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It’s easy to look at Brad Bird’s career and imagine a pretty clean trajectory: Pixar classics, a terrific “Mission: Impossible” movie, a big Disney swing, another Pixar sequel, and now “Ray Gunn.” The reality, of course, is considerably messier. Bird has spent decades trying to get certain movies made, while other enormous opportunities have come along at precisely the wrong time. […]

We’re thrilled how quickly writer/director Ari Aster is gearing up for his fifth feature film, as the writer/director is enlisting some big names for his next project, “Scapegoat,” with Oscar-nominees Scarlett Johansson (“The Exorcist: Marytr”) and Jacob Elordi (“Frankenstein,” “The Dog Stars”) getting some company as a third name is circling the latest A24 title. That actor, […]

Witness Terror On A Gigantic Scale! The horror genre has become big business for studios big and small. Next month, Lionsgate and director Mike P. Nelson (“Wrong Turn,” “Silent Night, Deadly Night”) are offering something special to general audiences and horror super-fans alike, as “Beware Boiúna” aims to be a more serious giant snake project with a cast that features Kiana Madeira, […]

Korean filmmaker Na Hong-jin was making waves with his action-packed sci-fi thriller “Hope” debuting at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the year (The Playlist reviewed the movie during our coverage of the festival), and there have been plans from the director to continue the story with a second installment. Well, it sounds like those sequel ambitions may go even further as the film’s […]

The social-media embargo for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Digger” lifted this week, and the response has already proven to be deeply divisive. That’s perhaps unsurprising for a big, farcical Alejandro G. Iñárritu movie and one, as I put in my social response yesterday, wild, loud, grotesque, and deliberately excessive, an apocalyptic satire starring Tom Cruise that pushes its garish […]