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David Lynch Launches $500 Million Mental Health And Meditation Initiative For College Students CBS Television Distribution By Debopriyaa Dutta/April 15, 2022 12:27 pm EST While our hearts collectively shattered after learning that David Lynch, will, in fact, not be premiering a film at Cannes this May, he certainly is busy with other (non-film-related) projects. According to IndieWire, Lynch has launched a $500 million mental health program under his David Lynch Foundation, which aims to provide training for Transcendental Meditation for 30,000 college students....

How Nosferatu Director F.W. Murnau Queered The Cinematic Vampire Forever Prana Film By BJ Colangelo/March 21, 2022 11:04 am EST Celebrating its 100th birthday this year, F.W. Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is the first widely-known vampire film. The unauthorized retelling of Bram Stoker’s 1896 novel “Dracula,” Murnau’s “Nosferatu” is one of the most celebrated works of German expressionist cinema. While “Dracula” took inspiration from the lesbian vampire novella “Carmilla” and Bram Stoker was rumored to be a closeted homosexual, it was Murnau’s deviation from “Dracula” that allowed him to use “Nosferatu” as a vehicle to explore the social and sexual anxieties during 1920s Germany, thereby queering the cinematic vampire forever....

League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Reboot In The Works 20th Century Studios A seemingly unlikely reboot is in the works at Hulu. “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” the comic book from the legendary Alan Moore and artist Kevin O’Neill that was famously turned into an underwhelming blockbuster in 2003, is getting a do-over from Disney’s 20th Century Studios. This time, the franchise will get a new shot at life in the streaming world....

Ms. Marvel Directors Adil And Bilall’s Movies, And Where You Can Watch Them Disney By Erin Brady/June 7, 2022 2:00 pm EST We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, more widely known as Adil and Bilall, are having quite the moment in Hollywood. In just a few short years, the Belgian directing duo skyrocketed from making low-budget independent films to high-stakes action flicks....

Paranormal Activity’s Alternate Endings Change Everything Paramount Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/May 10, 2022 2:29 pm EST At their core, found footage movies attempt to adopt a verisimilitude of their own making, whether it’s actually trying to make people believe it’s real or not. They’re inherently built upon the foundation that what we’re about to see is the result of something bad that’s happened to the people behind the camera, and we’re the sickos watching it all unfold....

Paul W.S. Anderson Bluffed His Way Into Becoming Mortal Kombat’s Director New Line Cinema By Bill Bria/May 5, 2022 8:35 am EST As the old aphorism goes, “fake it till you make it.” While the usefulness of the axiom is highly debatable, it does seem to genuinely work for some folks, provided they apply it in the right place at the right time. For director Paul W.S. (don’t call him Thomas) Anderson, the right place and the right time happened to be Hollywood in the mid-’90s....

Spider-Man: No Way Home Breaks The Multiverse With Staggering $253 Million Opening Weekend Sony By Deshawn “DeLa Doll” Thomas/Dec. 19, 2021 2:53 pm EST Sony’s “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has been breaking hearts and records this weekend. The third installment of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s “Spider-Man” movies managed to rake in a colossal $253 million in domestic box office earnings opening weekend. This far exceeds the projected $130-$150 million that the film was expected to gross during its debut; in fact, “No Way Home” had already earned $120 million on opening day, making it the first pandemic-era release to earn over $100 million in one weekend, and the only film to swing past that goalpost in a mere day....

Winds of Change STXfilms This acquisition by Lionsgate comes during a period of immense shake-ups in recent years, such as AT&T getting into (and, just as quickly, out of) the movie distribution game with WarnerMedia, causing no shortage of headlines or, well, headaches given their massive impact on Warner Bros. library of movies going straight to HBO Max streaming. As for Lionsgate, the studio also acquired a partial stake in Spyglass Media Group in 2021, signaling their interest in expanding their own library of IP that has apparently extended to STXfilms, as well....

The Batman Borrows A Few Key Christopher Nolan Ideas — And Breaks The Rest Warner Bros. By Debopriyaa Dutta/March 6, 2022 7:13 pm EST Warning: spoilers ahead for “The Batman” To make a comparison between Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” trilogy and Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” is as tedious as it gets; the success of a beloved trilogy should not be the sole reference point for appreciating Reeves’ vision (and frankly, comparison was never the point)....

Give Me Moody Batman, Now! Warner Bros. Save for the detractors who are incapable of realizing Robert Pattinson has done a lot more than his role in “Twilight,” audiences seem pretty psyched for this new, traumatized, moody version of the Dark Knight. Pattinson has described the character as “a freak” engaging in “bad self-therapy,” but not focused on the done-to-death origin story of a young Bruce Wayne witnessing his parents being murdered in front of him....

The Batman Will Be Nearly 3 Hours Long Warner Bros. By Witney Seibold/Jan. 20, 2022 4:09 pm EST As Roger Ebert was fond of saying, “No good film is too long, and no bad film is short enough.” As Matt Reeves’ “The Batman” has not yet been released (it has been delayed several times, and is currently set to be released on March 4, 2022), no one can speak to its quality, pacing, plot, or what sort of elaborate narrative Reeves and his co-screenwriter Peter Craig have created, so we can only postulate as to why the following run time may be warranted....

The Fallout Director Megan Park On The Importance Of Little Details, Adding Levity To A Traumatic Story, And More [Interview] The Fallout director By Jack Giroux/Feb. 2, 2022 6:41 pm EST “The Fallout” is an exceptional debut film. Its understated compassion, natural dialog about school shootings and PTSD, and intensity combined with the mundanity of coming of age, all make for a poignant drama. There’s nothing calculated about the naturalism crafted by writer and director Megan Park, who was influenced by filmmakers such as Sean Baker, Mélanie Laurent, and Sofia Coppola....

The Reason Dan Stevens Walked Away From Downton Abbey PBS By Matthew Bilodeau/May 6, 2022 8:59 am EST As “Downton Abbey: A New Era” fancies its way into theaters this month, fans of the hit British soap opera are bound to revisit the series prior to the new film. The posh and romanticized drama of aristocrats and their downstairs staff is known for many things, but its stellar cast of characters is perhaps its best asset....

The Stunningly Practical Way Shadow Achieved Its Signature Look Perfect Village Entertainment By Jeremy Mathai/May 20, 2022 11:50 am EST How does one even attempt to sum up the sprawling joys of 2018’s “Shadow”? Take the operatic and larger-than-life nature of Shakespeare plays, mix in a little Kurosawa influence (“Kagemusha” in particular would likely pair well with this one), wrap it all in a surprisingly humorous tale about courtly intrigue, add in the fact that it just so happens to feature characters wielding umbrellas that unsheathe into countless serrated blades in one of the coolest weapon reveals you’ll ever see, and perhaps that comes at least vaguely close to describing the sweeping drama at the heart of Yimou Zhang’s film....

The Surprising Way 2001: A Space Odyssey Influenced Silence Of The Lambs Orion Pictures By Miyako Pleines/March 21, 2022 9:47 am EST You know the voice. It’s calm, collected, barely tinged with emotion or emphasis. When you listen to it speaking, you find yourself both soothed by it and also disturbed, the cadence so calming it almost feels like a threat. If you’re a fan of Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs,” perhaps this description reminds you of the voice Anthony Hopkins chose to use in his assured portrayal of Hannibal Lecter....

Everything Everywhere All at Once A24 Release Date: March 25, 2022 The filmmaking team Daniels, made up of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, are known for their out-of-this-world weirdness. Their feature directorial debut “Swiss Army Man” is about the unlikely friendship between a suicidal man and a farting corpse, and their upcoming film, “Everything Everywhere All At Once,” looks just as beautifully bizarre. “Everything Everywhere All At Once” stars Michelle Yeoh as a Chinese-American woman who is trying to finish her taxes but ends up going on a multiverse-hopping adventure....

‘I cry a lot in my life’ Utopia I never have a passive reaction to your movies, so thank you for that. Awesome. Thank you. Did you cry watching “Vortex?” Yes. I appreciated you never tried to provide catharsis or anything to make an audience feel better. I was asking because I feel it’s very normal to cry. I made a melodrama and I wanted people to cry. But when people say, “No, I did not cry, but it touched me,” I’m always scared by people who say, “I didn’t cry....

One person, fractured Disney Dissociative identity disorder is more commonly known as “multiple personality disorder” (it’s also often erroneously referred to as schizophrenia, which is something entirely different). “Multiple” describes what people see on the outside; they see what appears to be multiple different personalities in the same body, each taking their turn at the front. But what the person experiences internally is actually more of a splitting or fracturing. Once you understand the difference, it becomes a lot easier to understand the journey from one personality into two, or many, when looking in from the outside....

Why Elton John Turned Down A Lead Role In Harold And Maude Paramount Pictures By Natalia Keogan/March 22, 2022 3:11 pm EST Now that Elton John’s formidable career as a rock ’n’ roll legend has finally gotten the silver screen treatment, it would be remiss to ignore the countless other times the ostentatious performer has himself graced film with his presence: “Spice World,” “Tommy,” “The Country Bears” — all the classics, essentially....

ABC By Valerie Ettenhofer/June 21, 2022 2:12 pm EST In a press conference at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival reported on by Variety, the actor explained that he had “a bucket list” of acting opportunities he wanted to take advantage of across his career, and that he felt like he had ticked most of them off after “Bone Tomahawk.” “I wanted to do a Western. It’s a very odd Western, but it’s a Western....