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Celebrating its 30th anniversary this weekend, a restored and remastered Ghostbusters will return to more than 700 movie theaters on Aug. 29th, EW reports.
Speaking of, Vanity Fair has a great profile on the making of the film, featuring new interviews with the cast and crew:
From a potential lead who died of a drug overdose to a marshmallow man suit that went up in flames, Ghostbusters looked like anything but a slam-dunk when Columbia Pictures made it. How Dan Aykroyd’s big idea led to an all-time comedy classic.
At Pajiba, Dustin Rowles on the economics of movie reviews, or why so many film critics continue to lose their jobs:
I can give you the exact figures for Pajiba: Of the 200+ reviews published during the past year, only 21 actually generated enough page views to pay for themselves. Keep in mind, too, that we are not a wealthy site, so we pay little to begin with, and the costs do not even take into account the time and expense it takes one of our writers to see a movie. They’re putting in three to five hours to produce a review, and roughly being paid minimum wage (and not even the Seattle minimum wage — the federal minimum wage). Moreover, probably half of those 21 reviews that made a profit also included some kind of gimmick or “amusing” conceit that attracted a larger readership.
Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in America, featuring 22 minutes of restored footage, never before seen in the United States, will screen at NYFF 2014.
Spike Lee has renamed his famous Bed-Stuy block Do The Right Thing Way.
