Fraser finally made a triumphant comeback this year with his performance in Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale,” and, by all accounts, he’ll probably get Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his work. However, he tells GQ that, if nominated, he won’t attend the Globes ceremony: “I have more history with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association than I have respect for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association … No, I will not participate ....

“The Empire” revolves around two opposing forces from the depths of outer space, who unleash an apocalyptic conflict on Northern France’s picturesque Opal Coast. It’s Dumont doing sci-fi. Sold. Dumont’s had an eccentric and genre-hopping career ever since his 1997 debut “La Vie de Jésus”, other highlights in his filmography include “Humanité,” “Li’l Quinquin” and “France.” Camille Cottin, Lyna Khoudri et Anamaria Vartolomei star in “The Empire.” Adèle Haenel had originally been offered a role, but she publicly stated dropping out of the film because the script was “full of jokes about cancel culture and sexual violence....

On a side note, before I get to the bigger story here, Bertrand Bonello (“Nocturama”), whose latest film “Coma” is being critically-hailed at Berlin, will not be able to complete his next film, “The Beast,” in time for Cannes in May. What will also not be ready for Cannes 2022 is Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “On Barren Weeds”. According to “Hanimal”, the film still needs to shoot more outdoor winter shots....

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For comparison, some VFX shot counts: Guardians of the Galaxy: ~2900 Ex Machina: ~800 Fellowship of the Ring: ~500 Inception: ~500 The Matrix: ~400 Grand Budapest Hotel: ~350 Kingsman: ~200 Jojo Rabbit: ~200 Silver Linings Playbook: ~180 Jurassic Park: ~80 Terminator 2: ~60 [via Reddit] Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

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After a less-than-ideal premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, the filmmaker admitted that he rushed the movie to the festival by delivering what he called a “wet cut.” However, after the response at TIFF, Mackenzie went back to the editing bay and created a new cut of the highly-anticipated film. And this new version is tighter and more assembled than the one shown at the fall festival. Recently, I spoke to Mackenzie about the new cut of “Outlaw King,” the comparisons to “Braveheart,” and why the theatrical experience may very well be dead....

The mouse house’s streaming service has announced a near 10 million jump in total subscribers since the last quarter, jumping from 86 million to now a total of 95 million subscribers as of Jan. 2, 2021. That’s up more than 8 million accounts in just one month. During its late 2019 launch, Disney’s goal was to reach 60 to 90 million subscriptions by 2024. Mission accomplished. They have surpassed that number by a whopping three years in advance....

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The doc has appeared in Netflix’s top 10 most popular movies and TV shows list in September and is still listed in its Trending section. During the last week of September, it crept to the number one spot among the most-watched Netflix movies, which marks the first time a documentary has ever been the most popular movie on Netflix in any given month. The Netflix film, from director Jeff Orlowski, is a very spirited affair, but does feel overly-edited, heavy-handed, and isn’t necessarily breaking new ground in depicting the dangers of social media....

This latest “final” trailer is also the best one that’s been released. Gritty, real and artfully shot. What more do you want? I hope the movie exceeds expectations when it premieres at Venice later this week .Joaquin Phoenix as an Oscar contender is becoming more certain by the day … “Joker” is not an origin story as much as it is a crazy clown dude movie.I am fine with that....

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The general consensus is that there was one episode in which everything changed, and that was “The Principal And The Pauper,” (Season 9) where we learn that Principal Skinner isn’t actually Principal Skinner at all, but is actually an impostor, completely rewriting years and years of back-story for characters we’ve known and loved. Others believe it was the Frank Grimes episode. in Season 8, that was the beginning of the end....

Usually, filmmakers try to avoid commenting on the negative reception their films get, they just leave it up to audiences and critics to do the talking. Not Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. His latest film, “Bardo,” has been mostly panned by critics, it’s become one of the big, if not the biggest, disappointment of the fall festival season. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Inarritu says the lukewarm reception his film received is from people who “misunderstood” his film: Wait, did Inarritu just hint at retirement?...

This week, Boyega snapped at a fan on Twitter who claimed “Rise of Skywalker” was an embarrassment, Boyega replied “Embarrassing? LOL you wish. Very fulfilling, some disappointments but yet not that big of a deal. Everyone has moved on.” Boyega joins Daisy Ridley, who earlier this month said the extreme outrage over “The Rise of Skywalker” really upset her, in defending ‘Rise of Skywalker.’ “It’s changed film by film honestly....

The movie starts out with the familiar title font from Woody Allen movies. “I did it already in the past with the short film ‘Working Stories,’ said Guadagnino. “I was asking Ariel Schulman, a director who is also a great visual artist, to draw by hand Woody Allen titles.” Guadagnino disapproves of Allen’s dismissal from Hollywood courtesy of #MeToo allegations brought forth again, more than 20 years after Allen was found not guilty in committing them at the court of law “of all the perverted and primordial enjoyment of a kind of ‘Scarlet Letter’ trial of a man,” he said....

So what gives? I’ll tell you what gives, it’s the fact that the market in America for foreign arthouse is diminishing by the day, even when the population is growing. It’s all part of the mouse house’s mass-cultural warfare against art, they want people to grow uncultured, to view “Toy Story 4” and “The Avengers” as the hippest and most important artistry available in theaters (dig those effects, man. Yeah, right....

Scott Feinberg has his latest predictions up on THR. A few eyebrows are being raised as people noticed he had Margot Robbie (Babylon) in the Supporting Actress category … If that’s the case, and I’m not 100% sure Feinberg is basing this on any intel, then one would surely assume that Robbie is now a major contender not just for a nomination, but a win. The people who saw “Babylon” this Spring believed Robbie would be campaigned as a Lead Actress, but that the whole of “Babylon” is very much an ensembly kinda thing....

Scorsese loved it so much that he went out of his way to pen a letter to A24 in which he gushes about the Mia Goth-starring film: It’s quite simply the best movie currently playing in theaters. A cinematic bonbon filled with mirth and malice. It’s also richly cinematic in its camera movements, photography and, really, just the entire mise-en-scene. Set during the 1918 pandemic, with plenty of townspeople wearing face masks, “Pearl” builds and fully fleshes out its anti-heroine (played by a deliciously twisted Mia Goth)....