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Duncan Jones Says Netflix's Auteur Era Is Dead and “It's About to Get Worse”

The prime catalyst for Netflix's risk-free shift may have been new content chief Dan Lin, who said two years ago that the company would greenlight films "more about audience, and less about auteurs."

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Do We Really Need Another ‘Sense and Sensibility'? Critics Say Georgia Oakley's 2026 Version Mostly Works

Apparently, we haven’t had enough of “Sense & Sensibility.” Georgia Oakley, coming off the quiet indie success of “Blue Jean,” is taking a swing at Jane Austen’s oft-adapted classic, with Daisy Edgar-Jones.

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BREAKING: Paramount Settles With 12 State AGs, Clearing Path to $111 Billion Warner Bros. Discovery Merger

Well, that didn't take long. Paramount has struck a deal with the 12 state attorneys general who sued to block its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.

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Jeremy Saulnier’s ‘Slayground’ Teaser Is a Total Misdirection, but Is It Really Coming “This Fall"?

I should warn you: based on everything I’ve heard, this teaser is a total misdirection. The movie is not at all what it’s being portrayed as here. In fact, most of the footage in the teaser comes from the first few minutes of the film.

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David Fincher’s ‘The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth’ FINALLY Has A Trailer!

Netrflix finally decided to stop teasing us with cryptic teasers and given us an actual trailer for David Fincher's Quentin Tarantino-scripted 'Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood' sequel.

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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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‘Toy Story 5’ is Yet Another Unnecessary Pixar Sequel — $175M Opening Weekend?

June 16, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Yes, the review embargo has lifted, and that 92% on Rotten Tomatoes means it’s well-liked. Meanwhile, its 73 on Metacritic is still a strong score, but it’s the weakest in the franchise. If you can believe it, even “Toy Story 4” managed an 84.

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The ‘Shrek 5’ Trailer Is Here — Why Does Shrek Look So Different?

June 16, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Zendaya joins the animated series as the daughter of Shrek (Myers) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz). There’s also Eddie Murphy, who returns as the voice of Donkey.

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Bradley Cooper to Star in Sean Penn’s January 6 Drama for Warner Bros.

June 16, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The currently untitled film will follow the life of a police officer, rumored to be Michael Fanone, who becomes caught up in the January 6 Capitol riots. Warner Bros. is onboard.

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Meryl Streep & Sigourney Weaver-Starring ‘Useful Idiots’ Scrapped [Updated]

June 16, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Unfortunately, this film is no longer happening, according to Sigourney Weaver, who spoke to El Pais about the project, which was supposed to be directed by Joseph Cedar.

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Uwe Boll Says Germany “Banned” ‘Citizen Vigilante’ Over Its Depiction of Migration Crime

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“Citizen Vigilante” is described as a “furious anti-immigration” parable. A riff on Michael Winner’s “Death Wish,” only this time with Middle Eastern villains.

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Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Glimpses of the Moon’ Struggling to Secure Financing

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Given the amount of money he personally lost on the self-financed “Megalopolis,” reported at well over $100M, it was hard to believe Coppola would ever mount enough dough to make ‘Glimpses.’

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Anya Taylor-Joy Confirmed to Star in ‘The Hunt For Gollum’

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

More casting news for Andy Serkis’ ‘The Hunt for Gollum,’ which seems to be heating up in pre-production, with the cast and crew arriving in New Zealand this month for filming.

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Steven Spielberg Says He Would Never Make a Netflix Movie: “I’m a Moviemaker Who Believes in 70mm Theatrical”

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

There’s certainly no love lost between Steven Spielberg and Netflix. Back in 2018, he went so far as to say that Netflix movies should contend for Emmys, not Oscars,

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Duffer Brothers’ Mysterious Film at Paramount Gets November 2028 Release Date

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Matt and Ross Duffer, aka the Duffer Brothers, recently left Netflix for Paramount because the former refused to give their movie projects a theatrical release.

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‘Evil Dead Burn’ Faces NC-17 Over “Brutal” Scene, Director Forced to Cut for R Rating

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

There’s a new Evil Dead movie coming out this summer, “Evil Dead Burn,” but it has yet to receive an MPA rating due to a problematic scene that would warrant an NC-17 rating.

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Clive Owen to Star in ‘The Tribe’ Director Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s ‘Radioactive’

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Slaboshpytskyi stunned many with his 2014 debut “The Tribe,” a crime drama set at a boarding school for deaf teenage students. It was widely acclaimed, and also the last film he’s directed.

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Curry Barker Says Focus Will Mount an Oscar Campaign for ‘Obsession’

June 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Why not give it a shot? After all, the Oscar narrative would be irresistible: a film made for under $750,000 becoming a full-blown cultural phenomenon.

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Paul Schrader Dismisses Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’: “A Master Chef Makes a Soufflé Out of Leftovers”

June 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Spielberg once hired Schrader to write “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Spielberg ultimately rejected the script, later admitting Schrader’s version was too dark for what he intended to make.

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Timothée Chalamet Celebrates Knicks Win, Says He’d “Way Rather This Than the Oscars”

June 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Timothée Chalamet is over the moon about last night’s historic win. He didn’t hold back either — showing up in the Knicks locker room to celebrate, and even throwing shade at the Oscars.

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Box Office: ‘Disclosure Day’ Opens to $43M+, While ‘Masters of the Universe’ and ‘Scary Movie 6’ Tumble 71% [Updated]

June 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“Disclosure Day” will easily hit #1 this weekend, but at #2 is “Obsession,” a film that refuses to quit. It’s set to make around $22–23M in its fifth weekend for a $190M domestic cume.

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Seth Rogen Says He Has “No Plans” to Work With James Franco Again, Hasn’t Spoken “in a Long Time”

June 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Rogen is now doubling down on Franco, telling The New York Times that he hasn’t spoken to his former friend in a “long time” and has “no plans” to work with him in the future.

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‘Project Hail Mary’ Tops World of Reel’s Midyear Critics Poll, as Voted by 100+ Critics

June 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s our annual World of Reel mid-year poll. The broader consensus among the 100+ critics who did participate was generally mixed. Many felt that the first half of 2026 was disappointing for movies.

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Russell Crowe Says ‘Gladiator II’ Was A “Failed” Sequel Because It “Lacked a Moral Core”

June 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

At the Taormina Film Festival, Crowe spoke out about what he describes as a “failed” Gladiator II, arguing that the sequel abandoned the moral center that made the original successful.

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Readers’ Thoughts on ‘Disclosure Day’?

June 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

A new Spielberg is always a movie event for cinephiles — he’s given us so many classics over the past fifty years. That said, it has left some perplexed, while others are ready to bow to it.

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DOJ Approves Paramount-Warner Bros. $111 Billion Merger Without Concessions

June 12, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

DOJ’s Antitrust Division has officially cleared David Ellison’s $111 billion Paramount/Skydance merger involving Warner Bros. Discovery, removing a major regulatory obstacle to the deal.

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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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