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Cate Blanchett has cemented her acting prowess across genres and mediums. She's played Hela in Thor: Ragnarok and the iconic Galadriel in Lord of the Rings, and appeared in the Oceans franchise, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and TV series like Disclaimer. Fans have watched and loved her in every role. One can always rest assured, Blanchett will bring something new to the screen. Among her critically acclaimed performances is Todd Field’s psychological drama Tár, which has found a new streaming home.

Per ComicBook, three years after its initial release and award run, Tár will be available to stream on Peacock. The movie is a hard-hitting one, like all other Field movies, with its thought-provoking themes of power dynamics, authority, and abuse. It also explores the theme of the ego and the downfall of some in the wealthy elite through its protagonist, whom Blanchett plays to perfection.

The movie follows a renowned musician,...

One of the more notable one-episode wonders in television history may be "Lookwell." 

"Lookwell," for those unfortunate enough not to know, was a comedy pilot starring Adam West that was produced by Lorne Michaels and co-written by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel. It was made in 1991, but despite its high concept and high quality, it never went to series. The pilot aired on NBC in late July of that year as a TV movie, but only those with fast-moving Vcr-record buttons were able to capture it before it vanished into the ether. Those who did manage to capture it on VHS instantly became enamored, falling in love with Adam West's sublime comedic performance and its askew sense of humor. 

The premise of "Lookwell" was a little arch, as was the fashion at the time. West played Ty Lookwell, a wealthy, retired TV actor who loved to lounge around his 1970s-decorated...

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Peacock is ready with an entertainment-packed July this year. The upcoming month will see the release of the much-anticipated return of the post-apocalyptic action comedy series Twisted Metal, as well as the streaming release of the new thriller film Drop. Just like every month, Peacock is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the five new movies and TV shows coming to Peacock in July 2025.

Drop (July 11) Credit – Universal Pictures

Drop is a thriller drama film directed by Christopher Landon from a screenplay co-written by Jillian Jacobs and Chris Roach. The 2025 film follows Violet Gates, a widowed single mother who goes out on a date but soon begins receiving messages to kill the man sitting beside her, or someone will kill her son at home. Drop stars Meghann Fahy, Brandon Sklenar,...

Icelandic composer Hildur Gudnadóttir will receive the career achievement award at the 21st Zurich Film Festival, Zurich announced Thursday. An Oscar winner for her score to Todd Phillips’ Joker, making her the first-ever solo female artist to win the Academy Award for best score, Gudnadóttir is also known for her music for Todd Field’s Tár (2022) and Kenneth Branagh’s A Haunting in Venice (2023) and for her Emmy-winning score for HBO’s Chernobyl (2019). She will be honored at the festival’s “Cinema in Concert” gala on Oct. 2.

“Hildur Gudnadóttir is one of the most innovative composers of our time,” said festival director Christian Jungen. “She knows how to use experimental sounds to shape mainstream pop culture and lend it atmospheric depth. She is an inquisitive musician who develops her scores in dialogue with the filmmakers and their sequences, creating melodies that you might not hum to yourself on the way home,...

The Space Program, a New York-based team of indie producers, describes itself as a collective. The way things work is that the three-person team collaborates on all projects — with one person taking lead and the others assuming supporting roles, depending on the film.

“We have been able to become a safety net for each other and for the films and the filmmakers,” explained Gus Deardoff, who runs the company along with Lizzie Shapiro and Lexi Tannenholtz. “It means there’s always someone available, which helps because filmmakers really need instantaneous contact with their producers at all times, and sometimes you get spread very thin. This way, we have several lines of defense.”

The company, which has worked on the feature debuts of Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”) and Emma Seligman (“Shiva Baby”), takes a particular interest in first-time filmmakers.

“We love working with people that we want to be able to grow with,...

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This May, Paramount+ is bringing you a ton of entertainment with the much-anticipated premiere of the new season of Criminal Minds and also the release of the much-awaited new season of The Chi. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Paramount+ this month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 7 best films coming to Paramount+ in May 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (May 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 98% Credit – Asia Union Film & Entertainment Ltd.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a wuxia martial arts film directed by Ang Lee from a screenplay co-written by Wang Hui-ling, James Schamus, and Tsai Kuo-jung. Based on the Chinese novel of the same name by Wang Dulu, the 2000 film is set in the 19th...

Updated, 12:50 Pm: More than 900 Academy members have now signed the letter, including actors Carey Mulligan, Glenn Close, Andrew Garfield, America Ferrera, Edward Norton, Jane Fonda, Pedro Pascal, Kristin Scott Thomas, Frances Fisher and Elizabeth Olsen; actor-directors Taika Waititi, Ben Affleck and Todd Field; filmmakers Denis Villeneuve, Michael Moore, Stephen Frears, Abigail Disney, Asif Kapadia, Jay Roach, J.J. Abrams and Michael Mann; composer Carter Burwell; Board of Governors VP/Secretary Howard Rodman (writers branch); and all three documentary branch Governors — Simon Kilmurry, Chris Hegedus, and Jean Tsien.

Exclusive: Deadline has learned the Academy’s board of governors is meeting in extraordinary session this morning to confront a deepening crisis over its response to the beating and detention of Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, one of the directors of No Other Land.

As that meeting nears an 11 am Pacific Time start, Deadline can report a new statement has been signed by...

Julian Glover is probably one of the only actors who asked to be killed off of "Game of Thrones." Glover admitted as much at Montreal Comic Con in 2018 (per ScreenHub), explaining that he wanted his Grand Maester Pycelle to bite the bullet before his season 6 demise. A vital character in George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice And Fire" series, on screen Pycelle became one of the most extraneous background players as the HBO adaptation wore on.

"I didn't want to do [season 6] because I realized I was being completely dismissed as a character," Glover told IGN ahead of the fantasy series' ending. Speaking of Lena Headey's character, he recalled: "Cersei ticked me off all the time, and I never had any comeback. So that wasn't any fun to play." The actor made a similar statement at the aforementioned pop culture convention, reportedly explaining that his character in the...

[Editor’s note: this list was originally published in August 2024. It has since been updated with new entries, including “Black Bag.”]

When director Todd Field sat down and wrote his film “Tár,” there was only one option to play the title character. As he described to IndieWire in an interview, the film wouldn’t have been made if Cate Blanchett hadn’t agreed to take the part of lauded conductor Lydia Tár. “I had no backup plan,” he told IndieWire. “I’d met Cate 10 years ago and I knew coming out of that meeting that I had just been in conversation with somebody that had one of the great brains I ever met. And it was someone that I was really, really desperate to be able to collaborate with.”

It might seem silly to hinge your entire film on the participation of a single actor; the Australian Blanchett doesn’t share any notable biographical details with the fictional American conductor that makes her casting meaningful in a meta sense.

Atom Egoyan, director of the Seven Veils, surrounded by his admirers at the Quad Cinema Photo: Ed Bahlman

On Saturday, March 8, an audience member in the packed theater U of the Quad Cinema after my conversation with Atom Egoyan on Seven Veils asked him: “Which film should I put on when I get home?” Atom responded: “I would play [Michael Powell’s] Peeping Tom backwards maybe. Maybe [Alfred Hitchcock’s] Rebecca, actually some Hitchcock. Carmen is pretty interesting, the Carlos Saura film. Does anyone else have a double bill idea?” Suggestions rang out from Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls and Brian de Palma’s Passion, to Todd Field’s Tár, and of course, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann.

Atom Egoyan on Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) at the Salome tech rehearsal: “There’s no one she can communicate with, she is really on her own.

Atom Egoyan, director of the Seven Veils, surrounded by his admirers at the Quad Cinema Photo: Ed Bahlman

On Saturday, March 8, an audience member in the packed theater U of the Quad Cinema after my conversation with Atom Egoyan on Seven Veils asked him: “Which film should I put on when I get home?” Atom responded: “I would play [Michael Powell’s] Peeping Tom backwards maybe. Maybe [Alfred Hitchcock’s] Rebecca, actually some Hitchcock. Carmen is pretty interesting, the Carlos Saura film. Does anyone else have a double bill idea?” Suggestions rang out from Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls and Brian de Palma’s Passion, to Todd Field’s Tár, and of course, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann.

Atom Egoyan on Jeanine (Amanda Seyfried) at the Salome tech rehearsal: “There’s no one she can communicate with, she is really on her own.

Martin Scorsese and Apple are reportedly adapting the Gilead novels with Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star. The legendary director teamed up with Apple for his latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which starred DiCaprio in the lead role and was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. Since its release in October 2023, the 82-year-old director has floated many options for his next film, including multiple projects that would reunite him with one of his most frequent collaborators, DiCaprio.

Now, another project has been added to that list. Per Publishers Weekly, Apple Original Films has reportedly struck a deal to develop Marilynne Robinson's Gilead novels with Martin Scorsese attached to write, direct, and produce, and Leonardo DiCaprio attached to star, starting with Home, the second of four novels in the series. There are no details on the plans to adapt the remaining novels. The six-time Oscar-nominated...

Martin Scorsese is teaming up with Apple Original Films again after “Killers of the Flower Moon.” His next project is “Home,” based on a novel by Marilynne Robinson. Scorsese will write, direct, and produce the movie. Leonardo DiCaprio, a frequent collaborator, will star in it. This marks their seventh film together, following hits like “The Departed” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.”

The story comes from Robinson’s Gilead series, set in the fictional town of Gilead, Iowa. It explores themes of faith and rural life. “Home” focuses on a family dealing with tough pasts. Glory Boughton returns to care for her dying father, a reverend.

Her brother Jack, the family’s troubled son, also comes back after 20 years away. Jack struggles with alcohol and a difficult history but remains his father’s favorite. The novel shows Jack trying to reconnect with his sister Glory and facing tension with his traditionalist father and godfather,...

While it’s been very difficult of late to figure out what Martin Scorsese will follow Killers of the Flower Moon (already a couple years out from its Cannes premiere), today brings some of the closest confirmation of where he’ll head next. Surprise: Leonardo DiCaprio is coming with.

Per Publisher’s Weekly, Apple Original Films have obtained rights to Marilynne Robinson’s four Gilead novels, the second of which, Home, Scorsese has discussed since 2023. DiCaprio will lead the film, produced by Todd Field, who’s co-written Home with Scorsese and Kent Jones while said to be handling the first entry, Gilead, though the article notes an ambiguity around “plans to adapt the remaining books in the series.”

The news suggests DiCaprio would play Jack Boughton, a wayward alcholic who returns to his hometown of Gilead to take care of a dying father alongside his sister Glory. These roles recur in Robinson’s other books,...

Kate Winslet’s Intense In ‘Little Children’ ( Photo Credit – YouTube )

Kate Winslet didn’t walk away unscathed from the infamous laundry room tryst with Patrick Wilson in Little Children as her co-star revealed the steamy scene left her with more than just cinematic memories—it left with “lots of bruises.”

The Story Behind Little Children

Released in 2006, Winslet and Wilson starred in the adaptation of Tom Perrotta’s novel, playing two suburban parents entangled in a forbidden romance. Winslet’s character, Sarah Pierce, is an unfulfilled housewife who embarks on an affair with Brad Adamson, played by Wilson, after their kids’ playdates lead to something far more illicit.

Yet, while the film explores themes of infidelity and suburban malaise, one moment in particular has cemented itself in viewers’ minds, the now-iconic sex scene on top of a washing machine.

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Patrick Wilson still gets looks from moms in parks.

The actor, 51, broke out in a series of a roles in the early 2000s, playing a closeted gay Mormon in Mike Nichols’ Angels in America for HBO in 2003 and then Brad, a suburban dad set adrift in Little Children, Todd Field’s 2006 adaptation of the novel by Tom Perrotta.

Wilson — who currently stars in Millers in Marriage, the latest from Edward Burns (in theaters and on digital) — revisited his Little Children experience on a recent episode of The Hollywood Reporter‘s It Happened in Hollywood podcast.

“I would be at the playground, basically being Brad. I remember a few times getting looks from women that are like, ‘Why do I know you?’ And then you’d see them get all flustered like, ‘Oh — that’s why I remember him,'” Wilson says.

“And it got to a point where where I could just say,...

The Brutalist heads into Sunday’s Oscars ceremony as one of 2024’s most acclaimed films, an epic piece of filmmaking that earned 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Brady Corbet. However, while the film was once considered the Best Picture favorite, its best bets for Oscar glory on Sunday are in other categories: Best Score, Best Cinematography, and presumably Best Actor. Or at least so it appeared before the Screen Actors Guild Awards, when A Complete Unknown star Timothée Chalamet pulled off the upset win over The Brutalist lead — and season-long frontrunner — Adrien Brody. With Chalamet’s surprise SAG win, how worried should Brody be about a Timothée triumph at the Academy Awards?

Before answering that, let’s flash back to 2022. That year, Todd Field’s Tár was in a similar boat, the cineaste favorite about a fictional character so fully embodied by an actor that audiences...

Martin Scorsese may be executive producing the buzzy “Cape Fear” series adaptation, but the auteur is actually looking to get wet with a different seaside project: a Hawaii-set true crime mob drama starring Dwayne Johnson.

Deadline first reported the yet-untitled film. IndieWire can confirm from a source close to the project that Johnson and his frequent collaborator Emily Blunt approached Scorsese with the feature, who then brought in actor/producer Leonardo DiCaprio. The script is being commissioned by Nick Bilton, who produced HBO documentary “The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley.”

The drama is set to star Johnson as a real-life aspiring mob boss who battled rival crime clans to control the Hawaiian islands in the 1960s. Scorsese, Johnson, Blunt, DiCaprio, and Bilton will all executive produce, along with Dany Garcia, Lisa Frechette, and Rick Yorn.

Blunt and Johnson have worked together on “Jungle Cruise” and will co-star in...

Martin Scorsese is in awe of Robert Eggers.

During a recent Q&a with TCM’s Dave Karger (via World of Reel), Scorsese praised Eggers’ auteurism on his recent film “Nosferatu.”

“It’s amazing,” Scorsese said of the film. “Anything this guy does is amazing. That’s one film you don’t do much after seeing. You’re still in the world. You’re in Transylvania and it’s really … Man, he’s something.”

While Scorsese isn’t quite known for horror, Eggers has become a modern master of the genre. Eggers, who previously helmed “The Witch,” “The Northman,” and “The Lighthouse,” announced his fifth film “Werwulf” in January 2025.

“Werwulf” will be a werewolf horror movie set in 13th century England, and will see Eggers re-team with Focus Features. Eggers cowrote the script with his “The Northman” scribe Sjón. Like “Nosferatu,” “Werwulf” will be getting a holiday release; the film...

Could it really, finally be the time for The Devil In The White City? The long-gestating project, based on Erik Larson’s book Devil In The White City: Murder, Magic And Madness At The Fair That Changed America, has seen many iterations over the last ten years. But according to Deadline,...

20th Century Studios is moving forward with a long-awaited adaptation of The Devil in the White City, based on Erik Larson’s bestselling 2004 nonfiction book. The film, currently in its early stages, has Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to star and Martin Scorsese in discussions to direct. Both are also set to produce alongside Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, and Jennifer Davisson, DiCaprio’s partner at Appian Way Productions.

The story, set against the backdrop of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, intertwines the achievements of architect Daniel Burnham with the sinister deeds of Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims. Larson’s book paints a vivid picture of the contrasts between the grandeur of the fair and Holmes’s horrifying crimes.

DiCaprio first acquired the rights to the book in 2010, initially planning to star as Holmes. Scorsese joined the project in 2015. Over the years,...

One of Martin Scorsese’s longest-gestating projects has another shot at seeing the light of day.

IndieWire has learned that 20th Century Studios is developing a film adaptation of Erik Larson’s “The Devil in the White City,” with Scorsese in talks to direct and frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to star.

First published in 2004, “The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America” tells the story of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, following ambitious architect Daniel H. Burnham and the murders of serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes that took place during the event.

No script is currently ready, but Scorsese and DiCaprio should be deeply familiar with the material given how much time they’ve spent circling it over the past decade.

DiCaprio acquired the rights to the book in 2010 and began developing a film adaptation at Paramount, with Scorsese...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese have been developing a movie adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City for the past decade. During that time, the project transformed from a movie into a TV series, with various actors and directors attached. It seems that the project has come full circle as Deadline reports that 20th Century Studios has snagged the project, with DiCaprio in talks to star and Scorsese in talks to direct.

The Devil in the White City tells the story of Daniel H. Burnham, “a visionary architect who sets out to mark history with the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and Dr. H. Holmes, America’s first modern serial killer and the man behind the notorious ‘Murder Castle’ that was built in the shadow of the Fair.” DiCaprio and Scorsese, along with Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn, and Jennifer Davisson, would also produce the project.

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The long-gestating feature adaptation of The Devil in the White City has been picked up by 20th Century Studios.

The film is in development at the studio and has Leonardo DiCaprio in talks to star and Martin Scorsese in talks to direct. It is based on author Erik Larson’s 2003 true-crime nonfiction book of the same name.

This iteration of the project is in early stages and does not currently have a script. Serving as producers are DiCaprio, Scorsese, Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and Jennifer Davisson.

Larson’s best-selling book The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is set in Chicago at the end of the 19th century and focuses on World’s Fair architect Daniel Burnham and serial killer H.H. Holmes.

Back in 2010, The Hollywood Reporter reported that DiCaprio was developing a film based on the book through his shingle Appian Way.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio’s next collaboration “The Devil in the White City” is taking shape once again, as 20th Century Studios has boarded the project. Scorsese and DiCaprio will also produce alongside Stacey Sher, Rick Yorn and DiCaprio’s Appian Way partner Jennifer Davisson.

The film, which does not yet have a script, will be an adaptation of Erik Larson’s bestselling 2004 book “Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness at the Fair That Changed America.” The book follows Dr. H.H. Holmes, a serial killer who used the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago to lure his victims to their death.

The long-gestating project has been in development for nearly two decades. DiCaprio and his Appian Way Productions acquired the rights in 2010 with plans to adapt it as a film in which he would star as Holmes. Martin Scorsese came onboard to direct in 2015, with Billy Ray set to write the script.

It was more than 18 months ago that we learned John Hillcoat will adapt Blood Meridian, perhaps our era’s quintessential piece of cinema-defying material. What’s eluded a list of auteurs from notable (Todd Field) to intriguing (Tommy Lee Jones) to Ymmv (Ridley Scott) to Dear God (James Franco) had now fallen to a director most, regardless their opinion on his films, would call a journeyman––a journeyman who also earned Cormac McCarthy’s blessing as executive producer and one-time screenwriting volunteer. The time since has seen its author’s passing and (notwithstanding John Logan joining as scribe) little else on Hillcoat’s project.

Credit goes to Alexander Sorondo, who’s penned a five-part investigation into McCarthy’s later years on his Substack big reader bad grades. Reading requires a $5 subscription that’s more than worth the price of admission––safe to say the reclusive novelist has rarely seemed so available.

There are quite a few classic movies that tend to come up in an, "is this a Christmas movie?" debate: Die Hard (1988), Gremlins (1984), and even The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)are just a few that come to mind. However, Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick's 1999 erotic thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, might be one of the more controversial additions to that list.

Set at Christmastime, Eyes Wide Shut follows New Yorker Dr. Bill Harford (Cruise) as he decides to infiltrate a secret sexual society after learning that his wife (Kidman) has considered having an extra-marital affair. Fans of the film have discussed whether the psychosexual flick can be regarded as a holiday movie, citing both the film's setting and themes as evidence. However, some people argue that the events of the story have nothing to do with the holidays. So, is Eyes Wide Shut a Christmas movie? Is Kubrick's final film,...

Tom Cruise had no issues in going up against Harvey Weinstein way before the MeToo scandal brought down the Hollywood producer. Last year, fans heard from director Todd Field about how Cruise helped him to avoid Weinstein from hijacking his film. Interestingly, Cruise also took his chance to parody Weinstein in one of his roles.

Tom Cruise as Les Grossman in a still from Tropic Thunder | Credits: DreamWorks Pictures/Paramount Pictures

In Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder, the Mission: Impossible actor played an over-the-top movie producer. Many speculated that the role was based on Weinstein while others also commented that the role carried resemblances to producer Scott Rudin. Fans believed that Cruise used the role to call out Weinstein’s aggressive behavior at a time when he was still all-powerful in the industry.

Tom Cruise parodied Harvey Weinstein and exposed his bullying behavior Harvey Weinstein | Credits: Georges Biard, licensed under...

While Hollywood often rewards charm, good looks, and box-office hits, Tom Cruise’s enduring love from his fans goes beyond the glossy exterior. One of the most defining moments in his career was his bold stance against Harvey Weinstein.

Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick | image: Paramount Pictures

When Todd Field, the director behind Little Children and Tár, found his debut film In the Bedroom at the mercy of Weinstein’s notorious habit of helping filmmakers by hacking up their creations, it was Cruise’s intervention that saved the day. Filmmakers had long feared Weinstein’s heavy hand in editing—changing films so drastically that their original soul often disappeared in the process.

But Cruise didn’t just stand idly by. In fact, his advice was the lifeline that Field and his team needed.

How Tom Cruise helped save Todd Field’s film from Harvey Weinstein

In Tinseltown, where every...

Tom Cruise fans can always be thankful that they never have to wait too long for something new. Ever since he walked into Hollywood in the early ‘80s, he has consistently been cast (or cast himself) in major blockbusters, earning his spot among the greatest movie stars of all time. Since his debut in 1981, Cruise has averaged a movie a year, starring in a whopping 44 motion pictures so far. That’s quite an impressive streak, considering that he had lead actor roles in most of these projects, requiring him to be on set for months. And when you consider the fact that he mostly does his stunts, you feel compelled to applaud.

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*Availability in US Release Date July 16, 1999Director Stanley KubrickCast Marie Richardson, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack, Nicole Kidman, Tom CruiseRuntime 159 minutes

Cruise has a preference for action films, but so far, he...

Stanley Kubrick's films were the antithesis of conventional Hollywood storytelling. From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Shining and A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick's attention to detail and obsessive need for perfectionism left behind a collection of cinematic achievements that many consider far ahead of anything that's been made before or since and is synonymous with depth and complexity. It's been 25 years since the release of his final film, Eyes Wide Shut, and discussion regarding the film's content still exists among scholars, critics, and cinephiles, all of whom have their own unique interpretations.

Eyes Wide Shut, starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and featuring a supporting role from acclaimed director Sydney Pollack, thrives on the most basic task assigned to the viewing audience of any film: perception. It combines the tumultuous relationship of a wealthy doctor and his wife, who project outward appearances to cloak what occurs behind closed doors,...

Contains discussion of sexual assault, abuse, and suicide.

It may have gained major awards attention, but what exactly does Tr's ending really mean? Directed by Todd Field, the movie tells the story of Lydia Tr, a fictional conductor whose incredibly accomplished life comes crashing down around her after a series of scandals rise to the surface. Tr's complex narrative is matched by its rich and layered themes, with the film demanding further analysis.

Tr came out in October 2022, and the Cate Blanchett music drama was a major player in the 2022-2023 awards season. As the lead of Tr's cast Blanchett snagged Best Actress in a Drama Motion Picture at the Golden Globes, and Tr was top 10 for the year at the AFI Awards. Tr was also nominated for six Oscars, including Best Picture. There's a lot to break down in Tr's ending, including the biggest story moments, themes, and unanswered questions.

Martin Scorsese has quite a few projects percolating at the moment. There's The Wager, based on the David Grann book The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder, with Leonardo DiCaprio expected to star. There's also a proposed Frank Sinatra biopic, and a film about the life of Jesus Christ the former of which may or may not still be in the works. And then there's Home, an adaptation of Pulitzer prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson's 2008 novel of the same name.

The director first spoke about the project in 2023, indicating at the time he'd written a script with Tr and In the Bedroom writer-director Todd Field, along with Kent Jones, the filmmaker behind Diane and Hitchcock/Truffaut. Scorsese mentioned Home again in a new interview with The Canadian Press in November 2024, saying there was a "very strong possibility" it would be his next film, but that a "scheduling issue" might prevent it from happening.

With it now being three years since Killers of the Flower Moon wrapped and one year since its release, Martin Scorsese has been away from a proper film set for some time. As the director prepares for his 82nd birthday this weekend, he has once again confirmed plans for his next features.

In an interview with the Associated Press, Scorsese revealed that his Shūsaku Endō adaptation The Life of Jesus is now just “an option” as he’s “still working on it.” However, he added there’s a “very strong possibility of me doing a film version of Marilynne Robinson’s Home, but that’s a scheduling issue.” With a script by Todd Field, here’s the synopsis of the companion novel to Robinson’s Pulitzer-winner Gilead:

The Reverend Boughton’s hell-raising son, Jack, has come home after twenty years away. Artful and devious in his youth, now an alcoholic...

Robert Eggers has already made it clear that the Lily-Rose Depp you see onscreen in “Nosferatu” is all real: No CGI was used to enhance how physically and psychically mad she goes under the spell of demon-lover vampire Count Orlok (Bill Skårsgard).

But the writer/director revealed more details about her unhinged performance as Ellen Hutter in a Q&a for Academy members in New York over the weekend, moderated by “Tàr” and “Little Children” director Todd Field. Lily-Rose Depp, who already showed a willingness to stretch her bounds in terms of choreography on HBO’s glitteringly messy series maudit “The Idol,” helps turn this 19th century gothic “Nosferatu” into a story of female possession — which, as Eggers pointed out, was central to F.W. Murnau’s original film and Werner Herzog’s 1979 take, “Nosferatu the Vampyre,” which featured “Possession” star Isabelle Adjani (yet another movie this one will inevitably draw...

The 2010 Boston Teran novel, The Creed of Violence was supposed to get a big screen adaptation starring Daniel Craig, but since the 2019 announcement, there's been no news about the project. While development hell is simply a facet of Hollywood, it doesn't make it any easier when a highly anticipated movie gets mired in the La Brea adjacent tar pits near Hollywood. The Creed of Violence is an action novel, set in Mexico in 1910, on the eve of the Mexican Revolution. On the Mexican-American border, an assassin, Rawbone, is on a mission.

There was immediate interest in an adaptation of the book, and in 2011, it was announced that Todd Field was attached to write and direct (via Empire). Since then, the adaptation has gone through numerous revisions. Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale were both attached at one point, and the film nearly began production in 2013. In 2019, James Bond star Daniel Craig was cast as Rawbone,...

Exclusive: Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley has joined the cast of game show-themed slasher horror film I’m Your Host in the lead role.

Directed by Dw Medoff and written by Joey Miller, the movie follows a group of friends trapped in a deadly game show, where they must outwit a sadistic serial killer in a terrifying race for survival.

Haley was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor in the 2006 Academy Awards for his performance in Todd Field’s 2006 satirical melodrama Little Children.

The actor went on to play anti-hero Rorschach in Zach Snyder’s 2009 DC Comics superhero film Watchmen, and Freddy Krueger in the 2010 remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street. More recently he has been seen in thriller Degenerate and Primetime Emmy Award-winning show Genius.

Atlanta-based Benacus Entertainment is producing I’m Your Host in association with Jacksonville-based company Rnf Productions.

Producers Seth Michaels,...

Cate Blanchett charmed Venice Film Festival on Thursday night as Alfonso Cuarón’s new erotic Apple TV+ series “Disclaimer” received a five-minute standing ovation.

The two-time Oscar winner was the star attraction on the Lido, with the crowd inside the Sala Grande bursting into applause when she made her entrance ahead of the screening. Blanchett was dressed in a sleek black pantsuit with an open back draped in pearls, while co-star Sacha Baron Cohen went 007-style with a white tuxedo jacket.

Adding some Gen-z kudos to the occasion, singer Olivia Rodrigo was in attendance in support of her boyfriend Louis Partridge, who also stars in the series. However, she didn’t walk the carpet and sat a few seats away from the actor. After the screening, she ignored attempts by several members of the crowd to catch her attention as they shouted “Olivia!”

Earlier in the day at the “Disclaimer” press conference,...

Nearly 30 years after first appearing onscreen together in the 1996 box office smash hit Twister, actors Sean Whalen and Alan Ruck have reunited for a new horror comedy called Crust.

According to Dread Central, Whalen describes Crust as a take on The Little Shop Of Horrors (the 1960 original) mixed with Willard. Crust is both written and directed by Whalen, marking his directorial debut. Whalen, known for his roles in cult classics like Wes Craven's The People Under the Stairs, now being remade by Jordan Peele, steps behind the camera for the first time. The film is co-written by Jim Wald, and is notably the first official theatrical release under the recently revived Anchor Bay Entertainment.

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As Hollywood continues its unflinching collective decision to mine intellectual property for all it's worth, that means every genre can expect to see revivals, remakes, and reboots simply to ensure that new generations can have new versions of iconic stories, regardless of whether new equals good. This week, for example, 20th Century Studios (now an arm of the Walt Disney Company) is bringing us back to space, where no one can hear you scream. Yes, it's time for another new "Alien" film, this one called "Alien: Romulus," from director Fede Alvarez, himself no stranger to remaking a beloved horror film. Does the new take on "Alien" stand tall among the other major horror franchise revivals? Is it as good or better than Alvarez's prior horror remake? Or should it be quickly forgotten? Let's count down the 11 major horror franchise revivals and see where this new take on the Xenomorph lands.

Cate Blanchett stands as one of the greatest actresses of her generation, if not ever. And she is undoubtedly one of the most committed working today. This is something that Jamie Lee Curtis saw firsthand while making Borderlands with Blanchett, observing that she was practicing her Lydia Tár technique in between takes.

As Curtis – whose Everything Everywhere All at Once co-star Michelle Yeoh beat out Cate Blanchett for Best Actress – remembered, she would see Blanchett practicing conducting while in full Lilith get-up, which only added to the confusion. “I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ She said, ‘Oh, I have this job I’m going to next.’ She went straight to Berlin from Budapest. That’s how long ago we made this movie,” referring to the movie beginning filming in April 2021, four months before cameras on the Todd Field film rolled.

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Today, we think of Todd Field as one of the best filmmakers around. But back in the late-‘90s/early-‘00s, he was an actor attempting to direct his first film. Of course, eventually he’d get his first filmmaking break with the acclaimed feature, “In the Bedroom,” a film that would go on to not only earn five Oscar nominations but become a relative box office hit. That said, Field doesn’t believe that film would have nearly the success today.

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When the 2000s began, Todd Field was a journeyman actor best known for his work in “Ruby in Paradise,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” and a pair of Jan de Bont spectacles.. A year into the decade, he would be recognized as one of the most promising filmmakers of his generation after writing and directing “In the Bedroom” (2001), a low-budget indie that became a surprising commercial success on its way to five Oscar nominations. Looking back now, Field recognizes that it was a unique time not just for him, but for film history in general.

“There are so many advantages now, technically, for young filmmakers starting out,” Field told IndieWire. “But in terms of actually having people see the work, it seems much harder. The idea that this film got made, that it got into Sundance,...

Wassup and welcome to IndieWire’s 2000’s Week, our annual summer-time celebration of whichever decade we’re thinking on most fondly this particular season. As we’ve previously done with both the ’80s (rad) and the ’90s (the shiznit), we’re spending this stretch of the dog days of summer looking back on some recent history. Some very recent history, in this case.

Like those previous iterations, this celebration of the best of the early aughts’ cinematic output will kick off with our ranked mega-list of the decade’s 100 greatest films, which we will then follow with interviews with the people who made them, essays about the impact these contemporary classics had on the world at large, close listens of the scores and needle-drops that still reverberate in our ears, and so very much more.

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The year 2022 in film, looking back, was a year of Grandiosity. Yes, Grandiosity, with a capital G. In this year’s Best Picture category, we have such hits as ‘Avatar 2: The Way of Water,’ ‘Elvis,’ ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ and ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once,’ whose title itself even nods to grandiosity. Even Todd Field’s ‘Tár’ has a sense of epic proportions to it. And then comes Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’– a film of immense proportion excitedly dreamed up by the mind behind the multi-Oscar-winning ‘Whiplash’ and ‘La La Land,’ and packed with some of the biggest stars of our time – Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, to casually name a few. A gigantic opus of a film clocking in at three hours and nine minutes long, reaching new heights in Chazelle’s oeuvre, audacious and ambitious as ever – and it flops! With a...

Very few actors get the opportunity to be a part of several critically acclaimed movies in their career, but there is one actress who can boast about this. Cate Blanchett has established herself as an icon in the industry, with a career spanning decades and several awards under her belt.

The actress has been a part of some of the most successful movies and has showcased brilliant performances. Yet, there is one movie that she finds hard to talk about, as the Borderlands actress didn’t agree with the reception that this 2022 film received.

The music that still hurts: Tár at the Oscars

Tár is a 2022 psychological drama film directed by Todd Field. It was centered around Cate Blanchett in the role of Lydia Tár, a genius classical music conductor, and her eventual downfall. The movie dealt with several mature and complex themes, and the critics thought that Blanchett’s performance was raw and genuine.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's film project based on The Devil in the White City has faced delays for 14 years. According to producer Stacey Sher, the film-turned-limited series adaptation is still moving forward with the original team, despite setbacks such as Hulu dropping the series. Even though the project has been in development for almost a decade and a half, it seems there's still a chance it actually sees the light of day.

Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's movie adaptation The Devil in the White City has gotten an update following 14 years of development hell, indicating whether the project is ever going to be made. Based on the 2003 non-fiction book by Erik Larson, the story follows the real-life history of World's Fair architect Daniel Burnham and America's first serial killer, H.H. Holmes. DiCaprio purchased the film rights in 2010, with the film stuck in development ever since. While The Devil in the White City...

Producer Stacey Sher says The Devil In The White City, the Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio project thought to be in development hell, is still happening.

It’s well over a decade since Leonardo DiCaprio picked up the film rights for author Erik Larsson’s non-fiction book, The Devil In The White City, but an adaptation of it is still alive and well. That’s according to producer Stacey Sher, who says that both DiCaprio and filmmaker Martin Scorsese are still involved in the project in some capacity.

First published in 2003, The Devil In The White City is part history, part crime thriller, taking in the creation of the Chicago World’s Fair and the exploits of murderer Hh Holmes, who killed a number of people in Chicago as the expo took place in the 1890s. Its sprawling period detail would be expensive to realise in a film or TV production,...

Producer Stacey Sher gave Deadline the latest update along what has been the very winding road to adapting Erik Larson’s bestselling non-fiction classic, The Devil in the White City, for the screen.

The project has been in various stages of development since before Deadline revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio had bought the film rights to the book in 2010. He subsequently set it up as a feature at Paramount with Scorsese to direct and himself to star. In 2019, Hulu announced that it was developing the project as a big-budget series with DiCaprio and Scorsese exec producing. Last year, Hulu decided not to proceed with the project. ABC Signature, which had the project in Association with Paramount Television Studios, indicated at the time a continuing comittment to the project and hope of finding it a new home. That was in March 2023.

Now, when asked about the long-aborning Devil Sher, who has been with it since the beginning,...

An adaptation of Erik Larson’s The Devil in the White City has been in the works for years (more on that later), but last we heard, Hulu had scrapped the limited series, which was slated to be executive-produced by Martin Scorsese. However, producer Stacey Sher told Deadline that the project is still in the works.

“I’m still involved,” Sher said. “I never give up.” When asked if audiences could expect to see it sometime soon, Sher responded, “I mean, I hope so. It’s not imminent, but it is never ever far from my mind.” She also confirmed that Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Rick Yorn, and Jennifer Davisson are “still involved” in the project.

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