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‘Lost City Of Z’ Director James Gray Has Had It Up To Here With Cannes The Cannes Film Festival won’t be sending directorJames Graya nice Edible Arrangement anytime soon. TheWe Own the NightandLost City of Zfilmmaker has some harsh words for the fest, claiming that the folks running Cannes are stuck in the past, and “protectors of the status quo.” The filmmaker also offered an update on his sci-fi filmAd Astra, which stars Brad Pitt and Ruth Negga – a film Gray is determined to take his time working on....

‘On The Basis Of Sex’ Review: A Competent Case For Ruth Bader Ginsburg The Icon, But Not The Human Being There’s a scene in almost every teen TV drama where the teacher describes the theme of the episode that will come to pass over the next 45 minutes. The majority ofOn the Basis of Sexis like that. TheRuth Bader Ginsburgbiopic starsFelicity Jonesas the trailblazing lawyer who later becomes one of our foremost Supreme Court justices and only the second female Supreme Court justice in history....

‘Ouija’ Movie Moves Forward As ‘Bates Motel’ And ‘Percy Jackson’ Stars Nab Leads There was a moment when Hollywood seemed to think that turning boardgames into movies was a brilliant idea, but so far we’ve heard about far more failures than successes.Battleshipwas a notorious disappointment (it did do better overseas than in the US), and after years of developmentCandyland,Monopoly, andHungry Hungry Hipposhave yet to get off the ground. Nevertheless,Ouijais still determinedly chugging along, and now it even has the beginnings of a cast....

‘Pete’s Dragon’ TV Spot: Deep In The Forest, There Dragons Will Be Adding to the barrage of Disney’s remakes, late this summer comes a contemporary take onPete’s Dragon, the film that blended animation with live-action all the way back in 1977. This looks like a magical update of the old movie from Ain’t Them Bodies Saints director with a performance from young starOakes Fegleythat feels like the kind of child actor that Steven Spielberg would have discovered....

‘Suicide Squad’ Explained: Who’s Who In That Comic-Con Trailer? One of the buzziest trailers to come out of this year’s Comic-Con wasSuicide Squad.As Russ put it, the footage teased “a viciously detailed film, with a real eye for keeping things grim and weird.” It won the interest of fans and non-fans alike. Which is all well and good for Warner Bros. — but if you fall into the latter category, you might’ve found yourself as confused by the trailer as you were intrigued....

‘Testament Of Youth’ Trailer: Alicia Vikander Struggles Through WWI Since making the transition to English-language films,Alicia Vikanderhas been building a solid CV, or at least one dotted with big films. There’sThe Fifth Estate,Anna Karenina, and forthcoming filmsThe Man From UNCLE,Seventh Son, and Derek Cianfrance’sLight Between Oceans, just to name a few. More specifically, she’s got the WWI dramaTestament of Youth, which shot this past spring with James Kent directing and co-starsKit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, andAnna Chancellor....

‘The Walk’ Trailer: Robert Zemeckis And Joseph Gordon-Levitt Perform A High-Wire Act Robert ZemeckisandJoseph Gordon-Levittare telling their own version of the event that made front-page news in the 1970s, whenPhilippe Petitand a team of conspirators strung a wire between the World Trade Center towers in New York City so that Petit could perform a high-wire walk hundreds of feet above ground. The story has all the tension and planning of a heist, and the daredevil spectacle of the most insane physical feats, but the real idea underlying Petit’s act was artistic....

‘Welcome To The Blumhouse’: Release Date, Cast And More (Welcome to…And More, our no-frills, zero B.S. guide to when and where you can watch upcoming movies and shows, and everything else you could possibly stand to know.) Blumhouse has spent years establishing itself as your one-stop shop for all things horror, boosting the voices of distinctive artists who have spooky stories worth telling. 2020 marked the first time Blumhouse joined forces with Amazon to host a special event for four filmmakers with four horror movies....

‘Westworld’ Season 2 Casts ‘Lost’ Actor As New Samurai Character In case the headline wasn’t enough, we’re pretty much going straight into some pretty insaneWestworldspoilerswith this news. So act accordingly. Hiroyuki Sanadahas joined the cast ofWestworldseason 2 and his character will clearly build on on the silliest and most awesome reveal from the first season finale of HBO’s incredible science fiction series. Sanada will play the role Musashi. And all the evidence suggests that Musashi is a robot samurai....

10 Characters Keri Russell Definitely Will Not Be Playing In ‘Star Wars: Episode 9’ Even though it’s still a year and a half away, the rumor mill is already hitting lightspeed forStar Wars: Episode 9, especially as we begin to get more of an idea of what the film will actually look like. Thefirst big announcementwas thatThe AmericansstarKeri Russellwould be joining the cast. And, of course, as is the way of the contemporary pop culture press, everyone has an idea of just who Keri might be playing in the next installment of the biggest franchise in the galaxy....

2008 Oscar Noms - So What Do You Think? Before we dive into today’s non-Oscar-related news, this is a forum to express your thoughts on the nominations for the 80th Academy Awards. I’m not sure why I expected to grimace when the bigger categories were announced. Good choices, all. It’s hard to say, for me at least, that any notable pictures were snubbed, except forThe King of Kong, one of the top three highest rated films of 2007, for Best Documentary Feature....

Bill Murray’s Climactic Kingpin Scene Involved Over 1,000 People As is the story with many quirky Hollywood comedies, the 1996 bowling comedy “Kingpin” from Peter and Bobby Farrelly (collectively known asThe Farrelly Brothers) was a box office bomb that developed a cult following. The film follows washed-up former bowling prodigy Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson) who lost his hand shortly after his pro debut, and his rival, the eccentric, wild-haired Ernie “Big Ern” McCracken....

Box Office Tracking: ‘Joker’ Likely To Beat Both ‘Gemini Man’ And ‘The Addams Family’ Two new wide-release movies are headed to theaters this weekend: Ang Lee’sGemini Man, and the rather terrible-looking animatedAddams Familymovie. But it looks like the Clown Prince of Crime will continue to reign, as box office tracking indicates thatJokeris expected to remain in first place. Not even two Will Smiths and cartoon Oscar Issac are enough to stop Joaquin Phoenix and his weird dance moves....