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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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Denis Villeneuve Calls Christopher Nolan “The Best and Most Important Filmmaker of Our Time”

February 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It’s no secret that Denis Villeneuve adores Nolan, he’s mentioned his love for Nolan’s films throughout his career. Most recently, he raved about “Oppenheimer” and, even, “Tenet.”

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Has ‘Licorice Pizza’ Aged Well?

February 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Has this film aged well? That’s what I’ve wondered and why I’ll be catching it again tonight. I saw it just once in November of 2021, and haven’t since.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman Left Us 10 Years Ago Today

February 3, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Hoffman has been prominently featured these last few days in 10-year anniversary tributes and social media eloges. It does make sense why his passing would still resonate for thousands upon thousands of moviegoers.

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Confirmed: J.C. Chandor’s ‘The Conversation’ Remake is Happening

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Remaking Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” might actually be a worse idea than Gus Van Sant’s shot-by-shot “Psycho” remake, or even Robert Downey Jr’s upcoming retelling of “Vertigo.”

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Melissa Barrera in Trouble, Again

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

You can read Tatiana Siegel’s Variety piece here. Suffice to say, Hollywood blacklists are a very real thing and, if she does in fact want to work again, Barrera should think twice about what she posts online. There’s now a target on her back, and she’s skating on very thin ice.

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Box-Office: ‘Argylle’ Earns $1.7 Million in Previews — Two Sequels Planned?

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Earlier in the week, Vaughn’s 139-minute adaptation of Elly Conway’s novel got off to a rocky start with critics — it currently holds a 34% rotten score.

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Teyana Taylor, Alana Haim Join Paul Thomas Anderson’s Latest

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Alana Haim, who made her acting debut in PTA’s “Licorice Pizza”, and Teyana Taylor (“A Thousand and One”) have been added to the cast, along with Wood Harris and Shayna McHayle.

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‘Longlegs’ Trailer …

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Here it is, after a month of cryptic teasers, the trailer for Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” has been released. It looks great. Still no release date announced, but it’s probably coming out in July.

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Jim Carrey Un-Retires for ‘Sonic 3’

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I guess he’s not retired after all. Jim Carrey has received a script from the angels, written in gold ink, and it’s … “Sonic the Hedgehog 3”?

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Stephen Frears to Direct ‘Wilder & Me,’ Starring Christoph Waltz as Billy Wilder

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Stephen Frears has decided to not make a film about Wilder’s peak years, but rather one tackling the declining period of his career — more notably, the making of 1978’s ill-received “Fedora.”

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Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’ Eyeing Early 2025 Shoot

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

THR’s Borys Kit is reporting that Quentin Tarantino’s “The Movie Critic” will not go into production until early 2025. If you remember, before the strikes caused chaos on the schedule, Tarantino’s film was supposed to shoot in the fall of 2023.

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Netflix Says NO To More Theatrical Releases: “It’s Just Not Our Business”

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

This conveniently leads us to what Chief Content Officer Bela Bajaria said yesterday. She turned some heads by saying that Netflix will never do theatrical as “our members love films and they want to see films on Netflix.”

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‘Back to Black’ Trailer … [Updated]

February 2, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

A trailer for Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black” has been released. The film is being released theatrically on May 10, 2024 via Focus Features.

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Brad Pitt to Star in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Deadline is reporting that Quentin Tarantino will be reuniting with Brad Pitt for his final film, “The Movie Critic”. We’re not entirely sure if it’s for the titular role.

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Marielle Heller’s ‘NightBitch’ To Be Released in the Fall

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The film’s plot is total dark absurdism. A neo-horror thriller starring Adams as an overworked woman who is convinced she's, quite literally, turning into a dog.

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Tim Burton To Direct ‘Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman’ Remake For Warner Bros

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Speaking of Burton, Deadline is reporting that he’s attached to direct “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman”, a reimagined telling of the 1958 Warner Bros. movie.

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Christopher Nolan Says ‘Oppenheimer’ Success Marks New “Post Franchise, Post Intellectual Property” Era in Hollywood

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

“I think the success of Oppenheimer certainly points to a sort of post franchise, post intellectual property, landscape for movies — it’s kind of encouraging,” Nolan told the podcast, hosted by Alex Zane.

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Amy Adams to Star in Taika Waititi’s ‘Klara and the Sun’

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Amy Adams is in negotiations to co-star alongside Jenna Ortega in Taika Waititi’s “Klara and the Sun,” based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s New York Times bestselling novel.

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Gareth Evans’ ‘Havoc’ Not Included in Netflix’s 2024 Slate

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

of us have been wondering when Gareth Evans’ “Havoc” will be released. There’s been a lot of speculation about the reasons for its delay, with reshoots having happened in early 2023.

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PTA’s New Film “Confirmed” As Modern-Day Set ‘Vineland’

February 1, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

After months of speculation, Daniel Richtman appears to have confirmed what I was theorizing in March of 2023: that Paul Thomas Anderson’s next film will be an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s 1990 novel “Vineland.”

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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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