A new book details it. “For all the fun it looked like everyone was having, it turns out the climate behind the scenes wasn’t always such a joy. (Though, to be clear, there was plenty of that, too. Tired joy, to read the staffers’ accounts. But joy nonetheless.)”
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The Great Passion Project Of Martin Scorsese’s Career Is About — A 17th-Century Jesuit In Japan? Why?
“He is known for his gangster pictures; he is a grandmaster of the profane. From the beginning, he has revealed himself to be an artist of intensely Catholic preoccupations, and the poisoned arrow of religious conflict runs straight through his career.”
These Are The Biggest Hollywood Flops Of 2016
Comedies accounted for 50% of the flops on this year’s list of least profitable movies. The worst performing funny film: horror comedy Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which made back just 58% ($16.4 million) of its estimated $28 million production budget at the box office.
Epic Movie About Legendary World War II Battle Opens In Russia, And People Argue About The Truth
And they’re arguing less about whether the version of the story in the film is true than about whether the truth matters.
‘Fantastic Riches And Where To Find Them’ – How To Keep J.K. Rowling’s Astoundingly Successful Enterprise Growing
“A film franchise is like a shark: it must keep moving forward or die. Now that the goldmine of Harry Potter has been largely exhausted after eight phenomenally successful films, the baton has been picked up …”
The Religious Movie Boom You Probably Haven’t Heard About
You’ll remember Mel Gibson‘s The Passion of the Christ, and you probably know about the recent biblical epics Noah and Exodus: Gods and Kings and this year’s Jesus bopics, The Young Messiah, Risen and Last Days in the Desert. There’s a similar trend in Middle Eastern cinema covering the early days of Islam.
The Mystery Of A Long Lost Paul Newman Masterpiece And How A Film Detective Tracked It Down
“The saga includes an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor and film director, his much-younger, Russian-born Chekhov-loving fiancée, a dying actor’s wish, a friend of Allen Ginsberg, a one-line New York Times review, and the deep, dark closets in New York, Los Angeles and Paris, where the coffee-colored, bruised-looking box holding the film languished for more than 50 years.”
The Companies (Google, Facebook, Microsoft) Remaking Themselves Around Artificial Intelligence
Every big tech company is trying to spread artificial intelligence throughout every step of its business, but it’s hard to find people who can work well with AI: “Everyday coders won’t do. Deep neural networking is a very different way of building computer services.”
Can Netflix Win Over Its Harshest Critics, That Is, Pretty Much Everyone In France?
France really, really does not like Netflix. But Netflix is like a particularly persistent puppy, and it keeps going back and back to France with new and different ideas (and big eyes and a wagging tail). Did it get things right this year?
Why Did Maui The Demigod In ‘Moana’ Get So Enormous? Is This An Ugly Polynesian Stereotype? Not At All, Say The Creators
Disney’s animators – who took a lot of care to consult Hawaiians, Samoans and other Polynesians while developing the film – explain how the character got to look the way he did over a five-year process.