I went to a Q & A with Peele & somebody asked him “you were intending symbolism with that scene right? Separating the white from the color?” And he was like “I like that but no. I just tried to think of the world’s most psychotic snack. That was fruit loops and milk separately”
Found a theater on the Greek island of Santorini that literally shows nothing but Mamma Mia every single day over and over and I have to ask why every other theater on earth is not doing this
This is gonna be such a fun Oscar season for best actor campaigns cause Bradley Cooper is gonna be like “I had a medium put me in touch with the Ghost of Leonard Bernstein to help me ensure I was doing exactly what he would’ve done” and Cillian’s gonna keep saying stuff like this
Funny that people were like “no way does Gosling agree to perform I’m Just Ken at the Oscars” and then not only does he do it, he does it as part of one of the best song performances at the ceremony in years
I interviewed the VFX supervisor for this and apparently they shot this whole scene with another actor and then basically were like “this would be much funnier if we had it with someone like Bradley Cooper”
Spoke to an Oscar voter today who brought his kid to a Pinocchio event. Del Toro was mingling with voters, but as soon as GDT saw the kid, he basically blew off the voters, went over to the kid, pulled out one of the Pinocchio puppets & started giving him a lesson in stop-motion
I was interviewing Oppenheimer costume designer Ellen Mirojnick, and we touched on her work in "Twister" and apparently Philip Seymour Hoffman came into wardrobe and spotted this combination of clothes and was like "this is me. This has got to be me."
Multiple studios with nominated films complained to The Academy about allowing Messi to attend the
#Oscar
nominees luncheon event
He will not be attending the Oscars ceremony.
(Source: )
Pedro Pascal was only in like six episodes of Game of Thrones, and still managed to be so magnetic and pitch-perfect in that role that it's going to end up having catapulted him to a better post-Thrones career than anyone else in that cast.
I love Colin Farrell's intro shot in Banshees of Inisherin so much. Just the most aggressively happy man of all time. Carrying a literal rainbow along with him and everything.
Dwayne Johnson says with his new A24 film, he’s at a point “where I want to make films that matter, that explore humanity, struggle & pain”
“I’m at this point where I want more. I don’t mean I want more box office. I mean I want more humanity.”
(Source: )
Remember in 2013 where Spielberg predicted that there would eventually only be a handful of films released in theaters each year and they’d charge high prices and people would make an event of doing it like going out to the Opera or something and people scoffed?
AMC CEO Adam Aron says “our prices for
#TheBatman
are slightly higher than the prices we are charging for other movies playing in the same theaters at the same time”as they experiment with variable pricing.
(Source: Deadline)
Cats is gonna end up being one of those Rocky Horror Picture Show/The Room type films that screens at midnight and has moviegoers dress up and shout lines at the screen for like the next two decades, slowly, steadily turning a profit
Yes, we are planning some CATS Rowdy Screening(s) fun! No, tickets are not on sale yet but we hope to have that link for you very soon soon. Yes, you can stop calling us cowards now.
Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City” successfully appealed its R rating, receiving, on appeal, a PG-13 for brief graphic nudity, smoking and some suggestive material
I believe this makes it the first ever PG-13 film with the “graphic nudity” descriptor
If Cocaine Bear makes money, then there's another real life bear who needs his own movie:
Wojtek, the Polish bear who fought fascists in WWII and learned to drink beer and smoke cigarettes in the process
I’m very happy that this seems to finally be Laura Dern’s Oscar year but THAT PERFORMANCE IN LITTLE WOMEN WAS RIGHT THERE WHY ARE YOU GOING FOR MARRIAGE STORY NO SIR I WILL NOT SIT DOWN GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF M-
Back in 2009, Disney tried to ride the Sandra Bullock Oscar wave into getting Betty White nominated for The Proposal. Here’s a Betty White FYC ad they did, Wish it had happened. She was such a blast in that movie
The cast of Twilight really have exceeded all expectations:
Robert Pattinson is a total chameleon
Kristen Stewart is an art house star and a skilled director
Gil Birmingham is one of our great character actors
Taylor Lautner
Anna Kendrick is a master of comedy
Knives Out 3 idea: Daniel Craig gets invited to solve a murder at a convention full of Butlers and they’re literally all played by people like Willem Dafoe, Gary Busey, Christopher Walken, John Malkovich, Christoph Waltz, Tim Curry, Jason Isaacs, Hugo Weaving, Crispin Glover etc
2022 really could end up being one hell of a year for film. Potentially a single year giving us new films from:
Wes Anderson
Daren Aronofsky
Ari Aster
Noah Baumbach
James Cameron
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Coogler
Scott Cooper
Kelly Fremon Craig
David Cronenberg
(1/3)
Jared Leto’s agent: “Jared, we have a potential new project for you. You’d be wearing prosthetics and makeup. Let me tell you what they movie is abou-“
Jared Leto: “You son of bitch, I’m in”
Brett Goldstein accepting his award for Ted Lasso: “The secret to winning an award for acting is to have most of your scenes with Juno Temple. There are scenes in Ted Lasso where I’m not doing anything and you think I’m good because I’m sharing the screen with her”
Name 10 actors you feel pretty confident will get their first Oscar nomination in the next decade:
Emily Blunt
Paul Dano
Idris Elba
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Tom Holland
Michael B. Jordan
Thomnasin Mackenzie
Robert Pattinson
LaKeith Stanfield
Michael Stuhlbarg
Joker Oscar makeup bake-off presentation apparently focused on the difficulty of working with Joaquin. He would walk out in the middle of hair dying/ disappear in between takes. Maintaining continuity was so rough that the continuity lady quit. He also didn’t like being touched
The wildest part of this story is that the District Attorney prosecuting Netflix is this guy from School of Rock (not a joke). Thanks
@howatdk
for pointing out.
Stephen Root doesn’t get enough praise. He’s the king of the “oh yeah he’s that guy!” actors, capable of playing lovable idiots, menacing gangsters, evil racist villains, and well... everything with equal aplomb. One of our most underrated and hardest working character actors
Yorgos Lanthimos' "Poor Things" with Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef and Mark Ruffalo is apparently completed and has received its MPA rating
R for strong and pervasive sexual content, graphic nudity, disturbing material, gore, and language.
Yorgos is cooking
Netflix has an FYC ad for Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio. They're not even bothering mentioning Animated Feature. They're going all out and putting Best Picture front and center. Very cool
A reminder of the magic that can happen when you present ALL categories on air at the Oscars.
If these moments aren't why we watch, then why do we watch?
#PRESENTALL23
Presumably nothing was even close to beating Oppenheimer for Best Picture, but to the extent there was a number 2, it was unquestionably Poor Things, right?
#GodzillaVsKong
director Adam Wingard has enough extra footage for a 5-hour cut of the movie... but don't hold your breath for a director's cut.
"For me, this is the version that worked the best, and I don’t see any reason to do a director’s cut."
Wes Anderson's cinematographer Robert Yeoman told me that they just wrapped production on Wes's next film (the one with Tom Hanks, Margot Robbie, Bill Murray etc) and they're already heading to England in December to start prepping for yet ANOTHER Wes Anderson film after that
Emmy Rossum at 35 is the same age as *checks notes* Michael B. Jordan, Robert Pattinson, Evan Peters and Penn Badgley who are in turn 10 years older than the 25 year old Tom Holland and she is playing his MOTHER
Emmy Rossum joins Tom Holland in Apple's 'The Crowded Room'
Holland is playing Danny Sullivan and Rossum will play his mother, who is always looking for a man to fulfill her dreams of salvation
()
I remain so fascinated by this fictional version of Scorsese the internet has created who apparently does nothing but shriek with impotent rage every time a new MCU property comes out and dedicates every waking moment to trying to destroy comic book films.
You've been hired to write a film.
Only catch is, it has to be a musical and it has to be based on the last film you watched.
What musical are you writing?
I’m hoping that a certain actor who cameos in Glass Onion as Benoit Blanc’s spouse isn’t just a one-off cameo, but a soon-to-be recurring character in the Knives Out universe. That actor would be so perfect for a bigger role in one of these mysteries
The "ask your parents what they're rooting for in Best Picture" challenge:
Dad:
1. 1917
2. Ford v Ferrari
3. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Mom:
1. Little Women
Truly, what’s the endgame for all this AI stuff? Replace 70% of human jobs (in all fields, not just creative) and then sit back and watch as everything collapses because no one can afford to consume any products produced through this increased ‘efficiency’?
“If Charles Melton is ahead, and there’s something that can put me back on top…then I think the President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences should know about it”
France missing an International Feature nomination because they submitted The Taste of Things instead of Anatomy of a Fall with its 5 nominations was a choice in hindsight
Jimmy Kimmel opened his show last night by saying “The big Oscar nomination leader was The Power of the Dog. It got 12 nominations, one for each of the people who watched it”
TIL that James Gandolfini was only 37 during the first season of The Sopranos. Aka the same age as Dave Franco and a year younger than Jonah Hill, Andrew Garfield, Donald Glover and Paul Dano
Hooh boy next year's Cinematography Oscar race is gonna be something
Nolan sci fi
Villeneuve sci fi
Black & White Fincher
half black & white Wes Anderson
bond movie shot by Linus Sandgren
Coen movie shot by Bruno Delbonnel
Rachel Morrison's directorial debut
Bunch of musicals
It’s so weird to me whenever people seem to get really excited about the news of an original non-franchise film bombing at the box office these days, when every time that happens, it means studios are less and less likely to greenlight those kinds of movies again
Breaking Bad displayed a remarkable mastery of lighting, camera movement and editing by the time it ended, but honestly, Better Call Saul has just blown it out of the water from a craftsmanship standpoint by this point
Underratedly hilarious/horrible Rise of Skywalker moment:
The Emperor being like "Snoke? I created Snoke" & you're thinking oh he just means he was the puppet master who turned Snoke to the dark side. Then you see, no, there's literally vats of Snokes he grew like a Chia pet
According to the trainer for from Anatomy of a Fall (Snoop aka Messi), the two people at the Academy luncheon that Messi sought out without them coming to him and really had a "moment" with were Billie Eilish and Bradley Cooper
WB slapping a quote from
@davidehrlich
's negative review of Joker on the poster, when there are a dozen positive ones to choose from instead, is some god level trolling on their part.
Actor Jim Caviezel appeared at a right-wing COVID conspiracy theorist conference yesterday and promoted the QAnon blood-harvesting conspiracy theory () about "the adrenochroming of children." (clip 1/2)
And apparently he fought to try and get to do all his makeup himself. So basically the narrative was “maybe our actual makeup wasn’t as complex as yours but our job was every bit as hard”
Still wild how quickly Bradley Cooper’s career went from “that guy from The Hangover movies” to a Glenn Close type “he’s been nominated 9 times! Just give him a damn Oscar already” figure
hard to think of many Oscar winners who used their post-win clout to the extent Jordan Peele has. Since Get Out, he's produced another Best Pic nominee, an Oscar winning short, 4 TV shows, Directed a hit horror film, produced a Candyman remake, and written an animated feature