Over the weekend, left-bashing street artists turned a billboard of HBO’s Real Time With Bill Maher into an NPC meme. The billboard was promoting the return of his show with a billboard depicting him as a seeker of the truth, however, conservative street artist group “The Faction” decided to remodel the ad, located at the corner of La Cienega Boulevard & West Holloway in West Hollywood, by spray painting a gray, expressionless face over Maher’s and changing the image’s tagline from “The Whole Truth and Nothing But” to “The Whole Narrative and Nothing But.” They also changed “HBO” to “NPC.”
Read moreJason Reitman will direct a new Ghostbusters movie that’s a direct continuation of the 1984 original
Director Jason Reitman will direct and co-write a new Ghostbusters movie set in the original universe. The production is targeted to start this year with a planned Summer 2020 release date. Reitman told Entertainment Weekly that the new movie will ignore the 2016 reboot directed by Paul Feig, and will be a direct continuation of the 1984 original.
Read moreBill Murray Reteaming With Lost in Translation Director Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola will reunite with Bill Murray once again. Their memorable collaboration in the Oscar-winning 2003 film "Lost in Translation" has stood the test of time and still is the best film Coppola's ever made. In fact, despite making worthy films afterwards, such as "Marie Antoinette," "The Bling Ring," the 47-year-old filmmaker has lived under the shadow of that film's critical success since then.
Read moreTrailer for “Spider-Man: Far From Home” has Spidey Going On a European Vacation
Peter Parker will be back on the big-screen this summer in “Spider-Man: Far From Home.”
This is, of course, the sequel to "Spider-Man: Homecoming," a successful reboot of the webslinger franchise. Director Jon Watts ("Cop Car") is back at the helm, but, more intriguingly, the film will be set in Europe as Peter and company go on summer vacation. Added to the cast is villain Mysterio (Jake Gyllenhaal), who will be joined by "Homecoming" antagonist Vulture (Michael Keaton).
Read moreAaron Sorkin Says He’s Interested In A Sequel to the ‘Social Network’
When it comes the time to assemble my list of the best movies this decade, which I have already started to do, David Fincher's “The Social Network” will surely be on the shortlist of films deemed worthy of that honor.
Read moreDespite Uproar from Fans, Sundance Still Planning to Show Michael Jackson Child Abuse Doc ‘Leaving Neverland’
I am not sure if I will be able to catch Dan Reed‘s Michael Jackson-Pedophilia doc "Leaving Neverland" in a few weeks at Sundance, mostly because it's a four-hour doc and it's a risk cramming that lengthy a film into a day's schedule, but also because I was never completely on-board with the mob that claimed Michael Jackson was a sexual predator. There was just something about the guy that felt asexual rather than sexual. The doc will relive the experiences of two men —James Safechuck and Wade Robson — who are claiming to have been molested by Jackson when they were minors.
Read moreChristopher McQuarrie to Direct Mission: Impossible 7 & 8; Shot Back-to-Back and Set For Release in 2021 and 2022
Some have compared "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" to "Mad Max: Fury Road." Both were a relentless barrage of practical effects that barely had any exposition and backstory. Their goals were to grab your attention and not let go of it. Whereas the previous installment of the Mission Impossible franchise, "M:I - Rogue Nation," was a more elegant, and refined spy movie that had the best action sequences of the series, "Fallout" went for broke with some of the most astonishing action sequences of the decade.
Read moreSteven Spielberg’s West Side Story Remake Casts Its Leads
Steven Spielberg is 71 but has a stacked few years ahead. Before he enters the world of DC comic books with "Blackhawk", Spielberg is set to go into production and direct the fifthIndiana Jones movie, with a 75-year-old Harrison Ford, and his long-delayed, but now in pre-production, adaptation of David I. Kertzer's "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" but up next is a Tony Kushner-penned remake of the classic musical “West Side Story.”
Read moreOscar Watch: Is it ‘Roma’ vs BlackKklansman?
Back to the Oscar race, with "Roma" having won big at the critics choice awards last night and with its lack of any sort of controversy this year, its momentum is now firmly confirmed. Is there any reason why this film can't the Best Picture prize at the Oscars? Despite my theory that it's just too artsy for a large and vast voting body whose tastes, quite frankly, tend to not veer towards the high-brow, there is a sense that a lot of people will be voting for "Roma" on a purely partisan basis. Accepting the award last night, its director Alfonso Cuaron said in his speech, "this bunch of Mexicans are not as bad as sometimes they are portrayed," clearly taking aim at the Trump administration and its militant stance at getting that border wall funding to prevent Mexicans from entering the country illegally.
Read moreGuillermo del Toro Writes About The Brilliant Simplicities of ‘Roma’
Alfonso Cuaron's “Roma” is the undisputed champ of 2018 when it comes to critics awards. It won the Critics' Choice Awards best picture prize last night, adding to its tally which included theNew York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Chicago Film Critics Association. Cuaron's fellow Mexican filmmaker, Guillermo del Toro, has called "Roma" one of his top five favorite movies of all time and took to Twitter last night to further expand on his love for the film by launching his 10 personal observations about “Roma.”
Read more“Eastern Promises” sequel in the works; David Cronenberg will not return as director.
A sequel is currently in the works for David Cronenberg's “Eastern Promises," that's what the 2007 film's screenwriter Steven Knight has told Collider as he was promoting his upcoming film “Serenity,” with the sequel will probably begin production sometime in 2019.
“It is like fishing, where you leave it out there,” says Knight. “And it’s been out there for a while. It went through permutations in the sense of, how do you follow Viggo? We’ve been through that and we’ve moved on and now we’re in a position where I will say ‘watch this space,’ we’re close to getting into production.”
It would appear that the Cronenberg will not return. In addition, the sequel include Mortensen, but he won't be the lead, a "major actor" is being sought to take the lead.
Also, because Russia has been so much in the news, Knight reveals there will be political undertones:
“[The script] changed a bit,” the writer said. “It changed quite recently as a result of events in the world. The topicality of the Russia thing. I’ve adapted it to reflect recent events.”
Director Gaspar Noe Walked Out of ‘Black Panther’: ‘I Had to Escape the Cinema After 20 Minutes’
Gaspar Noe spoke to Variety about “Climax,” being released in March, but he also shared a hilarious anecdote about walking out of a screening of "Black Panther" after just 20 minutes.
“I tried ‘Black Panther.’ I escaped from the cinema after 20 minutes,” Noé said. “I thought it was as bad as ‘Star Wars.’ I hated ‘Star Wars.’ I hated the R&B music [in “Black Panther”]. The music was so bad that I had to escape. But you know which one I like? What’s the name of the Denis Villeneuve movie? ‘Arrival.’ That one was good.”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson says Interview Where He Blasted “Snowflake” Culture Never Happened
Something felt off about today's Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson interview with UK tabloid "The Daily Star." The mag rag claimed to have had an exclusive interview with the actor in which he blasted "snowflake" and "PC" culture. However, Johnson just went to his instagram to say the whole thing stemmed from a fabricated interview which never happened.
Read moreJaneane Garofalo: ‘Leave Louis C.K. Alone,’ His Family Has ‘Paid Heavily’ Already
‘Coming to America 2’ Set to Shoot This Spring; Craig Brewer Directing.
M. Night Shyamalan Defends “The Happening”: “I think it’s a consistent kind of farce humor. You know, like ‘The Blob.’”
M. Night Shyamalan claims that he's come to peace with Mark Wahlberg's continuous criticism and bashing of his 2008 Razzie opus "The Happening." In it, Wahlberg played a high school teacher that tries to protect his family amidst an unknown environmental threat forcing people to commit suicide. Critics hated it (18% on Rotten Tomatoes), and audiences hated it as well (a 5.0 rating on IMDb).
Read moreEthan Hawke: There already is a Popular Film Oscar, it’s called the box office.
The Academy's decision to include the peculiarly titled “Outsanding Popular Film” category was a misbegotten one—so much so, that they ended up, not too soon after, axing the idea.
Read moreNetflix Can Now Track Users Sharing Accounts
Be wary of sharing your Netflix password to a friend or family member.
Read moreDavid Fincher’s ‘World War Z II’ Filming In Late March, With Working Title ‘Maximillian’
David Fincher's "World War Z II" will start shooting this June, that's what its producerJeremy Kleiner and Dede Gardner announced earlier today. However, a new listing fromProduction Weekly claims filming will begin even earlier sometime in late March.
Read moreWithout a host, Oscars producers want Marvel’s sprawling Avengers cast to share emcee duties
Consider me not surprised by this blatant ratings-grab that the Academy are trying to pull off for the upcoming 91st Academy Awards.
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