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Ratings Watch: ‘Big Brother,’ ‘Love & Hip Hop Atlanta,’ Macy’s Fireworks Dominate Slow July 4 Week
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The Independence Day holiday fell on a Tuesday this year, putting a bit of a crimp in the mid-week ratings for broadcast and cable networks – but ultimately not impacting summer darling “Big Brother.”
The reality vet’s Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday episodes were the top-rated programs among adults 18-49 for the week ending July 9, 2017, while the Sunday episode was the most-watched show overall with total viewers.
Among premieres, FX touted the July 5 launch of “Snowfall,” which averaged a 1.0 rating with adults 18-49 and 2.24 million total viewers, when three days of DVR and VOD usage is included. Per FX, of the 30 cable drama series premieres year-to-date, the premiere telecast of “Snowfall” ranked in the Top 5 with adults 18-49, adults 18-34 and adults 25-54.
Shows just bubbling under on this chart include TNT’s recently renewed “Claws,” which averaged 2.1 million viewers in its July 9 airing (bumping up 77% when timeshifted viewing is included »
- Michael Schneider
Get Ready For ‘The Incredibles 2’ With This Tribute To Edna Mode
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Ever since its release in 2004, fans have been clamoring for a sequel to “The Incredibles.” The Pixar film about a superhero family was a huge hit for the animation studio, and has become many fans’ favorite from their catalog. Well, after Brad Bird’s brief foray into live-action directing, he’s back to helm “The Incredibles 2” and while we’ll have to wait for a trailer, this tribute to Edna Mode will do just fine.
Continue reading Get Ready For ‘The Incredibles 2’ With This Tribute To Edna Mode at The Playlist. »
- Charles Dean
Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing’ Starring Matt Damon To Open 2017 Venice Film Festival
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We’re just over a month away from the beginning of the fall festival season, that traditionally kicks off with the opening of the Venice Film Festival. Venice tends to land some of the key awards season pictures releasing before the end of the year and the 2017 edition is already no exception. It’s been revealed today that Alexander Payne‘s latest directorial effort, “Downsizing,” will open la Biennale on August 30th.
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- Gregory Ellwood
Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing,’ Starring Matt Damon, Will Open Venice Film Festival
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Look for Matt Damon to turn up on the Lido this year on August 30. That’s because he stars in writer-director Alexander Payne’s comedy “Downsizing,” which will open the Venice International Film Festival, in competition. And Paramount is putting its money down that Payne’s latest will come out of the fall festival season as one of the top contenders in this year’s Oscars race. Payne also directed Oscar contenders “Sideways” and “Nebraska.”
Damon plays an ordinary suburbanite who convinces his wife (Kristen Wiig) to go small– and buy into a richer lifestyle. So they get shrunk. Laura Dern, Christoph Waltz and Jason Sudeikis costar.
Paramount may well decide to take Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” to Venice as well, if not Italy resident George Clooney’s “Suburbicon.” Venice is the first of the fall festivals to launch the official awards season, with Telluride and Toronto on its heels. »
- Anne Thompson
Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Beguiled’: Why Some Critics Brought Out the Knives
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For the most part Sofia Coppola has been spared the coded, patronizing, and often frankly misogynist, criticism leveled at movies by female filmmakers. But that was before the June 23 release of Coppola’s “The Beguiled.” While her overall review rating on Metacritic is 77, something about her rethink of Don Siegel’s 1971 adaptation of the novel by Thomas Cullinan has brought out a few knives.
Some cuts are of the double-standard sort. The same people who love Wes Anderson rip Coppola for being a child of privilege and making movies about those of her class. The same people who love Jason Reitman attack Coppola, implying that she gets work only because she has a father who is a famous director. While Ralph Waldo Emerson said that foolish consistency is a hobgoblin of small minds, this isn’t a consistency of foolishness but of critical fairness.
Is there a reason other than »
- Carrie Rickey
SXSW Thriller ‘Barracuda’ Is a Sinister Drama Coming to Theaters This Fall
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Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.
Orion Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films have acquired the U.S. rights to Julie Halperin and Jason Cortlund’s suspense drama “Barracuda.” The film premiered in competition at SXSW and was nominated for a Grand Jury Award in the Narrative Feature category.
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’ Trailer Breakdown: Sally Hawkins Befriends Doug Jones’ Man-Fish in Gorgeous Fairy Tale
Co-directed by Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin and written by Cortlund, “Barracuda” stars Allison Tolman, Sophie Reid, JoBeth Williams and Luis Bordonada and features live music performances by Butch Hancock, Bob Livingston, Colin Gilmore, The Mastersons, and The Harvest Thieves.
The film follows a woman named Merle (Tolman), whose life begins to splinter when »
- Graham Winfrey
‘Spider-Man Homecoming’: How Jon Watts Channeled John Hughes
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When director Jon Watts (“Cop Car”) met with Marvel for the first time about “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” they told him to infuse the reboot with an ’80s John Hughes high school rite of passage focus. Watts was already there: “Pretty in Pink,” “The Breakfast Club,” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” were his touchstones.
“Those were the movies we grew up on,” Watts said. “I remember that age and you’re just constantly screwing up. You don’t know what to do yet, and you don’t know where you fit into the world.”
Capturing the Hughes Vibe
With the decidedly younger Tom Holland making his rough-and-tumble Spidey debut in “Captain America: Civil War,” Watts had a valuable head start with “Homecoming.” This brainy teenage version of the superhero finds himself way in over his head, ditching class, canceling dates, and fumbling his way as a crime fighter. It truly was like channeling the late Hughes. »
- Bill Desowitz
Christopher Nolan Says IMAX Release Of ‘The Dark Knight’ Didn’t Make “A Damn Bit Of Difference”
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Christopher Nolan is doing his press rounds for “Dunkirk,” his upcoming WWII film, which heads into cinemas next week with select theaters showing it in the director’s preferred 70mm format. Naturally, the subject of digital vs. analog has come up, and Nolan has made no secret that he prefers film stock over hard drives. However, it’s an uphill battle against an industry that continues to pursue a digital future, and it’s a lesson Nolan learned the hard way on “The Dark Knight.”
Back in 2008, part of the conversation around his followup to “Batman Begins” was that certain sequences in the superhero flick, including the opening heist by the Joker, were shot in IMAX.
Continue reading Christopher Nolan Says IMAX Release Of ‘The Dark Knight’ Didn’t Make “A Damn Bit Of Difference” at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
‘A Ghost Story’: How Shane Carruth Helped David Lowery Break Free of His Rigid Sense of Time
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At its heart, “A Ghost Story” is a meditation on the enormity of time. It’s a topic writer and director David Lowery has on his mind quite a bit, so much that he can turn simple matters in his personal life into an existential crisis.
“I remember wanting to buy a vintage movie poster on eBay,” said Lowery, when he was a guest on IndieWire’s Filmmaker Toolkit podcast. “[T]hen thinking, well, I shouldn’t spend the money on this because in 200 years I’m going to be dead and a million years after that the poster’s not going to exist anymore, so what’s the point.”
Read More: The 17 Best Indie Movies of 2017 (So Far)
The jumping off point for “A Ghost Story” stemmed from an argument Lowery and his wife were having about moving out of their small rental house in Dallas. Just like with the poster, »
- Chris O'Falt
Christopher Nolan, Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson Have A 70mm Film Support Group
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“Dunkirk” is just one week away from opening in theaters nationwide, and it marks a big step in the career of Christopher Nolan. The director has experimented with using 70mm film for select scenes in his movies dating back to “The Prestige,” but the WWII drama is the first time he used 70mm film for the entire picture. That’s right: 100% of “Dunkirk” was filmed using 70mm film cameras, and 75% was shot using IMAX cameras.
Read More: 15 Essential Movies Shot On 70mm Film, From ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ to ‘Dunkirk’
Nolan has been at the forefront when it comes to advocating about film preservation. He’s constantly talking about the immersive quality of 70mm film and how that texture is lost when you shoot on digital. Nolan’s efforts to revive 70mm have been supported in recent years by Quentin Tarantino (“The Hateful Eight”), Paul Thomas Anderson (“The Master”), Zach »
- Zack Sharf
Guillermo del Toro’s ‘The Shape of Water’ Trailer Breakdown: Sally Hawkins Befriends Doug Jones’ Man-Fish in Gorgeous Fairy Tale
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Fox Searchlight Pictures hasn’t released the trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water” online just yet, but IndieWire caught the two-and-a-half minute teaser on the big screen on Friday, and can confirm that the “fairy tale” starring Doug Jones as a man-fish looks as magical and otherworldly as anything del Toro has ever made.
Read MoreGuillermo del Toro Reveals the One Movie He Wishes He Hadn’t Turned Down — Watch
Set in Cold War–era America circa 1963, the film stars Sally Hawkins as “Elisa,” a mute cleaning lady in a government lab who develops a kinship with Jones’ amphibious-looking creature (who bears a striking resemblance to Abe Sapien from the “Hellboy” series). The entire film seems to be cast in the gorgeous blue-green hue that can be seen on the movie’s teaser poster.
“If I told you about her — the princess without a voice — what would I say? »
- Graham Winfrey
‘Game of Thrones’: Five Theories on Who Will Win and How It All Ends
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“Game of Thrones” is a show that’s always kept us on our toes, year after year, and that’s truer now that we’ve moved beyond adapting George R.R. Martin’s novels and into a 13-episode endgame, stretched across two seasons.
Now that we know how much time we have left in the Seven Kingdoms (at least until the spin-offs start) the question becomes, what will happen when the show ends? While IndieWire may not have the official answers, we have each given serious thought to possible conclusions.
Each member of the TV team has their own theories, based on their own personal opinions and expertise, but the fun thing about “Game of Thrones” is that anything could happen: The crazier the prediction, the more likely it could be right. Season 8 is going to be a doozy.
Read More‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: All the Clues the Cast »
- Liz Shannon Miller, Michael Nordine, Steve Greene, Hanh Nguyen and Ben Travers
Dave Bautista Fights Texan Separatists In New Trailer For ‘Bushwick’
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You might not expect a film starring Dave Bautista to play both the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, but that’s what happened with “Bushwick.” The no-nonsense action thriller seems to have enough pedigree for high profile festival berths, even if it does look a bit ridiculous, at least as far as the premise is concerned.
Co-starring Brittany Snow, and directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott (“Cooties“), the story reimagines the titular, hip Brooklyn neighborhood as ground zero by an invasion of Texan militants.
Continue reading Dave Bautista Fights Texan Separatists In New Trailer For ‘Bushwick’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Christopher Nolan Talks 70mm Club With Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino & Zack Snyder
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As the movie world continues to barrel toward a digital future, there are more than a few, and very prominent, filmmakers who are trying to keep analog formats alive. Christopher Nolan is certainly one of them, and ever since “The Dark Knight,” the director has been playing with larger format film, all the way to this month’s “Dunkirk” which will open on 125 screens in 70mm.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Mogul’: How the Hit Podcast Expertly Presents the Full, Complicated Picture of a Music Icon
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Glamour and introspection don’t always intersect, especially in the realm of documentary. Sometimes, the life and achievements of a particular individual shine so brightly that it’s easy to be blinded to the full effect that one life has on the other people in their orbit. But “Mogul: The Life and Death of Chris Lighty,” the latest podcast from Spotify, Gimlet Media and the Loud Speakers Network, chronicles the life of a hip-hop entrepreneur with awe, concern and a heavy heart.
It’s a tricky combination of emotions that powers a show like this, but finding a delicate, satisfying balance has helped gain some much-deserved notoriety. “Mogul” is one of the most popular new shows in the podcast world, firmly in the top ranks of the iTunes charts and with an additional prominent placement in Spotify’s growing foray into the podcast sphere.
Read More: The 50 Best Podcast Episodes »
- Steve Greene
‘Friends From College’ Review: Do Not Be Distracted by the Beautiful Celebrities, This Netflix Dud is a Zoo
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“Friends From College” is a mess. It’s a messy story with messy structuring and messy characters, and while the last point may sound like an attribute for a mature adult comedy about aging, relationships, and responsibilities, be warned: These characters won’t stimulate fresh thought or delight you with their quirks. They’re scattered, illogical, and subservient to a plot that’s promising a trainwreck at every turn. And who wants to watch pointless, easily avoidable failure?
It’s shocking how dumb a group of Harvard alumni can be.
Whether that’s the ironic twist or the careless oversight is unclear. The titular group of friends occasionally throw around fat Sat words (often clumped together in overindulgent sentences that scream, “Look how smart I sound!”), but their juvenile behavior is beyond amateur diagnoses. As much as these Ivy Leaguers want to offer advice to one another, none of them »
- Ben Travers
Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio Have Two Murder Thrillers in Development
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After the release of his 28-year-old passion project “Silence,” Martin Scorsese is getting multiple bands back together.
The filmmaker is set to begin production on his gangster movie return “The Irishman” next month, which will reunite him with “Goodfellas” duo Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. But Scorsese isn’t stopping there, as he’s got two different Leonardo DiCaprio vehicles in development for after. Scorsese and DiCaprio haven’t worked with each other since “The Wolf of Wall Street” four years ago.
Read More: ‘Goodfellas’ Reunion is Official: Joe Pesci Confirmed For Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’
The first project is an adaptation of Erik Larson’s book “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.” DiCaprio purchased the film rights to the book in 2010 and Scorsese has gone on record praising the script.
“Right now, there is a script being worked on, »
- Zack Sharf
Takeshi Kitano Gets Ruthless In New Trailer For ‘Outrage Coda’
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In 2010, Takeshi Kitano returned to the yakuza genre with “Outrage,” a grim, violent, and cynical look at the world of Japanese gangsters. The film played at Cannes, where it received very good notices, and it was successful enough to spawn a sequel two years later with “Outrage Beyond.” I haven’t kept up with the series, which is now getting ready to close with “Outrage Coda,” but it looks like fans will get a healthy helping of Kitano at his wildest.
Continue reading Takeshi Kitano Gets Ruthless In New Trailer For ‘Outrage Coda’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
The Russo Brothers To Direct FX Series ‘The Mastermind’
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At some point, the Russo Brothers are going step away from their incredible run with Marvel, and venture into non-superhero territory. It’s probably a safe bet that’ll happen once their finished with the followup to next year’s “Avengers: Infinity War,” and it looks like the duo will be moving away from the big screen and into an intriguing Peak TV project.
Read More: Russo Brothers & Henry Selick Bringing ‘Little Nightmares’ To TV
Deadline reports that Anthony and Joe Russo have signed up to produce and direct “The Mastermind,” which is set up over at FX.
Continue reading The Russo Brothers To Direct FX Series ‘The Mastermind’ at The Playlist. »
- Kevin Jagernauth
New Trailer For ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ Is Freakin’ Dope
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In a cinematic world awash with no shortage of indie rom-coms about relationships and dating, standing out from the pack isn’t easy. However, “The Incredible Jessica James” has one very special secret ingredient in its arsenal: Jessica Williams.
Read More: ‘The Incredible Jessica James’ [Review]
“The Daily Show” correspondent breaks out into a leading role with ‘Jessica James,’ which hit Sundance earlier this year, generated some great word of mouth, and is now getting ready to drop on Netflix for the entire world to see.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
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