Spielberg, Steven
How Five Sci-Fi Movies From 1982 Shaped Our Present
“Blade Runner,” “E.T.,” “Tron,” “The Wrath of Khan” and “The Thing” all arrived that one season 40 years ago to become indelible and influential. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. At the end of Christian Nyby’s 1951 sci-fi chiller “The Thing from Another […]
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Streaming Took Over Hollywood. Will It Take Best Picture, Too?
The pandemic accelerated the disruption. Traditional studios like Paramount, Universal, Sony, Warner Bros. and Disney rerouted dozens of theatrical films to streaming services or released them simultaneously in theaters and online. For the second year in a row, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, citing the coronavirus threat, allowed films to skip a […]
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Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Opens to Tepid Box Office Receipts
Steven Spielberg’s rave-reviewed remake of “West Side Story” arrived to an estimated $10.5 million in North American ticket sales, a feeble result — even by pandemic standards — that added to alarm in Hollywood about the theatrical viability of films that are not visual effects-driven fantasy spectacles or new chapters in ongoing franchises. But there […]
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‘West Side Story’ Review: In Love and War, 1957 Might Be Tonight
The Jets and the Sharks, a white teenage gang and their Puerto Rican antagonists, aren’t mirror images of each other. Ostensibly contending for control over a few battered blocks in the West 60s, they collide like taxis speeding toward each other on a one-way street. The Sharks are children of an upwardly striving, migrant working […]
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