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Hail, Caesar!, the Coens’ last proper comedy. After that, they made the Western anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, then went their separate ways.Joel went full Shakespeare in 2021 with The Tragedy of Macbeth, an expressionistic exercise that was never quite more than the sum of its parts, while his brother took a hiatus from narrative filmmaking.

Martin Scorsese’s “The Departed” was much-applauded and earned four Academy Awards when it premiered in 2006.However, star Mark Wahlberg was unhappy behind the scenes alongside co-stars Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vera Farmiga and Matt Damon, as well as with director Scorsese, 81.The Boston native played Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam in the crime drama, who is tasked with allowing DiCaprio’s character, Billy Costigan Jr., to go undercover as a criminal. Wahlberg divulged on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he was a “little pissed about a couple of things.”“Originally I was supposed to play another part.

Robin Williams called him every week to cheer him up while he was filming his 1993 Holocaust movie, “Schindler’s List.”Spielberg’s friendship with Williams stretched back to “Hook,” the 1991 flick that Spielberg directed and featured Williams as an adult Peter Pan.Spielberg opened up about “Schindler’s List,” and several other topics, in a wide-ranging interview in the Hollywood Reporter to talk about the 30th anniversary of the movie, which was filmed in Krakow, Poland, in 1993.The movie, which won seven Oscars at the 66th Academy Awards in 1994 — including Best Picture and Best Director (for Spielberg) — told the story of German industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories.“Robin knew how hard it was for me on the movie, and once a week, every Friday, he’d call me on the phone and do comedy for me,” Spielberg said.“Whether it was after 10 minutes or 20 minutes, when he heard me give the biggest laugh, he’d hang up on me.”Neeson also remembered Williams’ Friday phone calls to Spielberg.“Steven would tell us afterward the sorts of things Robin would say,” Neeson recalled. “Once he started a riff of ‘I’m not a Nazi, I’m a nutsy,’ all this sort of s – – t.”Williams, the comedically brilliant “Mork & Mindy” star and Oscar-winning actor (“Good Will Hunting”), died by suicide in 2014 at the age of 63.Spielberg said that shooting “Schindler’s List” took its toll on him, emotionally.“The hard days were beyond my imagination and the easy days were never easy,” he told THR.

blink twice when you see the new title of Zöe Kravitz’s directorial debut.The 35-year-old’s feature film, “P—y Island,” has been given a much more G-rated name — “Blink Twice.”It also has a new release date for Aug. 23, Amazon MGM Studios announced Friday.The “Divergent” star and Lolawolf singer wrote the film with E.T.

to The Hollywood Reporter. Born in Toronto in 1926, Jewison got his start in the business directing television musical spots. In 1958, he directed “Your Hit Parade” for CBS, then directed “The Andy Williams Show,” two Harry Belafonte specials, and and award-winning Judy Garland specials.After moving into the movie industry, he became a seven-time Oscar nominee.

bought his childhood movie theater last year, is struggling to keep it in business. So he’s hosting a memorabilia sale there to raise funds to keep it afloat.

social media detectives tracked the footage down and figured it out. “Directors have a complex emotional relationship with critics and criticism,” the “Interstellar” and “Inception” director said in his Jan 4. acceptance speech for “best director,” after winning that prize from the New York Film Critics Circle on Thursday.

left the embattled slasher flick. “I guess now is as good a time as any to announce I formally exited Scream 7 weeks ago,” Landon, 48, wrote on X. “This will disappoint some and delight others.

his new film, “Maestro,” about the life and career of famed composer Leonard Bernstein.In an interview with Spike Lee for Variety’s “Directors on Directors” series, Cooper said “When we shoot the movie, no one’s allowed on set,” before clarifying that producer Steven Spielberg was the exception. “Steven Spielberg came three times, but other than him, there’s nobody.

Hellooooo!”Robin Williams improvised so much on the set of the 1993 comedy “Mrs. Doubtfire” that production ended up shooting two million feet of film by the time the movie wrapped. “Early on in the process, he went to me, ‘Hey boss, the way I like to work, if you’re up for it, is I’ll give you three or four scripted takes, and then let’s play,’” Chris Columbus, 65, told Business Insider.

“Gangs of New York.”“I realized that I couldn’t work if I had to make films that way ever again,” Scorsese told GQ in a profile published last week.“If that was the only way that I was able to be allowed to make films, then I’d have to stop,” he said. “Because the results weren’t satisfying. It was at times extremely difficult, and I wouldn’t survive it.

The Bridges of Madison County, currently at Signature Theatre, Ethan Heard had seen the musical during its original Broadway run. He knew and appreciated Jason Robert Brown’s score.

“Plead the Fifth,” host Andy Cohen asked the “Monster-in-Law” star who “tried to pick you up once that you turned down.”She recalled exactly who that was: “The French director René Clément.”Clément — who died in 1996 — helmed the 1964 thriller “Joy House,” starring Fonda.“Was it a sloppy pass?” Cohen, 54, wondered.“Well, he wanted to go to bed with me because he said that the character had to have an orgasm in the movie and he needed to see what my orgasms were like,” the Golden Globe winner explained. “But he said it in French and I pretended like I didn’t understand.” The Bravo celebrity rated her experience on the show as “amazing, perfect.”“I have stories for you kid, we don’t have time,” Fonda winked, concluding her coy confession.Elsewhere on the late-night talk show, Fonda admitted that she once went skinny dipping with the late Michael Jackson, noting how “skinny” the “Thriller” singer appeared.

lifelong struggle with his weight.“It was scary,” Smith, 52, told People. “At that moment, I wouldn’t have been averse to not being around any longer.

“Flashdance … What a Feeling” performed by the late Irene Cara.“People would come out of that movie and be leaping and dancing and laughing and, you know, their cares would have been taken away for a couple of hours,” said Durga McBroom, who played Heels, one of Alex’s stripper besties at the fictional Mawby’s Bar. “It’s just a real feel-good movie [that] makes no sense,” she continued.

journalist Graham Bensinger whether there was any truth to the 69-year-old “Happy Days” alum crossing over to the adult film industry, Ron laughed but admitted, “Well, it’s true that it went through my mind.“It endured as a serious idea for probably two and a half to three seconds,” the former child star declared.Specifically, in the 1970s, Howard entertained directing a cheekily-titled skin flick, “Opie Gets Laid” — not to be confused with a same-titled 2005 rom-com — in which the main character’s first name would mirror the one from Ron’s more innocent days on the 1960s sitcom “The Andy Griffith Show.”“Yeah, ‘Opie Gets Laid’ would have probably made Ron a million dollars and he could have gone off and made a movie, but I’m glad he steered away from that because I don’t think anyone really wanted to see Opie get laid,” his brother, actor Clint Howard, 63, separately told Bensinger, covering his eyes. Ron’s daughter, “Jurassic World” star Bryce Dallas Howard, 42, also admitted that she’s relieved her father decided against partaking in porn.

Aaron Sorkin revealed that he almost died last November after having a stroke.In a new interview with the New York Times published Wednesday, the writer shared more about his medical emergency.Sorkin explained that in November, he woke up in the middle of the night and noticed that he was “crashing into walls and corners” while walking to the kitchen.He didn’t pay much attention to it until the next morning when he kept spilling his glass of orange juice. The playwright called his doctor, who told him to come in immediately.His blood pressure was so high that his doctor told him, “You’re supposed to be dead.” It turns out that the film director had had a stroke.

“Tár” director Todd Field says he may never make another feature film — despite rave reviews for the recent Cate Blanchett drama, which he also penned and produced. Field, 59, got candid about the next stage of his career in a recent interview with Cinema Scope, revealing that it’s “highly likely” he’s done with directing. “There’s a real challenge in making a film of any size,” he explained.

Moving On,” released March 17. Although the octogenarian co-stars were happy to lock lips, and eventually did, there were complications at first.“The funny thing was that when that makeout scene came up in the movie, when it was supposed to shoot, Jane had a really bad cold,” the film’s writer and director Paul Weitz told The Post. “So we actually faked it.

Michael B. Jordan isn’t scared of anybody.Still, the 36-year-old actor — who will star in his directorial debut, “Creed III,” out March 3 — does have his fears.“I think the fear of being forgotten is a big one,” Jordan told Rolling Stone in the magazine’s new cover story.Jordan went on to explain the very personal reason why he came to have this fear. “One of my best friends growing up passed away when I was, like, 23,” he said. “And a few years later, I was working, shooting a film, crazy  s – – t going on at the time, you know, it was like the most amazing amount of stress.

will reprise their roles in a limited 14-week run at New York City’s Schoenfeld Theatre starting Oct. 27.

La Vanguardia on Saturday about his next move.“My idea, in principle, is not to make more movies and focus on writing,” he said.He noted that he plans to work more on publishing and writing books, rather than films.His forthcoming feature is titled “Wasp 22,” and will be filmed in Paris next month with a French cast. Allen compared the new movie to his 2005 flick “Match Point,” describing it as “exciting, dramatic, and also very sinister.”However, Allen’s reps shot down retirement rumors in a statement to IndieWire, saying: “Woody Allen never said he was retiring, nor did he say he was writing another novel.

according to Deadline. “In agreement with Lars von Trier, Zentropa has chosen to publish that Lars has [been] diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” shared Louise Vesth, Trier’s producer at Zentropa, in the statement.

Instagram Live session with Alec Baldwin. In the conversation, the embattled Allen admitted that his next film will probably be his last and that he wants to retire from his directing career in the very near future.“I’ll probably make at least one more movie.

The king of micro-budget shlock-horror has surprisingly classy digs.In stark contrast to his career championing gross-out exploitation films, Lloyd Kaufman has spent the past 33 years calling a demurely decorated Upper East Side townhouse his home.The 76-year-old is best known for producing and distributing over 1,000 sex- and gore-heavy movies on pocket change through his film company, Troma Entertainment. But at the end of the work day he goes home to the Yorkville townhouse he and his wife Pat raised their three grown daughters in.The four-story brownstone is filled with antique wooden furniture and 19th-century millwork accentuated by fine art acquired on the couples’ travels — rich digs for the sovereign saint of comedic limb loss and noxious waste.Kaufman’s credentials include directing the 1984 cult classic “The Toxic Avenger” (one of Marisa Tomei’s first acting credits), putting Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the map by distributing their 1993 comedy “Cannibal! The Musical” and setting the record for most squibs ever used in a single movie (1988’s “Troma’s War”).While inexplicable to many, Troma’s brand of excessive violence, political incorrectness, enormous breasts and slapstick superheroes has proved enduring, and today the company claims to be the world’s longest continually running independent film company.“The fans are our secret sauce,” Kaufman told The Post, noting that despite years of notoriety this is the first time he has shown off his home in the press.

it’s already back on the market for $15 million. Levy, a frequent Ryan Reynolds collaborator, was just revealed to be the new director of Marvel Studios’ “Deadpool 3.” Levy has also directed and produced films including “Cheaper by the Dozen,” the “Night at the Museum” series, “Stranger Things” and “The Adam Project,” and founded the production company 21 Laps. The five-bedroom, 6½-bath home is at 11 Beach, a 10-story prewar office-to-condo conversion building “redesigned”  by Thomas Juul-Hansen and BKSK Architects in 2015. A private elevator opens into the 5,457-square-foot apartment, which features beamed ceilings, wide-plank hardwood floors and oversize windows.

Poppy Field finally has made its way to virtual cinemas everywhere, available on VOD and digital.The Romanian drama, directed by Eugen Jebeleanu, earned, among other accolades, a Torino Film Festival Best Actor prize for star Conrad Mericoffer for his dynamic performance as closeted gay gendarmerie officer Christi, who lashes out with homophobic violence in order to protect his secret life.Christi’s angry outburst places him at the center of the storm inside a film theater where he and his fellow officers are trying to keep the peace after the screening of a lesbian film is loudly interrupted by a group of anti-LGBTQ protesters.The events of the film were inspired by a real-life 2013 incident in the capital, Bucharest, where anti-LGBTQ protesters shut down a showing of The Kids Are All Right.“I was not in Bucharest at the time. I was in Paris and was working there,” Jebeleanu recalls.

Chris Ayres was a voice actor, director, and scriptwriter known for his performance as Frieza in the “Dragon Ball” anime series.Ayres worked on a number of anime projects, including “Gantz,” “Black Butler,” and “Fairy Tail.” He was best known for voicing Frieza, also known as Freeza, a prominent villain of the “Dragon Ball” series.

biggest commercial hit was “Notting Hill,” the Richard Curtis-penned comedy about an awkward romance between a movie star played by Julia Roberts and a London bookshop owner, played by Hugh Grant.After its release in 1999, it was for a time the highest-grossing British film in history, and Michell followed it with Hollywood thriller “Changing Lanes,” starring Ben Affleck and Samuel L.

Melvin Van Peebles was an actor and filmmaker best known for his influential 1971 film, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”Van Peebles wrote, directed, co-produced, and starred in “Sweetback,” as well as composing its score despite being unable to read music. The result was a classic of indie cinema, created on a shoestring budget.

Once Upon A Time … in Hollywood” — by telling critics to “suck” it. The “Pulp Fiction” director dropped the bombshell during an appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” Tuesday.“Where I’m coming from is … I can understand his daughter having a problem with it, it’s her f–king father!” the 58-year-old auteur told Rogan.

“Army of the Dead” filmmaker, best known for his long, high-drama action flicks, confessed there’s still a few film genres he’d like to explore: porn and religion.Despite the two diametrically opposed subjects, the man who brought us the four-and-a-half hour long edit of 2011’s “Justice League” — the infamous “Snyder Cut” — believes he may even be able to combine the two genres.

the Daily Mail. When host Tracy Grimshaw asked directly if Stone, who has for years said she was exploited during the film’s production, could possibly prevent the new version from coming out, Stone said no.

history-making sweep at the Oscars was almost entirely censored in her China amid accusations that she previously insulted her homeland.The New York University graduate on Sunday became the first woman of color to win best director, while her “Nomadland” is only the second film directed by a woman to take home honors for best picture.Yet her groundbreaking night was ignored and censored in her homeland as she remained embroiled in a backlash over a recently unearthed 2013 interview in which she

th Bomb Squadron who were known as the Burma Bridge Busters, his experience in the war inspired Steven Spielberg to make “Saving Private Ryan.” He helped Steven make his first movie in 1964 by creating special effects for the 17-year old’s debut titled “Firelight.”  Steven came to visit once, and I showed him the factory and the engineering floor.

first Emmy nomination for directing “Su Casa Es Mi Casa,” the game-changing Season 3 episode of “Ozark” in which Marty and Wendy Byrd (Jason Bateman, Laura Linney) angrily confront each other about their teetering marriage (with ugly ramifications).“I was close to not submitting the episode [for Emmy consideration],” says Semanoff, 41.