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Peter Bart: The Film Nerds And ‘Barbie’-Phobes Are Here, But That Won’t Stop A Big Oscar Bump
Given the strong slate of this year’s Oscar nominees, the pre-Academy Awards season has been devoid of the intrigues and mud-slinging of previous epochs. Oops! – could a new outbreak of Barbie-phobia break the harmony and bring naysayers out of the shadows?
I already hear a few negative murmurs: Not…
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Peter Bart: A Biden-Trump Rematch Dims Cable News Prospects And A Print Media Biz Already In Trouble
"Sequels suck, whether you're making them or watching them." So said one storied filmmaker in rejecting a rich movie deal (details below), and he'd likely react the same if offered Biden vs. Trump.
The New Hampshire primary results this week reinforced…
Peter Bart: Are You Experiential? Hollywood Eyes Spheres And Squid Games As Cinemas And Streamers Struggle
The reminders are relentless, but the mission under-exciting: Academy voting is "obligatory" for members this week. It's time to conjure up those lists of "bests."
OK, I respect the ritual but – candidly — my attention is drifting. Instead of creating…
Peter Bart: It’s Satire Season, When Doctors Maim, Professors Become Fugitives & Barbie Gives Mattel The Business
"Satire is a dangerous game In Hollywood," Billy Wilder once observed. "It invites self-immolation." Still, the satiric spirit looms large in many of this year's buzzworthy movies: American Fiction, Poor Things, Saltburn, Air, The Holdovers and even…
Peter Bart: Could Return Of Monroe Stahr, The Last Tycoon, Pull Hollywood Out Of Its Leadership Malaise?
If Hollywood truly suffers from a leadership malaise, as some charge, would the return of Monroe Stahr resuscitate the system? Filmmakers respect his judgment, stars his panache and investors his discipline, so Stahr's return may ignite a new Irving Thalberg-like era.
Whoops — he's not…
Peter Bart: Hollywood Musicals Pin Hopes On Hard-Won Harmony Between Oscar Voters And Audiences
The sound of music was back with us this week in the form of two polar opposite productions that may intrigue audiences but challenge marketers.
Maestro started streaming on Netflix after auditioning in a (very) few select theaters. Will its…
Peter Bart: ‘Love Story’, The Movie Nobody Wanted To Talk About, Was A Surprise Even To Its Reluctant Star Ryan O’Neal
"Why is this like a dark secret? It's just a movie."
Ryan O'Neal, who died this week at 82, was a smart, good-natured man who was bemused by the contradictions of Hollywood. As he nervously awaited the release of Love Story five decades ago, he…
Peter Bart: Barbra Streisand Doesn’t Like To Hear The Word “Cut” In Her Movies Or Her Memoirs
When Barbra Streisand delivered her 992-page memoir to her editor at Viking earlier this year, did anyone urge her to cut? Even gently?
Not that it would have done any good, for Streisand has a lot to say and her opus was termed "exhausting, ecstatic…
Peter Bart: ‘Saltburn’s Tantalizing Twists Add More Spice To Emerald Fennell’s Career
Having won an Oscar for her gritty first film about a revenge murder, Emerald Fennell's second movie, out this week, reminds us that she doesn't believe in happy endings. Saltburn is about a vengeful college student who aspires to an even wider death…
Peter Bart: Hollywood Hopes A New Round Of “Fixes” Can Cure Its Malaise Rather Than Prolong The Pain
The consensus is clear: Hollywood feels it must pursue what Bob Iger tactfully (or ominously) calls "some fixes."
The “fixes” post-strike hopefully will move beyond cutbacks and delays — we've already been absorbing their impact. Disney alone has cut…
Peter Bart: War Is Hell. Onscreen, It’s Also A Blur
The Israeli-Gaza morass this week seemed to defy coherent media coverage, reminding me of critic David Thomson's conclusion about Hollywood war movies and how they “used to celebrate courage, not confusion."
Thomson's new book, The Fatal Alliance, deals…
Peter Bart: Do Hefty Running Times Impact Movie Marketability? It’s A Long Story
The angriest filmmaking fights that I've witnessed over the years have not been about cost or cast; they were about length. The movies were too long but so were the fights.
I re-lived some of them this week when I saw Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flo…
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