Samuel L. Jackson told The Times last year that he deserved to win the Oscar for best supporting actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”) at the 1995 Academy Awards. In a new interview with Vulture, the actor said he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar just a couple years later with Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill,” co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Sandra Bullock. The John Grisham adaptation starred Jackson as a man on trial in Mississippi for killing the two men who raped his daughter.
“In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her,” Jackson said. “That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot,...
“In ‘A Time to Kill,’ when I kill those guys, I kill them because my daughter needs to know that those guys are not on the planet anymore and they will never hurt her again — that I will do anything to protect her,” Jackson said. “That’s how I played that character throughout. And there were specific things we shot,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Zack Sharf
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix acknowledged the punishing landscape that is streaming today but — even as some now question the entire model — insisted it’s a good business if you’ve got “strong execution and focus” and it does.
“Consumers have so many amazing entertainment choices,” it said, calling out its largest rivals Disney, Comcast, Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery “with their large content libraries and creative expertise — [who] are now focused on profit so they can build sustainable, long-term streaming businesses.” Big-tech rivals Apple, Amazon and YouTube, “with their broad reach and deep pockets, continue to invest heavily to grow their streaming revenues,” read its letter to shareholders alongside quarterly earnings.
“Combined with Apple’s video initiatives, there’s quite a competitive battle happening,” Netflix said. “But while streaming is intensely competitive, we’ve shown that with strong execution and focus, it can be a great business. Long-term success takes strength in both entertainment and technology,...
“Consumers have so many amazing entertainment choices,” it said, calling out its largest rivals Disney, Comcast, Paramount Global and Warner Bros Discovery “with their large content libraries and creative expertise — [who] are now focused on profit so they can build sustainable, long-term streaming businesses.” Big-tech rivals Apple, Amazon and YouTube, “with their broad reach and deep pockets, continue to invest heavily to grow their streaming revenues,” read its letter to shareholders alongside quarterly earnings.
“Combined with Apple’s video initiatives, there’s quite a competitive battle happening,” Netflix said. “But while streaming is intensely competitive, we’ve shown that with strong execution and focus, it can be a great business. Long-term success takes strength in both entertainment and technology,...
- 7/19/2023
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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