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With director Mary Harron‘s American Psycho recently celebrating its 25th anniversary, the team behind the cult-favorite film tells The Hollywood Reporter their initial impressions of Luca Guadagnino‘s plan to take a stab at a new feature. Hitting theaters from Lionsgate on April 14, 2000, American Psycho stars Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, a banker with murderous fantasies, in the adaptation of author Bret Easton Ellis’ best-selling novel satirizing 1980s yuppie culture. Lionsgate has recently announced that Guadagnino is attached to helm a new take on the book with a script from Scott Z. Burns, and the director himself appeared via…

After Shazam! Fury of the Gods, David F. Sandberg wanted to stop directing “IP-based movies.”  Sanberg helmed the original Shazam! film in 2019 and its corresponding sequel in 2023. However, after a disappointing box office run and much criticism from the second DC installment, Sandberg said in a Tuesday interview with GamesRadar+ that he was ready to write off the subgenre of film for good.  “I mean, to be honest, fans can get very, very crazy and very angry with you,” he said. “You can get death threats and everything so after Shazam! 2, I was like, ‘I never wanna…

Every so often, the work of a filmmaker is given a major critical and public reassessment, allowing them to enter the pantheon of great directors. It happened in the 1950s, when French critics declared that Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock and Samuel Fuller were not only skillful helmers of genre flicks, but auteurs with distinct personal visions. Later, John Ford was revisited by Peter Bogdanovich and Lindsay Anderson, in books claiming he was more than just a maker of great Westerns. In the 1990s, the Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Iranian Abbas Kiarostami, both of whom had been working steadily…

[This story contains spoilers for Sinners.] In the spring of 2024, Wunmi Mosaku and her Sinners castmates kept hoping that people would embrace Ryan Coogler’s story in the same manner they were on set. Fast forward to the present day, the film is now the Black Panther filmmaker’s second cultural phenomenon, sporting the decade’s strongest reviews from critics and audiences, as well as the biggest opening weekend ($48 million) for an original film in the 2020s.  The vampire horror-thriller chronicles Smoke, Stack and Sammie Moore’s quest for freedom and how their individual ambitions impact their Mississippi Delta community in 1932.…

[This story contains spoilers for Sinners.] It’s not often that a movie comes out of the gate and instantly feels essential to the art form, filling a void in our culture that many weren’t even aware they were missing. But Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is that film. Sinners is more than a great vampire movie, though that is a feat itself, given how well-mined the subgenre is. It is simply a great movie, a new American classic that can stand among all the others that have earned that label over the decades. Why? It puts stakes down, so to speak, in…

With the 97th Oscars now seven weeks in the rearview mirror, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is turning its attention to 98th Oscars, which will take place on Sunday, March 15, 2026. On Monday, the organization’s board of governors announced other key dates pertaining to the coming season — for the announcements of shortlists, nominations and more — and also released rules and campaign promotional regulations that will govern the way contenders compete, including a number of new policies that, on the surface, seem fairly benign, but in practice could have a major impact. In a major departure from…

Gary Jensen, a stunt coordinator who collaborated with Bryan Singer on The Usual Suspects and the first two X-Men films and with Kevin Smith on Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and four other movies, has died. He was 74. Jensen recently spent two months in the hospital for back surgery and died April 11 at his home in Acton, California, his daughter-in-law Laura Jensen told The Hollywood Reporter. He did stunts on films including Tron (1982), The Beastmaster (1982), Independence Day (1983), Hoosiers (1986), Peacemaker (1990), The Rookie (1990), In the Line of Fire (1993) and Due Date (2010).…

Ryan Googler’s highly anticipated new movie Sinners, starring Michael B. Jordan, is finding redemption at the Easter weekend box office. Ditto for Warner Bros. The critical — and audience darling — topped Friday’s chart with $19.2 million from 3,308 theaters, including Imax screens. That put the supernatural period vampire pic ahead of fellow Warner’ release A Minecraft Movie, although the latter is expected to pull ahead of Sinners sometime on Saturday. Based on Friday numbers, Minecraft is expected to stay atop the chart for its third consecutive weekend with $45 million from 4,032 locations as it nears the $350 million…

The time it takes to produce a feature film can span studio heads, a pivot to streaming and a merger or two. As original movies take longer and longer to work their way through the studio machinery, the pace of change at studios, from strategies and shifting priorities, has sped up. Even the most veteran filmmakers have been entrapped in that antagonistic push and pull. Sinners, the latest from filmmaker Ryan Coogler, landed at Warner Bros. at the top of 2024. A year and some change later, is hitting theaters this weekend. As for how Coogler ended up anomalously pushing…

Ryan Coogler went through a period of “complicated grief” after Chadwick Boseman’s death while he was working on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  At the time of Boseman’s 2022 passing, the second Black Panther installment was in the works. His death not only halted the film’s production but left the crew devastated in the wake of his death.  During a Thursday interview with The Guardian, Coogler said the crew got through the devastation by working on the sequel. “Sometimes it’s actually a relief having something to do, so you can’t sit in that terrible feeling,” he added. However, the Sinners director…