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‘One Night Only’ Director Cut Out “So Much Nudity” Because People Dislike Sex on Screen

Turns out, there’s a much more sexual version of “One Night Only,” with lots of sex and nudity, that never made it to theaters. The film’s director, Will Gluck, blames audience discomfort for the cuts.

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SS Rajamouli’s ‘Varanasi’ Is Being Shot Entirely on IMAX, Following ‘The Odyssey’

SS Rajamouli’s upcoming “magnum opus” is called “Varanasi,” starring Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran — a massive movie, which just got more massive.

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Venice Film Festival Schedule Reveals “Mystery Film” Held Back for “Security Reasons,” to Be Announced Soon

Interestingly, there’s a slot on Thursday, September 10, for a film “yet to be announced.” The runtime is around 90 minutes. I reached out to a source who gave some more details.

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‘The Odyssey’ Hits $1 Billion; ‘Brand New Day’ Tops $1.3 Billion; ‘One Night Only’ Stumbles With $750K Thursday

“Spider-Man: Brand New” just became the fastest movie to cross $500M domestic ever, doing so in seven days and beating “Avengers: Endgame,” which did it in eight.

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‘Wonka’ Sequel “Delayed Indefinitely,” Warner Bros. Denies

The original plan was to start production this year, but Chalamet is now getting pickier about what comes next for him. He still hasn’t decided, but it won’t be “Wonka 2,” which is “delayed indefinitely.”

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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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Tim Burton to Direct ‘Medusa' Movie for Sony?

July 23, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Burton currently has a couple of projects in development. As long as it’s not another sequel or a Disney-fueled live-action reboot, we’re open to whatever he chooses to tackle next.

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Luca Guadagnino’s ‘After the Hunt’ to Open 63rd New York Film Festival

July 23, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

This could be a good indication of its quality as NYFF’s Main Slate lineup tends to be highly curated and filled with Cannes titles.

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‘Basic Instinct’ Reboot: Joe Eszterhas Promises “Serial Killers,” “Demonic Twist,” and No Woke Culture

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Eszterhas, 80, signed a $4M deal with Amazon/MGM to pen the screenplay. A week later, he’s speaking about the project.

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‘Weapons’: Early Reactions Tease Another Horror Swing from ‘Barbarian’ Director Zach Cregger

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The first wave of social media reactions to Zach Cregger’s “Weapons” are in, and while it’s still early, and social media reactions are to be taken lightly, the “buzz” is promising.

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Venice 2025: Barbera Talks ‘The Smashing Machine,’ Edward Berger Snub, PTA and Oscar Hopes

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Venice remains the unofficial kickoff to awards season, and Barbera has masterfully shaped it into Cannes’ most viable rival. 

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‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Reviews — 64 on MC, 87% RT

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“The Fantastic Four: First Steps,” which has an 88% on Rotten Tomatoes, sits at a tamer 65 on Metacritic. These reviews are slightly lower than “Thunderbolts.”

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Warner Bros. Quietly Uploads New ‘One Battle After Another’ Trailer

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The trailer, which is tucked away on Warner Bros.’ official YouTube channel, is virtually undiscoverable unless you have the direct link. It’s not searchable, not embedded anywhere official, and somehow has only one comment.

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‘Megalopolis': Francis Ford Coppola To Re-Edit, Add Scenes, “Make it More Weird"

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Coppola wants to restore dream sequences that he cut from the final cut “because already people were saying this film was so weird.” No word yet whether this new cut will be shown during the current tour.

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FIRST LOOK: Kathryn Bigelow's ‘House of Dynamite'

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

I’ll admit, I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to post about this “first look” still of Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” which might be the worst image you could pick to build anticipation for a film.

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Julian Schnabel's 150-Minute ‘In the Hand of Dante' Heads to Venice After Battle for Final Cut

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The road to the Venice premiere was anything but smooth. The film, which Schnabel has been trying to make for more than a decade, faced pressure from financiers to trim down its considerable runtime.

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Terrence Malick's ‘The Way of the Wind' Still Missing [Updated]

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Has anyone seen Terrence Malick lately? Apparently, he’s still deep in the editing process for “The Way of the Wind.” The elusive filmmaker was once again absent from this year’s Venice Film Festival lineup.

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Venice 2025 Lineup: Baumbach, Bigelow, del Toro, Lanthimos, Jarmusch, Safdie, Guadagnino, Park Lead Stacked 82nd Edition

July 22, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Notably absent were Edward Berger’s “Ballad of a Small Player,” which skips Venice in favor of Telluride; Ditto Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet,” which is passing on the Lido.

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Margot Robbie to Star in Tim Burton’s ‘Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman’

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Great news. Margot Robbie is now on board to both star in and produce Tim Burton’s “Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” for Warner Bros.

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Teaser for Osgood Perkins’ ‘Keeper,’ His Second Horror Film of 2025

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Apparently, we’re getting two Osgood Perkins films in the same year — but this one, “Keeper,” may be the more intriguing of the two.

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Taylor Russell to Star in Frank Ocean’s Directorial Debut

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

So, apparently, Taylor Russell, who just dropped out of “Thomas Crown Affair,” is now attached to star in Frank Ocean’s directorial debut for A24.

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Dan Trachtenberg’s ‘Predator: Badlands' Trailer Drops Online

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Dan Trachtenberg, who revitalized the ‘Predator’ franchise with 2022’s “Prey,” is back behind the camera for “Predator: Badlands,” and the first trailer has officially dropped.

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Adria Arjona Replaces Taylor Russell in Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Thomas Crown Affair’

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Russell, who was the co-lead, alongside Jordan, departed the film in the middle of shooting. Her exit stemmed from “creative differences.”

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James Gunn Blames “Anti-American Sentiment” for Superman’s Struggling Overseas Box-Office

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

James Gunn’s “Superman” has been struggling to meet expectations overseas, currently at $171M, with theories swirling as to why that is the case.

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Gus Van Sant is Back! ‘Dead Man’s Wire’ to Premiere at Fall Fests

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Gus Van Sant is back. After years of radio silence on the feature film front, the iconic filmmaker is set to return this fall with “Dead Man’s Wire.”

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First Look: Mona Fastvold’s ‘The Testament of Ann Lee’ — Hitting Venice and TIFF in 70mm

July 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here comes an interesting film from the same team that brought us “The Brutalist.” It’s a radical musical co-written by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet.

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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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