Hollywood awards season is upon us, and with it comes a flurry of predictions from cinephiles and industry journalists alike for which film will be taking the illustrious “Best Picture” trophy at this year’s Academy Awards. If you haven’t been paying attention, Christopher Nolan’s biographical thriller about “the father of the atomic bomb,” Oppenheimer, has … Read more
Ten years ago, legendary filmmaker and mangaka Hayao Miyazaki announced that he would be retiring from directing feature films, bringing his illustrious fifty year career in animation to an end. This retirement would be short-lived, however, as it would only be a couple years later that the Spirited Away director would begin work on a … Read more
The DCEU has now officially ended in December 2023. But before we say our goodbyes to a cinematic universe filled with ups and downs (and maybe a few more downs than ups, if we’re being honest), there’s still one final movie to watch. Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom is the second of what was once … Read more
It took 148 days for the 11,500 members of the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) to secure what is noted by the union as an “exceptional” deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). However, such a deal has yet to be made with the artists in front of the camera. The … Read more
In the spring of 1990, an 80 year old Akira Kurosawa walked onto the stage of the 62nd Academy Awards and was handed the coveted trophy by a relatively young George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg; an honorary award trophy given to the legendary filmmaker for all that he had contributed to the world of cinema … Read more
This week, The Wrap came out with a report citing a “top agent with knowledge of the company” who said that an executive from A24 had been making rounds across talent agencies looking for “action and big IP projects.” The agent noted that the move was due to A24’s current ongoing strategy of “deemphasizing the … Read more
The Fantastic Four film will begin filming in London in 2024, and director Matt Shakman has teased that the film – the first entry in Phase 6 of the MCU – will be “different in so many ways.” In an interview with Collider, the Game of Thrones and Mad Men helmer confirmed that the Fantastic Four film, the third iteration to … Read more
The John Wick universe is on pause, but series director Chad Stahelski believes there is every chance Keanu Reeves could return as the assassin in future films since the stuntman-turned-director revealed he had “notebooks and notebooks” of ideas for future John Wick sequels. “I have notebooks and notebooks of shit behind me, John Wicks 5, 6, 7, … Read more
On September 29, 2013, Breaking Bad aired its series finale, bringing what critics and audiences considered one of the greatest television shows ever created to an end. One decade (and six days later), Vince Gilligan has closed the door on the Breaking Bad universe for good, and has since dived into his latest project, a sci-fi, Twilight Zone-styled concept. The project … Read more
The 2008 home invasion thriller The Strangers is set to be rebooted as a three-part film trilogy – beginning with The Strangers: Chapter 1. Renny Harlin, the director of Cliffhanger, Die Hard 2 and Deep Blue Sea, is attached as director, reimagining the original Bryan Bertino film starring Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman. “I didn’t really know anything about it when I … Read more
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