10 OF THE BEST
The final edit…
1 THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) floats through her Runway offices dispersing office girls out of the lifts, wounding new hires with her disappointment, creating almost impossible tasks (unpublished Harry Potter), and calling out, ‘Gird your loins!’ Amonster. That’s all.
2 SUPERMAN (1978)
Jackie Cooper’s cigar-chomping, grumpy ed of Metropolis’ Daily Planet, Perry White, maintains that a good reporter doesn’t get great stories, they ‘make them great’. He certainly has his pick of corking lead stories, what with nearly 50 years of cinematic Supes.
3 THE POST
Washington Post honcho Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) has his journalistic resolve tested by leaked docs of national interest in 1971. Areal-life figure in a real-life case, Bradlee rolls up his shirt sleeves (literally and figuratively) and newsprint press porn ensues.
4 SPIDER-MAN (2002)
J. Jonah Jameson is an EIC with a magnificent ’tache and a short fuse, especially when it comes to the Spidey shenanigans that make the front page of The Daily Bugle. J.K. Simmons’ JJJ skipped universes to the MCU to continue shouting at Tom Holland’s Peter Parker.
5 THE FRENCH DISPATCH
When he dies, Arthur Howitzer Jr.’s French-based periodical obeys his last edict by printing a final issue. Based on New Yorker founder Harold Ross, Howitzer (Bill Murray) does not allow crying in the office and orders booze for meetings from the cafe downstairs.
6 THE PAPER
Chain-smoking grouchy exec ed Bernie White (Robert Duvall) has no time for warring editors (Michael Keaton and Glenn Close) on his buzzy NY tabloid. Even less so when his city ed and managing ed have fisticuffs among the presses.Live for the ink.
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