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Danny Boyle on ‘28 Years Later: Part III': “We Gotta Raise the Money for It"

Garland's script is written. Boyle called it "fantastic" in that same interview, Murphy says he's ready, and Boyle wants to direct. All that's missing is the money.

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Noah Baumbach's ‘Jay Kelly' Joins Criterion Collection; February Slate Includes ‘The Sweet Hereafter,’ and ‘Kung Fu Hustle’

Noah Baumbach's “Jay Kelly” is joining the Criterion Collection on February 16, 2027. It's one of the headliners of the newly announced February slate, and it's coming out barely a year after Netflix released it.

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Box Office: Johnny Depp's ‘Ebenezer' Leads ($21M+), Audiences Love It More Than Critics Do; ‘How to Rob a Bank' Bombs ($4M+), ‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ Drops 75%

The film opened in Europe on Wednesday, and the audience scores there have been very strong. Now American audiences agree: an "A-" on CinemaScore and a 90% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Kevin Spacey's Pandemic Conspiracy Thriller ‘The Awakening' Is Coming in November: “The Film They Don't Want You to See”

Who's "they," exactly? The Illuminati? The Deep State? Hard to say. The film premiered at Italy's Matera Film Festival on November 10. No reviews have trickled in yet.

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Sony's Tom Rothman Launches Best Picture Campaign for ‘Brand New Day’: “Are You Telling Me There Are 10 Films This Year That Are Better Than This Film?”

This is all Rothman’s idea, by the way. He’s going to pour millions into this campaign because he believes “Brand New Day” is a great movie.

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August 19, 2019
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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August 19, 2019

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‘The Idol’ Cancelled at HBO

August 29, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

HBO has cancelled Sam Levinson’s “The Idol,” starring The Weeknd and Lily Rose Depp. Here’s the network’s statement on the cancellation:

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‘The Book of Clarence’ Trailer

August 29, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

If you are at all interested, Jeymes Samuel’s “The Book of Clarence” has a trailer.

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‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Teaser …

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Say what you will about Harmony Korine, but he couldn’t care less about appeasing mainstream tastes.

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‘Napoleon’: Ridley Scott Has A “Fantastic” Four and a Half Hour Cut He’d Like to Release

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” hasn’t even been released yet, but its filmmaker is already banging the drums for his original director’s cut to get released.

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‘Oppenheimer’ Projected to Gross Close to $1 Billion Worldwide

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is the #1 movie at the worldwide box-office. This past weekend it dethroned “Barbie” as the current highest grosser. Unbelievable. This film has LEGS.

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Barbera, Again, Defends Polanski, “He is One of the Last Great European Masters”

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

This year’s Venice Film Festival lineup has sparked controversy due to the inclusion of films by Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and Luc Besson. We’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the next few days as Venice kicks off on the 31st.

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The Results of Our 21st Century Martin Scorsese Poll

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

On Friday, I asked our readers to vote for the best Martin Scorsese film of the 21st century. Close to 1700 votes were tabulated. No surprise, “The Wolf of Wall Street” came out on top.

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‘The Wager’ is Martin Scorsese’s Next Film, According to Author David Grann

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

As we anticipate the release of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the legendary filmmaker is already setting his sights on another movie produced by Apple.

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‘Saltburn’ Trailer on Wednesday

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

This morning, we got a little tease of Emerald Fennell’s “Saltburn,” set to have its world premiere at Telluride this coming weekend. A trailer is set to be released, via Amazon Studios, on Wednesday.

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David Ayer’s Latest ‘Suicide Squad’ Rant: “That Sh*t Broke Me”

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Can someone please release the director’s cut already? This man is suffering. He’s probably been to therapy way too many times over this. He needs closure.

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Neill Blomkamp Teases ‘District 10’

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

It does look as though Neill Blomkamp will be teaming up with Sony to shoot the sequel to his cult 2009 sci-fi film “District 9.” However, the question still remain as to when exactly.

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Fincher’s ‘The Killer’ Has A Poster

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

There is still no trailer for the the film, which will exclusively screen at the Venice Film Festival this coming September 3rd. We also barely have any images, just the two stills released by Venice earlier this month.

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‘Rustin’ Trailer …

August 28, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

The film is coming to us from Netflix with a global streaming release of November 17th, 2023. With that date, the streaming giant is setting it up as one of its main awards titles.

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Lynne Ramsay’s ‘Polaris’ is Set in 1890s Alaska, and Being Described as “Horror Thriller”

August 27, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

We last heard that Lynne Ramsay had, apparently, already shot “Polaris,” with Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara. This news took us all by surprise given that nobody had even heard of the project.

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Denis Villeneuve Confirms Plans to Direct ‘Dune: Messiah’

August 27, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

So, we’re maybe getting a third ‘Dune.’ That is either very good or very bad news, depending on who you speak to.

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Alberto Barbera Looks Back at Jonathan Glazer’s ‘Under the Skin’ Being Booed at Venice

August 27, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

In an interview with The Guardian, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera reminisced about the 2013 screening of “Under the Skin.”

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‘Last Of Us’ Creator Says Some People Didn’t Like Episode 3 “Because, You Know, Gay Stuff”

August 26, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

There was some backlash about the gay-themed romance at the center of “Long, Long Time.” The episode was review bombed on IMDb and Metacritic, which journalists claimed was due to homophobia.

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Strong Word-of-Mouth Carries ‘Gran Turismo’ to Projected $16 Million Debut

August 26, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Blomkamp’s film nabbed an A CinemaScore, 5 stars from PostTrak and a strong 7.3 on IMDb. This has clearly led to it overperforming at the box-office.

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‘Snow White’ March 2024 Release Date Most Likely Delayed

August 25, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

Disney’s much criticized “Snow White” live-action remake wrapped filming in July 2022 and was supposed to be released on March 22nd, 2024.

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Sofia Coppola Admits ‘Marie Antoinette’ Was a “Flop”

August 25, 2023 Jordan Ruimy

It’s hard to believe, but Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” was booed at its Cannes premiere in May of 2006. The film also received mixed reviews from critics and is still “rotten” on RT.

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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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Critics Poll: ‘Citizen Kane' Named Best Film of the 1940s

The results are in, and according to critics, this decade filled with cinematic riches did not have a better film than Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Nobody should be surprised by this result. “Citizen Kane” changed cinema forever.

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Critics Poll: ‘Vertigo’ Named Best Film of the 1950s, Over 120 Participants

It was a closer race than anticipated, but Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” has topped our best of the ’50s poll, besting Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen’s “Singin’ in the Rain” by just two votes.

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Critics Poll: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Tops Our 1960s Critics Poll

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