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Teaser Trailer For Christopher Nolan’s OPPENHEIMER

The very first teaser trailer for Christopher Nolan‘s Oppenheimer has arrived – and it very much fits into the director’s oeuvre. It’s precise, cool and a little clinical. This gives little away, but when the film is a year [...]

July 28, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: Peter Fonda’s THE HIRED HAND

Easy Rider helped change the mechanics of Hollywood when it was released in 1969. Both Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda were given carte blanche by Universal Pictures to produce whatever they wanted, with Hopper going on to produce the ill-fated The [...]

February 11, 2022

A Fair Price To Pay: Christopher Nolan’s Universal Deal

We now know that Christopher Nolan will be making his new movie with Universal Pictures – his first away from Warner Bros. in almost 20 years. Written by Nolan, the film will focus on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who played a major [...]

September 16, 2021

TRIPLETS Happening With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito & Tracy Morgan

Movies In Focus first wrote about Triplets way back in March 2012. Now, nearly a decade on from that and 33 years since the release of Twins comes the news that Triplets is gearing-up for production with Ivan Reitman directing Arnold Schwarzenegger, [...]

September 15, 2021

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer Film Becomes A Universal Picture

Movies In Focus previously told you that Christopher Nolan had taking meetings with Hollywood studios about his next film. The dust has settled on talks with Sony, Universal, Paramount and Warner Bros and the champion has been decided. Universal [...]

September 15, 2021

Christopher Nolan Takes His Oppenheimer Film To The Open Market

Director Christopher Nolan is currently taking meetings with Hollywood studios about his next film. The plot is said to focus on J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who played a major role in the creation of atom bomb during World War II. [...]

September 12, 2021

If You Make It, I Won’t Watch: FIELD OF DREAMS TV Series In The Works

Field Of Dreams is perfect. It doesn’t need to be remade, it doesn’t need to have a sequel, or be rebooted, or even rotoscoped and turned into an animated movie. It’s totally perfect as a standalone movie which has an emotional [...]

August 17, 2021

Behind The Scenes: Michael Fassbender & Danny Boyle On The Set Of STEVE JOBS

In many ways Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs is much like an Apple product. The 2015 film is exceptionally good looking (Boyle shot the film using 16mm, 35mm and digital to give each time period a unique look), uncluttered and innovative. It may follow [...]

August 4, 2021

Bad People Doing Bad Things: Trailer For Paul Schrader’s THE CARD COUNTER Starring Oscar Isaac

Writer/dircetor Paul Schrader‘s The Card Counter hits US cinemas on 10 September 2021. Starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe, the film is executive produced by Schrader’s Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, The [...]

July 28, 2021

Remembering Kevin Costner’s WATERWORLD

Waterworld is often seen as one of Hollywood’s legendary bombs (even though it actually made money). The Kevin Reynolds directed release had a production budget of $175 million and took another $50 million to market. It grossed over $264 million [...]

July 28, 2021

NO TIME TO DIE: James Bond Film Looked At Potential Streaming Options With Apple & Netflix

Delayed multiple times due to the COVID-19 pandemic, James Bond film No Time To Die was apparently shopped around to Apple, Netflix and other potential streaming buyers. MGM reportedly lost between $30 million to $50 million when the film was bumped [...]

October 25, 2020

The Only Way Is King Conan: Netflix Developing CONAN THE BARBARIAN Series

Pray to Crom! Netflix is currently developing a series based on Robert E. Howard’s Conan The Barbarian. Fredrik Malmberg and Mark Wheeler’s Pathfinder Media is behind the show which is part of a larger deal for the exclusive rights to the [...]

October 1, 2020

Universal Pictures Sets December Release Date For LET HIM GO Starring Kevin Costner & Diane Lane

Universal Pictures has announced that it will release Let Him Go in cinemas across the UK and Ireland on 11 December 2020. Thomas Bezucha’s thriller is an adaptation of Larry Watson’s novel and it stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane as [...]

September 25, 2020

Respect To Tod Browning’s DRACULA

Tod Browning’s 1931 film, Dracula kick-started Hollywood’s fascination with horror. Almost 100 years on and the adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel remains the quintessential vampire film. The massive success of the Bela Lugosi starrer [...]

September 7, 2020

An Appreciation Of Sam Raimi’s Baseball Drama FOR LOVE OF THE GAME Starring Kevin Costner

There’s something about Sam Raimi’s For Love of the Game that got under my skin when I first saw it way back in 1999. It might have been the brilliant score from the great Basil Poledouris or Kevin Costner’s performance as ageing baseball [...]

September 6, 2020

Paying Respect To James Whale’s THE OLD DARK HOUSE

Director James Whale followed-up the huge success of Frankenstein in 1931 with another Universal Pictures chiller, The Old Dark House. Based on J.B Priestly’s novel Benighted, the pre-code 1932 horror-thriller is a wonderfully atmospheric [...]

September 5, 2020

Say Hello To My Little Friend! Al Pacino & Brian De Palma On The Set Of SCARFACE

Switching booze for cocaine and transposing the action from Chicago to Miami, Scarface updates the Howard Hawks/Howard Hughes gangster movie from 1932 and delivers an iconic piece of cinema which has now surpassed the original in terms of legacy. [...]

August 30, 2020

1977’s ROLLERCOASTER Is A Hidden Gem

Released in 1977, James Goldstone’s Rollercoaster is an excellent thriller with a wonderful world-weary performance from George Segal. Often erroneously lumped-in with the disaster movie cycle of the 1970s, the film sees Timothy Bottoms [...]

August 29, 2020

Blu-ray Review: Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE BLACK CAT & THE RAVEN Starring Bela Lugosi

After the success of Dracula in 1931, Bel Lugosi took the lead in a trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for Universal Pictures. The Murders In The Rue Morgue, The Black Cat and The Raven feature Lugosi at his best and the latter two also feature [...]

August 26, 2020

Who Goes There? Do We Need A New Version Of THE THING From John Carpenter & Blumhouse?

The word on the street is that Blumhouse Productions and the mighty John Carpenter are working on reboot of Carpenter’s classic 1982 horror The Thing. Variety is reporting that the film is in the very early stages and there are [...]

August 25, 2020

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