From ‘Old Town Road‘ to Beverly Hills Cop, it seems Lil Nas X is coming for all of the Village People’s jobs.
27.06.2024 - 22:37 / deadline.com
This week used to be nail-biting time in Hollywood as the studios nervously unfurled their summer blockbusters and prayed for lines at the box office. That time is bye-bye.
To be sure, a few movies are still opening. I decided to drop by one pre-opening party this week to find Ted Sarandos, jaunty in sports jacket and jeans, cheerfully greeting guests at a screening of his company’s $150 million Eddie Murphy feature.
No one was biting nails or counting lines.
Rambunctiously entertaining, Axel F defies blockbuster criteria even for sequels of museum vintage. At age 63, Murphy’s ingratiating smile has endured over the four decades since the first Beverly Hills Cop wreaked havoc, blasting down Rodeo Drive. Research reinforces the movie’s strong generational feedback.
The event this week delighted its audience on the big screen at the elegantly resuscitated Egyptian Theater in Hollywood – a combined Netflix/American Cinematheque restoration. It will open July 3 for Netflix’s 270 million sofa-bound subscribers worldwide without a theatrical release. By contrast, Bad Boys: Ride or Die from Amazon is briefly thriving at the box office.
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Beverly Hills Cop thus represents the triumphs and contradictions of the Netflix universe, which presently reigns over an industry that some leaders describe as chaotic.
Reporters from the New York Times last week interviewed top entertainment CEOs and concluded that the best hope for Netflix’s corporate rivals was to “stop trying to be like Netflix.”
Only Amazon, the leaders concluded, has successfully mounted a robust challenge to Netflix domination. While competitors are trying to curb production
From ‘Old Town Road‘ to Beverly Hills Cop, it seems Lil Nas X is coming for all of the Village People’s jobs.
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his and Jennifer Lopez’s $60 million mansion in Beverly Hills on Sunday. The “Justice League” star, 51, drove down the hill from his house and onto the main road, where the photographers were waiting for him. As they flashed away, Affleck slammed on the brakes, put the car in reverse, and got out to confront them, as seen in a TMZ video.“Listen, man, you’re going to get me in an accident,” Affleck said to one of the paparazzi.“I understand,” the photographer could be heard replying.Affleck — with his wedding ring on his finger — continued: “Don’t flash your lights as I’m driving down the driveway.
Chinatown.” First released on June 20, 1974, the seminal noir feature was a resounding success at its time: a big hit for producer and Paramount heavy Robert Evans, a renowned return to Hollywood for director Roman Polanski and an Academy Award winner for screenwriter Robert Towne, plus Oscar nominations for stars Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway. But the film has only become more enshrined in the canon in the decades since, in particular for Towne’s script: a grim portrait of uninhibited greed shaping Los Angeles in the 30’s, celebrated as one of the best — and often cited as the best — screenplay in history. Key to its legacy is its terrifying ending, which sees Nicholson’s detective J.J.
Prince William has shared an iconic selfie with Taylor Swift and his children.
,” Swift captioned the Instagram post.Prince William was also spotted grooving to Swift’s hit “Shake It Off” during the sold-out show at Wembley Stadium, which was also attended by Kelce, his brother Jason, and sister-in-law Kylie.
Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Eddie Murphy remembers quite clearly why, back in 1984 when he was just 23 years old, he didn’t think the first “Beverly Hills Cop” was going to be a success. It all went down at the film’s first industry screening. “It didn’t go well,” the funnyman told me Thursday at the, yes, Beverly Hills premiere of “Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F,” the fourth installment of the action comedy franchise.
Eddie Murphy has the support of his family at the premiere of Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F!
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