Here is our final group of directors whom we have categorized as The New Breed, the ones we have watched in recent years and will continue to over many years to come.
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Timothée Chalamet Kicks Off 'Marty Supreme' Filming in First Set Photos From A24 Ping Pong Movie
Timothée Chalamet as Marty Supreme in upcoming ping pong movie (image courtesy Getty)
by Ethan Shanfield
Timothée Chalamet has been spotted around Manhattan in costume as production gets underway for "Marty Supreme," his upcoming A24 movie about a professional table tennis player.
In the set photos, Chalamet is sporting a 1950s hairstyle, round wire-framed glasses and an oversized white shirt underneath a blue sweater vest.
Josh Safdie helms "Marty Supreme," his first solo feature directorial effort since 2008. Joining Chalamet in the cast are Gwyneth Paltrow (in her first on-screen movie role since 2019's "Avengers: Endgame") and Tyler, the Creator (in his film debut). Odessa A'zion also stars alongside magician Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller), investor and "Shark Tank" personality Kevin O'Leary (aka Mr. Wonderful) and "Bad Lieutenant" filmmaker Abel Ferrara. Plot details are unknown, but A24 posted an image of a ping pong ball with the words "coming soon" after Variety broke news of the project in July.
Safdie and Ronald Bronstein wrote the original screenplay for "Marty Supreme" and produce alongside Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Chalamet and A24.
Bill Skarsgård Is a Monstrous Vampire Terrorizing Lily-Rose Depp in Chilling New Nosferatu Trailer
by Tommy McArdle and Jen Juneau
It's almost time for Nosferatu.
On Monday, Sept. 30, Focus Features released a new trailer for filmmaker Robert Eggers' upcoming movie Nosferatu, giving a glimpse at Bill Skarsgård's look as the vampire at the heart of its story.
"You've had these spells since childhood. Tell me what you can, from the beginning," Willem Dafoe's character tells Lily-Rose Depp's, Ellen Hutter, before she recounts her horrific memories.
"It is like a dream. It was our wedding. When we turned around ... everyone was dead," Ellen says. "The stench of their bodies was horrible. Standing before me was ... death."
"But I'd never been so happy," she adds chillingly.
The movie "is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake," according to an official synopsis.
Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Ralph Ineson and Simon McBurney also star in the new movie, which is a remake of the 1922 German silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.
A previous teaser for the movie released in June teased Depp's character Ellen as she is haunted by the vampire, while characters portrayed by Dafoe, 69, and Hoult, 34, seek the monster - also known as Count Orlok - out.
Both this movie and the original Nosferatu are based on author Bram Stoker's classic 1897 gothic horror novel Dracula.
MEGALOPOLIS' CinemaScore Is WORSE Than Any Superhero Movie Ever Released In Theaters
by JoshWilding
Megalopolis has been generating headlines for years. First, it was about how legendary filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola had to self-finance his epic sci-fi movie because no studio was willing to touch it.
Then, we heard the director had reportedly fired the majority of the Megalopolis' visual effects team during production, prompting other crew members, including the entire art department, to exit due to what they called an "unstable filming environment."
More recently, Coppola has been accused of acting inappropriately on set, though it's unclear whether there's any truth to the allegations.
Then there was the trailer with AI-generated quotes from "critics" and Megalopolis' 49% score on Rotten Tomatoes which suggested Coppola's supposed magnum opus was anything but the masterpiece he'd promised.
With the movie now playing in theaters, regular moviegoers have chimed in...and wholly rejected Megalopolis. Boasting a D+ CinemaScore, it ranks among the worst-rated wide releases ever and scores lower than any superhero movie (the lowest-rated Marvel title is 2015's Fantastic Four with a C-, while DC's worst is Superman IV: The Quest for Peace's C).
Why the comparison? Well, Coppola has become one of the superhero genre's biggest detractors, declaring that they shouldn't be considered "cinema" and that "Martin [Scorsese] was kind when he said it’s not cinema. He didn’t say it’s despicable, which I just say it is."
It appears the filmmaker may have now realised that making movies like this isn't as easy as he believed, and with Megalopolis eyeing a dismal $5 million opening weekend, the $120 million budgeted title is also shaping up to be one of 2024's biggest flops.
Box Office: 'Megalopolis' Bombs With D+ CinemaScore, 'Wild Robot' Soars to No. 1
Nathalie Emmanuel and Adam Driver hanging out in Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" (image courtesy Lionsgate)
by Pamela McClintock
DreamWorks Animaton and Universal's family film The Wild Robot is charming moviegoers and audiences alike, boasting both a stellar 98 percent Rotten Tomatoes critics score and a 98 percent audience score, not to mention an A CinemaScore from moviegoers. Thanks to great word of mouth, Wild Robot came in No. 1 with an estimated $35 million.
If only the love were being spread around.
Francis Ford Coppola - in one of the low points of his long and illustrious career - is watching his new movie Megalopolis get almost utterly rejected by moviegoers (it was likewise maligned by many critics). The film received a disastrous D+ CinemaScore from audiences and only cleared an estimated $4 million in its domestic debut (many rivals predict final numbers will be lower). Heading into the weekend, tracking and Lionsgate expected it to do at least $5 million to $7 million.
While The Wild Robot came in ahead of tracking, many had predicted the film would do big business, particularly after Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment's fellow PG animated film Transformers One opened behind expectations last weekend.
Wild Robot is based on Peter Brown's beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected bond with an orphaned gosling and other creatures after being shipwrecked on a lonely island. Oscar nominee Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods) directed and wrote the movie, which tells a story of the bridge between nature and technology. The high-profile voice cast is led by Lupita Nyong'o, Kit Connor, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Nighy and Stephanie Hsu, alongside Mark Hamill, Matt Berry and Ving Rhames.
Overseas, the CGI-animated pic earned another $9.9 million from 29 markets for an early foreign total of $18.1 million and $53.1 million globally.
Tim Burton's hit sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice came in third with $16 million for a domestic total of $258.1 million. It's doing less business overseas, where it has earned $123.2 million for a global total of $373.3 million.
Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment's Transformers One - which had hoped to get fanboys in addition to kids and parents - fell a steep 62 percent in its second outing to an estimated $9.3 million for a 10-day domestic total of $39.2 million.
Maggie Smith, scene-stealing actor famed for Harry Potter and 'Downton Abbey,' dies at 89
Dame Maggie Smith, pictured here in Dec. 2015, has died at the age of 89 (image courtesy AP)
by Jill Lawless, The Associated Press
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for the 1969 film "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in " Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89.
Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital.
"She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs.
Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with two Oscars, a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies.
She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything."
Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension."
Ana de Armas Kicks Ass and Meets Keanu Reeves' John Wick in Eye-Popping Ballerina Trailer
by Tommy McArdle
Ana de Armas is slaying the world of John Wick.
The Oscar nominee, 36, stars as a killer ballerina in From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, a spinoff of the franchise starring Keanu Reeves, who makes a cameo in the teaser that dropped Thursday, Sept. 26.
Per a synopsis, the film takes place during the events of 2019's John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum. De Armas plays Eve Macarro, who is "beginning her training in the assassin traditions of the Ruska Roma."
The cast also includes Anjelica Huston, Gabriel Byrne, Lance Reddick, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Norman Reedus and Ian McShane. Ballerina is directed by Len Wiseman.
"I'm very proud of it. It's really exciting. It's dangerous, it's sexy, it's very John Wick," de Armas previously told Collider of the film. "I think people are going to be surprised. I'm biased. Of course, I like the movie, but I think it's really cool. It's going to be amazing."
Of Course Marvel Is Gearing Up an Awards Campaign for Deadpool & Wolverine
by Germain Lussier
It may sound like a joke Deadpool would shoot off in the middle of an action sequence but this is absolutely true. Deadpool & Wolverine is going for some of that Oscar gold. And Golden Globes. And whatever else it can scrounge up that's bright and shiny.
Variety reports that Marvel Studios is getting ready to launch an awards campaign for its massive R-rated hit, with a particular eye on the comedy categories at the Golden Globes. That's because the original Deadpool got two Globes nominations in those categories, one for Best Picture (Musical or Comedy) and one for Ryan Reynolds as Best Actor. Whether or not this film can duplicate that, we'll see. But, to hopefully spread the love around, the studio has decided to push Hugh Jackman in the supporting actor category, which would avoid any potential split votes with Reynolds.
Now, it's important to note that by the mere fact Deadpool & Wolverine was released in theaters, it and everyone involved with it was automatically eligible for all of these awards: be that Critics' Choice, Screen Actors Guild, Writers Guild, Academy Awards, etc. But eligibility is one thing. Madame Web is, technically, eligible too. A focused campaign to get the film in front of voters and get them thinking about specific people or aspects is what actually gets the job done. That's why every year basically the same 5-10 films are always nominated for every award, because those are the films that campaign best, and then everyone watches them and they pick up momentum.
Not that Deadpool & Wolverine really needs any momentum. The film has grossed $1.3 billion and counting, making it the highest-grossing R-rated film ever. That alone will all but guarantee a nomination, and probably a win, for the new "Cinematic and Box Office Achievement" category at the Golden Globes. It's also the type of big-budget, big-effects film that's sure to snag at least a few technical achievements across awards season. But for anyone above the line (actor, writer, director, etc.) to get a nomination would be a feat.
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