Wall Street Journal Tagged Articles at Cinematical
Miramax Loves Them Some Female Convicts
Filed under: Drama », Romance », Deals », Newsstand », Miramax »
Take a good look at the woman on your right, because this is the real Toby Phalen Young, and I just wanted to make sure that we all got to see the real person before Hollywood gets a hold of her. Variety reports that Miramax has optioned the Wall Street Journal article, The Heart Has Its Reasons, for a feature film (you can read the full article over at WSJ). Kevin Helliker's article tells the story of Young, a 48-year-old mother of two who fell in love with a convicted murderer and wound up in prison herself.In 2004, Young had created a program for counseling inmates by having them care for dogs. This is where she met the 27-year-old murderer, James Manard. At the age of 17, Manard participated in a carjacking that left one of the passengers fatally shot. Manard received life in prison and had little hope of getting out. As the two became closer, an escape plan formed; Young grabbed $42,000 from her retirement fund and smuggled Manard out of prison. The two were eventually located in a Honeymoon cabin in Tennessee (how romantic!), and now Manard is back in prison, and Young is facing felony charges.
Wes Craven Names His Five Favorite Horror Movies
Filed under: Horror », Lists »
When the guy who directed The Last House on the Left, The Hills Have Eyes, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream decides he wants to share his five favorite horror films with the world, two things are certain: 1. Horror fans should probably sit up, take notice and jot the titles down (if they haven't seen 'em yet), and 2. The news will be carried in (of all places) The Wall Street Journal.
Yes, Wes Craven was asked to list his favorite fistful of fright flicks, and here's what one of the modern masters of macabre had to offer: the original Frankenstein (Craven's going out on a limb already -- although I do give the man credit for not going with the more popular choice of Bride of Frankenstein), Mervyn LeRoy's The Bad Seed (does that include the final scene, Wes?), The Exorcist (another potentially controversial pick), the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre (darn good pick -- albeit another fairly obvious one) and Ridley Scott's Alien -- which, as anyone who reads Film Critic Hunk Magazine can tell you, is my very favorite film of all time, horror or otherwise. God I love that film....
And that's pretty much it! Tune in next month when John Carpenter tells us he loves Tod Browning's Dracula, Stephen King expresses some affection for Freaks, and Eli Roth breaks the news that the original Halloween "rocks!!"
Netflix CEO Has No Fears of Competition
Filed under: Tech Stuff », Home Entertainment »
In less than ten years Netflix has become not just a great company but also a great company model. Despite all attempts from Blockbuster and others to compete with the online rental service, Netflix continues to be the champion in its industry. But will the industry eventually be obsolete with all the other internet distribution options? Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says that DVD rentals will indeed become extinct in the next 20 years, but he says that fortunately for him Netflix is not simply a DVD rental service. "If one thinks of Netflix as a DVD rental business," he told the Wall Street Journal, "one is right to be scared. If one thinks of Netflix as an online movie service with multiple different delivery models, then one's a lot less scared. We're only now starting to deliver the proof points behind that second vision."One of Netflix's plans for the future is a streaming video-on-demand option, which they began rolling out as a bonus to subscribers in January (I still haven't received my upgrade, which is expected to hit all members by June). Hastings claims that by the end of this year 5,000 films will be available in that format. He defended the relatively small amount (compared to 75,000 titles available via snail mail) by pointing out that Netflix originally started out offering only 1,000 titles on DVD. Netflix has also been planning for the future of high-density discs by stocking every title available on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, though Hastings told the WSJ that the formats are not renting too well, and the competing brands are
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