Mark Pellington on Creating a New, Old Ben Affleck Movie with ‘Going All the Way: The Director’s Edit’ [Interview]

We’ll freely admit it. English period-piece films about troubled poets feel kinda played and predictable, and dreary.

In what has become an end-of-year tradition, Barack Obama revealed his favorite movies of 2022. The list is, as usual for Obama, weighted toward prestige films. One title that’s not on the list: Avatar: The Way of Water.

AARP is out with the nominees for its 21st annual Movies for Grownups Awards for the best films, TV and filmmakers of 2022. Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans leads with the way with six noms, followed by fellow awards-season favorites Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Woman King are next with five each, and Tár and She Said with four apiece.

Now that wedding bells have rung for Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, it’s time to jingle ‘em!

EXCLUSIVE: Following an extensive search that had a number of top directors chasing the job, sources tell Deadline that Oscar-nominated Minari director Lee Isaac Chung is in early talks to helm Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s Twisters, the sequel to the blockbuster Twister. Warner Bros., which released the 1996 pic, will co-finance. Mark L. Smith penned the script, with Frank Marshall producing through his Kennedy/Marshall banner.

Best Picture/Best Movie for GrownupsElvisEverything Everywhere All at OnceThe FabelmansTárTop Gun: MaverickThe Woman King Women TalkingBest ActressCate Blanchett (Tár)Viola Davis (The Woman King)Lesley Manville (Mrs.

Well, it’s been a bombshell night in the world of DC Studios and the DC Universe. After telling fans, “we know we are not going to make every single person happy every step of the way,” in response to rumors that “Wonder Woman 3” was being killed and “Man Of Steel 2” may not happen, DC Studios co-chief James Gunn revealed dropped some of his plans and dropped the hammer.

“I’ve been very private about my private life, and I’ve never gone public with my private life until now,” Steven Spielberg said Sunday. It was the existential threat of the Covid pandemic at its most lethal back in 2020 that nudged his very personal family story to the big screen.

Just last week, Jennifer Lopez gushed about her "real" and "forever" love for her husband Ben Affleck- but now she apparently wants to improve him, by encouraging him to get a little help when it comes to his appearance.The singer is on a mission to hid her actor husband of his 'life lines' and thinks Botox and fillers could be the answer- well, it certainly solves the problem of what to get him for Christmas!"Jen thinks Ben is the most handsome man ever, but she thinks he should have started these procedures years ago, even though she says she's never actually had them done herself," our source says."She thinks he needs a delicate amount of filler to iron out those crow's feet and Botox to soften his lined forehead- and a facelift might be a good idea. She obviously loves him no matter what, but jokes it wouldn't be a bad thing if they both held onto eternal youth."Last year, Jen, 53, denied ever having Botox after images emerged of her with a completely crease-free forehead insisting, "That's just my face!! For the millionth time, I have never done Botox or any injectables or surgery!"But she can see the benefit when it comes to her husband, and wants to inject some Hollywood glam into him."Jen is all about them looking every inch the beautiful power couple and doesn't want her man covered in lines and wrinkles.

Antonio Banderas’s latest film, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, screened at the Red Sea Film Festival this week, and the actor told the festival audience that he believes his animated feline is likely to return to the big screen in a fifth Shrek movie.

It’s awards season again, and there are some filmmakers who always get brought up around this time when they have a new film. One of those names is James Gray, who is making the rounds to promote his new drama, “Armageddon Time.” And over the course of a few different interviews, the filmmaker has been dropping a some interesting nuggets of info.

UPDATED, 8:16 AM: Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans will receive the Vanguard Award at the 2023 Palm Springs Film Festival’s gala in January.

EXCLUSIVE: A slew have just boarded Paramount’s upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts including Peter Dinklage (as the voice of Scourge), Liza Koshy (as the voice of Arcee), John DiMaggio (as the voice of Stratosphere), David Sobolov (as Rhinox/Battletrap), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (as Nightbird), Cristo Fernández (as Wheeljack), and Tobe Nwigwe (as Reek).