La La Land
A jazz pianist and a struggling actress cross paths in Los Angeles.
La La Land
- Golden Globe Awards
2017 – Musical or Comedy: La La Land
It will forever be remembered as the film that won the Academy Award and then didn’t. But for many, it should have.
- Industry
Mildred Iatrou Morgan: Making History in Sound Editing
“Ai-Ling Lee and I would like to do big tentpole movies,” says Mildred Iatrou Morgan, the co-sound editor of La La Land, “As a team, we haven’t gotten anything like that yet. The movies we tend to get are on the smaller scale.
- Box Office
World Box Office, January 9-16 2017
In the week following the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards, many winners and nominees filled in the top ranks of the domestic and global box office chart. Hidden Figures, for which Octavia Spencer enjoyed a nomination for Best Supporting Actress, and Hans Zimmer, Benjamin Wallfisch and Pharell Williams shared the nom for Best Original Score, finished in first place on the domestic charts over MLK weekend.
- Music
On Music: Ryan Gosling, Golden Globe Winner
Brand new Golden Globe winner for La La Land, in which he plays keyboards, sings and dances, Ryan Gosling confesses - he is a great music lover:“Music has always been a part of my life. My uncle Perry was an Elvis impersonator and, you know, at 8 years old I came in the house one day and he was bedazzling a white jumpsuit.
- Box Office
World Box Office, December 19-26
A giant Christmas weekend featuring stellar performances from Rogue One and Sing along with solid showings from specialty features like Fences and La La Land pushed the yearly domestic box office gross past $11 billion for second time in a row. 25 films, beginning with Finding Dory (486.
- Golden Globe Awards
Ryan Gosling, La La Land – Nominee, Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture – Musical Or Comedy
Ryan Gosling’s involvement with La La Land started with a night of drinks and movie talk with writer-director Damien Chazelle, whom, he met through a common friend, producer Marc Platt. “we talked a lot about film in general, and Damien has a very infectious love of movies”, he told us in Toronto When Chazelle emailed Gosling the theme song for La La Land, the deal was closed.
- Festivals
Damien Chazelle and Emma Stone Talk “La La Land”
If the festival’s worth is judged by the opening, things augur well for this 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. Damien Chazelle’s endearing, cinephile, unabashedly romantic musical La La Land is still one of the most buzzed about titles here.
- Festivals
Venice Moment: ‘La La Land”s Emma Stone and Damien Chazelle
Following the acclaimed opening night debut of La La Land, the HFPA met director Damien Chazelle and his star (and twice Golden Globe nominee) Emma Stone (Golden Globe nominee Ryan Gosling having been kept from the Lido by filming duties on Blade Runner). “Venice is the perfect launching pad for a movie like La La Land” said 31 year-old Chazelle, 31 years old, whose second film had the honor of opening the 73rd Venice Film Festival.
- Festivals
Venice Opens Strong with ‘La La Land’
The Venice Film Festival opened with a bang – or rather a shimmy and a song – here in a sunny Lido with the world premiere of La La Land, as Damien Chazelle’s sophomore feature lived up to all of its pre-festival buzz (and augured well for a continuing festival streak). From the long tracking shot that envelops an ensemble dance number that erupts from a traffic jam on a freeway ramp (how has no one ever filmed this before?!), to its fanciful duel ending, the film is both an homage and a fresh updating of the Hollywood musical.