“All those things I can do. All those powers. And I couldn’t even save him”
Beginning This Friday June 26th, the Skyview Drive-in in Belleville (5700 N Belt W, Belleville, IL 62226) will be showing SUPERMAN (1978) with WONDER WOMAN (2017) on Screen #1 and BATMAN (1989) with BATMAN BEGINS (2007) on Screen #2. The Skyview’s site can be found HERE .
Warren Beatty, Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Pitt, Barbra Streisand, Elizabeth Taylor and the stars of the HARRY POTTER films are but a few of the subjects featured in the 165 photographs that will next grace the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Grand Lobby Gallery. Opening to the public on Thursday, September 16, “Up From the Vault: 85 Years of Treasures from the Warner Bros. Photo Lab” will run through December 12. Admission is free.
The exhibition includes a broad range of photographs, some famous and many extremely rare or unseen – from glamour portraits to set reference stills, from ad art and publicity photos to behind-the-scenes shots and scene stills. New prints of images taken in black-and-white and color, and in nearly every photographic format, from early 4×5 negatives to the latest high-resolution digital photos, will be on view.
“Up From the Vault” will feature some of the most iconic stars of the last nine decades, including Judy Garland, James Cagney, Joan Crawford, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Marlon Brando, Natalie Wood, Vivien Leigh, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington and Heath Ledger. Shots taken on various sets by film legend and aspiring photographer James Dean are also included.
Classic and recent films will be represented, such as “Casablanca,” “Rebel without a Cause,” “A Streetcar Named Desire,” “A Clockwork Orange,” “Yankee Doodle Dandy,” “Batman Begins,” “Little Caesar,” “Cool Hand Luke,” “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” “A Star Is Born,” “Mildred Pierce,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Sergeant York,” “Gypsy,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “The Searchers,” “All the President’s Men,” “The Matrix,” “The Exorcist,” “Dog Day Afternoon,” “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Million Dollar Baby.”
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The Warner Bros. Photo Lab originated in the early days of the studio, circa 1930, and remains the longest continuously operating studio photography department. Its purpose was, and still is, to process the unit photographers’ images into proofs and prints for publicity and advertising. Staffed by printmakers, archivists and digital designers, the Warner Bros. Photo Lab works with millions of original negatives, photographic prints and digital images owned and archived by Warner Bros. Studios, composing what is perhaps the most complete visual record of any studio’s film production and promotional activities that exists.
The exhibition is organized by the Academy in association with guest curators Greg Dyro and Leith Adams.
Also opening on September 16, in the Academy’s Fourth Floor Gallery, is “Ingmar Bergman: Truth and Lies.”
The world premiere exhibition will delve into the career and personal life of the legendary Swedish director. Original scripts, notebooks, film schedules, sketches, posters, photographs and other paper materials will complement items such as set models and costumes. Film projections and specially created montages will allow the visitor to explore the full range of Bergman’s work, from his earliest films to his major international successes. Admission is free.
Presented in collaboration with the Ingmar Bergman Foundation, Svensk Filmindustri, the Swedish Film Institute, the Swedish Institute, Swedish Television and the Royal Dramatic Theatre Stockholm.
The Academy’s galleries are located at 8949 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and are open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and weekends, noon to 6 p.m. The galleries will be closed for the Thanksgiving Day holiday weekend (November 25 through 28).
For more on other Academy events, visit their official website Oscars.org as well as their Facebook page here, or see their YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/oscars.
David Goyer is making time for his movies. The screenwriter and showrunner for ABC’s FLASHFORWARD has announced, according to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood, he is stepping away from the series to spend more time on features. This comes with five episodes still out of the can and needing to be shot, but fans of the series might be a little less apprehensive about the news when they learn what Goyer is working on next.
According to the report, Goyer is currently working on the third BATMAN film along with Christopher Nolan’s brother, Jonathan. This is a bit of a change in pace from the previous BATMAN films, as Goyer and Christopher Nolan collaborated on the story for those, with Jonathan Nolan only stepping in on THE DARK KNIGHT’s screenwriting job.
Says Goyer in the statement on his departure from FLASHFORWARD:
As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions. I’m proud of the show and excited about the relaunch. It’s in great hands.
No word yet on whose hands Goyer is referring to there, nor has there been any, official word from Warner Brothers on a BATMAN 3 start date. With Goyer and the Nolans hard at work on the story, though, that can’t be too far off.
Michael Uslan, the executive producer on ‘Batman Begins’ and ‘The Dark Knight’ spoke recently with New Jersey’s Courier-Post. Â He says the next Christopher Nolan-directed ‘Batman’ installment is due in 2011.
Uslan will be onboard as executive producer for the ‘Dark Knight’sequel, which he estimates will be theaters by 2011. As for the identity of the next round of Batman’s supervillains and love interests, Uslan remains tight-lipped. “It’s one of those deals where if I told you, I’d have to kill you,” he says with a chuckle.
Of course, any news regarding the new ‘Batman’ film will assuredly be taken with a grain of salt. Â This could just be the guy trying to stir up buzz. Â Of course, if you know us geeks at all, you know we love our buzz.
Source: Courier-Post
“The debate continues to rage about what Warner Bros. should do with Superman. The last movie, Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns, paid homage to the Richard Donner Superman movies without completely updating the franchise the way Christopher Nolan did with Batman Begins.
Fans have been clamoring all over the web–and on this blog–for a complete reboot. And within the halls of Warner Bros. the same debate rages on. They too believe that the last movie didn’t break the mold and wound up in some kind of middle limbo. Today I was told that it is a priority at the studio to find the right direction and if Bryan Singer is willing to do that, fine, but if he gets in the way, he may not stay on the project. There are no writers working on a Superman script now. The studio wants to figure it out. “It might be better to start from scratch,” one exec admitted.”
OUCH! Are we looking at another reboot? Do we want more Superman or have the superhero fans moved on already drooling for more Iron Man and Batman?
