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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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Julia Roberts to Reunite with Director Sam Esmail on ‘Panic Carefully’ — Netflix, Warner Bros and Paramount All Interested

February 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Another hot package, this one reuniting Sam Esmail (“Mr. Robot”) with his “Leave the World Behind” star Julia Roberts. The film, titled “Panic Carefully,” is currently being shopped to buyers.

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‘Bob Marley: One Love’ To Debut at #1 With $46.2M Six-Day Opening Weekend

February 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The dormant 2024 box office is being semi-revived this weekend with Reinaldo Marcus Green’s “Bob Marley: One Love” which is set to have a $46 million 6-day opening weekend.

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Jordan Peele’s Next Film Sets Tentative 2025 Release Date

February 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The official site of Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions has his untitled next film set for 2025 release. So we can expect this one to start shooting later this year.

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Claim: Footage from Ridley Scott's ‘Gladiator’ Has “Blown Execs Away”

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I briefly tackled this topic last night, but let me give you a clearer picture of what’s actually going on here. It’s pretty obvious.

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‘Blade’ Release Most Likely Delayed to 2026

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

This project has been around for five years now. Back in 2019, at San Diego’s ComicCon, Marvel had announced Ali as the next Blade. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic hit shortly after that and the film’s development took a few steps back.

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Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix Still “Committed” to Pawel Pawlikowski’s ‘The Island’

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Mara has provided us with an update on “The Island,” and it’s not all doom and gloom. She hopes that the film can be made in the near future.

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Christopher Nolan Would “Love to Make A Horror Film”

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Nolan spoke about the horror genre at BFI last night. He calls the genre “visceral,” with “a lot of bleakness, a lot of abstraction,” and that it allows filmmakers to do things onscreen that Hollywood is typically “resistant to.”

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Austin Butler to Star in Darren Aronofsky’s Next Film, A Thriller

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Supposedly, Austin Butler is being sought to star in Darren Aronofsky’s next film. It’s not the Elon Musk biopic, which might be called “Emperor,” but, rather, a thriller.

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Denis Villeneuve and Jake Gylenhaal No Longer Making ‘The Son’

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It looks like Denis Villeneuve’s HBO mini-series “The Son,” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, is dead in the water. That’s what the filmmaker told Norwegian outlet VG.

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Jennifer Garner to Star in Ben Affleck’s ‘Animals’

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Jennifer Garner is in talks to join Damon and company on “Animals.” Peculiar casting given that Affleck and Garner were married for 13 years. The tabloids are gonna have a field day with this one.

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First Images: Paul Schrader’s ‘Oh, Canada’

February 16, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada” was submitted for Cannes, we’ll see if it gets in. All of this to say that the film is at the EFM market in Berlin and we have some first look images.

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Ridley Scott to Direct ‘Bee Gees’

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

With “Bob Marley: One Love” potentially becoming a box office hit for Paramount Pictures, the studio has decided to move fast on another music biopic, and they want to hire a marquee filmmaker to direct it.

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‘Dune: Part II’ Reactions …

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Most of the reactions are uniformly gushing and glowing towards Villeneuve’s film, but there are cracks in the dam — a contingent of people who still believe that ‘Dune’ is one long, big bore.

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Anya Taylor-Joy Joins Cast of ‘Dune: Part II’

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Ok, fine, the cat’s out of the bag. I’ve known this for a few weeks, but didn’t really want to report on it, given that her role is a major spoiler.

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Disney Cooked Up ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’ Numbers, It’s NOT the Most Watched Movie Trailer of All-Time

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Yesterday, Disney had leaked out that the first trailer for “Deadpool and Wolverine,” was the most-viewed movie trailer ever, within a time frame of 24 hours, with 365 million total views.

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Coogler/Jordan’s Secret Warner Bros. Movie Might Be Vampires vs KKK

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Warner Bros. recently landed the rights to Ryan Coogler’s next film starring Michael B. Jordan. It was a heated bidding that, as requested by Coogler and Jordan, would not include streamers.

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Box-Office: ‘Bob Marley’ Made $14M on Valentine’s Day, ‘Madame Web’ $6M

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Audiences love music biopics and “Bob Marley: One Love” is continuing that trend. The film grossed a whopping $14 million last night.

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First Trailer for Park Chan-wook’s ‘The Sympathizer’ — Set for April 14th Debut

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s the first trailer for A24’s limited series “The Sympathizer.” The names involved alone are enough to get us excited. An April 14th premiere is now set on Max.

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Will Smith’s Post-Slap Comeback Continues — Set to Star in Crime Drama ‘Sugar Bandits’

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Will Smith’s attempt at a comeback continues with the actor currently filming “Bad Boys 4.” He also has the “I Am Legend” sequel with Michael B. Jordan on the way. Now, here’s another project.

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Léa Seydoux Doesn’t Understand Why Tom Cruise Has Not Yet Won an Oscar

February 15, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Léa Seydoux was recently a guest of Konbini where she visited one of the last remaining video stores in France. A particular highlight was when she picked up a copy of Brian De Palma’s “Mission: Impossible,” citing it as one of her favorite films and saying …

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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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