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David Fincher’s ‘Squid Game’ U.S. Spinoff Shelved by Netflix — Is His Time at Netflix Up?

Netflix is no longer moving forward with the series, which went by the working title “Heckler” and was supposed to have production take place in the UK. Dennis Kelly (“Utopia”) had been hired to write the scripts.

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Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Faces Reshoots After Mixed Test Scores

‘Narnia’ was originally slated for release in November 2026 before being pushed to February 2027, and the official reason given to the trades was that it just wasn’t ready to hit that date.

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Morgan Freeman Says He’ll Overlook a Mediocre Script “If They’re Going to Pay You Enough”

Freeman is far from retired. Case in point, all the straight-to-VOD movies he’s been making these past 10 years. Scrolling through his filmography, the last true “Hollywood” year Freeman had was in 2016.

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David Fincher’s ‘Cliff Booth’ Reshoots Set for August — Jeff Cronenweth to Replace Erik Messerschmidt as DP

The film had actually wrapped its six-month production in January 2026, and it’s been in post-production for the last eight months. Fincher is well known for taking his time in the editing room.

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‘Michael’ Sequel Targets Late 2027/Early 2028 Release

Lionsgate CEO Adam Fogelson has given an update on the “Michael” sequel, the studio’s blockbuster Michael Jackson biopic, which hit $1 billion at the box office this year.

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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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Edward Berger Confirms A24’s ‘The Riders’ With Brad Pitt Will Shoot “Early Next Year”

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Pitt is currently shooting David Fincher’s “The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth” until around December, and “Riders” will be his next project after that.

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Kogonada’s $60M ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ Is R-Rated, Skipping Fests, and Already Raising Eyebrows

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Sony’s marketing for Kogonada’s latest has been… minimal at best. The campaign barely exists, giving the impression they might be quietly dumping it.

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Daniel Day-Lewis’ First Film in 8 Years, ‘Anemone,’ Has A Trailer!

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Daniel Day-Lewis, three-time Oscar winner, long regarded as one of cinema’s greatest actors, will end an eight-year hiatus with “Anemone.”

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Report: Disney Is Suddenly Worried About Losing Its Gen Z “Male” Audience

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Disney is suddenly freaking out about losing its “boy” audience. No, really—they’ve finally noticed that the demographic they’ve spent the last decade ignoring might actually matter.

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‘Hedda’ Trailer: Nia DaCosta’s Post-’Marvels’ Movie is 19th Century Stage Adaptation

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Coming off the ‘Marvels’ stench from just a few years ago, Nia DaCosta has decided to cleanse herself by making a 19th century period piece starring Tessa Thompson.

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First Look: Bradley Cooper’s ‘Is This Thing On?’ Sets December 19 Release Date

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The film follows Cooper’s previous directing efforts, “A Star Is Born” and “Maestro,” both of which debuted on the fall festival circuit.

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‘The Mastermind’ Trailer: Kelly Reichardt Returns With One of Her Best Films Yet

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a great film, one of very best films I saw at this year’s Cannes: Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind.” A trailer has been released.

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Andrew Haigh Set to Direct ‘A Long Winter’ — Shoots in October

August 21, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Hot off the heels of “All of Us Strangers,” filmmaker Andrew Haigh has been tasked to direct an Adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s “A Long Winter,” and it’s being prepped as his next film.

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‘The Long Walk’ Draws Strong First Reactions — From the Same Dozen Twitter Hype Squad

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“The Long Walk,” which has been in development hell for decades, will finally be released in theaters on September 12 via Lionsgate.

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Edward Zwick is Back? Set to Write & Direct ‘The Creed of Violence’

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Some of his most notable works include “Glory,” “Legends of the Fall,” “The Last Samurai” “ Blood Diamond,” and “Courage Under Fire.”

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‘One Battle After Another’ Rated R — Runtime is 161 Minutes [Update]

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s official, “One Battle After Another” has received an R Rating for "Pervasive Language, Violence, Sexual Content, and Drug Use"

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After ‘Rebel Moon,’ Netflix Rejects Zack Snyder’s $100M Cop Thriller

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Last December, it was announced that Snyder would helm an untitled LAPD action thriller for Netflix. So much for that.

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Roman Polanski’s ‘An Officer and a Spy’ Sparks Backlash From U.S. Theater Workers

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s hardly shocking that staff at NYC’s Film Forum internally rebelling against the decision to bring the 2019 Venice Grand Jury Prize–winning film to U.S. audiences for the first time.

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Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Sets Exclusive 3-Week Theatrical Release via Netflix — $120M Budget

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

This marks a rare step forward for theatrical-averse Netflix, which is starting to show signs of openness to big-screen releases.

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Nadav Lapid’s ‘Yes’ Finally Finds U.S. Distribution — No-Show at Fall Fests

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Isn’t it odd how “Yes” was utterly acclaimed at Cannes, yet hasn’t shown up at any of the big fall festivals? No Telluride. No TIFF. No NYFF.

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Netflix’s ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Screenings Sell Out 1000+ Shows Ahead of Theatrical Debut

August 20, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

1700 U.S. and Canadian theaters have already committed to the ‘Kpop’ singalong event, and as of August 19, a whopping 1,000 screenings were sold out.

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‘Happy Gilmore’ Had a $150M+ Budget?

August 19, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What’s amusing is how Netflix spun this thing. The trades were spoon-fed a nice, clean figure: $30M. That’s what they said the budget was.

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Jeffrey Wright & Octavia Spencer Set For Chinonye Chukwu & Tony Kushner’s ‘Death Of A Salesman’

August 19, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“Death of a Salesman” is hard to pull off on film, but the talent assembled for this latest attempt is sure to turn some heads.

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Alicia Vikander Calls Her Oscar-Winning Film ‘The Danish Girl’ “Extremely Dated”

August 19, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Vikander has decided to throw the film she won an Oscar for under the bus, and not because of its quality, but rather because of its non-conformist casting.

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Zack Snyder’s Next Film, ‘The Last Photograph,’ Is a Colombia-Set Kidnapping Thriller — Shoots This Month

August 19, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Production begins this month in Colombia, with “Rebel Moon” alums Stuart Martin and Fra Fee cast in the lead roles. (Back in 2016, the film was set to star Christian Bale and Sean Penn.)

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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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