"We'll be without our phones for a bit. Stay safe out there. Weird times"
19.03.2020 - 04:09 / variety.com
In today’s film news roundup, “Phoenix, Oregon” is being offered at a discount, Fantastic Fungi Day is set for March 26, and the opening of Methodfest has been shifted to May.
RELEASE STRATEGY
Dark comedy “Phoenix, Oregon” will launch Friday simultaneously in theaters that are still open and at home for a “matinee” discount price of $6.50.
Producers will share all revenue on a 50/50 basis with the group of theaters where “Phoenix, Oregon” would have been shown. The theatrical-at-home option
"We'll be without our phones for a bit. Stay safe out there. Weird times"
British actress Ophelia Lovibond said she had no problems using an American accent in her latest Disney film.
Roundabout Theatre Company has announced that the upcoming productions of the musical Caroline, or Change and the play Birthday Candles will be pushed back to the fall.
Roundabout Theatre Company has confirmed that both of its planned spring Broadway openings, Birthday Candles and Caroline, or Change, have now been pushed back to the fall. The move follows yesterday's announcement from fellow nonprofit Lincoln Center Theater that its productions of Flying Over Sunset and Intimate Apparel also have bounced from spring to fall.
Roundabout Theatre Company is moving its hotly anticipated revival of “Caroline, Or Change” to the fall, as well as its upcoming production of “Birthday Candles” with Debra Messing.
For years, Bandsintown has been a leader for direct-to-fan engagement as artists tour the globe. Now, in addition to full tour schedules and alerts, Bandsintown is adding WATCH LIVE alerts to artist pages to link directly to livestream concerts, including Facebook Live, Instagram Stories, or performances hosted here on Billboard.com.Artists will be able to promote their various livestreams on their own Bandsintown page.
To put it simply — and, yes, gratefully — “Phoenix, Oregon” is the sort of movie a lot of us need right now. It’s an undemandingly enjoyable and reassuringly predictable dramedy in which nothing, not even the sourball attitudes of its comically unpleasant malcontents, ever is allowed to get out of hand or unduly strain credibility. But it also is too playfully spiky and unaffectedly down-to-earth to come across as bland pablum.
A quarter-century after starring in a film called Floundering, James Le Gros still makes an ideal embodiment of his generation's ambivalence about joining the world of squares. In Gary Lundgren's gently warm Phoenix, Oregon, the actor plays an unpublished comic book artist who, after years of tending bar for others, is talked into starting a business of his own.
How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. And when the coronavirus cancels the performance you’ve been practicing for? Take it outside.
NEW YORK -- How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice. And when the coronavirus cancels the performance you've been practicing for? Take it outside.
Kerry Katona’s daughter Molly McFadden has said she has no plans to appear on Love Island, or any other reality TV show.