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Sam Esmail Sets Sci-Fi Film ‘Tesseract’ With Glen Powell To Star, Lands at Amazon/MGM — Shoots This Summer
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‘Splitsville’ Director Sets Next Film at Netflix, Dark Comedy ‘The Last Fix’
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‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ Wraps Six-Month Production — “Teleplay”?
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Aug 19, 2019
3-Hour ‘Midsommar' Director's Cut Screened in NYC
Aug 19, 2019

This year’s 12th edition of the Scary Movies festival at Film at Lincoln Center premiered Ari Aster’s extended version of “Midsommar” this past Saturday.

Aug 19, 2019

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Kathleen Kennedy Reveals the Fate of Star Wars Films From Fincher, Mangold, Waititi, Glover, and Kinberg

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Kennedy acknowledged that while Lucasfilm has attracted some of the most sought-afterfilmmakers working today, boldness and risk aversion remain in tension — leaving many projects alive, or quietly stalled.

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Kathleen Kennedy Officially Stepping Down From Lucasfilm This Week

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Over the next week or two, Disney will make official what’s been an open secret for quite some time now: Kathleen Kennedy is leaving her position as president of Lucasfilm.

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Sam Esmail Sets Sci-Fi Film ‘Tesseract’ With Glen Powell To Star, Lands at Amazon/MGM — Shoots This Summer

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Here’s THR’s Heat Vision reporting that Glen Powell is teaming up with filmmaker Sam Esmail for a sci-fi film titled “Tesseract,” which has landed at Amazon/MGM and United Artists.

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‘Splitsville’ Director Sets Next Film at Netflix, Dark Comedy ‘The Last Fix’

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

After the acclaim of his recent comedy, “Splitsville,” not to mention his well-shot indie debut “The Climb,” Michael Angelo Covino has found his follow-up over at Netflix.

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‘The Adventures of Cliff Booth’ Wraps Six-Month Production — “Teleplay”?

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Cameras started rolling in July on ‘Cliff Booth,’ and now, almost six months later, David Fincher has wrapped.

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Tony Gilroy’s ‘Behemoth!’ Has Seven Different Composers: “Love Letter to the Music of Movies”

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Gilroy has hired a staggering seven composers to work on the film, including James Newton Howard (”The Hunger Games”) and, I can also confirm, Alan Silvestri (”Back to the Future,” “Forrest Gump”).

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Joe Carnahan’s ‘The RIP’ Hits Netflix With $100M Budget and Review Embargo Still Not Lifted

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

After midnight tonight, at 3 a.m., Netflix will release a new film starring Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Teyana Taylor—without any reviews available.

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Cate Blanchett to Star in ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ — Starts Shooting in 2026

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Given her pedigree, I’ll always write about what Blanchett does next. That said, her next film is apparently going to revolve around riding dragons in IP land.

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First Look: Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller Bridge's ‘Tomb Raider'

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

For a moment, I had to make sure this image was real, and not some other deepfake. No, it’s genuine — this is Turner as Lara Croft.

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Robert Downey Jr. and Timothée Chalamet Embrace ‘DUNESDAY': “We’ll See if We’re Still Friends By Then.”

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

If Warner Bros. are really planning to go head-to-head with a potential juggernaut like “Avengers: Doomsday,” then I say: why not? Movie theaters desperately need another “Barbenheimer,” and this would surely do the trick.

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Maggie Gyllenhaal’s $100M Gamble: Warner Bros. Unleashes the Wild Trailer for ‘The Bride’

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

We finally have our first full trailer for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride” — and, honestly, this is an absolute barrage of images, with barely any plot to decipher from.

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James Gray to Direct ‘The Sun Also Rises’ Adaptation With Vanessa Kirby Attached to Star

January 15, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

While James Gray has already completed shooting his next film, “Paper Tiger,” which may premiere at Cannes this year, he is now preparing his subsequent project.

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‘Rivals of the Amziah King’ Sets August 2026 Release — Over 3 Years After Filming Wrapped

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

The folks over at Black Bear, who financed the film, and which recently launched its own U.S. distribution arm, have decided to just release the damn thing themselves.

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‘Send Help’ Marks Sam Raimi’s First R-Rated Movie in 26 Years

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“Send Help” has been MPA-rated, and has received a much-welcome “R” for “strong/bloody violence and language” — Raimi’s first since 2000’s “The Gift.”

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Scott Cooper to Direct Roswell/UFO Movie for 20th Century

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

As upcoming projects from Joseph Kosinski and Steven Spielberg take shape — not to mention last year’s “The Age of Disclosure” — it’s now Scott Cooper’s turn to ask if the truth is out there.

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‘Babygirl’ Director Halina Reijn Sets Next Feature, ‘Please,’ With A24; Gracie Abrams Set to Star

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

“Babygirl” director Halina Reijn has written her next film, and A24 is once again attached for what sounds like another sexually charged drama.

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Josh Safdie Confirms ‘Marty Supreme’ Was Supposed to End With Kevin O’Leary as a Vampire

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

So, Kevin O’Leary wasn’t kidding around when he said “Marty Supreme” should have ended with him turning into a vampire— in fact, that’s originally what Josh Safdie wanted.

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Warner Bros. Film Chiefs Defend ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ as Misunderstood: “It Was Really Revisionist”

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

As their 2026 slate gets prepped up, De Luca and Abdy decided to speak to The Wrap, choosing to address “Joker: Folie à Deux,” and their belief that it’s a misunderstood film.

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‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Trailer Arrives, Premiere Set For April 12

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

It’s quite impressive how they’ve managed to bring back the entire cast for this one, many of whom have graduated to movies since the last season.

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Woody Allen’s Next Film Has $14M Budget and Will Shoot This Spring With a “High-Profile” English-Language Cast

January 14, 2026 Jordan Ruimy

Well, it’s official: Woody Allen, who just turned 90, is shooting a new film in the spring. The working title is WASP 2026, an acronym for Woody Allen Spring Project.

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