42 years ago, the late James Bond franchise producer Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli received an honorary Oscar – the prestigious Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. This coming weekend his daughter and stepson – Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson – will receive the same honor this Sunday at the 15th Governors Awards held by AMPAS. The […]
  1. It will be a man.
  1. He will likely be in his 30s.
  2. Whoever says yes is doing so with the expectation of at least a decade’s worth of films.
  3. “Whiteness is not a given”.

Not exactly a massive revaluation but I hope they’re bold enough to be different.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukOPMEnglish
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    7 days ago

    The Jinx film almost happened. There was a script, a director in Stephen Frears but apparently MGM got cold feet spending $80m on the film.

    Berry said,

    “It was very disappointing. It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren’t sure of its value. That’s where we were then.”

    • Dagwood222@lemm.eeEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Modesty Blaise was supposed to be a ‘refugee’ raised in ‘the Middle East.’ She could be Kashmiri, Afghan, or Iraqi.

      I’d do it with two actresses; a fifty-something Modesty narrating her life story and a younger actress for the early years.