Nathan Williams

4 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Today, comedian and actor Chevy Chase has a wildly uneven reputation. Some love him from his old National Lampoon movies or the 1980 classic Caddyshack (not the sequel). Others jump on the hate bandwagon, noting his numerous altercations with past colleagues. Regardless of where you stand, no one can deny he was instrumental in popularizing Saturday Night Live. However, the turning point in his life was The Chevy Chase Show.

4 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Great Gatsby films (1949, 1974, 2013).Published 100 years ago this month, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby has a unique place in pop culture. Required reading for generations of American schoolkids, the narrative explores the ideas of class, regret, and identity. Several high-profile films have been made since. The first adaptation was lost entirely. The second was filmed in the late '40s.

4 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

It's a weird time for video game adaptations. In the last few weeks, it has emerged that former gaming titan Ubisoft is fracturing into two separate entities, with the more valuable IP sheltered from looming bankruptcy liquidation. Unfortunately, that leaves the upcoming Watch Dogs, Beyond Good & Evil, Skull & Bones, Driver, and The Division movies/streaming series in the lurch.

4 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Shared passwords ain't all Netflix has to worry about. Contracted director Carl Erik Rinsch was recently indicted on fraud charges in NYC for failing to complete a TV series financed by the streaming company. Evidently, this unfinished production was a sci-fi show centering around a cyborg uprising. Though we still aren't fully aware of what happened or who is to blame, it appears that Netflix stumbled into quicksand as they rushed to build their own catalog of movies and shows.

5 days ago | movieweb.com | Nathan Williams

Sent to lobby on behalf of Germany in the '30s, Consul Georg Gyssling exerted more influence over the US film industry than most major producers. All Hollywood movies of the Hays Code era were liable to be censored for some silly reason. As irksome as this was to filmmakers, it could have been much worse. Germany could (and did) fire Jews and communists from their own film industry, but they faced a bigger conundrum in foreign movies.