‘Mank’ Is A Gorgeously Mounted But Ultimately Distant Biopic [Review]

demonstrate outside Disney theme parks in Florida and California urging the company to denounce the proposed bill, which President Joe Biden has slammed as “hateful.” Further exacerbating the public backlash against Disney was an Orlando Sentinel report that Disney, despite casting itself as an LGBTQ-affirming place, gave money to every single sponsor and co-sponsor of the bill, including the bill’s Senate sponsor, Sen. Dennis Baxley (R-Belleview), who has proposed multiple pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation during his time as a politician in Tallahassee.In response to stories about Disney’s political donations, Abigail Disney, the 62-year-old granddaughter of the company’s co-founder Roy O.

rekindle a sweeping Hollywood relationship with his superstar ex, Jennifer Lopez, and de Armas was seen pouring on some PDA with her boyfriend, Tinder bigwig Paul Boukadakis, in Los Angeles at the end of last year.“There is a lot of love still between [de Armas and Affleck],” an insider told Page Six at the time of their breakup. “The split is as amicable as can be.

Olivia Rodrigo has said that her forthcoming movie Driving Home 2 U (A Sour Film) will feature an unreleased piece of new music after the closing credits.The film is being released on Disney+ on March 25, and will feature a combination of live performances of tracks from her debut album ‘Sour’, interviews about the songs, and behind-the-scenes footage shot during recording sessions.In a new interview with Rolling Stone, she revealed that she’s added a previously-unreleased song to the end credits, a currently-untitled iPhone demo that is reportedly still in progress.“I was listening to some of [the unreleased tracks] and heard it and thought, ‘Oh, it’s kind of good!”She added that she’s been back in the studio working on the follow up to her platinum-selling debut LP. “I’m so, so excited to put out new music and to create the next set of worlds.”Elsewhere in the interview, Rodrigo discussed her forthcoming tour, which will be her first major shows in support of ‘Sour’ due to pandemic-related delays.“It’s a brand-new experience for me that I’ve never really had a test of, so it’s going to be really fun,” she said of the dates.

Wet Leg have today (March 7) unveiled details of a winter UK and Ireland tour – check out the dates below.The Isle of Wight duo, made up of Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers, will kick off their series of live dates in Norwich before travelling to Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, London, Nottingham and Belfast. The tour will come to a close in Dublin.The presale for the tickets begins at 9am on March 9; the general sale begins at 9am on March 11.

Deadline he “feels very strongly” about the decision, explaining he believes filmmaking is a collaborative art and “we should all have a seat at the supper table”.“I disagree with the decision made by the executive committee,” the filmmaker said.  “I feel very strongly that this is perhaps the most collaborative medium in the world. All of us make movies together, we become a family where one craft is just as indispensable as the next.“I feel that at the Academy Awards there is no above the line, there is no below the line.

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Showing support. Gigi Hadid followed in the footsteps of fellow model Mica Arganãraz and made the decision to donate the entirety of her fall 2022 fashion show earnings to those suffering in Ukraine. 

One of the best parts about awards season is getting to see big directors go through the endless press tour cycle until they run out of things to talk about from their movie, and simply start throwing hot takes at every turn. Last year it was Martin Scorsese accidentally starting a war between filmmakers and Marvel after comparing the MCU to theme park rides.

When you make a film like “Citizen Kane” as your first feature as a filmmaker, people are going to throw tons of acclaim your way. And that’s exactly what happened with Orson Welles after the release of his masterpiece, which many still consider one of the greatest films of all time.

Peter Bart Editor-At-LargeMovies about the making of movies rarely find an audience. That long-standing Hollywood dictum will be defied this weekend with the Netflix release of Mank, but here’s the rub: The central character is a critic who becomes a screenwriter who becomes a victim.That may be a clue as to why Mank this week is receiving reviews somewhere between worshipful and orgasmic.

“Once Upon a Time In Hollywood” and “La La Land” were egregiously overrated, ego-driven projects that didn’t honor Los Angeles so much as their own directors. Ryan Murphy’s “Hollywood” on Netflix was a tacky mess.

David Fincher is infamous for being a very meticulous, detail-oriented filmmaker. Over the years, actors and crew members have spoken out about how difficult it is to work with the director because of his propensity for forcing people to do dozens of takes for a scene.

While filmmaker David Fincher made a movie for 20th Century Fox in 2014, the thriller “Gone Girl,” it’s easy to forget that by and large, the director’s unofficial home for the majority of his projects since 2013 has been Netflix. He helped put the streaming network on the original programming map with the then-pioneering “House Of Cards” (2013), which he co-executive produced and directed select episodes of, he was the director and key creative lead/defacto showrunner on “Mindhunter” (2017-2019) and he brought the company and co-produced the animated “Love, Death, and Robots” series (2019), with filmmaker and longtime collaborator Tim Miller.

When Gary Oldman staggers onto an MGM film set as hungover screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz in Mank and Louis B.

Few filmmakers have the hardcore fanbase that David Fincher does. With Mank reviews hitting today, what better time is there to look back on the movies of Fincher’s career? Below you’ll see my ranking of his works, though for those only concerned about Mank, it’ll be understandable if you just skip there. I’d urge you to look at the full list, as it’s now eleven deep and has some below the radar (if that’s possible) titles within it. Take a look and get set for Mank to be a movie that potentially blows your mind when it releases in a few weeks.

Citizen Kane (perhaps you've heard of it?) is a lodestar for technical and creative innovation in mainstream cinema, and the guy did it at the age of 25. Not too shabby.Welles's thinly veiled and highly unauthorized biography of William Randolph Hearst, a media titan the likes of which there is no parallel for today, was immediately controversial.

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen you watch a biographical movie about an artist, the drama of creativity — the writing of “In Cold Blood,” the invention of funk — tends to be front and center. But in “Mank,” David Fincher’s raptly intricate and enticing movie about Herman J.

Well, at least we still have movies – even if theaters are still relatively no-go zones. For all its ensuing stress, November has a strong list of films on its slate, some of which have already built significant buzz following rounds on the film festival circuit this year (some of which even premiered in 2019, approximately 20 years ago.) In the line-up, there’s a return of David Fincher, some of the finest animation in recent years, leading performances from perennial favorite Carrie Coon, and Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan as lovers.

Before we begin, it should be noted that reviews for David Fincher‘s much anticipated new film “Mank” are currently embargoed. In that context, we’re only here to just discuss the “Netflix International Pictures” release as a potential Oscar contender.

The first word on Mank is finally here! Yesterday evening, the Netflix release screened for the first time, with yours truly among the crowd getting a chance to take it in. In short, the film is great and certainly an Oscar contender. As for a longer take, that can be found below with some of the Tweets that hit the web last night. You’ll be able to see those next, but take it from me…this is a flick with a great chance to lead the nominations for the next Academy Awards. It has the goods, that’s for sure. Read on for more…

Much has been said already about Netflix‘s theatrical releases. Some feel like events you know about (“The Irishman,” “Marriage Story“), others under-the-radar things will little-publicized dates (the recent “The Trial Of The Chicago 7“).