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‘Cliff Booth’ Trailer Is Finally Here

The first real trailer for ‘Cliff Booth’ has dropped two weeks out from release. David Fincher directing a Quentin Tarantino script. Brad Pitt back as Cliff Booth. On paper, this is the easiest sell of the season.

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‘Godzilla Minus Zero' Surprises With $6M+ in Previews, and a $40M+ Opening Is Now on the Table

‘Minus Zero’ has been tracking for a $30M+ domestic opening, but that number now feels conservative. We’re looking at a real shot at $40M.

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The New York Times Is About to Buy Letterboxd for $330 Million

Letterboxd, the app where film Twitter went to live, is finalizing a sale to The New York Times in a deal that values the site at $330M, according to a report from, who else, the New York Times.

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Paul Giamatti Has Never Won an Oscar. That Could Change With ‘The Debut’

Let's get this out of the way: Paul Giamatti should already have an Oscar. He should have won for "Sideways," a performance the Academy didn't even nominate.

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‘John Wick’ Animated Prequel Greenlit With Keanu Reeves Set to Return

Lionsgate, continuing to milk the IP, has given the green light to an animated "John Wick" prequel, and Keanu Reeves is coming back to voice the hitman.

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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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Harmony Korine’s ‘Baby Invasion’ To Screen as “Reimagined” Version via DJ-Styled Mix

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Some are wondering if Harmony Korine's “Baby Invasion,” which premiered at Venice last year, will ever get released, this latest update has only further enhanced the confusion.

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Michelle Trachtenberg Dies at 39

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Michelle Trachtenberg has passed away, she was 39. I won’t lie and claim to have been that familiar with her TV work, which included “Gossip Girl” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but that is way too young an age to die.

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Report: Christopher Nolan Wanted to Direct James Bond 26 After ‘Tenet'

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

A Variety report says that Christopher Nolan wanted James Bond 26 to be his follow-up to “Tenet,” but was snubbed by Broccoli. Nolan would go on to direct “Oppenheimer,” and the rest, as they say, is history.

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Na Hong-Jin's ‘Hope' Won't Be Released This Year

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In late 2023, Na Hong-Jin started production on “Hope,” which stars Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander, but it sounds like he’s taking his time in the editing room as Korean media is reporting that the film won’t be ready in time for 2025 release.

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Warner Bros. Believes PTA's ‘One Battle After Another' Will Gross $180M Domestically

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Bloomberg now has a report describing Zaslav’s love for auteur-driven cinema, and how this infatuation for the medium might sadly, and quite epically, backfire on him in 2025. The biggest risk is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film.

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John Hillcoat Teases ‘Blood Meridian' Movie

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

As I’ve said many times, if you’re adapting “Blood Meridian” then you best not miss. Everyone knows that. The late, great Cormac McCarthy’s masterfully violent 1985 novel is a tough read but also an essential American novel. It’s surely the author’s magnum opus.

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Gareth Evans' ‘Havoc' Has A Trailer! Sets April 25 Release Date via Netflix

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

We have proof of life. Gareth Evans’ “Havoc” actually exists. Not just that, a trailer just popped online. Netflix has also dated the film for April 25, 2025 release.

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Rachel Zegler Does ‘Snow White' Damage Control

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Rachel Zegler must have received a stern talking to from Disney. The ‘Snow White’ star has now completely reversed course on her previous assertion that the backlash against her casting in the live-action was based on “misogyny.”

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Trailer for ‘A Simple Favor’: SXSW Premiere & Straight-to-Streaming Release

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Paul Feig’s “Another Simple Favor” will open the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival on March 7. This is the sequel to 2018’s playfully entertaining “A Simple Favor.” The original’s stars, Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick, are back for the second instalment.

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Jeremy Allen White Declines Offer to Star in ‘Sgt. Rock'

February 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a brief update on Luca Guadagnino’s “Sgt. Rock.” Jeremy Allen White has declined the offer to star in the DCU movie (via The InSneider), and no replacements have been put forward as of now.

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Edward Berger Has Found His Next Film — Set in A Russian Prison

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

United Artists and Scott Stuber have assembled a hot package that’ll have Edward Berger directing a film about Evan Gershkovich— the first American journalist to be arrested in Russia since the Cold War. Amazon/MGM will likely back the film.

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Source: Dave Filoni & Jon Favreau to Replace Kathleen Kennedy at LucasFilm?

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

I’m being told — albeit by a single source — that Dave Filloni and Jon Favreau are tipped to replace Kathleen Kennedy as head of LucasFilm. A formal announcement could happen at Star Wars Celebration in April.

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Sayombhu Mukdeeprom is DP on Luca Guadagnino's ‘Sgt. Rock'

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It turns out that Luca Guadagnino is very serious about his DCU movie. Cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom will be the cinematographer on Guadagnino’s “Sgt. Rock” — shooting this summer.

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Two Oscar Voters Didn't Vote for Ralph Fiennes' ‘Conclave' Performance Because “He Won Before" (He Didn't)

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It is hard to believe that such a consummate actor like Ralph Fiennes, a three time nominee, has yet to win an Oscar. Clearly, this reality has yet to sink for a few Academy voters.

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Best Picture: ‘Anora' vs ‘Conclave' — Who Wins?

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Place your bets, and forget about the rest of the field, it’s come down to two films for the best picture Oscar: “Anora” and “Conclave.” Which will come out on top?

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Park Chan-Wook Says Robert Pattinson Deserves Two Oscars for ‘Mickey 17' Performance(s)

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook is praising Robert Pattinson's performance as the lead in Bong Joon ho’s “Mickey 17.” Pattinson plays various different incarnations of the same character in Bong’s sci-fi film.

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Ayo Edebiri To Write and Star in A24's Barney Movie

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In a 2024 New Yorker piece tackling Mattel’s splash into the film industry, one exec described A24’s upcoming ‘Barney’ movie as “surrealistic” and not unlike the work of “Adaptation” and “Being John Malkovich” duo Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze.

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Trailer for Mimi Cave's ‘Holland' Starring Nicole Kidman

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Mimi Cave’s “Holland” was shot in early 2023. The film stars Nicole Kidman, and set to premiere at SXSW before going straight to Prime Video on March 27. The film now has a first trailer.

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Movie Theaters Threaten to Boycott Greta Gerwig's ‘Narnia'

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It was inevitably going to happen. Netflix is enemy numero uno in the theatrical business, and the fact that they can just offer one of their titles for theatrical exhibition, without any repercussions, is rubbing many industry folk the wrong way.

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Kathleen Kennedy Stepping Down at LucasFilm

February 25, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Puck is reporting that Kathleen Kennedy will step down from running LucasFilm at the end of the year. Kennedy has been running LucasFilm for 14 years.

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CONFIRMED: Sadie Soverall Exits Brady Corbet's ‘The Origin of the World' Mid-Shoot, Lily McInerny Steps In Lead Role

Sadie Soverall was just let go after briefly filming on Corbet's new film — no official reason given. She had the lead role. Corbet has replaced her, last minute, with Lily McInerny.

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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

We’ve already covered the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Now we have the results for the Best Films of the 1960s.

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