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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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Jon Hamm and Andrew Koji to Star in Takashi Miike’s Psychological Thriller ‘Bullfrog’

Miike has directed a whopping 114 films and TV productions. Almost nobody has seen all of them, and if you have, you're not just a completist—you're a madman.

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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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Mel Gibson's ‘Flight Risk' Sets October 18 Theatrical Release

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Mel Gibson’s “Flight Risk,” starring Mark Wahlberg, is officially scheduled for theatrical release on October 18, 2024. A prime fall slot that will see it pitted that same weekend against Paramount’s “Smile 2.”

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Full-Length ‘Longlegs' Trailer is Here

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We finally have some decent footage of Oz Perkins’ “Longlegs.” Interesting marketing to not show Nicolas Cage’s serial killer. We haven’t gotten a single glimpse of him yet.

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‘The Apprentice’: Donald Trump Movie Screens at Cannes — It's Good!

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The sheer risk it took for Ali Abassi to make a film about Donald Trump, and know what? “The Apprentice” works very well as an origin story of what made Trump who he is today.

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Box Office: ‘IF’ Opens to $34M, ‘Back to Black' Bombs

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It didn’t look like John Krasinski’s “IF” was going to hit $30M. Friday’s receipts were average ($9M) but word of mouth travelled (“A” CinemaScore) and the film landed a $34M opening weekend.

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Oliver Stone Says He Has “One More" Film Left in Him: “It'll Be Done in the Next Year"

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Oliver Stone, 77, currently the Chomsky of Hollywood filmmakers, is still fully engaged, plugging away and making docs — his latest one, “Lula,” premiered yesterday.

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‘The Substance' STUNS Cannes —Audacious, Bloody, and Brilliant

May 20, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance,” an instant body-horror classic, is the best film I’ve seen, so far, at Cannes. This is an absolute onslaught of audacity— sound, imagery and blood, tackling Hollywood’s obsession with female beauty.

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Josh Safdie's Sandler/Netflix Baseball Movie is Definitely Happening

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Cannes is a place where I tend to get a lot of good scoops. Here’s some new intel regarding that Adam Sandler/Josh Safdie film that’s been heavily delayed.

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Kevin Costner's ‘Horizon' Earns Mixed Reviews [Cannes]

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Kevin Costner premiered the first of his four ‘Horizon’ movies tonight in Cannes. Despite a 7-minute standing ovation, not all critics are being kind to his 3-hour western. It was to be expected.

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Francis Ford Coppola Hasn’t Read or Seen Negative ‘Megalopolis’ Reviews

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It’s been four days since Francis Ford Coppola’s “Megalopolis” screened here and know what? People are still talking about it. You’ll still bump into someone who wants to talk about this highly eccentric film.

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‘Rumors' is the Most Accessibly Goofy Film Guy Maddin Has Made [Cannes]

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Guy Maddin's “Rumours” screened last night and it's his goofiest, most mainstream film to date. Working as a sort of comedy-satire that delves into the lunacy of governing.

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Austin Butler Doesn't Deny He's in ‘Heat 2': “No Comment"

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

My sources already confirmed to me that Austin Butler was going to be par tof Michael Mann’s “Heat 2.” He’s set to play Chris Shiherlis, originally portrayed in 1995’s “Heat” by Val Kilmer.

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Scorsese's ‘Goodfellas' Slapped With “Trigger Warning" Due to “Cultural Stereotypes"

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

AMC has added a trigger warning to another classic, “Goodfellas.” Before the film begins, a message reads at the warning of “cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today’s standards of inclusion and tolerance.”

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Luca Guadagnino's ‘Queer' is 3 Hours — Set to Premiere at Venice

May 19, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I spoke to a producer here at Cannes who tells me he’s seen Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” and that it’s “fantastic” and clocks in at 3 hours. Daniel Craig might have delivered the performance of his career.

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Neon Acquires Mohammad Rasoulof's ‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Neon has backed the last four Palme d’Or winners. It now appears as though they will be contending for a fifth one this year.

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‘Emilia Perez': Our First Major Palme d'Or Contender [Cannes]

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

It’s no secret that, so far, this hasn’t been the strongest Cannes competition. attendees here desperately needed a standout film, and today we finally got one.

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Neon to Reteam With Oz Perkins (‘Longlegs') on His Next Two Films

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Neon clearly sees something in the guy and are hoping he’s next big thing in horror. A24 gave us Ari Aster and Robert Eggers — Neon wants to give us Oz Perkins.

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Confirmed: Yorgos Lanthimos' ‘Bugonia' to Start Production in June [Update]

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We have a title for Yorgos Lanthimos’ remake, it’s called “Bugonia” and follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien.

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Paul Schrader to Direct Film Noir ‘Non Compos Mentis' — Tackles “Sexual Obsession"

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

After a run of health scares, and reckoning with mortality in the Cannes premiered "Oh, Canada," Paul Schrader says he is now in his “post-dying” era of filmmaking.

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Richard Kelly Want to Make A ‘Southland Tales' Prequel

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Kelly’s career seemed to go off the rails with “Southland Tales,” often regarded as one of the biggest disasters in modern film, and which premiered at Cannes 2006 to very hostile reviews.

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David Cronenberg's Originally Pitched ‘The Shrouds' to Netflix, They Rejected It

May 18, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Back in 2019, Cronenberg mentioned to me that he had pitched a series to Netflix, he didn’t specify what it was, but it piqued the curiosity of many of his fans.

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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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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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