Directors

Are we really going to need the audiobook version? From the very first page, the author’s unmistakable voice ricochets between the reader’s ears: giggling, provoking, digressing, seducing and dropping deadpan little hints about his own life.Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Quentin Tarantino has published his first work of movie criticism, a study of his personal favourites from the New American Cinema era, including superb, boisterous pieces on Peter Yates’s Bullitt, John G Avildsen’s Joe, Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry,…

Doom Eternal composer Mike Gordon has claimed he was “humiliated” by studio director Marty Stratton’s “lies”. Back in 2020, Stratton took to Reddit to share an open letter about the release of the Doom Eternal soundtrack and lead audio designer Chad Mossholder’s involvement with it. According to Stratton, Gordon was unable to meet numerous deadlines and Mossholder stepped in to “take all of the music as Mick had delivered for the game, edit the pieces together into tracks, and arrange those tracks into a comprehensive…

via Warner Bros. Filmmakers going back to the well to tinker with their back catalogue is hardly a new practice, with Ridley Scott an early proponent of the Director’s Cut. Ironically, given his history with the historical epic, it was cruelly fitting that no less than three extended versions failed to turn peer Oliver Stone’s spiritual bedfellow Alexander into something remotely resembling greatness. The Academy Award-winning Platoon helmer had spent decades developing the project, sticking with it through…

via DC David Ayer’s director’s cut of his 2016 film, Suicide Squad has found its newest supporter in Deadpool co-creator Rob Liefeld. “Just go ahead and #ReleaseTheAyerCut already!!!” Liefeld wrote on Twitter. This latest vow of support from the person who brought the world Marvel’s Merc with the Mouth comes as #ReleaseTheAyerCut once again trended on Twitter on Saturday and continued to gain traction. This renewed excitement for the now-mythical Ayer Cut might be because of a clip from the unseen version of…

Some tough language from the Russo brothers this week, who have accused Warner Brothers of “murder” over the recent canning of Batgirl. Speaking to Variety, the Avengers: Endgame directors did not mince their words.“It’s rare that I can think of something that high profile, that expensive, that was murdered in such a way,” Joe Russo said of the studio’s decision to cancel Batgirl’s release in favour of a tax write-down. “It’s sad, but we’re at a time in the business where is going to rear its head because people are…

Image: Disney+As the first season of Andor hurtles toward its season finale later this month, development for the Disney+ Star Wars series’ second season is already in the works. 01:25Randall Park's Favorite SuperheroesMonday 5:02PMIn a conversation with Collider, showrunner Tony Gilroy revealed that the continuation of Andor’s Star Wars story has added three directors to focus on the events that precede Rogue One. The second season will be broken up into episode arcs, he confirmed, adding that duties willbe split among…

Alberto E.Rodriguez/Getty Images for CinemaCon/Leslie Grace/Twitter Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to ditch Batgirl despite the highly anticipated movie having already completed production, received widespread backlash from both superhero fans and those in the moviemaking industry. Not only were DC lovers crushed to find out we’d never get to see Leslie Grace as Barbara Gordon on HBO Max as promised, many believed that it set a troubling precedent for how studios treat their creative talent. Now the Russo…

Image via Marvel Studios The Russo Brothers are right up there with the MVPs of the MCU, as the filmmaking siblings have directed four of Marvel‘s most acclaimed — and most profitable — movies. Namely, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War, and Endgame. So naturally, fans are always eager to find out if the duo has a new project cooking over at the House of Ideas. Unfortunately, the Russos are now here to cool the jets on any rumor hinting they’re on the cusp of returning to the…

Billionaire Elon Musk is already floating major changes for Twitter — and faces major hurdles as he begins his first week as owner of the social-media platform.Twitter's new owner fired the company's board of directors and made himself the board's sole member, according to a company filing Monday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.He's also testing the waters on asking users to pay for verification. A venture capitalist working with Musk tweeted a poll asking how much users would be willing to pay for the blue…

2022 has been the year of horror, with a number of original theatrical movies like Smile, franchise reboots like Scream, and legacy sequels like Halloween Ends topping the box office chats and delighting fans of the genre everywhere. Streaming is no different, with Hellraiser on Hulu and Orphan: First Kill on Paramount+ finding their audiences in living rooms across America. A new entry to 2022’s list of horror hits is V/H/S/99, the fifth entry in the young franchise that just became Shudder’s most streamed movie…