Zack Sharf
@ZSharf
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Managing Editor @variety. Previous: 7 years at @indiewire. “Do The Right Thing." "Sunset Blvd." "Iron Giant." Film lovers are sick people - Truffaut.
Joined December 2011
Very, very excited to be the Managing Editor of And a big thanks to @RaminSetoodeh @Variety_Cynthia @BeautifulBill and the entire staff. Lucky to call @Variety my home for four years and counting.
Variety Promotes Zack Sharf to Managing Editor of
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Christopher Nolan says TENET is "not all comprehensible" but you're "slightly missing the point" if you think his movies are just puzzles to be solved. “If you are experiencing my film, then you are getting it. I feel like where people have experienced frustrations with my
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Saoirse Ronan. The GOAT. 25 years old and FOUR OSCAR NOMS to her name. A true legend in the making (already made?):
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I've heard endless #GameOfThrones complaining this week. One thing I haven't heard? Miguel Sapochnik praise. In six episodes, Sapochnik became one of the best directors working today. Here's a little tribute to his genius:
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Greta Gerwig on her BARBIE Oscar snub. A friend's mom told her, "I can’t believe you didn’t get nominated." . Gerwig responded: "But I did. I got an Oscar nomination [for writing].’ She was like, ‘Oh, that’s wonderful for you!’ I was like, ‘I know!’” .
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Can't get over Yorgos Lanthimos with a single tear down his right cheek while watching Olivia Colman win Best Actress
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#MissAmericana proves once and for all “Reputation” is a great album. Maybe T Swift’s best.
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Have not gotten over, and will never get over, Diane Ladd watching Laura Dern win the Oscar.
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Take your Oscar frustration and get hyped for the #IndieSpirits. Best pic and best director are spot on. EIGHTH GRADE.FIRST REFORMED.IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK.LEAVE NO TRACE.YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE. Debra Granik.Barry Jenkins.Tamara Jenkins.Lynne Ramsay.Paul Schrader.
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Best news of the day: Fury Road DP John Seale plans to come out of semi-retirement to shoot the FURIOSA movie: "On ‘Fury Road,’ I told George, ‘If anybody else rings, I’m retired. If you ring, we’ll have lunch.’ And seven years later, he rang" he told NYT
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David Lynch, Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan zooming for Lynch’s birthday is the only good thing about Zoom.
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#SpiritAwards 2019:. - 2 and 1/2 hour runtime.- Beale Street Best Picture.- Ethan Hawke Best Actor.- Wins for Suspiria, You Were Never Really Here, Eighth Grade, and Sorry to Bother You.- Strong monologue . THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE. good luck #Oscars.
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Chris Pine says his directorial debut POOLMAN got so "f*cking panned" by critics that he started to think "maybe I did make a pile of sh*t. [But] I went back and watched it. I love this film so much.". “I fully own the deep hurt of that process.”
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I fell for #Parasite four minutes in. This is the shot. The camera pushes in on pizza lady as the Kim fam enter the frame one by one until they're circling her like vultures around their prey. Bong just told you everything you need to know about Kim fam. It's so metaphorical!
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OH MY GOD "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" begins streaming on @hulu at MIDNIGHT PT / 3AM ET. Our quarantines are saved!!!! @neonrated
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David Fincher is "not responsible for how people interpret things.". He is aware FIGHT CLUB is "one of many touchstones" for the far right: "We didn’t make it for them. It’s impossible for me to imagine that people don’t understand that Tyler Durden is a negative influence.
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NEVER! DOUBT! JAMES! CAMERON!. The first press reactions to #AvatarTheWayOfWater are calling it "mind-blowing," "a visual masterpiece" and "phenomenal.". "I’ve never seen anything like this from a technical, visual standpoint.".
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Jennifer Aniston says "Friends" is now deemed "offensive" by "a whole generation of kids.". "[In the past] you could joke about a bigot and have a laugh. it was about educating people on how ridiculous people were. Now we're not allowed to do that.".
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“Emilia Pérez” star Karla Sofia Gascón is under fire for controversial tweets she posted about Muslims, George Floyd, Oscars diversity and more. Many posts started being deleted today after they resurfaced and ignited backlash against the Oscar nominee.
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FACTS: The Best Picture winner at the #SpiritAwards has gone on to win the Oscar for the last four years: “Moonlight,” “Spotlight,” “Birdman” and “12 Years A Slave.” . #GetOut was the winner this year. LETS FUCKING GO!!!!
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This is wild. Execs at AT&T (which owned HBO at the time) asked the GAME OF THRONES showrunners to shoot episodes vertically so viewers could watch them on their phones (!!!!!???). AT&T also pitched "snackable mini-episodes of the series."
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#BlackMirror SEASON 6 is official. The new season is expected to have more episodes than Season 5 (which ran just three eps) and each installment is being treated as an individual film. @manori_r has the scoop:
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Pawel Pawlikowski and Alfonso Cuarón. Both Oscar nominees for Best Director for making intensely personal black-and-white, foreign-language dramas about their maternal figures. I love love love this.
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Sooo #BigLittleLies hired Andrea Arnold to direct Season 2 and NEVER told her that Jean-Marc Vallee would come in to edit and do away with her voice/vision #JusticeForAndrea
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#TheIrishman trailer debuts first look at the much-discussed "de-aging VFX": Left: De Niro at 75.Right: De Niro, "de-aged"
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Pablo Larraín on casting Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana in new movie: “Kristen is one of the great actors around today. Kristen can be many things, and she can be very mysterious and very fragile and very strong as well, which is what we need."
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Before FRENCH DISPATCH at NYFF, Wes Anderson intros from Spain on the set of his new movie. Brief first look at the set. old timey desert town done up in Wes style.
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Bradley Cooper says "there's no chairs" on set when he directs: "I’ve always hated chairs on sets; your energy dips the minute you sit down in a chair. There's no video village." . He's also adopted Christian Bale's acting method: "I had heard stories about Daniel Day-Lewis. I
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Jim Carrey says "I was sickened" by the standing ovation for Will Smith's best actor win: "Hollywood is just spineless en masse. I’d have announced this morning that I was suing Will for $200 million because that video is going to be there forever."
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AVATAR 2 has grossed $955.1M in 11 days, way above “Black Panther 2” ($800M), “The Batman” ($770M) and “Thor 4” ($760M). It'll pass “Doctor Strange 2" ($955.7M) and probably $1 billion today. But please tell me again the Avatar franchise is irrelevant.
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Not only is Charlie Kaufman back, but he has teamed up with the brilliant "Ida" and "Cold War" cinematographer Łukasz Żal. The first trailer for "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" is a surreal knockout:
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You know what. ppl just arent interested in a Han Solo prequel film, clearly. When “Boba Fett: A Star Wars Story” bombs at the box office . people just don’t care about a young Boba Fett movie. Rogue One was new, exciting, fresh, perhaps all non-Skywalker films should be.
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10 FILM THINGS I LOVED IN 2017. 1. PhantomThread Score. 2. CMBYN Final Shot. 3. mother! Third Act. 4. GetOut police fake out . 5. Beanie in LadyBird. 6. Haley Lu in Columbus. 7. FloRoProj Ending. 8. Dunkirk in IMAX. 9. KStew Texts in PersonalShopper. 10. Ghost Story Time Travel.
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🚨🚨 According to two well-informed sources, there will even be a David Lynch feature film which has been completely off the radar and stars Laura Dern — either as a cameo or a supporting role — along with some other Lynch regulars. 🚨🚨.
Cannes Film Festival Predictions Include ‘Lightyear,’ New Films By David Lynch, David Cronenberg (EXCLUSIVE)
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PERFECT 70MM SHOTS: @OnePerfectShot.- Lawrence of Arabia.- 2001: A Space Odyssey.- The Master.- West Side Story
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I swear if we have to spend the next two months watching award shows where Timothée Chalamet keeps losing Best Actor to Gary Oldman my heart will literally shatter.
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A toast to 22 great movies the #OscarNoms completely rejected this year. Zero nominations, all of them: via @Variety. Pig.Zola.Passing.The Green Knight.Red Rocket.The French Dispatch.The Card Counter.Titane.C'mon C'mon.and many more!
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Wes Anderson's production designer says over 125 sets were used for #FrenchDispatch. Oh, and they made a movie studio out of an abandoned felt factory (peak Wes!). Some new details here:
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nothing but love for my mask-wearing [venice jury] president Cate Blanchett
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Timothée Chalamet is owning awards season right now: - Gotham Breakthrough Actor Award.- NBR Breakthrough Performance.- NYFCC Best Actor
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Greta Gerwig using the BARBIE teaser to teach the kids about Stanley Kubrick/2001: A Space Odyssey. glorious. Watch here:
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- JOKER 2 will exist outside the cinematic universe that James Gunn/Safran will build out. - THE BATMAN 2 doesn't have a finished script/ won't hit theaters until 2025 at the earliest. - Henry Cavill's SUPERMAN movie is now soliciting pitches from writers.
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It is now clear Riley Keough in AMERICAN HONEY walked so Riley Keough in ZOLA could run
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🚨🚨FLEE ON HULU! the best film of 2021. The first movie ever nominated for animated feature, documentary and international feature at the Oscars. You’ll never forget it.
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LOL if you’re telling me you watched “Personal Shopper” and “The Master” and still consider Kristen Stewart and Amy Adams bad actors please lose my slack, Gmail, and phone number. Also block me on all social media. Thanks.
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Lol “Bombshell” really about to have more Oscar noms than “Ad Astra,” “Last Black Man in San Francisco,” “Clemency,” “Midsommar,” and “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” combined.
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#IndieSpiritAwards tomorrow! You know, the awards show where. - Three Women are Best Director noms (Granik, Ramsay, Jenkins).- Beale Street is Best Picture nom.- Ethan Hawke is Actor frontrunner.- Toni Collette could win over Glenn Close.- You Were Never Really Here has 4 noms.
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The power of THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT. eBay chess inquiries up 250%, Goliath Games chess sales up 170%, Google chess searches at 9-year high. The International Chess Federation says there's now "significantly higher interest in next year’s world championship":
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I already know the sexual tension between Robert Pattinson (Batman) and Zoe Kravitz (Catwoman) in #TheBatman will be THE. DEATH. OF. ME.
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STUDIO GHIBLI ALERT: Japan announces 2020 opening date for Ghibli theme park in Nagoya, Japan. The park will include rides and "forest trails" inspired by Miyazaki's classic films. New details and concept art photos here:
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What is the best shot of Christopher Nolan's career? In celebration of the director's 50th birthday today, here are 30 amazing contenders: @OnePerfectShot
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Is today the single greatest day in Marvel film history? I think yes. #BlackWidow standalone movie confirmed: #BlackPanther outselling all other Marvel films in advanced tickets:
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Jenna Ortega: “I don’t think I’ve ever had to put my foot down more on a set" than I did on #Wednesday. I just started changing lines.". “Everything she does did not make sense for her character at all. Her being in a love triangle? It made no sense." .
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Rami Malek gonna win the Oscar but the only trophy he deserves is Lip Sync Battle !!!.
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Come for Cooper and Gaga, but stay for the amazing cinematography of Matthew Libatique. Wow does #AStarIsBorn look absolutely gorgeous:
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu's ‘CARNE y ARENA’ wins Special Oscar. First Special Oscar in 22 years. 18th one overall:
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Remember the Oscars in 2016 when #MadMaxFuryRoad won editing, costume, makeup, prod design, sound editing/mixing. Every time it won LIVE I thought “Holy shit can it actually beat Spotlight for best pic?”. That thrill is what makes the Oscars great. Now that’s gone.
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Sooo Robert Eggers' next movie is a Viking drama in 10th Century Iceland that reunites him with Anya Taylor-Joy/Willem Dafoe plus Nicole Kidman and. maybe BJORK!?!?!? . Sign me up right goddamn now
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OSCAR WINNER ROGER DEAKINS!!!!!!!!. OSCAR WINNER ROGER DEAKINS!!!!!!!!. OSCAR WINNER ROGER DEAKINS!!!!!!!!. OSCAR WINNER ROGER DEAKINS!!!!!!!!.
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Never not amazed we got “No Country for Old Men” and “There Will Be Blood” in one year, in back to back months.
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The decision **not to cut** away from Paul Raci's Joe after he cuts ties with Riz Ahmed's Ruben, allowing the camera to watch him sigh through his heartbreak, was maybe the best editing choice in 2020. So happy #SoundOfMetal won the Best Editing Oscar:
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David Lynch has died at 78 years old. 💔💔💔💔. “There’s a big hole in the world now that he’s no longer with us. But, as he would say, ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole,'” his family wrote in a statement.
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Very, very grateful @edgarwright said yes to breaking down some of the British 1960s films that inspired LAST NIGHT IN SOHO. This is one hell of a list!. 25 Films from the 1960s That Inspired #LastNightInSoho (Exclusive):
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.@ReginaKing is now the second Black woman nominated for Best Director in #GoldenGlobes history. @ava was first with "Selma." . King also becomes the fifth Black director nominee in the category after DuVernay, Spike Lee, @BarryJenkins and Steve McQueen:
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Please please please stop using David Lynch and “WandaVision” in the same sentence.
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🚨🚨 NEW ARI ASTER 🚨🚨. First "Hereditary." Then "Midsommar." Now comes DISAPPOINTMENT BLVD., a "decades-spanning" film starring Joaquin Phoenix and backed by A24. Is this the four-hour nightmare comedy Aster spoke of last year? Let's hope! Full details:
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Pairing Timothee Chalamet and Robert Pattinson is indie film baiting of the best kind. #TheKing trailer has finally landed: @NetflixFilm
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