Oliver Stone is in Cannes today for a Special Screening of Lula, a documentary he co-directed with Rob Wilson about the unbelievable comeback of Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio “Lula” da Silva. The film chronicles his extraordinary journey in 2022 to regain the Brazilian presidency after spending nineteen months in prison. This happened after a hacker exposed a conspiracy meant to take down the labor leader in a corruption scandal that tied back to Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and the most powerful judge in the country. It’s a story you have to see to believe. Here, Stone discusses his film, and how the four-time Oscar winner hopes to mount one final major drama after a career spanning Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers and so many others. He also revisits his position on Vladimir Putin, whom he interviewed extensively several years ago, in light of recent events that have ratcheted global tensions.
Broadway Begins Spring Crunch Shakeout, With One Announced Closing And Lower Attendance For Some Newcomers – Box Office
07.05.2024 - 21:09 / deadline.com
The great Broadway Crunch of Spring 2024, when 18 new productions opened between mid-March and late April – 19 if you count the commercial transfer of Appropriate – seems to be showing early signs of the inevitable shake-out, with one show (Lempicka) closing soon and a few others already playing to houses with attendance at 80% of capacity or less.
For the week ending May 5 – the first full week after the April 30 Tony nominations announcement – while overall box office was down about 7% for all shows and attendance off about 6% from the previous week, a good number of the newcomers were filling more than 90% of their seats. Some much more.
Selling out were An Enemy of the People, which grossed $1,048,286; Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, grossing $1,920,289 and not far off from the August Wilson Theatre’s house record set by the recent Funny Girl ($2,137,057); and Hell’s Kitchen, $1,270,519.
A very slight tier below were the newcomers who filled between 91% and 98% of seats: Illinoise, with three heavily comped performances, at $684,393 (91% capacity); Uncle Vanya, $998,040 (92%); The Wiz, $1,458,478 (95%); Mother Play, $551,925 (95%); Mary Jane, $467,047 (97%); Stereophonic, $591,519 (98%); and The Outsiders, $894,176 (98%).
A third batch fell between 80% and 88% of capacity: Appropriate grossed $659,263 (at 88% of capacity); The Great Gatsby, $1,049,784 (84%); The Notebook, $673,430 (83%); Water For Elephants, $1,010,054 (83%); Lempicka, $275,049 (84%); Suffs, $630,781 (81%).
And in the fourth tier, all below 80%, were: The Who’s Tommy, $910,354 (78%); The Heart of Rock and Roll, with some press nights cutting into box office, grossed $287,056 (71%); and Patriots, $416,373 (67%).
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