Tag: The King of Comedy
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Why Robert De Niro and Joaquin Phoenix Didn’t Get Along on ‘Joker’
Todd Phillips’ 2019 comic book movie Joker is either a wonderful homage to the work of Martin Scorsese or a complete ripoff of the great filmmaker’s work, depending on which movie fan you ask. The film draws heavy inspiration from Scorsese’s classic crime movies Taxi Driver and The King of Comedy, and there’s certainly a…
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Why Joker ‘Required’ Heavy Police Presence At Its LA And NY Showings
Todd Phillips’ 2019 film “Joker” more or less took the same approach to the famous DC Comics villain that filmmaker Christopher Nolan took with Batman in his 2005 film “Batman Begins.” Both took a look at a wild, outlandish character and asked what would have to happen in the real world to create such a…
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Martin Scorsese Remembers The Band Guitarist Robbie Robertson, Dead at 80: ‘A Constant in My Life and Work’
Robbie Robertson, a founder of The Band and a collaborator for both Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, died August 9 at the age of 80. Robertson was Scorsese’s music producer starting with 1982’s “The King of Comedy” and they most recently worked together on “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which Apple and Paramount will open…
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Joker review – an ace turn from Joaquin Phoenix
A mesmerising lead performance gives Todd Phillips’s divisive reimagining of the comic villain raw powerSince opening to an eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice film festival in August, where it scooped the top prize, Todd Phillips’s origins picture about the birth of Batman’s cackling nemesis has become the focus of a moral backlash, with critics…
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‘Joker’ Makes $13.3 Million at Thursday Box Office to Break October Record
“Joker” just put a smile on its face, as the supervillain origin story starring Joaquin Phoenix earned a record $13.3 million on Thursday night, beating out the previous record for the month of October set last year by “Venom.”Warner Bros. and DC are projecting that “Joker” will earn between $75-80 million when it opens on…
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‘Joker’ Film Review: Joaquin Phoenix Channels Classic Robert De Niro in Grungy ’70s Homage
When Martin Scorsese directed “Taxi Driver” in 1976 and “The King of Comedy” in 1982, he was commenting directly on the contemporary world and on the damaged individuals trying to survive in it. When director Todd Phillips chose to set “Joker” in a 1981 that very much resembles those films (it’s Gotham City as “Fun…
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‘Joker’ Movie: ‘Deadpool 2’ Actress Zazie Beetz in Talks to Join Joaquin Phoenix (Exclusive)
Zazie Beetz is moving from absurd superheroics to a supervillain character drama.The actress, who co-starred in Deadpool 2, is in talks to join Joaquin Phoenix in Joker, the stand-alone origin project from Warner Bros. and The Hangover helmer Todd Phillips.Phoenix is portraying the DC Comics villain in a film that is more moderately budgeted and…