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BREAKING: David Fincher Exits Netflix Deal, Ending 13-Year Partnership

David Fincher has decided not to renew his deal at Netflix, a turning point in his long relationship with the streamer. His current deal expires next year.

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Curry Barker's ‘Anything But Ghosts’ Sets May 2027 Release Date

Curry Barker is moving fast. Focus Features has dated the filmmaker's next project, the horror-comedy "Anything But Ghosts," for May 7, 2027.

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‘Cliff Booth' Plot Details: David Fincher's 1977-Set Sequel Is an L.A. Noir

A Tarantino script about a stuntman-turned-fixer navigating blackmail and extortion in late-'70s L.A. It honestly sounds like a noir written by Shane Black.

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Warner Bros. Is Now Using Negative Reviews to Sell ‘Digger'

With reviews for "Digger" coming in poorly, Warner Bros. has gone nuclear with its marketing, inviting audiences to ignore the verdicts and "decide for yourself."

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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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Alexander Payne’s ‘Somewhere Out There’ Shoots in Early 2026 — Renate Reinsve to Star

December 15, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Alexander Payne is heading to Scandinavia for his next film — and he’s bringing a great actress along the ride with him.

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Rian Johnson Says ‘Star Wars’ Needs to Be Shaken Up — Much Like What He Did on ‘The Last Jedi’

December 15, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Speaking with Polygon, Johnson continues to defend The Last Jedi—and not only that: he argues that for Star Wars to succeed, it must take the very kinds of risks he took, backlash be damned.

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Oscars: Ryan Coogler’s ‘Sinners’ Wins Boston Critics, Challenges PTA for Best Picture?

December 15, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The Boston Society of Film Critics (BSFC) has crowned Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” as the Best Film of 2025, cementing “Sinners” among the season’s major awards contenders.

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Rob Reiner, 78, Director of ‘This is Spinal Tap’ and ‘The Princess Bride,’ Found Dead — Case Investigated as Homicide

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Rob Reiner was found dead Sunday afternoon in his Brentwood home alongside his wife, Michele Singer. He was 78. The deaths are being investigated as a homicide.

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Tackling Russell Crowe’s… Peculiar Late-Career Phase

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Once one of Hollywood’s biggest leading men, Crowe now favors supporting roles, villains, and genre films over the prestige pursuits that defined his ’90s and aughts peak.

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Ella McCay Opens With Disastrous $2M Weekend — 21% on Rotten Tomatoes

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The current tally is 21%  on Rotten Tomatoes, and 37 on Metacritic. Those are worse numbers than Brook’s last film, “How Do You Know,” which was also deemed a disaster.

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James L. Brooks is “Sure We’ll Be Seeing” Jack Nicholson Act Again

December 14, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Brooks, a good friend of Nicholson’s, is now telling People that he doesn’t believe the actor has retired from acting, and that he might have at least one more film left in him:

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Richard Linklater Supports Netflix Deal: “Ted Sarandos is a Good Guy. I Trust Him on This Warner Bros. Acquisition”

December 13, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

A few years ago, Richard Linklater expressed frustration with Netflix, primarily regarding the distribution and visibility of his rotoscope gem “Apollo 10½.”

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‘The Batman: Part II’: Scarlett Johansson’s Role Revealed, Brad Pitt Exits Talks

December 13, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Pitt was unable to fit the role into his schedule due to a conflicting commitment to Edward Berger’s “The Riders,” which is expected to be a lengthy, multi-country shoot.

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LaKeith Stanfield Replaces Jonathan Majors in Dennis Rodman Biopic ‘48 Hours in Vegas

December 12, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

LaKeith Stanfield has replaced Majors to play the former Chicago Bull in the film, which will be directed by Rick Famuyiwa (”Dope”).

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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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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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