Chaos at the DCEU: Jared Leto’s Joker Movies Cancelled at DC Films

Jared Leto‘s short-lived time as the Joker is nearing its end, according to Forbes.

James Gunn’s upcoming “Suicide Squad” is rumored to not have Jared Leto’s Joker. Not just that, the unofficially tilted ‘Mad Love’-type Joker and Harley Quinn film has also been cancelled, again according to Forbes. That film looked promising considering Glenn Ficarra and John Requa were the writer/directing team behind it.

Gunn’s “The Suicide Squad” will be keeping Will Smith and Jai Courtney, but no one else, including Harley Quinn. Call it a soft-rebooting, with most of the old squad nixed.

The Leto Joker spin-off movie not happening is unsurprising, especially considering that Todd Phillips‘ “The Joker” with Joaquin Phoenix will be released this October and hype surrounding it couldn’t be higher than it is.

The DCEU is in the midst of major change, Henry Cavill is done as Superman. Ben Affleck is certainly done as Batman. The whole thing is a charade, with plenty of questions left unanswered. There doesn’t seem to be a clear path in what they want as an organization, this is what we like to call a shitshow, my friends.

Oscar Poker: Sundance 2019

“I had a discussion with Hollywood-Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells about the continuing Best Picture puzzlement, the fact that only two out of 25 Gold Derby know-it-alls are picking Green Book to win at this stage, the mysterious disappearance of Vox Lux, the coming importance of Lulu Wang‘s The Farewell, the inescapable impact of the forthcoming Leaving Neverland when it plays on HBO in early March, the fact that Nicole Kidman‘s raspy-voiced Destroyerperformance never made it into the Oscar conversation and other pressing matters.”

[Note: This conversation has no musical intro, no bells and whistles….just straight talk.]

Oscar Poker

Jeffrey Wells and Jordan Ruimy

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“Holiday" Is an Immensely Impressive Debut [Review]

The trophy girlfriend of a small-time drug lord is caught up in a web of luxury and violence in the port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera. The terrible things men do to women and that women allow men to do to them. Don’t mistake this provocative powerhouse for anything but the announcement of a new cinematic talent. Isabella Eklof’s “Holiday” is bound to provoke polarizing reactions. It’s a tough watch, a film that means to get under your skin and that it does. featuring one of the most graphic rape sequences ever committed to screen, the film is subtle on plot, never providing any definitive answers, but renders a damn-near damning finale. It’s not for the faint of heart, but in the era of #MeToo this is a film that deserves to exist, asking us questions about masculine and feminine roles in society, all done in uber-realist, near claustrophobic, fashion. [B+]

Vanity Fair's Questionable Selections In Their “25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years” List

Vanity Fair decided to post “The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years.” I won’t mention the worthy additions, you can see the article for yourself, done in such a visually engaging way. No, but I do want to mention the questionable inclusions such as what the “Toy Story” opening scene is doing there,  ditto the axe-murder scene in “American Psycho,” Denzel Washington’s “King Kong ain’t got shit on me” diatribe in “Training Day,’ Gollum vs. Smeagal in “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,” but more curiously, who in their right minds think that Diane Keaton crying as she writes a play in “Something’s Gotta Give,” Edward meeting Bella in “Twlight” and the “chosen one” scene in “Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith” are worthy of the cinematic time-capsule?

Bryan Singer's ‘Red Sonja' Finally Put On Hold by Millennium Productions

Millennium Films, after much resistance, have finally decided to temporarily shelf Bryan Singer’s “Red Sonja” due to the alleged misconduct that has come out in recent months about his past history with underaged boys.

Singer has all but been shunned by the critical community, not to mention his Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” star Rami Malek who actually refuses to thank him in any speech he gives whenever winning his best actor awards, it most recently happened again last night at the BAFTAs where Malek decided to thank Singer’s two-week replacement on the Queen biopic Dexter Fletcher instead. Hilarious.

The CEO of Millennium Films, the studio behind Singer’s latest “Red Sonja,” stood by Singer in a recent THR report. Avi Lerner claimed the allegations of sexual misconduct aimed at Singer were “agenda driven fake news.”

Despite all that, “Red Sonja” has been put on hold.