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Brian Helgeland’s ‘Outside Man’ — Starring Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones — Lands at Focus Features Ahead of November Shoot

What an odd pairing, and yet so much potential. Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to "Outside Man," the latest from Oscar-winning filmmaker Brian Helgeland, who will write and direct.

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‘Digger' Drops 59% on Monday, Tom Cruise Insists it’s “A Lasting Piece of Cinema”

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Digger" dropped 59% on Monday, making only $760k — it’s already out of the $1M club. I’m in no way celebrating this. It’s a damn near tragic fate that awaits this film.

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Oscars 2027: ‘The Odyssey’ Is Still the the Best Picture Frontrunner

Right now, the film to beat at next year's Oscars is… Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." Yep, nothing's changed. No other film has surpassed it as the frontrunner.

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Does Anybody Still Want Another ‘Ghostbusters' Movie? Sony Cooking Up ‘Ghostbusters: Nightmare on 34th Street' With ‘Violent Night’ Writer

A new live-action "Ghostbusters" film is reportedly in development. The working title is "Ghostbusters: Nightmare on 34th Street," and the script is written by Josh Miller, ("Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” "Violent Night”).

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Michael Bay to Direct Next ‘Transformers' Movie for David Ellison's Skydance — Steven Spielberg to Oversee Franchise

Bay is in final talks to direct the next "Transformers" movie for David Ellison's newly merged Skydance-Paramount operation. The one remaining sticking point? Bay wants final cut. He'll probably get it.

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3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
August 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

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Brian Helgeland’s ‘Outside Man’ — Starring Ice Cube and Tommy Lee Jones — Lands at Focus Features Ahead of November Shoot

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

What an odd pairing, and yet so much potential. Focus Features has picked up worldwide rights to "Outside Man," the latest from Oscar-winning filmmaker Brian Helgeland, who will write and direct.

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‘Digger' Drops 59% on Monday, Tom Cruise Insists it’s “A Lasting Piece of Cinema”

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Digger" dropped 59% on Monday, making only $760k — it’s already out of the $1M club. I’m in no way celebrating this. It’s a damn near tragic fate that awaits this film.

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Oscars 2027: ‘The Odyssey’ Is Still the the Best Picture Frontrunner

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Right now, the film to beat at next year's Oscars is… Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey." Yep, nothing's changed. No other film has surpassed it as the frontrunner.

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Does Anybody Still Want Another ‘Ghostbusters' Movie? Sony Cooking Up ‘Ghostbusters: Nightmare on 34th Street' With ‘Violent Night’ Writer

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

A new live-action "Ghostbusters" film is reportedly in development. The working title is "Ghostbusters: Nightmare on 34th Street," and the script is written by Josh Miller, ("Sonic the Hedgehog 3,” "Violent Night”).

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Michael Bay to Direct Next ‘Transformers' Movie for David Ellison's Skydance — Steven Spielberg to Oversee Franchise

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Bay is in final talks to direct the next "Transformers" movie for David Ellison's newly merged Skydance-Paramount operation. The one remaining sticking point? Bay wants final cut. He'll probably get it.

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Luca Guadagnino's ‘Artificial' Premieres at NYFF to Mostly Positive Reviews

October 6, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

A common reaction describes "Artificial" as "The Social Network" for the AI era, with quite a few critics citing this as the true spiritual sequel to Fincher’s film, and not Sorkin’s upcoming ‘Social Reckoning.’

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Warner Bros' Clockwork Survives Paramount Merger

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Clockwork — Warner Bros’ A24-style indie labels— has new films from Sean Baker, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach and Sean Penn set to enter production in 2027.

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Jonathan Glazer Confirms He's Writing His Next Film

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Glazer directed just four features in 25 years: "Sexy Beast" (2000), "Birth" (2004), "Under the Skin" (2013) and "The Zone of Interest" (2023). That last one won the Grand Prix at Cannes and two Oscars.

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‘The Batman Part II’ Pauses Production as Matt Reeves Steps Away for Personal Reasons

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Cameras had been rolling in London since May. The film is dated for February 18, 2028, and sources say it's too early to know whether the stoppage will push that.

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‘Sicario 3': Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin to Star; Padraic McKinley (‘The Weight’) to Direct, Steven Knight Writing

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Padraic McKinley, who directed this year's "The Weight," is on board to direct from a script by Oscar nominee Steven Knight, suggesting Taylor Sheridan's original draft has been set aside.

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Jeremy Strong Doesn't Feel He Needs to Apologize for His Method: "A Lot of the Reactions to It Are of a Personal Nature"

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Jeremy Strong sat down with The New Yorker and got asked whether his much-talked-about method approach is bad for a set — he isn’t backing down.

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‘Digger’ Started at Netflix With DiCaprio, Then Warner Bros.' “Comps Model” Greenlit $160M Gamble

October 5, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Apparently, "Digger" started at Netflix with Leonardo DiCaprio attached. It was under a different title, "Blah, Blah, Blah," and was developed around the time Iñárritu made "Bardo.”

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James Gunn Is Already Writing His Next DC Movie — It Might Be ‘Superman 3’

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The man doesn't stop. James Gunn has confirmed he's already hard at work writing his next film, even as ‘Man of Tomorrow’ makes its way toward theaters next summer.

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Michael Mann’s ‘Miami Vice' Director's Final Cut Divides Fest Audiences With Polarizing New Ending

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Mann brought his new "Director's Final Cut" to Beyond Fest in L.A. last night. Mann stayed for a Q&A afterward. Suffice it to say, the cut certainly has people talking, and mostly not in a good way.

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‘Digger' Bombs With $8M; Misunderstood or Insufferable? Post Your Review!

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Welcome to the “Digger” megathread, where you can post your review of the movie in the comments below. I’ll try to keep this post up over the weekend as our readers catch up with Iñárritu’s $180M oddity.

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Stephen Colbert's ‘Lord of the Rings' Movie Paused by David Ellison After Paramount–Warner Bros. Merger

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Bad news, Stephen. Your archnemesis has struck again. Ellison has hit pause on Colbert's LOTR movie. The film was originally rumored to begin shooting shortly after ‘The Hunt for Gollum.’

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‘A Statement’ First Reviews: Tom McCarthy’s Return After ‘Stillwater’ Gets a Mixed Reception

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“A Statement” stars Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, Amy Ryan, John Turturro, Jason Clarke, Dylan Baker, and Tatiana Maslany. The film marks the return of Tom McCarthy, a filmmaker we haven’t heard from in a while.

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‘Scoob!’ Sequel Director Mocks Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca Firings: “Hurts, Doesn’t it?”

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The sequel to 2020's "Scoob!" was fully completed before Warner Bros. shelved it in 2022 so the studio could claim a tax write-down and recoup part of its production costs.

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‘Avengers: Secret Wars’ Is Likely Moving to 2028

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

‘Secret Wars’ was supposed to shoot in September, that didn’t happen. It’s now delayed production to January, which does not bode well for that December 2027 release date.

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Harvey Keitel, Danny Trejo and Henry Thomas Lead Ben Shapiro's Pro-ICE ‘Pawn Shop’

October 4, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Ben Shapiro is at it again in his quest to conquer cinema. The Daily Wire's next film has started production in Montana, and if the goal was to grab headlines, mission accomplished.

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Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Tops the Best Films of the 1930s, According to 100+ Critics

We’ve gone through the decades. The ‘40s ‘50s, ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, ‘2000s, and ‘2010s. — all revisited, argued over. Now, here are the results for the best films of the 1930s.

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