@Courtesy of Life Itself As if making a film about Jesus Christ weren’t enough, Martin Scorsese is reviving plans to make his long-delayed biopic about Frank Sinatra, with Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly being considered to play the iconic crooner. The 81-year-old auteur is currently working on a film about Jesus that is based on a book by…
Studio Ghibli Honorary Palme d’or of the 77th Festival de Cannes © Hayao Miyazaki / Studio Ghibli Studio Ghibli, the acclaimed Japanese animation studio, will receive an Honorary Palme d’Or at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, which runs from May 14 to 25. This will be the first time the award has been given to…
©Courtesy of Viz Media VIZ Media and Marvel Comics have agreed to collaborate on a project that will make Marvel’s content available to VIZ subscribers. Under the aegis of VIZ Media, the VIZ Manga service provides access to content in the English-speaking world. At the moment, it has an inventory of some 10,000 chapters, which…
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…
Directed by Julio Quintana and based on the novel Mustang Miracle by Humberto G. Garcia, The Long Game is a heartwarming tale of how five Mexican-American high-schoolers overcome bigotry and stereotyping to form an award-winning championship golf team with the help of a coach who refuses to give up on them. It is also a…
Eleanor Coppola, a documentary filmmaker who was married to Francis Ford Coppola for 61 years, died in the family home in Rutherford, California on April 12. She was 87. Eleanor Jessie Neil was born in Los Angeles in 1936 and studied design at UCLA before beginning her career in the film industry. She met her…
Is Megalopolis turning into a Megaflopolis? Despite the fact that Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie will kick off the Cannes Film Festival in May, and despite the fact that Coppola has created some of the most iconic films of the past half century, including the three Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the…
©Lovecraft Country/Courtesy of HBO Actor Jonathan Majors has been sentenced to spend 52 weeks in a domestic-violence intervention program for third-degree reckless assault and harassment.He had been convicted in December on the charges, which are punishable by up to one year in prison. If he does not satisfactorily complete the program in Los Angeles, he…
The Second act © Chi-Fou-Mi Productions This year’s Cannes Film Festival—the 77th—will open on May 14 with Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist comedy Le Deuxième Acte (The Second Act), starring Léa Seydoux, Vincent Lindon, Louis Garrel, and Raphaël Quenard. The film, which will be shown out of competition at Cannes, will debut in theaters in France on…
©Photo by Nick Briggs – © BBC America Sandra Oh will be appearing in Lionsgate’s Good Fortune, the directorial debut film by Aziz Ansari. The star-studded cast of the upcoming comedy already includes Seth Rogen, Keanu Reeves, and Keke Palmer, with Ansari himself playing a role as well as writing the script. Ansari, who had…
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