Love that there’s actual free Newspaper at the theme park.
Love the design. I’ve done something similar during me time as a page designer — especially when there is no art to accompany a story.
BUT, take a closer look:
Notice the paper’s slogan: THE WIZARD WORLD’S BEGUILING BROADSHEET OF CHOICE
Pretty cleaver, but it’s a TABLOID!
At least the movie got it correct:
This screen grab from Wizarding World shows there’s a fold right under the photo, so it’s a good bet it really is a broadsheet so the slogan is correct. Kudos to the movie props department for getting it right! At least in the example above.
“For All Mankind” opens its second season this week with a montage of alternative history presented, of course, through the lens of fictional newspapers! If you haven’t followed the series, the premise is that the USSR beat the U.S. to the Moon.
NOTE: The New York Ledger was a real newspaper that shuttered in 1898, and has been used by several TV shows in the past. Guess I’m headed over to Wikipedia to make an edit noting its appearance this this episode.
And, again, Jimmy Carter was the 39th US President.
Plenty of movies about Newspapers have been made. Either set at Newspaper offices or have Newspaper reporters, editors and photographers as the main characters. Here are nearly 40 of them. OK, I’ll admit I looked real hard for another picture to round it out to 40, but couldn’t think of one. Anyone? Anyone?
Descriptions and posters are from IMDB. These are not listed by ranking, but are listed alphabetically.
A managing editor of a LA newspaper must put together headlines for the next day in a way that’ll attract the potential readers, deal with hectic going-ons at the workplace and have a serious talk with his wife about her wish to adopt. Stars: Jack Webb, William Conrad, David Nelson
Megan Carter is a reporter duped into running an untrue story on a suspected racketeer. He has an iron-clad alibi. Stars: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to rekindle his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control circus. Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert Arthur
After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy’s success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled. There were a series of these “Torchy” pictures filmed and you’ll see another one toward the end of the list. Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel
“The Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon’s resignation. Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Al Roberts writes a gossip column for the Daily Express. He will write about anyone and everyone as long as he gets the credit. He gets into a little difficulty with a hood named Goebel. Stars: Lee Tracy, Mary Brian, Dick Powell
Chapter 1 of this serial finds Daily Flash newspaper reporter Brenda Starr assigned to cover a fire in an old house where they discover a wounded gangster suspected of stealing a quarter-million dollar payroll. Stars: Joan Woodbury, Kane Richmond, Ernie Adams
A struggling comic book artist who draws the “Brenda Starr” strip decides to draw himself into it after Brenda comes to life and sees how unappreciated she is by Mike, and leaves the strip. Stars: Brooke Shields, Timothy Dalton, Tony Peck
Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal re-opens a ten year old murder case to help free a man wrongly convicted of killing a cop. Stars: James Stewart, Richard Conte, Lee J. Cobb
On Chicago’s South Side reporter Ed Adams finds the body of a dead girl. Her address book leads to a host of names of men frightened by her death but claiming never to have known her. Adams comes to know quite a lot, dangerously so. Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, June Havoc
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; “Rosebud.” Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore
A hard-nosed Chicago Mike Roykoesque columnist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher. Newsroom interiors were shot at the old Chicago Sun-Times Building on Wabash Avenue. Stars: John Belushi, Blair Brown, Allen Garfield
With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi. Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case… with tragic results. Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warne
Irwin M. “Fletch” Fletcher is a newspaper reporter being offered a large sum to off a cancerous millionaire, but is on the run, risking his job and finding clues when it’s clear the man is healthy. Stars: Chevy Chase, Joe Don Baker, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
An investigative reporter sees an opportunity for the story of a lifetime when an accused murderer escapes hanging. Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Mary Brian
Earl Williams is due to be hanged tomorrow, and he’s innocent. When Earl escapes from his cell, journalist Hildy Johnson seems likely to land the scoop of the century – but all he wants is to leave town. Stars: Sidney James, Henry Gilbert, Bill Harding
As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence. Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon
Luther Heggs aspires to be a reporter for his small town newspaper, the Rachel Courier Express. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that 20 years before was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. Stars: Don Knotts, Joan Staley, Liam Redmond
The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket. Stars: Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Reginald Owen
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Remake of the Chicago newspaper classic The Front Page. Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy
A political biography of I.F. Stone that details his approach to the news, his working habits and some of his exposés of government treachery that made his one-man newspaper, I.F. Stone’s Weekly, important. Stars: I.F. Stone, Tom Wicker
A New York couple takes over a small town newspaper. Probably the only film made about a community weekly. Stars: Loretta Young, John Forsythe, Frank McHugh
As a parting shot, fired reporter prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate John Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s worth, Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold
A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business. Stars: Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Robert Duvall
Unprecedented access to The New York Times newsroom yields a complex view of the transformation of a media landscape fraught with both peril and opportunity. Stars: David Carr, Sarah Ellison, Larry Ingrassia
New York City tabloid editor Henry’s faced with tough decisions while he faces several serious life challenges, and a tempting job offer. Stars: Michael Keaton, Glenn Close, Robert Duvall
An ambitious reporter gets in way-over-his-head trouble while investigating a senator’s assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world’s headlines. Stars: Warren Beatty, Paula Prentiss, William Daniels
The Globe is a small, but visionary newspaper started by Phineas Mitchell, an editor recently fired by The Star. The two newspapers become enemies, and the Star’s ruthless heiress Charity Hackett decides to eliminate the competition. Stars: Gene Evans, Mary Welch, Bela Kovacs
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government. Stars: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson
The surly editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself. Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford
The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine. Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny, Steve Zahn
Bent on winning a Pulitzer Prize, a journalist commits himself to a mental institution to solve a strange and unclear murder. Stars: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans
The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. Stars: Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where Clark Kent (the patron saint of reporters) grows up to become a Newspaper reporter at The Daily Planet, and his adoptive home’s first and greatest superhero. Stars: Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman
Powerful but unethical Broadway gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister’s romance with a jazz musician. Stars: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him. Stars: Clark Gable, Doris Day, Gig Young
Determined to scoop the other newspapers, reporter Torchy Blane convinces her boyfriend, police lieutenant Steve McBride, that the only way the perpetrator of a recent bank robbery could fence the stolen money is to exchange it in Panama. Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy
In the late 1960s/early 1970s, a San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified individual who terrorizes Northern California with a killing spree. Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Robert Downey Jr., Mark Ruffalo
I think everyone at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution knew that the film about the 1996 Olympic Park bombing was not going to portray the newspaper in a good light, but Mr. Talk to the Empty chair Eastwood is portraying AJC reporter Kathy Scruggs in a VERY bad light.
Read the AJC story here. More reporting from Deadline here.
Here is the letter attorney Marty Singer sent to Warner Bros and Oscar winner Eastwood on behalf of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
But according to everyone except this movie … Kathy Scruggs did not sleep with anyone for a scoop. She is being libeled in the movie about the man who got libeled.
Looks to me that Olivia is doing some backpedaling on Twitter:
The Wall Street Journal review give us this:
The Kathy Scruggs character, as written by Mr. Ray and played by Ms. Wilde under Mr. Eastwood’s direction, is a retrograde refugee from third-rate film noir, a seductress variant of Hildy Johnson, the hilariously unscrupulous crime reporter played by Rosalind Russell in the classic 1940 Howard Hawks comedy “His Girl Friday.” She’s out of place here, stylistically and dramatically, and, as I said, her sleaziness is gratuitous.
Full disclosure: I was in the Park during the bombing and helped write the initial stories for the AJC. I also knew Kathy and can assure you she did not have to sleep with anyone to get a story.
Here’s the movie synopsis from Youtube: In Disney+’s holiday comedy “Noelle,” Kris Kringle’s daughter is full of Christmas spirit and holiday fun, but wishes she could do something “important” like her beloved brother Nick, who will take over from their father this Christmas. When Nick is about to crumble like a gingerbread cookie from all the pressure, Noelle suggests he take a break and get away…but when he doesn’t return, Noelle must find her brother and bring him back in time to save Christmas.
Of course there’s a newspaper at the North Pole!And when the new Santa goes missing, The Daily Carol is ON TOP of the story!
… Love the play on the Daily Caller. The movie streams on Nov. 12
I was in Centennial Olympic Park when the bomb went off. I was working for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on their Olympics team. It was a crazy time.
I suspect that the AJC is not going to be portrayed in a favorable light in this film.
Here’s the blurb from the YouTube page (above):
Directed by Clint Eastwood and based on true events, “Richard Jewell” is a story of what happens when what is reported as fact obscures the truth.
“There is a bomb in Centennial Park. You have thirty minutes.” The world is first introduced to Richard Jewell as the security guard who reports finding the device at the 1996 Atlanta bombing—his report making him a hero whose swift actions save countless lives. But within days, the law enforcement wannabe becomes the FBI’s number one suspect, vilified by press and public alike, his life ripped apart. Reaching out to independent, anti-establishment attorney Watson Bryant, Jewell staunchly professes his innocence. But Bryant finds he is out of his depth as he fights the combined powers of the FBI, GBI and APD to clear his client’s name, while keeping Richard from trusting the very people trying to destroy him.
The film stars Oscar winners Sam Rockwell (“Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”) as Watson Bryant and Kathy Bates (“Misery,” TV’s “American Horror Story”) as Richard’s mom, Bobi; Jon Hamm (“Baby Driver”) as the lead FBI investigator; Olivia Wilde (“Life Itself”) as Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs; and Paul Walter Hauser (“I, Tonya”) stars as Richard Jewell.
Oscar winner Eastwood directed from a screenplay by Oscar nominee Billy Ray (“Captain Phillips”), based on the Vanity Fair article “American Nightmare—The Ballad of Richard Jewell” by Marie Brenner. Eastwood also produced under his Malpaso banner, alongside Tim Moore, Jessica Meier, Kevin Misher, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Davisson and Jonah Hill.
Eastwood’s creative team includes director of photography Yves Bélanger and production designer Kevin Ishioka, along with longtime costume designer Deborah Hopper and Oscar-winning editor Joel Cox (“Unforgiven”), who have worked with Eastwood throughout the years on numerous projects. The music is by Arturo Sandoval, who scored 2018’s “The Mule.”
Warner Bros. Pictures Presents a Malpaso Production, an Appian Way/Misher Films/75 Year Plan Production, “Richard Jewell.” The film will be in theaters on December 13, 2019 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
Here’s the Vanity Fair article the blurb mentions.
Jon Hamm will play an FBI agent and Olivia Wilde will play real-life Atlanta-Journal Constitution reporter Kathy Scruggs, who died in 2001.
In her heyday, Scruggs was a hard-drinking, tough-talking police reporter who wasn’t afraid of anything.
Doug Monroe REQUIEM FOR A REPORTER Atlanta Magazine, July, 2003
I was working in the AJC newsroom during the events and can testify that Scruggs was a force of nature. I don’t think I ever heard her speak without dropping multiple expletives.
Read Doug Monroe’s article in the Atlanta Magazine for a glimpse of her personality.
With Clint Eastwood at the helm of this picture, I can’t image that Scruggs or the AJC is going to come out looking very good. It will, however, be interesting how the AJC newsroom will be recreated.
V. A. Vandevere, aka Batman, aka Michael Keaton reads The New York Herald in the latest “Dumbo” from Disney and Tim Burton.
In the latest Dumbo movie, there’s this scene where V. A. Vandevere reads about Dumbo’s flying…
I love that they’ve used a real life newspaper, The New York Herald. Assuming the timeline of the movie is pre 1924, the Herald would have been around.
I love the heds, but not so crazy about the all caps:
WONDER ELEPHANT SOARS TO FAME
MIRACLE MAMMOTH STARTLES
OUR REPORTER ATTESTS: ‘THE TALE OF DUMBO IS TRUE!’
… fake headlines
Where I have a problem is the photo. Let’s take a closer look:
Dumbo
So, it’s a pretty cool photo of a flying elephant, but notice that it’s taken from above, which means:
A. The photographer was somehow positioned at the top of the tent,
B. Only the camera was up there and the photog somehow managed to trigger the camera, somehow, again, managing to perfectly frame Dumbo AND have a sharp focus.
C. There is no C.
I know I’m overthinking this, but it’s the little details, right?
@roryturnball got this rolling with this Tweet lampooning how Hollywood depicts college professors:
Leading to this Tweet from @watsoncomedian:
Which ended in this from @failingjordan:
So my contribution would be:
Hello, I’m a newspaper reporter in a movie. I live in a fabulous apartment/condo that costs tens of thousands of dollars a month to rent, and it’s furnished with tastefully expensive furniture. I also have a fantastic view of the nearby park (big city) or mountains (rural); if it’s near the ocean, I’m located ON THE BEACH!
Wanna Buy a Paper, Mister? 