Tag: Sorry to Bother You
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Armie Hammer on the Art of Snorting (Fake) Cocaine on Camera
Armie Hammer learned a very specific skill while filming “Sorry to Bother You.”He plays a corrupt CEO in Boots Riley’s absurdist dark comedy, a role that required him to snort a long line of cocaine. Of course, the on-screen substance wasn’t real, but a little movie-making magic meant he didn’t actually have to inhale the…
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Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson on Sex at the Movies
Armie Hammer and Dakota Johnson sat down for a chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors. For more, click here.Dakota Johnson has become the muse for Italian auteur Luca Guadagnino. In this year’s remake of the horror thriller “Suspiria,” their second collaboration after “A Bigger Splash,” Johnson plays a dancer who enrolls in a company from…
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Now Stream This: ‘First Reformed’, ‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’, ‘Mandy’, ‘Sorry To Bother You’ and More
(Welcome to Now Stream This, a column dedicated to the best movies streaming on Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and every other streaming service out there.) There’s a very long holiday weekend on the way. That means one thing: spending time with family! Just kidding – it actually means you now have an excuse to stay inside…
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Timothée Chalamet Saves ‘Beautiful Boy,’ But What Will Happen to ‘First Man’? — IndieWire’s Movie Podcast
It’s a busy week for new releases, as Timothée Chalamet grapples with drug addiction in “Beautiful Boy,” while Damien Chazelle’s lunar epic “First Man” finally makes its way into theaters, and Paul Greengrass’ harrowing depiction of the mass shooting in Norway “22 July” makes its way to Netflix. None of these movies are guaranteed commercial…
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‘Sorry to Bother You’: Boots Riley Pitched a Movie About Sidney Poitier as a Serial Killer to Make His Actual Movie Sound Normal
Boots Riley’s riotous satire of capitalism and racial biases, “Sorry to Bother You,” was a sensation at the Sundance Film Festival and a surprise summer hit. Made for $5 million, the veteran musician’s first feature has grossed close to $18 million in North America, with the story of a wayward telemarketer (Lakeith Stanfield) using his…
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Boots Riley Criticizes Spike Lee’s Portrayal of Cops in ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Calls the Real Ron Stallworth a ‘Villain’
For the second time this week, “Sorry to Bother You” director Boots Riley has taken issue with “BlacKkKlansman.” Spike Lee’s latest is among the most well-received films of the year, even winning the Grand Prix at Cannes in May, and though Riley praises the “masterful craftwork” he nevertheless felt compelled to write what he calls…
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‘Eighth Grade’ Rules Indie Box Office With Top Screen Average of 2018
“Eighth Grade” is already scoring high marks.The feature debut from writer-director Bo Burnham launched this weekend with $255,000. Its debut was especially noteworthy given the film opened in just four theaters, translating to a per-screen-average of $63,071. That was enough to top the record previously held by Fox Searchlight’s “Isle of Dogs.” Wes Anderson’s stop-motion…
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‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ Tops Weekend Box Office While ‘Skyscraper’ Struggles
Sony Animation’s Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation continued the franchise tradition of debuting atop the weekend box office and doing so with over $40 million over the three-day. The weekend also featured a strong expansion from Annapurna’s Sorry to Bother You, which landed in seventh position on the weekend chart, but unfortunately for Universal’s Skyscraper,…
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How ‘Sorry To Bother You’ Explores the Pitfalls of Capitalism
“An economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market.” Boots Riley’s film Sorry To Bother You is a film people have been buzzing about for…
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‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ & ‘Skyscraper’ Aim to Top Weekend Box Office
This weekend sees the release of Sony’s animated feature Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation, marking the first time a film in the franchise has hit theaters during the summer season, and the latest Dwayne Johnson actioner Skyscraper from Universal and Legendary. Also keep your eyes on Annapurna’s Sorry to Bother You, which is expanding nationwide…