Tag: Scarlett Johansson
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What Netflix’s ‘Live to 100’ Gets Right (& Wrong) About Immortality
About 50 floors up, in Tokyo’s Park Hyatt’s New York Bar — the very bar where Scarlett Johansson’s and Bill Murray’s characters first meet in Lost in Translation — is where I found myself one August night. The Park Hyatt, one of the best hotels in the city, was out of my price range as…
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Sofia Coppola: ‘I’m Not Going to Think About’ Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray’s Age Gap in ‘Lost in Translation’
Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation” is a film that greatly benefitted from being released before online discourse consumed pop culture. The arthouse classic, which offers a nuanced depiction of a fleeting connection between two lonely travelers (played by Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson), could have easily been consumed by debates about the ethics of age…
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Sofia Coppola Got ‘Scolded’ at ‘Lost in Translation’ Premiere by Spike Jonze’s Friend Michel Gondry, Who ‘Apologized’; She’s Never Watched ‘Her’
Fresh off the world premiere of her last directorial effort, “Priscilla,” at the Venice Film Festival (where star Cailee Spaeny won best actress), Sofia Coppola joined Rolling Stone to reflect on the 20th anniversary of her beloved “Lost in Translation.”Coppola, whose script for “Lost in Translation” won the Oscar for original screenplay, partly used the…
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Disney Accused of ‘Self-Dealing’ by Fox Slate Financier
Tsg Entertainment, which has invested more than $3 billion in 140 Fox films including “Avatar: The Way of Water” and “The Shape of Water,” accused Disney in a lawsuit on Tuesday of using Hollywood accounting tricks to cheat it out of hundreds of millions of dollars.The slate financier alleged that Disney had engaged in “self-dealing”…
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Why Wasn’t Emily Blunt Black Widow?
By now, we all closely associate Scarlett Johansson with the role of Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, an assassin spy-turned-heroic-Avenger in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Debuting in Iron Man 2, she’s recurred across the franchise in multiple team-up ventures before ending with Black Widow, the character’s posthumous solo film. Spurring widespread speculation, many have long…
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Lucrecia Martel Rips Into Marvel Movies For Their “Very Ugly” Sound: “The Way Music Is Used Is Actually Horrible”
Once upon a time, after “Zama” wowed audiences at the Venice Film Festival, Marvel Studios had its eye on Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel to direct “Black Widow.” The short version: Marvel wanted a woman to helm the Scarlett Johansson vehicle, and they met with several female filmmakers about the movie in 2018. Martel wasn’t interested,…
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‘Asteroid City’: Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Jeffrey Wright & More Talk Uncertainty, Meaning & Wes Anderson’s Stargazing Creation
Already in limited release, Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” opens in a wider release this weekend, Friday, June 23. Essentially split into two parts, the film centers on a grieving father (Jason Schwartzman) who travels with his tech-obsessed family to a small rural ‘Asteroid City’ to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to have his…