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20 Friday Friday, March 23, 2018 Lifestyle | Music & Movies ouTube has announced it is making a movie IndieWire last year it was not making movie the- Sanctity of cinema in-house to be released in theaters, in a de- aters a fulcrum of its release strategy. YouTube Red said principal photography on Yvelopment seen as a step towards the model “Vulture Club” was complete, but gave few details of new-media innovator Amazon. “Vulture Club,” Powerful perspective on its theatrical release other than confirming its which is in post-production, stars Oscar winner YouTube Red, founded in 2014, has distributed big-screen debut would precede its streaming re- Susan Sarandon (“Dead Man Walking,” “Thelma around a dozen feature-length fictional movies for lease. Netflix has shown little regard for the per- and Louise”) as an emergency room nurse whose its subscribers and is working on a handful more. ceived sanctity of cinema, annoying some son is been kidnapped by terrorists. It moved into films for the general movie-going filmmakers-notably Christopher Nolan-and spark- Directed by Iranian-American Maryam Ke- public with sci-fi comedy “Lazer Team” in January ing calls for bans from film festivals by debuting its shavarz (“Circumstance”), the thriller also stars 2016, but that was a low-budget project with un- movies online only or at the same time as in the- Edie Falco (“The Sopranos,” “Nurse Jackie”) and known actors that failed to make a dent at the box aters. Amazon Studios, on the other hand, has part- Matt Bomer (“Magic Mike,” “American Horror office. “Vulture Club,” with its all-star cast, belongs nered with Bleecker Street, Lionsgate and other Story: Hotel”). “‘Vulture Club’ follows the singular in a different league alongside two other recent entertainment companies to give its original movies journey of a woman abandoned by her government YouTube Red acquisitions-Eminem’s satirical hip- a theatrical window of several weeks ahead of their who finds community in the most unexpected hop drama “Bodied” and Morgan Spurlock’s internet release. The company is now accepted in places,” Keshavarz said in a statement. “It’s an “Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!” While the Em- the industry as a conventional movie studio, its In this file photo Susan Sarandon attends the Pre- honor to work with Susan Sarandon, Edie Falco and inem movie is also bound for theatrical release, back catalogue including Oscar nominees and win- miere of ‘Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story’ during Matt Bomer who are the incredible talents and an YouTube dropped the Spurlock sequel after the ners such as “The Big Sick,” “Manchester by the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival at Cinepolis Chelsea in innovator like YouTube to tell this timely story.” filmmaker admitted to sexual misconduct and ha- Sea” and “The Salesman.” New York City. — AFP Online entertainment magazine IndieWire rassment in the past. The company plans to average approximately hailed the move by YouTube Red-the Google- In “Vulture Club,” Sarandon-recently nomi- played by Julian Morris (“Pretty Little Liars”). one movie a month and its upcoming in-house the- owned company’s $10-a-month streaming service- nated for Emmy, Golden Globe and Screen Actors “This emotional drama grapples with relevant atrical slate includes Luca Guadagnino’s horror re- as “a significant strategy shift.” The platform Guild awards for FX miniseries “Feud: Bette and issues journalists around the world face today,” make “Suspiria” and Gus Van Sant drama “Don’t showed Barbara Kopple documentary “This is Joan”-plays a mother who struggles to free her said Susanne Daniels, YouTube’s global head of Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot.” “We don’t have Everything: Gigi Gorgeous” on limited New York kidnapped journalist son. After running into road- original content. “Maryam Keshavarz lends her any news to report on a theatrical partner at this and Los Angeles theatrical runs ahead of its Feb- blocks with government agencies, she discovers a powerful perspective as an Iranian-American film- stage. Perhaps later once we identify a partner,” a ruary YouTube Red release. But the company ap- clandestine community of correspondents and ad- maker, and Susan Sarandon’s moving performance YouTube Red representative told IndieWire of pears to have changed direction since telling vocates who might be able to help the war reporter, immediately drew us into this compelling film.” “Vulture Club.” — AFP Troma guru Lloyd Kaufman: In this file photo My career in the slimelight Bruce Springsteen performs during the ith a library of 800-plus movies, a school shootings, all in the inimitable Troma closing ceremony of cult following and a record for style. The movie reunites fans with Tromaville the Invictus Games giving stars their break, Lloyd High School classmates and lovers Chrissy 2017 at Air Canada W Kaufman could be the biggest movie mogul and Lauren, who battle fellow students who Centre in you’ve never heard of. For half a century, the have turned into vicious mutants after eating Toronto. — AFP 72-year-old co-founder of Troma Entertain- contaminated tacos as part of a corrupt ment-the world’s oldest independent film school meals program. studio-has been the enfant terrible of com- “Poultrygeist,” a satire of the chemical-in- edy horror, a low-budget Abbott and dustrial food complex, focuses on a fast food Bruce Springsteen extends Costello for the gross-out crowd. Troma’s restaurant built on a native American burial iconic B-movie back catalogue includes such ground that sparks a disco-dancing chicken- Broadway shows until year end squelchy, sanguinary delights as “The Toxic human hybrid zombie apocalypse. “The Avenger,” “Surf Nazis Must Die,” “Poul- Toxic Avenger,” considered by most to be ruce Springsteen on Wednesday extended a run on trygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” and Kaufman’s finest work, stars 90-pound (40- Broadway until December as the rock legend’s unusu- “Tromeo and Juliet.” kilogram) weakling Melvin Junko, who falls Bally intimate shows keep fetching top dollar. It marks The movies-mainly shown these days in into a vat of chemical waste and emerges as the third extension by Springsteen, who started the perform- art house theaters and on college campuses- Toxie, New Jersey’s first superhero. ances in October in the 960-seat Walter Kerr Theatre. Ex- haven’t made money since the 1990s but Lloyd Kaufman, President and co-founder of Pretty much ignored upon its release in cluding several breaks, Springsteen will perform four to five Troma’s mutants have become icons of Troma Entertainment, poses with his red tie 1984, it eventually proved to be Troma’s shows weekly until his new closing date of December 15. American schlock culture. “Troma has left a of cows going ‘Moo!’ in Marina del Rey, Cal- breakthrough into the mainstream con- The show by Springsteen, who for decades has sold out big mark on the countryside of the moving ifornia. — AFP sciousness, celebrated by arthouse types arenas, has become one of the hottest tickets on Broadway, images industry. But we are not that well- Not for the thin-skinned or politically from Greenwich Village to Tokyo. It has often drawing more than blockbuster musical “Hamilton” on known,” laments Kaufman, who describes the correct, the filmography is a Pandora’s box of spawned three sequels, a stage musical, a the resale market. Springsteen has tried to prevent ticket studio he founded with university friend cannibalism, radioactive goo, bodily fluids Marvel comic, video game and a children’s scalping through a new fan verification system by Ticket- Michael Herz as “jalapeno peppers on the and pneumatic breasts, not to mention re- cartoon series, and is due to be inducted into master but many fans have nonetheless been distraught by cultural pizza.” lentlessly mocked racial, religious and sexual the US Library of Congress this year. “The resale prices that can run up to $1,000. Troma was a stepping stone to Oscars stereotypes. AFP caught up with Kaufman at people in Tromaville are... perfectly capable Announcing the extension of his show on Facebook, glory for Oliver Stone and Kevin Costner as his oceanside hotel as he visited Los Angeles of running their own lives but they suffer,” Springsteen said that only fans who previously signed up well as a filmmaking hothouse for James for the west coast premiere of his latest opus, Kaufman says. for verification but could not buy tickets would be invited Gunn (“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 and the onerously-titled “Return to Return to “They are victims of a conspiracy of the to the latest round, for which prices begin at $75 a seat. The 2”) and Trey Parker and Matt Stone (“South Nuke ‘Em High: AKA Vol. 2.” labor elite-labor leaders who make millions of 68-year-old balladeer of the working class has earned a Park,” “Team America”). Other luminaries dollars while the constituency is eating dog reputation for marathon, free-wheeling concerts with his E whose early work can be found in Troma’s Disco-dancing chicken food.” To say Kaufman is outspoken would be Street Band. By contrast, Springsteen on Broadway per- library of self-produced and acquired The second part of an $800,000 revisit- to under-sludge the radioactive pudding. A forms alone with a piano and guitar, with a career-spanning movies include Robert De Niro, Dustin ing of Troma’s 1986 classic “Class of Nuke twinkle in his eye, he enjoys pulling the rug setlist that changes little each night. —AFP Hoffman, Vincent D’Onofrio, Samuel L. ‘Em High,” it deals with environmental degra- from under establishment figures he consid- Jackson and Eli Roth.

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