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'Verity' is 45% Rotten, but Colleen Hoover Fans Won’t Care: Box Office Tracking Points to $24M Opening

Hoover is a hot literary name, and that means "Verity" is currently projected to open to around $24M this weekend, which would be a solid result for a mid-budget adult thriller.

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Paramount-WBD Merger Gets Final Approval, Deal Set to Close Next Week

Paramount is now aiming to close the deal on Tuesday, October 6. That's when, after months of drama, twists and turns, the merger will become official.

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu Says ‘Digger’ Was Originally Titled ‘BLAH, BLAH, BLAH’

The title was ultimately changed because it was "too long" and "too complicated," though I suspect Warner Bros. was just horrified by the thought of selling a $180M movie with a title that sounds like an eye-roll.

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Zack Snyder Is Waiting for His ‘Rebel Moon’ Movies to “Get a Little Bit More Popular" and “Discovered” for Part 3 to Happen

Zack Snyder, whose 'The Last Photograph' still has no US distribution, doesn't sound so confident about 'Rebel Moon 3' ever happening, or that there's truly any demand for it.

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Variety: ‘One Battle After Another' Lost $100M. ‘Digger' Could Lose Warner Bros. Far More

The "Digger" fiasco caps a disastrous 2026 for Warner Bros., which watched "Coyote vs. Acme," the film it tried to bury (now at Ketchup), out-gross nearly all of its releases 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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Francis Ford Coppola's ‘Glimpses of the Moon' to Start Production in Italy This November

October 2, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Coppola has secured his next project, “Glimpses of the Moon,” and it now looks like production may begin very soon. A casting call is making the rounds in Calibria, Italy.

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Quentin Tarantino’s 4-Hour ‘Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair’ Finally Set to Hit Theaters on December 5

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“I wrote and directed it as one movie — and I’m so glad to finally give fans the chance to see it as one movie,” Tarantino said in a statement.

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Report: ‘Indiana Jones 5’ Actually Cost $419M to Produce, Much Higher Than Initially Reported

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Forbes, citing Disney’s publicly disclosed financial filings, confirms that “Dial of Destiny’ has officially gone down as one of the most expensive movies ever made.

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James Cameron Says ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Runs Three Hours: “It Works Beautifully”

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It should be noted that Cameron didn’t clarify in that interview whether his “three hours” included the end credits; if not, then we can add another 8–12 minutes to the runtime.

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Steven Soderbergh’s Best Films, According to Over 100 Critics

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Following polls on PTA, Coen, Scorsese, Spielberg, Scott, and Nolan, we turned our attention to the endlessly inventive and unpredictable Steven Soderbergh.

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Rumor: Amazon/MGM Pushing For Jacob Elordi to Play James Bond in Denis Villeneuve’s Reboot

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What makes this development curious is that just last week, Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye reported Amazon’s criteria for the next Bond as that of an “unknown” British actor.

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Emily Blunt on Martin Scorsese’s Hawaiian Gangster Epic With Dwayne Johnson: “It’s The Last Great American Mob Story”

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Emily Blunt recently spoke about Scorsese’s anticipated Hawaiian crime film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Dwayne Johnson, confirming that the project is indeed moving forward

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Oscars: ‘One Battle After Another’ Is the Best Picture Frontrunner, and Nothing Else Seems to Matter

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“One Battle After Another” feels untouchable. We’re four months away from nomination ballots, but at this moment, PTA has the clear frontrunner, and every other film is playing catch-up.

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Harry Lighton’s ‘Pillion’ Turns BDSM into a Love Story in First Trailer

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“Pillion” earned the Best Screenplay prize in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section and has since played Telluride and now the New York Film Festival, where it screens October 4. A24 will release the film theatrically in early 2026.

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Bong Joon-ho Tells John Carpenter He Prefers ‘Escape from L.A.’ Over ‘Escape from New York’

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Let’s be honest, “Escape from L.A.” is atrocious —it’s campy, chaotic, and only occasionally inspired, and to say it tops Escape from New York? That’s madness.

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Margot Robbie & Johnny Depp to Lead Next ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’?

October 1, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“She’s still involved,” he confirmed. Franchise veteran Ted Elliott has already contributed to the screenplay, with additional writers now filling in the gaps.

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Francis Ford Coppola on ‘One Battle After Another’: “I Would Like to See This A Second Time”

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s Francis Ford Coppola blaming his mixed feelings towards “One Battle After Another” on his hearing loss.

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‘Testament of Ann Lee’ Acquired By Searchlight, Sets Late 2025 Release

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Searchlight’s decision likely stems from a thin awards slate this year, with only “Rental Family” and “Is This Thing On?” as possibilities.

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Jeremy Irons Joins Chad Stahelski’s ‘Highlander’ as Villain

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The star-studded cast now includes Henry Cavill, Jeremy Irons, Russell Crowe, Marisa Abela, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, and Djimon Hounsou.

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Terry Zwigoff (‘Ghost World’) Hasn’t Directed in 20 Years — Can’t Find “Financing” for His Films

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The reclusive filmmaker behind “Crumb,” “Ghost World,” and “Bad Santa” hasn’t directed a film since 2006’s “Art School Confidential.”

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Ira Sachs’ Musical ‘The Man I Love’ to Star Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach [Updated]

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Ben Whishaw is out, replaced by Oscar winner Rami Malek who is set to star in Sachs’ upcoming film “The Man I Love,” which happens to be a musical.

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Shane Black’s ‘Play Dirty’ Earns Mixed Reviews — 55 on Metacritic

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

I didn’t expect raves for Shane Black’s “Play Dirty,” which hits Prime Video this Friday. Black’s pulp sensibilities seem intact, but critics aren’t on his side this time.

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Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Next Film Set in 1930s Brazil — Wagner Moura to Star?

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In an interview promoting “The Secret Agent,” the Brazilian filmmaker revealed he’s about to write a movie set in his hometown of Recife in the 1930s. 

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Armando Iannuci Says Nobody Wants to Fund His Donald Trump Satire

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Iannucci revealed that a Donald Trump–focused project has run into unexpected roadblocks. The project, based on Trump’s speeches, has drawn cautious responses from U.S. buyers. Nobody wants to fund it.

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Gareth Evans Wrap Filming on ‘A Colt is My Passport,' Starring Tim Roth, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù and Jack Reynor

September 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s a surprising development. Filming has quietly concluded in Wales on Gareth Evans’ new film, “A Colt Is My Passport,” a modern take on the 1960s Nikkatsu Yakuza thriller. We didn’t even know it was shooting!

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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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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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