Making a sequel in Hollywood might be the single most stress-inducing task for cast, crew, director and producer. Why? Because expectations are that the first film was, in all likelihood, well-liked and popular and thus by making a sequel you stand a chance of tarnishing its legacy, if not done right. I got semi-triggered by some folks proclaiming “Top Gun: Maverick” one of the greatest legacy sequels of all-time. What?...
The “cancelled” Golden Globes announced their winners last night from Hollywood without a TV broadcast. The Globes voting body aka the Hollywood Foreign Press Association awarded Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” and Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog” for their respective Best Picture awards (Comedy/Musical and Drama). ”Belfast, the supposed de facto Oscar frontrunner, nabbed just a Screenplay win. On the acting front, with accusations of racism swirling on their good name the last year, the Globes unsurprisingly have their Actor in a Drama award to Will Smith (King Richard) instead of Benedict Cumberbatch....
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The film crew get killed off one by one. There’s nudity, gross-out humor and a lot of neck stabbing. It’ll be very hard for you not to be repelled by the added subplot involving our elderly host’s sexual awakening, his heart can’t take it, but she wants it bad. You don’t know whether to laugh or shriek in horror. There’s nothing original about West’s highly stylized film, it’s just a down and dirty horror jam with a good batch of jump-scares....
Regardless, Moviehole has the exclusive news that Field’s long-in-the-works film “The Creed of Violence” is finally in pre-production. This is an adaptation of Boston Teran’s novel. At some point in 2011 Leonardo DiCaprio was supposed to play the lead and then in 2012 it was Christian Bale who was in discussions for a part. As per The Playlist: “The novel pairs a strained father and son during the Mexican Revolution, who reluctantly partner to break up a criminal empire....
“The director, writer, and producer should review the script together and agree which physical interactions need to occur between performers and decide whether substitutions can be made. Does a physical act need to be shown? If working within a series format, can the intimacy be delayed? The build-up to an intimate scene can sometimes be more exciting than the scene itself” and that “emotional intimacy can be as engaging as physical intimacy....
According to Variety, insiders said the studio came to the decision alongside the filmmakers and that they all agreed to pull the plug on “The Hunt,” but that it would eventually be released. Well, today we got not only a new release date (March 13th) but also a brand new trailer. With the killing of “deplorables” story still intact, controversy is sure to arise again. Will there ever be a “right time” to release “The Hunt”?...
Variety has decided to name “Bones and All” as the third worst movie of 2022. More specifically, the always-eclectic Owen Gleiberman: “Bones and All” seems to have quickly evaporated from the cinematic zeitgeist. Not too many people are talking about it anymore. It was just too strange for the masses and film critics seemed to be split on it. Guadagnino started off his career with three summer romances set in Italy: “I Am Love,” “A Bigger Splash,” “Call Me By Your Name....
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Shooting started around a week ago in Southwestern France (Angoulême). Also, contrary to prior speculation, the movie is not a musical. Rather, the film is said be to be a “love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in 20th-century Paris and centers on three storylines.” The movie stars Bill Murray, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton, Benicio del Toro and Timothée Chalamet. Rumored but unconfirmed for the project: Brad Pitt, Natalie Portman and Lea Seydoux....
“This is the beginning of something new in the cinema,” Lee told a crowd. “It’s so exciting. There seems to be a new world in movie land.” “I think [advances in] physical production will allow us to see that world,” he continued, saying, “I don’t just want to see [movie images]; I want to experience them. That’s a dream I’ve been pursuing since “Life of Pi.” It’s been eight years....
The main argument that I keep getting is that it was a scheduling issue. “The Son” and “The Whale” don’t screen in Venice until AFTER Telluride is over in Venice, plus “The Son” lead Hugh Jackman was able to go to TIFF on a Monday (which is a day off for his Broadway musical) but not Telluride. Then again, as far as “The Whale” is concerned, Venice boss Alberto Barbera has always been very accommodating to Telluride titles screening on the first few days of his fest, he’s doing it again this year with “Tar,” “Bardo,” and Bones & All....
There’s nothing “fun” in seeing such an ambitious endeavour being devoured this way. Same as it’s a total downer to witness films like “The Fabelmans,” “TÁR” and “Armageddon Time” doing poorly with audiences. These films needed support for the arthouse to survive, but they didn’t find any. You already know my stance when it comes to “Babylon.” Despite some of its flaws, it has these moments that brought real cinematic nirvana to my eyes and ears....
“I assume that for the rest of my life a large number of people will think I was a predator,” he said. “Anything I say sounds self-serving and defensive, so it’s best if I just go my way and work.” The #MeToo movement, pardon my French, fucked Allen over. Simple as that. The allegations against him were vetted to the nth degree back in the ‘90s, he was, more or less, exonerated by the courts and the media, then went on to create great films such as “Bullets Over Broadway,” “Blue Jasmine,” and “Midnight in Paris” over the next 20+ years....
Lanthimos has supposedly just wrapped filming “AND” in New Orleans. He also has “Poor Things” ready to go, probably at a high-tier Festival like Cannes or Venice. Some footage of Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons on the set of ‘AND’ leaked online this past week. It looks groovy. Plot details have been kept under wraps. However, it is being speculated that “AND”, co-written by Efthymis Filippou (The Lobster, The Killing of A Sacred Deer), will tell three separate stories; each letter representing a different tale....
Director Doug Liman and screenwriter Steven Knight deserve credit for the risk. It helps that the movie itself is light on its feet, never too serious and goes down easy. Now, here’s the bad news. As you’re watching “Locked Down,” all you can think about is what was the point of the whole thing? Sure, it stars Anne Hathaway (always great) as a corporate exec serving her bosses orders (a playfully slimy Ben Stiller ) to fire her team of co-workers....
Adapting Esquire reporter Tom Junod’s famous cover story on Rogers, Heller’s first big studio effort, after the indie successes of “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” and “The Diary of a Teenage Girl,” is a more polished and safe effort, but the moments of sheer transcendence allows the flaws to be forgiven. Rogers isn’t the lead in ‘Beautiful Day’ – it’s Lloyd Vogel (as played by “The Americans” star Matthew Rhys)....
Daniel Pemberton has been added as the composer for David O. Russell’s upcoming “Amsterdam”. The film’s original Hildur Guðnadóttir has apparently dropped out. No reason has been given for her departure. Of course, people on social media are wondering if this has anything to do with the possible impending storm that’s about to hit Russell. Guðnadóttir does however have her scores for “Women Talking” and “TAR” coming up this fall....
TFF spokesperson Tammie Rosen informed Wells that “we had the wrong time on the site, but once we received the final forms we updated. No different than any other film. Simple as that.” Wells goes on by quoting a trust-worthy source who told him that at: “183 minutes means Final Cut is 19 minutes shorter than the 202-minute “Apocalypse Now: Redux” and 36 minutes longer than the original 70mm Ziegfeld version that ran 147 minutes....
This begs me to ask the question, is Pixar’s “Soul” next? What would it take to get Disney to release “Soul,” a major animated Oscar contender, straight to Disney+? Quite simply, having spoken to whichever sources I could find these last few days, it would take the Oscars to relax their rules of eligibility and allow streaming content to be eligible for Oscar categories. As of now, all we know is that the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is conducting meetings to figure out the situation....
