For two decades Taylor Sheridan made a living as a sixth-on-the-call-sheet actor, and his cowboy Marlboro Man look kept him busy, if not satisfied. But he quit cold turkey, determined to take charge of his own destiny, and reshape himself into a writer and director. His scripts for Sicario and Hell or High Water…
Harvey Weinstein, the ultimate impresario of the Oscars campaign, has again reshaped the Academy Awards — though in a way that he could hardly have anticipated while at the zenith of his power and influence.
The allegations of sexual assault and harassment against Weinstein sparked a #MeToo movement that has removed…
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The tsunami of critics groups awards has hit in a big way, and they all seem to be circling around the same few indie-centric films so far, though the AFI and Critics’ Choice Awards broadened the scope this week by including the likes of Wonder…
While reports have The New York Times chasing down Harvey Weinstein's former company for unpaid advertising, the one film with Oscar potential that shook loose from TWC had the credit in good standing to purchase a full page in the newspaper tomorrow. Acacia, which is being bankrolled by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribal…
It was a rough week for one of the year's so far best-received Oscar contenders, Taylor Sheridan's Wind River. On Friday, an executive producer of the film, Harvey Weinstein, was suspended as co-chief of the Weinstein Company, its distributor, pending an investigation of claims in the New York Times that he was…
Sunday Update: For previous weekend box office coverage, click here. Mid-August has proved to be an opportune time for Lionsgate and Millennium and their action titles in the past (think The Expendables franchise), so it stands to reason they would target that date on the calendar again, which is what they did this…
UPDATE, Saturday AM Writethru after 12:47AM post: Two distributors, Bleecker Street and Lionsgate, observed ahead of time that August wasn’t going to be dominated by any particular tentpole like last year’s Suicide Squad. And given how difficult it is to slot low-to-mid budget fare on the calendar in the teeth of…
TWC appears to have a hit with Wind River. The Sundance fest debut and second feature directing outing for Taylor Sheridan, starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen, grossed over $164K in its initial four locations. Searchlight rolled out its Sundance acquisition Step in 29 theaters Friday to the tune of $145K. The…
Writer and now director Taylor Sheridan is getting to the finish line with The Weinstein Company’s Wind River, the latest installment of a trilogy of sorts that includes Sicario and Hell Or High Water. Both of the those pics were Oscar nominated, the latter landing a Best Picture nom this year as well as for…
