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Ari Aster's ‘Scapegoat' Casting Calls Seek ICE Agents, Anti-ICE Protesters, and Hispanic ICE Victims

In case you're wondering what Ari Aster might be cooking up with "Scapegoat," um, well, more hints have come our way, and this seems to be very much in the same spiritual realm as "Eddington."

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Barry Jenkins Says He Went to Therapy Over the ‘La La Land’/‘Moonlight’ Best Picture Mix-Up

Jenkins admits he had to go to therapy to work through the night Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway handed Best Picture to "La La Land" before the Academy realized the wrong envelope had been read.

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‘Digger’ Reviews Are Not Good — 46 on Metacritic, Disastrous $9M Opening? Yet, Iñárritu's Big, Messy Swing Deserves Better Than It's Getting

First, the bad news, and sadly there's plenty of it for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's "Digger." The film is getting blasted by critics, sitting at 46 on Metacritic and 50% on Rotten Tomatoes. Its Oscar odds have all but collapsed.

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‘Forgotten Island’ Bombs With $13M Opening, $80M Budget, Despite Great Reviews

"Forgotten Island" just opened to $13M domestic and $20.6M worldwide. That's one of the five worst openings in DreamWorks Animation history, against an $80M budget.

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Shawn Levy Turned Down Tom Cruise's ‘Days of Thunder 2’ to Make ‘Ghost Rider’ with Ryan Gosling

Remember when Tom Cruise reportedly visited the set of Shawn Levy and Ryan Gosling's "Star Wars: Starfighter"? Turns out it wasn't just a friendly pit stop.

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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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10 Great Directors and the Guilty-Pleasure Movies They Love

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Everyone has their own baffling film that they love. Some hide it, while others don’t, pronouncing their enthusiasm any chance they get. There’s no shame in admitting it.

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Joseph Kosinski Says His Upcoming UFO Movie is “Science Fact" Not “Science Fiction"

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Coming off back-to-back blockbusters — “Top Gun: Maverick” ($1.5 billion) and “F1: The Movie” ($631 million) — director Joseph Kosinski can likely make just about any movie he wants.

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‘Ocean’s 14’ Sets Sights on October 2026 Shoot — Pitt, Clooney, Damon, Roberts and Cheadle Confirmed

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

So, not only is “Ocean’s 14” happening, but location scouting is currently underway and it’s aiming for an October 2026 shoot, according to George Clooney.

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Brigitte Bardot Dies, Sean Baker Honors Her, and Outrage Follows

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In recent months, the deaths of certain celebrity figures, and the reactions to their passing, have proven just how divisive and unhinged society has become.

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‘Stranger Things’ Finale Already Has 3500+ Showtimes Sold Out Nationwide

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

According to Variety, the finale has already received 1.1 million RSVPs in movie theaters, with 3500 showtimes across more than 620 theaters completely sold out.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ‘Digger’ Cost $125M+

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Warner Bros. is telling Puck’s Matt Belloni that “Digger” cost $125M, but Belloni is “already suspicious,” saying he’s heard the final price tag may be higher.

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‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Teaser #2 Brings Back Thor; X-Men Teaser Next Week

December 30, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s our second teaser for “Avengers: Doomsday,” which has been playing before “Avatar: Fire and Ash” since Friday.

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‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ Tracking at $20M 4-Day Opening

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

The horror sequel is tracking at $20M over the MLK four-day weekend. Yes, these are early numbers, but I don’t think Sony must be happy with them.

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Where Are These Films? These Completed Projects Are Still MIA

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Every year, a handful of already-shot, sometimes even fully completed films vanish into thin air. Some had 2023 or even 2022 release targets.

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The 10 Best Shots of Roger Deakins' Career

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Deakins, 76, out promoting a new book, has not worked on a film since 2022, but he’s already built a filmography that arguably cements his status as the greatest living cinematographer.

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Jordan Peele’s MCU Move? Monkeypaw’s 👀 Retweet Sparks Speculation

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

It’s clear talks between both parties have been happening for over a year, and maybe Peele has finally hopped on board one of Marvel’s projects.

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‘Snow White' Was 2025’s Biggest Box Office Bomb, Losing Well Over $200M

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Below is a list of the biggest box office bombs of 2025, based on reported grosses, budgets, and estimated losses from multiple sources.

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Ryan Coogler Is “Hyped” for ‘X-Files’ Reboot: “Monsters of the Week” and “Conspiracy”

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Coogler is now giving more details about his “X-Files” series, which he has already written and says will have a similar structure to the original show.

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Sydney Sweeney Has a Hit! “The Housemaid” Box Office Is Stellar — Only Dips 19% in Second Weekend

December 29, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Sydney Sweeney really needed a hit right now, and coming off the “Christy” debacle, she must be thanking her lucky stars that “The Housemaid” is doing gangbusters in theaters at the moment.

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‘Marty Supreme’ Hits $29M Weekend, Timothée Chalamet’s Movie-Stardom Is No Longer Debatable

December 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

‘Marty’ cements Chalamet as one of the true young Hollywood A-listers, an actor what can drive ticket sales just by his name being stamped on the poster.

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The Best Films of the 21st Century, Chosen by Spanish Filmmakers

December 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Names like Pedro Almodóvar, Carla Simón, Oliver Laxe, and Alejandro Amenábar, among many others, were asked to choose the films that had marked them the most over the last 25 years.

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Brigitte Bardot, French Screen Goddess and Cultural Icon, Dies at 91

December 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Bardot, the defining French screen goddess of the 1950s and 1960s, has died at the age of 91.

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‘Barbarian’ Joining the Criterion Collection After Three Years Without Physical Media Release

December 28, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Disney has been steadily phasing out physical media for several years now, and “Barbarian” arguably became one of their more pronounced omissions.

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Jordan Peele–Marvel Rumors Reignite Amid Delays to His Fourth Feature

December 27, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

Peele’s upcoming fourth film recently fell off the Universal calendar. Once slated for October 23, 2026, the project is no longer dated. Last we heard, Peele, remarkably, had no working script,.

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Terry Gilliam Says Taika Waititi’s ‘Time Bandits’ Series “Failed” Because “There Were No Dwarfs”

December 26, 2025 Jordan Ruimy

In September 2024, Taika Waititi’s dwarf-less remake of Terry Gilliam’s much-beloved 1983 film, “Time Bandits,” was canceled by Apple TV after just a single season.

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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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