Steven Soderbergh recently reflected on 'Black Bag,' lamenting the dissonance between its critical success vs. its lackluster draw at the box office.
Movies and TV productions are rapidly leaving California to film outside the United States, where labor costs are lower and tax incentives greater. Industry workers are exasperated.
Warner Bros.’ unusual agreement with the director has rival executives sweating, with some saying it sets a “dangerous” precedent.
The script for Sinners began circulating among studios in Hollywood in the winter of 2023 and resulted in a bidding war by January last year: a wild drama-thriller cum survival-horror flick set in Jim Crow–era Mississippi featuring blues-music set pieces, steamy sex scenes, Deep South occultism and dozens of Riverdancing vampires. More central to the project’s commercial potential, it had been written, and would be directed, by Ryan Coogler — the creative force behind Marvel’s $1.4 billion–grossing Black Panther — and star his frequent filmic muse Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as identical-twin gangsters turned juke-joint-owner brothers named Smoke and Stack. As one studio after another began clamoring to pay Sinners’s $90 million-ish asking price, the director’s agents at WME notified them of a few strings attached. Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-offic
Yo, listen up, here's a story about a little guy that lives in a blue world.
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue, like him, inside and outside.
Blue his house with a blue little window and a blue Corvette.
And everything is blue for him and himself and everybody around, 'cause he ain't got nobody to listen...
Official Discussion - Sinners
Summary:
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Director: Ryan Coogler
Writer: Ryan Coogler
Cast:
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
Metacritic: 85
VOD: Theaters
Shawn Levy's "Star Wars" movie starring Ryan Gosling officially titled "Star Wars: Starfighter" — releases May 28, 2027
Shawn Levy's "Star Wars" movie starring Ryan Gosling officially titled "Star Wars: Starfighter" — releases May 28, 2027
What's the craziest thing that ever happened at your workplace?
As in, they'll have to take the bus instead?
You don't.
It's their garden now.
New poster for "The Fantastic Four: First Steps"
The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters July 25
The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Official Trailer | Only in Theaters July 25
Movie theaters will show a 70 minute presentation of just movie trailers and select scenes as part of a special look at the Best of CinemaCon 2025.
Can they do it backwards?
Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts* | Final Trailer | In Theaters May 2
"Sinners" is Certified Fresh with 99% on Rotten Tomatoes
With 82 reviews, it has an average rating of 8.70 out of 10.
Is this from Avatar?
Disney's 'Snow White' has been banned in Lebanon due to presence of Israel's Gal Gadot.
"Thunderbolts*" has been rated PG-13 by the MPA for strong violence, language, thematic elements, and some suggestive and drug references.
Sure.
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Florence Pugh jumped off the second tallest building in the world while filming "Thunderbolts."
Removed for being negative about Zack Snyder or his work.
I don't disagree, but the headline is a bit misleading. The director is saying that COVID and Zoom affected his ability to properly plan out the movie.
"I think none of us, none of us anticipated how complicated things were gonna be with Covid. Not just in terms of what we're shooting, but then you have to do pick-up shots or reshoots and you have six people that are all on different sets and every one of those sets is getting shut down because the cities have opened up, and now there's a Covid outbreak and it was just like... we couldn't prep in a room together, I couldn't be with my stunt people, I couldn't do pre-vis, everyone's spread all over the place.
"You can't prep a movie on that scale over Zoom and I think we all thought we could pull it off and we got our asses handed to us a bit."
George Lucas in shambles rn
Yep. This is the slippery slope we're on.
It all starts with, "All we want is to get married to who we love!", then soon it's, "Look, we just want access to the Federal Reserve, is that too much to ask?", and finally it ends with, "WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED! TAKE THE ESTROGEN PILL!"
