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Peter Bart: Barry Diller’s New Memoir Might Be The True Final Reckoning
Studios celebrate their box office hits — unless it’s Paramount, where even success becomes opaque.
Tom Cruise's $400 million Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning was produced by Skydance Films for Paramount, but Skydance also wants to acquire…
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Peter Bart: Cannes Strong On Debuts, Long On Ovations And Short On Surprises
The Cannes Film Festival proved itself to be strong on resilience this year, but short on big surprises.
Dial back to 1985: "What am I doing here?" asked Clint Eastwood, whose French hosts seemed puzzled that the cowboy star was also becoming an…
Peter Bart: Having Survived Decades Of Enemy Attacks, ‘60 Minutes’ Must Now Defy A New Phalanx Of Powerful Legal & Political Foes
Don Hewitt, the brilliantly contentious founder of 60 Minutes, saw to it that the most impactful characters in key segments turned out to be the “heavies.” Hewitt wanted his audience to understand the threat posed by “bad guys” — hence an ambush interview or some other dramatic…
Peter Bart: Big B.O. Bets Wagered On Video Games And Vampires As Hollywood Tries To Banish Bitter Woes
Talk about turnarounds: Hollywood is getting high marks this week for two timely hits that are being devoured by Gen Z audiences worldwide.
Filmgoers are lauding the game-based A Minecraft Movie and the original thriller Sinners — a veritable…
Peter Bart: The Tough Hollywood Lessons In Buzzy Hits ‘Adolescence’ And ‘The Studio’
The two shows represent a blast of contrast: Adolescence is gritty and minimalist. The Studio is noisily over the top. Yet both are dominating the conversation among critics and cinephiles and are impacting viewers worldwide.
Adolescence is topping…
Peter Bart: Bilious Billionaires Fret About Low Public Approval As Even Their Prolific Movie Ventures Lose Sizzle
These aren't fun times for billionaires, even though their number keeps proliferating along with their numbers — there are now at least 17 documented "super billionaires" with assets of more than $100 billion. Still, Elon Musk's Tesla dealerships are being torched, Jeff Bezos' newspaper is under…
Peter Bart: ‘Mickey 17’ Will Delight Bong-Heads, But The Rest Of The Moviegoing Universe Might Need Convincing
Will filmgoers rally behind space travelers who “hate dying” but keep courting death?
The director who gave us Parasite, a cool, curmudgeonly social comedy, is challenging filmgoers with a big-budget, genre-bending epic titled Mickey 17 that will…
Peter Bart: As Amazon Decides How To Reinvent James Bond, Past 007s May Have Some Ideas
Will Amazon's 007 franchise ever take center stage again?
Thinking about this, I flashed back to a conversation with an actor friend telling me, "I've just been offered a big payday as the next James Bond but I can't get over the feeling that his…
Peter Bart: The New Yorker’s Opening Was A Flop, But Magazine’s Centenary Is A Study In Survival
The “opening” was a disaster. The creators were bitterly feuding. Half the funding pulled out with much of the rest lost in a poker game.
It was all very cinematic, but at stake was the future of a great magazine, not a movie. The opening marked…
Peter Bart: This Year’s Oscar Game Feels More Like Hide And Seek Than Guess The Winners
Those of us who are hopeful for the comeback, or at least survival, of the theatrical motion picture are finding this Oscar season to be especially discomforting. If you're lucky enough to identify a favorite, you also have to figure out how and where…
Peter Bart: In Hollywood, Trump Administration’s Enemies Lists Have Blacklist Feel
Who is going to speak out?
That's the disturbing question being debated this week in response to the discordant noises from Washington. The advent of Donald Trump's "Imperial presidency," as The Economist terms it, is stirring an emotional response…
Peter Bart: Jon M. Chu And His Zeal For Pure, Big-Screen Entertainment Offer Much-Needed Dose Of Hollywood Optimism
The overlap of awards season with a fire season has posed a stern test of Hollywood fortitude. Will there be shelf space for statuettes?
If Hollywood needs some optimism I'd propose it look to Jon M. Chu, who has contributed both a sharp, but…
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