Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Great Gatsby’ dazzles with $51M but Iron Man 3 is the No.1 film in the world for the third consecutive weekend with an estimated weekend gross of $161.8 million from 56 markets acccording to Rentrak. The current worldwide total now stands at $949 million. Also, Star Trek Into Darkness opened internationally to $31.7 million from only 7 market […]
But what’s keeping “Gatsby” from he top spot on amazon? None other than TV star Zooey Deschanel’s new album with partner M. Ward. They call themselves “She and Him.” It’s their third edition of songs together. Interesting–that the likeable Deschanel is holding Jay Z and friends back. In physical sales of CDs, amazon has “Gatsby” at number 12. Combined with i […]
Robert DeNiro ran the Cannes Film Festival jury in 2011. He told me that when Steven Spielberg was named the head of this year’s jury, the “Lincoln” director called him for advice. “I told him, Have fun with it. It’s hard work but he’ll enjoy it.” DeNiro also says Spielberg will not be able to screen the movies on his yacht anchored off of Cannes that resemb […]
For its first two thirds, Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is busy busy busy with nary a minute to avoid an onslaught of stylized metaphors. People keep asking me Is it like “Moulin Rouge”? Well no, it’s not nearly as unruly because Luhrmann has to stick– more or less- to the F. Scott Fitzgerald text. He has a structure and a story and at some point he has […]