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05 Jun

BE WATER: Director Bao Nguyen Reveals Bruce Lee’s Fight Against Racism in America

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It’s been 47 years since Bruce Lee’s shocking death at age 32. He would have been 80 this November. And yet, his groundbreaking legacy is as compelling and relevant as ever. Lee was the first global Asian celebrity and remains the most prominent.  Lee’s legacy can still be felt around the world. BE WATER, a new documentary on Bruce Lee, premieres on ESPN on June 7. From director Bao Nguyen, the film combines rare archival photos and footage along with revealing interviews with Lee’s surviving family and friends, offering an intimate look at the world’s most famous martial arts master.…

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15 May

Scarface Remake Finds Its Director in Luca Guadagnino

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It appears the Scarface remake has a new friend in the director’s chair, but his resume isn’t that little. Indeed, Universal Pictures announced Thursday that Luca Guadagnino, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind 2017’s Call Me By Your Name, has been tapped to direct the long-gestating Scarface reboot. The news comes paired with the announcement that Guadagnino will be working from the version of the screenplay written by Joel and Ethan Coen, who know a thing or two about crime dramas after making such films as Fargo and No Country for Old Men. Their version is additionally built off earlier drafts by…

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08 May

Revival: New Stephen King Movie to Be Adapted by Doctor Sleep Director

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Mike Flanagan, the horror auteur behind The Haunting of Hill House and last year’s theatrical version of Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep, is attached to yet another King property: the 2014 novel Revival. Deadline reports that Flanagan will write an adaptation of the novel for Warner Bros. Pictures “with an option to direct,” so he’s not confirmed yet to do the latter. Flanagan is also going to produce the project along with his regular producing partner, Trevor Macy, through their Intrepid Pictures banner. Revival has been acclaimed as one of King’s better recent novels, and at 405 pages, one of his…

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06 May

Bright Sequel Taps Incredible Hulk Director Louis Leterrier

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Bright, the 2017 fantasy thriller headlined by superstar Will Smith, had a distribution strategy that now—about three short years later in the midst of a pandemic—proved bellwether in hindsight. That’s because the project that was tailor-made to be a big screen blockbuster bypassed a theatrical release to premiere as an exclusive streaming offering on Netflix. While the film had its obstacles with critics (our own review was no exception), the streaming giant quickly greenlit a sequel, which is now moving forward with a director. Louis Leterrier is in talks to occupy the director’s chair for the untitled Bright sequel, according…

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30 Apr

Transformers Animated Prequel Movie Set with Toy Story 4 Director

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The Transformers film franchise is getting a new kind of offering from its proverbial AllSpark, an animated prequel movie. The early details imply ambitious designs for this project, and the studios tapped a major talent from the world of animation, Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley. Hasbro’s eOne and Paramount are moving forward with a project described as a big-scale Transformers animated prequel feature designed for theatrical release, according to Deadline. The story will be set on Cybertron, the planet from which the gigantic protean automatons originated, set several years before the main story, focusing on the early relationship between…

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24 Apr

Netflix’s Extraction Director Breaks Down That One-Take Action Sequence

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The new Netflix movie Extraction stars Chris Hemsworth (Avengers: Endgame) as Tyler Rake, a highly efficient mercenary who is dispatched to Dhaka, Bangladesh to rescue the teenage son of a drug lord from an even more ruthless one. With a big bad kingpin controlling the streets, Rake and Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) must fight for every inch of the way to get out of the city and make it to freedom. Produced by Anthony and Joe Russo (from Joe’s screenplay) and directed by Sam Hargrave, stunt coordinator and second unit director on the Russos’ Marvel movies, Extraction is already getting a…

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16 Apr

American Psycho Director Recalls Fighting Against Leonardo DiCaprio Casting

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It’s a very thin line to walk between comedy and horror. Yet filmmaker Mary Harron skipped over it so perfectly with American Psycho that, 20 years later, people are still talking about it. Indeed, we recently unpacked the subversive feminism Harron brought to Patrick Bateman, a yuppie serial killer in Armani suits as realized by author Bret Easton Ellis, and Harron herself is now making the press rounds to talk about the film—including how she almost didn’t make it when Lionsgate fired her and her early choice for Bateman: Christian Bale. As hard as it is to imagine now, there…

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11 Apr

Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot Finds Its Director

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A director has been announced for New Line’s upcoming film version of Stephen King’s classic novel, ‘Salem’s Lot, and it seems the search did not have to go too far or wide: Gary Dauberman, who’s already writing the screenplay, will now get behind the camera as well for the James Wan-produced project, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Dauberman made his directorial debut last year on Annabelle Comes Home, easily the best of the three Annabelle movies and a genuinely creepy exercise in its own right. Dauberman has also written the Annabelle trilogy, as well as The Nun, and also co-wrote…

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09 Apr

The Batman Director Matt Reeves on Tim Burton and Christopher Nolan’s Films and His Own Vision

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Having picked up the reigns on The Batman from a weary Ben Affleck, who had been attempting to develop a solo Batman movie since donning the cowl in Warner Bros’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Justice League, director Matt Reeves understands that there’s a lot riding on his new vision for the Dark Knight, and in a new interview with Nerdist, he’s been looking back on the films that came before, and how he can create a unique Bruce Wayne story, borne from trauma. Reeves cast Robert Pattinson as the iconic DC character in his upcoming movie, which…

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25 Mar

Cult Horror Director Stuart Gordon Dies at 72

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Filmmaker and theater director Stuart Gordon passed on March 24, as his family confirmed to Variety.  The cause of death was not released as of press time. Gordon was 72. Best known  for his directorial debut Re-Animator, as well as indie horror favorites From Beyond and Abel Ferrara’s Body Snatchers, the latter of which he wrote, Gordon was also the co-creator of the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise. He wrote the first film with an eye to direct, and he would go on to produce the sequel Honey, I Blew Up the Kid and write on the TV series.…

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10 Mar

New Mutants Director Josh Boone Debunks Reshoot Rumors

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The New Mutants is, at long last, set to make its debut in April – two whole years after its intended release. Indeed, the film was designed as a tonally off-beat expansion of Fox’s long-held X-Men movie rights, but Disney’s 2019 acquisition of the studio temporarily rendered it an abandoned oddity. However, director Josh Boone thinks the film still has something to offer, and, in a new interview with EW, dispels the long-held notion that it was subject to extensive reshoots. Boone, also known as the director of 2014’s The Fault in Our Stars, finally dished about the delays that…

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05 Mar

Doctor Strange Director Scott Derrickson Will Helm Bermuda for Skydance

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Scott Derrickson has signed on to direct the upcoming thriller Bermuda for Skydance with Captain America actor Chris Evans in talks to star, according to Variety. The film has been in development at Skydance since 2013. No other studio is currently attached, though Skydance has a distribution and finance deal with Paramount. Derrickson will rewrite the script with C. Robert Cargill, his collaborator on the first Doctor Strange film, which came out in 2016. The film earned $677.7 million worldwide and brought Benedict Cumberbatch into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The most recent draft of the Bermuda screenplay was written by…

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05 Mar

Hocus Pocus 2 Finds Director

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Double double toil and trouble. We already knew Disney was developing a sequel to the much-beloved classic Hocus Pocus, but now a director has been attached to the project, which is the next step in bringing the story to the big screen. The original 1993 film was directed by Kenny Ortega (he of High School Musical fame) from a script by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris. The sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has Adam Shankman attached to direct. Shankman has previously directed films like Hairspray and A Walk to Remember. He is also attached to produce Disney’s Enchanted sequel,…

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21 Oct

The Current War: Director’s Cut

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Three brilliant visionaries set off in a charged battle for the future in The Current War, the epic story of the cutthroat competition that literally lit up the modern world. Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) is on the verge of bringing electricity to Manhattan with his radical new DC technology. On the eve of triumph, his plans are upended by charismatic businessman George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon), who believes he and his partner, the upstart genius Nikolai Tesla (Nicholas Hoult), have a superior idea for how to rapidly electrify America: with AC current. As Edison and Westinghouse grapple for who will power…

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04 Oct

Director Travis Knight on bringing Bumblebee to life

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Director Travis Knight on bringing Bumblebee to life The director of the Transformers spin-off talks about the robots' 'streamlined' new look and taking inspiration from his '80s heroes Interview May 18, 2019 From https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/bumblebee/62420/bumblebee-interview-travis-knight

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23 Apr

The Man Who Killed Hitler & Then The Bigfoot director on his bizarre, wistful horror debut

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The Man Who Killed Hitler & Then The Bigfoot director on his bizarre, wistful horror debut The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot director Robert D. Krzykowski on the year’s strangest indie horror adventure... Interview Apr 23, 2019 From https://www.denofgeek.com/uk/movies/64855/the-man-who-killed-hitler-then-the-bigfoot-director-on-his-bizarre-wistful-horror-debut

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16 Sep

Why Nightwing’s Director Thinks The Movie Will Actually Win An Academy Award

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CinemaBlend recently talked to Nightwing director Chris McKay about his upcoming DC film, and he promised an Academy Award win for Dick Grayson's solo movie. Here's what he specifically had to say. CinemaBlend recently talked to Nightwing director Chris McKay about his upcoming DC film, and he promised an Academy Award win for Dick Grayson's solo movie. Here's what he specifically had to say. Source from..

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16 Sep

The DCEU Movie Kingsman’s Director Is In Talks For

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After working on three superhero flicks for 20th Century Fox, Matthew Vaughn in now in talks to direct a DC hero. After working on three superhero flicks for 20th Century Fox, Matthew Vaughn in now in talks to direct a DC hero. Source from..

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16 Sep

IT Is Getting A Director’s Cut, Here’s What It Will Probably Include

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An IT director's cut has been officially announced, and director Andres Muschietti has revealed a couple of additions that will likely make it to the extended version. An IT director's cut has been officially announced, and director Andres Muschietti has revealed a couple of additions that will likely make it to the extended version. Source from..

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16 Sep

Why The Power Rangers Took So Long To Morph, According To The Director

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The Power Rangers movie took a long time to get the protagonists to morph into the Ranger forms. Director Dean Israelite has explained why this was the case. The Power Rangers movie took a long time to get the protagonists to morph into the Ranger forms. Director Dean Israelite has explained why this was the case. Source from..

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