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Damien Chazelle to Direct New Feature for Paramount

According to an announcement at CinemaCom, Paramount will be backing Damien Chazelle’s next film, despite the red ink the studio incurred in producing his Babylon, which reportedly lost some $87 million. Few details are available about the new project, but it reportedly will be set in a prison and will be scripted by the director…

Director Damien Chazelle Reflects on His Post-Babylon Future

Damien Chazelle’s 2022 film Babylon was, by all accounts, a flop. With a budget of $80 million, it grossed a paltry $15 million domestically, though it picked up $48 million overseas. Reviews were tepid—57% on Rotten Tomatoes and C+ on CinemaScore—and even the star power of Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie could not persuade the…

Damien Chazelle Beguiled Cinephiles During His Masterclass At The Museum Of Cinema In Turin

The youngest-ever filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Director was celebrated in the Italian city where silent films moved their first steps, just a fortnight after Tim Burton’s  visit.  It is in the very Museum of Cinema — where the figure of the Moloch, featured in the 1914 epic movie Cabiria, currently stands…

Director Damien Chazelle Selected as Top Juror at Venice Film Festival

Photo by Photo Credit: Scott Garfield/Scott Garfield – © 2022 PARAMOUNT PICTURES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The jurors have been selected for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which will run for its 80th season from August 30 to September 9. Heading the panels will be the U.S. director Damien Chazelle, whose acclaimed movies La La Land and…

Film Review – Damien Chazelle’s Hollywood Epic ‘Babylon’ is Pure Chaos

The golden age of Hollywood was a time of tremendous output and transformation which has now given way to a film industry that looks very different and which creates content in an entirely new and unimaginable way. online pharmacy ocuflox over the counter with best prices today in the USA Yet so much of cinema’s…

Olivia Wilde To Star in Gregg Araki’s ‘I Want Your Sex’

©Photo by Beth Dubber/Netflix   Olivia Wilde will star in I Want Your Sex, an upcoming feature that Gregg Araki is directing for Black Bear Productions. Araki and Karley Sciortino collaborated on the script for the film, which will begin shooting in Los Angeles this summer. Wilde will play the role of Erika Tracy, an…

National Museum of Cinema in Turin: Exclusive Interview With President Enzo Ghigo & Director Domenico De Gaetano

In the ancient capital of Italy (Torino lead the Kingdom of Italy right after it’s unification in 1861 until 1865), there is the impressive National Museum of Cinema. This institution welds the beauty of architecture of the Mole Antonelliana with the history and futurism of the motion picture industry. This is one out of the…

Brad Pitt and Quentin Tarantino to Reunite on ‘The Movie Critic’

©Courtesy of Sony Pictures Brad Pitt is set to reunite with Quentin Tarantino on the latter’s upcoming feature, The Movie Critic, Deadline is reporting. The actor and writer-director previously collaborated on 2009’s Inglourious Basterds and 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. The performer went on to win the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor…

Sundance’s Top 10 Feature Films List of Past 40 Years

@Sundance Institute Whiplash has topped the list of the top 10 feature films that have screened during the Sundance Film Festival over the past four decades, Variety is reporting. The psychological drama, which premiered in competition at the festival in 2014, was written and directed by Damien Chazelle. After the movie’s premiere, the filmmaker was nominated…

The 80th Venice Film Festival Awards-Full List- : Ryusuke Hamaguchi Won the Grand Jury Prize

A prestigious Italian film festival, the 80th Venice Film Festival handed out the Golden Lion to Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things.” The Greek filmmaker’s latest, which also stars Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, is based on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the same name and follows Stone as Bella Baxter, a creation of the brilliant and…