Ed Mintz, a mathematician who created an exit polling system for films called CinemaScore, which asks people leaving theaters on opening nights to grade the movies they have just seen — a precursor of the website Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates and scores critics’ opinions — died on Feb. 6 in
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Gene Wilder and Frida Kahlo in Their Own Words in 2 New Films
Famous artists are a favorite subject for documentaries right now — probably because people love to watch them. And there are a lot of different ways to tell the story of someone’s life; the more famous they were, the more tools at the filmmaker’s fingertips. Take, for instance, the new
Report: Audiences demand diversity in films, Hollywood can do more
The Hollywood sign is pictured on March 6 near the Dolby Theatre, the site of Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption toggle caption Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP The Hollywood sign is pictured on March 6 near the Dolby Theatre, the site of Sunday’s 96th Academy Awards in
Warner Bros. shelved 'Coyote vs. Acme.' Here's why some finished films are mothballed
Wile E. Coyote and actor Will Forte are seen in a still image from the film Coyote vs. Acme. Eric Bauza, another actor in the film, posted the image online in December. WarnerBros. Discovery via Eric Bauza Back in November, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it was not planning to release
4 Books That Inspired Oscar-Nominated Films
The Oscars are coming up, and several of the nominated films are based on books. Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review, recommends a few of them. Source link
‘Saltburn’ Mansion Has Film’s Fans Flocking to the English Countryside
Drayton House, a privately owned mansion with more than a hundred rooms, has stood in Northamptonshire, England, for close to 700 years. For most of those seven centuries, the manor was a silent countryside presence, known mostly to locals or experts with a penchant for viewing beautiful homes owned by
Interview: Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve on the ‘Dune’ Films
The director Denis Villeneuve and the actor Timothée Chalamet bound into the room talking at, and over, each other in rapid French. Villeneuve is from Quebec; Chalamet was born in New York City but has dual American and French citizenship. Together, they’re a dynamic tag team dressed near-identically in head-to-toe
‘The 2024 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Small Running Times, Large Themes
This year’s Oscar-nominated animated shorts — sobering tales of war, assault, trauma, identity and regret — ask the question, what tools can filmmakers use to tell a poignant, but not exploitative or gratuitous, story about trauma? The novel technique the directors Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess use in “Ninety-Five Senses”
Don Murray, a Star in Films That Took on Social Issues, Dies at 94
Don Murray, the boy-next-door actor who made his film debut as Marilyn Monroe’s infatuated cowboy in “Bus Stop” in 1956 and played a priest, a drug addict, a gay senator and myriad other roles in movies, on television and onstage over six decades, has died at 94. His son Christopher
Sandra Milo, Who Had Star Turns in Fellini Films, Dies at 90
Ms. Milo had three children by two partners, and her private life was often fodder for tabloids and glossy magazines. With gaps of varying lengths — including a lull that began in the late 1960s when she raised her children — she worked until her death, most recently on reality