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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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Aaron Pierre to Star in ‘Sisu’ Director’s ‘Fairytale in New York’ at Netflix

Netflix and Lionsgate are teaming up on “Fairytale in New York,” a new action thriller starring Aaron Pierre, with “Sisu” helmer Jalmari Helander directing. Netflix will distribute and Lionsgate will produce.

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Margot Robbie Will Star in Kristoffer Borgli's ‘The Week of Pain' for A24

Borgli and Robbie had been talking about her starring in his next film, and she's now committed to shooting it sometime in 2027, which means it will likely come out in 2028.

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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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Francis Ford Coppola Didn't Want ‘Megalopolis' to Be “Some Woke Hollywood Production"

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

“What I didn’t want to happen is that we’re deemed some woke Hollywood production that’s simply lecturing viewers,” Coppola said of his film.

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David Lowery is Baffled By Upcoming ‘Mother Mary': “What is This Movie?"

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Lowery has been juggling his arthouse passion projects (“A Ghost Story,” “Ain’t Them Bodies A Saint,” “The Green Knight”) with high-priced Disney movies (“Pete’s Dragon,” “Pan and Wendy”).

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Trailer for ‘Wolf Man' Coming This Week

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

A trailer for Leigh Whannell’s “Wolf Man” will be dropping this week, maybe as early as tomorrow. It’ll be interesting to see the look and style that Whannell has opted for to tell this story.

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Next James Bond Director Search Heats Up — Berger, Michod, Campbell, Marcel, Demange in Contention

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The Telegraph has now seemingly confirmed the names that had been circulating, and also added a few more to the list, including a familiar name to the franchise.

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Quentin Tarantino is Currently Writing A Play

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Ever since Quentin Tarantino scrapped what was supposed to be his tenth and final film, “The Movie Critic,” we haven’t heard much of an update in regard to another potential film being in the works.

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RUMOR: Spider-Man 4 Set for July 2026 Release, Multi-Verse Linked Story

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Sony still doesn’t have a director attached for this one. They don’t even have a script. And yet, “scooper” Daniel Richtman is claiming that Marvel has set up a July 2026 release date for the film.

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Venice Boss “Feels Bad" That ‘Queer' Was Trimmed by Over an Hour

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

My initial reporting that Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” had its original runtime drastically snipped down in the editing room turns out to actually be far worse than initially believed.

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‘Emilia Perez' Trailer ...

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s Netflix’s top priority this Oscar season. “Emilia Perez” will hit theaters on November 1 and be available to stream via Netflix on November 13. A trailer has now been unveiled for the film.

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John Hillcoat's ‘Blood Merdian' in Pre-Production, Script Still Being Written

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

As I’ve said, numerous times, if you’re adapting “Blood Meridian” then you best not miss. The late, great Cormac McCarthy’s masterfully violent 1985 novel is a tough read but also an essential American novel.

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First Look at Nicole Kidman's BDSM Romance ‘Babygirl'

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We have our first look images for “Babygirl,” which is getting the Vanity Fair treatment. There’s the usual Oscar positioning, describing Kidman’s performance as brave and no holds barred.

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Francis Ford Coppola is Working on His Next Two Films

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

We should scratch off any retirement plans for Francis Ford Coppola. According to the maestro, 85, he’s just getting started and currently working on two projects.

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Michael Mann Teases ‘Heat 2' Will Be Close to 3 Hours: “It's Large"

August 26, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Last night, during a screening of “Miami Vice,” Michael Mann gave us the latest update on “Heat 2,” which is rumored to start production later this year, or very early 2025:

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A24 Offering Free Screenings of ‘Sing Sing’

August 25, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

A24’s unusual rollout of “Sing Sing” has been incredibly slow, to the point where almost seven weeks into its initial NY/LA release, the film is still only playing in less than 200 theaters nationwide.

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Quentin Tarantino Says ‘Toy Story' Trilogy is So “Perfect" That He Refuses to Watch ‘Toy Story 4'

August 25, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The sheer brilliance of “Toy Story 3” and the way its ending seemed to resonate so perfectly, so deeply, made it, by all senses of the term, a perfect trilogy capper.

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Pixar Already Talking ‘Inside Out 3'

August 25, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

In a new interview with Fandango, Pixar’s Chief creative officer Peter Docter confirms his team in the animation studios is already thinking about ideas for “Inside Out 3.”

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Has ‘Nomadland' Aged Well?

August 25, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

I budged and rewatched Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland.” The film won Best Picture during that surreal, and pandemic-inflicted, 2021 Oscars ceremony.

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Jon Woo's ‘The Killer' Remake Met With Mixed Reviews [Updated]

August 24, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The French remake, starring Nathalie Emmanuel and Omar Sy, is actually now available to stream on Peacock. No theatrical release for this one. The reviews have so far been mixed.

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Denzel Washington Hints at Retirement: “Very Few Films Left”

August 24, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

The Oscar winner tells Empire that he’s starting to limit his acting roles but was “inspired” enough by the script for Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator,” that it was too tempting not to hop onboard the project.

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Peter Dinklage Has No Clue if ‘Toxic Avenger' Will Ever Get Released

August 24, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

Last month, we reported about how Macon Blair’s remake of “The Toxic Avenger,” starring Peter Dinklage, was deemed “too out there” and “unreleasable.”

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‘A Complete Unknown' Reshoots Currently Underway

August 24, 2024 Jordan Ruimy

On 08.16.24, I reported on the mediocre reactions that greeted James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” at a recent private screening.

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