“Black Panther” wasn’t just a wild success in 2018. It was an axis-shifting, historically significant moment — the first major comic book movie featuring a Black superhero, it was the first superhero movie to be nominated for best picture, and it won three Oscars, for its score, production design and costumes. But after star Chadwick Boseman died of cancer in 2020, where do you go from there?
“The 50 MGM Films that Transformed Hollywood: Triumphs, Blockbusters, and Fiascos,” by Steven Bingen (Lyons Press) The title of film historian Steven Bingen’s new book is reminiscent of B-movie trailers of the 1950s that breathlessly hype “The Most Important Picture of the Year!” But like many of those overripe flicks, “The 50 MGM Films that Transformed Hollywood” can be entertaining, too.
NEW YORK (AP) — In Hollywood’s superhero era thus far, there has been one particularly conspicuous absence: While a parade of big-name actors have taken their turns donning various spandex suits, Dwayne Johnson — arguably the biggest movie star in the world — has, until now, sat out the trend.
‘Emancipation’ has been seen as an Oscar contender, but ‘the slap’ complicates things NEW YORK (AP) — After holding “Emancipation” in limbo following Will Smith’s slap of Chris Rock at the Academy Awards in March, Apple will release the actor’s next big project this December. In the fallout of Smith’s smack of the comedian, the fate of “Emancipation” — a $120 million runaway slave thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua — had been uncertain.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Loretta Lynn, the Grammywinning country music icon who died Tuesday at 90, lived through — and sang about — decades of advancements for women’s social movements, achievements now endangered.
Encore Theatre to present comedic mystery starting tonight What: Encore Theatre of Independence presents the comedic play “Clue: On Stage,” based on the 1985 screenplay by Jonathan Lynn, written by Sandy Rustin with music by Michael Holland (2018), directed by Sandy Dempsey and produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. Where: Powerhouse Theatre at Sermon Community Center, 201 N.
1. Blue Springs City Theatre presents “Night of the Living Dead”: Oct. 6 to 9 and 14 to 16. This play honors a 1960s-era movie about six strangers in a lonely farmhouse, surrounded by brain-eating zombies. What could go wrong? The play reflects the original movie and the times in which it was made. The play is being presented at the Miller Theaters, 1901 Missouri 7, Blue Springs, 816-224-0500. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased at Millertheatres.com/showtimes/. Further information can be found at https:// bluespringscitytheatre.com/ about-us.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died. She was 90.
Marilyn Monroe’s onscreen costumes are almost as iconic as her. Think of the hot pink strapless gown she wore to sing “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” Or the white halter cocktail dress that billowed up over a subway grate in “The Seven Year Itch.”
Up-and-coming director Olivia Wilde brings together good elements, but the result falls a little short Somewhere around when By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer TikTok videos were analyzing, with the intensity of the Zapruder film, whether spit flew at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Olivia Wilde’s “Don’t Worry Darling,” it became clear that the melodrama of the movie’s promotional tour had easily eclipsed the movie itself. The tabloid frenzy that engulfed “Don’t Worry Darling” was so public, so out in the open that it quickly passed into something kind of exhausting.