mr . lucky ( film )
‎mr. lucky (1943) directed by h. c. potter • reviews, film + cast • letterboxd
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under - rated movies # 12: mr. lucky (1943); dir. h. c. potter
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lucky lucky, played by the film’s writer and director, bari king, is an undocumented immigrant who gets enmeshed in a crime web and has to fight his way out .
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the
lucky chomps
cereal clawhauser is seen eating during his introduction is a play on the
lucky charms
cereal brand name .
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“logan lucky” is steven soderbergh’s first feature film in over four years — but before that, he was one of cinema’s most versatile filmmakers .
mr. soderbergh ultimately connected with hollywood’s leading authority on distribution: dan fellman, a former warner bros. executive who now runs a consulting business. mr. fellman, who became an executive producer on “logan lucky, ” devised a plan that mr. soderbergh liked .
the light touch prevails pretty much, so
mr. lucky
should keep you in a more or less chucklesome mood most of the time .
so far, mr. soderbergh has spent only about 15 percent of his “logan lucky” advertising budget. with only three weeks until release, studios would have typically spent 40 percent. but mr. soderbergh believes that the vast majority of marketing should come immediately before a film’s release .
mr. lucky is an entertaining cary grant movie from early part of his career. however, the film itself isn' t strong enough to leave much of a lasting impression beyond just being an enjoyable viewing experience .
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daniel craig, left, and dwight yoakam star in “logan lucky, ” which is scheduled to open aug. 18 .
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mr. lucky was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino, the ship fortuna, and used it as his base of operations. staying beyond the three - mile limit, where he could operate a gambling ship legally, mr. lucky played host to a wide variety of people, all of whom came to make use of his luxurious facility. helping him run the casino, is his good friend andamo .
character actors are a whole different category – because they don’t have to carry a film .
but first he needed a plan that satisfied his creative and economic demands. it was relatively easy to raise the $ 29 million or so needed to make “logan lucky, ” which stars channing tatum, daniel craig and riley keough. once his cast was in place — all agreeing to work for scale, with profit participation if the film succeeds — mr. soderbergh sold off overseas distribution rights, a standard practice in the independent film business. voilà: creative control over the actual film .
a crooked businessman has convicts paroled to him and then threatens to have them sent back unless they do exactly as he says - including strong - arming and murder. mr. lucky and andamo help one of the ...
logan lucky rated pg - 13. misty taste of moonshine, teardrops in my eye. running time: 1 hour 59 minutes .
“all of our financial interests are aligned, ” said andrew karpen, bleecker street’s chief executive. “logan lucky” will easily become mr. karpen’s biggest release to date, surpassing the thriller “ eye in the sky, ” which collected about $ 18. 7 million last year on about 1, 000 screens. bleecker street also has dibs on a “logan lucky” sequel .
the financial story of “logan lucky, ” which arrives in theaters on aug. 18, starts in the fall of 2014. according to mr. soderbergh, a “friend” asked him to read the script, about a ragtag group that robs a nascar track, and suggest a director. mr. soderbergh said he loved the idea (ocean’s 7 - eleven, if you will) and wanted to direct the film himself .
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mr. lucky can be seen, now, in light of what came afterwards – as a bridge. it is the connecting link – between the screwball cary of the 1930s and the serious romantic leading man of the 1940s and beyond .
mr. lucky was an honest professional gambler who had won a plush floating casino, the ship fortuna, and used it as his base of operations. staying beyond the three - mile limit, where he... see full summary »
mr. lucky narrowly escapes more than one murder attempt and suspects someone wants him dead. he finds out that he' s part of a bet, the winner gets $ 1000 for each day he lives - until he' s killed .
honest gamblers joe adams (alias mr. lucky) and andamo arrive in the port of los angeles on a freighter as crewmen - broke but cheerful. they meet up with a notorious conman, help save his life and end ...
adam driver, left, and channing tatum play brothers who hatch a plan for an elaborate heist during a nascar race in “logan lucky. ”
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film studio lionsgate will want to see an upturn in box office returns after the franchise slump of part 1; a timely dvd and vod release of its predecessor could help boost audiences for the final film .
kind of a bummer, but i haven’t been psyched to see a ford film in quite a while .
brittany farrell (with megaphone) in “whose streets? ” the film is due out aug. 11 .
max landis of chronicle fame provided the atypical screenplay for paul mcguigan (lucky number slevin) to direct. theatrical showings start the week of oct 2 .
cary grant had tried, with mr. lucky, to change his light, lady’s man persona. did he succeed? not really, perhaps. the charm, the wit, the graceful movement—there’re all still here. but his next film, the only other one he made in 1943, would be a world war ii submarine adventure, destination tokyo. no ladies aboard there !
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a premiere at the sundance film festival late january is expected to precede more general availability later in the year .
outdoor “logan lucky” ads are concentrated in the midwest and south. bucking studio tradition, billboards are scarce to nonexistent in cities like los angeles and new york .
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deep in the film’s screwball climax, mr fox, his son ash and sidekick kylie are careening down the road in a motorbike and sidecar, fleeing the psychopath bean. kylie glimpses something behind them and cries: “don’t turn around! ” mr fox, a contrarian, turns around, and the bike comes to a screeching halt at the roadside .
ascent experience mount fuji — through a selection of 4, 000 photographs snapped over 150 years. the dutch artist fiona tan has built this experimental film out of those stills. screenings at film forum in new york will be free .
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for mr. soderbergh, that route was a nonstarter. “you’re way too far away from your money, ” he said .
churchill brian cox may sound like a more natural fit for winston churchill than john lithgow did in “the crown, ” but can you picture john slattery (roger sterling from “mad men”) as dwight d. eisenhower? both mr. cox and mr. slattery, plus miranda richardson as clementine churchill, play the famous figures in a film about the road to d - day .
in addition, mr. soderbergh, who won an academy award in 2000 for directing “traffic, ” wanted full creative control over “logan lucky” advertising. he said studios had never given him absolute say over a campaign. trailers, for instance, are tested with focus groups before they are released and often tweaked based on the responses. “it’s very difficult once you get into studio testing to push back, ” mr. soderbergh said .
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neither mr. nor mrs. bucket can accompany charlie to the factory. mr. bucket must search for work to put food on the table and mrs. bucket must care for the invalided grandparents. magically, charlie’s oldest and most beloved grandparent, grandpa joe, springs out of bed for the first time in decades. charlie’s lucky find has transformed him into an energetic and almost childlike being. grandpa joe and charlie set out on their adventure .
winning a major film deal with his first published novel, the adaptation of stedman' s story of post - war seclusion, adoption, and attempted reintegration is being guided by derek cianfrance, co - writer and director of literary film the place beyond the pines .
“after years of shooting my mouth off about absolute creative control, we’re going to attempt to do it, ” mr. soderbergh said .
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lyman green, business .
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dean demetri martin, a former fixture of “the daily show, ” directed, wrote and stars in this film, playing an illustrator who, after his mother’s death, works through a complicated relationship with his father (kevin kline). from last year’s tribeca film festival, mike hale wrote in the new york times that mr. martin “delivers a winning combination of winsomeness and rue. ” gillian jacobs and mary steenburgen also star .
score: a film music documentary going behind the scenes of how film scores are composed, this portrait of the craft features some of the most familiar “music by” credits in the business, including hans zimmer, john williams, danny elfman, quincy jones, rachel portman and thomas newman .
“logan lucky, ” which has received very strong early reviews, has also generated headlines over its script. the screenplay is credited to rebecca blunt, who does not seem to exist. who wrote it ?
the woman who left ten years ago, the filipino director lav diaz was a forbidding figure, even among extreme cinephiles. at film festivals they would ask one another in hushed tones whether they really planned to see his nine - hour “death in the land of encantos. ” lately, mr. diaz seems to have widened his appeal, earning acclaim for his dostoyevsky - inspired “norte, the end of history” and for this new drama, which won the golden lion at the venice film festival in 2016. at nearly four hours, it is also one of mr. diaz’s shortest films .
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judy hopps • nick wilde • finnick • chief bogo • mayor lionheart • clawhauser • bellwether • yax • flash • mr. big • koslov • fru fru • mr. otterton • mrs. otterton • duke weaselton • bonnie and stu hopps • mr. manchas • gazelle • peter moosebridge • jerry jumbeaux jr. • gideon grey • nangi • doug • dr. badger • priscilla • bucky and pronk oryx - antlerson • zootopia police officers • swinton • major friedkin • fabienne growley
in transit a founding figure of the direct - cinema movement, albert maysles died in 2015, shortly before this film’s premiere. his last feature observes the passengers on amtrak’s empire builder route, which connects chicago and the pacific northwest. mr. maysles directed with lynn true, nelson walker, ben wu and david usui .
they would raise about $ 20 million in marketing money by selling off a portion of the film’s nontheatrical rights. amazon, for instance, bought streaming rights .
now he is back — and betting that an unorthodox distribution plan for his new heist comedy, “logan lucky, ” will serve as a model for auteur directors who are as fed up with the hollywood system as he has been .
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a lighter touch by the censors might produce films that were more authentically chinese and artistically interesting. it would also avoid embarrassing incidents. the chinese film that has garnered most attention in the west lately is “a touch of sin” by jia zhangke—a gloomy art - house portrayal of modern china that won the award for best screenplay at cannes this year. the government has banned it from cinemas and journalists from interviewing mr jia. more westerners have probably seen reports of this in recent months than have watched a chinese film .
“we know that a lot of big - time filmmakers are watching this, ” mr. fellman said. “we want this to be the beginning of a bunch of movies. ”
terrific film. entertaining in every way. wonderful script and acting... unpredictable storyline kept me guessing. just loved it! what a stellar night of ...
clawhauser is a supporting character in the 2016 disney animated feature film zootopia. he is a member of the zootopia police department, working as a receptionist and a radio dispatcher .
as he explored options, mr. soderbergh first considered forming an alliance with the national association of theater owners, a trade organization. why not cut out distributors completely by going straight to multiplex operators? mr. soderbergh soon realized that was not an ideal solution, in part because the justice department keeps close tabs on the adherence of theater chains to federal antitrust laws .
while he is only seen wearing his police uniform in the film, clawhauser' s casual wear in concept art often consisted of a green shirt and blue jeans. [ 11 ]
most marquee directors hold those twin desires, but none more than steven soderbergh, the iconoclast behind “erin brockovich, ” the “ocean’s eleven” series and “sex, lies and videotape. ” exasperated by the movie business, both financially and creatively, he announced his retirement from film directing in 2011. he said “ side effects ” in 2013 would be his last film .
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despite the title, you don’t start out thinking of jim dixon as particularly lucky. he was low man on the totem pole at a provincial english university where the one on top, professor welch, was a quirky twit of a man — - absent - minded and egocentric with an excess of class prerogative. jim was not so lucky in love either. the woman he was with, a fellow academic, plied whatever feminine wiles were available to one with a rather plain appearance. christine, the more striking young lady jim met an
this is a very well - made and enjoyable film. while not exactly a wonderful film, it is very worth watching and an excellent example of cary grant' s acting and charm. it' s a wartime propaganda film that takes a different slant - - instead of being heavy - handed and centering on war, it focuses on a con man who thinks he' s slick for avoiding the draft - - fighting is only for
suckers
. as the film progresses, his unshakable bravado suddenly becomes shaken when he meets lovely loraine day. somehow, she gets through to this charming jerk and he knows he can' t continue as he' s been doing. it' s an interesting character study and a welcome change from the usual .
h. c. potter’s mr. lucky is one of cary grant’s weaker romantic - comedies. suffering from a heavy handed script, misfiring jokes and an overly earnest second half it struggles to compare with his more famous sparkling screwball comedies. grant plays a con artist and draft dodger who, in need of money to get his gambling ship up and running, attempts to swindle a war relief charity out of their hard earned money until he falls for the kindly charms of dorothy bryant .
i tend to be very unfair to comic (humorous) novels, i have this unreasonable demand that every page makes me laugh. quite a tall order for the poor authors i think, but i can’t help it, so i generally avoid reading comic novels. i stumbled upon an audiobook of lucky jim on youtube and thought i’d give it a go as it is often listed as one of the all - time great novels; my aversion to comic novels notwithstanding (freebies conquer all). lucky jim is the story of james dixon a history lecturer at a
lucky jim reminds me of the beatles. i like the beatles. i enjoy the beatles. i can recite all the reasons why the beatles are supposed to be the greatest, most culturally relevant rock band in history. and yet... as a person who grew up post - beatles, and who has heard the beatles all the time her entire life, the difference between the impact that i am told the beatles should have on me, and the actual impact that the beatles have on me, is a huge, yawning chasm of incomprehensibility. lucky jim
now established as a major name in both fiction and film, flynn' s second adaptation comes hot on the heels of gone girl, again a murder mystery concerned with the fallibility of human witness .
mr fox stares with a look of childlike bewilderment into the distance, as the film’s sounds die out. from his pov we see his familiar bucolic terrain fading into a horizon of icy mountains, miles and miles away. we hear the delicate sound of a mournful choir and we see what mr fox has spotted: a giant black wolf, unclothed but for shaggy pelt, staring back at him from the crest of a jagged rock. foxy bellows a few absurd pleasantries at the wolf; no answer. “i have a phobia of wolves, ” he yells finally, desperately, at his distant relative. no answer .
corrupt church: reverend green (the implications of this don' t sit well for american audiences, supposedly, which is why he' s turned into a corrupt corporate executive
mr. green
) .
in 2012 concept art for the film, clawhauser was a tabby cat named hugo, and wore the shirt that was eventually given to nick wilde. [ 3 ] he was eventually changed to a cheetah .
the standard option for a wide release, meaning at least 2, 500 locations in north america on opening weekend, involves renting a major studio’s machinery. a studio like warner bros. foots the marketing bill (about $ 40 million is standard for a production like “logan lucky”) and handles all aspects of the release. for its services, the studio collects a fee (roughly 15 percent of total ticket sales) and deducts its expenses. any remaining profit goes to the owners of the film .
in response to questions about the screenplay’s author, mr. soderbergh said in an email, “clarify? me? why would i do that? i can tell you that rebecca blunt is enjoying all this immensely. ”
9. northanger abbey, 2007 (itv movies) a sliver of a film based on austen’s zippy send - up of the gothic novel. social intrigue and a visit to a spooky abbey are seen through the wide eyes of catherine morland who naively believes life is like her favorite books, with a mystery behind every curtain. it’s a perfect rainy day film — and, ahem, a commentary on overzealous fandom .
although the single - volume books mr. mercedes and the mist have provided enough material for full television series, the massive dark tower series—beginning in 1982 and spanning over 4, 000 pages—notoriously eluded adaptation until this year, when a dark tower film is finally hitting theaters. with a budget of $ 66 million and two a - list actors headlining— idris elba and matthew mcconaughey —it’s perhaps the highest - profile king project this year .
ever hear of rhyming slang? well, if you haven' t, get set to have your ears assailed by a torrent of this colorful gibberish in
mr. lucky ,
which moved into the radio city music hall yesterday. it' s bewildering, but it' s fun. want to ponder a sample? says cary grant to a wide - eyed, uncomprehending laraine day :
hand me the fiddle - and - flute; get your titfor - tat .
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how this whole thing works out – how the plot untangles itself – is something you’ll just have to see for yourself. i thought i knew where the film was going – but the ending is actually quite a surprise, and i found myself suddenly quite moved by it. it has the feeling of inevitablity – like the film has been moving towards it all along – and yet somehow it still packed a huge punch .
jesús after committing an assault, a teenager (nicolás durán) in santiago is forced to confront his father (alejandro goic) in a film inspired by a real - life hate crime in chile in 2012 .
satanic rituals desk, the new york review of books, new york :
tremble, mortal! thou has summoned belphegor, lord of the opening, prince of hell. what wouldst thou ask of the demon of discovery ?
oh mighty belphegor, the time has come to plan nyrb' s fall 2012 lineup. what would you have us publish, lord ?
lucky jim .
beg pardon ?
lucky jim. kingsley amis. always wanted to read it .
but - - but, lord! hasn' t penguin classics already published it ?
i care not .
but... what i mean to say, master, is that lucky jim is hardly the most obscure book out there. amis wrote a lot more, too. wouldn' t it be better to reprint his more forgotten stuff ?
good idea. publish them too .
what ?
ten books by kingsley amis. lucky jim plus nine more over the next few years. i' m tellin' ya, it' ll be great .
i hear and obey, my lord .
makes sense to me .
mr. kail beautifully sustains this sense of collective lives in motion throughout. it feels right that while the numbers here have been scaled up and shined up for a big broadway house (mr. odom’s jivey “the room where it happens, ” a wicked meditation on being a political outsider, is now a full - fledged showstopper), you never feel that any single performer is pushing for a breakout moment. well, with one exception .
then they would make an atypical distribution deal with bleecker street media, an upstart with a total staff of about 20. bleecker street would execute the marketing campaign — with mr. soderbergh approving everything — and receive a token fee of less than $ 1 million. if the film hit certain box office thresholds, bleecker street would receive a slice of ticket sales. bleecker street would also participate in other revenue streams, including dvd sales .
production is underway on the audience network series “mr. mercedes, ” and people of all ages and types are needed and can submit by email to be considered for work as a paid extras. the show is based on the stephen king novel about a psychopathic killer who drives his mercedes into a crowd. he later [... ] the post casting call for steven king series ‘ mr. mercedes ’ season 2 appeared first on acting auditions .
gotti john gotti, the crime boss and “first media don, ” was already the focus of a 1996 tv movie, in which he was played by armand assante. in this theatrical film, which covers 30 years in his life, john travolta assumes impersonation duties, as he did for robert shapiro. mr. travolta’s wife, kelly preston, plays gotti’s. the screenwriters are lem dobbs (“the limey”) and the character actor leo rossi .
hearing is believing the star of this documentary is rachel flowers, who was born prematurely and went blind, but learned to play music and grew into a vibrant performer. the film follows two years in her family’s life .
after the harrowing industrial tale serena was turned into a film in 2014 (early 2015 for us audiences), ron rash' s earlier 2006 novel of american historical fiction is expanded from an o. henry prize story .
mr. soderbergh noted that the box office bar for success is lower under this setup. with nearly everything prepaid, and no hefty distributor fees coming off the top, even a modest $ 15 million opening would be a win .
all about the money a man who goads his friends into vacationing in colombia has an ulterior motive: he wants to claim the bounty on a drug dealer. this comedy stars eddie griffin and blake freeman; mr. freeman directs .
in the latin american spanish version of the film, his last name is
garraza
, a play on the words
garra
( claw) and
garza
, a spanish surname of galician and basque origin .
dawson city: frozen time in the silent era, the gold rush town of dawson city in the yukon was the last stop on the film - shipping circuit. the creative solutions used to dispose of flammable nitrate stock resulted in the inadvertent preservation of 500 films — forgotten reels were excavated in the 1970s. bill morrison (the found - footage collage “decasia”) uses those clips to tell a story that interweaves film history and a sociological history of dawson .
this month’s austenland stars keri russell as a drippy jane austen fanatic who shells out her savings for an immersive regency experience — complete with fake proposals and, at least for our heroine, real romance. it’s the latest entry in an austen film canon that includes period adaptations, modern updates, and meta - films about contemporary janeites, unhappy in love, who yearn for a simpler and more corseted time — or perhaps just for colin firth as mr. darcy .
18. austenland, 2013 i’m loath to disparage a film that’s slapsticky and well - intentioned. unfortunately, this movie — which bears the producing imprint of vampire virtuoso stephenie meyer — has almost no direct jokes, references, or ideas about jane austen, beyond a love interest who, like mr. darcy, is rude. moreover, it seems to suggest that austen fans are all lovelorn spinster types with teacup collections and the hots for anything male in breeches .
mr fox sits down to breakfast. he’s turned his back on a life of crime and now works as a columnist on a local newspaper. he wears a tie to work, he drops french aphorisms into conversation; he’s upwardly mobile .
“i understand why they resist new ideas, ” mr. soderbergh said. “with so much money at stake, it’s hard to sit in that room and say, sure, let’s jump off a cliff and try a whole new approach. ”
ghostly goals: the early 2000' s computer version (distributed in boxes of cereal) had the murderer, location, and weapon cards secreted away by mr. boddy' s ghost (a pair of hands glowing with blue fire) .
of the three movies released this summer that self - consciously reactivate an old - school outlaw mythology — the others are edgar wright’s “baby driver” and josh and benny safdie’s “good time” — this one has the most to say and the least to prove. whereas the other directors aggressively promote their own coolness, flaunting borrowed attitudes and showy retrofitted styles, mr. soderbergh revels in squareness, and in a loose self - confidence that disguises its mastery. “logan lucky” is a terrific movie. that’s a matter of skill, and maybe also of luck. but mostly it’s a matter of generosity .
“i was also very adamant about the trailer, ” mr. soderbergh said. “i wanted it to feel like a throwback and not seem like it gave away all the jokes. ” he said the trailer was not tested with a focus group .
satanic rituals desk, the new york review of books, new york :
tremble, mortal! thou has summoned belphegor, lord of the opening, prince of hell. what wouldst thou ask of the demon of discovery ?
oh mighty belphegor, the time has come to plan nyrb' s fall 2012 lineup. what would you have us publish, lord ?
lucky jim .
beg pardon ?
lucky jim. kingsley amis. always wanted to read it .
but - - but, lord! hasn' t penguin classics already published it ?
i care not .
but... what i mean to say, master, is tha
14. miss austen regrets, 2008 (bbc film) the creators of this sometimes dull, sometimes diverting biopic thankfully didn’t invent a great love for the never - married author. warning: contains scenes of austen’s final illness that will leave fans sobbing .
the film is a touching coming - of - age tale and an even more touching account of an unlikely friendship marked by love and respect. beresford, working with material that inevitably recalls his oscar - winning driving miss daisy, never lets the overt sentimentality become too schmaltzy, even if he' s a bit hampered by the sometimes melodramatic plotting and schematic characterizations. the film is emotionally manipulative, to be sure, but it' s ultimately hard to resist, especially given the quality of the lead performances .
“i have a phobia of wolves, ” is how mr fox pretentiously puts it; he says it often. what he means is, as a civilised canine, he is afraid of the primal animal that lurks beneath his gorgeous corduroy suit: his ravenous appetites, his selfishness, the danger he poses to his loved ones. i cannot imagine a more ambitious nor a more valuable subject for an animated family film – the war we’re all quietly fighting, perhaps especially as children, with the fact that we are primates .
films often do seem cursed, not just by their own overconfidence or stupidity, but by coincidence, misunderstanding or fate. things go well enough early on in
logan lucky
that you start wondering about the movie' s point of view on destiny, bad mojo, and the like. is the movie' s title sincere, ironic, or neither ?
harmonium a prizewinner at cannes, koji fukada’s film captures the ripple effects on one family after the father (kanji furutachi) invites an acquaintance (tadanobu asano), a recent ex - convict, to work with him in the garage next to his home .
stranger things and mr. mercedes actor peyton wich has been cast in sony' s goosebumps 2, joining wendi mclendon - covey, ken jeong, chris parnell, madison iseman, ben o' brien, caleel harris, and jeremy ray taylor. ari sandel is developing this latest version based on the popular book series by r. l. stine. rob lieber penned the screenplay for the sequel, which will open in theaters october 12. neal h. moritz is producing the pic under his original film shingle, along with…
regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, lucky jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. this is the story of jim dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice
mr. willy wonka, the eccentric owner of the greatest chocolate factory in the world, has decided to open the doors of his factory to five lucky children and their parents. in order to choose who will enter the factory, mr. wonka devises a plan to hide five golden tickets beneath the wrappers of his famous chocolate bars. the search for the five golden tickets is fast and furious. augustus gloop, a corpulent child whose only hobby is eating, unwraps the first ticket, for which his town throws him a parade. veruca salt, an insufferable brat, receives the next ticket from her father, who had employed his entire factory of peanut shellers to unwrap chocolate bars until they found a ticket. violet beauregarde discovers the third ticket while taking a break from setting a world record in gum chewing. the fourth ticket goes to mike teavee, who, as his name implies, cares only about television .
you may also wonder if this is the kind of film that believes in curses. some films do, some don' t, and others leave you guessing. there are no curses in
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“the question is this, ” he said. “can you do what the studios normally do from a wide distribution standpoint, only with a lot fewer resources — spending on marketing — and with a much better economic structure for the people who actually made the film? ”
“logan lucky, ” steven soderbergh’s gravity - defying, ridiculously entertaining new film — one that ends a blessedly brief retirement from big - screen directing — concerns itself with a desperate attempt to even the odds. it’s a caper movie, a modern - day robin hood tale organized around an elaborate, improbable but curiously plausible heist. a gang that includes a wounded veteran, an unemployed former coal miner, a hairdresser and other motley members of the noncoastal nonelite conspires to knock over a nascar race sponsored by coca - cola. the event sucks a lot of cash from people like them, and the thieves quite literally set out to suck it right back up .
novelization: there' s a series of books based on the game. all of them give clues in the story and invite the reader to try to guess who did whatever crime occurred in the story. the crimes ranged from figuring out who stole something, to figuring out who ate a piece of pie, to (at least once per book as the grand finale) trying to find out who murdered mr. boddy. status quo is god in these stories, so mr. boddy would always somehow survive and the criminal would either be forgiven or undiscovered entirely .
david burris makes his debut as a feature film director with jeremy irvine of steven spielberg' s war horse as high school drop - out travis and noah wyle (spielberg tv project falling skies) the ex - teacher with a sideline in drug dealing who takes him in .
it' s been four years since eddie murphy' s last movie (the execrable a thousand words) and a decade since his last worthwhile performance (his oscar - nominated role in dreamgirls). but those who' ve dismissed him for his slapdash paycheck comedies will be eating their words after seeing his sensitive dramatic work in bruce beresford' s new indie drama receiving its world premiere at the tribeca film festival. playing the title role of mr. church, murphy delivers the sort of superb character turn that may well mark a sea change in his career .
it comes at night reviewing the domestic - discord drama “krisha, ” the debut feature of trey edward shults, last year, manohla dargis wrote that the film’s opening shot made it feel like a horror movie. mr. shults makes good on that promise with his second feature — an actual horror movie, in which a patriarch (joel edgerton), determined to protect his wife and son from a threat outside, must decide what to do about another family that comes a - knockin’. with riley keough, carmen ejogo and christopher abbott (“james white”) .
cast: cary grant (joe), laraine day (dorothy), charles bickford (swede), gladys cooper (capt. steadman), alan carney (the crunk), hanry stephenson (mr. bryant), paul stewart (zepp), kay johnson (mrs. ostrander )
lemon this year’s designated sundance squirm comedy stars brett gelman (who wrote the script with his wife, the film’s director, janicza bravo) as a 40 - year - old drama teacher who alienates everyone around him. judy greer, michael cera and gillian jacobs endure his disagreeable behavior .
wild ill at ease with civilized life, ania (lilith stangenberg) forges what becomes an increasingly close and physical bond with a wolf. if festival reviews are any indication, the film is poised somewhere between a tall tale and a provocative social commentary. nicolette krebitz wrote and directed .
american influence in china’s film business is nothing new. “everything we learned, we learned from hollywood, ” says yu dong, the boss of bona film group, one of china’s largest independent studios. in some ways china’s movie industry resembles 1930s hollywood, when studios controlled all business lines—from talent to production to theatres—before a 1948 supreme court ruling forced them to divest. in china, this is called “being a dragon from head to tail”. huayi brothers, one of china’s largest studios, whose name evokes the fraternal warners, oversees actors, production, distribution and cinemas .
but the big difference is in the location of power. in america power lies with the studios; in china with the state. the government controls which films are made and has a hand in every aspect of the film business, from production to exhibition. china film group produces movies and distributes hollywood and chinese films. the government rewards independent producers for making films it approves of—desen international media, a production company, received a bonus of 3m yuan for “full circle”, which promoted filial piety, for instance—and blocks hollywood films during national holidays, to help chinese ones .
the cast features a number of familiar faces, including henry stephenson (sir macefield in the charge of the light brigade) as dorothy’s grandfather and gladys cooper (bette davis’ mother in now, voyager) and mary forbes (lady agatha in the picture of dorian gray) as war relief volunteers. walter kingsford (dr. carew in the dr. kildare series) is mr. hargraves and j. m. kerrigan (the slave - seller gallegher in gone with the wind) is mcdougal, one of the victims of joe’s coin trick, which will feature in the film’s final scene .
moscow never sleeps an irish filmmaker, johnny o’reilly, pays tribute to his adopted city of moscow with this ensemble film. the trailer at least paints a much sunnier view of the city than russian imports usually do. aleksey serebryakov (the protagonist of “leviathan”) is in the large cast .
like fellow young adult fiction film versions the hunger games, harry potter and twilight, the series' third book will be split into two parts, arriving in march of 2016 and 2017 respectively. march 20, 2015, marks the week for divergent trilogy fans to stake out local multiplexes .
awakening the zodiac shane west and leslie bibb play a couple who find a 40 - year - old film reel that they believe was shot by the zodiac killer in california. they try to sleuth him out. this displeases the zodiac killer, who is probably a member of aarp by now .
in recent years the worlds of tv and books have merged more than ever before, with such viral television hits as “ game of thrones, ” “the handmaid’s tale” and “ big little lies ” all being based on novels. what does renowned author stephen king, who penned the crime novel that was adapted into audience network ’s “ mr. mercedes, ” think about the ever - expanding tv world? “i’ve always been a fan of episodic television’s ability to tell a story with texture and depth — following a novelistic arc, ” king confesses in a secret letter that was delivered to the tv academy membership via the show’s emmy fyc mailer. see stephen king’s ‘mr. mercedes’: return to emmys for david e. kelley? “i think the two mediums are a natural and complementary fit, ” king continues. “so, i am especially pleased with this adaptation of ‘mr. mercedes’ — and i hope you enjoy it too .
robertson, so impressive in last year' s disney misfire tomorrowland, delivers a beautifully modulated performance here: radiant as a lovestruck teen; poignantly moving as a daughter helplessly watching her mother slip away; and convincingly gritty as a struggling single mom, she sustains the film through its myriad emotional phases .
the survivalist a standout at the 2015 tribeca film festival, stephen fingleton’s debut feature is a terse portrait of life in a postapocalyptic wood. martin mccann is the title character, who lives alone and fends off all comers until two women (mia goth and olwen fouéré) turn up at his doorstep .
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localization name change .
a few different characters and other elements had their names changed between different versions, particularly between the uk and us version (s): murder victim dr. black became mr. boddy; his home, tudor house, became boddy manor; reverend green became
afterimage the polish director andrzej wajda, who died at 90 in october, grappled one last time with his country’s history in his final film, a portrait of the painter wladyslaw strzeminski (boguslaw linda), who pushed back against the postwar communist regime’s mandates for art and sacrificed his career as a result .
director gurinder chadha married english lit with bollywood, focusing on a cross - cultural romance between arrogant american hotelier will darcy and feisty indian farmer’s daughter lalita bakshi (aishwarya rai). appropriately over - the - top musical numbers can’t obscure chadha’s genuine homage to austen, and to the film traditions she loves .
having added theatrical performances and indie movie credentials to his resume since the harry potter days, daniel radcliffe appears a sound choice for a film whose main role is not that of the eponymous scientist nor his monstrous invention but the hunched assistant igor in this alternative retelling of mary shelley' s classic horror novel .
most chinese movies lose money: only around a quarter make it into theatres, and piracy means there is no legitimate dvd market. but then many films in hollywood and elsewhere are unprofitable these days: according to a report by the british film institute earlier this month, only 7% of british films turn a profit. chinese people like films and they like to gamble, so money is racing into the movie business. in september, for instance, wang jianlin, china’s richest man, announced he would build the world’s largest film - studio complex, for an estimated $ 8. 2 billion, in qingdao.
mr. lucky is a 1943 romance film directed by h.c. potter , starring cary grant and laraine day . it tells the story of the attraction between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the days prior to the united states entering world war ii . 
mr. lucky is a 1943 romance film directed by h.c. potter, starring cary grant and laraine day. it tells the story of the attraction between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the days prior to the united states entering world war ii.
mr. lucky is a 1943 romance film directed by h.c. potter, starring cary grant and laraine day. it tells the story of the attraction between a shady gambler and a wealthy socialite in the days prior to the united states entering world war ii.