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Tim Miller Returns! Directing Keanu Reeves Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Shiver’ at Warner Bros. — August 13, 2027 Release
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JJ Abrams’ ‘The Great Beyond’ Sets November 13, 2026 Release — Sam Esmail’s ‘Panic Carefully’ Punted to February 2027
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Felicity Jones, Léa Seydoux, Jason Schwartzman, and John Turturro To Star in Arnaud Desplechin's ‘The Thing That Hurts'
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‘King Snake’: Jeff Nichols’s Southern Gothic Horror Film Starts Production in April — Set To Star Margaret Qualley and Michael Shannon
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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Opens With Soft $2M on Thursday, Despite Strong Reviews
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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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Michael Mann on ‘Blackhat’ Failure: “It’s My Responsibility. The Script Was Not Ready”

August 23, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

“Blackhat,” Michael Mann's cyber-tech thriller from 2015, was panned by critics, but, over the years, has somehow been reappraised by a few Mann diehards who believe it’s a great movie.

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‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ to World Premiere at BFI London Film Festival

August 23, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a nice get for the 67th BFI London Film Festival. “Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget” is set to have its world premiere at that fest, which runs from October 4 to October 15 this year.

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Venice: Bertrand Bonello’s ‘The Beast’ Getting Strong Golden Lion Buzz

August 23, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Rumored to have been rejected by Cannes earlier this year, Betrand Bonello’s sci-fi film “The Beast” has had some strong word of mouth these past weeks, with even some hinting at a possible Golden Lion win at a Venice.

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Sam Levinson Describes ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 As “Film Noir”

August 23, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Sam Levinson is coming off his highly polarizing, and much-hated, HBO series “The Idol.” However, he’s a household name because of “Euphoria,” a TV sensation with cinematic elements to it.

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‘The Iron Claw’ Reaction …

August 23, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Last month, Variety had reported that Sean Durkin’s “The Iron Claw” would be released theatrically on December 22nd with, apparently, no fall festival premiere set for the film.

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‘Rebel Moon’ Trailer …

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Judging by the newly released trailer, which is close to 4 minutes, Snyder has made his own space opera as he looks to set up a juggernaut franchise for Netflix.

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‘The Flash’ Actually Cost $300 Million

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Consider me shocked by David Zaslav’s Warner Bros hiding the actual budget of “The Flash.” It turns out, it’s not the originally reported $220 million, but, rather, almost $100 million more.

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Don’t Ask Neill Blomkamp About The ‘Alien’ Franchise: “It’s Hard To Define How Little I Care”

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Over at UPROXX, Neill Blomkamp gave an interview where he discussed “Gran Turismo,” but when the topic of ‘Alien’ came into the conversation Blomkamp wanted to hear none if it.

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Confirmed: No ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ at Telluride

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Yesterday I posted my Telluride predictions and, in the process, also acknowledged the possibility that Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” might show up. Well, scratch that off, it’s not going. It’s been confirmed by a knowledgeable source.

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David Fincher Says ‘The Killer’ is A “Revenge Film”

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

The Venice Film Festival has released David Fincher’s statement about his upcoming film, “The Killer." The film’s page has also been updated with the first official cast and crew list —

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Uwe Boll is Back With ‘First Shift’

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Over the years, Uwe Boll has participated in a bunch of our critics polls, he’s a reader of this site, so let’s all be nice to him, or, at least, I’ll try to be.

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‘Club Zero’: Jessica Hausner’s Provocative Treatise on Groupthink Has A Trailer

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

There were a few boos at my screening of Jessica Hausner’s “Club Zero,” but, this time, I wasn’t in disagreement with the birds.

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Paul Verhoeven Shooting ‘Young Sinner’ in September?

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

A report from The Cinemaholic claims that Paul Verhoeven’s “Young Sinner” will be shooting in Los Angeles this coming September.

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Francis Ford Coppola to Screen New Version of ‘One From the Heart’ — 12 Minutes Shorter

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Francis Ford Coppola’s "One from the Heart" will be presented in a newly restored version at the 80th Venice Film Festival. 

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William Friedkin Praised Woody Allen as “The Greatest Living Filmmaker”

August 22, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a recently unearthed interview with the late William Friedkin who had nothing but immense praise for Woody Allen’s movies, or at least, his earlier ones. Going as far as to call him “the greatest living filmmaker.”

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Netflix Exits Maggie Gylenhaal’s ‘The Bride,’ Starring Penélope Cruz and Christian Bale

August 21, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

We had reported on August 2nd that Gyllenhaal was directing a remake of “Bride of Frankenstein” for Netflix. This would be a remake of the 1935 film — the sequel to 1931’s Frankenstein.

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Classic Movies Originally Trashed by Critics; What Films Might Be Next?

August 21, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Author Stephen King’s assertion that “Babylon” will be viewed as a “classic” twenty years from now got me thinking about other maligned films from the last 10 years that might get the same positive fate.

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Studios Only Now Starting to Realize That Starless Marketing Impacts Grosses

August 21, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s an excerpt from a THR piece, titled Starless Publicity Campaigns Start to Impact Grosses, that has had the industry buzzing these last 24 hours:

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Scorsese and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ at Telluride?

August 21, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Notice how Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” hasn’t shown up at either TIFF or NYFF. This has led to some rumors that it might have its North American premiere at Telluride.

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Matthew Libatique Actually Directed ‘Don’t Worry Darling’?

August 21, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

A producer wrote to me this weekend that it wasn’t actually Florence Pugh who directed the film, but rather DP Matthew Libatique.

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