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James Gunn Is “Incredibly Relieved" to Be Fired After “Trying” Four Years, Forgets ‘Supergirl’ Ever Existed

Hours after being shown the door at DC Studios, James Gunn has posted his farewell on Instagram. The gist? He never really liked the job anyway.

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Miles Caton Lands First Post-‘Sinners' Role Opposite Denzel Washington in Christopher McQuarrie's ‘Compassionate Release’

I was wondering when Miles Caton would book his post-“Sinners” role. Well, here it is. The 21-year-old actor has joined Denzel Washington and Teyonah Parris in Christopher McQuarrie's “Compassionate Release.”

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Bill Hader's ‘They Know' Tested Amazing, A24 Hasn't Seen It Yet — Sundance Premiere?

Good news for "Barry" fans: Bill Hader's feature directorial debut, "They Know," is just about done, and word is that it has tested great these last few weeks.

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WOW. James Gunn and Peter Safran Are OUT as Heads of DC Studios

James Gunn and Peter Safran have been politely asked to step down as co-presidents of DC Studios, effective as part of a surprise shakeup under David Ellison's Paramount.

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Russell Brand Sentenced to 10 Years and Six Months in Prison

Brand broke into a Hollywood career in the late 2000s. His breakout screen role was rock star Aldous Snow in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a character he reprised as the lead of “Get Him to the Greek.”

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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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‘Babygirl’ Director Halina Reijn’s Next A24 Film ‘Please’ Adds Tom Burke, David Jonsson, Connor Storrie and Gracie Abrams

May 13, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Things are heating up around “Babygirl” director Halina Reijn’s next film, which she has already written and recently set up at A24. The project is — no surprise— being described as a sexually charged drama.

We already knew that Gracie Abrams would make her acting debut in Reijn’s “Please,” which is expected to shoot this year. Plot details are being kept under wraps, but sources say it is a “period female drama” and a “continuation of the edgy romance genre” that Reijn explored in “Babygirl.”

More casting news: Connor Storrie — who has quickly become one of the industry’s rising names following his breakout role in “Heated Rivalry” — has joined the cast of “Please.” Also joining are the ever-reliable Tom Burke (“Black Bag”) and David Jonsson (“Alien: Romulus”).

Reijn has directed three features to date: “Instinct,” “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” and “Babygirl,” the latter of which premiered to considerable buzz at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where Nicole Kidman won the Best Actress prize.

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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: Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Tops Our 1960s Critics Poll

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