Tag: Project Greenlight
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‘Project Greenlight’ Dismantles the Hollywood Myth of Female Director Scarcity
“No one sets out to make a bad movie,” Gina Prince-Blythewood said directly on a Zoom with IndieWire.She’s speaking for everyone in Hollywood, but especially for herself, Issa Rae, and Kumail Nanjiani; the three executive producers and mentors on Season 4 of “Project Greenlight,” which Max recently rebooted with fresh new talent. This time, “Greenlight”…
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‘Gray Matter’ Review: Latest ‘Project Greenlight’ Film Plays It Far Too Safe
If she could do “Project Greenlight” again, executive producer Issa Rae told IndieWire, she wouldn’t do a genre film.On the same day that Max dropped the 10-episode reality series about a first-time filmmaker’s journey to the screen, the streamer also dropped “Gray Matter,” the sci-fi thriller that director Meko Winbush shot in 18 days while…
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All 100 Movies Coming to Max in July
Max will enter its second full month after transitioning from HBO Max in late May, and July looks to be one exciting month for the service. Not only will they be streaming exciting new series like Steven Soderbergh’s star-studded limited series Full Circle, the animated series My Adventures with Superman, and the reboot of Project…
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Matt Damon’s Publicity Tour Has Soured. How Will That Impact ‘Stillwater’ and ‘The Last Duel’?
This weekend, Matt Damon opened Tom McCarthy’s drama “Stillwater” to a respectable $5 million on 2,531 screens. For the amount of attention that’s currently being paid to the film, it might as well have been released in a church basement. Damon, however, is now a human lightning rod in the face of his own father-daughter…