David Fincher’s “Mank” will not be a movie with very much mass appeal. It will, however, adhere to the tastes of the producers in the Academy voting body who’ve always had a nostalgic yearning for the Golden-Age milieu depicted in Fincher’s film. This is a very dry, dialogue-driven ode to a bygone era of industry guys wheeling and dealing behind the scenes. Shot in black and white, and semi-inspired by the making of “Citizen Kane,” “Mank” chronicles a forgotten era of Hollywood lore, all seen through the eyes of its misunderstood screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz.
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Steven Yeun‘s performance in Lee Isaac Chung‘s “Minari” Is solid, but squeezing him as one of the five Best Actor nominees? Nah. It’s a stretch, but a 10.23 Clayton Davis Variety piece about how Yeun “could become the first Asian American Best Actor nominee” is setting down a narrative for the upcoming awards season. However, there’s fundamentally nothing stunning about Yeun’s performance in the film. in which he plays a struggling South Korean man-of-the-house who moves his entire family to the American heartland.
Read moreNetflix Saves Soderbergh's Panama Papers Drama ‘The Landromat:’ Oldman, Streep, Banderas and David Schwimmer Will Star
Newly un-retired director Steven Soderbergh has already completed his upcoming movie titled “High Flying Bird,” set for release next year, but many of us were wondering what was going to happen with his “Panama Papers” project, an ambitious film about the infamous documents which actually goes by the title of “The Laundromat.”
Well, Deadline is reporting that Soderbergh’s film has been picked up by Netflix. They are also confirming that the cast will also be composed of Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, David Schwimmer, and Meryl Streep.
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