John Williams is among 19 new members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The 92-year-old composer has won five of the 53 Oscars he was nominated for, and also conducted the Boston Pops for more than a decade and has composed classical concertos. Here's a story from ABC on Williams and the other 18 inductees to the Academy of Arts this year, which included composer Terence Blanchard, novelist Alice McDermott and artist Matthew Barney. We want to know, which is your favorite of these (some answers are movies and others are franchises where more appropriate).
Even hardcore fans of the Hook may not know it started out as a full-blown movie musical. Director Steven Spielberg (who has often been likened to Peter Pan) had always wanted to make a musical, and thought Hook presented the perfect opportunity. He didn't want to remake any of the previous Pan musicals — not the 1953 Disney...
When "Schindler's List" came out 30 years ago, it was lauded by the mainstream press, but detractors hated its sentimentality, focus on a "good" Nazi, and the way it turned trauma into entertainment. Paul Morton writes for LitHub about whether it should lose its status as a public memorial and its "statue" be removed from the metaphorical public square. "For the moment," he concludes, "it should remain."
After a week of drama swirling around the survival of the Turner Classic Movies channel, drawing the concerns of #StevenSpielberg, #MartinScorsese and #PaulThomasAnderson leading to a sit-down with #WarnerBrosDiscovery head #DavidZaslav, a new plan is being put in place that will see the three directors taking an active role in the network working with newly installed Warner Bros Motion Picture Group toppers Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy.
Ian Failes of befores and afters has a fascinating article on the use of the #ILM StageCraft in Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans. There are many neat photos showing the filming of the car sequences, with Supervisor Pablo Helman on stage #movies#VFX#VirtualProduction#StevenSpielberg
Did you know 'Hook' was once a musical? Now you can hear the movie's long-lost songs (www.npr.org)
Even hardcore fans of the Hook may not know it started out as a full-blown movie musical. Director Steven Spielberg (who has often been likened to Peter Pan) had always wanted to make a musical, and thought Hook presented the perfect opportunity. He didn't want to remake any of the previous Pan musicals — not the 1953 Disney...