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David Fincher has directed the upcoming movie Mank, marking his first feature film since 2014′s Gone Girl.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe first look at David Fincher’s highly anticipated drama “Mank” was revealed Saturday to coincide with the 79th anniversary of “Citizen Kane’s” wide theatrical opening.The film is Fincher’s first feature directing effort since 2014’s “Gone Girl” and chronicles Herman Mankiewicz’s (Gary Oldman) race to finish the “Citizen Kane” screenplay for Orson Welles (Tom Burke).Fincher shot on location at Kemper Campbell Ranch in Victorville, Calif., where Mankiewicz spent

It’s been a long time coming, but fans of David Fincher, or Orson Welles‘ classic “Citizen Kane” finally have their first official look at the upcoming drama “Mank.” Though we still don’t have a specific release date other than Fall 2020, we at least get a look at how Fincher’s latest film will look.

Whenever you hear about a famous meeting of the minds, many people will say they wish they were a fly on the wall to listen in to what was being said.

In light of the slew of canceled film festivals in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s New York Film Festival is hoping to pull out all the stops and become the premier film event in the US. And as a way of showing what that means, the NYFF organizers announced the Spotlight section for this year’s fest.

Two years ago, Orson Welles’ unfinished film, “The Other Side of the Wind,” made its debut during the fall film festival circuit. The feature was accompanied by an entire documentary about the making of the film.

The pandemic is awful, obviously, but there have been some highlights inspired by it. One of those highpoints is Team Deakins, the podcast that legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins—known for his work with the Coen Brothers, Martin Scorsese, and Denis Villeneuve, among many others—started with his wife and digital workflow consultant James Ellis Deakins.

The world’s oldest film festival will be the first to happen physically since the coronavirus pandemic began. This morning in Rome, the line-up of the forthcoming 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival was announced in full, six weeks ahead of its planned opening.

The other day I spoke with my great old friend Norman Lloyd, and I do mean great and I do mean old. As an actor, Norman’s credentials stretch back to the Federal Theater days of the mid-1930s — he’s the last surviving member of Orson Welles’ legendary 1937 Mercury Theater production of Julius Caesar — and he made his Hollywood debut as the villain who falls to his death from the top of the Statue of Liberty in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 Saboteur.

By Pat Saperstein

It turns out Flavor Flav wasn’t actually kicked out of Public Enemy after a political dispute over Bernie Sanders. Today, the pioneering hip-hop group’s leader Chuck D released a statement on its website revealing the hoax, while also promoting Public Enemy Radio’s new album, Loud Is Not Enough. Public Enemy Radio is an offshoot of the group without Flav in the lineup.

Orson Welles crafted the menacing noir of “Touch of Evil” and “The Lady from Shanghai,”  yet nothing the director-writer did came close, frame-by-frame, line-by-line, to the magic of “Citizen Kane.” As far as long shadows cast, jumping out of the gate with the epically angst-ridden “Ten” was Pearl Jam’s “Kane.” Its release, in 1991, meant that every slow boiling album that Eddie Vedder and company made since their bugged-out and brooding first full-length has had to live up to that bible of

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross will rejoin forces with The Social Network director David Fincher to score new movie Mank, Revolver reports. The film, ostensibly a biopic of Citizen Kane screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, stars Gary Oldman in the title role and The Souvenir’s Tom Burke as Orson Welles.