For an artist like Miller, there was really only one choice: to strike out in an entirely different direction, which is what he did with his dazzling new fantasy film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.” Miller first bought the rights to the film’s source material, A.S. Byatt’s short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye,” in the late 1990s, so for years he moved back and forth between it and “Fury Road....
In a recent interview with PBS in Chicago, Martin talked about his feelings on the series exceeding the books. (His last entry, “A Dance with Dragons,” published in 2011, just months after the show premiered on HBO.) “Looking back, I wish I’d stayed ahead of the books,” Martin said. “My biggest issue there was when they began the [TV] series, I had four books already in print, and the fifth one came out just as the series was starting in 2011....
NBC’s live Golden Globes show has helped to build winners’ momentum, but that didn’t happen this year. And due to the Omicron surge, the live event that was supposed to capitalize on the missing Globes telecast, the Critics Choice Awards, was postponed until another date still to be announced, along with the Academy’s Governors Awards. Meanwhile, the Palm Springs Film Festival and its awards gala were canceled altogether. The net result: a diminution in buzzy interest heading into the Oscar nominations on February 8 and the ultimate kudocast on March 27, which now seems well-timed....
“Ewan and I talked about that. I said — ‘How do you feel about the sex scenes?’ And he said — ‘Well, that’s a part of this character,” Minahan said during during an event at the 2021 Provincetown Film festival earlier this month. “Ewan wanted to include a scene where Halston was arrested for indecent exposure because he was cruising in Central Park… [his attitude was that] it’s a part of human behavior, it’s a part of that character....
WarnerMedia will begin offering its HBO Max streamer for $11.99 per month for the next 12 months, several dollars cheaper than its standard $14.99 per month price. The deal will be available to new customers and returning customers whose subscriptions have lapsed. The “Save for 12” promotion begins on Friday and runs through September 25. The offer is available via HBO Max’s website and through platforms such as iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Apple TV, and via Google, Hulu, YouTube TV, Xfinity, RCN, Grande Communications and Wave ....
The film grossed $5 million by the end of its run, the equivalent of over $22 million today. All this on a budget of $375,000 (about $1.7 million now). That was a significant success, even if at the time it wasn’t supplemented by home video, and as a black and white film it had limited interest for broadcast television. Micklin Silver’s film is getting renewed credit for its quality, as well as for being the debut film that caused her to break out as a director....
That could be attributed to Milburn’s background as a music video and short film director, because “Honeydew” feels like a germ of an idea distended to feature length. Steven Spielberg’s son Sawyer Spielberg makes his feature acting debut as Sam, one half of a desultory couple opposite Malin Barr as Rylie. She’s a PhD student chasing her thesis in botany, whose study of the decaying farmlands of America leads her and her boyfriend to a hollowed-out pocket of the Dust Bowl....
