12 posts tagged ‘napoleon’
How the Golden Globe nominations could shape the Oscar race this year
AV Club,
Like it or not, as the first big awards show of the year, the Golden Globes set the tone for everything that comes after. Even with their complicated backstory and the fraught history of the now-defunct Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the Golden Globes remain a valuable marketing tool for studios. Their strategic… Read more...
The Boy And The Heron takes the weekend box office, with Godzilla Minus One not far behind
It’s an exciting weekend for international cinema at the U.S. box office, with two Japanese films hitting the top three in American theaters—one live-action and one animated! The top spot went to the animated one, Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy And The Heron, which opened with $10 million (and on 1,000 fewer screens than… Read more...
Napoleon conquers Wish but gets exiled by the Hunger Games prequel
November 2023: Napoleon is master of the domestic box office. Only The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes stands before it. Oceans are now battlefields. Or, you know, close enough. Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has successfully defeated every other movie at the U.S. box office this weekend—save for The Ballad Of… Read more...
The week in film: Ridley Scott's movies ranked, Best Actress contenders revealed
It’s been nearly five decades since Ridley Scott’s first feature film, The Duellists, hit theaters, and now, even well into his 80s, the legendary filmmaker shows no signs of slowing. Napoleon, his latest feature, is as grand and intense as anything else in his long career, and it demonstrates just how adept Scott… Read more...
Let us all be thankful for Songbirds And Snakes at the Thanksgiving box office
As far as holiday “weekends” go, American Thanksgiving has always been a bit of a weird one, box-office-wise. On the one hand, you have lots of people with a decent amount of free time suddenly sitting in their laps; on the other, a ton of cultural messaging that suggests they should be spending said free time in the… Read more...
Napoleon Charges in Without a Plan
Vulture,
Ridley Scott’s new historical epic isn’t good, but at least it gives us an unforgettably weird Joaquin Phoenix performance.
The Long History of Napoleon Onscreen
Ridley Scott is just the latest director to be obsessed with history’s greatest short king.
Ridley Scott Cares Diddly Squat About France’s Feelings
The Napoleon director isn’t trying to win over the Académie des Beaux-Arts here.