This week Neil Calloway argues that big name film stars alone are no longer a guarantee of box office return… This week the least profitable films of the year were announced, with films starring household names such as Chris Hemsworth, Bill Murray and Sean Penn all appearing in movies that made the list. At first […]
The biggest box office flops of summer 2015
2015 may be poised to deliver the second-best summer box office of all time with $4.36 billion and counting, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t big several huge failures on the big screen this year, and The Hollywood Reporter has the inside track on the summer’s box office bombs, and exactly how much they’re projected […]
Emma Stone speaks out on Aloha “whitewashing” controversy
Whilst on the promotional global tour for her second Woody Allen collaboration Irrational Man, Emma Stone has been speaking to an News.com about the controversy surrounding her other big 2015 release, Cameron Crowe’s Aloha. In the comedy, which was a critical and commercial flop in the US earlier this summer ($23 million domestic gross from […]
Cameron Crowe apologises for casting Emma Stone as an Asian American in Aloha
Cameron Crowe’s latest film Aloha has been at the centre of a “whitewashing” controversy due to Emma Stone’s casting as Allison Ng, a mixed race character who is the daughter of a half-Chinese, half-Hawaiin father and a white mother. In the wake of the criticism, Crowe has taken to his personal blog to offer an […]
Movie Review – Aloha (2015)
Aloha, 2015. Directed by Cameron Crowe. Starring Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: A celebrated military contractor returns to the site of his greatest career triumphs and re-connects with a long-ago love while unexpectedly falling for the hard-charging Air Force watchdog assigned to him. We […]
