Sinners, One Battle After Another Face Off

Sinners, One Battle After Another Face Off

“Bugonia” (Focus Features) An Element Pictures/Square Peg/CJ ENM in association with Pith/Fruit Tree Enterprises Production; Ed Guiney & Andrew Lowe, Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone and Lars Knudsen, Producers “F1” (Apple) An Apple Original Films/Monolith Pictures/Jerry Bruckheimer/Plan B Entertainment/Dawn Apollo Films Production; Chad Oman, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Joseph Kosinski and Jerry Bruckheimer, Producers…

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A tribute to documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

A tribute to documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman

Acclaimed filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, who died in February at age 96, revolutionized the art of documentaries with such films as “Titicut Follies,” “High School,” and “Hospital.” In an interview with “Sunday Morning” recorded last year, the pioneering Wiseman talked with David Pogue about his unusual production methods aimed at capturing life, in films as funny,…

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13 Facts That Are Mind-Blowing And True

13 Facts That Are Mind-Blowing And True

In his 2011 autobiography, Lithgow wrote that of those babysitters, “Our favorite was a vibrant girl named Coretta. A few years after her babysitting days ended, Coretta would marry a young minister from Georgia named Martin Luther King, Jr.” However, he never made the connection that it was the same “Corretta” that married Martin Luther…

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Reminders of Him Scores, Bride Collapses

Reminders of Him Scores, Bride Collapses

Colleen Hoover is once again proving her box office prowess. Universal’s romantic drama “Reminders of Him,” the author’s latest best-seller to land on the big screen, impressed with $18.2 million from 3,402 North American theaters. Those ticket sales are notably above pre-release expectations of $10 million to $12 million. The film earned $10 million from…

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‘Closure’ Wins Top Award At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival

Closure, Michal Marczak’s searing account of a man desperately searching for his missing teenage son, won the Golden Alexander in International Competition today at the prestigious Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival in Greece. It’s the festival’s top honor. Marczak’s film, which premiered in World Cinema Documentary competition at Sundance, follows a man named Daniel whose son…

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A Hollywood landmark preserved - CBS News

A Hollywood landmark preserved – CBS News

Singer-songwriter John Mayer and film director and producer Joseph McGinty Nichol (known as McG) have teamed up to buy and renovate a piece of Hollywood history: the legendary movie studio built by Charlie Chaplin. Tracy Smith talks with Mayer, McG, and Hollywood historian Marc Wanamaker about the Chaplin Studios, its history as a soundstage and…

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