Shane Carruth has only directed two films, but they’ve been memorable, strange, and challenging. Carruth’s 2004 time travel film Primer is an excellent example of mind-bending science fiction on a limited budget. His 2013 f...
It looks like Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness has hit some creative roadblocks. According to a new report from Variety, director Scott Derrickson has dropped out of the project due to "creative differences." Helmer of the first...
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney will be rebooting the Planet of the Apes franchise with a new film. Helmed by director Wes Ball (known for his work on the Maze Runner series), this will be the first franchise under Disney's acqu...
Universal Pictures has just announced that Elizabeth Banks will be directing and starring in Invisible Woman, a reboot of the 1940 monster film The Invisible Woman. Despite having a bomb on her hands with the poorly received and even poorer...
Pom Klementieff, made famous for her role as "Mantis" in the MCU films, has officially joined the cast of Mission: Impossible 7 and 8. The news was confirmed by a series of Tweets between her and M:I 7/8 director Christopher McQuarrie. Not...
Director Martin Scorsese's comments about Marvel films not being cinema seems to have started a trend. After acclaimed filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola agreed with the pedigreed director, it looks like Chinese creator John Woo is jumping on t...
This week has been a tumultuous one for production company Magic City Films. After announcing on Wednesday that its Vietnam-era war film Finding Jack would feature a CGI James Dean as a supporting cast member, various actors took to Twitter...
Director Roland Emmerich has revealed that he took a pretty substantial pay-cut to help fund his latest blockbuster film, Midway. At Tuesday night's premiere for the movie in Westwood, California, Variety got to talking about the project wi...
In the latest bit of Hollywood directors hating on Netflix, directors Judd Apatow, Brad Bird, and Peyton Reed have bitten back at Netflix for introducing a "variable playback speed" option on its streaming service. Similar to what YouTube d...
If you happened to miss Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on the big screen, you'll soon get a second chance to catch it. Director Quentin Tarantino's hit film (which is now his most successful to date) will be getting a re-release in theaters ...
It appears as if Disney is looking to bring acclaimed director Robert Zemeckis on board for its live-action remake of Pinocchio. In a new report from Deadline, it's being stated that Zemeckis is in early talks to helm the project for the co...
A new report from The Hollywood Reporter states that the unlikely duo of John Krasinski and Ryan Reynolds will be teaming up for a new fantasy comedy. Titled Imaginary Friends, the project is to be helmed by Krasinki who will write, direct,...
In a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, it has come to light that Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige will be developing a new Star Wars film for Disney. With the sequel trilogy coming to an end this year, Lucasfilms' Kathleen Kennedy has been...
From seemingly nowhere, we're getting some more Jurassic Park in our lives. As Collider reports, director Colin Trevorrow (the man behind Jurassic World) has secretly been working on a short epilogue film to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. ...
Last week, it was reported that Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Adele Lim had left the production of the sequel over a pay dispute. Being offered considerably less than her colleague Peter Chiarelli, Lim exited the project to take a stand to ac...
It seems that art is imitating life for Michael B. Jordan and Creed. In a recent novel published by Creed producer Irwin Winkler (also responsible for the original Rocky series), the man states that he promised Jordan the chance to direct t...
The film adaptation of the Uncharted game series has had a tumultuous history. Losing writers and directors left and right, it finally looked like everything was on track to get the movie finished for next year. According to Deadline, that ...
According to a new report from Variety, the content of director Taika Waititi's upcoming satire Jojo Rabbit is making some Disney executives sweat. For those unaware, the film is a skewering of Nazi Germany with Waititi even portraying the ...
Olivia Wilde is set to produce and direct the psychological thriller Don't Worry, Darling, reports Variety. Wilde will be joined by Katie Silberman (Booksmart) and It producer Roy Lee and Miri Yoon to work on this latest project. The film i...
In a new report from Deadline, it looks like directors Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley are being eyed to helm the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons adaptation. The two are currently in talks with Paramount and Hasbro and everything ...
According to a new report from Variety, a trio of directors are being considered for the upcoming Venom sequel. As some unnamed sources have told the publication, Andry Serkis, Travis Knight (Bumblebee), and Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet...
I sometimes wonder how the last 30 years of films would have turned out if Abbas Kiarostami had had an iPhone. Nowadays, film footage is so easy to capture that we take realism for granted, but Kiraostami was a pioneer of verité-lik...
If there is one thing that I can promise you about Flixist it is that you will always, always, always be kept up to date on any Space Jam news. In light of that, allow me to tell you that director Terrence Nance is being replaced by Ma...
The upcoming Margot Robbie led/produced Barbie film may be getting quite the writing duo on board. According to a report from The Hollywood Reporter, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have been tapped for writing duties on the big screen adapt...
There is nothing in the world that is perfect, but the Mike Hodges directed 1980 Flash Gordon film with a soundtrack by Queen is probably the closest that humanity is going to get to it. However, for some reason, Hollywood wants to move on ...
Ah, remember Glass? I wasn't too big a fan of it, as you can tell from my review of the film for this very website. Apparently, I contributed to writer-director M. Night Shyamalan getting quite upset, because the filmmaker recently adm...
French cinema is an area of filmmaking I’m really enthused by, and since learning about it as a student, the sheer novelty of the New Wave has always remained an area of fascination. Like many before me, I have a lot of respect fo...
I had the opportunity to catch up with director Rodney Evans following the world premiere of his genre-defying, creatively pioneering documentary Vision Portraits at SXSW. Here’s what he had to say about the creative process behind ...
I had the opportunity to interview directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts for their profoundly moving documentary For Sama at SXSW this year. Talking about the production process and deep humanity of the film, here’s what they had ...
Joe Wright and WWII are very good for each other. His two best films, Atonement and Darkest Hour, involved the war and the rest of his movies just aren't as good. This is good news for the adaptation of In the Garden of Beasts as ...
The announcement of a television director doesn't usually get a bunch of coverage but when you're talking about the forever in development HALO television series people are going to pay attention. The series, which is actually really h...
Welcome one and all to Flixist's new end of the year awards program, the Golden Cages! With Hollywood becoming increasingly out of touch with what the people like, we at Flixist have taken it upon ourselves to deliver the fair, balance...
The "development" of X-Men spin-off Gambit has been a long-running, low key disastrous saga in the background of everything else. One after another, prospective directors drop out of the project, despite the script apparently being fin...
Prepare to witness Tom Cruise undergo through pain in the next few years, as the Mission: Impossible franchise will be getting two new back-to-back entries. Christopher McQuarrie, the writer-director behind Jack Reacher and previous Mission...
The galaxy giveth and the galaxy taketh away. The fourth Star Trek reboot film in the J.J. Abrams timeline has been on shaky ground, with the two leading Chris's (Pine and Hemsworth) exiting negotiations to star in it. Now, direct S.J....
I'm going to have to watch (or read, or play) this Attack on Titan thing aren't I? A live-action movie has been in the works for a bit, but the ball is finally rolling forward with the announcement that Andy Muschietti is on board...
With the first Black Panther film from Marvel Studios being such a huge box office and critical hit, a sequel was only inevitable. What was less certain, however, was the film's director and co-writer Ryan Coogler (Fruit...
The studio behind the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been successful in striking gold with relatively obscure properties like Guardians of the Galaxy, and the studio is taking another one head-on with The Eternals. And just like wi...
The Bond folks have plucked another indie darling to helm their blockbuster franchise as they announced that Cary Joji Fukunaga has agreed to direct the 25th film in the series. This all comes after Danny Boyle left because his vi...
After the release of Avengers: Infinity War, many Marvel fans thought that the films directors, Anthony and Joe Russo, would drop the name for the inevitable "Part 2" of Infinity War. The directors had held off on revealing the title, as it...
