Killer Heat’ Review: Okay Greek-Island Noir, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Shailene Woodley in the Tale of a Murderous Love Triangle
By Owen Gleiberman According To The variety A good tasty noir, like “Love Lies Bleeding,” always feels contemporary, even if set in the past; that’s because [more…]
Netflix Top 10: Menendez Brothers Series ‘Monsters’ Opens With 12.3 Million Views in Four Days — No. 1 on TV Chart but Weaker Than ‘Dahmer’
By Selome Hailu According To The variety Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story” was the No. 1 most-watched series on Netflix during the week of Sept. 16-22, [more…]
Boardwalk Empire’ Creator Exited ‘The Batman’ Spinoff About Gotham Police After Matt Reeves ‘Wasn’t Feeling It’: ‘I Worked on It for Awhile
By Zack Sharf According To The variety “Boardwalk Empire” creator and “The Sopranos” executive producer Terence Winter is finally opening up about “The Batman” spinoff series centered on the [more…]
IDFA Adds More Than 100 Documentaries, Including Films by Kevin Macdonald, Radu Jude, Mati Diop
By Leo Barraclough According To The variety Leading documentary festival IDFA has added more than 100 films to the program of its 37th edition, which runs from Nov. [more…]
Incentives Make the World Go Round: The Basque Country’s Production Surge
By Callum McLennan Tax incentives fuel film production and the Basque Country is no exception. Already boasting attractive incentives, its region of Bizkaia has raised the [more…]
Modi’ Producer Barry Navidi on His Journey From Tehran to Tinseltown and Johnny Depp’s Comeback: ‘It’s Just a Matter of Time’ (EXCLUSIVE)
By Naman Ramachandran For producer Barry Navidi, Johnny Depp‘s directorial comeback “Modi, Three Days on the Wings of Madness” marks a full-circle moment in an unconventional career. Navidi’s [more…]
Menendez Brothers Speak Out in New Interviews From Prison in Netflix Documentary: ‘Everyone Asks Why We Killed Our Parents’
By Zack Sharf Erik and Lyle Menendez speak out for the first time in decades in the official trailer for “The Menendez Brothers,” a new documentary feature [more…]
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Surpasses $300 Million Globally, ‘The Wild Robot’ Takes Flight With $6.8 Million Overseas
By Rebecca Rubin According To The variety Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” took flight at the international box office with $6.85 million from eight [more…]
Happyend’ Review: Friendship Isn’t Future-Proof in a Poignant Surveillance-State Allegory
By Jessica Kiang According To The variety Japanese director Neo Sora is no catastrophist: the vision of dystopia he puts forth in his coolly compelling first fiction feature [more…]