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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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The Coen Brothers Reportedly Directing A “Very Bloody” Horror Movie

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Last Friday, “Drive Away Dolls” filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke lead a Master Class “in conversation” with film critic Kaleem Aftab. This was an event set up by the Tromso International Film Festival in Norway.

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Chris Rock to Direct ‘Another Round’ Remake

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Chris Rock is set to direct “Another Round”, a remake of the 2020 Thomas Vinterberg-directed black comedy that won the Oscar for Best International Film.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Next Film is NOT ‘Sicario 3’ … [Updated]

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I’ve contacted Denis Villeneuve's people to get their comments on this rumor that’s been going around. I’ll update this post if they do, in fact, answer. Based on my experiences, if they don’t, then there might be something to this.

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Trailer for Netflix’s Unnecessary ‘Wages of Fear’ Remake

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Netflix has decided to turn a stone-cold classic into a by-the-books action movie. At least that’s what the trailer for Julien Leclercq’s “Wages of Fear” hints at.

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Denis Villeneuve, Zendaya and Timothee Chalamet “Super Enthusiastic” For ‘Dune: Messiah’

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

UPDATE: “Dune: Part Two” might not even be released yet, but director Denis Villeneuve and stars Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya say they're "super enthusiastic" for Part 3 aka “Dune: Messiah.”

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Oscars: French Selection Committee “Clashed Violently” Over ‘Anatomy of A Fall’ Snub

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

France hasn’t won an international Oscar in 30 years — which is disastrous considering, year in and year out, they produced some of the best films in world cinema.

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New Trailer for ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ …

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

This is a sequel to 2021’s “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” The latest instalment picks up where the first film left off, now taking place in New York City, home of the first two films.

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‘Snow White’ Reshoots Confirmed to Have Happened Last Year

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Last October, Disney decided to delay the release of its controversial live-action “Snow White” by nearly a year. It is now set to open on March 21, 2025. Why the delay?

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Season 2 of ‘Severance’ Officially Starts Production

January 29, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

In 2022, Stiller absolutely triumphed with his dystopian WTF-did-I-Just-watch sci-fi office drama “Severance.” The atmosphere of minimalist world-building was incredibly realized.

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Kathryn Bigelow to Shoot ‘Aurora’ in “Early 2024”

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It’s been seven years since Kathryn Bigelow released her last film, “Detroit.” It turns out the Oscar-winning filmmaker has had a project brewing since March 2022, which is when she signed on to direct “Aurora” for Netflix.

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Live Long and Prosper.

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy
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Rumor: John David Washington Eyed for Kang in ‘Avengers 5’

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The latest update on Marvel Studios' plans for Kang in the MCU. If you remember, Jonathan Majors was fired from the role, and notable rumors had emerged that Colman Domingo was the frontrunner to replace him.

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Best Film of 1999?

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

If you had to narrow it down to just a single seminal film from 1999, what would it be? The contenders seem to be too many. What one film defined the greatest movie year?

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Martin Scorsese Says Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Flower Moon’ Performance “Will Endure,” Despite Oscar Snub

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

If the Margot Robbie and Greta Gerwig Oscar snubs caused some backlash, Leonardo DiCaprio's absence in the Best Actor category went a little more discreetly unnoticed. But Martin Scorsese wants us to know that he deserved better.

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Asghar Farhadi: “I Will No Longer Make Films in Iran”

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Farhadi’s next film will be set in Los Angeles and was supposed to start production last year, but the strike occurred and I really have no idea if it’s even been shot yet.

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‘Nosferatu’ Was Shot on Film

January 28, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Not many 2024 films were shot on film. There’s Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers,” Jeff Nichols’ “The Bikeriders,” M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap,” and Jane Schoenberg’s “ I Saw the TV Glow.”

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Here’s The Reason Why Netflix Gave Away ‘Monkey Man’ to Jordan Peele

January 27, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We were wondering what was going on with Oscar-nominated actor Dev Patel’s directorial debut, “Monkey Man.” Then, late this week, we learned that it was no longer being distributed by Netflix.

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Delusional.

January 27, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

UPDATE: The New Yorker’s Richard Brody is a top-notch film writer, with good insight into film history, but his tastes can veer towards total and utter bewilderment. He’s essentially the Armond White of far-left film criticism.

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Matthew Vaughn’s ‘Argylle’ Expected to Have $13-18 Million Weekend

January 27, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Deadline is reporting that “Argylle,” which is being released next Friday, will have an opening in the “teens,” so anywhere between $13-18 million — attaining the higher end of that number will depend on how good the reviews are.

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Sundance: Warner Bros Nears $15 Million Deal for Christopher Reeve Documentary ‘Super/Man’ [Update]

January 27, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

UPDATE: According to Deadline, Warner Bros is now the frontrunner to acquire “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story” for $15M. This is probably the hottest doc to have screened at Sundance this year.

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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

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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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