Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON officially clocks in at a WHOPPING 3 hours 54 minutes. It’s set to become the longest film of his six-decade career.
ROBERT PATTINSON is in talks to star in Chloe Zhao’s DRACULA,
The film will reportedly follow Dracula after he awakens many years into the future. Themes of being on the fringes of society will be focused on in Zhao’s film.
A24’s erotic thriller BABYGIRL to star Nicole Kidman as a career woman in her 40s who ends up having an affair with a 21-year-old intern.
Harris Dickinson is rumoured to play the intern. Jude Law would be Kidman’s husband. Set to shoot in August.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO says his filmmaking future will solely be dedicated to making animated films:
“There are a couple more live-action movies I want to do but not many. After that, I only want to do animation. That’s the plan”
David Fincher’s THE KILLER was screened for Netflix a few days ago. It left the room “stunned.”
“An ice cold thriller that has atmospheric dread all over it. There are neo-noir elements, very graphic violence but it’s also very entertaining.”
Denis Villeneuve’s next film is CLEOPATRA and set to star ZENDAYA as the young queen of Egypt.
TIMOTHEE CHALAMET was offered the role of Octavius and DANIEL CRAIG is being sought to play Caesar. Filming is set to begin in late 2014. (via
@DanielRPK
)
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S MEGALOPOLIS screened for 300 guests in L.A. The film received a standing ovation, with a visibly moved Coppola trying to hold back tears.
A person in attendance tells me, "It’s startling, not like any movie that’s out there"
RYAN COOGLER and MICHAEL B. JORDAN's secret film, set in the '30s Jim Crow South, is rumored to be about Vampires going to war against the Ku Klux Klan.
Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU has officially wrapped filming.
Cinematographer Jarin Blaschke has also confirmed that the film was shot in color, with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism.
“Killers of the Flower Moon” screenwriter Eric Roth confirms that he’s been hired to write a mysterious new film for DENIS VILLENEUVE about “space and time”
JUSTINE TRIET says STEVEN SPIELBERG loved "Anatomy of A Fall" & asked her, and partner Arthur Harari, to write a script for him
"It turns out he wanted us to meet. He offered us to write a script for him, it's the most absurd thing I've ever experienced"
Another rave reaction for DAVID FINCHER’s THE KILLER
“It’s [Fincher’s] most violent movie to date. It goes into some dark places and is very thrilling — some of the action was actually really mind-blowing […] It’s arthouse mixed with big budget action.
DAVID LYNCH was seen shooting a new project in West Hollywood today. No word yet on whether it’s a feature length film that he’s working on.
Lynch’s last film was 2006’s INLAND EMPIRE, unless you count 2017’s TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN as a movie.
Plot details for the new SAFDIES film.
Ben Affleck plays a retired baseball pitcher. Adam Sandler is a sports memorabilia agent capitalizing on his success. Megan Thee Stallion is Affleck’s girlfriend.
Oh, and Steve Harvey has been added to the cast.
Despite its weak box-office, DAVID FINCHER has no regrets about making THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO:
“I’m proud of it. We did what we set out to do. When people said it cost too much for what the return investment was, I say, ‘Ok, swing and a miss”
BARBIE test-screened in Los Angeles yesterday.
Ryan Gosling is said to completely steal the show as Ken. Lots of KENERGY. Some reactions even believe he deserves an Oscar nomination for his work here.
Robert Eggers’ NOSFERATU test-screened in Los Angeles on Tuesday, one attendee tells me it’s a film “filled with monochromatic atmosphere and slowly creeping dread.”
Christopher McQuarrie confirms that his R-Rated “gnarly, violent” Tom Cruise original film will happen after ‘M:I —Dead Reckoning Part Two’ has been completed.
Martin Scorsese says he has one or two more films left in him after Killers of the Flower Moon
“If I could just muster up the energy, God willing, to make a couple more, one more maybe, and that’s it, OK? That’s as far as I got.“
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN says THE CURSE is “unlike anything I’ve ever seen on television”
“There are so few shows that come along that have genuinely no precedence.”
SCORSESE’s editor THELMA SCHOONMAKER calls theaters screening KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON with an intermission a “violation”
“I understand that some are running it with an intermission, which isn’t right. That's a violation so I have to find out about it”
David Fincher’s THE KILLER has a runtime of 2 hours 38 minutes, according to IMDB.
The film stars Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell and Arlie’s Howard.
NETFLIX dropped Dev Patel’s MONKEY MAN so as to not offend the Indian government in the film’s portrayal of a fictional right-wing Hindu Nationalist character. Thank the cinematic heavens that JORDAN PEELE came to the rescue and picked up the film.
Cinematographer Matthew Libatique, with the assistance of Florence Pugh, actually directed 2022’s DON’T WORRY DARLING, while actual director Olivia Wilde kept disappearing from the set
QUENTIN TARANTINO raves about Steven Spielberg’s WEST SIDE STORY
“I loved “West Side Story.” The best movie of 2021. It should have won the Oscar & the actor who played Riff should have won […] It was beyond the beyond, right up there with “Fury Road.”
There are rumors that DENIS VILLENEUVE is being actively pursued to direct the next JAMES BOND movie. He is said to be producer Barbara Broccoli’s
#1
choice at the moment.
Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Disclaimer’ Starring Cate Blanchett will premiere on Apple TV in 2024.
The series took 280 days to shoot. Blanchett described the project as “really more like [shooting] 7 movies.”
RICHARD LINKLATER is set to shoot a new film in Paris, entirely in French. The plot will revolve around the making of JEAN-LUC GODARD’s “Breathless” & the creation of the French New Wave. Roles currently being cast include Godard, Bresson, Rohmer, Rivette
PAUL VERHOEVEN says his erotic thriller YOUNG SINNER will be shot this year. The film, set in Washington DC, will be written by “RoboCop” writer Ed Neumeier.
It’s set to be Verhoeven’s first American film in over 24 years.
WES ANDERSON’s “The Pheonician Scheme” start production in April.
The “espionage” film, co-written by Roman Coppola, stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera and Bill Murray.
Ari Aster’s “Eddington” is set to start production on March 11 in Albuquerque (via
@prodweekly
) . The film, a “western comedy ensemble,” is rumored to star EMMA STONE, JOAQUIN PHOENIX and PEDRO PASCAL.
Despite his heavy workload, GUILLERMO DEL TORO still finds the time to watch “three movies a day” —
“If you see all ‘All About Eve’ when you’re 15, and you see ‘All About Eve’ when you’re 40, you see two entirely different movies.”
JOEL & ETHAN COEN are set to direct a horror film. The script has already been written and production could begin before the year is done:
“It's a pure horror film, and it gets very bloody. If you like Blood Simple, I think you'll enjoy it.”
Neon has released four posters for Oz Perkins’ LONGLEGS.
At a recent test screening, one of our readers raved about it, saying “It’s very unsettling and deeply steeped in the satanic panic of the ‘70s serial killer horror.”
Paul Thomas Anderson says he hopes to shoot his next film in January. The setting is “contemporary” and will take place in California, Texas and Mexico.
Bong Joon-ho raves about BEAU IS AFRAID:
“Masterful! The most overwhelming movie I've seen in years! I discovered more on the second viewing. I just spent 6 hours of my life watching this movie, twice.”
Joseph Kosinski’s FORMULA ONE will have Brad Pitt driving a real Formula One race car, shot via the smallest moveable 6k camera ever designed.
Tom Cruise has already offered to do some extra driving if they need him.
DAVID CRONENBERG’s THE SHROUDS has wrapped its five-week shoot in Toronto.
The film stars Vincent Cassel, Diane Kruger and Guy Pearce — the story takes place in a world where people can watch their deceased relatives decaying in real-time
TI WEST’s MAXXXINE test screened. It’s said to be an homage to the Giallo genre, popularized by Mario Bava and Dario Argento
“What West has created is a trilogy that includes a Texan slasher (“X”), a technicolor nightmare (“Pearl”) and, now, a Giallo.
Alfonso Cuarón calls KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON a “masterpiece.”
“It’s an amazing masterpiece […] This is a filmmaker in amazing pure form. He’s fearless about his filmmaking decisions and he’s allowing himself to do it with no safety net.”
Venice boss Alberto Barbera says the 2013 screening of Jonathan Glazer’s UNDER THE SKIN was “one of the worst screenings, it was the only time an audience booed a film. Scarlett was in tears. I told her: ‘Don’t worry, in time the film will be recognized.”
Ruben Östlund did not like BARBIE:
“It perfectly describes the madness of our time. A toy manufacturer [Mattel] finances their own film & buys off an American auteur filmmaker to make their very old-fashioned dolls more presentable [..] I didn’t like it”
RIDLEY SCOTT regrets directing ALIEN: COVENANT instead of BLADE RUNNER 2049
"I should not have made this decision, but I had to do it. I should have done Blade Runner 2049”
Last Wednesday, Francis Ford Coppola's MEGALOPOLIS screened in London. Here's a brief reaction via
@LePoint
:
"The film is like Einstein and relativity in 1905, Picasso and Guernica in 1937. Coppola marks a historic new moment for cinema"
Willem Dafoe says Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu” is visually incredible: “It’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen before”
Nosferatu was shot with a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism. An entirely new filter was engineered by Eggers just for the film.
Michael Mann’s FERRARI has been confirmed to world premiere at the Venice Film Festival by its producer.
The film stars Adam Driver, Penelope Cruz and Shailene Woodley.
Martin Scorsese’s KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON is a staggering crime epic. DiCaprio’s best performance. De Niro hasn’t been better in years. A sad-eyed Lily Gladstone will get Oscar recognition.
FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA’s MEGALOPOLIS is aiming for a Cannes world premiere, won’t be more than 2 hours long and is being described as “Julius Caesar meets Blade Runner”
A24 and STEVE MCQUEEN’s WWII documentary OCCUPIED CITY is 262 Minutes (4hrs 22mins)
The film is set to have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next weekend.
WILLIAM FRIEDKIN couldn’t get insured to direct “The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,” so GUILLERMO DEL TORO acted as backup director for him
“Guillermo graciously said yes & despite just having put out Pinocchio he went to set every day to sit next to Billy”
ROBERT EGGERS says NOSFERATU was a “difficult shoot” filled with bad weather.
The film is said to have a look reminiscent of 19th century Romanticism. In fact, an entirely new filter was engineered just for this film.
PAUL SCHRADER says ASTEROID CITY is WES ANDERSON’s best film:
The most Wes Anderson film Wes Anderson has made. And for that reason the best. He has distilled his design-driven anti-empathy film style to its essense. It's hard to find a comparable film.
More details on Lynne Ramsay’s already-shot POLARIS, starring Joaquin Phoenix & Rooney Mara.
The film is being described as a “horror thriller” set in 1890s Alaska & about an ice photographer (Phoenix) who meets the devil. Expect a Cannes 2024 premiere.
Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE: PART TWO screened for exhibitors this week and is being hailed as a “masterpiece” (via
@EmpireCityBO
)
“I can say without reservation that it is INCREDIBLE, a true modern sci-fi masterpiece by Denis Villeneuve.”
CELINE SONG says INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS is the movie that made her want to be a director
“The complete irreverence of it was so freeing. It told me you can change history, you can treat history like it doesn’t matter at all. You can just burn it all down!”
SPIKE JONZE is set to write and direct a sci-fi limited series for Netflix, JOAQUIN PHOENIX in talks to star.
This is one of two projects Jonze is currently working on over at Netflix, the other is an animated limited series.
A Venice programmer raves about DAVID FINCHER’s THE KILLER, comparing it to Melville’s LE SAMOURAI:
“It’s very good. […] almost as if Melville had made a film in 2023. It's remarkable. You don’t even realize how good it is while you’re watching it”
WES ANDERSON’s THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF HENRY SUGAR will tell four short stories from Roald Dahl — his “slightly darker, twisted ones that he wrote for adults”
The film stars Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, and Richard Ayoade
CLINT EASTWOOD, 93, has started filming his final film, JUROR
#2
. He was spotted on-set in Georgia.
The film, a courtroom drama, stars TONI COLLETTE, NICHOLAS HOULT, KIEFER SUTHERLAND and ZOEY DEUTCH.