It’s Oscar night and we will be live blogging the show. We will announce the winners and have our reactions as they happen, while keeping track of how our readers did in predicting the outcomes. More...
March 4th, 2018
It’s Oscar night and we will be live blogging the show. Before that, let’s take a last look at the nominations with a few annotations. Nominees in Italics are those that have received the most votes from our readers so far in our Oscar contest (which is open to new entries until noon, Pacific, today—enter now!). Bold films are those films I think will win. Meanwhile, those that are Underlined are those I want to win. Not all categories have underlined nominees, because not all categories have someone I’m cheering for, or because there are two nominees I couldn’t pick between. For example, I will be happy no matter who wins Best Supporting Actress. One last note: The contest is still going and the leading for Best Picture Switched from The Shape of Water to Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to tied over the time I was writing this story. This is the closest I’ve ever seen it. Guessing the best picture correctly will go a long way to winning. More...
January 23rd, 2018
The Oscar nominations were announced starting at just after 5 am Pacific time. They do this every year and no one has been able to adequately explain why to me. At least there were some interesting results this year. The Shape of Water led the way with 13 nominations, which is one below the current record and nearly as many as the next two films combined. Overall, there were seventeen films that earned two or more nominations. More...
January 9th, 2018
Usually this is a terrible time of year on the home market, because it is too late for the summer blockbusters, but too early for the holiday hits. However, the home market is terrible this week, because It comes out and it destroyed records at the box office and is sca
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Omg, I am just reading this here. How sad to hear . We were big fans of his. RIP dear sir.
This is a real tragedy. He was wonderful in 42 where he played Jackie Robinson. He was SUPERB in the underrated movie Get On Up playing James Brown. He really danced in that movie. He played Marshall Thurgood in Marshall. Of course, what most people know him for was the Black Panther. He was a very talented actor who died way too young.
That's very sad. Brave chap for soldiering on and appearing in films and enjoying what he did till the very end.
Horrible news. Of limited value in the universe of humanity, of all my criticisms of The Black Panther, Mr. Boseman's portrayal of the title character was *NOT* among them. I thought he was excellent.
Amazing that he endeared & persisted in his career, with that lurking in his background. Too early. Tragic.
After five years of occasional television guest shots, Chadwick Boseman made his feature film debut in a small role in THE EXPRESS, a motion picture biography of real-life college football player Ernie Davis (played by Rob Brown), the first black athlete to be awarded the Heisman Trophy. In the film, Boseman played Floyd Little, a teammate of Davis. Little was a three-time All-American at Syracuse University (1964-66). Later, he was the first ever first-round draft pick to sign with the American Football League's Denver Broncos, where he was known as "The Franchise."
THE EXPRESS was directed by Gary Fleder and based on the non-fiction book The Elmira Express: The Story of Ernie Davis by Robert C. Gallagher. It began production in April 2007 and was released on October 10, 2008. De
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Biopics Get a Brief Boost at the Box Office
‘The Disaster Artist’ and ‘I, Tonya’ make their mark in an otherwise poor year for biographical movies.
As Coco continued to dominate the domestic box office ahead of the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, some awards season titles also saw some success over the weekend. James Franco’s The Disaster Artist expanded into “wide” release (albeit still below 1,000 screens) and managed to take the fourth place slot behind Justice League and Wonder with $6.4M. And the Margot Robbie-led I, Tonya debuted on just four screens but impressively took in a quarter-million bucks for a per-location average of $61K.
Both movies are biopics — The Disaster Artist follows Tommy Wiseau (Franco) during the making of the notorious cult classic The Room and I, Tonya depicts the life of disgraced Olympic skater Tonya Harding (Robbie) — a genre that otherwise hasn’t been doing so well this year. Or in general in recent years. But this is the month for biopic boosts, especially for awards-buzz features like those and the Winston Churchill-focused Darkest Hour as well as the Golden Globes-honored P.T. Barnum musical The Greatest Showman, which opens next week.
Unfortunately, outside of Victoria and Abdul, starring Dame Judie Dench as Queen Victoria again ($22M domestic gross so far), most of the biopics released before December have been ignored by audiences. Even those that might have seemed like awards contenders. One such surprising bomb is Battle of the Sexes, which also received some Golden Globes love today but hasn’t been able to attract enough favor in theaters. The movie, about a landmark tennis match between Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) and Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell), has taken in just $12.6M at the box office, just slightly more than half its $25M budget.
Other biopics that fell by the wayside this year despite having rave r
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Marshall (film)
Produced by
Paula Wagner Reginald Hudlin Jonathan Sanger
Written by
Michael Koskoff Jacob Koskoff
Studio
Starlight Media Chestnut Ridge Productions Hudlin Entertainment
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Marshall is a 2017 American biographicallegaldrama film directed by Reginald Hudlin and written by Michael and Jacob Koskoff. It stars Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Supreme Court Justice, and focuses on one of the first cases of his career, the State of Connecticut v. Joseph Spell. It also stars Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Sterling K. Brown, and James Cromwell.
The project was announced in December 2015, along with Boseman's casting, and principal photography began in Los Angeles in mid-December 2015 and moved on to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, New York.
The film premiered at Howard University on September 20, 2017, and was released in the United States by Open Road Films on October 13, 2017. It received positive reviews from critics, with praise directed at Boseman's performance and with criticism aimed at the film's lack of depth and characterization. It went on to gross $10 million against a $12 million budget.
At the 90th Academy Awards, it received a nomination for Best Original Song for "Stand Up for Something".
Plot[]
In April 1941, Thurgood Marshall is an NAACP lawyer traveling the country defending people of color who are wrongly accused of crimes because of racial prejudice. Upon his return to his New York City office, he is sent to Bridgeport, Connecticut, to defend Joseph Spell, a chauffeur accused of rape by his white employer, Eleanor Strubing, in a case that has gripped the newspapers. In Bridgeport, insurance lawyer Sam Friedman is assigned by his brother to get Marshall admitted to the local bar, against his will. At the hearing, Judge Foster, a friend of the father of prosecutor Lorin Willis, agrees to admit Marshall, but forbids Marshall fr