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The 33-year-old Chazelle, already known for his excellent work in “Whiplash” and “La La Land,” stalls to find the same excitement and intensity of Armstrong’s journey in “First Man.” Why? Because he is restrained by adapting the story of a person that, quite frankly, was just not that interesting to begin with. Sure, Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon and the film’s final stretch, delving into that historic voyage to space, is incredibly shot and ultimately very moving – however, the getting there is rather dull and consists of mostly trial and error efforts from Armstrong and his NASA crew to prepare for the lunar journey....

Shooting will take place in Paris next Spring. This is a loose remake of a Mexican film of the ‘40s. Meanwhile, Argento’s latest film, “Dark Glasses,” is currently in limited release. The reviews are not good. Argento hasn’t really made a good movie since 1990’s “Opera,” or a great movie since 1984’s “Tenebrae,” but a comeback is always more than welcome, especially when you decide to cast one of the great living actresses....

“The Killer” started production in November 2021 and wrapped shorting this past March. Fincher has 9 months to edit, but we all know he takes an obsessively lengthy time in the editing room. My bet is that the film get released in December. That’s just a hunch. The film stars Michael Fassbender as an assassin who begins to psychologically crack as he develops a conscience, even as his clients continue to demand his skills....

“The North American premiere of ‘A Star Is Born’ was like nothing I’d seen before,” Villeneuve writes. “It wasn’t a normal screening. It was a rock concert. Several times during the movie, the audience cheered and erupted into loud applause. They were, or course, responding to Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga’s electrifying performances. But something else was at work.” Villeneuve continued, “You can’t cheat when you sing. You are either on key or you’re off....

Trank hasn’t released a movie since “Fantastic Four,” but is currently in post-production on the Al Capone drama “Fonzo,” starring Tom Hardy. No cracks emerged from that production. It seems to have been smooth sailing for Trank. Hopefully, we all get to see it, as rumored, at Sundance this coming January. “Everyone who worked on Fant4stic clearly wanted to be making THAT movie. But…. ultimately… It wasn’t. Did I make that movie they deserved to be in?...

It takes a lot of guts for an actor to admit he gave a bad performance, but in a recent interview with GQ [via The AV Club], the actor admitted that his performance as space autocrat Balem Abrasax was absolutely bonkers: “My character had had his larynx ripped out by this wolf man, and so I made the slightly bold choice—which I thought was right—of talking like this,” Redmayne says, “I won a prize for it for the worst performance of the year,” referring to his 2016 Razzie award for Worst Supporting Actor....

However, Barbera says that it wasn’t for a lack of trying. He really wanted Coppola’s film to be part of this year’s Lido. Speaking to IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a late afternoon chat, the Venice boss didn’t hide the fact that Coppola’s film was top priority: “It was in discussion until a few days ago. Finally, the distributors decided not to take the risk, to postpone the release date. [According to A24, the film has not officially been dated yet....

In a recent interview, Coppola is quoted as saying that he’s going to put down close to $120 million of his own money to make “Megalopolis” because no film studio wants to touch it otherwise. Coppola “sold a significant piece of his wine empire so that he could use a percentage of the sale as collateral for the line of credit to finally make the film.”Is there another example of such madness?...

Among the vast amount of interviewees is George Lucas. In it, Lucas admits to still having fond admiration for the film: “I love the [Star Wars] movies. And I love Episode I very much because it fills in a lot of the holes. I really wanted to do that.” “I still enjoy watching it. I haven’t shown it to my daughter yet; she’s five, but I’ll probably show it to her in the next year or so....

Given his position between two countries, with such different yet complementary film traditions, I spoke to him about the current state of cinema, festivals and streaming, There are two ways to ponder the future of cinema. Contrary to what Martin Scorsese might believes, no, cinema never dies, it’s just evolving. But, a certain idea of cinema is dying, but how fast is it dying? And, is it reversible? I don’t know, to be honest....

“I hate them,” Campion tells Variety. “I actually hate them.” Adding, “I think it’s safe to say that I will never do that. They’re so noisy and like ridiculous. Sometimes you get a good giggle, but I don’t know what the thing is with the capes, a grown man in tights. I feel like it must come from pantomime.” On 10.26.21, I predicted Martin Scorsese may have started a revolution with his anti-Marvel comment, and I believe that is very much the case we’re seeing here with all these well-respected directors hopping on-board his bandwagon....

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson issued the ruling in a case involving the 2019 film “Yesterday”. Two Ana de Armas fans filed a lawsuit in January, alleging that they had rented “Yesterday” after seeing de Armas in the trailer, only to discover that she was cut out of the final film. Universal argued that accepting such a case could open the door to a parade of lawsuits from dissatisfied filmgoers, who could make a subjective claim that a film did not live up to the expectations created by the trailer....

Mary Kay Place plays the titular character, a woman in her late sixties who has to deal with her heroin-addicted son (Jake Lacy) and a cousin that is dying of cervical. Her offspring is a lost cause, knee-deep into his heroine habit, but Diane keeps showing up at his apartment, every day, doing his laundry, bringing him groceries and relentlessly asking him to go back to rehab. But then he unexpectedly cleans up, hell, how about he becomes a born-again Christian by marrying bible-thumper Tally (Celia Keenan-Bolger)....

Last April, searching for new info about the film, a reader of this site found the film’s page on distributor Pathé’s website and, strangely enough, Ben Whishaw was listed in the cast. Not just that, but “Cold War” and “Ida” filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski was credited as the co-screenwriter (he was originally set to direct). Now the film’s producer is telling Deadline that production is about to end on “Limonov”: Serebrennikov has become a very big filmmaker in Europe....

With “Tenet” staying put in theaters until at least November, Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. will likely delay “Wonder Woman 1984” from its October 2 release date to sometime in November or even December. Meanwhile, the report also claims that “Dune” is likely being delayed as well until early 2021. No wonder both of these films had no release date stamped on their new trailers. It doesn’t help the WB that New York City and Los Angeles, the two biggest movie markets, won’t reopen their cinemas until late September/early October or even beyond that....

Those who have seen the film will no doubt agree that the sexualized content in the film is actually rather light, so Squareboxpictures, the films international distributor may still hold some hope of getting the film a Malaysian release, especially considering the country’s film board has a history of backtracking on these type of decisions (Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” and “Beauty and the Beast”). The films studio STX won’t be hugely concerned by the news, considering the highest grosser of last weekend in the Malaysian market was Johannes Roberts “47 Metres Down: Uncaged” with just $940,000....

The Guardian called him the “greatest director alive.” A bold statement, when bestowed on, really, any filmmaker. Maybe Scorsese could, in fact, deserve that title. Variety’s Clayton Davis was given the task of ranking all of Scorsese’s films. Why? The resulting list is definitely a peculiar one. Ballsy move putting “Silence” at #1. I do think it’s a very good film, encapsulating many of Scorsese’s past and present obsessions. Rodrigo Prieto’s photography is also stunning....

The Guardian has interviewed filmmakers to talk about Scorsese: the man, the myth, the legend. They’ve also, in the process, decided to call him the “greatest director alive.” A bold statement, when bestowed on, really, any filmmaker. Maybe Scorsese does in fact deserve that title. Can any other filmmaker working today match a filmography that includes “Taxi Driver,” “Mean Streets,” “Raging Bull,” “Goodfellas,” “Casino,” “The Departed,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “After Hours,” “The King of Comedy,” “The Last Temptation of Christ”?...

As previously stated, Reeves’ movie clocks in at 3 hours. We thought this could have just been a very rough cut, but the this 180 minute cut was shown again last night at a secret screening with cast and crew in attendance. Here’s a fourth but fragmented reaction: “It’s a nearly three hour long detective story. Full blown noir film. Story starts on Halloween and runs for about a week....

The Innocent — Louis Garrel Other People’s Children — Rebecca ZlotowskiR.M.N — Cristian MungiuHoly Spider — Ali Abbasi Dark Glasses — Dario Argento Incredible But True — Quentin Dupieux I’m glad we have a title and update on Cristian Mingiu’s new film. This could be a real player in the European film market, especially with his other notable films (“Loveless” “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days”) having had some of the healthiest box-office runs in Eastern European cinema history....