It was surprising when Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix made a sequel to their Oscar-winning Joker movie. But don’t expect there to be a trilogy. Speaking at the Los Angeles premiere for Joker: Folie à Deux to The Hollywood Reporter, Phillips made it pretty clear that a Joker 3 is not coming — at least not from him. Asked whether he had any plans … Read more
Denis Villeneuve has clarified that his Dune films are “not like a trilogy.” The 56-year-old filmmaker plans to depart the blockbuster sci-fi series after one last epic if Dune Messiah goes ahead, but he has explained that the third movie based on Frank Herbert’s classic novel, will have its “own identity.” He told Vanity Fair: … Read more
All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger is denying he is involved with the next James Bond picture. While there is still a lot to find out about the next James Bond movie, we do know one thing: Edward Berger, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind All Quiet on the Western Front has been hired … Read more
Ian McKellen — who has played Gandalf across six films — is open to reprising the Lord of the Rings character. As another Lord of the Rings film nears production with The Hunt of Gollum, we are still left wondering who from Peter Jackson’s original trilogy will return. By and large, most have been open … Read more
Ian McKellen says fat suit he wore for Player Kings saved him from more serious injuries during his fall, but he’s still in agonizing pain. In June, Sir Ian McKellen was hospitalized after a fall off the stage during a performance of Player Kings at the Noël Coward Theatre in London. In an interview with … Read more
Robert Downey Jr. is not ruling out a potential return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In fact, he says he’s “become surprisingly open-minded” to the idea. That’s what Downey told Jodie Foster in a conversation published on Variety. Asked whether he would ever consider reprising his role as Tony Stark in a new project, Downey replied… … Read more
Proval came to screening of “Mean Streets” at the Texas Theatre in Dallas April 20. I interviewed him after the show about his experiences making the film, his collaboration with Scorsese and costars Robert DeNiro and Harvey Keitel, and his reaction to watching it again on a big screen, for the first time in a long … Read more
Of all the big name actors Late Night With the Devil star David Dastmalchian has acted opposite, Michael Ironside is the one he’s most psyched by. One of the biggest sleeper hits this year has definitely been IFC/Shudder’s Late Night With the Devil. Despite having a tiny budget and a very limited release window in … Read more
No, but every day you find some other ideas, of course. Do fans still send you photos of gnomes in different parts of the world? No, but today I received a photograph from a butcher in India or China watching “Amélie” [at work]. Two or three years ago, they [held] a screening in Cannes on … Read more
Henry Cavill says that he’s not a fan of sex scenes in movies and television, arguing that our imaginations will always be better. Sex scenes in movies and television have come under fire more often recently, and it turns out that you can count Henry Cavill among those who aren’t a fan of them. Henry … Read more