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Oscar Isaac joins Mark Rylance in Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara

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While 2015 marked a breakout year for Oscar Isaac, this year has been a rather quiet one for the actor (as far as movie releases go), with the exception of his villainous appearance in X-Men: Apocalypse. But with a slate of big films, which now includes Steven Spielberg’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, in the […]

Blu-ray Review – E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, 1982. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Dee Wallace, Peter Coyote, Henry Thomas, Robert MacNaughton, and Drew Barrymore. SYNOPSIS: Anniversaries divisible by five remain popular with the Hollywood studios’ home theater divisions, so of course E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial needed (not really) that treatment for its 35th anniversary. If you have the Blu-ray issued […]

Paramount looking to expand its Transformers output with a multi-part sequel and spin-off films

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Having topped the worldwide box office chart in 2014 with Transformers: Age of Extinction, it looks like Paramount Pictures is keen on expanding its output for the Robots in Disguise, with Deadline revealing that the studio has launched a “writer’s room” for a multi-part Transformers sequel and spin-off films, a la Disney’s plans for Star […]

Movie Review – The Post (2017)

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The Post, 2017. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie, Carrie Coon, Jesse Plemons, David Cross, Zach Woods, Pat Healy, John Rue, Justin Swain, Deborah Green, Phillip Casnoff, Jessie Mueller, and Michael Stuhlbarg. SYNOPSIS: A cover-up that spanned four […]

Steven Spielberg still hoping to adapt Stephen King’s The Talisman

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Back in 1982, two years prior to its publication, filmmaker Steven Spielberg acquired the rights to The Talisman, a fantasy novel from Stephen King and Peter Straub. As King notes in a piece over at Entertainment Weekly, “several times [Spielberg] came very close to making it”, and it seems the filmmaker isn’t ready to give […]

Steven Spielberg says Indiana Jones 5 will be Harrison Ford’s last outing, open to female-led reboot

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Given that he’ll be pushing eighty years old by the time it hits cinemas, it probably won’t come as much of a surprise to hear that the upcoming Indiana Jones 5 will mark Harrison Ford’s final outing as the bullwhip-cracking, fedora-wearing archaeologist and adventurer. Speaking to The Sun during a promotional interview for his new […]

Steven Spielberg pipped James Cameron to the Jurassic Park movie rights

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During an interview with The Huffington Post, James Cameron has revealed that he attempted to acquire the movie rights to Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel Jurassic Park, but ultimately lost out to Steven Spielberg by a matter of hours. Cameron went on to reveal that, in hindsight, Spielberg was a better fit for the material, and […]

Ready Player One opens with $181 million worldwide

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Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One has enjoyed a healthy debut at the global box office, pulling in $181.3 million worldwide. Domestically, the pop culture sci-fi grossed $53.2 million across the Thursday to Sunday period to take top spot ahead of Tyler Perry’s Acrimony, and pulled in a further $128 million from […]

Steven Spielberg thinks Netflix films are TV movies and shouldn’t qualify for the Oscars

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Out on the promotional rounds for his new film Ready Player One, legendary director Steven Spielberg has been chatting about current trends in filmmaking – and specifically, the rise of original content on streaming services such as Netflix. “A lot of studios today would rather just make branded, tentpole, guaranteed box office hits from their […]