It was another week in painful internet discourse in the middle of support “The Wizard of Oz” on Vegas’ The Sphere To Sydney Sweeney as the assumed poster girl for eugenics, with the permission of a controversial American eagle ad.
But there was a lot to celebrate on film page, including the release of Akiva Schaffer’s forgery comedy ”The naked gun“Leslie Nielsen-started the film series with Liam Neeson as the talkative police detective with indigestion. On this week’s indiewed”Screenpat“Podcast, Co-Host Anne Thompson shares his thoughts on the new movie Laugh-A-Minute, along with Pamela Anderson as a Scat-Singing Femme Fatale.
Many generations are familiar with Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker comedies from the 80s, including “Airplane” and “Top Secret” and the original “Naked Gun” films, but this new movie from “SNL” author Akiva Schaffer may still play for an older audience.
At the same time, Ryan is digging into Michael Shanks’ Neon Horror outing “Together”, with the actual couple Alison Brie Brie and Dave Franco and Wild marketing stops neon Has pulled out for the film about a stained couple that literally becomes hermetically sealed to each other on body shapes.
Speaking of horror films, Anne and Ryan recognize the challenges in media access to genre films such as Zach Cregger’s long -awaited Warner Bros. ‘Release “Weapon,” out August 8th. Infectors and tictokers got an early look at the obviously “magnolia” -inspired horror movie, but again we resist a situation where journalists are depressed in favor of users of social media for opinions and draw quotes. After all, critics could potential ding the strong internet-mouth-to-mouth.
Anne also captures us up to speed of development in Family Family acquisition of $ 8 billion Paramount Globalwhich is expected to close shortly in the middle of the necessary approvals from FCC. It is the Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison and his son David, who have funded and produced films for a time through Skydance. They are conservatives in the core – David promises “impartial” story in CBS News – and many wonder how they will work, and how much Hollywood will cooperate with them in the wake of outgoing Paramount Overlord Shari Redstones $ 16 million bribes to Trump, as well as Colbert’s unclear shooting.
In addition, rising distributor and streamer mubi are in trouble after one List of filmmakers signed a letter condemns its relationship with Sequoia. The $ 100 million investor has ties to the Israeli defense industry, and many filmmakers urge Mubi to refrain from that relationship. How does the distributor move forward during an already fight for indie film companies?
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