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Steven Soderbergh's Next Film: Adam Driver Teases “One of the Best Things He's Ever Written"

Adam Driver is still not over "The Hunt for Ben Solo," but there's a silver lining: Steven Soderbergh has already moved on to a new script, and Driver calls it one of the best things Soderbergh has ever written.

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‘Austin Powers 4' Is Happening? Mike Myers Says He's “Writing It Right Now"

Part of the reason a fourth 'Austin Powers' was never made is that Myers basically stepped away from the industry. After "The Love Guru" bombed in 2008, he all but disappeared from leading roles.

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‘Gatto’ Trailer: Pixar's Next Original Film Ditches Glossy CGI

"Gatto," featuring the voices of Mark Ruffalo, Laurence Fishburne, Enrico Casarosa, John Turturro, Jason Schwartzman, Isabella Rosellini, and Jason Mantzoukas, arrives in theaters on March 5, 2027.

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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Has 10 Credited Writers, Including Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman

The WGA directory has updated its listing for "Avengers: Doomsday," and the final tally is a whopping ten writers on “Avengers: Doomsday.”

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Johnny Depp's ‘Ebenezer' Gets Mixed Reviews, 52% Rotten Tomatoes, Eyes $23M Opening Weekend

Given the low budget, “Ebenezer” will probably amount to a win for Depp. For West, I hope this was a one-time paycheck before he goes back to R-rated filmmaking.

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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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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ to Have Four Different Trailers in Four Weeks

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

According to THR, Disney is planning an unusual release strategy for the trailer of “Avengers: Doomsday” by showing four different versions in theaters over four weeks.

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Stanley Kubrick at 96: Why He Remains Cinema’s Greatest Director — What’s His Finest Film?

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Kubrick’s influence is everywhere, yet his films feel timeless. Watch “Barry Lyndon” or “2001” today and you’d never guess they’re decades old—that’s his genius.

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Andy Serkis’ ‘Animal Farm’ Trailer Promises Bright Colors, Fart Jokes, and Literary Treason

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s quite obvious now why no distributor wanted to touch this one, until faith-based studio Angel picked it up. The end result is literary treason.

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Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Prologue: Wooden Horses, Trojan Soldiers, and Cyclops [Review]

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

What stuck with me, apart from the usual Nolan-isms I mentioned above, is Ludwig Göransson’s score ramping up, getting more and more intense, with brooding chants amplifying as the battle goes on.

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‘Zootopia 2' Hits $1 Billion Worldwide Mark in Just 17 Days

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

“Zootopia 2” hit the $990 million worldwide mark this morning. It’s going to hit $1 billion by tonight, making it only the second Hollywood movie to do so this year

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RUMOR: Brad Pitt in Talks for Matt Reeves’ ‘The Batman: Part Two’? [Updated]

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The talent involved is certainly intriguing. Adding Pitt’s name alongside Pattinson, Johansson, Farrell, Serkis, Keoghan, and Wright is enticing.

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Francis Ford Coppola: ‘Megalopolis Unbound’ Director’s Cut “Will Be Really Wild” — 2026 Release

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It doesn’t sound like Francis Ford Coppola is done with “Megalopolis,” in fact, he’s just getting started with it.

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Gus Van Sant’s ‘Explain it Like I'm Five': Sam Bankman-Fried Biopic Starts Shoot in March

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Bankman-Fried and his, err, eccentric “girlfriend,” Caroline Ellison defrauded hundreds, while also engaging in a lifestyle that often included video games, junk-food binging, and plenty of threesomes.

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‘Street Fighter’ Has A Batsh*t Crazy Trailer

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Paramount has released the trailer for their unhinged version of “Street Fighter.” The Kitao Sakurai-directed film wrapped production just a few weeks ago,

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‘One Battle After Another’ Tops Film Comment’s 2025 Critics Poll

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

As various critics continue to reveal their top films of the year, I’m trying to post only about the ones worth mentioning — and this latest poll certainly fits that category.

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Report: Tom Cruise’s SpaceX NASA Movie Scrapped

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Back in 2020, Deadline broke a wild story that had Tom Cruise in early talks with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and NASA to shoot a movie in space.

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Ethan Hawke: “I Don’t Think Paul Dano Ever Knew So Many People Loved Him"

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

While a guest on The Joe Rogan Podcast, Ethan Hawke also framed the situation as a glass-half-full scenario, emphasizing how much “love” Dano has received over the last few weeks.

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‘Sinners’ Mob Targets More Critics; Pushback Over Variety’s Year-End List Snub

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The “Sinners” mob is attacking yet another outlet’s top-movies-of-the-year lists.

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‘47 Ronin’ Director Carl Rinsch Found Guilty of Scamming Netflix Out of $11M

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The trial lasted less than two weeks, and Rinsch now faces a potential sentence of up to 90 years on wire-fraud and related charges.

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Scarlett Johansson Plays A “Rookie Detective” in Mike Flanagan’s ‘The Exorcist: Martyrs’

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The current title, I can confirm, is “The Exorcist: Martyrs,” and Johansson is set to play a small-town “rookie detective” who takes on a case involving “inconceivable darkness.”

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‘Supergirl' Trailer is Released

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Craig Gillespie’s “Supergirl” has unveiled a two-minute teaser. What do we think?

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Michael Mann’s ‘Heat 2’ Starts Shooting in August — DP is Dion Beebe

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Beebe worked with Mann near the start of the filmmaker’s digital phase, on “Collateral” and “Miami Vice.” Those are the two Manns Beebe has shot. More recently, he worked on Antoine Fuqua’s “Michael.”

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Martin Scorsese Confirms ‘What Happens At Night’ Shoots in February

December 11, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In a joint interview for Time Magazine, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio are saying they plan to start shooting “What Happens at Night” in February.

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Global Online Dating Communities: How They Work, Who They Serve, and How to Use Them Well [SPONSORED]

December 11, 2025 John Torre

“Online dating” used to mean a simple thing: you made a profile, you matched with someone nearby, and you tried to turn a chat into a date.

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How Sound Design Plays on Emotion in Ways the Eye Can’t See [SPONSORED]

December 11, 2025 John Torre

Sound often reaches a person before the mind has time to decide how to interpret anything.

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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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