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2020 Sundance Film Festival Awards: ‘Minari’ Impresses Both Jurors And Audiences The2020 Sundance Film Festivalis coming to a close, and the awards for various achievements in filmmaking have been announced. As usual, the awards were spread out among a wide variety of films, honoring dramatic narratives, documentaries, world cinema, and more. But one movie came away with the top prizes from jurors and audiences. Coming Away with the U.S. Grand Jury Prize in the dramatic category, as well as the Audience Award, isMinarifrom directorLee Isaac Chung....

A Guide To Cinema’s 10 Greatest Spooky Romances When people are looking for movies to watch during the Halloween season, their eyes are often turned to the Horror genre. But what about the other emotional aspects of what many (including yours truly) considers “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year”? And more importantly, what about…love? That’s right, All Hallow’s Eve can be quite the time for some romance to be in the air!...

A Short History Of The Gorn In The Star Trek Universe This episode contains minorspoilersahead for episode 4 of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.” Canon is a funny thing in the world of “Star Trek.” The franchise, which has churned out 12 criss-crossing series (and just as many movies) in its 56-year history, has to tread carefully where continuity is concerned. Iffirst contactwith an alien species is said to occur in one series, it’s difficult to feature them in others that occur earlier — tempting as the concept might be....

Ain’t Them Bodies (Decapitated) Saints: Director David Lowery On A Scene From ‘The Green Knight’ What do a decapitated Christian saint and the 1984Star WarsTV movieCaravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventurehave in common? They were both influences on writer-directorDavid Lowery, whose commentary in a new video explains how these two seemingly disparate things came together to inform a scene in his new movieThe Green Knight, in theaters this weekend. The New York Timeshas posted an “Anatomy of a Scene” video in which Lowery walks you through a full five-minute scene fromThe Green Knight, unpacking the various influences at play....

AMC Continues To Struggle, Selling Even More Shares To Stay Afloat The future of movie theaters remains somewhat up in the air right now, andAMC– the largest theater chain in the United States – is suffering. As a result, AMC has just filed to sell up to 50 million more shares of stock with the hopes of staying solvent (solvency allows a company to meet its long-term debts and financial obligations)....

Antoine Fuqua’s Will Smith-Led Emancipation Postponed Until 2023 At Apple TV+ “Emancipation,“the upcoming runaway slave drama directed by Antoine Fuqua and starring Will Smith, has reportedly had its Apple TV+ release delayed in the aftermath of Smith’sonstage assaultof comedian and host Chris Rock at this year’s Academy Awards. The film had been eyeing a festival run for the fall of 2022 and was considered a possible Oscar contender, with some even predicting that Smith might pull off two consecutive Best Actor wins for it and “King Richard....

Better Call Saul Season 6 Trailer Breakdown: It’s Not Gonna Go Down The Way You Think It Is After taking the past 2 years off, “Better Call Saul” is finally just about back to re-establish itself as one of the greatest, most well-written television shows of the last decade or so — essentially taking the crown from its original parent series, “Breaking Bad.” Neither a pandemic nor a scary, life-threateningheart attacksuffered by star Bob Odenkirk during filming could put a stop to AMC’s plans to bring the spin-off/prequel series in for a landing with itssixth and final season, set to debut next month....

Billy Zane To Play Marlon Brando In Biopic ‘Waltzing With Brando’ If you uploadedBilly Zane’s face into one of those apps that compare faces to other celebrities' faces, you’d probably getMarlon Brando. And it seems like Zane himself realized that, because he is set to play the legendary actor himself inWaltzing with Brando, a biopic based on a memoir by Brando’s architect,Bernard Judge. Zane is set to produce and play the lead inWaltzing With Brando, the biopic about Marlon Brando based on a memoir of the same name by Judge, according toVariety....

Concept Art Revealed For Aborted ‘Superman’ Films By J.J. Abrams And Bryan Singer One of the first pieces of online film journalism to truly legitimize the profession wasDrew McWeeny’sSeptember 2002 evisceration of aJ.J. Abramsscript for a film eventually referred to asSuperman: Flyby. McWeeny, then working forAin’t It Cool Newsunder the name “Moriarty,” ripped apart Abrams' script so completely, and in such a public forum, that he is widely credited for killing the film....

Don’t Take Chris Evans' Captain America Shield From Him Just Yet In Hollywood, nothing and no one is infallible. At some point, Marvel Studios will realize that. Some thought The Avengers would be a problem; others assume this summer’sGuardians of the Galaxywould be their first misstep. Neither was. The Edgar WrightAnt-Mancontroversy is the next speed bump and, after that, the big issue could be the fact that many of Marvel’s major stars are ending their contracts....

Dreamworks Animation Closes PDI Studio, Cuts 500 Jobs The animation world was rocked this week asDreamworks Animationclosed itsPDI Studioin northern California. The closure comes as part of an expected round of Dreamworks Animation layoffs, but the 500 jobs that were cut this week far exceeded expectations, and the closure of the studio had not been predicted at all. Along with these layoffs comes a significant reduction in production, as the company’s planned three film per year output will now back off to only two films: one original per year, and one sequel....

Fantastic Fest Reviews: Eagle Eye And Just Another Love Story Ole Bornedal’sJust Another Love Storyis what I imagine While You Were Sleeping would’ve be like if Guillermo del Toro had remade the Sandra Bullock romantic comedy as a dark dramatic thriller. Anders W. Berthelsen stars as Jonas, a forensics photographer who is involved in a traffic accident that sends a young woman into a coma, but leaves Jonas and his family unscratched....

Fargo Season 3 Might Feature An Older Version Of A Season 2 Character Season one ofFargowas 2006 and season two went back to 1979, but when will season three take place? FX Networks and FX Productions CEOJohn Landgrafknows when the third season ofFargowill be set. And also, will we see any characters from the previous two seasons in Fargo season 3? Learn the details after the jump. Speaking with the Television Critics Association, Landgraf gave some info about the new season....