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Alas, “Blonde” has now been moved by Netflix into a 2022 release date. The film was supposed to have its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, only to then be pulled out of the Venezia lineup by Netflix. Recent rumours have pointed towards the sudden move having to do with Dominik and the streaming giant fighting over final cut. Back in June, Cannes general delegate Thierry Frémaux said that Netflix had turned down an out of competition slot for “Blonde”....

We’ve already gotten an Ailes TV mini-series this past summer, with Russell Crowe taking on the role of the head honcho in “The Loudest Voice,” but Roach has decided to concentrate on the women in “Bombshell.” The same ones who tried to take on Fox News and Ailes in multiple lawsuits. This all eventually lead to Ailes being ousted from the company over charges of sexual harassment and workplace harassment....

Total receipts for Thursday and Friday came to just $1.84 million. With another $2.5 million coming on Saturday and Sunday, “Bros” stands to even make less than $5 million for its entire opening weekend. “Bros” has a budget of around $20-25 million, with, it seems, much more put into publicity and marketing. Despite the great reviews, this means that the public had no interest in seeing not only a gay rom com, but one with graphic sex scenes....

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Having not seen the film yet, I can’t comment on whether this is an Oscar player, but the people I’ve spoken to don’t believe that it is. And yet, I’m still inclined to believe that the starry cast, the film’s message and Adam McKay’s worth in the industry may push this one again into the Best Picture race. Remember, Vice only had a 61 Metacritic score and still ended up getting 8 Oscar nods....

Wilde compared her psychological thriller to “Inception”, “The Matrix” and “The Truman Show.” So, she’s basically setting the bar up very high for this one. Good luck with that. Wilde said that the film lived through Florence Pugh’s head. “This performance is something you have to see to believe. You are witnessing the birth of a full-fledged movie star.” The “Don’t Worry Darling” trailer shown was said to resemble a psychedelic, and saturated ‘Stepford Wives’....

With all that being said, theater chains like AMC, Regal, and Cineplex are nearing their last breaths with the news today that Denis Villeneuve’s much-anticipated sci-fi epic “Dune” has been delayed from its December release to an October 21st, 2021 release. Yikes. This comes after “No Time to Die,” “Black Widow,” and “Wonder Woman 1984” were pushed back as well. Contribute Hire me Advertise Donate Team Contact Privacy Policy

“The Fabelmans” will go wider in a few weeks, and it’s currently tracking at an opening of around $5-7 million dollars. Not earth-shattering, but also not terrible for this kind of movie. It does stand the best chance out of the three titles to do well. However, a major red flag is that Spielberg’s last film, “West Side Story,” bombed at the box office with just $38 million grossed domestically on a $100 million budget....

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The synopsis says the film is about “sexually depraved misfits” (played by Turturro, Bobby Cannavale and Audrey Tautou) who go on a joyride of romance and crime. The film also costars Pete Davidson, Jon Hamm. Susan Sarandon (in the Jeanne Moreau role) and Sonia Braga. The trailer (below) feels a little “off.” This film will not compare to the 1998 classic that it derives from? No way, no how. Screen Media will be distributing and releasing Turturro’s three-year-old film on February 28th....

The film seems to be a personal one for Baumbach, having gone through his own divorce with actress Jennifer Jason Leigh back in 2010, shortly after their son was born. He spoke [via IndieWire] about how that experience with Leigh helped shape him creatively for “Marriage Story.” “It’s extremely personal for me, but it really became this thing where I felt like everybody was bringing themselves to it.” He continued, “Because I’ve gone through a divorce and also been through it as a child, there are things from my experience that of course, I could draw from....

“I had the honour of attending the Nightmare Alley screening last night. It felt like a work in progress, some of the musical cues were a little off and the editing was not smooth, it was still a great time. The structure is as noir as it gets. This is not a crowd pleaser, there are no likeable characters (except for Mara). Dan Laustsen’s photography steals the show, some of the shots here are stunning....

Set in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s, the film revolves around the Australian mass killer of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, which led to scathing changes of gun control law in that country. We all know how it’s going to end, but it doesn’t even matter. In “Nitram,” we’re witnessing 21st century isolation, a millennial whose distant and troubled relationship with his parents, not to mention his inability to fit into society, will ultimately lead him down a very dark and heinous path of destruction....

As seen in the trailer for “Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula,” there is no reason to believe this sequel won’t be as good if not better than the original, especially with now-expanded production values and the cinematic world being more attentive to Korean cinema (after the “Parasite” Oscar win). The film takes place four years after the first entry and follows a group of government-commissioned mercenaries going into zombie-infested lands to find a prize worth millions of dollars....

I saw Seligman’s film earlier in the year and was floored by the swirling energy of her camera and the edge-of-the-seat mise en scène. Seligman, who wrote, directed, and co-produced the film, manages to turn a Jewish day of mourning into a frightfully comic treat. Based on her short of the same name, this impressively choreographed romp opens with Danielle (Rachel Sennott) having sex with older guy Max (Danny Deferrari) at his swanky loft....

Meanwhile, Princess Diana biopic “Spencer” is just not the box-office success many were predicting. All this, despite Kirsten Stewart remaining the Best Actress Oscar frontrunner. Over its fourth weekend of release, “Spencer” made just $610 per theater in 346 locations. The weekend take was a limp $211,028. The theatrical run for “Spencer” seems to be coming to a close now. It briefly played in 1,200 theatres, then NEON retreated it to 954, and it was then cut by two thirds this weekend....

A woefully classic case of putting concept before story, “Tenet” is heavy on pseudo-science as it tackles time-travelling through reverse engineering, in a clear-cut world-hopping hommage to James Bond movies, but with a sci-fi twist. There is no way a single viewing is sufficient to understand the full breadth and scope of Christopher Nolan’s byzantinian vision. He plays around with time and place in sometimes playful, but ultimately frustrating ways....

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Wes Anderson’s style is as recognizable as they come. No other filmmaker could come up with the minutiae attention-to-detail he delivers in “The French Dispatch.” The problem is that this anthology of short stories, which just premiered at Cannes, feels like Anderson on steroids. The obsessively constructed frames, and solid colours synonymous with his works are still here. It all amounts to a nice little homage to journalism & French culture....