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Greenwich Entertainment Acquires North American Rights to ‘Aum: The Cult at the End of the World’

©Sundance Institute  Greenwich Entertainment has just acquired the North American rights to Aum : The Cult at the End of the World, a documentary about the Japanese doomsday cult that engineered a sarin-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995. The film will be released at select theaters and on home-entertainment platforms beginning this…

French Director Leos Carax’s Next Project: ‘It’s Not Me,’ an Autobiopic

© 2012 – Pierre Grise Productions French director Leos Carax’s next project, It’s Not Me, is an autobiographical film that will star Denis Lavant, who has been the leading man in several of his previous movies, including Boy Meets Girl, Bad Blood, Lovers on the Bridge, and Holy Motors. It’s also been rumored that Adam Driver…

Ridley Scott in Talks with Paramount about Bee Gees biopic

Ridley Scott is reportedly talking with Paramount Pictures about directing an upcoming biopic about the Bee Gees musical group. Though nothing has yet been finalized, Deadline is reporting that Scott would also produce the as-yet-untitled film along with Michael Pruss, Graham King, and Stacey Snider. John Logan, who will write the script, had earlier been…

Todd Phillips’ ‘Joker: Folie a Deux’ Will Not Be a Musical

Speculation has been rampant about whether the upcoming Joker  sequel will or will not be a musical. Though Lady Gaga will be one of the leads, cinematographer Lawrence Sher insisted to an interviewer that “it’s not a musical per se, it just has music in it. The music is part of the film and the…

‘Madame Web’ Released Among Dakota Johnson’s Complaints of ‘Drastic’ Script Changes

Madame Web, Sony’s latest Marvel film, has been released today to the general disapproval of critics, and amid reports by star Dakota Johnson that the script underwent “drastic changes” during production. “And I can’t even tell you what they were,” Johnson was quoted in The Wrap as saying. In Madame Web, Johnson plays the leading…

Ben Wang Nabs a Lead in “Karate Kid”

Sony Pictures has found the protagonist for the new karate kid movie: Ben Wang, star of Disney+ series American Born Chinese, will lead the new installment of the martial-arts franchise after being selected among thousands and thousands of candidates. On the first day Sony had received 10,000 entries for the role. The new Karate Kid…

THE CONTESTANT : About a Japanese Reality TV Star / Hulu May 2

This true story of a Japanese reality TV star left naked in a room for more than a year, tasked with filling out magazine sweepstakes to earn food and clothing, prompts innumerable questions about our culture of oversharing.Before the onslaught of reality television in the West, there was an ominous harbinger in Japan of what…

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire -New Images

© Courtesy of Empire  Directed by Adam Wingard, the upcoming MonsterVerse flick Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire promises to thrill viewers with an epic battle between the two legendary kaiju monsters. The two antagonists may be less hostile to each other as they join forces to oppose Skar King, another primate bent on mayhem and…

‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Movie May be Shelved Forever by Warner Bros.

© Warner Bros. Discovery Coyote vs. Acme may never be released, as Warner Bros. Discovery has refused all offers from other studios and streamers for the feature’s distribution rights, according to The Wrap. The news of the movie’s potential permanent shelving follows reports from last year that state it written off for tax purposes at the…

Is Tom Cruise in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘The Movie Critic’?

Photo by Scott Garfield/Scott Garfield – © 2022 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All rights reserved. Tom Cruise is allegedly talking with Quentin Tarantino to join the cast of The Movie Critic, which may be the swan song for the legendary director. The news was reported by The Insneider. According to Jeff Sneider, Cruise is focused on his Mission:…

Kevin Williamson To Develop Four TV Series for Universal, Including ‘Rear Window’ and ‘The Game’

© 1954 – Paramount Pictures Kevin Williamson and his Outerbanks Entertainment group will be developing four TV series as part of a new deal with Universal Television. Two of them will be reboots of classic thriller films: Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) and David Fincher’s The Game (1997). According to Deadline, which broke the news this…