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EXCLUSIVE: Even though his traditionalist strategy made him an unlikely candidate, we included Sony Motion Pictures Group chairman Tom Rothman in our 2022 Cannes Disruptors magazine. At a time when every other major prioritized the building of streaming services above all else because of the Netflix juggernaut, Rothman was invited …

With 13 features made since 2007, and six in the past four years, French DJ-turned-director Quentin Dupieux is clearly no slacker. Not only has he helmed all these films — he’s also written, shot and edited them, as well as composed many of their scores. Starting with his surreal deadpan …

Last week, director Quentin Tarantino made the surprise announcement that his anticipated, previously announced 10th and final film, The Movie Critic, would no longer be moving forward. Sources say that the filmmaker is still looking to make a 10th film, as planned, but it won’t be the one he previously …

“I trust myself as a writer, I trust my process,” Quentin Tarantino declared onstage at the Adobe Max creative conference in 2016. “I never try to take anything out too soon. If I do, I realize it, and I put it back.” The acclaimed filmmaker added: “Not every film needs to …

For several years now, Quentin Tarantino has been adamant that he plans to make a single 10th and final movie — which will no longer be The Movie Critic. Some of his fans were relieved when this news broke yesterday. The Movie Critic originally sounded like a nostalgic character study …

At one point in Quentin Tarantino’s directing career, he was developing an R-rated Star Trek movie for Paramount Pictures. His movie would have been very different and unique, something that fans had never really seen before in the franchise. It’s a Star Trek movie that I would have loved to …

As you know, there was a point in Quentin Tarantino’s career where he was developing an R-rated Star Trek movie, and when he first started on that journey he had a lot of ideas for things that he wanted to do. While speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, writer Lindsey Anderson …

Quentin Tarantino had a single epic film in mind when he set out to create what became Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and its follow-up. The lead character of the Bride originated in conversations between Tarantino and star Uma Thurman during their first collaboration in 1993. “I came up with the …

Yet despite Death Proof’s deficiencies (including a try-too-hard attempt to recreate the sensation of there being missing reels of footage), it has aged surprisingly well. Taken by itself in its extended, preferred form, Death Proof features a bold performance by Kurt Russell whose Stuntman Mike is terrifying, not only because …

Since his delirious 2007 debut, Steak, DJ turned director Quentin Dupieux has kept up a steady pace of one or two features a year, making him among the most prolific filmmakers currently working in France. One of the ways he pulls this off is by being a cinematic one-man-band, penning …

Like many independent filmmakers, Anthony Gomez has some quibbles with his own work. He wishes he’d had more time to shoot. His lead looks natural on camera but the voiceover delivery is stiff. A friend came through with some original music, but the post process was crazy. The usual stuff. …

What on earth possessed a whole bunch of us to think pink on Monday night? True, many of us were in a playful mood, me included, because Warner Bros Discovery was hosting a series of multimedia screenings of Barbie across several screens at two multiplexes in central London. It’s following hot on …