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‘Sicario’ Sequel ‘Soldado’ Will Find Out What Happens When Josh Brolin & Benicio Del Toro Are Fully Unleashed
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Taylor Sheridan rolled into the Sundance Film Festival this week with his directorial debut “Wind River,” which according to our Noel Murray, makes good on the talent of the screenwriter behind “Sicario” and “Hell Or High Water.” But it’s not a surprise that as Sheridan did the rounds in Park City, many were curious about “Soldado,” the sequel the electric “Sicario” that’s now filming.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Fall In ‘Love’ With The First Look At Season 2 Of The Netflix Series
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Gotta be honest here, I have not watched a single episode of “Love,” and only have a vague inkling ofthe premise, but presumably it’s about…love. Anyway, for those of you who have fallen for the Judd Apatow-produced Netflix series, season two is right around the corner.
Read More: The 20 Best TV Shows Returning In 2017
The streaming servicehas dropped the first taste of the new batch of episodes starring Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, and this handy synopsis provides a peek into where their characters will be headed next:
The series follows nice guy Gus (Paul Rust) and brazen wild-child Mickey (Gillian Jacobs) as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, love and other things they were hoping to avoid.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
The Producers Behind ‘Arrival’ Are Already Planning Their Next Ambitious Sci-Fi Movie
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“Arrival” took an acclaimed short story by Ted Chiang, adaptedit into a smart sci-fi script, and made what turned into a box-office hit and nominee for eight Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. Now, the producers behind the movie are hoping to make that formula work again.
Read More: Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Arrival’ With Amy Adams & Jeremy Renner Is Great, Gravity Defying Sci-Fi [Venice Review]
Shawn Levy‘s 21 Laps have tapped James Ponsoldt (“The Spectacular Now,” “The End Of The Tour“) to direct “Inconstant Moon,” with the project set up over at Fox 2000.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘The Salesman’ Star Taraneh Alidoosti Boycotting Oscars To Protest Donald Trump’s Visa Ban
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We’re not even a full week into Trump’s America, but it seems each passing day comes with something new that causes simultaneous feelings of outrage, fear, and horror. The latest is an executive order on immigration, which features, among other things, suspending visitor visas from Muslim-majority countries includingIraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen. Xenophobic and hugely misguided, the announcement sparked immediate protests, and the movie industry is already responding.
Taraneh Alidoosti, the lead actress in Asghar Farhadi‘s Best Foreign Language Film nominee “The Salesman,” has announced she will not be attending the Oscars.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
New Video Essay Explores What Can Be Learned About Scientology From Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘The Master’
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Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “The Master” covers a lot of territory as it tracks the post-World War II dysfunction of a Naval veteran who briefly finds a purpose with the enigmatic cult leader Lancaster Dodd, but how it glances against Scientology can’t be ignored. From the parallels to the life of L. Ron Hubbardto certain practices within the belief system, the film puts clues to the controversial church throughout.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
30-Minute Podcast Explores Hollywood’s Career Changing The Black List
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“Here’s to the fools that dream,” goes the tagline for “La La Land,” and it’s a perfect summary of Los Angeles and Hollywood, where the clich that every busboy is a screenwriter and every bartender is an actress seems to be pretty close to reality. But it’s the opportunity of overnight success that keeps people coming from all over the country to tryto make it big, and Hollywood is still the place where that can happen.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
‘Apocalypse Now’ Will Give Gamers The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning
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Francis Ford Coppola is continuing his experimentation with new forms of storytelling with a Kickstarter campaign for an “Apocalypse Now” role-playing video game. The game is being developed by the team behind such games as “Gears Of War,” “Fallout,”and “Battlefield.” As Coppola’s company American Zoetrope stated, the game, described as a “psychological horror,” is “a cinematic narrative with roleplaying game mechanics set in the midst of the Vietnam War.
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- Christian Gallichio
‘The Flash’ Is Starting Over From Scratch
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Say what you will about Marvel, but they have a well-oiled blockbuster machine. Kevin Feige has perfected their process of bringing together all kinds of talent — actors, directors, writers — and getting them on the same page for each movie. Sure, some have been irked here and there by the process where individual creative choices tend to be muted for the greater good of a four-quadrant movie (see Alan Taylor and “Thor: The Dark World,” for example), but by this p0int, everyone knows what they’re in for when signing up for a Marvel project.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Drake Doremus’ ‘Newness’ Starring Nicholas Hoult Puts A Fresh Spin On Familiar Relationship Problems [Sundance Review]
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The early scenes of the contemporary romance “Newness” make it seem like the movie is going to be a frank critique of dating in the iPhone age, when apps make it easier to find a mate — at least for the night —but also make it easier to ignore them once the sex is over. Director Drake Doremus and his frequent writer/producer partner Ben York Jones open “Newness” with a frenzied montage of swiping and screwing, facilitated by a dating app called Winx.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Nicholas Hoult Is J.D. Salinger In The By-The-Numbers Biopic ‘Rebel In The Rye’ [Sundance Review]
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Park City —Danny Strong is a two-time Emmy-winning screenwriter who wrote “Game Change,” “Recount” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.” He also co-created a little series you might have heard of called “Empire.” Tackling the life of one of America’s greatest literary voices might have been a bit much for his directorial debut. That’s the thought that starts to percolate through your mind as you sit through the J.D.
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- Gregory Ellwood
Asghar Farhadi’s ‘The Salesman’ Is Compelling, But Falls Just Short Of Greatness [Review]
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There is nogreater chronicler of the minute but manifold disappointments and disillusionments of which irreparable rifts in relationships are made than Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.His last four films — “Fireworks Wednesday,” “About Elly,” “A Separation” and “The Past” — have all examined compromised coupledom in some way. And all have provenFarhadi’s astonishing capacity to trace the ramifications of the incredibly ordinary — an unanswered door, a well-meaning white lie, a forgotten phone — as they unspool with tick-tock clockwork logic toward extraordinaryclimaxes, that feelboth inevitable and unexpected.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Richard Kelly Says He’s Planning Another ‘Donnie Darko’ Movie
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The story of director Richard Kelly is one of breakout talent, high expectations, a colossal crash and a fading away from the spotlight. Sixteen years ago this month, the filmmaker became the toast of Sundance with “Donnie Darko,” and by the end of 2001,Hollywood was his oyster. Kelly used his cachet to make “Southland Tales,” a sprawling, star-studded misfire that went into the Cannes Film Festival for its big premiere and never recovered from the reviews.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Oscars: Supercut Celebrates The 2017 Best Picture Nominees
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The Oscar nominations are in, and now begins the road to the ceremony next month, andthe conversation tends to turn toward which movies deserve to win. There will be backlash against contenders (“La La Land“) and controversies about those nominated (Mel Gibson, Casey Affleck), and it can be easy to forget that the nine nominees for Best Picture are, mostly, pretty damn good.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
The War Isn’t Over In Trailer For Josef von Sternberg’s Newly Restored ‘Anatahan’
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Kino Lorber is issuing a new 2K restoration of Josef von Sternberg’s final film “Anatahan“in theaters next month. VonSternberg was a prominent figure in the late silent-movie era of the ’20s and transitioned easily to sound pictures. In his 1930 film, “The Blue Angel,” he introduced Marlene Dietrich to the world; they would collaborate together on six more pictures, including “Morocco” (1930), “Blonde Venus” (1932) and “The Devil Is A Woman” (1935).
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- Christian Gallichio
Podcast: Over/Under Movies Discuss The Most Underrated Movies Of 2016
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Welcome back to Part Two of our Over/Under Movies year-end extravaganza. Last week, we took our overrated films of 2016 down a peg or two, but this week we return to positivity as we each suggest five different films that might have flown under your radar in 2016.
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I’m joined by my co-host Oktay Ege Kozak (Erik McClanahan is out again this week) as we discuss family films, foreign-language films, dark comedies, and more that we feel didn’t get as much love as they should have this year.
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- Ryan Oliver
R.I.P. Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)
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Mary Tyler Moore, who made TV audiences everywhere believe we might just make it after all, has passed away at the age of 80.
Television and comedy trailblazers don’t come much bigger than Moore. After first gaining fame with her Emmy-winning turn on “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” she launched the hugely influential and groundbreaking “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” in 1970.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
First Trailer For ‘Spotlight’ Director Tom McCarthy’s Netflix Ya Drama ’13 Reasons Why’ Unravels A Mystery
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The movie world was probably at the feet of Tom McCarthy after “Spotlight” was the surprise winner for Best Picture at the Oscars last year, which also landed the filmmaker a statue on his shelf for Best Adapted Screenplay. But instead of leaping to another prestige project, or trying his hand at blockbuster fare, McCarthy took the unexpected routeof going to Netflix, teaming with Selena Gomez (yes, really) and co-producing and directing the Ya drama “13 Reasons Why.” Generally, the phrase “Ya drama” would be cause for pause, but McCarthy’s involvement and the compelling teaser have us intrigued.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
The 30 Breakout Performers & Filmmakers Of The 2017 Sundance Film Festival
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We’re a week into the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, and, like American democracy, things are starting to wind down. Most of the major movies have premiered, critics have their favorites (and least favorites), and many of the hot-ticket movies have already been snapped up by distributors, with the box-office success of “Manchester By The Sea” fueling a healthy market for sellers. There’s plenty more to come — we’ll be filing more reviews in the days ahead— but we wanted to start to take a view of the festival as a whole.
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- Oliver Lyttelton
Unlikely Resistance Leader Michael Bay Is Producing A Trump-Style Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie
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To those who claimed that Donald Trump would become presidential once he sat behind the desk in the Oval Office…we’re still waiting. So far, Trump has used his time in the White House to start endangering the health of women both at home and abroad, order his Press Secretary to lie about the attendance at the inauguration, start silencing various government departments online, and in general show that the most powerful leader in the world in the world has an even morefragile ego than was previously thought possible.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
Bryan Singer Isn’t Done With X-Men Yet
25 January 2017 10:26 AM, PST
Last fall, reports surfaced about 20th Century Fox‘s future big-screen plans with their various Marvel properties, but it was said that one name long associated with the X-Men brand would be moving on: Bryan Singer. But perhaps unable to fully pull himself away from tales about mutants, Singer is staying involved, this time on the small screen.
The Wrap reports that the director will helm the first episode of Matt Nix‘s brewing, untitled series on Fox TV, which just landed a pilot order.
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- Kevin Jagernauth
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