I was having dinner with John Brodey at Ago and he told me his Australian film director buddy Fred Schepisi might be stopping by. It used to be Bono’s. Sonny’s place. Before that I can’t remember. But it was always Italian. And right there at the intersection of Melrose and La Cienega. The last time […]

What kind of crazy f*cked up world do we live in where the biggest movie of the summer is on Netflix? One in which the entire movie business’s model was stolen, or shall we say abdicated, and the industry had no idea it was happening. What did we learn from tech? You gain the eyeballs, […]

No one goes to a movie for the theatre, and all the innovation and investment has been on the exhibition side of the film business for the past two decades. And now the industry is paying the price. Also for being out of touch with the changing world. In all verticals, it’s about niches. Narrower […]

It’s now on Amazon Prime. But it’s the kind of movie we used to go to the theatre for, when film was still the national religion, when cinema engendered analysis, conversation, before everything became two-dimensional, in-your-face entertainment made to be consumed with popcorn and then forgotten. Movies had to play around the world, they had […]