| Variety |
| Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up âLunchboxâ (EXCLUSIVE) |
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S. rights to Ritesh Batra’s feature debut “The Lunchbox,” a Cannes Critics’ Week standout. A feel-good romantic comedy with culinary accents, pic stars Indian vet thesp Irrfan Khan (“Life of Pi”) as a solitary widower on the eve of retirement, and rising star Nimrat Kaur as a neglected housewife who connect thanks... Read more » |
| Cannes Film Review: âMichael Kohlhaasâ |
Justice and vengeance become entwined in âMichael Kohlhaas,â Arnaud des Pallieresâ stolid treatment of Heinrich von Kleistâs influential novella about a 16th-century horse merchant whose mistreatment by those in power leads to an unholy uprising. Kleistâs direct language and straightforward storytelling are nowhere in evidence in Pallieresâ narratively challenged adaptation, featuring a French-speaking Mads Mikkelsen... Read more » |
| Cannes Film Review: âThe Immigrantâ |
Cementing himself as the great classicist of his generation, James Gray turns back the clock to 1921 for a romantic tale that cuts to the very soul of the American experience. |
| Female Movie Criticsâ Influence Shrinking, Says Study |
With more online movie sites than ever, it might seem like women have more chances to get into film criticism. But a study released Friday by San Diego State professor Martha Lauzen finds that among top critics, fewer films were reviewed by women in spring 2013 than in fall 2007. The study uses Rotten Tomatoes’... Read more » |
| Broadcasters Challenge Aereokiller in D.C. |
Broadcast networks filed suit on Thursday to halt a company from offering streams of their signals in the Washington D.C. market, in the latest effort to challenge the legality of a bevy of services seeking to provide over-the-air television on the Internet. Fox, NBC, ABC and Allbritton Communications filed a claim in U.S. District Court... Read more » |