Quentin Tarantino

  • Tarantino, Huston, Demme and Douglas to Present Honorary Oscars

    Quartet of Oscar winners named as presenters at upcoming Governors Awards ceremony honoring Bacall, Calley, Corman and Willis.

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  • Is Tarantino Following the Downward Spirals of Spielberg, Ford & Kubrick?

    Unfortunately, it seems that true auteurs have a limited life span.

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    Peter McAlevey

  • Once You’re a Jet, You’re a Jet …

    Before they remade “Fame,” they should have talked to Lewwy from 106th Street.

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    Peter McAlevey

  • TNT Buys Rights to ‘Basterds’

    Some good news for the beleaguered Weinstein Co.

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    the Los Angeles Times

  • ‘Destination’ Beats ‘Basterds’ Overseas

    3D slasher stops Tarantino from a thirst straight international B.O. win

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    Michael Speier

  • Do I Really Have to Defend My Tarantino Post?

    My last blog post seems to have set off a firestorm of controversy.

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    Peter McAlevey

  • ‘Basterds’ Stays Hot Overseas

    Overseas total is $59.1 million, a small 29% drop from its debut weekend.

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    Wrap Staff

  • Is This a Wrap for Tarantino?

      Is this a wrap for Quentin Tarantino?   That may sound bizarre, given the bluster Harvey Weinstein was spewing last weekend, but let’s examine the facts. Everyone has been proclaiming that Tarantino’s new, WWII monstrosity, which opened to an “unheard-of" $37.6 million, his “biggest opening to date.”   But wait a minute —  …

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    Peter McAlevey

  • Tarantino, You Basterd

      Is "Inglorious Basterds" entertaining?   Yes.   Is "Inglorious Bastreds" indulgent?   Yes.   Is "Inglorious Basterds" brilliant?   In spots, yes.   Is "Inglorious Basterds" exploitive and offensive?   Oh, hell yes.   Talk about a mixed bag. It’s the last part that has everyone in an uproar. Some Tarantino defenders say that…

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    Michael Lee

  • Weinsteins Sell ‘Basterds’ to the Masses — Cool!

    Say what you like about Harvey Weinstein. But when it came to marketing “Inglourious Basterds,” he hit it out of the park. The movie beat even the highest box office projections by more than $10 million. That’s worth a closer look. Here are the raw elements: A period film. Mainly in French and German. With…

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  • Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Comes Through for the Weinsteins

    His Nazi drama-comedy also pulls in $27.5m overseas; ‘District 9’ hits $73.5m.

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    Lucas Shaw
    Tarantino’s ‘Inglourious Basterds’ Comes Through for the Weinsteins

  • I Come to Praise Tarantino, Not to Bury Him. But …

    I come to praise Quentin Tarantino — not bury him. But if I were burying him, I’d probably say something like this. Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds,” in which Brad Pitt (as Lt. Aldo Raine) leads a group of Jewish Nazi killers into World War II France with the express purpose of killing — and scalping —…

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    Desson Thomson

  • Let’s Have ‘Quentin Tarantino Week’

    You could hear the collective groan rising from the Universal HQ a few weeks back when Fox and James Cameron declared Aug. 21 “Avatar Day," offering one-and-all the chance to sample 15 minutes of the film free at IMAX theaters worldwide. That’s because Aug. 21 is also the date Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Basterds” bows in…

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    Michael Adams

  • Weinstein on Tarantino Cutting ‘Basterds’

    “Read my lips: That is nuts. Please don’t even write that, it’s insanity.”

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    GQ

  • Warren Beatty, Me and ‘Kill Bill’

    Sunday, March 24 I can’t believe Quentin has time to take off on Oscar Sunday to meet with me. Well, yeah, I can believe it. The guy’s his own man (A Band Apart, remember?) and this is about casting the lead in his own movie, his great epic film. So I put on some jeans,…

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    David Carradine