Directors

James Cameron may have been on to something when, after winning the best director Oscar for Titanic in 1998, he claimed exuberantly to be “king of the world”. He has occupied the top spot at the worldwide box office for nearly 25 years, thanks to 1997’s Titanic and 2009’s Avatar, which have grossed more than $5bn (£4.1bn) between them. His latest film, Avatar: The Way of Water, joined the all-time Top 10 after only three weeks and was the sixth-fastest film to make $1bn. It’s now at No 7, with Titanic at No 3 and the…

When you are a film studio and have no superhero content in your library, you have to get creative or use existing IP to score some hits. Universal has managed it; Paramount did this year and is now planning a Dungeons & Dragons TV series with its future film. News of the project from Red Notice and Skyscraper director Rawson Marshall Thurber is reported in a recent Deadline Hollywood article. Thurber wrote the pilot, and will be directing the first episode of what will be an eight-episode and straight-to-series…

Romeo and Juliet is seeing a lawsuit some 55 years following its initial release for claims of sexual exploitation of minors, but the son of director Franco Zeffirelli has disputed the claims as “embarrassing.” Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, who starred as the star-crossed lovers in the 1968 Shakespeare adaptation, are suing Paramount for $500 million for “sexual exploitation and distributing nude images of adolescents” during the temporary suspension of statute of limitations for child sexual abuse in California..…

Mental health is a conversation the world is more open to having than ever before, but few depictions of internal struggle in recent memory have proven to be as moving, powerful, heartwarming, unflinching, and raw all at once as Trevor Frost and Melissa Lesh’s documentary Wildcat, which comes to Prime Video on Dec. 30. Through a chance encounter while researching an entirely different project, the duo met Harry Turner, a former British soldier who’d served in Afghanistan as a teenager, before being discharged from the…

At the moment, Henry Cavill is probably busy developing a rough treatment for what will encompass the Warhammer 40K cinematic universe on Prime Video and beyond, but sooner or later, the man is going to have to pick up that phone and call up a few of his Hollywood associates to help this ambitious undertaking along. For our part, we have a few ideas about who these creatives could be. The 40K universe will no doubt welcome a lot of newcomers after this announcement, but in case you’re still wondering what Warhammer is in…

Image: 20th Century StudiosWhile James Cameron might have told Denis Villeneuve in an interview last year that he’d love to see a six-hour cut of his films hit streaming, it doesn’t look like Avatar: The Way of Water is going to be the film that puts him back in the editing chair. That movie is going to stay the full three hours and you will love it.From last year’s directors on directors interview for Variety, Cameron said, “I think what we can see is an expanded form of cinema. I want to do a movie that’s six hours long…

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, which has been viewed by more than 100 million people worldwide and has been an unprecedented global success as the top Original series for Prime Video in every region in its first season, has confirmed three directors for the forthcoming second season, currently in production in the UK. The three directors - Charlotte Brandstrom, Sanaa Hamri, and Louise Hooper – will each be at the helm of multiple episodes for season two. Brandstrom, who directed two highly…

Hot on the heels of his Joker success and preparing for the sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, Joaquin Phoenix has just landed an exciting role in an A24 production from Ari Aster, the director of Midsommar and Hereditary. And guess what – it’s a horror film! Now, Phoenix isn’t exactly known for horror roles; he’s not the scream king that someone like Daniel Kaluuya or Patrick Wilson might be, but he’s about to make his mark on the industry by branching out of his comfort zone. There’ve been whispers about A24 working on…

A24 have put the cat amongst the pigeons on their social media, with them enticing fans for a massive update for Ari Aster’s next movie after the monstrous success of Hereditary. Aster has garnered a reputation as a modern master of horror following two excellent showings in the genre with 2018’s Hereditary and then the deeply disturbing Midsommar a year later. Two hits have fans very much intrigued by what his next offering will be, with 2023 set to see the release of Disappointment Blvd. The horror comedy has very…

Wonder Woman 3 Stars Gal Gadot & Is The Last Film In The Franchise(Photo Credit –Instagram/wikimedia/Still From Wonder Woman) This week has been the most dramatic one in the realm of superheroes and it has nothing to do with the Marvel Cinematic Universe this time for a change. The drama this time is unfolding in the DCU where James Gunn and Peter Safran have taken the highest chair to reshape the world of Batman and Superman. It was reported that Gunn and his co-boss have axed Wonder Woman 3 leading to Patty…