mighty debut for a video game adaptation and ruled global and international box office on an estimated $100m and $43m, respectively.In its second weekend Warner Bros’ Birds Of Prey leaped towards $150m worldwide, multiple Oscar winner 1917 is about to…
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Hollywood Companies Work Around Coronavirus Amid Travel Bans, Office Closures
As panic roils mainland China and fear escalates throughout globe over the spread of coronavirus, Hollywood studios and content production companies are ramping up their efforts to respond to the human and economic impact of a potential pandemic.This past Tuesday, as Sony Pictures Entertainment shook off its Oscar hangover from wins for “Once Upon a…
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Laura Dern After Academy Award Win: ‘If I Could Give This Oscar to Greta Gerwig, I Would Do It Right Now’
Laura Dern picked up her first Academy Award on Sunday night for her supporting performance in Noah Baumbach’s Best Picture nominee “Marriage Story.” She also starred in another Best Picture nominee, “Little Women,” for director Greta Gerwig. After her Oscar win, Dern came backstage and spoke to interview press to address the elephant in the…
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Amy Pascal on Producing a ‘Radical’ Version of ‘Little Women’
With “Little Women,” producer Amy Pascal has scored her second Oscar nomination (after “The Post”). Writer-director Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott is only the third best picture nominee ever to be produced, written and directed solely by women, following “The Piano” and “Winter’s Bone.” Pascal has another distinction: Of the nine nominated films…
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Baftas 2020: the red carpet, the frocks, the ceremony and winners – live!
It’s the biggest night of the year in British cinema. Join us to find out who’s wearing what, whether incoming host Graham Norton manages to make us forget the horror of Joanna Lumley – and who’s won this year’s prizes7.24pm GMTFor spring/summer 2020 sexy necklines with an architectural twist are big, and Charlize Theron, has…
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Why Little Women should win the best picture Oscar
Greta Gerwig’s remake of the classic is a clever balance of staying true to Louisa May Alcott and updating her feminismThis article contains spoilersGreta Gerwig embarked upon her remake of Little Women with fanatical attention to detail. She took the cast on tours of Louisa May Alcott’s home in Concord, Massachusetts, and wangled the budget…
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Greta Gerwig Shines at Santa Barbara Film Festival ‘It Starts With the Script’ Panel — Video
The Santa Barbara International Film Festival “It Starts With the Script” panel is always my favorite panel of the year, with the year’s most lauded and gifted screenwriters.Some of this year’s gang wrote scripts about real people. Writers Guild Award nominee Noah Harpster wrote “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” about children’s television host Fred…
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‘Little Women’s Greta Gerwig & ‘Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge Win USC Scripter Awards
Greta Gerwig took home top honors Saturday night at the 32nd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Little Women, her adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel.“Little Women is the book of my life — reading and re-reading this book made my the woman I am today,” Gerwig said. “This is extraordinary. I am very…