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Jun292024 by cineverseNo Comments

Bud S. Smith, Editor of ‘Sorcerer,’ ‘The Exorcist’ and ‘Flashdance,’ Dies at 88

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By J. Kim Murphy According To The Daily) Bud S. Smith, an Oscar-nominated film editor who was a regular collaborator with William Friedkin and whose other credits include “Putney Swope,” “Flashdance” and “The Karate Kid,” died Sunday at his home in Studio City, Calif. due to respiratory failure after a prolonged illness. He was 88. Smith’s death was confirmed by his wife, dialogue editor Lucy Coldsnow-Smith. Over a career spanning five decades, Smith was a two-time Academy Award nominee: in 1984 for Adrian Lyne’s romance fantasia “Flashdance,” and in 1975 for William Friedkin’s horror classic “The Exorcist,” which Smith shared a nomination for with Evan A. Lottman and Norman Gay. Smith won the BAFTA award for best editing for “Flashdance” and received a career achie...

Jun292024 by cineverseNo Comments

Kalki 2898 AD’ Review: Lavish Tollywood Sci-Fi Epic Is an Unabashedly Derivative Spectacle

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By Joe Leydon According To The Daily) With “Kalki 2898 AD,” Telugu cinema filmmaker Nag Ashwin rifles through a century of sci-fi and fantasy extravaganzas to create a wildly uneven mashup of everything from Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” to Marvel Comics movies, underpinned by elements from the Hindu epic poem “Mahabharata.” It’s billed, perhaps optimistically, as the first chapter of the Kalki Cinematic Universe franchise — which makes it part of a larger trend, since it launches the same weekend that Kevin Costner’s multi-film “Horizon” saga does in the U.S. International viewers unfamiliar with the specifics of the ancient Kurukshetra War between the Kauravas and the Pandavas — think Hatfields and McCoys, only with chariots and spears — may want to brush up on Indi...

Jun262024 by cineverseNo Comments

Paul Walter Hauser Tells Interviewer: ‘Please Don’t Say’ I’m ‘Like Vin Diesel’ Because ‘I Like to Think I’m on Time and Approachable’

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By Zack Sharf According To The Daily) Paul Walter Hauser‘s interview with CinemaBlend at the “Inside Out 2” press junket is gaining traction on social media for one viral moment in which the Emmy-winning actor calls out Vin Diesel for stories about Diesel allegedly mistreating cast and crew on set. The two actors have not worked together — and it appears that Hauser is not interested due to what he’s heard about Diesel. When the CinemaBlend interviewer told Hauser that his arc in “Inside Out 2” means “you’re like Vin Diesel now,” the actor responded: “Please don’t say that.” “I like to think I am on time and approachable,” Hauser said, alluding to stories he’s heard that Diesel is not. “I love people, but when I hear stories about Hollywood actors who get paid reall...

Jun242024 by cineverseNo Comments

China Box Office: Local Drama ‘Moments We Shared’ Crushes ‘Inside Out 2’ and ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die’ Debuts

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By Patrick Frater Feelgood local movie “Moments We Shared” ran off to a dominant win at the mainland China box office, despite releasing only on Saturday. If ever there was need of further evidence of Hollywood’s diminished power with Chinese audiences, this weekend provided it. “Moments’” win came at the expense of two U.S. films – Pixar animation “Inside Out 2” and action franchise “Bad Boys 4” – that have performed well in other markets “Inside Out 2” got a head start and opened conventionally on Friday with a decent $2.32 million that temporarily put it in first place. Its Saturday total increased to $4.3 million and retreated slightly to $3.44 million on Sunday for a weekend total of $10.3 million. Imax reported that $1.1 million of that total came from its screens ...

Jun242024 by cineverseNo Comments

House of the Dragon’ Cast on That Heartbreaking Child Funeral, Double Deaths and Missing Book Characters

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By Jennifer Maas, Jordan Moreau According To The Daily) SPOILER ALERT: This story contains major spoilers from Season 2, Episode 2 of HBO’s “House of the Dragon.” The fallout from “Blood and Cheese” continues in “House of the Dragon.” Episode 2 begins with heartbreak in King’s Landing when King Aegon II (Tom Glynn-Carney) discovers the grisly murder of his young son Jaehaerys. He blames Ser Criston Cole (Fabien Frankel) for not protecting the prince — and as we saw at the end of the premiere, Criston was too busy sleeping with Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke) instead of guarding the castle grounds. Everyone in King’s Landing gathers for a somber funeral procession to pay their respects to Jaehaerys, whose head was reattached for the occasion. “I remember them being li...

Jun242024 by cineverseNo Comments

Orphan Black: Echoes’ Star Krysten Ritter on Her Character’s Mysterious Past: ‘She Is an Experiment Gone Wrong’

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By Hunter Ingram According To The Daily) SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers from the series premiere of “Orphan Black: Echoes,” now streaming on AMC+. The series premiere of AMC and BBC America’s “Orphan Black: Echoes” offers only a few concrete things about Lucy, the enigmatic character played by Krysten Ritter. First and foremost, she’s innately resourceful, which comes in handy when she wakes up with no memory of who she is, with a kind but mysterious woman (Keeley Hawes) interrogating her about anything she might know. After a violent reaction, she MacGyvers her way out of the containment facility where she’s being held and right past a few clues that suggest her origins may lie in a slimy vat of goo. But before Lucy can investigate, she goes like a thie...

Jun232024 by cineverseNo Comments

Jamie Kellner, TV Maverick Who Launched Both Fox and The WB, Dies at 77

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By Michael Schneider According To The Daily) Jamie Kellner, who made his name as the only exec ever to create two broadcast networks — Fox and The WB (both of which also achieved profitability under his watch), died Friday at his home in Montecito, Calif. He was 77. Kellner had a tremendous impact on the television business in the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and was considered an entrepreneur at heart as he built Fox and The WB, and then independently created the Acme Communications stations group, and for a time ran Turner Broadcasting as chairman and CEO (succeeding Ted Turner). Kellner’s impact includes landmark programming like “The Simpsons,” “Married… With Children,” “Cops,” “In Living Color” and “21 Jump Street” at Fox; the long run of pop cultural touchstones...