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Michael Cieply: Love At The Movies? It’s Safer To Make A Horror Flick
Comedy is back; Super Mario Bros has proved that laughs are good for a half billion dollars.
The antihero business is intact. Both Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 and John Wick: Chapter 4 hit their marks.
But affairs of the heart are still suffering at the movie box office. Love Again is the…
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Michael Cieply: The Next Great Hollywood Book? It Will Have To Be History
Will there ever be a great book about the film business as it is now?
I still think not. What used to be called The Industry, as it exists today, might be grist for a eulogy, a festival panel discussion or possibly an online technical manual—10 steps to reboot the software that made your last…
Michael Cieply: Don’t Doubt It, The Film Academy And Its Inclusion Allies Mean To Change The Business
Michael Cieply writes a column of analysis and commentary each Sunday.
UPDATED: The 96th Oscar cycle is upon us, and with it, something new—the mandatory representation and inclusion standards that require filmmakers and/or their storylines and/or their distributors to meet elaborate racial, sexual…
Quick, Somebody Throw Me A Movie Line
What do you want from the movies this year?
Cheaper tickets? Smarter superheroes? A love story and five watchable Oscar films?
Personally, I would settle for one great line.
You know, the kind that immediately transcends whatever picture gave it birth. It is echoed, referenced, repeated…
With ‘Jesus Revolution,’ The Faithful Are Back In Their Movie Theater Pews
Watching Jesus Revolution surge past $45 million in ticket sales for Lionsgate—matching or besting The Fabelmans, The Banshees Of Inisherin, Tár, Women Talking and Triangle Of Sadness, combined—it finally seems safe to say it. The faith-based audience is back.
Between Covid and the culture wars, it's…
‘Everything Everywhere’ Is Unbeatable, But So Was ‘Brokeback Mountain’
Where does it come from, that shiver of doubt about Everything Everywhere All at Once and its Best Picture prospects? (Almost) everyone says it's the winner, far and away. The picture is unbeatable. The Directors Guild, the Producers Guild, and the Screen Actors Guild have crowned it already, and the…
In The End, Disney’s Florida Dream Succumbed To Its Democracy Problem
It was bound to happen, sooner or later. On Monday, the Walt Disney Co.'s corporate privilege in Florida finally succumbed to its Democracy Problem.
Specifically, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation that stripped Disney of its highly unusual control over a special entity, the Reedy Creek…
The Best Picture Race? Ten Nominees In Search Of A Love Story
Something is missing from the year's Best Picture nominees.
Well, yes, The Woman King, Till and Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. We know the black-themed films didn't register.
But something even more elemental than race was shut out of the nominations for Hollywood's top award, the Best…
Remembering Howard Bragman, Who Always Made Things Memorable
So Howard Bragman has died.
I will miss him–not because we were especially close, but because he had a gift for making every encounter kind of fun, and, often, more memorable than it was supposed to be.
The last time I spoke with Howard was some months ago. He had called, apropos of nothing…
Weird Thought: Will Some Academy Museum Members Someday Get An Oscar Vote?
Pondering last weekend's vibrant, three-day "Regeneration Summit" at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures — it was a celebration keyed to the museum's Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971 exhibit — I was struck by a wild fantasy.
In the far future — I mean way down the line, even after my brand new…
The Film Academy And Its Oscars Manage To Feed On Their Own Mistakes
Well, the mostly predictable Oscar nominations arrived Tuesday morning with no disasters or truly egregious missteps. Even the snubs were fairly routine: no female directors, though women won the directing award in the past two years; James Cameron and Joseph Kosinski, both Best Picture nominees, were…
C’mon Voters: The Oscars Could Use A Little Sequel-itis
For at least some of you 10,000 or so Academy Awards voters, it's not too late. You've still got 33 hours to have some fun with your Oscar ballot, to shake up the race and to put some awesome new stats in the record books.
And it's easy. All you have to do is follow the lead of your brethren at the Pr…
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