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Peter Bart: The Flying Pucks Of ‘Heated Rivalry’ Remind Studios How A Buzzy Novel Can Be A Real Power Play
"All we need is one game-changer," Jack Warner used to tell his troops when studio movies hit a bad patch. "One hit can change the town."
Warner would be bemused that a series of novels called Game Changers is energizing the streaming sector, one…
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Peter Bart: Timothée Chalamet’s Mighty ‘Marty Supreme’ Campaign Energizes Awards Circuit
Kudos season is upon us with its ever-evolving rules and rituals. The various filmgoing juries are delivering their lists of favorites, while the media weighs in on the star performances: Which actors have pitched most persuasively? Are upsets in the…
Peter Bart: The Warner War Catches Hollywood By Surprise … Again
The Warner War is only a month or so old with Hollywood fervently trying to compute who will be the true winners or losers. The rhetoric of corporate turf wars always sounds transformative — until it isn't.
Highflying Netflix at this moment has…
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Peter Bart: Teary ‘Hamnet’ Spins Tale Of Love And Grief Amid Chaotic Backdrop Of English Renaissance (And Awards Season)
Do Oscar voters covet a good cry? At a moment when movies struggle to capture serious awards attention, Hamnet is being lauded by critics for its emotional clout, yet also critiqued for its limited focus.
Chloé Zhao's movie, impeccably co-produced by Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes, represents a…
Peter Bart: Awards-Season Movies Struggle To Be Heard Above The Digital Din
Hollywood is torturing itself over this simple question: What's happened to the audience? Why have movies batted .000 with its 25 wannabe hits this fall?
Many theories are being advanced, but I favor simple answers: Movies have gotten lost because…
Peter Bart: Hollywood, Scorsese & The Future Of The Flop
There is growing concern in Hollywood about the future of the flop.
The ability to create and absorb failure has always been a key resource in an industry whose losers historically outnumber its winners. But with production starts fading, assets…
Peter Bart: Companies Are Pitching MOGA (Make Offices Great Again), But AI-Wary Workers Are Barely Budging
For a glimpse of turmoil these days, look no further than the nearest office. "It's an incipient war zone," says a McKinsey study.
That's despite the fact that offices are mostly empty — both federal and corporate. The MAGA-era U.S. government…
Peter Bart: It’s One Battle After Another On Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest Awards-Season Journey
Nothing about Hollywood should surprise Paul Thomas Anderson. The 55-year-old, Los Angeles born-and-bred filmmaker has made most of his movies in or about his hometown — films praised or challenged by his critical community.
His darkly satiric new…
Peter Bart: The Jimmy Kimmel Saga Is A Great Hollywood Tale, But Would Anyone Make The Movie?
The protests and petitions over Jimmy Kimmel reflected Hollywood's politicized mood this week but also raised this question: Will this '70s-type zeal impact policy, or even color content?
Hollywood veterans see a sad irony in the passing of Robert R…
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Peter Bart On Robert Redford, A Man Of Contradictions Who Challenged What A Movie Star And Indie Film Could Achieve
Robert Redford, who died Tuesday at age 89, was a major movie star with the soul of a '60s rebel but the appetites of a Hollywood celebrity. He loved movies but distrusted studios and disliked Hollywood and Los Angeles as places to live or…
Peter Bart: Peacock Delivers ‘The Paper’ In Toledo While Rupert Murdoch Plots Tabloid Takeover Of L.A.
The new TV comedy called The Paper depicts the clumsy re-start of a newspaper ambitiously named The Truth Teller. The crises faced by the fictional Toledo-based venture may resonate in Hollywood, which uneasily awaits the start-up of a “new” tabloid…
Peter Bart: Both ‘The Naked Gun’ And Its Studio Are Banking On The Promise Of Reboots
The Naked Gun reboot arrives this week from Paramount Global, its distributor, which is also heralding its own massive reboot — a study in contrasts.
The three Naked Gun films over nearly 40 years hilariously chronicled a litany of organizational…
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