Existential Despair: Essential Movies For When March Never Ends

For her feature film debut, Mei Makino wanted to create a story that captured the flaws and imperfections of teenage life—particularly the confusion of having a multiracial identity. She initially sought to model her protagonist after the Black Latina students she taught in her Austin, Tex., youth film program, but when local actress Emma Galbraith auditioned, she rewrote the character as hapa—of half-Asian descent, like Makino and Galbraith both are.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticAnother week, another step toward the world as we knew it before COVID-19, thanks to nationwide vaccination efforts and the gradual reopening of theaters.

Twitter is amped up for Elizabeth Banks’ crazy bear-centric thriller — yes, you read that right!

Joe Masher, the COO of midsize exhibitor Bow Tie Cinemas, says he noticed that families from New York City — where movie theaters were closed for nearly a year, until March 5 — had been flocking to the circuit’s locations in Connecticut and New Jersey that were able to reopen in recent months amid the pandemic. “It’s amazing how many people were coming from the city,” says Masher, who is in charge of the New York chapter of the National Association of Theatre Owners.

Mark Pavelich was an NHL player who was a star of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, who beat the Soviet Union in an upset known as the “Miracle on Ice.”Pavelich played college hockey at the University of Minnesota Duluth before being selected for the U.S.

Movie theatres are back open in New York, and Liam Neeson has found the perfect way to celebrate.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticIt’s a very different landscape this week than it was a year ago, just before the pandemic forced cinemas to close around the country.

“Fresh Off the Boat” was adapted into a network sitcom that he narrated, has also worked as a corporate lawyer, a chef and restaurateur, a clothing designer and a TV host.Now, with his new film “Boogie,” in theaters March 5, Huang is adding director to that list — and it just might be his favorite gig yet. “You get to play with people,” said Huang, who grew up in Orlando and now divides his time between New York, Los Angeles and Taiwan.

Austin, Texas-based, dine-in movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse has filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware Court.

The Osage News reported about a meeting that was held between Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Osage cultural leaders Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, and Chad Renfro, the meeting organizer.The discussion, held Monday night, February 22nd, 2021, was centered on the upcoming film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Indian Murders and the Birth of the FBI, a bestselling book from New York Times staff writer David Grann.The true-crime book, which The Boston Globe

The new movie Tom & Jerry is now in theaters and it’s going to be a surprise box office hit for Warner Bros.

Peter Debruge Chief Film CriticThis week brings more theatrical releases than American audiences have gotten in ages — and possibly more than they’re ready for now, as vaccine rollouts still leave people questioning whether it’s safe to do things like go to the movies.Some, such as Warner Bros.’ “Tom & Jerry,” can also be viewed via streaming (the cat-and-mouse movie, which features the animated duo destroying a live-action New York cityscape) for HBO Max subscribers.

The Queens Drive-In, which became a lifeline for New York film distributors, festival organizers, awards campaigners and cooped-up cinephiles in 2020, has booked an encore for this spring.

Ryan Gosling is taking on a new role.

Wes Anderson to the now-disgraced TV journalist Charlie Rose as they discussed his latest film, The Darjeeling Limited, in 2007. “You have no life outside of movies?” returned the older man, clearly prepared to believe it of the floppy-fringed young man before him.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterFor the first time in nearly a year, New York-based movie theater operator Nicolas Nicolaou can breathe a sigh of relief. That’s because Gov.

Hollywood received a huge boost Monday upon receiving word that theaters in New York City — which have been shut down for nearly a year because of COVID-19 — will permitted to reopen March 5, albeit with strict restrictions in place. New York City is the country's second largest moviegoing market behind Los Angeles, and is crucial if studios hope to begin to recover from the pandemic.