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New images from Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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With a new trailer set to land this Sunday, four images have arrived online (via EW) from Steven Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s New York Times best-selling sci-fi novel Ready Player One featuring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Simon Pegg, and Mark Rylance; check them out here…In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only […]

Steven Spielberg Is More Than His Brand

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Henry Bevan on Steven Spielberg…Is this the face of the most underrated director of the twenty-first century?It’s odd to use the word “underrated” in regards to Hollywood’s most successful director. He is the man who did change the face of popular culture with a shark, an archeologist and a dinosaur. His latest film, The Post, […]

First trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post starring Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep

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Ahead of its US release next month, 20th Century Fox has debuted the first poster and trailer along with a batch of new images for director Steven Spielberg’s upcoming drama The Post which stars Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, David Cross, Bruce Greenwood, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Paulson, Jesse Plemons, Matthew […]

Steven Spielberg to direct DC film Blackhawk

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As if the DC news couldn’t get more exciting with the announcement of Cathy Yan directing a Birds of Prey film comes news that Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment have attracted one of the biggest names in directing to their slate. Steven Spielberg, fresh off directing Ready Player One, has been announced to join DC to direct Blackhawk, a […]

Nine Directors Who Could Helm Star Wars: Episode IX

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Liam Hoofe takes a look at nine filmmakers who could replace Colin Trevorrow as director of Star Wars: Episode IX… UPDATE: As announced just an hour after posting this article, J.J. Abrams will be back in the director’s chair for Star Wars: Episode IX.Colin Trevorrow’s departure from Star Wars: Episode IX last week has created a […]

Making the Simple Great: The Power of a Top Director

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Tom Jolliffe on the power of a top director…We’ve all seen great directors deliver complex films, perhaps sprawling with ideas and scope. Perhaps an engrossing retelling of an event in history. A director like Christopher Nolan has spent almost his entire career on weaving complex and intricately stranded high concept films. It takes a good […]

Christopher Nolan consulted with Spielberg on Dunkirk

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While making Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan consulted with Steven Spielberg.When most war films arrive in cinemas they end up being compared to Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan, particularly in reference to that film’s classic and shocking opening sequence.This was also true for Nolan’s first effort in the genre, and according to a recent feature by Variety, […]

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One tracking soft opening weekend, new TV spot released

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With just a few short weeks to go until its release, the first tracking numbers for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One are in, with adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult novel said to be looking at a $35 million debut weekend at the box office in North America, and a four-day haul of around $45 million […]

Watch an extended promo for Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One

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With less than a month to go until Ready Player One arrives in cinemas, an extended promo has been released for Steven Spielberg’s hotly-anticipated adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult sci-fi fantasy novel; check it out here…SEE ALSO: Ernest Cline had to convince Steven Spielberg to reference his own work in the upcoming Ready Player One filmSEE […]

Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One gets a new trailer and character posters

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Following a new poster for Ready Player One earlier this week [take a look here], we now have an international trailer for Steven Spielberg upcoming adaptation of Ernest Cline’s cult sci-fi fantasy novel, as well as a series of character posters featuring Parzival (Tye Sheridan), Art3mis (Olivia Cooke), Aech (Lena Waithe), Sho (Philip Zhao), Daito (Win […]