Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
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trailer and read below for how you can catch a screening of “Red Rocket.”“Red Rocket” premieres on December 10. “Red Rocket” is playing exclusively in theaters nationwide.
As of now, no streaming information has been announced for “Red Rocket.” After its theatrical run concludes, the film will likely be available for digital purchase on websites like Apple Music, Vudu, Google Play and YouTube. Among the film’s large ensemble cast, the principle roles are as follows:
.Editors note: Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series debuts and celebrates the scripts of films that will be factors in this year’s movie awards race.
Red Rocket (★★★★☆), isn’t the cleverest liar, but he knows how to sprinkle just enough truth on his lies to make them believable. And if one lie doesn’t work, he always has another, or a ready excuse, a joke, or a compliment, whatever he thinks might ingratiate him with whomever’s on the receiving end of whatever angle he’s working.
Storyland Studios, the design and production studio with offices in the US and Europe, has been selected to master plan and design a film city and entertainment industry campus, first-of-its-kind film industry hub in Lagos, Nigeria.
Jane’s Addiction and Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis have reunited for a live cover of Lou Reed’s ‘Walk On The Wild Side’.The two rock acts came together during Navarro’s Above Ground charity concert on December 20 to raise awareness and funds for mental health for people in the music industry under the MusiCares programme.The fundraiser concert featured a number of celebrated rock acts, including Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Slipknot and Stone Sour’s Corey Taylor, Billy Morrison
Chris Cornell, has paid homage to her father through a touching new cover of Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’.Toni Cornell performed the emotional cover – which was recorded by her father prior to his passing and released on the posthumous album ‘No One Sings Like You Anymore’ – live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday (December 17).
Holdovers Drive My Car, Red Rocket and The Scary Of Sixty First looked good in limited runs on a weekend with few new specialty releases and even fewer numbers. Streamers – which presented The Lost Daughter (Netflix), Swan Song (Apple) and The Tender Bar (Amazon), don’t reveal them and smaller distributors often report early in the week.
The New York Film Critics Circle anointed “Drive My Car” as the Best Film of 2021 and now the West Coast critics have had their say. After almost six hours of overall deliberations, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association also selected “Drive My Car” as their Best Film of the year with “The Power of the Dog” as runner-up.
How does Sean Baker do it? No, we’re not questioning his writing or directing talent. Over the past decade, he’s consistently demonstrated he’s one of the most exemplary American auteurs working today.
The multiverse is having a moment in movies and TV right now, mainly due to the MCU juggernaut and upcoming films like “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” However, that doesn’t mean other filmmakers can’t utilize the concept in different, arguably more exciting ways, as it has before… READ MORE: SXSW: The Daniels’ ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’ With Michelle Yeoh Will Play Opening Night Case in point: “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” the latest film from Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert, otherwise
Sean Baker’s Red Rocket, the highest-profile specialty opening to report numbers this weekend (i.e. not distributed by a streamer) posted a solid $96,953 for a per screen average of $16,158 in six theaters in New York/Los Angeles.
William Earl Although pornographic films have been around since the late 1800s, even having a near-mainstream surge in popularity in the early ’70s thanks to films like 1972’s “Deep Throat” and provocateurs like Andy Warhol, major films about the pornography business took a lot longer to gain mass appeal. Early works, like Paul Schrader’s 1979 “Hardcore,” treated the industry as dark and sinister.
President Joe Biden’s first late-night appearance since becoming president was on very friendly terrain: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which the host was effusive throughout and largely stayed on the White House topic points.
A24 presents Red Rocket in six theaters this weekend ahead of a limited expansion in New York and LA, adding Chicago, Austin and San Francisco next weekend with a wider rollout over the holidays to several hundred screens.
NEW YORK -- Simon Rex, in town for the recent Gotham Awards, where he was nominated for outstanding lead performance in “Red Rocket,” was comparing today’s pandemic-scarred New York with the city he knew in the 1990s as a VJ on MTV.“Times Square was like pimps and sex booths and then it became Disneyland. Now it feels kind of sketchy again and I kind of like it,” Rex says, smiling.
Mikey Saber, the antihero of Sean Baker’s new film, has a bit of a problem during job interviews. He has a hole in his resume — stretching some 20 years.He explains to the bosses at Dollar General or the local diner that he was “self-employed” or was in “entertainment.” The prospective employers just want to know what he was doing for so long.
Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age and Red Hot Chili Peppers, joined forces for a live all-star jam in Malibu, California on Saturday (December 5).At the Bring Back The Arts benefit for Malibu Elementary School, Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme and Troy Van Leeuwen, Tool‘s Danny Carrey, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Jane’s Addiction‘s Chris Chaney and producer Andrew Watt all appeared onstage together.Rotating frontman duties and playing with two
EXCLUSIVE: Red Rocket breakout Bree Elrod has signed with Anonymous Content for representation.
In a year full of breakthrough performances, one actor who is getting a little lost in the periphery is Suzanna Son. The singer and actress landed her film debut in Sean Baker’s “Red Rocket.” In fact, Baker first spotted Son at the now-closed Arclight Cinemas in Hollywood.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSean Baker’s “Red Rocket” utilizes *NSYNC’s 2000 pop song “Bye Bye Bye” throughout the movie in various forms, but it wasn’t easy for “The Florida Project” director to secure rights to use the track as he searched for the perfect breakup song.At one point, Strawberry (Suzanna Son) plays a stripped-down version on her keyboard.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSean Baker likes to turn his camera on the people and places Hollywood usually ignores.In films like “Tangerine,” the story of a transgender sex worker that was shot with an iPhone, and “The Florida Project,” a look at an unemployed single mother and her young daughter who live in a rundown motel in the shadow of Walt Disney World, Baker has made a career of dramatizing lives lived on the economic margins.