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Sam Esmail Sets Sci-Fi Film ‘Tesseract’ With Glen Powell To Star, Lands at Amazon/MGM
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‘Splitsville’ Director Sets Next Film at Netflix, Dark Comedy ‘The Last Fix’
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‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ Wraps Six-Month Production — “Teleplay”?
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Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’ Has Seven Different Composers: “Love Letter to the Music of Movies”
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Joe Carnahan’s ‘The RIP’ Hits Netflix With $100M Budget and Review Embargo Still Not Lifted
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Aug 19, 2019
3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
Aug 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.

Aug 19, 2019

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Fincher’s ‘The Killer’ Compared to Melville’s ‘Le Samourai’

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Not many films this fall are as highly anticipated as “The Killer.” What else would you expect? The film is directed by David Fincher, whose best works (“The Social Network,” “Zodiac,” “Fight Club,” “Se7en”) have come to define their respective decades.

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Gerwig, Gosling and Robbie Are Not Signed On For ‘Barbie’ Sequel

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

A THR report is making the rounds on this Friday evening and it’s quite the interesting one.

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Directors Who Have Gone Quiet

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

I can’t tell you how many emails I get asking about what happened to this or that director. There are so many great filmmakers who haven’t released a film in 10+ years, for various reasons.

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‘Oppenheimer’ Has No Deleted Scenes, Directors Cut Was Released

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” clocks in at 3 hours, and that seems to be the exact runtime Nolan intended to be seen in cheaters.

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‘The Bikeriders’ to World Premiere at Telluride

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

I’ve had it confirmed that Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders” will have its world premiere at the 50th Telluride Film Festival this coming labor day weekend.

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John McTiernan: “I Hate Superhero Movies. I Think They are Socially Toxic”

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Of course, McTiernan isn’t the only filmmaker who has come out against the superhero genre, there are too many to name.

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David Zaslav Claims the Writer and Actors’ Strikes SAVED Warner Bros $100 Million

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

David Zaslav is at it again. The man we like to call “The Destroyer” is saying that Warner Bros. Discovery has attributed over $100M in savings to the ongoing work stoppage due to the dual strikes by WGA and SAG-AFTRA.

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What I’m Hearing About ‘Dune: Part Two’ Being Delayed …

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

‘Dune’ fans rejoice. It seems as though the rumors of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two” being delayed weren’t so credible.

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‘Barbie’ to Cross $1 Billion Today, on Greta Gerwig’s Birthday

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Happy birthday to Greta Gerwig, who turns 40. A wonderful indie actress, I’ll always cherish her turns in “Frances Ha”, “Greenberg” and “Hannah Takes the Stairs”. Her directorial debut “Lady Bird” was also class.

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Paul Schrader Hated ‘Mission: Impossible 7’: “There’s No Reason AI Couldn’t Have Written This Script”

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

No, ‘Dead Reckoning’ was not as good as ‘Rogue Nation’ or ‘Fallout,’ but what Schrader doesn’t get is that you don’t watch these movies for the script.

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A ‘Talk to Me’ Prequel Has Already Been Shot

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Danny and Michael Philippou‘s “Talk to Me,” a small indie horror film that A24 bought at Sundance, opened with an impressive $10 million take this past weekend.

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Wes Anderson’s ‘The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar’ is 100 Minutes, A “Radical” Stage Play

August 4, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

We can confirm that, if all four films were to be put together, Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar” is around 100 minutes long. It also turns out to be a little more complicated as a film .

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Venice Programmer Warns That ‘Poor Things’ Might Be Very Divisive

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Cinephiles have been wondering if Yorgos Lanthimos has again delivered a great film with his upcoming Searchlight-produced “Poor Things.”

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Michael Haneke’s ‘Kelvin’s Book’ Has Been Shelved

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

We haven’t heard much from Michael Haneke since 2017’s “Happy End”. He just turned 81 years old. The man is a legend.

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Brett Easton Ellis Doesn’t Listen to Film Critics Anymore: “I’ve Been Burned Too Many Times”

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Prominent film historian and critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, once trashed modern-day reviewers of film as the cheerleaders and Pied Pipers of the film industry.

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Vanessa Kirby to Play Sue Storm in ‘Fantastic Four’

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

On the Hot Mic podcast, Jeff Sneider is saying that Vanessa Kirby has signed on to play Sue Storm in the MCU’s upcoming “Fantastic Four.”

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Audrey Diwan’s ‘Emmanuelle’ Starts Shooting September 25

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Fresh off her “Happening” winning the Golden Lion at Venice in 2021, Diwan announced in May she was remaking softcore porn classic “Emmanuelle.”

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Is Paul Thomas Anderson Still The Current ‘Master’ of Cinema?

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Last May, at Cannes, I had an interesting lunch conversation with a few journalists from Paris. The topic was who is the current master of cinema.

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Marc Maron Says Men Who Dislike Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ Are “F*cking Insecure Babies”, Calls it A “Masterpiece”

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Marc Maron, of the ultra-popular WTF podcast, is calling “Barbie” a “Masterpiece” and attacking “certain men” who are criticizing Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster (via THR).

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‘Sound of Freedom,’ at $153 million, Has Grossed More Than ‘Fast X,’ ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘The Flash’

August 3, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

How much of that $153 million total comes from the Pay-it-Forward program? Will the numbers ever get released? Regardless, you can’t deny that it’s been a major success.

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