UPDATE: I had the roles mixed up. Ferrell is OUT as Madden, he’s being replaced by Jackman. Weird casting. Also, Tom Hanks is in talks to play Oakland Raiders football coach Al Davis. | Continue reading
The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the official poster for its 77th edition, which is set to take place on May 14-25, and it’s a tribute to Akira Kurosawa’s 1991 film “Rhapsody in August.” | Continue reading
George Miller’s “Furiosa” is set to premiere at Cannes next month. The highly anticipated ‘Mad Max’ prequel is on the cover of this month’s Empire Magazine, and there are some very interesting nuggets inside this issue. | Continue reading
Of M Night Shyamalan’s 16 feature films, only a single one was over 2 hours (“Glass”). So, consider me surprised by Cryptic HD’s assertion that Shyamalan’s “Trap” clocks in at a whopping 2 hours and 30 minutes. | Continue reading
Ruben Östlund is supposed to shoot “The Entertainment System is Down” later this year. The script is done, and a cast is now being assembled. Variety is reporting that Keanu Reeves is in talks to star in the film | Continue reading
If there ever was a video which would convince me that James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown” will have some issues then it’s certainly this one. | Continue reading
Nancy Sinatra reposted a tweet on X which seems to disapprove of casting Leonardo DiCaprio as her father Frank Sinatra & Jennifer Lawrence as his wife Ava Gardner in Maritn Scorsese’s biopic. | Continue reading
Alex Garland’s next film, “Warfare”, which he’s co-directing with Ray Mendoza, might be even an even more expensive endeavor for A24. My best guess is its budget might hit the $60-70 million range. | Continue reading
Searchlight has set up a December 6, 2024 release for “Nightbitch.” As expected, the reactions from test screenings have been all over the place. | Continue reading
Remember, over the weekend, when we discussed J.J. Abrams’ absence from directing? Was he in director’s jail for his dubious attempt at reviving Star Wars? | Continue reading
Watching “Challengers,” I kept being reminded of David Fincher’s “The Social Network,” which also had shifting timelines, a brilliantly pulsating electronic score from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and stylishly vibrant direction. | Continue reading
The latest Shyamalan is called “Trap” and is set in and around a concert. The Hitchcock influence is again very much present. A trailer has just been released for the film, which is set to hit theaters on August 9. | Continue reading
Well, this took everyone by surprise. Just as Quentin Tarantino was gearing up to shoot his tenth, and final, film this fall, Deadline is revealing that Tarantino has dropped the film completely. | Continue reading
The Sundance Film Festival is looking to move out of Utah by the year 2027. They are now soliciting bids on where to relocate the festival to. The fest has been taking place in Utah since 1985. | Continue reading
Martin Scorsese, 81, is planning to shoot two films back to back: the first about Jesus, the second a Frank Sinatra biopic. Leonardo DiCaprio would play Sinatra and Jennifer Lawrence his wife Ava Gardner. | Continue reading
Hollywood producer Carol Baum doesn't understand all the buzz surrounding Sweeney. During a recent NY screening Q&A, Baum claimed Sweeney, 26, “can't act” and “isn't pretty. | Continue reading
Here’s 93-year-old Clint Eastwood’s, supposedly, “final film” and it’s coming out later this year. Insiders are telling Variety that Warner Bros. is “thrilled” by what it has seen so far of “Juror #2.” | Continue reading
Variety is reporting that Spielberg 77, is set to direct an untitled UFO movie based on his own original idea. David Koepp is writing the screenplay. No other details were revealed. | Continue reading
Scorsese is eyeing his “Silence” star Andrew Garfield to be in the film. Miles Teller is also attached to star. Production is expected to begin later this year and shoot in Israel, Italy and Egypt. | Continue reading
One person who certainly isn’t a fan of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is “Succession” star Brian Cox. In fact, he’s not holding back at how “awful” the film and Phoenix’s performance were. | Continue reading
Zendaya, star and executive producer of “Euphoria,” is further sowing doubt into the final season ever happening. Speaking to Variety, the actress claims that “it’s beyond me” if the third season will ever occur. | Continue reading
John McTiernan reinvented the action movie in the ‘80s with “Predator,” and “Die Hard.” The ‘90s fared just as well for him with “The Hunt For Red October,” “Die Hard With A Vengeance,” “The Last Action Hero,” and “The Thomas Crown Affair.” | Continue reading
Their library of 135 films includes “Spotlight,” “Green Book,” “Contagion,” “Good Night and Good Luck,” “Roma,” and “Lincoln.” Sadly, the market for those types of films has been slowly evaporating ever since the pandemic | Continue reading
The MCU’s “Spider-Man 4,” the follow-up to 2021’s mega successful “No Way Home,” is supposed to begin production this fall, in late September. However, Sony still doesn’t have a director attached for this one. | Continue reading
I was not a fan of Guy Ritchie’s “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.” In fact, I’m just not very supportive of Ritchie’s overall body of work, more on that later. | Continue reading
If ‘Canto Due’ does get announced next week, which isn’t a certainty, I can just imagine the wild chaos from the media, who are already criticizing Cannes for only having four women in competition this year. | Continue reading
THR is reporting that Riz Ahmed has been added to the cast of Anderson’s latest. The rest of the cast includes Bill Murray, Michael Cera and Benicio del Toro. | Continue reading
Guy Maddin’s “Rumours,” which Bleecker Street is backing, has set up a fall 2024 release. We also have our first image of the film, which can be seen above. It certainly has that unique Maddin look to it. | Continue reading
THR is reporting that Pamela Anderson is in talks to star in Akiva Schaffer’s “Naked Gun” reboot. She might be playing Liam Neeson’s love interest in the film, originally Priscilla Presley’s role in the 1988 original. | Continue reading
On Sunday, George Miller and Bong Joon-ho hosted a “Furiosa” event in Korea. Among the things they discussed was the status of “Mickey 17.” | Continue reading
The 55th edition of Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight, the parallel section known as Quinzaine des Cinéastes, has announced its 2024 line-up. This year, 21 feature films, curated by delegate General Julien Rejl, will be screened. | Continue reading
A stellar cast is being assembled. Scarlett Johansson is confirmed to be one of the leads. Last week, word was that Dev Patel might be joining her in the film. The latest has Colman Domingo in talks to play the villain. | Continue reading
The star and director behind Venice competition title “The Promised Land” were dumbfounded when, at the film’s press conference, they were asked about their film’s lack of diversity. | Continue reading
A THR interview with Michael Mann states that his upcoming “Ferrari” has a budget of $110 million — that’s $20 million more than originally reported. | Continue reading
“An Officer and a Spy” is the real deal. Polanski crafted his film with absolute surgical genius. Only a master can make a film as sublimely atmospheric and textural as this one. | Continue reading
Shooting on Sean Baker’s “Anora” wrapped this past March. This will be his eighth feature film. I’m being told not to expect it anytime soon as it is eyeing a premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. | Continue reading
Author Stephen King’s assertion that “Babylon” will be viewed as a “classic” twenty years from now got me thinking about other maligned films from the last 10 years that might get the same positive fate. | Continue reading
Here’s an excerpt from a THR piece, titled Starless Publicity Campaigns Start to Impact Grosses , that has had the industry buzzing these last 24 hours: | Continue reading
Notice how Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” hasn’t shown up at either TIFF or NYFF. This has led to some rumors that it might have its North American premiere at Telluride. | Continue reading
We can now also add “A Ghost Story” filmmaker David Lowery as a ‘Temple of Doom’ fan. He was asked by IndieWire to name his favorite films of the 1980s, ‘Doom’ was one the titles he submitted: | Continue reading
At this past January’s Sundance Film Festival, halfway through a screening of Laura Moss’ “Birth/Rebirth,” the Rose Wagner theater had to be evacuated, with paramedics shortly arriving on the scene soon after. | Continue reading
French master Leos Carax already shot his next movie. It’s called “C’est Pas Moi,” but it’s a semi-short film. | Continue reading
We’re hearing that Rose Glass’ “Love Lies Bleeding” will be released “early next year” with a possible launch at the Sundance Film Festival. Here’s the test reaction I gathered back in March: | Continue reading
Lynne Ramsay had a masterclass at the Sarajevo Film Festival and gave us some details on her upcoming projects. | Continue reading
According to a report from Variety , ‘Indiana Jones 5’ could lose upwards of $100 million. ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ might break even, but barely. Both had high budgets of around $300 million each, add in marketing costs, and that signifies potential losses for both parties. | Continue reading
Michael Oher has filed a lawsuit alleging he wasn’t adopted, but tricked into a conservatorship that gave “parents” Sean & Leigh Anne Tuohy total control over his assets. | Continue reading
Brody’s latest hot take is not his worst, but it’s far from being one of his best. He’s a big fan of Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie” and believes it is the best movie to have ever crossed the billion dollar worldwide mark at the box-office: | Continue reading
Christopher Nolan made an appearance on the Rich Eisen Show, the host asked the “Oppenheimer” director what his “remote drop movie” was. | Continue reading