Category: media

The casting director for “12 Years a Slave” says finding the right actors for the epic historical film meant looking outside the usual pool.

Is the movie series – and the book trilogy that inspired it – about the 99%, the Tea Party, the Second Amendment, libertarian programmers, or what?

“The proposal was insanely ambitious–real people, alone or in groups, dance to the song, essentially creating an entire day’s worth of music videos–and therefore riddled with creative challenges.”

“He has been Nelson Mandela’s confidant in prison and his main protector as president. He has watched the liberation leader go from a womanizing gallivant to a statesman who stitched together a torn nation. Tony Kgoroge has seen this history unfold like a movie. Well, actually, two movies.”

“So we know that scalable distribution results in a winner-takes-all phenomenon where a few players take an overwhelming share of the rewards in their market, leaving very little for the median players. The question is, can we predict or create these hits with any consistency?”

“A rolling realignment has knocked out top executives, broken apart old alliances and shattered assumptions about corporate loyalties and the industry’s pecking order.”

“Multiplexes account for just 8 per cent of India’s 12,000 screens but rake in a third of total box office receipts.”

“It is the film project that refuses to die in the face of freak storms, wholesale cast changes and struggles with Hollywood financiers. Terry Gilliam has once again vowed to bring his long-awaited, regularly abandoned” script The Man Who Killed Don Quixote “to the big screen almost a decade and a half after it was supposed to wrap.”

“Before turning to gambling, [Gonzalo] García Pelayo was a prolific director during the key period of Spain’s transition to democracy, and onward into the 1980s. … But then his film career withered. Now, the [Vienna Film Festival’s] organizers are hoping to renew interest in a body of work that is unknown internationally (and less known in Spain than [his] gambling exploits).”