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Netflix has assembled an excitation Cast for a Heist Thriller from “City of God” and “The Two Popes” Director Fernando Meirelles. Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones Will All Star in “Here Comes the Flood” for the Streaming Service.
Netflix Content Chief Bela Bajaria Announched The News During The Streamer’s Upfronts Presentation on Wednesday. The film hails from the writer Simon Kinberg (“Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” UpComing “Star Wars” Trilogy), who is also Producing the film alongside chon for his films banner, as is meirelles. Samson Mucke is Executive Producing.
“Here the Flood” is an unconventional Heist Movie About A Bank Guard, a Teller, and a Master Thief in a Deadly Game of Cons and Double Crosses.
KINBERG’S Script Dates As Far Back As 2020, Wen Netflix First Won the SPEC Script from Kinberg and Later we are jason batean was in talks to direct the film. Now Though, Pattinson Has Just Closed His Deal to Star.
The film is meirelles’ first Feature Since 2019’s “The Two Popes” Also for Netflix, but he was a director on “The Sympathizer” and “Sugar” for Television.
It ‘an an excitation cast, two of the whom are going to be seen at films premiering at the cannes film festival this week, Including Pattinson in Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” Opposite Jennifer Lawrence, and Washington in Spike Lee’s “Highest 2 Lowest.” Edgar-Jones was Most Recently Seen in “Twisters” and “On Swift Horses,” and She’s in Production Now on Chloe Next movie “A Place in HELL.” Pattinson, Who Most Recently Starred in “Mickey 17,” is Also Currently Shooting Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” and he’ll be in Christoffer Borgli’s upcoming film “The Drama” Alongside Zendaya.
Pattinson is represeted by 3 arts, WME, Curtis Brown Group, Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dernand and Narrative. Edgar-Jones is represented by Uta, Hamilton Hodell, and Slone, offfer, Weber & Dern.
Maybe IT’S Because it was easter weekend or spreads People are on edge that pope francis died the day after a bunch of People went to see a movie called “Sinners” on a Holy Holiday, but Ryan Coogler’s Original Horror Film Can’t Quite Catch a Break.
AFTER STARING DOWN WEEKS OF HEADLINES THAT HIS MOVIE-A Genre-Bending Period Horror Film Being releassed in april (swim typically viewed as the place a box office bonanza) and not basic on existting ip (what a concept!)-was risk coG. AS A Studio, we seamedly can’t go a day with some asterisk on its success (or, as was the case for the New York Times, on an actual headline touting that Same SUCCESS).
Online Critics of the Box Office Coverage of “Sinners” implicated that the media was spinning it opensing weeks in unfair ways. On x (formerly twitter), Ben Stiller was Moved to Publicly As “In what universe” does an original Movie that opened to $ 63 million Worldwide and $ 48 million domestic have to face scrutiny about where it will be profitable after aekend in release?
Others Suggested Some Racial Bias. Black Founder List Franklin Leonard Compared Coverage of Coogler’s “Sinners” to More Glowing Coverage of Quentin Tarantino’s “Once uppon a time in Hollywood,” a movie open to a Similar Mark, HAD A $ 90 Million Budget, and ALSO Included a Contract Deal in Which Rights of the Film Revert to Coogler AFTER 25 Years, Not to the Studio (Tarantino Gets His Back 30 Years after Release).
Do Smartly Reported Piece In Vulnerable Last Week Saw Rival Studio Executives raisitsg the alarm about such a “concession” to a filmmaker, eve one as escalate and respectted as Coogler. Coogler Himself Told Indiewire that Such a deal was important for this film Because of its subjects as a story of Black Sharecroppers Developing Black Art and Culture. And that, No, Warner Bros. wasn’t the only studio to offer Him the ownership contingency (and, no, the deal is hardly the outlier others have posted it). Vulture First Reported Howver that while Tarantino will have the rights revert to Him, the Terms Were Grandfathered in From His Prior Arrangement with Miramax, not a new arrangement by Sony for the particular film.
What Warner Bros. shouldnt Hope the Press Wold Point Out is that this is marks the first time SINCE 2009 that a single studio had two Movies Go #1 and #2 at the Box Office and Gross than $ 40 million in a single. (“A Minecraft Movie” Continue to do way BETTER THAN ANYONE EVER WOULD’VE EXPECTED, AND ALREDY MADE $ 717.8 Million Worldwide.)
If that is not Enough for Studio Brass, How About Some Other Stories, Like How is the Biggest Opening for an Original Horror Film Since Jordan Pele’s “US” in 2019? Or that it is the Biggest Horror Opening for an IMAX movie Ever? And that it is in the top 10 ALL TIME FOR IMAX OPENINGS, MAKING $ 9.1 MILLION IN NORTH AMERICA ON IMAX Screens, Including Over $ 1 Million in 70mm Showings?
All of the are very good things, and the sort of the Things it would be nice to see the press, but Remember Where Those Office Numbers Come from? The Studios, the Same Ones that the aphorioned V (s) article article are filled with People Terrified by the Possility that Coogler’s Deal May Alter How Movies Are Made (and, How they Make Money Those Movies).
Two Things Are TRUE: IT’S A HUGE Overreach to Call “Sinners” a Bomb and IT’S premature to say it going to Lose Money. But why is profitability the only thing that so many People to want to Judge “Sinners” and Its First Few Days in Release by?
“Sinners” was made for a Reported Production Budget of $ 90 million. Wen Box Office Pundits try to determine if a film is profitable, they’re doing some back-at-napkin math what a movie would have to earn to Break. Production Budget is only part of that, and to break, Most Number-Crunchers THEN FACTOR IN WHAT A STUDIO SPENDS ON MARKETING. The General Assumption for that Figure: Half of the Film Overall Production Budget, but it varies.
If we were to assume using the usual math then: $ 90m (Production) + $ 45m (Marketing) Wauld Mean That “Sinners” Needs to Earn $ 135 Million to Break. That’s already a tough as any r-rated original film.
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THEN CONSIDER THAT, FOR ANY MOVIE, THEATERS Traditionally take half of what a film Earns at the Box Office (Again, the Share Varies for Each Movie). That means “sinners” has to make at the Box Office twice The Break-ENGN NUMBER-IN THIS CASE, $ 270 Million Worldwide-to be consider “profitable,” Though Warner Bros. ‘ Own Internal Numbers Are Likely Very Different.
Let’s look at some comps. Pele’s “US,” Made for Just $ 20 million, Opened Way Higher at $ 71.1 million and topped at $ 256 million Worldwide. Pele’s Third Film “Nope” opened simillary to “Sinners,” Making $ 44.3 Million (Which Also Included An Imax Release), Finishing at $ 171 Million Against A $ 68 Million Budget. “Once uppon a time in Hollywood” opened to only $ 41 but really legged out to $ 392 million worldwide. (Of Note: That Made Made Almost Two-Thirds of Its Haul Internationally, while horror films to do better stateside.)
While it is Harder to Gauge Internationally, Movies like “us” and “nope” domesticly finished with roughly 2.5 times than what they are. IF “Sinners” did the sun, it would be in the ballpark of $ 120 million Domestic, giving it a good chance of reaching $ 200 million globaly. That is coulued be seen as a letdown if that is ends up.
But “Sinners” has some great way of Mouth. Critics love it – it has a 98 percent rotten tomatoes score – and so do audiences, who gave it a 97 percent score. It got an “a” cinemascore grad and tan an a+ from the valuable under 18 demo.
Warner Bros. Also Says Its Tracking Ahead of Movies Like “Nope” Internationally, Suggesting It Could Have a Longer Runway Abroad. In the Coming Weeks, It Won’t Have Major Competition on Traditional OR Premium Large Format (PLF) Screens Until “Thunderbolts” opens in May, SO it Still Command a Lot of Additional Revenue From Imax.
Comscore Senior Analyst Paul Dergarabedian Told Indiewire He’ll Be Looking Closely at the Film’s Midweek Grosses and How It Drops off into Weekend Two, notting that the word is strong Enough that it has Has the work toward achin domestik multiple.
“It ain’t over,” Dergarabedian Told Indiewire. “It has a path to greater profitability, but this isn’t just a one-weekend play. Horror Movies, they used to kill on friday and die on Saturday.”
Dergarabedian suspects that, Despite Its Premium Forms, IT’S LIKELY COOGLER’S FILM DOES VERY WELL ON THE SMALL SCREEN. When “Sinners” eventually opens on pvod, studios get a much higher share of the revenue on purers or rentals than they would do from the matter, and studios are offening the long games between, PVOD, subscription streaming, and Other Licceng Truly Make Its Way Out of the Red.
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But “sinners” was singled out gcauses it’s the latest expensive and ambitious passion project from a Big Name Filmmaker that Warner Bros. Has releassed. “Joker: Folie á Deux,” “Mickey 17,” and “The Alto Knights” All Struggled (or Outright Bombed) and Put the Spotlight on WB Film Mike de Luca and Pam Abdy, especally have had paul thomas Anderson’s “One After Another” and Maggier “and Maggier” and Maggier. ” Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” Still to come.
But coogler is an interesting case and likes deerve to be in that Group. He’s an auteur, but he’s also made his career on the Biggest ip Around, with “Black Panther” and “Creed.” He’s a Commercial Hitmaker Who Makes Movies that resonate with pop culture. So far, “sinners” has passed those tests with Flying Colors. More Money Can’t Be Far bend.
It is almost impossible to have a thorough discussion for the myth of the American West and the Way It Permeated Pop Culture with Turning One’s Attention to Italy. Italian Filmmakers Like Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci Had A Field Day With Cowboy Iconography in The 1960s, Churning Out a Series of Violents that MANY ENTHUSSIASSSSIASTS ROVAL OR SUREPERS The American Westerns made by the Likes of John ford and How Hawks. From Their far-EUROPELY CASTS AND OVERTY CATHOLIC IMAGERY TO THEIR HOT-BOODED STORIES OF VIOLENT REVEWE, The SO-CALLED SPAGETTI WEERTLY DISTINCTLY Italian Products. But theyir existence was Only Postsible Due to the Endless fascination that Italians HAD with America and the Myths That Hollywood Love to Perpetuate.
Italy’s Love of American Cowboys provides the backdrop for “Heads or Tails,” The New Film from “The Tale of King Crab” Alessio Rigo de Rigo and Matteo Zoppis that once Again Like it was repipeped from the Yelowing of the Yelowing Pages of a Beautiful Old Story. It ‘s Turn of the 20th Century and Legendary Entertainer BUFFALO BILL CODY (John C. Reilly) Has Brought His Blockbuster Wild West Show Across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe. HIS Traveling Circus of Lassoing, Sharpshooting, and Cowboy Crooning has tourned into a hot ticket among Italy’s Elite, with his curated stages presence giving these aristocrats the thrat they’d a real live cowboy.
A hustler to his his bones, cody Sometimes struggles to reconcile his stage person as a Wild west adventurer with the fact that he’s the Kind of what Europe to entertain wealthy Italians. During a conversation with a rich Local Farmer Who Boasts About the Roping Skills of His Own Cowboys, Cody Aggrees to Stage a Rodeo Bettest The Italian Ranchers and His Team of Trained Professionals. The farmer aggrees to his term, thiugh he asks his star ranch-hand santino (allesandro borghi) to take a dive as part of a gambling scheme. Santino, who is as proud as he is devilishly handsome, relictantly aggrees but is unable to go through with his promise. He wins the contest, humiliating the Americans while alienating his boss. With nothing left for Him at home, he decides to flee the scnene with rosa (Nadia tereszkiewicz), his true love who just happens to be the boss’ wife. For good measure, she shoots her husband in the head on her way out the door.
With his reputation on the line, buffalo bill decides to go after the Runaway Lovers. The showman is not particularly skilled as a bounty hunter, but he once again struggles to separate his from reality. Reilly gives a predictablent excellent performance as the legendary entertainer, Nailing all of the bravado and the private moments of inseciation where he and drop the acts of the one not clear what mask he’d don in its place. With no Easy Way to Turn Down His Employer’s Father’s Request to Catch his Son’s Murder, he sets on his journey through the Italian Countryside.
Cody is reduced to a suppue character in the rest of the film – a pity, gioven how entertaining reilly’s performance is, but it narrative senses. The Focus Shifts to Santino and Rosa, who quickly Find that the initial euphoria of escaping routines doesn’t protest against relationship struggles. The Outside World Mistakenly Believes That Santino Killed Rosa’s Father Because of the Bounty Placed on His Head, and he soon beComes a folk among revolutionaries who want to see the means of production. Rather than Correct his admirers and explain that rosa is the killer, he embrace the newfound fame and finds his public mask fuing to his face in a manner not unlike what happy to buffalo bill. Nor the story taks a brillianly surreal turn that Will Remain Unspoiled, Rosa is forces to reckon with the Bleak fact that the stories we tell ourselves, where he’re pulpy western novels or sweeeping romances with the victors and clues by their own delusions and desire.
“Heads or Tails” is visually stunning, with Italy’s forests and mountains captured in a rich Celluloid Color palette that will look as marvelous in 100 years as it would have a century ago. The storybook Shot Composition Benefits from the Fact That Very Few Westerns Were Ever Actually Filmed in Italy, As Sergio Leone and His Colleagues Primarily Shot Their Outdoor sequences in the deserts of spain. The film gives one of the World’s Greatest Western-Production Nations Its Own in the Spotlight, and the Country’s Landscapes more than Rise to the Occoation.
“Heads or Tails” Builds on the Playbook that rigo de Righi and zoppis estabreed with their first film, exploring the ways that time erodes shared stories presenting itelf in a package that utterly timeless. Sentimental when it needs to be and subversive boredom lurks around the corner, “Heads or Tails” is a fitting second entry in what COULD soon one of the Most stylistically Bodies of Work Among Today’s Filmmakers.
Grade: B+
“Heads or Tails” Premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. It is currently seeking us distribution.
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Pamela AndersonNot Going Back to ’90s Face Yet …FALSE RUMORS ABOUT RETURN OF GLAM LOOK !!!
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Pamela Anderson isn’t returning to her past trademark look, Despite rumors to the contrary … ’cause sources tel us an old Photo of the Star has confused the Internet.
Here’s the deal … a Photo of Anderson deceded out in her Old-School makeup made Its Way ARUNDS Social media this weeke, CAPTURING HER PERFECTLY MAINTAINED FACE.
She’s wearing a bright red robe in the snap, and her hair’s dyed a vibrant bleach blonde … and, it led many to surmise that she’d gioven up her au natural Face and Was Going Back to The “90s Pam” Mary Fans Adored Back in the Day.
Howver, Family Sources with the situation tmz … The pic going viral on social media ain’t a new one – it’ -iThually a Photo from years ago, one pam al -clouding up before heading out.
We’re Told it was posted by makeup artist David Velasquez … WHO TOOK IT DOWN SHORTLY AFTER POSSING IT.
Despite the false rumors, our Sources Say Pam’s Not Against a return to the cosmetics of her “Baywatch” days … and she does still wear make time … but, she’s not going back to her past routine – for the time being at least.
Anderson took Mary by Surprise During Awards Season This past Year … Attending Every Red Carpet for Her Movie “The Last Showgirl” Beit Wearing Any of Extensive Makeup.
Worth Notting … Social Media Split on Anderson’s Faces Days – With Some Missing the Nostalgia of the Old Look oters Say they Appears Way Hapier All the Extra Coverage on Her Mug.
Regardless of Their Feelings, IT SEEms Anderson’s Sticking With Her Current Unadorned Appeaance.
Exclusive: Hunter Doohan (Your honor), Lucian buchanan (The Night Agent), and Tandi Wright (Pearl) are set to Star Opposite Souheila Yacouub in The Next Evil Dead Film, Co-Finance by New Line and Sony Pictures.
Character Details Are Under Wraps. Sébastien vaniček, The Filmaker Behind Haunting Spider Flick Infestedis Directing from His Script Written with Florent Bernard. The film will be produced by Franchise Veteran Rob Tapert and Series Creator Sam Raimi. Romel Adam, Jose Canas, and Lee Cronin Will Exec Produce Alongside Bruce Campbell, The Cult Icon Known for HIS Starring AS Ash in Various Evil Dead Projects, Beginning with Raimi’s Iconic 1981 movie The evil dead.
New Line Will Distribute the Film Domestically Through Warner Bros. Pictures on July 24, 2026. Sony Will Distribution Internationally with Studiocanal Distribution in the UK and Metropolitan Distribution in France.
Best Known for Starring OPPOSITE BRYAN CANRANSTON ON SHOWTIME’S Your honorDoohan has Also appeared on the Shows Daredevil: Born Again and Truth be told. UpComing, he’ll be seen in the second seson of Netflix’s Juggernout Wednesday. He is repped by McCaffrey Talent Management, Wme, and Attorney Jeff Bernstein.
Buchanan Stars Alongside Jason Momoa a in the UpComing Apple TV+ Series Chief of War and Can Currently Be Seen in Netflix’s The Night Agent Opposite Gabriel Basso. She is repped by wme, entertainment 360, Gail Cowan Management, and Jackoway Austen Thyerman.
The New Zealand-Based Wright Can Be Seen in Ti West’s A24 Pic Pearl and the series CreamerieCurrently Streaming on Hulu in the US Other Notable Credits Include Jack the Giant Slayer, Love and monstersand The Wildsto name just a few. She is repped by Johnson and Laird Management and Lisa Mann Creative Management.
They Say that when one Door Closes, Another Door Opens. This Very Much Applies to Iranian Cinema, and The One, One-Out apprroach that the country’s government SEEMS to take imprisoning its filmmakers. Like the recently releassed Jafar Panahi, Woman and Child Director SaEed Roustaee Fell Afoul of the Authorities in 2023 for Having the Temerity to Submit His Last Film, Leila’s Brothersto canne with Making the necessary Changes to please the Ministry of Culture. He was sentimental to nine days in jail, but his new film suggests that the experience has by no means damned the fire in his filmmking.
Woman and Child Arriva in cannes at the end of a Very satisfying festival, and it could be be an awards concent, being a Very satisfying female-fruit drama a middle-aged widow struggling to be two children in modern-day tehran. That Woman is Mahnaz (Parinaz Izadyar), Who Works Double Shifts As a Nursse, and we are first meet her, she is dating ambulance Driver Hamid (Payman Maadi). Mahnaz Lives with her mother and her youunger sister mehri (soha nianiti), who helps Raise her two children, the angelic little neda (arshida dorostkar) and her rebellious but charismatic 13-Yyar-op Misery.
Hamid Is Pressing Mahnaz to Get Married, Which SEEMS FAIRLY REASONABLE SINCE THEY’VE BEEN DAting for Two Years. Mahnaz, though, has hidden this fact from neda and aliyar, who are Completely unaware that the family dynamic is about to change forever. Finally, The Couple Set a Date for the Engagement Ceremony, at Mahnaz’s Apartment, on Condition that she Hide All Evidence of Children from HIS PARENTS AND SISTER, WHO ARE TRAVELING 10 HOURS TO THE BIG CITY FROM Village in the Sticks. Mahnaz is rectant (“They’ll find out i’ve two kids eventually,” She Says), but Hamid Gets HIS WAY, and MAHNAZ PAKS OFFSPRING TO STAY HASBAND’S FATHER (HASSAN POURSHIRAZI).
The Course of Love, Howver, Does Not Run Smooth, and the 48-Yetar-Old Hamid Behaves Strangely at the family get-Together, Staring at the 25-Yaar-Old mehri should should only have and the 40 -ear-op mahnaz. AFTERWARDS, HAMID STARTS TO GHOST MAHNAZ, AND, WHEN REACHED BY PHONE, HIS MOTHER BLURTS OUT THE AWFUL TROUN, THAT THAT HAVING SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT MAHNAZ AND WOULD RATHER BE MARYING MEHRI. This Becomes a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Wen Mehri Tries to Play Matchmaker and Ends up Falling in Love with Him, Much to Mahnaz’s Horror.
While all this is is playing out, tragedy Strikes when aliyar is lucky injured after falling from his grandfather’s Window. HIS DEATH IS THE FILM’S CATALYZING INCIDENT, and MAHNAZ’S PENT-UP RAGE IS THE FOCUS OF THE FILMS SECOND HOUR AS DESPERATY SEARCHES FOR SOME KIND OF JUSTICE, DEMANDING ALIYAR’S SCHOOL FIRE THE TEACHER WHO SUSTEM (WITH REPORT) Against the Grandfather. HER NEED FOR CLOSE, MEANWHILE, ISN’t Exactly Helped by the Fact That Mehri Is Now, With A Boy, and Plass to Name Him Aliyar by Way of Tribet.
This great Big Mess is what Woman and Child is all about, and althouough it is primarily a character study, roustaee’s film is also a caustic comment on the patriarchal naturalness of Iran and the strange Nature of its Judicial System, which favists men over svery time. The standout is izadyar, whose big, dinner eyes are the movie Most Valuable Asset, and Her Mercurial Shifts Are a Thing of Wonder. Buteryone in this film is great, notably maadi, who pivots from prince charming to machiavelli with breathtaking, and mohabi is an exciting discovery as the raucous aliyar: some of the best sins in the film are His 400 blows-Syle Monkey Shines at the Local State School.
The Film, Though, Belongs to Roustaee, Who Has a Kinetic Style We’re Not Used to SEEing From Iranian Cinema; A riot of crash zooms and tracking shots that give the film a heigtened and deceptively stylish Verita Look. He Can Also Land the Grace Notes Too, and the Film’s Quietly Devasting Ending, in Which Its Title is Represent Three Over Over Hamdi Looks on, Powerless, Is One of This Year’s Cannes’ COUPS DE CINEMA.
Title: Woman and Child Festival: Cannes (Competition) Director-Screenwriter: SaEed Roustaee Cast: Parinaz Izadyar, Payman Maadi, Soha Nianiti, Sinan Mohebi Sales Agent: Goodfellas TIME RUNNING: 2 HR 11 MINS