In a year that includes a new Deadpool outing, George Miller’s return to the Fury Road, and a Dune sequel, it’s saying something that for many, the most anticipated movie of 2024 – and the one with the biggest question mark around it – is Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. Earning his place in the pantheon of cinema’s greatest directors with Apocalypse Now, the Godfather movies and more, Coppola is an auteur whose return deserves our attention. But with his comeback film having been gestating for decades, not to mention requiring Coppola to shell out millions of his own dollars for the production, it demands it.
Set in a Roman Empire-inspired reimagining of New York City, Megalopolis stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catalina, an architect with physics-defying powers and dreams of building a utopian society. That dream sees him clash with the city’s Mayor, Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who...
Set in a Roman Empire-inspired reimagining of New York City, Megalopolis stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catalina, an architect with physics-defying powers and dreams of building a utopian society. That dream sees him clash with the city’s Mayor, Frank Cicero (Giancarlo Esposito), who...
- 5/17/2024
- by Sophie Butcher
- Empire - Movies
It’s finally here. After many reports about production issues, screenings and 40 years worth of waiting, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
The anticipated epic is being met with a lot of mixed reactions (and confusion) from the reviewers, some lauding the audacity of the movie and others questioning its existence.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic David Rooney offers: “It’s windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky, quoting Hamlet and The Tempest, Marcus Aurelius and Petrarch, ruminating on time, consciousness and power to a degree that becomes ponderous. But it’s also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity.”
Over the last couple of months, multiple reports about Megalopolis — including from THR — have shed light on the project that Coppola has been discussing for decades. He poured a stunning $120 million of his own money...
The anticipated epic is being met with a lot of mixed reactions (and confusion) from the reviewers, some lauding the audacity of the movie and others questioning its existence.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief film critic David Rooney offers: “It’s windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky, quoting Hamlet and The Tempest, Marcus Aurelius and Petrarch, ruminating on time, consciousness and power to a degree that becomes ponderous. But it’s also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity.”
Over the last couple of months, multiple reports about Megalopolis — including from THR — have shed light on the project that Coppola has been discussing for decades. He poured a stunning $120 million of his own money...
- 5/16/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Messy, Maddening, Masterpiece: The first reviews for Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis have arrived
Francis Ford Coppola has spent decades bringing Megalopolis to life. The director began crafting the project back in the ’80s but recognized that it would require a huge budget to match its massive scope, so it spent decades on the shelf. Now, after spending upwards of $120 million of his own money, Coppola has brought Megalopolis to the Cannes Film Festival, and the reviews have begun to pour in.
THR‘s David Rooney said, “It’s windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky, quoting Hamlet and The Tempest, Marcus Aurelius and Petrarch, ruminating on time, consciousness and power to a degree that becomes ponderous. But it’s also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity. I can’t say I was always engaged over its two hours-plus run time, but I was always curious about where it was going next. Is it a good movie?...
THR‘s David Rooney said, “It’s windy and overstuffed, frequently baffling and way too talky, quoting Hamlet and The Tempest, Marcus Aurelius and Petrarch, ruminating on time, consciousness and power to a degree that becomes ponderous. But it’s also often amusing, playful, visually dazzling and illuminated by a touching hope for humanity. I can’t say I was always engaged over its two hours-plus run time, but I was always curious about where it was going next. Is it a good movie?...
- 5/16/2024
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
The character in Megalopolis played by Adam Driver with idealistic passion, Cesar Catilina, is a visionary genius intent on saving New York City by building a utopian future, dislodging the elite ruling class in the process. In many ways, Cesar’s mission, both noble and egomaniacal, seems a direct reflection of the dogged determination of Francis Ford Coppola to get this movie made at any cost. The “fable” could almost be an allegory for the pursuit of a dream in which an auteur can still make a monumental epic without compromise in a Hollywood that marginalizes art to focus purely on economics.
The first sparks of the idea came to Coppola in the early 1980s and he’s been developing it on and off ever since — doing table reads with major-name actors, shooting 30 hours of second unit footage in Manhattan in 2001 and then almost abandoning the project six years later when funding proved elusive.
The first sparks of the idea came to Coppola in the early 1980s and he’s been developing it on and off ever since — doing table reads with major-name actors, shooting 30 hours of second unit footage in Manhattan in 2001 and then almost abandoning the project six years later when funding proved elusive.
- 5/16/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we are free,” says Cesar Catalina, the futuristic architect at the beating heart of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (to give it its full title), a mad eco-sci-fi blockbuster some 40 years in the making. Catalina says it several times, and it’s one of the more succinct aphorisms that he spouts in a script that is stuffed with seemingly random literary allusions from the likes of Petrarch, Crassus and Marcus Aurelius to Goethe, Shakespeare, H.G. Wells and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Watching Anthony Mann’s The Fall of the Roman Empire and eating cheese afterwards would be the only way to replicate its fever-dream grandeur, a series of stunning images, carried along by the loosest of plots, that pontificate on the self-destructive nature of humankind, the only species capable of civilizing itself to death.
True to the advance gossip, Megalopolis is something of a mess — unruly,...
True to the advance gossip, Megalopolis is something of a mess — unruly,...
- 5/16/2024
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Are you ready for the return of the king? It's been 13 years since Francis Ford Coppola helmed a feature film — that would be 2011's weird horror flick "Twixt" — and now he's back in the director's chair to realize his dream project. In the 1980s, Coppola started writing "Megalopolis," an epic, sprawling drama that could very well be his biggest movie ever. He would tinker with the work over the years and finally start shooting second unit footage in 2001.
And then disaster struck, literally. The film's script dealt with the aftermath of a disaster that befalls New York City, and just as Coppola was gearing up to get "Megalopolis" off the ground, the 9/11 attacks changed everything. Realizing that no one at the time would be in the mood to watch a post-disaster movie set in New York, Coppola shelved the project — but he never forgot about it.
Now, the seemingly impossible...
And then disaster struck, literally. The film's script dealt with the aftermath of a disaster that befalls New York City, and just as Coppola was gearing up to get "Megalopolis" off the ground, the 9/11 attacks changed everything. Realizing that no one at the time would be in the mood to watch a post-disaster movie set in New York, Coppola shelved the project — but he never forgot about it.
Now, the seemingly impossible...
- 5/14/2024
- by Chris Evangelista
- Slash Film
Back in 2000, director Ridley Scott took us back to 180 Ad for Gladiator, which told the story of Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius (played by Russell Crowe), who is favored by Emperor Marcus Aurelius to be his successor because his own son, Commodus, is unfit to rule. Commodus disagrees, so he murders his father, has Maximus arrested, and has Maximus’s wife and son killed. While Commodus establishes himself as the new emperor, Maximus escapes from captivity – only to be captured again, this time by slavers who sell him off to become a gladiator. Soon he’s fighting in front of Commodus in Rome’s Colosseum… and it all builds up to Commodus challenging Maximus to a duel. Gladiator was a major box office success and racked up multiple Academy Award wins, including Best Picture. So there was already talk of a sequel in 2001, but it ended up taking more than...
- 5/7/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Singer Brian McKnight‘s ex-wife and estranged children are speaking out after McKnight called them a product of sin.” The comments came from a video McKnight shared to his Instagram about getting rid of negativity, “even if that evil and negativity is related [to you],” McKnight stated.
One of McKnight’s biological children, Niko McKnight, wrote on social media, “I’m evil. That’s wild. The guy who used to make me clean his used condoms out his bathroom at 15 before Lisa got home is calling me evil.”
Niko went on to discuss his father and siblings further. He acknowledged that he and his siblings were “bad children,” but his sisters “deserved better.”
We saved that man from federal prison. That’s all I’m going to say. But after all of this, I still love him so much because I know there’s my dad in there somewhere. But he’s a drone now.
One of McKnight’s biological children, Niko McKnight, wrote on social media, “I’m evil. That’s wild. The guy who used to make me clean his used condoms out his bathroom at 15 before Lisa got home is calling me evil.”
Niko went on to discuss his father and siblings further. He acknowledged that he and his siblings were “bad children,” but his sisters “deserved better.”
We saved that man from federal prison. That’s all I’m going to say. But after all of this, I still love him so much because I know there’s my dad in there somewhere. But he’s a drone now.
- 4/23/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
Campaign poster Paul Metzler You BET-zler!! in Alexander Payne’s Election, starring Reese Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, designed by Nate Carlson
In the second instalment with Alexander Payne’s longtime 'secret weapon' graphic designer Nate Carlson, we discuss their latest multiple award-winning collaboration The Holdovers’ stained glass windows and memorial inscriptions in the school chapel, a running theme of pharmacies and prescription bottles, the mastery of punctuation humour from Election to Marcus Aurelius, the art of combining the pre-existing with the new, and the family polaroid.
Nate Carlson on Alexander Payne: “He always likes to put those little hidden gems in there and I am certainly open to accommodate.”
The Holdovers (screenplay by David Hemingson), stars Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti, Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph and BAFTA Best Supporting Actor nominee Dominic Sessa and has a terrific supporting cast led by Carrie Preston with Brady Hepner,...
In the second instalment with Alexander Payne’s longtime 'secret weapon' graphic designer Nate Carlson, we discuss their latest multiple award-winning collaboration The Holdovers’ stained glass windows and memorial inscriptions in the school chapel, a running theme of pharmacies and prescription bottles, the mastery of punctuation humour from Election to Marcus Aurelius, the art of combining the pre-existing with the new, and the family polaroid.
Nate Carlson on Alexander Payne: “He always likes to put those little hidden gems in there and I am certainly open to accommodate.”
The Holdovers (screenplay by David Hemingson), stars Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti, Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph and BAFTA Best Supporting Actor nominee Dominic Sessa and has a terrific supporting cast led by Carrie Preston with Brady Hepner,...
- 4/21/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Paul Mescal is the face of the new Roman Empire.
The Oscar-nominated actor leads Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator 2,” the sequel to the Academy Award-winning 2000 film, alongside an impressive cast that includes Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Connie Nielsen reprising her role from the original film.
The footage screened at CinemaCon on Thursday was still unfinished, but Paramount debuted five minutes from the film. In it Mescal, who plays the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus from the original film, is again a slave fighting in games inside the Colosseum. Quinn is the new Caesar deciding the fate of the warriors with a turn of his thumb, Pascal is a general who is being honored with a series of games, and Washington’s character is mysterious, working from behind the scenes to control the power dynamics of ancient Rome.
In the clip, we saw Mescal in the arena...
The Oscar-nominated actor leads Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator 2,” the sequel to the Academy Award-winning 2000 film, alongside an impressive cast that includes Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, and Connie Nielsen reprising her role from the original film.
The footage screened at CinemaCon on Thursday was still unfinished, but Paramount debuted five minutes from the film. In it Mescal, who plays the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus from the original film, is again a slave fighting in games inside the Colosseum. Quinn is the new Caesar deciding the fate of the warriors with a turn of his thumb, Pascal is a general who is being honored with a series of games, and Washington’s character is mysterious, working from behind the scenes to control the power dynamics of ancient Rome.
In the clip, we saw Mescal in the arena...
- 4/11/2024
- by Brian Welk and Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Although there’s no distributor yet confirmed for Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-development, nearly completed epic Megalopolis, we’re starting to get a sense of when we may see the $100 million epic. The director himself recently indicated it’ll be out in a few months, but according to a new report, a fall release is more likely.
In a round-up of Cannes possibilities, Deadline notes the movie is targeting “a big fall IMAX release,” which means a Venice or North American festival (i.e. TIFF or NYFF) could be more likely than a visit to the Croisette. The article also notes it’s unlikely that Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, David Lowery’s Mother Mary, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer will be stopping by Cannes, but George Miller’s Furiosa, Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds,...
In a round-up of Cannes possibilities, Deadline notes the movie is targeting “a big fall IMAX release,” which means a Venice or North American festival (i.e. TIFF or NYFF) could be more likely than a visit to the Croisette. The article also notes it’s unlikely that Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, David Lowery’s Mother Mary, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, and Luca Guadagnino’s Queer will be stopping by Cannes, but George Miller’s Furiosa, Audrey Diwan’s Emmanuelle, Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds,...
- 2/29/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
If you could sit down with Francis Ford Coppola – one of the greatest titans and entrepreneurs in movie history – what would you ask him? His best advice for a young filmmaker? His favorite movies? Perhaps his go-to ice cream flavor? Well, the director had all that and more to share during a recent Instagram Ama session; yes, Coppola has Instagram, and yes, you can ask him anything.
First and foremost, during the Ama, Coppola was asked what his favorite movies of his daughter Sofia’s were, in which he rattled off her debut, 1999’s Virgin Suicides, 2003’s Lost in Translation, 2006’s Marie Antoinette, and 2010’s Somewhere. That’s half of her filmography – Francis is such a dad! As for his own pictures, Coppola didn’t cite The Godfather or Apocalypse Now or Jack but rather 1983’s Rumble Fish, his second S.E. Hinton movie after The Outsiders (also out in ‘83). As for other directors’ works,...
First and foremost, during the Ama, Coppola was asked what his favorite movies of his daughter Sofia’s were, in which he rattled off her debut, 1999’s Virgin Suicides, 2003’s Lost in Translation, 2006’s Marie Antoinette, and 2010’s Somewhere. That’s half of her filmography – Francis is such a dad! As for his own pictures, Coppola didn’t cite The Godfather or Apocalypse Now or Jack but rather 1983’s Rumble Fish, his second S.E. Hinton movie after The Outsiders (also out in ‘83). As for other directors’ works,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Few films have made as lasting an impact as Ridley Scott’s Gladiator in the world of cinematic epics. Excitement is building as news of its long-awaited sequel spreads among fans of classic action flicks. The 86-year-old recently finished filming the follow-up to his blockbuster hit, Gladiator 2.
Ridley Scott (Credit: Scified)
Executives who’ve seen the footage are reportedly blown away, hinting at a potential revival of the genre’s heyday. Could Gladiator 2 mark the return of historical revenge thrillers’ golden era? With its thrilling action and revenge-driven plot, it seems poised to captivate a new generation of moviegoers and bring back the magic of old-school cinema.
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Executives are buzzing about Ridley Scott’s latest footage for Gladiator 2,...
Ridley Scott (Credit: Scified)
Executives who’ve seen the footage are reportedly blown away, hinting at a potential revival of the genre’s heyday. Could Gladiator 2 mark the return of historical revenge thrillers’ golden era? With its thrilling action and revenge-driven plot, it seems poised to captivate a new generation of moviegoers and bring back the magic of old-school cinema.
SUGGESTED5 Movies and TV Shows of Fantastic Four Cast Joseph Quinn That Will Convince You He Will Nail Johnny Storm Executives Are Reportedly Amazed By Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 Footage
Executives are buzzing about Ridley Scott’s latest footage for Gladiator 2,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Muskan Chaudhary
- FandomWire
Francis Ford Coppola has been hard at work on Megalopolis, his sci-fi epic that has been decades in the making. The director took to Instagram to unveil the first look at Megalopolis, which shows a dingy, rain-soaked alley with a collapsed statue in the center. The image features the title “Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis.”
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It’s not much, but the first look at Megalopolis does potentially show that the project is on track to be released later this year. Plot details have largely been kept under wraps, but the film is said to center on an architect who seeks to rebuild New York City as a utopia after a disaster. The director did offer a few more details two years ago, but they’re fairly ambiguous.
“It’s a love story…A woman is divided between loyalties to two men.
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It’s not much, but the first look at Megalopolis does potentially show that the project is on track to be released later this year. Plot details have largely been kept under wraps, but the film is said to center on an architect who seeks to rebuild New York City as a utopia after a disaster. The director did offer a few more details two years ago, but they’re fairly ambiguous.
“It’s a love story…A woman is divided between loyalties to two men.
- 2/6/2024
- by Kevin Fraser
- JoBlo.com
This article contains spoilers for The Holdovers.
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Though a dark horse in this year’s Oscar race for Best Picture, it’s no surprise that Alexander Payne’s latest dramedy, The Holdovers, is primed to clean up—or even upset—key acting and screenplay categories. Less of a candy-colored spectacle than Barbie, and certainly not as gravely bombastic as Oppenheimer, this quiet and philosophical story is all about messy, painfully ordinary mortals finding hope and redemption in everyday gestures.
Smart and well-structured as an original script, the performances of the three central figures are what really brings The Holdovers to relatable life. So much so that while the broad strokes of the movie’s ending seem unfair and cruel, viewers are still left smiling, with many calling The Holdovers a new Christmas movie staple.
“Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
Though a dark horse in this year’s Oscar race for Best Picture, it’s no surprise that Alexander Payne’s latest dramedy, The Holdovers, is primed to clean up—or even upset—key acting and screenplay categories. Less of a candy-colored spectacle than Barbie, and certainly not as gravely bombastic as Oppenheimer, this quiet and philosophical story is all about messy, painfully ordinary mortals finding hope and redemption in everyday gestures.
Smart and well-structured as an original script, the performances of the three central figures are what really brings The Holdovers to relatable life. So much so that while the broad strokes of the movie’s ending seem unfair and cruel, viewers are still left smiling, with many calling The Holdovers a new Christmas movie staple.
- 1/27/2024
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
It is said more than once in Frank Herbert’s Dune that fear is the mind-killer; it’s the little death that brings obliteration. This might be so, but after getting a better look at the Oscar-nominated Austin Butler as Feyd-Rautha, the unofficial prince of House Harkonnen, it’s worth remembering there are some things that are the killer of the whole damn body. And in the latest Dune: Part Two trailer, Feyd-Rautha appears to be a manifestation of death itself.
Shaved balder than a tech CEO and licking his knives like they were lovers, he makes a grotesque and immediate impression when new fans are warned “Feyd-Rautha… he’s psychotic.” That he is, but Feyd’s also more than just a simple assassin sent by the Padishah Emperor of the Imperium (Christopher Walken). In fact, Feyd-Rautha is a bit like Paul Arterides’ dark doppelgänger. Here is another product of...
Shaved balder than a tech CEO and licking his knives like they were lovers, he makes a grotesque and immediate impression when new fans are warned “Feyd-Rautha… he’s psychotic.” That he is, but Feyd’s also more than just a simple assassin sent by the Padishah Emperor of the Imperium (Christopher Walken). In fact, Feyd-Rautha is a bit like Paul Arterides’ dark doppelgänger. Here is another product of...
- 12/12/2023
- by David Crow
- Den of Geek
It’s another big year for Joaquin Phoenix. After winning Best Actor in 2020 for his sick spin on a supervillain in Todd Phillips’ “Joker,” the Academy Award winner appeared as a journalist taking care of his young nephew in Mike Mills’ A24 family drama “C’mon, C’mon.” Then, Phoenix was back at the indie studio with another project: Ari Aster’s third feature, “Beau Is Afraid.” The surreal horror comedy expands on an Aster short from 2011, and stars Phoenix as Beau — “a paranoid man on an epic odyssey to get home to his mother” — alongside Nathan Lane, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Patti LuPone, Amy Ryan, and Parker Posey.
“Aster’s delirious third feature clarifies his artistic obsessions even as it expands them into surreal new shapes,” writes IndieWire’s David Ehrlich in his review of the film, hitting theaters April 21. “Once again, ‘Beau Is Afraid’ delivers another morbidly hilarious — and...
“Aster’s delirious third feature clarifies his artistic obsessions even as it expands them into surreal new shapes,” writes IndieWire’s David Ehrlich in his review of the film, hitting theaters April 21. “Once again, ‘Beau Is Afraid’ delivers another morbidly hilarious — and...
- 12/5/2023
- by Alison Foreman, Steve Greene and Christian Zilko
- Indiewire
Sir Ridley Scott's 2000 historical epic "Gladiator" remains one of the best films the acclaimed filmmaker has ever made. The film is based very, very loosely on the real history of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus. It follows a fictional military commander with a badass name, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), and his attempt to gain vengeance on those who wronged him and turned him into a fighter in gladiatorial arenas.
Even over 20 years later, the film remains a thrilling, epic cinematic experience, with a rousing score by Hans Zimmer, an incredible performance by Russell Crowe, and some of the most iconic and gorgeous shots ever put to screen. Key among these is the end of the film, the image of Maximus touching the field of wheat as he crosses over to the afterlife. It's become such an indelible shot, one so intrinsically connected to the legacy...
Even over 20 years later, the film remains a thrilling, epic cinematic experience, with a rousing score by Hans Zimmer, an incredible performance by Russell Crowe, and some of the most iconic and gorgeous shots ever put to screen. Key among these is the end of the film, the image of Maximus touching the field of wheat as he crosses over to the afterlife. It's become such an indelible shot, one so intrinsically connected to the legacy...
- 11/18/2023
- by Rafael Motamayor
- Slash Film
One of the most memorable things about Ridley Scott's incredible Roman epic "Gladiator" is just how insufferable Joaquin Phoenix's character Commodus can be. He serves as a foil to Russell Crowe's Maximus at every turn, behaving like a petulant child more often than not. He's cruel, spoiled, and self-centered, played by Phoenix with a kind of intensity that makes him a particularly impressive villain. The only problem is that Scott doesn't think that Commodus is the real villain at all.
The charmingly blunt Scott sat down with Deadline while promoting his latest film, "Napoleon," which stars Phoenix as the infamous Napoleon Bonaparte, and he was asked about casting Phoenix as such villainous characters. Scott was quick to correct, explaining that he didn't think Commodus was really the villain of "Gladiator," and he had some pretty compelling reasons as to why. Watching "Gladiator" with Scott's comments in mind...
The charmingly blunt Scott sat down with Deadline while promoting his latest film, "Napoleon," which stars Phoenix as the infamous Napoleon Bonaparte, and he was asked about casting Phoenix as such villainous characters. Scott was quick to correct, explaining that he didn't think Commodus was really the villain of "Gladiator," and he had some pretty compelling reasons as to why. Watching "Gladiator" with Scott's comments in mind...
- 11/16/2023
- by Danielle Ryan
- Slash Film
Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary filmmaker and grumpy grandpa extraordinaire, should probably be pictured in the dictionary next to the term "straight shooter." So when you ask him why he finally decided to make a sequel to "Gladiator", he's not going to default to studio-approved talking points. Instead, he'll cut right to the chase and tell you it all came down to finding a reason to make "Gladiator 2" other than for money.
"Well, economically, it makes sense," Scott told Deadline. (See what I mean?) Like most people, Scott felt the first film was "completely satisfactory, creatively complete, so why muck with it, right?" Of course, money talks in Hollywood, so he kept having conversations about the project for the next 20 years, to the point where it "started to spell itself out as an obvious thing to do, and that's how it evolved." Notably, the sequel nearly went in a...
"Well, economically, it makes sense," Scott told Deadline. (See what I mean?) Like most people, Scott felt the first film was "completely satisfactory, creatively complete, so why muck with it, right?" Of course, money talks in Hollywood, so he kept having conversations about the project for the next 20 years, to the point where it "started to spell itself out as an obvious thing to do, and that's how it evolved." Notably, the sequel nearly went in a...
- 11/15/2023
- by Sandy Schaefer
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Ridley Scott unveils Napoleon today at a lavish world premiere in the 2,500-seat Salle Pleyel concert hall in Paris. He is 85 but seems ageless, and Scott is already plotting to quickly resume production on Gladiator, the second installment of his film that won five Oscars including Best Picture. He’s got 90 minutes of footage, fully edited, and needs that much more. He expects to be shooting within two weeks, and he’s already got his next movie slated for around March. Though he is keeping the details to himself, he acknowledged it’s period, with a script like perfectly distilled liquor, and two stars ready to join him in what he said is a bucket list project for him.
It’s tough to keep up with Scott, the master visualist who is most comfortable making a movie, or dreaming up the next one. Interviewing Sir Ridley is a bucket list item for any journalist,...
It’s tough to keep up with Scott, the master visualist who is most comfortable making a movie, or dreaming up the next one. Interviewing Sir Ridley is a bucket list item for any journalist,...
- 11/14/2023
- by Mike Fleming Jr
- Deadline Film + TV
Ridley Scott traverses genre with ease, but one he goes back to time and time again is historical epics. His Oscar-winning "Gladiator" clearly endeared Scott to swords and sandals. That film featured Joaquin Phoenix as the Commodus, the vile son of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius who murders and usurps his father.
In Scott's latest, Phoenix will play another ambitious tyrant; Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military genius who made himself his homeland's emperor and aspired to conquer all of Europe. The film, simply titled "Napoleon," has now released its second trailer. The first "Napoleon" trailer, released on July 10, 2023, offered a taste of the film's sure-to-be-epic scope. /Film's Ben Pearson also attended this year's CinemaCon and was served a taste of "Napoleon."
Many directors, including Stanley Kubrick, have tried to tell the French Emperor's life story on film. For Scott, though, this is not just the story of Napoleon himself, but also his great love,...
In Scott's latest, Phoenix will play another ambitious tyrant; Napoleon Bonaparte, the French military genius who made himself his homeland's emperor and aspired to conquer all of Europe. The film, simply titled "Napoleon," has now released its second trailer. The first "Napoleon" trailer, released on July 10, 2023, offered a taste of the film's sure-to-be-epic scope. /Film's Ben Pearson also attended this year's CinemaCon and was served a taste of "Napoleon."
Many directors, including Stanley Kubrick, have tried to tell the French Emperor's life story on film. For Scott, though, this is not just the story of Napoleon himself, but also his great love,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Devin Meenan
- Slash Film
Mumbai, Sep 5 (Ians) Actor Vikrant Massey, who is known for ‘Lootera’, ‘Dil Dhadakane Do’ and ‘Mirzapur’, has revealed the 5 most impactful teachers who have played an important role in shaping him up, on the occasion of Teacher’s Day on Tuesday.
These teachers include his Hindi professor, his mother, filmmaker-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, his school principal and Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid. All of them, whom Vikrant considers his gurus, have been a part of the actor’s journey and have had a profound impact on him.
The actor listed his 5 teachers as he expressed his gratitude towards them.
“1. D.N Singh Sir (My Hindi language professor) Taught me the virtue of discipline. Always taught us that discipline is destiny.
2. My Mother, Meena Massey – Taught me the irony of time. To be kind and gentle. No time ever remains the same. To persist and resist at the same time.”
The actor then...
These teachers include his Hindi professor, his mother, filmmaker-producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra, his school principal and Indian cricketer Rahul Dravid. All of them, whom Vikrant considers his gurus, have been a part of the actor’s journey and have had a profound impact on him.
The actor listed his 5 teachers as he expressed his gratitude towards them.
“1. D.N Singh Sir (My Hindi language professor) Taught me the virtue of discipline. Always taught us that discipline is destiny.
2. My Mother, Meena Massey – Taught me the irony of time. To be kind and gentle. No time ever remains the same. To persist and resist at the same time.”
The actor then...
- 9/5/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
When Ridley Scott’s Gladiator hit the big screen in 2000, it captivated audiences worldwide with its thrilling tale of honor, vengeance, and redemption set in ancient Rome. The film’s grandeur, stunning visuals, and gripping performances made it an instant classic, so much so that nearly a quarter of a century later a sequel is finally on the way. However, what many might not know is that Gladiator drew inspiration from a real-life story, one that is equally as captivating, though with its own unique twists and turns. Sometimes reality is much stranger than fiction, so let’s find out What Really Happened To Gladiator?
In the film, Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) is a legendary general in the Roman army. The aged Emperor Marcus Aurelius decides to appoint Maximus as his successor over his own son Commodus. This angers Commodus, who orders Maximus to be put to death, but...
In the film, Maximus (played by Russell Crowe) is a legendary general in the Roman army. The aged Emperor Marcus Aurelius decides to appoint Maximus as his successor over his own son Commodus. This angers Commodus, who orders Maximus to be put to death, but...
- 8/2/2023
- by Bryan Wolford
- JoBlo.com
Search had published a letter revealing her brain tumour diagnosis last month.
Jess Search, co-founder and CEO of non-profit documentary organisation Doc Society, has died at the age of 54 from brain cancer.
Search’s death was announced in a statement on Tuesday, August 1 by Doc Society, which read:
Yesterday morning, our dear Jess Search died peacefully in London, England, from brain cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her life Beadie Finzi, their children Ella and Ben, and friends.
As a fierce supporter of independent artists and co-founder of Doc Society, Jess spent the weeks following her diagnosis focused...
Jess Search, co-founder and CEO of non-profit documentary organisation Doc Society, has died at the age of 54 from brain cancer.
Search’s death was announced in a statement on Tuesday, August 1 by Doc Society, which read:
Yesterday morning, our dear Jess Search died peacefully in London, England, from brain cancer. She was surrounded by the love of her life Beadie Finzi, their children Ella and Ben, and friends.
As a fierce supporter of independent artists and co-founder of Doc Society, Jess spent the weeks following her diagnosis focused...
- 8/1/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Jeff Bridges said the cancer tumor in his stomach had shrunk considerably in the years since he was diagnosed with lymphoma, but he’s still feeling the aftereffects of a mid-chemo battle with Covid-19.
“For me,” Bridges told AARP Magazine in a new interview, “cancer was nothing compared to the Covid.”
Bridges first revealed his lymphoma diagnosis in Oct. 2020, and in Sept. 2021, he shared a positive update, saying his cancer was in remission. But in between all that, in Jan. 2021, while undergoing chemo, he contracted Covid.
“I had no immune system to fight it,...
“For me,” Bridges told AARP Magazine in a new interview, “cancer was nothing compared to the Covid.”
Bridges first revealed his lymphoma diagnosis in Oct. 2020, and in Sept. 2021, he shared a positive update, saying his cancer was in remission. But in between all that, in Jan. 2021, while undergoing chemo, he contracted Covid.
“I had no immune system to fight it,...
- 5/23/2023
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
New Delhi, May 2 (Ians) Virat Kohli once again has been at the center of attention, particularly due to his contentious interaction with Gautam Gambhir following the Ipl 2023 game between Lucknow Super Giants (Lsg) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (Rcb) on Monday.
Kohli and Gambhir had a heated exchange of words after the match and players of both teams had to intervene and separate the two to control things before it went out of hand.
The incident took place after Rcb beat Lsg by 18 runs in a low scoring thriller. Gambhir and Kohli were then seen exchanging words and players of both teams had to intervene. Gambhir initially pulled away an Lsg player who was talking to Kohli.
Videos have surfaced on social media that show Kohli and Gambhir exchanging words and an animated Lsf mentor, expressing his resentment at something said or done by Kohli, being stopped by Lsg players from...
Kohli and Gambhir had a heated exchange of words after the match and players of both teams had to intervene and separate the two to control things before it went out of hand.
The incident took place after Rcb beat Lsg by 18 runs in a low scoring thriller. Gambhir and Kohli were then seen exchanging words and players of both teams had to intervene. Gambhir initially pulled away an Lsg player who was talking to Kohli.
Videos have surfaced on social media that show Kohli and Gambhir exchanging words and an animated Lsf mentor, expressing his resentment at something said or done by Kohli, being stopped by Lsg players from...
- 5/2/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
Russell Crowe is ready to be entertained by “Gladiator 2” but confirmed he will not be involved in its production. Which makes sense because, of course, his character died at the end of the original film.
The Oscar winner revealed during RTÉ Radio One’s “The Ryan Tubridy Show” show that Ridley Scott and the sequel team have not “brought anything up” to Crowe “in a while.” The sequel stars Paul Mescal as an older version of Lucius, the nephew of since-deceased Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Crowe’s Maximus. Lucius is the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and grandson of Marcus Aurelius. Denzel Washington and Barry Keoghan are also in talks to star.
The follow-up is set to take place 20 years after the original film.
“I’m sure at some point in time they’ll want to ask me about something, but they haven’t brought anything up in a while,...
The Oscar winner revealed during RTÉ Radio One’s “The Ryan Tubridy Show” show that Ridley Scott and the sequel team have not “brought anything up” to Crowe “in a while.” The sequel stars Paul Mescal as an older version of Lucius, the nephew of since-deceased Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Crowe’s Maximus. Lucius is the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen) and grandson of Marcus Aurelius. Denzel Washington and Barry Keoghan are also in talks to star.
The follow-up is set to take place 20 years after the original film.
“I’m sure at some point in time they’ll want to ask me about something, but they haven’t brought anything up in a while,...
- 3/29/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Denzel Washington is heading to ancient Rome.
The Oscar winner is in final negotiations to join Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire. He will appear alongside lead star Paul Mescal and rumored co-star Barry Keoghan. Deadline first reported the casting news. This will be Washington’s next role following Antoine Fuqua’s “The Equalizer 3,” a new franchise installment.
“Gladiator 2” will mark Washington’s second collaboration with director-producer Scott 16 years after “American Gangster.” Scott revealed that the sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 film will take place 20 years later, with Mescal’s role as part of the next generation of the ruling Roman family. The estimated era for the film is the year A.D. 200.
“Aftersun” Oscar nominee Mescal is set to star as lead character Lucius, the nephew of since-deceased Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus. Lucius...
The Oscar winner is in final negotiations to join Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire. He will appear alongside lead star Paul Mescal and rumored co-star Barry Keoghan. Deadline first reported the casting news. This will be Washington’s next role following Antoine Fuqua’s “The Equalizer 3,” a new franchise installment.
“Gladiator 2” will mark Washington’s second collaboration with director-producer Scott 16 years after “American Gangster.” Scott revealed that the sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 film will take place 20 years later, with Mescal’s role as part of the next generation of the ruling Roman family. The estimated era for the film is the year A.D. 200.
“Aftersun” Oscar nominee Mescal is set to star as lead character Lucius, the nephew of since-deceased Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) who was killed by Russell Crowe’s Maximus. Lucius...
- 3/17/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Almost 16 years ago Denzel Washington and Ridley Scott wowed audiences with their hit crime drama American Gangster, and now it looks like the the two A-listers are ready to get back together in a big way. Sources tell Deadline that Washington is in final negotiations to co-star in Scott’s sequel to his Oscar Best Picture winner Gladiator for Paramount.
Paul Mescal is on board to star opposite Washington, with Scott returning to the director’s chair.
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Scott also will produce with Scott Free president Michael Pruss as well as Doug Wick...
Paul Mescal is on board to star opposite Washington, with Scott returning to the director’s chair.
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Scott also will produce with Scott Free president Michael Pruss as well as Doug Wick...
- 3/17/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
It’s hard to believe we will actually see Francis Ford Coppola’s decades-in-development passion project Megalopolis in the near future as production is nearing its end. With a cast featuring Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Aubrey Plaza, Shia Labeouf, Chloe Fineman, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, Db Sweeney, Talia Shire, Jason Schwartzman, Bailey Ives, Grace Vanderwaal, James Remar, and Giancarlo Esposito, the $100 million epic is now wrapping up a Georgia shoot that was on-schedule and within budget, despite what some may say.
We can now glean a few more details on the production thanks to Adam Driver, who is doing press for his forthcoming sci-fi dinosaur thriller 65. Speaking to Paste Magazine he said he’ll be taking some time off having just finished Megalopolis, with no set plans for upcoming films. “Megalopolis is one of the most exciting things that I’ve ever been a part of,...
We can now glean a few more details on the production thanks to Adam Driver, who is doing press for his forthcoming sci-fi dinosaur thriller 65. Speaking to Paste Magazine he said he’ll be taking some time off having just finished Megalopolis, with no set plans for upcoming films. “Megalopolis is one of the most exciting things that I’ve ever been a part of,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Paul Mescal just wants to look like a normal person, even when it comes to his body transformation to star in the highly talked-about “Gladiator” sequel.
The Oscar nominee shared he doesn’t find fitness talk “that interesting,” especially when it comes to bulking up for action-heavy period piece roles or superhero movies.
“With films like this and superhero films, there is sometimes a focus on that, which I don’t find that interesting,” Mescal told The Hollywood Reporter. “Of course, there’s a physical robustness required for the character, but past that, I’m not interested. This guy’s got to fight and got to be a beast. And whatever that looks and feels like is right for me, is what it’s going to be.”
Mescal added, “Sometimes I see films and I’m like, ‘That person doesn’t look real.'”
The “Normal People” breakout star is...
The Oscar nominee shared he doesn’t find fitness talk “that interesting,” especially when it comes to bulking up for action-heavy period piece roles or superhero movies.
“With films like this and superhero films, there is sometimes a focus on that, which I don’t find that interesting,” Mescal told The Hollywood Reporter. “Of course, there’s a physical robustness required for the character, but past that, I’m not interested. This guy’s got to fight and got to be a beast. And whatever that looks and feels like is right for me, is what it’s going to be.”
Mescal added, “Sometimes I see films and I’m like, ‘That person doesn’t look real.'”
The “Normal People” breakout star is...
- 2/22/2023
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Paramount has just dated the Ridley Scott-directed follow-up for November 22, 2024.
Aftersun Oscar nominated Best Actor Paul Mescal is in talks to be in the film, as Deadline first told you.
Scott produces with Michael Pruss, Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher off David Scarpa’s screenplay.
As Justin Kroll first reported, Mescal isn’t replacing Russell Crowe’s Maximus from the first film, who died. He’s playing Lucius, the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), who now is a grown man as the story takes place years after the first film ended. Lucius also was the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the son of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, who murdered his father seized the throne. Commodus wound up in the gladiator ring with Maximus — who, though mortally wounded, skewered the emperor before fading into the great beyond to reunite with his slain wife and son. Maximus saved the boy and...
Aftersun Oscar nominated Best Actor Paul Mescal is in talks to be in the film, as Deadline first told you.
Scott produces with Michael Pruss, Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher off David Scarpa’s screenplay.
As Justin Kroll first reported, Mescal isn’t replacing Russell Crowe’s Maximus from the first film, who died. He’s playing Lucius, the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), who now is a grown man as the story takes place years after the first film ended. Lucius also was the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the son of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, who murdered his father seized the throne. Commodus wound up in the gladiator ring with Maximus — who, though mortally wounded, skewered the emperor before fading into the great beyond to reunite with his slain wife and son. Maximus saved the boy and...
- 2/3/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Television shows and feature films aren’t always medically accurate, although such mistakes can destroy the illusion of reality when they’re far off from the real science. Gunsmoke actor Milburn Stone was bombarded with letters from real-life doctors in response to the medical information in the show. As a result, he decided to start learning medicine in his own time to start double-checking the scripts.
‘Gunsmoke’ actor Milburn Stone chose Doc Adam’s name Milburn Stone as Doc Adams | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
Stone played Doc Adams on Gunsmoke, but the character didn’t always have a first name. It took 16 years for the producers to finally want to settle on a name. Stone did such a wonderful job with the character that they gave him the honor of coming up with a name for him. He ultimately decided on the name “Galen,” which came from Claudius “Galen” Galenus.
‘Gunsmoke’ actor Milburn Stone chose Doc Adam’s name Milburn Stone as Doc Adams | CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images
Stone played Doc Adams on Gunsmoke, but the character didn’t always have a first name. It took 16 years for the producers to finally want to settle on a name. Stone did such a wonderful job with the character that they gave him the honor of coming up with a name for him. He ultimately decided on the name “Galen,” which came from Claudius “Galen” Galenus.
- 2/3/2023
- by Jeff Nelson
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis is one of the most anticipated and mysterious films on the slate. While filming has begun, it will be some time before we get actual footage by way of a teaser. In the meantime, set photos have come out over the past couple weeks that show off the director and some of the key cast, including Adam Driver, Shia Labeouf, Aubrey Plaza, and Jon Voight:
Francis Ford Coppola beleeft nachtmerrie op de set van zijn #Megalopolishttps://t.co/APe8NO8fiH pic.twitter.com/E7Eqy3pZCf
— De FilmBlog (@DeFilmBlog) January 22, 2023
Adam Driver et Shia Labeouf sur le tournage du "Megalopolis" de Francis Ford Coppola, attendu en 2024 au cinéma.
— https://t.co/gcc8ZtY2w5 pic.twitter.com/OHHXtL2IXT
— SensCritique (@SensCritique) January 27, 2023
De nouvelles images du tournage en cours de #Megalopolis de Francis Ford Coppola nous offre un 1er aperçu de #AubreyPlaza aux...
Francis Ford Coppola beleeft nachtmerrie op de set van zijn #Megalopolishttps://t.co/APe8NO8fiH pic.twitter.com/E7Eqy3pZCf
— De FilmBlog (@DeFilmBlog) January 22, 2023
Adam Driver et Shia Labeouf sur le tournage du "Megalopolis" de Francis Ford Coppola, attendu en 2024 au cinéma.
— https://t.co/gcc8ZtY2w5 pic.twitter.com/OHHXtL2IXT
— SensCritique (@SensCritique) January 27, 2023
De nouvelles images du tournage en cours de #Megalopolis de Francis Ford Coppola nous offre un 1er aperçu de #AubreyPlaza aux...
- 2/3/2023
- by Mathew Plale
- JoBlo.com
Paul Mescal cast in Gladiator 2 — Paul Mescal has been cast in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2. Paul Mescal has been cast as Lucius Verus, the son of Lucilla and grandson of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. “Maximus saved the boy and his mother while avenging his own family, and left a strong impression [...]
Continue reading: Gladiator 2: Paul Mescal cast as Lead in Ridley Scott’s Sequel...
Continue reading: Gladiator 2: Paul Mescal cast as Lead in Ridley Scott’s Sequel...
- 1/9/2023
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
The idea of, and rough plans for, a sequel to 2000's Ridley Scott epic Gladiator have been floating around for so long that we talked to the director about it back in 2003 and more recently in 2021. With pre-production proceeding apace now that the prolific Scott has finished shooting his Napoleon film, word arrives that Normal People and Aftersun's Paul Mescal is locking down a deal to star.
Yes, as if his star wasn't rising enough, becoming the latest leading man for Ridley Scott would likely strap it to a rocket and send it soaring, and according to Deadline, Mescal impressed Scott enough that despite being one of the first actors to discuss the role with the director, he stuck in the filmmaker's mind enough that he's now the choice to star.
So what will the new movie, which All The Money In The World's David Scarpa is writing,...
Yes, as if his star wasn't rising enough, becoming the latest leading man for Ridley Scott would likely strap it to a rocket and send it soaring, and according to Deadline, Mescal impressed Scott enough that despite being one of the first actors to discuss the role with the director, he stuck in the filmmaker's mind enough that he's now the choice to star.
So what will the new movie, which All The Money In The World's David Scarpa is writing,...
- 1/6/2023
- by James White
- Empire - Movies
Are you not entertained? You will be, now that Ridley Scott is getting back into the Colosseum for Gladiator 2. According to Deadline, Scott is returning to the director’s chair for a long-gestating Gladiator sequel starring Normal People actor Paul Mescal in the lead role. Mescal is negotiating to star, with Scott directing and producing through Scott Free with Michael Pruss, alongside Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher of Red Wagon Entertainment. David Scarpa is writing the script.
If you loved the elaborate costumes in Gladiator, you should know that Janty Yates is returning for the sequel alongside Production Designer Arthur Max. According to Deadline, Scott began meeting with actors in November after Scarpa completed the script’s final draft. Mescal was one of the first actors to sit down with Scott; word has it, he made quite the impression. Scott continued meeting with actors for the coveted part. However,...
If you loved the elaborate costumes in Gladiator, you should know that Janty Yates is returning for the sequel alongside Production Designer Arthur Max. According to Deadline, Scott began meeting with actors in November after Scarpa completed the script’s final draft. Mescal was one of the first actors to sit down with Scott; word has it, he made quite the impression. Scott continued meeting with actors for the coveted part. However,...
- 1/6/2023
- by Steve Seigh
- JoBlo.com
Exclusive: Ridley Scott always said he would return to the Colosseum to continue the story of his blockbuster epic Gladiator, and it looks like we are getting close to having that wish granted. Sources tell Deadline that Normal People star Paul Mescal is in negotiations to lead the Paramount sequel to the Oscar-winning pic, with Scott returning to the directing chair. Scott also will produce, along with Scott Free President Michael Pruss as well as Doug Wick & Lucy Fisher via Red Wagon Entertainment. David Scarpa penned the script.
Also returning from the original film are costume designer Janty Yates and production designer Arthur Max. The first film was co-production between Universal and DreamWorks, and while DreamWorks will not be involved in the sequel, Universal has the right to partner again when the project is packaged.
The new film follows the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator, which earned over 460M in worldwide box office...
Also returning from the original film are costume designer Janty Yates and production designer Arthur Max. The first film was co-production between Universal and DreamWorks, and while DreamWorks will not be involved in the sequel, Universal has the right to partner again when the project is packaged.
The new film follows the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator, which earned over 460M in worldwide box office...
- 1/6/2023
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
The Colosseum is an enduring emblem of Roman history, which came to symbolise the might of an Empire. Set against the backdrop of this iconic landmark, History TV18 is set to transport viewers to a bygone era with the launch of blockbuster show ‘Colosseum’. This series takes us through the transformation of the arena, holding a mirror to the changing socio-political currents and demonstrating the rise and fall of Imperial Rome.
Spanning several centuries, this eight-part series unfolds chronologically, from the architectural challenges of building the amphitheatre and its grand opening games, to its eventual decline following deep religious divides, earthquakes, fire and neglect. During the height of Rome, the Colosseum became the stage upon which gladiatorial fights, animal hunts, and public execution of criminals took place, in the name of entertaining the masses.
With gripping commentary by leading scholars and experts, dramatic live-action scenes and special effects, History TV18 offers an immersive experience.
Spanning several centuries, this eight-part series unfolds chronologically, from the architectural challenges of building the amphitheatre and its grand opening games, to its eventual decline following deep religious divides, earthquakes, fire and neglect. During the height of Rome, the Colosseum became the stage upon which gladiatorial fights, animal hunts, and public execution of criminals took place, in the name of entertaining the masses.
With gripping commentary by leading scholars and experts, dramatic live-action scenes and special effects, History TV18 offers an immersive experience.
- 12/15/2022
- by Glamsham Editorial
- GlamSham
It’s finally happening. After developing the project for decades, Francis Ford Coppola is embarking on his epic drama Megalopolis this fall in Georgia. With a cast already including Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, Laurence Fishburne, Talia Shire, Shia Labeouf, Jason Schwartzman, Grace Vanderwaal, Kathryn Hunter, Aubrey Plaza, and James Remar, the last additions to the main ensemble have arrived.
Deadline reports that Dustin Hoffman, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, D.B. Sweeney, and Bailey Ives will round out the cast. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. has also recently confirmed he will reteam with Coppola on the project, following Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt, and the live cinema experiment Distant Vision. Along with his Coppola collaborations, he also shot The Master and The Harder They Fall.
Coppola called it “a love story,” adding, “A woman is divided between loyalties to two men. But not only two men. Each man comes with a philosophical principle.
Deadline reports that Dustin Hoffman, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, D.B. Sweeney, and Bailey Ives will round out the cast. Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. has also recently confirmed he will reteam with Coppola on the project, following Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt, and the live cinema experiment Distant Vision. Along with his Coppola collaborations, he also shot The Master and The Harder They Fall.
Coppola called it “a love story,” adding, “A woman is divided between loyalties to two men. But not only two men. Each man comes with a philosophical principle.
- 10/5/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
“Napoleon” will not be premiering in 2022.
Despite a new report by The Ankler suggesting otherwise, IndieWire sources close to the Ridley Scott biopic deny that the film will be released by Apple Studios in December in order to qualify for the 2023 Oscars. A source also tells IndieWire that the movie, which began shooting in February and wrapped in Europe in May, is not finished with post-production.
Apple has not officially dated the film, even for 2023. Nor has Apple dated the Will Smith-led Civil War drama “Emancipation,” once thought to be an awards vehicle for the Oscars-tainted star.
“Napoleon” stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as his wife, Josephine. “All the Money in the World” screenwriter David Scarpa collaborates with producer Scott yet again for the feature.
Originally titled “Kitbag,” the film has been described as an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins, and his swift,...
Despite a new report by The Ankler suggesting otherwise, IndieWire sources close to the Ridley Scott biopic deny that the film will be released by Apple Studios in December in order to qualify for the 2023 Oscars. A source also tells IndieWire that the movie, which began shooting in February and wrapped in Europe in May, is not finished with post-production.
Apple has not officially dated the film, even for 2023. Nor has Apple dated the Will Smith-led Civil War drama “Emancipation,” once thought to be an awards vehicle for the Oscars-tainted star.
“Napoleon” stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as his wife, Josephine. “All the Money in the World” screenwriter David Scarpa collaborates with producer Scott yet again for the feature.
Originally titled “Kitbag,” the film has been described as an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins, and his swift,...
- 9/26/2022
- by Samantha Bergeson
- Indiewire
Taking a break from shooting a movie in the late Sixties, Richard Harris chartered a private plane. The actor and his entourage travelled to Hamburg to visit the brothels, and then went on a day trip to Ireland, spending an afternoon at one of Harris’s favourite pubs. They weren’t sober for a moment of the jaunt, which was chronicled by a photographer sent along for the ride.
The story of their antics is told in Adrian Sibley’s new feature documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris, a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. What is most extraordinary about this particular episode is that it was nothing out of the ordinary for the Limerick-born star. Zigzagging across Europe in search of adventure, sex and alcohol was simply what Harris – at that stage of his life, at least – did.
His various paramours could likely attest to that.
The story of their antics is told in Adrian Sibley’s new feature documentary The Ghost of Richard Harris, a world premiere at the Venice Film Festival this week. What is most extraordinary about this particular episode is that it was nothing out of the ordinary for the Limerick-born star. Zigzagging across Europe in search of adventure, sex and alcohol was simply what Harris – at that stage of his life, at least – did.
His various paramours could likely attest to that.
- 9/2/2022
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- The Independent - Film
The cast of Francis Ford Coppola’s long-in-the-works sci-fi epic Megalopolis just got quite a bit more interesting. With Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jon Voight, and Laurence Fishburne all onboard, a new addition has arrived.
Deadline reports Aubrey Plaza, coming off fine work in Emily the Criminal, has joined the epic of architecture, class struggle, and freedom conveyed on a massive metropolitan scale. With Coppola fronting the near-100 million budget, production is now confirmed to kick off this fall with distribution rights up for grabs.
Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. has also confirmed he will reteam with Coppola on the project, following Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt, and the live cinema experiment Distant Vision. Along with his Coppola collaborations, he also shot The Master and The Harder They Fall.
Coppola recently called it “a love story,” adding, “A woman is divided between loyalties to two men. But not only two men.
Deadline reports Aubrey Plaza, coming off fine work in Emily the Criminal, has joined the epic of architecture, class struggle, and freedom conveyed on a massive metropolitan scale. With Coppola fronting the near-100 million budget, production is now confirmed to kick off this fall with distribution rights up for grabs.
Cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. has also confirmed he will reteam with Coppola on the project, following Youth Without Youth, Tetro, Twixt, and the live cinema experiment Distant Vision. Along with his Coppola collaborations, he also shot The Master and The Harder They Fall.
Coppola recently called it “a love story,” adding, “A woman is divided between loyalties to two men. But not only two men.
- 8/23/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
You can't entirely dismiss an action movie that manages to throw lessons of stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius into the violent mix. Such is the case with Acts of Vengeance, starring Antonio Banderas, who, at age 57, seems to be angling for the same sort of middle-aged badassery that has done so much for Liam Neeson's retirement account. While his efforts here are a far cry from his many collaborations with Pedro Almodovar, Banderas proves more than capable of playing the sort of strong, silent type who resorts to vigilante justice. You can look at this film as a warm-up for...
- 10/25/2017
- by Frank Scheck
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
All the Cities of the NorthSundance has the clout, Cannes the razzle-dazzle. Toronto’s epic film selection is world class. But ask any serious cinephile which of the world’s grand festival institutions deserves your undivided attention, their answer more often than not would be Locarno. Since its inception in 1946, the annual Swiss film festival is a haven for innovative new works by veteran and freshman auteurs alike. The Golden Leopard, Locarno’s equivalent of the Palme D’or, has gone to a diverse group of winners that includes both Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones and Hong Sang-soo’s Right Now, Wrong Then. Sensing an egregious lack of this progressive programing spirit in their Southern California megalopolis, film critics Jordan Cronk and Robert Koehler have masterminded a curatorial anecdote: Locarno in Los Angeles. Running April 21 through April 23, the event will showcase 10 features and a number of shorts that screened at...
- 4/17/2017
- MUBI
Robert Keeling Nov 11, 2016
A salute to some of the finest uplifting moments in film, and to cinema's ability to lift your day.
A few weeks ago we published a list of traumatic moments that have appeared in family films. Of course we all enjoyed that waltz through painful childhood nightmare fuel, but the question was raised, why not do a list of slightly more positive and upbeat movie scenes instead? Thus, this: 25 of the most triumphant movie moments of all time.
Everyone has that go-to feel-good movie which they stick on when life is getting them down. Had a bad week at work? Stick Four Weddings on. Football team lose 5-0 and get soaked through on your way home? Time for Baseketball. Leave a tenner in the pocket of your jeans that just went in the wash and thus suddenly realise that life is a never-ending cycle of pain and...
A salute to some of the finest uplifting moments in film, and to cinema's ability to lift your day.
A few weeks ago we published a list of traumatic moments that have appeared in family films. Of course we all enjoyed that waltz through painful childhood nightmare fuel, but the question was raised, why not do a list of slightly more positive and upbeat movie scenes instead? Thus, this: 25 of the most triumphant movie moments of all time.
Everyone has that go-to feel-good movie which they stick on when life is getting them down. Had a bad week at work? Stick Four Weddings on. Football team lose 5-0 and get soaked through on your way home? Time for Baseketball. Leave a tenner in the pocket of your jeans that just went in the wash and thus suddenly realise that life is a never-ending cycle of pain and...
- 10/30/2016
- Den of Geek
Team Experience is revisiting 1991's Best Picture winner for its 25th Anniversary...
Previously... We learned about the case and met Clarice as she went on "an errand," Buffalo Bill caught his next victim, and Starling & Lecter played a game of Quid Pro Quo.
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Pt. 4 by Jose Solis
When Nathaniel left us, Dr. Lecter was Scheherezade-ing the crap out of Clarice by telling her about Baltimore. Do you ever get a sense that just like the King from Arabian Nights, Agent Starling craves to return for more?
01:08:18 “Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages...” he says about the case files. As Clarice paces left to right, Dr. Lecter decides it’s time for another lesson by quoting Marcus Aurelius. He suggests Clarice decipher what is the nature of the killer. As she lists every reason why serial killers kill in lesser thrillers,...
Previously... We learned about the case and met Clarice as she went on "an errand," Buffalo Bill caught his next victim, and Starling & Lecter played a game of Quid Pro Quo.
an Fyc ad from the time
Pt. 4 by Jose Solis
When Nathaniel left us, Dr. Lecter was Scheherezade-ing the crap out of Clarice by telling her about Baltimore. Do you ever get a sense that just like the King from Arabian Nights, Agent Starling craves to return for more?
01:08:18 “Everything you need to find him is right there in those pages...” he says about the case files. As Clarice paces left to right, Dr. Lecter decides it’s time for another lesson by quoting Marcus Aurelius. He suggests Clarice decipher what is the nature of the killer. As she lists every reason why serial killers kill in lesser thrillers,...
- 2/11/2016
- by Jose
- FilmExperience
Crime, lust and vigilante lynchings in the wide-open city on the bay, back in the gold rush days. Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson and Joel McCrea form a spirited triangle as a sharp roulette dealer strings one man along and can't prevent another from throwing away a fortune. Sam Goldwyn's impressive production shows Howard Hawks developing strong characters, in a somewhat old-fashioned story. Barbary Coast DVD-r The Warner Archive Collection 1935 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 90 min. / Street Date June, 2015 / available through the WBshop / 21.99 Starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel Mccrea, Walter Brennan, Frank Craven, Brian Donlevy, Clyde Cook, Harry Carey, Matt McHugh, Donald Meek. Cinematography Ray June Original Music Alfred Newman Written by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur Produced by Sam Goldwyn Directed by Howard Hawks
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A Sam Goldywyn film through and through, Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast could almost be a template for a standard 'golden age' Hollywood movie.
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
A Sam Goldywyn film through and through, Howard Hawks' Barbary Coast could almost be a template for a standard 'golden age' Hollywood movie.
- 12/19/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Oh, "Doctor Who." Five stellar episodes in a row -- it's like last year's damp squib of a season never happened. "The Girl Who Lived" is the show doing historical episodes as they're meant to be done. It's like "Fires of Pompeii," "Robin of Sherwood" and classic Third Doctor adventure "The Time Warrior" all mixed into one -- literally -- electrifying episode. Read More: Review: 'Doctor Who' Season 9 Episode 4, 'Before the Flood,' Gets Meta and Heavy Metal Doctor Hell YesIt's two Doctors for the price of one this episode, as we get a flashback and he finally realises why he regenerated as a slightly older version of Marcus Aurelius from The Fires of Pompeii -- as a reminder that sometimes he can change fixed points in time. It's an underwhelming reason, but it's nice to get a quick glimpse of Catherine Tate's much-missed Donna. The nature...
- 10/18/2015
- by Kaite Welsh
- Indiewire
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