Benjamin Svetkey

4 days ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey

I’m writing this on a state-of-the-art touch-screen gizmo that took Norwegian scientists six years and $50 million to develop. The gadget looks a bit like any other tablet — a simple, almost monastic slab of glass and metal — but unlike an iPad or Galaxy Tab, it doesn’t have a web browser, won’t stream TV shows and doesn’t let you Zoom or FaceTime or even text with friends. It does just one thing — and obsessively, exquisitely well.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey

Congratulations are clearly in order. After decades of being overlooked, underestimated and sometimes just flat-out ignored, a Hollywood mainstay is finally getting some richly deserved recognition. Bravo! No, not to Tom Cruise for that honorary Oscar — to the Academy for making sure the world’s last remaining movie star will turn up for their next broadcast.

1 week ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Turns out life doesn’t just imitate art — sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles. Case in point: A Day Without a Mexican, the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi, in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze, leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run the kitchens.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Generate Key TakeawaysTurns out life doesn’t just imitate art — sometimes it borrows the script, reboots it with National Guard checkpoints and streams it live from Los Angeles. Case in point: A Day Without a Mexican, the cheeky 2004 sci-fi satire from Mexican filmmakers Sergio Arau and Yareli Arizmendi, in which California wakes up to find every person of Latino descent has vanished into a mysterious haze, leaving Angelenos panicking over who’s going to mow the lawns and run the kitchens.

2 weeks ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Benjamin Svetkey |Julian Sancton

Ever since Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino signed on in October to remake American Psycho, fans and industry insiders have been casting the role like it’s 1999 all over again. Oscar nominee Austin Butler briefly emerged as a rumored frontrunner, but he was never in serious talks. The name that keeps bubbling up? Patrick Schwarzenegger. Yes, that Patrick Schwarzenegger, aka Saxon Ratliff.