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Bridgerton, a period drama that's features a hot-looking cast and plenty of intrigue. There's also Mank, the much-anticipated new film from David Fincher that takes place in 1940s Hollywood and stars Gary Oldman and Amanda Seyfried.

What’s most notable about 2020’s slate of great performances is the element of surprise. Sure, most anybody betting on Frances McDormand being heaped with praise at year-end will likely win their bets.

Judging by the ridiculous list of huge actors that have signed on for Marvel Studios films over the past decade-plus, it’s safe to assume that the studio has little trouble finding people eager to tackle a superhero role in the MCU. But in the case of Amanda Seyfried, she was a bit hesitant starring in a Marvel Studios film because she didn’t want to be the woman that appeared in the studio’s first big bomb.

Amanda Seyfried is talking family life amid the pandemic.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorTrent Reznor and Atticus Ross are no strangers when it comes to collaborating with David Fincher. The Nine Inch Nails musicians have worked on the scores for “Gone Girl” and “The Social Network,” so it seemed fitting Fincher would seek out Reznor and Ross to collaborate on his latest project.“Mank,” now streaming on Netflix, tells the story of Herman J.

David Fincher’s “Mank” tells the story of “Citizen Kane” screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) through a painstaking re-creation of Hollywood in the 1930s and early ’40s.

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When it comes to films about screenwriters, the challenge seems to be creating a movie that is not only itself an entertaining, self-contained experience but also one that illuminates the creative process that led to other notable work. This week on Be Reel, we look primarily at the new David Fincher film, “Mank” (2020) about Herman J.

Amanda Seyfried passed on the opportunity to star in “Guardians of the Galaxy” out of fear that it would not perform well.

Amanda Seyfried could have played the role of Gamora in Guardians of the Galaxy but turned down the part in the James Gunn-directed Marvel film.

had been married since 1920 (which means had she really been 33 in 1940, when the film largely takes place, she would have been 13 when she got married.) “We don’t feel invisible,” Nunn tweeted. “You erase us.”Herman J.

NEW YORK -- The first time Gary Oldman and David Fincher met was in London 1990, when Fincher was looking to cast him in “Alien 3.”“And he had the sense to say no,” Fincher recalls.In the 30 years since then, they have never been far out of orbit from one another. They consider one another friends.

You are likely to feel whisked away to the Golden Age of Hollywood while watching “Mank,” David Fincher’s historical character study about legendary studio screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) and his painstaking process of writing Orson Welles’ “Citizen Kane.” Still, Fincher’s Hollywood epic won’t necessarily register as tritely nostalgic or melancholic about the past in a way showbiz movies often do.

Amanda Seyfried was hesitant to step into the shoes of early 20th-century actress Marion Davis for new biopic Mank, because she didn’t know how to approach the bygone era.The David Fincher movie is based on the life of Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and chronicles the tumultuous development of Orson Welles’ iconic 1941 film Citizen Kane, with Gary Oldman starring as the titular character.Seyfried portrays Davis, alongside Charles Dance as her lover, media magnate William Randolph

Clayton Davis Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are joining the original song Oscar race with a stealth entry. David Fincher’s “Mank” hits Netflix on Friday, featuring “(If Only You Could) Save Me,” a song written by the film’s composers and performed by Adryon de León that will be submitted for the upcoming Academy Awards, and other guild and award shows.With this new entry, Reznor and Ross could land up to three Oscar nominations this year.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorIn David Fincher’s “Mank,” bowing Dec. 4 on Netflix, a key sequence takes place at Hearst Castle, when Gary Oldman’s Herman J.