News
The best stories from the CinemaNerdz News Desk and our independently opinionated reporters.
Box-Office Weekend: The Force is King as The Rise of Skywalker Dominates
While there was little doubt exactly which film would top the box-office weekend before Christmas, what was up for debate was just how much the concluding chapter in the Skywalker saga, Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker would make. Ultimately, the film took in $175.5 million domestically its opening weekend, easily dominating the weekend box-office top ten. Despite the bawdy numb...[Read More]
Paul Thomas Anderson Returns to Focus Features for New Film
Writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson is set to partner with Focus Features on his, as of this writing, untitled new film which Anderson will also produce along with frequent collaborators JoAnne Sellar and Daniel Lupi. Anderson and Focus Features previously collaborated on the director’s feature Phantom Thread (2017), which earned six Academy Award® nominations, including Best Picture, Director fo...[Read More]
Final Trailer Released for 1917
The final trailer has been release for 1917. Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, Spectre, and American Beauty, brings his singular vision to his World War I epic. At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield (Captain Fantastic’s George MacKay) and Blake (Game of Thrones’ Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against...[Read More]