Tag: The King
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‘The King’ Reigns Over Mixed Weekend of Openers; ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Expands Robustly: Specialty Box Office
With summer tentpoles in full thrust, specialty distributors are maintaining their seasonal role offering up alternative programming for moviegoers not dazzled by the latest studio blitz.The final full weekend of June included at least a half dozen new limited titles, headlined by Sundance’s The King by Eugene Jarecki, which Oscilloscope opened in two Manhattan locations…
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Christopher Plummer Crosses ‘Boundaries’; Eugene Jarecki Drives ‘The King’ – Specialty B.O. Preview
Two very different road trip movies are among this weekend’s Specialty theatrical debuts. After its world premiere at SXSW and later festival showings in Seattle as well as Nantucket this weekend, Sony Pictures Classics is opening father-daughter journey, Boundaries by Shana Feste in New York and L.A. Oscilloscope, meanwhile, is bowing doc, The King by…
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Trailer Round-Up: ‘Down A Dark Hall’, ‘The King’, ‘Dallas and Robo’, ‘Damsel’ and More
You wan’t trailers? You’ve got trailers, baby. Here’s a movie trailer round-up featuring the latest coming attractions you may have missed. And if you didn’t miss them, just pretend you did and watch them anyway. Please, humor me. Below you’ll see trailers for the Uma Thurman film Down A Dark Hall, the documentary The King,…
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Patricia Morison, Star of the Original ‘Kiss Me, Kate,’ Dies at 103
Patricia Morison, the glamorous star who originated the role of the shrewish actress diva in the delightful 1948 Cole Porter musical Kiss Me, Kate, has died. She was 103.Morison, who also appeared on stage opposite Yul Brynner in The King and I in such films as The Song of Bernadette (1943), died Sunday at her…
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How Rodgers and Hammerstein Shaped the Hollywood Musical (and Almost Killed It in the Process)
Over the course of their careers, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein wrote hundreds of songs. They created Oklahoma!, Carousel, The King and I, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music — and in the process, they revolutionized musicals as we knew them. In the new book Something Wonderful, Todd S. Purdum examines the pair’s prolific…
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Joel Edgerton Joins Timothee Chalamet in Netflix Drama ‘The King’
Joel Edgerton is set to star opposite Call Me by Your Name star Timothee Chalamet in The King for Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.Edgerton, known for his roles in Loving, Black Mass and The Gift, was already a co-writer on The King with director David Michod and joins Chalamet, who was earlier announced to…
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Joel Edgerton to Star With Timothee Chalamet in Netflix’s King Henry V Film (Exclusive)
Joel Edgerton will star opposite “Call Me by Your Name’s” Timothee Chalamet in Netflix’s “The King.”The Plan B-produced drama is directed by “War Machine” helmer David Michod.Edgerton was already on board as a writer on the movie, co-penning the script with Michod. Edgerton and Michod have a long-standing relationship dating back to their career-making turns…
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‘The Walking Dead’ Review: The Show Finally Finds Its Conscience In Mid-Season Premiere
[Editor’s Note: Spoilers for “The Walking Dead” Season 8, Episode 9, “Honor” follow.]Whose Episode Is It?Well, Carl’s the one dying, so he understandably dominates “Honor.” The good news is that “Honor” is one of the better “Walking Dead” episodes this season, with solid thematic cohesion and actual emotional stakes. Yes, Carl’s death is dragged out…
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‘The King’ Maker Eugene Jarecki Signs With Anonymous Content, Books Deal With Sterling Lord Literistic
Exclusive: Eugene Jarecki, who debuted his new film The King at the Sundance Film Festival, has signed with Anonymous Content and Sterling Lord Literistic, the latter of whom will team with the filmmaker on a book based on his Elvis Presley road-trip documentary. David Kanter and Howie Sanders of Anonymous Content will represent the Peabody-…
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Oscar Breakout Timothée Chalamet to Play Henry V in Netflix’s ‘The King’
At 22, Timothée Chalamet became the Oscar’s youngest Best Actor nominee in almost 80 years for his revelatory performance in Luca Guadagnino’s coming-of-age romance, Call Me By Your Name. How do you follow that up? By putting on a crown. On Netflix. Chalamet will play King Henry V in the Netflix feature film The King,…