News is bleak: Only 14% of the 10,919 silent films released by major studios exist in their original 35mm or other format.
Movie Stars: Walker, Paul–Industry Mourns Fast and Furious Actor
December 1, 2013 by
Rob Cohen, the director of the first “Fast and the Furious” picture, in 2001, recalled actor Paul Walker as a “down-to-earth personality” who was a perfect fit with his career-making role as an undercover cop in the Universal action franchise.
Movie Stars: Highest-Paid Actresses–Reese Witherspoon, Angelina Jolie
August 19, 2013 by
Even though her latest film, “Rendition,” was a flop, Reese Witherspoon is a top moneymaker. The Oscar winner, who is 31, commands $15 million to $20 million a movie, placing her at the top of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual list of the highest-paid actresses. Angelina Jolie came in second with similar salary demands, though the […]
Movie Stars: Garfield, John–Communism, Tragic Death
August 18, 2013 by
John Garfield’s Last Year On May 9, 1952 Garfield moved out of his New York apartment. He told columnist Earl Wilson that he would soon be divorced. Close friends speculated that it was his wife’s opposition to his plotted confession in Look magazine that triggered the separation. He heard that a HUAC investigator was reviewing […]
Indie Companies: A24, New Kid on the Block (Spring Breakers, Bling Ring, Spectacular Now)
The new finance and distribution company A24 acquired three films: Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers, Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring and James Ponsoldt’s The Spectacular Now.