FilmWeek: ‘The Curse of La Llorona,’ ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ ‘Penguins’ and a discussion on films with troubled productions

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Apr 19, 2019

Listen • 47:33

FilmWeek: ‘The Curse of La Llorona,’ ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,’ ‘Penguins’ and a discussion on films with troubled productions

Today on FilmWeek, guest host John Horn and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Justin Chang and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases. We also discuss films with troubled productions and their escape from development hell.

Linda Cardellini, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, and Roman Christou in The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

FilmWeek: ‘The Curse of La Llorona,’ ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ and more

Listen • 38:06

Guest host John Horn and KPCC film critics Claudia Puig, Justin Chang and Charles Solomon review this weekend’s new movie releases.

Escape from development hell: ‘The Man Who Killed Don Quixote’ and other films with troubled productions

Listen • 8:54

Lawsuits, bankruptcy and flash flooding -- these are just some of the reasons that movies ended up in “development hell”, the film industry’s term for some of the most unlucky movie productions.

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