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The statistics are unequivocal: Women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in front of and behind the camera. Here, 27 industry players reveal the stories behind the numbers — their personal experiences of not feeling seen, heard or accepted, and how they pushed forward. In Hollywood, exclusion goes far beyond #OscarsSoWhite. (Interviews have been edited and…
How do you emphasize to the audience that something is important? Well, you could always cut to a close-up, but how about something subtler? Today I consider ensemble staging — a style of filmmaking that directs the audience exactly where to look, without ever seeming to do so at all. NO SPOILERS. Eight Ways to…
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The fantasy epic, slated for release in February, stars Scotsman Gerard Butler of “300” fame and Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known as Jaime Lannister on “Game of Thrones,” as warring Egyptian gods. The cast also includes Australian actors Geoffrey Rush, Brenton Thwaites and Courtney Eaton, along with African-American actor Chadwick Boseman and French-Cambodian actress…
“Is it more sexist not to hit you?”- The Women of Deadpool By Valerie Estelle Frankel Poster for Deadpool So the famous R-rated Deadpool came out, offering a far different kind of Marvel. And with it, some unusual twists. Deadpool, out fighting a world of bad guys, finds himself confronting one who’s female — a bit of…
Well, that didn’t take long! A mere two days after Deadpool’s shocking box office success, Fox has begun going all-in on “adult” superhero films. At the New York Toy Fair, the studio announced that it wants the third solo Wolverine movie to also be rated “R.” http://io9.gizmodo.com/deadpool-has-c… This is only the beginning, folks. But the…
Forget Days of Future Past. Sending Wolverine’s consciousness back to the 1970s may have erased the calamity of X3: X-Men United, but that’s small potatoes compared to how Deadpool may have altered the trajectory of the future of Fox’s X-Men movie universe—and a lot of other superhero movies, too. Here’s the deal: Deadpool is a…
There he was in Mos Eisley Cantina: tall, dark, mysterious. Those raised eyebrows, the black spacesuit, the impressive sideburns. BoShek could have been Han Solo—they did share a certain ’70s greasiness—but he deferred Ben Kenobi’s charter to Chewbacca. Perhaps he asked too many questions, or didn’t want to get caught up in any Imperial entanglements….
The R-rated Deadpool film was released today, and surprise! It’s worth seeing. The film spent a significant amount of time in the show business version of development hell, and it took someone leaking early test footage before the movie itself was given a green light and a budget. So who the hell leaked it? “I’ve been…
Wed Feb 10 11:29:51 EST 2016 A Hollywood producer has created a new feed featuring actual female introductions from scripts he’s read. 00000152-cbbe-d726-a377-dbbfab6a0000 size is: article-large MGM Denise Richards in “The World Is Not Enough,” playing a scientist. READ MORE: Reality Checks: Is the Documentary Industry Unfair to Women? Producer Ross Putman has started a…