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The shrieks of delight and horror greeting Ruben Östlund’s latest film, Triangle of Sadness, are a mark of success for its award-winning Swedish director, he said on Sunday, following the film’s Cannes festival premiere. Östlund explained he intended to make a “rollercoaster experience” for adults.“People were applauding like it was a football game,” said Östlund.Östlund, best known for his 2014 alpine drama Force Majeure, which was remade in English two years ago as Downhill, may also have ably succeeded in establishing…

A lonely, real-life experience in an Istanbul hotel room – an imagined moment of escapist magic – inspired the British author AS Byatt to write a romantic fantasy about a genie in a bottle, George Miller has revealed after the Cannes premiere of his big-screen version.When the filmmaker, best known for directing the Mad Max franchise, first visited Byatt to ask for permission to make a film of her short story, The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye, she told him that much of the background detail in it was true.Miller,…

Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images George Miller’s Justice League: Mortal is without a doubt one of the most famous movies that was never made, with the Mad Max architect coming agonizingly close to getting his $200 million superhero blockbuster in front of cameras before Warner Bros. pulled the plug. He had a cast and crew in place, completed storyboards, costume fittings were underway, and Australia was pegged as the shooting location, before things ultimately fell apart at the final hurdle. Of course,…

Director David Ayer is claiming releasing the director’s cut of his 2016 DC film Suicide Squad wouldn’t require any reshoots, only some re-done visual effects shots, but that the end result would be “shockingly different” from the theatrical cut we got, spurring fans once again to advocate Warner Bros. to “#ReleaseTheAyerCut.” After a fan asked Ayer if he was given a proper budget to do additional reshoots for the film, and possibly change character designs back to his original concept like what they did for the…

Online grocery delivery start-up Weee! encourages customers to share videos of recipes and favorite items on its app. It specializes in hard-to-find Asian foods, along with fruits, vegetables and other staples.Weee!Online grocery start-up Weee! specializes in hard-to-find foods from Asian and Hispanic cuisines. It nabbed another kind of rarity earlier this year: A big Hollywood name in its executive suite.The company hired Jon M. Chu, director of "Crazy Rich Asians" and the film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's "In the…

Viola Davis has said that a director she’d known for years once called her by his maid’s name.TheFirst Lady star was speaking about Black representation in Hollywood during a panel at Cannes film festival when she recalled the incident.The 56-year-old used it as an example of the micro-agressions Black actors experience “all the time” in the film industry.“I had a director who did that to me,” she said, per Variety. He said, ‘Louise!’ I knew him for 10 years and he called me Louise and I find out that it’s because his…

More on the horizon for Cloud and pals? We could be hearing more about Square Enix’s plans for Final Fantasy VII fairly soon. Final Fantasy VII Remake director Tetsuya Nomura says that some FFVII news is in store for next month. During a Japanese-language livestream about battle royale Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier, Nomura said news is on the way regarding the 25th anniversary of Final Fantasy VII for June, next month. (Translation via VGC and @aitaikimochi on Twitter.) The comment doesn’t seem to have any more…

Making a Top Gun sequel way back in the late 1980s on the heels of the original movie’s 1986 release would have been a daunting task even then — the film was easily one of the top box office draws of the era. But following it up over three decades later might be an even more intimidating task. Director Joseph Kosinski was up to the task — and he did it without creating a pale carbon copy of the first movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giXco2jaZ_4 Although Top Gun: Maverick is unmistakably a continuation of…

via Paramount When you think of a sharp-suited hitman mercilessly-yet-stylishly gunning down their foes in a neon-lit nightclub, played by an actor famed for headlining a succession of fantastic action moves dating back decades, then you’re almost certainly thinking about Keanu Reeves in the John Wick franchise. Michael Mann knows that, too, but he won’t stand for it. The filmmaker helmed 2004’s phenomenal street-level crime thriller Collateral, which saw Cruise give one of his best-ever performances in an…

Oscar-winning director Asghar Farhadi has denied legal claims that he plagiarised his latest film from a former student.In 2021, the Iranian filmmaker released his latest film, A Hero, to critical acclaim. It tells the true story of a man who found a bag of money and returned it, despite being on leave from debtors’ prison.However, last month, Farhadi was charged with plagiarism in Iran after he was accused of stealing the premise from an earlier documentary called All Winners All Losers, made by his former film student…