The 84-year-old "Rain Man" director is attached to direct "A Life," a biopic of Elia Kazan based on the legendary filmmaker's 1988 memoir. The project hit the market today.
Audience members will be encouraged to text in their questions before, during and after the screening, with Coppola answering the best ones live.
This is a film that's sparked more conversation over the last week than just about anything else out there, and not just because of the box office carnage.
Now, for the million-dollar question: will it be any good? I will say that the film has tested very well, whatever that might mean these days.
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.
I chatted with Hollywood Elsewhere‘s Jeffrey Wells about my belief that the leading Best Picture Oscar candidates are 1917, Parasite and Once Upon A Time in America. I am also, sadly, giving up on “The Irishman” winning Best Picture, I just don’t think it can happen and I lay out the reason why.
Here’s the podcast mp3.
“I had a discussion with Hollywood-Elsewhere’s Jeffrey Wells about the continuing Best Picture puzzlement, the fact that only two out of 25 Gold Derby know-it-alls are picking Green Book to win at this stage, the mysterious disappearance of Vox Lux, the coming importance of Lulu Wang‘s The Farewell, the inescapable impact of the forthcoming Leaving Neverland when it plays on HBO in early March, the fact that Nicole Kidman‘s raspy-voiced Destroyerperformance never made it into the Oscar conversation and other pressing matters.”
[Note: This conversation has no musical intro, no bells and whistles….just straight talk.]
Scarlett Johansson is the lead; she plays a detective who watches a serial killer's execution — only for his murder spree to continue in demonic fashion. “Exorcist: Martyrs” is set to hit theaters on March 12, 2027.