April
13
Weekend Boxoffice: Prom Night Beats Street Kings; Bonnie and Clyde Holds Up
Sony's happy: 21 and Prom Night are doing well. Universal is less thrilled that George Clooney's Leatherheads took a steep decline. I didn't go to Street Kings after a pal told me that it's very close to Ron Shelton and David Ayer's 2002 Dark Blue, which I liked.
Instead, I watched my biggest Yankee crush, Mike Mussina, pitch a few innings of a Yankee game, some In Treatment episodes, and the new Bonnie and Clyde DVD. The 1967 collaboration of Arthur Penn, Warren Beatty, Robert Benton and David Newman holds up really well. I remember when Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate first came out; they were the first movies I went to with my Manhattan school pals instead of my family.
And I recommend my ex-EW editor Mark Harris's well-researched and elegantly written new book Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood, which paints a vivid portrait of the 60s period when both of these films were made. I had no idea that New Wavers Truffaut and Godard were interested in making movies in Hollywood, nor that they both flirted with making Bonnie and Clyde. Whenever I read one of these Hollywood books I am reminded that the more things change in Hollywood, the more thay remain the same. Check out this quote, from director Fred Zinnemann:
"If you go to France these days you are constantly involved in passionate discussions about the creative side of moviemaking. Here in Hollywood we are going in circles. We have moved into a trap, a self-imposed, self-induced trap with our dependence on best-sellers, hit plays, remakes and rehashes."
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