This week marks the end of another SXSW Film & TV festival, where IndieWires “Screen Talk” Co-Host Ryan Lattanzio was on the ground to review and cover films including Nicole Kidman’s suburban satire “Holland“A24’s horror-comedy”A unicorn“And Matthew McConaughey’s first film role in six years with the Bluegrass-Toned Oklahoma Western”The king’s rivals. “
We summarize the festival on this week’s section “Screen Talk”, where documentaries including “The python hunt“(The first nonfiction film from Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s artistry Ital) and the UFO investigation”The age of disclosure“Popped on the ground. “The Python Hunt” centers at a snake hunting competition in Florida Everglades and has received comparisons with “Tiger King.” At the same time, while “The Age of Disclosure”, the audience woke up with their speaking head access (including a pre-secretary of the state Marco Rubio), this investigation of the US government coverage of alleged foreign spacecraft crashes could have used a tighter editing and better monitoring films. Both are looking for acquisitions from SXSW and should have no problems finding them based on reviews.
Also on “Screen Talk”, Co-Host Anne Thompson digs in Why Universal Pictures should have released “Bridget Jones: Mad about the boy“The fourth film in the franchise based on Helen Fielding’s novels, in theaters. While Renée Zellweger head role romantic comedy earned $ 100 million in 71 countries abroad so far and counted, the film went straight to peacock in the United States, it is because even if it is a stored sequel, Universal decided to save marketing soles and back-end payments and go directly to the streaming.
As Anne explains, the studio has every right to defend its expenses. But what happens if there is a new mandate for the studio, unless Netflix, who was never in the theater industry: feed the theaters. Keep the movie alive. A large studio that Universal may only recall $ 10 or $ 15 million in domestic theatrical rents on a $ 50 million movie and spend as much to market it. But we need the studios to support theaters whenever possible. If they only serve their own pocket books and streaming platforms, we can end up without theater companies at all.
Later on the podcast, we also watch two hot new TV series: Seth Rogens Hollywood-centered “The Studio” on Apple TV+ and Netflix’s erect four-part crime drama “Adolescence” from Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham. It is centered on a 13-year-old boy who is accused of murdering a classmate, and each section develops for a while. If viewers agree with the “teens”, this may be the next “baby reindeer” when it comes to zeitgeistic appeal from the UK
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