This past Thursday, a BuzzFeed News report by jouralist Anthony Cormier and editor-in-chief Ben Smith claimed, based upon two anonymous sources, that President Donald Trump told his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie about the timeline of talks on a Trump Tower Moscow project. Soon after, news spread all over the airwaves, with the word “impeach,” or a form of it, uttered a combined 200 times on CNN and MSNBC. CNN mentioned impeachment 82 times while MSNBC mentioned it a whopping 97 times....

Now we’re learning that “One Fine Morning” will have its world premiere at the Directors Fortnight/Quinzaine Des Realisateurs sidebar. A huge get for Quinzaine head Paolo Moretti as this will be his last edition overseeing the prestigious festival. Lea Seydoux stars in the film as single mother who embarks on an affair. This is Hansen-Løve‘s 8th film, some of her more well-known works include “Things to Come,” “Eden,” and “Goodbye First Love....

Coppola is taking a page out of the Kubrick/Scorsese schoolbook of lengthy shooting. Filming will take place September 12 - February 1 in New York. That’s a whopping 6 months of shooting. Coppola isn’t messing around with his long-gestating passion project. This is said to be an epic film and production will be just as epic. The listing even has an actual plot synopsis for the film A Variety interview with Coppola stated “Megalopolis,” which would mark his first film since 2011’s “Twixt,” could potentially go into production in the fall....

Deemed by many as the worst decade for cinema, the 1980s has been microscoped by over 200 critics, directors, programmers and industry people in our latest poll. How can a decade be that bad when the 10 most voted films are from filmmakers such as Scorsese, Kurosawa, Bergman, Kubrick, Lynch, and Spielberg? Despite these big names, it was a kid from the Brooklyn who came out on top, as Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” was named best film of the 1980s, appearing on almost half the lists compiled for this poll....

In fact, Cronenberg has been building his entire career towards making “Crimes of the Future.” It’s a meditative work that encompasses all of the obsessions he’s tackled in his legendary 45 year career. The 79-year-old director has made a film about his ultimate topic: the body. ‘Crimes’ is set in a future where the body is slowly disintegrating, to the point where it has become an artifact, it’s own form of art....

It seemed as though Lynch was getting back to work with a mysterious new project and a rumor back in March hinting that Lynch was partnering with Netflix for an upcoming limited series. No plot had been revealed, but there were rumblings of a possible “Mulholland Drive” spin-off or, even a continuation of “Twin Peaks: The Return.” Lynch veterans Naomi Watts and Laura Dern had even been spotted attending a meeting at Netflix headquarters for this undisclosed project....

Jones failed to mention that her “Ghostbusters” was also guilty of ignoring the previous installment(s) and that Sony lost close to $70+ million loss with that movie. Nobody wanted a sequel, alas, Jones relentlessly vocalized her disappointment and was insulted by numerous fanboys on Twitter. And so, what else for Feig to do but to come out and defend his actress. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

Regardless, Cate Blanchett is set to team up with Field for the filmmaker’s next picture. She’ll star in “TAR,” a drama that Field wrote and will direct. The plot is currently being kept under wraps, but today someone spilled the beans via a casting call: “The intellectual drama tells the story of world-renowned Musician Lydia Tár, who is just days away from recording the symphony that will take her to the very heights of her already formidable career....

“Holmes & Watson,” a Sherlock spoof starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly won the ill-coveted Worst Picture prize, in addition to Worst Supporting Actor (Reilly), Worst Remake, Rip-Off or Sequel and Worst Director. However, what made headlines, unsurprisingly, was who won Worst Actor. “Our next winner has said of himself, ‘My whole life is about winning, I don’t lose often, I almost never lose, I don’t like losers.’ So not surprisingly, he won....

The decision no doubt sparked a kind of puzzling reaction from industry execs, many of which would have probably loved to have had the very talented Lasseter head up their animation studios, but then Emma Thompson left production of the upcoming Skydance animated movie “Luck.” Thompson’s reasoning was quite simple: It was because of Lasseter. She wrote a letter today about her decision: “It feels very odd to me that you and your company would consider hiring someone with Mr....

When you buy a ticket to these movies you know exactly what you’re getting yourself into, especially in terms of the sheer amount ofridiculously unrealistic stunts — that’s just how Dom and the boys (and girls) roll. In fact, the stunts, settings, characters have become so synonymous with over-the-top’ness that a running joke has emerged over these last few years about the next inevitability being a “Fast and Furious” movie set in space....

Writer Sergio Sanchez attended this morning’s screening and posted his reaction on Twitter. “Today I saw Almodovar’s #MadresParalelas. It is splendid. Discover it without being told anything, which will be complicated because a lot will be written about this jewel. Penelope Cruz and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón are wonderful, but watch out for Milena Smit” In anticipation of the latest Almodovar oeuvre, the lovely Anne Bilson over at The Guardian has ranked every movie of his from worst to best....

Director Sam Mendes and Universal must be very happy this morning. The Golden Globe statues won during last night’s telecast will most definitely help them cruise into Oscar night as frontrunners. “1917” hasn’t even been released yet in wide theatrical distribution, it has, however, had a successful limited release earning $2.2 million in just 11 theaters since Christmas. It will roll out wide this Friday in mainstream theaters nationwide. What timing!...

Also in July, Hollywood insider Anne Thompson mentioned in her IndieWire podcast that, due to the film’s late December release, it would most likely skip fall festivals altogether. However, that’s not what I had been hearing for most of the summer, hell, there was even a Variety rumor back in April which stated that if Tarantino’s “Once Upon A Time in … Hollywood” wasn’t ready for Cannes then, as a conciliatory prize, Sony would offer their back-up film “Little Women” instead to the Cannes committee....

And so, is it any surprise that David doesn’t think Woody Allen is as horrible a person as the media and #MeToo brigaders make him out to be? Speaking to the New York Times, David discussed the COVID-19 pandemic, Bernie Sanders, “Tiger King,” and yes, Woody Allen. The 84-year-old filmmaker was brought up when David was asked about his thoughts on the new Allen memoir, “Apropos of Nothing.” Although David’s comments could be deemed “controversial,” if you’ve read my piece “The Case for Woody Allen’s Innocence,” they may also not be too far off from the actual truth....

This morning’s announcement that M Night Shyamalan will be the jury president of the 72nd Berlin Festival took a few people by surprise. “Isn’t he a hack?” one friend messaged me this morning. No, actually, he is not. The guys over at Cahiers du Cinema have been champions of Shyamalan’s movies for many years now. They even included “Split” in their list of the ten best movies of 2017. Yes, his filmography isn’t perfect — Lady in the Water?...

However, with all that said, Melissa McCarthy wants to blame sexism for the movie’s poor success. “I just don’t know why people are so afraid of women. It’s fascinating to me,” McCarthy said in an new interview with Yahoo. She continued by jokingly saying, “If a movie 35 years later is ‘ruining your childhood,’ don’t blame us — you’ve got your own issues.” Feig’s “Ghostbusters” reboot was not deserving of the hateful backlash it received, but it was also not as good if taken as an actual movie....

Regardless, Meryl Streep seems to be a fan of Gerwig’s movie, she also stars in it, and today even mentioned the M word in a USA today interview: “Not to hype it, but ‘Little Women’ is like a masterpiece. It’s the first great, honestly epic movie shot by a woman, from a woman’s point of view, written by a woman, from a source of a woman’s novel,” Streep says. “And the men in it are great....

These 6 are noteworthy and should be marked down as must-see: DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD: In this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson (CAMERAPERSON) seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all. I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS: A road trip becomes a twisted mix of palpable tension, psychological frailty, and sheer terror in the latest from Charlie Kaufman, starring Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, and David Thewlis....

I like Clayton, but he seems to represent this new trend of film journalism which implies that you don’t necessarily need a firm grasp of movie history to write about it. How do you pursue a living as a film writer, and predicting the Oscars, without having seen “Casablanca”? Some think it’s not an issue, others most definitely do. I’m not trying to judge here, no, really, I’m not, I have met countless millennial film critics who have never even seen “Citizen Kane,” and/or “Vertigo,” so there are plenty of Clayton Davis’ out there and maybe that’s a problem....