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Oppenheimer is wildly rocking and rolling at the Oscars 2024 in the most swankiest way. Being widely nominated for 13 categories, the Christopher Nolan film which stars Cillian Murphy & Robert Downey Jr. in pivotal roles, has managed to bag 7 prestigious academy awards this time. Released last year in the month of July, The Biographical Thriller Atomic-Bomb-Saga film, had humongously scored supremely well at the box office in turn earning a whopping amount of $ 950 Million (approx.) globally, despite its 3 hour long…

Watch as Jo Koy’s jokes fail to land at the 2024 Golden Globes.The stand-up comedian stepped up as host for this year’s ceremony and took aim at Taylor Swift, the royal family, Succession and Oppenheimer - but many of his quips bombed.In his monologue, Koy mocked the “rich, white and dysfunctional” royals portrayed in Netflix’s hit series The Crown, before suggesting the same streamer pays Harry and Meghan millions of dollars “for doing absolutely nothing”.Later on, his joke about the Golden Globes having fewer camera…

With The Marvels shrinking to sub-Quantum Realm levels at the box office, the MCU certainly needs some guaranteed wins in its not-so-distant future. And one of those might just come in the form of a sequel to the only Marvel movie to bomb nearly as hard as The Marvels. Confused? Good, so are we all, thanks to some suitably spoilery comments from Mark “I gave away the ending to Infinity War one year early” Ruffalo. Let’s see what’s happening… Image via Marvel Studios Disney buying out NBCUniversal’s stake in Hulu is a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freePredicting which movies will set the box office alight seems like an easy task, but there’s a reason studios get paid the big bucks to do so. However, every so often, an acclaimed film can come along that absolutely tanks after being unveiled for the public.Over the years, there have been a startling number of films that have struggled, or indeed failed, to recoup their budget, and…

In January 2023, while appearing on "The Movie Business Podcast" (via Variety), Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige candidly dismissed the idea of superhero fatigue, comparing comic book films to novel adaptations. "You would never ask that because there's an inherent understanding among most people that a book can be anything," Feige said confidently. A month later, in February, "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" debuted to sour reviews (it boasts a 46% on Rotten Tomatoes — the lowest rating in the…

Image via MGM As one of the greatest action directors there’s ever been, hopes were understandably high when it was first announced that John Woo would be helming $115 million war epic Windtalkers as his first feature since Mission: Impossible II, the blockbuster that went down as the highest-grossing release of 2000 after hauling in upwards of half a billion dollars at the box office. There was also the mouthwatering prospect of having him re-team with Face/Off star Nicolas Cage, too, never mind the…

Image via Paramount If you take a director who’d made history as the first person to win both an Emmy and Directors Guild Award in the same year, hand them a $50 million budget and the adaptation of a popular novel, rope in several recognizable and popular stars, the producers of a legendary multi-billion dollar franchise and then allow them to cut loose in the action thriller arena, The Rhythm Section definitely sounds like a winner. Instead, Reed Morano’s bone-crunching exercise in banality – produced by…

via Universal Fan campaigns can often be a double-edged sword, as anyone who’s been following the ongoing SnyderVerse drama can surely attest. They do reap tangible rewards sometimes, though, only for the constant pleading to be rewarded with absolutely nothing when Joss Whedon’s Serenity tanked at the box office. Ever since instant cult classic sci-fi series Firefly was canceled after a single incomplete season, its most ardent backers refused to stay quiet. While more episodic adventures weren’t forthcoming,…

via StudioCanal As much as audiences have come to lament the raft of reboots, remakes, sequels, and reimaginings that flood the marketplace each and every year without fail, they’ve got nothing on William Shakespeare adaptations. The Bard’s work is always lurking in the background somewhere ready to make an impact, but 2015’s Macbeth showed that acclaim doesn’t always match interest. Director Justin Kurzel’s faithful stab at the legendary tome applied plenty of visual flair while remaining true to the source…

Image via Warner Bros. Slither in for another Fear-tastic Friday, all you ghouls, goblins, and ghosts! At this point in time, it’s safe to say that the colossal horror genre is crawling with a slew of eyebrow-raising goodies even far before the Halloween season. As always, all of these jaw-dropping treasures will be carefully examined in today’s daily horror roundup right here at We Got This Covered. From a long-awaited Blumhouse horror to a bone-chilling Stephen King suddenly looming on the horizon, there’s a…