| Kyle Buchanan Pop Culture Reporter | | Hey, movie fans! It's your faithful Carpetbagger, back from vacation. | | This week's big debut is "Us," Jordan Peele's highly anticipated follow-up to "Get Out," while in limited release, you can check out the fact-based "Hotel Mumbai" with Dev Patel and Armie Hammer, "Sunset" from "Son of Saul" director Laszlo Nemes, and Critics' Picks like the prison-break thriller "Maze" and the documentary about an assault in a small town, "Roll Red Roll." And new to Netflix is the Mötley Crüe biopic "The Dirt." | | I woke up today bummed anew about this week's unexpected shuttering of Fox 2000, a consequence of the recently sealed Disney-Fox merger. This label, run by Elizabeth Gabler, was one of the few remaining places at a big studio that you could count on to deliver modestly budgeted movies like "Hidden Figures," "The Hate U Give" and "The Fault In Our Stars." And now it's gone. | | On Twitter yesterday, many screenwriters mourned that loss, as Fox 2000 was known to be a writer-friendly shingle. "Elizabeth Gabler is a Thalberg-level legend," said Aline Brosh McKenna, who scripted Fox 2000's "The Devil Wears Prada" and noted that the studio "has made quality movies for years in the face of the growing amusement parkification of the movie biz." | | "F2K was the dream home for screenwriters who don't write superhero movies, action franchises or broad comedies," said Michael H. Weber, who co-wrote "The Fault in Our Stars" and "Paper Towns" for the studio. "They especially loved movies for & about young people." | | I've been thinking a lot about that last statement, because I worry that the loss of Fox 2000 will further hasten a younger audience's disinterest in the theatrical experience. For many of those nascent moviegoers, Fox 2000 films like "Love, Simon" and "The Hate U Give" offered their first glimmers of big-screen representation. If that can't be found any longer in theaters, will young people still be enticed to go? | | |
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