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Christopher Pratt, legendary Canadian painter, dead at 86
Christopher Pratt, who cast a mysterious and magical aura above the Newfoundland and Labrador landscape with artwork that achieved global acclaim, has died. He was 86. He died early Sunday morning, his household reported in a statement. “He died as he wished, surrounded by loved ones and good friends in his residence of 59 many years on the Salmonier River,” the family’s assertion reported. He is survived by 4 little ones and other loved ones. Acclaimed painter Mary Pratt, explained in the relatives statement as his “very best friend and someday wife,” died in 2018. “It really is a huge reduction, to so a lot of. Canada has shed a…
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Christopher Walken Joins Dune Part Two in Pivotal Role, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Dirty Dancing 2, Dune Part Two, Scream 6, and Spinal Tap II. This WEEK’S TOP STORY CHRISTOPHER WALKEN TO REIGN AS DUNE PART TWO’S EMPEROR (Photo by Stephane De Sakutin/Getty Images) If a movie fan watched David Lynch’s 1984 film Dune (Rotten at 44{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}) just before seeing last year’s Dune (Certified Fresh at 83{5b4d37f3b561c14bd186647c61229400cd4722d6fb37730c64ddff077a6b66c6}) from director Denis Villeneuve, they might notice that there are three missing characters of note. As Villeneuve prepares to film Dune Part Two (10/20/2023), a couple of those roles have since been cast, like Florence Pugh as Princess…
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Florence Pugh and Rami Malek Join Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering such titles as Oppenheimer, Shang-Chi 2, and Disney’s Strange World. This WEEK’S TOP STORY FLORENCE PUGH AND RAMI MALEK JOIN CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S OPPENHEIMER (Photo by Elizabeth Goodenough/Everett Collection) Ever since it was first announced in September as the next film from director Christopher Nolan, one of the few things that was known about his atomic bomb biopic Oppenheimer was that it would feature an ensemble cast. That initial story was followed in October by the casting of Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as Oppenheimer’s wife, and in November, by the casting of…
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Christopher Nolan’s WWII Movie Oppenheimer Faces Changed Film Industry
Christopher Nolan’s next movie “Oppenheimer,” a $100 million-budgeted historical drama about physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the creation of the atomic bomb, could be considered one of an endangered species. These days, it’s rare for traditional studios to pump nine figures into a film that isn’t inspired by popular toys, novels or comic books. Even before COVID-19 upended the moviegoing landscape, audiences had been gravitating toward superheroes and science-fiction spectacles — and not much else. That reality has made it increasingly difficult for Hollywood to justify the economics of greenlighting expensive movies that aren’t based on existing intellectual property. They’re a bigger risk, not only in recouping investments for studios,…
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Christopher Wool Used to Be the Market’s Most-Wanted Artist. Now, His Auction Sales Have Sunk by 85 Percent
During the early-to-mid 2010s, there was no hotter painter than Christopher Wool. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York filled its entire spiraling rotunda with the artist’s canvases in 2013. The exhibition was supported by major collectors including Tom Hill, Dan Sundheim, and Stefan Edlis. Wool’s painting Apocalypse Now (1988), owned by hedge-fund manager David Ganek and included in the show’s earlier outing at the Art Institute of Chicago, never made it to the Guggenheim. Instead, it headed to Christie’s, where it sold for a whopping $26.5 million, a milestone reached by just a handful living artists. At the time, new works by Wool went for as much as…
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Cillian Murphy Confirmed as Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, and More Movie News
This week’s Ketchup brings you more headlines from the world of film development news, covering movies based on true stories like Boston Strangler, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Oppenheimer, and The Woman King, Women Beauty. This WEEK’S TOP STORY CILLIAN MURPHY CONFIRMED AS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN’S OPPENHEIMER (Photo by Everett Collection) Throughout Hollywood’s long history of making movies about real life figures, it’s a lingering complaint that actors frequently do not look like the real life figures that they are portraying. For Oppenheimer, about the life of the “father of the atomic bomb,” J. Robert Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan appears to be sidestepping such criticisms by casting frequent collaborator Cillian Murphy,…
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