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Lars Von Trier Has Almost Completed the Screenplay For His Final Film

Lars Von Trier is working on the 15th—and likely final—film of his career, “After,” and according to his producer, Peter Aalbæk Jensen, the screenplay is supposed to be completed this month

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Mel Gibson Says ‘Resurrection of the Christ’ Not in Aramaic Because the Story Is Too “Complex” for Subtitles

Gibson isn’t shooting the sequels in Aramaic and Latin. They’re in English. He now explains the decision, saying the material became too complicated to ask audiences to process through subtitles.

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David Ellison Ready to Sign Three-Year Deal Promising 30 Paramount/Warner Bros. Movies a Year in Theaters

Paramount/Skydance’s David Ellison is making a big promise to theater owners as he tries to get that proposed $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal across the finish line.

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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Dominates With $145M Second Weekend as Sexless ‘One Night Only’ Bombs With $5M

“Spider Man: Brand New Day” with the highest 10-day domestic run ever. Through tomorrow, the US total will be $653M, and $1.7 billion worldwide. Talk about a blockbuster—this is the definition of one.

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Confirmed: ‘Digger’ Runtime is Actually 2 Hours 8 Minutes

Iñárritu is certainly one to indulge. His last film, “Bardo,” ran 159 minutes, while “The Revenant” was 156 minutes, “Biutiful” 148 minutes, “Babel” 143 minutes, and “Amores Perros” 154 minutes.

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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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David Fincher's ‘Cliff Booth' Adds Yahya Abdul-Mateen To Cast

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Netflix and David Fincher’s “The Adventures of Cliff Booth” is steadily coming together, with Deadline reporting that Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”) is set to join the cast.

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Brad Bird is Not Directing ‘Incredibles 3' — Replaced By ‘Elemental' Director

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Last December, I reported that, despite rumors, Brad Bird would not be directing “Incredibles 3.” A simple reason for this: Bird is too busy shooting his decade-in-the-making project: “Ray Gunn.”

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‘Wonder Woman' Movie is Officially Happening, Without Gal Gadot

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

With “Superman” set to hit theaters on July 11, followed by Milly Alcock’s “Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow” in June 2026, here comes news that James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU Studios are now officially working on a reboot of “Wonder Woman.”

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Mark Ruffalo to Star in ‘CODA' Director's Next Film

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Does anyone remember Siân Heder “CODA”? It snagged Best Picture in 2022? Truly the Academy's boldest move since... well, ever. A heartwarming Apple TV+ flick about a deaf family that had Oscars voters going for the feel-good vote over far superior films.

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‘Sinners' is the Highest-Grossing Original Film Since 2010

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The last 15 years have been a relentless cycle of familiar IPs driving ticket sales worldwide. Yet, despite this, one original film has managed to break through the noise: Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners.”

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Ari Aster's Polarizing ‘Eddington' Finally Has A Full Trailer

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s June 2, 2020. The pandemic is in full swing, and the small town of Eddington, New Mexico is descending into madness. Paranoia, mask wars, and a battle for control of the town—this is the backdrop of Ari Aster’s newest descent into chaos.

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Good/Great Movies That Don't Deserve Their “Rotten" Scores

June 10, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

I went down a little rabbit hole this afternoon and searched for good/great films with “rotten” scores. Obviously, this is all subjective, and I didn’t find every single one of them. There are probably hundreds of examples.

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Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Premieres to Mixed Reception — “Family Friendly” With Lots of “Fart Jokes”

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Audiences seem underwhelmed by its tonal shift from Orwell’s bleak satire toward a more family-friendly narrative, which apparently includes lots of flatulence.

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Sydney Sweeney Gained 30 Pounds to Play Boxer Christy Martin in David Michôd’s Biopic

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Known primarily for her roles in “Euphoria” and “Reality,” Sweeney appears to be making a sharp turn by shedding her bombshell image in favor of something grittier.

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Danny Boyle Says ‘Sunshine’ Was Meant to Be a Trilogy, But Poor Box Office Killed Sequel Plans

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Boyle has now revealed that “Sunshine” was nearly the start of something bigger. The filmmaker, whose “28 Years Later” releases in just a few weeks, tells Collider that “Sunshine” was originally envisioned as the first part of a trilogy.

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Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Finally Opens in the U.S. —Six Years After its Venice Premiere

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Now, six years later, “An Officer and a Spy” will finally see the light of day in the US as the film has set up an August 8 theatrical debut at NYC’s Film Forum.

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David Lynch’s Unmade ‘Unrecorded Night’ Was a “Thick Script” Meant For “Many Episodes” — and His Final L.A. Mystery

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“Unrecorded Night” was a mysterious project Netflix had initially approved, with Laura Dern and Naomi Watts rumored to star, only for COVID to pause development indefinitely.

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Jonathan Daviss to Play Snoop Dogg in Craig Brewer’s Biopic

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Craig Brewer’s Snoop Dogg biopic has cast Jonathan Daviss (“Outer Banks”) in the lead role (via Deadline). No word yet on when production is set to begin.

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Readers’ Top 10 Movies of 2025, So Far, Topped by ‘Sinners’

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s no shock to see Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” take the top spot — it remains the only clear Best Picture contender to emerge in 2025 so far.

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‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review Embargo Lifts — 83% RT, 65 MC— $100M Opening?

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Honestly, not bad for a live-action remake. I’m not the targeted audience for it, but positive ink will surely help it commercially. Internal tracking has the film aiming for a $90M-$100M opening weekend.

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‘The Pickup' Isn’t the Comeback Eddie Murphy Needs [Trailer]

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Eddie Murphy's return to the big screen in “The Pickup,” which just released its trailer, doesn’t look like a comeback; it looks outright bad. Eddie Murphy looks bored. Pete Davidson isn’t funny.

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‘Materialists’ Is What Happens When A24 Tries to Manufacture a Rom-Com [Review]

June 9, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Celine Song’s “Materialists” isn’t personal in the way her debut “Past Lives” was. It’s a self-aware riff on the classic love triangle rom-com, dressed up in the aesthetics of an A24 indie.

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‘Superman’ Scraps Episodic Structure as James Gunn Refines Film’s Tone Ahead of Release

June 8, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It appears James Gunn has decided to scrap Superman’s episodic title cards during the editing process. The film has been turned into a continuous, single narrative in the final edit.

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McG Directing KISS Biopic With Nick Jonas To Star

June 8, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Remember McG? Yeah, that guy with a single-letter last name who somehow convinced Hollywood he was the next big thing by directing “Charlie’s Angels” like a red bull commercial.

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Ranking the ‘Mission: Impossible’ Films: Is ‘Fallout’ The Peak?

June 8, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

As the latest instalment, ‘Final Reckoning,’ continues its journey at the box-office— $450M worldwide and counting— I’ve decided to rank all eight films, some of which I hadn’t rewatched in almost three decades.

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‘The Odyssey’ Review: Christopher Nolan’s Epic Is a Flawed but Astonishing Spectacle — Rave Reviews Confirm Best Picture Frontrunner

There is something undeniably powerful about a film that swings this hard, that embraces myth, spectacle, and the strange dream logic of ancient storytelling.

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Aaron Sorkin’s ‘The Social Reckoning’ Gets Reshoots, Won’t Premiere at Venice Film Festival

About a month ago, Variety published a piece saying that “The Social Reckoning” was being submitted to the Venice Film Festival. I can confirm now that will definitely not be happening.

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Joel Coen’s ‘Jack of Spades’ Delayed to 2027

The film stars Josh O’Connor, Lesley Manville, Frances McDormand, and Damien Lewis, but no plot details have been revealed. All we know is that it’s a “gothic mystery” set in 1880s Scotland.

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Christopher Nolan’s Place in Cinema History: Genius, Overrated, or Something In Between?

Nolan has changed what a modern blockbuster can be, and that alone is a significant legacy. The bigger question is whether he has truly transformed cinema itself, or simply reinvented the blockbuster.

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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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