For a director, breaking into Hollywood’s “$20 Million Club” is extremely rare. There’s only a handful of filmmakers who command an upfront payday this large.
Read moreRanking Spike Lee’s 10 Best Films
With his latest film (“Highest 2 Lowest”) hitting theaters this Friday, it’s time to look back at Spike Lee’s 40-year career as a filmmaker.
Read moreLeonardo DiCaprio Says Turning Down ‘Boogie Nights’ Is His Biggest Career Regret: “It Was a Masterpiece”
Leonardo DiCaprio has one big “what if” in his career, and it involves Paul Thomas Anderson — a near-miss that could have completely altered the trajectory of his career, and Hollywood, in the late ’90s.
Read more‘Marty Supreme’ Trailer: Josh Safdie Serves Up Timothée Chalamet Ping Pong Drama
Here’s the first trailer, which does play in conventional fashion, and there’s obviously a lot of reluctance, on A24’s part, to show too much, which makes sense.
Read more‘Steve’ Trailer: Cillian Murphy Reunites With ‘Small Things Like These’ Director
“Steve,” which follows a harrowing day in the life of a teacher at a last-chance reform school, is set to world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Read moreDoug Liman Sets Angelina Jolie Spy Thriller ‘The Initiative’ as Next Film After $275M Tom Cruise Project Stalls
Liman is reuniting with Angelina Jolie for “The Initiative,” a spy thriller that marks their first collaboration since “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Universal nabbed the project in a heated bidding war.
Read moreZach Cregger to Direct ‘Weapons’ Prequel Focused on Aunt Gladys
The idea isn’t coming out of nowhere. “Weapons” is told in chapters, and one of them, reportedly focused squarely on Gladys, was cut for length.
Read moreSpike Lee Says “Major Priority” Is Finally Making His Joe Louis Biopic Penned by ‘On The Waterfront’ Screenwriter
Oscar-winning screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wrote “On the Waterfront,” penned the screenplay and Lee promised him, on his deathbed, he’d make the film.
Read moreFirst Image from Chloé Zhao’s ‘Hamnet’ Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal
We have our first look image of Chloe Zhao’s “Hamnet” which is set to have its world premiere at Telluride in late August.
Read more‘47 Ronin’ Director is “Broke” After Spending $61M in Netflix Cash
Can we please have a six-episode Netflix True Crime doc about this man? This story is too good not to be tackled by a streamer.
Read moreZach Cregger Hasn’t Seen Any ‘Resident Evil’ Movies: “That's Just Not My Thing"
This is great news. Zach Cregger, who is set to reboot the IP, apparently hasn’t seen any of those sh*tty ‘Resident Evil’ movies starring Milla Jovovich.
Read moreConfirmed: Johnny Depp in Talks to Star in ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Reboot
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, long a champion of Depp’s return to “Pirates of the Caribbean,” is conforming talks for the actor to return to the franchise.
Read moreNYFF 2025 Adds Linklater, and Sorrentino to Spotlight — But Where’s Lanthimos? Zhao?
With its Main Slate and Currents lineups already announced, the 63rd New York Film Festival has now unveiled its Spotlight selections.
Read moreFirst Poster for Josh Safdie’s ‘Marty Supreme’ Drops Ahead of Tomorrow’s Trailer
A24 will drop the trailer tomorrow, giving us our first proper look at the film, which has been shrouded in secrecy since it was announced.
Read moreDaniel Day-Lewis’ First Film in 8 Years, ‘Anemone,’ to World Premiere at NYFF — First Image Released
The three-time Oscar winner, widely considered one of the greatest actors in cinema history, will break an eight-year hiatus with “Anemone.”
Read moreAMC Theatres to Trim Pre-Show by “4 or 5 Minutes,” CEO Says
With preshows stretching to 25–30 minutes, studio executives were fuming, fearing that audiences might finally revolt against the multiplex experience.
Read moreTodd Haynes’ ‘Trust’ Stuck in Legal Limbo at Netflix
“Trust,” an adaptation of Hernan Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has also made the jump from HBO to Netflix.
Read moreSimon Pegg Says Quentin Tarantino’s Unmade R-Rated ‘Star Trek’ Was “Batsh*t Crazy”
In some alternate reality, Quentin Tarantino isn’t capping himself at ten films. He’s still cranking them out well into his 80s — and he’s making that R-rated Star Trek he once pitched.
Read moreNetflix Scales Back ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Theatrical Run Despite Rian Johnson’s Push
Netflix has significantly scaled back its theatrical plans for Johnson’s “Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man” — a release far smaller than ‘Glass Onion’ back in 2022.
Read moreOliver Laxe’s ‘Sirât’ Was Cannes’ Best Film — and It’s Finally Coming to U.S. Theaters in November
It was announced today that “Sirât” will open in New York and Los Angeles on November 14 for a one-week qualifying run, before expanding nationwide in January.
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