Tag: The Apartment
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‘Priscilla’ Set to Become Mubi’s Biggest Box Office Hit Ever With $5 Million Grossed Internationally in First Week (Exclusive)
After just one weekend of international release, “Priscilla” — Sofia Coppola’s biopic starring Jacob Elordi as Elvis Presley and Cailee Spaeny as The King’s (then) teenage bride “Priscilla” — has already hit several major milestones for arthouse streamer and distributor Mubi.Produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment, the film currently sits on a box office in excess…
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Fremantle execs talk film strategy and upcoming films from Paolo Sorrentino and Pablo Larrain
The company has also unveiled an Israel-based €150m fund for film and scripted TV projects.With five films playing in competition, European production and distribution group Fremantle is enjoying a strong presence at this year’s Venice Film Festival.Fremantle’s Ireland-uk label Element Pictures is behind one of the hottest films on the Lido this year, Yorgos Lanthimos’…
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10 Things I Hate About You: We Need More Grand Serenades in Movies
Romantic comedies will always have a special place in people’s hearts for many reasons. A lot of them may not have the grandest of plots, but they are still filled with love and the right amount of cheesiness. There’s just something about rom-coms that make you feel giddy as if you were a little kid…
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Jack Lemmon’s ‘Worst’ Career Moment Would Be Any Actor’s Nightmare
In addition to being one of the greatest actors of his generation, Jack Lemmon was also one of the more prolific. From the start of his film career in 1954 up until his appearance in Blake Edwards’ “Days of Wine and Roses” in 1962, Lemmon appeared in 18 feature films, excellent in each one. By…
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Jack Lemmon Was The Only Actor Who Could Make The Apartment Work
“The Apartment” doesn’t fit neatly into any film genre, let alone into the saccharine fare often reserved for Christmas time. Melancholy, satirical, and biting, it’s neither a sweet rom-com nor a straight drama. Even with its dark edges, there is something comforting about Billy Wilder’s 1960 film, like sitting inside a snug apartment on a…
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How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood
The new film ‘Mr Wilder & Me’ reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fledSome Like It Hot, Double Indemnity and The Apartment were just some of the classics that made Billy Wilder one of the most successful and lauded directors in Hollywood.But…
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Billy Wilder: from poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar
The director’s newly translated writings reveal how his life as a penniless reporter shaped his hit moviesIn an arresting scene from one of director Billy Wilder’s most famous films, Some Like It Hot, Marilyn Monroe sashays along a Chicago railway station platform in a figure-hugging outfit, leaving Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis gobsmacked.Until now, few…
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‘Spinster’ Review: Chelsea Peretti-Starring Anti-Romcom Overcomes a Disastrous First Act
For its first act, it appears as if Andrea Dorfman’s “Spinster” is really leaning into an anti-romcom ethos, offering up a standard “sad gal can’t find a mate!” plot with a big twist (what if said sad gal was kind of a jerk and perhaps not even deserving of love?). Such is the prickly start…