“The popularity of Scandi helmers hasn’t gone unnoticed by international talent agents and sales companies. In fact, most buzzed-about Scandinavian directors are repped by Hollywood agents from UTA, WME or CAA and are working on an English-language project if they have not already made one.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
David Oyelowo Had To Tell His Son He Can Be More In Movies Than A White Man’s Best Friend
“It’s because films like Selma are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don’t have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone: ‘Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?’ Benedict Cumberbatch is never asked, ‘What, you’re playing another historical character?'”
This Writer Wrote The Book Gravity, And Sold The Rights To Hollywood – And This Is What Happened Next
“The principles involved go far beyond my individual lawsuit. Every writer who sells film rights to Hollywood must now contend with the possibility that the studio they signed the contract with could be swallowed up by a larger company — and that parent company can then make a movie based on your book without compensating you. It means Hollywood contracts are worthless.”
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Make it new (or don’t bother)
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Theatre Explores What Will Happen If Football Goes Away
“The playwrights wondered whether, as fans, they had some responsibility to the players — and to the future of football itself.”
Flex Dance Is Traveling Far And Away From East New York
“Flex is said to have originated in the 1990s in Jamaica with a dancer who called himself Bruck Up. It developed in Brooklyn, mainly in dance battles and tournaments, both informal and organized. Although the form has found exposure through television competitions and an ocean of online music and dance videos, the attention from the likes of Mr. Sellars is recent.”
‘Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark’ Writer Explains What Really Went Wrong (If Anything Actually Did?)
“What gets lost in this story is how many people actually wound up loving the show. … For a lot of people, because it was Spider-Man, it was their first musical ever, and for some it was kind of a gateway drug. They were turned on to Broadway musicals in a way they hadn’t been before.”
If The U.S. Constitution Isn’t A Sacred Document, What Is It?
“Sealed in moisture-controlled, bullet-proof glass containers that are on display in a special rotunda at the National Archives Museum in Washington DC by day and lowered into a multi-ton bomb-proof vault by night, the Constitution is to the US what the Bible was to medieval Europe or the Qur’an to today’s Islamic State, albeit with certain differences.”
Yes, We Can – And Should – Enjoy The Music Of Richard Strauss
“It seems more and more obvious that the composer’s critics were merely looking for the wrong things.”
The Star Violinist Who Defies Putin’s Russia – And Thinks Western Orchestras Should Too
“She agreed to play in the concert but prepared a gesture of protest that was characteristically elegant. She commissioned an encore for solo violin from a Georgian composer, Igor Loboda, titled ‘Requiem for Ukraine,’ which she performed after her concerto — as Mr. Gergiev stood in the wings.”