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Takashi Yamazaki To Direct New ‘Godzilla’ Film for Toho Studios

©Courtesy of Toho  Seventy years after his debut in 1954, Godzilla is still wreaking havoc on the big screen. Toho Studios has announced that a new film featuring the iconic kaiju will be made, helmed by Takashi Yamazaki, who recently wrote and directed Godzilla Minus One. The “emergency announcement” from Toho merely stated the fact…

Tom Cruise in Talks for Days of Thunder 2

©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Tom Cruise and Paramount Pictures have reportedly been in talks about a sequel to his 1990 NASCAR racing movie Days of Thunder, according to THR. Maybe it’s not one that you’d expect it…but the original film was produced by the original ‘Top Gun’ team, consisting of director Tony Scott, producer Don…

‘Conclave’ Production Designer Suzie Davies on Recreating the Vatican and on Mike Leigh’s ‘Hard Truths’ (Interview)

Production designer Suzie Davies was already nominated for an Oscar for designing Mike Leigh’s 2014 period drama, Mr. Turner, starring Timothy Spall as the British Romantic era painter, J.M.W. Turner. Last year, Ms. Davies found and designed the amazing central location that was the titular Saltburn for Emerald Fennell’s dark thriller. Now, she’s teamed up…

Joseph Gordon-Levitt to Lead Darren Aronofsky-Produced Horror Film ‘Pendulum’

©James Cameron Story of Science Fiction Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has signed on to star in Pendulum, an upcoming horror flick for Protozoa written and directed by Mark Heyman, who authored the screenplay for Black Swan. Gordon-Levitt was recently acclaimed for his appearances in The Dark Knight Rises and Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F. Filming will…

Jim Mickle Reportedly Directing New Live-Action ‘Gundam’ Film

©Courtesy of Sunrise  Jim Mickle is reportedly set to write and direct Gundam, a new live-action film being created for Sunrise and Legendary Pictures. As reported in Deadline, production is expected to begin in early 2025, though few details are known about content. Mickle, the showrunner for Sweet Tooth, will be producing the film with…

NYCC: Daredevil: Born Again / Q&A with Actors Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio

©Courtesy of Disney+ Much like the complex protagonists they’re glorifying on screen, comic book adaptations are determinedly fighting to remain significant in the public gaze in recent years. With public interest in such adaptations wavering latey, Marvel Studios is revamping the MCU with the reintroduction of one of its most popular superheros, Daredevil. The titular…

‘Conclave’ Composer Volker Bertelmann on Finding the Right Sound for the Vatican Thriller (Video Interview)

In the time between getting his first Oscar nomination for scoring the film Lion and winning the Oscar for scoring, All Quiet on the Western Front, German composer and pianist Volker Bertelmann has remained busy, balancing his film and television work with a career as a solo artist under the moniker of “Hauschka.” Bertelmman’s latest…

Billy Zane’s ‘Waltzing With Brando’ to Premiere at Torino Film Festival

©Courtesy of Torino Film Festival Billy Zane’s highly anticipated biopic, Waltzing With Brando, is set to have its world premiere at this year’s Torino Film Festival in Italy, Variety is reporting. The SAG Award-nominated actor plays the movie’s titular character, Marlon Brando. The upcoming drama was written and directed by Tapeheads filmmaker, Bill Fishman. His…

Presence Official Trailer : Starring Lucy Liu, Julia Fox and Directed by Steven Soderbergh

After its debut at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh‘s haunted house exploration Presence finally arrives in theaters on January 24, 2025. Neon took the movie out of the Park City lineup at the end of this year and is now adding ‘Presence’ to its growing list of horror movies after the success of…

‘Endurance’ Filmmaker Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi on Retelling the Tragic Antarctic Journey of Ernest Shackleton (Video Interview)

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel In recent years, Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi have become two of the foremost documentary filmmakers after winning the Oscar for their 2018 doc, Free Solo, about mountain climber Alex Honnold. That was followed in quick succession by docs The Rescue (recreating…

Your Monster : Exclusive Interview with Director Caroline Lindy, Actors Kayla Foster & Edmund Donovan

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on…