Barack Obama is sharing the list of his favorite movies of 2023 and included a message acknowledging the writers and actors strikes that halted Hollywood.
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John Waters has named Ari Aster’s dark comedy Beau Is Afraid as the best film of 2023.The Pink Flamingos director shared his annual list of favorite movies of the year with Vulture, placing the A24 film at the very top.“A superlong, super-crazy, super-funny movie about one man’s mental breakdown with a cast better than Around the World in 80 Days: Joaquin Phoenix, Patti LuPone, Parker Posey, Nathan Lane, and Amy Ryan,” Waters wrote. “It’s a laugh riot from hell you’ll never forget, even if you want to.”Also making Waters’ top 10 were Pierre Croton’s A Prince, Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener, Fallen Leaves, Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World, Last Summer, and the short film Strange Way of Life.The director also included Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, which Waters argued “deserves the Oscar for being a big-budget, star-studded, intelligent action movie about talking.”You can find Waters’ top 10 films of the year below:Recently, Beau Is Afraid writer-director Aster told Vanity Fair that he was “disappointed” by the film’s reception, describing the movie as a social “experiment” for audiences.“I always knew the film was going to be polarizing and it’s designed to be divisive.
When you make a film like this, it feels in some ways like you’re just pulling yourself inside out. With this film especially as it came out, I felt very protective of it,” Aster said.
Barack Obama is sharing the list of his favorite movies of 2023 and included a message acknowledging the writers and actors strikes that halted Hollywood.
In this week’s episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo gets in the driver’s seat to discuss “Ferrari” with director Michael Mann (“Heat,” “Collateral,” “Ali”). The film is based on the real-life of Enzo Ferrari, founder of Ferrari—the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, who is played by Adam Driver.
musician Taylor Goldsmith.“So we did that throughout my childhood, which feels silly, but we loved it. Pancakes and waffles and eggs and bacon and toast and all of that, we’re gonna do.”She hopes to introduce another tradition this year at their new Los Angeles home.
A third season of Starz‘s period erotic comedy Minx isn’t likely in the cards, according to co-EP and star Jake Johnson.
EXCLUSIVE: Starring an electrifying Nicole Scherzinger, Sunset Boulevard ends its limited run at London’s Savoy Theatre on January 6. However, Deadline can reveal in its 2024 West End look ahead that the singer will lead the Andrew Lloyd Webber show to Broadway in November, according to insiders connected with the production.
Daniel Johnston catalogue project have been shared and will feature a remastered version of his first 14 seminal releases.The project – titled ‘Daniel Johnston In The 20th Century’ – will restore the late indie-rock icon’s 20th-century discography, starting with his 1981 lo-fi homemade debut cassette ‘Songs Of Pain’.Johnston’s early work will be available for the very first time in 24-bit lossless audio. The first phase is comprised of his first 14 seminal releases from 1980 to 1998, with each recording remastered from their original source tapes by Shimmy-Disc founder and longtime collaborator, Kramer.All 14 LPs are now available via danieljohnston.bandcamp.com as pay-what-you-want downloads until the end of today (December 20).
Oppenheimer”).During the simultaneous Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild of America strikes, the sagging box office was boosted, like NFL ratings and the economy of East Rutherford, New Jersey, by Taylor Swift.Marvel Studios, which used to be the surest thing in Hollywood, began to underperform (“Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”) and then downright flop (“The Marvels”).And DC was revealed to actually stand for Dud Central, with all of the studio’s comic-book films of 2023 (“Shazam! Fury of the Gods,” “The Flash” and “Blue Beetle”) turning out to be financial failures.In a win for Gen Z, studio execs determined Zendaya’s star wattage is so huge now that two of her movies — “Dune: Part 2” and “Challengers” — were delayed a year due to the strikes, so she can promote them to her hoards of fans. And baby boomers were dinged by the big-time tanking of the nostalgic “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” starring a now 81-year-old Harrison Ford who schlepped around New York and Europe.Despite all the madness — and a sea of schlock — some excellent films hit theaters this year.
NEON is releasing Jake Johnson‘s feature directorial debut Self Reliancein theaters for one night only on Jan. 3, 2024 before the pic’s Jan. 12 streaming date on Hulu.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director As 2023 draws to a close, Christopher Nolan is feeling pretty good about the state of the movie business. That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise considering “Oppenheimer” pulled in a remarkable $954 million at the box office this year, beating every superhero movie and several major Hollywood tentpoles, like “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.” Audiences turning out in droves for a three-hour, R-rated and incredibly dense biographical drama as if it were a major action movie blockbuster has Nolan quite optimistic about the future. “I’ve just made a three-hour film about Robert Oppenheimer which is R-rated and half in black-and-white – and it made a billion dollars.
Elton John has unveiled a list of his 15 favourite songs of 2023.The ‘Tiny Dancer’ singer has spent the year talking about music on his Apple Music show Rocket Hour, in which he shared his favourite tracks and provided insight into the up-and-coming artists he had been listening to recently.Taking to his official Instagram account, John shared his top 15 tracks of 2023. The caption of his post read: “2023 has been a fantastic year for new artists and great songs.
*This story includes spoilers for “Gutenberg.”If you thought Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells were the only stars on display at Broadway’s riotous musical comedy “Gutenberg! The Musical!,” we’re happy to report you’d be wrong.Most shows ends with a special celebrity guest appearance that often floor Gad and Rannells.To close shows, big names like Steve Martin, Martin Short, Will Ferrell, Kristin Chenoweth and Weird Al Yankovic walk onstage as a “Broadway Producer” to present our heroes with a “Broadway contract” for their hastily researched musical within a musical about Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press.And while we can never predict who will be at the next performance at the James Earl Jones Theatre, we do know the best way to find out is live.As of now, tickets are available for all 48 remaining shows up until Jan. 28, 2024.At the time of publication, prices start around $60 to $70 before fees on Vivid Seats to catch the musical IRL.Want see Gad, Rannells and maybe a household name live onstage in midtown Manhattan?Here’s everything you need to know and more.All ticket prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.Up until Jan.
“The Drew Barrymore Show” to promote his AppleTV+ series, “Slow Horses,” Oldman, 65 – who is father to sons Alfie, Gulliver and Charlie and step-son William – said that he was cast in the “Harry Potter” movies shortly after divorcing his ex-wife, Donya Fiorentino, in 2001.“At 42 years old, I woke up divorced and I had custody of these boys and so that, in itself, was hard because there was a shift in the industry where a lot of productions were being [filmed in], it was Hungary, Budapest, Prague, Australia, you know, all of these places,” he told Drew Barrymore, 48. Barrymore interjected to explain that global filming locations shifted because of “tax reasons.” As a result, Oldman said he “turned down a lot of work” in order to be with his children.“Thank God for ‘Harry Potter,’” he said.
The new movie Wonka is now in theaters and the film is expected to be a box office hit over the holiday season.
Addie Morfoot Contributor In “Downwind,” a documentary executive produced by Matthew Modine, directors Mark Shapiro and Douglas Brian Miller chronicle the lethal effects that nuclear testing on American soil has had on U.S. citizens. The Oscar hopeful reveals that from 1951 to 1992, Mercury, Nevada, was the site for the testing of 928 large scale nuclear weapons.
Barbie has topped a list of the top-trending Google searches across the year in movies.Greta Gerwig’s film, which is the highest-grossing movie of the year, came out on top of Google’s year-in-review 2023 lists for movie search data in the US and globally.The lists, released on Monday (December 11), track queries that had the highest spikes in traffic over a sustained period this year as compared with 2022.Unsurprisingly, due to the Barbenheimer phenomena, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer placed in second across both lists.
The New York Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review may have anointed Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” the top film of 2023, but the Best Coast, er, West Coast has a different view. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association selected Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” as their Best Film of 2023.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith television series starring Donald Glover has arrived – watch it below.The new series, which will stream on Prime Video from February 2, also stars Maya Erskine and the two operate as an undercover married couple while working for a mysterious spy agency.The show is a reboot of the 2005 action film starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and was created by Glover with Atlanta writer Francesca Sloane.Others appearing in the series include Paul Dano, Parker Posey, Wagner Moura, John Turturro, Ron Pearlman, Michaela Coel, Eiza Gonzalez, Alexander Skarsgard, Sharon Horgan and Sarah Paulson.Previously, the series shared a short teaser trailer as part of Prime Day.
Every year, come December, cinephiles anticipate the top 10 lists of various publications, critics, and filmmakers. Cahier du cinema kicked things off in 2023, but now it’s John Waters‘ turn to reveal his favorite movies of the year.
Eiza González, Alexander Skarsgard and Úrsula Corberó are some of the A-lister names that have joined “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” a TV series based on the 2005 Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt film.
Oppenheimer and Matthew Perry are among the most viewed Wikipedia pages of 2023.This year alone, the English language version of the website had 84billion views, with celebrity deaths and Christopher Nolan’s epic biopic about the creation of the atomic bomb ranking as two of the highest searches.The list of celebrity deaths, which includes the late Friends star Perry, has been viewed 42,666,860 times, while Oppenheimer has 28,348,248 pageviews.J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist on which the film is based (played by Cillian Murphy), also ranked high with 25,672,469 pageviews.Perry, who starred as Chandler Bing in Friends, was found dead in his Los Angeles home on 28 October, aged 54.