Tag: Wes Anderson
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Wes Anderson to Be Honored at Venice Film Festival Ahead of ‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ Premiere
Wes Anderson will be honored at the 80th Venice Film Festival, which runs Aug. 30-Sept. 9. The U.S. director will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which is given to “a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.”The awards ceremony will take place on Sept. 1 in…
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‘Asteroid City’ Debuts on PVOD and Joins the Ranks of Summer Box-Office Hits
Franchises in theaters are showing their age, but they’re a sure bet at home. This week’s VOD charts have “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” (Paramount) and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” (Disney), both $19.99, battling for top spot. The Hasbro action film is #1 at Vudu and iTunes, while the latest Marvel entry remains…
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‘Asteroid City’ Global Box Office Reaches to New Altitudes
Even after the film was released to digital platforms last week, it looks like Asteroid City is still deepening its crater at the worldwide box office. The latest Wes Anderson project has just passed $43 million at the worldwide box office, bringing in $17.1 million so far internationally, and $26.3 million domestically. The film is…
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As ‘The Flash’ Collapses, This Weekend Set the Wrong Kind of Box-Office Record
On a weekend like this one it’s easy to bury the positive news, so let’s start with the good stuff.Three non-franchise original films, all budgeted under $50 million, saw credible results. Sony’s “No Hard Feelings” with Jennifer Lawrence, an R-rated comedy, did around 25 percent better than pre-release estimates. Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” (Focus) proved…
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Wes Anderson’s Next Film Is An Father/Daughter Espionage Film Featuring Benicio Del Toro & A “Darker Tone”
Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” is in wide release this weekend (read our review), and as we’ve noted over the last few weeks, the filmmaker is moving at a quick pace never seen before in his career. 2022 and 2023 saw back-to-back Cannes premieres, “The French Dispatch” and “Asteroid City,” and later this year, he will…
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Asteroid City review – smug Wes Anderson comedy falls to earth
The writer-director’s knowing meta-tale set in a space-obsessed 1950s desert town has a starry cast and meticulous attention to detail, but its studied quirkiness is often more irritating than amusingNo one goes to a Wes Anderson movie expecting heartfelt melodrama or realistic human emotions and interactions. They go for intricately crafted doll’s house dramas featuring…
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Streaming: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical and the best adaptations of classic children’s books
The latest all-singing version of Matilda, now on Netflix, joins an impressive library of thoughtful film versions of seminal kids’ books, from Paddington to KesThe common wisdom that “the book is usually better than the film” is as true of children’s literature as of its adult counterpart: cinema is stacked with adaptations of children’s classics…
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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…
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‘Asteroid City’ Channeled ‘Bad Day at Black Rock’ for Its ’50s Desert Town — Down to the Tar Paper
If the eponymous mid-’50s southwestern town in Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” resembles the iconic “Bad Day at Black Rock” (1955), it’s no coincidence. Oscar-winning production designer Adam Stockhausen (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”) found John Sturges’ neo-Western, shot in CinemaScope on the edge of Death Valley, a valuable reference for planning the landscape for this Pirandello-like…