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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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Dan Trachtenberg in Talks to Direct Marvel Solo Movie — Wolverine?

Dan Trachtenberg is in talks to write and direct an MCU movie for the Mutant era. Per the report, it's a theatrical feature. It's also a single-character film, not an ensemble piece.

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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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More Cannes Intel + Official Poster Revealed

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for its 77th edition, which is set to take place on May 14-25, and it’s a tribute to Akira Kurosawa’s 1991 film “Rhapsody in August.”

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‘Furiosa' Has A 15-minute Action Sequence That Took 78 Days to Shoot

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

George Miller’s “Furiosa” is set to premiere at Cannes next month. The highly anticipated ‘Mad Max’ prequel is on the cover of this month’s Empire Magazine, and there are some very interesting nuggets inside this issue.

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Shyamalan's ‘Trap' is 2 Hours and 30 Minutes!?

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Of M Night Shyamalan’s 16 feature films, only a single one was over 2 hours (“Glass”). So, consider me surprised by Cryptic HD’s assertion that Shyamalan’s “Trap” clocks in at a whopping 2 hours and 30 minutes.

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Keanu Reeves in Talks to Star in Ruben Östlund’s ‘The Entertainment System Is Down’

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Ruben Östlund is supposed to shoot “The Entertainment System is Down” later this year. The script is done, and a cast is now being assembled. Variety is reporting that Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in the film

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Video: Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan Singing In James Mangold’s ‘A Complete Unknown’

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

If there ever was a video which would convince me that James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” will have some issues then it’s certainly this one.

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Looks Like Nancy Sinatra Disapproves of Scorsese's ‘Sinatra'

April 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Nancy Sinatra reposted a tweet on X which seems to disapprove of casting Leonardo DiCaprio as her father Frank Sinatra & Jennifer Lawrence as his wife Ava Gardner in Maritn Scorsese’s biopic.

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Alex Garland's ‘Warfare' Could Be A24's Most Expensive Movie

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Alex Garland’s next film, “Warfare”, which he’s co-directing with Ray Mendoza, might be even an even more expensive endeavor for A24. My best guess is its budget might hit the $60-70 million range.

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Marielle Heller's ‘Nightbitch' Screens Again ...

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Searchlight has set up a December 6, 2024 release for “Nightbitch.” As expected, the reactions from test screenings have been all over the place.

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Rumor: J.J. Abrams in Talks to Direct ‘Back to the Future' Homage — Timothee Chalamet in Lead Role

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Remember, over the weekend, when we discussed J.J. Abrams’ absence from directing? Was he in director’s jail for his dubious attempt at reviving Star Wars?

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Review: Luca Guadagnino's ‘Challengers' is Stylish and Electric Filmmaking

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Watching “Challengers,” I kept being reminded of David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” which also had shifting timelines, a brilliantly pulsating electronic score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and stylishly vibrant direction.

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M. Night Shyamalan's ‘Trap' Releases Trailer

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The latest Shyamalan is called “Trap” and is set in and around a concert. The Hitchcock influence is again very much present. A trailer has just been released for the film, which is set to hit theaters on August 9.

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Tarantino Canceled ‘Movie Critic' Months Ago, and Then Started Writing A Cliff Booth Spin-Off

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It turns out that, initially, Tarantino’s movie was going to be “The Movie Critic,” but, sometime late last year, he scrapped that film and started writing a different one, connected to “Once Upon A Time in Hollywood,”

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Eliza Hittman Sets Fourth Film, ‘MOTHERLOVE'

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I was a big fan of Eliza Hittman’s “Beach Rats,” and, especially, “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”, so it’s much welcome news that the filmmaker is now working on her fourth feature (via Filmmaker Fund).

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Trailer for Richard Linklater's ‘Hit Man'

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Netflix has released a trailer for Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man,” which is set to hit theaters, for an awards-qualifying run, on May 24 before finally streaming on the platform on June 7.

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Zack Snyder Plans to Make, at Least, 6 ‘Rebel Moon’ Movies

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Zach Snyder spoke to RadioTimes about a potential third film to ‘Rebel Moon’ and, despite the bad reviews and lukewarm audience response, Snyder is now talking about as many as six films …

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English-language ‘Oldboy’ TV Remake in the Works

April 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I vividly remember the first time I saw Park Chan-wook’s “Oldboy.” A friend of mine, who had returned from Korea, had brought a DVD copy of it back from his trip and told me I had to watch it.

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Quentin Tarantino SCRAPS ‘The Movie Critic'

April 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Well, this took everyone by surprise. Just as Quentin Tarantino was gearing up to shoot his tenth, and final, film this fall, Deadline is revealing that Tarantino has dropped the film completely.

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Sundance Film Festival is Looking to Move Out of Utah By 2027

April 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The Sundance Film Festival is looking to move out of Utah by the year 2027. They are now soliciting bids on where to relocate the festival to. The fest has been taking place in Utah since 1985.

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Martin Scorsese to Direct ‘Sinatra' Biopic, Starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence

April 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Martin Scorsese, 81, is planning to shoot two films back to back: the first about Jesus, the second a Frank Sinatra biopic. Leonardo DiCaprio would play Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence his wife Ava Gardner.

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Hollywood Producer Says Sydney Sweeney “Isn't Pretty" and “Can't Act"

April 17, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Hollywood producer Carol Baum doesn't understand all the buzz surrounding Sweeney. During a recent NY screening Q&A, Baum claimed Sweeney, 26, “can't act” and “isn't pretty.

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Cannes 2027: Spitball #1 Includes Scorsese, Östlund, Bong, Chazelle, Nichols, Payne, Haynes, Weerasethakul — and Yes, Malick (Again)

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Brian De Palma's ‘Sweet Vengeance,' His First Film in 8 Years, Might Have a Cut Ready by February

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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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