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How ‘City of God’ Put Brazilian Cinema on the Map.
How ‘City of God’ Put Brazilian Cinema on the Map. One of the greatest films of the 21st century has a complicated legacy. the final scene of the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood , Doughboy ( Ice Cube ) talks about documentaries covering violent places around the world. Where’s the coverage in his world, South Central, Los Angeles? “Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood,” he says. A box office success and multiple Oscar nominee, this was the birth of the “hood film,” with subsequent movies trading South Central for Brooklyn, Paris, or Hackney, or even the term “hood” for “ favela .” One of the best in the genre, City of God released in 2002, based on the book by Paulo Lins and directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund . The ostensible protagonist Rocket ( Alexandre Rodrigues ) is trying, like everyone, to escape the violence of the Cidade de Deus in Rio de Janeiro. His drea...
Night of the Demon' Remains Eerie in Its Simplicity
Night of the Demon' Remains Eerie in Its Simplicity. There's something behind the trees. Sometimes in the movies, less is more. In the case of 50s classic Night of the Demon (or Curse of the Demon as it was released in the States), slightly less could've been so much more, for the movie's buildup and psychological wire-plucking render it a compulsively enjoyable watch today. French director Jacques Tourneur (known for RKO's Cat People ) was reluctant to show the titular demon at any point in the finished film, but due to external pressure, the beast itself does make two key appearances - characterized by its bug-eyed lumber. However, with multiple nerve-racking scenes populating the film, and gravitas provided by lead Dana Andrews (of noir classic Laura ) as Dr John Holden - Demon continues to bewitch through its creepy narrative and taut screenplay involving a mysterious death and the subsequent investi...
Avatar: The Way of Water’ Passes $538 Million at Domestic Box Office.
Avatar: The Way of Water’ Passes $538 Million at Domestic Box Office. This puts the film past 'The Dark Knight's domestic haul. With another strong weekend-to-weekend hold, Avatar: The Way of Water is continuing to attract audiences over the holiday period, and is looking to claim its fifth weekend at the top of the domestic box office. After a $7 million fifth Friday, the epic science-fiction sequel’s running domestic total now stands at $538 million. It's still pacing ahead of the first Avatar , which had made around $500 million by the same point, but not holding as well. The film will pass the $550 mark at the domestic box office by Sunday, and is expected to hit $566 million by the end of the extended four-day MLK weekend. The Way of Water is currently projected to add around $29 million over the regular three-day weekend, and $36 million across the four-day holiday frame, falling by just 36% from the last weekend. Globally, the film’s runn...
Matt Reeves to Meet With James Gunn & Peter Safran for “BatVerse”
Matt Reeves to Meet With James Gunn & Peter Safran for “BatVerse” Could they be planning to use the Elseworlds approach? During an exclusive interview with Collider’s Steven Weintraub for the 15th anniversary of Cloverfield , The Batman director Matt Reeves revealed he’ll soon have a meeting with new co-heads of DC Studios James Gunn and Peter Safran . However, as Reeves tells us, fans shouldn’t be afraid, as his BatVerse will keep being developed parallel with the new DC Universe. Last year, Reeves brought a revolutionary version of Gotham City to theaters with The Batman , a beautifully-crafted detective story that focuses on the emotional growth of Bruce Wayne ( Robert Pattinson ). The movie was a box office hit , especially considering theatres were still suffering the effects of the pandemic. So, of course, Warner Bros. asked Reeves to start working on a sequel and spinoff miniseries...
How Much of 'Vikings: Valhalla' is True?
All your questions about the real history behind 'Vikings: Valhalla' answered. Vikings: Valhalla Season 2 is now available to stream on Netflix. Creator Jeb Stuart never hid away from the fact that, though this show requires a huge amount of research (with the help of Vikings history specialists working on the show), it was also his job, as a storyteller, to fill in the gaps, to mix up the dates and the characters' relationships in order to deliver a comprehensible and entertaining story to the audience. Now that we can learn what happens to Freydís Eiríksdóttir ( Frida Gustavsson ), Leif Erikson ( Sam Corlett ) and Harald Sigurdsson ( Leo Suter ) after the terrible battle of Kattegat at the end of Season 1, we thought we would take a moment to find out if the London Bridge collapsed as shown in the first season, or if Leif and Harald's brotherhood was as strong in real life, or yet, was King Edmund as arrogant and inexperienced as portrayed in Vikings: ...
Assassin's Creed' Series Loses Showrunner Jeb Stuart [Exclusive)
"I know it's going to be great whenever it comes out." Netflix has been releasing several video game adaptations over the last few years in both animation and live-action that have done a lot to change the idea of video game adaptations being bad. These include critically acclaimed series like Castlevania , Arcane, and most recently the incredible Cyberpunk: Edgerunners . The streaming service also has a number of upcoming projects, among these upcoming projects is a series adaptation of Ubisoft's flagship franchise Assassin's Creed . We previously reported the series would see Die Hard and The Fugitive writer and showrunner of Vikings: Valhalla , Jeb Stuart , acting as series showrunner, but a recent update indicates that he has left the project. sides." The original announcement of the Netflix series was made back in September 2022 during the Ubisoft Forward Livestream when the...