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Peter Bart: Cannes Festgoers Dote On Parties & Applause While ‘Bleak Week’ Fans Plunge Into Grateful Despair
As the Cannes Film Festival celebrates its parties and standing ovations, audiences in Hollywood and New York prepare to wallow in despair. And they'll enjoy it (almost).
The festival called Bleak Week this week will deliver 43 films to an expected audience of 10,000 at theaters including the…
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Peter Bart: Paramount Yearns For “Seamless Transition” But Past Studio Takeovers Have Been Costly And Chaotic
"The transition will be seamless."
Those words usually accompany an announcement of a corporate takeover and, of course, it never works out that way. And it likely won't for Paramount 2024.
Consider history: When MGM found it had become a corporate…
Peter Bart: ‘Challengers’ Finds Box Office Heat By Serving Up Gen-Z Date With Zendaya And Her Tennis Partners
Luca Guadagnino believes filmgoers will endorse his Zendaya movie Challengers because it delivers "a canon of Hollywood golden age comedy – seductive fun with queerness." The movie's “big sell” is a shot of Zendaya, Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor kissing one an…
A Media Moment: News Organizations Challenged To Win Public Trust In An Assault Of Mixed Messages
Editors note: This is one of those moments when the flow of news seems like an assault on the senses. The Donald trump trial, the student protests, Gaza, the election campaigning — will our trust in the media survive these traumas? Can our pop culture assimilate them? Peter Bart, based on the West Coast, a…
Peter Bart: Trapped In A Circus Of Sleaze, David Pecker Had Looked For An Escape Route
David Pecker stabbed impatiently at his veal piccata. We'd been having a cordial business lunch, but he was growing frustrated. The publisher of the National Enquirer was pitching an ambitious deal to me involving major money — not a Stormy Daniels sort of…
Peter Bart: In Movies As In Politics, Young Protagonists Are Scarce These Days
I never liked Tom Ripley but I keep meeting him.
I've “met” Ripley in five films, and he's now the protagonist of a somber eight-part Netflix series. So filmmakers clearly find his character intriguing. Even though he has no character.
That, in…
Peter Bart: Eleanor Coppola Played Quiet But Vital Role As Family’s Matriarch
To outsiders, Eleanor Coppola, who died Friday at age 87, presented as soft spoken and unassuming, yet as someone who always understood exactly what was going on. When I first met her she was playing the role of the perfect ’60s “hippie chick” who hung with…
Peter Bart On Redrafting The System: What Joe Eszterhas & The ’80s “Writers Rebellion” Say About Today’s Screenplay Malaise
Even as he collected his martini, the burly stranger who introduced himself as “Joe” exuded an aura of belligerence. We were standing on the fringe of a post-screening reception, so, hand extended, I blurted, "Did the movie work for you?"
"It was blah,"…
Peter Bart: Bob Iger’s Proxy War Victory Recalls Corporate Skirmishes Of Hollywood Past
It had all the elements of a good action movie – jeopardy, revenge, a mega budget – with even some casualties thrown in (albeit corporate).
The Bob Iger vs Nelson Peltz (who?) war is over now and Iger has won. But some filmmakers and ticket buyers might…
Peter Bart: Movie Sequels And Prequels, Like Trump Trials, Challenge Patience With Same Old Stories
With at least 10 sequels awaiting our imminent attention, here's the challenge for filmgoers: Viewing each sequel means mastering a new code. Dune: Part Two becomes more accessible once you've learned why the Chakobsa-speaking characters are frustrated by their stalled kirzibs. For that matter, the fifth G…
Peter Bart: Resurgent Rom-Coms Might Be The “Prod Of Positivity” We’re Looking For
In Irish Wish, a new Netflix rom-com, a bride-to-be is dumped by her lover on wedding day — but, with steely determination, she quickly closes in on a handsome replacement. Consistent with rom-com protocol, her “Irish wish” is realized.
Going back to Whe…
Peter Bart: ‘Poor Things’ Oscar Wins Prove Voters’ New-Found Appetite For Dark Horses
The Greek provocateur seemed to be smiling throughout Oscar night. In the past he'd delivered films with titles like Dogtooth and The Lobster, and his newest, Poor Things, was now stockpiling the statuary even as Hollywood's filmmaking elite looked on…
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