As far as legendary pop culture stories go, few are weirder than the Titanic “PCP chowder” incident—a real, actual event that happened during filming on the future blockbuster in August of 1996, in which at least 50 cast and crew members, including star Bill Paxton and director James Cameron, were dosed with angel…
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Although film company A24 has built up a pretty remarkable reputation for itself over its 12 years of existence—winning 16 Oscars, including the sweep executed by Everything Everywhere All At Once last year—it’s still pretty niche, as far as money-making goes. (Even EEAAO only ended up clearing $144 million at the…
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Eleanor Coppola has died. An author and documentary filmmaker, Coppola’s most celebrated movie was the 1991 documentary Hearts Of Darkness, in which she recounted, with intimate access and an unsparing eye, the numerous disasters that befell the filming of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now. Coppola…
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You could make an argument that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in as good a position, right now, as they have been all century; the release of last year’s genuinely fun animated film Mutant Mayhem, and its Nickelodeon follow-up, seem to have primed a whole new generation to hook themselves up to Turtle Power.…
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