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Paul Thomas Anderson Reportedly Shadowed Martin Scorsese and Rewrote ‘What Happens at Night’

Having an insurance director is not uncommon in Hollywood. Aging filmmakers, in case a health issue arises, sometimes need to have one. It seems like that’s what might have occurred on “What Happens at Night.”

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LOL: Eli Roth Blames Lionsgate for ‘Borderlands’ Failure, Says Final Cut Was Not His

The box-office bomb cost $145M to produce and ended up finishing its run with a total of just $31M worldwide in receipts. The film was reportedly a $115M for Lionsgate.

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Jeremy Saulnier’s New A24 Thriller ‘October’ Reveals First Plot Details — Will It Release This Year?

A24 has been keeping quiet about the film, but I hear it was recently screened internally, and a decision should be coming shortly, if not by the end of this month.

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Jane Schoenbrun Says A24 Passed on ‘Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma’: “I Want to Destroy” the Systems That Make Movies

Schoenbrun struggled to get ‘Camp Miasma’ made after A24 passed on the project. MUBI eventually came aboard, financing the film with a $10 million budget.

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‘One Night Only’ Makes Sex Boring — Negative Reviews Greet the ‘Sex Purge’ Rom-Com as Callum Turner’s Bond Hopes Takes a Hit

“One Night Only” is essentially a rom-com version of “The Purge,” where premarital sex is banned except for one night a year. Yet it spends so much time justifying its concept that it forgets the sex.

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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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Box-Office: ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Exceeds Expectations, $63M Opening

December 7, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The Thursday previews for “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” were very strong, as it nabbed $7.5M in Thursday previews. This is still much lower than the $10.3M its predecessor earned back in 2023.

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Jim Caviezel Cast as Jair Bolsonaro in Upcoming Biopic

December 7, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

If you’re wondering what Jim Caviezel will do next, after having been brushed off Mel Gibson’s ‘Resurrection of the Christ,’ we now have our answer, and it’s a real doozy.

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Adrien Brody Reveals He’s More Picky, Has “Not Taken a Role” Since ‘The Brutalist’

December 7, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Brody was set to star in S. Craig Zahler’s “The Bookie and the Bruiser” in April 2025 but abruptly pulled out after his Oscar win.

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Matthew Lillard on Quentin Tarantino’s Diss: “That Hurts Your Feelings”

December 7, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Matthew Lillard, while promoting “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” over the weekend, has chimed in, and it turns out Tarantino’s comments have given him the dreads.

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‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Budget is $400M+

December 6, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

James Cameron has been telling multiple outlets that “Avatar: Fire and Ash” has to make a lot of money for the franchise to continue. Now we know why.

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‘Supergirl’ Trailer Releases on Thursday

December 6, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

This news comes a few days after James Gunn took to social media to deny a Forbes report that the “Supergirl” budget sits at around $200M.

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IMAX CEO Claims Greta Gerwig’s ‘Narnia’ Will “Change the World” and Become A “Cultural Event”

December 6, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“The Magician’s Nephew” will screen in IMAX theatres with a 28-day IMAX-only release window in November 2026.

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Paramount Preparing “Hostile Bid” for Warner Bros. as Trump DOJ “Concerned” About Netflix Deal

December 6, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

While we await the inevitable Trump DOJ investigation of Netflix, Paramount/Skydance has apparently not given up.

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Timothée Chalamet and James Mangold’s Motocross Movie Has $100M+ Budget

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What are Chalamet and Mangold cooking up here? Why is Paramount banking that much money on a non-IP motocross-driven movie? Hey, I’m not complaining — we need more projects like these greenlit.

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YouTube Could Host the Oscars as ABC Steps Back From TV Rights

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

ABC has held the Oscars for nearly 50 years and may relinquish the rights when its current contract expires in 2028.

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‘Dude, Where’s My Car’ Writer Regrets Movie, Call Jokes “Offensive”

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The writer of “Dude, Where’s My Car?” has such self-loathing about its legacy that he’s decided to write a THR op-ed about how he regrets the film.

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‘Sinners' Tops Critics Choice Awards With 17 Nominations

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

This week’s barrage of awards announcements has been a bit much: Indie Spirits, Gothams, NYFCC, NBR, AFI, and now the Critics Choice Awards nominations.

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Sight and Sound’s Top 50 of 2025 Critics Poll Led by ‘One Battle,’ ‘Sinners,’ ‘The Mastermind’ and ‘Sirât’

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

After the lukewarm National Board of Review and AFI picks for the top films of 2025, here comes BFI’s Sight and Sound to the rescue. They give us a strong batch of titles.

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Netflix Walks Back Promise, Says Warner Bros. Theatrical Windows Will “Evolve” to Be Shorter and More “Consumer Friendly”

December 5, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Hey, look at that — Netflix is already backtracking on its prior commitment to give Warner Bros. titles decent theatrical rollouts.

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BREAKING: Netflix Is Buying Warner Bros. and HBO Max

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Netflix has now entered exclusive negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery over a potential purchase of the company’s film and television studio assets

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Matt Reeves Defends Paul Dano After Quentin Tarantino Calls Him “The Limpest Dick in the World”

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Imagine being Paul Dano, one of the most reserved actors around, and suddenly, and most randomly, being called out by Quentin Tarantino for being the “limpest dick” in town.

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Darren Aronofsky and Gillian Flynn Team Up on Erotic Thriller for Sony [Updated]

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Flynn, who wrote Steve McQueen’s “Widows,” not to mention adapted her own “Gone Girl” for David Fincher, has had several of her novels brought for the screen.

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‘Men in Black 5’ Eyes Will Smith Return

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

No franchise is dead in Hollywood. There’s no such thing. You can always reboot, reimagine, sequelize, or wait it out a few years before an IP makes a comeback.

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AFI’s Top 10 Films of 2025: Oscar Blueprint or Major Snubs?

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled its list of the 10 best films of the year, and surprisingly, this is more or less a blueprint for the Oscar-contending American films.

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‘South Park’ Duo and Kendrick Lamar’s Slave Comedy Needs “Major Reshoots”

December 4, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

This film has had quite a turbulent history. Rewrites definitely occurred, and they were major enough to have significantly altered the originally announced plot.

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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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