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Will HBO’s Westworld Be Worth $100 Million?
The Hollywood Reporter turned out with an article expressing that they’ve heard the financial plan for the whole first period of HBO’s Westworld, 10 scenes, was $100 million. The pilot alone $25 million itself. That is a considerable measure of cash, particularly for TV so it’s protected to say that there is a great deal riding on this arrangement.
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The Netflix Backlash: Why Hollywood Fears a Content Monopoly
The streaming service is spending $6 billion a year on content, choking basic cable and brusquely rattling the relationship business of the town as fears of a Google- or Apple-sized dominance send a chill down the entertainment industry's spine.
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The 2016 summer movie season was a bust because Hollywood’s go-to formulas stopped working
The summer 2016 movie season was a disappointment by almost any measure. As is now required for the hottest months, Hollywood treated audiences to yet another plodding procession of sequels and remakes, franchise starters and extenders, reboots and reimaginings, too few of which provided even the most basic cinematic pleasures: romance, excitement, escapism, comedy, spectacles worth projecting on a 50-foot screen. Most summer movie seasons are built on formulaic productions, but this one felt worse somehow — as if the old formulas suddenly no longer worked.
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Feds want 'Wolf of Wall Street' profits as part of $3.5 billion fraud allegations
In a massive lawsuit that reads like an international thriller, the U.S. government claims that well-connected fraudsters stole $3.5 billion from the Malaysian people and used it to buy New York condos, hotels, yachts and a jet. Some of that money was used to produce the Hollywood film "The Wolf of Wall Street," according to federal investigators. The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit Wednesday attempting to seize $1 billion of those assets -- the amount that went through American banks.
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True Fakes on Location
Consider how showbiz creates—or else, more tantalizingly, predicts—its own authenticity. By Tom Carson.
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Hollywood Has a Big Millennial Problem
Sequels have been the lifeblood of the movie business for more than a decade. In 2011, the seven top films were all sequels, including Fast 5 and the final Harry Potter installment. Last year, the eight biggest opening weekends were all sequels, including Furious 7 and the latest Star Wars installment. But in the last six months, the sequel strategy seems to be deflating. Several follow-ups—including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows...
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Corey Feldman on Elijah Wood Hollywood Pedophilia Controversy: "I Would Love to Name Names"
In an in-depth interview with THR, the 'Goonies' and 'Lost Boys' star opens up about his late best friend Corey Haim's rape by a producer at age 11, the pre-teen parties where predators stalked and groomed their marks and the "dark side" of his close pal Michael Jackson: "The man is gone. Let him rest in peace." A recent interview with Elijah Wood has reignited the conversation on pedophilia in the entertainment business. The Lord of the Rings star later clarified first to The Hollywood Reporter and then on his personal Twitter account that his comments about "something major...
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The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever
Lately, Hollywood has been taking so much s**t for rampant sexism and racism. The prevailing theme: white men dominate movie roles.
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The Secret Money Behind ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’
Despite the star power of Leonardo DiCaprio and director Martin Scorsese, the 2013 hit movie “The Wolf of Wall Street” took more than six years to get made because studios weren’t willing to invest in a risky R-rated project. Help arrived from a virtually unknown production company called Red Granite Pictures. Though it had made just one movie, Red Granite came up with the more than $100 million needed to film the...
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This Lawyer Is Hollywood’s Complete Divorce Solution
No one separates the rich and famous better than Laura Wasser. By Claire Suddath.
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I want my wings: The Last Tycoons
Andrew O’Hagan reviews “West of Eden: An American Place” by Jean Stein.
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Where’s Richard Simmons? Twisted mystery has friends concerned
Richard Simmons opened his front door, frail and trembling. Mauro Oliveira, a visual artist who was also Simmons’ masseur and former assistant, greeted him on the front porch, concerned about his friend. After receiving an ominous phone call from Simmons, Oliveira had driven his truck to the Hollywood Hills, past the two metal gates that Simmons had left ajar for him, and into the driveway. He reached the porch through...
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All Def Digital Rolls Out the Black Carpet
Russell Simmons’s new-media company hosts its own movie-awards show, a D.I.Y. response to the #OscarsSoWhite campaign.
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Actor Dan Haggerty, TV's 'Grizzly Adams,' dies at 73
Actor Dan Haggerty of “Grizzly Adams” fame died early Friday of cancer, said his longtime friend and manager Terry Bomar. He was 73.
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The Mogul of the Middle
In the era of comic-book franchises and shrinking profits, an upstart studio wants to reinvent the movie industry. By Tad Friend.
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The Big Cigar
How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974. By Joshuah Bearman. (Dec. ’12)
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Box Office: 'Star Wars: Force Awakens' Tops 'Avatar' to Become No. 1 Film of All Time in North America
It's official: J.J. Abrams' Star Wars: The Force Awakens is the highest-grossing film of all time in North America, not accounting for inflation. On Wednesday, the Disney and Lucasfilm mega-blockbuster will overtake the $760.5 million earned by James Cameron's Avatar. Force Awakens — which grossed $8 million on Tuesday for a domestic total of $758.2 million — will have achieved the milestone in only 20 days in release, a remarkable feat.
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This Theory Perfectly Explains Why 'The Hobbit' Movies Were So Bad
And it makes a lot of sense.
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Leonardo Di Caprio: 'I turned down the chance to play Anakin Skywalker in Star Wars'
Leonardo Di Caprio has revealed that he once turned down the chance to play Anakin Skywalker in the Star Wars prequels. The actor confirmed that he met with George Lucas to discuss taking the role in Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge Of The Sith. The part eventually went to Hayden Christensen.
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Johnny Depp named Hollywood's most overpaid actor
Johnny Depp has been named the most overpaid movie star in Hollywood by Forbes magazine after posting a string of box office turkeys. Depp, one of the highest-paid actors on the planet with estimated annual earnings of $30m (£20m), returned just $1.20 for every $1 he was paid according to the financial magazine’s metric. His poor position is due to the financial failure of movies such as Mortdecai, Transcendence and The Lone Ranger...
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