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Warner Bros' Clockwork Survives Paramount Merger

Clockwork — Warner Bros’ A24-style indie labels— has new films from Sean Baker, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach and Sean Penn set to enter production in 2027.

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Jonathan Glazer Confirms He's Writing His Next Film

Glazer directed just four features in 25 years: "Sexy Beast" (2000), "Birth" (2004), "Under the Skin" (2013) and "The Zone of Interest" (2023). That last one won the Grand Prix at Cannes and two Oscars.

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‘The Batman Part II’ Pauses Production as Matt Reeves Steps Away for Personal Reasons

Cameras had been rolling in London since May. The film is dated for February 18, 2028, and sources say it's too early to know whether the stoppage will push that.

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‘Sicario 3': Emily Blunt, Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin to Star; Padraic McKinley (‘The Weight’) to Direct, Steven Knight Writing

Padraic McKinley, who directed this year's "The Weight," is on board to direct from a script by Oscar nominee Steven Knight, suggesting Taylor Sheridan's original draft has been set aside.

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Jeremy Strong Doesn't Feel He Needs to Apologize for His Method: "A Lot of the Reactions to It Are of a Personal Nature"

Jeremy Strong sat down with The New Yorker and got asked whether his much-talked-about method approach is bad for a set — he isn’t backing down.

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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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Paramount-WBD Merger Gets Final Approval, Deal Set to Close Next Week

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Paramount is now aiming to close the deal on Tuesday, October 6. That's when, after months of drama, twists and turns, the merger will become official.

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Alejandro G. Iñárritu Says ‘Digger’ Was Originally Titled ‘BLAH, BLAH, BLAH’

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The title was ultimately changed because it was "too long" and "too complicated," though I suspect Warner Bros. was just horrified by the thought of selling a $180M movie with a title that sounds like an eye-roll.

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Zack Snyder Is Waiting for His ‘Rebel Moon’ Movies to “Get a Little Bit More Popular" and “Discovered” for Part 3 to Happen

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Zack Snyder, whose 'The Last Photograph' still has no US distribution, doesn't sound so confident about 'Rebel Moon 3' ever happening, or that there's truly any demand for it.

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Variety: ‘One Battle After Another' Lost $100M. ‘Digger' Could Lose Warner Bros. Far More

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The "Digger" fiasco caps a disastrous 2026 for Warner Bros., which watched "Coyote vs. Acme," the film it tried to bury (now at Ketchup), out-gross nearly all of its releases this year

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Carlos Reygadas' ‘Heil Jupiter!' Divides NYFF With Orgies, a Colonoscopy and Invented Language

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

I have no idea if I'll ever get to see "Heil Jupiter!" in a theater, and whether a U.S. distributor will take on nearly three hours of unsimulated sex, colonoscopy footage and an invented language is up for debate.

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M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Remain’ Surprise Screens, and First Reactions Are Promising

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Clearly, by screening this four months before release, Shyamalan and Warner Bros. are feeling bullish about the potential of "Remain," and the reactions from last night are indeed very positive.

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Danny Boyle Says ‘28 Years Later: Part 3' Might Happen “In Theory,” but He's “Not Sure When”

September 30, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The timing of this latest update comes after this year’s “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple” earned strong reviews but faltered at the box office.

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Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Zach Cregger’s ‘The Flood’

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Zach Cregger’s next film, “The Flood,” has found its lead actress, and it’s none other than Jennifer Lawrence. Steven Spielberg is producing. Warner Bros. has it dated for August 11, 2028

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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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'

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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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Sylvester Stallone Is “100%' Sure He Can Fix ‘Rocky V,' and He's Asking Amazon for Three Weeks to Recut It

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Sylvester Stallone has confirmed he's in talks with Amazon to recut "Rocky V," the 1990 entry that even the most hardcore Rocky fans tend to pretend doesn't exist. Speaking to SiriusXM, Sly didn't bury the lede.

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‘Game of Thrones: Aegon's Conquest' Movie Sets June 2029 Release, With Owen Harris Directing

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

In case you hadn't heard, a "Game of Thrones" movie has been greenlit, with "House of Cards" creator and "Andor" writer Beau Willimon penning the screenplay and Warner Bros. producing.

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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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 — 44 on Metacritic, Disastrous $9M Opening? Yet, Iñárritu's Big, Messy Swing Deserves Better Than It's Getting

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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 44 on Metacritic and 53% 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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

"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

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

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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Nancy Meyers' ‘Paris Paramount' Shoot Is Reportedly a “Nightmare,” With a Budget Ballooning Way Past $100M

September 29, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Meyers has always been known as a perfectionist, but perfectionism and a toxic set are two different things, and Warner Bros. is now paying for a rom-com that may end up as the most expensive in history.

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CONFIRMED: Sadie Soverall Exits Brady Corbet's ‘The Origin of the World' Mid-Shoot, Lily McInerny Steps In Lead Role

Sadie Soverall was just let go after briefly filming on Corbet's new film — no official reason given. She had the lead role. Corbet has replaced her, last minute, with Lily McInerny.

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Jemima Kirke and Alexi Wasser to Star in Woody Allen's Next Film

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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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