The 93rd Academy Awards will announce its nominations on Tuesday. What do you think will surprise?
Read moreJames Gunn Implies Tom Cruise Doesn’t Have Dramatic or Comedic Chops as an Actor
I’m not too sure what James Gunn was thinking when he decided to knock Tom Cruise’s acting abilities the other day.
Read moreYorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ Set to Premiere at Cannes
Some readers have been wondering what had been going on with Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” why it’s been delayed for this long, but at least we now know where it’ll be having its world premiere.
Read moreFinal 73rd Berlin Film Festival Predictions include Breillat, Petzold and Schanelec
Benedict Cumberbatch Rumored to Play Pete Seeger in Bob Dylan Biopic
Paul Schrader Reviews ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Turned Out to Be “Far Different” From Scorsese’s Original Vision
Now this is an interesting quote from “Killers of the Flower Moon” star Lily Gladstone. She stars in the film alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons and Robert De Niro.
Read moreOscar Quotas Don’t Exist …
Variety’s Clayton Davis is already projecting the meltdown that will occur if no woman is nominated for Best Director come Tuesday morning.
Read moreS. Craig Zahler's ‘Hug Chickenpenny’ Scrapped Due to Lack of Financing
S. Craig Zahler is one of the great new cinematic voices of the last decade. He hasn’t even gotten his due from critics either.
Read moreSundance Notes: ‘Run Rabbit Run’ and Brett Kavanaugh Doc Announced
The Sundance Film festival kicked off last night with a few films that weren’t too well-received. It’ll be interesting to see how the quality of the films in this year’s lineup will stack up to the all-virtual editions of 2021 and 2022.
Read moreSource: The Coen Brothers to Possibly Reunite For ‘The Zebra Striped Hearse’
A Tinseltown producer/friend emailed me last night with a tip. He said he’d been hearing buzz around a new Coen Brothers movie titled “The Zebra Striped Hearse.”
Read more‘Avatar: The Way of the Water’ Hits $2 Billion Mark
Some claimed it couldn’t be done, but James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water” is set to hit $2 billion at the worldwide box-office tonight.
Read moreTerry Gilliam Walked Off the Set of Taika Waititi’s ‘Time Bandits’
Taika Waititi is currently in New Zealand directing the first three episodes of his Apple series adaptation of “Time Bandits.” This is an ambitious project that could easily go wrong.
Read moreBAFTA Nominations: ‘All Quiet’ Leads With 14 Nominations; ‘Fabelmans’ and ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Snubbed
“All Quiet on the Western Front” led this morning’s BAFTA nominations with a whopping 14 nods. If you don’t have this one as one of your final ten for the Best Picture Oscar then you haven’t been paying much attention.
Read moreAlec Baldwin Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter
Variety Wonders if Film Festivals Have Gone “Too Woke”
The fate of last year’s Sundance-dumped “Jihad Rehab” has suddenly, for some reason, woken up Variety to reality.
Read moreItalian Committee Defends Honoring Spacey: “In Italy, We Believe in the Presumption of Innocence”
A lot of brouhaha occured earlier in the week when it was announced that Kevin Spacey had received Italy’s greatest film honor, the Stella della Mole Award.
Read moreWhat Are the Best Marvel Movies?
“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” received a PGA nod last week, and it thus became a potential Best Picture nominee, the first MCU film to contend since 2018’s “Black Panther.”
Read more‘Past Lives’: Sundance-A24 Title Will Be in Berlinale Competition
We’re exactly a week away from the Berlin Film Festival announcing its competition lineup, but here’s some intel to whet your appetites.
Read moreMichael Jackson Biopic Announced … Directed By Antoine Fuqua
Deadline has the scoop that Antoine Fuqua is set to direct “Michael”, a Lionsgate drama telling the life story of the iconic Michael Jackson. The Jackson estate has given full approval for this to happen.
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