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Searchlight Pictures Chairmen Nancy Utley and Steve Gilula announced the landmark screenings today, with an additional bow at the New York Film Festival in October, where Zhao’s film has been selected as the centerpiece selection of the 58th edition of the festival. In “Nomadland” Zhao decides to adapt journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 non-fiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century”. The film, taking place during the 2008 economic recession, follows a woman (played by Frances McDormand) who packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life on the total outskirts of mainstream society, she, by in turn, becomes a Nomad....

Regardless, Marvel released a “welcome back to theaters” message to all its audiences today. “The world may change and evolve. But the one thing that will never change, we’re all part of one big family,” Marvel Studios says in the new “welcome back to theaters” promo. The trailer has our first glimpse at Zhao’s “Eternals” and I have a very mixed reaction towards it. There’s lovely natural lighting being used by Zhao, it does feel very independent from the rest of the Marvel canon, but it also doesn’t register as “cinematic”....

“[My reaction was one of] disbelief. Especially the way in which they did. There’s such controversy around it, because they didn’t tell anyone. In 2021, they’ve got some of the top filmmakers in the world…they’ve got some of the biggest stars in the world who worked for years in some cases on these projects very close to their hearts that are meant to be big-screen experiences. They’re meant to be out there for the widest possible audiences…and now they’re being used as a loss-leader for the streaming service — for the fledgling streaming service — without any consultation....

‘Landscape’ was on my “What’s Left” list for potential 2022 fest films. It still hasn’t appeared anywhere, I thought maybe TIFF could screwn it (and they might still do that). For now, we’re hearing a test-screening is set for Finley’s latest in the West Coast on Thursday evening. Based on National Book Award winner M.T. Anderson’s novel of the same name, the film is being described as a “heightened comedy set in a deeply stratified, alien future....

It turns out, that not only will Damien Chazelle be having an “In Conversation With …” at TIFF, but he will also be presenting exclusive footage of his upcoming “Babylon.” Not much else is currently known about what will be shown. Maybe it’s the same trailer shown at Comic-Con earlier this summer or maybe, as I’m being told, it’s actual non-interrupted footage of “Babylon.” TIFF boss Cameron Bailey will be moderating the conversation with Chazelle on Monday, September 12th....

The latest is that Danny Elfman has been hired to compose the score for the —as of yet— unfinished film. That’s right, Baumbach’s film is in the very final stages of post-production before his, potential, magnum opus opens the Venice Film Festival. When Venice boss Albert Barbera announced the lineup for the latest edition of Venice, the exclamation of release in his voice when announcing the Baumbach said a lot, “it’s ready!...

However, Muschietti has also confirmed that he is working on mixing both chapters together for a singular and lengthy director’s cut of its own. A massive Director’s Cut and/or supercut of both films would be the logical next step forward after the release of “Chapter Two” and there surely would be a market/audience for it. “The possibilities are open,” Muschietti said in an interview with SFX Magazine (via GamesRadar). “There’s a version where the two movies are cut together....

Joe Carnahan (“Smokin’ Aces,” “Narc” and “The Grey”) was once attached to write and direct the movie and, according to a recent interview he gave (via The Playlist), some of the details of his scrapped sequel included a back-handed dig at Oscar-winner “The Danish Girl.” “I hated ‘The Danish Girl’ so much,” Carnahan said. “I said, ‘Could you make a poster for ‘The Danish Girl’ and blow it apart?’ And they said, ‘Yeah, we can do that....

Les Inrock, as the French like to call them, have reposted the FASCINATING interview in which Godard compared today’s filmmakers to the “living dead,” JLG elaborated that today’s films “show everything and nothing” and are “as flat as the flat screens they are shown in.” More peculiarly, Godard is then asked about David Lynch’s dreamy style and the filmmaker shows a total disinterest to Lynch and his movies: “Ah, I really don’t like his style at all....

According to Collider, Cate Blanchett, Bradley Cooper, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, Willem Dafoe, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, and Mark Povinelli are all being looked at to star in del Toro’s period film. Del Toro’s filmography these last few years reads like an eclectic, but balanced mash-up of genre cinema: “Pan’s Labyrinth,” “The Shape of Water,” “Pacific Rim,” “Crimson Peak,” and “Hellboy II: The Golden Army.” It’ll be interesting to see what he does with a full-fledged “film noir,” especially since he’s had a few films tackle shades of noir but never fully....

Elba, an actor known for his turns in “Luther,” “Cats” and “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw,” tweeted the diagnosis today, saying he is well into a self-quarantine and assured everyone that he’s feeling okay and to not panic. He recently got tested after and only got the results this morning: “It came back positive, and it sucks,” said the actor in a video posted to Twitter. “I didn’t have any symptoms....

I saw “Inglorious Basterds” back in the summer of 2009. It was a big deal for most movie fans, Tarantino hadn’t released a feature-length film since 2004’s “Kill Bill: Volume Two”. Suffice to say, people were all hyped up for ‘Basterds.’ The resulting film was a little more problematic than expected, albeit I still maintain the outrageous finale at the French movie theatre (“the Face of the Jew!”) is one of the best, most flat-out breathtaking sequences of Tarantino’s career....

According to a source close to production, Malick’s power over the film and its future had faded and was now in the hands of the film’s investors, when the film was submitted to Cannes, and that Malick “might use the next few months until the theatrical release for another cut,” “A Hidden Life” clocks in at 180 minutes and tell the true-life story of Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, who famously was a conscientious objector and refused to fight for the Nazis during World War II....

“The story that we’re telling, the story that we started to conceive when we did ‘The Force Awakens’ was allowed to continue,” Abrams said. “Episode VIII didn’t really derail anything that we were thinking about.” Abrams is trying to defend his pal Johnson from the toxicity of super fandom. I understand that, but there is no denying that whatever happened in “The Last Jedi” will forever remain on celluloid. Abrams could pretend it never existed or work around what Johnson did, but the finished product remains; For better or for worse, “The Last Jedi” will always stick out as a unique installment in the Skywalker saga....

Speaking with Fast Company (via The Playlist), Abrams says he had originally turned down Star Wars 9 when he was first asked to direct it: It was Abrams’ wife and Bad Robot co-CEO Katie McGrath who convinced him he should return: Abrams admits it was a daunting prospect given that Star Wars 9 already had a release date, and revealed that he did indeed toss out the previous script that Trevorrow was working on: Contribute Hire me...

First, Cameron touted his pregnant female warriors in “The Way of Water,” saying they trumped the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it came to female empowerment. Then, he blasted male testosterone, calling it a “toxin” that should to be purged from the body. Oh, and he also confessed that he forced his entire ‘Way of Water’ cast to go vegan during production of the film. I believe Cameron’s problem, obviously, is residual testosterone....

As mentioned last month, the 2010s only had two big-studio movies go over the three hour mark: “Avengers: Endgame” and Scorsese’s own “Wolf of Wall Street.” “The Irishman” would be the third movie to join that list. Scorsese has never been one to shy away from making lengthy movies, but “The Irishman” would constitute the longest movie of Scorsese’s career, surpassing “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “Casino,” both of which were 180 minutes....

Quite simply put, after “Mean Streets” and “Taxi Driver,” the nadir of his career, “New York, New York” was released. That broke the streak. Then “Raging Bull,” “The King of Comedy,” and “After Hours” put him back on track .. that trio was followed by “The Color of Money,” a more-than-decent sequel to “The Hustler,” but not a great movie by any stretch of the imagination. You can probably make a very good case for Scorsese’s career rejuvenation, starting with 1999’s underrated “Bringing Out the Dead,” all the way to 2019’s “The Irishman....

Cannes hasn’t been the most receptive with her films. And yet, she submitted “Bergman Island” to Venice in 2020, was rejected, and then Cannes picked it up for its 24-film competition during last year’s edition. In an interview with Variety, Hansen-Løve admits that three of her last four films were rejected by the festival. I know two of those films were “Maya,” and “Things to Come,” not too sure about the third one....

The actress has decided to go to Instagram to explain that everyone should be perfectly happy for her, and that “Hellboy” is a film that will endure, age like fine wine if you will, over time. Oh God. “It’s always stressful on opening weekend and @hellboymovie is no different. You work super hard to make something fun and entertaining and have to absorb the negative reviews by movie critics, but hey!...