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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.

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...

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.

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,...

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.

Blanchett admitted that the whole situation may have been...

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 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. Once you see her extraordinary performance,...

This article is part of IndieWire’s 2000s Week celebration. Click here for a whole lot more.

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.

As we’re fond of saying around these parts, if you’re worried about the...

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.

Related Hulu drops The Devil in the White City series

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,...

“All Quiet on the Western Front” took the 2023 Oscars by storm, racking up nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture. The German film won Best International Feature, Best Score, Best Cinematography and Best Production Design, but its BAFTA-nominated director, Edward Berger, was snubbed despite the Best Adapted Screenplay bid he shared with Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell. Now Berger seeks redemption with his 2024 thriller “Conclave,” which looks like an early Oscar favorite according to our current Gold Derby odds.

“Conclave” is a psychological thriller based on Robert Harris‘ 2016 novel of the same name. In the film, Cardinal Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) is tasked with leading one of the world’s most secretive and ancient events, selecting a new Pope, where he finds himself at the center of a conspiracy that could shake the very foundation of The Church. It was scripted by Oscar-nominated screenwriter Peter Straughan (“Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”).

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If Deadpool & Wolverine screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick have a superpower, it’s not sweating rejection.

When scores of stars turned down an offer to cameo in Zombieland, the studio was ready to give up, but Wernick insisted on a Hail Mary, and they asked star Woody Harrelson to dive into his rolodex for one more name. Two days later, Bill Murray was on set playing a zombie-fied version of himself in the movie’s most memorable sequence.

And as has been well documented, the duo — along with Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds and director Tim Miller — overcame six years of hearing the word “no” to make that movie a genre-redefining reality.

What is less known is that Reese and Wernick themselves were actually rebuffed when they initially pitched their take to Reynolds and 20th Century Fox in the fall of 2009. The pair, hot off the success of Zombieland,...

While he’s renowned for flying fighter planes and free-falling off cliffs on motorcycles, veteran action icon Tom Cruise has a medley of intriguing roles on his star-studded resume, including a (sort of) motivational speaker who makes a living off of misogyny. No, really.

Tom Cruise | Photo by Frankie Fouganthin, licensed by Cc By-sa 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

But what Cruise does, he does it best, be it aviating or holding seminars on getting laid. In fact, he was so good at the latter that he gave Adam Sandler a serious fright after promising to hook him up with the film’s director.

This Tom Cruise Classic Gave Adam Sandler the Heebie Jeebies

With eleven Oscar nominations and abundant critical acclaim, Paul Thomas Anderson has joined forces with a bevy of A-listers during his tenure like Tom Cruise and Joaquin Phoenix.

Although the revered filmmaker has made several smashing hits, including...

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. Things to do: Subscribe to The Hollywood Insider’s YouTube Channel, by clicking here. Limited Time Offer – Free Subscription to The Hollywood Insider Click here to read more on The Hollywood Insider’s vision, values and mission statement here – Media has the responsibility to better our world – The Hollywood Insider fully focuses on substance and meaningful entertainment, against gossip and scandal, by combining entertainment, education, and philanthropy. Babylon And then comes Damien Chazelle’s, ‘Babylon’, a film of immense...

“Twisters” is getting ready to shake up the summer box office.

The disaster movie, a sequel to the 1996 classic “Twister,” has made $10.7 million in Thursday previews at the box office. The Universal film, starring Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos as storm chasers, is expected to open between $50 million and $55 million this weekend.

“Twisters” comes with a $155 million price tag, so it’ll need to storm the global box office to turn a profit. Warner Bros. is distributing the film internationally, where it’s made $X million so far. It will open in larger markets like France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom this weekend.

Released 28 years after the original film, “Twisters” stars Powell as Tyler Owens, a popular storm chaser on the internet, and Edgar-Jones as Kate Cooper, a meteorologist and ex-tornado chaser who is haunted by a major storm from her past. With her colleague Javi (Ramos...

Twister's cast is stacked and the pace is relentless, with the majority being excellent. The CG holds up well, while some acting is slightly uneven and Bill Paxton feels a little miscast. Twister is comfort viewing with high entertainment value, and its quality genuinely holds up.

In 1996, Twister made storm-chasing cool. Actually, it's probably more fair to say that in 1996, Twister put storm-chasing on the radars of 90% of the world who had no idea it was even a thing. Released in the perfect storm of the 1990s blockbuster season, when nature's awesome power was something of a Hollywood obsession, Jan de Bont's breathless actioner became a hit with audiences, while contemporary critics appeared decidedly less awe-struck.

Twister is a lot more than the second-highest grossing movie of 1996 (behind Independence Day), it is something of a time capsule a love letter to movies that don't get made anymore. Or it would be,...

Twisters may best the original in terms of reviews, but surpassing its box office success and becoming the year's second highest-grossing film will be a tall order. The sequel shifts focus to a new cast while maintaining the thrilling tornado-chasing narrative of Twister, setting it up for box office success. Twisters needs a strong box office performance to cover its hefty budget and to surpass Dune 2's impressive draw.

Early reviews suggest that Twisters will best the original 1996 film's lukewarm critical score, but the standalone sequel will have a much more difficult time beating another Twister record regarding the movie's impressive box office draw. Co-written by Michael Crichton, the novelist behind Jurassic Park, 1996's Twister remains one of the most iconic disaster movies of all time. The Oscar-nominated film's then-boundary-pushing blend of CGI and practical effects made the looming threat of tornadoes incredibly visceral to movie-goers. While Twister's...

Before Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Anthony Ramos, there were Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, who starred in the original high-octane thriller Twister (1996) as storm chasers.

Romantic tension similar, but also different, to that between the main characters in Twisters unfolded in the original film. The new installment also nods to the reboot in several ways. The conflict within the two films is also similar. Twisters looks to touch down to a $50 million start at the box office opening weekend.

With Universal’s sequel directed by Lee Isaac Chung about to hit theaters, some may be wondering where to watch the original natural disaster film.

Where Can I Watch ‘Twister’? Is It Streaming?

Twister, which came out in 1996, is available to stream on Max as well as with the Hulu and Max bundle. It is also available to rent on Prime Video, Apple TV+ and more.

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Philip Seymour Hoffman, Todd Field, Alan Ruck, and Cary Elwes had memorable roles in Twister, adding depth to the cast beyond the main characters. Alexa PenaVega, known for Spy Kids, also appeared as Young Jo in Twister, showcasing her early acting talent in the classic disaster movie. The legacy sequel Twisters, coming in 2024, will introduce a new cast while honoring the original Twister actors who made the film unforgettable.

With the release of the legacy sequel Twisters, audiences are revisiting the original Twister for the first time in years, and there are several big actors that most people have probably forgotten were in the film. The 1996 classic is one of the best disaster movies of its release decade, and the film's notoriety has caused it to warrant a legacy sequel in 2024. Twisters introduces an all-new cast of characters to the franchise, and since many of the cast members from the...

Twisters features massive sets and realistic locations, enhancing the authenticity and detail of the film. The movie has a budget of $200 million, making it one of the most expensive productions of 2024. Twisters likely needs to make more than the original Twister in order to turn a profit.

The Twisters cast explains the massive scale for the new sets of the upcoming action movie. Twisters is a standalone action sequel to the iconic '90s film Twister that featured a leading cast including Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Cary Elwes, Jami Gertz, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, and Jeremy Davies. Twisters is set for release this week on July 19 and features a leading cast including Glen Powell, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, and Sasha Lane.

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While the modern cult classic film Twister stands out for a number of reasons,...

We’re midway through the month of July with only a few more weeks to the summer, and it’s time to get into the next potential mega-blockbuster, “Twisters.” Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.

Summer blockbusters have existed for as long as Steven Spielberg has been making movies, but it was only in the mid-’90s when studios realized that they could create movies considered “event viewing” that moviegoers would want to rush out to see opening weekend. The Jan De Bont-directed “Twister,” co-written by Michael Crichton (and actually executive produced by Spielberg through his Amblin company), was one of these back in 1996. Starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton, as well as an ensemble cast that included Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Elwes, and even future filmmaker, Todd Field, it opened with $41 million in its early May 1996 release, which was good for that time. It went...

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For nearly as long as movies have been a form of mass entertainment, the disaster genre has brought excitement and thrills to the big screen, dating back to 1933's "Deluge," which picks up in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in New York. At some point, these films became big business, commanding big budgets in Hollywood. Look no further than 1998, when both "Armageddon" and "Deep Impact" opened mere months from one another, offering radically different takes on the whole asteroid colliding with the Earth scenario. The '90s also gifted us a very important entry in this enduring genre in the form of director Jan de Bont's "Twister."

Released in 1996, "Twister" became something of a phenomenon and a real marker for...

“Twister” was the second highest-grossing film at the box office in 1996, so its enduring popularity shouldn’t be a shock. But still, the profound nature of its impact over time — there’s a museum dedicated to the film in its shooting location of Wakita, Oklahoma; a noted uptick in meteorology majors in the late ’90s directly attributed to the film; and stormchasers paying tribute en masse to star Bill Paxton upon his death in 2017 — astounds even its director, Jan de Bont.

“It’s amazing how that happened,” the Dutch filmmaker told IndieWire in an interview timed to the release of the film on 4K Uhd Blu-ray. “And how quickly it happened. I think ‘Twister’ simply made people more interested in weather phenomena and it’s even why there are so many more weather shows on TV.”

Couple that with the increasing focus on climate change in the 28 years since the...

Audrey Diwan is following up her Golden Lion win for “Happening” with an adaptation of Emmanuelle Arsan’s novel “Emmanuelle.”

The sensual thriller centers on a titular woman (Noémie Merlant) whose business trip to Hong Kong awakens an insatiability inside of her. Naomi Watts, Will Sharpe, “Stranger Things” breakout Jamie Campbell Bower, Anthony Wong, and Chacha Huang also co-star.

An official synopsis for the film reads: Emmanuelle is in search of a lost pleasure. She flies alone to Hong Kong, for a business trip. In this sensual world city, she multiplies experiences and meets Kei, a man who never ceases to elude her. Diwan’s film, freely adapted from Arsan’s novel, casts a female gaze on the intimate quest of the woman whose name still evokes one cinema’s most provocative characters.

“Emmanuelle” will open the San Sebastián Film Festival on September 20. The feature is distributed by Pathé.

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Oscar-nominated 2022 feature “TÁR” made a chilling statement onscreen, but the film appears to have sourced one particular audio clip from an iconic horror movie: “The Blair Witch Project,” directed by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez.

Heather Donahue said during an interview with Variety that “TÁR” used her final scream from “The Blair Witch Project” for a key scene of its own — and without permission. In “TÁR,” the titular composer Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is running in the woods and hears a startling cry from an unseen woman. According to Donahue, that scream was sampled from the 1999 Lionsgate film “The Blair Witch Project,” heard at the very end of the film as her character appears to die offscreen.

Donahue, who now goes by Rei Hance on social media and elsewhere but is attributed as Donahue in the Variety piece, said she alerted “The Blair Witch Project” distributor Lionsgate to the unauthorized...

Actress Kate Winslet is synonymous with the character of Rose from James Cameron’s disaster epic Titanic. The film saw her paired up with Leonardo DiCaprio in the doomed romance set aboard the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic in 1912. The film garnered her a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars and the film was the highest-grossing movie of all time then.

Despite earning billions, Titanic remains one of the many in Winslet’s amazing filmography. Though she is best known for her role in Cameron’s film, she has delivered far superior and mature performances since the big blockbuster. Here are three performances from Kate Winslet’s extensive filmography that are far better than Titanic.

1. Little Children (2006) Kate Winslet in Little Children | Credits: Bona Fide/Standard Film Company/New Line Cinema

Directed by Todd Field of Tár fame, Kate Winslet plays a housewife who has an affair with her neighbor played by Patrick Wilson.

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Twister Steelbook 4K Uhd from Warner Bros.

Twister lands on Steelbook 4K Ultra HD (with Digital) on July 9 — just in time for the release of its sequel, Twisters, in theaters on July 19. Warner Bros.’s 1996 disaster thriller has been restored in 4K with Hdr and Dolby Atmos audio.

Jan de Bont (Speed) directs from a script by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park) and Anne-Marie Martin. Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton star with Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alan Ruck, Todd Field, and Jeremy Davies.

Special features include: a new interview with de Bont; audio commentary by de Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier; Chasing the Storm: Twister Revisited; Anatomy of a Twister; HBO...

The Cannes Film Festival launches auteur filmmakers, and the best among them have known scenes of triumph at the iconic French seaside festival.

But not Guy Maddin, who for all his accolades as an original and idiosyncratic auteur prized for titles like The Forbidden Room and The Saddest Music in the World, has never — until now, that is — brought a film to the Croisette.

It took Maddin and co-directors Evan and Galen Johnson casting Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander and getting the backing of executive producer Ari Aster to get their absurdist political satire Rumours to the Cannes red carpet.

“Once we got some legitimate Oscar-winning movie stars, and other movie stars that are amazing, all of a sudden Cannes cleaned its glasses off for a closer look,” Maddin tells The Hollywood Reporter of the stars aligning ahead of a May 19 world premiere at the Lumière theater. Rumours...

Cate Blanchett is to receive San Sebastian’s highest honorary award, the Donostia Award, at the Spanish film festival’s 72nd edition which runs from September 20-28.

It will be Blanchett’s first visit to San Sebastian, but the festival has already screened a number of her films including Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Babel in 2007 and Joel Schumacher’s Veronica Guerin in 2003.

Blanchett is the second Australian actor to receive the Donostia award after Hugh Jackman in 2013.

Blanchett will also feature on San Sebastian’s official poster, created by graphic designer José Luis Lanzagorta based on a photograph by Gustavo Papaleo.