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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Christopher Nolan has fulfilled his award show frontrunner status, winning his first Oscar on Sunday night for directing Oppenheimer. The 53-year-old British visionary has garnered critical acclaim throughout his career, but had never won an Oscar until now. He was nominated for directing Dunkirk in 2017 and for original screenplay in 2010 for “Inception” and in 2001 for Memento. (Also read: Oscars 2024 full list of winners: Oppenheimer wins Best Picture, Christopher Nolan named Best Director)…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeRoll up, roll up for the Beatles Cinematic Universe. Sam Mendes, the Oscar-winning director behind films like American Beauty and Skyfall, has announced plans to make four separate movies about the biggest band in history, one from the perspective of each member. He’ll presumably be working eight days a week to pull it off.According to Mendes’ producing partner Pippa Harris, the films…

Image: Francois G. Durand/Getty Images (Getty Images)There’ve been a lot of versions of Dracula running around in pop culture. Within the past decade, he’s been on a boat, ran a hotel, and been incredibly depressed after his wife was murdered, and we eat it up (almost) every time. Folks love themselves some Drac, and you can count Luc Besson among them, because he’s be cooking up a Dracula movie of his own. Dracula Attacks In Exclusive Clip From The Voyage of the DemeterPer Variety, the Valerian director will direct an…

Earlier this week, it was reported that Jurassic World 4 had potentially found a director in Bullet Train’s David Leitch. Smash cut to now, and Leitch is no longer attached to the project.Are Fans Tired of Marvel and DC? Superhero Fatigue at NYCC 2023Per Deadline, Leitch and Universal split amicably due to “creative differences.” Before then, it sounded like the director was the frontrunner because Universal is “very high” on his upcoming flick, The Fall Guy. And with his action-movie chops, you can see why they’d want to…

PreyImage: HuluGreat news for fans of the Predator franchise, particularly standalone prequel entry Prey: the director of that 2022 film, Dan Trachtenberg (who also made 10 Cloverfield Lane), is returning to the universe. While Prey 2 still might happen, that’s not what this new project is; rather, it’s another standlone titled Badlands.As Deadline reports, Badlands is a direct result of Prey’s success; despite being a straight-to-Hulu release in a time when theaters where still reopening after the height of the pandemic,…

Mention the name Chris Rock, and our immediate thoughts likely are going to turn to his stand up routines, his short stint on Saturday Night Live, or that unfortunate event at the Oscars. In the filmmaking community, though, Rock also has established himself as a director over the years, primarily focusing on comedies such as Top Five and Head of State but willing to branch out. Rock turned heads when he starred in a chapter of the Saw saga, and when he signed on the dotted line to direct a film about civil rights…

Channing Tatum and Zoë Kravitz have emerged as one of the most elusive couples in all of Hollywood due to the fact that they keep their relationship mostly under wraps. That trend seems to have mostly continued since they reportedly became engaged in late 2023. What we definitely know about the two is that they collaborated on Kravitz’s directorial debut, which was tentatively titled Pussy Island. The film was announced several years ago and cameras haven’t been rolling for some time. What’s now been confirmed, however,…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeJohnny Depp has credited Al Pacino for convincing him to return to the director’s chair for their upcoming biopic, Modi.The new film, which is currently in production, follows the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani over 48 hours in Paris during World War I.It is the first movie to be directed by Depp since 1997’s The Brave, which he also starred in alongside Marlon Brando.As…

What does the word expat mean? Its traditional association is with wealthy outsiders lounging around pools in exotic locations, while being waited on hand and foot by the locals. But for Lulu Wang, whose parents migrated to the US from China when she was six years old, it is more complicated. “When I go back to visit my family, I’m not Chinese any more. Not really. But I look Chinese. I’m also not fully an American, but I’m not an immigrant, right? They don’t even understand what that is. And so I’m like, ‘Wait up. Am I…

It’s official. The Mandalorian and his little green buddy and before Dave Filoni’s long-anticipated crossover film event. The movie, appropriately titled The Mandalorian & Grogu, will be helmed by Jon Favreau, who created the Disney+ streaming TV show.Fans have been speculating why there hasn’t been a renewal announcement regarding a new season of The Mandalorian, and this could be why. The film’s going into production this year, which is likely when a new season of the show would have been created. Beyond Favreau,…