Daisy Ridley, in an interview with USA Today, actually admits that some of “The Last Jedi” criticisms are not that far-fetched: “It’s just a different thing. Everyone’s going to have an opinion now anyway on the internet, but I also think it’s fair,” Ridley said. “If people hold something incredibly dear and think they know how it should be and it’s not like that, it’s fair for people to think they were done wrong....
Rumor has it that Lynch is partnering with Netflix for an upcoming limited series. No plot has been revealed thus far, but there have been rumblings of a possible “Mulholland Drive” spin-off and, even a continuation of “Twin Peaks: The Return,” however, I was told not to believe either. There’s also the exciting tidbit about Lynch veterans Naomi Watts and Laura Dern having both attended a meeting at Netflix headquarters this past Friday....
Of course, Haynes/Lachman belongs there. You just can’t imagine a Todd Haynes movie without Edward Lachlan’s sultry photography. The duo were set to shoot their sixth collaboration together this fall with “May/December,” but Lachman broke his hip and won’t be able to collaborate. Turns out Lachman got injured after shooting Pablo Larrain’s next film in Chile. Blasphemy! It is essential for “May/December” to have the Lachman touch. Why can’t he just work sitting on a wheelchair?...
Tarantino has not been shy in stating how much of an influence Morricone has been to his work, even using Morricone’s iconic scores for a bunch of his films. However, Morricone has revealed himself to not be a fan of Tarantino’s work, previously stating that QT “places music in his films without coherence" and that “you can’t do anything with someone like that.” He went on to add that he wasn’t a fan of “Django Unchained: “To tell the truth, I didn’t care for it,” he said....
It does look like the primary issue Coppola has with Marvel movies is their lack of storytelling diversity. That, in essence, is why I get easily bored by them —they are formulaically-driven by a predictably delivered three-act structure. It’s such a precisely thought-out critique on the part of Coppola that I suspect he has seen his fair share of Marvel movies to be able to weigh in on this topic....
According to THR, del Toro has signed on with Netflix to write, direct, and produce a stop-motion version of his long-time passion project, “Pinocchio.” It’s now or never when it comes to Pinocchio for del Toro; after all, the director will not have this much creative freedom ever again in his career because, who are we kidding here, his kind of films don’t usually win any Oscars. The fact that ‘Shape’ did is some kind of miracle....
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The gist of the story has to do with Burton stamping his own name on the title for the 1993 animated classic “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” to the point where many now associate that movie as being directed by Burton and not Selick: When it comes to “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas,” hey, that’s the title, it’s come to the point where, over the years, most moviegoers who mention the film automatically associate it with Burton....
Providing an update on his adaptation of the Hsieh Hai-meng novel (via IONCINEMA) Tsai revealed that he will begin scouting locations for the Shu Qi-led project starting next month when “spring is blooming.” Taiwanese media is reporting that this new film will focus on an elderly father and his son. “It’s [also] a movie about a river goddess set in the modern era,” Hou said of Shulan River back in 2015 to Film Comment....
It’s quite obvious, and needs to be said, that the current cultural and political climate was a factor in critics supporting Lee’s film. “Da 5 Bloods” has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes rating compared to a 53% audience score. The film has a 6.6 rating on the IMDB. Here’s a poll-focused discussion between Jeffrey Wells and myself, recorded on Sunday morning. My own Best of 2020 list … Roman Polanski‘s “J’Accuse,” Cory Finley‘s “Bad Education,” Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Leigh Whannell‘s “The Invisible Man,” Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne’s “Young Ahmed,” Kleber Mendonca’s “Bacurau,” Kitty Green’s “The Assistant,” Max Barbakow’s “Palm Springs,” Bill Ross IV and Turner Ross’ “Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets,” and Kelly Reichardt‘s “First Cow” Again, the mp3....
Lawrence had a great streak going with 2010’s “Winter’s Bone,” 2012’s “Silver Linings Playbook,” 2013’s “American Hustle,” not to mention three highly-successful “Hunger Games” movies and the blockbuster “X-Men” trilogy she’s been a part of. However, things got pretty dire for Lawrence when she co-starred in “Serena” (’14), a ’30s era Susanne Bier film that everyone hated, not to mention the deeply despised “Passengers” with Chris Pratt in 2016. Critics and audiences were also severely split on Darren Aronofsky’s “mother!...
In “The Fanatic,” which was directed by Fred Durst, frontman for Limp Bizkit., John Travolta plays Moose, a fan obsessed with an actor, Hunter Dunbar. The movie has been panned left and right by critics. Its 18% score on Rotten Tomatoes and 17 Metascore have positioned it upfront as a contender for next year’s Razzie awards. And yet, it appears as though Travolta is actually campaigning his performance for an Oscar nomination, with a For Your Consideration ad being noticed on social media....
Synopsis: “A stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and his opera singer wife (Marion Cotillard) have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.” Rooney Mara was cast as the opera singer but dropped out. Michelle Williams replaced Mara but “also dropped out after the project got stuck in development.” And then Cotillard stepped in. it’s even half as good as “Holy Motors” then we have ourselves a great movie. I wrote about “Holy Motors”: “You have to give credit to this wildly imaginative filmmaker....
“I was in London when I heard the U.S. reviews for ‘Glass’ were poor,” Shyamalan told the NYU’s Stern School of Business at a Scholar-in-Residence lecture on April 16 [via IndieWire] “I was in a makeup chair for a TV show, and I cried.” “We’d just come back from the London screenings, which were through the roof,” he added. “We had only great screenings of the movie around the world....
Paul Manafort, former political consultant and Trump presidential campaign chairman was given a slap on the wrist sentence of 47 months by judge T.S. Ellis (very close to T.S. Elliot). The N.Y. Times noted that the sentence “was far lighter than the 19- to 24-year prison term recommended under advisory sentencing guidelines.” Judge T. S. Ellis is a 78 year-old Reagan appointee that decided to forgive Manafort and admit that there was no Russian collusion, but rather the actual mundane reality that Manafort cheated on his taxes and had to be sentenced for a few years in jail....
In ‘57, Enzo Ferrari was 60 years old, his wife a little bit younger than that. For reference, James Mangold’s “Ford v Ferrari” was set from 1963-1966, which was the era of dominance for the Ferrari vehicle. A condensed timeframe is not a bad idea when it comes to telling this story. I bet it’ll still be three hours long because that’s just how Michael Mann rolls. Mann, who is turning 80 next year, hasn’t released a movie since 2015’s “Blackhat....
Movies such as the latest in the James Bond franchise, No Time To Die, have been pushed back and there have been no major superhero movies for several months either. This is an ideal chance to look back at some of the most successful franchises that are based on movies, so let’s take a look. Marvel Cinematic Universe With 23 films already released - and a lot more on the way - the Marvel Cinematic Universe is up there with the most successful movie franchises of all time....
“Whether you know him as Sandman, the Water Boy, Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Nick Spitz or simply Adam, one thing is clear: our members can’t get enough of him,” said Ted Sarandos, Netflix Chief Content Officer. “They love his stories and his humor, as we saw with ‘Murder Mystery.’ So I could not be more excited to extend our partnership with Adam and the Happy Madison team and deliver more laughs around the world....
“Set between the end of WWII and the beginning of the Vietnam war, this adaptation of Donald Ray Pollock’s psychological thriller-esque novel by “Christine” Director Antonio Campos follows the stories of various people who have suffered at the hands of post-war society.” Today comes the news that Campos’ film will be released by Netflix on September 16th. The streaming giant couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the pandemic, they are relentless in the amount of streaming content they have greenlit for release these past few months....
“It’s a tough call. While it seems like Cooper has this walking in the door, one has to assess A Star is Born’s future overall. If it’s likely to win Best Picture, he’s not likely to win Best Actor. If it isn’t going to win Best Picture, he might win Best Actor. He could do what Laurence Olivier did, of course, and win both. It’s certainly possible.” I can’t help but agree with Stone: Cooper, Mortensen and Bale are the front-runners....
