It’s almost surreal to even think about how the world will look 9 months from now, but that hasn’t stopped Steven Spielberg from giving us a sneak peek at his upcoming December release “West Side Story.” (via Vanity Fair)
Read moreOfficial Image Revealed of Steven Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’ Remake
71-year-old Steven Spielberg has a stacked few years ahead of him. Before he enters the world of DC comic books with "Blackhawk,” not to mention the fifth Indiana Jones movie, with a 75-year-old Harrison Ford to boot, oh, and his long-delayed, but now in pre-production, adaptation of David I. Kertzer's "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara," he will release the Tony Kushner-penned remake of the classic musical “West Side Story.” Oh, boy. What a risk.
Read moreMichael Douglas Believes He Lost 2013 Cannes Actor Prize Due to Steven Spielberg's TV Bias
Michael Douglas’ “Traffic” co-star Benicio Del Toro interviewed him as part of an “Actor on Actor” series [via Variety]. The real gimme of this chitchat is the fact that Douglas truly believes that he missed out on the Cannes 2013 Best Actor prize due to Steven Spielberg’s bias against television. Spielberg was the Jury president that year and Douglas’s film was the HBO-produced Liberace biopic “Behind the Candelabra.”
Read moreSteven Spielberg To Make His Case Against Netflix Movies Qualifying For Oscars At Next Academy Board Meeting
Netflix and the idea of what is a “real movie” has been at the forefront of the cinematic conversation from Cannes to this past year’s Oscars. The answer is not that complicated. Of course a Netflix original should be deemed a movie, it’s an unequivocal non-dilemma. The reason why this question is even being asked to begin with is because a monetary loss is involved for Hollywood bigwigs, they are too scared Netflix will take over and empty their bank accounts.
Read moreSteven Spielberg: “A Vote For ‘Green Book’ Was a Vote For Cinema Itself."
I know Steven Spielberg has been very adamant with his campaign to de-legitimize Netflix and to preserve the theatrical experience, but I found this little nugget, courtesy of Anne Thompson’s reporting, which gave me a little chuckle, because, apparently, Spielberg was quoted as saying that “a vote for ‘Green Book’ was a vote for cinema itself.”
Read moreSpielberg says “Green Book" is his favorite buddy movie since “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."
I get asked practically every day “what movie should I watch?” by normal moviegoers, It’s become such a mundane question, given that you have to figure out what kind of movie tastes the person asking you has; Do they like drama? arthouse? Token Hollywood-ist conventionality? It’s very hard to just blurt out “Roma!” to every single person that asks me the question because, truth be told, “Roma” is not as easily accessible a movie as say “Green Book.” However, I’ve been just saying “Green Book” to everyone ever since November. It’s such an easy choice to make. A sure-fire crowd-pleaser that has an A+ CinemaScore and an impressive 8.3 rating on IMDB. You’d be hard pressed to find a Joe or Jane popcorn moviegoer that didn’t like Peter Farrelly’s oscar-nominated film. I sure as hell haven’t. Everybody I’ve recommended it to came back to me raving about it.
Read moreSteven Spielberg’s West Side Story Remake Casts Its Leads
Steven Spielberg is 71 but has a stacked few years ahead. Before he enters the world of DC comic books with "Blackhawk", Spielberg is set to go into production and direct the fifthIndiana Jones movie, with a 75-year-old Harrison Ford, and his long-delayed, but now in pre-production, adaptation of David I. Kertzer's "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" but up next is a Tony Kushner-penned remake of the classic musical “West Side Story.”
Read moreSteven Spielberg: 'War of the Worlds' Ending Doesn't Make Sense
From the book Story Of Science Fiction, Steven Spielberg and James Cameron discuss the ending of War Of The Worlds.
In the book he tells Cameron that he "never could figure out how to end that darn thing," referring to the abrupt finale. He outright said, "The film doesn't have a good ending."
Read moreTrailer for 25th Anniversary Re-Release of ‘Schindler's List'
Universal released a new trailer for the upcoming 25th-anniversary re-release of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece, "Schindler's List." A 1993 Best Picture winner, the film is one of the most astonishing depictions of the Holocaust ever put on celluloid, right up there with Claude Lanzmann's "Shoah" and Alain Resnais "Night and Fog." Spielberg's film, shot in beautiful black and white by his longtime DP Janusz Kaminski, told the true story of Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), a factory owner in Nazi-occupied Poland.Schindler saved over 1,200 Jewish lives by striking a deal with the Nazis to employ Jews in his factory and consequentially saving them from being sent off to the gas chambers.
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BREAKING: Steven Soderbergh has stepped in to finish "The Batman Part II" as Matt Reeves remains away due to family reasons. This is a beautiful gesture, if you ask me: a filmmaker helping out a fellow filmmaker.