how does someone this illiterate, who can barely string a grammatical sentence together, get to comment on film for a broad audience? It's embarrassing

Meanwhile, Aster is in some kind of perpetual never-ending editing cycle? lol This year is turning out to be another dud

Watch out for 'TAR' - could be great.

Damn it! Two of the titles I was most looking forward to.

Kinda ironic, though. A Scarlett Johansson movie and a movie from the director who gave us her greatest masterpiece.

Feel free to delete. Didn't realize I couldn't curse.

Wonder what about Babylon makes the execs unsure about a festival route. Didn't it get rave test screenings.

I think it's because it's a late year release. If they start its cycle in the fall but it doesn't premiere until December/January, it might have flamed out by then.

Tell that to La La Land. Or wait...you might have a point. Lol

Yes, but apparently it's risky and provocative. All good news, but maybe not the most commercially viable.

Wolf of Wall Street was risky and provocative. But it was commercially viable. And that was a Paramount release as well.

Fair point, but this is 1920's, not 1980's, and Leo is a bigger star than Brad Pitt. Hey, I really hope it is. Rooting for it.

Emma Stone leaving Babylon for a movie that might not even premiere this year is such a waste.

She left Babylon because the initial Covid delays caused it to overlap with her pregnancy. She signed onto Poor Things then. However, a second round of Covid delays hit, causing Babylon to be pushed even further back so her pregnancy was no longer an issue, but by then she had already signed onto the other.

Which movie is that?

Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Oh, I forgot that she was reuniting with him.

That's weird for Anderson's flick. It finished filming a while ago.... may the controversy around Murray aid in the delay?

Exactly. I don't believe it. With the exception of The French Dispatch which was created with a Cannes premiere in mind, Anderson's films from the past decade took two months to films and premiered at an European festival exactly 13 months to the month it began filming. And as Asteroid City began filming in August, I'm expecting a Venice premiere in September and I won't change my mind till the line up for Venice is announced.

VFX work is mentioned, but it's worth noting Anderson is working on another movie already that went into filming really fast. He just might not be available to go finish post work on Asteroid City until the other is done filming.

Hmm. But would he want both those films to release in the same year? Although getting an original screenplay nomination and an adapted screenplay nomination in the same year is kind of a flex. Lol

I am not surprised by the Glazer at all. He seems to take almost Malickesque time to edit his films. Still, worth the wait. Anderson is a surprise though. I would have guessed VFX work on his currently filming project, the Roald Dahl feature, but this film sounds like a simple romantic comedy drama, so hmm, a little bit of a mystery.

Glazer took almost ten years to make Under the Skin, and the results speak for themselves. King.

What about Maria Schrader's "She Said?" (At the 2021 Berlinale, her first feature film as a director won the Silver Bear for leading performance for Maren Eggert.)

What about Malick?

A “big circle of silence” around that one. It’ll show up when we least expect it, or it may never.

It'll premiere on those little TVs you look at while you're pumping your gas.

If only we had an entryway inside Terry’s head

Can't remember a high-profile movie to be this far into production to not have an announced cast yet like Glazer's movie. Makes me question if it's even real! lol

Not sure if these are the main roles w/ names changed from the novel's or bit parts but the film has a cast listed here: https://www.crew-united.com...

Would be wild if it featured Johansson. She's ethnically Jewish, so it's not implausible. But I feel like he'll be working with lesser-known actors.

Totally a guess, but maybe he chose Polish-Yiddish speaking actors and shot the film in Black and White. That’s my hunch.

Yeah, I feel like this'll be his least accessible movie to date. I'm all in!