‘The Hateful Eight' Re-Edited By Quentin Tarantino Into a 4-Episode Netflix Miniseries

A restructured and re-edited “The Hateful Eight” is now available to stream on Netflix. It’s being called an “extended version.” Tarantino has re-edited his 2015 film into a 4-episode miniseries with some added scenes. To be fair, Tarantino himself broke the film down into these chapters with the theatrical version – Whatever the case, it is now specifically split up into four 50 minute episodes with some deleted scenes added into the mix.

“The Hateful Eight” is one of Tarantino’s most underrated films, but it was deemed a box-office "failure" and was met with mixed reviews back in 2015. I loved it. It harkened back to some of the talkier fare he delivered back in the '90s with an added tinge of John Carpenter and Sergio Leone added in for good measure. 

Critics Poll — Best Movies of the Decade

The much-anticipated Best Movies of the Decade critics poll will be posted next Tuesday. Sorry for the delay, but a bunch of important critics decided to send me their lists at-the-very-last-minute. In other words, theamount of critics participating has risen considerably since last week, which is why I’ve been delaying the results being posted. The final total seems to be 201 lists.

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Disney Axing Fox Projects Left and Right, Mostly Adult Dramas ...

A THR report is saying that Disney are cleaning house and have been axing Fox projects left and right ever since they acquired its assets back on March 20th (for a reported $71.3 billion).

The biggest victims seem to be adult dramas such as the Tom Hanks starrer “News of the World,” an adaptation of Angie Thomas' best-seller “On the Come Up,” and Ted Melfi's mental-hospital-set, Woody Harrelson-starring dramedy “Fruit Loops.”

Of course, this being Disney, they had absolutely no problem in keeping the Matthew Vaughn-directed Kingsman prequel “The Great Game.”

"We are now just only beginning to see how all this consolidation will change how movies get greenlit and made," says a producer involved with a Fox-developed movie. "They are looking at everything."

Tarantino, Malick, Eggers, Jarmusch, Sachs, Almodovar, Dardenne, Joon-ho ...

I never proclaim a film festival edition to be great until the films actually screen. Common sense, right? Sadly, many love to proclaim a film fest to be having a “great year” or “terrible year” just by the lineup announcements. That’s not how it works. Lots of movies disappoint, even from great auteurs. However, Cannes 2019 looks great on-paper and any complaints of a lack of American movies should quickly be dissipated with today’s addition of Robert Eggers’ “The Lighthouse” as part of the Director’s Fortnight lineup, also known a the Quinzaines des Realisateurs.

I already listed the likes of Tarantino (cross your fingers), Malick, Eggers, Jarmusch, Sachs, Almodovar, Dardenne, and Joon-ho in the title, but let me add Dolan, Bonello, Desplechin, Dumont, Herzog, Ferrera and, not to mention, Dexter Fletcher’s Elton John biopic “Rocketman.” And those are just a few of the many familiar names that will be gracing the Croisette this year.. So, give me a break, Cannes is very much alive with relevance and about to embark on a stacked edition next month.

Director Joe Carnahan Isn't Shy In His Hate For ‘The Danish Girl’

Directors Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi have just-finished shooting the Will Smith and Martin Lawrence-starring “Bad Boys For Life.”

Joe Carnahan (“Smokin’ Aces,” “Narc” and “The Grey”) was once attached to write and direct the movie and, according to a recent interview he gave (via The Playlist), some of the details of his scrapped sequel included a back-handed dig at Oscar-winner “The Danish Girl.”

“I hated ‘The Danish Girl’ so much,” Carnahan said. “I said, ‘Could you make a poster for ‘The Danish Girl’ and blow it apart?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we can do that.’ I fucking hated that movie with the white-hot heat of a thousand suns. I think [the people who worked on ‘The Danish Girl’] are all really talented, I just hated that movie, me personally. I’m sure they hate my movies.”

In case you forgot the movie, “The Danish Girl,” was a Tom Hooper-directed Oscar-bait vehicle starring Eddie Redmayne as painter Lili Elbe, one of the first known cases of sex reassignment surgery.

“Bad Boys For Life” was shot via a screenplay by Chris Bremner. The film is set for release on January 17, 2020.

‘Spider Man: Far From Home’ Confirmed as MCU Phase Three Finale, Not ‘Endgame’

“Far From Home” was supposed to kick off Phase Four.

However, at a recent fan event in Shanghai (via Newsweek), Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is confirming that “Endgame” is not the last chapter in Phase Three of the MCU. The upcoming “Spider Man: Far From Home,” which will be released in July, will actually be the final installment of Phase Three, which began with 2016’s “Captain America: Civil War.”

As mentioned before on this site, I presume phase four will include the likes of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” “Captain Marvel 2,” “Black Panther 2,” “Black Widow,” “Shang-Chi,” “Doctor Strange 2,” and “Eternals.”