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- www.vanityfair.com Paul Mescal vs. Pedro Pascal: A First Look at the Epic ‘Gladiator II’
In Ridley Scott’s sequel, a new generation of warriors clashes in a savage Rome: “It’s pretty gnarly.”
- www.rollingstone.com The 50 Most Disappointing Movie Sequels of All Time
The Most Disappointing Movie Sequels: From the Exorcist to the Hangover
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'Emmanuelle': first trailer for Audrey Diwan's film starring Noemie Merlant
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- deadline.com Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ To Open Venice Film Festival
Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has been set to open the 81st Venice Film Festival on August 28
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THE CRITIC | Official Trailer [HD] – Ian McKellen, Gemma Arterton, Mark Strong, Lesley Manville.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Beverly Hills Cop Theme Remix | Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F | Netflix
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- www.cracked.com A John Hughes Flop Was Bigger Than ‘Star Wars’ in India
Before ‘RRR’ there was ‘Baby’s Day Out’
- variety.com ‘Wicked’ Moves Up Release Date, Will No Longer Open Against ‘Moana 2’
“Wicked,” Universal's film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical, is landing in theaters on Nov. 22 -- a week ahead of schedule.
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1992 (2024) Official Trailer - Tyrese Gibson, Ray Liotta, Scott Eastwood
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- www.nytimes.com Barry Diller Explores Bid to Take Control of Paramount
Mr. Diller, a digital media pioneer, lost a bidding war for Paramount Pictures decades ago. Now, he’s making a run at its parent company.
- www.digitaltrends.com 10 best Westerns of all time, ranked | Digital Trends
No film genre is more American than the Western, and these are cinema's most enduring and revered entries into to legend of the Old West.
- ew.com First trailer for 'Hellboy: The Crooked Man' unveils newest incarnation of the big red hero
Something is wrong in Appalachia in the first trailer for 'Hellboy: The Crooked Man.' Jack Kesy stars as the big red hero trying to figure it out.
> Something is wrong in Appalachia in the first trailer for 'Hellboy: The Crooked Man.' Jack Kesy stars as the big red hero trying to figure it out.
I would've shared the video via YouTube, but unfortunately, it's embedded into Entertainment Weekly's web page. As a big Hellboy fan, I'm not sure what to make of it so far, but I like the horror vibe.
Fuck it, I ripped it to my YouTube account. Find it here.
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Basic thoughts after I recently re-watched the Craig-era Bond Films
I watched them roughly once every night or two. And I'd previously seen them all.
And I was rather surprised at how I felt about the films afterwards. It seemed really clear that the quality of the films went continuously down after Casino Royal.
I thought Skyfall would stand out as the best followed by Casino Royal. But, in sequence, nah. Despite having clearly positive qualities, it seemed bloated and empty by comparison.
I also thought Quantum of Solace would rank pretty low as I recall thinking little of it at the time it came out. Instead, I thought it paired really well with Casino as a great follow up.
In fact, it felt like the Craig-era was basically Casino + Quantum and "other things". And yea, the "post-Skyfall" films just didn't feel like they were worth the effort. I thought they'd be more passable than they were, but after Casino + Quantum, which, for me, had a real punch and through-line, Spectre + No-Time-to-Die just felt like they were going through the motions and taking up space. At times, they really seemed to be badly flawed. And that's where my impression of Skyfall really hit ... it seemed that was the "what do we do now with this character?" moment and that Skyfall belonged with Spectre etc not the other way round.
Is this common among Bond fans or am I off base here?
- www.hollywoodreporter.com Viggo Mortensen on Respecting Audiences, How Scripts Are Key “Unless I’m Broke,” New ‘LOTR’ Films
At the Karlovy Vary film festival, the star also discusses feminism and diversity, shares why Hollywood tends to "over-explain things" and the emotional screening of 'The Dead Don't Hurt' in Ukraine.
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Childish Gambino - Bando Stone & The New World (Official Trailer)
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- www.hollywoodreporter.com Crunchyroll to Release ‘Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle’ in Theaters as Film Trilogy
An earlier film in the 'Demon Slayer' franchise, 'Mugen Train,' is the top-grossing Japanese film of all time, having earned over $500 million at the global box office.
- abcnews.go.com ‘A Quiet Place’ prequel box office speaks volumes as Costner’s Western gets a bumpy start
“A Quiet Place: Day One” is making noise at the box office
> “ A Quiet Place: Day One ” is making noise at the box office. The prequel earned an estimated $53 million in its first weekend in North American theaters, according to studio estimates Sunday. > > It’s both a franchise best and significantly more than expected. Going into the weekend, prerelease tracking had “Day One” pegged for a $40 million debut, but audiences were clearly more enthusiastic to see the action-horror starring Lupita Nyong’o and Joseph Quinn and released by Paramount. The same could not be said for Kevin Costner’s “ Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1,” which opened to $11 million. > > The ”Quiet Place” victory wasn’t quite enough to snag the coveted first place spot on the charts, though. That honor again went to Disney and Pixar’s juggernaut “ Inside Out 2,” which added an estimated $57.4 million in its third weekend in theaters, and crossed $1 billion globally. > > There's a distant possibility that the places will shift when actuals are released Monday. But either way it’s good news for movie theaters in a summer season that’s finally heating up but still running far behind last year (down 19%) and pre-pandemic norms (down 36% from 2019). > > “Inside Out 2” continues to be a box office phenomenon, the likes of which the industry hasn’t seen since “Barbie” almost a year ago. In just three weeks of release, it's earned nearly $470 million in North America and $545.5 million internationally, bringing its global total to $1.01 billion. The sequel is the only 2024 release to cross the billion dollar mark and it did it in just 19 days, a record for an animated film.
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"Inside Out 2" is the fastest animated film to reach $1 billion at the global box office
www.thewrap.com 'Inside Out 2' Is Fastest Animated Film to Reach $1 Billion at Global Box OfficePixar hits the milestone in three weekends while "A Quiet Place: Day One" keeps box office running hot with $53 million opening
- immersivemediaco.com The Bikeriders Writer-Director Jeff Nichols Interview
Director Jeff Nichols finally made a biker movie even the film's co-star, Michael Shannon, once told him he'd never actually make.
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Redbox's owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payroll: The company hasn’t paid employees in over a week and owes money to almost everyone in Hollywood ($970M in debt)
www.theverge.com Redbox’s owner files for bankruptcy after repeatedly missing payments and payrollIt owes money to Universal, Sony, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and more.
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Another YT Video Essay for Alien Fans (why not!?)
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About 10 mins. Focuses on some of the shooting and camera choices in Alien.
Specifically how "dirty shots" were used ("dirty" meaning some unfocused object "dirties" up the shot) and how the 2 camera setup were used.
I think the video was trying to make a point about how Alien was kinda "modern" in this regard. I don't know cinema theory well enough to know ... definitely interesting though!
Either way ... it's some Alien appreciation and this little snippets are definitely good reminders of how awesome the film is.
- www.thewrap.com Martin Mull, Comic Actor of 'Clue,' 'Roseanne' and 'Arrested Development,' Dies at 80
Martin Mull, best known for his roles in "Clue," "Roseanne" and "Arrested Development," died Thursday at age 80.
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Did anyone else watch Madame Web? (Villain discussion and spoilers)
Just finished watching this and I was blown away by how little depth they gave the bad guy. I don't know his name because they only said it twice. He makes his entrance shooting his two buddies and then saying he had to do it and that no one helped his family when he was starving. He then tells the protagonists mom she should just walk away, before shooting her when she refuses.
And then that just repeats the whole movie. He attacks people, and says he was poor earlier in his life. He also tells Madame Web to walk away. No flashbacks, no explanations, no monologues, no ideals. No depth. I actually love him as a character because he is so one dimensional and ruthless, closer to Jason Vorhees than Thanos. Its just a very odd decision from a writing perspective. Also he kind of talks like Tommy Wiseau.
Besides him the movie wasn't great. Feels more like it was on the writers/director than the on stage talent though.
- mainichi.jp Sony Group to cut 250 jobs from recordable media business' key hub - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Sony Group Corp. will cut around 250 jobs from its recordable media business' key manufacturing hub in northeastern Japan and offer e
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Horizon is The Biggest Gamble of Kevin Costner’s Career
www.theatlantic.com The Biggest Gamble of Kevin Costner’s Career"Horizon: An American Saga" is the type of ambitious Western they don’t make anymore—and it might be worth your time.
- www.hollywoodreporter.com ‘Aliens,’ ‘Avatar’ Star Sigourney Weaver to Receive Venice Golden Lion
The three-time Oscar nominee will receive a lifetime achievement honor at the 81st Venice Film Festival.
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The unofficial retirement of Jack Nicholson – where did Hollywood’s most charismatic star go?
www.independent.co.uk The unofficial retirement of Jack Nicholson, Hollywood’s most charismatic starJack Nicholson’s performances in ‘Chinatown’ and ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ are cast-iron classics. Fast-forward half a century later, and the actor has performed a vanishing act. Geoffrey Macnab asks: where is he now?
> Where’s Jack? This year marks the 50th anniversary of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974), the 1930s LA-set crime thriller that has one of Jack Nicholson’s most famous performances, as sardonic detective Jake Gittes. It’s also nearly half a century since Nicholson played rebellious everyman RP McMurphy, who is incarcerated in a mental institution and engaged in a battle of wills with the sociopathic Nurse Ratched, in Milos Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975). Those two movies alone are cast-iron classics. > > But despite such major anniversaries, Nicholson – now 87 – is nowhere to be seen. There was a time when the actor was spotted everywhere: in nightclubs, on chat shows, at basketball matches, at movie premieres. No more. The actor has performed a vanishing act. It is 14 years since his last movie, the rapidly forgotten romcom How Do You Know. One of his friends, music producer Lou Adler, told the WTF podcast that Nicholson now prefers to spend his time “sitting under a tree and reading a book”.
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Yesterday when I went to see Inside Out 2, one of the trailers was for a "Mufasa" movie, in the style of the last live action remake. What the heck.
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- www.nytimes.com Eddie Murphy Is Ready to Look Back
David Marchese talks to the comedy legend about navigating the minefield of fame, “Family Feud” and changing Hollywood forever.
- variety.com Warner Bros. and Legendary Set Denis Villeneuve Event Film for 2026, Next MonsterVerse Movie for 2027
Warner Bros. has announced an untitled event film from Legendary and 'Dune' director Denis Villeneuve for Dec. 18, 2026.
- www.hollywoodreporter.com Ian McKellen Teams Up With ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race U.K.’ Star for Animated LGBTQ+ Musical ‘Dragfox’
"What’s important about growing up – as this film says – is to be yourself," legendary British actor Sir Ian McKellen said of 'Dragfox'.